Jongin’s POV

Waiting backstage of Music Bank

YESSSSSSS!

Finally.

COUPLE WEAR!

Kyungie and I were wearing the same shirt!

Well, not exactly the same, but couple wear nonetheless!

How did I manage to achieve that? Let’s just say a lot of begging and bribery were involved in the process of convincing the stylist team to let Kyungie and I wear the same top. Just the top. They had refused to put us in completely identical stage customers.

But I was satisfied.

Absolutely satisfied.

Beyond satisfied.

Especially when I watched Kyungie step out of the dressing room with the couple shirt on as the one I was wearing. Ever since that couple outfit with Baek, I had been trying my hardest to up that incident. What a better way than to do it on national television!

Kyungie, well, he was less than amused but at least he didn’t complain.

I was bouncing away in the waiting room while he was completely offhand about it, speaking to my mom over the phone about the boys. Having been dressed before going to the recording studio, loads of fans were present to capture us entering the KBS building. And judging by all those big professional cameras they were carrying, it was inevitable that photos were be taken! Oh the glee! Hopefully fans could put two and two together and make the connection. That should put some of his male fans off, even before the live broadcast of our performance.

Now, standing in the dark secluded backstage of the Music Bank stage, I watched the audience from the darkness that hid me from their sight. Their excitement levels were so high that it pumped our energy as well and I was excited to get on stage to perform. Kyungie walked up to stand beside me and looped his arm around my waist. Naturally, I placed my hand over his shoulders and caressed his neck with the tips of my fingers.

“Feeling better? Your waist and leg?”

I nodded. I was instructed to wear a knee brace for the rest of our performance to prevent further aggravation to my old injuries. Which suited me fine, because it kind of matched the theme for our wolf concept.

“So you finally got what you wanted, huh?” He peered at me from the side of his eyes, which were twinkling with amusement.

“Yup! But it would have been better if my hair matched yours as well.”

He burst out laughing. “That would’ve been too obvious, Jongin ah.”

“I want it to be obvious. It wasn’t a joke when I said that your popularity amongst males was rocket high.” I pouted slightly.

He reached up to lightly ruffle my hair, without messing up the styling. “You’re the only one for me. You know that.”  He placed one hand on my chest, the corners of his eyes crinkling with the lovely smile that lit up his face.

I had to smile too.

I was smiling yesterday. I was smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.

At that moment, the crowd long forgotten, I realised that I loved this man standing beside me to that extent that my heart would burst with love if it could. He was my dream. He made who I was and holding him with my arms swung over his shoulders was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. Even now, as I stood beside him, I could only think about him. There could never have been another.

I leaned down and looked at his puzzled face as he wondered what I was about to do.

And then, I kissed him, soft and true on his lips.

In front of the staff members. In front of cameras though none was pointed in our direction.

I belatedly hoped that the darkness hid us from anyone’s sight.

As I drew back, I saw him touch his mouth with his fingers with a stunned look on his face. He made a sound like a choked laugh as his cheeks slowly became overspread with the deepest blush. He was absolutely startled, and for a moment seemed to be immoveable from surprise. His knees seemed to turn watery as he sank deeper against my chest for support, his lungs still hitching from the sensations I ignited within him. But shortly, he recovered himself and turned to look at me.

“What are you doing?!” he whispered with much urgency, “What if people saw?!” His voice sounded as if it belonged to someone else, faint and far away.

“They didn’t. Don’t worry. They can’t see us here in the dark.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yup. Did you like it?” I asked mischievously with a tiny smirk.

“Like it? Hell no…” He paused as his face flushed once again, “I… I loved it.”

I threw my head back and let out a bark of laughter.

And then it was our turn on stage.

The energy from the audience, or more from my daring mini make out session with Kyungie earlier, had me all pumped up and the adrenaline flowed freely through my veins. As I sneaked a peek at Kyungie while we were performing, I saw that he too was very pumped up for the performance and I couldn’t help but smile to myself.

Nice to know that I still had the ability to make him blush with just a simple kiss.

Then he did the unexpected. Or expected, judging by how high he was from our kiss.

Watching from the side-lines, I had to laugh. As silently as I could since the microphones were still switched on.

 

 

During his solo part, he made the hand gesture of two wolves kissing.

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Kyungsoo’s POV

It was completely impromptu.

Totally unplanned.

Evidently, the kiss that Jongin planted on my lips just a few minutes ago was still on my mind.

Even while dancing, all I could think about was that kiss. It was just a kiss, for goodness sake. It wasn't as if we had not kissed before! In fact I could not for the life of me remember the last time we lasted a day without kissing.

Then why was that kiss still replaying over and over again my mind?

The way his jawline showed as he dipped his head made my breath caught; I knew he meant to kiss me. In public, for goodness sake! Jongin had attempted all sorts of skin ship in public like hugs and his naughty hand on my neck but never ever a real jointing of lips. Not even quick pecks on the cheeks. All lip service was kept strictly behind closed doors.

