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Jobu finally told Taeheon his feelings after spending an overnight date with him, but Taeheon wants more from him. And honestly, considering the entirety of the previous episode? Fair! Now let’s see where things are headed in this episode.

So, what Taeheon did wasn’t a full-on rejection, but more of a pause, I think. He doesn’t deny he likes Jobu, he’s just signalling that he needs more from him. You can do this, Jobu! You already look defeated right now, but you can do this!

The next day, Taeheon and Hiroya bring out custom T-shirts and hoodies for everyone! Or at least everyone in the house. What about William, Izaya, and Kazuyuki? Either way, the T-shirts and hoodies are all very tastefully done. I like it!

The hoodies couldn’t have arrived on a better day, because they now only have five days left in the Green Room. They’re told they’re going on a two-day trip to Sapporo, and that this is going to be the last coffee truck shift. Ryuki says he wants to go on the shift with everyone, and I agree! It’s the final day, go ahead and do it! They go ahead and do it and we get lovely scenes of the final shift BUT WE DON’T GET SALES TOTALS. COME ON THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS.

After the shift, the guys are back at the Green Room cooking what I am guessing are hamburgers, and I thought it would be Jobu who would be talking about being insecure about his connection with Taeheon, but it’s actually Bomi who starts talking about Huwei. The fact that Ryuki got a souvenir also got to Bomi a but. Honestly, from what I’ve seen, it just looks like it’s a difference in love language?

DID SOMEBODY SAY LOVE LANGUAGE?

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And to be fair to Hiroya and Ryuki, who at one point were ~rivals~ to Bomi, they both advise him to tell his apprehensions to Huwei because it just might be Huwei not realizing that what he’s doing is making Bomi feel like he’s the only one who has a stake in the relationship.

The boys then go outside and have a barbecue and talk about the past two months or so they’ve spent together in the Green Room. They’re looking back at their fondest memories, and both Taeheon and Bomi declare that they want to talk about deeper stuff once they’re all in Sapporo. They want the talk.

We also get to see the aftermath of Taeheon and Jobu’s first talk in the previous episode. Jobu admits that he starts joking around when things get serious, so I can definitely see where Taeheon is coming from.

Opening credits time!

The guys get on the bus to Sapporo, and Tomoaki is a hoot. It looks like he won’t get to be with someone on this show, but I sure hope that he finds someone in the outside world. Meanwhile, Huwei is getting tag-teamed by Ryuki and Bomi in the back seat of the bus, and definitely not in the way he wants to be tag-teamed. They’re telling him that he’s not good at romance and doubting him when he says that he trusts his partner, and calling him “nice” in a not nice way, and in my head I’m going “Bomi, do you wanna lose this man?”

Meanwhile, Taeheon and Jobu are having a more productive conversation on their side of the bus. It looks like they share the same views, and I really like that neither one of them likes a person in the relationship downplaying their own dreams for the other. I believe that too! You need to be your own person so you can be that person for the other…uhh…person. You guys know what I mean.

The guys arrive at their place in Sapporo, and the place where they’re staying looks nice. After they get the room assignments out of the way, Jobu immediately puts his and Taeheon’s beds together, as he is determined to leave the Green Room with a boyfriend. He also heads to the doctor after, because his ear has been hurting and I don’t think he wants to leave the Green Room with an ear infection.

When Jobu comes back later that night from seeing the doctor, Hiroya pulls the baller move of telling him to his face, that he’s going to talk to Taeheon alone. I hooted and hollered and evil duck laughed.

And Hiroya’s starting to look better as well! He’s taken Taeheon out on a parfait date, and from the look on Taeheon’s face, he’s wanted this. And Taeheon is actually laughing on this date rather than having his inscrutable face on like he does with Jobu. Oh, Jobu, you in danger, girl.

Hiroya asks Taeheon why he was so conflicted about the date event back in episode 12, and Taeheon says he really didn’t have his feelings sorted out then and that he didn’t want to hurt anyone, but even if it did hurt somebody, he would still stand by his decision. Hiroya tells Taeheon he shouldn’t tiptoe around him, which I am taking as codewords for “I am a subby bottom for you, Taeheon”. But then it turns out that I am just a nasty person because Hiroya tells Taeheon that he loves Jobu as a friend and that he just wants Jobu to be happy.

