There wasn’t a moment in which Sunggyu would find himself bored during the beginning of their summer break. He was always occupied. If it wasn’t playing video games, it was playing with his sisters. He would occupy his free time with practicing his piano or simply strumming the guitar. He would text constantly, his phone never leaving his side as he went about his day.

He did see Woohyun and Myungsoo often, but that was only because they were neighbors. Dongwoo stayed home for a couple of days and Hoya had his own plans. They dispersed for two full days, deciding to give each other some time to do absolutely nothing to their hearts content if they so wished. Or at least, Dongwoo and Hoya did because one persistent (and handsome) neighbor decided to bug Sunggyu to his own heart’s content.

And Wednesday was going to be no different. Sunggyu merely huffed when he saw him come into his room. He didn’t even knock anymore.

“What are you doing here?” the dark haired senior asked as he strummed a riff he learned the day before, “Go home.”

“I get bored at home,” Woohyun said as he took a pillow from the bed and threw it on the floor, laying down face up, hands under the pillow to be able to look at Sunggyu properly, “You entertain me.”

“Do I look like a clown to you?”

“A little?”

The junior let out a stifled laugh as he covered his face from the guitar pick that went flying his way. The dark haired male sighed as he stood, taking the acoustic guitar and placing it back on its stand. He stretched briefly, his body feeling tired after being hunched over the instrument for a while.

“Play the piano. I’ve never seen you play it,” it wasn’t exactly a question, Sunggyu could tell by the way the other said it. It was simple curiosity on the younger male’s part.

Sunggyu stared at Woohyun for a couple of seconds, wanting to say no, but decided there would be no harm in showing him a little bit (aside from the fact of looking cool in his eyes). He supposed a musician left anyone sparkly eyed.

“Fine, but get up from there.”

Woohyun smiled happily, getting up quickly and deciding to take a seat on the male’s neatly made bed. He watched as the other set up his area.

“What can you play? Can you do classical?”

“Of course I can. You can’t play the piano without knowing the classics,” Sunggyu stated matter-of-factly.

“Beethoven?”

“Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach… There’s actually a lot that I don’t know about still.”

“Play that really famous one by Beethoven,” Woohyun urged.

The older male pretended to think about it, “Hmm, ‘That really famous one…’,” he mumbled the makeshift title, “I don’t know that one,” Sunggyu teased, making the younger male blush lightly.

Woohyun was rather ignorant in terms of classical music, so it embarrassed him. The dark haired senior laughed before thinking for a second. It caught Woohyun by surprise when he heard the exact same song he was thinking of.

“That’s the one.”

“Für Elise,” Sunggyu supplied helpfully, playing the song seamlessly, perfectly.

It was rather repetitive so he skipped a few measures, heading into the transition and making the other awe at his skills. The raven haired male smiled lightly as he glanced up, noticing the other’s eyes trained on his moving hands. He finished the piece soon after.

“That was great.”

Sunggyu smiled. He didn’t say anything as he started playing another piece. It was one that Woohyun heard before. It sounded a bit sad.

“Moonlight Sonata,” was Sunggyu’s response.

He played it quietly for a little bit before stopping.

“No one really recognizes anything other than the first movement but I really like listening to the third.”

Woohyun gave him a questioning look. He wasn’t sure about what the other was talking about. The senior chuckled a little before deciding to explain it a little.

“The piece is divided into three parts. The one I just played was the first,” he played a bit to demonstrate but quickly stopped, “This is the third.”

He took a second to adjust before the quick sounds of the piano filled the room. He played for a few moments before he completely messed up. It was so obvious that even Woohyun picked it up. The younger male laughed at Sunggyu’s embarrassment.

“That sounded really complicated,” Woohyun tried to console him.

“I’m not practicing as much as I should…,” the raven haired senior confessed randomly, playing a few notes before standing up abruptly, “But I really want you to hear this movement.”

