Eli woke to an incessant clacking noise. Getting to his feet, he looked over to see Yoseob messing with the coconuts. Yoseob smiled at him. “Good morning! I’m working on the coconuts…as you can see, but they won’t open.” His expression turned from cheerful to pouty, which made Eli blush. Yoseob was cute.    Yixing glanced at them, and did a double take when he saw that Yoseob was trying to crack open a coconut with a stick and rock. That was SO not going to work. “Hey, do you want that open? Sticks and stones are not going to do the trick.” He laughed. “Give me that.” Yoseob shrugged and handed it to him. Yixing took the coconut and threw it on the ground. After two more throws, it cracked open. Yixing picked it up with a smirk on his face.  Eli shook his head, impressed.   Yoseob grinned. “Thanks, Yixing. That was a good idea.” Yixing nodded. “It was common sense.” Yoseob chose not to reply, but simply began scooping out the fleshy fruit. When Eli started helping him, Yixing glanced at them and got up to do something else. He turned back to Yoseob. “That will dry best if you lay it out in the sun, by the way.” Yoseob smiled at him. “Thanks. I’ll do that.” Eli glanced at him. He liked the older boy’s attitude, and was beginning to think that he might be developing something beyond friendship. That was completely foreign to him, since he was interested in girls, and had never looked at another guy the way he looked at Yoseob. It was still baffling. Jonghyun walked up to Yoseob and Eli, glancing between the two. “Hey, would you guys like to go with me to cut some bamboo? We need it to make some…home improvements.” Yoseob glanced at Yixing, who was busy with the coconuts that he had taken over. The Chinese boy was lost in his own little world. “Sure! We’ll go with you.” He looked at Eli, who nodded.   The three of them set out to try and cut down some bamboo. They had found that it was very tough, but were going to make it work for them. Cutting down tree after tree, their muscles were aching within the hour. Yoseob couldn’t help watc