"Let's not think too much about the sleeping arrangements right now, there's a village down a path here. We can go and check that out!" Mingyu glanced at Wonwoo whose face was still frozen in shock.

"But I'm really tired." Wonwoo yawned and Mingyu smiled at how cute he was. "Okay, but you haven't eaten, let me-"

"You're banned from cooking forever." Wonwoo interjected, sitting on the barstool. Mingyu chuckled. "I know that, I was going to say, let me call the chef to make us something."

"Chef?" Wonwoo asked and Mingyu nodded. "Mhmm, they live just down the path." Mingyu pointed to the house just down a stone path behind the beach house.

He took out his phone and called the chef, noticing that Wonwoo was already dozing off. "No sleeping." He shook the beauty who opened his eyes. "Sorry." He murmured.

Mingyu wondered how he was going to keep Wonwoo awake before he got an idea. He got out a small speaker from the drawer in their room and connected his phone, blasting some random metal song Minghao had played for him last week.

Wonwoo jumped up, his eyes widened. "Is this the only way you could think of to keep me awake?" Wonwoo complained and Mingyu smirked.

"Well not the only way but definitely the most family friendly way." Mingyu replied and Wonwoo's face flushed which made Mingyu giggle.

The chef finally appeared and began to make Galchi-hobakguk, one of Jeju's signature dishes. "What's he making?" Wonwoo whispered, leaning towards Mingyu.

"Galchi-hobakguk, it's one of Jeju's popular dishes." Mingyu informed the beauty who nodded before continuing to watch the chef whose skills showed extremely well through his cooking.

Mingyu watched as Wonwoo reacted excitedly to some of the chef's tricks and skills and he couldn't stop smiling the more he focused on the beauty. So this was what he needed to do to keep Wonwoo awake. Ask the chef to cook.

"You're like a baby." Mingyu leaned closer to Wonwoo. "No I'm not." Wonwoo refuted and Mingyu rolled his eyes. "Keep denying the truth, beauty." Mingyu replied and when he saw Wonwoo's eyebrows raise, he noticed that he'd let his nickname for Wonwoo slip out.

"Beauty? Is that what you're calling me now? It's not funny." Wonwoo teased but Mingyu just shook his head, "It's not supposed to be funny." He corrected Wonwoo which made the beauty go silent. Mingyu smirked. He'd done it again, taken away Wonwoo's breath.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wonwoo felt himself get hotter but it was just because it was Jeju in summer, of course it was hot. It definitely wasn't because Mingyu had just referred to him as 'beauty'.

Recently, Wonwoo had found himself getting hot and bothered by literally anything Mingyu did. He didn't know why that was happening to him, he didn't even like Mingyu.

Wonwoo spent the rest of the time the chef used to cook to arrange his thoughts although him doing that only made everything into an even bigger mess.

Once they were served, Mingyu tasted the Galchi-hobakguk and hissed in satisfaction. Wonwoo looked at Mingyu for conformation and the boy nodded repeatedly. "It's really good." He helped Wonwoo pick up a spoon of the soup and blew on it before feeding it to Wonwoo.

Wonwoo's lips formed into a smile once the soup met his tongue. It was genuinely so good. He turned to the chef and gave him a thumbs up which made the chef and Mingyu chuckle.

The two boys devoured the meal before once again thanking the chef who cleaned up before leaving.

It was already pretty late which meant they were going to have to sleep soon. Wonwoo sat on the couch, shaking his legs as he waited for Mingyu to say something.

He had been the one to propose the sleeping together idea but now he was too shy to even say anything about it.

"Aren't you tired?" Mingyu asked coming out of the shower, Wonwoo scanned Mingyu up and down without even knowing he was doing it. The boy's toned abs and tan skin was enough to keep Wonwoo focused.

"Earth to Wonwoo! My face is up here!" Mingyu gestured to his face and Wonwoo quickly turned away, embarrassed.

"Are you going to have a bath or just going to shower?" Mingyu questioned. "Shower." Wonwoo replied, still looking away because he knew his face was still completely red.

He heard Mingyu chuckle before saying, "Well, I'm going to bed so you can take a shower and come sleep."

Then he heard the bedroom door slide open and close. So Mingyu really didn't care that they had to share a bed? His heart was beating super fast and his chest wasn't moving up and down just from the thought of it?

Then what was wrong with Wonwoo? What exactly was this feeling?

Wonwoo got his PJs out of his box and then went to take his shower which still took more time than it did for Mingyu to take a bath.

He'd finally met a 5 minute bathroom person and of course it just had to be Mingyu.

Wonwoo changed into his PJs and walked into the bedroom. He spotted Mingyu, ho was already fast asleep on the left side of the bed. He'd made a pillow barricade in the middle and left another sticky note.

Did he carry sticky notes everywhere?

Wonwoo pulled off the sticky note before reading it. 'Made a little border in case you're uncomfortable but you can remove it if you're not.' Wonwoo rolled his eyes before putting the sticky note back on the pillow and then turning off the lamps.

He got into the bed and covered himself with the blanket, fighting the urge to just stare at Mingyu all night. How did he manage to be so tempting every single day... and night?

Wonwoo reached out to touch Mingyu's cheek but pulled his hand back immediately. "Don't be dumb!" He scolded himself before turning to the other side.

If the pillow barricade was the only thing Wonwoo had in order to maintain his heartbeat, sanity and temperature, then the pillow barricade would have to do.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ⓒ︎OHWAYOHWAYOH
Started - 17/09/2024
Ended - n/a