A/N. Just so you know, the blue words are Chinese

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One minute ago, Sehun thought this was like the best thing that could ever happen in real life. He imagined Luhan would drop off whatever in his hands, running towards him with the biggest grin on his face and threw himself at Sehun as his arms wrapping around the latter’s neck. He knew it sounded like a romantic scene in movies for teens lately but that was exactly what had been replaying in his head.

However, those things didn’t exist in reality. Sehun turned into a stony statue when a beautiful girl walked pass him and blocked his view of Luhan few seconds after the Chinese boy spun around. He heard she said something but couldn’t understand a single word.

On the other hand, Luhan was in another stage of feeling mode. Surprised, happy and worried. He couldn’t believe they would see each other that soon.

He focused too much on functioning what was going on to recognize a female figure wearing white dress already standing in front of him. Not until she tilted her head and waved her hands vigorously did he dart his eyes back to her.

“Hello? You’re Luhan right?”

He blinked several times to pull himself together, nodding his head.

“Err…Hi, long time no see Xing Xing.” he failed at flashing a proper smile because his mind was somewhere 15 meters ahead “Excuse me, can you…”

Luhan’s voice was trailed off as he pointed his finger over her shoulder and made his way to the younger boy who was frozen in his position.

“Sehun?” he whispered when finally reached the other, gripping his hand shaking slightly.

The violinist didn’t answer. His brain was busy finding an explanation for the whole situation. As far as he was told by Yixing, his boyfriend must be in Indianapolis for his own business without telling him in advance. But now he was here, in Bloomington, ….to meet a girl behind his back. Was this counted as a cheating?

Sensing the strange look Sehun was shooting at him, Luhan knew that the latter was getting the story all wrong.

“Hey, it’s not what…”

“Luhan, is everything okay?” Xing Xing cut him off with a tint of anxiety in her voice.

The Chinese boy averted his eyes to her, his lips curved into a reassuring smile

“It’s fine. Just wait for a minute.”

“Are you sure?” she moved closer, squinted her eyes to get a clearer view of that boy.

He held up his hands, motioned her to stop “Yeah, I’m…”

“Who is she?” Sehun finally spoke up. Luhan were startled by the stern voice of his boyfriend. Sehun never used this voice to talk to him before and it made him shiver with fright.

“She’s…ju..just an old friend.” he sounded like someone got caught red-handed, suddenly sputtered uncontrollably “Her..fa…father gave me number. I ..just want to meet her up to say hello.”

The younger boy looked deep into his eyes to see if there was a lie under those words he just said then undo the grip and laced their fingers together.

“Okay. Introduce us.”

Luhan blinked, regaining his sense. This happened too fast for his own good but he still managed to pull the other to where the girl was standing, extended his hand toward her and said.

“This is my friend, Xing Xing.”

He scooted over Sehun’s side, made eye contact with the girl whose face was kind of confused because she heard her name but didn’t understand anything. He tried to break it in the language that didn't cause any misunderstanding.

“Xing Xing, this is…er… my boyfriend, Sehun.”

Sehun could feel his heart ached a bit at the hesitation in Luhan’s voice when this boy mentioned him as his boyfriend but he couldn’t ask for more because it was the first time Luhan dressed him like this in front of his friend outside SIA. At least, the smaller one was still brave enough to do his promise, announcing his love to the whole world.

Meanwhile, Xing Xing gawked at them for a moment before wiping the surprise off her face, reached out her hand toward the Korean male, spoke in English.

“Hi, it’s nice to meet you. I’m Xing Xing, but you can call me Vivian.”

“Hi, I’m Sehun.” he responded the gesture with his free hand and a smile, the one that he hardly showed to a stranger.

English was never his strength but he could manage to survive through a simple conversation, as long as they didn’t use another kind of language like they did right now, when the girl commented something with a wink and Luhan blushed, tightening their holding hand.

The two Chinese people quickly exchanged few words with each other before Xing Xing dropped her eyes on Sehun again, this time with an understanding smirk. She nodded to her friend then bid a goodbye to both of them.

Sehun looked the girl walking to the opposite direction with bewilderment on his face. What’s going on?

