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*:･ﾟ✧ Milk Tea with Tapioca pearls *:･ﾟ✧

An alarm began blaring through Jisung's room playing 'Not Mine' by Day6. Groaning in annoyance Jisung rolled over and turned off the alarm.
9:00am.

Today he had a shift at 'bubbles' the bubble tea shop his parents owned, which he also happened to live above. Lying on his bed Jisung could hear his parents moving around, the smell of pancakes could faintly be smelt. Realising what the food was Jisung pulled himself out of bed and turned on his playlist and started to get ready.

After making his bed he grabbed his speaker and took it into the bathroom, whilst he took a shower he started to practice some rapping and singing along to the music on shuffle to wake himself up.

"Foods ready Jisung!" His mother shouted after knocking on his rooms door.

"I'll just be a sec!" Jisung responded as he was drying himself with the towel.

Begrudgingly he pulled on some black skinny jeans and a dark purple shirt which has the 'bubbles' logo sewn on as well as his name underneath.

Jisung glanced at the mirror and quickly tried to fix his hair.
"Please just stay in place" he mumbled as he moved a loose strand out the way.

"Jisung!" His mother shouted again.

At the sound of his annoyed mother, the young boy rushed out to grab some food. There were pancakes stacked in a pile in the middle of the table and around it in smaller bowls were a variety of fresh fruits.

"Finally, I thought you had fallen back asleep" Mr Han chuckled as he was finishing a pancake.

Jisung awkwardly laughed, "I'd happily do that"

Jisung quickly plated up two thick pancakes and drizzled them in a variety of lemon juice, fruits and some cream. Not the healthiest breakfast but it was delicious so Jisung wasn't complaining.

"Felix is working today right?" Mrs Han questioned as she sipped on her steaming coffee.

Jisung made out a 'yes' as his cheeks were stuffed with pancakes and fruits.

"Ahh that's good, your father and I have to go to the bank today so you will have to run things on your own today. If there are any problems you can call us"

Jisung nodded in acknowledgement and stacked up more pancakes.
"Best not eat too many pancakes Ji, don't want you to get too fat" Jisung's father joked.

Jisung hesitated and slowly put one of the pancakes back. Jisung was fairly skinny, but his father constantly reminding him that he shouldn't eat too much. This made Jisung remember that he was auditioning for entertainment agencies in November and so if he gained weight he didn't want to get rejected because his weight.

Checking the clock on the wall Jisung noticed he had five minutes until he needed to go downstairs and start setting the shop up for their opening time at half ten.

Jisung excused himself from the table and went to brush his teeth, he also grabbed the hat he would occasionally wear, especially on hot days like today.
It was coming to the end of the summer and so the sun was still super hot.

Grabbing his shoes and spraying his cologne on himself Jisung quickly said goodbye to his parents and hopped downstairs.

Bubbles was fairly small, there was a fairly big area where they make and serve drinks with a breakfast table set up on one side of the serving bar.
All the walls were glass apart from the wall which held the stairs and the storage room and bathroom for customers.

The colour theme was purple, black and white. The serving table was purple. Tables and seats were black whilst the walls were white.

The first thing Jisung did was unlocking the door to let Felix in who had just arrived.

"Hey mate" he spoke as he smiled and gave a little wave stepping in.

"Hey Fe" Jisung smiled and then locked the door again so customers didn't walk in despite the sign saying they were still currently closed.

Felix rushed out to the back room to drop off his bag and coat before reappearing whilst tying up his apron. During this time Jisung had turned on Felix's and his playlist which they would also play whilst working together they luckily had the same music taste and so it was nice listening to songs they both enjoyed.

"I do hope it's not that busy today" Felix started up a conversation as he began to cook up some pearls.

"Same, if we do I hope a lot of them just get takeaway,I don't think I could cope with having to do loads of washing today" Jisung chuckled as he was turning the cash machine on and setting it up.

"We can only hope" Felix smiled as he began wiping the tables down.

To say they were busy was an understatement, as soon as Jisung opened the doors at ten-thirty it felt like it was non-stop. Bubbles was a fairly popular bubble tea shop but Jisung and Felix had never seen it so busy before.

"Felix can you clear those tables over there please" Jisung asked as Felix finished making some takeaway drinks.

"Sure thing Ji" Felix got quickly to work as Jisung carried on taking orders and starting them.

It was around quarter past two when the boys finally had a breather. The shop had became slightly messy whilst rush hour was happening and so now the pair were cleaning down the tables, and cleaning the work space whilst chatting.

"College starts in a few weeks,do you have enough money to go yet?" Felix asked as he made himself a drink.

"Actually I do! When my mum gave me my pay slip yesterday from last week I counted it up and I have enough with some change as well" Jisung beamed as he drank his own bubble tea.

"Are you moving to the dorms then?" Felix asked.

Jisung sighed and played with the metal straw in his drink, "sadly not, hopefully I can move in at some point though, it would be nice because we get them over summer as well so it wouldn't be a waste of money if I was only there for a couple of months"

"That sucks, just know feel free to visit mine at any time, I have a roommate called Junkyu who never seems to be there so I always have the place to myself, well most of the time" Felix smiled.

The bell rang signalling a new customer and the boys got back to work.

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{ Written -9th Feb 2021}

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*:･ﾟ✧Jasmine tea with Tapioca Pearls *:･ﾟ✧

After the last few weeks of work it was finally the day Jisung could start college. Packing up the bag he had recently brought with a notebook and his laptop and a few pens Jisung felt ready. Finally no more home schooling.

"Ji you best hurry!" Jisung heard his mother call as he was checking his hair one last. He wanted to make a good impression.

Despite only starting the college this year, Jisung had been placed in a class full of second years. He still wasn't sure why but he had received an email earlier in the week stating the change in his timetable.
Plugging in his headphones, Jisung grabbed an apple and began making his way to the unfamiliar college. As he walked down the fairly busy streets he could see the college at the end of the street and many students were hanging around the front of the gates.

It was extremely daunting walking through the gates of the new college, JYP college (wow original) was known for their performing arts section and Jisung still couldn't believe that he had even been accepted into the music program.

Checking the time on his watch Jisung noticed he had around ten minutes to find his way around. As he walked around the college he noticed a few people looking at him as he reached the floor for second years. They were probably thinking he had gotten lost and was in the wrong place. was he even in the right place?

Room 325 was nearer the end of the corridor and luckily the rooms were numbered and noticeable, Jisung couldn't even begin to imagine what would happen if he entered the wrong room.
Peaking into the room from the glass in the door it seemed to be a fairly small class as of right now.

Not really sure what to do Jisung knocked on the door and waited for the lecturer to answer. His hands were shaking and he became anxious over whether his new classmates would treat him okay. especially with him being younger than them.
The blue door opened briefly after Jisung knocked and a middle Aged man smiled warmly towards the nervous boy.

"Ahh you must be Han Jisung correct?"the black haired man asked.

Jisung nodded and managed to squeak out a yes despite his nerves.

"Brilliant, come on in, don't worry about introductions right now as we shall be doing that in the lesson, there's a seat at the back" the man pointed to a beanbag. That's when Jisung realised that their weren't any desks the room was filled with beanbags and cushions.

Was he in the right room?

Jisung took a deep breath and kept his eyes trailed on the ground as he walked back to the seat which was assigned to him. There was a boy with dirty blonde hair sitting in his left and no one on his right.

"Hi!" The boy smiled towards Jisung.

Jisung's smiled and gave a slight wave not really sure what to say.

"Right class, now we have everyone here, let's get started" the teacher spoke.

"I know many of you already know each other and what you are specialising in but I'd like to see what you've been working on during the summer"

Jisung gulped, he had to perform?! on the first day?! The lecturer could've at least given him a heads up, his anxiety began to bubble at the thought of performing in front of strangers.

"Chan and Changbin? You guys rap right?" The unnamed lecturer asked two boys who were at the front.

The boys seemed extremely confident as they stood up before immediately setting up. They did test mics and everything. They seemed so professional. Jisung was already engrossed in the way the boys silently set up and seemingly agreed on a track without communicating.

"Hi I'm Chan as many of you know, this is Changbin and we will be performing a song called P.A.C.E, it's not completely finished but I hope you enjoy" the boy with blonde hair spoke.

Changbin the shorter boy with dark hair simply nodded and Chan soon began the track. Jisung felt himself leaning forward in awe as the two boys began to rap with immaculate flow and accurately pronouncing their lyrics. The performance was short but Jisung felt that the song seemed way longer. Chan and Changbin emitted such confidence that he wished he could also perform with.

After the performance ended there was a chorus of claps and cheering from the cohort, Jisung easily clapping as well. The pair smiled and gave a bow before leaving the stage.

"Now shall we have Han Jisung come up to perform?" Jisung's eyes shot up and looked at his lecturer.

He felt the other students turn towards him.

"ummm.." Jisung began to speak not really sure what to say, he wasn't prepared at all. He tried to avoid eye contact with the man.

"Mr Park, maybe Jisung could go last i'm sure he'd like some time to prepare, he probably wasn't aware we were performing today" The boy with blonde hair next to him spoke up.

Jisung looked over to the boy grateful that he had spoken up for Jisung.

"Ahh yes that makes sense, Jisung you can go last" Mr Park spoke and then turned to the blonde person who had spoken, "Jae you can go next then if you'd like"

Jae nodded and picked up the guitar next to him and went up to the stage. How did they all have so much confidence?! Jisung looked down towards the ground for the rest of the performances as he racked through his brain trying to think of a good song to perform. He could perform a rap track but he didn't want Chan and Changbin to judge him for his poor flow. There was a more lyrical performance that he'd written but he hadn't practiced the song enough to be able to perform it in front of the group.

It seemed as though all of the students performances sped past.Now he had to perform.

"Jisung you ready?" Mr park asked.

Jisung knew that if he wanted to make some friends he'd at least have to perform now. Giving a quick nod Jisung stood up slowly and clutched his phone not looking at the students faces.
He turned to face the front of the class, taking a deep breathe he spoke into the mic.

"Uhhh hi, I'm, im Jisung" as he spoke out he turned his face up and saw the faces of students looking genuinely interested in him.

Gulping he continued to speak, "uh, this is a song I wrote called Alien"

Without saying any more words he plugged his phone into the speaker system so that he could play it out loud.

The music began playing and Jisung took a deep breath and calmed his breathing as the intro started.

The only thing predictable about life is
Its' unpredictability
Anyone can be anything
You can be everything

His voice started off quieter as he began singing, however whilst singing he began feeling himself falling into a trance and becoming more confident.

지구에 툭 떨어진 I'm an alien on this earth
나 홀로 어디에도 속하지 않아 보이고
아무리 웃어봐도 I feel so lonely
지구인과 섞이려고 드는 외계인
소리 내 말을 해봐도 누구도 듣질 않아

낯선 곳에 불시착해 처음에는 기대만 가득 찼던 나의
눈망울엔 까만 밤이 되면 자꾸 눈물이 고여, yeah
나의 당당함 또한 누군가에게 밉보일 수 있기 때문에
죽은 듯 살아왔더니 어느새 난 홀로서 저기 동떨어져 있지
그들과 나는 왠지 같은 곳에 있어도 I was an alien, yeah
우주에서 날아와 불시착해 상처만 가득해진 나는 외톨이

As he was rapping his confidence built and he removed the mic from the stand and started to relax more into the song.

It's a lonely night 조용한 밤이야
너무 어둡다 나의 나지막한 내 목소리로
이뤄낼 거야 저기 별들 사이에서
I'm just lonely 누가 날 위해 손을 뻗어 날 잡아줘

지구에 툭 떨어진 I'm an alien on this earth
나 홀로 어디에도 속하지 않아 보이고
아무리 웃어봐도 I feel so lonely
지구인과 섞이려고 드는 외계인
소리 내 말을 해봐도 누구도 듣질 않아

그래 나는 없어 매일 가득 넘쳐
나는 나의 걱정을 짊어진 채로
그 누구도 신경 안 써도 난 지쳐
쓰러지지 않을 거란 나의 맹세로
하늘 높이 바라보는 곳에 무수히도 많은 꿈이
나를 반기니까 Don't care about depression도
그래 내가 살아가야 하지
무너지면 모든 게 수포가 될 거야 꿈마저도
수포가 될 거야 꿈마저도
내가 이곳에서 마셨던 숨마저도
너무 쓰라리고 아팠지만 참을 수 있어
꿈을 위해서 탐탁지 않아?
그래 누군가는 나를 원치 않았고
모두의 호감을 사기엔 나는 너무 어렸어
시간이 지날수록 나는 어른이 돼 갔고
완벽하진 않아도 자랑스럽게 날 다독여

It's a lonely night 조용한 밤이야
너무 어둡다 나의 나지막한 내 목소리로
이뤄낼 거야 저기 별들 사이에서
I'm just lonely 누가 날 위해 손을 뻗어 날 잡아줘

지구에 툭 떨어진 I'm an alien on this earth
나 홀로 어디에도 속하지 않아 보이고
아무리 웃어봐도 I feel so lonely
지구인과 섞이려고 드는 외계인
소리 내 말을 해봐도 누구도 듣질 않아

As Jisung finished he came out of the trance and he suddenly remembered he was in front of a group of strangers, he slowly placed the mic back on the stand and looked to the ground. He didn't want to see how badly the students wanted to laugh or mock his performance.

Suddenly amoungst the silence from the class came a clap, that one clap soon became louder as more people joined in.
Realising they were clapping Jisung, he looked up and saw the look of shocked, smiling, and excited students.

"I can see why you were put in this class Jisung" Mr park came up to the stage and smiled at the boy.

"O-oh thank you" Jisung gulped and gave a short bow.
He scurried back to his seat after unplugging his phone.

After Jisung finished, Mr Park spoke about a couple of projects that he is planning on having everyone do in groups. As the bell rang signalling the end of the 2 hour lesson,Jisung started to pack up his notebook where we wrote some of the things Mr Park had mentioned. As he stood he noticed Chan and Changbin approaching him. He gulped.

"Hey Jisung right?" Chan spoke up.

Jisung nodded feeling slightly shocked the two boys were talking to him.

"Wanna grab lunch with us later?" Chan asked.

Jisung looked at them in surprise. His jaw slightly dropped at the sudden question.
"Oh... um yeah sure" Jisung stuttered out.

"Awesome! We can meet you out the front of the canteen" chan smiled.

Changbin nodded along with what Chan was saying.

"I-okay!" Jisung smiled. "Uh I have to get to my theory lesson so I guess I'll see you after?" He managed to speak out.

The three began making their way to the corridor.

"Oh you'll probably have Ms Kim, if you let her know you were with us she won't tell you off for being late" Chan advised.

"O-oh okay thank you Hyung " Jisung gave a quick bow and began rushing down to the second year floor.

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{Written 11th Feb 2021}

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*:･ﾟ✧Jasmine tea with Tapioca Pearls+25%*:･ﾟ✧

Luckily for Jisung he made it to the Lesson on time and so he didn't have to worry about explaining to Ms Kim why he was late.
Jisung found a seat next to a boy with short black hair and braces. Before Jisung could say hi Ms Kim got started on the lesson.

The boy was very grateful he didn't have to introduce himself to the class, either Ms Kim assumed that he was in all the 1st Year classes or she just didn't feel the need to make him stand up and introduce himself.

"Today we will be studying different composers, you will be tasked with an assignment due in a couple of weeks and you shall be writing about the life of said composer and what they have achieved" Ms Kim began to explain.

Jisung quickly jotted down the information given, music theory was definitely a subject he knew he'd find hard. A few other classmates were also taking note of Ma Kim's speech.

"This should be around 2500 words, you may include images and remember to cite your work"

The lesson carried on and Jisung made sure to make notes of a composer he thought would be interesting to research about. The lesson was 2 hours long and so by the end Jisung's stomach was practically begging for food. The boy was so used to stealing food from his kitchen and eating whilst attending his home schooling, these long days were going to tire him so much.

Finally after a next hour and a new aching hand the bell finally rang.
Jisung quickly packed up his bag full of new notebooks and books and made his way out of the classroom. He noticed a few students looking at him.
Jisung gulped and tried to not think about what they would be thinking about him and what they were saying about him. Chan had given him brief instructions on how to get to the canteen and so Jisung took the main stairs which were right in front of his classroom. It was very busy but everyone seemed to be headed either outside or to what Jisung presumed was the canteen so he followed the stampede.

Getting pushed and shoved he finally spotter Chan and Changbin leaning on a wall outside the canteen. Jisung took note of how a lot of students were looking at them in always awe, as well as keeping their distance.

Chan spotted Jisung ask smiled and gave a short wave as the boy appeared in front of them.
"Hi Jisung!" Chan smiled.

"Hey! I wasn't expecting it to be so busy" Jisung smiled.

"You'll get used to it, let's go inside so we can grab food" Chan smiled and wrapped an arm over Jisung's shoulders pulling him along.
Once again Jisung noticed the stares. Was there something wrong with what he was wearing?

As Jisung was thinking he didn't even realise how Chan,himself and Changbin had just pushed past the whole queue of students waiting for food.

"What do you want ji?" Chan asked

"Umm" Jisung was lost for words he hadn't even had a chance to look at the menu and now he was at the front he didn't want to keep the other students waiting.
"I'll have whatever you have" Jisung quickly spoke to get his order over and done with.

It was only when he had paid and left the queue when his eyes landed on a piece of chocolate cheesecake. Slightly pouting and sighing Jisung followed the two rappers to a table near the middle. It was empty besides two people who were currently occupying it.

Oh god more people.

Jisung stood awkwardly at the table not sure where to sit, "you can sit anywhere" one of the newer boys spoke up.

Jisung blushed lightly and quickly sat down next to Changbin across from the two new humans.

"Hi! I'm Seungmin" a boy with light brown fluffy hair spoke up and shook Jisung's hand smiling.

"H-hey" Jisung inwardly cringed at his stutter.

Jisung then turned to the boy beside him and noticed the long black hair tied back, he was extremely handsome.
"Hey I'm Hyunjin"

Jisung gave a hi back. The started eating his food and the group managed to get into a nice comfortable conversation about everyone's hobbies so that Jisung to learn more about them.

"What do you do then Jisung?" Changbin asked him.

"Oh... Umm well in my spare time I like making music as you two already know" he directed a look towards the two rappers.
"Otherwise I usually watch documentaries, and then mainly work, I occasionally dance because I'm trying to get into some agencies to be an idol so I need to practice that"

"Oo that's super cool! I dance so if you need any pointers let me know" Hyunjin smiled towards the new boy.

Jisung nodded and smiled, "I also work at my families bubble tea shop"

"Oo what's it's called?" Seungmin asked as he was finishing up some rice from his plate.

"Ahh it's called bubbles, it's actually pretty near here" Jisung spoke up.

"I guess we have to check it out some time" Chan smiled.

As Changbin was about to speak again a pair of girls came over to the table
"Oh god" Hyunjin whispered and rolled his eyes.

"Hyunjin Oppa!" A girl with shoulder length hair spoke.

"Hi Lia...." Hyunjin smiled in a sarcastic way of that was even possible.

"Oppa can you tutor me in some of my classes I'm failing" she batted her eyelids and played with the ends of her hair.

"I'm busy no" Hyunjin looked down at his food and began eating and ignore the girls look.

The friend next to her took her arm and pulled her away. Jisung heard the friend speak to Lia.

"I told you they are too popular to care about us"

Jisung's eyes widened as he then realised thats why everyone was looking at the group, and why they had let them skip the queue... they must seriously have some power over...

How did Jisung manage to get wrapped up with the popular group!

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{written 16th Feb 2021}

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*:·ﾟ✧Pomegranate+tapioca with cherry boba*:·ﾟ✧

It was Friday afternoon which meant Jisung had shift at Bubbles. It was usually very chill on Fridays when Jisung worked. He just had to serve a lot of school, or college kids. Jisung was just glad his parents let him have the weekend off. He had so much work to catch up with, his music theory essay especially. He had been procrastinating it all week because he was dreading it.

As Jisung was filling up the cups and straws; Seungmin and Hyunjin walked in. Seungmin seemed to have a light blush on his face and was smiling slightly. Jisung could only guess that Hyunjin had made him flustered again.

"Oh hey guys!" Jisung smiled as they reached the counter.

"hi Ji, I forgot you work here" Hyunjin smiled. Jisung had briefly told his new group of friends how he had a part-time job at the bubble tea cafe and so they'd agree to check it out one time.

"what can I get you guys?" Jisung asked as he quickly logged into the cash machine ready to punch in their orders.

"I'll just take a classic tea with tapioca please, Minnie what do you want?" Hyunjin turned to Seungmin who was studying the board.

"umm I get an apple flavour with apple boba as well" Seungmin read off the board.

Jisung took note, In or take out?"

"Out please, we have somewhere to be" Hyunjin smiled brightly, Seungmin had a blush grow on his face and so Jisung guessed Hyunjin was taking the other out on a date somewhere.

"awesome, here's the card machine, i'll start making them" Jisung handed the card machine over.

As he turned around to make the teas he could hear Seungmin arguing about how he had wanted to pay for the drinks and that Hyunjin should stop paying for his stuff. Jisung chuckled at the pair and quickly fixed up the drinks.

"Here you go, have fun on your date" Jisung smiled.

"I-its not a date!" Seungmin said in an annoyed tone and grabbed his drink before walking out the shop.

Hyunjin chuckled and watched the brown haired boy walk out, "thanks Jisung!"
Hyunjin took a sip of his drink before rushing to catch up with the younger boy.

The shop was now empty and so Jisung pulled out his music theory book and started working on it, the only time he had motivation to do so it seemed. He was sat for around twenty minutes before a customer came in.

Jisung glanced up as the bell rang, in stepped a boy around his age, maybe slightly older. He was wearing black skinny jeans, a white graphic tee and a black denim jacket. The boys black hair was parted down the middle and was slightly curly. Jisung gulped and tried to not gay panic.

"uhh, h-hi welcome to bubbles" Jisung smiled nervously as the new boy reached the counter. Jisung pushed his books down the counter.

"Hi!" he smiled gently, he looked at Jisung's name tag, "Hi Jisung"

Jisung felt his legs go weak, how did he make Jisung's horrid name actually sound half decent. He gulped and shook off the nervous he had whilst he looked at the attractive boy.

"What can I get you?" Jisung asked as he watched the boy read the menus.

"I've not been to this shop before so i'm not sure what is the best" The taller male spoke up.

Jisung glanced to the menu before he turned back, "Well my favourite is Pomegranate and tapioca with cherry boba, it's basically my go to"

"oo that sounds good i'll go with that thanks!" Jisung made eye contact with the boy, he was smiling brightly, completely different to how Jisung expected him to act, especially with the clothing he had on. Jisung wasn't one to stereotype but I definitely took him by surprise.

Jisung nodded and typed in the order, "did you want to drink in or out?"

"in please"

Jisung quickly got to work making the drink, for some reason he wanted to make a good impression on the boy. The drink had to be perfect. He steadily starting to poor the drink-

"You go to JYP?" the customer spoke up.

The sudden voice made jisung jump and he spilt some of the drink over himself and the floor. Jisung internally cursed and quickly fixed up the drink before turning to the boy who had spoken.

"Yeah, I do Music Production there" Jisung smiled and handed over the glass and metal straw.

"thanks" the Black haird boy took the drink ," I guess you're good at singing then?"

'ahh actually I do rapping" Jisung grabbed the books the boy was looking at at quickly packed them up.

"That's cool, you definitely look more like a vocalist", Jisung watched as the new boy took a sip of his drink. Jisung hid his hand under the counter and crossed his fingers hoping he would enjoy the flavour.

