(content warning: contains make out scene and strong sexual language.)

five years later...

yunho and mingi stumbled into their shared apartment together; both a giggly, hot mess as they had been drinking all night long.

'drinking' all night.

"h-hey mingi." yunho burped out as he sloppily threw his arms around mingi's body.

"yeah?" mingi said as he shut the door and locked it behind them, yunho's body still wrapped around his own.

"we should go to your bed-bedroom." yunho suggested with a wink, knowing mingi knew exactly what he meant by that.

mingi smiled in response and nodded his head, not even bothering to open his mouth before bringing the boy into his bedroom.

"g-great idea." mingi replied as he threw yunho's body down on his bed and started kissing the boy intensely, wasting absolutely no time.

after graduating high school together, mingi and yunho ended up going to the same college as each other. in their first two years of school they decided to dorm, both with new people that they didn't know prior to meeting at their first day of college orientation. even though they were happy to attend the same school as one another, both boys thought that finding new people to mingle with would probably be best for them.

sadly, it didn't end too well for the duo. yunho hated his roommate from the first day he met him, the boy being extremely rude and, in specific, extremely homophobic. thankfully yunho found this information out before coming out to him, so he decided to keep that part of his life secret until he could find a new roommate.

mingi on the other hand had a great roommate, but the boy sadly transferred schools after finishing their second year of classes. this upset mingi, but yunho saw this as a perfect opportunity for the two of them to room together.

after much discussion amongst the two boys and their parents, they agreed on renting an apartment not too far from their school together. they figured it would be a great bonding experience for them, especially since they had already been attending the school for two years and they had a solid group of friends to stick by them. not to mention, yunho could finally officially come out.

mingi knew of yunho's sexuality ever since that one night in high school when yunho confessed his feelings for him. mingi never cared much about the fact that yunho was gay, but he aways secretly cared that yunho had feelings for him. not because he thought it was strange for his guy friend to like him, but because he couldn't help but think of yunho in ways that he didn't want to think of the boy. he wanted to view yunho as his best friend, and nothing more than that.

after that one night in high school, yunho and mingi had a serious conversation about their relationship. thankfully for mingi, yunho was very understanding of his point of view. yunho told mingi that he shouldn't worry about his feelings and that he'd get over it, and both boys continued on with their lives normally from that point on.

or so they thought...

since entering college, both boys experimented with different people; mingi hooking up with girls and yunho hooking up with guys. mingi even had a short term girlfriend during his sophomore year, but it ended rather quickly after the girl had cheated on him with another guy who lived on mingi's floor. yunho never found someone to settle down with, so he only occasionally hooked up with some of the openly gay students, or even closeted gay students, in the school.

what both boys never knew about each other was their true feelings for one another. even though yunho claimed that he had gotten over mingi, he never truly did. yunho would still think of his younger friend in ways that he shouldn't have, but he couldn't help how he felt deep down.

besides yunho, mingi had lots of secrets as well. ever since that one night in high school, mingi couldn't help but think of yunho in ways he shouldn't have been thinking about yunho. mingi had been straight his whole life, and he didn't want that to change. he figured it must've just been his mind messing with him since he and yunho were so close.

but then, one night, everything in mingi's mind changed.

-flashback-

"yunho, your twenty first is finally here!" mingi cheered as he walked into his roommates room who was getting ready for a night at the club to celebrate his twenty first birthday. even though mingi was a bit younger than yunho, he had a fake id and would have no trouble getting inside the club.

"i know, it's crazy how fast time flies by." yunho said as he finished buttoning up his polka dotted top and looked over to mingi.

"so, you're finally gonna get fucked up tonight?" mingi questioned his older friend with a smile and yunho chuckled in response, nodding his head yes.

"yeah, for the second time in my life." yunho replied nonchalantly, not thinking anything of it.

the same couldn't be said about mingi. the boy began having flashbacks to the night yunho got super drunk in high school... the same night yunho admitted his love for mingi. mingi immediately stiffened up at the memory but quickly shook it off, not wanting to ruin yunho's night with his overwhelming thoughts.

mingi didn't understand why he would always get a weird feeling in his stomach whenever he would think of that night.

"y-yeah, for the second time ever." mingi stuttered out as he turned around and made his way to the apartment's front door before anything could get awkward, "let's go before it gets too crowded!"

——

both boys entered the apartment, a stumbling mess after their long night at the club. yunho had attached himself to mingi's body in order to walk, allowing his younger friend to drag him inside their shared home.

"m-mingi." yunho burped out with his eyes closed after his friend threw him down on the couch so he could lock the front door.

