Shower

By spartace_jjang

‘I need to use the bathroom!’ Woo Hyun does not even put down his bag and yells into the dorm straightly. ‘I am drenched in sweat!’

  ‘Suit yourself,’ comes a lazy voice of Myung Soo, who is piercing his eyes into the television and basically doing nothing. ‘I have just finished my shower. There only left you and Sung Gyu Hyung for the bath. You go negotiate.’

  Woo Hyun grumbles a mutter of gratitude to the sprawling torso on the floor and steps into the shared dorm room of him and Sung Gyu hyung. ‘Can I go for the shower first?’ He mumbles wearily. ‘I am feeling like .’

 ‘Everyone feels like ,’ Sung Gyu replies. Woo Hyun glances over; his hyung is digging his head into his pillow, only a bob of golden hair was visible from the outside (the wave of hair is kind of cute that Woo Hyun wants to ruffle it). ‘We have said it yesterday: I am going to take the bath first.’

  ‘Come on, hyung! You know how tired I am...’ Woo Hyun flops his upper body onto his bed while his lower body is busy struggling in taking off his pants(Which earns an ‘Ew don’t do it here’ from Sung Gyu and a snicker from Woo Hyun). ‘I am tired too. Follow the rules, Hyun-ah.’

  ‘Why don’t you take a shower before I come back?’ Woo Hyun sighs. ‘Then I don’t need to wait for you to finish.’

  ‘Was about to, but then you came back,’ Sung Gyu shrugs. ‘That doesn’t matter now.’

  ‘It does! Of course it does,’ Woo Hyun exclaims. He rammages through the closet and finds a shabby looking towel. Humming a tune, he gladly stands up. ‘All right, since you are not yet ready for it, I am going to bath first!’

  ‘Huh? Who said I am not ready?’ Sung Gyu abruptly sits up. ‘I am always ready for a bath.’ Hop hop hop, Woo Hyun watches his hyung’s three light steps down his bed and to his closet. He is ran-sacking through the mess while eyeing Woo Hyun suspiciously. ‘Did you take my towel, by any chance?’

  ‘Who? Me? Of course not,’ Woo Hyun is smart enough to have hided the towel behind his back. But a smile just can't stay hold between his lips. Guess that is how Sung Gyu sees through Woo Hyun as he snatches the towel between his hands.

   'See? You can't trick me.' Sung gyu snickers.

  'That was after I smiled,' Woo Hyun grumbles under his breath. 'You are being mean.'
  'Me? Mean? I'm just following the rules. Stop being unreasonable.' Sung gyu laughs off his words, twirling his fingers around the towel firmly to prevent woo hyun from taking it.
  'Just... We are supposed to be best friends, right? And friends are supposed to help others. So hyung you should give me your shower time.'
  Sung gyu laughs. Woo hyun just has a way with words that even the most unreasonable thinking can be transformed into the most reasonable one. 'You are not three years old. Stop fighting for something that you aren't supposed to have.' Sung gyu begins to walk over to the back of the room to prepare for a clean outfit.

  'Not so soon, hyung,' Woo hyun grins and blocks his way (which lightens up sung gyu's heart upon seeing those ivory teeth for no reason). He flings his arms around sung gyu's, caressing those smooth patches of skin as he does. Woo hyun smells familiar scents of strawberries on Sung Gyu’s hair and he is more than happy to smell his own taste on the leader. 'Hyun ah...let go...' Sung gyu is clearly intimated by those actions and he awkwardly coughs when woo hyun suddenly pulls the towel downwards, bringing Sung Gyu's arms flicker in pain.
  ‘Grandpa Gyu, of course it’s not over!' Woo Hyun flashes him one of his hearts as he tempts to run out of the door.
  'Nam woo hyun!' Sung Gyu doesn't miss another second as he hurls his body forward against Woo Hyun and tackles him down onto the mattress. Woo Hyun lets out a strangled scream before returning an elbow hitting towards Sung Gyu's shoulders. That makes the older shriek and Woo Hyun look at him in worry and attacks again noticing his smile. 'I am just gonna bath first, hyung,' says Woo Hyun who is busy tickling Sung Gyu with all his might while the other one is busy escaping from the slender fingers will all his might. 'No, you are not.' Sung Gyu replies between gaps of laughter. ‘I can’t –ah! Woo Hyun! That tickles—let you bath first!’

  Woo Hyun dodges as Sung Gyu reaches for the towel but fails miserably for Woo Hyun holds it high. Frustrated, he yelps and launches forward, (and nearly slips over the bundle of blankets on the mattresses) stretches his hand in a tremendous length up above his head. Within a minute, Sung Gyu already has the towel in his hand.

  ‘You lose, Woo Hyun,’ Sung Gyu holds the towel up triumphantly. Woo Hyun is about to reply something witty when he turns his gaze to the door and his mouth agapes. Sung Gyu turns and is more than surprised to see that all of the other members are gathering at the entrance already. Sung Yeol has a silly grin plastering on his face, hand holding Myung Soo’s; Hoya has a look of a high-school girl fangirling over his otp and he squeals when he sees Sung Gyu averting his gaze onto him; Dong Woo and Sung Jong are having the hardest time to concentrate since they are eating popcorn (where did they get them anyway?) and are looking at both of them as if they are enjoying a movie.

  ‘What are you guys looking at?’ Sung Gyu is the first to break the silence. ‘What’s with your grin, Sung Yeol? And why are you eating popcorn in our room?’

  Sung Yeol lets out an unconcious cough and turns away awkwardly. One by one the other members turns their heads away from the scene, although Sung Gyu could still see the sly grin on their faces. 'Please continue, hyungs. We won't disturb you,'  Sung Jong stiffens a laugh.