Jisung watched how the unnamed boy's expression changed from curious to a surprised smile. "woah this is a really good drink!"

Jisung felt a small blush appear, not many people had praised him on the drinks he makes. "thanks" he scratched the back of his neck.

"So as a music student you thinking of becoming an idol?" Jisung perked up at the question.

"yeah! I have a few auditions in a couple of weeks, although I doubt i'll get into them. They are pretty big companies, one of them being TWave, that's like impossible to get into. I'm hoping I can get in with just my rapping and singing alone, my dancing is definitely not up to the standards needed to get into TWave so I guess I should prepare for rejection" Jisung rambled on he didn't even realise the other boy who was listening had already finished his drink.

Jisung had been looking at the counter the entire time he had been rambling on and on, he only looked up when he heard a short chuckle.

"From the sounds of it you are pretty passionate" Minho smiled, "Here's the money for the drink by the way, it was amazing i can see how it's your favourite. Good luck with the auditions" The boy took his leave before Jisung could even say thank you.

Jisung grabbed the money only to realise that the tall, black haired boy had left jisung a tip.

That's when Jisung realised he hadn't even asked what the boys name was.

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{Written Feb 22nd 2021}

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*:･ﾟ✧ Passion fruit tea and mango boba *:･ﾟ✧

As Jisung walked into his music lecture and sat on one of the bean bags he was immediately approached by Bang Chan and Seo Changbin. Despite already being at the college for a few weeks jisung was still feeling slightly awkward with the pair. They had bonded over music, especially rapping but Jisung still felt slightly separate from them. It was clear the pair had been friends for a long time, Jisung didn't want to throw off that balance.

"Hey Ji!" Chan approached him and plopped himself down on the beanbag near him.

"Hi Chan hyung" Jisung smiled and unpacked his notebook and the random pen he had in his bag.

"So we were thinking" Changbin started as he also took a seat in front of Jisung and Chan but turned around towards them.

"remember the song we performed the first day back?" Chan asked as he opened up a very old looking notebook that was full of scribbles and notes.

Jisung nodded, " zone wasn't it?"

Chan nodded and smiled brightly, "ahh i'm glad you remembered it. Basically we haven't finished the song yet and we were wondering if you wanted to help out? you can write your own lyrics for it and everything"

Jisung was shocked at the sudden proposal. "I-"

"we don't need an answer now, just think about it okay?" Changbin interrupted as he noticed how jisung was taken aback.

Mr Park came into the room as so Jisung was slightly glad he didn't have to stress about thinking of the suggestion.

"Right class, today we will be starting group projects. You will have two weeks to write, produce and compose and so I expect you all to work well together. You can pick who you work with but please make sure it is a group of three or more"

Jisung turned on his beanbag to see if there was anyone he would like to work with. He was still unsure of some names in his class but he remembered Jae hyung who helped him on his first day, if he could recall correctly the boy performed with a guitar and so it would be fun to do a group project with guitars. As jisung scanned the room for Jae he took note that the boy was already partnered with a boy he couldn't remember and a girl who was called Sana.

As Jisung carried on looking he felt a tap on his shoulder. " Jisung you wanna work with us"

Chan and Changbin were still missing another person.

"O-oh umm sure, if its okay with you" Jisung looked down fiddling with his notebook.

"Yeah of course, besides this way you can see how we work and decide if you wanna help us with Zone" Chan looked to Changbin for confirmation.

Changbin nodded along, "yeah you'll get to see Chan when he doesn't leave the studio for days on end"

"Isn't that unhealthy?" Jisung asked slightly worried.

"Nah it's fine, beside I just sleep for a couple of days straight and i'm good as new." chan Joked.

Jisung smiled and turned himself fully to the two boys. "We actually have a track I just started working on, we could use that as a base to make the rest. Of course you can decide if it's good Ji" Chan pulled out his laptop which had many memory sticks and hard drives stuck on the back of the screen.

The software was quick to load and Chan handed out some headphones which were on a splitter so all three of them could hear the music at the same time.

Chan started playing a track called 'Placebo'

Jisung instinctively picked up his pen and started jotting down some words that we thought fit with the mood and beat of the song. Changbin glanced over to Jisung who had his eyes closed, his head was bopping slightly and his hand moved and wrote notes surprisingly neatly.

Changbin nudged Chan who raised an eyebrow before looking at where Changbin motioned. Jisung was seemingly writing lyrics for the tune without really thinking about what came next. Chan took a peak at the lyrics and his eyes widened in shock at how perfectly the lyrics will fit the beat.

As the music finished Jisung opened his eyes and looked down at his half decent notes and smiled. When he took out his headphones to pass them back to Chan the pair were looking at Jisung like he had two heads.

"wh-what?" Jisung asked slightly confused.

Changbin pointed to the lyrics Jisung had written down, "You wrote these, even though it's your first time listening to the song"

Jisung glanced back down to his notes and fiddled with his pen. He felt a blush appear on his face, "uh- well it always happens when i'm writing music, the lyrics either come to me straight away or at randoms moments in the day"

"that's incredible Jisung, and these lyrics fir perfectly with the theme I was thinking about for this song. It's like you read my mind" Chan had picked up Jisung's notebook to read the lyrics more carefully.

"you think it's okay?" Jisung asked anxiously. He didn't really want them to see his rough draft of the lyrics when he hadn't really re-read them himself.

"Ji...these are incredible, Changbin and I could never do this with the first listen of a song" Chan praised.

Jisung felt the blush which had just disappear re-surface.

"We can definitely work with this. If we head to the recording studio we can think about the lyrics more and actually play it out loud. Not to mention we can introduce Jisung to our studio!" Changbin smiled.

Chan nodded and closed up his laptop grabbing his bag. "we can probably get most of it done today"

--------- time skip---------

As the three boys walked into the slightly small restaurant and made their way to some seats they were buzzing.

"I can't believe we managed to finish most of the work today" Chan grinned.

The last hours were spent in the recording studio where Jisung tidied up his already perfect lyrics and recorded his part of the song. Chan got to work mixing and making sure the track was all finished and Changbin had managed to write the rest of the lyrics, with the help of Jisung. All they needed to do was to do the final recordings and composite them together. Considering they still had two weeks to complete the track it would mean they could also practice before the performance.

Sitting down to eat was Jisung's favourite part of the day. Finally food. He had skipped out on breakfast and lunch due to him waking up late and then promptly being stuck in the recording studio for the day.

"What's everyone getting? I'll buy since i'm feeling nice" Chan smiled as he scanned his own menu to pick what he wants.

"I'll just have some tteokbokki with rice" Jisung decided.

"i'll just get the spicy noodles they have" Changbin made up his mind after a few more minutes.

Chan quickly ordered the food and came back to the wobbly table the boys were sitting around. The table itself was wooden and fairly old but they didn't complain knowing the food that came with it was amazing.

As Changbin and Chan were discussing something in another lecture for the first years Jisung sat in his own thoughts.

Remembering the morning when Chan and Changbin had asked if Jisung wanted to be part of their rap group sounded amazing. He could finally perform with a group rather than on his own all the time which even just thinking about made him realise he wouldn't be as anxious each time they had to perform in their class.

His thoughts were broken when their food got served and Jisung dug into his food not before pouring a considerable amount of siracha on it. The speed in which finished his first meal of the day seemed record breaking. Chan and Changbin were barely halfway through their own food by the time Jisung had finished his meal.

"Woah Ji you hungry?" Chan chuckled.

Jisung scratched the back of head, "Well it's the first thing I've eaten today"

Chan let out a slight gasp, "Ji you gotta eat more than that, i'll get you some more rice" Chan went to signal to one of the waitresses for their attention.

Jisung quickly grabbed Chan's arm to stop him. " It's fine, I shouldn't eat anymore, besides I have auditions coming up. I need to watch my weight"

"you're weight is perfectly fine, but where are you auditioning?" Changbin spoke up.

'tell that to my dad' Jisung thought.

"I'm mainly auditioning to TWave but there are a few others. Actually I was thinking maybe we could audition as a group?" Jisung said the last part quietly.

"As a group would be co- wait does this mean you're accepting our offer?!" Chan realised mid speak.

Jisung looked between the two unsure, "Well we work really well together and maybe for the rest of this year at college we can work together as a kind of trial year, it will allow me to make up my mind"

Chan and changbin turned to each other and smiled brightly, "YES" they simultaneously spoke.

Jisung laughed at their behaviour. He pushed his own bowl of food away and drank some water. He was glad they liked the idea.

"how about a group name?" Chan questioned to the other two.

"tabasco?" Changbin suggested as he held up some random tabasco sauce on the table.

Chan rolled his eyes whilst Jisung just giggled at the suggested. As they sat and thought of a name Jisung's eyes landed on the siracha sauce he had been using.

"Siracha....3siracha......3racha.." He spoke quietly and he fiddled with the twisting top of the spicy sauce.

"What was that Ji?" Changbin asked.

Jisung eyes shot up, not realising he had spoken out loud. Bashfully he held up the sauce and spoke.

"3racha?"

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{Written- 5th March 2021}

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧Phoenix Birthday drink with Strawberry Boba *:·ﾟ✧

It was another slow day at Bubbles. Felix had taken the day off because he had too much work to catch up on and Jisung's parents didn't mind giving the boy a day off. Jisung sometimes thought they favoured him over their own son.

Jisung was sitting behind the counter reading over his lyrics for his audition song. He still had a couple of weeks until his audition but because he was performing a new song he wanted to practice a lot. Especially because the song had a lot of high notes. Jisung began playing the song softly out of his phone, bopping his head along to it as he softly rapped along.

"You sure you're not a vocalist?"He was for immersed in the song Jisung didn't hear the bell ring signalling a new visitor.

Jisung practically jumped out of his skin at the sound of a familiar voice. His head shooting up and hand on his chest Jisung's eyes met with those of the boy from the other week. He was dressed on joggers and a loose shirt. This time wearing glasses. Jisung had to stop himself from staring.

"O-oh hi" Jisung gulped and quickly paused his music.

"I thought you said you were a rapper?" The boy spoke up.

"ahh, yeah I mainly rap, just occasionally singing" Jisung looked down trying to to make eye-contact.

The boy who had walked in was now looking at the menu before he spoke up once more, "Oh you do birthday drinks?"

Jisung nodded as he unlocked the till., "Uh, yeah basically any of the ones underneath the birthday sign you can get for free if it's your birthday" Jisung quickly explained.

"Can I get the Phoenix drink with strawberry boba?"

Jisung smiled and quickly typed in the order before turning around to begin making the drink. He almost grimaced at how much he hated making the birthday drinks. All the different flavours, creams, sprinkles. Everything about them was annoying, not to mention having to make them pretty.

Jisung focused on the drink making sure it was perfect, this time not spilling any when the unnamed boy spoke again.

"Your auditions are soon right?"

Jisung was faced away from the boy but raised and eyebrow at the question, how did he know that the auditions were soon.

"yeah, in a couple of weeks" Jisung finished up the drink and passed it over the counter, "Happy Birthday!"

"you do realise it's not my birthday' the boy took a sip of his drink.

"wha-but you asked-" Jisung looked confused.

The older boy chuckled, "I'm kidding, it's my birthday but you never asked for proof"

Jisung let out a small 'oh' as he realised that he probably should've checked. Noting the boys attire Jisung was confused as to why he was alone on his birthday.

"Aren't you hanging out with friends or family for your birthday though?" Jisung questioned as he drank his own tea.

"Well let's just say I was dancing and my parents are both too busy today with their own work, although I ate lunch with my dad earlier".

"Oh that must suck" Jisung pouted slightly. He noticed Minho didn't mention his friends and so he decided to not mention it.

"It's fine,I'm used to it by now. Besides I was busy myself with a dance lesson and such" The black haired boy waved it off.

"You now have an amazing bubble tea as well" Jisung joked, he was slowly becoming more comfortable with the boy.

"haha yes, thank you. It was amazing" the boy chuckled and placed down his empty glass,"I should get back to my dance practice, but thanks for the drink and good luck with your auditions if I don't see you before"

Jisung grabbed the empty glass and thanked the boy, as he was walking towards the door Jisung shouted out. "Happy Birthday by the way uhh-"

"Minho, Lee Minho" The boy winked a left the shop.

Finally a name to the face.

The next day at College Jisung was leaning against the wall with Felix near the entrance. They were waiting on Hyunjin and Seungmin. Felix had been introduced to the group the other day when he needed to talk to Jisung about work during the lunch time.

"Lix, you should audition for dance" Jisung continued to persuade the freckled boy to audition with him at companies. For different departments but they were both on at the same time. Jisung would have to audition for dance as well because he was auditioning for an 'idol' entree.

"I'll think about it, besides it is going to be hard to get into the compa-" Felix was shut off by a large bang of the college doors slamming opening.

At first Jisung and Felix couldn't see who it was but from the gasps and the students quickly moving out of the way he guessed it could be Chan or Changbin. Possibly Seungmin and Hyunjin. But it was the complete opposite.

The boy who was walking in was dressed in black leather pants, a plain white shirt and a gucci jacket. He had a bag hanging over one shoulder and another black cap on his head. He was also wearing a mask to cover his face half of the way.

Jisung could hear whispers among the older students.

"He's back?"

"I thought he moved?"

"Lee Minho's back"

"It's Minho Oppa!"

It's only when Jisung here's the name he starts to attempt to get a glimpse of the boy who he had served at Bubbles.

Minho was really friendly and approachable, there's no way it's the same person. Besides Minho and Lee are a popular combination.

This "Lee Minho' ignored all the stares and comments and carried on walking past all the students and straight to the dance studios.

"who is Lee Minho?" Jisung questioned Felix who was checking the college news feed which already had pictures of said 'Minho'

"Apparently he's like a really good dancer, but super cold towards everyone. According to this he doesn't really have any friends but he's always seen in the dance studios" Felix showed Jisung an article about the boy.

"That can't be the same Minho" Jisung mumbled.

"Same Minho?" Felix asked as the pair began making their way to their first lessons no longer waiting for Hyunjin and Seungmin.

"uh- yeah, at Bubbles, he came in twice when you haven't been working and we were talking and everything. It was actually his birthday yesterday" Jisung smiled lightly.

"They definitely don't seem the same" Felix wondered out loud

who are you Lee Minho?

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ Vanilla Chai Bubble Tea *:･ﾟ✧

Today was the day.

Jisung had his audition for TWave entertainment. To say he was nervous would be a complete understatement. The boy had just woken up, it was only 10am and so he had enough time to shower, eat and get a bubble tea before he had his auditions starting at 12pm.

Personally Jisung would've stayed in bed for another thirty minutes but unfortunately his mother had other ideas.

"Jisung! you need to get up" His mother tapped on the door and swung it open to check whether her son was actually going to get up.

"give me five more minutes" Jisung grumbled rolling away from his approaching mother who yanked off the duvet leaving jisung to be wrapped in just the coldness of the air.

"Mum! I could've been naked" Jisung sat up quickly at the realisation. He was glad he was at least wearing pyjama pants.

"You act as if I've never seen your body before" Jisung's mother tutted and chucked the duvet over Jisung's head.

As the sleepy boy pulled off the covers he heard his mum explain how he had forty minutes before breakfast would be ready.

Sighing Jisung got up and roughly made his bed before heading to the shower. He decided to play his audition song so he could at least warm up his voice slightly and go over the lyrics.
The warmth of the pouring water over his head did a good job at calming Jisung and making him feel relaxed. The past week he had been a nervous wreck about the audition, he had surprised himself when he managed to fall asleep last night.

His shower was soon interrupted by his dad knocking on the door, "Ji Breakfast will be ready in 10".

The boy let out a small grumble and turned off the shower before quickly wrapping his towel around his body because the cold air hit him.
He'd been organised enough to choose his clothes for the day last night.
Tight black skinny jeans with a few chains on them. A white over sized graphic shirt and he had a jacket which he would keep in his bag.
As he was getting ready his mind wandered back to Minho, Jisung remembered the boy was wearing clothes so similar to this.

Why was Minho so hated or at least scared at at JYP? Did he do something to get a reputation.. it all seems very odd. Maybe he could search..
"Jisung! Hurry up!"

Jisungs thoughts were shut down again by his father snapping angrily. That's when Jisung noticed the time it was already 10:30.
Giving his hair a run through Jisung grabbed his bag and walked out to the kitchen where his parents were already seated eating.

"Honestly Ji, how does it take you so long" his mother asked as she passed him a waffle.

"I got lost in thought sorry, just a bit nervous" Jisung chuckled lightly.

On his plate there was a waffle a few pieces of fruit and he had a glass of orange juice waiting.
He had around forty minutes to eat and make his bubble tea before he needed to go.
The boy quickly ate his first waffle and went to grab another.
"Maybe lay off the waffles today eh? Won't you be weighed today during the audition?" His father moved the plate of waffles away slightly.

"Oh.. uh yeah I suppose" Jisung gulped. He stood up from the breakfast table and quickly explained to his parents how he was going to go make his bubble tea and leave.

"Good luck! I'm sure it will all be fine, besides I know for a fact you're good enough to get in" Jisungs mother gave him a quick hug and a kiss on the forehead.
Mr Han gave a brief wish of good luck and Jisung made his way down to the bubble shop floor.

Felix was already there working, his parents would be down to help as well soon. There was only one person in there at the moment sitting quietly in the corner with their bubble tea half full.

"Morning" Jisung smiled to Felix as he made his way behind the counter to make his drink.

"Woahh ji, this is what you're wearing to the audition?!" Felix stared eyes wide.

"Yeah.. does it not look good? Should I change it?" Jisung asked nervously. Fingers fiddling with the empty plastic cup he was holding.

"Far from that!" Felix smiled. He took the cup from Jisung's hand

"I'm guessing you want your pomegranate and cherry drink?" Felix asked but didn't wait for an answer before he started making it.

Jisung made his way to the breakfast bar. "Do you think I picked the right song to audition with?"

Felix turned around whilst holding the half full cup. "I mean you're auditioning to be an idol you need to show off all your talents and this song does that"

Jisung nodded and checked the time it was 11:20 he should probably get a move on. Luckily Felix had just finished making his drink.

"Thanks Felix, I would stay but I need to go!" Jisung smiled and used his handy metal straw and took a deep sip.

"No worries mate, let me know how it goes. Good luck although I'm sure you don't need it!" Felix chuckled.

Jisung smiled lightly, "I definitely do! Byeee" Jisung dragged out the E before leaving the shop.

It was 11:50 when Jisung made it to the front of TWave Entertainment. There were around 9 floors that stretched upwards. The building was made of mostly glass panels. In all it looked very expensive.
Making his way through the spiny doors Jisung walked up to the receptionist.

There sat a women typing away on her computer and a man on the phone.
"Uh- hi" Jisung spoke to grab the latter attention.

The women looked up and gave a warm smile, "Hi how can I help you?"

"I'm-I'm here for the auditions? Han Jisung". Jisung spoke quietly but loud enough for her to hear.

"Ahh yes.You're just in time, auditioning for the idol trainee and then as a group as well later on I see. Here's your lanyard. Just keep this on so we know you are signed in and you have permission to be here" the women passed over a purple lanyard with an ID saying 'auditions'.

Jisung gave a short nod as a thanks.

"If you turn down the hall you'll find some seating area where you can wait as well as some toilets. Someone will come down and get your group when they are ready for you" The receptionist explained and handed over a piece of paper.

"Keep hold of this and hand it over to the person who is watching over your audition. I wish you luck" the women smiled and Jisung shakingly took the paper.

"Thank you" He gave a bow and made his way down the hall. The whole area was white and had bright lights filled with flush green plants and artwork.

To his right Jisung spotted a group of people all wearing the same lanyards. Taking a seat down near the edge Jisung looked at the group. Most seemed calm but there were a few nervous people dotted around.

A few minutes had pasted and Jisung quickly realised that having a boba was not a great idea. He could feel himself needing the toilet. Checking the time it seemed they were running a bit behind and so Jisung took the chance to rush to the toilets down the hall.

The bathroom was empty and Jisung let out a sigh, quickly finishing and washing his hands he left the bathroom and made his way back to the waiting room.

That’s when he noticed, it was empty.

Glancing side to side to see if he could spot his group Jisung began panicking. He had no idea where to go.
The boy sat down on the nearest seat and felt his breath fastening and his eyes not being able to focus on his surroundings.
He was so stupid leaving, having his boba was such a bad idea.

Taking deep breathes he could hear someone walking down the hall and his breathing quicken slightly. He couldn’t embarrass himself and have someone find him in this state. Squeezing his eyes shut Jisung tried to pretend he was invisible.

That’s when he heard his name being called.

“Hey hey Jisung?” The voice was familiar but Jisung couldn’t put his finger on it. However it was calming.
He felt himself being pulled into a hug and he felt himself slowly catch his breath.

The person who clearly knew him was stroking his back to steady his shaky breathes. Once Jisung had calmed down Jisung moved out of the hug only to be met with the very boy who makes Jisung gay panic.

Lee Minho.

“Oo Hyung, I’m sorry” Jisung moved away more to give some space between them. He felt a small blush come up onto his cheeks.

“It’s okay, are you okay? I thought you were suppose to be auditioning?” Minho asked confused.

That made Jisung stiffen and he felt himself become anxious again, “I-I Don’t know where to go, I lost my group after I went to the toilet and I panicked I’ve probably messed up my chances” Jisung’s breathing was shaking again.

“Hey hey hey, it’s okay” Minho began rubbing his back again. “I know where you need to go. I can take you there and just explain you got a bit lost okay?” Minho’s voice was extremely calming.

Jisung simply nodded and his hand tightened round his bag as he stood up. Minho stayed right by him.

As they were walking, Jisung felt Minho take his hand giving it a light squeeze leading him to the elevator.
Jisung took this chance to see what Minho was wearing. Joggers and a t-shirt just like the other week at bubbles. In his other hand Minho was holding a bubble tea, one that wasn’t from his parents shop.

“Ahh I see you clearly don’t like bubbles that much if you go to another one” Jisung joked to try and calm himself down.

Minho looked at his bubble tea, “well you see bubbles is only good when I get served by a certain cute barista” Minho met Jisung’s eyes and wink.

Jisung blushed brightly and looked down.

“I think it was your friend Felix working? The one I see you hang out with at JYP” Minho spoke as they left the elevator on the fourth floor.

“Ahh yeah he is working today” Jisung nodded.

Minho let go of Jisung’s hand when he noticed they were in front of a room that read ‘auditions A’

Minho didn’t even knock before opening up the door. Jisung stayed behind him still very nervous about walking in late.

“Oh Minho what are you doing here?” One of the men sitting at the table in front of a group of people all wearing purple lanyards.
“I think you may be missing a Han Jisung? He got a bit lost and the group left without him” Minho smiled lightly and moved to the side to let Jisung walk in.

Jisung bowed deeply not liking all the stares, “I’m sorry”

What Jisung didn’t notice is how the group were staring at the pair not just Jisung.
The man at the desk pointed to the the empty seat on the end and Jisung gave a quick thanks to Minho before rushing to the seat.

Minho turned to leave, “Mr Lee you are free to stay” a women on the side near the desk spoke up.

Minho turned and smiled, “sure”

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{Written 31st March 2021}

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ Vanilla chai bubble tea + extra tapioca *:･ﾟ✧

"Now we have everyone here let's get started" Jisung presumed they were the CEO. There were only 15 people in the room. It was a small group so Jisung guessed his first audition tape must've been good if he got into the 15.

Minho had walked over to the table at the front of the studio and was sat next to the man who spoke first.
Did Minho work here? It would make sense if he knew where the audition rooms were.

