first love, corrected
sekai / pg13 / ~5.2k / dumb humor+fluff from what i call cutedates!AU
basically junmyeon takes it upon himself to put jongin and sehun on dates against their will
this is for vanessa who gave me most of these ideas and helped me beta and is just the best
It is during one of Junmyeon’s Saturday afternoon movie dates with Jongdae that Junmyeon realizes how blessed he is to be in the relationship he’s in. Him and Jongdae are unquestionably the It Couple within their group of friends and Junmyeon’s 94% sure it’s because he’s got relationships all figured out.
Later that evening whilst he’s eating dinner, he has an epiphany midway through a bite of expensive beef (that isn’t really expensive at all when he’s the heir to a million dollar company) and decides he needs to put his relationship wisdom to good use by helping to rescue his friends’ relationships. Mostly Jongin and Sehun’s relationship. Especially Jongin and Sehun’s relationship because it’s still kind of amazing that they had even managed to get into a relationship and openly term themselves ‘boyfriends.’
Jongdae is less than supportive of Junmyeon’s biblical revelation when he brings it up during Couple Sharing Time. He proudly vocalizes his plans to save Jongin and Sehun from ever breaking up (a.k.a the Worst Case Scenario because no one other than Jongin can handle Sehun and no one else apart from Sehun can tame Jongin), which is initially met by a brief moment of silence. Then Jongdae chokes on his drink, spluttering hot chocolate all over their game of Monopoly, and laughs for ten minutes straight. Junmyeon doesn’t think it’s that funny and it’s certainly not that bad of an idea, but he’s met with considerable amounts of Constructive Criticism in between bouts of sniggers. Jongdae tells him it’s the dumbest idea he’s had since the time he had decided to set Jongin and Sehun up on a blind date together, and reminds him that forcing Jongin to do couple-y things with Sehun is a horrible plan because Jongin alone could probably take them both out in a fight, single-handedly, in two minutes flat.
Still, Junmyeon perseveres because he has little faith that Jongin and Sehun are capable of going on dates that do not involve video games and/or the shitty food from that one takeout place opposite Jongin’s apartment block, so he decides to start Junmyeon and Jongdae’s Comprehensive Guide to Good Dates.
(Jongdae rolls his eyes, mutters something about how he’s too young to die and moves his little car piece to Mayfair on the board.)
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Good Date Idea 1: Watch the sun rise. Sunrises represent beginnings and this can be a new beginning for your relationship!
“So you want us to wake up and watch the sunrise. Together.” Jongin stares at Junmyeon in disbelief.
“Yes.”
“And you think this is a good idea because you and Jongdae have done it before.”
“Yes.”
“And the sun rises at what time?”
From the moment Joonmyeon had said the word ‘date,’ Jongin knew subjecting himself to Junmyeon’s stupid, quote, unquote, ‘relationship therapy’ wouldn’t be a good idea. Junmyeon thinks he’s this relationship guru, thinks he knows everything about relationships, but Jongin thinks that he and Sehun are doing just fine without Junmyeon’s interference. Sure, their relationship might consist mostly of GTA V and unhealthy, heart-attack-before-50 takeout food but it works for them and at least they’re not as disgustingly vanilla as Junmyeon and Jongdae are. At first, Jongin had been 100% opposed to the whole plan, but Sehun had been remarkably agreeable to it all (see: he had almost definitely been bribed), so now Jongin is only 60% opposed to the whole plan. For the next 4 weeks, they have to suffer through one Junmyeon-Approved date per week, to improve their compatibility as a couple or some bullshit along those lines. He hadn’t really been listening to the terms and conditions of the entire thing; he had been too busy playing with Sehun’s hair or contemplating his existence on earth or counting the number of accidental paint droplets on the wall from the one time he decided he would paint his cupboard. All he knows is that every week, Junmyeon’s going to plan one of their dates and it’s inevitably going to end up as a complete waste of time, effort and energy.
Still, Jongin had somehow been scammed into agreeing to the whole date thing so not only does he have to be awake at 7am, he also has to deal with Sehun at 7am. From experience, that is not going to make for a good date. At all. They’re on break right now and being on break means sleeping in, so the earliest either of them had woken up in the past month was 11.30am.
Sehun’s sleeping over at his house for the date, which is nothing special considering that their normal couple gaming hours range from 9pm to 4am. They initially decide that pulling an all-nighter is immensely preferable to trying to actually wake up at 7am, but they grow to regret this decision by the time it hits 5 in the morning.
“What the fuck did Junmyeon bribe you with? Gold bars?” Jongin asks as he finally turns his gaze away from the game on the TV screen. By now, they’ve long since given up on Halo (required too much brainpower), and had switched to Pac-Man (which they had slowly realized that they were both embarrassingly awful at).
Sehun’s eyes are glazed over from prolonged staring at the brightly lit screen when he turns to shoot Jongin a half-hearted glare. “Come on,” he says quietly, “surely sometimes you wish we had some of Junmyeon and Jongdae’s weird couple connection thing?”
Jongin is 110% sure that Junmyeon has invented a brainwashing machine to trick Sehun into participating, because that sure as hell is not the Sehun he knows and (maybe) loves. He doesn’t quite know what to say to that though so he simply shrugs and tries to not notice how Sehun’s face falls as he turns back to the TV screen, maneuvering Pac-Man through the maze to run from the ghosts.
At 6:50am, they drag themselves up to the roof of the building with their giant fluffy blankets and plant themselves on the side of the floor facing east, or at least what their iPhones say is east because it’s not like they have any clue how to use a compass. They aren’t fucking pilgrims, but then again, they aren’t all that smart either. The sky isn’t completely dark anymore; it’s beginning to turn grey and there are peeks of light at the edges of the horizon. Jongin’s about to wrap himself up in his blanket because it’s winter and it’s way too fucking chilly to be anywhere that isn’t his own bed, but then he feels something cold and skinny press against his side.
“Move it,” Sehun demands. “My blanket’s thinner than yours and your body is warm.”
“Yeah well, your body is cold and now I’m cold,” Jongin bites back, shivering. “And godammit, watch where you’re putting your fucking feet-don’t even think about stepping on this blanket okay I use this to sleep!”
It’s a given that Sehun ignores him (as he usually does), so Jongin rests his head on Sehun’s shoulder and makes himself comfortable. If Sehun’s going to steal half his blanket and his body heat, the least he can do is be a pillow for Jongin. He feels Sehun’s head leaning on his own, hair coarse from being bleached too many times brushing lightly against his forehead. It’s comfortable and reminds him of home; it makes him feel like sleeping and he feels his eyes fluttering shut. It won’t hurt to close his eyes for a little while, he convinces himself, but then there’s a sharp jab to his ribs and his eyes snap open with a hiss of pain.
