Since he was paying Bobby insisted on his favourite pizza place. They crowded into a booth, Bobby and Hanbin on one side, Junhoe and Jinhwan on the other, and Donghyuk in the middle. Hanbin couldn’t help but find it interesting that instead of maneuvering the layout so he’d be next to Donghyuk (or alone) Junhoe had instead allowed himself to sit next to Jinhwan. Unexpected.

Of course, having their post-game date crashed was also unexpected, but maybe it was a good thing? Bobby was noticeably moody, which Hanbin had never experienced since they’d started dating. It was easy to understand, because the game had been so tight the entire way through, and Hanbin didn’t like losing either. It’s not that Bobby seemed upset with him at all—he was just quiet. Still smiling (maybe smiling a little too widely, a little fake?) but Hanbin could just feel the tension Bobby was holding. 

Would it be better in a group? Had it been Jinhwan’s idea to crash the date, because he knew Bobby, knew he’d be weird after losing? As much as he was happy that they were doing a group thing (because it gave them all a chance to bond more) Hanbin had also been looking forward to having a night alone with Bobby. They hadn’t had the chance to have time by themselves since Hanbin had gone over to Bobby’s (which hadn’t lasted long, of course, because Jinhwan had intervened). Every time since then they’d been with their friends. He’d take whatever he could get, of course, but he wanted some degree of privacy too. 

Bobby’s mind was torn between trying to pay attention to the group and trying to process the game. Though he’d met his friends with a smile and hadn’t protested them coming along on the dinner date, he was honestly annoyed about it. He hated losing, hated coming in second. The fact that he’d lost to his boyfriend was strange. It’s not that he wanted to be able to rub Hanbin’s face in his victory, or anything, but it did feel just slightly intimidating? 

The whole relationship, sometimes, felt intimidating. 

Despite being younger, Hanbin just seemed more settled than Bobby felt—settled with his own self, with his needs and desires and abilities. That on its own was one issue, but when he topped it with how damn good at everything Hanbin was? Boxing, school, his confidence in himself, even the way Hanbin spoke was impressive (Bobby sometimes felt like a kid when he listened to Hanbin talk). Now basketball? The one area where Bobby felt like maybe he could have beaten him? 

Ah, it was a dangerous line of thought, the need to compete with your boyfriend. It wasn’t important, none of it was. Bobby was sure he was only feeling this way because of the game, and because he suddenly had three more people to deal with. He’d be fine once he got over it. He didn’t want to seem like he was having a bad time, so he knew he had to be proactive if he was going to get his head on straight for the rest of the night. 

Bobby reached for Hanbin’s hand, squeezing it in his own. At least he had Hanbin beat there, he thought with a grin. Bobby had tough, masculine hands, while Hanbin’s were smaller, looked almost delicate. Which of course was hilarious, given that they could knock a guy three times his size out. Hanbin looked up at him then, eyes curious, lips softly smiling, cheeks all dimpled, and Bobby felt like he wanted to bury all of his concerns. 

None of it was important, not when Hanbin smiled at him like that. 

Hanbin wasn’t sure what the cause was, but Bobby seemed to be less tense suddenly. Even if they couldn’t be alone, Hanbin was at least happy that they had gotten a booth to sit in! He moved closer to Bobby, never once breaking their stare. 

“Can we at least order first, before you two start eating each other? I’m starving.” Jinhwan teased, grabbing a menu. 

“Starving for affection? I told you to get yourself a new boyfriend!” Bobby teased back, his mood bubbling back up. All Hanbin’s doing. 

“You even have two eligible bachelors to choose from, right here!” Hanbin added, grinning and winking at Junhoe, who was suddenly red faced (a fact that wasn’t lost on Hanbin). 

“Ah yes, my choice between the strong, silent type, and the bubbly angel!” Jinhwan replied, looking at Junhoe and laughing before looking at Donghyuk and winking. 