Sunggyu grabbed his phone from the nightstand next to his bed, taking a seat next to Woohyun. He quickly pulled up a video, having it saved in his phone because it really was one of his favorite pieces. He also took the ear buds from his pocket and plugged them into the phone. He offered one side to Woohyun and he kept the other.

“Watch him play this too,” they sat close together, the younger male taking hold of the phone in order to watch it.

Sunggyu tapped on the screen and the video began. A few seconds later they could see an aerial view of someone with their hands positioned over a piano and almost immediately it started. Woohyun watched in awe as the fingers danced over the piano so seamlessly. Sunggyu managed to play that part twice before his fingers betrayed him, but this person on the small phone screen played it with absolutely no problems.

“Woah.”

Sunggyu giggled lightly at his response. He watched with him but not without sneaking glances at his expressions. The senior realized the younger male looked all too cute when he was in awe.

“One day I’ll be that good,” Sunggyu commented lightly before the piece was repeated.

Woohyun looked over to the other who was still concentrated on the video playing on his phone. Sunggyu felt his gaze but he didn’t turn to meet it. They were too close.

“Is music what you wanna do?”

That prompted the other to move away and sigh, “I’ve never given it actual thought. Music is just something I like to do for fun. It releases stress,” Sunggyu explained, leaning back against his hands. “Don’t you have something like that?”

“I do,” Woohyun set the phone aside and turned his body in order to see Sunggyu, “I’m more physical, I usually spend some time exercising and it tires me enough to not worry about anything.”

“Just thinking about exercising stresses me out,” Sunggyu said seriously but it only caused the younger male to laugh.

“Then play something else for me. What else can you play?”

“I really am here to entertain you, aren’t I?” he said as he stood, going back to the piano to sit.

It was a matter of seconds before he started playing something slow and calm but it was enough to have Woohyun smile widely. He recognized the song. It was Nell’s Slip Away. It was a simple melody, one that he managed to learn fairly quickly but it was always soothing to hear.

“You’re not gonna sing?” Woohyun asked over the piano.

Sunggyu looked up and listened to the timing before opening his mouth, “No,” and stopping completely. He proceeded to laugh his head off at how Woohyun’s expectant expression fell to that of an annoyed one.

“You’ve already heard me sing once and that’s one time too many,” Sunggyu chuckled as he stood and began to put his equipment up.

He wasn’t going to sit there and play piano jukebox for the younger male, no matter how amazed and impressed the other looked to be with him. He’s a lot more at ease playing the piano by himself than with an audience.

“Where’s Myungsoo?” he finally asked as he put away the chair under his desk.

“Downstairs. He was playing with Jinho,” the younger stated as he pulled one of the numerous pillows from the headboard.

He laid at the foot of the bed, his feet touching the ground as he placed the pillow under his head.

“Your brother is slowly taking my sisters away one by one,” the dark haired senior commented as he also made himself comfortable. He laid back normally with his right leg under his left one, the left dangling off the side of the bed since he couldn’t stretch out. Woohyun was taking the bottom half of his bed after all.

“It’s not my fault you’re such a lazy guy.”

That earned him a pillow to the face. Woohyun laughed as he removed the pillow and hugged it to his body.

“It’s not my fault I’m not a muscle head like you two.”

“These are weapons of choice, okay?” the junior defended as he pointed to his arms, his face all too serious.

“Okay, I get that they’re called guns, but you’re being ridiculous,” Sunggyu stated, kicking the other’s leg with no real intention to hurt him.

“Why do you hurt me so much? I’m covered in bruises! You punched my arm yesterday, you know it hurts to move it?”

Sunggyu scoffed before laughing at the junior. He couldn’t help but laugh when the other was around. He was always saying or doing things that brought a smile to his face. He couldn’t really say he was tired of the younger male because it was always fun to simply hang around him.

“You’re such a baby, seriously. What’s the point of having those muscles if you can’t take a little pain?”

“I’m a hedonist. I don’t like violence.”

