When Sungyeol woke up the next day - ok, he couldn't get a wink of sleep but once the boys started to rise he pretended to be asleep – he went out of the bed to find most of Myungsoo's family in the kitchen (the patriarch wasn't present). Sonmi was feeding the kids some fruits while they tried to make plans for the day and she was squealing at them while her eldest son fumbled in the kitchen.

“Morning.” He mumbled a greeting. Once they noticed him everyone but Myungsoo froze in place to look at him and Sungyeol felt so exposed as if everyone knew his deepest secrets and were scrutinizing him. “What?” He asked as he rubbed one of his eyes and approached the kitchen island where the kids were sitting at and dangling their feed.

“Is everything ok? Are you feeling well?” Sonmi asked in a gentle but worried tone.

“Yes... I am?” Sungyeol asked unsurely. Well, things were as ok as they could be considering what he discovered some hours ago, which absolutely didn't freak Sungyeol out, only that it did, and he hadn't been able to have a wink of sleep.

Sunggyu pointed his a finger to his cheek, closer to his mouth, before talking to him. “Hyung.... you have dark circles till here.” He explained shocked.

“You look like a Vampire, ahahahahahahaha!” Woohyun added with a laugh and once his father heard that he turned around ready to scold him.

“WOOHYUN!” He hissed and the boy promptly sat up straight and shut up only to pout next then Myungsoo then moved his attention to Sungyeol. “Come sit here, I made breakfast for” you. He said smiling sweetly and Sungyeol wanted to dig a hole and hide in it, what's was that dimple accompanied of moon eyes? And why was he saying that he made Sungyeol breakfast only? Wouldn't the others eat too?

“Humm, aren't you guys going to eat too?” He asked awkwardly. “What about Mr. Kim?” He added as he noticed the patriarch wasn't there.

“No dear, oppa woke up with a headache, I think he stayed too much in the sun yesterday, so he is trying to sleep a bit more. And the kids and I already ate right kids?” She asked and both boys nodded to agree. “And we were just making plans for the day when Myungsoo woke up.” She smiled as she explained, but by Myungsoo dark circles he hadn't been able to sleep too, though it didn't seem so because next to Sungyeol his dark circles were barely noticeable. “Since we already ate, I was thinking about to take the boys to go visit our neighbors.” Sungyeol made a confused face so she promptly added. “Oh, I won't take Sunggyu far, I just want to take him to see his mother house.”

“And mine too!” Woohyun added. “Omma also lived there!”

Sunggyu gasped as if only it occurred to him to tell Sungyeol this now. “Hyung, did you know that grandma was omma's friend?”

“Yeah, isn't that nice?” Sungyeol dismissed Sunggyu enthusiasm, more worried about the fact that he would probably be alone with Myungsoo and the way the said man was looking intently at him. “She told me yesterday.”

“Are you sure you're ok dear? You didn't sleep well did you?” She asked.

“I'm kinda anxious with things I have to solve this week, I also have to go to school to hear about Sunggyu evaluation, I'm a bit worried about his development.” Sungyeol mumbled an explanation that he thought was acceptable though he knew that Myungsoo knew that wasn't the truth at all.

“I did great.” Sunggyu said very sure of himself.

“Me too!” Woohyun backed him up.

“Well, we're gonna see about that.” Myungsoo put some scrambled eggs with bacon over the kitchen island and ruffled his son's hair.

“If you need anything or any kind of medicine you can ask Myungsoo ok?” Sonmi advised Sungyeol. “I'll get them ready for the day so we can go and come back before Moonsoo arrives.”

“Moonsoo is really coming?” Myungsoo asked with a bit of surprise. “He is ignoring me, does he know I'm still here?”

“Kids, what about we change clothes to go out?” She suggested and the kids jumped from the kitchen island and ran for the bedrooms before she addressed her son again. “Of course he knows, but he is praying no to bump up with you.” She sighed. “You were a bit mean but not enough for him to ignore you for days, so I wonder what's up with him that made him so over sensitive. She added with a pensive tone. “But well, I'm going to get the boys to move, enjoy your breakfast.”

“Ok, don't let Woohyun eat too much or make a fuss over there ok?” Myungsoo replied with kitten smile to his mother and she pinched his cheeks before going out of the kitchen so he set his intense eyes on Sungyeol and patted the space beside him. “Come eat.” Sungyeol gulped hard, after their previous conversation those intense eyes made him nervous and he felt very uncomfortable around his neighbor and this time there wasn't anything he could do to hide it. “Come, I won't bite you. We need to eat to get ready to go.”