"When I call your name you can come up to the front and introduce yourself, let us know your name, age, and what you'll be auditioning for position wise" the CEO smiled warmly at the group. "We already have you ranked from your auditions and so we will go down the list and start with the person ranked 15th"

Jisung mentally prepared himself to be the first person to be called up but instead it was a girl called Kwon Eunbi. She made her way to the front and passed over the paper that all the auditioners had. That's when it hit Jisung he'd left the piece of paper back on the table where Minho found him.

The thought of messing up again made Jisung's breath quicken again. His leg began bouncing over nervousness. Maybe he could try and get Minho's attention.

Eunbi was currently explaining how she's auditioning as a dancer. Jisung looked at Minho who was listening intently and nodding and smiling. He was probably working he couldn't distract him. Silent Jisung prayed he'd have an chance to go to the toilet so he could run back and grab his papers.

Eunbi soon finished after dancing flawlessly. The time was flying by and there had already been 7 people go. How were they even below Jisung?! He was sure his audition would be around 10th not above it.

"We will be taking a five minute break for those who would like to go to the restroom and so the remaining people can warm their voices up" The lady from beside the ceo spoke up.
Jisung felt himself relax knowing he could go and grab the sheet of paper he had left behind. The boy stood up stretching away the cramps that had built up from sitting so long. Whilst doing so he spotted Minho coming over to him.

"You feeling okay now?" Minho asked putting a hand on jisungs shoulder, his thumb stroking his shoulder blade lightly. It immediately relaxed Jisung.

"Y-yeah except I think I left my papers in the waiting room" Jisung looked down and fiddled with his hands.

"I can go and grab it for you, then you can warm up your voice okay?" Minho calmly suggested. "You worry about warming up and I'll go get it yeah?" Minho shook Jisung's shoulders making him smile.

"If you get nervous you can look at me okay, pretend you're practicing at Bubbles" Minho smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Thank you Hyung" Jisung smiled gratefully as he took a seat and Minho shoot out the room. The interaction didn't go amiss by anyone. Especially the staff at the front.

Jisung started to warm up his voice,thankfully singing in the shower this morning had helped immensely.

"Right everyone the break is over please return to your seats" The lady from before smiled towards the group.

Only one other person had auditioned by the time Minho had come back, he was holding his papers and two bottles of water. Heads turned as Minho slipped in and walked over to Jisung passing his papers and a bottle of water.
"Th-thank you Hyung" Jisung gave a small bow.

Minho smiled and then sat back down as the audition carried on. Jisung opened the bottle and gulped down some water so that his throat wasn't going to be dry when he sang.

It got to the Top 3 and Jisung was almost certain he was in the wrong room. From the other singers there was no explanation on how he got so high up.

"Finally our first place audition Han Jisung"

Hesitantly he stood up and made his way to the front.
"Hello" he gave a deep bow. Before passing the papers over to the ceo who gave them a quick look over with a slight frown.

"You're auditioning twice?" He asked.

Jisung felt his face heat up, "yes, as an idol and then my rap group are also auditioning later" Jisung gave a quick explanation.

Nodding the ceo then asked if he was auditioning for rap.
"Uh, I'm auditioning for vocalist and rap, the song I'm performing is one I produced and wrote myself so it has both elements in it" Jisung tried to hold eye contact as he played with the hem of his shirt.

The staff all nodded and motioned for Jisung to stand by the microphone and pass over his phone so they could play his song.
After a few seconds the music began.

너에 대해서 말해줄래요
저기 멀리서 보인 그대여
그저 지켜보기는 싫네요
Yeah Just tell me about you

Jisung was still nervous and so took Minho's advice and looked at him. Doing so made him feel as though he was just practicing in Bubbles just like Minho had said.

저 멀리 네가 걷는 모습이 보인다
겁 없이 네게 다가가 너를 묻는다
조용한 터널에 넌 스포츠카
시끄러운 엔진이 울린다
까맣게 칠해졌던 벽이 다
너로 물들어 첨 느낀 감정에 놀라

Name, age where do you live
지나치게 많은 질문 알아 실례인지
조금만 선을 넘을게 난 이제야
위태롭게 걸어가던 이 길을 피했으니
잠시 널 보며 쉴게, 알아 첫 만남에 이런 짓은 민폐
시끄럽게 주절주절 말이 많지, 나도 이런 감정 첨이라서 아직

Feeling more confident Jisung removed his mic off the stand and relaxed his body, he remembered most of the other people auditioning had stood fairly stiffly.

익숙지 않아 babe, 무슨 말을 해도 왜 이래 나
심장이 떨려 babe, 애써 담담하려 해 봐도
떨리는 내 목소리, 어정쩡한 몸짓이
괜히 또 큰소리, 내게 말을 건네도

이렇게 밖에 말을 못 하고
대담한 척해 봐도
너의 눈을 바라볼 때면
여전히 난 굳어
내겐 이 모든 게 낯설고, 지금 느끼는 이 감정도
첨이지만 설레고 기대돼 떨리는 순간마저도

Jisung made eye contact with Minho and smiled and took a look at the other staff who were watching intently.

수많은 사람 사이에 빛나는 너의 모습이
조금씩 더 선명해져 가고 이제는 오로지
너만 보이고 손을 뻗어 너에게 닿기를
더는 가시밭길에 홀로 서 있지 않기를
이게 절대 혼자 김칫국이나 마시는
짓은 아니길 바라며 지금 걸어가는 길은
I'm walking on the heaven 느낌은 떨리는 지금
누군가에게 위로를 받고 구원받은 기분

아직은 너에 대해서, 아는 건 없지만
천천히 알아갈게 시간이 걸리더라도 충분히
조금씩 가까워져 갔으면 좋겠어 말은
대담한 척하며 속으로는 떨고 있는 겁쟁이

허전했던 맘에 처음으로 봄이
찾아왔고 정중앙에서 피었지 꽃이
부담스럽다면 미안해 하지만
오늘 지난다면 못 잡을 것 같아서 그래 영원히

익숙지 않아 babe, 무슨 말을 해도 왜 이래 나
심장이 떨려 babe, 애써 담담하려 해 봐도
떨리는 내 목소리, 어정쩡한 몸짓이
괜히 또 큰소리, 내게 말을 건네도

이렇게 밖에 말을 못 하고
대담한 척해 봐도
너의 눈을 바라볼 때면
여전히 난 굳어
내겐 이 모든 게 낯설고, 지금 느끼는 이 감정도
첨이지만 설레고 기대돼 떨리는 순간마저도

I just wanna know you oh
Can you tell me now ow
너를 알아가고 싶어 더

Once he finished Jisung placed his microphone back on the stand and gave a short bow and a smile.

"Thank you Jisung" the lady besides the ceo smiled.
Giving another bow Jisung made his way back to his seat, he felt himself smile slightly happy with how it went.

"Thank you everyone for participating, if we call your name please follow us"

The list included 6 people one of them including Jisung. Grabbing his belongings he stood up and made his way to the door where the others were waiting.
Minho spoke to the ceo and also stood up and made his way over to the door opening it.

"If you six follow me" Minho smiled lightly at the group. One of the girls within the six seemed to look very starstuck at Minho. Minho noticed the look and gave a wink at her, Jisung heard her giggle and blush.

Minho began walking out and down the hall to a room that has Audition 'B' on it.
Jisung smiled realising he had made it to the second round.

Minho opened the door, "ahh Minho I haven't seen you here in a while" a women's voice spoke out.

"Hi juyeon" Minho gave a smile and bow.

"Girls you can go in here and I'll take the boys to the other room" glancing in Jisung noticed their was a scale and some tape measure.
Jisung mentally thanked himself for not eating much this morning.

Minho led Jisung and two other boys down the hall to another room.
Opening the door there sat a man at a small desk jotting down some notes.

"Congratulations for making it to the next round. We are going to be taking your weight and height. You can wear your clothes if you want but many prefer to wear as little clothing as possible to make them as light as possible" the man spoke.

Minho had snuck out the room and had made his way to his lockers grabbing his bags before going back to Audition room A.

The two boys with Jisung both opted for wearing as little as possible and took turns going behind a curtain and getting weighted before coming back dressed again.

Taking a deep breath Jisung went afterwards and began stripping off his jeans,shirt and jacket.  The man weighing him didn't mention the shape of his body but only looked down at the numbers jotting them down quickly.
"All done" 

Jisung quickly threw his clothes back on so he didn't make the others wait long.

"You are all free to go now, if you've passed you shall get an email or a call. Jisung your paper explains you are auditioning later as well so you are free to sit in the canteen and eat some food whilst you wait" the older man smiled.

"Thank you" Jisung gave a bow and the group were ushered out the room.  The squirrel boy was given directions to get to the canteen and he made his way up the elevator to the top floor.

Entering the canteen was extremely overwhelming for Jisung. He spotted idols who were sitting eating and staff members eating, he didn't spot any other person with a purple lanyard on. Glancing at the buffet of food Jisung felt his stomach grumble.

Grabbing a plastic tray Jisung joined the queue and began picking out something to eat. The first thing being some bibimbap. Moving down slowly, the squirrel also picked up some side dishes of kimchi and pickled radish. Finally finishing with a bottle of water.
Reaching the end Jisung noticed there wasn't anywhere to pay. Was this all free?!

Giving a slight shrug Jisung looked around and spotted an empty space in the corner a small booth. Weaving in and out of the other tables, and reaching the clean space Jisung sat down and smiled at the food.
He immediately began to dig in.

As he ate Jisung looked at his phone for the first time since the morning.

Lix 🤠
Good luck Ji! I'm sure you'll do amazingly.

Jisung smiled at the message and sent a reply back.

Jisung
Thanks! It went well, I got through to the next part, I'm guessing I'll have the dance audition another day as I have 3racha auditions after I eat.

Sending the message Jisung scrolled through his Instagram for a little bit whilst taking bites of his food before he felt a presence standing by him.
It was a girl from the auditions. More specifically the one Minho winked at.

"Hi, I was just wondering how you knew Minho oppa? You two seemed so close" the girl batted her eyelids.

"Oh..um, I know him from work" Jisung replied slightly confused. Why did she care about Minho. Yes he was extremely attractive but it was very odd her asking him.

"Oh, okay it just looked like you two were really close" she smiled, "I'm Mira by the way"

"Ji-Jisung" he shook her hand lightly. "Ahh no we aren't too close I only met him a couple of months ago"

As Mira was about to speak up when the person in question, Minho, appeared.
"Oh sorry Mira was it? I was hoping to talk to Jisung" he smiled.

"I-of course oppa" Mira gave a quick bow and rushed off.

Jisung motioned for Minho to slide into the booth in front of him.

Minho had a tray of his own food, "I must say Jisung that song was incredible" Minho smiled brightly at Jisung.

Jisung noticed how Minho seemed to smile a lot around the company but that college he hadn't seen the boy smile. He'd have to ask about it later.

"Oh- uh thank you Hyung, it's not my best work but I thought it would work well as an audition song"  Jisung picked at some of his kimchi.

"I can tell the staff were very impressed, they immediately put a pass down by your name, I'm guessing you'll get through to the dance audition" Minho nodded and picked at his food.

"Surely you shouldn’t be telling me this" Jisung chuckled glancing down at his nearly finished food.

"Well just means you have more time to prepare" Minho winked and chuckled.

"Aren't you are like sworn to secrecy though if you work here?" Jisung questioned leaning back in his seat.
Once he sat back he noticed there were some people watching him again. Did he really stick out that much. Feeling slightly conscious Jisung played with the sleeves of his jacket. Minho seemed to immediately pick up on Jisung's shift in behaviour.

"Jisung I can assure you they aren't looking at you, they are probably looking at me. Not to be egotistical or anything but everyone calls me the 'perfect trainee' or something stupid. And because you are auditioning they are probably wondering why I'm even talking to you" Minho reassured him.

Jisung looked back at Minho who was rubbing his neck, clearly slightly embarrassed about the whole ordeal.

"I guess that answers my question about if you work here or not" Jisung smiled lightly.

Jisung's phone then buzzed.

                              3 hot sauce

Channie Hyung
Yo Ji we are downstairs

Changbin Hyung
Hurry upppp

Seeing the messages Jisung quickly finished off his last pieces of food. 
"Oh Chan and Changbin Hyung are here so I need to get going to my second audition" Jisung spoke up.

Minho seemed to stiff at hearing their names, "ah that's okay I have a dance studio booked out so I should get going. You can get down on your own right?" Minho quickly stood up.

Jisung nodded and smiled. "Yes and thank you for helping me today"

Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair and gave a short wave before walking out the canteen, heads were following him. Minho was right. They weren't watching Jisung, they were watching Minho.

Jisung managed to navigate his way back to the reception by the signs and slight memory. Chan and Changbin were standing on their phones near the entrance already wearing their purple lanyards.

"Hey guys" Jisung smiled as he reached the pair.

"Hi Ji, how'd you audition go?" Chan asked as the trio made their way to the familiar waiting room Jisung had been in earlier.

"Great! I got through to round two, I just have to wait to see if I made it past that and then I have dance auditions. They've done it very strangely,but they are more well-known for dancing than anything" Jisung explained as they got comfortable in the waiting room.
There were only a few other people there. Eight of them all together.

Jisung felt his nerves grow slowly again, knowing the process he was a lot calmer but the nerves were still there.

Chan squeezed Jisung's legs reassuringly, "Don't worry Ji, your rap is going to be amazing"

Jisung turned and smiled "hopefully, I haven't had enough time to practice it as much as I'd like"

Changbin went to speak up but a staff member came into the room, "Hello everyone, if you'd like to follow me I'll be taking you to your audition room" The man smiled and everyone all followed him.

Jisung noticed it was the exact same room he had been in earlier. Maybe he was being assessed by the same staff as earlier. Walking in Jisung noticed that the ceo was there but this time there were a couple of different staff members.

The whole audition was identical to earliers vocalist one. Jisung was happy he was already familiar with it all as he went up to do his solo rap.

"Hi again Jisung"

Jisung said a hello back with a bow.
"Is this another self produced track like earlier?" The ceo spoke up.

"Yes it is" Jisung smiled and fiddled with his fingers as he spoke.

"Brilliant, whenever you're ready then" A women said.

Jisung handed over his phone and within a few seconds his track began. This time when rapping Jisung didn't start with the mic stand. Still feeling the confidence from earlier from being ranked first Jisung managed to remember all his lyrics and not mess up his flow.
He was performing a song called ‘I Got It’

It only felt like seconds had past before Jisung had finished his song. Taking a deep breathe he looked back to the staff assessing him.

“Thank you Jisung, that was very impressive”

Jisung gave a smile and a bow before sitting back down.
3racha soon enough had their group audition, it was the song they were producing for their class together at JYP.
It was also one of the only songs they had produced together and so it worked well as an audition song.

“So I take it you all wrote and produced this track?” the Ceo asked.
Jisung thought he should really learn the man’s name.

“Correct,this is actually the first song we produced together for a class at college” Changbin explained.

“Interesting, let’s have a listen to it”

Chan passed out the microphones and Jisung soon started off with his first lyrics. Placebo was a song 3racha had practiced a lot as they were also going to perform it at JYP soon and so Jisung acted as if this was extra practice.

The boys all seemed flawless whilst performing and gave smiles to each other when they sat back down.

A short moment passed waiting for the staff members to finish their discussion about the eight people auditioning.

“Everyone has passed this round and so we will be taking you to the next room, Jisung of course you’ve already done this so you can wait outside” a staff member explained as the remaining seven rappers were motioned into the room.

Now was the waiting game.

—————-

{Written 6th April 2021}

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ Almond Milk Tea *:･ﾟ✧

Jisung was sat in a booth in the corner of bubbles taking his break, with a half drunk bubble tea and his laptop, he was finally finishing some work needed for his class. As he was doing so the bell rang signalling a new customer. Glancing up he noted it was Minho, Jisung could've probably told you this as the older boy came in around the same time on the days he visited.

Wearing black joggers and a loose white top the boy was clearly coming after dance practice, Jisung watched as he followed Minho to the counter where Felix and another girl who worked called Mako.

Minho leant forward ordering a tea and also began talking to Felix who pointed in the general direction of where Jisung was sitting. Minho whipped his head around and the two made eye contact. Quickly Jisung looked away and suddenly found the straw of his boba extremely interest.

He prayed Minho didn't actually spot him staring.

"Take a picture next time" A voice spoke besides Jisung causing him to jump.

Clutching his head he turned to Minho who was chuckling, "Seriously Minho hyung" Jisung let out a breathe.

"This seat taken?" Minho pointed to the space opposite Jisung.

"O-oh um no" Jisung stuttered out taking a long sip of his boba.

Minho smiled and sat down facing Jisung sipping on his own drink before putting his gym bag on the ground.

"How's your classes going?" Minho asked as he pulled out his phone checking the message that had pinged.

"Stressful, tiring, long" Jisung listed as he stared at the essay he should've written the other day but procrastinated doing it.

"sounds like the dance class I just had"Minho chuckled, "I'm assuming you haven't heard back yet from the company"

"Nope, and I can't tell if that's a good sign or a bad sign" Jisung sighed closing his laptop. Placing his hands on top.

"Well in my experience, no news is good news. Unless they are just incredibly slow at sending out rejection letters" Minho smiled encouragingly.

"It's more about the fact if I get to do the dance auditions then I will have to think of choreo and music and perfect it in time for the audition. I spent months preparing for my rap and vocals"

Minho sighed softly and reached over and squeezed Jisung's hand gently making the younger boy look up.

"I can always help, I'll even choreograph it for you, less stress for you then" Minho offered a smile.

Jisung was shocked, Minho was offering to do that?!

"Are you sure hyung? I mean i'm sure you have lots of other stuff to do instead"

"Look Ji, If it's going to make you less stressed then i'll definitely help" Minho squeezed his hand one last time before standing.

"I should get back to practice, here's my number and you can message me if you want help" Minho took Jisung's phone and typed in his number, sending a message to himself so he has it as well.

"Oh and good luck with your performance tomorrow, I can't wait to see it!" Minho ruffled the frozen boys hair before walking away with his bag and bubble tea.

Jisung snapped back to it when he heard the bell chime motioning that Minho had left. He had just been given, Lee Minho's number....

Glancing at the number Jisung noted how Minho had saved his contact ' Min (heart)

Jisung felt himself blush and smile. That quickly faltered as he remembered he had the Rap Performance tomorrow. Slamming his head down on the table and giving out a whine.... he forgot to practice.

Standing backstage was nerve-wracking. Jisung was pacing constantly up and down the small backstage room muttering his lyrics, He was wearing black jeans, a white hoodie and a red bandana around his head.

"Ji, Chill" Changbin came up to him and shook his shoulders.

Jisung took a deep breath and looked down, "I keep forgetting my lyrics, and I just feel like everyone will judge me for looking awkward on the stage"

Changbin pulled Jisung into a tight hug, "You're a natural on stage Jisung, anyone would be able to see that if they saw your performance in front of our class when you didn't even know anyone"

Coming out of the hug and looking Jisung straight in the eyes, "When you perform you seem to transport elsewhere and you seem to forget there's even anyone there, I saw it in your audition at Twave as well Ji"

Jisung let out a small smile, "Really? I never really noticed that before"

"Of course you don't" A voice spoke up, it was Chan he was carrying three microphones and passed each to the designated user. "It happens on impulse, because you stress so much and music is your stress relief, it makes sense"

"3racha you're up in five!" a stage manager shouted down the hall towards the trio.

The trio walked to the edge of the stage as they watched Seungmin perform with another kid who looked slightly younger, Jisung vaguely recognised him from his Music theory class.

The song was slowly ending and Chan called the two over to him, "Let's kill it yeah?" He smiled as the three put their hands in and shouted 'fighting' whilst raising them up.

Loud cheers and screams started up as the trio walked out onto the stage.

"Let's introduce ourselves" Chan spoke into his microphone.

"1, 2 ,3Racha get spotlight" The three spoke into their mics and gave a bow.

After Jisung gave a slight introduction of himself he started to scan the audience for his friends. Seungmin, Hyunjin and Felix were sitting comfortable in the middle of the crowd, with a lot of space between them and the nearest people.

Jisung sent them a smile as he made eye contact with Seungmin who waved and gave him a thumbs up.

Slowly the music started and Jisung got into his position to start performing.

발 끝이 타버릴 때까지 뛰어
멘발에 청춘을 더 burn it up
넘어져도 상처는 안 남어
더 뛰어 더 위로 뛰어 뛰어

발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High

Big picture 내가 그린 그림
완성되지 않아도 태가 나
밍기적거리는 엉덩이 들고
Work 달려 마치 하니's life
성공도 보장되지 않은 길에
보험 하나 없이 냅다 뛰어
뒤에선 조심스레 느껴진
압박감에 난 또 가면 써 what

날 더 매질하지 순식간에 달려 major까지
물론 내 작은 바람일 뿐
아직 목표의 만분의 0.1도 달성하지 못했다고
Shawty my price 내 결과는 달러
멀쩡한 성공이 아닌
전 세계를 다 노려보겠다며 악써 what

As Jisung was performing he found himself subconsciously looking for Minho, Finally he did, standing near the back wearing some ripped denim jeans and a white graphic shirt. His hair was curled and parted down the middle. Minho caught his eye and winked towards the younger making Jisung taken aback and he looked away trying not to take another look at his handsome hyung.

몇 년 전 노래방에서 랩을 더 재촉
하며 연습하도 내가 지금은 계속
달려보니 이제 느끼는 Runner's High
Feel good 몸이 날아가는 기분 fly

불필요한 소음에 대응할 필요 없지
Do my thing
난 실용적인 랩하는 놈 집중해
일요일에 교회에서 amen 빌어
Lord I'll be the one
Lord Lord I'll be the one
God please take me to the next level로 go

발 끝이 타버릴 때까지 뛰어
멘발에 청춘을 더 burn it up
넘어져도 상처는 안 남어
더 뛰어 더 위로 뛰어 뛰어

발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High

나도 내가 자랑스러
3달동안 만든 곡은 12곡이 넘네
불가능을 가능하게 만들었지
믹스테잎으로 날 전해
Mistake이라 하면 my pace
조절 못해 모든 곡이 쩌네
Dream chaser 꿈을 좇지
꿈은 도망가길 포기했지 곧 잡힐 게 뻔해
전엔 이 길을 달리기엔 벅찼어
이제는 달리다 보니 아드레날린이
치솟아서 영감이 머리에 꽉 찼어
할머니가 꿈에 나와 우리 아가 장하대
그래서 난 손자가 잘 되는 거
꼭 보라며 차가운 두 손 꽉 잡았네

약속을 지키려면
아직은 멀고도 멀어
평범한 애들의 잘 되는 기준은
내 기준엔 안 달리고 걸어도
맞추기 충분해
내 앞길 가늠이 가능해
아빠를 닮은 내 능력은
마른 내 모습 과는 다르게
속이 꽉 차서 난 다재다능해

루야
I mean 할렐루야
주님과 날 위한 말이지 할렐루야
인생이란 게임을 즐기면서 임해
어제 오늘 내일
내 일해서 다 제일 해

발 끝이 타버릴 때까지 뛰어
멘발에 청춘을 더 burn it up
넘어져도 상처는 안 남어
더 뛰어 더 위로 뛰어

달리고 있어
Ey uh Dali, Picasso
내 작품을 만들어 내 일주일에
Ey ey everyday hustle
야 내 음악을 만들 때
마음을 쏟아 폭력해
야 골 때리게
내 감정에 필터를 걸어 왜

I'm on a killing streak
너넨 죽는 중
Piercing gun, pimp c flow uh
네 귀를 뚫는 중
뚫어 뚫어 my kick
808 go 두두두
굴려 버려 멈출 수 없어
3RACHA 기차 choo choo

Sound the alarm
CB comin in at real speed
I recognize the real
I don't need no fake love comin from you like Meek Mill
날 무시 하지마 uh
후회만 남지 다 uh
CB I'm goin up uh
I'm phenomenon, I ain't gonna stop

I'm known as triple threat
Rap, 춤, 노래 다 해
Oh man like Triple X
CB 너무 핫해
그동안 달렸던 marathon
날 뜨겁게 이제는 별거 아냐
Because I'm on that Runner's High

발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High
발을 굴려 달려
I'm on that Runner's High

The performance ended and the crowd were cheering loudly, as the music stopped Jisung seemed to snap back to reality again and realise just how many people were there and watching his performance, he prayed he hadn't looked stupid on stage whilst he was performing.