He didn’t have chance to ask it out loud because the moment his friend disappeared at the corner of the street, Luhan threw himself at him and showered his face with kisses.

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Kicked the door of his room open, Luhan pulled Sehun inside delightedly. This was so beyond his imagination and made he realized how much he missed his boyfriend. Sure he enjoyed the trip on his own a lot but there was still something missing, something involved Sehun.

The Korean male watched his baby deer skipping around the room to take off the scarf and coat, humming along the melody that he always did whenever he got really excited (mostly when Sehun gave in and bought him another cake or he won at rock, paper, scissor game to cuddle with Sehun ten more minutes before the younger went back to his dorm.)

Sehun hated to do this part, cutting off Luhan’s mood, but it’s better to be clear in a relationship. That’s why when the older gave him a seducing smile while slowly approaching him, he had to took a long breath to fight the urge of spinning Luhan down and ate him up before held both of the latter’s hands, mumbling.

“We need to talk first.”

“Can it wait?” Luhan whined, knowing what this tone was for. If they talked, then he wouldn’t have enough time to do all the things he wanted to do right now, and that meant he had to wait tomorrow and oh God, 24 hours would be the worst torture.

He blinked and pursed his lips, tried to do the best aegyo but a head shaking was what he got in response.

“No, it can’t.” Sehun firmly said, flinched his forehead “And don’t you do aegyo with me, I’m immune from it.”

Liar

Rubbing the red spot on his forehead, Luhan decided to let it go but took a mental note to prove the younger wrong later.

“Okay.” he reached out to pull a pillow into his embrace, sitting legs-crossed on the bed “What is it?”

Sehun swallowed thick. He didn’t want it sound like he was interrogating the other so he started with a statement, not a question.

“I was really worried when I couldn’t reach you. You should just have told me in advance.”

It’s for the question: why didn’t you tell me?

“I know. I’m sorry.” Luhan mumbled, lowered his head before looked up with guilt in his eyes “It…So many things happened that changed what I planned from the beginning.”

“But you didn’t tell me any of your plans.” meant you should do it now

“Because…” the Chinese male bit his lower lip “it’s stupid and embarrassing and I don’t want you to laugh at me.”

“You know that I’ll never laugh at you.” Sehun assured

Still hesitating a bit, Luhan summarized the reason that gave him the idea of flying across the ocean to USA.

“Remember the day I came to your work place early to congrat you on your MT trip?”

The younger boy narrowed his brows “You meant the day you ate almost half of the cakes sold in the shop?”

“Yah” Luhan exclaimed, smacked the latter’s thigh “I’m serious here.”

Sehun held up his hand, chucking “Okay, sorry. And yep, I remember.”

Giving his boyfriend a sideways look, Luhan continued

“Actually, I heard more than just a MT trip, about someone has a feeling for you.”

He stopped to examine the expression on the other’s face, waiting for a wrinkle or something like that but unexpectedly, Sehun clapped his hands as if he had just solved the biggest trouble by himself.

“Oh, so the rumor you threatened Hana is true?”

Luhan didn’t know what made him feel more dumfounded, the fact that Sehun knew about it or he used the word “threaten” to describe the friendly talk he had with Hana.

Well, maybe the second one.

“Hey, I didn’t threaten her.” he almost yelled “I just showed her whose you are and kindly asked her to keep a certain distance.”

“Alright, alright I got it.” again the younger had to hold up his hand to calm Luhan down. He learnt well a lesson that not ever let this boy be in a rage, it’s scary.

Luhan let out a small sigh, decided to finish his story here. He needed Sehun’s cuddle to regain energy after a long day wandering around.

“Anyway, I made a plan to follow you but in the end I switched it.”

“What made you?”

“Didn’t you hear me previously?” he pointed out “Because it’s stupid and embarrassing.”

“And may I ask who changed your mind?”

The older opened his mouth, about to protest but the wry look Sehun was shooting at him right now certainly said ‘don’t try to deny, I know you couldn’t see it through by yourself.’

“Yixing”

 Luhan murmured, totally ignored the smirk already formed at the corner of the latter’s lips. He quickly kicked the pillow aside and crawled into Sehun’s lap, wrapping his arms around the younger’s neck.