“Look,” says Sehun, nudging him again and pointing upwards. “The sky is…doing a Thing.”
Sure enough, the darker blues and greys are giving way to a much paler sky. Except that it seems to be the cloudiest day of the year or something, so instead of the magnificent pinks and oranges that Junmyeon promised would change their views on waking up early, they’re stuck with more or less the most boring sky ever.
“Hey, look,” laughs Sehun. “It’s fifty shades of grey!”
He ends up in a laughing fit as a result of his own stupid joke while Jongin contemplates how to best commit a mass homicide on the city.
When Sehun manages to calm down, he tries to cheer Jongin up again.
“I read Junmyeon’s blog entry about the time he woke up for this with Jongdae, you know. You’re supposed to be like, bathed in pink light and your eyes are supposed to sparkle or something.”
“Sehun, I’m going to kill Junmyeon in his sleep,” Jongin grits out through clenched teeth.
Sehun sniggers. “Well, your eyebags kinda match the colour of the sky? That’s nice?”
“I’m going to fucking kill Junmyeon in his sleep, Sehun, and then I’m gonna kill you I swear to fucking Go-“
He’s silenced by a kiss from Sehun, and Jongin decides the best thing to do is to just give it up and kiss him back because hey, that’s a better start to the day than any sunrise could ever be.
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Good Date Idea 2: Visit a place that has something one of you is passionate about so you can share it with the other person!
Jongin won’t admit it but he’s actually excited about bringing Sehun to the modern art museum. Junmyeon’s stupid romance plans give him an excuse to try to teach Sehun a little bit about his favorite subject, art. Truthfully, he doesn’t know how Sehun feels about modern art, but the fine arts museum isn’t really a viable option considering that Sehun had laughed for 4 minutes straight after seeing The Scream for the first time. He knows this because it had been Jongin’s laptop screensaver during the period that he was studying visual arts as an elective and Sehun had done nothing but talk about how he looked like he was about to give a blowjob for the first time.
Five minutes into their trip, Jongin realizes that this is not one of his best ideas. They’re walking around the exhibits and Jongin learns that Sehun’s got a very specific taste that isn’t quite catered for modern art. In the span of ten minutes, he manages to insult three different pieces and Jongin thinks he kind of wants to die.
“What the fuck is that? I swear to god Jongin, that’s a dead fish in a box.”
“Yes.”
“How is a skeleton that’s been thrown up on by a rainbow unicorn ‘modern art?’”
“It just is.”
“Is that fucking meat on a mannequin?”
“Yeah, that’s meat on a mannequin.”
“What the fuck? I could do that,” says Sehun, jabbing at the sculpture with his thumb. “How does this count as art?”
Jongin thinks he really wants to die.
“It represents society’s ideals of beauty, Sehun,” he explains slowly like he’s talking to a kindergartener, but he can bet his entire life’s savings that Sehun still won’t get it. “Y’know, how we’re actually nothing more than flesh on bones?”
“This face represents how much I don’t give a shit, Jongin.”
Jongin thinks he really, really wants to die.
He heaves a sigh and drags Sehun away to a different section of the museum, ignoring Sehun’s stupid snarky comments on every single thing. Eventually he finds something that looks relatively acceptable, and that Sehun probably can’t make fun of too much.
“Okay look this exhibit is pretty cool,” he says. “They’re modern interpretations and reconstructions of famous paintings!”
Sehun turns to him incredulously. “Jongin, this is a pair of shoes in a box. A pair of old fucking shoes. In a fucking box. Like, did I miss a memo? When did ugly shoes become art?”
“It’s an interpretation of one of Van Gogh’s paintings.” Jongin can’t be bothered to hide his exasperation anymore. “You know, A Pair of Shoes?”
But Sehun isn’t listening to what he has to say; he’s too busy with his tirade on how “any dumb child off the street can put two shoes in a box, goddammit.” This goes on until Sehun looks at the placard next to the artwork, explaining the meaning behind the artist’s work. He goes quiet for a while and Jongin thinks (hopes) that he’s had a sudden epiphany about the beauty and complexity behind this piece of art.
“Jongin?” Sehun asks suddenly.
“Yes?” Jongin replies hopefully. Maybe, just maybe-
“VAN GOGH IS SUCH A STUPID NAME HAHAHAH.”
Sehun says Van Gogh in a way that makes him sound like he’s choking so it comes out more like Van GoGHGHHGHH rather than whatever it’s supposed to be. Jongin isn’t too sure what the correct pronunciation is himself, but he’s pretty sure he’s not supposed to sound like an 80 year-old man trying to clear his phlegm-covered throat. Sehun subsequently takes it upon himself to read out every single artist name and pretentious artwork title he sees and even though he would normally find it hilarious, Jongin had stopped laughing five and a half exhibits ago.
It’s only another 10 minutes later that Sehun realizes how quiet Jongin has been, and sees the small sulk lurking on Jongin’s lips.
“Aw, c’mon dude.” Sehun nudges Jongin with his shoulder. “I thought you liked this stuff!”
“I do, but you clearly don’t.” Jongin stares at the floor and bites his lower lip.
Sehun looks at his boyfriend, sighs, and tugs him sideways so they’re standing face-to-face, in a small corner of a quiet exhibit.
“Hey, you know you’re probably the most beautiful thing in this whole place, right?”
Jongin can’t help but look up and even though he tries his best to will himself not to smile, he can feel the corners of his mouth tugging upwards and the blush creeping up his cheeks.
“That’s not saying much, considering that you hate everything here.”
Sehun contemplates arguing that he doesn’t hate everything. He kind of likes the architecture and that one exhibit with the paper cranes dangling from the ceiling, but instead, he decides to press a kiss to Jongin’s lips, catching him buy surprise. His jaw drops slightly, and Sehun takes the opportunity to slide his tongue into Jongin’s mouth. Jongin kicks him lightly in response, but doesn’t break the kiss.
They decide to skip the rest of the exhibits in favour of staying in that small corner of the museum, until a security guard sees their hands all over each other and shoos them out.
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Good Date Idea 2.5: Now Visit A Place Relevant To The Other Person’s Interests!
Sehun gets free tickets to the National Science Centre for himself and Jongin from Baekhyun, who’s helping out as a volunteer tour guide in the museum with Kyungsoo since both of them need the extra credit. The sciences had been his favorite subjects all the way until college, and even then, he’d only dropped biology because his finance course was too demanding and there was no way of balancing that many subjects.
Jongin’s nose wrinkles cutely when Sehun brandishes the tickets before his eyes. Unlike Sehun, Jongin had consistent Ds in science, and had dropped every and all variations of the subject the moment he could. But Sehun knows Jongin has a soft spot for things that are small and fluffy and cute, and finally gets him to agree by promising that there will be animals present.
