chasing lights

14 | on the road again

A morning with just the two of them, waking up beside one another and holding the other for as long as they could. All until Jisung's kisses become deeper, more intentional, with Minho adapting perfectly to every single change. As always. It is not long until they are connected again, making use of being alone just like this once again to freely let out any sound that wants to come out.

No holding back, no need to worry. It is the two of them, connected in the most natural of ways. It is all that matters.

They take their time getting dressed and ready afterwards, make sure to make the best out of their room reservation before they have the breakfast included in the room fee they paid, then check out of the inn and go get their perfectly wrapped and ready paintings from the art studio they were in the day before.

When they walk inside the hideout, back to familiar, shared spaces, Chan is quick to bolt out of the kitchen to see them, is smiling brightly when he does, comes closer to pull them both into a tight hug. Bbokkie is chirping excitedly once he sees Minho, lets himself be carried around on the human's shoulder and snuggles closer, right there against his neck at the most random times in between. As if being apart from Minho for an entire day was far too long already. But Jisung gets it. Because they only had each other before, spent every single day together, close. Just the two of them. To be apart like this is completely new to them.

"You need to tell me everything! How was it? What did you guys do? What are those?"

Needless to say that the guard excitedly and attentively listens to every single part of their excited retelling of most of yesterday's events. Though they decide to strategically leave out some details about their evening in particular, thinking it should stay between them, instead of being shared with more or less three more people. Though, in all honesty, they can all pretty much imagine what happened at night, considering the general fact of them having been all alone, all by themselves. And the group has already heard them getting intimate the very first and last time it happened. No one mentions anything though.

With the stories of their date out of the way, the group spends a rather normal day together as they would have any other day too. They spend time in the hideout, then go out to explore the area around, chat in the kitchen while Minho prepares dinner, spend some time together afterwards while the other two clean up and then they part again in the evening, dividing into two rooms.

Chan does not comment on Minho and Jisung constantly being together. Closer, even more so than they already were before. But they seem more open, accepting and as if whatever happened between them during their time away from the others must have led them both to full on accepting and embracing what has been lingering between them all along. The pressure of holding back is gone. Replaced by the comforting hugs, lovedrunk giggles and whispers, pecks and stolen kisses only lovers would share like this.

Bittersweet. Not typical or normal. Not acceptable due to their differences everyone in the group knows to be pushed back now, but will come biting them in the asses once their deal has been fulfilled. All that it should not be and yet they have decided just to concentrate on the beauty of it all for now. The beauty of holding on to how good it feels to be close, how unbelievably exciting it is to feel the touch of someone they are feeling so deeply for. It is like nothing should be going like this, but it is. For just a few more days, they could be together without worrying about a single thing.

So even Chan pushes all his concerns and worries aside for now to let them be together. He is not to meddle anyway and if given the chance, he and Hyunjin would act quite similarly themselves. So who is Chan to ruin this purity of affection for either of them?

The next day is just as normal, yet serving a far greater purpose nonetheless that keeps a bitter aftertaste in every single word and action of the day. The whole place is being thrown upside down, everything they can do to properly pack their bags and clean up the majority of their temporary underground home they end up doing because they know it is getting real now. Things are moving on and they spend most of the day staying inside, going to the market for only a moment and otherwise sticking to inside activities to do. Minho makes Jisung buy a shirt at the market, a plain and tight turtleneck he said he wanted to make another shirt for. So while he finishes the piece he had started the day before and then starts working on said piece that is to be paired with the turtleneck, Jisung is sitting behind him on the couch, carefully brushing his long, silver hair.