The next day, Bomi tells the gathered homosexuals that he wants to spend the day with Huwei, while Taeheon tells the group he wants to spend the day with Jobu. What will the Three Homosexual Musketeers left behind do now?

Taeheon and Jobu go to a perfume-making place where they’re going to make perfume for one another, where Taeheon really does a great job at charming Jobu with that perfume. He tells Jobu that the perfume has cilantro in it, which he hates eating, but actually smells nice, like their first coffee truck shift. He tells Jobu that things didn’t start out well for them at first, but then he started adding the scents that he loves.

Later that day — because they have drinks now — Taeheon asks Jobu what made him confess in the previous episode, and Jobu explains that he didn’t actually plan on confessing, but he was just caught up in the moment as he watched Taeheon enjoying the lasagna that he made. Taeheon then admits that while he does think that it was a bit too early in their relationship to say that, his heart did skip a beat hearing it from Jobu.

Meanwhile, the Three Homosexual Musketeers are…somewhere talking about Bomi and Huwei. Tomoaki says he would have been upset if he were Bomi with the way Huwei responded to the date invitation. Ryuki, on the other hand, is the number one Bomi/Huwei shipper because he defends Huwei and thinks that Huwei really likes Bomi. Huwei just isn’t publicly expressive!

Meanwhile, Bomi and Huwei are making rings. I don’t know how this is going to turn out! Immediately, Bomi is telling Huwei where he’s going to wear the ring he’s going to make, and I just don’t think that Huwei’s the one to take orders like this. Huwei seems to gamely go along with Bomi, but Taeheon did with Jobu on the lead-up to the firepit dinner, and we know how that turned out.

After making their rings, the guys go to look at penguins, which I think is the best date idea, because who hates penguins? It’s here where Bomi brings up his ~feelings~ that aren’t jealousy, according to him. All of this is made funny by the penguins squawking in the background. Once Bomi’s laid out his feelings, Huwei simply says there just wasn’t a souvenir that felt right for Bomi, which is why he didn’t bring back one, and that it didn’t make sense to him to tell Bomi that. Of course, Bomi thinks differently, and I really do think that this is just a difference in love language and not a deal breaker.

Huwei then asks Bomi what he sees for the two of them outside of the show, because things might change outside of the Green Room. I mean, Bomi didn’t expect things to get real this quick, I guess. But I guess Huwei liked Bomi’s response, because he tells him that their views on being together are the same.

Back at their accommodations, it’s Ryuki who now takes center stage as he asks the group for advice as he plans to come out. He only has his father now, and with his mom dead since he was young, he’ll have no one left if his father rejects him.

And to be fair to the show, the advice from the guys is very realistic. Tomoaki tells Ryuki that his parents might not react on the spot, which is why he decided to come out by writing a letter. Hiroya is lucky that his parents were generally accepting, but also points out to Ryuki that coming out isn’t going to be a one-time thing. He’ll have to do it again and again at different points in his life.

Jobu’s reaction, however, is curious. He gets up and leaves the discussion, which Taeheon notices. Is it because he feels guilty that his mom was accepting and everyone else who came out in the house had a harder time than him? Taeheon follows him out and Jobu refuses to talk about it, which really isn’t going to help with the starting relationship between the two of you. And it really does! When the group decides to take a picture, Taeheon refuses to come close to Jobu. He’s already told you that he wants serious conversations, and you push him away, Jobu. It’s on you!

And I was right about what Jobu was thinking as well! In the confessionals, he says he never really had to come out because his family was supportive, and everyone else’s heavy coming out stories just weighed on him. AND TO BE FAIR, Jobu is also painfully aware that he fucked it up with Taeheon and that Taeheon has been nothing but clear about what he wants in their relationship. The panel thinks neither of them are wrong, but I think they’re just being polite, because Taeheon has been very clear, and it’s Jobu who’s been regressing. I’m with Taeheon on this!

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