As the trio left the stage they were quickly surrounded by Seungmin, Hyunjin and Felix.

"That was amazing guys!" Felix gushed as he complimented the trio, he's eyes lingering slightly on the shorter boy.

"Should we go out? I'm kinda hungry now and I'm pretty sure Ji hasn't eaten anything today because of nerves" Chan suggested as he watched Jisung scanning the crowd for someone.

"You okay Ji?" Felix questioned as Jisung suddenly smiled brightly and waved at someone.

Hyunjin followed Jisung's gazed and noticed how it was Minho who was smiling back and giving him a thumbs up. When did Jisung meet Minho? No one ever spoke to the boy especially after Hyunjin broke off their friendship.

Jisung turned back to the group shortly after a small smile lingering on his face, "Should we go to bubbles?" Jisung spoke up.

"If it works for everyone else, sure" Seungmin smiled.

There was a chorus of agreements and the group split off so 3Racha could go and grab their bags and hand back their mics.

Jisung passed his mic back to the staff member nearby as he went backstage to grab his bag and phone. After squashing his coat into his rucksack Jisung went to find his phone.

"You ready to go Ji?" Changbin asked as Chan and himself made their way to the exit.

"uumm gimme a sec, you guys go ahead I just gotta find my phone" Jisung gave them a quick glance and smile.

"Ok, we'll be by my car" Chan nodded and the pair made their way out.

Jisung let out a huff as he pulled out the coat he had stuffed into his bag and began emptying out the contents of his bag into the ground.

Suddenly a body jumped and back hugged him tightly, "Well done!"

Immediately recognising the voice Jisung spun around awkwardly in Minho's grip.

"O-oh Hyung hi!"

Minho let go of the hug, "You did great sung, everyone was cheering for you so loudly"

"I think that was more for Changbin and Chan than me" Jisung let out a weary chuckle as he started to chuck back everything into his bag.

"Well even if you think no one was, I can confirm there was definitely one." Minho Ruffled the boys head. "What exactly are you doing?"

Jisung had now moved to the dressing table picking up random pieces of makeup and old makeup wipes that had been used only to find his phone underneath a small pile of them.

"Phone" Jisung held it up.

Minho nodded in understanding, "You wanna go eat something? I have a bit of time before I need to get to Twave" Minho offered.

Jisung grab his bag as the pair began walking out, "Oh I was going to hang out with the others and go to bubbles if you want to join?"

"o-oh, by others who do you mean?" Minho seemed to stiffen slightly

" Just 3Racha, Seungmin, Felix and Hyunjin" Jisung listed off.

Minho's face seemed to harden for a split second, " Oh actually I just realised the time, I needed to meet my dad before going back to Twave so i'll have to pass. Sorry Sung"

Minho rushed out without saying bye.

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*:･ﾟ✧  Almond Milk Tea + extra pearls*:･ﾟ✧

Collapsing on his bed Jisung let out a sigh, hanging out with the group drained most of his social battery and so Jisung finally took the time to relax and catch up on his insta feed and any new YouTube videos.
As Jisung was bundled under blankets and scrolled down his YouTube recommended he came across a very recognisable stage. The video was titled " 3racha Runners high"

Jisung hadn't even realised people had filmed him performing, clicking on the video Jisung sat and watched it for a good minute before going down to the comments.

"Woah these guys rock!"
"Everyone check out their soundcloud @3racha"
"This was great!"
"True rappers"

Jisung sat and smiled at all the great comments glad that the response was so positive.  Jisung decided to copy the link a send a quick tweet out before heading to bed.

Hey everyone! Check out 3Racha's performance from today. We performed Runners High
~Link attached

After tweeting Jisung decided to set his phone down, not before plugging it to charge over night. And head off to bed.

—-lil time skippy——

Waking up by an alarm blasting twice cheer up was one way to start Jisung's morning. Grumbling and rolling over to stop the music playing Jisung checked the time. It was 7:40am. Enough time for a shower and maybe some food if he was quick enough.

The squirrel boy pushed himself out of bed and rushed off into the shower, Jisung barely registered that the water was only lukewarm and went through his shower routine in record speed as he muttered to himself about sleeping through alarms again, and also how his parents hadn't even bothered to check if he was waking up.

After giving his body a one over with the shower gel, the squirrel boy jumped out of the shower and went in search for some decent looking clothes.
Jisung found some denim jeans laying on the top of his chair along with the few other pieces of clothing that weren't dirty enough to go in the laundry.
Throwing on his jeans and a maroon jumper Jisung practically sprang to the kitchen in search for some food.

His parents were no where in sight so he assumed they were downstairs setting up the shop.
Finding a croissant in the bread bin the rushed boy stuffed it in his face before rushing downstairs to the shop.

"Jisung you gotta learn to wake up earlier" his mother laughed as she watched her son struggle to tie his shoes whilst also eating a croissant.

"You could've woken me" Jisung mumbled between his bites of food.

Waving bye to his parents Jisung checked the time and saw he only had twenty minutes until his lessons and the walk took fifteen if he walked at a fast pace.

Shoving his headphones on and blasting his music,he walked at a fast pace to get to the college in time.
Luckily he had forgotten a jacket otherwise he would've been sweating so much because of the speed in which he was walking.

Han managed to reach the school gates in a record of ten minutes. He took a couple of minutes to catch his breathe before going to meet Felix in his usual place by his locker. As Jisung was walking into the college his phone buzzed

Lix 🤠
Running Late J don't bother waiting

Han rolled his eyes, of course Felix was late. Walking up to his locker Jisung didn't notice the stares he was getting.
Twisting in his combination, he grabbed his music production book and piano books.

Feeling a rap on his shoulder Jisung swung around half expecting to see Minho standing there.
Instead he was faced with a girl who looked slightly younger than himself with medium length brown hair and glasses.

"Are you J.one?" The girl asked awkwardly hoping she had gotten the right person.

Jisung gave a smile, "o-oh yeah I am" he scratched the back of his neck, not really expecting anyone to approach him.

"Can I get a picture!" The girl smiled.

"Sure" Jisung smiled politely. Thank go's he had at least showered today.

Jisung crouched down slightly as the girl held up her phone for a picture. The pair snapped a couple of photos changing poses slightly.

"Thank you! I'm such a huge fan" the girl bowed.

"O no worries I'm glad you like my music" Jisung blushed.
The girl was also blushing brightly and turned to leave. As Jisung turned back to his locker he heard a loud squeal and the sound of running.

"J.ONE!"

Jisung jumped at the sudden shouting of his rap name. As he turned to his left he saw a very large group of not only girls but boys rushing towards him.
Jisung gulped not ready for the attention. He didn't even expect people to come up to him after one performance.

The group started crowding Jisung pointing their cameras in his face and squealing loudly, as well as shoving papers and pens at him.
Jisung gulped trying to swallow the anxiety that started to fill him.

He was feeling extremely claustrophobic and there was no escape as the group of so called fans were getting bigger and bigger.
As Jisung searched in the crowd he felt himself feel dizzy from the build up on anxiety and panic.

Trying to block out the fans he slid down his locker and sat on the ground and covered his face in his knees and hands.

Apparently no one understood that he didn't want them as even though they didn't get much closer they still were screaming and shouting to get his attention.
Jisung scrunched up his eyes as he tried to focus solely on his beating chest and his breathing. Trying to do that only bad it worse as the boy started to get upset about having the attack and he felt his eyes feel with tears before he could stop it.

The screaming stopped.

At first Jisung thought it was just him managing to block out the noise. It wasn't until he heard a familiar voice next to him he noticed it really was quite.

"Sungie?"

Minho.

Jisung's head shot yo when he heard Minho. Making eye contact with the older immediately calmed him as he stopped focusing on the crowd who had now stopped screaming but were whispering about how the 'cold boy' had just come up to Jisung.

"Min" Jisung felt his lips tremble.

Almost immediately Minho brought Jisung into a hug and started to whisper calming words. In Jisung's opinion anything Minho said would calm him down his voice was that soothing. The Hyung could be talking about the end of the world and Jisung would probably still feel calmer.

Slowly Minho pulled away.

"Let's get you out of here, yeah?" Minho spoke softly.

Jisung gave a light nod and Minho immediately pulled him up by the waist and with his arm securely there he made a gap in the crowd and got Jisung out.

Minho could hear all the comments about how he was helping Jisung. Looking at the smaller boy who was staring at the ground Minho knew he hasn't heard those comments.

Jisung followed, or more like got pulled, by his Hyung to a dance room.
The made their way to the sofa and Minho sat comfortably down letting Jisung collapse against him. His body leaning against his chest and head on Minho's shoulder.

"No one will come here" Minho explained.

"Wh-why?" Jisung lifted his head slightly.

"This is my dance room, no one ever uses it because I'm always here or they are worried I'll turn up whilst they are using it and shout at them" Minho let out a soft breath. "Honestly I couldn't care less if they used it, i would just use another room but don't tell them that" Minho let out a chuckle.
Jisung laughed alongside him.

The pair sat in comfortable silence for a a couple of minutes, Jisung playing with the rings on Minho's hands.

"Hyung" Jisung spoke up.

Minho let a hum letting the younger know he was listening.

"I have no idea why everyone started to approach me today, it wasn't even a good performance"

"You have no idea do you" Minho gave a little gasp.

Minho pulled out his phone and logged into his Twitter showing Jisung's tweet.

"Ji, your tweet went viral, TWave literally retweeting and said how excited they were to possibly have 3racha join them as new trainees"

Jisung sat up straight, and grabbed minhos phone checking if what he said was true.

"No way" Jisung gasped and covered his mouth in shock.

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*:･ﾟ✧ Tiger sugar *:･ﾟ✧

The next days were frantic for Jisung, everyday whilst walking into college he almost always got bombarded and so he started to make it a habit to go to the dance room to sit with Minho whilst waiting for the bell.
Well.... in Jisung's case he would stare at Minho whilst his Hyung danced.

Today wasn't as bad but considering people were still wanting to get pictures with him Jisung made his way to the Dance studios. As he much as he hated the crowds it did give him a reason to go and visit.

Jisung pushed through the crowds and walked steadily to the studios. As he was walking the boy felt his phone buzz. Checking it, he assumed it would be Felix saying he would be late, he was wrong.

Min 💞
Not gonna be at College today.
So hope you don't waste your time going to the dance studios

Just as Jisung had read the message he was already standing outside the usual room. He was expected to be left with silence but on the other side of the door he could hear music blasting out.
Quickly peeping in to check to see if Minho was lying he noticed the figure dancing was Hyunjin.

Jisung smiled and assumed Hyunjin would be fine if he stayed in there for a little while.
Pushing open the door Hyunjin's head turned quickly.

"Oh hey Jisung" Hyunjin smiled lightly as he finished up the dance he was currently covering.

"Hey Hyung" Jisung replied and went to sit on the sofa removing his bag.

Jisung quietly sat on his phone whilst Hyunjin finished the dance, after the song finished another automatically began playing but the older boy turned it off and grabbed a bottle of water making his way to Jisung.

"How come you’re here then?" Hyunjin asked as he took a seat next to the boy.

Jisung looked up at Hyunjin not expecting the question, "oh well usually Minho Hyung is here so I come to talk to him and he sometimes teaches me some dance moves in case I get accepted at Twave" Jisung rambled.

"I never knew you and Minho Hyung were so close" Hyunjin took a large gulp of water.

Jisung shifted in his seat putting his phone down, "oh... Umm I wouldn't say we are close, I met him at work and he helped me when I had my Twave auditions" Jisung explained simply.

Hyunjin leaned back and crossed his arms, "he helped you?"

"Yeah?, why is he not suppose to?" Jisung asked confused.

Hyunjin grabbed his bag from the ground and adjusted it on his back, "you really have no idea do you?"  He scoffed.

Jisung looked up towards Hyunjin who had started walking towards the door.

"What do you mean?" Jisung stood up and grabbed his own bag to follow Hyunjin just as the bell rang signalling the start of their lessons.

"He's not who you think he is, don't get too close"

With that Hyunjin opened the door and walked out. Jisung began to rush after but quickly remembered his phone so ran back to the sofa and back out the dance studios.
By the time he got there Hyunjin was gone.

Don't get too close?

Jisung couldn't ponder on it too much as he had to rush to the other end of the college to get to his production class in the studios.

The boy was a couple of minutes late but luckily the lecturer was kinda enough to let him off.

"We are starting our individual projects today, if you want to record feel free to otherwise you can carry on making your tracks, revising your lyrics all of that. If you have any specific questions or want help feel free to ask and I'll help you the best I can"

The class nodded and all began to disperse into booths and recording studios. Jisung opted to stay in the comfort of the classroom on a beanbag to get his lyrics written and revised.
He was currently writing a song called 'wish you back'.
Briefly based on an alternate ending for the anime 'your name' which he found himself sobbing over at 2am the other day.

The squirrel boy stuffed in his headphones to listen to the track and spent the next hour making his lyrics. He fiddled with his pen as he thought intensely trying to get the right words on the paper.

Han was too focused on his work that he jumped out of his skin when he heard the bell ring signalling lunch.

Gathering his notebook and stuffing his headphones into his bag, he said a quick goodbye to his lecturer before finding his friends.
The queue for the food wasn't too long and so Jisung spent his time checking his emails... waiting for just that one.
By the time he had reached the front of the queue he was sure he had refreshed his emails over twenty times.

"Hi... Umm" Jisung went to order only realising now he hadn't actual looked at what was on the menu.

Giving a quick glance he pointed out his order, "bokkenbap please and a slice of strawberry cheesecake".

Finally after being here for a couple of months he had managed to get to the front before all the cheesecake had been sold.

The lady plated up his order and passed it over the counter.

"Anything else?"

"No that's it thanks" Jisung smiled and pulled out his wallet to pay. After that he turned and went to his friends who were once again sitting in the middle of the lunch hall.

Chan,Changbin, Felix,Seungmin and Hyunjin were all sitting there. The empty seat was opposite Hyunjin. Maybe Jisung could try and catch up with the elder and ask what he meant about Minho Hyung.

"Hi!" Jisung smiled and placed his tray down before setting his bag on the ground and taking a seat.

There was a chorus of 'heys' back and the group fell into a comfortable conversation.

"Oh Hyung I wanted to ask you something" Jisung turned forward to face Hyunjin as the others were too engrossed talking about a new video game that had just been released.

"Sorry I have to go, see you later guys" Hyunjin stood up abruptly before leaving with his still full tray.

"That's weird... Hyung didn't eat his food" Seungmin spoke up slightly confused at the odd behaviour.
Hyunjin always ate.

Jisung watched the boy take his sandwich and bottle of some drink he had and left the hall with a couple girls chasing him. One looked like Lia.

“He has been acting kinda weird” Felix mentioned as he dug into his packet of crisps.

“How come?” Chan questioned the younger.

“In dance lessons he doesn’t follow Minho Hyung, sure no one really likes Minho but they listen to him in classes, after all he is one of the best dancers there. Hyunjin just ignores him puts in his headphones and does his own choreography” Felix shrugged as if it was nothing.

“They share a class?” Jisung asked slightly confused. He had no idea Minho even attended lessons, all the time Jisung had messaged,Minho would respond in seconds.

“Only that one, Minho practically teaches us” Felix smiled and looked back at his food.

Jisung tried not to think of it, even though he did find himself thinking of Minho Hyung a lot these days.

Leaving college for the day Jisung sighed in relief, it was a Friday so he had a shift at bubbles but he had an hour before he was suppose to start. Luckily Felix was also working and so he wouldn’t be alone.

After taking a quick shower to freshen up and change into his purple shirt and black jeans Jisung sat down to check his work and emails.

A lot of his email was junk.
Except one.

[Twave Entertainment - Application Han Jisung]

At the speed of light Jisung clicked on the email.

To Mr Han Jisung,

After much delegation we are happy to announce you have passed onto the final round of TWave Idol Auditions. This audition will be the dance audition. You will be able to work individually or as a group. Please attend our Dance Session on Tuesday at 1pm. You shall be taking a class first and then you can pick if you’d like to do individual or group auditions.
Below is a form that you must bring with you to the auditions
Congratulations for making it this far and we can’t wait to see you on Tuesday

Sincerely
TWave Entertainment CEO

Jisung screamed after reading the first line. His first instinct was to message Minho.

Ji 🐿
Hyung! I got through to the Dance Auditions! I have a session on Tuesday :)

Min 💞
Ahhh congrats sungie! I might see you there I have practice then :)

Then he noticed there was another email
[Twave Entertainment - Application 3Racha: J.One]

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{Written- 24th June 2021 }

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*:･ﾟ✧ Electric Yuzu *:･ﾟ✧

Tuesday came before Jisung could even prepare himself. That morning he had printed out the forms he needed, it was all very simple information that didn't take Jisung too long to do, so he was glad he wasn't leaving a 10 page form to do in only 5 minutes before he needed to at least leave the house.

Jisung's morning had been fairly chill. Waking up at 10am had felt like a privilege and he could only guess he spent about 30 minutes in the shower singing and dancing before actually remembering he needed to wash himself.

After hopping out the shower the boy shoved on some cargo pants as well as a shirt and jumper. He'd probably remove the first layer within the first half of class but it was winter and so just wearing a t-shirt wasn't an option at the moment.

Slinging his bag over his shoulder he quickly ran to the kitchen to shove a granola bar into his bag and then an apple to eat on the way to TWave.

It was around 12pm at this point, Bubbles wasn't too busy but there was still a queue of people waiting to order.
Slipping behind the counter Jisung made himself a quick drink.

"Of course another bubble tea" Jisung heard his mum tut.

As Jisung went to seal it up he turned to his mother.
"You can't blame me for being a bubble tea addict when I literally live above one" Jisung smiled as grabbed his metal straw out his bag.

"That's true, good luck today by the way" his mum gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before letting her son go.

Jisung got to TWave fairly quickly now aware of the route and he wasn't as nervous as he was for the auditions so it was calming.
Reaching the reception he noticed it was the same women as before who helped him check in for his auditions.

"Uh-hi I'm here for the Dance audition session thing" Jisung spoke.

"Ahh yes, Han Jisung right?" The women checked her screen.

Jisung gave a nod. The lady stood up, "you need to get your ID sorted too, we just need to take your picture and your forms which you filled in, this ID will allow you to enter specific rooms and it will clock you in and out"

The boy gulped slightly frustrated at himself because he hadn't even put on makeup let alone properly style his hair. His outfit he'd rather not mention.

They entered a small room with a simple chair and camera connected to a computer and printer.

The boy took a seat in the chair and waited for the lady to instruct him to smile.

"Okay, one, two, three" The lady said suddenly making Jisung jump.

As soon as he heard the click and saw the flash he knew he looked horrid. They could've given him a bit more of a warning?!

The photo was printed out onto a card whith had the TWave Entertainment logo on it, Jisung's name and photo as well as what he was here for. This came with a green lanyard.

"Here you go, you'll be using this until you either pass or fail, then it will be either deactivated or we will issue you another official one" the receptionist smiled.

"Thank you" Jisung gave a bow and took the lanyard around his neck.

Following the lady down the hall she motioned into a room, "this will be where your main sessions are, if you want to book out extra time you can either do it at reception or a form online"

Jisung gave another bow and thank you before sliding through the door.

There were 8 people in the room. A few he recognised from auditions, otherwise he was completely clueless about them.

Quickly walking over to the benches Jisung put down his bag and shrugged off his jumper, it was already fairly warm in the studio.

"Hey" A voice next to Jisung spoke up.

Turning his head he was met with a blonde haired boy, "I'm Jay, I haven't seen you here before"

"O-oh, hi I'm Jisung, I'm here for auditions.. well the session thing" Jisung scratched his head.

He was in the right room, right?

"Ahh that's usually at 4pm, I guess you must be impressive if you're here, we are all new trainees" Jay explains as he begins to stretch.

"Oh... that's..umm..maybe they mixed up my schedule then" Jisung wondered out loud.

Just as he said that the door swung open and their teacher walked in.

"Right class, as you know you have your evaluations next month and so you will need to start preparing" the voice belonged to Minho.

Jisung looked at the older confused, he said he was a trainee here, not a teacher.. had he lied? Jisung took note that two other members of staff who came in and sat down.

Trying not to think too much of it he simply followed along to what Minho was saying.

"Today's lesson we can go through a few different covers from songs any of you are thinking about doing, after an hour of this we will then decide on our groups" Minho spoke up.

Jisung caught his eyes in the mirror, "now I want everyone to stretch and warm up if you haven't already" Minho instructed his eyes leaving Jisung's.

Han focused on stretching out his legs as well as warming up his arms and back. He remembered vividly the last time he danced without warming up he pulled a muscle in his back and complained to Felix about it for a week.

Only a few minutes passed before Minho clapped his hands together twice gaining everyone's attention.

"Now does any one have any choreography they want to go over?" As Minho looked around everyone's hand apart from Jisung's shot up.

Gulping the boy listened to the other suggestions to get an idea of what he could possibly do.

After Minho had gone through everyone they all left to do their own practice. Jisung stood awkwardly in the room not too sure what to do. Jisung noticed Minho walk over to him.

"Fancy seeing you here Ji" Minho smiled.

"Yeah I'm totally in the wrong class" Jisung chuckled nervously.

"Trust me you're not" Minho crossed his arms, "you have any idea about your audition choreo yet?"

Jisung scratches the back of his head awkwardly, "none at all, I thought listening to the others I may get an idea but nope"

"How about you join a group?" Minho's eyes trailed over to the trainees.

"I'm sure they've probably already-" Jisung started to speak

"Jay and Niki come over here!" Minho called over the two boys who were stood in the far corner.

The boys made their way over to Jisung and Minho.

"Hi Hyung what's up?" Niki questioned.

Minho rested a hand on Jisung's shoulder. "How would you two like to become a trio? Ji still needs people to work with and your performance could look better if you are using three instead of two dancers" Minho explained.

"Oh.. Um sure that works for me" Niki shrugged.

"I'm fine with that" Jay nodded and gave a smile.

"Great! Let me know if you guys want anymore help"  the two boys nodded and walked away, Jisung was still slightly nervous about it all.

Taking a deep breath Jisung tried to shake off his nerves about having to work with new people.

"Hey Ji, look how about this? If you manage the hour with them I'll treat you to some bubble tea, how about that?" Minho made Jisung look up to his face.

Jisung blushed and gave out a squeaked yes before walking quickly over to the two boys.

The next hour flew by, after becoming quickly acquainted with Jay and Niki they decided on a song.

"We could do a TxT song?" Niki suggested.

Jisung nodded along with Jay , "how about runaway?"

"Maybe crown? The spacing works better I think for it" Jisung spoke up still nervous around the two.

Jisung sat on the ground catching his breath, the class had just ended and so everyone was packing to leave.
Sorting through his bag searching for his granola bar Minho came up to him.

"Hey Ji, you ready to go now?" Minho smiled lightly,touching his back as Jisung was leaning down zipping up his bag.

Jisung grinned and nodded, "sure! I will need to have a shower though!"

