so I thought I was done with this but my friend encouraged me to write more haha

OK:

“Eunwoo, I want to cuddle. Please!”

Standing right by the couch, hugging a pillow to himself, Moonbin looks absolutely adorable with his big eyes pouting right at Eunwoo. Any other time, Eunwoo’s resolve would have crumbled immediately and gave in to the younger boy’s request but he was currently monitoring a performance that required his utmost attention and even his boyfriend couldn’t detract him from his responsibilities.

“Maybe in a while Binnie, I have to finish this first. Sorry baby,” Eunwoo says without missing a beat, overlooking Moonbin’s sad pout as he turns back to his screen.

He honestly expects Moonbin to leave and go play with Rocky but what he doesn’t expect is for the other to slip into the narrow space on the couch next to him and shyly slide his arms around Eunwoo’s middle.

“Don’t mind me,” Moonbin whispers, sending shivers down Eunwoo’s back.

But it’s really hard for Eunwoo to ignore Moonbin’s presence, especially when the other is nuzzling Eunwoo’s ear endearingly with his nose and pressing his soft lips gently to random spots on the side of Eunwoo’s neck. On top of that, the hot puffs of air that hit Eunwoo non-subtly from Moonbin’s breath reach an abnormal level of distraction for the poor visual.

He hears the hallway door open and close, and his eyes stray to his potential rescuer – whoever just walked into the living room. Eunwoo hears MJ before he sees him as the vocalist lets out a little gasp of surprise, shamefaced having walked in on an intimate scene. Before Eunwoo can even say anything, MJ smirks, and to Eunwoo’s horror, shoots finger guns at him and the oblivious Moonbin, mouthing ‘I won’t disturb your lovey-dovey moment.’

Eunwoo’s face of disbelief is priceless but it loses its meaning on its recipient as MJ shashays his way out of the room and into the kitchen, failing to see Eunwoo’s silent plea of help.

Eunwoo actually does sigh out loud this time, almost flinching when Moonbin’s fingers touch his bare skin. When did his boyfriend get so touchy??

“Hmm what’s wrong Eunwoo?” Moonbin mumbles, mouth too busy marking Eunwoo’s neck with the imprint of his lips. It’s flattering really and feels oddly nice but Eunwoo can feel the burn of a blush making its way onto his face. Though he’s used to attention from the public as a visual of Astro, it’s different being the center of attention of his favorite person in the world. And as much as he enjoys the special treatment Moonbin is giving him, Eunwoo squirms and almost laughs when Moonbin’s fingers accidentally graze a ticklish spot on his stomach.

“N-nothing. Do you have to be this touchy though?” Eunwoo squeaks out as Moonbin’s palm casually stills and splays over the skin between his chest and stomach. His boyfriend tilts his head to one side innocently, looking up at Eunwoo curiously, “But we’re boyfriends?”

Eunwoo bites down on his bottom lip, missing Moonbin’s intense gaze at the action, and fans his face with his hand to bring down the heat of his cheeks.

“Yeah we are, but I feel overwhelmed by your touches.” He admits, looking away from Moonbin’s reaction and feeling disappointed in his own lack of experience. However in response, Eunwoo hears Moonbin’s giggly laugh, completely missing the mischievous look sporting on his boyfriend’s face.

“Do you not like me hugging you? Or even holding your hand?” Moonbin sounds upset and Eunwoo, too worried over potentially hurting Moonbin’s feelings doesn’t hear the underlying playfulness behind the younger’s words.

“No that’s not I meant, Bin!” Eunwoo turns around but now it’s Moonbin facing him with his back and Eunwoo’s heart falters a bit.

“Binnie? Are you angry at me?” Eunwoo asks carefully. He scooches tentatively closer to Moonbin, and hesitates before placing a hand gingerly on the other’s shoulder. The younger boy doesn’t respond, and Eunwoo, to his amusement, can bet that he’s sulking.

Taking in a deep breath, Eunwoo brings Moonbin into the kind of gentle backhug he knows Moonbin loves best, with his forehead placed against the back of Moonbin’s neck.

“Aww, I’m sorry Bin. Anything you do is special. Even when you simply poke my cheeks because you claim they’re really squishy and soft.” Eunwoo murmers sincerely. He leans forward, planning to seal his apology with a chaste kiss to Moonbin’s cheek but Moonbin moves his head at the same exact time and Eunwoo’s lips meet Moonbin’s in surprise.

