“Oh, thank you?”

“You’re welcome, it was not a compliment though, it’s true, I think you hurt my arm.” A bigger smile crossed the thin and curious lips of the whitish and bright haired guy yet still his affected arm.

“Oh, then again… I’m sorry, I didn’t want to hurt you, well I mean yes, but no.”  Said the boy with the red hair while stretching his legs in the air and now sitting on the floor in order to see him properly.

Big was his surprise when he noticed that the guy that he tackled well… did not look like a Korean, Japanese or even Chinese at all; he had huge, beautiful brown eyes, long and flirty eyelashes, an unparalleled smile, his light skin and… Ah ah ah, MinSeok focus! The older mentally berated himself. How could that guy smile even if he was literally thrown to the floor by him?

“Do not worry.” He denied with his head as he stopped rubbing his arm and MinSeok wondered a thousand and more times why was he smiling, did he have something on his face? “Aren’t you going to tell me your name or should I ask again?”

“What?” He asked getting out from his thoughts world again blinking several times. “My name?”

“Yes, little one, I don’t think I’m talking to someone else than the one who tackled me, hahaha.” He laughed carrying on of his hands to his lips covering them

“Ahh… well I’m 20 so I’m not too little. But my name is MinSeok, despite the circumstances… I’m sorry for… ramming you… you know…” Said the shortest pointing his own arm completely embarrassed.

“20...? You are my age? Who…” He said still smiling making his eyes become two perfectly shaped half moons and slowly started to get up brushing his clothes with the arm that wasn’t wounded. “So nice to meet MinSeok, I’m LuHan. It was a pleasure to have been hit by you.” He teased extending a hand waiting for the oldest to take it in order to get up, thing that he did almost immediately slapping his jeans.

“Ah yeah, that, of course, sorry again, I… just didn’t want you to go hunting Chen, I know it’s something impulsive but-” MinSeok’s lips were covered by the finger of the boy with beautiful eyes, to be specific it was the index finger…  Does this LuHan guy can’t stop smiling or what?

“Don’t even mention it, you apologize a lot, do you know that? Stop doing it, it’s nothing what you did to my arm.” He lowered his face closing his eyes and  making his soft hair move a bit; somehow MinSeok swallowed hard seeing him with that adorable expression. Wait… adorable?

“Ah… well, I guess I should not apologize, your honor.” MinSeok joked lifting one hand to his forehead like a military soldier making the taller guy  look up at him, biting the corner of his lips and laugh again.

“MinSeok-ah, you’re very funny with your expressions, even when you tackled me down you were funny.” He said with a gentle voice not leaving his sight out of MinSeok.

“You think so?” MinSeok asked putting his hands on his pocket while the taller started to nod with his eyes closed, and he was going to take a step forward when…

“Ah!” LuHan had to retreat back into his former position because when he wanted to move his food he had cooked.

“LuHan-ah! Are you okay?” MinSeok saw his legs move immediately towards the guy and stretching one arm he grabbed his hip firmly to prevent him from falling, “Damn… I’m sorry, I’m sorr-“

“MinSeokkie,” Oh he called him ‘MinSeokkie’… First question… Who in their right mind called with a loving nickname a guy he just met? And second question… Why didn’t that bother him? “I told you is okay, it doesn’t matter, it’s not that bad, it doesn’t hurt much.” LuHan gave him a sweet smile, making the other swear that if it was not because the other was a man he definitely had melted.

“Alright, I will not apologize again. But you have to let me to take you to your dorm.”

“Eh? But I don’t live in the University.” LuHan looked to MinSeok blinking a few times with that gentle smile that he never got tired giving, leaning his head aside. “I live a few blocks… you could take me home.”

MinSeok stared for a few seconds; could this be a trap? How can this guy call him that way and still not cause any nuisance in MinSeok? And why the hell was he pouting his lower lip in that way so … Adorable? He nodded slowly looking at LuHan’s injured ankle. Well done MinSeok, you’ve done it again, reaching a new level of stupidity. Mentally he scolded himself mentally and accepted to go who knew where and also… Where the hell was Chen?

 

***

 

“Answer me, answer me…” With his hair perfectly trimmed back and his phone at the ear, SuHo waited for his call to be answered, more than one hour had passed since they accorded to meet up at the Arcade and maybe it was because he just realizes that two village guys in Seoul alone, all alone, would end up completely lost in the city.

“Hello?”

“Chen! I’m SuHo, where the hell are you?! We are waiting for you two! It’s been awhile since Beak made the ‘DanceDance Revolution’ his stage and I cannot handle KyungSoo rolling his eyes. Come now!”

“Ahhh… I’ve been attacked by a bunch of savage university students lead by this leader TheHun?”

“TheHun…?”

“SeHun.”