“I’d go for the bubbly angel,” Hanbin teased, “the other one might seem like the strong and silent type, but once you get to know him, you realize he becomes irritatingly loud, all the time!” 

“Shut up, Hanbin!” Junhoe replied, glaring across the table at him. 

“Ah I see what you mean,” Jinhwan replied, looking at Junhoe and grinning, “the type who likes to hear himself talk?” 

“You’ll be lucky if it’s only talking!” Hanbin answered. “If you get him singing, then you’re in trouble!” 

“I’ll have you know, I have a great singing voice!” Junhoe answered, clearly annoyed. 

“Does he?” Jinhwan asked Hanbin. 

Hanbin locked eyes with Junhoe, amused at his reaction. Contrary to the grumpy outward behaviour Junhoe was actually in a good mood. Hanbin knew that if he was truly upset he’d be dead quiet. As long as Junhoe was yelling and drawing attention to himself, he was fine. 

“It’s decent at best.” Hanbin answered, and Junhoe scoffed out loud in utter disgust while the others laughed. 

“We’ll have to have a demonstration later, then!” Jinhwan ventured. “I sing too, so maybe a sing off?” 

“Me too!” Donghyuk added. “We can start our own vocal group!” 

“Excuse me, there are five of us here?” Hanbin added. “Bobby and I can rap, so together we can form an idol group!” 

Bobby loudly protested, shaking his head. “No! I refuse! Jinan makes me watch enough idol music shows, I’m not doing it!” 

“Don’t be a spoil sport!” Jinhwan admonished. “Be a team player!” 

“No way! Do you see how they make some of those groups dress? Not happening.” Bobby adamantly refused. 

“Funny that the one guy here who only does team sports is the only one who’s not being a team player!” Hanbin teased, clinging to Bobby’s arm and pulling him closer. 

“Good point. Gonna have to strip you of that captain’s position!” Jinhwan added, while Bobby continued to grumble. 

“Maybe he’s just not that good?” Junhoe cut in, outwardly happy now that someone else was the target. 

It was Bobby’s turn to get ruffled. “I’m actually a pretty decent rapper! I could probably make it on Show Me The Money!” Okay, that was a stretch—he had the voice for it, sure, but he didn’t exactly write enough of his own stuff to seriously contemplate it. But no one needed to know that. 

“Why don’t we go do karaoke after we eat?” Donghyuk suggested. 

“That’s actually not a bad idea!” Hanbin agreed. 

“Let’s do it!” Jinhwan agreed, looking at Bobby and hoping he wouldn’t protest. But Bobby was all smiles at Hanbin’s excitement, and he was certain Bobby would come along. 

They ordered soon after, two large pizzas to share between them (Jinhwan offered to pay for one, since he was the reason the party was bigger) and they even managed to talk about the game without Bobby getting moody (which Jinhwan found very interesting—it had to be Hanbin’s influence, which he thought was rather cute). 

Talking about basketball naturally led to school, and that’s when the first problem popped up. Everything was fine until Hanbin and Donghyuk got to talking about math, and Hanbin let it slip that Junhoe wasn’t exactly the sharpest student in that particular subject. 

“Wait—you’re having trouble with integers?!” Donghyuk crowed, looking at Hanbin and laughing heartily. 

Hanbin thought it was every bit just as funny. “Right? I don’t get it, he even has a tutor specifically for math, and he’s still flunking the integer section!” Hanbin quickly met Junhoe’s gaze, feeling a little guilty for outing his secret failure. It wasn’t the first time, though, Junhoe wouldn’t hold it against him. 

“Shut up, Hanbin!” Junhoe yelled, annoyed at him for talking about it. 

“Integers, though?” Donghyuk repeated, giggling into his fist. Okay, maybe this wasn’t winning him any points with Junhoe, but still! 

