Seeing him put in one spoonful that looked like three spoonfuls, Siwoo turned his head to the side. Let’s pretend not to know. Let’s pretend not to know. Then I can give that smug forehead a flick.
“Wow. It smells delicious.”
As a plausible smell spread through the house, Yechan, holding Ongi, peeked behind the two.
“Now! People who think ramen should go in tteokbokki, raise your hands.”
Since Siwoo and Yechan raised their hands excluding Evan, Siwoo naturally put ramen in the tteokbokki, and the fish cake soup came into his view. Isn’t fish cake soup basically supposed to be a bit whitish? He deliberately turned away from the broth that looked brown because of the excessive soy sauce that went in.
“Ah……”
Siwoo, who was peeling the eggs to boil, slightly turned his head at the low sound coming from the side.
This not-unfamiliar situation. This not-unfamiliar energy.
Evan, with his head tilted back slightly, had his eyes tightly shut. On his cutting board, hot peppers were lined up in a row.
“Evan.”
Suddenly feeling playful, Siwoo called him in an affectionate voice. This seems like a familiar situation, doesn’t it? We had something like this recently. So you see.
Siwoo quickly washed his hands and wiped off the moisture. Then he stretched both hands up and cupped Evan’s cheeks, pulling him toward himself.
“Is Evan crying?”
“What?”
Along with the sound of breathing in air, a helpless word flowed from Evan’s mouth. There was no way he wouldn’t know whose small hands, still moist, were cupping his cheeks so suddenly. This situation was just too funny and on the other hand, he was tense.
Since Siwoo rarely touched him first, he was more surprised and flustered.
The moment he hurriedly opened his eyes, the tears pooled at the corners of his eyes flowed. He wanted to see Siwoo’s face, but his eyes stung, so he had to close them soon again.
“Our Evan is a crybaby.”
“This is because of the peppers……”
Evan, who was about to say it was because of the peppers, closed his lips that had been moving. The small hands moved softly on his face and wiped away his tears. Next, he could fully feel something like a handkerchief tapping his eyes gently.
“What are you two doing?”
Yechan’s gaze, looking at Evan who was awkwardly bending his upper body and entrusting his face to Siwoo’s hands, shifted to Siwoo. Isn’t it common to cry when cutting peppers? What’s so important about that that you’re tapping around his eyes with a handkerchief? I can concede all of that, but why is one hand touching that face?
He already knew that Evan liked Siwoo, but this was unexpected.
Only then did the two sneakily separate. Soon Evan, who shook his head slightly and opened his eyes, directed his gaze toward Yechan. I think I’ve received this look once before. Yechan got cursed at with a look from him today too.
And because Siwoo suddenly picked up hot tteokbokki rice cake with a fork and shoved it into his mouth, he had to chew it with tears in his eyes. Normally he would have made a fuss saying it was hot and spit it out, but he had no choice but to comply with Evan’s gaze that seemed like it would kill him.
As the hot peppers Evan cut went into the fish cake soup, Siwoo quickly put the washed crown daisy on top of it. Thanks to Yechan hurrying, saying they needed to eat quickly before the tteokbokki rice cakes and ramen got soggy, the three sat at the table in no time.
“Look at this. Just from the visuals!”
Yechan, who was more familiar with this kind of thing anyway, picked up the camera and did close-up shots of the tteokbokki and fish cake soup.
“Try them and tell me which one tastes better.”
Siwoo quickly put food onto a small plate and placed it in front of Yechan. Now it was time for the results of the bet. It would be his victory anyway, but still, wouldn’t it be good to make it certain?
“Hyung. Since when was fish cake soup black?”
Honestly it wasn’t quite black, but Yechan shook his head. Where was there anything to try or not try? Moreover, the tteokbokki rice cake that Siwoo suddenly put in his mouth and forced him to eat was hot but delicious.
“Still, say it.”
“What, did you two make some kind of bet?”
At Evan’s firm words, Yechan gauged their reactions and scooped up fish cake from the fish cake soup with a spoon. The color is like this, but the taste might be good, you know? Plus, crown daisy and hot peppers, everything that should go in was in there.
“What bet would we make?”
“Ah. But wasn’t this not even a competition from the start? Humanly speaking, tteokbokki is delicious. Siwoo-hyung’s food was all delicious. Even during ‘Journey’ filming, Siwoo-hyung made a lot of delicious things. The spaghetti was delicious too.”
Still, Yechan, who had some tact, said Siwoo’s food was delicious rather than saying the fish cake soup wasn’t tasty.
“You’re saying the tteokbokki is a little, just a very little bit more delicious, right?”
How much do you have to read the room in broadcasting? Siwoo grasped the hidden meaning in Yechan’s words and smiled broadly. And he even mixed in a bit of aegyo as he spoke.
“No. Hyung, do you really need to hear it in words?”