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“Sehun, I swear to God, it doesn’t fucking count if the animals are fucking dead.”
Jongin’s already upset since they have to go on two approved dates that weekend organized by Jun-fucking-myeon, and that’s all built up to a very, very pissed off Jongin, who takes Sehun’s omission of truth even worse than he normally would.
Sehun doesn’t really want to risk making Jongin too mad because he still wants to crash at Jongin’s house and also Jongin can be pretty scary when he’s upset. Not that Sehun’s scared of him. Sehun’s manly as hell he isn’t scared. Of anything. Certainly not Jongin. Most of the time. So he ends up spending five minutes wracking his brains, with one eye trained on Jongin to make sure he doesn’t go berserk in the dinosaur exhibit and gatecrash the dinosaur party that’s going on behind the glass cases. A light finally goes off in his head and he fires a text to his sometimes-almost-helpful third best friend.
From: Sehun
To: Baekhyun
wtf dude r u working today do u guys have animals can u bring me an animal that isn’t like dead its an emergency
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
lmao are you in trouble why would i want to help you get out of that
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
wait fuck its jongin isnt it oh dude ur dead ummm try the kids section?? kyungsoos in charge there and the last time i checked we have baby chicks but soo might have killed them already so no promises
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
but good luck soldier im rooting for you
Sehun quickly shoves his phone back into his pocket and tries to ignore Jongin’s glare as he drags him in the direction of the brightly lit sign labeled ‘Kidz Zone!’.
“I was just messing with you! The animals are… around… somewhere!"
Jongin still looks completely unamused when they step through the rainbow-colored entrance to the kids’ section but the murderous look in his eyes gradually fades as they walk further and further into the exhibits of the children’s area. Suddenly, everyone around them is pretty much half their height and they’re the only people within a 20-metre radius between the ages of 12 and 32.
Sehun glances at the small people-things running around him warily. He hasn’t had a single good experience with his young cousins, and he doubts it’ll be much better with these children who are running around completely unleashed. While he’s looking around for some kind of parent or guardian that would be able to manage the situation if one of the small demon creatures suddenly attacked him, Jongin’s face suddenly lights up and he practically leaps in the opposite direction.
It’s a second too late when Sehun catches up to Jongin, who’s standing around a large elevated box of sorts in a corner of the museum with hearts in his eyes. Sehun is somewhat horrified to find out that something other than him could induce hearts in Jongin’s eyes, especially something that looks a lot like a yellow extra-fluffy tennis ball. That moves.
The fluffy tennis ball suddenly gets up, turns around and looks right at Sehun, who promptly lets out a noise he swears came from the small girl hovering behind them. But before he can defend himself because hey, he hadn’t been expecting the tennis ball to have eyes, or a beak for that matter, a familiar face appears from behind the ‘Staff Only’ doors just beside the baby chick enclosure.
“I thought someone attacked one of the kids but I guess it’s just you. Not that you’re all that different from a little girl, Sehun.”
“Great to see you too, Kyungsoo.” Sehun tries his best not to roll his eyes.
Kyungsoo walks over to their side and picks one of the little birds up. It chirps and tries to flap its little wings to get away at first but it soon calms down and stays fairly still in Kyungsoo’s cupped hands.
“You can hold them, you know. The chicks are pretty tame. Or Jongin can. I guess Sehun’s still scared of everything tiny and harmless! How cute.”
“That can’t be true; if it were, I’d be scared of you!”
Kyungsoo looks like he has a scathing retort but they’re interrupted by Jongin, who’s acting as though he’s holding a tiny baby Jesus in his hand.
“Sehun, it’s adorable! I’m adopting it. It is my new child. This bird is now my child.”
“What.”
“Well, it can be our child, but I don’t really want you traumatizing it so I’m gonna need you to fix your fear of tiny harmless things first.”
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It takes half an hour of coaxing and promises and bribes to get Jongin to put the chick back into the small enclosure. No other exhibit comes remotely close to capturing his attention though, so Sehun is forced to leave before Jongin tries to stage an elaborate kidnapping plan to keep all the baby chicks for himself.
They stop at a fast food place on the way home, because Sehun wants to reward Jongin for not stealing any baby birds from the museum. They each order their usuals, but when Jongin is halfway through his box of fried chicken, he suddenly drops his drumstick and looks at Sehun, horrified. Sehun thinks he sees tears welling up in Jongin’s eyes.
“Sehun,” he whispers almost silently. “I think I just ate my child.”
Sehun sighs. “Shut up and eat your food, Jongin.”
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Good Date Idea 3: To emotionally bond with your partner, do something intellectually stimulating!
This time, Sehun and Jongin are equally horrified as they stare at Junmyeon, speechless, with matching looks of horror on their faces.
“Well, I’m pretty sure Call of Duty is intellectual? There’s strategy involved,” Sehun tries to negotiate first.
Junmyeon remains unfazed. “Nope.”
“What about Pokemon?” Sehun tries again because he and Jongin both haven't gotten a chance to play X/Y yet even though they’ve been meaning to.
“I said things that stimulate your brain, not kill it slowly.”
“Okay one, Pokemon is the best game ever so how dare you; and two, we aren’t doing fucking Sudoku together, Junmyeon. Sudoku is, like, the least fun thing in the entire world and that’s saying something because I’m friends with you and have to hang out with you.”
“But Jongdae and I- "
“You and Jongdae both do further math and advanced statistics,” Sehun sighs, massaging his temples. “It’s not fair and it doesn’t count because you guys are nerds.”
Junmyeon then puts on his hurt-puppy look and Jongin feels more uncomfortable than guilty but he yanks the small book out of Junmyeon’s hand nonetheless to appease him and to make him get the fuck out of the apartment. He can feel the nerd germs contaminating the area already.
‘Exciting Sudoku for Kids!’ reads the large, bright font on the cover.
Well, this is new.
When Junmyeon leaves them alone, Jongin and Sehun sit down at the coffee table with the book and a very awkward silence descends upon them. This is a new experience. The last time they had felt awkward around each other was when Junmyeon had third-wheeled with them on what Junmyeon had thought was their first date, when in actuality they had just been trying to hide their relationship so that no one would try to pry into their business. It was after that date that Jongin and Sehun had decided to come clean about their relationship to their friends so that no one would try to matchmake them again but all it did was convince Junmyeon that he was some sort of love guru. Which he definitely isn’t if this whole date-idea-thing is anything to go by.
Sehun insists that the book is an insult to their intelligence so he flips to a puzzle at the back of the book which has a difficulty rating of ‘extreme’. ‘Try this when you’re ready for a challenge!’ is printed in a childish font on the top of the page. Jongin isn’t confident they would have even been able to finish the ‘easy’ level puzzle.