Very much against his will - just because he didn't know how to act, otherwise instead of sitting on the stool he would be glad to sit in Myungsoo's lap, WYF he was even thinking? - he moved to sit beside his neighbor at the only other stool while Myungsoo served himself. And started to eat quietly.

It was a heavy and deafening silence, and Sungyeol had been in enough of those to hate it and despite the situation, he was almost glad when Myungsoo broke it.

“I'm sorry for what I did to you yesterday.” He said keeping his eyes on his plate, he didn't have the courage to face Sungyeol that had a raised brow and a hand frozen midway his mouth.

“What?” Sungyeol didn't mean to but that question came out dripping sarcasm.

“I mean...” He dropped his tone of voice as much as he could. “Considering my circumstances... what I asked of you yesterday... it was probably a shock.”

“Talk about a shock, I couldn't even sleep.” Sungyeol said in equally low voice and though that could have come out bitter or dripping in sarcasm, in reality, it just came out tired.

“I'm sorry.” Myungsoo apologized once again. “But I didn't know when I would have the courage and another opportunity to approach this subject with you.” Sungyeol, albeit trying all night, hadn't been able to wrap his head on what Myungsoo told him but he understood what his neighbor said. Considering his own experiences, it wasn't easy to come up with courage when you had something big holding you back, but before he could tell Myungsoo that he understood that part at least, the younger talked to him again. “If your answer turns out to be negative... I still want you to be my friend hyung, so I will do my best to act in a way that will make you comfortable.”

“Myungsoo... about that...” Sungyeol wanted to say that yes they could keep being friends, but now he already changed his way of perceiving Myungsoo so he wouldn't exactly be able to go back they way they were before (not that he wanted) but he was rudely interrupted by the front door closing and some people entering the house.

“Yona kekekekee Ri-on is so scared of her, I mean it's too funny.” Moonsoo voice was heard talking about a re run of a drama.

“And the scene where she jumped on him kekekeke, hilarious.” Sungjong was also heard and both men at the kitchen promptly halted their conversation and focused back on their food.

“Oh, it seems mom's still in the kitchen, come, you have to meet her.” Moonsoo said once he heard the sound of cutlery on plates and a couple of seconds later he was meeting eyes with his brother. “You're still here?” He asked annoyed.

“I'm sorry I have sinned your grace.” Myungsoo said with a bit of sarcasm and Sungjong and Sungyeol eyes moved from one to the other not understanding while Moonsoo glared at his brother. “Come on, being serious now, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you that much.” Myungsoo said honestly as Sungyeol observed but quietly started eating again.

“I don't know what this fight is about but Myungsoo hyung seems to be truly sorry.” Sungjong placed a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder as he said in a gentle tone.

Moonsoo just sighed and approached the kitchen island to give his brother a hug. “Fine, fine, I forgive you.”

“Thank you.” Myungsoo said in Moonsoo ear and they pulled apart. “I'm really sorry if you thought I was raining on your parade or something, that wasn't my intention. Yes, I didn't get to enjoy college life the way you're doing so it has to be more fun for you, but in the end it's just tiring... you go there watch a bunch of classes you don't have patience for anymore and have to do a graduation project or write a thesis.” He explained. “I'm just anxious that I'm about to go into the worst part.”

“Oh yeah, graduation project, I totally forgot about that, have you thought what are you going to do?” Moonsoo asked as if he wasn't ignoring his brother for the last couple of days and that made Sungjong and Sungyeol met eyes and furrow brows, when they fought they took the longest time to reach some peace and when they did that they were awkward for some time.

“No, today we are going to the kids school to check their grades but tomorrow I'll go to college to check mine, hopefully, if I pass things, I can seek a professor to discuss some ideas, I want to take advantage that Woohyun will spend most of his vacations here - and Sunggyu is invited to stay too...” He made sure to tell Sungyeol. “- to work a bit and get ahead with that.” Myungsoo explained and Sungyeol couldn't understand why Myungsoo was so worried about his project... he got all the knowledge in three years and a half already right? Time aside that had to be easy to do no? He was almost done with his own thesis, that was probably more complicated than Myungsoo's.

“Talking about him where he is? What about Sunggyu?” Sungjong asked in time for the kids to come running.

“UNCLE MOOOOOOOONSOOOOO!” Woohyun came crashing and hugging his uncle and Myungsoo took advantage of that to go back to his growing cold breakfast.