Even in that moment, Yechan’s spoon and chopsticks were focused on the tteokbokki.
“Everyone. I don’t think we need to hear Yechan’s answer anymore. In that sense, I’ll pass the penalty to Yechan. Honestly, it doesn’t seem like it would be fun even if I gave the forehead flick. Evan and I are already in different weight classes. Similar weight classes should face each other.”
Siwoo said with a grin looking at the camera.
“What? Coco. How can you do this to me? Was this the kind of relationship we had?”
“What? It was really a bet? A forehead flick? I have to give one to Evan-hyung? Hey, how can I give Evan-hyung a forehead flick?”
Following Evan grumbling as if surprised, Yechan spoke while laughing loudly. If you’re going to say that, why are you putting down your chopsticks and loosening up your hands?
“Can I really do this since I’m a starting player?”
“Starting player?”
Looking at Yechan who got up from his chair completely and even rotated his wrists, Evan clicked his tongue. Rather, Siwoo’s eyes widened at having passed the penalty to him.
“Yes. I was a school volleyball player until I became a trainee. When I said I was quitting, our volleyball coach even came to my house. Anyway, Evan-hyung, will you be okay?”
Seeing Evan stand up deliberately making a dragging sound with his chair, as if confronting Yechan who was putting on airs, made him think ‘oh no.’ Even ordinary men in their early twenties would get fired up if such a bet was placed, and these guys were alphas. Did I just start an alpha dominance fight?
“No! Wait. I’ll just do it. This is a bet between Evan and me. So I! I think it’s right that I do it.”
He hurriedly stood up following them, but there was nothing Siwoo could do. As Siwoo’s words said at first, two men of different weight classes stood facing each other, and he looked like a shrimp caught between whales.
He grabbed Yechan and Evan’s forearms, but they were already not looking at Siwoo.
“Get the forehead flick. If you don’t make any sound, how about you get hit?”
“Hyung! I’m a starting volleyball player.”
“So if I endure it, you also get the forehead flick bet.”
Why is this getting so big? The bet got bigger. Looking at Yechan saying he really won’t hold back and Evan saying bring it on, Siwoo let out a small sigh.
“Siwoo-hyung. Since we need to judge coldly, hold the camera with a tight zoom. Let’s watch it again and check whether he makes a sound or not.”
With the thought of filming this clearly since it came to this, Siwoo brought the camera that had been placed far away to capture the overall appearance. Rather than filming looking up from below, it seemed better to film at similar eye level or from above, so he got up on the dining table chair completely.
“Hyung. I’m going.”
The expressions of both Evan, who swept back his bangs that were falling down, and the one loosening his hands and gauging the distance to flick, were serious to the point of being solemn.
“Thwack!”
“Hup.”
With a bit of a lie added, it seemed like the sound of a watermelon breaking, and the moment he heard that sound, an exclamation burst from Siwoo’s mouth.
“Whose sound was that just now?”
“Me.”
“Play it back quickly.”
The three lined up their heads together and watched the camera playback. The exclamation they heard was indeed Siwoo’s. And confirming Evan’s jaw tightening firmly and biting down hard on his molars, Yechan covered his own forehead with his hand.
“Come here.”
Evan, with a forehead swollen bright red, raised only one corner of his mouth slightly.
“No. How can you endure this? Wait a moment, Evan-hyung. Calm down. Let’s think rationally.”
“I’m more rational than ever right now, so just put your forehead here.”
“Everyone, Hades has descended. Siwoo-hyung, say something.”
Yechan’s urgent cries were merely useless.
A moment later.
Siwoo looked back and forth at the two handsome men sitting on either side. The foreheads of the two men who wouldn’t lose out anywhere in looks were swollen bright red. Tear stains still clung to the corners of Yechan’s eyes.
“Shall we properly taste it now? ASMR is popular these days. So we’ll try it too. Will you two be able to do it well?”
Siwoo, who spoke in the smallest whisper possible, saw the two nodding and tried to continue.
“Evan-hyung. How about a decibel bet?”
“We don’t have a meter here.”
What bet is it again? Just making the viewers happy is enough.
“Siwoo-hyung, you can download an app, you know? How about it? Bet accepted?”
At Yechan’s provocation, Siwoo reached under the table and lightly grabbed Evan’s forearm. Don’t do that. You can say that’s just Yechan’s personality, but Evan who gets swept up in it every time was also a problem.
“What are the bet conditions?”
Making Siwoo’s efforts futile, one corner of Evan’s mouth went up again. Wow, Hades again. Looking at Yechan muttering at Evan’s words, Siwoo tilted his head. Is Hades also among Evan’s nicknames? Since the most famous one was 3-Second Man, he’d never heard the nickname Hades before.
“Piggyback Siwoo-hyung and do squats.”
“Deal.”
Siwoo, caught between the two, covered his face with both hands. No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like today’s vlog was ruined.
