Kyungsoo

He kept on giggling at my amazement and turned around with a smile still all over his face.

"Yeah, I thought I'd owe you when you nursed me," he chuckled and signaled for me to come closer, "you thought I couldn't cook too?" I giggled off my embarrassment as I actually had thought he couldn't cook and thought I could impress him by my skills, but I guessed it wasn't that rare for guys to learn cooking, especially early. "I'm not nearly as good as you though," he added as I had watched him cook for about a minute. 

He was right. I didn't usually liked to flatter myself, but I had to say he was just average. Probably even worse. 

"I can't make it as fancy as you, but please accept my cereal," he said as he handed me a bowl of cereal after he failed on whatever he tried to do earlier. 

I chuckled at his blushing cheeks, like he was trying to impress me, but miserably failed, though I accepted his cereal anyways. We sat down at our dining table and started eating with our own cereal. 

"It's the best cereal I've ever tasted," I commented with a grin, trying to cheer him up. 

He chuckled softly and said, "thanks". 

I noticed we had a different kinds of cereal, and so I was curious about his. "What do you have?" 

He seemed surprised by the fact I asked, then he pointed at a box that was on the counter behind him. "I found it in the upper cabinet," he said, which made me frown a bit. I didn't even realise we had that, so I guessed my parents must've been eating it. "Want to try?" he asked as he held up the spoon towards me, waiting to feed me.  I hesitated a bit but then nodded and let him feed me. 

It had a nice flavor; I tasted a bit of chocolate, corns and other tastes I didn't easily recognise. "You like it?" He seemed to be too excited to know my respond to it, but I just cleared my throat after swallowing and coolly played if off.

"It's all right," I responded like I didn't care that much, but it did taste better than I had expected.

"Just okay?" he asked a bit loudly, which surprised me, and stared at me like I had just offended him, "it's the best damn cereal in the world." 

I nodded whilst swallowing, feeling a bit nervous and afraid he'd murder me for offending his favourite cereal. 

His frowning face replaced with a happy grin faster than I could blink, and he seemed happy again as he was eating it deliciously. I rolled my eyes at the sight and heard myself giggle about before finishing my cereal myself.

There wasn't really much to do until Baekhyun and Chanyeol would come, but we decided to work on our project to kill some time. Whenever we tried to study and read, we grew tired, and eventually fell asleep on the small table with our heads on our arms.

Some strong flashing light and a clicking sound woke me up - slightly surprised. I quickly opened up my eyes. I was surprised as I spotted Jongin face, closer to me than I had thought before I woke up. 

I hadn't noticed that our foreheads were touching until I rose my head up, glancing around me. I also didn't notice that the couple we had been waiting for stood by my door frame, grinning down at us whilst making those weird whistling sounds like a couple of retarded birds. I didn't notice how embarrassed I felt until Jongin also woke up and his face was covered in a red shade, probably the same colour my face was in as well. 

"Alright, you can stop now," he muttered annoyed and hid his face by looking away. Baekhyun wriggled his eyebrows at me, making me slapping his arm. 

"Ow," he whined, "what did you do that for?" 

"Because you're annoying me," I rolled my eyes at him, then I saw Chanyeol behind him grinning towards me.

"We brought food we can eat later when we're hungry?" Baekhyun said as he held up a bag that he and Chanyeol carried that I hadn't noticed before. 

I nodded and glanced down at them. "Thanks," I said as I forced it out of their grip, "I'll put them in the kitchen."  It was the perfect excuse to get away from them for a moment to calm down my embarrassment'.' 

I placed the bags on the counter and checked what needed to be put in the fridge.

"Kyungsoo?" 

I jumped surprised, as I hadn't noticed the presence of someone else and stared at the person entering the room. "Gosh, you scared me Baek", I muttered, a bit embarrassed over my jumpiness. 

"I have to talk to you," he started. He helped me with the food, not really talking much as he gave the impression of; I almost had to ask him what he wanted to get him to continue. "You've changed a bit." 

I frowned at him, pretending like I didn't know what he was talking about. I didn't want him to know that I also knew. "What do you mean? How?" I asked stupidly, causing him to giggle at me. 

"Your behaviour, that's what I mean," he grinned, "and pretty much everything to be honest. Ever since you became friends with Jongin, you seem different. A lot," he paused for a second, "happier." 

I rolled my eyes at him, pretending like I didn't care; it was harder than I had expected. "I haven't noticed," I lied, making him giggle again. 

"Don't lie," he smirked, "I can see right through you." I tried not to meet his gaze, but he mentally forced me to look back at him. "Do you fancy him?"

