He wakes up to the feeling of fingers travelling lazily up and down his spine. The touch is soft and warm, soothing even, but it’s not the meow he gets every morning when the neighbor’s cat sneaks in his apartment to wake him up with her demanding ways. His eyes shoot open in panic.

He is greeted by the sight of a bare chest, with slightly tanned skin. He follows the toned contours of the body in front of him until he passes the collarbones and the beautiful neck. One glance at the face makes him turn away in embarrassment and hide his face in the pillow.

“Oh my god” his voice is muffled in the feathers.

“Good morning, princess” the man says in a sultry voice. Kyungsoo feels the blood rush to his face. Suddenly, he can recall every sinful moment from last night.

He wants to disappear.

“Good morning” he answers out of courtesy, lifting his head from the pillow slightly. He turns his eyes to the man seriously. The man is gorgeous, every bit of the devil smile that draws Kyungsoo in like a magnet. “What now?”

The man looks perplexed for a moment. “What do you mean?”

“I don’t know what to do now” Kyungsoo explains seriously. “I’ve never done this before, so…” he has the feeling he has said that too many times “You tell me: what do you want me to do?”

Should he gather his clothes and leave? Lock the door behind him and forget about it? Pretend nothing ever happened if he sees the man ever again? How do one-night-stands work? The smirk returns to the man’s face.

“I don’t know…What do you want to do?” he asks seductively and slowly leans forward. Do covers his lips with his hand quickly, much to other’s displeasure.

“I haven’t brushed my teeth” he explains behind his fingers. The man huffs gently and looks straight in his eyes.

“I don’t care” he retorts and Kyungsoo is so lost in the man’s dark eyes for a moment that he doesn’t notice his hand being pulled away and his lips being captured by the other’s mouth. The kiss starts slow, but then the man changes his position, getting up from his seat and hovering over him. The angle gives him better access and soon things deteriorate. Kyungsoo never thought he would be one of those people to give such kisses, and nipping at the other’s lips, but here he is, doing exactly that. He feels a knee pressing between his legs.

“I wouldn’t do that” he says breathlessly, pulling away, flushed.

“Why not?” the man continues playing with his lips on his ear “Playing with you is fun”

“This is getting out of hand” Kyungsoo sighs back and he hates his body for reacting to the man’s actions. He doesn’t even know him for more than a day! What’s wrong with you body? He is really not the type of person to do such things; he has always wanted steady, long term, committed relationships.

“Mmm…” the man murmurs and then pulls his lips away to look at Kyungsoo’s face. “Okay then. I bet you’re starving. I’ll make breakfast” with one quick peck on the lips, the man shifts and gets out of bed. Kyungsoo covers his eyes childishly while the man retrieves his pants. But seriously, after one peek at the man through his fingers, he wonders how he managed to find such a good looking person and bring him to bed.

“You really don’t have to do that…” he assures him, when the man has his pants already zipped, even though he is still not wearing a shirt. The man drops his hands on his sides and turns around with an expression half astonished and half disappointed.

“You don’t remember my name, do you?” he asks in shock. Kyungsoo remains silent.

Of course he remembers. He remembers everything from last night, including the name and how he called it over and over. The man moves quickly towards him and for a moment Kyungsoo thought he was going to be punched; but the man kisses him instead. The kiss is so thrilling that Kyungsoo’s head starts spinning, just like all the times when the man kissed him last night. He is close to losing all of his breath but he doesn’t want to pull away. The man pulls back first.

“Kai. My name is Kai” he reminds softly, looking at Kyungsoo with his warm eyes.

“I know” he mumbles blushing, and looks away. The other man pinches his chin between his index finger and thumb and turns his head to look at him in the eye.

“You do? Then why won’t you say it?” he challenges.

“Because I can’t; not after all the things I have linked it with in my thoughts” There, he said it. Kyungsoo is never the one to think too much about his words. The man’s eyebrows shoot up in surprise.

“Okay…” he muses “Then, how about you call me Jongin? Not many people call me that, but if it’s easier for you then I’m okay with it”

Kyungsoo blinks in surprise. Before he has gathered his thoughts enough to answer, he receives another peck on the lips.

“I’ll go make us breakfast, Kyungsoo”

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Kyungsoo comes through the door of the café hastily and searches the crowd for a moment. Baekhyun waves at him from a secluded table at the furthest back. It’s not a good table but it’s quiet and there weren’t many to choose from in the first place; it’s Sunday afternoon at a café, this should speak for itself.