Minho laughed but nodded as they walked out the room, the pair gave a short goodbye to the other staff in the room.

Once the two were out the room one of the staff voiced an opinion.

"You reckon the same thing that happened to that Hyunjin boy will happen to Jisung?" They turned to their colleague.

"I'm not sure,we best keep a watch out for it though, it could ruin Minho's future career"

Jisung laughed as Minho shoved him away as they neared bubbles.

"How could you do that!" Jisung chuckled.

"Look it was my first year there, I knew no one, I thought dancing to JYP elevator would do me some good". Minho blushed lightly.

"Horrible idea". Jisung's eyes gleamed.

Pushing open the door to bubbles, the younger boy immediately spotted his parents still working.
“Min could you buy the drinks whilst I quickly go have a shower?" Jisung quickly begged.

"Sure Sungie, just don't take too long" Minho ruffled his hair.

Han smiled and rushed off giving a quick wave to his parents before rushing upstairs. Whilst that happened Minho walked over to the counter to order his and Jisung's drinks.

Minho smiled up to who assumed was Jisung's mum.
"Hi could I get an Electric yuzu and a bubblegum utopia please" Minho asked as he checked the board for the specials that month.

"Of course, to drink in?"

Minho nodded.

"That'll be 10,000 won please"

Minho pulled out his wallet grabbing some spare cash passing it over.

"Don't worry you can keep the change" Minho shoved his wallet back into his bag.

Getting passed a buzzer, Minho made his way to a booth, the same one Jisung and him sat in before. The dancer took his time to grab out his notebook and pens.

Moments later Jisung came down wearing some comfy joggers and an oversized jumper.

"You look so comfy" Minho smile as Jisung slid into the other side of the booth.

"I am" Jisung smiled and looked down at the drinks, "which one is mine?"

"You can pick"  Minho shrugged.

"Oo thanks Hyung!" Jisung smiled and grabbed the electric yuzu. "How much do I owe you?" Jisung pulled out some money.

"Don't" Minho pushed away the money in Jisung's hand, "it's on me".

"Oh..okay thanks you Hyung" Jisung smiled shyly as the older winked at him.

The pair fell into a comfortable silence as they started working on college work, Jisung was writing down lyrics as he listen to a track on repeat. Everyone in their lyric writing class has been given the same track and they all had to write their own lyrics to it.

Minho tried to concentrate but kept finding his eyes wandering over to the younger who had his tongue stuck out just slightly as he concentrated on his work. His face scrunching in expressions as he thought of different words.

“Cute” Minho muttered under his breath.

Jisung looked up catching Minho’s stare.

“Did you say something Hyung?” Jisung tilted his head curiously.

Minho held back another ‘cute’ and settled with, “nothing ji, just thought you looked cute concentrating on your work” Minho smiled before quickly blushing realising he said what he didn’t actually want to say out loud.

Jisung felt his face heat up., “original Hyung” Jisung rolled his eyes playing it off.

Before the two settled back into silence Jisung spoke out again,”Hyung?”

Minho looked up from his work with a hum.

“Umm... so I...I wanted to ask your opinion on something” Jisung asked quietly.

“Oh yeah sure,what’s up? Is it about the choreo?” Minho assumed as he placed down his pencil.

“Not exactly” The younger scratched the back of his neck before looking over to his parents who were busy cleaning and serving customers.

“I just..” Jisung shut his eyes taking a deep breath.

Minho felt that Jisung was clearly uncomfortable and nervous. He slid round the booth and gently took one of Jisung’s hands giving it a quick squeeze.

“It’s just me Ji, no one else, no need to be worried” Minho gave a reassuring smile.

The squirrel boy gave a nodded, “I want to..” Jisung bit his lip.
“I’m gay”

There was silence. Jisung was expecting a gasp.
“Oh thank god” was what he heard instead.

“What?” Jisung turned to Minho.

“Oh-oh thank god, I thought it was something way worse” Minho squeezed Jisung’s hand.

“You’re the only one who knows... I.. I’m thinking about telling Felix and then my parents” Jisung continued.

“But I have no idea how to tell them” Jisung started to shake slightly.

“Hey, Ji, don’t stress over it” Minho pulled Jisung into a side hug.

“I’m sure your parents will accept you, they seem super nice, not to mention the bubble logo is rainbow bubbles” Minho chuckled making the nervous boy laugh slightly.

“I guess so” a sigh was let out from Jisung.

“Thank you for telling me Ji” Minho said quietly.

Jisung pulled out of the hug hyper-aware that his parents were still in the same room as them.

“Thank you for accepting me Hyung” Jisung looked at his half finished drink and played with the straw.

“If it makes you feel more comfortable Ji, I’m gay as well” Minho smiled and squeezed Jisung’s cheek. So soft.

“I need to get home, but if you want any dance practice sessions I can always help. Jay and Niki aren’t the best at working with newer people so don’t stress too much” Minho shuffled out of the booth grabbing his tea.

“Thanks Minho Hyung” Jisung smiled.

The older ruffled the younger a hair.
Butterflies.

Giving a wave Minho made his way out the shop.

Jisung smiled, a weight lifting off his shoulders as he went to put on some relaxing music. Just as he did he got a message.

Min 💕
Thanks for telling me, you can always talk to me if you need
Night Sungie
Xx

Jisung smiled widely and squealed quietly into his phone.

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Written 3rd July 2021

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧  Sweet Milk Tea *:･ﾟ✧ 

"Please Hyung!" Jisung clutches onto Minho's shirt stopping him from leaving the dance studio after another practice.

"You know I don't really like anyone else at the college" Minho sighed softly. Pulling Jisung's hand lightly off his shirt

"But their my friends! I'm sure you'll get along" Jisung begged grabbing the loose shirt again.

Jisung was trying to convince the elder to join him at a party this evening. 3racha had just been given the news that they were now officially trainees of TWave. Jisung was still auditioning as an individual trainee .
As a celebration Chan and Changbin had decided to hold a small party to celebrate getting in. The younger had noticed that Minho always rejected going out with Jisung's friends constantly and so convincing the older was also harder than he had expected.

"You don't have to stay long, I just really want someone else there. Especially when I don't really want to drink much and knowing Felix he'll be drunk within the hour" Jisung pouted.

Minho looked down slightly at the younger boy. He was giving the biggest puppy eyes ever. Minho almost melted.

"Please hyungie.."

That did it.

"Fine" Minho let out a sigh, he would go, he's going for Jisung.

"Great! Thanks Minho Hyung!" Jisung beamed. He shrugged his bag up his shoulder and made his way out the studio.

"Who's going?" Minho asked apprehensively as he followed the bouncing boy down the hall.

"Well me, channie and Changbin Hyung, Felix obviously, Seungmin and Hyunjin Hyung!" Jisung mentally counted out loud as he scanned his pass to clock out of the company. Minho quickly followed.

When Jisung mentioned Hyunjin's name the older swore slightly under his breath. He did not want to be anywhere near that boy.

"I gotta go and rush to Chan Hyung's house to set up but I'll text you the address!" Jisung smiled and quickly rushed off.

"I am screwed" Minho whined quietly as he slowly walked home.

It was 8:30 when Minho found himself standing outside a pretty large house, two floors with a lot of windows, he could see into the kitchen and immediately spotted Jisung pouring himself a can of Coke.

He had decided to at least make some sort of effort in his appearance tonight. Wearing right skinny jeans,ripped on his thighs, a loose button up white shirt that hung loosely, showing off his collarbone. He had permed his hair just slightly and ruffed it up leaving it a messy but neat.

Pressing on the bell he saw Jisung's head whip up at the sound and smile slightly before rushing to the door. 
Minho tugged on his shirt sleeve as the door was pulled open by the younger who invited him.

"Hyung!" Jisung smiled widely and grabbed Minho's hand pulling him in.

"I'm sure you already know my friends but I'll still introduce them to you because I don't want to seem rude" Jisung began ranting before even letting Minho to say hi back.

"Sun-sung" Minho tried to stop Jisung from talking waving his hand in front of the youngest face.

Jisung abrduptly stopped and looked at the elder. "Huh?"

"Hey" Minho smiled softly.

Jisung blushed lightly, "oh..um yeah hi Hyung, sorry I'm a bit hyper" Jisung scratched the back of his neck.

They made their way into the open kitchen and living space. It was extremely modern with a few cottage vibes such as the high wooden beams.

Jisung let out a small cough to get the others attention. Minho took in deep breath as the group looked over at them.

"H-hi" Minho looked down slightly avoiding eye contact.

"Oh hey Minho, I didn't realise you knew Jisung" Chan smiled lightly as he went over to the kitchen to grab himself a drink.

Minho stood there unsure what to say.

"We met at bubbles but also at TWave" Jisung tugged Minho's hand to take him over to the kitchen.

As the pair past Hyunjin and Seungmin the elder heard Hyunjin give a little scoff and mutter under his breathe
"Of course he's still at TWave"

Minho bit his tongue trying to stay silent. He hadn't wanted to talk to Hyunjin or even look at the boy this evening and he hoped it would stay that way.

"Anyone up for a game of truth and dare?" Felix spoke up as he was lounging on the sofa.

There was a chorus of agreement and the group began to push away the coffee table.

"You okay Hyung?" Jisung asked Minho as he poured his Hyung  some lemonade with some alcohol.

"Uh..yeah..I just haven't really been to a party in a while" Minho smiled. It was a small lie but Jisung didn't need to know the real reason he was feeling tense around the group.

"Well I'm sure once you've drunk a bit you'll be more relaxed" Jisung pushed the glass Minho's way.

The pair made their way to the circle who had now set up a bottle.

"Right let's begin!" Felix smiled and spun the bottle.

A few rounds passed and luckily Minho hadn't needed to do anything.  However he had drunk maybe a bit too much. His head was warm and he was definitely tipsy to some degree.
It was Changbin's turn to spin the bottle.
It slowed down slightly before coming to a full drop in front of the squirrel boy.

"Jisung! Truth or dare?"

Jisung let out a small gulp and glanced around before answering, "uh- truth I guess"

"Do you have a crush on anyone" Changbin beamed excitedly about his own question.

Jisung's eyes widened before he bit his tongue and whispered out a small yes. The group all gasped,Minho included. Jisung had never mentioned having a crush before, maybe that was why he had asked the older about coming out to his family.

"Who?!" Seungmin asked intrigued to know along with everyone else.

"I-um..well you already asked my truth so I don't have to respond" Jisung blushed as he looked down.

Jisung leant forward and spun the bottle gently. It only spun once before stopping in front of Chan.

"Truth or dare?" Jisung asked as he tried to think of something.

"Dare,make it fun" chan added as he took a few sips of his nearly empty soju bottle.

Jisung spent a moment to think up a dare before suggesting, "drink a glass of water with 3 tablespoons of salt in it" he smirked.

That was already disgusting to gurgle around ones mouth to stop infections and bleeding gums... not to drink.

"You're kidding right?" Chan asked, his mouth wide open in shock.

Jisung felt smug, "nope you chose dare so you gotta do it now" 
Jumping up Jisung rushed over to the kitchen before filling up a glass with some water and stirred in some salt.

Everyone watched as chan downed the drink in a few seconds. Immediately after he began to cough.
"Okay that was disgusting I need to go get myself another drink" chan coughed out.

"Someone else spin whilst we wait" Jisung suggested.

Felix decided to spin, it slowly landed on Hyunjin.

"Yeah I'll go for dare, I don't wanna expose anything to you guys" He crossed his arms  as he glanced around the circle.

"Okay well, I dare you to put ice in your mouth" Felix started.

Hyunjin let out a laugh," Really Lix? That's it"

"I hadn't finished" Felix whined slightly as he spoke as he went to grab the ice from the freezer.
"Then you have to transfer it to someone, that someone being Minho"

The whole group went silent.
"No" Minho spoke up for the first time in a little while, he had managed to ignore Hyunjin the whole time he wasn't about to fail due to a stupid dare.

"It's a dare Minho you gotta" Felix shrugged nonchalantly.

Hyunjin sighed loudly and rolled his eyes. "It's just a dare Minho" Hyunjin dropped all honorifics.

Minho awkwardly glanced to Jisung who seemed pretty interested in the dare.

The pressure got to the older boy so he whispered out a small fine.
Hyunjin immediately moved over in front of Minho and placed the ice in his mouth.
Taking hold of his hyung's chin he pretty forcefully tugged Minho's face towards his.

Minho slowly opened his mouth, letting the younger not just press his lips against his but also push the half melted ice cube into the others mouth.
As soon as the ice cube had been transferred Minho pulled away and stood up.

"I'm gonna go get some air" he muttered trying to stop the blush from embarrassment come up on his face too clearly. Not waiting for a response the dancer stood up and made his way to the balcony at the top of the stairs which he noticed when arriving.

Jisung went to stand as well thinking maybe the older would want to go home.
"I'm going to go to talk to minho Hyung" he voiced as he stood up and grabbed his and Minho's empty glasses and brought them to the kitchen.

"It's fine sung, I'll go, I should probably apologise for accepting the dare, he looked a bit uncomfortable" Hyunjin spoke up already leaving in the same direction his Hyung went.

Minho let out a shaky breathe as he looked out to the sky, he was shivering slightly due to the fact it was winter now and so the temperatures as dropped a lot.
There was some snow on the ground still from the other day when it had decided to snow the whole day.
Jisung had dragged the older out of the dance practice just to go sledging down a small hill that was near. Thinking about it, it was probably a stupid idea considering the fact it was freezing and the pair didn't even have coats on.

Minho gave out a light jump as he heard the floor boards creak behind. He turned expecting Jisung.

"O-oh Hyunjin" Minho saw the boy and turned back to look outside. His head was spinning from the few drinks he had already had. curse his low tolerance.

"Hyung, you okay?" Hyunjin asked as he pulled himself next to Minho.

"Yeah" Minho answered,trying to keep his answers short so that either Hyunjin would leave or we wouldn't say anything he regretted.

"You don't look it" Hyunjin shrugged and turned full towards Minho.

Shifting his gaze to the balcony barriers, Minho bit his tongue.

"Come on Hyung, let's do something fun" Hyunjin nudged the older.

"Leave me alone Hyunjin" Minho gritted his teeth.

Hyunjin let out a sigh before glancing down the staircase.

"Come on, just like old times"

Minho stood up straight and lightly pushed Hyunjin away to give him some more personal space,"Never again Hyunjin"

Hyunjin pushed Minho up against the wall to the side, "come on Hyung, just once.. don't worry no one is here" Hyunjin whispered into the older ear.

Before Minho could even respond Hyunjin had caught his lips with his own. It was sloppy and rushed definitely not an experience Minho wanted to remember, but with the alcohol rushing to his head, he didn't push away.

Jisung began to get slightly bored without the company of Minho and so decided to get away from the party before Felix actually managed to pour alcohol in his cola or Chan and Changbin drag him away to produce some random song.. wow was definitely a song that he doesn't need to remember anytime soon.

Pushing up from the sofa Jisung quickly downed his glass.

"I'm gonna go Hyung, thanks for the party but I have a busy day tomorrow and we have our Induction day with the company to learn where everything is so I should get some sleep" Jisung spoke as he grabbed his shoes and bag.

"Ahh that makes sense ji, is Minho going with you?" Chan questioned as he passed the younger his jacket he had left on the sofa.

"O-oh I don't know I'll go and check" Jisung gave a smile and a wave towards the others before heading up the stairs.

"Min-" Jisung started to speak up but he quickly realised to shut up when he spotted Minho and Hyunjin with their lips locked.

Have they been dating all this time?

Jisung quickly backed away and left the house, he sent a short text to Minho saying he had left but realised soon after he probably didn't care if he was spending the rest of the evening with Hyunjin. It would make sense. Especially if they are dating.
Maybe they are dating in secret? That would explain why the dare was awkward and when Minho arrived Hyunjin didn't really speak.

Leaving it at that Jisung began his walk home, barely aware that he had tears quietly rolling down his face.

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ Apple tea with cherry fruit boba *:･ﾟ✧

Jisung let out another sigh as he wiped down the dirty tables that had been left a mess after a group of kids had come to celebrate a birthday party. Luckily they had plastic cups and not glasses because they definitely had spilt the bubble tea everywhere.
Piling up the cups one on top of the other and collecting the paper straws and wrapping, Jisung carried them over to the bins behind the counter where Felix was wiping down.

"You still staying round tonight?" Jisung asked his twin as they tied up the rest of the bin to take them out.

"If it's still chill with you, I know your parents are home so if they are fine then I'm down" Felix smiled before grunting slightly as he lifted the heavy bags.

"Ahh yeah they are home, they'll be fine. They will probably be super excited that you are round, it's been a while since you stayed the night" Jisung pushed the backdoor open to the large metal bins.

Opening up the container the boys chucked in the bags and quickly rushed back inside as rain started to pour.

"Oh, Felix you're staying?" Jisung's mother spoke up as she was locking up.

"Oh, yeah if that's okay with you!" Felix smiled warmly as he grabbed his bag and jumper which he wore on the way in.

"It's no problem at all"

They all trampled upstairs into the Han apartment.

"We'll be in my room mum" Jisung grabbed Felix by the arm and pulled him away from the kitchen before he could grab food.

"But I want food" Felix whined lightly as he let himself get pulled away from the packet of crisps he had been eying up.

“Well, you can wait till later” Jisung lightly pushed Felix onto his bed as he went over to his tv to set up his console.

“Oooo Mario Kart! Mario Kart!” Felix gasped

Jisung rolled his eyes but inserted the game nevertheless. Grabbing the controls off the side and syncing them up he soon made himself comfortable next to Felix on the bed.

“What course are we starting on?” Felix asked as they selected their characters.
Felix going for Daisy and Jisung opting for Dry Bones.

“Peach beach? Then rainbow road” Jisung suggested as he flipped through the tracks.

The two lost track of time as they played race after race.
“Come on Ji, you are usually so much better than this” Felix whined at the fact there wasn’t much of a competition because Jisung seemed to not be concentrating much on it.

“Sorry”

Felix paused the track when Jisung came in 9th once again.

“Okay, what’s up.” Felix put down his and forced the remote out of Jisung’s hand.

“Uh..the ceiling?” Jisung pointed upwards slightly confused at Felix’s question.

Letting out a sigh the younger boy tapped on Jisung’s head.
“What’s going on up there”

“Too much” Jisung sighed and laid down on his bed. Felix was quick to follow.

“You wanna let some of it out?” Felix asked carefully.

Jisung played with his fingers picking at the nails. As one began ripping off he stopped and shifted on his side to look at Felix.

“There is one thing,” he said almost in a whisper.

Felix stayed quiet and silently pushed Jisung to continue.

“I…well…. God, I don’t know how to say this” Jisung sighed in frustration and ripped off the rest of his nail.

“You can take your time Ji, no one else is here” Felix let out an encouraging smile.

“I… like…boys” Jisung squeezed his eyes shut awkwardly and were scared of Felix’s reaction.

“Okay, so you want to also admit finally you have a crush on Minho?”

Jisung frowned lightly and opened his eyes.

“How do you know that”

Felix laughed lightly, “well, I guess now I can say that I’m bi”

Jisung laughed and sat up, “Felix you’ve already told me that”

Shrugging Felix also sat up and they both rested against the wall on the elders' bed.

“Guess I’ve come out again. But you are so obvious about Minho Hyung. You two flirt so much whenever he comes into bubbles, and I know for a fact you and Hyung spend the morning together in the dance studio at college almost daily” Felix exposed the boy.

“Can you blame me” the boy whined, “have you seen him when he walks in…like his hair looks so soft and his smile is to die for” Jisung whined out.

Felix smiled and patted Jisung’s thigh, “you’ve got it bad, just admit to him you like him”

Jisung looked at Felix shocked, “Umm no… he’s literally dating Hyunjin”

“What?!” Felix raised his voice.

Nodding quickly the boy continued,” I caught them at the party we had the other week. I guess it makes sense now why Hyunjin also used Minho’s practice room at college” Jisung shrugged.

“Woah… I…and Hyunjinnie didn’t even tell me..” Felix scoffed lightly

“Ji! Felix! Dinner is nearly ready!”

Jisung quickly shouted back an okay, before standing to turn off the console.

“Felix…I want to come out to my parents tonight” Jisung stopped what he was doing and turned to Felix who was searching for his phone in the covers of the bed.

“Okay, well just know if they don’t support you I will be rioting and quitting my job at bubbles and kicking Junkyu out so you can stay with me” Felix nodded firmly and was very serious.

Jisung smiled lightly, “thanks Fe”
The two have each other a tight hug before making their way into the kitchen and to the table.

As they reached the end of the short hall Jisung nervously took his usual seat at the table, Felix slid in beside him when gave him a supportive smile.

“Here we go, nasi goreng, we haven’t had it in a while and I know Jisung has been craving it for a little while” Mrs Han announced as she placed down a large bowl of the food.

Felix and Jisung lunged at the food and immediately grabbed a large bowl full of each of it.

“Woah this is amazing” Felix complimented with a mouth full of the dish.

“God I missed this” Jisung groaned in delight as he leaned back and smiled.

“I’m glad it’s still as good as the last time I made it, I’m a bit rusty” Mrs Han smiled as she ate her own plate full.

“Oh Felix, will you be working tomorrow?” Mr Han asked as he served up some more food onto his plate.

“I can if you need me, I don’t have much else to do. I’m sure Sung would be grateful for the help cause I know Mako is busy this week” Felix approved.

“Perfect, we can wash your uniform tonight if it needs to be done” Mrs Han smiled with delight.

As Felix continued to talk to Jisung’s parents the son of the married couple began to wonder how to come out to them.
Coming out to Minho Hyung had seemed fairly easy, similar to Felix, but he knew Felix would accept him. His parents he had no idea. They never commented on Felix’s preferences. Did they even know Felix is Bisexual?

“Ji…. Jisung you okay?” Mr Han waved a hand in front of Jisung face snapping him back to reality.

“You okay Jisung?” His dad looked slightly concerned.

“You have barely touched your second bowl of food”

“Oh..right, yeah I’m okay”

After that Jisung felt Felix hold his hand and give him a small squeeze, it was the perfect moment he knew it.

“I- actually I...I wanted to say something” Jisung let out a breath and squeezed Felix’s hand maybe a bit too tightly when he heard the boy give a slight yelp.

“What’s the matter?” Mrs Han placed down her chopsticks to listen to her son.

Scratching the back of his neck Jisung avoided all eye contact. Instead, they settled right down on his lap where his other hand was playing with a loose thread off the bottom of his shirt.

“I… like boys”

Jisung shut his eyes waiting, anticipating the shouts, and grunts of disapproval.
At the scrapping of a chair, Jisung steadied himself for a whack around the head.
Instead, he was suddenly brought into a tight hug which he immediately recognised as his mother.

“Thank you for telling us Ji, it seemed like that was a big deal for you to say. Just know we will always support you” Jisung nearly broke down in tears at that.

“I’m bi,” Felix said out of the blue.

Jisung laughed lightly as he pulls out of his mother’s shoulder.

“We be knew Felix” Jisung laughed.

“We accept you too Lixie don’t worry” Mrs Han smiled and ruffled the boy's hair.

“Now Hannie have you got your eyes on someone?” Mrs Han let out a laugh as she began clearing up the table.

“Mumm”

The rest of the evening was spent with lots of laughs and a small movie marathon. Jisung had also made sure to message Minho his success. Luckily his secret about him crushing on the older was still a secret to his parents. If they knew he came into bubbles, Jisung would be screwed.

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“Here’s your tea, I hope you have a good day” Jisung gave a smile as he served yet another customer.

Finally, the rush hour had finished and there was some breathing space.

