Tender Love {Chanyeol/Jongin} [English Ver.]

~27~

Making lunch were Kyunghwan, who got home from work, Jongin and Chanyeol. Meanwhile, Kwangsoo, Sehun, Boah, Jiwon and Eunji were in the backyard.

"What should we do with them?" Chanyeol asked as he saw the alive crabs in the pot.

"I'll clean them first and bowl them in hot water," Kyunghwan answered as he began with his work.

Naeun came back downstairs after taking a pill for headache. She had been coughing and having a headache since she woke up, which didn't have her in a very good mood either. She went in the kitchen to help. Jongin was making the rice, something easy, so he didn't need help. She got closer of Chanyeol and Kyunghwan and looked at what the second guy was doing.

"Ah, poor crab," she said in pain after seeing how Kyunghwan broke the alive crab in pieces. "It must hurt. Ah!" She walked away from there and stood next the plateau. "How can you watch him hurting those poor crabs?"

"I think it is mean killing them like this but. . , I really want to eat them," Chanyeol replied with a grin. She winced.

"I rather not knowing how it is cooked and just eat it."

"Leave then," Jongin told her as he passed by her.

"Leave then," she imitated him, funny. "I will see what the others are doing." As soon as she turned around to walk away, Chanyeol stopped her by grabbing her wrist.

"Don't leave. Help me with. . ." He looked around. "Help me making the side dishes." He smiled.

She nodded and he, still grabbing her wrist, placed her infront of the plateau next to him. The two of them began making the side dishes. While they were doing so, they began talking between them, Naeun forgeting the matter of him and Boah. Jongin had his eyes on them the whole time, and if not the eyes, the ears. From time to time he laughed in silence of them because of their conversation and fight for who could cut faster the cucumber.

"Be careful of not cutting yourself," Kyunghwan told them as he walked to the stove with the pot full of crabs.

"Be careful, " Chanyeol told her. She rolled her eyes.

At the end Chanyeol won the competence to cut the cucumbers faster. After a couple minutes they began making rice rolls. Jongin finished with his work and while he passed next them to leave the kitchen, he slightly pushed Naeun, who was coming back from searching something in the fridge, and caused her to crash into Chanyeol. That was what Jongin he wanted. But he didn't notice Chanyeol was in the middle of cutting a vegetable. . , and that sudden push against him made him cut himself on his hand, at the bottom of his thumb. Naeun noticed it when she heard him scream in pain.

"I'm so sorry. Jongin pushed me!" She said worried and looked at his bleeding hand.

Chanyeol looked at his friend and he just shrugged with a smile, holding his laugh.

"Mianh!" He said as he kept on his way out of the kitchen.

Kyunghwan went to look for the first aid box. Meanwhile, Chanyeol cleaned the wound with water. Naeun felt so bad for it. The wound wasn't small. . . .

"I'm fine," he told her, chuckling.

"I'm sorry anyways." She grabbed paper and dried his hands with it.

Kyunghwan came back with what he went to look for. Naeun grabbed the things and put it on the dinning table, telling Chanyeol to sit down, that she would take care of it. He extended his hand infront of her and rested his chin on the other, watching her acting as a nurse.

"It's so big. Are you sure you don't need stitches?" She asked as she looked at him in the eyes. Despite it hurt him, he couldn't stop smiling. She seemed so guilty for it even though it wasn't her fault.