“Narcissist seems a better fit,” Sunggyu mumbled. He gave Woohyun a smile when the male asked him to repeat himself before speaking again, “I’ve worked out before and I distinctly remember being sore a couple of days after. How is that being a hedonist?”

“It’s only at the beginning. If you exercise daily, your body will get used to it,” he took the pillow he was hugging and also placed it behind his head, raising his body up higher than before.

Sunggyu felt his heart rate speed up as Woohyun pulled his shirt up, exposing his taught skin and those abs that he boasted so much about. Despite all that, Sunggyu has only seen them once, and it was the morning that felt like so long ago already. He couldn’t help the slackening of his jaw as he watched a little too intently how the owner of the well kept body ran his hand over them. He was saying something, Sunggyu could hear his voice but it sounded like gibberish. His skin broke out into goosebumps, realizing that this handsome guy was laying on his bed showing off.

“…Gyu? Do you?”

The senior’s attention snapped up and he nodded absently, “Uh, yeah,” he answered, not wanting to let the other know that he didn’t hear a single word.

“You do? What is it called?”

Sunggyu stared at the male for a couple of seconds and was flustered when Woohyun’s questioning expression quickly changed and a bout of laughter escaped him.

“If you don’t know, why did you say yes?”

Sunggyu felt his face growing hot, “Sorry,” he dragged and opted to hide his embarrassment with sarcasm, “I guess I didn’t hear you over your y.”

“Admitting to it finally? Wait until Hoya hears this,” Woohyun teased.

“Oh shut up,” Sunggyu retorted simply before returning to their previous topic, “What did you ask?”

“Do you know why we have these lines that form the abs?”

“Oh… no I don’t,” he answered, trying to keep his gaze on Woohyun’s face even after he turned away from him.

“This line here,” the junior glanced up at older male, “look,” he demanded when he noticed the other wasn’t paying attention to where he was pointing, “This line is the linea alba, it’s basically a tissue that connects both sides of the abdomen. It’s not exactly muscle so it doesn’t buff up like the rest, giving us the division right between the six pack.”

Sunggyu nodded, his brows up high as he watched Woohyun run his finger up and down said line.

“Here, give me your hand?” the athletic male asked, extending a hand as he sat up from the bed.

“What? Why?” Sunggyu asked, perplexed and leaning back, but Woohyun moved forward and took one of the male’s pale wrists.

Sunggyu tried his best to concentrate on what Woohyun was saying but the reasons behind why abs look like they do didn’t interest him as much as the actual skin Woohyun was making him touch. It was soft, and warm, a light press revealed it to be rock hard, and Woohyun’s sun-kissed skin contrasted with his lighter skin.

“It actually connects all the way down to our pelvis but,” he held Sunggyu’s hand just above his belly button and turned to the male, a teasing smile on his lips but his smile faded when he realized how close Sunggyu was leaning in.

The senior swallowed visibly before turning to look at the younger male who suddenly stopped talking. They were close enough to barely register the other in their personal space but Sunggyu took that opportunity to slip his hand from the other’s grip before pulling back completely.

“I didn’t know any of that,” there was an uncomfortable atmosphere settling in, or maybe it was Sunggyu’s imagination, but he continued to act normally when Woohyun let his shirt fall to cover him up, “I guess it’s not as important to know why, but to admire the end result.”

He wasn’t really sure if what he was saying was making sense, but his thoughts were all jumbled up. Woohyun’s absentminded nod didn’t help the odd atmosphere that was settling over them so the senior stood.

“I’m gonna go get something to drink. Do you want something?” he made his way towards the closed door.

“Uh, just water is fine,” Woohyun answered as he pulled his phone out.

“Okay, I’ll be right back.”

Sunggyu hurried out of the room, taking a deep breath when he was no longer in the enclosed space with the younger male. He took the hand that Woohyun was holding and gave his fingers a light squeeze.

Why did Woohyun catch his fingertips at the end?