Sanghyuk opened his eyes and stared at the white-grayish-ceiling across him. He thought about what happened yesterday and sighed in frustration.

The young male rolled over to his small nightstand, ignoring Jaehwan’s whines and attempts to pull him back to the older male’s embrace. They shared a bed, something they used to do before Jaehwan moved out to the university dorm, and Jaehwan would always hug and sing him to sleep. To Sanghyuk, it didn’t really matter (though his friends at school would probably laugh at him and call it a brother complex)

Sanghyuk took the sheet of paper in his hands. The only numbers that were still seen were a nine and a two. He sighed before putting the paper back again. Carefully, he sat up, as he didn’t want to wake Jaehwan, and walked over to the bathroom. After washing himself up and brushing his teeth, he walked back to the main room.

Opening his drawers, he took out a simple black-white striped shirt and a pair of dark-blue shorts. He threw a jacket around his shoulder (which was probably Jaehwan’s as it was a bit too small) and went out, not forgetting his keys of course.

Sanghyuk walked over to Taekwoon and Hakyeon, knocking lightly, because he wasn’t sure if they were awake yet. When he heard a “who is it?” Sanghyuk smiled and answered loudly.

The door opened almost immediately, revealing Hakyeon, who was still wearing his pajamas and had his hair all messy, sticking in every direction. Sanghyuk chuckled, before mumbling “Good morning” to the older, bowing slightly.

Hakyeon made him come in and led him over to the main room, where two beds were standing. Taekwoon was sitting on his bed, drinking coffee while reading a book. Sanghyuk greeted him, before sitting down on Hakyeon’s soft bed.

“Is there something you want?” Hakyeon asked him while taking a sip of his banana-milk. Sanghyuk nodded. “I want to go to the beach later. With everyone”

Hakyeon gave him a suspicious look and also Taekwoon raised an eyebrow in question, but Sanghyuk ignored it though, and after the two agreed, he left the hotel-room with a quick “I am going to wake Jaehwan-hyung then” The youngest walked back into his apartment opening the door with his keys. Jaehwan was still sleeping, when he took a glance into the main-room and Sanghyuk smirked before running over to his brother, jumping on top of him.

The older squirmed at the heavy body above him and started whining. Not that it bothered Sanghyuk though. He kept lying on his brother, till he was pushed off. Being the mean younger brother he is, Sanghyuk jumped on the older once again, laughing at his brother’s misfortune “What the…! Hyuk! I was trying to sleep!”  The younger laughed though, when Jaehwan had that played painful-expression on him. “..You little– AHH! That’s my precious arm! Idiot! GET OFF ME IMMEDIATELY” Sanghyuk had playfully sat down on the older male’s upper body, when Jaehwan started screaming his lungs out. The younger kept laughing, but finally got off his brother, when Jaehwan started looking really, really angry.

Jaehwan got up. He was still frowning, though Sanghyuk had apologized the 6^th time now.

“I will never, ever in my life share a room with you again” “I said I am sorry!” “I still hate you though.”  “Stop sulking.” “…hmpf” “Hyung, I already told you I am sorry~!” “I told you the whole time it was hurting and you kept pressing down. You are heavy, you know!”

Sanghyuk laughed. Jaehwan sulked.

Silence

Sanghyuk knew he had to do something now, had to say something to cheer the older up again, because a sulking Jaehwan is the worst Jaehwan you can meet in life. He thought about calling Taekwoon, but the thought, that it probably won’t change that much, because literally nobody can change him in this kind of situation, he decided to take his trump card.

Food

Sanghyuk wasn’t lying when he tells, that Jaehwan is probably the biggest eater he has ever seen (even he himself doesn’t eat that much).

The younger of them sighed, breathed in first, before looking at his brother again. Sanghyuk scooted closer to his brother, hugging him from the back and nestling his face in his neck He pitched his usual deep voice higher and mumbled cutely “Oh come on~ Stop sulking~ I will treat you to some really delicious prawn-dish at the restaurant near here, ok?” He smiled at his brother, not forgetting to strum his eyelashes tons of times.

