[ c h a n ' s, j e o n g i n ' s a n d f e l I x ' s a p a r t m e n t ]
[ 18th O c t o b e r ]

"Bye guys, have fun in the cinema", Chan waved after Felix and Jeongin. The pair waved back and Felix spoke up before Chan closed the door: "Thank you and good luck Channie hyung." Jeongin smiled widely and nodded enthusiastically. Then Felix grabbed his hand the two of them started to make their way downstairs.

Chan closed the door behind himself and sighed relieved.

He'd managed to finally get them to go out with each other after almost a year of them denying their feelings for each other. It had been a rough time for him as a roommate and best friend. It was one of the most relieving things he'd witnessed so far. Well, right after Minho returning his feelings.

Chan and Minho had been dating for one and a half years now. It didn't feel that long to Chan though. He still felt like he'd met Minho only a month ago, ignoring the fact that he hadn't liked Minho back then and had still been emotionally unstable because of Yi.

They'd been taking things slowly. They'd used the first months of dating to actually get to know each other. It had been a somewhat difficult time for both Minho and Chan because they had to face things they weren't that comfortable with but both of them found it necessary. It was important to them to know the flaws as well as the gratitudes of the other. Then of course the skin sip was different to Chan's first relationship. They treated each other carefully especially because Minho was rather uncomfortable with skin ship. It was a learning progress but Chan loved every minute he got with Minho. The other just had a special effect on Chan he couldn't describe.

Generally speaking, Chan was glad that Minho had stayed with him. Whenever the 17th October had arrived -and that had happened two times so far- he'd been scared to be left alone again. Of course Chan knew Minho wouldn't leave him, he'd made that clear many times, but the day still kind of pushed him back into his depression, making him scared all over again.

Last year Minho had taken him on a date to make him feel safer. Of course, if you'd ask Minho, he'd straight up deny that and just tell you that he'd been going out with Chan because he felt like doing so, but Chan knew that Minho cared.

They'd been in a fancy restaurant at first but Chan couldn't take it serious. He'd just felt like it wasn't them. Therefore they left and settled down in a small pancake restaurant. They'd loved it there. Chan had spent the night at Minho's and Seungmin's place and it ended up being one of the best dates they'd had.

The day after (aka the 18th October) Chan had showered Minho in gifts to thank him. The younger of course had denied them at first but Chan had insisted.

This year they sadly weren't able to see each other yesterday because both of them had been busy with work. Chan still had felt unsure and a bit sad but much better than the year before.

Today he planned to gift Minho yet another gift as a thank you for staying with him for this long. They'd agreed on a dinner date. Minho had no clue and Chan was really excited to see the younger's reaction to his gift.

He'd spent the last few hours preparing with the help of Felix and Jeongin, who'd helped even though they had a date planned. The gift was now peacefully sleeping in Chan's room isolated from anything that could harm it.

Lost in his thoughts Chan had walked back into the kitchen to prepare the dinner table. When he dropped a knife he was pulled back into reality and actually focused on what he was doing. None of them had had the time the cook something so Minho would bring some takeout and it was Chan's job to prepare the dinner table. He wanted it to look nice.

The doorbell crossed his plans and Chan looked at the clock in disbelief. It really was that late. He'd been lost in his thoughts way too long.

Hurried he went to the door and opened it for his boyfriend. The younger stood in front of it with two bags of food, smiling.

"Hi Min", Chan smiled. "Hey Looser", he grinned back and got in after kissing Chan's cheek. Chan blushed as usual, then turned to grab the bags of food. "No, no, no, I am carrying them", Minho said when he noticed Chan's intentions and got the bags out of Chan's reach. "But Min you've been carrying them the whole way here", Chan protested. "Okay so? I think I have enough power to carry them into your kitchen." The younger grinned again and walked off towards the kitchen. Chan just sighed. He was used to this behaviour.

When he arrived in the kitchen Minho had put down the food and stared at the dinning table in disbelief. "You haven't even prepared anything. A bit more work please", he complained, a playful pout on his lips. "That's because I haven't had the time yet. There's something I wanted to show you first though." Minho raised his eyebrows. "Don't look at me like that", Chan pouted. "I'm just kidding Bub." Minho hurried over to him. "What did you want to show me?", he asked and grabbed Chan's hand. "Well you have to close your eyes or else there'll be no surprise", Chan said and his boyfriend sighed and did so. "Please hurry, I'm hungry."

Chan just pulled him along into his room where the gift was still sleeping on his bed. He checked if everything was safe first, then he told Minho to open up his eyes. The younger looked around, probably questioning his boyfriend when he suddenly noticed the orange animal on Chan's bed. The orange haired stared at it in disbelief and then turned to Chan.