“Mandu!” Moonsoo greeted back and squeezed his nephew's cheeks.

“It's not Mandu, it's NAMU!” The boy complained, how could his uncle forget his nickname that easily?

“But your face is so round.... like a mandu.” Moonsoo now pinched the boy's cheeks and Woohyun let go of his uncle to try to hit him but Moonsoo could evade and started to run from him laughing away.

“Hyung! Hyung, you came too!” Sunggyu smiled happily and Sungjong ruffled his hair fondly.

“Yes, I came to play.” Sungjong answered cheerfully then looked at Sungyeol. “Hyung, I know you said you'd only spend the weekend here but Woohyun will stay here and Moonsoo and I just came... can't Sunggyu stay more?”

Sunggyu immediately turned to his eldest hyung to beg. “Oh, hyung, please, please, please! Grandpa said he would fix the swings for us to play!”

Sungyeol looked from the maknae to the middle brother, painfully aware that his neighbor was watching this conversation with interest. “How many days are you going to stay here?”

Sungjong shrugged. “I don't know, maybe most of my break, It will be crowded if I go back to your apartment and Moonsoo invited me to stay for as long as I want, I can take care of Gyu here you let me.” He said and both boys looked at Sungyeol begging with their eyes.

“But he doesn't have many clothes here...” Sungyeol said a bit worried.

“I'm coming back tomorrow to bring more stuff for Woohyun so I can bring Sunggyu more clothes too if you want it.” Myungsoo interjected and Sungyeol knew that his neighbor offered that on purpose after all he had all interest in the world for him to be alone too, with the kids out of the way whatever happened could be very easy to do.

“Ok then.” Sungyeol ended up saying which made his brother squeal in happiness.

“We are going to have so much fun!” Sungjong cheered then raised his voice a bit to call his lover. “MOONSOO HYUNG, SUNGGYU WILL...”

“Who are you and why are you disturbing my sick husband?” Sonmi arrived at the kitchen ready to go out and Sungjong flushed deeply and bowed.

“I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to yell or anything.”

“Mom, this is my friend Sungjong.” Moonsoo reappeared from behind Sonmi tickling Woohyun away to introduce his boyfriend and, as soon as Sungjong stood straight, she opened a big smile at him when she noticed the resemblance to Sungyeol.

“OMG, you're Minyoung unnie second child!” She looked at Myungsoo and Sungyeol then at Sungjong marveled.

“Mom?” Moonsoo asked curiously and the other teenager looked at their elder brothers asking for them to explain to him what was happening and why Moonsoo mother knew the name of his but it was Sunggyu that explained everything.

“Hyung, did you know that grandma is omma's friend? Isn't that nice? Grandma has a box this big full of omma's pictures.” He opened his arms a bit to show his hyung the size of the box.

“I can't hear this a third time.” Sungyeol mumbled under his breath.

“Go pack your things, I'll do the dishes and we fly away from here.” Myungsoo mumbled back.

“Come with me I'll tell you really funny stories of your omma.” Sonmi grabbed Sungjong by the wrists and was about to drag him to the living room when Woohyun complained.

“Noooo, I want to go to mom house.”

“Oh, yes, we were about to go out to go there, you two should come with us, I have to show... what was your name again? Sung...”

“.Jong. Sungjong, Lee Sungjong.”

“I have to show you the house where your mother used to live. Come on boys.” She proceeded to drag the poor confused Sungjong as Woohyun and Sunggyu ran after them.

“I have to go save him.” Moonsoo mumbled before going too.

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After getting ready to go Myungsoo went to check up on his father. Bumsoo was laying on his bed with all curtains closed and having, according to what he said, a headache from hell, but still, he managed to come out for a bit, to join the others, and say goodbyes to his son and Sungyeol.

Since Incheon was roughly an hour from their place at Seoul and since it seemed that Myungsoo was more rested than Sungyeol, they agreed that Myungsoo would drive while Sungyeol would take a nap on their way but that wasn't what happened. Both of them were very cautious (or nervous) around each other and that resulted in Sungyeol not sleeping again.

While Myungsoo turned the radio on to fill the weird silence between them Sungyeol decided to stick to his phone, after all, he had some messages from Hoya and...

Hoya: I dropped by your apartment yesterday and you weren't even there. Where are you?

Hoya: Sungjong told me you guys went on a trip to Incheon with Myungsoo and Woohyun, thank you for telling me.

