[i hope your day is as nice as your butt: a svt group chat]

[the invitation]

soonyoung makes his way into seokmin's room, flopping onto the younger boy's bed. his head lands in seokmin's lap, making him look down. "be careful. don't you want kids at some point?"

soonyoung simply giggles at that. "are you gonna fight my biology?" he says, a bit of a teasing edge to his voice.

seokmin's cheeks flush. "you know i would if i could."

the older boy chuckles again, leaning up a bit. he puts his hands on either side of seokmin's face, pulling him in to kiss him. "you're so cute, you know that?" he asks once they pull away.

"no, you are," seokmin says.

"can we just agree that we're both cute?" soonyoung asks, lightly pinching his boyfriend's cheek.

seokmin chuckles in response. "that sounds fair. let's go with that."

soonyoung giggles before sitting up and leaning his head on seokmin's shoulder. he intertwines their fingers. "so what are you thinking about?"

"huh?" seokmin asks. "what do you mean?"

"you've got that air about you today. like you're worried about something." soonyoung looks up at him, still not moving from his shoulder.

the younger of the two looks down and sighs. "it's joshua. he seemed really affected by the whole jeonghan and seungcheol thing and now jeonghan's avoiding him," he says. "he's like one of my best friends, i hate seeing him so sad."

soonyoung frowns. "well, you know how the incident with cheol happened?" seokmin nods in response. "jeonghan kind of started avoiding him because you two have been so close."

seokmin blinks. "what? you mean he thought joshua was with me?" he asks.

his boyfriend nods in response. "that's exactly what he thought. until we told everyone we're dating. so now he's too proud to admit that he was jealous, and he's been getting on seungkwan's nerves, so seungkwan's been venting to me," he explains.

seokmin sighs, shaking his head. "seungkwan still won't admit he loves vernon, he's no better than minghao," he says.

soonyoung nods. "i'm really glad i confessed to you."

seokmin's face breaks into a wide grin, and he kisses soonyoung again. "me too."

"how does anyone survive without kisses and cuddles?" soonyoung asks.

"i have no idea. but what confuses me even more is why something would happen between jihoon and seungcheol and jihoon is just pretending like nothing happened." seokmin's mouth turned down into a frown. "it's hurting seungcheol's feelings."

soonyoung leans down to kiss his boyfriend's shoulder. "someone should be doing something about this."

seokmin nods in agreement. "you're right. it's clear that everyone here has feelings for someone but most of them try to act tough and pretend like they don't." he looks up. "we should do something about it."

soonyoung nods, opening his mouth to speak. before he can, there's a knock at their bedroom door, making both of them look over. soonyoung pats his boyfriend's leg. "i'll go get it." he kisses seokmin's cheek, before walking over to the door.

once he opens it, seungkwan is standing there. his expression is a mix of uncertainty and steely determination. "i need your help," he says.

"hi? with what, exactly?" soonyoung asks, following the younger boy as he makes his way into the room.

seungkwan sighs, sitting at the foot of soonyoung and seokmin's bed. soonyoung blinks, crawling back into his spot next to seokmin as he waits for seungkwan to speak.

"about a week or so ago, dino created a group chat that includes me, vernon, and jihoon," seungkwan explains. "he made it so we could help set the rest of you guys up. but now that jicheol and jihan are imploding, we figured we needed to ask you for help."

"why us?" seokmin asks.

seungkwan's cheeks flush a bit with embarrassment. "because you're the only couple in the group, and we figured you'd know the most about getting people together," he says.

soonyoung nods. "if you wanted us to help you confess to vernon, you could have just asked," he says.

seungkwan's face turns bright red, and he punches soonyoung in the shoulder (rather hard). "shut up," he says. "this is not about me and vernon."

seokmin shrugs. "isn't it kind of? you're trying to set everyone else up, vernon's already hopelessly in love with you and you don't know how to handle it..."

"yah!" seungkwan says, the tips of his ears even growing red now. "i told you, it's not about me and vernon. there are other people that are more important right now."

"but you even went on a double date with him, joshua, and minghao," soonyoung says, his tone a bit cheeky.

seungkwan looks away, his face still a bright shade of scarlet. "shut up. it was not a date."

seokmin shrugs. "sounded like a date to me, considering what joshua said about y—"

"joshua doesn't know what he's talking about, okay?" seungkwan interrupts. "it was just a lunch, as friends. nothing else happened."

"i bet you wish it did," soonyoung says with a smirk.

seungkwan's expression is exasperated now, his cheeks still crimson. "are you going to help us or not?"

soonyoung looks at him, seeming to consider what he's saying very carefully. "okay. we'll help you."

the younger boy's eyes light up, seemingly with relief. "oh thank god—"

"—on one condition," soonyoung continues.

seungkwan swallows nervously. "what condition?"

a smirk forms on soonyoung's lips. "you have to let us help you confess to vernon."

seungkwan stands from the bed as if soonyoung had just said the most offensive thing possible. "no. no way."

"okay, good luck then," soonyoung says, and seokmin giggles in response.

seungkwan huffs, making his way to the door. "you guys always do this to me," he mutters under his breath. his cheeks are still rather flushed as he turns to the two older boys, then back to the door.

"fine!" he says, after a few more moments of deliberation. "fine, i'll let you help me confess to vernon, just please help us with everything else."

there's a triumphant smile on soonyoung's face, and a purely blissful smile on seokmin's. "good. then just let us know how to get started."