"So you knew, hmm?" Minho asked as he cut the onions for dinner.

Jisung turned around and raised his wet hands apologetically. "Yes, I knew. I was with Chan to choose the ring. But he wanted me to promise him to keep it to me."

With the knife in his hand, Minho turned around and slowly walked towards Jisung.

"To keep it secret from me?" Minho asked in disbelief.

Jisung stared at Minho and then at the knife for a moment and had to laugh.

Grinning, Minho put the knife away and pulled Jisung to him and kissed him gently.

"Come on, let's finish cooking. Chan certainly has a lot planed again for tomorrow and surprisingly I'm pretty done somehow."

"Me too. My legs probably won't even manage to carry me up the stairs..."

"My poor baby," Minho said sympathetically and kissed Jisung on the neck after throwing the ingredients into the pot.

"Yes," Jisung said wistfully and with a pout on his lips. He had turned around and was about to pull Minho to him when he evaded him laughing.

"If we continue like this, we will never finish cooking!"

Sighing, Jisung turned around again and washed the vegetables so that Minho could be cut them into pieces.

"Can I still help you somehow, honey ?" Jisung asked with a smile.

"Rather not. You and knifes, that's not a good idea and we both know that. Better go and set the table."

With aching legs, Jisung went to the table and placed glasses and plates.

Loud laughter could be heard from above from the bathroom, which made Jisung look up.

"Well, they seem to be having fun," said Minho laughing.

"What a hassle that we will spoil their fun right away," Jisung said and grinned badly.

"You are welcome to do that. I don't feel like bursting in there when they are making out."

Jisung pinched the comment that was on his tongue and just nodded.

He had been on tour with Chan and Changbin so many times that they knew almost everything about each other. Between common hotel rooms, narrow changing rooms and quick outfit changes during the concerts, there was not much room for privacy.

Apart from that, Jisung had stayed over night at Chans so many times before they had become trainees, they had gone on vacation together and cause of that there had been very little that they didn't know about each other.

Changbin had on the one hand first to get used to changing in front of the two and on the other hand how close Jisung and Chan were and that they had gotten used to sharing everything with each other.

"How much longer do you need?" he finally just asked.

"So in about ten to fifteen minutes the food will be ready."

"Ok, then maybe I'll let them know now..." Jisung said with a sigh and made his way up.

But contrary to his fears, Chan and Changbin were in the shower together, but they didn't seem to have sex with each other. At least there was still laughter from the bathroom and no moaning.

Nevertheless, Jisung knocked to be on the safe side and waited a moment before he went into the bathroom.

"Hmm?", questioningly, Chan stuck his head out of the shower, while Changbin hid behind him.

"I should let you know that the food is about to be ready," Jisung said with a grin and was about to leave the bathroom, when Chan stopped him.

"Little one, could you give us-"

"NO! No matter what it's about, I can't help you."

Jisung wanted to leave the bathroom in a hurry, but Chan quickly reached out of the shower and held him tight.

"God Ji, I just wanted you to get our bathrobes out of the bedroom. For the fact that you wanted to seduce me the other day, you are really shy now," Chan said laughing.

"He wanted what?!" Changbin asked astonished behind him while Jisung fled from the bathroom.

Nevertheless, he brought the bathrobes out of the bedroom.

"Little one, we're still talking about it," Jisung heard Changbin shout, just as he was about to leave the bedroom.

Giggling, he left the two to themself and went down the stairs to Minho, who had leaned yawning against the kitchenette.

"Are you tired?" he asked and leaned against Minho.

He nodded and put his arms around Jisung.

"If Chan and Changbin don't come down soon, can we eat alone and then go to bed?"

"Of course we can do that!" Jisung said with a grin and kissed Minho.

Just as the two had sat down at the table and agreed not to wait any longer for Chan and Changbin, the two came down the stairs in bathrobes and with wet hair.

Actually, Minho wanted to complain to both of them that the food was now almost cold again - which was not true - and that he was really tired, but the two looked so happy that he couldn't stand that.

"Well, you Lovebirds, did you finally come to eat," Jisung said and raised his eyebrows with a grin.

"Just keep blaspheming, you two. We were just talking about our wedding, that's all!" said Chan and shook his head.

Jisung and Minho nodded with a grin and then concentrated on the food. Because all four of them were tired and wanted to go to sleep.

Minho had once again proved that he was absolutely insane in the kitchen.

After they had eaten and cleared the table together, they finally went upstairs together.

"Are we no longer getting good night kisses now that you are engaged?" Jisung asked sadly.

Quickly, Chan had pulled him into his arm and gently laid his lips on Jisung's.

Changbin watched the two grinning for a moment and then looked at Minho. "Would you like a kiss too?"

Minho looked at him badly, but then nodded almost shyly.

Smiling, Changbin pulled Minho to him and kissed Minho gently.