“God, both of you, off!” Junhoe’s previous good mood was seriously starting to deteriorate. This was exactly why he was concerned about Donghyuk’s addition. He was used to Hanbin teasing him about math, but Hanbin was his best friend and there were certain things that best friends could get away with doing that regular friends couldn’t. But Donghyuk seemed to be every bit as smart as Hanbin, and Junhoe couldn’t help but worry. Would Donghyuk’s intelligence pull Hanbin away at all? 

Jinhwan thought it was all in good fun, but a momentary glance at Junhoe had him guessing otherwise. Usually he’d be annoyed by someone who had no problem dishing out teasing but couldn’t stand taking it, and a week ago he would have considered this as proof that Junhoe was definitely a spoiled brat. 

But he thought again about his behaviour in the gym before the game, the way he’d seemed uncomfortable with Donghyuk at first. Clearly it wasn’t a case of Junhoe disliking him, because they’d gotten friendly at the end. Jealousy, then? First he had to deal with Hanbin’s new boyfriend, and now suddenly he’s got a very loud, very in-your-face new friend, whose energy matches Hanbin’s much better than it matches Junhoe’s. Insecurity? Junhoe took a chance and invited Donghyuk, only for Donghyuk to turn around and join Hanbin in a bout of teasing? 

Well, if Junhoe needed someone on his side, Jinhwan could provide some back up. 

“Can we reschedule this discussion in a few hours when I need to go to bed? Cause you’re boring me to tears right now with all this math talk.” Jinhwan added, grinning good naturedly at Hanbin. 

“I’m sorry, is this going over your little pea brain, hyung?” Hanbin teased, amused that Jinhwan was joining in. 

“Sorry, the rest of us don’t speak nerd. But you and Donghyuk go on and do your little math equations! Junhoe and I will come find you later and kick your asses!” He nudged Junhoe, who looked at him and smiled. 

“The two of you think you could beat us?” Hanbin exclaimed, looking at Donghyuk. “Do you hear that? These jiu jitsu kids, they like to talk tough!” 

“It’s cute!” Donghyuk answered. “We could take them.” 

Jinhwan made a face at Junhoe, who was looking a little less upset at the moment now that everyone’s pride was equally up for grabs. 

“Take us where? Out to dinner as an apology for wasting our time?” Junhoe replied, face pinched in irritation, like he thought the conversation was below him. 

“Nah, more like take you to the hospital after we knock you on your asses.” Hanbin grinned at him. 

“The only doctor we’ll be seeing after we fight you is Doctor Feelgood!” Jinhwan answered, winking at Hanbin. 

“Is Doctor Feelgood a urologist?” Donghyuk asked, to whooping laughter from Hanbin and a look of resignation from Jinhwan. 

“Ah, , you win this round, I can’t come back from that.” Jinhwan answered with a grin, impressed with Donghyuk’s quick witted comeback. He was fitting in nicely. 

“Ah, Donghyuk I didn’t know you had that in you!” Hanbin replied, reaching out to pat Donghyuk’s shoulder. 

“You’d be surprised at what I’ve had in me.” Donghyuk answered with an innocent smile, causing Hanbin to laugh again, and Junhoe to spit his drink out in shock. 

Bobby, however, was still stuck on Donghyuk’s joke. While Donghyuk and Jinhwan were busy teasing Junhoe, Bobby leaned over to put his mouth to Hanbin’s ear. 

“What’s a urologist?” Bobby asked, because he hated not understanding a joke. 

Hanbin grinned and turned to look at him. “It’s a doctor you go see when you have problems with your .” 

“Ah, like problems with your ?” Bobby asked, and Hanbin nodded. Bobby grinned, impressed now that he understood the joke. Hanbin suddenly leaned into him and kissed his cheek, and Bobby smiled back at him. “What was that for?” 

Hanbin just smiled and shrugged. “Nothing.” But he looked away with an annoyingly smug expression. 

“What?” Bobby whined, chasing after him. “Why are you smiling like that?” 

“It’s just, that was cute.” Hanbin answered, which Bobby found infuriatingly not helpful. 