Ten minutes pass and sure enough, they’ve only been able to fill in 5 blanks. They’re not even entirely sure that all of them are correct.
“Can we just look at the answers? Or the hints?” Jongin leans back into his chair in resignation. Numbers have never been his friend, but Sehun gives Jongin the dirtiest look in the history of dirty looks.
“Jongin, I don’t know if you realize this but looking at the answers would be a sign of weakness. It would mean we gave up. It would mean we quit. Do you want to be a quitter?”
“Well, yeah, kinda.”
“We are fighters, Jongin! We do not quit!”
Jongin gets up to leaves Sehun at the table and proceeds to flop onto the sofa.
“Do what you want, but quitting feels good to me,” Jongin says, folding his arms and closing his eyes for a nap. Those ten minutes of staring at the Sudoku book were too much for him to handle.
He wakes up just over half an hour later and when he glances back at the dining table, he realizes that Sehun hasn’t moved from his seat, but now he’s just banging his head repeatedly on the table and mumbling a string of curses to himself. Basically, Sehun’s behaving the same way they’d all been behaving during finals week. Jongin laughs to himself and goes back to sleep. Sehun definitely isn’t going to accept his help when he’s in his depressed-student phase; all it would do is push him further into his pit of despair.
It’s not long before Jongin is woken up by something thrown onto his face.
“I finished it!” announces Sehun smugly.
Jongin glances at the clock on the wall. Only 4.5 minutes have passed since the last time he was awake and Jongin is willing to bet his life on the fact that Sehun has not suddenly achieved enlightenment and become some Sudoku extraordinaire.
“I’m very proud of you,” Jongin concedes with a sincere smile on his face as he hands the book back over to Sehun. “Why don’t you do another one? I’ll watch you this time so I can learn.”
A wave of panic passes through Sehun’s eyes.
“Well, haha, you know I work better alone!” Sehun says quickly, waving his arms like a penguin high on cocaine. “Um, you know, what why don't you just reward me now instead?”
They end up making out (and a bit more) on the couch while the godforsaken Sudoku book is left somewhere in the deep, dark depths of hell where it belongs, never to be seen again.
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Good Date Idea 4: Go stargazing. Talk about your wishes and dreams; the whole universe is in front of you.
“Okay, literally where is Junmyeon getting this shit from?” Sehun groans, pulling the blanket up to his chin.
Jongin hums in agreement but in all honesty, he’s had fun in the past few weeks, even with the failure with the sunrise and the Sudoku threatening to ruin their relationship. Sehun feels the same way, but he can’t risk blowing his cover, especially since he was the one that asked Junmyeon to plan this stargazing date.
They’re back on the rooftop that they had been sitting on for Junmyeon’s first stupid date. It’s only gotten colder but this time they wear their thicker jackets and bring hot chocolate in addition to their blankets. They even have a telescope that Junmyeon’s lent them, not that they really know how to set it up properly. There aren’t a ton of stars in the sky but at least they remembered to check the weather forecast this time, so it’s a pretty clear night and there are a decent number of stars, considering that they’re in the middle of a bustling city with lung cancer inducing smog and exhaust pipe gas.
After twenty minutes of fiddling around with the telescope, Sehun calls Jongin over to look through it.
“Look at those five stars over there on the left. They make up Cassiopeia, which was named after a queen of unrivalled beauty,” he says proudly. He had been in the astronomy club briefly before he had joined the dance team where he met Jongin, but he still remembers a thing or two about stars. He maps the sky out for Jongin, pointing out the brightest stars and the constellations and the stories behind them. He wants to be able to show Jongin the whole universe. In fact, if he could, he’d probably want to give Jongin the whole universe, which is cheesy, he knows, but true.
After a while, they opt to ditch the telescope in favour of just sitting together on the floor in their blankets. Jongin rests his head on Sehun’s shoulder again and he suddenly feels at home. No matter how stupid the activity, being next to Sehun always brings Jongin a sense of comfort that he otherwise only gets when he hugs his mom. Sehun’s still mumbling on about the patterns of the stars dotting the sky and Jongin doesn’t really get what he’s saying but he likes hearing Sehun’s voice a lot.
“Jongin, are you listening?” Sehun shrugs his shoulders slightly and Jongin sits up straight again.
“Yeah, of course.” Jongin’s pretty sure Sehun knows he had been lost in his own thoughts so to ward off further questioning, he points to a bright blinking light right above their heads. “What’s that one?”
“A plane. It’s moving, Jongin.”
“Oh. I knew that.” Jongin looks down at his feet, suddenly grateful that it’s dark enough out that Sehun probably won’t see the red creeping up his cheeks.
Sehun nudges him again and points at another shining light at the corner of the sky.
“See that bright star over there?”
Jongin’s eyes follow the direction of Sehun’s fingers. “Yeah, what about it?”
“That’s the North Star, it’s supposed to be the brightest star in the sky. They say if you follow the North star, it’ll guide you home.”
Jongin hangs his head in embarrassment again as the next sentence falls from Sehun’s smiling lips.
“So, Jongin, why don’t you take me home, baby?”
Jongin has two options: punch Sehun to make him shut up or kiss Sehun to make him shut up. He chooses the latter.
“You’re a smooth fucker tonight, aren’t you?” he mumbles softly before he grabs onto Sehun’s shoulders and tugs him closer to press their lips together in a kiss that makes him feel like they’re the only people in the entire universe right now, kissing beneath the stars and the sky with only love in their eyes.
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When Junmyeon invites himself to Jongin and Sehun’s couple night two weeks later, he’s pleasantly surprised by the absence of snarky backlash from the younger pair. When he and Jongdae let themselves into the apartment, Jongin and Sehun are snuggled together on the old sofa, with a blanket around their shoulders. In perfect synchronization, they both look towards the door and smile.
Junmyeon is hit by a brief moment of paralyzing fear and his smile freezes on his face.
“Why are they so happy even though we’re here are they out to get revenge on us?” Junmyeon whispers to Jongdae when Sehun and Jongin look away.
Jongdae, to his credit, looks remarkably calm about the whole suspicious situation.
“They got laid, of course they look happy,” chuckles Jongdae under his breath. “Wasn’t that your intention?”
Junmyeon whisper-screeches something about how they’re far too young to taint their love like this!!!
Jongin overhears Junmyeon’s words, and laughs as he strokes Sehun’s hair.
“How horrified do you think he’d be if we told him we did it on the couch before they arrived?”
