Keeping a Distance >•Minsung•<

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Sadly, the two boys did not wake up as peacefully as they had fallen asleep. They both jumped at the sounds of screaming.
"Ugh, what is going on?" Minho rubbed his eyes. Jisung, however, was captivated by the sight of Minho. His hair was sticking up in all directions and his face was slightly puffy. He had never seen something so fucking cute. But he didn't get long to admire it as someone suddenly burst into their room. It was Felix, and he had a huge smile on his face. The moment he saw the two boys in the same bed, he froze and his smile dropped.
"Come back here you bitch!" Jeongin voice rang out as he collided with Felix's back. "He what are you doing?" Jeongin looks into the room to see Minho and Jisung. "Oh. My. God." Jisung scrambled out of the bed, to which Minho frowned.
"What going on, why is there screaming?" Jisung spoke while avoiding eye contact with anyone.
"I ate his last strawberry." Felix said passively. "What's going on in here?" Felix grinned. Another person walked in, Chan.
"Finally you stopped screaming. What are you guys doing?"
"Jisung was just about to tell us why he was sleeping in the same bed as Minho." Felix grinned even more.
"He was what?" Chan was shocked. Minho never shared a bed unless he was screwing someone. "Oh my god did you guys-"
"No!"
"No!" Jisung and Minho both yelled before he could finish his sentence.
"I just couldn't sleep..." Jisung said quietly. Unexpectedly, Jeongin jumped onto Felix to tackle him. Screams rang out through the room again. They ended up rolling around on the floor. Chan had to break the two up from there play fighting.
"Guys calm down!" Chan tried to scold them but couldn't hold back laughter.
"He started it." Jeongin playfully crossed his arms and pouted as he sat criss-cross-applesauce on the floor.
"There are more strawberries, let's go." Chan pulled the moping boy up and dragged him out of the room.
"Bitch." Felix said just loud enough for Jeongin to hear, who began to lunge at him but Chan grabbed him by the waist and pulled him back into the kitchen. Jisung and Minho made eye contact and smiled. They were thinking the same thing. 'What kind of friend group did we get ourselves into?'

After breakfast, the group decided to spend the day together again. Everyone acted normal. Like Jisung's suicide attempt didn't send Minho to the hospital. Like Jisung hadn't disappeared for weeks. They even went as far as to act like Minho and Jisung had been part of the group for years, even if they were basically just introduced. Yes it had been like a month or two but for most of that Jisung was missing and Minho was shutting everyone out. But even so, they went to the arcade. They all split up into smaller groups. Chan pulled Minho along with him to a game, Jeongin and Seungmin ran off together to do who knows what mischief, for some reason Changbin and Hyunjin ended up together playing a shooter game, and that left Felix and Jisung together. Felix was hyper and excited. Jisung met his energy. They were laughing like children and running around like kids running away from their parents to play one more game. Chan had paid for all their coins, so everyone had plenty. After a while everyone texted the group chat and due to hunger and they all met up to grab pizza. They all sat down in two booths and munched away. At this point, Hyunjin wouldn't stop playing with Jeongin hair, and the younger almost shoved a piece of pizza into his face just to get him to back off. When everyone is finished, they break off into pairs once again. This time, Felix goes and prances off holding hands with Hyunjin, Changbin and Chan start to talk and walk aimlessly, Seungmin and Jeongin once again go off together and that leaves Minho and Jisung alone together. They go off and decide to play one of those dinosaur shooter games with the plastic guns attached to it.
"Aha!" Jisung yelled. "I told you I'd win." Jisung crosses his arms smugly.
"Best two out of three." Minho placed another coin into the slot.
"You really want to get beat again?" Jisung smiled. Minho rolled his eyes and grabbed the fake gun again.
"We'll see." Minho spammed the trigger hard while Jisung focused on the targets. After a minute, Minho groaned.
"How?!" Minho shoulders dropped as well as his jaw. Jisung laughed at the score difference.
"Okay, I know I'm good, but you're just really bad." Jisung can't seem to stop cackling. Minho tries not to smile, he kinda wants to be upset. But seeing Jisung so happy/ he couldn't not be as well. Minho was able to convince Jisung to play again three more times, Minho lost all of them. At this point he was on the ground with his back against the game. He let out a groan.
"Why god? Why?" Minho looked up at the ceiling as if speaking to it. Jisung pulled him off the ground.
"I'm sure we can find something you're good at." Jisung reassured him as he pulled him to another game. Soon they stopped at PAC-Man.
"This is a one player." Minho said.
"No shit, it's pac-man. But I wanna see how you do. Go on." This made Minho nervous. He wasn't quite sure why, but having Jisung evaluate how he did was making him fidgety. But at the same time, he wanted to impress him for some reason. So he put in the coin and began to play. He actually did pretty well, but eventually he was cornered and lost.
"Come one, come on! No!" Jisung was cheering for him as he played and was very unhappy when Minho lost. "Stupid ghost." Jisung was more angry about the loss than Minho was. In fact Minho wasn't even thinking about the game anymore. Instead, he was thinking about how cute Jisung looked when he was angry. Jisung looked at Minho, feeling had stare. "What?" Jisung asked. Minho blinked and looked back at the game.
"Nothing, uh, how'd I do?" Jisung smiled.
"That was great! I swear this game is rigged, you were doing so well." They laughed and began to walk around again. After a little while Minho turned to Jisung.
"How are you doing?" Minho tried to sound casual but his voice reviled his feelings of concern. Jisung looked down at the ground.
"I think I'm good, I think. Maybe I'm just distract but the urge isn't so strong right now." Minho knew what he meant by 'the urge'. But he decided not to comment. He simply rapped his arm around Jisung's shoulder and walked with him close.
"I know you aren't really comfortable with physical contact so you don't have to do this for me, I'm okay." Jisung looked up at Minho with beautiful boba eyes. Minho only smiled a little and looked forward before speaking.
"Actually, I don't really mind. At least, with you. I don't know, it's kinda weird. I've always hated physical contact since... I was young. But with you, I don't know it's just different." Jisung heard the whole thing, but he was stuck on the pause in his sentence, as if he had to change what he was going to say right before he said it. But Jisung decided not to pry, he trusted that Minho would tell him when he was ready.