He tries to back away after a super short peck but Moonbin sneakily snakes his arms around Eunwoo, one behind his neck and the other behind his lower back and Eunwoo physically feels himself being pulled closer to the other until the only thing preventing his chest from colliding with Moonbin’s are his hands pressing urgently against Moonbin’s chest. So Eunwoo shyly brings one hand up to cup Moonbin’s cheek and the other to hug the back of Moonbin’s neck. Moonbin mumbles appreciatively against Eunwoo’s lips as he slides a hand up to entangle his fingers in Eunwoo’s hair.

It feels like the room has risen a few degrees in temperature as Moonbin sighs into Eunwoo’s mouth – when it opened he had no idea, but his thoughts flitter when Moonbin nips lightly on Eunwoo’s bottom lip. This time, Eunwoo can’t hold back the small whimper that spills from his lips.

“Hey hyung, have you seen – OH MY GOD MY EYES!”

Eunwoo tears himself from Moonbin’s embrace as the other does the same. He sees Sanha standing by the doorway with hands covering his eyes. If it weren’t for the embarrassing situation, Eunwoo would have called out on Sanha unashamedly peeking through the space of his fingers but now was not the time.

“Sanha!!” Moonbin complains in a loud voice before promptly hiding his face in his lap.

“Yes sorry, did you need something?” Eunwoo’s breathless but he hurriedly makes himself presentable, patting down the hair Moonbin had somehow messed up during the middle of their make out.

“I-I don’t know.” Sanha mumbles in a high-pitched tone before high-tailing out of the room, screaming for MJ-hyung.

Now that it has returned to only the two of them in the room and Eunwoo fumbles with his collar to deal with the sudden heat he feels radiating from his skin, he apprehensively looks over to Moonbin, who has removed the hands off his face but was now trying to make himself small behind that giant pillow of his. Their gazes meet and Moonbin instantly turns a bright red.

Given the incredulity of the situation and how ridiculously cute his boyfriend is, Eunwoo can’t help but laugh. Moonbin is adorable, honestly. He nonchalantly moves closer to the other and leans over Moonbin who slowly shrinks into the couch with an embarrassed face.

“You know, you’re really cute Binnie.” Eunwoo whispers before attacking the other with kisses.

Ready:

After the unintentionally hot make out session with Eunwoo, Moonbin finds himself skittish around his calm and poised boyfriend. It isn’t like Moonbin would call it a fight or a lover’s spat. It was an event that threw Moonbin’s thinking off kilter. And though he instigated the incident, Moonbin needed some time alone to think and reflect about why he did it, why he felt thrills from it, and lastly of all, why he enjoyed it and wanted to do it again. But honestly he couldn’t concentrate with Eunwoo so physically close to him every day.

Which only meant one thing – he needed to avoid Eunwoo.

Though only a week has passed, he already feels severely deprived of Eunwoo’s physical affection. But if he goes to seek it out again, he’s afraid he’d be asked about that and Moonbin doesn’t have an answer. At least not as of now. Nevertheless, he feels a pang of guilt every time he excuses himself from the same room that Eunwoo enters.

Little did he know the other felt the same way and was simultaneously avoiding Moonbin, and funnily enough didn’t even notice Moonbin was also evading his presence.

The extent of their avoidance of each other hasn’t been lost on the other members. In fact, the lack of physical attention between the two seemed to set off an alarm of worry. Consequentially, the rest of the members called an intervention at two in the morning that night, taking camp in the kitchen and sitting in a cult-like circle – “but it’s a square!” “yeah yeah, sure hyung”. Though it was dark, the candles in the middle as well as Jinjin’s flashlight helped to illuminate the members’ faces.

“Maknae goes first. Here, use the flashlight.” Jinjin solemnly passes the light to the youngest.

Sanha nods earnestly, “I’ll begin then. Why are they acting so weird around each other? I never see them in the same room anymore!” Rocky purses his lips, nodding in agreement.

“And knowing how easily they show affection to each other, I can’t stomach the fact that I haven’t seen them kiss like…a week ago on the couch!” MJ clamors.

-“And how do you remember that hyung?”

-“Because I was there encouraging them to grab their young, passionate love.”
-“I…did not need to know that.”

“We need to first stick them in the same room. Maybe they fought and now feel awkward around each other?” Jinjin proposes, shining the light up at his face.

“You look really funny hyung,” Sanha giggles, “Like a wise old man during story time.”

“Perfect, Sanha can be the sacrifice.” Jinjin smiles into the light, getting a slap to the shoulder from MJ because you look really creepy please stop it.

