After Yunho was done paying for his clothes, Mingi picked the shopping bags up and Yunho blushed, trying to take it from Mingi's hands. "It's f-fine Mingi! I can hold it myself!" Yunho tried taking the shopping bags but Mingi pulled it back, putting his hands behind his back as he watched Yunho trying very hard to take the shopping back, running around him.

"It's okay, pup. I'll hold this. Let's go." Mingi said calmly, making Yunho whine and Dongwoon glared at the scene in front of him. Mingi saw how Dongwoon's face was red with rage and smirked, before taking all of the shopping bags in one hand and grabbing Yunho's hand on his other hand.

Yunho blinked, looking at his hand that was intertwined with Mingi and blushed hard. "M-mingi?" Mingi hummed, pulling Yunho and started walking out of the shop. "You can hold my hand instead. Let's go. Where do you wanna go next?"

Yunho let himself be led by Mingi, staring at the floor shyly. "Uh.. I want to b-buy some games." Mingi hummed, "Where is the store?"

"In Hongdae. Near Hongik University."

Mingi let Yunho's hand go as he opened the back car door, putting all the shopping bags in while Yunho went to sit in front, waiting for Mingi patiently while patting his face in hope his blush would fade away. Mingi entered the car and started it before Yunho looked over to him and tilted his head. "Are we really going there?"

Mingi frowned a bit at the question before nodding his head, "Yes, you said you want to go there. Why?"

"Nothing. My former bodyguards usually won't let me go and send me home." Yunho huffed, puffing up his cheeks and Mingi pinched the said cheek without thinking, making Yunho blushed again. Mingi realized what he had done and cleared his throat. "Well, you promised not to run away from me, so there's no need for me to prevent you from letting you go whenever you want."

"Thank you, Mingi."

"No need to thank me, I'm just doing my job." Mingi smiled as he started driving to Hongdae. Yunho gave him a small kitty smile and turned on the radio, singing every song that he knew while Mingi listened to it quietly.

--

They arrived 45 minutes later as there was some traffic. Mingi stopped the car in front of the shop and looked over to Yunho fondly. The latter had fallen asleep 15 minutes ago and Mingi took this time to properly look at Yunho's face. He's even cuter when sleeping.. What am I doing, really? I never fall in love with the people I had to protect before.. But I don't want to deny my feelings either.. I guess I will just see if Yunho really likes me back and we'll see. Mingi thought before stroking Yunho's hair gently, waking him up.

"Pup, wake up. We're here."

Yunho stirred, leaning into Mingi's hand more and the bodyguard stroked his hair again until Yunho opened his eyes. "Hmm..?" Mingi chuckled lightly, seeing how sleepy Yunho is right now. "We're here." Yunho stretched and yawned, rubbing his eyes with his fists and blinked the sleepiness away. "Let's go!" Yunho suddenly said happily, making Mingi blinked at the sudden mood change in Yunho, shaking his head amusedly.

They went into the store and Yunho quickly grabbed Mingi's hand, pulling him into the section he always went to buy his games. "Help me find some new and fun games!"

"What genre do you like to play?"

"Hm.. I don't really care. I play anything as long as it is fun."

"Even horror games?"

"Mh-hm. Even that. You know I'm not afraid of anything." Yunho said before whining at the last word making Mingi chuckled, nodding his head.

"Just checking. I think this game looks fun." Mingi said, picking a game and showing it to Yunho. Yunho took it and hummed, reading the summary of the game and nodded his head, "I'm buying this then. You'll be staying at my house from now on, right?" Yunho asked, giving Mingi a hopeful stare.

"Yeah. My room is right next to yours." Mingi nodded his head and Yunho perked up brightly. "Then I want to buy some games that can be played with you!" Yunho said excitedly, looking at the games that he could play with Mingi. Mingi only smiled, watching Yunho choosing the games fondly. He loves the way Yunho's cheeks puffed up whenever he smiles and he vowed to himself to always make the taller smile.

"Oh! I found it! We can play this game together!" Yunho excitedly picked the game he had found and showed it to Mingi. Mingi paled a little when he looked at the game and laughed awkwardly. "C-can't we play something else. Like other than horror one?" Mingi asked carefully, making Yunho tilted his head and smirked knowingly.

