Still Astray ~ kpop oneshots

Ateez Mingi ~ Twilight

CW: anxiety symptoms, fainting, old married couple Seongjoong

In which Mingi says he'll help Hongjoong produce their latest album, but quickly realizes he's in over his depth and becomes determined to prove himself by doing whatever it takes to help his hyungs.

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Mingi's eyes opened to complete darkness in his room. He blinked a few times, then turned his head to look at the clock on his night stand. The glowing red numbers read 2:08 AM. He wondered what on earth made him wake up so early, then heard a slight creak as his door closed. Soft footsteps followed and as Mingi's eyes adjusted to the small amount of light from his clock, he saw a tall silhouette wrapped in a blanket shuffling towards his bed.

"Yunho hyungie? Hey, what's wrong?" he asked, his voice low and raspy from having just woken up; the silhouette was too tall to be anyone else. He saw Yunho's outline shrug, then before he could move to the other side of the bed, his hyung flopped on top of him.

"Can't sleep," the older muttered. Mingi sighed.

"Aish, again?" he said quietly. Yunho just mumbled something and buried his head in Mingi's shoulder.
Yunho had been having trouble getting to sleep lately, and he'd been coming into Mingi's room in the middle of the night a lot in the past few weeks. Whenever the younger asked about it, Yunho would say it wasn't that bad, but his nightly visits had been getting more and more frequent. To say Mingi was worried about him would be an understatement. Multiple times he had tried to convince Yunho to talk to his two hyungs about it, and several times he had said he would, but he clearly hadn't mentioned it to them at all. Mingi was on the verge of just telling them himself, but he knew it would upset Yunho, and he couldn't bring himself to do that to him. Not just yet.

"Do you wanna sleep here tonight again?" Mingi whispered. He felt Yunho nod into the crook of his neck.
"Okay hyung, but can you at least move over? You're kinda squishing me."

Yunho sat up just enough to make eye contact with Mingi, a small sly smile on his face. The younger boy loved that smile; the way Yunho's eyes sparkled and crinkled up slightly, the smile lines that showed on his cheeks, the way his hair was currently concealing most of his face.

"Nope." Yunho said, before burrowing back into Mingi's shoulder and wrapping his arms around his neck.
"You're comfy."

Mingi let out a giggle and wrapped his own arms around Yunho's torso.
"You're lucky you're cute. Now go to sleep hyung." he said, pressing his cheek to Yunho's soft hair.

The older snuggled closer to him, if that was even possible, and it wasn't long before his breathing evened out and he completely relaxed. Yunho was like Wooyoung and San in that he slept better if he was cuddling with someone. Mingi smiled at that thought and closed his own eyes, falling back asleep in a matter of minutes with the slightly awkward but comfortable weight of his hyung on top of him.

He woke up with a little grunt to another sudden weight, knocking the air out of his chest. He opened his bleary eyes to see a another mop of hair on top of Yunho's.
"Wooyoung get the hell off," he grumbled.

"Hey, what if I want Mingi cuddles too?" came the whiny voice of their second youngest.

"Then you're gonna have to get off because right now I can't breathe."

Wooyoung sighed but did so. Mingi noticed that Yunho was still asleep and breathing deeply on his chest, even though he too had just been squished under an overexcited dongsaeng.

"Whatever, just get up you two, we have practice. And I'm hungry."

"Okay, okay, we're getting up. Now go annoy Sannie or something, I've gotta wake up Yunho."