“I” Felix began as he took a long sip of his drink, “hate rush hour”

Jisung let out a low laugh as he began cleaning up the mess behind the counter, “you can say that again”

As the bell rang signalling a new customer the pair turned their heads to see that Minho had entered and was typing away on his phone.

Eyes wide Jisung whacked Felix on the shoulder, “I’m not here okay”

With that, the squirrel took off into the staff room.

“What the heck Ji?!” Felix questioned eyebrow raised.

“Oh hey, Felix” Minho spoke up as he reached the counter.

“Oh hey Hyung, I wasn’t expecting you today” Felix chuckled nervously hoping he wouldn’t accidentally expose his best friend.

“Is Ji in? I wanted to talk to him. He’s been ignoring me for a while but he texted me yesterday” Minho explained as he glanced over the menu.

“Oh Sung’s actually ill today, he woke up with a bad cold so he’s sleeping it off” Felix lied.

“Oh, I guess I’ll text him then, I’ll get an Apple tea with cherry and passion fruit boba” Minho’s expression saddened slightly.

“He’s fine Hyung don’t worry, did you want to drink in or take out?” Felix asked as he took Minho’s payment.

“Out please Lix, did he have a fever as well? or was it a fairly muted cold? I hope he’s taken medicine and is eating okay” Minho started questioning Felix.

“Hyung, I promise Jisung is fine, I’m sure if you text him he’ll respond” Felix passed over Minho’s drink.

“Right yeah, I guess I will. Thanks for the drink!” Minho brows furrowed as he pulled out his phone and glided over Jisung’s contact.

Sung 🐿
Hey Ji, I hope you are feeling okay, Felix said you had a cold. I hope you’ll still be okay for the last session before your audition. Let me know if you need anything
x

Jisung felt a buzz in his back pocket and pulled out his phone looking at the message he had just received.

Letting out a whine talking to himself, “what are you doing to me Minho, I’m trying to not fall for you but you are making it very hard”

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ blackcurrant with pomegranate boba *:･ﾟ✧

Jisung sat nervously waiting at the TWave training rooms, he finally had his last audition before he found out if he got into TWave. Jay and Niki had helped him a lot, considering they were already trainees they helped him learn details of the dance.

He would say Minho Hyung helped him but they would mainly get distracted talking about college and bubbles and a lot of the time Minho's cats. Jisung was dying to meet the fur balls. Not before Jisung promptly decided to try and ignore Minho's existence because his feelings were growing too quickly.

Minho was sat at the front next to the director and company staff. It was the first time in two weeks since he had actually seen the older boy. At college he had avoided the dance studios at all cost, which wasn't that hard considering the music department was at the other end of the college.

"Let's get started, we have 6 people taking part in this audition. Some paired together and some paired with our trainees. We'll get straight to it starting with Mira, Juyeon, and Eunbi" the staff spoke up motioning to the group of four. Clearly one was a trainee. Jisung slightly recognised her from the lessons Minho had taught.

The group gave a quick introduction before announcing they were covering lovesick girl by black pink.

Jisung pretty much zoned out the entire time the group performed and the group after went up. He was nervous. He was bouncing his leg up and down to try to calm his nerves, as well as drinking water because he kept swallowing and his throat was now unbearably dry.

"Let's have our last group with Jisung, joined by Niki and Jay"

Without hesitation the two boys in Jisung's group stood up. Jisung slowly followed behind taking in a few deep breaths. Unconsciously Jisung looked to Minho. The boy helped calm his nerves last time and so hopefully looking at Minho would do the same again. It did.

As Jisung locked eyes with Minho he gave Jisung a smile and a subtle thumbs up.

"Right then, Jisung what shall you be performing today?" The staff asked glancing down at Han's papers and back up to the boy.

"We'll be performing Crown by Tomorrow X Together"

“Perfect jjst signal when you are all in position and we’ll play the music” Minho spoke up. Jisung made eye contact and pushed down the blush that was rising.

Let out a shaking breath Jisung sat down with his legs stretched out in a V shape ready to perform, glancing to see if Niki and Jay were ready they both gave him a quick smile. The nervous boy then gave a thumbs up ready for the music.

The dance went by so fast Jisung could barely comprehend if he had even made a mistake. But as he was standing up from his position at the end of the dance and giving a quick bow he could tell he had done an okay job considering they were smiling lightly.

“That was perfect thank you” the director spoke up and jotted a few notes down on the papers.

Giving a bow the three boys sat back down.

Jisung sat back and gulped down the last of his water to quench his throat. His legs were shaking, he probably looked a complete nervous wreck next to Jay and Niki who didn’t really need to try that hard considering they weren’t auditioning.

A staff member who were sat besides the company head stood up and briefly checked their notes.

“For everyone auditioning we will be emailing out the results soon for if you have passed or not. If you haven’t we will still be happy to welcome you to some of our open classes as well as keep an eye out for any improvements. You may be selected still, don’t give up. Thank you”

The groups all stood collectively bowing before collecting their bags.
Jisung gave a quick goodbye and thanks to Jay and Niki before rushing out of the door. He faintly hear Minho calling his name.

He had to ignore it, the audition had already over run and he needed to get to bubbles for his shift. His dad wouldn’t be impressed if he was too late.

Pushing open the door Jisung saw his parents serving a few customers and cleaning away.
“Sorry I’m late!” Jisung apologised as he passed running into the back to change into his purple work shirt.

“It’s okay ji, how were auditions?” His mum asked as the big reappeared moments later.

“They went good,I think so anyways” Jisung shrugged slightly as he signed himself into the Cash register.

“Do you know when you’ll hear from them?” Jisung’s dad spoke up from a table he was clearing.

“I think maybe a couple of weeks”

“At least you can now de-stress”

Jisung nodded and made himself a quick drink before he heard a customer walk in.

Lifting his head he spotted Minho walking through the door.

“Dammit” Jisung muttered under his breath.

Sucking in a breath, Han put on a smile and stood by the register.

“Heyy Sungie, can I get a blackcurrant fruit tea with pomegranate boba please”

Jisung blushed lightly but took the older boys order quickly.
“Uh did you want it in?”

“Nah take out please”

Jisung gave a quick nod and started to make the tea.

“So Jisungie wanna explain why you’ve been ignoring me?” Minho twirled his card in his hand asking gently.

Jisung finished up making the drink before answering the boy. What as he going to say?! ‘Ah yes I’ve been avoiding you because my feelings for you are very much true and i am an awkward human who doesn’t know how to deal with it’

Shaking the thought out the squirrel boy passed over drink.

“I thought you were busy, I mean I guess you may want to spend time with your boyfriend because I realised Hyunjin also used the same dance room as you and I found it awkward I must’ve been taking up your time every morning so you didn’t get to spend it with him” Jisung ranted out.

Minho coughed on his drink when he hears what Jisung was saying.

“Woah woah, Sung, since when did I have a boyfriend?” Minho held up his hand to stop Jisung from talking more.

Wide eyes Jisung blinked. “You and Hyunjin? You kissed at our 3racha party, I thought you had just been keeping it on the down low” Jisung raised an eyebrow.

The older boy let out a light laugh and placed his drink down. “I’m not dating Hyunjin, sure we had a past but what you saw at the party was obviously when we both had too much to drink”
Minho blushed brightly whilst he awkwardly explained his situation.

“But…what?…Hyunjin said you aren’t what??” Jisung tried to make sense of it all.

“Look sung if I was taken you would’ve known about it for sure, I’d be acting very different around you trust me”
Minho winked and picked up his drink.

“Bye Jisungie, thanks for the drink like always”

Jisung stood shell shocked for a few moments.

So Minho and Hyunjin weren’t dating? But they had in the past? And Minho would act different if he was taken?

The boy felt like his head was going to explode.

“Jisung come here and help pick out some new colours for the walls” Jisung was shook out his stupor by his mother.

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*:･ﾟ✧ Dragonfruit tea with raspberry boba *:･ﾟ✧

Jisung sat in his producing class half asleep, Chan and Changbin weren’t there as they had gone to the rooftop at the top of college because they had managed to ‘persuade’ the lecturer into claiming the rooftop was a great place to brainstorm.
They had been there the past two days.

“Right class, you have a few more days until I’d like you to submit your tracks to me for grading, after that you’ll get feedback for you to continue your work as well as starting up writing lyrics, but we will be having some lessons on that beforehand so don’t stress yourselves over it” Mr Park mentioned.

Jisung let out a slight sigh at the thought of getting feedback especially before writing lyrics so he didn’t have to worry about the possibility of having to change up everything.

At the ring of the bell the class began packing up their laptops and notebooks ready for lunch. Scooping up his laptop and shoving it in his bag unceremoniously Jisung rushed out the room in order to manage to get in the line before all the cheesecake had been taken which ended up happening every lunch.

Spotting Chan and Changbin walk through the crowd and lines Jisung ran to link up with them so he could secretly skip the queue. It wasn’t his proudest moment but he would do anything for cheesecake.

As he reached the front he spotted Minho in black ripped jeans and an over sized grey jacket with a black bomber to finish it up. Of course there was a large gap between him and the next person and so Jisung slid in behind.

“Hyung” Jisung placed both hands on the boys shoulder to make him jump. The older boy jumped and quickly turned and Shot a glare at the person who had frightened him. Immediately his eyes soften when he made eye contact with the victim.

“Oh Sungie hey” Minho smiled lightly.

“You don’t mind me joining on here do you?” Jisung said with a small pout in hopes to persuade the boy.

“You’re already here aren’t you?” Minho chuckled.

“That’s true, but between me and you I was jumping for the cheesecake not you Hyung” Jisung grinned as his eyes laid set on the chocolate and raspberry cheesecake behind Minho’s back.

“You could just text me I would’ve gotten it for you”

Jisung looked back at Minho, “I didn’t think about that”

Minho smiled and ruffle the boys head as he picked up a tray and went to order some food.
Jisung quickly followed. “Hi, could I get the cheesecake and then the special burger please”

Jisung paid and turned to go towards the table full of his friends, the same middle table they had always claimed. The boy went to turn to Minho about asking him something but the boy had already vanished.

Jisung furrowed his brows as he looked for the boy but quickly gave up after he heard Felix call him over to the group.

“Hey!” Jisung smiled and sat in between Seungmin and Chan.

“You should invite Minho over some time” Chan suggested looking up from his food to the new arrival.

Jisung looked over, “I was going to but he just vanished” The boy shrugged as he picked up his burger.

“Oh Felix you wanna work on some dance routines later? I need to clean up mine for next week” Hyunjin’s voice was heard at the other end of the table.

Felix smiled brightly and nodded,” sure! I don’t have work today so I’m free”

At the mention of dance Jisung remembered what he needed to ask Minho. Pulling out his phone he clicked on his messages.

Min Hyung 💕

Hyung! Are you free after college? I need some help with my work and cause you’re a dancer it may benefit!

Ji 🐿 💗
Hey :) I’m free yeah, your a music student why do you need my help?

Min Hyung 💕
Oh well I’ll explain it later but thanks! I’ll meet you at my locker.

Jisung smiled as he pocketed his phone and dug into his cheesecake.

At the ring of the last bell of the day Jisung let out a small cheer, finally the weekend.

“Remember to have your history of music essays ready for Tuesday” the lecturer called out as everyone started to pack up and leave.

Double checking he had packed everything the squirrel boy made his way down to the lockers.

As he turned the corner he noticed that Minho was already leaning against his locker ignoring all the stares people were giving him.

Of course, Minho wasn’t at his own locker it was obviously going to make people talk. Trying to ignore the stares Jisung walked up to his Hyung and locker.

“Hey Hyung”

Minho turned around and looked up from his phone, “hey Sung”

“Let’s get out of here fast, the stares are annoying” Minho smiled lightly already knowing the younger was uncomfortable with the stares.

Grabbing the younger’s hand Minho began to walk out the college.
The hand holding definitely made people talk more than ignore them.

Jisung looked down trying to hide the blush on his face, he looked at the intertwined hands and smiled lightly as Minho gave them a small squeeze and ran his thumb over Jisung’s to help calm him.

As they left the crowd behind and began to walk the way to bubbles Minho spoke up, “So why does a music production student need my help?” Minho questioned as he swung their hands.

Jisung chuckled awkwardly, “ It may sound weird but, We are producing new tracks in lesson and before we write our lyrics we need to make the track and then send it into our lecturers to get marked. Because I don’t want to have to re-do anything I thought your insight would be good, because well… you’re a dancer and you hear music differently to producers. We obviously care about the sound and instruments and beats but you can hear everything more clearly because you base your dance not just on lyrics but the flow of the song and the different sounds in the track.. sorry that probably didn’t make any sense” Jisung quickly shut up after realising he had rambled on about why he needed Minho’s help.

“I mean you could’ve just said you needed a second opinion Sungie, you didn’t need to rant, but you are right. I guess I do hear music differently” Minho smiled and gave Jisung’s hand a squeeze of reassurance.

As they reached the front of Bubbles jisung internally screamed, he forgot it wasn’t Mako working today and it was his parents.
“Are we getting Bubble Tea before we go up?” Minho asked as Jisung pushed open the door.

“Of course” Jisung smiled, letting go of Minho’s hand he rushed ahead and behind the counter.

“Oh hey Ji” His mum smiled at her Son.

“Hey, It’s fine if me and Minho Hyung go to my room to study right?” Jisung asked.

“Ooooo Minho? As in the Minho Felix told me about?”

Jisung rolled his eyes, of course Felix would’ve said something about Minho to his mum. At this point Minho was now leaning on the counter listening to the pair.
“You talk about me?” He cheekily asked.

Jisung felt like his face was going to explode. “I.. Um.. No it was Felix, not me” Jisung let out an awkward chuckled.

Minho spotted Jisung’s mum coming over and so bowed and introduced himself, as he did the blushing boy turned around and started making their drinks.

“Oh please no need to be so formal, and call me Juyeon no Mrs Han for me, It makes me feel old” Juyeon smiled warmly at Minho.

“O-oh thank you Mrs- um Juyeon” Minho smiled.

“I’ll let you two go upstairs and study, feel free to have any food you find” Juyeon moved out of the way as Jisung came back holding two different drinks.

“Dragonfruit and Raspberry boba!” Jisung smiled proudly.

Minho took the drink and twirled it around before watching the boba fall down, “I’ve never had dragonfruit tea so hopefully it will taste nice” Minho smiled in thanks.

“Ok we’re going to study, bye mum!” Jisung called out as he dragged Minho up the stairs into their flat.

“Welcome to my room” Jisung cringed as he pushed open his bedroom door revealing his fairly small but cluttered room.

Despite the smaller than double bed, the messy bookcase full of books, albums and vinyls, Jisung’s room was somewhat clean, if you disregarded the pile of dirty clothes in one corner and the crumpled up paper dotted around the room with empty crisp packets littering the bin.
Covering the walls were various artists as well as a fair amount of studio Ghibli posters.

“It’s a bit messy, sorry” Jisung scratched the back of his neck.

“Nah it’s fine, I like it, If I wasn’t forced to clean my room constantly this is probably what mine would look like” Minho chuckled as he plopped down on Jisung’s bed.

Jisung placed his bag on his spinny chair and retrieved his laptop and set it up on his desk connecting it to his mixer and other various equipment.

“Hopefully this doesn’t take up too much of your time, but this is what I want you to help me with” Jisung explained as he logged in and loaded up his work.

“It’s fine Ji, I’m pretty sure I have nothing to do today so I can stay until you wanna kick me out” Minho gave out a slight laugh as he sat up and moved over to look at Jisung’s work from the edge of the squirrel’s bed.

“Damnnn, that looks so confusing” Minho let out a breathe.

Jisung shrugged nonchalantly , “ It depends, right now my track and the channel I’m working on is super messy because it’s not really organised right, and I’ll have to change it so I get marked high on the workflow environment”

“And to make my stress worse I’m going to need to find somewhere to stay for a bit whilst bubbles gets re-decorated because there’s no space round my grandparents” Jisung sighed and pinched his nose.

Dragging the indicator to the start of the track, the boy hesitantly pressed the space bar to start the song.

As the track began to play Minho stood up and carefully listened to the different beats and instruments playing throughout, his body moved instinctively to the sounds and the flow of the guitar playing softly in the background.

After a few minutes the track slowly came to the end, Jisung turned to Minho to look at his reaction, instead he found Minho with his eyes closed still dancing.

“Yah hyung, it’s ended” Jisung spoke up.

Minho continued to dance regardless.
Jisung rolled his eyes and stood up and pushed his Hyung lightly. Minho chuckled with his eyes still shut and he began to carry on dancing.

“Hyunggg stop” Jisung whined lightly.

Because the boy didn’t stop, Jisung grabbed one of his pillows and whacked it around Minho’s head. As soon as the pillow came in contact with his head Minho paused and his eyes widened.

“Did you just hit me with a pillow” he used a scarier voice.

“I- um well” Jisung stood still in shock, he wasn’t expecting a pillow to turn Minho cold.

Minho stepped forward making Jisung step back.
“Do you know what this means Hannie?”

Minho stepped forward again,Jisung retreating.

“Umm no?” Jisung tried to read Minho’s face.

The older boy trapped the younger in the corner and whispered into his ear.
“A pillow fight”

Minho moved away and brought up a pillow he had picked up as he had cornered the younger.

The younger boys face dropped and mouth open, “why you…” bringing up his own pillow he went to hit the older boy again.

Lee managed to duck and move out the way before bringing up his own pillow to hit the younger on the chest.

Jisung giggled and jumped onto his bed to hit Minho around the head. The boy laughed and followed Jisung up on the bed.

“Don’t jump it will break the bed” Jisung squealed as he jumped off. He threw the pillow towards Minho who caught it as he did he lost his balance on the bed causing him to fall and crash into the younger boy making them both crash to the ground pillow between the two.

“Ow” Jisung grumbled as he hit his head.

Minho looked down and laughed, “sorry”

As they both caught their breath the pair realised the position they were in. Jisung on the ground with his back on the floor pillow on this stomach, which Minho was lying on. Their faces were inches apart.

“Hi” Minho gave a small smile as he whispered.

Jisung blushed but responded with a tiny hi back.

The two didn’t seem to move from the position, instead they gradually moved closer, inching until their noses were touching lightly.

Minho’s watched as Jisung’s eyes slowly shut. He moved forward and closed the gap.
Lips were pressed together, slowly Minho moved an arm onto Jisung’s waist squeezing it lightly making the boy gasp slightly, with that Minho deepened the kiss.
They slowly began to lose their breathe and the need for air broke them apart.

Slowly panting as they pulled away Minho swore he saw a glint of happiness in Jisung’s eyes and went to lock their lips again.

Ring ring ring

The familiar tune of Minho’s phone was going off, shifting off Jisung, Minho stood up and went and grabbed his phone off the bed.
As soon as he saw the caller ID he mentally groaned.

“Yes Father?”

Minho immediately pulled the phone away from his ear slightly as he das shouted down the line.

“Where are you? You’re an hour late for your private dance lessons, how can you not turn up this,it’s important and I paid good money for this teacher and you decide to not turn up! You get to the company right now or you know what will happen”

Minho shut his eyes as his dad continued to shout. His expression turned cold. “Okay dad I’m coming, I just forgot” Minho rolled his eyes as he made eye contact with Jisung who was now sat up and listening in.

The phone call ended and the older boy let out a deep sigh, “I cannot believe I forgot” he mumbled.

“A-are you okay Hyung?” Jisung looked worried as he hugged the pillow that was on his lap.

“I’m fine sungie, I gotta go though” minho have a small smile and ruffled the boys hair.

“Oh..um bye then” Jisung said awkwardly as he watched Minho leave his bedroom.

Jisung falls back on the ground, his heart was beating out of his chest, he couldn’t imagine how red his face looked.

He just kissed Lee Minho.

Chapter Text

*:･ﾟ✧ Apple tea with cherry & passionfruit boba *:･ﾟ✧

Minho sucked in a breathe as he headed towards the direction of bubbles, it had been a week since he had seen Jisung because the pair had both become so busy with upcoming deadlines at college, a week since the kiss.
The boy was unsure how he felt about it, of course he was estatic and thrilled about finally kissing Jisung, but he had doubt.

If he even plucked up the courage to ask Jisung out he didn’t want it to turn out like Hyunjin, that sneaky boy, using him and his connections.

Shaking off the bad thoughts Minho crossed the room and peered into the window of bubbles as he crossed. It was busy, busier than usual in fact.
Reaching the door Minho took note of the buy one get one free board outside.

The bell rang signalling Minho’s arrival. Joining the back of the queue his eyes wandered to find Jisung. Scanning over the sitting area there was no one, but it was a mess, cups were laying everywhere and their were some small spillages.
Peaking over the heads of customers Felix was not only running the cash machine but also making orders, he looked flustered and stressed.
Where was Jisung?

As the line shortened slightly Jisung came bouldering out of the staff area carrying towels and cleaning equipment. Minho pulled a face of worry as the tower of towels almost looked like they would fall.

Finally as he reached the front Felix almost smiled with happiness at the familiar face.

“Hyung!”

“Hey” Minho smiled awkwardly.

“What can I get you?” Felix looked at the machine and back to Minho.

Giving a quick thought so not to hold up the line Minho scanned the board, “I’ll have the Apple tea with cherry & passion fruit boba please” Pulling out his card in the process.

“in or out?”

“Umm out please” Minho had to speak louder just to Felix could hear him over the loud chatter of a birthday party in the corner.

Felix gave a thumbs up in return and got to making his drink. Just as Felix turned Minho almost got knocked down by a tower of towels.

“Sorry” Jisung squeaked as he quickly leant down to pick them up.

“You okay sung?” Minho crouched down to help pick up the stragglers that had rolled away.

Jisung flushed at the familiar voice, “o-oh Hyung hi”

Minho chuckled and stood up holding the rolls.
“You seem a bit swept off your feet, quiet literally”

Jisung let out a big sigh and placed the towels on the counter top besides Minho’s drink that had just been served.

“Well my parents are at the bank again trying to deal with the money for the renovations and decorating that’s going to happen in a month or so, Mako is ill, so it’s just me and Felix” Jisung looked around the room and cringed at all the mess.

“I can help” Minho shrugged as he drunk some of his boba.

“Oh you don’t have to Hyung” Jisung scratched the back of his neck.

Minho put his free hand on Jisung’s shoulder and gave it a squeeze
“You need the help, trust me”

Jisung rolled his eyes but motioned Minho to the staff room regardless.

“We don’t have any spare shirts but I can give you an apron” Jisung searched through a cardboard box.

“That’s fine, I can always wash my clothes if they get juice on them”

Jisung quickly found the right size and passed it to his Hyung.

“Are you sure about this Hyung?”

Giving a nod Minho unwrapped the apron and pulled it on, “it’s fine, besides I’m free”

Jisung giggled,”are you definitely sure you are free?”

Rolling his eyes Minho pushed Jisung lightly, “yes I am”

As they walked back to the store Jisung pulled on Minho’s arm making him stop
“I’m sorry, I got you in trouble, if I didn’t ask for your help then your dad wouldn’t be mad at you”

Minho smiled sadly, “you did nothing wrong Sungie, I was the one stupid enough to forget about the dance practice, and yeah my dad is mad at me but soon enough he’ll find a different thing to be made about me at so don’t worry”

Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair and boldly kissed the squirrels cheek before rushing to grab the cleaning supplies off the counter and started cleaning the tables.

“He’s going to be the death of me” Jisung whined as he walked back to Felix who was still frantically doing orders.

“Lix, I’ll take orders and you make them okay? Minho Hyung is helping clean tables so it should be easier for us”

Felix nodded and got to work quickly making the last order he took.

“Hi what can I get you?” Jisung smiled politely to the next customer.