“What was cute?” By now the others were watching them, and Hanbin grinned. 

“When you two were busy teasing Junhoe, Bobby leaned over to me and asked ‘what’s a urologist?’ ” Hanbin said, and it made Donghyuk and Jinhwan laugh. 

“Oh, that’s cute!” Donghyuk replied. 

Bobby felt like smacking Hanbin. “Hanbin! You’re making me look stupid!” 

“You’re not that stupid, hyung,” Junhoe interrupted, “I don’t know what a urologist is either.”

“Ah, you’re both idiots, how cute!” Jinhwan teased. He patted Junhoe’s leg, who glared at him (but didn’t make a move to bat his hand away). 

While Junhoe was a little annoyed, it was mostly at Hanbin, but he still glared at Jinhwan for good measure. He was feeling oddly grateful, though, that Jinhwan had come to his defense earlier. It was weird and he wasn’t sure how he ought to feel about it. Jinhwan kept smiling at him too, and his smiles made Junhoe think about the damn kiss again! Everything seemed like it came so easily to Jinhwan, no expression ever looked awkward on his face. Not that he had a cute face, or anything. It was just a face. 

“I think you’re dating the wrong one, Hanbin!” Donghyuk teased, “you should date Jinhwan, and let Bobby and Junhoe date each other so their IQs match.” 

Hanbin was ered in by Donghyuk’s giggling, not even disputing his suggestion. He really hoped neither of them would be upset with he and Donghyuk for the teasing. Bobby seemed fine, quietly shaking his head, so Hanbin looked at Junhoe, who looked just a tiny bit miffed. It wasn’t too bad though. Junhoe hadn’t retreated like he would have had he been truly offended. 

“Ah Junhoe, don’t worry! You don’t have to be smart, you’re pretty enough to get by on looks alone!” Hanbin . 

Junhoe fought to keep the glare on his face, but Hanbin’s comment made him want to grin because honestly, it was kind of true? He was attractive, easily the hottest one in their group. He didn’t mind hearing it stated out loud. 

“Yeah don’t feel bad, Junhoe-ya!” Bobby added. “At least you’re pretty. I’m dumb and I have an ugly face, so I’m screwed!” 

“You are not ugly!” Hanbin retorted. 

“Well I’m not pretty! It’s okay, I know my face isn’t my best feature.” Bobby grinned, looking from Hanbin to Jinhwan. 

“Wanna know what Bobby’s team nickname is?” Jinhwan asked, much to Bobby’s protests. But Hanbin was curious, begging gaze on Jinhwan. 

“Ah come on, Jinan, don’t sell me out like this!” Bobby complained. 

“They call him Monkfish!” Jinhwan said, to muffled laughter from Hanbin, and a squeal of laughter from Donghyuk. “Go on, show them the face!” Jinhwan instructed Bobby. 

“Ah, seriously?” Bobby complained again, but he didn’t really mind. He’d made peace with the teasing almost as soon as it had started from his teammates. When you didn’t take insults personally, life got a lot easier. Now he played into it, had even developed a specific look for it that made his teammates laugh. It had gone from potentially insulting to an affectionate sort of teasing. 

“Do it!” Jinhwan carried on, grinning when Bobby made the face. 

Hanbin sighed and shook his head, playing along with the teasing. “I could have lived happily without seeing that.” 

“It looks scary at first, but there’s an addictive sort of quality to it?” Jinhwan added. “I have a picture of him doing it saved on my phone, every now and then I switch my lockscreen to it.” 

“Ah, Jinan!” Bobby yelled, groaning when Jinhwan showed them his phone lockscreen—that was currently the picture in question. 

Jinhwan sighed happily at it before putting his phone back down. “It’s a work of art.” 

Just then their pizzas arrived and they put aside their conversation momentarily for food. One slice later, though, and conversation was getting back on track. 

“So, hypothetically speaking, we do our own UFC tag team fight: Team Boxing vs Team Jiu Jitsu, who’s gonna win?” Hanbin asked, grinning at Junhoe. 