Jaehwan sighed annoyed, but Sanghyuk noticed at the way the older’s shoulders sank and the way he was acting, that he had already won this game. The older nodded defeated and gave the younger a reassured smile, before ruffling his hair. “Ok, I‘ll forgive you… but remember the treat, ok?”

Sanghyuk nodded eagerly, before pulling his brother up and shoving him to the bathroom. Jaehwan stood there, still a bit sleepy, while Sanghyuk walked over to the drawers to get the older clothes to change. When he closed the bathroom door - after he had handed the older the clothes - he turned around. “Later we are going to the beach, ok? I asked Hakyeon and Taekwoon-hyung about it already. They agreed” It took the older a while to response (though Sanghyuk knew that the older would agree to 100%) and Sanghyuk smiled, thinking about the next meeting with the brunette.

Well, what did you think? Sanghyuk actually proposing to go to the beach together?

As if. He hasn’t sunken that low yet

Sanghyuk was humming to an old song, Jaehwan used to sing back then very often, when Hakyeon and Taekwoon knocked, saying they had packed everything already, only waiting for the two to come as well and Sanghyuk nodded, but pointed at the bathroom, answering that Jaehwan probably fell asleep while changing his clothes, but laughed afterwards, reassuring the two oldest that he was only joking and that his brother was just taking his time, as usual.

Taekwoon nodded, while Hakyeon went over to the bathroom, banging against the white door, shouting, that Jaehwan should hurry the up and that they didn’t have enough time to wait till he had finished jerking himself off. It was a joke though, but Jaehwan immediately opened the door, head all red, whining he hadn’t done that and that it just takes a long time to do his hair and Hakyeon should chill up, because he was just woken up by a gigantic dinosaur. (With Dinosaur he surely meant Sanghyuk, because Jaehwan often says that Sanghyuk looks like one, to which the younger only response with “At least I don’t look like a lost puppy!” And Jaehwan only laughs, saying looking like a puppy is way better than looking like a ing dinosaur)

They all laughed and Hakyeon had to pet Jaehwan’s head in apology, saying it was really only a joke and that he didn’t really mean it, when he talked about and stuff. Jaehwan was still embarrassed and felt intimated though…

An hour after the incident in their hotel-room, the 4 men walked out. Finally, it took Hakyeon a while to get Jaehwan back to his usual lively and playful self again and Sanghyuk had kept laughing the whole time, as he knew, that Jaehwan was only acting, waiting for Hakyeon to really apologize to him, without chuckling or cracking a bad joke.

Hakyeon pointed at a shady place a bit farther from the water and Jaehwan chirped, running towards it, as if it was a present or something. Hakyeon ran after him, while Taekwoon and Sanghyuk walked slowly behind. Sanghyuk didn’t want to spend his energy on running on the hot sand, so he kept walking behind Taekwoon, who gave him some shadow.

Sanghyuk thought, he kind of liked Taekwoon.

Jaehwan was laughing like a hysterical kid, when the other two arrived and as soon as Taekwoon and Sanghyuk put their bags down and Hakyeon spread the towels out, he sprinted down all the way down to the water and jumped in. Sanghyuk immediately ran after him, because that idiot called brother couldn’t swim for god’s sake and had forgotten it once again. Jaehwan was standing in the water that reached till his waist and he was waving at Sanghyuk playfully as if nothing was wrong.

Sanghyuk pulled him back to the sand in one go to which the older replied with a “Why do you look so angry?” that innocent look making the younger cringe. “…BECAUSE YOU CAN’T SWIM, GOD DAMMIT!” Sanghyuk scolded him, earning some weird looks from the family of 5 which was passing them.

 The older of the two brothers pouted, but silently walked after Sanghyuk back to their towels, where Taekwoon and Hakyeon were already waiting, sending worried and concerned glances between the two of them. Sanghyuk scoffed and grabbed the towel to dry his shirt that got wet from jumping after his brother. Jaehwan quietly sat down next to Taekwoon, thanking him silently, when the older handed him a dry towel.

The atmosphere was tense, as Sanghyuk stood still for the whole time, grumbling things like “Why is he so dumb?” and “Next time I should just let him drown” and Jaehwan started pouting and felt intimated again. He had seen Sanghyuk angry before, but not this angry that the younger would talk about him in this way.

Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, Sanghyuk started shrieking and he ran over to Hakyeon to hide his body behind him He didn’t answer, when Hakyeon send him a confused look and only mumbled “Just be quiet…!” Jaehwan and Taekwoon looked over to Sanghyuk, then to the other side of the beach, where Sanghyuk had been looking at the whole time, and Taekwoon chuckled softly, as Jaehwan snorted, when they saw the handsome male from the day before.

Sanghyuk glanced at them, brought his finger up to his mouth to shush them. Hakyeon was still confused; he wasn’t with them the day before, and therefore he just looked between the two laughing males next to him. The youngest’ face flushed red, when Jaehwan jokingly said “S-Sanghyuk”, imitating his words from yesterday. Sanghyuk smacked his brother, who squirmed at the sudden action and shushed him.

The four of them stopped talking, when someone passed them. And that someone was the oh-so-familiar male.

Today, he was wearing a blue, checkered shirt that was ed a bit, his collarbones showing and a pair of dark-red swimming trunks: His hair was styled to the right, a pair of sunglasses lying on his soft locks. Sanghyuk had already started drooling, when Hakyeon shrieked, as the younger’s saliva was staining his shirt.

But the handsome male wasn’t alone; Next to him, there was a blue-turquoise-haired male, who was slightly taller. But not that Sanghyuk actually cared about that guy. He scoffed quietly, when that so called friend, put his hand over the brunette’s shoulder, pulling them closer, to which the brunette replied with a smile.

Sanghyuk clutched on his towel.

“Are you ok? …Sanghyuk?” Hakyeon mumbled while backing off a bit, since he was slightly scared at the younger’s reaction. Jaehwan smirked. “Of course he is! Right, Hyukkie?”

“Of course I am” The youngest hissed back.

They sat in silence. Hakyeon had lied down on his towel, relaxing soundlessly. (Jaehwan kept teasing him with “Hyung, you are already tan enough, go back to the shadow and Hakyeon cursed at him, saying his skin-tone is beautiful like this and Jaehwan should stop complaining, at least he doesn’t look like a half-death doll) Taekwoon and Jaehwan were playing volleyball (Taekwoon had won for the 8^th time now) and Sanghyuk was sitting next to Hakyeon, eyeing the brunette ‘secretly’.

Said male was sitting almost next to them, lying on his stomach, reading a book (Sanghyuk identified the title as ’50 shades of grey’; though he had never heard of that book before #LifeOfAMinor) while that other male, his ‘friend’ was sitting next to him, writing something on a notebook.

Sanghyuk was once caught staring at them, when the other male looked up from his writings.

They looked at each other for quite a long time, when Sanghyuk finally turned away, because the male started speaking to the lying brunette.

“Sanghyuk…?”

The said male was brought back to reality, away from his panic-attacks, when a hand took hold of his shoulder.  It was the brunette from yesterday and Sanghyuk immediately breathed in, forgetting to breathe out again, as he was too overwhelmed by the situation.

The brunette looked directly in his eyes and Sanghyuk had to control himself from not squealing at that innocent look. They stood in that position for a moment, Sanghyuk sitting cross-legged, left hand on the towel, the other one on the brunette’s arm, The other male kneeling in front of him, his hand on Sanghyuk’s trembling shoulder.

Taekwoon, Jaehwan and Hakyeon had looked up from their activities, smirking, when Sanghyuk’s ears got bright red. Sanghyuk could hear the whispers behind him, which came from his brother and Hakyeon: “Who is that?” “Sanghyuk’s crush” “What…!” “Yep, he even got his number” “Wait, Sanghyuk is…?” “Yeah he doesn’t look that gay though, right?”  “Well, Taekwoon looks surely straight though” “You think so? The way he is acting around guys makes it pretty readable…” “How do you know?” “I have been stalking him, what do you think?” “Wait, Jaehwan, can we go back to the topic?” “Oh, yeah” “So, that guy… is Sanghyuk’s lover…? What is his name?” “Dunno, they met like   yesterday” “Then you don’t call it a lover or crush, it’s only-“

Sanghyuk ignored them at the end though, as he was too focused on the scenery in front of him. On the beautiful scenery in front of him.

“…Yeah?” He finally answers, looking up to match their eyes.