“I think we should pull the classic trick where one of us says we need to talk to one of them and another one of us asks the same of the other.” Rocky suggests, snatching Jinjin’s flashlight, “I can be the other sacrifice and talk to Bin.”

“What do you have planned, Rocky-ah?” MJ asks.

“I’ll figure something out. I just need my ship to sail and it’s sinking right now.”

There’s a scuffle from outside and everyone quiets.

The lights turn on suddenly, with Eunwoo’s voice ringing out.

“Um guys, what are you doing? And why are there candles melting onto our kitchen floor?”

~~

Though they were getting ready for their first comeback, the managers were nice enough to give Astro a short one-day break. Regardless, Moonbin had still gotten up rather early along with the others to review some more dance steps. Fast forward five hours later and his knees are dying from the constant kneeling and crouching formations of their new song. The dancer collapses to the ground with no second thoughts when their mini-dance review session ends, mirroring the groans of the other members. Everyone else is pretty much in more or less the same predicament and Jinjin tells them that they’re done and can pack up to head back to the dorm.

Too busy trying to dry his sweat, Moonbin misses the concerned look on Eunwoo’s face as he practically limps to their van. Rocky, once they’re in the car, suggests that he just go straight to bed and rest. Moonbin agrees with a sigh, not even thinking that Rocky’s slightly mischievous smile was a bit out of place, and immediately conks out like a light. By the time they get back, all Moonbin wants to do is get to his bed and lie down for maybe six hours straight and do nothing. He should probably check the condition of his knees but rest is more important to him right now, Moonbin nonchalantly comments as he winces and climbs up the ladder leading to his bed.

He’s nearly passed out into dreamland when he hears a knock on the door accompanied with a “Sanha?” before he hears someone being pushed into the room – “hey!”, a giggle, and the telltale sound of a click.

Locked in.

If Moonbin was on the verge of sleep a minute ago, he’s now the complete opposite. Wide awake, his heart suddenly starts pounding and he slyly peers over his bed, expecting the worst.

With Cha Eunwoo.

“Moonbin?”

It’s been a while since he heard those words, loud and clear, directed to him in an empty room.

“Yeah?” It comes out as a half croak and Moonbin actually freaking meeps as he pulls his face under his covers to save whatever dignity he has leftover.

Eunwoo chuckles, “Did I wake you up, baby?”

There goes Eunwoo and his pet name. Moonbin swears he’s going to combust and fly himself off to the sun someday.

“Sorta but it’s okay.” He stammers beneath the sheets. There’s a rustling sound and a sudden weight on his bed and before Moonbin knows it, Eunwoo has pulled the sheets off him, greeting Moonbin with a bright grin.

“How are you?” The question is so innocently cute and so Eunwoo that Moonbin chuckles, deciding to play along.

“Good. You?”

Eunwoo’s face quickly turns stern and he grabs his cheek, much to Moonbin’s surprise – a foreign concept as of a week ago because of the lack of physical contact – and pinches it firmly.

“You’re hurt you dumb*ss. Don’t lie to me Binnie,” Eunwoo scrunches his nose, probably in an attempt to look menacing and fierce, but Moonbin considers it cute and doesn’t think twice about leaning up to peck the offended gesture.

“Oh.” Both boys flush.

“Oh! You brought the first aid kit.” Moonbin blurts out, struggling to salvage the awkward atmosphere, “Can you give it to me? I think I hurt my knees.”

Moonbin has to give Eunwoo credit for his instant facial expressions because in a minute the older is ranting about how much he needs to take better care of himself and how he was worried sick seeing him limp to the car and such. But Moonbin barely takes in Eunwoo’s words, instead endearingly admiring his boyfriend who can change an awkward situation into a memorable one – his thoughtful words washing away all of Moonbin’s past week’s doubts.

“Then do you want to treat my injuries?”

Eunwoo gives him a face of exasperation, “Why do you think I crawled all the way up here with this heavy first aid kit?”

“Because you love me,” Moonbin makes a fish face and flails suddenly when Eunwoo bends down to snatch a kiss.

“Of course I do.”

“We should probably shower.” Eunwoo comments, sitting up against Moonbin’s headboard. After his injuries were treated, Moonbin curled up in his blankets and tried to get Eunwoo to cuddle with him but the older had given him a deadpanned look and chose instead to sit by his head, leaning against the wall. Of course in retaliation Moonbin had stuck his tongue out at his boyfriend and pretended to sleep so that he was ‘ignoring’ him, but Eunwoo had started messaging his scalp despite his sweaty hair and Moonbin’s heart melted at the gesture.