“You’re joking, right?” Junhoe asked, expression of disbelief on his face. “We’d mop the floor with you, no contest!” He and Hanbin often discussed who would win in a fight if they faced one another, and not once had they ever come to a happy conclusion. 

“Tough words coming from Junhoe the Janitor!” Donghyuk added, grinning when Junhoe looked at him with death in his eyes. 

“I already have a stage name, thank you!” Junhoe replied, glancing at Hanbin. “What was it again?” 

Hanbin laughed at the question, trying to remember what they’d come up with. “Jurassic Junhoe!” 

Junhoe grinned and nodded. “Yeah, that’s the one!” 

“Do you fight dinosaur style?” Donghyuk asked, happy when Junhoe actually laughed at the question. 

“He does! Show him the T-Rex Takedown!” Hanbin suggested, collapsing against Bobby when a fit of laughter took over. The others looked between Hanbin and Junhoe, who was still giggling as well, surprised at the sudden onslaught of laughter. 

Junhoe turned to Jinhwan, who was looking up at him in surprise. “Hold still, hyung, I’m gonna demonstrate!” Junhoe knew he probably looked ridiculous, but it was fine. It felt good to laugh, felt good to have a sudden reminder of the stupid he and Hanbin usually did, before things had gotten complicated recently. 

He pulled his arms in close to his chest, hands flailing in mimicry of a T-Rex dinosaur, before getting to his feet and draping himself over Jinhwan’s back. He pressed one wrist into the side of Jinhwan’s neck and tried to wrap the other as far around Jinhwan’s throat as it would go (which of course wasn’t far at all). He couldn’t look at Hanbin at the moment, not until he finished explaining the move, at least. “Then you just, give a little headbutt and drag you down to the ground!” 

Jinhwan thought it was both the cutest and dumbest thing he’d ever heard, and he decided then that his entire perception of Junhoe had indeed been wrong from the beginning. The arrogant, haughty brat was clearly an act for the mat. This was the real Junhoe. 

He quite liked the real Junhoe. 

“Sit down, you idiot!” Jinhwan shoved him back towards his chair, unable to help but laugh. God, Junhoe had an infectious laugh? Jinhwan couldn’t help but stare at him. Junhoe’s entire face scrunched up in a really cute way when he laughed, and Jinhwan was happy he was getting to see it now. He looked quickly across the table at Hanbin, who was still laughing hard. “You guys are ridiculous.” 

“Did you have a dinosaur name too?” Bobby asked Hanbin, wiping the tears out of his eyes. Seeing Hanbin and Junhoe have a momentary meltdown laughing over stupid things was actually really nice to see. Like Jinhwan, Bobby thought that they were finally getting to see the real Junhoe, and he understood why Hanbin would put up with some of his more trying behaviour. It was worth it when someone could make you laugh that hard. 

Hanbin grinned at the question and looked around the table before settling his gaze back on Bobby. “Oh yeah, I was Herbivore Hanbin! Instead of boxing gloves, I’m gonna fight with two heads of lettuce on my fists!” Hanbin answered, and it sent he and Junhoe collapsing into a fit of fresh giggles. 

Bobby looked at Jinhwan, both of them shaking their heads in equal parts confusion, embarrassment, and amusement. It was cute but so stupid. 

Donghyuk, on the other hand, was laughing so hard over the whole thing he was laying on his arms, one fist pounding the table top. 

It took a few minutes, but eventually everyone calmed down, sitting up and wiping the tears of laughter off their faces. Junhoe was feeling good, grateful they’d had the opportunity to share something stupid about themselves. The laughter had been a good balm for the bits of awkward tension that had cropped up throughout the day. 

Jinhwan reached for another slice of pizza, hungry again after laughing. “We never did resolve our debate, though. Bobby! What’s your opinion, as an uninformed third party? Boxing or jiu jitsu?” Jinhwan asked, putting him on the spot. 