Minho quickly passed the order to the customer and gave a fake smile, “that’s all done for you”

As soon as they were out of sight he let his face drop and he took a sip of his bubble tea.

“I can really see why you don’t work in retail or catering” Felix joked as he brought out some of the cakes they sell to top up the cabinet.

“Well I don’t need to smile when I teach Dance” Minho shrugged as he watched Jisung interacting with the birthday party which was still going on.

“Except for when they are lovesick and are staring at their crush” Felix spoke up as he chuckled at Minho who was staring at Jisung with a small smile on his face..

Quickly Minho looked away and kept a straight face,”shut up”

Felix laughed and leaned against the counter, “just ask him out already”

Minho avoided the question and pretended to be busy cooking some of the boba. Stirring it gently to make sure the balls didn’t burn.

Felix walked over to his hyung, “I’m not saying you have to marry him Minho Hyung” Felix rolled his eyes and checked the pot to make sure Minho wasn’t accidentally over cooking the tapioca pearls.

“I…” Minho felt hesitant to open up to Felix knowing full well he was Jisung’s best friend and would probably spill everything Minho says.
He glanced over to where Jisung was cleaning up a few tables. He looked hot and bothered and extremely tired.

“I just don’t want a repeat of what happened last time..” Minho muttered, slightly hoping Felix didn’t hear.

Awkwardly patting Minho’s shoulder Felix spoke up,” It doesn’t need to be anything serious, just ask him on a date, see how things go, you don’t need to put a label on it” Felix started making up two drinks.

Minho pondered on the statement as he watched Jisung, his brown hair falling in front of his eyes occasionally, his cheeks were flushed red from how active and non stop he had been. He should probably take a break. As the boy turned to ask Felix if they should let Jisung have a break he came face to face with two bubble teas.

“Have a break, with Jisung. Ask him”

Grabbing the drinks for Felix and saying a short ‘thanks’ Minho went over to Jisung who was currently mopping the floor. Placing the bubble tea on the free seat next to Jisung caught his attention.

“Have a break sung” Minho sat down and motioned to the seat opposite him.

Hesitantly the boy propped up the mop on the window so it wasn’t in the way. Sliding into the seat he grabbed the drink nearest him.,” Thank you”

Minho stabbed his straw into his own drink,” Don’t thank me, Felix made them, I have no idea what flavour they are” Taking a sip he was immediately met with the taste of Apple and the pop of strawberry.

“What’s yours?” Jisung asked as he took a sip of his own before pulling a face.

“Apple and strawberry, yours?”

Jisung pushed his away, I have no idea but it tastes gross” he shook his head.

Snatching the drink up Minho took a slurp of the bubble tea, he immediately recognised the taste as the Dragon fruit tea he had only a week ago.
“Ahh Dragonfruit, it’s nice” Minho smiled and pushed his apple drink towards Jisung.

“We can switch”

“O-oh thank you hyung” Jisung beamed and took a large sip to quench his thirst from the non-stop work.

The two sat in a comfortable silence for a little bit as they both drank their drinks and caught up with any missed messages and social media. Minho was done quickly after only responding to one message about him doing a shift at Twave to teach some younger kids. The only people active in his messages were his dad and Jisung. A vast contract between to two conversations.
Placing down his phone he looked around the store, it had quietened down a lot and Felix seemed to have made himself a drink and was sitting behind the counter chatting to a customer who had jut ordered.
Felix made eye contact with the older boy and pointed a harsh finger towards Jisung and mouthed ‘ask’. Minho let out a silent chuckle and turned to Jisung who was absorbed in his phone.

“Does sharing drinks mean we just indirectly kissed?” Minho chuckled as he took a sip of Jisung’s old drink.
The boy looked up from his phone.

Jisung almost chocked on his own drink at the comment.
“Of course you think of that” Jisung recovers from the choke as blushes lightly.

“Actually about that” Minho looked down at his drink and fiddled with his straw, he should make eye contact with the younger but he was slightly worried with how the boy would react.

“O-oh about last week?” Jisung tilted his head slightly.

“Uh..yeah” Minho forced his own blush down.

Jisung also didn’t keep eye contact for long, it was the first time they had seen each other since and the first time they had spoken to each other properly since the kiss.

“I-right…” Jisung stuttered unsure what to even say.

Taking a deep sigh Minho forced himself to just ask the boy.
“I-well,I’m guessing it was okay with you, considering you didn’t um push away, and so I was thinking, well I guess asking that um we Umm could, well …. I’d like to take you on a date”

Jisung’s eyes widened as Minho looked up as he finished speaking. Minho heard the boy let out a small squeal.

“Sure” Jisung squeaked out and quickly stood up grabbing the mop and rushed back to work face as bright as a tomato.

Minho smiled happily and picked up the phone Jisung had accidentally left.

For once, Minho spent the rest of the day smiling without having to force it out.

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧ Fruit tea with maracuja syrup and blueberry boba *:·ﾟ✧

Felix sighed as yet another piece of clothing was thrown on his head, lifting his hand to uncover his eyes he was faced with a very distressed Jisung. A Jisung who had taken apart his whole wardrobe in order to find the ‘perfect outfit’ for his date with Minho that was happening in T-minus 30 minutes.
“Sung you didn’t need to throw all your clothes out just to find an outfit” Felix began to pick up the discarded clothes.

“I have nothing to wear” Jisung whined out and sat down in a pile of his clothes burying his face in his knees. “I can’t show up wearing any of these”.

Felix rolled his eyes at his dramatic friend, “I’m sure you could show up in old joggers and a pyjama top and Minho would still like you”

Jisung lifted his head out of his knees with a confused look on his face, “isn’t the saying ‘wearing a black bag?”

“Same thing, anyways, Put on those ripped jeans and this hoodie, and when you do your hair make sure you don’t style it too much” Felix instructed as he threw Jisung a hoodie at his face.

“Why can’t I style my hair?” Jisung whined as he made his way to the bathroom.

“Trust me, He’ll love it”

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“I- Um wow Sungie” Minho stumbled over his words as he was faced with a blushing Jisung wearing the outfit Felix had so kindly picked out for him.
Minho’s eyes lingered on the fluffy hair hanging slightly over Jisung’s eyes. He was screwed.

Jisung stood awkwardly, not sure what to say in front of the boy who was wearing ripped jeans and a denim jacket.
“You look great too hyung” Jisung shly said before turning to Felix with wide eyes mouthing out a ‘help’.

Felix being the best friend he was, loudly exclaimed,”Well have fun on your date, be safe but have a great time” Before Pushing Jisung onto Minho and shutting the door fast.

Luckily Minho had fast reflexes and caught Jisung by the waist before he came toppling on the older to take them both down.

“Sorry” Jisung awkwardly moved away from the boy,”Felix really wants me to embarrass myself it seems” Jisung scratched the back of his neck.

Minho let out a light laugh,” well at least now I can say you fell for me” Giving a wink He took one of Jisung’s hands in his before pulling him out of the entrance way of bubbles and over to the car he had driven in.

“You drive?” Jisung raised an eyebrow.

Minho opened the passengers door before giving a quick response of a “yup”. Jisung got comfy in the leather seats and buckled his seatbelt on, the older boy quickly made his way round and they were off in no time.

After a few minutes in the car Jisung realised that he had no idea where they were heading and what they were even doing, for all he knew he could be getting kidnapped, although he probably would go willingly if it was Minho.

“So what are we doing?” Jisung fiddled with the rips in his jeans.

“I’m taking you to a funfair, there’s one in the next town and there aren't any high rides I don’t think and so I thought it would be a good place considering we both aren’t massive fans of heights” Minho explained as he gave a warm smile to the squirrel boy.
Noticing Jisung looking slightly nervous from his bouncing leg, the boy reached over and grabbed onto one of his hands before giving him a reassuring squeeze.
“Relax Sung, it’s just me, yeah?”

Looking up, the two made eye contact and Jisung felt his face heat up before he quickly looked away, shortly after he heard a small chuckle from Minho who then gave his hand another squeeze and ran his thumb over the younger's soft hand.
Jisung would be down right lying if he didn’t admit to feeling butterflies in his stomach right at that moment.
Resting his other hand on top of Minho’s he relaxed into his seat and let the music playing take over the already comfortable silence.

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“Come on hyung” Jisung whined as Minho took forever to put his wristband on, trying to perfectly line up the sticky parts.

“Sung, please you don’t need to call me hyung” Minho looked up from his wrist to Jisung who was standing just off to his left.

“O-oh okay” Jisung stood shocked,”What can I call you then?” Jisung asked as Minho took his hand and they began to walk into the fair.

“Anything you want”

“Can I call you mine?” Jisung looked expectedly, he wasn’t expecting the older boy to blush brightly and turn away.

“S-soon” Minho stuttered out.

As the pair walked further into the fair they were immediately met with the smell of candy floss and popcorn coming from the groups of people munching on the snacks and the smell of hot food drifting through the air,it was now night time and so all the stalls and rides were fully lit with bright signs and neon writing enticing the visitors to go on the rides. Without even being near the slightly bigger rides the sounds of screaming and laughter could already be heard.
Jisung stared around eyes wide trying to take everything in.

“Do you wanna eat first or go on a ride?” Minho tugged Jisung lightly to pull him closer to him so they wouldn’t get split up in the crowds.

“I’m good with a ride first” Jisung shrugged.

“You can pick,” Minho said as he looked around at all the different rides, he took note of the high,fast rides to make sure to avoid them so they both wouldn’t accidentally pick them.

“Ooo how about that haunted house?” Jisung pointed to one of the many house styled rides.

“Sure” Minho nodded and they swiftly made their way to the front of the ride to get a ticket.

“It’s two tokens for each person” The ride operator spoke out as Minho put his hands in his pocket to fish out the correct tokens and passing them over.

Jisung stood confused as to where the tokens came from,”When did you buy them?” he followed along behind Minho as they waited in the short queue.

“When I got the tickets, if you brought tokens at the same time you got a small discount, so I brought them there. It also means we don’t have to wait in long queues just to buy some” Minho pointed to a snake line leading to the token booth.

“Hyu- Min I could’ve bought some” Jisung said slightly annoyed that Minho was paying for everything.
Sure he wasn’t exactly rich and he was saving up to live in the student halls but that didn’t mean he didn’t want Minho to be paying for everything. It was a date after all.

“It's fine Sungie '' Minho ruffled Jisung’s making it look more fluffier. Truth be told he had wanted to ruffle it as soon as he had seen Jisung standing awkwardly at the front of Bubbles.

“At least let me buy the food then” Jisung crossed his arms in protest, pouting slightly.

“Maybe, I’ll think about it,” Minho laughed.

After a short wait the boy's turn finally came up, clambering into the small cart. Once seated the bar automatically came down and they were soon going into the haunted house.

The ride started off fine, it was blackout dark and it wasn’t until a skeleton popped out of nowhere making the pair jump and Jisung automatically shifted right next to Minho grabbing onto his arm to make sure he wasn’t alone.

Minho smiled fondly at Jisung who was looking out wide eyed in fear of any more pop out skeletons.
The cart rolled round a corner and into a long track, beside them was a long table covered in cobwebs and fake spiders crawling along it, a large animatronic spider dipped down right in front of Jisung’s face making him scream loudly and practically climb into Minho’s lap.

Minho noticed Jisung shaking slightly and pulled him in a tight hug making sure his head was hiding in his neck.
“It’s okay sungie,it was just a fake spider, nothing to be afraid of” Minho stayed calm as he gently stroked the shaking squirrel’s back.

Jisung stayed half on top of Minho for the remaining part of the ride. As they were reaching the end Minho softly spoke up, “It’s finished Sungie”.
Jisung peaked his head out and slid off to the seat embarrassed.

“I-sorry, I didn’t mean to do that” Jisung looked down.

Minho smiled and leaned over before kissing the top of Jisung’s head, “It’s fine, we should’ve probably been a bit more prepared for it, like it’s literally a haunted house ride, of course it will be scary” Minho squeezed Jisung’s leg to reassure him.

Getting off the ride with shaky legs Jisung was glad to get out of the darkness and back into the bright lights of all the rides and smell of food.

“Do we want food now?” Minho spotted Jisung eyeing up the food stalls.

Nodding Jisung pulled his hyung towards the stalls without another word.

There was an overwhelming smell of food the closer the pair got to the food. Not just the sweet popcorn and candy floss but the smell of hot dogs, burgers and churros blending throughout.

“Let’s get some churros” Jisung sprang forward and immediately joined the queue.

This time the queue was a lot longer than a ride, it was one of the more popular stalls, according to the board out on the grass they were ‘cooked to order’ meaning fresh, hot and delicious in Jisung’s eyes.

“How’s Twave doing with 3racha” Minho asked as they waited.

“Umm it’s good, we’ve been given a lot of work to do, by the end of the month we have to have four new songs and each of us have to produce our own separate songs that may get included in the album we apparently may be getting, It’s confusing, we’ve been told our debut is like six months away and so it’s weird we are preparing for it so early. I wish the debut would be pushed forward” Jisung explained.

“Well it’s good you’re making songs, that’s definitely the first step,I'm not surprised that your debut is a while away though, you have to go through a lot of training to get up to ‘idol standard’. It’s really boring stuff, I've literally been having the lessons for a few years now and they are pointless” Minho scoffed slightly at the end.

“How come you haven't debuted yet Min?” Jisung questioned as they moved up a couple of spaces in the queue.

“Oh..um.. “ Minho looked away slightly, his voice becoming quieter.”I was meant to debut last year actually, but...um.. Something happened and so they pulled my debut, and basically I nearly got kicked out the company”

“You nearly got kicked out?!” Jisung said surprised, “But you said you were called the ‘perfect trainee’? What happened?”

“I..umm…kinda don’t wanna talk about it right now Sung, sorry” Minho scratched the back of his neck as they moved up the line.

“I get it, don’t worry hyung” Jisung let out a small smile. As they waited in silence Jisung’s head was racing. What happened to Minho? Why was he nearly kicked out?

The silence soon disapperated as it was the pair's turn to order.
“Can I get two churros please? '' Minho spoke up before Jisung had a chance to open his mouth.

“Yah! Hyun-” Jisung tried to speak up but was interrupted by Minho then pulling out his wallet.
Jisung tried to pull out the money from his own wallet but fumbled with it instead making Minho faster at paying for the food.

As they went to the waiting station Jisung playfully pushed the older, “I was meant to pay” Jisung whined

“Too slow” Minho stuck out his tongue and lightly pushed Jisung back before pulling him in and resting his head on the top of the younger boy's head and wrapping his arms around his waist.

“Is this to stop me from pushing you again?” Jisung asked as he felt Minho reply with his jaw on top of his head.

“Yes and it’s also comfy,” Minho smiled.

“So you’ve done it before?” Jisung jokes.

He was quickly pushed away, “N-no”
Minho wore a light blush on his face, luckily he could avoid Jisung’s eyes and focus on grabbing the Churros that were now ready.

-

“Are you sure about this Min?” Jisung asked unsure as they sat down on the famous pang pang ride.

“It’s fun, just hold on tight” Minho got comfortable holding onto the rails behind him, Jisung quickly followed.

The ride wasn’t overly packed as it started spinning, the ride operator talking to a few groups of people who were struggling to stay on.
As they spun and bumped up Jisung’s hands started to lose grip making him lose control of his legs as he was trying hard not to fly away.
Minho sat next to him holding on tightly barely moving.

“How are you not moving about?” Jisung asked as he almost flew into his hyung’s chest but caught himself before it happened.

“I go on this ride everytime I see it,” Minho explained as he adjusted his hold on the railings.

The pair watched as two girls slid off the seats opposite them and rolled into the middle of the ride.

“Aigoo you can’t hold on tightly can you” The controller laughed as he made the ride more bumpy making the two girls struggle to crawl back to their seats.

“Now for my next victims” He chuckled as the ride spun around at the normal speed again so he could pick out a few people.

“Yah you two, the one in that denim jacket and the one in the green hoodie”
Minho pointed to himself and Jisung when he realised the man was talking to them.

“You two don’t seem to be close enough yet” He announced before making the section the boys were seated on move viciously up and down.

Jisung let out a yelp as he slid off the seat, Minho immediately grabbing his arm to help pull him up, as he did the controller made it bumpy again causing Jisung to fall on top of Minho. One of his legs falling in between Minho’s.

“Come on don’t just stand there, have a nice sit down” The ride worker announced as he pushed their section up and down again making Jisung nearly lose his balance so Minho helped by holding his waist.

“Yah Min don’t you dare let me fall” Jisung laughed as he lunged forward and properly fell onto Minho.

Minho let out a yelp as Jisung landed right in his lap. Jisung’s face in Minho’s shoulder he managed to grab onto the bar behind Minho’s head and pull himself up and turn himself around so he could shuffle to the side and sit back down. As he stood again the worker bumped their seats and Jisung fell down properly onto Minho’s lap.
Minho let out a small groan and held onto Jisung’s waist to keep him steady so he didn’t keep falling.

The worker was satisfied and moved on to his next victims.
“Sorry Hyung” Jisung apologised as he had twisted himself sideways so he could hold onto the rails as well.
“It’s fine, just wasn’t expecting that guy to target us” Minho chuckled as he tightened his grip on Jisung when he felt them move up and down again.

The ride soon ended and Jisung stood up, steadying his feet before Minho copied.
“Do you want to do anything else?” Minho asked as they started to look at the smaller stalls.

Jisung’s eyes lit up once more as he saw a stall with squirrel plushies. Minho rolled his eyes as he followed the boy to the stall.

-

The car pulled up towards Bubbles as Jisung sat with a large squirrel plushie in his lap.
The car was silent as Jisung looked out the window and then back at his plushie.
“‘I - um” Minho started.

“Do you want bubble tea?” Jisung asked abruptly.

Minho let out a small smile and laugh, “Sure”

Plushie sitting on the counter, Jisung ducked under the counter to get the drinks made.
“Are you sure you’re allowed to do this?” Minho asked slightly worried Jisung’s parents will come downstairs.

The only lights that were on were the fairy lights that lit the cafe around the walls. This made it incredibly hard for Jisung to see what he was doing and he began accidentally banging into the bin and making a lot of noise.

“Yeah, me and Felix do it whenever he stays, it’s like a tradition, I just have to make sure I don’t use too much of it, and let my parents know so they aren’t confused if the stock checks don’t add up” Jisung explained as he poured in some boba and started making the tea.

“What are you making?” Minho tried to read the labels on the jars but failed when Jisung swiftly put them away in the cupboards, not before accidentally banging them on the counter tops.

“Not telling,” Jisung replied simply.

Minho waited patiently for his drink and went to sit down in the booth which they frequented whenever they both studied or Minho swung by to grab a drink and the younger was on a break.

Moments later Jisung came bearing two colourful drinks.

“Anddd what is this?” Minho grabbed one of the drinks before stabbing the lid.

Jisung followed his actions and took a long sip before a sigh. He watched as Minho took a hesitant sip and his face made a thousand different expressions.

“Why is it like sour and sweet all in one go?” Minho asked, slightly confused.

“It’s a secret recipe, I am still perfecting it” Jisung shrugged as he drank away.

“Yo-you made this yourself?” Minho stared wide-eyed.

Jisung put down his drink, “I mean I make it when i’m bored, It was actually made by accident when I messed up someone's order and so couldn’t give it to them” Jisung shrugged.

“Well I love it, and think it’s perfect,” Minho smiled.

Jisung beamed,”Really hyung?!”

Minho hummed, he moved closer to Jisung as he said his next sentence, “How many more times do I need to tell you to stop calling me that”

Suddenly their faces were inches apart, jisung gulped before replying, “At least once more, hyung”.

Jisung closed the gap and pressed his lips against Minho’s. He brought one hand to rest on Minho’s shoulder and the other landed on the older’s thigh.
Minho pulled Jisung closed by tugging on his waist,as he did this Jisung let out a small gasp letting Minho deepen the kiss. Placing his free hand on Jisung’s cheek he used his thumb to run along Jisung’s chin, resting on the jaw.
Both in the need for air the two slowly parted faces still close to each other.

The lights suddenly shot on and Jisung and Minho shot apart from each other.

“Han Jisung what have I told you about making drinks at night”

Mrs Han stood by the staircase with her arms crossed against her chest.” Oh hello Minho” her face softened as she noticed Jisung was with Minho.

Minho awkwardly gave a short bow and said a quiet hello.

“Sorry mum, I just wanted to let Minho taste my secret recipe!” Jisung explained.

Rolling her eyes she let out an all-knowing smile, “I guess Minho must be really special if you let him try it but not even Felix or Me” She smirked as she walked back up stairs, not before turning off the main lights shouting a goodnight.

Jisung felt his face burn brightly, he did not need Minho to know about that.

“Oooo I’m special then?” Minho pinched Jisung’s cheek as he smirked.

Jisung hid his face in his hands, “Let’s pretend my mum didn’t expose me”

Minho chuckled and stood up and grabbed his drink, “Don’t worry I won’t tell a soul”.

Minho walked over to the counter and grabbed Jisung’s plushie and brought it to the boy. “I gotta get going but I had a really good time, i’m glad you said yes”

Jisung let out a small pout realising their date was officially coming to an end. Standing, he walked with Minho to the door.

“I-ummm thank you” Jisung let out in a small voice as he hugged his squirrel plushie close to his chest.

Minho smiled fondly at the boy, “I’m glad you had a good time, Don’t worry next time I’ll make sure you at least pay for one thing” Minho gave Jisung one last long lasting kiss before pushing open the door.

“Bye..” Jisung let out quietly as he watched Minho climb into his car, he unconsciously hugged the plushie closer.

That night he screamed into his new plushie. Minho had said ‘next time’

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*:·ﾟ✧ Taro Milk Tea with tapioca pearls *:·ﾟ✧

Jisung sleepily walked to the kitchen to eat some breakfast, today he was going to TWave to meet with Chan and Changbin to do some work.

“Morning Jisung” Jisung’s father smiled as he took a sip of his coffee.

Jisung let out a mumbled ’morning’ in response as he rubbed his eyes and made his way to the coffee machine.

“What are you doing today?”

Jisung outed out his drink before replying, “I’ve got to go to TWave to do some work with Chan and Changbin and then come back and do some college work”

The boy sat down and reached for a couple slices of toast before spreading on a generous amount of butter.

After wasting no time in scoffing down his food and cup full of coffee Jisung rushed to go and get changed.
Chucking on some ripped jeans and a warm sweater the boys grabbed his phone and bag before making his way downstairs.

Bubbles had been open for a couple of hours so there were a couple of people sitting around. Ducking behind the counter Jisung made himself a quick milk tea so he didn’t waste any time.

Pulling out his phone after saying a quick goodbye to Mako and Felix who were working, Jisung saw a message.

Min ❤️
Hope you have a good day lil squirrel 🐿

Jisung rolled his eyes at the comment but replied either way.

Rushing off to Twave Jisung quickly scanned himself in before making his way down the 2nd floor to the recording studio. Today he was hoping to record his song for 3Racha’s debut album so they could send it to the CEO and gain feedback.

“Of course you turn up with bubble tea” Chan chuckled as Han took his seat on the sofa behind where the boy was sitting.

“Can you blame me” Jisung shrugged as he took a sip of his drink, usually he would drink his tea really fast but today he didn’t have time to even pierce the drink until he got to TWave.

“Next time bring us some,” Changbin added.

Jisung grabbed his hard drive out of his bag as he responded, “Well I was in a rush today otherwise I maybe would’ve, but I also don’t know what drinks you would want”
The boy stood up and went over to the desk to plug in his hard drive and load up the software he was using to record.

“Okay well next time ask and we’ll let you know, I see you bring Minho bubble tea into college” Chan smirked.