Sungyeol cursed in his mind because he could feel Hoya hurt and sarcasm all the way Incheon so he decided to leave Hoya a message and have at least 5 minutes in which he would forget about Myungsoo and his situation and think about something else.

Yeol: Sorry, everything was kind of rushed.

Yeol: I'm going back to Seoul right now, I'm going to meet with Dongwoo hyung.

He sent and Hoya replied right away.

Hoya: You're going to have lunch without me? I can't believe it.

Yeol: I ain't having lunch with him, I need to go to Sunggyu school so Dongwoo hyung can tell me how Sunggyu is doing lately there.

Hoya: Oh, right, that stupid meeting that takes all day.

Hoya: I'm sure Gyu is being a candy, don't worry.

Yeol: Sunggyu is the least of my problems right now Hocousin, if only you'd know *sighs*

Hoya: Huh What happened?

Yeol: Can't tell you here, only in person.

Hoya: asxgsgfndsmdsmlçe! TELL ME!

Yeol: I'm ing serious, I can't tell you here.

Who are you texting with so excitedly I thought you were going to have a nap. Suddenly Myungsoo spoke, taking a quick peek on his phone and Sungyeol almost passed out in a fright.

“Don't surprise me more than you already did yesterday!” He complained. “I'm talking to Hoya hyung.”

“Ok.” With that Myungsoo fixed his eyes on the road and Sungyeol turned his whole body in a way so Myungsoo wouldn't be able to peek.

Yeol: Myungsoo is driving beside me, but he almost peeked at my phone.

Hoya: So?

Yeol: HYUNG, SO MANNY THINGS HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND THAT YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE.

Yeol: I bumped with Sungjong but I wasn't able, nor I would have the time, to talk to him about it, so I'm gonna tell you guys first hand.

Yeol: Wanna have dinner together once Dongwoo hyung finishes his meetings? I will tell you every juicy detail.

Hoya: , I only work with time and place set.

Sungyeol smiled relieved and started typing the time and address of their favorite restaurant, relieved he Hoya forgave him that easily with the prospects of gossip, but, really, his brain felt all kinds of confusing, he needed to have the most stable gay couple he knew (ok he didn't know many gay couples) to walk him through this.

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They arrived at school around eleven, of course after a quick stop home to drop their things. Differently, from the first time they came two months ago, they wouldn't be required to watch the principal lecture and could head straight to talk to the teacher, Dongwoo. As they arrived in the kids class, they found Dongwoo sitting at his chair with feet placed over the desk and trying to balance a pencil over his plump lip pout, it seemed the teacher was pretty bored and was trying to distract himself with things he had at hand.

“Dongwoo hyung?” Sungyeol knocked on the door and Myungsoo poked his head from behind him to look at the teacher pretty much for Sungyeol discomfort.

“Sungyeol! Myungsoo!” Dongwoo smiled widely and sat up straight. “Come on in both of you.” He said as he searched for something in a pile of papers and the two young adults entered the room and sat on the chairs in front of Dongwoo desk. “I'm sorry, you saw me this way, I was so bored, I have been here for two hours already and you two are the first ones to come.” He said and finally placed two files over his desk.

“We actually wanted to arrive very early but we were in Incheon...” Dongwoo raised a brow and looked from Myungsoo to Sungyeol and held a smile in, which made Sungyeol move his long leg to kick him underneath the table. Hoya, that blabbermouth must have told Dongwoo about their Saturday conversation already. “...and it takes an hour to come, but I'm glad we can be the firsts to come since I kind of have to drop by at college to see if my teachers already have my own grades out.” Myungsoo explained.

“Yes, yes, then let's proceed, I don't want to hold you guys back, though I will be bored alone here.” Dongwoo smiled as he tried to kick Sungyeol feet back, but the tallest had removed it just in time and the teacher was too short to reach him. “These here are the boy's files, with the notes on their evolution I made since our last encounter and I'll also inform you about their grades." He pointed to the two boys files and then chuckled to himself. “It was such a change from our last encounter, last time you two were cussing each other.” He said in amusement and both boys flushed a bit and looked everywhere but Dongwoo eyes.

“OK...” Dongwoo looked back at the files. “In math, Sunggyu is top of the class again and this time I can't say it's because he already learned things last year but Woohyun came out third place. This surprised me a bit because I know it isn't his favorite subject but he improved a lot so thumbs up for both of you.”

“The boys are hanging out a lot together now so they study together too.” Myungsoo explained.