“No way! I am not getting involved!” Bobby answered, shaking his head and grabbing another slice of pizza. “You can’t make me pick!” 

“Oh you’re picking a side, alright!” Jinhwan replied. “Don’t forget who sleeps just down the hall from you every night!” 

“He can buy a lock for his door!” Hanbin replied, throwing his arm around Bobby’s shoulders. “But if he ever wants to sleep in the same bed as me, then he’d better pick boxing!” Hanbin threatened, all up in Bobby’s face. Bobby actually blushed at the warning. 

“Oh that’s cold!” Jinhwan said. 

“You shut your mouth!” Hanbin back. “As I remember it, you were the one who got in our way the first time we really had a chance to make out!” 

Jinhwan grinned and shook his head, playing ignorant. “I don’t remember that.” 

“You’re so lucky I didn’t kill you that day!” Bobby replied. 

“What happened?” Donghyuk asked, grinning as he looked between them. 

“Well, I was visiting Bobby, no one was home--” 

“Hanbin! They don’t need details!” Bobby jumped in, amused that they were actually talking about this. 

“Speak for yourself, details are welcome!” Donghyuk replied with a grin. 

“They were in bed together!” Jinhwan added, winking at Donghyuk. “Not really doing much, it was pretty tame!” 

“We were just getting started!” Bobby replied. 

“I thought you didn’t want to give any details?” Hanbin back. 

“Anyway, so I may have been watching for just a bit--” Jinhwan began before Donghyuk cut him off. 

“Wait you were watching them while they were making out?” Donghyuk asked, face drawn open in shock. 

“Yeah and when nothing exciting happened, I decided to interrupt.” Jinhwan replied, grinning at Bobby, who looked nearly murderous. 

“It was such bad timing!” Hanbin replied, eyes sweeping around the table. Even Junhoe was grinning, which made him happy to see. 

“It was really a test, though! See they’d just started dating, so I wanted to make sure Hanbin was a good kid!” Jinhwan admitted, winking at Hanbin. 

Junhoe nodded beside him. “I can understand that.” 

“No! You guys are crazy, you don’t test your best friend’s boyfriend!” Hanbin replied, mostly just to play into their comments. 

“You absolutely have to! I’m glad you feel the same way. They’re lucky to have us.” Jinhwan said, looking at Junhoe. 

“They don’t deserve us.” Junhoe replied, pleased that Jinhwan was playing right into his own thoughts. He was still a little guarded about it, still confused about why Jinhwan seemed so intent on forging an actual friendship. Was he still trying to make up for his initial blunder? Did he actually want to be friends? Junhoe knew that if he asked Hanbin, he’d say that obviously Jinhwan legitimately wanted to be friends. But Junhoe couldn’t forget that initial feeling he had. He couldn’t just ignore that and pretend it had never happened. 

But still. Junhoe liked this friendly version of Jinhwan. Their personalities matched up pretty well. Hopefully time would prove that Jinhwan wasn’t just being a manipulative . 
 

Sing us something romantic! Bobby had asked, jokingly, of course, but he should have known better. He was sitting on the couch, Hanbin cuddled underneath his arm, and they were twenty minutes into watching their friends performing a Michael Jackson medley. It had started with ‘Remember The Time’ (Junhoe’s pick) before moving on to Jinhwan’s selection ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ (complete with an altered opening line of “hey pretty boy with the high tops on”) before Donghyuk had made them sing ‘You Are Not Alone’ . After the romantic medley was finished, they’d continued with more Michael Jackson songs, punctuating some of them with surprisingly decent attempts at the choreography. 

While it wasn’t exactly the kind of night Bobby had been looking forward to, he was happy that despite having company, he and Hanbin still had a chance to be cuddly. He’d happily let the other three dominate the song selections for the rest of their time as long as Hanbin didn’t leave his side. 