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A/N: i'm sorry i'm trash i started this in june last year and just never finished it
whatever um this was v fun to write even though apparently i think sekai are like 12 or something
i love sekai so much
basically junmyeon takes it upon himself to put jongin and sehun on dates against their will
this is for vanessa who gave me most of these ideas and helped me beta and is just the best
It is during one of Junmyeon’s Saturday afternoon movie dates with Jongdae that Junmyeon realizes how blessed he is to be in the relationship he’s in. Him and Jongdae are unquestionably the It Couple within their group of friends and Junmyeon’s 94% sure it’s because he’s got relationships all figured out.
Later that evening whilst he’s eating dinner, he has an epiphany midway through a bite of expensive beef (that isn’t really expensive at all when he’s the heir to a million dollar company) and decides he needs to put his relationship wisdom to good use by helping to rescue his friends’ relationships. Mostly Jongin and Sehun’s relationship. Especially Jongin and Sehun’s relationship because it’s still kind of amazing that they had even managed to get into a relationship and openly term themselves ‘boyfriends.’
Jongdae is less than supportive of Junmyeon’s biblical revelation when he brings it up during Couple Sharing Time. He proudly vocalizes his plans to save Jongin and Sehun from ever breaking up (a.k.a the Worst Case Scenario because no one other than Jongin can handle Sehun and no one else apart from Sehun can tame Jongin), which is initially met by a brief moment of silence. Then Jongdae chokes on his drink, spluttering hot chocolate all over their game of Monopoly, and laughs for ten minutes straight. Junmyeon doesn’t think it’s that funny and it’s certainly not that bad of an idea, but he’s met with considerable amounts of Constructive Criticism in between bouts of sniggers. Jongdae tells him it’s the dumbest idea he’s had since the time he had decided to set Jongin and Sehun up on a blind date together, and reminds him that forcing Jongin to do couple-y things with Sehun is a horrible plan because Jongin alone could probably take them both out in a fight, single-handedly, in two minutes flat.
Still, Junmyeon perseveres because he has little faith that Jongin and Sehun are capable of going on dates that do not involve video games and/or the shitty food from that one takeout place opposite Jongin’s apartment block, so he decides to start Junmyeon and Jongdae’s Comprehensive Guide to Good Dates.
(Jongdae rolls his eyes, mutters something about how he’s too young to die and moves his little car piece to Mayfair on the board.)
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Good Date Idea 1: Watch the sun rise. Sunrises represent beginnings and this can be a new beginning for your relationship!
“So you want us to wake up and watch the sunrise. Together.” Jongin stares at Junmyeon in disbelief.
“Yes.”
“And you think this is a good idea because you and Jongdae have done it before.”
“Yes.”
“And the sun rises at what time?”
From the moment Joonmyeon had said the word ‘date,’ Jongin knew subjecting himself to Junmyeon’s stupid, quote, unquote, ‘relationship therapy’ wouldn’t be a good idea. Junmyeon thinks he’s this relationship guru, thinks he knows everything about relationships, but Jongin thinks that he and Sehun are doing just fine without Junmyeon’s interference. Sure, their relationship might consist mostly of GTA V and unhealthy, heart-attack-before-50 takeout food but it works for them and at least they’re not as disgustingly vanilla as Junmyeon and Jongdae are. At first, Jongin had been 100% opposed to the whole plan, but Sehun had been remarkably agreeable to it all (see: he had almost definitely been bribed), so now Jongin is only 60% opposed to the whole plan. For the next 4 weeks, they have to suffer through one Junmyeon-Approved date per week, to improve their compatibility as a couple or some bullshit along those lines. He hadn’t really been listening to the terms and conditions of the entire thing; he had been too busy playing with Sehun’s hair or contemplating his existence on earth or counting the number of accidental paint droplets on the wall from the one time he decided he would paint his cupboard. All he knows is that every week, Junmyeon’s going to plan one of their dates and it’s inevitably going to end up as a complete waste of time, effort and energy.
Still, Jongin had somehow been scammed into agreeing to the whole date thing so not only does he have to be awake at 7am, he also has to deal with Sehun at 7am. From experience, that is not going to make for a good date. At all. They’re on break right now and being on break means sleeping in, so the earliest either of them had woken up in the past month was 11.30am.
Sehun’s sleeping over at his house for the date, which is nothing special considering that their normal couple gaming hours range from 9pm to 4am. They initially decide that pulling an all-nighter is immensely preferable to trying to actually wake up at 7am, but they grow to regret this decision by the time it hits 5 in the morning.
“What the fuck did Junmyeon bribe you with? Gold bars?” Jongin asks as he finally turns his gaze away from the game on the TV screen. By now, they’ve long since given up on Halo (required too much brainpower), and had switched to Pac-Man (which they had slowly realized that they were both embarrassingly awful at).
Sehun’s eyes are glazed over from prolonged staring at the brightly lit screen when he turns to shoot Jongin a half-hearted glare. “Come on,” he says quietly, “surely sometimes you wish we had some of Junmyeon and Jongdae’s weird couple connection thing?”
Jongin is 110% sure that Junmyeon has invented a brainwashing machine to trick Sehun into participating, because that sure as hell is not the Sehun he knows and (maybe) loves. He doesn’t quite know what to say to that though so he simply shrugs and tries to not notice how Sehun’s face falls as he turns back to the TV screen, maneuvering Pac-Man through the maze to run from the ghosts.
At 6:50am, they drag themselves up to the roof of the building with their giant fluffy blankets and plant themselves on the side of the floor facing east, or at least what their iPhones say is east because it’s not like they have any clue how to use a compass. They aren’t fucking pilgrims, but then again, they aren’t all that smart either. The sky isn’t completely dark anymore; it’s beginning to turn grey and there are peeks of light at the edges of the horizon. Jongin’s about to wrap himself up in his blanket because it’s winter and it’s way too fucking chilly to be anywhere that isn’t his own bed, but then he feels something cold and skinny press against his side.
“Move it,” Sehun demands. “My blanket’s thinner than yours and your body is warm.”
“Yeah well, your body is cold and now I’m cold,” Jongin bites back, shivering. “And godammit, watch where you’re putting your fucking feet-don’t even think about stepping on this blanket okay I use this to sleep!”
It’s a given that Sehun ignores him (as he usually does), so Jongin rests his head on Sehun’s shoulder and makes himself comfortable. If Sehun’s going to steal half his blanket and his body heat, the least he can do is be a pillow for Jongin. He feels Sehun’s head leaning on his own, hair coarse from being bleached too many times brushing lightly against his forehead. It’s comfortable and reminds him of home; it makes him feel like sleeping and he feels his eyes fluttering shut. It won’t hurt to close his eyes for a little while, he convinces himself, but then there’s a sharp jab to his ribs and his eyes snap open with a hiss of pain.
