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The fruit puns were gonna get old fast. There’s only so much an attractive face can do when it comes to cringe behavior.
Hoseok decided to ignore the pun so he handed Seokjin his flour and carton of strawberries instead.
Seokjin took the items and scolded him, “You know, a cobbler has very simple ingredients. I have them all here, there was no need to bring everything.”
“Well I didn’t want to assume anything and I wasn’t going to use your strawberries for a product made by me.”
Seokjin chuckled, “I know we taste the difference in our strawberries but I can’t imagine anyone else would be able to.”
“Okay so maybe it’s because I still feel guilty for yesterday and don’t want to overstep anymore,” Hoseok admitted.
Seokjin hummed, “I appreciate it then. I have all the tools set up in the kitchen so we can begin baking as soon as you’d like. I even prepared strawberry daiquiris for us if you would like a drink.”
“Umm yeah, that sounds great actually. I uh–I know you don’t use your cauldron for baking, but would it be too much if I use it? I want to stay consistent with my products.”
Seokjin nodded and made his way to his living room at once, “I’ll warm it up for you, go in the kitchen, and set the rest of your things.”
Hoseok took off his boots and walked to the back of the house where the kitchen was. He was just finishing setting up the counter space when Seokjin walked in.
“I love your shoes by the way. I didn’t see them when you first came in but now I feel the need to buy strawberry rain boots.”
“Thank you, and you should, they would probably match any outfit you own.” He motioned to Seokjin's current outfit which was a white button-up shirt with strawberries in rows all around it and his blue bell bottom jeans with vines along the stitching.
Seokjin smiled at him, “Very true, I like my wardrobe to stick to a theme in case you can’t tell. Thank god I’m hot though, it makes it so much easier to pull all my outfits off.”
Hoseok huffed at his boasting but it’s not like he could disagree with the man. Before he could make a comment Seokjin’s eyes brightened.
“Are those the overalls you said you bought after you saw my pair? Hoseok, they are so cute on you. You look adorable by the way I think I told you that earlier when you walked in but I truly just want to squish you until jam comes out of your ears and nose.”
Was that a good thing?
“I’m assuming the “jam” you are referring to is really my blood and in that case, please don’t do that.”
Seokjin made a pssh sound and walked over to the measuring cups.
“I mean no harm I promise you. So, what’s the first step?”
Hoseok blinked.
Right, the cobbler.
“How about one of us starts dicing up strawberries while the other takes care of the dry ingredients.”
Seokjin made a salute and took out a knife to hand to Hoseok.
“I’ll do the dry ingredients, I know you’re protective of your strawberries. I am too, don’t worry.”
Hoseok nodded and got to dicing.
“So…should we discuss business,” Seokjin asked as he poured a third of a cup of sugar.
“Right, yes.”
Great start Hoseok, he thought.
“So the only thing I am unsure of is how we would combine our strawberries. I know you said they don’t taste all that different from others and even if they did, it’s not like they would taste bad. I’ll be honest here and say yours didn’t taste bad, just different.”
Seokjin clicked his tongue, “I know what you mean. What if we use one person’s strawberries for desserts and the other’s for packaging? Mine are sweeter than yours so what if we use them for desserts? That way it’s fair.”
Hoseok actually really liked that idea. He liked baking, don't get him wrong, but he’s in this business so he could grow strawberries, not make desserts. Having Seokjin in charge of baking would take a huge load off of him.
“I like that idea but I have one condition, I still make the jams. You don’t have any jams in your shop and it upset me. I love making them so that’s my only ask of you.”
Seokjin looked over at him from the mixer.
“Yeah I don’t make them 'cause it’s a pain. You can definitely be in charge of that. Let’s make the wet ingredients so we can marinate the strawberries in them.”
Hoseok beamed and started combining the milk and vanilla extract into the mixture. He dipped his fingers in to taste what they had so far.
“Oh shit Seokjin, this is amazing. I don’t know why I don’t make it more often, here try it. He dipped his fingers in again in excitement and lifted it to Seokjin’s face.
Seokjin stared at Hoseok’s fingers long enough for his eyes to grow cross-eyed.
Hoseok faltered realizing that this may not be appropriate at the moment but right before he moved his fingers away, Seokjin’s eyes moved up to Hoseok’s gaze and he took his fingers into his mouth.
Seokjin maintained eye contact and he swirled his tongue around Hoseok’s fingers and started sucking on them hard enough that his mouth made a popping sound when he pulled off.
Hoseok stood in place frozen, his gaze not leaving Seokjin’s.
“Don’t look so surprised, there’s bound to be some spice in the kitchen.”
