my yellow | yungi

18

It isn't long before mingi's friends start to show up. Yunho gives them a quick tour of the house before they change their clothes and go jumping into the swimming pool.

"Mingi dear, aren't you gonna join your friends?" Yunho's mother asks as she notices mingi staring at the gifts piling up in the living room.

"I will, in a bit. It's just, I've never received so many gifts for my birthday. The feeling's new to me." Mingi admits.

"Ah, I see. Take your time and enjoy yourself, we'll try to make this as comfortable for you as we can, alright?"

"Thank you eomeonim."

Mingi changes his clothes afterwards, then meets his friends at the pool. Hongjoong and seonghwa are playing frisbee, while jongho and wooyoung are splashing at each other like kids. Yunho is not in the pool, he's sitting on the sun chairs next to Sera.

"Mingi-ya! Come on in, the water isn't too cold!" Hongjoong shouts as soon as he sees mingi emerge from the back door.

"I'll be right there," he says in return. He strolls over to where Yunho's sitting and asks: "you're not swimming?"

Yunho takes his hand and pulls mingi onto his lap, wrapping his hands around his waist. It sends butterflies fluttering wildly throughout mingi's stomach. "Sera's on her- you know, and since jongho really wanted to swim, I volunteered to accompany her."

Once again, the sweetheart that Yunho is. But for some reason, there's a tight uncomfortable feeling in mingi's chest. He looks at the ground with a troubled face.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Sera answers for mingi: "your boyfriend's jealous. Go, swim with him. I'll help you guys take pics."

"Um...yeah, okay."

They get up from the chair and mingi pulls off the t shirt he's wearing so he only has his swim shorts on. Someone in the pool whistles.

"Hyung, have you been working out? You look good man!" It's jongho. Wooyoung's also staring at mingi with his jaw wide open. They stop splashing at each other for a minute.

"Just a little, haha," mingi laughs, covering his front torso with his long arms. He turns around to find Yunho still with his clothes on, checking him out. "Like what you see?" He teases, grinning when Yunho's face turns red.

"I- I don't think I should swim."

Mingi frowns. "Why? I wanna take pics with you."

"I know, but everyone in the pool took their shirt off, and I'm...I'm not so comfortable doing that. I don't have what you have there," Yunho explains, pointing at mingi's abdomen.

He's insecure about his body?

"Then leave your shirt on. I'll keep mine on too, so we won't draw attention." Mingi pulls his shirt back on, and they step into the pool with their friends. As promised, Sera uses mingi's camera to take pictures of them playing frisbee and fooling around in the water.

At some point, hongjoong pulls mingi to the side to talk to him. "Firstly, happy birthday! I hope you'll like your present, I put a lot of effort into it. Secondly, how's everything? I feel like we didn't communicate much during the break."

"Thanks, joong-ah. And that's cause you went on holiday, I didn't wanna bother you!"

"Okay okay, right. But seriously, everything's okay?"

Mingi spreads his arms out on the ledge and leans back against the pool wall. "I think so. We're still discovering things about each other, but I'm happy, so I hope that answers your question." He glances over at Yunho, who's talking to seonghwa. "Him and I promised not to hide things from each other."