“Can we do something else more interesting?” he wheedled with his baby voice, placed a playful kiss on Sehun’s nose “I missed you.”

Sehun swore he died inside a little bit but he had not so much time left before heading back his hotel so there was no way they could make it and as far as he concerned, Luhan was a type of liking tenderness. That’s why he simply put a soft kiss on his baby deer’s lips before pulling both of them down on the mattress, hugging him tightly, whispering.

“Let’s save the best part for tomorrow.” he Luhan’s bang gently and said before the other whining “I’ll make it up to you. I promise.”

He let the Chinese male few seconds to imagine how much he would be made up, then when he heard a small giggle coming out from the smaller one, he continued.

“You know what?”

“Hmm?”
“I don’t know much about your past relationships.” he slowly confessed with his soft low voice, enough to not make this a big deal but to show that he really cared about it.

Luhan jerked his head up a bit but then fell back to the crook of Sehun’s neck, dug deeper to inhale the scent he had been craved for lately.

“There’s nothing to tell, really.” he circled his finger on the younger’s chest “People come and go easily. I’m not good at keeping someone I like close.”

“And still I’m stuck with you. What a miracle!” Sehun commented mischievously.

“Yeah, your bad luck.” Luhan faked a shrug on his shoulder.

“But I heard someone in SIA already asked you out.”

The smaller one stopped playing with his finger, this time pulled away to see his boyfriend, confusion was all over his face.

“Who? L.J? How did you know?”

Sehun patted his arm, the spot the other had just rested, motioned him to fall back.

“Minho hyung blurted it out.”

Luhan let out a small ‘oh’, adjusted his head on the latter’s arm.

“It happened few days before Christmas last year. I just see him as a friend so… But we’re good now, I guess.”

He’s not over you, silly.

“What’s about the Xing Xing girl? She’s not just an old friend isn’t she?” Sehun kept on digging deep into the past.

However, as usual, Luhan was an unpredictable bipolar. One second ago, he obediently answered all the questions without any complaint, now he hit his fist against the taller one’s chest, asking for fairness.

“Hey, how comes this is one-way conversation? I want to know about yours too.”

“But I got none.”

“Ptff, don’t make me point out how good and experienced you are."  Luhan rolled his eyes "Where do those things come from?”

 “Let’s just say I received good education.” Sehun chuckled, planting a kiss on top of the latter’s head. But he knew well that his stubborn baby deer didn’t let this one go easily so he offered a deal.

“Okay, how about you tell me about Xing Xing while I share my first kiss story and we call it even?”

Actually that was the only story that he had in his dating category and he could say Luhan jump into an agreement too fast. It turned out this girl was his first crush and also his first kiss long long ago so nothing to worry. They would have a quick catching up tomorrow at lunch but since she was nice enough to say that Sehun was so good looking and she bet he was a wonderful boyfriend (which Luhan totally agreed with), Sehun guessed it didn’t hurt anyone if he let this go.

The older tugged on his shirt, urging

“Your turn!”

Sehun smiled, feeling the excitement in Luhan’s voice.

“Alright. But I have to warn you. This is the biggest secret of my life so if you’re going to squeal which you definitely are, please keep it away from my ear. I…”

“You’re such a player for time.” the Chinese impatiently butted in “Spit it out.”

“It’s Jongin.”

Sehun scrunched his nose, narrowed his eyes, waiting for the out bursting of an emotional sound but surprisingly nothing came out of the latter’s mouth. Luhan just simply dropped his jaw and doubled his eyes size in disbelief.

It was one of a lifetime kiss, when Sehun was all confused about his uality and he needed something to prove himself. He told Jongin and as a good friend he was, the tan boy volunteered to help (although since then he kept jokingly blaming Sehun on also stealing his first kiss). Of course it didn’t help him much because kissing your friend was obviously not a comfortable experience but at least it led him to a theory: a kiss would tell if you liked someone or not.

And he was glad that Luhan had pulled him down for a kiss that night. Because if it didn’t happen, maybe he would let the latter walking pass him without knowing that having Luhan by his side was the best thing ever happened to him so far.