Yep, moment ruined.
“Oh shut the fuck up.”
Seokjin howled and swiped the residue mixture on his mouth with his thumb and brought it into his mouth with an obnoxious sucking sound. He grinned at Hoseok the whole time.
“Jesus, just pour everything into a pan so we can bring it to the cauldron. It will fit in there right?”
“Oh yeah, it’s big enough. I use it for special occasions when the whole family is here. I don’t feel the need to use it for myself but I gotta impress my relatives with my brews when they come for the holidays.”
They walked over to the living room where the cauldron sat. “Do witches make up your entire family? My dad’s sister married a human so one side of our family is human.”
Seokjin placed the strawberry cobbler into the cauldron carefully, “Yup, we’re all witches. My family used to be a part of a huge clan hundreds of years ago so they all try to stick with witches to keep tradition. Taheyung and I never cared much and obviously Namjoon didn’t either. Yoongi’s human but he knows about us. He was so chill when Namjoon told him, it was great.”
“Oh good for him. We were the only witches that I know of in Florida so I never got close to people in case I’d have to explain myself. It seemed like such a hassle and I didn’t want that fear of abandonment, ya know?”
Hoseok knelt down, placing his hands on the warm cauldron, and began reciting his usual enchantments for baking. Seokjin knelt next to him and nudged him with his shoulder.
Hoseok glanced over at him while continuing his enchantments.
“That sounds kinda lonely Hoseok,” Seokjin whispered.
Hoseok couldn’t reply just yet and shrugged in acknowledgment as he finished up. When he completed reciting then turned to look at Seokjin, taken about by their closeness.
“I mean I was busy with work so I never focused much on romance. I kinda have always put my job first. I love it so much that I couldn’t see myself thinking of something else. Business over here is doing well, but I have so much time to build relationships with people now that I have more freedom than I could ever dream of. I didn’t even have any close friends in Florida because I was so busy. Here I have good relationships with most of my customers and Jimin and Jungkook may be my employees but I would consider them the closest friends I’ve ever had. That sounds sad out loud, but I swear I’ve never been unhappy with my life.”
Seokjin took Hoseok’s hands off the cauldron, “I wish I knew that sooner. I’ve only been living here for two years but I made plenty of friends, I can introduce you to them if you’d like. It helped that my brothers moved here with me so I was never really lonely, but I promise it makes a difference to make connections with people on a more personal level than business.”
“That actually sounds really nice, I’d like that.”
They were talking softly as if they were trying not to break the delicate atmosphere. The light from the fire made Seokjin’s eyes sparkle and Hoseok couldn’t look away–that was until Seokjin ran his tongue over his lips and Hoseok couldn’t resist himself. He leaned in and kissed Seokjin softly. Seokjin breathed out and Hoseok couldn’t help but think about how he tasted like the cobbler they just made.
Hoseok was about to pull away from Seokjin but Seokjin grabbed onto his overall straps and pulled him toward him. Hoseok lurched forward and climbed into Seokjin’s lap in order to stabilize himself. He made a sound at the force of his movements and Seokjin hummed back as an apology but he didn’t stop.
“I’ve been wanting to kiss you all night,” Seokjin admits between kisses.
Hoseok looked down at Seokjin, his lips were buzzing and he was breathing heavily, “I kind of figured after you sucked my fingers as if you were sucking cock.”
Seokjin’s eyes were no longer sparkling, they had a mischievous gleam to them. He flipped the two of them over and started making his way down his neck.
“I hate to take these overalls off of you, but I really would rather you be naked right now so I can show you just how I would suck your cock.”
“You really wanna do this on your living room rug?”
Seokjin shrugged, “I like how you look in the firelight.”
The heat on Hoseok’s face was no longer from the fire, “Fine. Since you’re such a charmer.”
Seokjin grinned and began undoing his overall straps and Hoseok lifted his hips to accommodate. Once he was stripped to his underwear Seokjin quickly tugged his shirt and shorts off so they were both equally naked. Hoseok admired how the light of the fire made Seokjin’s skin appear to glow. He wasn’t as scrawny as Hoseok thought, there was way more muscle on his arms and his shoulders were truly that broad and not just an illusion from his shirts.
Seokjin leaned back down and resumed sucking on Hoseok’s neck but this time he moved further down to his nipples.
“I don’t feel much there but you’re welcome to try,” Hoseok told him as he watched Seokjin slurp and suck on his chest.
Seokjin lifted his head up, “That’s a shame, can’t say the same about me though.”