"A kitten. What do you want with a kitten? Chan hyung you're not a cat person", he asked quietly, trying his best not to wake up the small animal. "Well, it's good that it's for you then." "Ha ha ha funny joke. For real now, why is there a kitten on your bed? A really cute one to be exact." "Again, it is for you. I don't want it. You know what day yesterday was and you're still with me. So yeah, thank you", Chan looked down to the ground a bit ashamed while saying that, fiddling with his fingers.

Silence filled the room. Chan could only hear his boyfriend breathing in a few times as if he wanted to say something and then not saying anything.

That was until he was pulled into a tight hug.

Chan'd never been hugged like this by anyone. It felt amazing. Small tingles appeared wherever Minho touched him and Chan's face flushed red once again. He hugged Minho back as tight as he could, trying to put all of his love and affection for the younger into the hug. Then Minho pulled back a bit and looked at him lovingly.

"Thank you my love", he mumbled and then leaned forward to kiss Chan. Another tingle went down through his body, starting from where Minho's lips touched his.

They stayed like this for a few minutes, the kiss intensifying as it got longer. To Chan's dissatisfaction he needed to breathe so they broke apart both breathing heavily.

"I love you", Chan said after he had consumed enough air to do so. Minho smiled and stroke through Chan's hair. "I love you too Looser", he said and made Chan laugh. "Really Min?" The other's smile only grew wider. "Well, I'm gonna go and prepare the table. You stay here and accompany the cat. It's name is Creamy by the way. The animal rescuing centre named it that. Apparently this cat likes to steal cream. They found it in front of a bakery and the owners told them that cream would disappear randomly so the ones who found the cat put one and one together and named it Creamy", Chan explained and Minho pouted and tightened his grip around Chan. "I don't want you to go though." Chan only shook his head and freed himself from his boyfriend's grip. "I'm over there", he pointed towards the door behind them, "you can come anytime you want to. Now go and meet your cat", he continued and gestured towards the now awake cat on the bed. "Okay", Minho sighed and turned towards the cat.

It seemed like he'd forgotten about the other's existence after only a few seconds. That was Chan's sign to leave. He turned around and left the room.

This time he actually prepared the dinner table. The food had gotten cold because they'd taken too long so Chan heated it up again. He also put some flowers onto the table and some nicer dishes. When he was finished he scanned the table and nodded contented. He called Minho over to eat the food and the younger came running into the kitchen directly into Chan's arms.

"Creamy is wonderful. Thank you so so so much hyung." "No problem, I know how much you love cats. You don't have to use hyung, you know? You barely use it anyways so there's no need to call me hyung in special occasions." "There is!", Minho exclaimed and backed away a bit. "It feels special when I do use it. So in some cases I use it to show how sincere I am", he continued and directed his gaze onto the floor. Chan once again blushed and went over to shower the younger with small kisses all over his face.

"Okay, okay, I get it you love me, can we eat now?", Minho asked and put a distance in between them again by pushing Chan away a bit. His era tips were red. "Yeah of course, take a seat", Chan gestured towards the table.

They ate and Minho swarmed about how much he loved the cat. Afterwards they went and cuddled on Chan's bed to make sure the cat was safe. They'd put on a movie on Chan's laptop but it was obvious that none of them were closely paying attention.

"I've been thinking...", Minho started, "I don't really know what to do with the cat." "Well, if you're okay with that, it could stay here until Seungmin moves in with Changbin. I could bring it then", Chan suggested. "No, I don't think that's a good idea. It'll get used to this environment and won't feel comfortable in our apartment." "You've got a point there. Well it can stay here as long as you need it to be." "Thank you. I'll talk with Min tomorrow and we're gonna work out something. It's just two months so it'll probably be okay for him." "Okay good", Chan said, unsure of what Minho wanted him to say.

There was a silence and the cat sat down next to them, suddenly really fascinated by the computer screen.

"That's not the point of this conversation though", Minho started again. "Well, what is it?", Chan asked. His boyfriend nervously went with his hand through his hair so Chan decided to take it.

Holding the other's hand as a gesture of comfort had gotten their thing. Whenever Chan felt Minho's hand in his, he felt safe and full of comfort and he was guessing it was the same for his boyfriend. The other always relaxed when Chan grabbed his hands.

"I want you to move in with me", Minho stated, making Chan's eyes widen in surprise. "Didn't you want to take it slow?" "Yeah, but it's because I'd be lonely. I could've asked anybody. Sadly our entire friend group already has their own apartment and is not searching and again, I don't want to be alone, so I figured I could ask you."

Chan knew exactly that loneliness wouldn't be a problem to Minho. No, Minho actually liked being on his own. He would never say it out loud, but Chan knew his boyfriend wanted him to be around and it made him even happier.

He leaned in and kissed Minho for a few seconds.

Then he smiled widely and said: "Yes please. With the biggest pleasure."

His boyfriend only stared at him in awe and Chan couldn't keep himself from staring back.

Oh god he loved Minho so much.

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