After everyone met up again, they decided to all go to karaoke. With this, Jisung was bouncing off the walls. He loved to sing, even more, he loved to rap. So the moment they got into the room, he grabbed the tablet and started skimming through the list of songs. Felix wanted to sing with him so they did a duet. At one point everyone wanted Chan and Changbin to sing. They chose a song with high vocals and rap of course. Everyone was having a pretty good time to be honest. They even ordered food. It was getting late and the songs they were picking started to clam down into softer tunes. Soon, Jisung realized that Minho hadn't gone yet. "Hey Minho why don't you go up next?" Minho looked at Jisung in surprise, he didn't think anyone would notice him not going up.
"No it's okay." Minho smiled. But Jisung insisted.
"No I really shouldn't." He tried to get out of it but it was to no avail. So he was forced to the front of the room and a mic was shoved in his hand. Jisung selected a completely random song without even looking at the title. He placed the tablet down and sat with a smile favoring Minho. He was excited to hear his singing voice. Apparently, he had chosen the song 'Black Friday' by Tom Odell. [I suggest you look it up and listen to it] Minho recognized the song and began to follow the lyrics appearing on screen. As the song went on he de-tensed. He began to fall into the music. He sang his heart out, hitting every note perfectly. He forgot where he was at some point. He forgot he wasn't alone. All he could comprehend was the music. He remembered listening to this song before. It made him a little emotional. But he made sure not to let tears well up in his eyes. When the song ended he came back to reality. He looked at the group sitting on the couch. They all had wide teary eyes. Jisung and Felix were holding each other with their tears running down their faces.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to-" Minho's apology was cut off by Jisung running to him.
"That was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard!" He hugged the older. Everyone started clapping and cheering for the boy, who put one arm on Jisung's back to rub circles on it. After a few more songs the group decided to take their leave. They all went to their separate dorms.

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Jisung opened the door to the dorm with half open eyes. "God I'm so tired." The four of them took off their shoes and said their good nights before going into their rooms. Minho went to the bathroom to change first, then Jisung did. After coming out of the bathroom, Jisung saw that Minho was already passed out in his bed. He smiled and went to his own. But after a while, he realized that, no matter how tired he was, he couldn't sleep. He felt like there was something missing, like there was too much space on the bed that needed to be filled. Like he needed someone next to him. His mind fell to Minho. He tried not to think about it. They had already slept in the same bed recently, they couldn't do it again, especially without good reason. But after a few more minutes, the feeling in his gut wouldn't leave. He sat up and sat at the edge of his bed and rubbed his face. He looked up to see Minho also sitting at the age of his bed as well.
"Couldn't sleep." Minho asked with the corners of his mouth raised a bit.
"Nope." Jisung sighed.
"Any particular reason why?" This made Jisung freeze. He couldn't just say that he wanted to be in the same bed as him, that would be weird. But luck was on his side that night. "I can't sleep either." Minho spoke again when Jisung didn't answer. "I don't know why. Feel weird." Minho seemed almost unsettled. Then he stood up and made his way to Jisung's bed. "Mind if I join you?" Jisung's face went beet red. 'Thank god it's dark in here.' But he nodded and got back into his bed, giving Minho plenty of room to get in as well. Minho pulled the blankets over him and laid down. Immediately, Minho pulled Jisung close to him so that Jisung was lying on his arm by the crook of his neck. Jisung looked at him with a surprised look on his face. But Minho didn't see it, his eyes were closed now. Though he had a small smile on his face. Jisung snuggled close and closed his eyes as well. Finally, he was able to fall asleep peacefully.

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