"Are you afraid?" Yunho teased Mingi, making Mingi huffed lightly, "What? No. I've never been afraid in my life before." Yunho giggled at the blatant lie, "Ei.. You're afraid of this aren't you? You don't like horror things, is it?"

Mingi huffed and gave up to lie so he nodded his head. "Yes, I don't like horror things. Can you pick something else instead?"

"But I wanna try this one!" Yunho insisted, pouting as he looked at Mingi with wide puppy eyes. Mingi's heart skipped a beat at Yunho's puppy eyes, melting instantly and sighed softly. "...Find.. We can try play it.." Yunho bounced at that, giving Mingi a hug. "Thank you! You can sleep in my room if you're too afraid to sleep alone in yours!"

Mingi spluttered at that, coughing slightly as he choked on his saliva. "W-what?"

"What? My room is big enough and we could just take one of the mattresses in the other empty rooms and put it in my room." Yunho explained confusedly.

Mingi blinked before feeling like teasing the taller to revenge on what he did earlier. Mingi went up close to Yunho which Yunho gulped, staggering backwards and smiling awkwardly at Mingi. "Your bed is big enough too. What do you think?"

"W-what?!" Yunho gasped, blushing mad as his mind started thinking about dirty thoughts. Mingi seemed to notice this and smirked. "What is in that cute head of yours? I'm only saying that we can sleep on the bed together because your bed is big enough for us 2. Not doing something else."

"I'm n-not thinking anything e-else!!!" Yunho stuttered out while whining, covering his red face with his arms, making Mingi laugh light-heartedly. "Yeah? Your face says otherwise, though."

"S-shut up! M-min!!!!" Yunho whined, not aware of the nickname he had given Mingi and the bodyguard smiled softly at it, loving the name that Yunho called him. "Okay okay. I'll stop. Choose your other games, pup." Mingi ruffled Yunho's hair lightly and Yunho huffed, uncovering his face and pouted up at Mingi.

"Pup, stop pouting or I might kiss your lips for real." Mingi blurted out though he did know what he was saying and he was very amused to see Yunho's eyes widened while trying not to pout by biting his lips.

"D-don't say that if you have no intention t-to woo me p-properly. I t-take relationship very s-seriously." Yunho stuttered and huffed, glaring cutely at Mingi, making Mingi blinked several times. "I take my relationship seriously too, pup. But I need to see if you really want me first because on top of this, I'm still your bodyguard and I don't want we to have bad relationship with each other later on." Mingi explained and Yunho stared at him with awe.

Yunho stared at the floor, thinking seriously for the first time in a while, trying to comprehend what his feeling towards Mingi is at the moment. Mingi watched him quietly, waiting patiently. "I.. I'm not sure what I'm feeling at the moment about you.." Yunho started after a while, looking up at Mingi. "B-but.. I d-do know that I like you since I woke up this morning. I n-never felt that t-towards my former bodyguards before.. A-and I haven't had any interest t-towards anyone for a w-while too.."

"How long is that 'while'?"

"For about 2 years." Yunho answered instantly and Mingi nodded his head in satisfaction. The bodyguard took Yunho's hand in his, squeezing it gently and looked Yunho in the eyes. "I'm interested in you too, pup. We can take this slow. Okay?" Mingi said and Yunho nodded his head, smiling shyly.

"Now, go choose your games." Mingi said, letting Yunho's hand go and the latter happily chose his games, asking for Mingi's opinions from time to time.

--

They were strolling around on the street after buying the games, Yunho had told Mingi that he wanted to walk around so after putting the games in the car, they started walking aimlessly.

After strolling for a while, Yunho suddenly scrunched up his face when his head throbbed, making him staggered and his hand pressed on his head. Mingi quickly holds Yunho's waist, preventing him from collapsing on the street while frowning in worry. "Pup? Are you okay?"

Yunho shook his head slowly and whimpered when his head throbbed again. "D-dizzy.." Yunho whimpered, leaning his back onto Mingi's chest and Mingi massaged his head gently. "You need to sit down, pup." Mingi said but Yunho won't move so Mingi bit his lips, thinking about what he should do before he asked Yunho carefully.

"Pup, can I pick you up? So we could go to a bench nearby for you to sit on."

