Winter Wonderland (Minizerk)

Chapter 4. Christmas market

Simon woke up on something soft, but somewhat strange and unfamiliar. But when his pillow stirred beneath him, he stopped wondering what it could be, and how he ended up there and opened his eyes to sit up quickly.

With a stinging pain in his neck he found Josh sitting on the couch, his head dropped to the back-rest, still asleep.

"Oh, that's how..." He thought, reminiscing the evening before, as he rubbed his neck forcefully.

Josh's eyes started opening slowly too, but then he had to squint them so he could adjust them to the bright light that was coming from the windows.

"Good morning." Simon smiled at him, only noticing just now, how close he was sitting next to him.

"Morning." Josh mumbled, stifling a yawn as he looked around. "Did we fall asleep here?"

The blonde nodded, getting up from the couch and streched. "I'm hungry."

"Let's grab something to eat then."

As they were making some breakfast, Simon turned on his mobile data to check if anything interesting had happened. Well it was a bad idea, since the second it happened, the phone blew up with notifications from Instagram, all saying that he had been tagged in a shit loads of pictures.

He randomly wanted to click one, but before he did, he noticed that all the pictures were the same and pretty odd.

"JJ, you bitch." He mumbled under his breath, making Josh drop his gaze from his cereal and shift it onto him.

"What's wrong?"

Instead of answer Simon showed him his phone, with the picture on its screen. It was the two of them sleeping on the couch, Simon's head resting Josh's chest, one hand wrapped around his middle, basically snuggled up to his side as Josh was holding him close too. And the caption was 'Aren't they cute?' 😴 🌌 @miniminter @zerkaahd #theyaresoinlove

"Wow. Not even a bad picture." Josh hummed, taking a closer look at it, then double tapped it.

"Did you just like it? From my account?" Simon raised an eyebrow at him questioningly, taking the phone out of his hand.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" Josh enquired with a small smile dancing on his lips.

"Nothing really." He shrugged. "I would've liked it anyways. It's cute." A bit of pink tinted his cheeks after saying that as he scrolled through the comments for a bit. "People are either confused or freaking out in a surprisingly good way about this."

"Do you want to clarify things or just let them wonder?" Josh chuckled, secretly hoping that Simon would not chose the first one, since he didn't really want to do that. Not now when he was about to risk it, and change their relationship.

"Let them wonder."

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The spa Josh wanted to go to was a fifteen minute walk away from their cabins. Collecting the things that they needed, they were on their way there in no time, with Josh leading the way of course. Simon was silently walking beside him, hands stuffed in the pockets of his jeans, as the guys chatted and laughed behind them.

The brunette was holding his phone so they could follow a map and when he thought that they didn't need it anymore, due to the place coming to their sight in the distance, he put it away and glanced up at Simon.

"Are you okay?" He asked in a hushed tone, so they guys didn't hear it, not wanting to make the other boy uncomfortable by all the attention.

"Yeah. Why?" He smiled, meeting his gaze.