Seokmin had a headache. The light blaring through his skull was way too bright as he rolled over and buried his face in the pillow to try and hide from it. He sat up when he realised he wasn’t at home. He was on Joshua’s brand new couch and he’d drooled on his nice new pillow. “Good morning sunshine,” Joshua chirped from the kitchen when he saw the other sit up. He walked over and offered him a big mug of coffee which he took gratefully to sooth his hangover. “Did I drink everything?” he asked and Joshua laughed. “Almost.”

Suddenly it all came rushing back to him. “I confessed,” he said with a blush. Joshua’s mouth gaped open a little. “Man, you said you struck out, but you weren’t exactly coherent. What happened?”

Seokmin groaned. “Well at first he didn’t remember me, again, then he felt me up. Then he wanted to take me upstairs but then he laughed at me and asked me if I had ever had a boyfriend. Then he told me he ‘wasn’t a ride for first timers’ and said I could come back when I had some experience.”

“Ugh,” Joshua said. “Really? I guess that’s over then….” He looked over at Seokmin and smiled then frowned. The look on the other’s face told him it wasn’t. “I still like him hyung,” he said, uncharacteristically quiet, as he rubbed his eyes. “What about you? You struck out as well,”

“Yeah. Jeonghan is dating the rapper but he said they aren’t really exclusive and he gave me his number anyway. I don’t know how I feel about it. They’re either together or they aren’t.” Joshua said. “It’s kind of weird, like, I’m not really here for that sort of thing. You know?” Even though they barely knew each other a sort of warm comfort surrounded them as they sipped their hangovers away in sweet caffeinated silence.

Once they were reasonably rehydrated they began to talk. Seokmin, loudly and animatedly, about his love for singing. Joshua, much more subdued, about his passion for the guitar and his dreams of being a songwriter. “Why so many visual art classes then?” Seokmin grinned and Joshua shrugged. “What sort of degree do you need to follow your passion?” This made Seokmin laugh too loud and he didn’t even notice. “We’re probably all going to  just end up working in coffee shops!” He squealed and Joshua joined in. He couldn’t help it. It was infectious.

“I should probably go, you know, overstayed my we