“They study every day at least an hour.” Sungyeol said because he was strict like that and Dongwoo just stood there and blinked at him. “What?” He asked as Dongwoo dumbly looked at him.

“You're making them study an hour every day? They are just first graders Sungyeol."

“Hey, Myungsoo is fine with it.” Sungyeol defended himself and Dongwoo looked at Myungsoo in surprise.

“They get too excited when they are together so we kind of said they should just study an hour if they want to play, but they mostly do their homework.” Myungsoo explained. “Besides, it makes them quiet enough for us to pay attention into preparing food for them.”

“OK.” Dongwoo said hesitantly... if that was working. “Sensible Life and Enjoyable Life. Woohyun kept his scores the same as the last time but Sunggyu improved.” He then looked at Sungyeol with a smile. “Thumbs up for you.”

“As for Disciplined life. Woohyun also kept his scores great but Sunggyu improved a lot, he rarely refuses to do anything anymore and now he accepts to do activities in groups as long as Woohyun is still in his group. For PE Woohyun is nailing this, as expected of the son of an athlete.” Dongwoo joked as he looked at his papers which made Myungsoo chuckle. “And Sunggyu still doesn't like it, but he is being more cooperative in this department lately, good job Sungyeol.”

“Actually...” Sungyeol forced a sheepish smile and looked at Myungsoo that chuckled again.

“I have been taking Sunggyu out to move and play. This weekend we took them to the pool and he even learned how to swim, but I'm yet to convince this one here to move his .” Myungsoo said playfully as he eyed Sungyeol from the corner of his eyes as Dongwoo could practically say 'you don't say'.

“It's not like I need to lose weight ok? I'm naturally skinny.” Sungyeol tried to defend himself again though there was nothing of the tense atmosphere from the last meeting they had with Dongwoo. Talking about the teacher, he even thought the two in front of them seemed like a bickering couple.

“I know.” Myungsoo smirked and Sungyeol flushed with the implication since he remembered Myungsoo gave him a bath when he got sick. Damn it.

“Ehrm.” Dongwoo cleared his throat to gain their attention since it seemed that the two were temporarily inside their own bubble. “I had to write about their fight here, but I'm sure you already talked to the boys at home since they're very well behaved nowadays. I don't know what you two are doing at home since I only met you guys outside the school every now and then, but I beg you two to keep doing it because the kids are doing great. Woohyun, despite not liking math much, is a very well rounded kid and Sunggyu is very study-prone already but he is starting to open up with consistent pace and, Myungsoo, you don't know this because you only met them for a few months, but it's a huge step for him”.

Sungyeol sighed in relief. “I'm so relieved, at least now I know that he is going somewhere.”

“Not him only. You two too, your relationship improved a lot, and every day improves more.” Myungsoo assured with a smile that made Dongwoo eyes squint, something was detected.

“You've been a huge help with it”. Sungyeol thanked also wearing a smile though his way more awkward and now Dongwoo was completely thrown off.

“What about you? You're making Woohyun enjoy studying.” Myungsoo replied and ok, Dongwoo was surely finding that very strange, one more sentence and he was going to gag.

“I guess we are done here.” He said and that caught the other two by surprise. “For this break, I'd like for you two to start working on the idea that everything is more fun with more friends so they befriend the other kids and let them enter their bubble ok?”

“Yes, sir.” Myungsoo said and showed a dimpled smile at Dongwoo.

“Ok hyung, see you later.” Sungyeol also smiled and he and Myungsoo got up to leave but Dongwoo interrupted them to direct his words at Myungsoo.

“Actually, since I don't think any other parent is going to arrive now, can I speak with Sungyeol privately for a couple of minutes? We're having some troubles and...” Sungyeol furrowed his brows in worry when Dongwoo said that but Myungsoo got the hint.

“It's totally ok.” He assured the teacher. “Hyung, I'll hail a cab to go to college right now, I don't know which time I'll be home so... yeah.” He told Sungyeol, that nodded, before leaving and Dongwoo waited for him to disappear so he could talk to Sungyeol.

“What the hell happened, quick spill.” He demanded.

“What? Weren't you having problems with Hoya hyung? I thought this is why his texts seemed so lonely. Sungyeol replied nervously, Dongwoo had actually perceived something going on between him and Myungsoo.