He winked and continued his way further down Hoseok’s torso. Hoseok made sure to store that information for later purposes. He groaned and spread his legs when Seokjin’s hand stroked his cock through his boxers. Seokjin slowly tugged his underwear down and watched as Hoseok’s cock sprang out. He looked up at Hoseok through his spread thighs and began licking the tip of his cock teasingly making the same slurping sounds he was making in the kitchen earlier. Hoseok gasped when Seokjin took more of him into his mouth and started moving his head up and down more enthusiastically. Hoseok grabbed Seokjin’s hair and when he received a groan of approval, he gripped his head tighter and started moving Seokjin’s head at his own will.
He felt Seokjin’s jaw go slack as he continued thrusting in and out of his mouth. Seokjin tapped his thigh and Hoseok let him come up for air. Seokjin gasped as he came off of Hoseok’s cock.
“Jesus Christ, I’m out of practice,” Seokjin coughed a little bit. “I’m serious, I was a real slut in California, you would have been so impressed.”
“You okay,” Hoseok checked his face for any negative signs but found none.
“Yeah, all good, just needed some air.” He said as he went right back down on Hoseok’s cock.
Hoseok was already close to cuming before Seokjin went up for air so it didn’t take many more thrusts into his mouth for him to give Seokjin a warning.
“Seokjin I’m cuming,” He moaned.
Seokjin sucked harder on his tip and started stroking the base of his cock harder. Hoseok came with a shout. Seokjin opened his mouth and let the cum spray all over his mouth and face. He climbed up to Hoseok’s face, the both of them now breathing heavily. Seokjin leaned in and kissed Hoseok with his come-filled mouth. Hoseok eagerly allowed himself to be fed back his own come and even stopped kissing him to lick the rest of his come off of Seokjin’s face.
He pushed Seokjin over so he could return the favor.
Seokjin laid there in his underwear with his legs spread just as Hoseok was before. But Hoseok didn’t just want to suck him off.
“I want to eat you out if you’d let me.”
Seokjin looked at him in shock but promptly flipped himself over with his back arched.
“I’d never say no to that my dear Hoseok,” He responded smoothly.
“You got lube?”
Seokjin snapped his fingers and a bottle of strawberry-flavored lube flew from what Hoseok assumed to be his bedroom. Hoseok grabbed it from the air and tugged Seokjin’s underwear down.
Wow, what an ass.
The firelight highlighted all his curves in the best way. He ran his fingers along the curves and softly traced his body leaving a trail of goosebumps wherever he touched. He moved his fingers down Seokjin’s thighs admiring the muscle. When he reached the inner part of Seokjin’s thighs, Seokjin flinched and he heard a whimper come out from his mouth.
“Just get on with it please, my thighs are sensitive too.”
“Well how can I rush when you react so nicely?”
Hoseok spread Seokjin’s thighs more and began sucking on the flesh right under the curve of his ass. Seokjin actually began quivering and he heard muffled moans escape him a couple of times. Hoseok used his magic to uncap the lube and had it spread all over his fingers before he parted Seokjin’s cheeks and stroked him from his balls to his hole.
Once he was wet enough, Hoseok leaned in and began licking him slowly, enjoying the trembling from Seokjin's thighs. Once he felt Seokjin was wet enough, he slowly added a finger into him.
Seokjin gasped, “More, go faster.”
Hoseok gripped Seokjin’s ass harder and began sucking on them as he trusted his finger in and out of him faster. Seokjin preened at that and shoved himself back on Hoseok’s face so Hoseok decided to add in another finger and started scissoring them to stretch him out. He was doing something right when he moved his finger over what felt like a small bump. Seokjin practically shouted and Hoseok saw that he was gripping the carpet so tight his knuckles were white.
Hoseok rubbed over that spot with more vigor and moved his face down to Seokjins balls to suck on.
“Oh fuck, Hoseok that’s good. Do more of that.”
Hoseoked smiled and began stroking and sucking harder. He moved his mouth up to lick over where his fingers were going in and out while Seokjin moved his hand to stroke his cock.
Seokjin came with no warning except for a gasp and a high-pitched moan.
Seokjin flopped his body onto his back, his chest expanding and contracting harshly. Hoseok straddled his thighs and then tilted his head as he observed Seokjin. He had a dazed expression on his face and when he noticed Hoseok staring at him he huffed out a laugh and covered his eyes with his hands.
Hoseok leaned down to whisper in his ear, “You got to come on the carpet babe,”
Seokjin groaned, “Ugh I know. I thought about it right before I came but I didn’t care at the time”
Hoseok chucked and gave him a quick kiss on his forehead.
