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"Hyung?"
"Hmm? "
"Big hyung isn't asleep yet?" Jongin asked from the top bunk. "Little hyung?"
"Me? No. Kyungsoo isn't asleep either." Chanyeol replied in his deep voice.
"What's wrong?" His hands were still busy scrolling through funny videos that had passed by on his YouTube homepage.
Jongin then peeked over the top, peering at Chanyeol, who was chuckling silently, worried about disturbing anyone else. And by anyone else, it was only Jongin and Kyungsoo.
"Watching porns, aren't you, hyung?"
"No, I'm not!" Chanyeol kicked his foot toward the top bunk, making Jongin laugh and move away.
"Kyungsoo hyung? Hyung??" Jongin's head was still peeking out from the top bunk. To reach the bottom bunk, Jongin turned up the volume to reach his little hyung's ears.
"HYUNG!"
Chanyeol, annoyed by Jongin's constant calling for Kyungsoo, also looked under his bunk. "No wonder he couldn't hear you, he's wearing a headset."
Jongin sighed, "Oh my."
His feet now descended the small stairs beside the bed. He crept toward Chanyeol, who then hid his phone.
"That must be porn!" Jongin accused, pointing at his older hyung's face.
"Told you I'm not!" Chanyeol denied, shifting to make room on the small bed for Jongin. His legs were now overlapping the younger one's, as usual when they were close together.
"It's so cramped down here." Jongin said, shifting, looking for a comfortable position to lie down.
"What are you doing here?"
"Can't sleep," Jongin said casually, and Chanyeol pinched Jongin's waist.
"Ah, ah, ah, hyung, it hurts, it tickles!" Jongin laughed and winced.
"Which one? Hurt or ticklish??" Chanyeol asked, tickling Jongin's slender waist. His brown pajamas were slightly open, making Chanyeol's hands itch to touch them.
The three-tiered bed shook violently as Jongin squirmed out of his big hyung's grasp. Two adults shouldn't be joking around on a bunk bed like this. Moreover, these two tall people forgot that they were not the only ones occupying the bunk beds in this dormitory.
Both of them screamed in surprise when they saw Kyungsoo suddenly appear beside the middle bed, staring at them both with a blank stare.
"Jesus!" Chanyeol shouted, his eyes wide.
"You scared me!" Jongin exclaimed, clutching his chest, his heart nearly bursting out of his chest.
Kyungsoo put on a stern face. "You two are so noisy. It's already eleven o'clock, shouldn't you two be sleeping?"
"Chanyeol hyung is watching porn, you know." Jongin whispered reassuringly.
"Porn?? Let's set up the projector and watch together, then." Kyungsoo replied with sparkling eyes.
Jongin laughed out loud.
Chanyeol's face frowned in disbelief. "Gosh, you're all stupid."
Not long after, the door opened, and Junmyeon peeked in.
"You are all noisy! What are you guys doing...?"
The scene before the leader's eyes was far from sleep. Kyungsoo stood at the end of his bed, while Jongin and Chanyeol were huddled together on the middle bunk. The top and bottom beds were left with only a messy blanket, abandoned by their owners.
"Haven't you had enough of playing truth or dare?" Junmyeon asked, placing his hands on his hips.
Without waiting for a response from the three of them, Junmyeon turned off their bedroom lights.
"Sleep, you can't stay up late." Junmyeon said, closing their bedroom door slowly.
Suddenly the room became pitch black.
"Ugh, we could always switch the lights back on." Jongin whispered. He then grabbed his phone, turned on the flashlight, and went downstairs to turn on the lights.
Instead of returning to the top bunk, Jongin went back to pestering his big hyung on the middle bunk.
"What did I say? There's no need to stay in the dorm like this. A sleeping schedule is annoying, right?" Kyungsoo said as he climbed down and headed back to his own bunk.
The two fell silent. Of the five, Kyungsoo was the one who strongly refused to move back into their old dorm. However, due to a silly game and a losing bet, Kyungsoo was forced to give in for the sake of sportsmanship.
And, since they were still promoting their new album, Reverxe, staying together made it easier for the managers to arrange for all five of them to go to one place.
The five of them each carried their suitcases and headed to their old rooms. Sehun, as usual, shared a room with Junmyeon, while Chanyeol, Jongin, and Kyungsoo played rock, paper, scissors to determine who would occupy the top bunk.
Chanyeol pulled back the blanket, pushing Jongin away, who still hadn't moved from his bed.
"Now, speaking of truth or dare-"
Chanyeol snorted. "So that's why you can't sleep?"
"Hmm." Jongin pouting.
"Which question?"
The two of them were now lying face to face on Chanyeol's bed, with the sound of the clock now showing twenty minutes past eleven.