That, of course, was a lie to make him go away so I could talk with you. “Last time you came here for this meeting you wanted to kill each other, and I know you two befriended and are helping each other, and last time I checked, with Hoya, only you had feelings for him, but now everything seems to have changed you just came looking like a couple, with...” He made big hand gestures in front of Sungyeol body. “...this whole family aura around you two...”

“Does it show?” Sungyeol asked in desperation and Dongwoo made a whole body gag to tell him that it was pretty obvious, only for Sungyeol to try to band his head on the table. “Hyung, so many things happened in the last couple of days, and I want to tell you, I really do...” He said as he looked up. “Actually, I need to tell you so you give me some advice, but considering that you have to work, I didn't get a wink of sleep because of this, and the story is pretty long... let's talk about this over dinner. I don't know if Hoya hyung told you but I told him to invite you too.

“You're going to leave me curious till then? That's... At that point, he heard someone knocking on his door and groaned. “Just a minute.” He practically yelled before he addressed Sungyeol again. “Saved by the bell, go, we talk later.”

Sungyeol got up to leave. “Don't be mad at me, 7 PM on our usual place, I'll tell you everything.”

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In the privacy of his own apartment, that he made sure to lock, and with the knowledge that Myungsoo was in college, Sungyeol foregoes his lunch in order to get his very much needed sleep. He woke up very rested and this was the first time in the last eighteen hours that he thought he could actually use his brain and think, and the little time he had between getting ready and arriving in the restaurant he thought, the thing was.... Myungsoo wasn't making much sense to him even with new pieces of his puzzle uncovered.

When he arrived at the restaurant Hoya was already eating grumpily, maybe his cousin was so anxious that he arrived too early, and he started trying to appease him (because aside from his brothers, Hoya was the only other human being he bothered doing that) when Dongwoo arrived running and sweating.

“Oh, please don't tell me you started before me! Damn Mingyu dad!” The pink haired teacher complained.

“No, it hasn't been long since he arrived so sit down so he can start, I'm dying out of curiosity.” Hoya demanded as he passed a cup of soju to Dongwoo and the said guy ran to sit beside his lover. “Now?” Hoya urged and Sungyeol shifted in his seat much for Dongwoo impatience.

“Come on just spill why you and Myungsoo were acting differently today!”

“Different how?” Hoya asked with a frown.

“Like a couple, I don't know, there was this different aura about them, they were even complimenting each other.” Dongwoo explained to Hoya then turned to Sungyeol and demanded eagerly. “What happened this weekend?”

“Well...” Sungyeol fidgeted a bit. “Saturday I admitted I developed feelings for Myungsoo... He started slowly and the other two were already on the edge of their seats but didn't want to interrupt him. “When I got back home I found out Myungsoo was having his parents over.”

“So you were introduced to his parents?” Hoya chuckled then teased. “Already a big step, we only do that when we are getting serious.”

“Shut up!” Dongwoo demanded as he hit his boyfriend lightly. “Let's listen.”

Sungyeol looked down at his lap for a bit before looking at them again. “I was invited to visit their house in Incheon so because Sunggyu wanted to go... and Myungsoo mom wanted to show me something...”

“Show you something?” Hoya asked confused.

“Oh Hyung, you guys wouldn't believe. Myungsoo mom and my mom were like best friends, Myungsoo even came for my birthday once when we were kids.” He said and Dongwoo gasped totally mind blown.

“Proof or it didn't happen.” Hoya said.

“Unfortunately for you dear cousin, I can prove it because Myungsoo mom gave me a couple of pictures.” He said and took some pictures from the pocket of his jacket, took a look at them, and gave one to the two in front of him. “Here, this is her and this is my mom.” Sungyeol pointed and then gave another one. “And this here is the day I met Myungsoo for the first time.” He said and pointed to the boy with thick brows in the picture. “Do you recognize this one hyung? It's you.

“Hoya, you were so cute upset.” Dongwoo squealed, for a moment forgetting the issue at hand, then he lowered his tone. “Now you're just y.”

“Wait a minute, I remember that! So Myungsoo is the chess prick? I can't believe.” He then turned to his boyfriend to explain. “After he came Sungyeol just kept playing that damn game with him all the time and I kept sulking in a corner.”

“Apparently that was what Woohyun mother did too.” Sungyeol said with a sigh.

“Wait, that's her?” Dongwoo gasped and took the picture to inspect. “But we can not even see her face properly here.” He complained and Sungyeol shrugged.

“Well, let's talk about this another time.” Hoya said grabbing all the pictures and returning to Sungyeol. “What I want to know it's what happened in Incheon.”

