Strawberry Milk - Jeonglix

19

"So...who lives here?" Minho asked, looking up at the large house with somewhat impressed expressions, but for the most part, he looked bored, slumping against the half wall. They'd already been waiting by the house gates for ten minutes and nobody had come outside.

"Jeongin," Felix answered and unsurprisingly, Minho snorted.

"Oh my god, all of those freaks live here?" He asked, looking the house up and down again, "damn...maybe I should ask to be fostered."

"You're nineteen," Felix said, "and please don't call them that."

"Right, yeah, sorry," Minho mumbled, "out of curiosity, why do you want me to do this for him?"

Felix let out a half-hearted chuckle, "you'll make fun of me if I tell you."

"I make fun of everyone, you're not special," Minho scoffed, making Felix narrow his eyes. "Ok, ok, I promise I won't make fun of you."

"You can't tell him-"

"I won't, I won't!"

"Ok, fine...I think I maybe, kind of, have feelings for him. Well, no, I definitely have feelings for him."

As soon as the words left Felix's mouth, he started to panic. He couldn't explain why he was nervous, he was sure Jeongin felt the same way about him, but neither of them had confirmed anything yet and that made him worry. Maybe Jeongin saw it as a casual thing and he didn't want to be anything serious with Felix. Maybe Minho would ruin that and scare him away. Instead, Minho pulled Felix out of his spiralling thoughts and said, "I guess this is the end of you and Chan. I mean, now that you both have new boyfriends-"

"Wait- Chan has a new boyfriend?"

"Yeah, or at least, I think so. We haven't talked much recently but I saw him-"

"Hello," a small voice interrupted their conversation. Felix's head snapped in the direction of Jeongin and his face lit up, rushing through the small gate and wrapping his arms around him. Jeongin chuckled, winding his arms around the back of Felix's neck and meeting eyes with his friend who was standing a few steps away. He couldn't be sure, but Jeongin had a suspicion it was the one who punched Felix not so long ago. He didn't smile at him and Felix's friend didn't smile back either. "This is Minho, he can pick locks," Felix explained, ushering to the boy behind him when they broke their hug.

"Sup."

"Hi," Jeongin responded in a hushed tone. Felix was used to his quietness by now but Minho wasn't and almost missed what he said next, "my family are at a church event so they'll be gone for a few hours."

"How come you're not?" Felix asked, slipping his hand into Jeongin's. Jeongin missed Minho pretending to gag at them, but Felix didn't and subtly stuck his middle finger up at him, making Minho smirk.

"They think I'm in therapy...I cancelled it this morning though."

"Wow, what a rebel," Minho gasped, already making his way in the direction of the house, "let's get this over with so I can go and do something actually worth my time."

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The room Jeongin was trying to get into was on the second floor, somewhere he rarely went due to there being no point. Everybody slept on the second floor except Seungmin and Jeongin who had the ground floor to themselves.

"This is it?" Minho inquired, nodding towards the office door that was a chestnut brown and had three different locks up the side of it.

"Yes."

"Alright, move aside then," Minho said, walking past the two and pulling a tool out of his pocket. Without wasting any time, he started working on picking the first lock. "What's in here anyway? A sex dungeon?"