"Isn't that why we're friends?" I tried to avoid the subject, but whenever Baekhyun had his mind settled on things, there was literally no escaping. I had to tell him the truth, either by my own will or by force.

"You know what I mean," he mumbled, not really smiling anymore. He wasn't angry either, but he seemed annoyed - probably by my behaviour for avoiding his questions the best I could. "Do you fancy him?"

"Do you realise how difficult that question is for me?" I nearly yelled, but I tried not to be too loud for the others to hear me, "I don't know, okay? I've never liked someone before so I wouldn't know," I said stubbornly, but he seemed more irritated than me. 

"Your feelings are the same as mine, and like everyone else. Just because you can't feel physical pain doesn't mean you can't feel anything emotionally," he explained with a stern tone, "you can have the feeling of pain emotionally, like me - and hate, like me, and also the feeling of liking someone, like me." I stared at him, not really knowing what to reply, or even how to react. I didn't know if he was right or not, either.

 "You can't be sure of that," I muttered and tried to walk pass him, but he stopped me for going any further.

"Neither can you." It felt like we had a staring competition, but then I sighed as I glanced away.

"Even if I liked him, I wouldn't know what to do. I'm not sure if I want to change either," I said sadly, "I don't want to possibly ruin our friendship." 

Baekhyun suddenly grinned as he threw up his hands in the air, yelling, "leave that to your wingman!" 

I jumped on him, trying my best to cover his loud mouth the fastest way possible. "Don't do anything Baekhyun," I warned, but he only giggled excitedly back. 

"Just trust me." Funny how whenever he said that, my trust in him loosened by each time, and I had to mentally prepare myself to wave my friendship with Jongin goodbye, possibly for good.

"If you say anything, I'll kill you," I threatened, but he only chuckled at my threat like we talked like that all the time. It was true though, I always threatened him and he must've gotten used to it as he didn't even blink. I never did anything to actually cause him pain though, because he was the only friend I had, if you exclude strangling him with my elbow technique I learned by watching the television. 

"Awe, you like my best friend?" Chanyeol, who's appearance surprised the both of us, asked with a grin on his face. That chekky goddamned giant... "Don't worry, Baekhyunie and I will make sure to help you-"

"Don't!" I literally yelled as I immediately thought of Jongin. I couldn't even imagine the pain he would've gone through watching someone he loved trying to push him on someone else. I'd never be able to forgive myself if I did that to him. "Just don't." 

They finally let me go, so I walked back up to my own room where Jongin was left alone. "We'll be downstairs. Are you coming?" I asked carefully, even though I didn't really know why.

"Yeah," he muttered, but he didn't follow me out of the room; I could immediately tell something wasn't right. "What's wrong?" I asked as I walked closer and sat beside him. "Nothing," he muttered. He was obviously hiding something, and when he had that hurt look on his face, I didn't want to just let it go. "You can tell me Jongin," I said reassuringly, "remember, I'm here for you." I didn't plan to say the last part out loud, but he seemed to have reacted to it.

"It's just...something feels weird," he said with a frown, and I couldn't help but to frown either. 

"How?" I asked. 

"I'd usually get really nervous whenever Chanyeol's around, and even when we'd be alone I'd feel like almost dying," he started, "but when you and Baekhyun went downstairs, I didn't have that same feeling. It's like my feelings for him were never there." 

I was sure my eyes were wide open as an owl; I was just too shocked. Before, he'd literally cry on my shoulder whenever he saw them kissing, but now he felt different? I was utterly confused.

"When did you start to feel like that?" 

"I don't know. I just noticed, which made me wonder," he responded, "am I already getting over him?" I didn't respond other than raising my shoulders. I was just as confused as he was. 

Jongin

I wasn't so sure myself, but I might've known what the reason was. Instead of feeling the nervousness of Chanyeol's presence and butterflies whenever we'd make eye contact, I felt it for someone else. Someone who was smaller than me, and shyer. Someone who was squishy, and made me want to squeeze him tight in a hug. 

He was also my first kiss, and I wanted to continue to kiss him. Was I really starting to like Do Kyungsoo? Or was it just my mind playing tricks with me?

"Le - Let's go downstairs to the others, yeah?" I quickly suggested as I had noticed he was staring at me, and I didn't want him to see how embarrassed and nervous I felt because of it. 

He nodded in response, and we went downstairs, being greeted by the grinning couple. Whenever I saw them together, I'd get that knot feeling in my belly, but it surprisingly wasn't there anymore. 

Like it had been stretched out somehow - possibly by someone else. Like the person beside me who stared at them like he was ready to murder the two. 

He was literally giving them both a death glare, but the other two just kept on grinning. "You okay?" I asked Kyungsoo. He seemed a bit surprised that I suddenly spoke, as he was probably planning his strategy to kill them. 