“Incheon was quite nice, Myungsoo showed me around, and the kids played in the pool of their house and Sunggyu learned how to swim.” Sungjong arrived today so I left Sunggyu there with him so they can spend some time together and have some time to think about....” He sighed deeply. “….about what happened there.”

“Just spill it alreadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!” Dongwoo whined impatiently and Sungyeol looked down his lap for a bit.

“It all started when Myungsoo had a strange dream. I couldn't understand very well at first but...” Sungyeol hesitated a bit before continuing. “He said that it was something like getting something he really wanted at the expense of the thing he loves the most, but I told you he hadn't to give up on anything and could just work hard to have both and...”

“I don't see how that is important.” Hoya scratched his head.

“Shush Hoya!” Dongwoo complained then urged. “AAAAAAAND?”

“Hyung, the thing he loves the most in the world is easy to guess because it's Woohyun, but the thing that he wants....it's-it's me.” He stuttered shyly and Dongwoo jaw hung low while Hoya was happily surprised.

“I told you, I told you, I told you. In the end, Myungsoo is bi!” Hoya laughed although Sungyeol wasn't finding it funny. “Wait, are you not happy with this news?” He asked once he noticed his cousin serious expression.

“Maybe something more happened.” Dongwoo concluded.

“I'll make this short before I die out of shame.” Sungyeol said and took a deep breath to gain courage. “He said he wanted me, he said this holding my hand and he kissed me right after.” Hoya and Dongwoo gasped and looked at each other before looking back at Sungyeol. “And I liked his kiss, gosh, I thank the lords that I was sitting because I would have got weak at my knees. But he told me not to tell his family, specially Woohyun so this won't leave here, ok?”

"Well, that part is understandable but why are you not happy Sungyeol? You like him, he kissed you, he..." Hoya was listening when Sungyeol interrupted.

“Because he didn't talk about his true feelings.” Sungyeol said frustrated. “The way he talked wasn't like 'I love you, date me', it was like: 'look, Woohyun will be away for a week so you have that amount of time to decide if you want to have with me because when he get's back I will keep being the super straight father he thinks I am'.” In the end, Sungyeol crossed his arms over the table and hid his face in it. “He just wants my body, that compared to his is very lame by the way.”

“Oh, Sungyeol.” Dongwoo said full of pity and put a hand over one of the younger ones.

“I don't really see it like that.” Hoya blurted and now the other two looked at him in confusion. Sungyeol.... “you went from hate to love and that's something you can't deny, but in the middle of that, you built something different with him. You go grocery shopping together, you take turns to take care of the kids, you cook for him a good amount of times and … your lives just keep entwining, hell, you just discovered you met him when you were six and...”

“Seven.” Sungyeol corrected.

“Yes! I'm not that cheesy but if this isn't the universe shoving Myungsoo on you I don't know what it is...” Both of Dongwoo and Sungyeol just blinked at him and Hoya rolled his eyes and explained again. “You already act like a couple, there is only left and now he asked you to have with him so just go for it, don't pretend you don't want to.”

“I want to Hoya hyung, I won't deny that, but after Sangwoo hyung, I want more than that.” Sungyeol admitted. “After all, I already went through I just want to find my other half.”

“That's pretty understandable.” Dongwoo butted in. “You need someone to be there for you, but if he said to not tell Woohyun, it's because he doesn't know, so Myungsoo can't have an open relationship with you.”

“And not only that, I-I think Myungsoo had bad timing too.” Sungyeol said and the other two raised their brows. “It's only been like two months or something I broke up with Sangwoo hyung, what if I'm not ready for...”

“Stop, stop with that!” Hoya demanded. “You're thinking too far ahead, you just ended a relationship and he has a son for God sake, I don't think both of you are ready for that kind of commitment yet.”

“And you have to take in consideration Woohyun practically worships his mom so he won't be happy with this if he finds out.” Dongwoo agreed. “If you want to be open about your relationship Myungsoo will have to prepare Woohyun for this because it can upset him, disappoint him and impact him strongly and you will have to tell Sunggyu too because let's face it, you don't want to tell him, and Sungjong doesn't either.” He concluded after he thought about the two boys.

Sungyeol sighed heavily. “What do I do?”

“Get up, find Myungsoo, have with him then talk about future developments, find a common ground than see what you do from there.” Hoya said as if it was obvious.