Yunho nodded curtly, not wanting to move his head a lot and Mingi quickly but gently picked him up, walking to the nearest bench a few feet away. "You were so excited since morning and you only had a few vegetables for breakfast. I think that's why you're dizzy right now. You need some solid food." Mingi opened his backpack that he had brought, taking out a sweet vitamin water bottle and opening it.

Yunho had his eyes close, massaging his temple while at it when he felt something at his lips. Opening his eyes a little, he looked dizzily at the bottle in front of him. "What's this?" Yunho mumbled. "Vitamin water."

"How does it taste..?"

"It tastes good. This one tastes like strawberry."

Yunho stared at Mingi with doubt before glancing back at the bottle. "I will spit it out in an instant if you lied to me." Mingi chuckled and tipped the bottle for Yunho to drink. Yunho reluctantly drank it before widening his eyes at the sweetness and drank it greedily making Mingi had to pull the bottle back for a bit, in fear of Yunho choking on it.

"Slowly, pup. The water is all yours." Mingi chuckled, running his hand on Yunho's back slowly as the latter blushed a bit but he grabbed Mingi's arm, pulling it towards him so he could drink it again and Mingi tipped back the bottle. Yunho drank slowly this time, but his hand was still on Mingi's arm until he finished drinking it.

"Finished?" Yunho nodded his head, finally letting go of Mingi's arm.

"Still dizzy?" Mingi put the bottle back in his backpack, before stroking Yunho's hair, and massaging his temple gently. Yunho closed his eyes, leaning onto Mingi's hand while humming in content. "It's not that bad anymore."

"Do you think you can walk now?"

"Lemme try." Yunho stood up from the bench, his legs shaking a bit but it wasn't that bad so he walked a few steps and nodded his head, looking back at Mingi. "Yeah, I'm fine. I can walk." Mingi hummed, stood up from the bench and intertwined his hand with Yunho's making Yunho look down at their intertwined hands and blushing.

"M-min?"

"For precautions." Mingi explained and Yunho nodded his head.

"What do you want to eat, pup?"

"Meat!" Yunho said happily, swaying their intertwined hands while at it. Mingi let him do that as he thinks of a good meat restaurant for them to have lunch in. "I know one good BBQ Restaurant around here. Wanna go there and eat?"

"Yes! Let's go let's go! I haven't had meat in so long!!" Yunho bounced before he stopped when his head throbbed again, making him squeezed Mingi's hand tightly. "Easy, pup. Don't be too excited until you eat." Mingi pulled him close, stroking Yunho's haid gently as Yunho lay his head on Mingi's shoulder while they walked.

"Are we there yet?? I'm starving!!" Yunho whined as they walked for about 10 minutes, making Mingi shook his head, chuckling and nodding his head. "We're near. Just around that corner." Mingi pointed and Yunho suddenly started to run, pulling Mingi with him.

"Hurry hurry!"

"Slow down, pup. I don't want you to become dizzy again." Mingi pulled Yunho back and Yunho instantly pouted at Mingi but he walked slowly this time.

They went into the restaurant and sat at one of the tables. Mingi, as always, looked around first and deemed that it was safe so he relaxed and focused on Yunho. "Do you want to order now?" Mingi asked as he watched Yunho read the menu.

"What about you?"

"I eat anything so it doesn't matter. You can choose for me." Mingi shrugged and Yunho nodded his head. "Then let's eat this set. It's enough for 2." Yunho showed him the one that he wanted and Mingi nodded his head, calling the waiter nearby.

A young woman approached them, giving a small smile towards Yunho and widened her eyes when she looked at Mingi and quickly gave him a sweet smile. Yunho pursed his lips as he noticed it, feeling a prick in his heart instantly.

"Ready to order?"

"Yes, one set B please. A soda and a coke." Mingi answered politely, not noticing how the waitress gave him a very sweet smile while batting her eyelashes.

"Is that all?"

"Yes."

The waitress nodded and bowed before taking their order to the kitchen.

Yunho glared at the waitress from his seat, making Mingi tilted his head, looking at Yunho. "Pup? What's with that face?" Mingi asked and only then Yunho stopped glaring and focused on Mingi. "Nothing.."

"Are you sure? I'm all ears."

Yunho hummed, nodded his head and put his elbow up on the table while putting his chin on his hand. "Tell me about yourself, Mingi. You already know a lot about me but I don't know anything about you."

"What do you want to know about?"

