airport crush | gyuricky

fifteen

"what the hell, taerae." matthew let out when he stepped foot into taerae's apartment. the living space was covered in colorful yoga mats.

hanbin sighed. "what are we doing, taerae..."

"good day, folks!" taerae hollered. "anyways. instead of rotting in the living room and playing video games, we're doing something new for a change today. couple workout!"

matthew sent him a look that said "seriously?". taerae shot him back a look that said "you got a better idea?".

"on the count of 3 hug the person you want to partner with. 3, 2, 1!"

everyone seemed to know what to do. before the reason of this hangout could even react, matthew hugged jiwoong, hanbin clung onto hao, and yujin grabbed gunwook.

gyuvin and ricky stood rooted to the spot, confusion level to the max. they slowly side eyed each other.

"GREAT!" taerae beamed. "i'll just show a bunch of pictures and then you guys recreate it. simple. by the way, all of these pictures are male because i'm pretty sure hao is heterophobic. okay, first!"

the picture shown was two people in a plank facing each other. "you guys have to hold this plank for 1 minute. you can't break eye contact." the text below read.

everyone got to work. 30 seconds in, yujin and gunwook were giggling silently, haobin and mattwoong looked like they were fighting demons not to kiss each other, taerae was smiling watching everyone's suffering, and gyuricky? gyuvin was literally dying inside. his eyes darted back on forth from ricky's face to the couch behind them, ricky's face and then oh! suddenly the floor looks interesting. but taerae kept yelling in his ear to maintain eye contact. ricky wasn't much better. his face was flushed red, not from the workout, but from having to stare at gyuvin.

after the longest 1 minute finally passed, gyuvin plopped onto the floor and whined, "taerae, what is this? why did you even decide to do this. this is torture!"

"i'm not even done, gyuvin. i'll just explain this next one. one person holds the others legs down and the other does sit ups. and then switch. the person doing the sit ups have to be able to touch the other's forehead with their own for it to count as one."

gyuvin and ricky's jaws dropped.

"what the fuck." gyuvin blurted out.

"yujin and gunwook, you can go play mario kart or something. this is adult stuff. you are not at dating age." taerae said, completely ignoring gyuvin's outburst and yujin's "i'm literally dating ollie". "okay, go ahead!"

reluctantly, gyuvin and ricky got onto the floor. what the hell did i get myself into? gyuvin thought.

"well! ha ha ha... do you want to go first or should i..." gyuvin started, scratching his nape awkwardly. gyuvin ended up going first.

don't get him wrong, gyuvin worked out. he had abs. sit ups weren't a problem for him. however, doing it with ricky is a completely different story.

"start!"

gyuvin sat up with ease. he could feel taerae's eyes burning holes into his head. holding his breath, he leaned forward and quickly booped ricky's forehead with his own. he immediately sat back down, his heart racing.

one down, twenty nine more to go!

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"taerae, please never do this again." hao said, breathing hard.

"i'm a gym bro but that was exhausting. probably because jiwoong's handsome face distracted me."

"matthew, please stop."

"as long as you didn't tell us to do a push up while saying the other person's name then you're good." hanbin suggested, which made hao's mouth drop open.

"damn it, i should've done that."

"what's up with gyuvin?" gunwook asked, motioning towards gyuvin who was staring into space on the couch.

"don't know. i think we made him gay panic really hard." taerae said.

"you mean you made him gay panic really hard."

"that's right! i'm so smart." taerae grinned proudly.

"i am right here." gyuvin muttered.

"yall hear something?"