do you like me (?)
do you like me (?)
donghae/sungmin, band fic (ft. angry ryeowook, mischievous kyuhyun, scapegoat hyukjae) | Crack/Humour | PG
1647 words
super junior go through everything to get donghae and sungmin on equal terms
“Donghae, don’t you think Sungmin hyung treats you differently?” Siwon asked randomly one day when he took the two of them out to lunch.
“No,” Donghae replied without a second thought, his mouth full of rice. He swallowed, cocking his head to the side, and thought about the question again, “No.”
Siwon sighed, putting down his chopsticks. They really needed to get a group meeting together.
/
“Hyung!!” Donghae squeals when he jumps onto Sungmin’s bed and lands directly on top of the older member, his knee wedged into his side. Sungmin makes some incoherent, painful whimper, and Donghae nuzzles him until they’re rolling on the bed together.
Ryeowook peeks through the door, turning around to whisper to Leeteuk, who whispers to Heechul, who whispers to Kibum. Apparently they were taking each other’s clothes off.
/
“Sungmin-ah, do you like Donghae?” Hyukjae asked him seriously one day. Sungmin almost choked on his lemon-flavoured beverage.
“Of course I like Hae, who doesn’t like Donghae?”
“I mean, as more than friends...” Hyukjae said slowly, wary with every word.
Sungmin looked at him cautiously and Hyukjae wished it was Ryeowook who picked the shorter straw.
/
“Hyukjae, why can’t you do anything right?” Kangin boomed, “we were suppose to get them closer together, now look what you’ve done.”
Hyukjae looks like he’s about to cry and Ryeowook comforts him by patting him on the arm.
“We’re switching dorms, and neither Donghae nor Sungmin wants to room together,” Leeteuk says dramatically, “do you know how many nights of sleep I’m losing over how to reorganize everyone?”
“You talk too much.” Heechul shoots down his concerns and stands beside Kangin, “We need to get the two of them to be unawkward with each other.”
/
“So, here’s the plan, Siwon and I get Donghae to come out, while Kyuhyun and Ryeowook work on Sungmin.” Kangin proposes. Leeteuk is the first to reject the plan because it doesn’t include him. Hyukjae agrees with him, because he’s known Sungmin for years and years but then Kangin merely dismisses them with a wave of his hand.
Convincing Donghae was easy, all Kangin needed to do was ask him out for dinner and he nodded almost instantly. Donghae loves eating, Donghae loves spending time with the other members, it was easy. Sungmin took a lot more work, because Kyuhyun asked him first and Sungmin immediately shot down the idea.
“You’re never this nice and considerate, especially when it comes to me.” Sungmin replied bitterly and Kyuhyun was at a loss for words. Ryeowook stepped in a few hours later and asked Sungmin to go eat with him at some new restaurant that he’s been dying to try out.
“Sungmin hyung, come on, go with me, I really want to try some of their food and try to reinvent the recipes,” Ryeowook made his eyes sparkle and Sungmin ruffled his hair and nodded his agreement. Kyuhyun was flabbergasted at how Ryeowook could so effortlessly convince Sungmin.
/
The plan worked relatively well, Siwon left halfway because his mother called and insisted it was something important. Totally believable and nothing out of the ordinary, even if the voice on the other line had been Heechul, neither of the two targets suspected it.
Sungmin was mildly alerted when Kangin supposedly passed out drunk after their second bottle of communal soju.
Ryeowook whimpered when Sungmin started abusing the apparently drunken Kangin by poking him repeatedly on the cheek and pulling his hair. Kyuhyun sat there, smirking behind his hand, because things were absolutely going wrong and then Donghae started poking Kangin as well.
(Kyuhyun told the other members back at home, it was a crucial moment of bonding, and Kangin had a look that could cut through glass. Kyuhyun shrugged and smiled)
“I think I’m drunk...” Ryeowook manages to squeak out suddenly, and Kyuhyun again tries to stifle his laugh by biting his hand.
“Here, I’ll take Ryeowookie home, you guys clean up here,” Sungmin immediately offered, getting up from sitting on Kangin’s sleeping figure.
“No!” Ryeowook interjected, pointing at Kyuhyun and Donghae “Kyuhyun will take me, I don’t trust them with the bill and everything,”
Sungmin nods and stays behind with Donghae, who’s still continuing to poke Kangin’s cheek.
(“Shut up, all of you, would you really have trusted Kyuhyun and Donghae hyung to pay the bill, would you?” Ryeowook practically screams because everyone was complaining how last night ended up in a disaster, waving his spatula around. Everyone remains silent.)
/
“Donghae hyung, you know Sungmin sometimes whispers your name when he’s dreaming, right?” Kyuhyun pulls Donghae aside one day during their dance practices.
Donghae widens his eyes and nods, and Kyuhyun wonders if he really understood what he had said.
/
“Sungmin, man to man, you like Donghae, right?”