  Sung Gyu only realises that he and Woo Hyun are unnecessarily close, as in the kind of super-near-face-brushing-against-face one. Sung Gyu breaks into a fidget hiss as he slowly tears himself from Woo Hyun. 'Hmm. We are just fighting for a towel.'

 'We know.' Myung Soo can't contain his coy smile. 'Add oil, Sung Gyu hyung! I am betting on you!'

 'Shut up, guys. This is getting weird.' Woo Hyun supports on his hand and stands.

 'No it isn't. It's kind of cute.' Hoya answers. 

  'Just shut up!' Sung Gyu throws a pillow at Hoya but he dodges it casually. 

  'All right, all right. I will shut up. But let me just say something. One last comment.' Hoya clears his throat before continuing. 'You know, you can actually take the shower together and it will take away a lot of trouble...'

  'YAH!'

  'Lee Howon! Do you want to die painfully?'

  The room is soon filled with roars, chirps, cheers, and at last--

  the sound of water coming out from the spray.

Shower

By Aderation

Why do people date?

Some say that because they love each other.

Some say that because of loneliness.

Other say that it is because just they suddenly felt that it was the right time, and the right person.

If that’s the case, there is always something that we can’t figure out.

It was summer in the city. The avenue was lined with the deep green foliage that stood still in the August heat wave.

Heat at the pedestrian’s sunburned faces and coiled around their limbs like a great hot-blooded serpent. The ground smoldered and sent up a disorientating haze. Even the birds were silent and the grass stood still as if too hot to move.

As if a walk-in refrigerator, the air conditioning in the house could be described as a little over eager. It was more like a blustery winter chill than a cooling summer breeze.

People are all like this, you miss the warmth of the summer when you are in winter, and miss the coolness of the winter when you are in summer.

In the house, a pair of slender white hands picked up his phone, and entered a long text in the dialog box. Hesitated for a second, he then hit the phone screen violently, and deleted the text.

“Ah, distressing. Should I send it or not?” For the whole morning, Woohyun had been troubled by this problem. “If I send it, will I seem wired? Will my true feeling became uncovered? Will he feel awkward when beside me, and deliberately estrange from me?”

Woohyun slapped his head as he felt he was like a silly teenager girl who was experiencing her first love. He wasn’t a girl, he was a boy. But, but the fact was that he wanted so much to talk with that person, the one and only person in his heart.

He had replayed SoYou’s and Jung GiGo’s “Some” mv numerous time, feeling that he was the main character, and the song was specialized for him.

Peoople say that human becomes a fool when they fall in love. That’s true, totally true in Woohyun’s case. All his wit on talking disappeared all of a sudden, he still couldn’t think of a way of saying “Good morning” been it had already passed one.

He looked at the phone blankly, not knowing what should he type. He threw it on the bed with his body.

“Arrrrrrgh.” Woohyun screamed, releasing all the frustrating. He lay on his bed, clenching the blanket, crying in despair, throwing the pillow, pulling his hair off. He was surely became mad when it comes to love.

Though the temperature in the room was compatible with the weather in winter, a layer of sweat stunk on Woohyun’s skin after he had rolled on his bed for 15 minutes.

Maybe I should take a shower, Woohyun thought. Grabbed a towel casually, Woohyun entered the bathroom with a troubled feeling of what should he sent.

The water poured down, it dripped by his side as his mind faded into dullness and everything was a foggy illusion. The sensation of the steamy water couldn’t calm his fretful heart. How much did he hope that it could take his mind of things and let his mind swirled.

After wiping away the water that blocked his eyes, Sunggyu glanced at the phone which he put just outside from the tub.

No response, Sunggyu pouted, as he went back showering.

He wasn’t the kind of people who couldn’t leave their phone one minute away from their body, nor he was the kind that bring it to the bathroom. But it was an exception that day, just because of that guy whose name was Nam Woohyun.

There was something ambiguous flowing in the air between them. It was only the fourth day they met, but they felt like they knew each other for years. They don’t share a lot of things, but they could always find something to talk about, laugh about. Woohyun was fun, he could always crack a joke and make you laugh like crazy, Sunggyu love it.

But there was something weird about the person. Usually, his phone was bombarded by Woohyun’s cheesy messages, but it was already noon he didn’t even send a “good morning” to Sunggyu that day.

Sunggyu turned uneasy, was something troubling Woohyun? (Sunggyu didn’t even dream that he is the core of Woohyun’s trouble) Had something gone wrong?

Sunggyu wanted to send something, but it was always Woohyun who start their topic, he didn’t know what should he type.

Frustrated, Sunggyu went straightly back to his unfinished bathing process.

“Much better.” Woohyun muttered as he went out from the bathroom and went straight to his bed and lay on it lazily. He held the phone, finally determined to send a message to Sunggyu.

You have one unread message.

Once Woohyun unlocked his phone, these five word popped up in his eyes.

Woohyun didn’t even dream that that arrogant Sunggyu would take the initiative to send him a message.

“What are doing?” Three simple words were even to make Woohyun’s heart beat like crazy.

“Is that what it calls ‘falling in love’?” Woohyun asked to himself as he put his hand on his chest which was so fast that he couldn’t count.
 

“I was taking a shower a while ago. Are you free? Let’s go to the karaoke bar.”Woohyun replied.

Seeing Woohyun’s reply, a smile tinged on Sunggyu’s lips, “Why karaoke?”

“Don’t know… The image of you singing came across my mind.”

Sunggyu couldn’t contain his happiness, and typed immediately.

“Sure. :D :D :D”