“Well, Myungsoo seems to be a nice kid and all, I like him, I really like him, but he seems to not be in the moment for it so I would only advise you to do that if: 1 – you think you can make him fall in love with you, or 2 – if you can consider this an one night stand and that's it, because let's face it, none of you two will be able to hook up often so I don't think you'll even evolve to the category of friends with benefits.” Dongwoo said as he counted on his fingers.

Hoya snorted beside his lover. “They already are friends with benefits, it's just that it doesn't involve .” He then turned to his cousin. “YET.” Sungyeol bit his lips very conflicted and, noticing that Hoya asked softly. “Why are you so conflicted? ”

“I don't deserve him.” Sungyeol mumbled in an almost whisper.

“Is it because of your rough start? I mean, restart?” Dongwoo asked softly. “I already told you my opinion on that, but I don't think this is an issue for Myungsoo for a long time already.”

“It's not that.... I mean, it is a little bit.” Sungyeol said not being able to look at his hyungs. “It's just.... when I look at us... we are so different, he told me he hadn't had a serious relationship since Woohyun mother died, actually I don't think he had one at all, but me... I'm not … that... pristine.”

“What do you mean?” Dongwoo frowned.

Hoya slapped his hand on the table to get Sungyeol to look at him in shock. “Hey, nothing that happened to you was your fault.” He said in a voice filled with authority with an angry undertone that even surprised Dongwoo and Sungyeol looked down his lap with his shoulders dropped. “I know you don't like me to mention, but not all people will be abusive and….”

“I know, I know.” The taller interrupted with a whine. “I don't think Myungsoo will hurt me, at least not the way I've been hurt till now, I'm just scared to be disappointed on him because I like him... I really like him...” Sungyeol finished in a defeated tone.

“Yeol, this is an opportunity. You have some experience in that department and I don't know if Myungsoo has been having some at Woohyun's back but he probably didn't have that much so I'm sure you're gonna rock his world and....” Hoya tried to make his cousin more confident but Dongwoo interrupted him.

“Hoya!” Dongwoo said scandalized then turned to talk to his friend. “Don't listen to Hoya, have another conversation with Myungsoo about your and his feelings, go on some dates, take your time and then you decide if you want to, you know, get intimate with him.”

“Are you insane?” Hoya asked flabbergasted. “When do you think they both are going to find time to go on dates when they have kids? No, no, no, no. You should leave here, buy some condoms and lube and then knock at his door, throw him to the next wall and shove your tongue down his throat then you should...”

“Enough!” Sungyeol said completely red and totally constricted before Hoya got more graphic. “I think I'll just eat for now.”He said in a definitive manner although in his head he was considering both of his hyungs advice.

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Myungsoo woke up around seven. He had been in college that morning to get his grades (and he thanked God he passed every subject), grabbed some lunch for him and Sungyeol on his way back, but, despite seeing Sungyeol car parked in front of their apartment building, the taller hadn't answered the door when he knocked so they could eat together so he ended up eating alone and going to sleep.

That had been disappointing, to say the least, mainly when Myungsoo had been eager to make things progress between them, and Sungyeol didn't answer his door again when Myungsoo knocked so they could have dinner together. He looked down from his veranda to see if Sungyeol car was still parked down there - and he would concede that Sungyeol didn't answer the second time because he wasn't home - but Myungsoo couldn't shake the thought that maybe he interpreted what he overheard Sunggyu saying wrongly, that 'Myungsook' wasn't a code for him, that he made a mistake telling Sungyeol about his not so pure intentions and that maybe Sungyeol was so awkward that now that the kids weren't around he wouldn't have to pretend to be nice or something.

After dinner Myungsoo pushed some of his and Woohyun clothes inside the washing machine then went for a long bath, he was kind of needing to cool himself down and maybe make those bad thoughts go away, then he put his black pajamas, that were fitting but so comfortable, and decided that he would go back to sleep as soon as he finished washing the clothes, he could always sleep more, not to mention he wouldn't be able to think about the difficult position he put himself in.

He was in the middle of the umpteenth sigh (and almost done with some ironing) when his doorbell rang so he went to get the door only to be surprised with the person standing there.

“Hyung....” Myungsoo gulped hard in a mix of fear and something like anxiousness as Sungyeol looked at him very fiercely. “...I thought we wouldn't see each other for some time...” He almost stuttered.

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AN: I will stop uploading in order to study, I'll anwer the comments like always but, even if you beg, next update will only come out after 13 of june.

Tell me, whose advice Sungyeol will follow?