“I’ll clean it up. Lemme get a napkin for most of it and I can just use a cleaning spell to get rid of the stain.” He ran off to the kitchen to pluck a napkin from the table.
Seokjin gave him a thumbs up watching Hoseok run naked in his house. He turned towards the cauldron which was still baking their cobbler.
“How much longer does this thing got?”
Hoseok returned with a napkin to harshly scrub what he could from the carpet and used his magic to get rid of the rest of the stain.
“When I enchanted the cauldron I gave myself an inner clock that tells me when the cobbler is done. It’s got five minutes left, believe it or not. We got a little carried away.”
“Beats what I had planned for us while we were waiting.”
Hoseok laid on top of Seokjin, not caring about their nudity. He studied his face before he couldn’t resist it anymore and reached his fingers out to gently stroke Seokjin’s nose.
“And what did you have planned for us?”
Seokjin hummed lazily, “I was gonna get the board games out of the closet and have us play Candy Land or something.”
Hoseok couldn’t contain his laughter and brought his head down to laugh against Seokjin’s chest.
“Jeez, was it really that bad of an idea?”
Hoseok shook his against Seokjin’s chest, “No, I’m laughing because you’re fucking adorable.”
Seokjin gasped and grabbed Hoseok’s cheeks to squish them together aggressively.
“How am I the adorable one here? You look like a baby squirrel. I’ve been fantasizing about squishing your cheeks ever since I met you.”
Hoseok tried to smile with Seokjin’s hands squeezing his face. Seokjin released his face when he noticed Hoseok struggling to laugh. Once freed, Hoseok swooped in to kiss Seokjin once more before he got up to take the cobbler out of the cauldron.
Too lazy to go to the kitchen and grab oven mittens, he just used his magic to lift the hot pan up and placed it gently on the stone coffee table next to them.
“I haven’t dated a witch in a while, it’s kind shit to see you use your magic.”
Hoseok looked over at him and snorted, “You should watch me farm, you’d probably cream your pants.”
“Haha. You may be joking but you’re probably right. I guess you could say I’m bananas over you.”
Hoseok nudged him with his foot, “Enough with the puns. I can’t take much more.”
“Are you saying you don’t like my pick-up limes?” Seokjin pouted.
Hoseok bent down to grab his underwear and chuck it at Seokjin’s face.
Seokjin shrieked then started giggling, curling into himself.
Hoseok took his underwear back off the floor and started putting it on until he realized Seokjin was controlling the underwear, not allowing it to go any further.
“Stay the night, Taehyung is staying over at Jungkook’s so you don’t have to worry about any awkward run-ins.”
Hoseok looked at Seokjin who still hadn’t moved from the floor, “Are we going to become a thing after this? I know we’re still spitballing ideas about merging, but I do like you and want us to get closer.”
Seokjin smiled softly, “Well luckily for you, I am coco-nuts over you as well—”
“I never said that assh—”
“—and I would love for us to get closer as well as merge our businesses. We are on the same page if that’s what you’re worried about.”
Seokjin stood up to walk over to the cobbler and handed it over to Hoseok, “I will go upstairs and get you a toothbrush, you cover this and put it on the counter.”
Hoseok took the cobbler and followed Seokjin’s orders. After he brushed his teeth and put on the pajamas Seokjin provided him, he made his way over to Seokjin’s bedroom and was met with the man himself lying in bed looking as if he’d fall asleep any second.
Seokjin watched him come in and opened his arms invitingly. Hoseok slid into his embrace and the two of them seemed to melt into each other.
Hoseok doesn’t remember falling asleep but he is now being awoken by the sound of an alarm coming from Seokjin’s side of the bed.
Seokjin whined, “Hoseok, make it stop.”
Hoseok whined as well, “It’s on your side, you do it. God it’s so loud, why is it so loud?”
Seokjin made what sounded like a half scream half sob into his pillow before he untangled himself from Hoseok and reached over to turn off the alarm.
It turns out the two of them are equally horrible morning people. They didn’t say a word to each other while getting dressed. They walked around the house like zombies on autopilot, nothing but grunts came from their mouths until Seokjin poured them coffee and they gulped it down in an instant.
“If there was a spell for feeling refreshed every morning I’d use that shit like an addict,” Seokjin mumbled into his cup.
“Agreed, c’mon let’s get going, I’m thirty minutes from my shop from here so I gotta get going.”
“Oh shoot that's right. I’ll walk you to your car then.”
Hoseok grabbed the cobbler and headed for the door. He felt Seokjin’s arms wrap around him as he made his way toward his car and the two of them almost tripped on their way over to Hoseok’s car with how close they were walking.