“Look,” says Sehun, nudging him again and pointing upwards. “The sky is…doing a Thing.”
Sure enough, the darker blues and greys are giving way to a much paler sky. Except that it seems to be the cloudiest day of the year or something, so instead of the magnificent pinks and oranges that Junmyeon promised would change their views on waking up early, they’re stuck with more or less the most boring sky ever.
“Hey, look,” laughs Sehun. “It’s fifty shades of grey!”
He ends up in a laughing fit as a result of his own stupid joke while Jongin contemplates how to best commit a mass homicide on the city.
When Sehun manages to calm down, he tries to cheer Jongin up again.
“I read Junmyeon’s blog entry about the time he woke up for this with Jongdae, you know. You’re supposed to be like, bathed in pink light and your eyes are supposed to sparkle or something.”
“Sehun, I’m going to kill Junmyeon in his sleep,” Jongin grits out through clenched teeth.
Sehun sniggers. “Well, your eyebags kinda match the colour of the sky? That’s nice?”
“I’m going to fucking kill Junmyeon in his sleep, Sehun, and then I’m gonna kill you I swear to fucking Go-“
He’s silenced by a kiss from Sehun, and Jongin decides the best thing to do is to just give it up and kiss him back because hey, that’s a better start to the day than any sunrise could ever be.
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Good Date Idea 2: Visit a place that has something one of you is passionate about so you can share it with the other person!
Jongin won’t admit it but he’s actually excited about bringing Sehun to the modern art museum. Junmyeon’s stupid romance plans give him an excuse to try to teach Sehun a little bit about his favorite subject, art. Truthfully, he doesn’t know how Sehun feels about modern art, but the fine arts museum isn’t really a viable option considering that Sehun had laughed for 4 minutes straight after seeing The Scream for the first time. He knows this because it had been Jongin’s laptop screensaver during the period that he was studying visual arts as an elective and Sehun had done nothing but talk about how he looked like he was about to give a blowjob for the first time.
Five minutes into their trip, Jongin realizes that this is not one of his best ideas. They’re walking around the exhibits and Jongin learns that Sehun’s got a very specific taste that isn’t quite catered for modern art. In the span of ten minutes, he manages to insult three different pieces and Jongin thinks he kind of wants to die.
“What the fuck is that? I swear to god Jongin, that’s a dead fish in a box.”
“Yes.”
“How is a skeleton that’s been thrown up on by a rainbow unicorn ‘modern art?’”
“It just is.”
“Is that fucking meat on a mannequin?”
“Yeah, that’s meat on a mannequin.”
“What the fuck? I could do that,” says Sehun, jabbing at the sculpture with his thumb. “How does this count as art?”
Jongin thinks he really wants to die.
“It represents society’s ideals of beauty, Sehun,” he explains slowly like he’s talking to a kindergartener, but he can bet his entire life’s savings that Sehun still won’t get it. “Y’know, how we’re actually nothing more than flesh on bones?”
“This face represents how much I don’t give a shit, Jongin.”
Jongin thinks he really, really wants to die.
He heaves a sigh and drags Sehun away to a different section of the museum, ignoring Sehun’s stupid snarky comments on every single thing. Eventually he finds something that looks relatively acceptable, and that Sehun probably can’t make fun of too much.
“Okay look this exhibit is pretty cool,” he says. “They’re modern interpretations and reconstructions of famous paintings!”
Sehun turns to him incredulously. “Jongin, this is a pair of shoes in a box. A pair of old fucking shoes. In a fucking box. Like, did I miss a memo? When did ugly shoes become art?”
“It’s an interpretation of one of Van Gogh’s paintings.” Jongin can’t be bothered to hide his exasperation anymore. “You know, A Pair of Shoes?”
But Sehun isn’t listening to what he has to say; he’s too busy with his tirade on how “any dumb child off the street can put two shoes in a box, goddammit.” This goes on until Sehun looks at the placard next to the artwork, explaining the meaning behind the artist’s work. He goes quiet for a while and Jongin thinks (hopes) that he’s had a sudden epiphany about the beauty and complexity behind this piece of art.
“Jongin?” Sehun asks suddenly.
“Yes?” Jongin replies hopefully. Maybe, just maybe-
“VAN GOGH IS SUCH A STUPID NAME HAHAHAH.”
Sehun says Van Gogh in a way that makes him sound like he’s choking so it comes out more like Van GoGHGHHGHH rather than whatever it’s supposed to be. Jongin isn’t too sure what the correct pronunciation is himself, but he’s pretty sure he’s not supposed to sound like an 80 year-old man trying to clear his phlegm-covered throat. Sehun subsequently takes it upon himself to read out every single artist name and pretentious artwork title he sees and even though he would normally find it hilarious, Jongin had stopped laughing five and a half exhibits ago.
It’s only another 10 minutes later that Sehun realizes how quiet Jongin has been, and sees the small sulk lurking on Jongin’s lips.
“Aw, c’mon dude.” Sehun nudges Jongin with his shoulder. “I thought you liked this stuff!”
“I do, but you clearly don’t.” Jongin stares at the floor and bites his lower lip.
Sehun looks at his boyfriend, sighs, and tugs him sideways so they’re standing face-to-face, in a small corner of a quiet exhibit.
“Hey, you know you’re probably the most beautiful thing in this whole place, right?”
Jongin can’t help but look up and even though he tries his best to will himself not to smile, he can feel the corners of his mouth tugging upwards and the blush creeping up his cheeks.
“That’s not saying much, considering that you hate everything here.”
Sehun contemplates arguing that he doesn’t hate everything. He kind of likes the architecture and that one exhibit with the paper cranes dangling from the ceiling, but instead, he decides to press a kiss to Jongin’s lips, catching him buy surprise. His jaw drops slightly, and Sehun takes the opportunity to slide his tongue into Jongin’s mouth. Jongin kicks him lightly in response, but doesn’t break the kiss.
They decide to skip the rest of the exhibits in favour of staying in that small corner of the museum, until a security guard sees their hands all over each other and shoos them out.
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Good Date Idea 2.5: Now Visit A Place Relevant To The Other Person’s Interests!
Sehun gets free tickets to the National Science Centre for himself and Jongin from Baekhyun, who’s helping out as a volunteer tour guide in the museum with Kyungsoo since both of them need the extra credit. The sciences had been his favorite subjects all the way until college, and even then, he’d only dropped biology because his finance course was too demanding and there was no way of balancing that many subjects.
Jongin’s nose wrinkles cutely when Sehun brandishes the tickets before his eyes. Unlike Sehun, Jongin had consistent Ds in science, and had dropped every and all variations of the subject the moment he could. But Sehun knows Jongin has a soft spot for things that are small and fluffy and cute, and finally gets him to agree by promising that there will be animals present.