The brunette in front of him coughed, pulling his hand away from Sanghyuk’s shoulder. “Well, my friend had asked me if I knew you, because you kept staring at me… and he said you should stop looking” Sanghyuk blushed at the kind of harsh comment that escaped the handsome male’s lips.

He looked over to the brunette’s friend, who only raised an eyebrow at him, before looking back to his papers again.

Just, then Sanghyuk noticed the bare chest in front of him. Well, they were at a beach, it was normal to wear nothing but swimming trunks (as a guy) but Sanghyuk couldn’t help but stare at those muscles and sharp lines. He gulped.

The brunette in front of him noticed his nervousness and backed off a bit, before starting to talk again.

“You… I… yesterday, I gave you my number, right?”

It hit him again: The number.

The sheet of paper was still in his pocket, but he didn’t dare to take it out, nor wanted to tell the Adonis in front of him, that he, Han Sanghyuk, had lost his number from his sweaty hands. Never. Sanghyuk gulped again, his forehead starting to sweat from the nervousness.

He should tell the brunette… he will understand, right?

But, wait, who in this world would give his number to some stranger twice…?

Sanghyuk looked up again and smiled awkwardly at the brunette, who was looking at him patiently. “Well, your number…. I…” He scratched his neck slowly, thinking about any possibly excuse he could use now, which was believable and doesn’t sound weird (like that time in middle school, when he told his teacher that his mother had choked on a fork while trying to eat rice and he had to take his mother to the hospital on his back. Jaehwan thought it was a brilliant idea, his classmates laughed, but the teacher wasn’t that happy about it)

“I… I lost the paper unfortunately”

He could hear Hakyeon face-palming behind him and how Taekwoon was chuckling (Which was probably the only thing the older could do: Chuckle like an idiot for the whole day)

The brunette in front of him didn’t really seem to trust him and after some seconds of biting on his bottom lip (WHICH DIDN’T DO ANY AFFECT ON SANGHYUK, NO OF COURSE NOT) he raised an eyebrow.

“You… really lost it?”

Sanghyuk was in a mental conflict with himself. On the one side, he just wanted to tell the truth, but on the other side, it was totally embarrassing to say it. Why should someone lose a number by only holding it? Sanghyuk never understood. He had to choose now, either that or that.

Better telling the truth

Quietly, he reached down to his pocket at took the folded sheet of paper out. “I…” He began, as he carefully unfolded it, “I... Actually, accidentally….” He finished unfolding it and looked at the blurry numbers, “I am sorry, but… Actually, You number is…” Sanghyuk turned the paper around for the brunette to see. At the sight of the gone numbers, his eyes widened first, but then he chuckled.

“This…” He started off and Sanghyuk couldn’t help but close his eyes shut in embarrassment. “You…. You didn’t want to tell me because of this?” The brunette laughed softly, his eyes squinted together and his two dimples popping out on both sides of his cheeks. Sanghyuk opened his eyes carefully and looked up to the handsome male. He had to control himself not to blush too much, but his bright red ears were telling the truth.

Sanghyuk nodded and lowered his head. “It wasn’t on purpose...” He mumbled while turning the paper-sheet around again. He sighed, because the stupid two shown letters were almost glaring at him. He scoffed in his inner mind, but then, the brunette in front of him stood up.

“Let me get a pen”

The 5 words that made Sanghyuk draw hope again. That male was an angel, for sure, and Sanghyuk the sinner. The brunette was forgiving him once, twice, it didn’t really matter how often, he would always forgive Sanghyuk’s bad actions and tell to be more careful next time and smile at him.

There should be more people like him in this world.

 Sanghyuk watched how the brunette walked back to his towels, asking his friend something and after the other male had managed to pull a pen out of his bag, the handsome man walked back to Sanghyuk again. The younger handed him the sheet of paper and the brunette started scribbling his number on it.

“Here” When he handed Sanghyuk the paper, the younger took it thankfully and then the brunette chuckled. “By the way, my name is Hongbin, nice to meet you, Sanghyuk”

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[This wasn't proof-read, so maybe I will edit this later]

Thank yor for reading

_Byul_

P.S: Happy Birthday to our Hyukkie~