“So you’re gonna stalk on him?”

Yixing placed his foot on the table, leaned back on the sofa comfortably in their shared room while sipping on his orange juice. Luhan was sitting cross-legged on his bed, pillow hugged against his chest, counting the money. He reached out to take the backpack, fishing out another envelop. These were all he had been paid for the last two weeks extra hard working in the studio.

“No, I’m not stalking.” he said without looking up, emphasized the every word “I’m having my own journey.”

Well, it was half true cuz he was gonna take a flight to Indianapolis while Sehun’s arrival place would be somewhere in Bloomington. The half part of lie was that he was thinking of taking a bus to Bloomington after finish his business in Indianapolis.

Seemed not convinced by the statement his gege had just declared, the younger one gazed suspiciously at him and his hair.

“Really? Then why you borrowed the binocular from Chanyeol?”

It’s supposed to be a secret, Chan!

Being caught in the middle, Luhan sniffed, trying to find a good reason and not embarrassed himself.

“It’s….for my research.”

“What kind of research?” the other didn’t give up.

Ugrhhhh

“Fine!” he kicked the pillow out of his embrace “I don’t have any research.”

He slowly made his way toward the sofa and plopped down beside his roommate.

“I don’t know what to do with it either. I just bring it along just in case.”

Yixing finished his cup and put it down on the table. He turned aside to face the helpless one.

“You should trust Sehun. I mean he wouldn’t cheat on you or anything.”

“I know.” Luhan whined “I’m worried about that girl. And who knows there is just only her who has a thing for him.”

“And what are you going to do? Clinging on him 24/7?”

Luhan bit his lower lip, wondered why that idea didn’t sound as weird as it was right now when it had been formed in his head previously. He suddenly felt like an overprotective, unreasonable and low self-confident boyfriend.

“No…” he murmured “But they should know he is mine.”

Yixing strengthened his back, gripped the other’s shoulder and looked straight into his eyes.

“Believe me ge, they know. We’re all aware of that as the matter of fact. You announced it loudly, remember?”

“But…”

“They just couldn’t resist his charm. Like your fan to you.”

“But…”

“And again, Sehun wouldn’t cheat on you with any of them. He’s treating you like a national treasure.”

With that, Luhan finally shut his mouth up. Yixing was right. May be he was overreacted for the whole thing. And even if Hana or anyone tried to seduce him, Sehun would never fall for that, right? The younger boy seemed to be immune from it, at least from Luhan’s.

However he couldn’t resist Luhan’s aegyo for ten seconds. He had tried to ignore it once, crossed arms against his chest, shut his eyes tight to avoid any contact. But after half of minute (yes, Luhan counted), he eventually gave in and Luhan couldn’t help but skipping around in his victory dance.

The older male left out a sigh, feeling the latter loosened his grip and they both crashed their backs on the cushion at the same time.

“So, you’re not going are you?”

“Nope.” Luhan suddenly sprung up “Still going.”

He went back to his counting money on the bed, leaving his beloved dongsaeng hanging on a cliff. He already bought the ticket, booked the hotel so there was no way for him to turn back. But at least he wouldn’t secretly follow his boyfriend or jumped up to scare anyone who dared to put a finger on him. He would enjoy this journey on his own, waiting for the right time show up and accompany Sehun to meet his family.

Yeah, that was his plan.

**********

They were watching a variety show on the laptop in Sehun’s room, with Luhan’s head rested on the younger’s shoulder. The Chinese boy decided to take a day off from work to help his boyfriend packing his stuffs for the trip. He was really sorry for not able to spend time with the other lately and Sehun’s understanding was something made him feel even worse.

Luhan his side, dug his head into the crook of Sehun’s neck and inhaled. Ahhh, this smell. The scent of Sehun was like drug that he was addicted to from the beginning yet sometimes it was like miraculous source of energy that pulled him out of his tiredness.

The Korean male used his toe to press the pause button, wiping the bang on Luhan’s forehead and whispered

“Are you sleepy?”

The latter shook his head in response, mumbled against the skin.

“I miss you.”

“But I’m right here.” although he knew the deep implication in those words, teasing Luhan was his unending joy.

And that earned a pinch on his arm.

“Ouch, what?”

“You know what I mean.”

Luhan scolded slightly, buried his face even deeper.

Sehun chuckled, wrapped his arm around his boyfriend. Luhan’s body was somehow especially warm and even though he didn’t like heat, he found it comfortable with the baby deer in his arm like this.

“It’s just a week. Besides you’ll be there on the sixth day, then we’ll have another two days together before going back so it’s no big deal right?”

Luhan pulled away immediately, a frown was already formed on his face.

“How come it’s not a big deal? It’s a huge deal!!”

His eyes looked like they were going to pour rain and Sehun fought the urge to kiss those beautiful pink lips that were pursing. He reached out his hands, motioned the smaller one to fall back into his embrace. Still put on his pout, instead of leaning on the younger’s chest, Luhan managed to lie down on the couch, with his head on Sehun’s lap, face perfectly right under Sehun’s chin. This was the Korean boy favorite position as he could continuously steal kisses whenever he wanted.

