Prologue

Junhoe inhales deeply and looks at his green Rolex watch which shows 12.30 in the afternoon. He looks at the house (or to be exact, a mansion) in front of him and stares in awe at how beautiful and big it is.



He takes out a piece of crumpled paper from his jeans and decided to look again at the address written on that paper to assure himself that this is the correct house he will rent for several years here, in Seoul.

After carefully reading the address and he is perfectly sure that he is right, he put the paper back into his jeans pocket. He looks again at the luxurious mansion and smiles to himself, This is gonna be a long ass ride, but I know it's worth it. After all, I'll be able to meet him. See him. Everyday. Here.

With another nervous inhale, he rings the bell and waits for anyone to greet or welcome him out there. After a few seconds, the gate opened and a cute, short lad appears with a soft smile toward him.

"Goo Junhoe?" 

The said man nods with a light smile before the other turns to take a glance on Junhoe's luggage and says, "Come on in," he even kindly offers to help Junhoe moving the stuff.

"I'm Jinhwan, but people here usually call me Jinan," he offers a handshake as well before the two starts moving Junhoe's belongings into the mansion.

"You can call me June," Junhoe says and Jinhwan chuckles, "That's a cute name."

While walking around, Junhoe can't help once again from being in awe at how unique and beautiful the mansion is. He wonders how lucky he is to be able to rent such pretty place like this, with a quite reasonable price. He is truly lucky.

And the fact that he is able to see that person is even better than ever.

Jinhwan brings him to a room on the second floor.



"You should take the bottom bed because the bed at the top is your roommate's," Jinhwan says and puts down the luggages on the bed.

"Roommate?" Junhoe asks as he doesn't see anyone in the room except the both of them.

Jinhwan flashes a small smile, "It's Bobby, but he is now sleeping in another room because he was drunk last night and he just crashed into the other room," Jinhwan chuckles a bit and Junhoe also chuckles, finding his new roommate pretty interesting.

"Well, to be honest, since you are gonna be his roommate, I would like to tell you that the guy is kinda messy. Just look at this room," Jinhwan points his eyes around the room where clothes are scattered everywhere, "But he is a nice guy, and a friendly one... So I think there is no problem of you getting to know each other."

Junhoe smiles before Jinhwan adds, "Okay, then. Let's have a lookaround together."

Jinhwan shows Junhoe around the mansion and after some chats with Jinhwan, Junhoe figures out that this mansion belonged to Jinhwan's grandfather and the older practically inherited this place to the young guy. Junhoe also gets to know the other members residing in the mansion with him; Hanbin, Bobby, Donghyuk, Yunhyeong and Chanwoo together with Jinhwan as the owner. 

Apparently, Jinhwan, Bobby and Hanbin are friends from college and Yunhyeong is Bobby's childhood friend while Chanwoo is Yunhyeong's one and only brother. Donghyuk, in the other hand, is Bobby's cousin. Since all of them work around the place, they decided to just stay here together in the mansion. 

At the dining room, Junhoe is introduced to Yunhyeong who acts as the mansion's chef because he always cooks for them, no matter how busy he is, as a doctor. Junhoe realizes one thing about the other after watching him; the guy is very kind and funny.

While Yunhyeong is cooking, Junhoe sees that Donghyuk always there to help the chef. The two seems to be so close to each other. Chanwoo is immersed in himself playing games with Hanbin at the living room while waiting for the main dish to be prepared.

But Junhoe still hasn't seen that person.

By now, he can already figure out that that person's name is apparently Bobby and— wait, does that mean....he is my roommate? For fuck's sake?? 

The thought alone makes Junhoe smile to himself before Jinhwan pokes his nose with an amused laugh. Junhoe finds himself blushing when Jinhwan asks, "What's making you smile so happily like that?"

He shrugs with a shy smile and looks back at Yunhyeong with Donghyuk at the kitchen before throwing a question to the other, "How old are all of you?"

"I'm 29, apparently the oldest here," Jinhwan answers while munching some snacks on the dining table, "Bobby and Yunhyeong are one year younger than me while Hanbin is one year younger than them."

Junhoe smiles unknowingly, "I see. It seems I'm one year younger than Hanbin."

Jinhwan points his eyes at Donghyuk, "Then, you are same age as our Dongdong~"

Donghyuk turns toward them after hearing his name being mentioned. "What is it? I heard my name~"

Yunhyeong chuckles at the side before answering though his eyes never leaving the pot with his cooking, "Our new housemate is also 26 years old, like you, Dong..."

"Woaaahhh, finally I have a peer! Where do you work?" Donghyuk excitedly asks, casually leaving Yunhyeong alone preparing the dish and instead, he proceeds to join Junhoe and Jinhwan at the table.

Junhoe hesitates a bit before replying, "I work as... A bartender at the bar near this place..."

"Is it YG Nightclub?" Donghyuk asks curiously and when Junhoe barely nods, he scrutinizes Junhoe's face, "I don't think I ever see your face there. I always go to that bar with Bobby, by the way."

"I'm new. I will start working tonight," Junhoe feels relieved when Donghyuk looked satisfied with his answer.