Hanbin was of the exact same opinion. At first he’d had every intention of singing, but he was too comfortable now on the couch with Bobby’s arm around him. This was exactly what he’d been hoping for tonight, the chance to be close. So what if their friends were right there? They were pretty engrossed in the music. Hanbin grinned as he watched Junhoe showing off his Moonwalk—they’d taken a special dance class together when they were thirteen, learning iconic Michael Jackson moves. 

It was a nice way to end the night. The moments of awkward tension from dinner were gone completely now (Hanbin was thankful that Donghyuk was such a big Michael Jackson fan, it was an easy way to forge a bond with Junhoe) and Hanbin wasn’t entirely certain, but he thought that maybe, just maybe, it seemed like Junhoe and Jinhwan were really connecting? He hadn’t seen Junhoe smiling and laughing so much in a while, at least, Junhoe’s good mood carrying over from dinner. 

It was nice after weeks of moody Junhoe. Hanbin finally had real hope that everything would work out well. Maybe even better than expected? He craned his neck to look at Bobby, who was watching the other three dancing with an amused grin on his face. Hanbin took his phone out, typing a message to Bobby, because this wasn’t exactly a conversation he wanted to have out loud, even if the subjects weren’t paying them any attention. 

He nudged Bobby when he sent it, motioning to his phone. Bobby looked confused but took his phone out, reading the message and laughing right away. 

-call me crazy but i think they might hook up?- 

Bobby answered back. 

-ur crazy!! wishful thinking??- 

-no way! you think jinan wouldnt go for it?- 

-jinan yeah, probly, but junhoe?? u think??- 

-i havent seen him this happy since i broke up with woosung, haha- 

Bobby actually snorted at Hanbin’s answer, pulling him closer and muffling his laughter in his hair. Hanbin laughed too, watching to make sure they didn’t draw the others’ attention. They were focused on the screen, though, trying to harmonize their way through ‘Will You Be There’. 

After a moment of watching them (and now that Bobby was looking for it, he couldn’t help but notice that they did seem to be paying extra attention to each other) he whispered into Hanbin’s ear. 

“Do you think we should let them, though?” He still wasn’t convinced there was anything there, wasn’t sure why Hanbin was suddenly thinking of the possibility. Bobby just wanted them to be friends. Anything more might complicate matters. 

Hanbin grinned at the question, because Bobby definitely had a point. If they did hook up, the relationship would probably be way more volatile than his relationship with Bobby. Would Junhoe’s pride get in the way of Jinhwan’s teasing nature? Or would they call a truce between themselves and only team up on other people? And what about their jiu jitsu rivalry? How would that work out? 

Of course nothing might come of any of it, and he might just be seeing something that wasn’t really there. Wishful thinking, like Bobby had said. But was that so bad, anyway? To want their best friends to date? He knew Junhoe could be a bit of a handful, but he felt like Jinhwan might just be okay with that? He’d have to watch for more signs. 

Hanbin kissed Bobby’s neck right by his ear before whispering an answer. “I think we should subtly encourage it if it starts happening.” Bobby laughed and kissed Hanbin again, wondering if they were setting themselves up for disaster. 

While he didn’t doubt for a second that Jinhwan would probably go for Junhoe, given the chance (because Junhoe was Jinhwan’s type, or at least as much his type as Bobby knew) he didn’t know if Jinhwan would actually be serious about it. Any time Bobby tried to grill Jinhwan on his future plans his best friend was annoyingly tight lipped. Jinhwan wouldn’t risk screwing things up that badly just for a bit of fun, would he? 

No, of course he wouldn’t. Bobby was worried for nothing. 

So when Hanbin texted him again a minute later, Bobby laughed. 

-ok so i give them a month. if it takes longer than that for the hook up, ill take you out for dinner or whatever you want!- 

-n if they dont hook up at all??- 

-you still win! we got a deal?- 

Bobby looked back up at the pair for a second, watching them and trying to gauge their levels of interest. 

-yeah we got a deal!!-