"Partner exchange?" Chan asked, laughing.

Jisung nodded smiling and let himself be pulled into the arm by Changbin, who had let Minho go shortly before. Jisung gently kissed Changbin and then leaned against him.

Chan pulled Minho to him, but instead of kissing him, Minho put his head on Chan's shoulder and pulled him closer. Smiling, Chan stroked Minho's back with one hand and buried the other in his blonde hair.

Minho closed his eyes and leaned against him. He felt like he could fall asleep standing in Chan's arms.

"Come on, give me a kiss and then go to bed!"

Tired, Minho stretched out and kissed Chan before he let go yawning, took Jisung's hand and pulled him into the bedroom with him.

"Good night, you cuties," Chan shouted after the two.

"Good night," Jisung and Minho shouted before Minho closed the door behind them.

"Do you want to take a shower before we go to sleep?" Jisung asked. But Minho just shook his head tiredly.

Yawning, Minho took off his pants and threw them relatively carelessly on the armchair that stood in a corner of the room.

"The shirt too," Ji murmured and chewed on his lower lip while he waited for the Minho to comply with his request.

Tired grinning, Minho pulled the T-shirt over his head and also threw it on the armchair.

With a smile, Ji also took off his pants and shirt and together they went to the bathroom to brush their teeth.

When they finally lay in bed together, Minho pulled Jisung close to him and kissed him gently.

"Sleep well, baby! And dream something beautiful!" he murmured with his eyes closed and buried his face in Jisung's hair.

"Sleep well, honey!" Jisung said, reaching for Minho's hand and intertwined their fingers.

A short time later, both of them, snuggled close to each other, fell asleep.

Changbin had long since fallen asleep in Chan's arms, but the older one found it difficult to fall asleep.

He would have liked to have rolled back and forth in bed hoping to find a position where he could fall asleep better, but he didn't want to wake Changbin. And he didn't really want to let him go either.

But finally he gave up.

Carefully he detached himself from Changbin and stood up. He quietly went into the bedroom of Minho and Jisung to see if everything was okay with them.

The two slept snuggled close to each other and Chan had to smile immediately when he saw it. Calm, he closed the door behind him again and went down.

For a moment he thought about whether he should go into the pool again, but the pool was just too small to swim for real laps.

Sighing, he grabbed a wool blanket from the sofa and sat down on the bench on the terrace.

The night air was quite cool, but that didn't really bother him.

Here in the mountains, with so significantly fewer light sources than in Seoul where everything actually shone even at night, you could see the stars much better.

Yawning, Chan leaned back.

"Well. Can't you sleep again?" a voice sounded behind him.

At first, Chan had jumped off the bench almost terribly, but he quickly realized that Minho had stepped out of the patio door behind him and relaxed again.

"Why are you awake?" he asked him and opened his arms so that Minho could sit with him wrapped in the blanket. What the younger one immediately did.

Caringly, Chan covered them both again and Minho leaned against him.

"You woke me up," Minho said, shrugging his shoulders.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to!" Chan said sadly.

"I know. It's not that bad!" said Minho and snuggled closer to Chan. "Why can't you sleep?"

"I have so many things in my head that need to be done. And I'm really worried about Ji. Whether he will manage to go back to the studio and train in two weeks. The probability that they will kick him or all of us out is unfortunately quite high if we won't start again soon," Chan leaned his head against Minhos with a sigh.

"I think Ji is stronger than we think. And as he himself knows. But in the end, it will only show up if he tries. And you don't have to solve all the other things on your own! We can help you!" Minho said decisively.

"Thank you!" Chan murmured.

For a moment, the two remained seated until they slowly became too cold.

"Do you need anything else before we go back to bed? A tea or a hot milk with honey?" asked Minho.

"I don't even know if we bought honey. But I think it will help if you take me in your arms again."

Smiling, Minho pulled Chan into his arms and pressed the elder tightly to him.

"Would you also like a kiss?" Minho asked quietly, with a knowing grin on his lips.

Chan bit the lower lip, but couldn't prevent his head from nodding by itself.

Minho gently put a hand on his cheek and kissed the older one.

Chan groaned and let Minho push him against the next best wall.

"Kissing you drives me crazy!" moaned Chan, while Minho was busy leaving a wet trail of kisses and bites on Chan's neck.

"I'll just make sure you have other thoughts," said Minho, raising his eyebrows and grinning sassily at Chan.

For a moment they stood there panting and pressed close to each other. Again, Minho pulled Chan to him and kissed him demandingly.

Finally, they separated from each other and Minho looked at Chan with a tired grin.

"Do you think you can sleep now?"

"Hmm.. At least my head is busy with other things now," Chan said and laughed softly.

"Well, come on then."

Hand in hand they went up the stairs and after a last, very gentle kiss, they went back to their own bedroom.

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