“So you don’t come to see me off at the airport tomorrow do you?”

“Uhm, I’m sor….”

“It’s okay. You said sorry like hundred times already.”

And Sehun also assured him it’s okay with the same amount of times but he couldn’t help but feel sad. His flight was just two hours after that so he had no choice but coming up with a lie of meeting with his professor about his final design to excuse himself.

There was obviously a light hint of disappointment in Sehun’s voice the first time he told him about this but since they would meet up later, the younger one seemed quite convinced and didn’t question any more.

Noticing they had been silent for almost five minutes, which was rare because usually, Luhan didn’t sit tight more than thirty seconds.

“Let’s talk about something else.” Sehun quickly changed the topic.

“Like what?” Luhan looked up, hand still playing with the thread stuck out on Sehun’s shirt button.

“Anything.”

“Okay…How many girls are chosen in this MT trip?”

“Wh..at?” Sehun was shocked himself as his throat felt like being stuck with a gag.

“You said anything.” Luhan casually shrugged

“But…why…since when you have interest in girls?”

“Since three out of four students in your class are females.” the Chinese boy reasoned, kept his voice as stern as possible “Now tell me.”

“I don’t know” It took Sehun five seconds to finally spoke up. He fingers through his hair “I seem to be the only male.”

Now it’s Luhan’s turn to choke on his own, sat up like a spring “Really?”

Sehun didn’t know what to do first, keeping teasing his boyfriend or cupping this baby face and kissing him until he didn’t remember what they were talking about because Luhan was freaking adorable when he was surprised and pouting at the same time.

He chose none of those two. Instead, he gave the helpless boy in front of him a flinch on the forehead and chuckling.

 “I’m just kidding. And if you worry that much, why don’t you just follow me and scare them away?”

Yeah, like I never thought of that.

“Who said I’m worried.” Luhan rolled his eyes mumbling, fell back to Sehun’s lap, this time he lay on his side, turned his back to the younger one.

“Then why you asked in the first place?”

Luhan pursed his lips, didn’t know whether to tell the truth or kept it for himself. At the end, he chose the second one.

“It just popped up in my head.”

Sehun clearly didn’t buy this white lie but he couldn’t care more. He was gonna be ocean away from his boyfriend for a whole week and talking about girls was definitely the last thing on his mind right now.

He slightly his fingers through the honey brown hair of Luhan, narrowed his eyes in the way that if the other was facing him, he would get the message behind it without any word.

“You know what?” his voice was unlikely low.

“Hmm?”

“We will not see each other for a pretty long time” he purposefully pressed the word, waiting for the expected response.

“Uhm, I know.”

That’s all? Just…. “I know”?

He patiently cleared his throat, decided to give another obvious hint.

“I think we should do something special.”

“Like?”

Like I’m gonna kiss you til dead, you fool.

Sehun mentally groaned, jerked his head in disbelief. Sometimes Luhan’s natural innocence could successfully drive him crazy.

On his lap, the Chinese boy was giggling. His shoulders were shaking along with the bang on his forehead. He slowly got up and crawled to sit on the younger’s thighs, a mischievous smirk already placed on his lips. Sehun knew he was got trapped.

“God, I love messing around with you.”

Luhan said between the laughter, then planted a soft kiss on the latter’s nose before the situation went worse. He always knew where to stop.

“But I think Suho will be back soon.” he reasoned, checking the time on his hand watch.

“I’ll text him.” Sehun blurted out, totally forgot he was sulking a second ago. His need would come first.

The older thought for a moment before shook his head in disagreement. He didn’t want his personal issue caused any trouble to people around him.

“It’s appropriate, Sehun ah. He’s your hyung.”

“But you did the same thing to Yixing hyung not long ago.” Sehun pointed out “And don’t tell me it’s because he is your best friend.”

“It is.” Luhan emphasized, ignoring the latter’s rolling his eyes in protest “The main point is I don’t want you to be tired tomorrow. You’ll have a long flight ahead.”

Noticing that reason was not strong enough to comfort the younger, he tilted his head aside, to the angle that made his baby face even cuter.

“Besides, I don’t want my professor asking about my improper walking the first thing in the morning. It’s embarrassing.”

And……..knock out!

As his prediction, Sehun would never do anything if he knew it affected to Luhan’s study. The Korean male let out a long sigh before cupping his boyfriend’s face, leaned in and placed a peck on his lips. After all, those lips were what he would crave for the most in the next six days.

“Fine, we just cuddle then.”

The next morning, Sehun was surprised when he saw a box of sandwiches, the same ones Luhan had made for him once when they started dating, on the table along with a note

This will give you enough energy for the whole tripJ.

Don’t miss me too much, okay. We’ll see each other soon.

 I love you

He didn’t realized he had just stood there and smiled like an idiot for a long time until Suho urged him go change before being late for the flight. He quickly fished out his phone to send a text.

To: Baby deer

I need you to have my full energy, babe. Be good at home okay.  I love you too

He put back the phone to his pocket, suddenly wished Luhan could be with him. The journey didn’t start yet and he already missed his boyfriend like hell.