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Laughing, he asks, “Is that even a real question?”

“Come on then,” I tell him, dropping to my hands and knees and crawling through the short little tunnel under the aquarium. It’s a tunnel made for children or smaller adults, to be honest. I turn back to make sure he’s following and crack up at how he’s having to scrunch his body to fit through the narrow passage. He’s got plenty of room, but being a bigger guy, he looks slightly awkward.

When I make it to the dome, I raise up to stand on my knees and scoot over to make room for him.

“Is this some kind of torture room or something?” he asks, partially out of breath when he gets to me.

I let out a quiet laugh, knowing the sound will echo in the small space.

“Is this funny?” he teases, reaching up to tickle my side where he knows it’ll get me.

I’m not able to stop the laughs this time. Grabbing his hands, I try my hardest to pull him up to where he’s inside the bubble with me. Honestly, if he hadn’t allowed it and helped, there’s no way I could do it. Then I look over to him next to me and laugh again. He’s practically sitting on his heels to keep from bumping his head into the top of the dome. He doesn’t care that I’m finding humor in it or maybe doesn’t even notice, considering he’s completely enthralled with looking around us now.

“This really is cool,” he says in a hushed tone as one of the crabs reaches out with one of his legs toward the glass.

“Worth the uncomfortable trip in here?” I tease.

Flicking his eyes over to me and then back to the crab, he nods. “Definitely.”

I’ve been in here a bunch of times, and I love it. Experiencing it with someone else, especially for their first time, takes it to a whole new level of enjoyment. For one of the first times since meeting him, we’re on the same level when I want to kiss him, so I take advantage, pressing my lips against his cheek. He smiles so big that it pushes his cheeks up and scrunches his eyes. I love it. I love that look right there on his face.

The crab that he’s so captured by does a slow walk around the tank, making us do a little shuffle to get turned around to watch him. It’s not until we’re situated and I look up from making sure I’m not going to stomp his legs with my knees that I realize there are more than just the crabs looking back at us. Seven other faces watch with their faces pretty much pressed against the glass.

I laugh again, making Dav En laugh. Seong Su already has his phone in hand and snaps a picture of us.

“Silly face,” I tell Dav En. He complies easily, and I know this because all the faces on the other side of the glass start laughing, the sound echoing into the tunnel to us.

In Se disappears as his voice calls out, “Dav En.”

“Yeah,” he replies.

There’s a quiet murmur, but I’m not the only one that can’t understand what he said. Dav En looks to me in question. I shrug, because I didn’t fully hear it either.

“What?” Dav En asks, peeking his head down into the tunnel.

There’s another murmur of words, but we still don’t understand.

Dav En starts to crawl out, I’m assuming to hear better, but that’s when Jae-un disappears too. All I hear is an oomph from Dav En as he collapses onto his belly, and is literally dragged out of the tunnel. I try my best not to laugh, but the sight of his big body and feet just disappearing have set off my giggles.

When I go to follow behind him, I’m met head on with In Se. I have to crawl back two steps to maneuver back into the dome to let him in.

“Hi,” he says when he gets inside and rises to his knees.

“Hey,” I reply, still chuckling.

“Hope you don’t mind us sharing you since you’re ours now, too,” he says, sliding right in there.

I can tell it’s meant to have the double innuendo by the way that his nose scrunches right before he starts grinning. My heart is racing faster than ever. Teasing me further, he takes a look around before sidling up close and saying, “It’s my turn now. Smile.”

Doing as he says, I look to Seong Su as In Se’s cheek brushes against mine right before he cuts his lips over quickly, pressing a quick kiss to the corner of my lips.

He doesn’t wait for a response before ducking down and crawling out of the tunnel. I’m too stunned to even move at this point, which makes it easier for Jae-un to take his place.

Grunting a few times before he rises beside me, he finally does with a broad grin. “Sorry about In Se. He doesn’t know how to control his affection sometimes.”

Says the man who not only licked my fingers, but sucked on them in the middle of the sidewalk surrounded by his members and could’ve been seen by anyone. They both might’ve caught me by surprise the first time, but it won’t happen again.

“Looks to me like he’s just copying what he sees,” I counter.