"Sehun's question, the one about the kiss."
Chanyeol furrowed his brows, trying to remember.
"Ugh, that one, 'Have you ever kissed someone, other than in movies/series?'" Jongin said, imitating Sehun's words earlier.
"Ahh." Chanyeol's memories are now back. "Then you answer that you haven't, right? Then the others don't believe it?"
Jongin then nodded.
"Because you've been in a relationship." Chanyeol answered again with a small laugh. "You never kissed when you were dating?"
"I was scared to do it, hyung. They're freaking idols."
"You're an idol too, freak." said Chanyeol with wide eyes.
Jongin chuckles, "Oh, right."
Then they both screamed in surprise as Kyungsoo suddenly appeared beside their bed again. Chanyeol hissed in annoyance, especially since he was easily startled. His hand was raised to hit Kyungsoo, but Kyungsoo dodged it.
"We're talking about Jongin who never kisses, huh?" Kyungsoo asked, getting straight to the point.
Jongin pouted even more. Now his two hyungs knew he'd never kissed anyone. Well, actually, Sehun and Junmyeon already knew, and Jongin felt fine with it.
But if this fact was known by Chanyeol and Kyungsoo, somehow Jongin felt like he had been stripped naked.
What a shame.
At the age of thirty two, he'd never laid his lips on anyone else.
"Why did he ask me that anyway, when you all have already kissed on camera." Jongin continued again while pinching the fabric of Chanyeol's blanket. "I was just... almost."
"That's what truth or dare is." Kyungsoo said casually. "Besides, kissing girls is all the same, nothing special. Chanyeol is the one who kissed a guy."
Like someone who had thrown a grenade and then ran away, Kyungsoo smiled mischievously and quickly got down on his bed, leaving the tall guys gaping.
"Right!" Jongin shouted, suddenly remembering that Chanyeol had kissed their leader on the lips.
He then sat down and grabbed Chanyeol's chest. "You! How come you kissed a girl AND a guy??"
"Kyungsoo, that brat!" Chanyeol growled, then got up and climbed down, this time he seriously wanting to strangle the little man on his bed. His long legs then jumped, because he thought it was too much time to climb down the small stairs, and in an instant, Kyungsoo was now beneath Chanyeol, curled up in laughter.
Jongin then followed the two of them to the bottom bunk. Chanyeol strangled him with both hands, gently, but Kyungsoo still had difficulty breathing. Kyungsoo laughed with ragged breaths. Jongin climbed on his little hyung's legs, gently hitting Chanyeol's body from behind, for whatever reason.
It felt just like old times, when the three of them were scolded by Junmyeon for causing a commotion in the bedroom.
"Enough, enough!" Kyungsoo slapped Chanyeol's thigh, calling for a time-out like in a professional wrestling show.
Chanyeol then removed his hand and grinned.
"Junmyeon hyung will come here again." Kyungsoo said while chuckling. He was now sitting up, holding his neck, which was burning from Chanyeol's large hand. Jongin, who was sitting on his legs, also moved aside and raised his index finger to his mouth, shushing everyone.
After the three of them took a few calming breaths, Kyungsoo spoke. "So, Jongin, are you curious about what it feels like to be kissed? Or what?"
Jongin shook his head, "Change of question, how does it feel to kiss a guy, hyung?"
Chanyeol felt like the question was directed at him, with two of them staring at him. He stuttered, the incident from late December of last year replaying in his head made his cheeks and ears flushed red.
"Junmyeon hyung said there was a Chanyeol taste in that kiss." Kyungsoo replied, as Chanyeol didn't respond.
"What do I taste like?" Chanyeol said, blushing even more. "Did he really say that?"
Kyungsoo nodded confidently. "If you want to ask about kissing, you really should go to the expert, this man right here." He put his hand to Chanyeol's shoulder.
The three of them laughed heartily, then covered their mouths again.
"So, how do Junmyeon hyung's lips taste?" Jongin asked, now curious.
The three of them now sat facing each other in a circle on the bottom bunk. Kyungsoo was grateful for the bottom bunk because it was wider than the two above him. It wasn't too cramped for the three of them to fit in.
"Junmyeon hyung's lips are thin, unlike your two thick ones." Chanyeol said, looking at the two of them.
Actually, Chanyeol wanted to know what it would be like to nib on Kyungsoo's thick lips since a long time ago. It all started when Chanyeol saw his drama as the crown prince. He had no idea that his longtime close friend was so good at kissing.
Then Chanyeol had also been curious about Jongin's lips since last year. The one Jongin showed off in the bubble on Valentine's Day. "Here you go, take the chocolate." It really made fans excited for the next three days, including Chanyeol. He touched the screen of his phone, trying to feel how full Jongin's lips were on his fingers.