Baekhyun fidgets with the napkins folded in front of him while he waits for Kyungsoo to march across the sea of happy couples, to take a seat across from him at the table. His business partner dumps his messenger bag on the floor unceremoniously and sits down quickly. He seems distraught.

Baekhyun feels nervous. Kyungsoo said he had something important to share and Baekhyun said likewise. He decided that Kyungsoo, as his business partner and as his friend, should know about the time Baekhyun spent with Park Chanyeol –not too much; just enough to ease his anxious worries about the future of their small company. Besides, his time with Chanyeol was irrelevant to business issues whatsoever.

But seeing Kyungsoo in person and remembering all the lectures from last week, Baekhyun is having second thoughts as to bringing up the subject.

“Okay, I need to tell you something important” Kyungsoo announces seriously in a low voice, opening his big eyes. The low voice is unnecessary; people have better things to discuss on a Sunday afternoon.  

“Me too” Baekhyun nods seriously, sitting up on his chair. “Who goes first?”

“Together on three?” Kyungsoo proposes and Baekhyun nods in agreement “One, two, three”

“Park Chanyeol spent last night in my house!”

“I slept with someone I only met last night!”

“What?!” they both ask in unison right after, gripping the sides of the table and looking at each other in shock and disbelief.

“Did you just say that the Park Chanyeol slept in your house last night? How on Earth did this happen? Wasn’t it raining cats and dogs?”

“Kyungsoo, what did you do? I thought you were the relationships-sort of person! Who is he? How did you meet him?”

“Okay, we need to get organized here” Kyungsoo notes seriously and Baekhyun agrees, taking the task upon himself.

“Okay, you go first. Who is he?” Baekhyun asks methodically.

“Um…his name is Jongin, Kim I think” Do admits, blushing slightly. Well that’s cute…No, wait, Baekhyun has a lecture to give, he must not be swayed.

“How old is he? Where did you meet him?”

“He is a bit younger than me and I met him at a club last night” at the sound of the information, Baekhyun gives Kyungsoo a disapproving look.

“How many times have we heard this from your mom since I met you? You don’t sleep around with just anyone; it’s not safe! Especially if you just met them!” he exclaims.

Baekhyun’s mother, living innocently on the country side, had no idea about down town clubs, but Do’s mother made sure to engrave her warning in both their heads when they were still in their first year of university.

“I know!” Kyungsoo squeals, making a desperate face “I don’t know what got into me! He was really hot, Baekhyun, and I am only human! But he wasn’t like that at all!” he defends quickly. He wasn’t like what?

“What do you mean? A stranger is still a stranger, right?” Baekhyun demands strictly.

“Yeah…B-but he is a really nice stranger! I mean, maybe we met under such circumstances, but he was really nice to me afterwards. And he is healthy, I checked” Kyungsoo assures him. Baekhyun’s eyebrows scrunch in confusion.

“You checked? How?” Oh, no, please let him not have-

“I asked him” Kyungsoo answers casually and Baekhyun face palms. Kyungsoo did it, he actually did it. “What?”

“Kyungsoo, people don’t just ask about these things!” Baekhyun has a feeling that it is really ridiculous to explain those things to a grown man. “For one thing, how can you be sure he is telling you the truth and, for another, it’s not polite to ask straightforward” he explains, exasperated with his friend.

“Well, he is a good person, so, I am sure he said the truth and he didn’t seem to take my question to heart” Kyungsoo defends. Baekhyun can see strong resistance building up in Do’s mind and he is sure he won’t admit anything reasonable right now, no matter what Baekhyun tells him. Well, he will continue being a strongly-opinioned minority later.

“What do you mean he was nice to you afterwards?” he asks, remembering his friend’s words earlier. Kyungsoo starts toying with the hem of his shirt.

“Well…we woke up and it wasn’t like what I expected; he was nice. I expected to be kicked out, insulted or find a note to lock the door on my way out, but he was there, he woke up with me and he kissed me good morning and then he made me breakfast. We chatted while eating and he was very friendly. He let me take a shower and then he walked me to the bus. Actually, he insisted that he drove me home, but I broke too many safety rules in one night, so I thought that my address was not something I wanted to share in that moment” Baekhyun rolls his eyes at Kyungsoo’s belated reasoning, but his friend ignores him.

“He kissed me before I got on the bus and he waited until the bus was gone. I am telling you, Baekhyun, it was not just a guilty one-night-stand; it was very romantic. It was se*y too, I won’t lie, but look: he even took my phone number on his own and promised he’d call me. I said I didn’t care much but he insisted that he wanted a date with me, a real date, like a couple! Things like that don’t happen every day; I don’t know what to do!” Kyungsoo buries his head in his hands. He is going through so many conflicting emotions right now. Baekhyun wants to pat him on the shoulder comfortingly, but he is sitting across the table.