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“Sehun, I swear to God, it doesn’t fucking count if the animals are fucking dead.”
Jongin’s already upset since they have to go on two approved dates that weekend organized by Jun-fucking-myeon, and that’s all built up to a very, very pissed off Jongin, who takes Sehun’s omission of truth even worse than he normally would.
Sehun doesn’t really want to risk making Jongin too mad because he still wants to crash at Jongin’s house and also Jongin can be pretty scary when he’s upset. Not that Sehun’s scared of him. Sehun’s manly as hell he isn’t scared. Of anything. Certainly not Jongin. Most of the time. So he ends up spending five minutes wracking his brains, with one eye trained on Jongin to make sure he doesn’t go berserk in the dinosaur exhibit and gatecrash the dinosaur party that’s going on behind the glass cases. A light finally goes off in his head and he fires a text to his sometimes-almost-helpful third best friend.
From: Sehun
To: Baekhyun
wtf dude r u working today do u guys have animals can u bring me an animal that isn’t like dead its an emergency
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
lmao are you in trouble why would i want to help you get out of that
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
wait fuck its jongin isnt it oh dude ur dead ummm try the kids section?? kyungsoos in charge there and the last time i checked we have baby chicks but soo might have killed them already so no promises
From: Baekhyun
To: Sehun
but good luck soldier im rooting for you
Sehun quickly shoves his phone back into his pocket and tries to ignore Jongin’s glare as he drags him in the direction of the brightly lit sign labeled ‘Kidz Zone!’.
“I was just messing with you! The animals are… around… somewhere!"
Jongin still looks completely unamused when they step through the rainbow-colored entrance to the kids’ section but the murderous look in his eyes gradually fades as they walk further and further into the exhibits of the children’s area. Suddenly, everyone around them is pretty much half their height and they’re the only people within a 20-metre radius between the ages of 12 and 32.
Sehun glances at the small people-things running around him warily. He hasn’t had a single good experience with his young cousins, and he doubts it’ll be much better with these children who are running around completely unleashed. While he’s looking around for some kind of parent or guardian that would be able to manage the situation if one of the small demon creatures suddenly attacked him, Jongin’s face suddenly lights up and he practically leaps in the opposite direction.
It’s a second too late when Sehun catches up to Jongin, who’s standing around a large elevated box of sorts in a corner of the museum with hearts in his eyes. Sehun is somewhat horrified to find out that something other than him could induce hearts in Jongin’s eyes, especially something that looks a lot like a yellow extra-fluffy tennis ball. That moves.
The fluffy tennis ball suddenly gets up, turns around and looks right at Sehun, who promptly lets out a noise he swears came from the small girl hovering behind them. But before he can defend himself because hey, he hadn’t been expecting the tennis ball to have eyes, or a beak for that matter, a familiar face appears from behind the ‘Staff Only’ doors just beside the baby chick enclosure.
“I thought someone attacked one of the kids but I guess it’s just you. Not that you’re all that different from a little girl, Sehun.”
“Great to see you too, Kyungsoo.” Sehun tries his best not to roll his eyes.
Kyungsoo walks over to their side and picks one of the little birds up. It chirps and tries to flap its little wings to get away at first but it soon calms down and stays fairly still in Kyungsoo’s cupped hands.
“You can hold them, you know. The chicks are pretty tame. Or Jongin can. I guess Sehun’s still scared of everything tiny and harmless! How cute.”
“That can’t be true; if it were, I’d be scared of you!”
Kyungsoo looks like he has a scathing retort but they’re interrupted by Jongin, who’s acting as though he’s holding a tiny baby Jesus in his hand.
“Sehun, it’s adorable! I’m adopting it. It is my new child. This bird is now my child.”
“What.”
“Well, it can be our child, but I don’t really want you traumatizing it so I’m gonna need you to fix your fear of tiny harmless things first.”
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It takes half an hour of coaxing and promises and bribes to get Jongin to put the chick back into the small enclosure. No other exhibit comes remotely close to capturing his attention though, so Sehun is forced to leave before Jongin tries to stage an elaborate kidnapping plan to keep all the baby chicks for himself.
They stop at a fast food place on the way home, because Sehun wants to reward Jongin for not stealing any baby birds from the museum. They each order their usuals, but when Jongin is halfway through his box of fried chicken, he suddenly drops his drumstick and looks at Sehun, horrified. Sehun thinks he sees tears welling up in Jongin’s eyes.
“Sehun,” he whispers almost silently. “I think I just ate my child.”
Sehun sighs. “Shut up and eat your food, Jongin.”
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Good Date Idea 3: To emotionally bond with your partner, do something intellectually stimulating!
This time, Sehun and Jongin are equally horrified as they stare at Junmyeon, speechless, with matching looks of horror on their faces.
“Well, I’m pretty sure Call of Duty is intellectual? There’s strategy involved,” Sehun tries to negotiate first.
Junmyeon remains unfazed. “Nope.”
“What about Pokemon?” Sehun tries again because he and Jongin both haven't gotten a chance to play X/Y yet even though they’ve been meaning to.
“I said things that stimulate your brain, not kill it slowly.”
“Okay one, Pokemon is the best game ever so how dare you; and two, we aren’t doing fucking Sudoku together, Junmyeon. Sudoku is, like, the least fun thing in the entire world and that’s saying something because I’m friends with you and have to hang out with you.”
“But Jongdae and I- "
“You and Jongdae both do further math and advanced statistics,” Sehun sighs, massaging his temples. “It’s not fair and it doesn’t count because you guys are nerds.”
Junmyeon then puts on his hurt-puppy look and Jongin feels more uncomfortable than guilty but he yanks the small book out of Junmyeon’s hand nonetheless to appease him and to make him get the fuck out of the apartment. He can feel the nerd germs contaminating the area already.
‘Exciting Sudoku for Kids!’ reads the large, bright font on the cover.
Well, this is new.
When Junmyeon leaves them alone, Jongin and Sehun sit down at the coffee table with the book and a very awkward silence descends upon them. This is a new experience. The last time they had felt awkward around each other was when Junmyeon had third-wheeled with them on what Junmyeon had thought was their first date, when in actuality they had just been trying to hide their relationship so that no one would try to pry into their business. It was after that date that Jongin and Sehun had decided to come clean about their relationship to their friends so that no one would try to matchmake them again but all it did was convince Junmyeon that he was some sort of love guru. Which he definitely isn’t if this whole date-idea-thing is anything to go by.
Sehun insists that the book is an insult to their intelligence so he flips to a puzzle at the back of the book which has a difficulty rating of ‘extreme’. ‘Try this when you’re ready for a challenge!’ is printed in a childish font on the top of the page. Jongin isn’t confident they would have even been able to finish the ‘easy’ level puzzle.
