"Wake up, sleepyhead!" Jaehyun whipped the pillow for the nth time to his cousin.

Barely eight in the a.m. showed from the wall clock and Jungwoo shuffled in his position. Jaehyun rested himself next to the younger, not up till his ripped midriff got squeezed with the arms of the sleepy being.

"Five more minutes, hyung..." Jungwoo mumbled and hummed toward the cousin's ear, causing the older to feel ticklish.

Jaehyun jolted by moving his shoulder bit by bit, yet Jungwoo held him up to the point the older whispered such thing. "Kim Jungwoo, I'm not Lucas."

Jungwoo's opened his eyes at once, pushing Jaehyun away while calming down the rumble, suddenly striking within his core.

He recalled last night, the moment Lucas made him wear the black bomber jacket, as Jungwoo sensed the pit of his stomach curling and not forgetting the extra heat rising by his cheeks. Whereas he pondered if it got him turned crimson and thank God, the night had fallen so that the taller wouldn’t recognize his bashfulness. Nothing much chanced later. Mostly, just Jungwoo being his reserved self and Lucas' will of talking has decreased, since he yawned for two-third of the time when they were heading home. It probably the time difference or could be Lucas didn’t have enough rest before they hung out.

Jaehyun fell about laughing, for the reason, Jungwoo was embarrassed and he couldn't cover the color changing of his ears tip. He pinched the younger's cheek, hoping he wouldn’t be mad at him for too long for just becoming his joking material. Not for the first, of course, but never did Jungwoo had gotten so red such as tomato, at the mention of someone so particular.

"Too bad I had very intense conversation with WinWin until I fell asleep before you got here... It drained me."

Jungwoo made such face to the cousin afore he started searching for his glasses. "Really? What kind of conversation?"

Jaehyun's sneer was pretty clear as a warning sign and the younger didn’t get it.

"Have you heard about phone ?"

"Oh my God, hyung!" Jungwoo threw the pillow and slammed right onto the older's. "You're so gross!"

But then again, he realized something as he threw Jaehyun a glare. Hands were grabbing his spotless sky-blue sheet, unexpectedly.

"You didn't... Here? In my territory?"

Jaehyun ruffled the younger's jet-black hair, in advance of lifting his body off the mattress. "Nope. I know where's my place and there's no way I jerked off on your bed... But, maybe I wasted quite lots of the toilet paper... Remind me to buy new ones, on our way returning from Naksan later, yeah?"

"In my bathroom?!" Jungwoo stopped by the remark of a beach, as on cue he fell into his own contemplation.

Jungwoo’s memory traveled yet again to the past two years. To the reminiscence as every time they took the homestay student to where most people will be spending the summertime— to the beach. They meant Jaehyun and him, as in a couple years ago, Jungwoo was supposedly enticed for Johnny’s super-toned and proportional body. He did anyways, in any kind he strived to conceal his hidden, uncontrolled-ual-drive, which will be mistaken to spend on the Chicago native.

Deep inside, Jungwoo would love to self-indulge himself and he had lots of hormones waiting to be unleashed when the time was right. Well, no one could see when that time will come and not even Jaehyun could predict to whom Jungwoo would use it to be exact.

More than half hour later, Jungwoo came downstairs toward the kitchen and find Jaehyun was stacking double deckers he prepared for their beach trip. He opted to have shower first, no matter how the older said he wouldn’t need it as they’d be dipping themselves to the sea and shower was too in advance, unless for the weak. Jungwoo didn’t regret being his clean-oriented self, especially when Lucas exited the guestroom, seemingly was done bathing himself too.

“What took you so long in the bathroom?” Jaehyun exclaimed to his cousin, pointing to Lucas then he did. “This one helped me making sandwiches and he just finished shower in five minutes.”

Jungwoo pouted as habit, not realizing he made someone threw him a smile in discreet. “Sorry… Is there anything I can help, hyung?”

He sat on one of the stools when the cousin breathed in his own shirt and decided to head back to the younger’s room upstairs.

“Just put this inside the car and I’ll be back after changing. And here’s my keys,”

Jaehyun left him alone with Lucas and it was some of the lasts needed by Jungwoo, first thing in the morning.

“You smell good.”

Jungwoo’s orbs widened as Lucas stated it right behind his collar. His heart nearly jumped from its place when he felt Lucas’ breath slipping through the crook of his neck. At what time he dared to turn around facing the latter, Lucas simply replied with his perfect grin as if like it was nothing. He did what Jaehyun ordered them and commenced to pace outside the room.

Jungwoo got himself a worthy mental slap, for instance, there’s no way he suspected what just happened and came across his mind.

There was an addition of Lucas’ friend named Mark— the one he mentioned a day before, who supposed to meet him and Jungwoo where in Myeong-dong. Compared to Lucas— or even Jungwoo or Jaehyun— Mark was surprisingly thin and not alike the towering friend he knew since their early teen years. Well, that’s because Jungwoo started comparing every people he met now with Lucas and hey, he was damn tall for an Asian guy.

Mark had Korean descent even though he was born in Vancouver and naturally became a Canadian. His mother was Korean who lived there for all her single life and earned the citizenship since birth. His father has background of working for the embassy and that explained why Mark never spent time in a country for more than three years.

Jaehyun did use his excellent speaking skill for the right reason. He was friendly since he pulled his car over near a convenience store within five blocks distance from Jungwoo’s neighborhood. As he initiated most of the conversation, caused the shorter brunet and youngest among all of them not feeling like an outsider.

“So Mark, what’s Lucas like when he was in middle school?” Jaehyun asked Mark as looking through the rearview mirror.

Jungwoo, being next to the older at the front, suddenly had eyeing the one seated crosswise at the back of driver’s seat. Too bad his attempt of being subtle was caught directly by Lucas, for the reason it was easier to spot Jungwoo that way.

“Nothing so particular,” although Mark snickered to his good friend. “He just loved standing at our school’s gate. Every day, flirting with almost everyone who passed right after school…”

“Mark Lee!”

Jungwoo tried not to smile when glimpsing at Lucas, being embarrassed and he quickly was head-locking the younger. Lucas was cute and the sound of his chuckle was such a good rhythm, beating in his eardrums. That was the second time Jungwoo used the word he hated to describe Lucas. While the latter was supposed to be breathtaking, as in breathtaking was clearly impossible for him to reach.

Jaehyun cracked a guffaw and still focusing to the street, occasionally be the icebreaker as no time to them be like Jungwoo— drowning in his own solitude.

“Everyone, really?”

Mark nodded as Jaehyun perceived, then again, the youngest continued his intriguing revelation for the tallest. “He’s such a fool, I have no idea why we’re still friends—”

Jungwoo had seen from the corner of his eye, Lucas whispered something to Mark and he has swiftly adjusted what he was going to say.

“But he’s getting better now… I don’t know maybe he got strike by lightning in the past two years, because he started leaving those bad habits.”

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