Him & I / Hyunho /

5 - Perfect spot

- You know it's time, you should get a job like all other young men your age do. You're well off with family money, but that doesn't mean you should spend your life playing video games, singing and sleeping all day.

It's the speech Jisung knows by heart. Every time he hears it, he escapes wherever, it doesn't matter. This morning, he opened Minho's door and was about to plop down his butt on a sofa when he found two sleepy heads on his usual spot.

He's blinking, expecting something to change, but they're still there. Peacefully asleep.

Minho wakes up hearing Jisung's unhappy huffing. He gets up carefully, making sure Hyunjin doesn't wake up, and gently places a cushion under his head.

- Hyung, did you just replace me? This is my spot, I love this spot. It's the best spot on the sofa. Can he leave?

- Jisung, he lives here and pays rent. You don't. - Minho chuckles, and Jisung scoffs offended.

- Do you like... like him?

- Wouldn't you want to know?

- Uh-huh, that's why I ask!

Hyunjin, who just woke up, would also like to know. His heart is excitedly waiting to hear "yes" because it wants to be liked by Minho, it craves for Minho's affection, but they enter the kitchen and voices get too quiet.
"Huh! I want to know!"

It's embarrassing, but Hyunjin tiptoes closer to the kitchen, to hear better.

- You know I got booked for Celine photoshoot?

- Ahem, that's not what I asked you. The guy is ridiculously handsome, you surely noticed that. I don't want to lose my friend, or that perfect spot on the sofa.

- Jisung, you'll always be my baby. If needed, I'll get a chair just for you.

- So, you like him?

- I like him. But I won't do anything.

"He likes me." Hyunin smiles and wiggles his body. That felt good.

Before they find him eavesdropping, he sneaks into his bedroom, grinning and making little air punches.
"Who knows is kissing a guy different than kissing a girl? I can't kiss him, I have a girlfriend. But I like that he likes me."

Meanwhile, a conversation in a kitchen changed direction.

- I think, Minho... don't laugh, okay?
I think I'll get a job. - Jisung proudly announces.

- Oh you're too cute. You know you don't just get one of those. It's not like you pick it up from a shelf, and get a job you want. You have to work for it, be better than other candidates who want the same job, and then bust your ass to keep it.

- Well I don't know, you'll teach me how to get a job.

- How about you start at your dad's company first?

- Hmm... maybe.

- It's a good idea.
I'll miss having you around here though.

- What are you talking about? I'll still come here to play games.

- Not if you have to be at work early each morning.

- Minho, what have I done to you? First you take over at my perfect spot, now you want to kill me with work??

Minho rolls eyes at Jisung's "big problems" and goes to his room to get ready for the day.

Then he remembers last night's events, and smiles. He slept so good holding Hyunjin, he literally held him in his arms.

But now when his arms are empty, he's not calm any more. It's like Hyunjin is a weighted blanket he didn't know he needed.

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