"what is it y-yunho?" mingi stuttered out as he walked over to the couch and sat beside yunho.

"cuddle with me." yunho mumbled out as he threw his body lazily onto mingi's, hugging the boy tightly without bothering to open his eyes.

as soon as yunho's body touched mingi's, mingi felt a fire build in the pit of his stomach; the same fire that he had been ignoring for the past four years of his life. he suddenly began panicking as he tried to push yunho's body off of his own, but the boy was holding on too strong for mingi to push him off.

"yunho, maybe we shouldn't—"

"come ooon!" yunho cried out, "there's nothing wrong with cuddling." yunho pouted, finally opening his eyes for the first time since walking inside the apartment.

yunho innocently placed his hand on mingi's thigh, not thinking anything of the action. mingi stiffened up under yunho's touch but tried his best to play it off cool, hoping the older was too drunk to notice his sudden change in demeanor.

"i don't think you understand..." mingi trailed off and yunho grunted out loud as he rolled his eyes dramatically.

"come on, just cuddle with me. please?" yunho frowned as he looked into mingi's eyes with puppy dog eyes, his hand beginning to draw circles on mingi's thigh.

yunho's adorable plea and slight sexual advice was all too much for mingi in his drunk state. after years of stopping himself and denying any sort of attraction towards the boy, he leaned in and aggressively attacked yunho's lips with his own.

yunho's eyes suddenly went wide in shock but ultimately adjusted to the situation. the kiss was random to him, but he enjoyed every moment.

this was his first kiss with mingi. the kiss that he had been waiting for since he admitted his feelings to mingi years prior.

mingi suddenly backed away and looked into yunho's glossy eyes with a sly smile on his face, hungry for more.

"what was that for?" yunho drunkenly asked, voice sounding like a mixture of shock and happiness.

"how about we keep this a secret between us two... you know, we can hook up, help each other out, just have some fun every once in a while?" mingi asked as he stared down at yunho, eyes traveling up and down the boy's long body.

"i like that idea." yunho replied as he aggressively grabbed the back of mingi's neck and kissed him hard.

-end of flashback-

mingi continued to hover over yunho's slightly larger body, grinding his hips down on his intoxicated friend. yunho moaned loudly as he sloppily kissed mingi back.

"fuck, that f-feels so g-g-good daddy. i want you to f-fuck me again." yunho mumbled against mingi's lips, the words slurring out of his mouth as he spoke.

"you want me t-to fuck you hard, b-baby boy?" mingi moaned out as he continued grinding down on yunho's painfully hard member.

"please. u-use me. use me as your hole." yunho said back to mingi, triggering the boy he was trying to turn on.

mingi stiffened up a bit at yunho's slightly aggressive words, but he was thankfully able to shake it off. he continued kissing yunho's lips, his mind back on track after his minor slip up. yunho didn't notice mingi's quick change of behavior, so he continued doing what he would normally do anytime he and mingi hooked up.

"come on, f-fuck me now. use me like the dirty whore i am. i want my b-best friend to fuck m-me."

mingi suddenly stopped kissing yunho, eyes going wide after processing what the older had moaned out to him. mingi tried to shake it off like he always did, but he couldn't do it. for whatever reason, yunho's words hit differently for the younger boy this time around.

but, i don't want to use him. i want to love him... wait, what am i thinking?

yunho noticed mingi had stopped kissing him and he began internally panicking, praying that he didn't mess up his chances with the boy.

i always talk to him this way... why did he stop kissing me? did i go too far this time?

"mingi, are you o-ok?" yunho stuttered out, still sounding extremely drunk as he spoke.

mingi moved off of yunho's body and sat straight up on his bed, his previous drunk state vanishing in thin air. he stared straight ahead for a moment before burying his head in his large hands, running his fingers through his brown hair stressfully.

yunho quickly shot up from his spot on mingi's bed, looking worried for his friend. he suddenly realized he was breaking character and so he slouched his body again, placing his hand on mingi's thigh and rubbing it suggestively.

"mingi, what's w-wrong?" yunho burped out as he continued rubbing, looking up into mingi's eyes with a wink.

mingi suddenly couldn't take it anymore, his mind driving him absolutely insane.

i can't take it anymore... i need to tell him. i need to tell him what i've been thinking about. i can't keep holding back. it needs to happen.

"yunho, stop it. we need to stop this, right now." mingi quickly grabbed onto yunho's hand and lifted it off his thigh, throwing it to the side in frustration. yunho furrowed his eyebrows as he shut his eyes, acting as if he was still extremely drunk.