Hoseok giggled as Seokjin peppered his face with kisses and sent him off pretending to cry like a wife seeing her husband off for war.
He smiled the entire way to his shop.
—
When he arrived at the shop, he noted how it was opened and things seemed to be running smoothly on the outside.
On the inside, however, he was met with Jimin arguing with the parents of the daughter whom Hoseok made the strawberry cobbler for.
“ Look I told you that he should be here any—”
Jimin froze as he saw Hoseok enter, “See what did I tell you he’s right there with your cobbler.”
The father shouted, “About damn time, her party starts in twenty minutes you were supposed to be here 10 minutes ago like we agreed.”
“You’re absolutely correct. I’m sorry it took so long, this is on me.” Hoseok was not about to explain to these people why he was so late but it seems he didn’t have to as they did not care.
The wife cut in, “It’s fine you’re here now here’s the money. Can we just take the cobbler and go now? We really are in a rush.”
“Yes, of course, thank you for trusting me with this. I hope your daughter enjoys the cobbler.”
The mom snatched it from him with a crazed smile on her face, “Lord I hope she goddamn likes it too. Now y’all have a blessed day! Thank you and bye-bye now.” They ran to the car and sped off so fast that Hoseok hoped they wouldn’t knock his cobbler over.
“So, Hobi,” Jungkook started, “You’re late.”
“Wanna tell us why,” Jimin added with a look of false innocence.
Hoseok looked around just in case there was a customer but when he found none, he spilled.
“Okay, so our chemistry ended up being very good. We’re going to merge our businesses. He’s going to work on strawberry desserts and I’ll deal with the jams and the actual strawberries.”
Jungkook nodded, “That’s great and all but why are you late? You mentioned good chemistry?”
Yeah he wouldn’t let the slide would he?
“Okay fine. We slept—Wait, how old are you guys?”
“Twenty-three.” They said together.
“Oh shit, I thought you guys were younger.” He ignored their confused faces and continued his confession, “Right, so we baked the cobbler then slept together then I slept over and we said we want to continue this and get closer.”
Jimin placed his palm up to Jungkook’s face and Jungkook tsked as he slapped a twenty dollar bill onto Jimin’s hand.
“You assholes betted on me?” Hoseok shrieked.
Jimin shrugged, “We had a fight about it and this was the safest solution.”
Hoseok’s not even going to ask about the other solutions.
One year later
Merging was the best thing Seokjin and Hoseok could have ever done. The two of them are an amazing team and since they already had a reputation throughout town, business was always booming.
They ended up having to expand to other berries such as blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries because of the continuous complaints about “lack of variety”.
Hoseok and Seokjin obviously refused to grow any other berry so Taehyung and Namjoon stepped in and took over the non-strawberry part of their products. They were actually great witches and were eager to learn any new gardening spells Hoseok had to offer.
Yoongi also pitched in. He was an accountant and when he learned how much money they were making he decided to help them out with their finances and work for them part-time.
Jungkook and Jimin only work in the shop part-time now that they have “real jobs” as they call it. They work in the town's elementary school as second-grade teachers so clearly, they needed a job at the store to make actual money.
Hoseok was in the middle of mopping the floor when he felt arms wrap around his torso and his nose was filled with the scent of freshly plucked strawberries.
“Can I help you sir?”
“Hobah,” Seokjin whined, “Can we go home now, the floor was clean before you mopped it. We’ve been here for ten hours now and my feet hurt.”
Hoseok shook his head, “Five more minutes and I’ll be done. You can wait in the car if you need to.”
Seokjin shook his head and clapped his hands. The mop in Hoseok’s hand lurched forward and started mopping the floor itself.
“Jin we have too many windows!”
“It’s ten p.m. on a Sunday night, and no one is around here. The only car in the lot is yours.”
Hoseok looks outside just now realizing how late it has gotten.
“Oh shoot, you’re right.”
“C’mon let’s go back to your place. Let the mop clean the rest up. I'm tired.”
The two of them decided to keep their two houses in order to separate their strawberry fields. They’ve stuck to their original idea of having one person use their strawberries for desserts and the other to use it for jams and packaging the strawberries in cartons. The hardest thing they had to go through with the merge was finding a new name but after many fights that ended in tears, they just settled on Berry Good Berries.
Okay so that was a lie, Hoseok settled on the name. Seokjin wouldn’t consider anything else. He still cringes every time he sees their logo when he goes in for work.
Anyway, life is going berry well and Hoseok has found the apple of his eye who he will cherry-ish for the rest of his life.