But when his face blurred my vision earlier, I seemed to lose all ability to think rationally. His breath, sweet with the scent of the recently consumed energy bar (from my bag, as usual), wafted over my cheeks. I didn't know what to do; I didn’t even think we were supposed to act like that, not in front of the crowd, not in public. But he wasn't asking for my permission. He moved in with easy certainty, tipping my head just so his lips settled lightly over mine. At the contact, all the breath rushed from my lungs. His mouth caressed mine like warm satin. My eyes drifted closed. My hands found anchor on the front of his shirt, fingers clutching a bit frantically at the similar ‘couple’ T-shirt that he was wearing as a delicious tingling sensations swirled deep into my core.

Right now, in the middle of performing, I could almost feel his lips still on mine, with all the sensations still tingling within me. It was where he did it that was shocking. Combined with his constant efforts to show the world, or maybe just my male fans, that I was his and his alone.

So I did something impromptu.

When it was my turn to sing, the moment I felt the camera turn on me, I used my hands and mimicked two wolves kissing each other.

On the lips.  

At the back of my head, a small part of me did wonder if the fans would notice but the bigger part of me simply didn’t care.

When the performance was over, I felt Jongin’s hand on my back almost immediately as we headed off the stage. His eyes were bright with laughter and amusement and we burst out laughing the moment our eyes met.

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Jongin’s POV

That night

It had been such a great day that we wanted to end it with something that we both thoroughly enjoyed.

A night walk in the park with the twins.

As we were strapping the twins to our chest getting ready, Yeollie asked if Baek and he could tag along. Though surprised by the sudden request, we handed Jungwoo over to Baek while I continued to carry Dongwoo and the six of us went for a stroll in the park.

In the park, we walked in threes. Me, Kyungie and Dongwoo, while Yeol, Baek and Jungwoo followed behind. I wrapped my hand around Kyungie’s and intertwined our fingers. He leaned his head slightly on my shoulder and peered at the sleeping baby attached to the chest.

“They are growing up so fast, Jongin ah.”

He was right. The twins were already sitting up all by themselves and even learning to fall forward on their hands to catch themselves. They fall to the side sometimes but then just roll over to get on their hands and knees. They were growing so fast that I was certain that crawling was just around the corner and soon Kyungie and I would be chasing about some speedy babies.

“I know.”

The cool summer night breeze swept along our skin as we walked slowly in the park, just enjoying being in the company of one another. Then, I sneaked a peek at the behind us and saw Baek crinking his neck to study Jungwoo’s face and beaming a bright smile. Chanyeol, too, had his eyes glued to the bouncing baby who was way too excited to fall asleep unlike his brother.

“They will be good parents, you know. I can tell.”

“Ha. Says the one who fed our child lemons for his own entertainment. Maybe we should encourage them to spend more time for the twins. You know, like training for the time when their own baby arrives.” He thought about it for a second. “We could get them more involved in the feeding maybe. Or the diaper changing, I would be most eager to let them do that. Especially Yeollie.”

I laughed. Baek had been helping out a lot with caring for the twins but Yeollie’s involvement had mainly been just playing with them. “I have been working on Yeollie lately.”

“Really?” There was a hint of surprise in his voice.

“Yup. I’ve been trying to prepare him for the sudden increase in responsibility in the event that Baek got pregnant.”

“Well? Is it working?”

“I hope so.”

I had been making the effort the past few days to drill into his happy-go-lucky mind that having a baby was not all fun and games. It came with responsibilities and many many sleepless nights. I had been noticing the subtle difference in his actions. The way he treated Baek seemed to imitate the way I treated Kyungie. Plus he was starting to take ore initiatives to be involved with the twins. Requesting to tag along was possibly his idea as well. It gave me hope that my words had not fallen on to deaf ears.

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Chanyeol’s POV

Watching Jungwoo gurgle happily in the baby carrier strapped to Baek’s chest, I couldn’t help but smile. Then my attention turned to Baek whose full attention was focussed on entertaining the giggling energetic baby. And my heart swelled with pride. He had what it took to be a good parent.

In that moment, I felt what it was like to be truly part of a family, completed with a child. It was a heady, wonderful feeling, just as I expected. There was only one fly in my ointment now: the inescapable fact that I might not be as ready to be a father as Baek was.

Not in the sense of my heart and soul. I yearned for a child with Baek with all my heart and honestly could not wait for that day to come.

But I was not ready on terms of the knowledge and skills that I sorely required to be a father.

For the first time in my life, I wanted to be serious ad do things the right way. Parenthood wasn’t a joke that I could play around with like the many other things in my life. Jongin had been drilling that into my head ever since we voiced out intentions to Kyung and him.

Watching Baek and Jungwoo today just reaffirmed his words.

Having a baby didn’t start when one found out that he or she was pregnant. We couldn’t, no, shouldn’t wait until the doctor told us that we were going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. Whatever we were, whatever we did, our baby would get it. Anything we ate, even any worries that were on our minds would be for him or her.

A new wave of determination swept over.

I will keep us healthy and happy so that our baby, when it comes, will be healthy and happy as well. My priorities took a 180 degree turn. Computer games and catching up with friends now took a backseat to caring for Baek and our future together.

Our future.

Together.

I liked the sound of that.

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