For the Love of... Books?

Ch.6 There and Back Again?

By Eiryia

Mino gave in, it didn’t matter. There was nothing he could do. Seungyoon had his house here and surely would he be back as soon as he could. Mino let go of Seungyoon’s hand and lowered himself so that he was resting his head on his chest. Seungyoon’s heart was beating away so fast that Mino's first initial reaction was to put his hand on his chest as if to hold his heart in place.

“We want the same thing right?”

He said tilting his head to look up at Seungyoon.

“Yeah”

Seungyoon replied after a little while. He then lifting his hand to flatten Mino's hair that was standing in every direction and probably tickling his chin. After a while had he begun to worry that he might be getting a bit too heavy for Seungyoon so he rolled of him and onto his back on the bed.

“We didn’t even get to go to the Tower of London yet”

He sighed while staring into the roof.

“First thing when I get back okay?”

Seungyoon whispered while stifling a yawn.

“First thing when you get back”

Mino repeated. He had so much more he wanted to say, to ask and to plan. The more things that would tie Seungyoon to him and to the city the better. He wanted to give him as many reasons to come back as he possibly could. Just in case he in himself weren’t enough. It didn’t feel like he was at the moment and it was the thing that hurt the most.

“Why aren’t I enough?”

Mino sighed not sure if he wanted Seungyoon to still be awake or not. He kept still, waiting in case he got an answer but he didn’t.

“You promised you would help out at the store”

He mumbled turning to his side to look at the now sleeping Seungyoon.

“You promised”

He said again poking one of Seungyoon’s round cheeks lightly with his index finger. Knowing how exhausted Seungyoon must be after the last few weeks had he just let him sleep. The live performance in the next door room had ended and so Mino had tried his best to fall asleep as well.

The first rays of morning sunlight had begun flooding the room before Mino had managed to fall asleep. He had been mentally mapping every meeting, every conversation and every feeling he still had memory of from the last few months. When was it that he fallen for this skinny person snoring lightly beside him?

Was it that kiss in his apartment? When he had made him that special cup of coffee? Or had it been their first meeting in the book shop? It was impossible to tell, but he still wanted to try. He needed to find his resolve and to make his decision before he got left behind because it only would go one way after that. Downwards.

When he woke up as it already midday. He was happy to find that Seungyoon was still sleeping next to him and so he rolled carefully over on his side of the bed and wrapped his arm around him.

Having made up his mind last night was his chest a thousand times lighter. That in combination with the bright sunlight streaming into the bedroom making everything look softer and he was in a surprisingly good mood.

“Good morning”

He hummed into Seungyoon’s ear. Seungyoon reacted right away and rolled down onto his back before blinking up at him.

“Morning”

Seungyoon grumbled back, obviously not in the same spirit as Mino. He then asked what time it was while staring up into the brightly lit room.

“Past midday by now I’d say”

Mino replied adjusting himself so he was leaning on his elbow.

 “Today is the..”

Seungyoon began but Mino interrupted him with a kiss.

 “I know”

He replied before kissing him again. He had one goal for the day and that was to establish as solid as possible that they were indeed a couple.

“Why wo..”

Seungyoon began but got interrupted by a third kiss.

“No more sulking!”

Mino said and began tickling Seungyoon in an attempt to remove that nasty frown he was still sporting. Mino laughed as Seungyoon wormed around the bed trying to get out of his reach so the tickling would stop.

“Okay! Okay! See! I’m smiling”

He put up one of those funny looking crooked smiles of his and sat up with his hands defensively stretched out before him.

“Good!”

Mino cheered and tackled him so he fell backwards on the bed.

“If I see one more frown today will I tickle you until you cry”

He threatened in the deepest voice he could muster.

“I won’t, I won’t”

Seungyoon repeated in a weak voice under him. He felt something hard twitch next to his stomach and he grinned down at Seungyoon.

“Don’t tell me you like this? I should threaten you with tickling more often then”

Mino then bent down and began nibbling on Seungyoon’s earlobe wondering what else he should threaten him with.

“Maybe..” he begun “I should tie you up?”

He heard Seungyoon take in a huge gulp of air and he spent a good few moments to enjoy his expression before continuing

“aaaaand tickle you!”

Mino then laughed and watched as Seungyoon tried to wriggle free yet again while still hiding his face.

“Now I’d really like to see where this would end”

Mino said eyes traveling from Seungyoon’s chest, down to his abs and stopping right beneath them.

“But I smell food!”

He exclaimed cheerfully before rolling of the bed and onto his feet. Seungyoon removed his hands from his eyes and stared at him still flustered. Mino bit his lip and winked at him before pulling on his pants. Sorry he atempted to convey with his eyes yet still keeping it playful before he planted another kiss on Seungyoon's cheek and walked out of the room in only his pants and underwear. If that had not left Seungyoon feeling butterflies then he weren’t sure what would have. He might have a bit too much, but he wanted to have some fun as well.

Following his nose towards the kitchen he found Seunghoon talking to his iPad. After inspecting his cooking had Mino concluded that it had to be breakfast for at least 10 people on the counters.

“Are we expecting visitors?”

He asked while straining his neck to peek at whoever it was Seunghoon was talking to. The person on the screen was pale, with half long flowing brown hair and the prettiest eyes he had ever seen. He waved a little as the person appeared to be looking in his direction.

“Love, why is there a man in the kitchen?”

The guy on the screen asked. Mino laughed and moved out of the range of the camera.

“That man is not , his name is Mino and he is Seungyoon’s so don’t worry”

Seunghoon replied moving eggs from the frying pan and onto a plate. Mino moved to Seunghoon’s side of the kitchen island and waved at the guy on the screen.

“Hello there”

He said while gnawing on a piece of bacon he had managed to steal.

“Hi, I’m Kim Jinwoo”

The cute man on the screen said and waved back.

“So you are the book shop guy”

Jinwoo said leaning closer to the screen as if to take a closer look at him. Jinwoo knew about him? How come? Seunghoon might have told him everything. With how they kept skyping all the time was it no shock that he knew about him. He was about to ask how he had heard of him when he got something thrown in his face.

Seungyoon walked into the kitchen with a somewhat forced smile on his face. Probably to remind him that he had not forgotten the condition he had left him in minutes earlier.

“Please be dressed when you are in front of my guest will you?”

Seungyoon said attempting to sound angry, but spending way too long checking him out for Mino to believe him.

“I don’t think they mind”

Mino replied, but put on his shirt anyway but only after giving Seungyoon one last teasing look.

Seunghoon was setting the table now and Seungyoon gave Mino a grumpy glare. He decided that counted as a frown worthy of tickling and so he begun wiggling his hands and eyebrows while walking slowly towards Seungyoon.

Having realized a moment too late what he had done could Seungyoon only try and dodge Mino who was ever getting closer. He looked from Seunghoon to Mino and back again.

“Ah Mino, You forgot your socks. Let me lend you a pair”

He said and quickly begun making his way towards the stairs.

“No, let me give you a pair of mine! I collect them!”

 Seunghoon said with a funny look on his face leaving before Seungyoon could stop him.

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