Before You

The Zoo (Minsung POV)

Minho could barely step foot in the zoo before an antsy Jisung grabbed onto his arm and pulled him in the direction of the Africa exhibit.

If he was being honest, Minho didn't mind. He thought the aggressive affection from Jisung was cute, but he had an image to maintain.

He shot pleasing looks at the others, not completely faking his concern. With the hold the younger had, Minho was not quiet sure what he was in for.

"Hannie, slow down! If you wanted to be alone with me you always could have just asked~" Minho teasingly spoke out, causing Jisung to stop dead in his tracks and Minho to run straight into his back, although Jisung did not waver in his balance.

He turned around quickly with an intense look on his face, causing Minho to gulp slightly.

Jisung stomped over and held his index finger stiffly on Minho's chest.

"Listen Mr. Cocky, I want to see the zoo, I have a laundry list of exhibits I want to see and no time to waste. Being alone with you was not the primary objective here no matter how tempting you are. I needed a buddy, Felix and Hyunjin are in their own little world, and the rest would be too slow besides Seungmin who would just be a grumpy man the whole time. So no, I will not slow down, are you good with that or do I need to release my wrath because you made me waste time and take Felix away from Hyunjin?" Jisung kept a completely serious face, poking Minho in the chest while speaking his monologue aggressively.

"You think I'm tempting?" Minho smirked. Jisung rolled his eyes "You are a pain in the ass"

Jisung turned around and grabbed Minho's hand this time, leading him to the first exhibit on his carefully planned round.

"I can show you a real pain the ass" Minho mumbled under his breath. It was not his intention for Jisung to hear it but the younger did, turning red from the comment but not wanting the older to notice.

The Africa exhibit was 1st on the carefully thought out list to see everything.

Jisung dissapeared into the crowd of people, causing Minho to look around in a panic.

'Damn it, Chan better not get on my ass about this.'

"Where is that annoyingly cute quokka?" Minho cursed to himself while looking for the puffy cheeked guy.

Minho eventually spotted Jisung sitting by a bench near a big tree.

Low and behold, Jisung was trying to feed none other than an actual squirrel.

"Found your long lost family quokka?" Minho walked up to him, his arms crossed and a deathly stare on his face.

Jisung glared at him with an equally deathly gaze aggressively putting his finger on his lips shushing the grumpy older in front of him.

He held out a piece of bread and an albino squirrel with a fluffy tail carefully made it's way up to him.

Minho couldn't explain it but his mood softened at the sight. Jisung looked so caring, so nurturing, and so calm with the squirrel.

"Now he wants to be calm and collected" Minho grumbled, although he couldn't stop a smile from forming on his cheeks.

With a little bit more patience, the squirrel had come up to Jisung and taken the piece of bread out of his hands to nibble on it, his cheeks puffing up as he ate. Minho chuckled at the resemblance between the creature and the other creature in front of him that he had seen look just like that at dinners.

Jisung's face lit up when the squirrel took the bread and ate some in the same position, as soon as Jisung moved, the squirrel went back into the tree with the bread and Jisung excitedly wrapped his whole body around Minho like a koala.

Minho didn't react at first but didn't take long to cave to the cute male's excitement and affection, loosely wrapping his arms around Jisung. 'He smells like roses'.

Jisung eventually let go and cleared his throat. "Sorry"

"For what? You finally got to spend some quality time with family" Minho teasingly stated. He lovingly pinched his cheeks slightly.

"Haha funny" Jisung stated sarcastically, sticking his tongue out at Minho. "You're just jealous because I got got to feed the rare squirrel"

"Ehh, I'm more impressive. I fed a quokka bites of cheesecake a week ago." Minho winked at Jisung.

"I am not a quokka!" Jisung puffed his cheeks out making Minho coo at the sight but laugh.

"Stop using those adorable cheeks and maybe I'll stop" Minho took Jisung by surprise. His usual teasing tone was replaced with a surprisingly sincere one?

Jisung puffed out his cheeks on purpose, Minho smirked at him. "Oh you want to play?"

Minho wrapped his arms around Jisung and went to go bite his neck, instead he planted a kiss on each of his chubby cheeks.

"W-what was that for?" Jisung was red and stopped fighting against Minho.

"That was supposed to be for being a brat, but you are too cute to mess up." Minho smirked again and basked in the blushing mess that he created.

"L-lets go on to the next thing, you have wasted too much time already." Jisung walked away to the next thing.

"It was definitely not a waste of time to me. Stop being such a brat, don't make me do it again." Jisung glared at him but smiled softly and touched his cheek where Minho had kissed it.

They made it through half of the exhibits in relative peace, apart from some nagging from Jisung telling Minho to hurry up and some complaining from Minho.

At certain points Minho purposefully walked slower to mess with Jisung, to me met with an impatient Jisung who grabbed his wrist and dragged him along further.

"Minho... did you do that just to mess with me?" Jisung softly said while they were looking over the Lemurs.

"Do what?" Minho raised his brows, not looking away from the Lemur habitat.

"You know what I mean." Jisung responded back.

"Hannie, I mess with you a lot, you are going to have to be more specific if you want an honest answer." Minho looked at Jisung this time and tilted his head, a sincere expression on his face.

Jisung sighed and look at Minho briefly before turning his head back to the enclosure. "The kisses..."

Jisung didn't want to look at Minho's expression, afraid that he would find what he didn't want it to be on it. That it was all just a joke. Jisung had quickly realized that it was not a joke to him, that he cherished it more than he wanted to.

"No" was all Minho said, still looking at Jisung.

Jisung was ready to accept his fate but was taken by surprise by the answer and whipped his head over to see Minho, standing there with not a flicker of playfulness in his voice or his face.

He was being 100% serious.

Jisung smiled and Minho returned it, turning his attention back to the Lemurs. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Jisung blushing, making Minho smile.

"Stop being cute." Minho spoke up after a minute.

"I am just existing, what do you mean?!"

"Exactly."

Jisung playfully rolled his eyes and blushed once more. "OK Mr. Smooth Operator, we have more to see, let's go."

They went on their way to the rest of the exhibits and managed to make it through all of Jisung's list. They got back to the entrance of the park with a couple minutes to spare and sat down on the bench to wait for the others. Minho draped his arm over Jisung's shoulder and rubbed his shoulder gently.

"Now you want to be all soft?" Jisung gave Minho the side eye but didn't try to move his arm away, he liked it.

"Only for you Hannie", Minho said slyly and squeezed Jisung closer.

"Was that sarcastic?" Jisung asked.

"Not at all" Minho responded matter of factly.

"Oh" Jisung blushed and smiled, staying right where they were on the bench.