Never in a million Years

It's pretty obvious

After the whole book incident, he found himself spending quite a long time with Seungcheol. On Various occasions, Seungcheol would leave his friends to have lunch with him. At first Jihoon was very flustered, but after a few meet ups he learned to be at ease with the other. He still didn’t dare tell the other of his affection because he didn’t want to ruin the friendship that they had at that point, so he kept quiet. He learned that they both had a similar interest in making music. Because they spent quite some time together, Jihoon’s friends became acquainted with those of Seungcheol’s which expanded his social circle, not that he really cared about that. But what bothered him was that the more he spent time with the other, the more his affections grew and the harder it was for him to keep it under wraps.

Jihoon stared at the ceiling for what seemed like a long time. It was five in the morning and classes didn’t start for another four hours, but Jihoon could not sleep with Jisoo’s loud ass snoring. He tried the best he could to ignore it, but he couldn’t. Some days he really hated being Jisoo’s roommate and these were one of the days. Jihoon huffed before he sat up on his bed. He stared at nothing in particular before he left his warm covers. It’s not like he could go back to sleep now that he was up, so he grabbed his warmest clothes, brushed his teeth, and left the dorm. It was still dark outside, so he couldn’t really see anything. At least it was quiet outside, unlike his dorm where Jisoo was still probably snoring in.

He walking to no place in particular when he found himself near the gym. He didn’t even know how he got there. He had never really been inside there because he wasn’t too big on sports. He put on his earphones and began to walk around the building. It was pretty peaceful now that he thought about it. There was no one around and he wasn’t being distracted by anything. He liked it, but bad things always made their way to Jihoon one way or another. He was about to round the corner when he heard someone yell, “Watch out.” And once he felt a ball hit his head he knew he was wrong. Yes, this was not peaceful.

“Shit, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hit you with the ball. I’m so sorry,” Jihoon heard someone say. The voice sounded very familiar to him and then it dawned on him, it was Seungcheol. Jihoon mentally cried from his place on the floor.  Just his luck. Here he was sprawled on the floor with Seungcheol practically hovering over him and it was still five in the morning.

Jihoon groaned as he tried to get up, but he was feeling dizzy so he let his arms support him on the floor. His head was pounding. He groaned again.

“I’m sorry Jihoon. I didn’t see you there. I’m usually the only one up at this time, so I wasn’t paying attention to where I was shooting the ball.” He finished as he offered his hand to Jihoon. Jihoon took his hand and was lifted from the floor.

“It’s okay,” he replied.

“I’m okay,” he said as he tried to stand, but the dizziness was getting to him.

“Are you sure,” Seungcheol felt awful.

“Yeah, I think I’m okay,” replied Jihoon as he intended to take a step forwards, but ended up falling backwards.

“Woah there,” said Seungcheol as he grabbed Jihoon from behind. He was definitely not okay. He tried to convince Jihoon to go to the nurse, but the guy was stubborn.

“Besides, it way too early in the morning for the nurse’s office to be open,” he said as he was suddenly aware of how he could feel Seuncheol’s chest pressed up against his back.  He wasn’t going to lie, he liked the position they were in, with Seuncheol holding his waist and being so close to each other.  He found himself snuggling closer to him. He liked this.

“What did you say?” asked Seungcheol. Jihoon yelped and jumped away from the other male. He didn’t realize he had said that part out loud.

“Nothing, nothing I said nothing,” he said flustered. He should have just stayed in his dorm, snoring Jisoo or not.

“I’m pretty sure you just said that you li—“

“N-no, no I didn’t. Y-you must have heard wrong,” he denied. This was not happening.

“Ok, ok I’ll take your word for it,” said Seungcheol as he chuckled.  “Why don’t I buy you a coffee or something. My way of saying sorry, yeah?” Jihoon was not about to turn down that offer, so they both headed to a nearby coffee shop. Jihoon didn’t even know that there were any shops open around this time.  They waked inside and the warmth instantly hit Jihoon. They placed an order and sat by one of the booths next to the window, while they waited for their drinks.

“What are you doing awake so early in the morning?” asked Jihoon.

“I could ask you the same thing,” teased Seungcheol as he rested his head on his hand and stared at Jihoon.

“I couldn’t sleep,” he answered. He felt nervous under the other male’s stare. And he had a feeling that Seungcheol knew exactly he was doing to Jihoon.

After a few minutes under Seungcheol’s stare he spoke up. “I usually wake up at this time to exercise. I usually run, but sometimes I play basketball,” he said. He looked at Jihoon’s hair and proceeded to reach for it.

“What are—”

“You’ve got something on your hair,” he said as he reached for a leaf that was stuck on his hair.

After he brushed the leaf away, he slowly brought his hand down Jihoon’s face. Jihoon couldn’t look away from the others eyes. He didn’t notice that their faces were getting closer when all of a sudden a waitress showed up.

“Here’s your guy’s order.” They quickly jumped apart from each other. Seungcheol cleared his throat.

“Right thanks.” The waitress could see the blush on both of their faces.

“Can I just say that you guys make the cutest couple,” she said.

Jihoon almost chocked on his drink. “Oh were no—” but he was cut off by Seungcheol.

“Thank you,” he said. Jihoon stared at him with wide eyes. After the waitress had left Jihoon couldn’t say a word. The rest of the time was spent finishing their coffee. After they left, he finally managed to say something. “Why did you tell her we we’re a couple?” he said as he stopped right behind Seungcheol.

Seungcheol turned around and stared at Jihoon for a while before he sighed. “Isn’t it obvious. Jihoon I’m just gonna go ahead and say it because I can’t hold it back any longer. Jihoon I like you, I mean I really really like you. And I know that you feel the same way because I’ve caught you when you look at me and as much as you try, it’s pretty obvious that you feel the same,” he said as he took ahold of Jihoon’s hands, but Jihoon took his hands away from him.

“Are you lying to me. You can’t like me. I mean you’re straight aren’t you?”

“No, Jihoon I don’t know where you got that from, but how can I be straight when I’m confessing my feelings to you right now.” He once again got ahold of Jihoon’s hands and this time Jihoon didn’t let go.

“So, will you go out with me?” he asked intertwining their hands. Jihoon looked at their joined hands before he chuckled.

“Do you even have to ask?” he said as Seungcheol smiled brightly and embraced Jihoon. “We do make a cute couple don’t we?” he said as kissed Seungcheol.

“I guess Jisoo owes Soonyoung fifty bucks huh,” said Seungcheol.

“Ugh, you overheard that?” said Jihoon as he covered his face with his hands

“Yup,” replied the other as he slowly brought his hands down and pecked him on the cheek. Later that afternoon Soonyoung bought pizza for Hansol and himself with Jisoo’s fifty bucks.