“Too lazy,” Moonbin hums into his pillow. He turns onto his side and moves to wrap his limbs like an octopus around Eunwoo’s leg, “I want to cuddle.”

He hears Eunwoo hum, “I don’t know. Should I?”

If Eunwoo doesn’t see Moonbin pout, at least he’ll feel him bite his leg. “But look at me! I’m cute and warm – perfect for cuddles.”

Eunwoo laughs and brings his face down to Moonbin’s level. He’s staring straight at Moonbin’s lips as he jokingly whispers, “How about a kiss first?”

Moonbin blushes but still keeps his composure as he pushes Eunwoo’s face away, “You’re too much.” He untangles himself from Eunwoo’s leg and grabs his blanket instead, “Anyways I don’t want to get too ahead of myself.”

“What do you mean?” He looks up and sees Eunwoo looking down at him, face upside down. Moonbin crosses his arms. “Aish, why do I need to bring it up again? That kiss!” But it seems that Eunwoo’s oblivious to his awkwardness, much to Moonbin’s chagrin.

“And what was so bad about it?”

Moonbin needs to either crawl into a hole and never have to face Eunwoo again or finally come clean with his thoughts.

“It was just embarrassing and I liked it.”

There. He confessed and now he hopes Eunwoo won’t run away from him. Except Eunwoo doesn’t say anything either. Instead, Moonbin pops out from underneath his blankets and sees Eunwoo blushing a bright red.

“I liked it too.” A flustered Eunwoo mumbles, avoiding Moonbin’s gaze, “As long as we’re both comfortable with it, there’s no need to worry Binnie.”

“Yeah…” Moonbin grabs Eunwoo’s hand, “You said you wanted a kiss right?”

“Um sure, what are you –“

“Muah-!” Moonbin presses his lips against the back of Eunwoo’s hand.

Eunwoo sputters, “That doesn’t count!”

“We’ll make out later hyung.” Moonbin giggles, calming his heart down and snuggling against Eunwoo’s palm.

It’s been a stressful week, but Moonbin’s happy now, as he sleepily smiles up at Eunwoo.

~~

“This is perfect. Rocky, you know what to do.”

After the two were finally let out of the room, the rest of the members seemed to watch their every move. Moonbin doesn’t avoid Eunwoo this time, finding any opportunity to cling onto the other as the older boy moves around the room. Sanha calls him a puppy and Moonbin growls in response.

He really should have seen it coming. After dinner, and after observing the still unsatisfied looks on their faces, Moonbin gets dragged into a game of truth or dare. Because dares were more fun, the game passes by with harmless challenges like prank calling manager-hyung or dancing to a girl group song in a skirt. Of course when it finally lands on Moonbin, identical sh*t-eating grins appear on MJ’s and Rocky’s face. Jinjin’s no better, also smiling evilly and Sanha’s probably the only one, aside from Eunwoo, who seems a bit confused with the situation.

“I have the perfect dare for you, Binnie-hyung.” Rocky says in a mischievous tone, “Sit in Eunwoo’s lap and make out for a minute.”

Moonbin chances a glance at Eunwoo who gives him a wink.

If they want a show, we’ll give them a show.

Moonbin makes his way over purposefully and plops onto Eunwoo lap, laughing when Eunwoo winces at the sudden weight. “Are you ready?” He whispers dangerously close to the other’s lips, bringing both hands up to cup Eunwoo’s face. Eunwoo gives him an eye smile and swoops in to initiate the kiss.

There’s oohing and shouting from the other members as Moonbin gets really into it, nibbling on Eunwoo’s lips and blushing every time Eunwoo’s tongue meets his. He tries to keep up with Eunwoo’s pace, who surprisingly takes the lead – holding Moonbin steady at his hip. Moonbin feels himself running out of air and tries to breathe through his nose, almost snorting when Eunwoo flinches at the sudden air hitting his cheek. To spare his boyfriend, Moonbin pulls away first but just enough so that his forehead is leaning against Eunwoo’s and that he’s looking straight into the beautiful boy’s eyes.

“Let’s go for another round in our room? And with cuddling please??” He mumbles into Eunwoo’s lips, remembering that they’re surrounded by the other members in the room.

Eunwoo pecks his lips, “Okay but don’t hit me when I try to princess carry you.”

Of course, Moonbin doesn’t forget to give the stunned boys a victorious smirk as Eunwoo carries him out.

Set:

Before Eunwoo knows it, their first comeback sta