"whyyy." yunho dragged out, still sounding intoxicated.

"because i'm not really drunk, and we need to talk about this." mingi said back as he huffed out, eyes looking down into his lap rather than into yunho's eyes. yunho decided to cut his act, taking a deep breath as well before speaking.

"if i'm being honest... neither am i. i'm sober as hell actually. i only had two drinks." yunho said as he awkwardly scratched the back of his head.

"wow, i only had one!" mingi laughed, trying to make light of the situation before the heavy conversation went down.

yunho didn't laugh along with mingi. instead, he just looked at the boy with a pout on his face.

"sorry for laughing, i just know this conversation is going to be a hard one to have and i was trying to make light of the situation." mingi apoligzed when he noticed the look on yunho's face.

"don't apologize, there's no need for an apology... but i wouldn't mind an explanation right about now." yunho said as he grabbed a pillow from behind him to cover his still hard member.

"well i have a lot of explaining to do, don't i?" mingi laughed, "um... well for starters, as you can tell i wasn't drunk. but apparently you weren't either, so..." mingi trailed off.

"yeah..." yunho trailed off as well, looking down at his lap rather than mingi's eyes.

"uh... so as you obviously know, we've been hooking up for the past year or so. after that first time we hooked up, the time we were actually drunk, i realized a lot of things." mingi said, speaking softly as to not startle both yunho or himself.

as he was finally admitting these feelings to yunho, he was also finally admitting them to himself.

"what did you realize, mingi?" yunho asked, sounding very curious.

"ah..." mingi started out, running his fingers through his hair again and pulling at the strands. yunho quickly lifted his hands and took mingi's own hands out of his hair, stopping him from pulling out the delicate strands on his head.

"mingi, it's ok. whatever you have to say, i'm here to listen to you. you know that you never have to be nervous around me." yunho said with a smile on his lips, calming mingi's nerves down a bit.

"thank you, you're really the best." mingi smiled back, "uh... if i'm being honest, i've never been drunk for any of our hookups. i mean, i obviously was for the first one... but i remembered everything the next day, and i made a conscious decision to only hook up with you when i was sober." mingi began explaining his part of the story, shocking yunho a bit.

"that's crazy because i did the exact same thing." yunho uncomfortably laughed, lifting his hand and scratching the back of his head as he spoke.

"yunho, why do we do this? why do we pretend to get drunk so we can hook up?" mingi began questioning his friend, more questioning himself than anything.

i know why i do it. i know the reason, mingi thought to himself.

"i-i, uh... i don't really know, i guess." yunho shrugged, a frown forming on his face.

well i know why i do it, my feelings for him never really faded like i said they would, yunho thought to himself.

"it's just... it's--"

"mingi, do you have something you want to tell me? i mean it when i say you can tell me anything, and you really look like you're hurting right now. it's breaking my heart to see you this way." yunho said, meaning each and every word he said wholeheartedly.

"i just, i just... i— fuck, yunho. i think i like you. you know, as more than just a friend." mingi spit out, shocking both him and yunho in the process.

both boys sat wide eyed on mingi's bed, hearts beating out of their chests.

"mingi... did i hear you correctly? do you mean that?" yunho asked, honestly not sure if he heard the boy correctly or if his mind was just playing jokes on him.

"i think, i mean... wait— no. i know that i like you, yunho. you heard me correctly. i k-know that i like you." mingi stuttered out, choking up on his words as the tears started filling up in his eyes.

yunho's heart dropped when he saw how distraught his friend was getting over the whole situation. he quickly moved the pillow that was laying on his lap and sat up, sitting right beside mingi as he did so. he leaned over and embraced the boy, hugging him and rubbing circles on his back as mingi began crying hard.

"mingi, it's ok. there's no reason to cry." yunho whispered into the boy's ear.

"no, there is a reason to cry! i'm straight yunho... why do i like you? why do i like my best friend, my guy best friend?" mingi screamed out as the tears continued falling from his eyes. yunho didn't take his words to heart, knowing the boy was saying this stuff because of how confused he was.

"mingi, look at me. things like this happen! aren't yeosang and jongho still together? you know, jongho, the boy who had a girlfriend only a few months before dating yeosang? he was never gay, he went through the same mess as you're going through. now, he doesn't label his sexuality because he doesn't know exactly what it is. this is what happens, mingi. sexuality is fluid. you could like girls all your life, but suddenly a boy comes in and changes everything, or vice versa. life is crazy, and you can never truly predict what'll happen." yunho said to the boy as he continued hugging him, comforting mingi under his touch.

