Flowers and ink

Twenty-four

Jisung spent quite some time planning when he would show the song to Minho, wanting it to be fairly special so planning the date around it was giving him some trouble.

He got sidetracked halfway through his date planning though as he got a call from Minho.

"Hey baby?" The call started.

"Oh no. What happened?" Jisung asked, not liking the tone Minho was using.

"No one is hurt." Minho said.

"Is that supposed to make me feel better? That is maybe the worst response to that question," jisung said.

"Well... we were trying to save a cat we found and felix is kind of stuck in a drainpipe two miles outside of town," Minho said.

"Okay how on earth did that happen and two what were you guys doing two miles outside of town?" Jisung asked.

"I'm changbin's best man so felix asked my to go with him today to scout out a potential venue, but on the way back we saw a kitty, it was in a drainpipe and felix is tiny so we thought he could fit," Minho explained.

"You guys are actually idiots, send me your location, I'll come," jisung said and felt his phone buzz as Minho's location came through.

Jisung didn't even play music as he drove, he could hardly believe his boyfriend and his best friend would do something this stupid... well he wasn't that surprised about felix actually but still.

When he got there, he got out of his car and assessed the situation, it didn't look like it would be that hard to get felix out of there, especially not since he has bolt cutters in his car that could definitely get through that plastic if need be.

He walked over to Minho, not letting him wrap an arm around jisung, that was his punishment for being dumb.

"Alright hang on lix," jisung said as he moved over and was able to slide a hand under one of Felix's knees and unextend it so now it was straight out, and doing that same thing to the other knee sent him to his stomach where he could just wriggle out of the pipe.

"Oh my god jisung thank you so much, you're my savior, I thought I was going to die in there," Felix said, hugging his best friend.

"You are the biggest idiot I've ever met in my life, now where's this kitty," jisung asked and Felix pointed into the drain pipe.

Jisung grabbed the towel he had brought from his car, so that he could carry the cat without getting any fleas or ticks on himself and to keep the baby warm.

He crouched in front of the drain pipe, calling to the kitty softly and making little pspsps sounds until the cats little eyes appeared out of the darkness.

He continued to coo at the cat until it had approached enough to see his hand and sniff it, it was a black cat, a kitten to be exact. It nudged his hand around for a bit, until finally it started letting him pet it and soon after that it just walked right into his lap, curling up in the towel.

"Okay guys, now that we have the cat, and Felix, am I taking one of you home?" Jisung asked.

"I'll ride home with you," Minho said as Felix moved back towards his own car.

"Alright babe, just please be careful with the cat in my car," jisung said and Minho nodded, taking the bundle of towel from Jisung's arms.

"Can we keep it, lovey?" Minho asked and jisung pulled a face, he was probably going to say yes anyway, but that nickname, he just couldn't function when it came out.

"Yes, we can keep it, hopefully this one's a girl, we're suffocating in testosterone in our house," jisung said.

They stopped at the vet hospital on the way home and got the kitty cat looked at, she already had her shots but she had no chip or collar, she had probably been left there to die.

They named her somi and settled some other things at the vet before taking her home.

They brought her to their room, not wanting to overwhelm her with three cat brothers all at once and she took her opportunity to explore and sniff, also sniffing jisung and Minho a reasonable amount.

"Do you want to just watch movies for the rest of the day? So that way she can keep exploring?" Minho asked and jisung nodded, it sort of ruined his plans of planning for their date that weekend where he'd play his song but it was no big deal, spending time with his boyfriend was never time spent wasted.

The two got comfortable in their bed and started using the remote to pick out movies, neither really caring to actually watch a movie, they just wanted to play with the kitten.

Jisung laid tucked in to Minho's chest, and Minho's fingers traced circles into Jisung's back as they watched the kitten walk around the room and sniff everything.

Jisung slid out of Minho's grasp to pick somi up off the ground and place her in the bed where she walked over and curled up next to Minho's legs.

Jisung got back into his position, quickly pressing a kiss to Minho's cheek as he watched the way Minho's eyes lit up watching their new kitten.

Jisung could watch Minho with their cats all day everyday, he loved them so much and he always looked so happy when he was giving them attention, he looked similarly happy when he was giving jisung attention.

Jisung sat back and watched as somi pounced on Minho's hand and he just laughed, playfully knocking her over, she just got back up and ran back over to his hand again.

Watching Minho smile like that made jisung realize that he was ready, he was ready to say the words that had been stuck in his throat for weeks, and he had the perfect song for it, so the next day when he would take Minho out to show him the song, he would finally let himself say it.

Unbeknownst to jisung, Minho was having similar thoughts, he could feel Jisung's eyes on him, and sitting together on their bed, playing with their new baby made him feel like he wanted this to last forever.

He wanted jisung to be his forever, and he wanted jisung to know that that was how he felt.

So at the same time, in the same room, two decisions were made, they loved each other, and that was all that mattered.