Ten minutes pass and sure enough, they’ve only been able to fill in 5 blanks. They’re not even entirely sure that all of them are correct.
“Can we just look at the answers? Or the hints?” Jongin leans back into his chair in resignation. Numbers have never been his friend, but Sehun gives Jongin the dirtiest look in the history of dirty looks.
“Jongin, I don’t know if you realize this but looking at the answers would be a sign of weakness. It would mean we gave up. It would mean we quit. Do you want to be a quitter?”
“Well, yeah, kinda.”
“We are fighters, Jongin! We do not quit!”
Jongin gets up to leaves Sehun at the table and proceeds to flop onto the sofa.
“Do what you want, but quitting feels good to me,” Jongin says, folding his arms and closing his eyes for a nap. Those ten minutes of staring at the Sudoku book were too much for him to handle.
He wakes up just over half an hour later and when he glances back at the dining table, he realizes that Sehun hasn’t moved from his seat, but now he’s just banging his head repeatedly on the table and mumbling a string of curses to himself. Basically, Sehun’s behaving the same way they’d all been behaving during finals week. Jongin laughs to himself and goes back to sleep. Sehun definitely isn’t going to accept his help when he’s in his depressed-student phase; all it would do is push him further into his pit of despair.
It’s not long before Jongin is woken up by something thrown onto his face.
“I finished it!” announces Sehun smugly.
Jongin glances at the clock on the wall. Only 4.5 minutes have passed since the last time he was awake and Jongin is willing to bet his life on the fact that Sehun has not suddenly achieved enlightenment and become some Sudoku extraordinaire.
“I’m very proud of you,” Jongin concedes with a sincere smile on his face as he hands the book back over to Sehun. “Why don’t you do another one? I’ll watch you this time so I can learn.”
A wave of panic passes through Sehun’s eyes.
“Well, haha, you know I work better alone!” Sehun says quickly, waving his arms like a penguin high on cocaine. “Um, you know, what why don't you just reward me now instead?”
They end up making out (and a bit more) on the couch while the godforsaken Sudoku book is left somewhere in the deep, dark depths of hell where it belongs, never to be seen again.
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Good Date Idea 4: Go stargazing. Talk about your wishes and dreams; the whole universe is in front of you.
“Okay, literally where is Junmyeon getting this shit from?” Sehun groans, pulling the blanket up to his chin.
Jongin hums in agreement but in all honesty, he’s had fun in the past few weeks, even with the failure with the sunrise and the Sudoku threatening to ruin their relationship. Sehun feels the same way, but he can’t risk blowing his cover, especially since he was the one that asked Junmyeon to plan this stargazing date.
They’re back on the rooftop that they had been sitting on for Junmyeon’s first stupid date. It’s only gotten colder but this time they wear their thicker jackets and bring hot chocolate in addition to their blankets. They even have a telescope that Junmyeon’s lent them, not that they really know how to set it up properly. There aren’t a ton of stars in the sky but at least they remembered to check the weather forecast this time, so it’s a pretty clear night and there are a decent number of stars, considering that they’re in the middle of a bustling city with lung cancer inducing smog and exhaust pipe gas.
After twenty minutes of fiddling around with the telescope, Sehun calls Jongin over to look through it.
“Look at those five stars over there on the left. They make up Cassiopeia, which was named after a queen of unrivalled beauty,” he says proudly. He had been in the astronomy club briefly before he had joined the dance team where he met Jongin, but he still remembers a thing or two about stars. He maps the sky out for Jongin, pointing out the brightest stars and the constellations and the stories behind them. He wants to be able to show Jongin the whole universe. In fact, if he could, he’d probably want to give Jongin the whole universe, which is cheesy, he knows, but true.
After a while, they opt to ditch the telescope in favour of just sitting together on the floor in their blankets. Jongin rests his head on Sehun’s shoulder again and he suddenly feels at home. No matter how stupid the activity, being next to Sehun always brings Jongin a sense of comfort that he otherwise only gets when he hugs his mom. Sehun’s still mumbling on about the patterns of the stars dotting the sky and Jongin doesn’t really get what he’s saying but he likes hearing Sehun’s voice a lot.
“Jongin, are you listening?” Sehun shrugs his shoulders slightly and Jongin sits up straight again.
“Yeah, of course.” Jongin’s pretty sure Sehun knows he had been lost in his own thoughts so to ward off further questioning, he points to a bright blinking light right above their heads. “What’s that one?”
“A plane. It’s moving, Jongin.”
“Oh. I knew that.” Jongin looks down at his feet, suddenly grateful that it’s dark enough out that Sehun probably won’t see the red creeping up his cheeks.
Sehun nudges him again and points at another shining light at the corner of the sky.
“See that bright star over there?”
Jongin’s eyes follow the direction of Sehun’s fingers. “Yeah, what about it?”
“That’s the North Star, it’s supposed to be the brightest star in the sky. They say if you follow the North star, it’ll guide you home.”
Jongin hangs his head in embarrassment again as the next sentence falls from Sehun’s smiling lips.
“So, Jongin, why don’t you take me home, baby?”
Jongin has two options: punch Sehun to make him shut up or kiss Sehun to make him shut up. He chooses the latter.
“You’re a smooth fucker tonight, aren’t you?” he mumbles softly before he grabs onto Sehun’s shoulders and tugs him closer to press their lips together in a kiss that makes him feel like they’re the only people in the entire universe right now, kissing beneath the stars and the sky with only love in their eyes.
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When Junmyeon invites himself to Jongin and Sehun’s couple night two weeks later, he’s pleasantly surprised by the absence of snarky backlash from the younger pair. When he and Jongdae let themselves into the apartment, Jongin and Sehun are snuggled together on the old sofa, with a blanket around their shoulders. In perfect synchronization, they both look towards the door and smile.
Junmyeon is hit by a brief moment of paralyzing fear and his smile freezes on his face.
“Why are they so happy even though we’re here are they out to get revenge on us?” Junmyeon whispers to Jongdae when Sehun and Jongin look away.
Jongdae, to his credit, looks remarkably calm about the whole suspicious situation.
“They got laid, of course they look happy,” chuckles Jongdae under his breath. “Wasn’t that your intention?”
Junmyeon whisper-screeches something about how they’re far too young to taint their love like this!!!
Jongin overhears Junmyeon’s words, and laughs as he strokes Sehun’s hair.
“How horrified do you think he’d be if we told him we did it on the couch before they arrived?”
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A/N: i'm sorry i'm trash i started this in june last year and just never finished it
whatever um this was v fun to write even though apparently i think sekai are like 12 or something
i love sekai so much