“Oh… I see, did they hurt you…? It’s a bad thing to get into trouble with him and his gang…”

“Oh yeah, I noticed that while having to hide on a hollow tree trunk at a park!”

“Are you still in there?”

“I got stuck.”

“I’m coming.”

“Well… I’m not going anywhere. Literally I’m stuck.”

 

***

 

“Told you to take the right path!”

“Okay, okay, I’m going!”

“MinSeokkie to the right, to the right!”

“It’s the first time that I´m playing; have a little mercy!”

The tune that means that that game is over sounds so MinSeok closed his eyes with a sigh, lifting the control with both hands as a sign of frustration. LuHan just looked at him and simply gave him a gentle nudge in his ribs.

“You weren’t that bad. You avoided the puddles of oil pretty well.” Said the taller watching the funny expression  of the older who left the control aside and gave him a smile back leaning his back at the edge of LuHan’s huge bed.

“Well, I was playing video games of this kind. You took my ity, LuHan-ah!” MinSeok exclaimed dramatically closing his eyes and biting his lower lip covering his chest, which made both of them to explode in laughter and fall back into the floor, patting each other.

“That kind of graphic description was not necessary.” LuHan exclaimed laughing and lying on the floor facing MinSeok. “Why haven't we met before?”

Well, that question had been very direct, both of them had their breathing a bit stirred yet and they were still lying on the ground when LuHan decided to drop that question. On his side MinSeok only raised his shoulder slightly and turned his eyes to the ceiling of the large room of the boy.

“I’m new at this University, I worked and studied a lot in order to enter with a full scholarship with my friend Chen… We moved here yesterday, maybe that’s why we’ve never seen each other before.”

“It’s a pity… I would like to have met you before.” MinSeok turned his face just to meet a LuHan with his cheeks slightly puffed and bright eyes, which made him smile.

“Things come at the right time and place; I think we’ve met at the right time.”

“I think the same.”  Both boys smiled without breaking their sight, when suddenly one of LuHan’s hands went to the other’s cheek, squeezing it gently with his fingers. “BaoZi.”

“Eh?”

“Your cheeks… are big and round and soft too. They seem like a BaoZi. I'll call you that from now on.”

“Baozi?” Asked with a slight tone of fun in his voice, listening to that word while he felt a warm hand on his cheek.

“It’s like a steamed bun filled with meat, just like your cheeks, soft, white and plump. BaoZi.” LuHan repeated looking at the guy with feline eyes… Even if MinSeokkie was an adorable nickname, it was the nickname that his mother gave him and now he had a new nickname ‘BaoZi’, and it was not a common nickname, it was a nickname that LuHan had put to him, a boy who… he just met.

“So my cheeks make you hungry?”

“A little.” He replied loosening the cheeks of a smiling MinSeok while sitting himself on the floor, thing that made the elder imitate him. Both finished standing on their tiptoes jumping a little for the emotion while applauding slightly. “I’ll go for a few drinks and some sweets, okay?”

“Oh! Of course, I adore sweets! I’ll be wai- LuHan…”

LuHan stopped immediately when he heard his name being called by the older.

“Haven’t you twisted your foot…?”

Uh oh…

“Em…”

“Hm…” LuHan looked at his ankle pressing his lips, severe seconds of silence, MinSeok did the same and… “Aish…Bàoqiàn.”

“Eh?”

“I’m sorry, BaoZi…” The tallest clenched his fists lowering his head ashamed thing that made MinSeok tilt his head slightly as if he was wondering with that action why was he apologizing because… WHY WAS HE APOLOGIZING!?. “I… faked that my ankle was injured because I wanted to know you more.”

Shock.

“E-Eh…?”

Again his puppy eyes, or deer, yes, it was certainly a deer look. A pout, bright eyes and face a little crouched and MinSeok felt that his knees trembled.

“I lied to you in order to know you more… I’m sorry, can you forgive me?”

He must be kidding. That had been the most stupid, ridiculous and … cute thing… that someone had done to approach him. Especially…

Cute.

 

***

 

“Yah… aren’t you going to talk me for real?”

“…”

“I’ve already told you I’m sorry, Jong.”

“CHEN!”

“Right!”

“Ah…” A sight of frustration came from the lips of Chen while rolling his eyes and deposited his sight on the oldest and crossed his arms. “You left me alone running and then you didn’t pick up my calls, MinSeo! How do you want me to be happy? I GOT STUCK IN A TRUNK AND YIXING AND SUHO HAD TO GET ME OUT! Because master BaekHyn didn’t want to break a fingernail and KyungSoo was too busy laughing at me.”

“Did you get st- HAHAHAHA.”

“Shut up.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me man!”

“That’s not going to make me to stop being mad at you. You left me at the mercy of the idiot of TheHun and his small group of idiots.” He said sitting into his bed with his arms crossed while MinSeok tightened his lips and looked at him with raised eyebrows. “What were you doing yesterday?”