"Y - Yeah," he replied shortly. I slightly frowned; it wasn't like him to ignore me like that, and it made me curious, so I followed after him when he decided to move onto the sofa. 

"Whatcha wanna do?" I asked everyone, but all they did was to reply with a smirk, "what's wrong with you guys?" 

They couldn't possibly know how I felt, could they? I was actually amazed how Chanyeol hadn't noticed my feelings for him before, because he could easily read me like an open book. Could he possibly be doing that right now? 

"Sto - stop with that." I surprised them - and even myself - by my sudden stutter, and Chanyeol wouldn't stop grinning at me. 

I gave him my best death glare, which he was familiar with, so he didn't react much, but he knew exactly what I meant; you wanna die?

"Oh, I just remembered something," Baekhyun suddenly blurted out, and so we all focused on him, "Luhan in my class is throwing a party with his boyfriend at his house, and he told me I could invite some friends. I already told Chanyeol, but I want you two to come too." 

Hearing about a party always lightened up my mood, and I could already feel the excitement through my body. "When?" I asked, fully interested, although I heard the smaller male beside me slightly sigh. 

"Friday next week," he replied, "it's like a Christmas party, since it's only 2 weeks until Christmas." That's right, I almost forgot how close Christmas was already.

"Count me in," I yelled excitedly, but Kyungsoo didn't seem to be too happy about it. "What about you Kyungsoo?"

"I think I'd rather stay home," he muttered and I could see in the corner of my eyes that Baekhyun was glaring at him.

"It's a couple themed party though, so you can't turn up alone," he commented, making my eyes widen. 

"What?" I nearly yelled, "I can't come? Then why did you mention it to me?" I whined, earning a slap on the back of my head by the giant beside me. I was surprised, as I hadn't noticed him coming closer at all.

"You don't have to actually be together, but you can't show up alone. If you two go together, they'll let you in." 

I could even hear his smirk in the sentence; it felt like my face was burning up. Me, going on a couple themed party with Kyungsoo? 

But I really wanted to go to the party, and it wasn't like that we were officially together or anything.

"Come on Kyungsoo. Let's go, please?" I begged, trying to act cutely, which seemed to had worked better than I originally though as he sighed defeated. 

"Fine, I'll go." I cheered at his agreement and nearly went in for a hug, but I stopped myself when I saw how the couple was grinning at us like a murderous creepy pair, suddenly making me feel like a poor victimised prey. 

We didn't come up with many ideas on what to do the same evening, so we just ended up sitting on the soft carpet in the middle of the lounge, just chatting with each other.

"Did you know deep Kyungsoo's voice is in the morning? It's really raspy, and he even likes to sleep naked," Baekhyun suddenly said, adding an amused laugh when Kyungsoo shot him a glare, red all over his face.

"I do not!" he denied embarrassed, but judging by his expression, it seemed to be true. 

I didn't mean it, but my mind suddenly tried to imagine the image. I mentally slapped myself to stop and smiled towards Baekhyun.

"Really? What else?" I asked interested, ready to hear more gossip about him I didn't already know. I enjoyed learning new stuff about him, and I surely wanted to know more. 

"He's really ticklish close to his ribs," he smirked, "and if you try to tickle him, he'll just pull you closer to stop you instead of pushing you away." He giggled at what he had exposed. I smirked  towards Kyungsoo; his face was totally covered in red, and even he tried to avoid my gaze. "He's also really cuddly. He's always in a cuddly mood both late at night, and early in the morning." I giggled at the thought of imagining us cuddling, but quickly pushed it away when Baekhyun nudged me slightly on the arm with a cheeky smile. 

"How'd you know that?" I teased, which caught Chanyeol's attention.

"We're close friends," he said in a matter-of-factly tone as he rolled his eyes, "of course I'd know that. He always wants to cuddle." We all chuckled, everyone instead of Kyungsoo, who looked like wanted to strangle his best friend to death. I thought the only reason he hadn't yet was because Chanyeol and I was still here. 

"Don't tell them lies Baekhyun," he muttered, obviously embarrassed, which just made Baekhyun's cheekiness grow. 

"I never lie," he said whilst winking towards him, making me chuckle. 

"Even when the giant here is being too clingy?" I smirked. Baekhyun quickly stopped laughing and stared at me. 

He switched his glances between Chanyeol and I, which made me laugh even more. 

"What do you mean?" Chanyeol asked. He looked at both of us and Baekhyun sent me a small glare before smiling towards Chanyeol.

"Nothing, he's just assuming things," he quickly said and tried to change the subject.