“I’m sorry, Soo, I don’t think I can help you” he admits with a sigh.

After a few more moments of misery on Kyungsoo’s part and comforting silence from Baekhyun, the former lifts his head.

“Your turn” he deadpans. Oh boy, here we go. “I need you to distract me” Well, he will be distracted all right with what Baekhyun has to tell him.

“What do you want to know?” he asks innocently, as inconspicuously as he can. Maybe it would be unwise to simply drop the bomb on Kyungsoo, considering how he has been living his own drama during the last twenty four hours.

“How about you start at the beginning” Kyungsoo suggests with a hint of sarcasm, narrowing his eyes at Baekhyun. Ugh, there’s no way around it.

“Do you remember that old friend of mine, Lay?” Baekhyun asks, clearing his throat.

“That childhood friend of yours we met the other day? The one with the dimple? Sure…”

Okay, Baekhyun is saying this.

“He is working for the Park Corporation and he called last night because he needed to call in a favor; he asked that I had Park Chanyeol as a guest for one night” he says quickly and shrinks, waiting for some sort of angry response. Kyungsoo groans; and Baekhyun can’t blame him –he is well aware of his own social inadequacies at times. Thinking that this was all the expected reaction for now, he continues.

“His car broke down somewhere near my place, and it was raining, and he had nowhere else to go; I couldn’t leave him like that! So, he came over…” fast forward the awkward staring times on Baekhyun’s behalf “…and he slept on the couch. He woke up, we had breakfast and then he left”

Okay, that sounded conspicuously hurried and short; he should have thought it through more thoroughly.

“You made the Park Chanyeol sleep on your couch? Your couch is barely big enough for you to fit!” Kyungsoo accuses him. Baekhyun has a hope that he might get away with the suspiciously short description.

“I know…But he said he didn’t mind” he assures Kyungsoo. Chanyeol said that even the floor would have been fine. On second thought, is Baekhyun too naïve for believing him? Kyungsoo rolls his eyes.

“Okay, let’s pretend that I believe you…Now tell me: What was he like? Is he anything like the magazines depict him?” He can see Kyungsoo’s fan boy mode: on.

“I wouldn’t know. I haven’t read any magazines about him” Yet. Baekhyun is planning on doing that soon, especially after meeting Chanyeol in person, but he didn’t have the time to do it today.

“Come on! Is he funny and friendly? Is he smart and elegant? Well groomed, well behaved, kind, polite…Is he really that gorgeous in person? I need details!” Kyungsoo claps his hands in excitement and Baekhyun wonders for a moment if this is the same person who was desperate about his lover problems earlier.

“Um…” Baekhyun doesn’t want to get into details, he wants to keep them for himself; but that is childish. He should share his information with his best fan boy of a friend.

“He was very friendly, which I did not expect, given our first encounter –he didn’t even mention it, by the way, but I think he didn’t really mind my attitude then, so you can rest assured. I don’t know if he is smart in the way you mean it but he was very polite and funny, somewhat. We just talked about ourselves a bit, it was nothing much” Baekhyun tries to fight back his bashful smile and shrugs his shoulders.

“Oh my god, Baekhyun” Kyungsoo’s jaw drops in awe “You got to know to Park Chanyeol!”

“What? Get to know him? No way…” Baekhyun waves his hand dismissively.

“Yes way! You talked about yourselves? That is the definition of getting to know to someone! And not just any someone; you got Park Chanyeol!”

“I think you are making a big deal out of this” Baekhyun dismisses him, glancing around to make sure that not too many people are staring after hearing Chanyeol’s name.

It really wasn’t that much. They talked about their cooking abilities, their education in broad terms, a few of Chanyeol’s travels abroad, about a few movies…And then it was insignificant details that Baekhyun noted, like how Chanyeol gets sea sick inside a ship cabin, how he has always wanted a dog, and that he cried while watching lion king every single time when he was young. They chatted for a while over breakfast and then they found an old Disney movie playing on TV, so they watched that, until Lay came to pick up Chanyeol.

That is not getting to know to Park Chanyeol. Baekhyun is sure there is much more to the man than what they talked about to fill their awkward time together. Besides, why would Park Chanyeol want to reveal things about himself to someone like Baekhyun? It wasn’t like they will meet again…

“You’re impossible! I don’t know why this sort of good things keep happening to you, you don’t deserve them…Was he as good looking as he is in the pictures at least?” Kyungsoo asks, puffing his cheeks in disappointment at the lack of information.