“Well…” MinSeok looked away taking one of his hands to his other arm rubbing it. “I tried to stop one of them… I knock him into the floor, to be exact.” Chen looked at the oldest with great surprise and a big smile painted on his lips, but, before MinSeok could say something again, Chen had already stood up from his bed and he had placed his hands on the shoulders of the shortest.

“It’s alright I forgive you because you tried to protect me.”

Problem. How could he tell him… that he tried but he had met instead a person of that group of ‘idiots’ who  was not that ‘idiot’ but he was kind of an ‘idiot ’for being with those ‘idiots’?

“A-Ah well yeah…”

“That’s what friends do, friends defend and protect each other, that’s the rule of friendship. No wonder why you’re my best friend.”

Ouch.

“H-Haha, of course of course, always right?” MinSeok rolled his eyes down closing his eyes and arching his eyebrows cursing million times while Chen let him go and walked to his closet.

“Then why did you arrive about 9pm yesterday? You could have answered your phone.” Chen said nonchalantly pulling out a couple of shirts to try them.

“Well… I … Went to a bar for a while.” Lie. “I drank a little.” Lie. “I met a cute girl and that’s it.” And lie, lie, lie.

“Oh~ the big cheeks guy seems to have a girlfriend.” Sang in an annoying way and smiling while pulling out his shirt he took one new and started to button it up.

“No, not much. So… we will go to a special place today?”

Chen´s gaze drifted on MinSeok direction while smirking he fixed his shirt collar with a raised eyebrow, thing that made MinSeok feel a little intimidated.

“We are going to Planet, the most famous club in Seol. Our YiXing has invited us so get ready and forget that girl that you met at the bar. This night we are going to meet cute ladies.”

 

***

 

“20?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t think I can let him enter, I think it’s fake.”

“It’s real, It’s my ID.”

“Yes but-“

“I am 20 and not 14!”

The security guard surprised stepped back letting MinSeok enter the club with Chen, collecting their ID’s for entry to that club.

Lights, loud music, people dancing, colors, drinks, rhythm, girls. There was everything. The place was furnished perfectly, it looked modern, cool, classy, definitely that left the couple of villager boys shocked with their mouths open while muttering a “Woah…” With their eyes very open they let their sight go to the bar where there was a smiling YiXing, a moderate KyungSoo, a lively (and they dared to say a little ‘seasoned’ for not saying ‘slightly drunk’) SuHo, and … Wait, BaekHyun was not there.

“We were afraid that you were stuck in a trunk.” KyungSoo and his magnificent sense of humor. Chen just faked a smile that made them explode into laughter.

“Ha ha ha… Well, this place is amazing; I had never been in a club especially one of this category.” Chen told them while MinSeok was looking around with wide open eyes.

“Oh yes, XiXing parents have a club chain in China and this is the first one they had opened in Korea.” SuHo took a little more of that phosphorescent blue drink smiling. Both of the guys could have sworn it was radioactive.

“YiXing, SuHo-ah, YiXing.” The Chinese guy repeated his name while SuHo laughed awkwardly while absorbing a little more of that drink and KyungSoo rolled his eyes again which made MinSeok think that if someone gave him a dollar each time KyungSoo rolled his eyes, possibly he would be rich.

“The princess.” KyungSoo said now starting to drink a little of his coke, because despite him being 18, he said he preferred to stay away from addictive things. And it was like that. A sweaty BaekHyun with more eyeliner than usual and tousled hair appeared. He was wearing a tank top and neck 'V', his smile was more than big and both Chen and MinSeok had to admit that despite the sweat, he looked radiant.

“Guys, guys! Hey here!” BaekHyun shouted running towards them his lips because of the excitement and not caring about anything he ended up hugging both of them by the neck with each arm. “I thought you weren’t going to came so I advanced!”

“O-Oh I can see that.” MinSeok let out a funny chuckle looking the latter from head toes. “I like what you are wearing, Baekkie.”

“What?”

“I said I like what you are wearing!”

“WHAT?”

“I SAID I LIKE WHAT YOU ARE WE- Bah, forget it!”

Everyone laughed upon hearing that, even BaekHyun, which approached without any restriction to KyungSoo and took his glass of Cola that he had been drinking, finishing it. Which made a very angry and expressionless KyungSoo despite everything; look at him with his doe eyes that denoted threat, but BaekHyun didn’t even flinch; telling the truth; he didn’t even look at KyungSoo.

“Did you find any cute boys?” YiXing asked quietly making that typical dimple to draw in his cheek as Baek made a pout and denied with his head.

“No… all of them are dancing with girls and the ones that ask me to dance… are not my style. You know I’m not that easy.” BaekHyun said inflating his cheeks and crossing his arms like a spoiled child.