Unconsciously, his fingers gently pinched Jongin's lips, startling the owner. Chanyeol didn't even have any excuse for why his hand had reached there.
"Uh, it's for measuring." It was a strange answer, even for Chanyeol himself. To ease the awkwardness, Chanyeol then did the same to Kyungsoo.
Kyungsoo then chuckled. He now understood what it was like to be his senior, Lee Kwangsoo, when he pinched both of his lips in Mexico a few months ago. It felt strange, and Kyungsoo felt ticklish.
"Is it the same?" Jongin asked, tilting his head, wanted to know the result about his random measurements.
Chanyeol nodded firmly.
"Actually, I'm curious too," Kyungsoo said. "...how does it feel to kiss a guy, because so far my role has always been paired with women."
Chanyeol swallowed hard, this was actually a small chance. If Kyungsoo had said the final words 'I want to try that', Chanyeol could happily volunteer right away. He was just waiting for the right moment, and currently no one had come forward to try.
The three of them were silent, and the air in the room grew colder as the night wore on.
Hesitantly, Chanyeol mustered up the courage to offer. If they refused, that was fine, it was just a try. But he had to do it, or he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
"Want to try?" Chanyeol whispered, as if worried that Junmyeon in the next room might hear him.
Seeing Kyungsoo slightly panic, Chanyeol rephrased himself. "No, this is just an example, for Jongin."
"Just an example?" Kyungsoo asked quietly.
Chanyeol nodded.
"With me?"
Jongin nodded.
"Just an example, Soo." Chanyeol said again. His petname for Kyungsoo came out, hoping Kyungsoo would melt.
Kyungsoo went silent still. Kissing a girl certainly felt different than kissing a guy, but Kyungsoo couldn't come to that conclusion because he'd never experienced it before.
"But does it really have to be with you?" Kyungsoo asked. His brows furrowed, still unsure that he would kiss his best friend of many years.
Chanyeol shrugged. "I'm the only one here who's ever kissed a guy."
"Wow, this kissing expert is so cocky." Jongin said sarcastically, his eyes glancing at his older brother, who was smiling proudly.
"Come on, hyung, give it a try." Jongin urged Kyungsoo again. "Just an example, for me."
"Is it going to be a brief kiss, or...?" Kyungsoo asked.
"It depends." Chanyeol replied, trying to relax, even though his heart was already pounding, almost dropping to his stomach.
"Just did it like in the last movie where hyung kissed." Jongin suggested.
Chanyeol then nodded, "Yeah, not too slow but not too fast, either."
Kyungsoo started to waver, his curiosity starting to overcome his doubts. But if not now, he didn't know when the opportunity would come. His manager has not given him a script for his romantic role with a man. There has been no offer of a Korean drama with the theme of boys love for Kyungsoo.
And as the cliche saying goes, if not now, when?
"But listen, this is just an example." Kyungsoo looked at the two friends in front of him. "...so Jongin doesn't die of curiosity."
"Yeah, just an example." said Jongin and Chanyeol almost at the same time.
"Okay." Kyungsoo said firmly.
As if he had won a lottery, Chanyeol's eyes lit up. His ears twitched slightly with a smile on his lips. He adjusted his sitting position cross-legged, and was now facing Kyungsoo.
"Jongin, take a look." Chanyeol said then cleared his throat.
"Wait, what did you eat last?" Kyungsoo asked, raising his palm toward Chanyeol.
"Do you have to ask that before a kiss, hyung?" Jongin asked, chuckling.
"No, just him."
Chanyeol then chuckled, trying to hide his nervousness. "We ate sushi together last time, and I already brushed my teeth."
Kyungsoo nodded and flipped his palm over, as if asking Chanyeol to start.
Chanyeol then brought his face closer, and Jongin let out a soft yelp. From the corner of Kyungsoo's eye, Jongin covered his face, leaving only his curious eyes.
The kiss was brief, with Chanyeol's lips pressing against Kyungsoo's plump bottom lip. With a wet smack, Chanyeol pulled away and looked at Kyungsoo's face.
"Right? That simple." Chanyeol said, clearing his throat awkwardly, trying to hide his excitement at kissing Kyungsoo.
"Now with tongue," Kyungsoo said, slapping Chanyeol's thigh twice. "...so that Jongin knows."
Chanyeol's eyes widened and he froze. With tongue meant the kiss would be more intense, more passionate, and more arousing. Chanyeol panicked, he'd been the one to propose the idea at the first place, and now he was the one who wanted to back out.
"Uh, for real?"
"Yeah, let's do it, we're already kissing anyway." Kyungsoo replied with a nod.
Chanyeol turned to Jongin, and Jongin nodded shyly.
---to be continued.