Yunho tapped his chin with his finger, thinking on what to ask. "Hm.. I already know your full name.. What's your birth date?"

"August 9th 1999."

"Oh? We're the same age then! Favourite food?"

"Chicken."

"Where do you live before this?"

"In Incheon."

"What are you scared of?"

"Satan."

"Huh?? Satan?? But you said you didn't like horror things? Does that counts?" Yunho tilted his head cutely.

"If its made by human, I'm not scared by it, more like I'm surprised whenever they popped out."

"I see. Hm.. What did you do before becoming a bodyguard?"

"I was in the military."

"Oh? Like Sannie? Do you know him then?"

Mingi nodded, "Yes. We were on the same squad before."

Yunho hummed and pursed his lips cutely, "I don't know what to ask anymore. I'll ask later."

"Okay."

They talked some more after that, Yunho was blabbering whatever he had in his mind as Mingi listened and gave him his opinions on it, making Yunho feel happy because it means Mingi is paying attention to him.

"Here is your food." The waitress came back with their food and drinks on a tray, putting it on the table while giving Mingi another flirty smile. Mingi only smiled politely while Yunho started to pout again.

"Excuse me, sir?" The waitress said, looking over to Mingi shyly.

"Yes?"

"Can I have your number?"

Mingi raised one of his eyebrows and glanced at Yunho, finally realizing why he was pouting from the start. "What for?" Mingi asked and the waitress was a bit taken aback. "I want to know you better. Don't you? You keep smiling back at me whenever I did." The waitress said, giving a very sultry smile.

"I'm just being polite, miss. I don't have any intention to get to know you better." Mingi answered, making Yunho blinked and looked at him with awe. "I'm already interested in someone else, so if you don't have anything for us anymore, you can go now." Mingi said curtly, dropping his polite face at once and giving the waitress a curt nod before looking over to Yunho.

The waitress gaped before blushing and went away in a rush as Yunho was still gaping at Mingi. Mingi ignored the gaping puppy as he swapped the food in front of Yunho when the waitress had put it down. Yunho tilted his head in confusion as he watched Mingi doing so. "Min? What are you doing?"

"Another precaution. It's better to swap your food in case if someone did poison it."

Yunho widened his eyes, stopping Mingi. "What?! But I don't want you to get poison because of me!"

"It's okay, pup. I have a bunch of antidotes in my bag that Yeosang-ssi had given me this morning."

"B-but!"

Mingi held Yunho's hand on the table, caressing it gently to calm the obvious anxious puppy. "I'm going to be fine, pup. I promise. I'm used to this as I did it so many times when I was in the military."

"....Okay.. Please don't die on me.." Yunho pouted and Mingi chuckled, nodding his head. "Let me try all the food first, pup. There is still a chance for them to poison all of the food."

"...Go ahead." Yunho watched Mingi worriedly as Mingi started to taste all the food. Mingi was tasting all the food when he suddenly coughed, making Yunho widened his eyes and stood up from his seat, going over to Mingi.

"Min?? Are you okay??! Don't die on me, Min!" Yunho hissed, rubbing Mingi's back as he coughs and grabbing Mingi's backpack, opening it to find the antidotes. Mingi coughed for a while, while trying to stop the panicking boy next to him.

"C-calm down, bub." Mingi tried but Yunho was frantically looking at the antidotes in Mingi's backpack, "How can I???"

"The food went down in the wrong pipe. I'm fine. The food is not poisoned. We can start eating it now." Mingi said, stopping Yunho from rummaging his backpack while Yunho gawked at the bodyguard.

"I THOUGHT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!" Yunho huffed out, making Mingi chuckled, patting Yunho's lower back gently. "I'm not, pup. Sit down." Yunho flopped down on his seat, pouting so much so Mingi picked up a meat with his chopstick, giving in to Yunho, near his lips.

Yunho looked at the meat, still pouting before he huffed again and opened his mouth, eating the meat. Yunho gasped at the taste, looking at Mingi with his eyes widened. "It's delicious!" Yunho said and started to eat the food quickly.

"Pup, eat slowly, please." Mingi watched Yunho worriedly, not wanting the latter to choke on his food like he did with the drink. Yunho blushed, nodding his head as he slowed down, eating the food carefully.

Mingi smiled and started eating his food too.