“He will come.” Repeated YiXing nodding with his head taking one of his hands to Baek’s hair, to fix his wet bang because of his sweat and the bubbles of the place, taking off those damp hairs from his forehead and blowing a bit to give him some freshness.

Hell, if it wasn't that YiXing was like that with everyone, Chen and MinSeok would definitely have thought that they had something because of that sweet way that they always talk.

“JoonMyun hyung, Can you buy me a coke? I think that a rude kid stole mine.” However BaekHyn didn’t hear the ‘pun intended’ of KyungSoo because of two things: YiXing and the music that was horribly loud.

“JoonMyun?” Repeated the guy with tortoiseshell glasses and raising an eyebrow, giving him a very confused look to SuHo.

“A-Aish I told you to call me SuHo.”

“Wait a second… YOUR NAME IS NOT SUHO?!” MinSeok and Chen repeated together while KyungSoo smiled forming a heart with his lips and SuHo laugh slyly because of the alcohol.

“Of course not. My name is Kim JoonMyun but SuHo is-“

“Is the name that you gave to yourself.” KyungSoo completed the phrase between chuckles making SuHo to give him a bad look.

“Well, that is right.” He said laughing again asking the barista, with his hand, to approach to give the coke to the kid.

“HA, I TOLD YOU I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE!” Chen exclaimed pointing to MinSeok rubbing into his face that fact.

“Hahahahaha.”

Everyone laughed when SuHo turned to talk to the barista and then he looked at his friends while BaekHyun approached again to YiXing and took a seat next to KyungSoo.

“SuHo hyung, I want some water, buy it for me!” SuHo accepted smiling, wow, this guys saw SuHo as a kind of vending machine. But KyungSoo had already explained to Chen and MinSeok that it was because entering the University SuHo had problems relating with people and because they had been best friends, they had a very strong relationship based in trust. Eventually, they used to buy things for each other and it was normal for them to ask anything. For example, when they were going to eat noodles the one who always payed was YiXing, at the clubs, SuHo; at the supermarket, KyungSoo and when it was about ice cream, BaekHyun; everything was perfectly calculated in this reciprocal relationship, although an occasional time, thanks to the comfortable position of SuHo’s family, he ended up insisting to buy them things.

“Please you guys.” Said the boy with angelic smile while the barista left different colored drinks on the table for everyone, while KyungSoo and BaekHyun searched with their gaze the coke and the water.

“O-Omona SuHo-ah, thank you!” Exclaimed an excited MinSeok stretching his arms and taking that drink on his hands, so stylized, so bright and radioactive, their first exotic alcoholic drink, because they had tried beer before but it was not something they liked so much. “Hm…! It tastes sweet!”

“And alcoholic.” Chen sentenced his lips with that feline smile that he used to have. Both of them very smiley started taking those drinks as YiXing did the same and SuHo went for his third round.

“It will definitely be a special night, are you ready to dance?” YiXing asked tilting his head and everyone just exclaimed ’Yes!’ except for KyungSoo that was focused on his coke and with the straw on his lips.

 

***

 

“I swear it will be fun!”

“ChanYeol, you are dragging me to a club, and I’m not the type of guy to go to that kind of clubs.”

“Yah… JongIn-ah, you are a great dancer, clubs must be you natural habitat!”

Two guys, one extremely tall and the other a little tall. Tan skin, piercing eyes and tousled brown hair, Kim JongIn, Artistic Dance and Contemporary dance student at the Seoul National University; and Park ChanYeol, journalism student, known as ‘one of the towers of the University’ for it’s enormous size.

“You talk about me as if I were an animal. Alright alright, let’s go. If it wasn't that it´s Planet I wouldn’t accompany you, Channie.”

“Thanks JongIn-ah.” A really huge smile painted on his lips while the tan skin guy shooked his head also smiling as they came to that place and clashed with that fresh and at the same time heated environment, colorful, hectic and perfect.

JongIn smirked giving a whistle seeing a blond haired girl that passed in front of him; and he winked patting on ChanYeol shoulder.

“Yah, Channie, see you later, I found something fun to play with. See you soon.”

“Eh-?” And before he could turn around, JongIn was not there and he was all by himself. “Stupid JongIn…”

Whispered the tall boy with light brown hair as he got his hands, somehow disappointed, to his pockets and slightly puffing his cheeks started walking at the place a little distracted. Stupid JongIn, where was the ‘Bros before ’ thing? He snorted again crestfallen. That was definitely something that he was not expecting…

“Stupid JongIn…”

 

 

A/N: First of all, thanks to my Betas theonewholovesmocha and burnyoutwice yet again for helping me to translate this fic to english. Hey, guys I reaaally love you are all subscribing to my fanfic, but I'd really love to see what you think about my fanfic, you know you all can comment down there, right?... That's a good way to keep me wanting to keep translating it since I have it until chapter 11. So... thank you for reading babies.