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fourty six

walking trough the IKEA storage pushing a platform cart, jisung was looking for the specific shelves that he really liked. in his hand was a paper with the number of the product, and now, all he had to do was to find it, take it to the bookstore and assemble it.

suddenly, his phone rang.
jisung took it out, smiling slightly when he saw who was calling.

"you miss me already?"
jisung chuckled.

"baby i miss you whenever you're not next to me. I'm just calling to check up on you. are you okay? did you find the shelves?"
minho asked trough the phone.

"not yet. I'm going trough the store right now and trying to find it."
jisung walked passed the corner, looking around.

"mhm. I'm working on the project right now, so after I'm done I'm gonna come help you at the bookstore okay?"

"oh, no, that's okay. don't come. you will be tired after work, and I want you to rest."

"but what about-"

"I will be okay. how about you cooked us some amazing dinner before I'm home? I would be much more grateful for that."

"alright then, count on me."

"great. hey, I found the shelves! gotta go. enjoy your day at work."

"yeah, you too baby."
minho said and jisung hung up.

parking the platform cart right next to him, jisung made sure the numbers added up, before taking a box, putting it on the cart.

"damn that's heavy."
jisung groaned, before reaching to take another box.

he had to buy six of them, so after taking the six boxes, holding his back for a few seconds, he actually realized that this would be much harder than he thought it would be.

then he got an idea.

taking his phone, he dialed a specific number.

"hello?"

"hi changbin. sorry if I'm interrupting you, but are you busy?"

"not really. why?"

"could I ask you for a favor?"

•~•

"I have no idea what I expected when you asked me for a favor, but I definitely didn't expect this."
changbin laughed, as he carried one of the huge boxes inside the soon to be bookstore.

"I'm sorry for bothering you with this."
jisung said, walking right behind changbin.

"oh, no that's absolutely okay."
changbin smiled, putting the box he was holding down, before taking the one jisung was holding.
"I'm happy I could help. should I help you assemble it? it will take some time."

"I couldn't ask for you to do that. you already helped me carry the boxes here. besides, I don't want you to spend the entire day helping me, I would feel bad."
jisung pouted.

"hey, you're not asking, I'm offering to help you. besides, if I didn't help you, I would probably be just playing video games in my apartment, so i would much rather help a friend instead of that."
changbin said, sitting down on the ground.
"do you have a screwdriver here?"

"of course."
jisung smirked, before running into the back, coming back seconds later with a screwdriver in his hand.
"here."

"let's do this!"
changbin yelled, before taking out his pocket knife and opening the first box.

•~•

few hours later, they already had a four out of the six build.

"where should we put this one?"
changbin asked, standing in front of the newly built shelf.

"over there."
jisung pointed, before standing on the side of the shelf, changbin doing the same, before they picked it up and moved it to the place.

"it's starting to look like an actual bookstore. I like the shelves."
changbin smiled.

"yeah, I liked them really much as well. I thought they perfectly fit the space in here."
jisung said, looking around.
"okay, let's go, only two left. and besides, it's already five. a friend should come over soon to help me with this, so you can leave if you want."

"let's just start building the next one and wait for your friend."
changbin said, sitting down and opening the next box.

they were working on the shelf for a while, when suddenly the door opened.

"hi ji, I'm here, everything went according to plan and me and felix locked the...."
jeongin stopped in his tracks when he saw a familiar person on the ground.
"changbin?"

"jeongin?"
changbin was just as shocked.

"what are you doing here?"
jeongin asked.

"you guys know each other?"
jisung was caught off guard.

"I sure as hell know him. that's my brother."
jeongin said.

"WHAT?!"
jisung was shocked.

"you're telling me that the job you got months ago was in jisung's bookstore?"
changbin asked.

"yeah! how do you know jisung anyway?"
jeongin asked.

"that's an..."
changbin looked at jisung, who clearly didn't want jeongin to know.
"that's a long story."

"damn, this is actually crazy. what a small world."
jeongin said.
"anyway, thanks for helping jisung."

"of course."
changbin smiled.
"jisung is my friend as well."

"are you staying for longer?"
jeongin asked, taking off his coat.

"I'm gonna have to go. but I wish you both good luck with this. we did most of it already, and it's only one and a half left."
changbin said, getting up and taking his coat.

"thank you so much for helping me changbin, I really appreciate it."
jisung smiled.

"yeah, of course. call me anytime."
changbin said, before walking to jeongin and patting his back slightly, leaving the bookstore.

"this is actually crazy."
jeongin said, walking closer to jisung.
"I had no idea you knew my brother."

"and I had no idea he was your brother."
jisung said.

"yeah, you can't really tell since I'm this handsome and he looks like a failed experiment."
jeongin said, putting a hair out of his face in a sassy way.

"oh cmon, he's handsome."
jisung chuckled.
"cmon now, let's finish this shelf. me and changbin already started to build it as you can see, and then we have only one left. we will be done pretty soon thanks to your brothers help."