"i know, i know... but i'm just scared, yunho. i'm scared to be with a guy. i'm scared of my feelings. i'm scared of it all! no offense to you, but why do i have to like you? i just wish i could like a girl, everything would be so much easier if i liked a girl." mingi said as he let go of yunho, making yunho laugh in response.

"damn, me too man! do you think it's been easy for me my whole life? first of all, my family wasn't accepting of my sexuality. after years of torture, attempts to send me to conversion camp and countless beatings, they grew to understand that being gay isn't a choice. but sadly, i got hell for years because of it.

and then, i kept it a secret from all of our friends because i liked you! i liked you, my best friend since i was a child. you were the person that made me realize that i liked boys. don't you think that was hard? going my whole life knowing that the boy that i liked would never like me back?

and on top of that, i stupidly got drunk one night and spilled all my feelings to you. do you know how many times i cried myself to sleep wishing that i never said those things because i knew it was negatively affecting our friendship?

and also, do you know how many times i've cried myself to sleep because i still liked you? yeah, i said it. i never stopped liking you, song mingi. even after i said i'd get over you, i never actually got over you. you would bring home girls, take them to this exact bed... the same bed that we'd hook up on at least once a week, and i'd be in my room crying. crying because you were the one that i wanted, but you only wanted me when you were wasted. well, at least that's what i thought at the time...

but mingi, no one ever said being with the same sex was easy. no one ever said liking someone of the same sex was easy. but at the end of the day, you can't help who you like. these things happen, and you can't do anything to change them." yunho finished explaining everything he'd been dying to tell mingi for what felt like ages to him, letting out a big sigh after finally getting everything off his chest.

mingi took another deep breath before speaking again. he knew yunho was right and that there was nothing he could do to change his feelings; the only thing he could really do was tackle them head on.

"i know that it's not easy, i mean... i'm in the same boat right now. and i'm sorry for hurting you. if i'm being honest, when you'd tell me you were staying in a guy's room or if a guy was staying with you here, i'd get really upset too. it would break my heart when you'd do that, but i couldn't do anything about it. i had to pretend i wasn't hurting, i had to pretend you didn't mean anything to me in that way; partially because i didn't want you to know about my feelings, but also because i didn't want to admit them to myself. and it sucked, yunho. i'm so tired of it." mingi said as he lifted his head and looked straight into yunho's eyes, his own eyes filled with tears that were threatening to fall.

"so," yunho gulp, "what are you going to do about it?" yunho asked as he cocked an eyebrow.

mingi looked down at yunho's plump lips and licked his own before meeting yunho's eyes. instead of speaking on the manner, mingi decided to lean in and give yunho a kiss.

unlike their usual kisses, this kiss was filled with love and passion rather than lust and aggression. the kiss was slow and sweet, both boys enjoying each other's unique taste.

mingi snaked his hand behind yunho's neck to deepen the kiss. yunho put his hands around mingi's neck loosely, smiling to himself as he continued to kiss the boy.

mingi eventually backed away and smiled at the boy in front of him. a light shade of pink blushed across yunho's cheeks, the boy looking down into mingi's lap for a brief second before meeting the younger's eyes.

"i think, what i'm going to do about it, is see how this goes. see how 'us' works." mingi said as he grabbed yunho's hands from around his neck and held onto them tightly, resting them in his lap.

"so... you want to try 'us' out?" yunho said with a wide smile.

"as long as you're willing to take baby steps with me, i wouldn't want anything more in this world." mingi smiled back as he pressed his forehead to yunho's.

yunho squealed out of excitement and quickly leaned in to give mingi a peck on the lips. he then wrapped his arms around mingi and held the boy tightly, breathing in his scent as he did so.

"i'm more than willing to help you. one day at a time, babe." yunho said as he continued to hug mingi tightly. mingi hugged yunho back equally as tight, rubbing the boy's back as he replied.

"yes. one day at a time."

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT... so here you go, some closure on yungi!!! i had the plan to leave them open ended from the beginning, but i was so excited to write this epilogue and give you their extended story. it was my favorite out of all four!!!

and also btw i know they're obviously supposed to be in korea and whatnot, but i'm from america so drinking age and everything kinda confuses me for korea... you know because they add like a year or whatever so i just stuck with america's rule of twenty one. also, most people would turn twenty one in their third year of college in america so that's why they've been hooking up for the past year or so since they're supposed to be seniors in college in this epilogue🥴

the next chapter really is the last...

-vic