"Then, let's go together tonight. Yunhyeong hyung will drive us there," Donghyuk offers and Jinhwan sighs, "Tonight too? Aren't you guys tired of going to that bar every night? Look at that punk sleeping like a log in Hanbin's room, he's not gonna wake up any sooner and tonight you guys are gonna go there again?"

"And here comes our nagging mother," Yunhyeong jokes after putting down the pot with curry ramyun on the table, "Junhoe-shi, if you wanna stay here longer without any problem, I suggest you to endure his nagging."

"Look who's talking," Jinhwan sneers back, "He also loves to nag, especially when it comes to cleanliness," Jinhwan whispers to Junhoe's ear, "Bobby always gets nagged by this guy everyday."

"Stop it you two," Hanbin appears out of nowhere and sits at the centre, like a leader before speaking, "We can hear you guys from the living room and had to stop our game before you guys distract our focus."

"This is the problem when a house has two mothers," Junhoe chuckles at Chanwoo's statement and realizes that everyone has occupied the seats in the dining room, but there is an empty seat left.

Junhoe's eyes never left the empty seat.

As if knowing that Junhoe is waiting for him, a sleepy voice greets them at the dining room, "Good morning~"

Everyone turns to look at the sudden intruder and Junhoe tries to calm his fast heartbeat when he finally sees again that person.

"It's almost evening, Bob," Hanbin says before smacking the said man's head.

Bobby giggles shamelessly and casually sits at the empty seat, beside Junhoe who can't take his eyes off him.

His eyes... So squinty and small, but beautiful. He is so beautiful, even when his hair is all disheveled and messy like that. His hair... It makes me want to touch it all over, it looks so fluffy~ Damn. Why are you so beautiful...? 

Bobby grabs a slice of green apples there and says, not yet realizing Junhoe's presence there, "Fuck, my head spins so bad, I feel like dying—" He stops when he notices Junhoe beside him, "Oh, are you the new renter?"

Junhoe nervously nods and awkwardly introduces himself, "Hi, I... I'm Junhoe..."

Bobby smiles and Junhoe can't help letting out an internal scream.

"I'm Bobby," he says before eating the apple and takes a spoon to taste Yunhyeong's curry ramyun, "Damn, Yoyo, this shit is spicy as hell!"

Junhoe almost burst out laughing hearing the cute nickname Bobby called Yunhyeong, which just shown how close they are, but he can also feel himself getting more interested to know Bobby better and closer. Looking at this now, he knows Bobby is a very interesting fella.

Meanwhile, Jinhwan softly slaps Bobby's mouth, "Kim Jiwon, stop cussing in front of our Junhoe—"

"It's fine," Junhoe flashes a smile because he really didn't mind it(he also cusses a lot so—), therefore Bobby rolls his tongue playfully at Jinhwan who sighs helplessly.

"Don't cuss in front of my food, thanks."

"Thank you, dear Yoyo, for the food. I will eat them well," Bobby flaunts his bunny smile as he replied to Yunhyeong and Junhoe knows he already dead inside because the guy is so fucking cute. And beautiful.

And it reminds him of when he first saw the older several months ago.

Junhoe looked at the nightclub in front of him and sighed as he thougbt about his duty to patrol around the place. He adjusted his cap and black jacket before walking around the area and ending up at an empty and quiet street.

And he saw it.

Someone who is like a flame, in a bit of the distance. The person was undeniably blinding Junhoe's eyesight.

There, not far from Junhoe, laid a guy who was having his back leaned against the wall, his eyes closed, as if enjoying the fresh night breeze. And Junhoe found himself halting his steps.

The guy has brown hair, looking so good with white silky outfit which exposed his chest a bit. He has such a nice and unique features, Junhoe couldn't help thinking the other is so beautiful.

And blinding.

"Hyung... A light," the voice brought Junhoe out of his own thoughts and only then, he realized that there was another person there; a tall, dangerously handsome man, beside the guy before.

"Sure thing, Jiwon," the other guy said as he took out a lighter while that beautiful guy, apparently named Jiwon, held out his cigarette.

At that time, Jiwon looked up and both Junhoe and him locked their eyes. 



Realizing that the beautiful guy had caught his presence there, Junhoe immediately pulled down his cap to cover his face from be seen to Jiwon, meanwhile the latter paid no attention to it and continued smoking instead.

And Junhoe walked away from that scene, before hearing the other guy's voice, "Let's go back to the bar."

Jiwon shook his head and the person he called hyung, caressed his face fondly, "Jiwon, we have to go back. The others are getting worried since we have been out for quite a long time here."

Jiwon formed a smile, a bunny smile in which his eyes disappeared, forming crescent shape, when he felt his hyung's touch on his beautiful face, "You can go first, hyung. I want to stay here longer. It's calm and good here."

And Junhoe found himself hiding behind the wall, to watch as Jiwon closed his eyes back as soon as the other guy left.

But out of his expectation, he realized that Jiwon was actually crying. So quietly. Tears rolled down the guy's rosy cheeks with his eyes still closed and his hand was still holding the cigarette.

Junhoe furrowed his eyebrows, wondering as to why this person cried, but too bad, a vibrate from his phone made him realize that he has to return to his main duty to patrol around the area. As a detective.