“Kangin hyung, you’re drunk again,”
“Oh please, it’ll take more than two beers to get me drunk, you like Donghae, right?”
“Hyung, what are you talking about?”
Kangin shoves a finger against Sungmin’s heart. “You. Like. Donghae.”
/
“Brilliant, you fucking dumb raccoon,” Heechul cries out loud and Hangeng shivers because he’s sitting next to Heechul, “You have to weasel your way in with Sungmin, telling him directly isn’t going to work.”
“Fine, but who told Donghae that Sungmin says his names when he’s sleep talking?” Kangin diverted the attention to somewhere else. Everyone looks hesitant, and then everyone turns to look at Hyukjae because he’s the closest to both Sungmin and Donghae.
Hyukjae makes some whimpering noise, claiming it wasn’t him, and Ryeowook comforts him again by letting Hyukjae hold onto him.
(“I knew it was you, I knew it.” Ryeowook cornered Kyuhyun the next afternoon. Kyuhyun merely smiled and patted his head.)
/
“You bought a what?” Sungmin asks when he steps into the room. There’s some tank in the middle of the room and there was a turtle crawling around.
“I got us all a pet, so we wouldn’t be so bored.” Yesung reveals as he lifts the cage up, holding it up.
“Oh, does it do anything?” Donghae asks next, “can we play with it?”
“Nope, you have to be gentle with it. He’s fragile.” Donghae looks disappointed and Sungmin looks legit pissed off.
Heechul is about to lose his temper when Leeteuk steps on his foot and Hangeng covers his mouth.
“Yesung, that is the best idea you’ve ever had.” Kangin says fakely.
“You’re so amazing.” Hyukjae adds.
“Hyung, did you think of a name yet?” Kibum adds as he swims his way up to the front of the room.
“Are you the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea?” Sungmin turns to Donghae. Donghae nods, but the rest of the members suddenly start booming about how having a turtle will make their group dynamics wonderful.
“I study fung shui, turtles like water, water is money, having a turtle means we’ll be much more successful.” Hangeng manages to say convincingly. His smile remains even with Sungmin scrutinizing his face.
“I think it’s a good thing,” Ryeowook wraps his arms around Sungmin’s waist. “I think it’s a good idea.”
Sungmin sighs and everybody starts dissipating. Hangeng still has his hand over Heechul’s mouth.
(“It’s the most terrible fucking idea ever, it doesn’t ever stop fucking tapping against it’s fucking cage all fucking night,” Ryeowook screams two weeks later. “It doesn’t. Stop. Fucking. Tapping. It’s. Fucking. Flipper. At. It’s cage.”
“Wookie, it’ll be okay,” Kibum tries to reassure him and Ryeowook glares at him.
“You try sleeping with some stupid reptile running it’s ugly head against the glass. I’d be okay if it was cute, but it’s fucking ugly as fuck, okay?” Kibum keeps quiet.)
/
“You guys just need to admit your feelings, then we could toss the fucking turtle in the garbage can and I can sleep again...” Ryeowook’s muttering to himself while he’s cooking breakfast.
Sungmin looks scared and Donghae’s sleeping on the kitchen table while they’re waiting for breakfast.
“See, you just have to admit it, it’s actually not that hard, you guys stare at each other all the time. We could get rid of that annoying bastard,” Ryeowook starts hammering the wooden spoon into the bowl of eggs, “we could smash it up, and grind its shell, pull its legs off...”
/
Hyukjae approaches Sungmin again a while later.
“Hyung, are you in denial?”
Sungmin looks at him and sighs, maybe he did like Donghae but he just never wanted to admit it.
“It’s okay, you can talk to me, Sungmin-ah.”
“I guess I like him, I mean he’s so sweet sometimes, and the way he calls me Sungmin hyung, yeah Hyukjae, I think I like him.”
Hyukjae celebrates inside his head while Sungmin pours his heart out.
/
Donghae knows he’s in trouble when Heechul approaches him.
“Just kiss him and tell him you’ve liked him for months already, it’s not that hard, Donghae.”
Donghae looks shocked and he widens his eyes. He opens his mouth but no words come out, something very signature of Donghae.
“Don’t try to look confused, I read your diary.”
“Heechul hyung!!!”
“Make out, then have some nice angry sex with each other because it took you guys more than fourteen months to come to terms with one another.”
/
Ryeowook is still upset over the stupid turtle because it’s growing and the banging gets louder at night. Hyukjae looks like he’s on top of the world because his best friends are finally not in that awkward grey area. Heechul is proud because he gave Sungmin condoms last night, telling him that protection is actually important.
Sungmin walks out slowly, trying not to smile, and greets everyone. Donghae’s behind him, his grin stretching from ear to ear, as he wraps his arms around Sungmin’s waist.
Under the table, Shindong, Kibum, Siwon and Kangin all hand over a wad of cash to Hangeng, who had been the only one to buy that Donghae tops Sungmin.