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It's too calm. Taehyun figures that it should be early in the morning, as he doesn't hear the other members scrambling to get dressed unless they want to get scolded by Soobin. So he turns to the other side of the bed and continues to sleep.
Yeonjun shakes him up, pulling on the covers and tugging his pillow.
' Yah! Beomgyu! Wake Huening up! We're going to be late!'
Only then does Taehyun get up, mainly because when Beomgyu climbs down the ladder, it shakes the entire double-decker bed. He frowns.
wait, beomgyu sleeps in the closet, it should be soobin above him?
And he's also surprised that Beomgyu would wake up so willingly, he was always one of the late sleepers like Kai.
Taehyun reaches under the pillow for his phone, but it's not there? He turns the bed upside down to look for it, but it's really not there?
' Hyung? Have you seen my phone?' He asks Yeonjun who's busy cleaning away several packets of empty chocolate milk.
' It's on the bedside table Tae, you've always put it there?' Yeonjun turns to pick up the phone and hands it to Tae.
but what about soobin-hyung's contact lens? It's where he put it?
But he doesn't comment on it, because he senses that Yeonjun's about to lose his patience if he doesn't get up any faster.
Tae doesn't like the feeling that's settled in his gut.
The table is set for 4 people. He sees the same sandwiches Yeonjun prepares for them everyday along with their respective drinks : Water for Yeonjun, milk for Kai, orange juice for him and chocolate milk for Beomgyu?
beom's changed his taste? He normally opts for water?
A figure with purple hair is sitting at his seat, hunched over his breakfast. Taehyun picks up his orange juice and moves over. ' Hyung, get out, that's my seat.'
'Hyung? You're older than me?'
'Ning Ning? When did you have purple hair?'
'Hyung, who calls me Ning Ning nowadays? That was my nickname when I was 5? And you prefer to sit there?' Kai points at three chairs which are adjusted higher that Kai's.
'You said only the hyungs can sit there, remember? Then when Beomgyu-hyung complained that I was growing too tall, you raised the seats so that you guys would be taller and you could 'look down on me'.
Before Taehyun can deny doing such a thing because Soobin is the tallest not Kai, Beomgyu enters the kitchen. He opens the fridge and Taehyun glimpses that it's stocked to the brim with chocolate milk.
' Hyung, since when do you like chocolate milk?' Taehyun comments, trying to figure out when Beomgyu's obsession with chocolate milk began.
'Huh? What do you mean? I always introduce myself as Chocolate-gyu! So you don't pay attention to me? I'm your hyung!!'
Beomgyu reaches for Taehyun's ear and he ducks down to avoid him. The last member of the group enters the room and raises his eyebrows at Beomgyu, who sheepishly retracts his hand.
' Hurry up! We've got practice at 7! Then Taehyun, Beomgyu you've got singing at 11. Kai, you're with me in dance, we need to work on the dance break.'
Yeonjun joins them at the table, the last member to arrive. The other members nod at the impromptu briefing.
' What about Soobin-hyung?' Taehyun pipes up, and the other members turn to look at him.
'Huh?' Yeonjun is the first to answer. ' Who's soobin?'