Jisung’s face flushed remembering how the day after the date at college Jisung had brought in his special drink that Minho enjoyed. He’d changed a bit of it up and wanted the elders opinion on it.

“I- tha-that there was a reason for that” Jisung stuttered out as he also remembered how Minho had kissed him that day after he had re-tasted it. He felt his stomach twist at the memory.

Changbin and Chan gave each other knowing looks, “So are you dating already?”

Jisung’s eyes widened at the question,”N-no why wou-would I-we be dating?”

The pair gave out a small laugh together, “It’s fine Ji, you do you” Chan reached to ruffle the boy’s hair but Jisung quickly moved out of the way and ran into the recording studio.

-

Grabbing his bag and jacket Jisung gave a quick goodbye to his hyungs and made his way down to the dance rooms to see if Minho was there. It was a Saturday and so if Jisung could remember correctly the boy should be teaching a lesson today around this time.
Peeking his head through the glass doors he tried to find the elder.

In the room he thought Minho would usually teach when he saw another person at the front of the class, he vaguely recognised him from the auditions.
Taking a deep breath Jisung opened the door and gave a knock.

The choreographer looked up ,” Oh hi, Jisung right?”

Han was slightly shocked they recognised him but nodded nevertheless, “Yeah hi, I- um was wondering if you knew where Minho hyung was?”

“Oh he’s ill today, i’m covering his lessons” The choreography replied with a gentle smile.

Jisung gave a quick bow and thank you before leaving.
Minho was ill?

Without thinking too much about it Jisung left TWave and slowly made his way back home so he could grab some food and possibly his laptop if he decided to actually go and do work for once.

Walking down one of the busier streets Jisung waited at the crossing to safely cross over the road. He let his eyes wander whilst waiting, these lights were notorious for taking forever to change.
As he looked across the road he spotted Hyunjin sitting in a cafe, it looked like he was alone and so Jisung felt like he should go and say hi once he crossed.
However moments later someone else joined the boy.

Jisung’s heart stopped.
He could recognise the face from anywhere.

Grabbing his phone he pulled up his contacts and sent a quick message.

‘Hey! I’m done for the day. Do you want to meet up?’

As the lights changed green Jisung crossed over and as he did he watched the boy pull out his phone and type a reply.

‘Sorry I’m working today, but I can do tomorrow?’

Jisung shoved his phone in his pocket, not responding. Did he really just witness Minho lying to him?
Had he been lied to about anything else?

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧ Matcha tea with extra tapioca pearls*:·ﾟ✧

Jisung stretched his back for what felt like the hundredth time before going back into his hunched over position to continue doing his college work.

He was too stressed right now and had too much work. He had thought that procrastinating wouldn’t be such a big deal if he just did all his work on one day but now he had only a couple more hours before college started and he needed to finish his music history work, lyrics draft and well as finish editing his track.
He was the definition of screwed.

Glancing at his phone it read 4:37am, he had around 3 hours before he needed to leave for college. Rubbing his eyes Jisung let out a sigh and pulled out a bottle of Coke, one litre.

Gulping down a fair bit the boy rolled his shoulders back and started typing once more. Not before quickly setting an alarm in case he did fall asleep.

He was lucky that his music history was almost done and it was mainly just writing the last couple of paragraphs and sorting through his messy bibliography.

“Why do I always leave it to the last minute..” Jisung whined lightly at his own stupidity.

His eyes were burning, maybe he should have a tiny rest.

Changing the alarm to ring for 6:00 Jisung collapsed onto his bed, not bothering to change his clothes the boy practically passed out.
At least he knew his alarm would wake him up.

Except it didn’t.

Once again Jisung was rushing to get ready and leave his room for college. It was 10:00 and he had only woken up due to his phone blowing up with missed calls and messages from Chan and Changbin as well as Felix spamming him with laugh emojis. His alarm was rubbish as he had stupidly set it for the evening not the morning.

Grabbing his bag and throwing in his laptop and hard drive, without forgetting the charger, Jisung then put in a notebook and a couple of pens which it doubt actually worked.

Jisung quickly replaced this hoodie with another one so he didn’t go into college with one covered in crumbs of food from last night's midnight snacking.

Yanking his phone off the charger, which probably broke it. Jisung rushed out the door.
Moments later running back to pick up his bag which he had left.

Waving a quick goodbye to his parents who only laughed at his disheveled state, the boy ran off to college. Luckily there was barely anyone in the streets and so he didn't have to dodge anyone. Taking a quick shortcut through a park, Jisung had managed to make it in ten minutes.
He had only twenty minutes left before the lessons ended and his next one started so the very flustered boy headed to the canteen to grab some food to serve as brunch.

The canteen was fairly quiet, a few students were sitting with laptops typing away furiously, clearly up against a deadline. Going up to the counter Jisung grabbed himself a small selection of kimbap and a bottle of water.

“Hi, would that be all?” The server asked as she scanned it through.

Jisung gave a small nod and a smile before presenting his card to be scanned.
“You haven’t got another money topped up on your card i’m afraid”

Jisung’s eyes widened as he took back the card,gulping as he looked down at his food.

“Uh.. how much do I have on there?”

The lady checked the machines before giving a short reply, “nothing”

Jisung bit his lip worryingly, he didn’t even have his card with him to top it up.
“Ahh.. umm okay thank you” Jisung said in a tiny voice, he felt his face heat up in embarrassment.

Awkwardly turning, Jisung went to put his food back, finding the shelf he originally got it from and slowly slid the kimbap back into it’s spot before suddenly a hand was on his own stopping him.

Looking to his side he saw Minho standing there, “I’ll pay don’t worry”

Jisung stood shocked as he watched Minho pluck the water out of his hand as well as picking the kimbap out of his hold and walking to the counter.
The lady seemed equally as shocked. Minho never bought for others, it was practically unheard of.

Minho swiped his card and the food went through, of course it would.

Jisung stood to the side of his hyung as he followed the older to a table.
“Uhh thank you hyung”

Minho looked down at his own food before replying, “It’s uh no problem really Sungie”

Suddenly Jisung remembered he was meant to be ignoring this hyung in some way or form. Grabbing up his kimbap and water he went to leave.

“Jisung wait-” Minho grabbed the boy's wrist as he was standing.

“I-um can we talk?”

Jisung nodded and sat back down staring at Minho who seemed to be collecting his thoughts.

“What is it?”

“Okay, please don’t interrupt me, I want to explain quite a bit to you” Minho made eye contact with Jisung before opening his own food.
Jisung followed in the action and opened his own chopsticks and kimbap.

“Felix told me about you thinking I lied to you-” Minho started.

“But you did, you said you were at work-” Jisung immediately interrupted.

“Sung listen, I wasn’t lying, I was technically working, but the company wasn’t allowed to know about it”

Jisung raised an eyebrow,he wanted to speak but let the boy continue so that he wouldn’t be sent a death glare.

“As you know, I was with Hyunjin, and Hyunjin actually used to train at Twave, like a trainee like you, he was set to make his debut around the same time as me, but it got pulled, the same reason mine was pulled. There was an incident, let's say” Minho started as he took a break to take a sip of water.

Jisung had long forgotten his food and was now intently listening to Minho’s explanation.

“I was meeting up with Hyunjin because he wanted to come back to Twave, apparently he had been auditioning at other places but wasn’t getting in. He assumed if him and I sorted things out between the two of us he could re-join the trainee program”

“But..I didn’t let him resolve our friendship. I can’t tell you exactly what he did because I'm not meant to even be telling people he wants to come back to Twave. But he’s banned from coming back.”

Minho was silent for a moment so Jisung used this chance to speak, “How did that result in your debut stopping though?”

Minho looked Jisung dead in the eyes as he responded, “Let’s just say Hyunjin didn’t know where his loyalties lied and with that he ruined our friendship and I nearly got kicked out because he tried to drag me down with him”

Jisung sat with his mouth open.

“Please don’t ask anymore about it though, I wasn’t even meant to tell you that, but know I wasn’t lying to you Sungie” Minho reached for Jisung’s hand and gave it a light squeeze.

“I-...Min” Jisung let out a breath. “You should’ve said sooner, I wouldn’t have forced you to go to the party if I knew you hated hyunjin this much, I feel so bad”

Jisung doesn’t know if it was the lack of sleep or just how sad he felt for Minho but his tears slowly whelled up.

Minho let out a small gasp and moved to the other side of the canteen table and pulled Jisung into a tight hug letting the boy rest his head in the crock of his neck.

“Don’t cry Sungie,it’s in the past yeah?I even got told that I may be able to debut soon. I mean I don’t really want to but that’s another story for another time” Minho rubbed Jisung’s back and kissed the top of his head.

Jisung slowly pulled out of the hug his hand clutching lightly on the older boy's shirt and looked at Minho through blurry vision from the tears.
“I feel sorry for you Minho”

Minho let out another small sigh and kissed the boy's forehead. “ It’s nothing to worry about now. But, I think you may want to finish eating because you have about 5 minutes before your next lesson” Minho chuckled as he wiped away the tears that were still cascading down the smaller boy’ face.

Jisung’s eyes widened suddenly, “I didn’t finish my work” He whined and hid his face into Minho’s chest.
Minho let out a laugh and pulled Jisung closer.

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*:·ﾟ✧ Rose Milk Bubble Tea *:·ﾟ✧

“You can do it Minho” Minho tried to hype himself up as he saw Jisung sitting in the canteen with his friends.

He wasn’t someone who sat in the canteen for lunch because he hated the stares, and if he let down his facade then people would most likely be shocked and talk about it and he didn’t need that.

“I can’t do it” Minho let out a quiet whine as he watched Jisung laugh loudly as he chatted with Felix and Seungmin.

What was worse was Jisung sat in the middle of the canteen.. everyone would see him..
Maybe he could text?
Whipping out his phone Minho sent a short message to the boy.

Sungie 🐿💕
Come and meet me outside the canteen

Minho watched and waited for Jisung to check his phone, it had been a couple of minutes and Jisung hadn’t even looked at it.
Letting out a sigh Minho decided to just join the lunch line and grab some food and then hope Jisung sees the message, if not he’d have to approach the table. A table that Hyunjin was sitting on, and Minho did not need to see that boy today.
His father had nearly found out about his meeting with Hyunjin, if he knew the two were talking Minho would be in a lot of trouble.

The queue was fairly long and so Minho allowed himself to browse the food and sandwiches before getting to the hot stuff, glancing over at Jisung’s plate he noticed the boy hadn’t picked up a cheesecake.
Collecting one of the slices and a sandwich for himself Minho paid for his stuff.

As he exited the queue he checked his phone, Just as he thought. No message.
Taking a deep breath Minho made his way to Jisung.
Even just walking there he noticed people looking at him.

“Hi Min!” Jisung smiled brightly as he saw the boy approaching.

“Hey, umm can we talk?” Minho asked quickly.

Jisung nodded and immediately stood up knowing Minho didn’t want to be in the canteen.

“Sure, Felix feel free to finish my fries” Jisung motioned to his twin and he picked up his bag.

Minho grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the canteen blocking out the comments.

“Where are we going?” Jisung questioned as he let the older pull him to an empty stairwell.

Minho sat down on the steps and motioned for Jisung to sit next to him.

The first thing he did was fish the cheesecake out of his own bag and pass it to Jisung who’s eyes lit up.

“I thought they were all out!” Jisung smiled brightly.

“I found one next to the sandwiches” Minho smiled as he watched Jisung immediately open and dig into the cheesecake.

“Did you drag me all the way here for cheesecake or?” Jisung began his mouth half full.
After swallowing he continued.
“Not that I’m complaining, cheesecake is the way to my heart”

Minho chuckled lightly, “no there’s another reason” he attempted to meet the boy's eyes but quickly faltered.

“You okay Min?” Jisung asked slightly worried, Minho looked scared or nervous so Jisung took his hand and gave it a light squeeze.

“I-um I’m fine thanks sung” Minho nodded a small blush coming to his face.

“I actually wanted to ask you something” Minho gulped, his throat was already dry so it didn’t help much.

Jisung looked on expectantly.

“I- would you like to go on another date with me?” Minho asked, looking at the boy.

Jisung immediately smiled and hugged Minho tightly, “yes! Yes! Yes!”

Minho chuckled but quickly pulled Jisung away as he was hugging quite tightly.
“I need to breathe Ji '' Minho joked.

Jisung let out a smile, “So when will it be?”

“How about tomorrow? I’m pretty sure you aren’t working right?” Minho asked double checking, he didn’t want to have everything planned only for Jisung to not be available.
Jisung quickly pulled out his phone to check his calendar.

“You messaged? Sorry I didn’t see it… sorry for making you come into the canteen” Jisung bit his tongue worried that he had caused Minho to go through the extra effort to talk to him.

“It’s fine Ji, don’t worry, but I will not be going back in there any time soon” Minho chuckled lightly.

“I’m free luckily! I think my parents had asked me earlier in the week but I told them no, clearly I can predict the future” Jisung smiled.

“Well lets hope you don’t look too far into the future to ruin the surprise tomorrow” Minho smiled and patted Jisung’s head before standing up.

“What does that mean?” Jisung raised an eyebrow as he held a forkful of cheesecake mid way to his mouth.

“All in good time babe” Minho winked and bravely kissed Jisung before rushing off so that Jisung couldn’t follow.
Instead he heard Jisung shrieking “babe?! Min wait!” and the red on Minho’s face only got brighter.

-

Minho stood outside Bubbles waiting for Jisung to appear, this time he was sure Felix wasn’t there and Bubbles was slowly becoming busier for the afternoon rush.
Just as he went to ring again he saw the door open at the back of the shop and a stressed Jisung came hopping down the stairs trying to put on his platform shoes.

Minho let out a small chuckle as he watched Jisung try to slip them on and tie it all whilst keeping balance and moving forwards towards the door as well as avoiding customers who were waiting in the queue.. eventually the boy made it, very flustered, but still looking incredible in his outfit.

Minho smiled and gave a small ‘hi’ as Jisung opened the door.

“Sorry Min, I may have accidentally lost track of time whilst singing in the shower” Jisung scratched the back of his neck.

Minho smiled again and took Jisung’s hand in his before making his way to his car, “ It’s okay, I did expect you to run late, and it isn’t too cold out anyways”

It was the start of February and so the weather had become warmer. It was still slightly chilly and so Minho was in some ripped jeans and a blue hoodie along with a teddy bear coat. Jisung in similar attire of jeans, a hoodie and a bomber jacket.
“So where are we going this time?” Jisung jumped up and down lightly as Minho unlocked the door and let the excited boy in.

“Another surprise, but it’s a long drive away so the first stop is to go to the shops” Minho smiled as he started up the engine.
“How far is the ride?” Jisung raised an eyebrow.

“Around two and a half hours” Minho shrugged as he kept his eyes on the road.

He let one hand come off the steering wheel and took Jisung’s hand in his.

“Do you have an aux?” Jisung asked as he pulled out his phone.

“Ummm sure it should be in the glove compartment or the cup holder” Minho responded as he turned down a road, his eyes briefly checking to make sure Jisung could find it.

For a couple of minutes Jisung shifted through the compartments with his free hand, of course it would be easier with two but he wasn’t going to let go of Minho’s hand just for the sake of an aux cord. Looking through the cupholder full of elastic bands, empty sweet wrappers and a necklace Jisung finally found it.

“This white one?” Jisung held up the cord near Minho’s face.

Giving out a soft hum of approval, Minho watched Jisung out of the corner of his eye as the younger boy pulled in his phone and started playing Day6.

“Good choice” Minho squeezed Jisung’s hand.

“I always make good choices” Jisung responded smugly as he relaxed into his seat.

After a couple of songs they finally reached the store, “We don’t need too much as we’ll probably eat there” Minho suggested as they climbed out the car.

Jisung paid no mind and instead rushed towards the trolleys and pulled it to Minho’s side. Then lifting his leg up the boy started to climb into the cart.

“You can’t be serious right now” Minho sighed as he held the trolley to make sure Jisung didn’t go flying.

Jisung simply smiled and got himself comfortable with his back towards Minho, “Onwards my noble steed” Jisung pointed forwards.

Minho chuckled and pulled out his phone and snapped a few photos.

“Yah Min goo” Jisung whined slightly as he pouted and looked up and behind so he could see Minho.

Minho stuck his tongue out but soon leaned down and kissed the pout off Jisung’s lips and began pushing the trolley into the shop.

The pair paid no mind to the few looks they were getting as they made their way down to the snack aisle, the store was fairly big and so it took a couple of times before they found the right place.

“Okay pick out a couple of bags of whatever you want” Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair and he pushed the trolley near to the aisle so Jisung could grab what he wanted easily.

Jisung immediately reached for the bags nearest to him, conveniently his favourite snacks. Minho wandered down the aisle slightly as he picked up his own before making his way back to the cart. Without warning Jisung he placed his stuff in the trolley and started to pull Jisung back.

“Yah! I wasn’t finished picking” Jisung whined as he stretched his hand out to try and reach the home run balls.

Minho smirked and started to push the cart forward fast, Jisung let out a shriek and brought his hands back onto the cart holding on, turning his head to ask Minho to stop. He noticed the boy was standing by the homerun balls, a box in his hands.
No one was steering the cart.

“MIN!” Jisung screamed as he turned his head as he saw himself nearly about to crash into the display at the bottom of the aisle.

The trolley came to a sudden stop making Jisung fly forwards in the cart, nearly hitting his head on the front of it. He then felt a hit on his butt and he turned and saw Minho smiling widely holding the handle of the trolley.
Giving the younger boy a wink, Minho continued to push the trolley as if nothing had happened.

Jisung let out a deep sigh and sat back down in his original position, this time he crossed his legs and sat on his phone taking pictures of Minho pushing the trolley, the boy occasionally looking at the camera to make a funny face.

As Jisung was packing the bags into the boot of the car Minho let out a sigh of annoyance.
“Sorry Ji, I forgot to buy a couple of things, I’ll be quick just wait in the car” Minho quickly let out before rushing back into the store before Jisung could ask to join.

Letting out a shrug Jisung got back into the car and plugged his phone back into the aux, luckily Minho had started the car up and so his music would be able to play out the speakers as he waited.
Whilst doing so he checked through his messages.

Fe 🤪
Have a good date! You better tell me all the deets!

Jisung let out a chuckle as he quickly responded to his friend.

Ji 🐿
Will do! It’s been eventful already :)

Smiling at his response Jisung also checked the 3racha group chat which he had purposefully avoided considering he didn’t want to look at all of Chan’s nagging.

3racha 🔥

Chan 🦘
Can you guys send me your demos please

Changbin 🐷
On it

Changaroo 🦘
Jisung, can you send me yours?

Changaroo 🦘
Yooo Ji? Send me yours please

Changaroo 🦘
Ji we need the demo send it asap.

Jisung let out a worried sigh as he realised who serious Chan had actually been. Their deadline wasn’t until a few more weeks for this song and so he hoped and also assumed Chan wouldn’t need it right away.

Sending a quick response to the group,Jisung finished typing just as Minho arrived back.

“Sorry” Minho let out a breath, he had clearly been rushing to grab it all.

“It’s fine” Jisung smiled and tried to peer into the bag.

“Noooo, no looking” Minho used one hand to try and stop Jisung’s hand, the other putting the bag in the back seat so Jisung was unable to look without making it obvious.

The rest of the car journey consisted of Jisung feeding Minho snacks as the elder concentrated on the road, although he would admit to sometimes nearly getting distracted by Jisung singing or rapping to the songs he was playing.

“How far until we are there?” Jisung questioned as he was currently looking outside the window at the view he wasn’t familiar with.

“A little longer, I think in a few minutes you will probably realise where we are” Minho chuckled as he patted the boy's thigh.

Minho spent the remaining time hoping the weather would hold out well for the two. He had checked the night before and luckily it was supposed to be sunny all day but according to the weather map it was supposed to rain later that evening, the time Minho was hoping it wouldn’t.

“NO WAY?!” Jisung shrieked as he saw the sea peering over the horizon.

“The beach?!” Jisung turned to Minho eyes and mouth wide open.

Minho let out a small laugh and nodded, “I realised it would be a fun place to go and this was the nearest one, and I know of a fact you and your family are too busy to really go out anywhere because they have to run Bubbles” Minho shrugged.

“Thank you” Jisung smiled and leaned over and carefully kissed Minho’s cheek, making sure the boy wouldn’t accidentally steer them off the road.

Luckily finding a spot was fairly easy despite it being a Saturday lunch time. Hopping out of the car Minho grabbed his wallet and made sure to lock up the car, he didn’t need anything else until later.
Taking Jisung’s hand in his, the first stop was to get ice cream.

“Woahh they have so many cool flavours” Jisung peered at the display trying to pick out one.

“Feel free to get two flavours if you want” Minho said as he also peered into the display to pick out his own choice.

“Can I get Candy Floss and then Popping Candy flavour please, in a cone?” Jisung looked up at the man who was waiting patiently for the order.

Giving a nod the man quickly scooped up the two flavours and passed them to Jisung.

“Can I get mint chocolate chip and then the cookies and cream please in a cup” Minho asked as he pulled out his card ready to pay for it.

Ice creams in hand, the pair began to make their way down to arcades.
“If I knew we were coming I could’ve brought my spare change” Jisung pouted as he and Minho walked into one of the arcades that was brightly coloured with lots of different games to play.

“Ooo they have crane machines” Jisung smiled and pulled Minho over to one of the larger machines.

Minho laughed as soon as he saw what was inside.. Squirrels.. Of course.

“So predictable” Minho laughed as he put in a coin to start trying to line up the crane to the squirrel nearest the hole.

“Yah go to the side of the machine and tell me if I’m lined up correctly” Minho asked Jisung as he started to move the crane into position.

Jisung obediently followed and quickly began calling back to Minho instructions.
“Left a bit… no that’s right… yeah okay… and now back slightly” Jisung made sure to level up the toy perfectly under the crane.

Once Minho was satisfied he dropped the crane and the two waited and hoped they could get the squirrel. The crane came downwards and grasped onto the bottom of the toy and the head before it began pulling upwards, just as it reached the top the crane slid out of the hold on the head making the squirrel fall.

Jisung’s face fell, but soon lit up again as he noticed the toy was now closer to the machine.

“It’s closer now! I wanna have a go” Jisung pointed and moved back to the front of the machine and lightly nudged Minho out of the way.

Minho slipped in a coin and the machine started up, Jisung began moving the crane harshly trying to get it into position.
“Why’s the machine so sensitive?” Jisung raised an eyebrow.

“You’re being too rough, it needs more cautious movements,” Minho explained as he moved behind Jisung and rested his hands on top of the younger’s on the gear stick.
“Don’t try and go to fast, it’s all about precision”

Minho used his hand to help guide Jisung into the right spot for the Squirrel to get picked up by the crane. The two watched as the crane this time didn’t drop the squirrel and instead managed to drop it into the gutter for a win.

Jisung let out a gasp and quickly dropped down and pulled it out. Hugging it tightly Minho smiled, “Now you have one to go with the one from the fair”

“Yeah!” Jisung smiled brightly as they continued to look around the arcade.

The weather became slightly warmer and so they stopped by the car to drop off their coats as well as the squirrel who sat in the passenger seat waiting for Jisung’s return.

“Let’s go down to the sea front” Minho took Jisung’s hand and intertwined it with his own.

Jisung walked closely next to Minho as they made their way onto the sandy beach.
“Maybe we should take our shoes off,” Jisung pointed out as he could already feel some sand grains getting into his shoes.

Minho nodded and let Jisung use his shoulder as he discarded his shoes and socks, Minho copied and they soon began to walk down to the waves. Considering it was February the waves were slightly higher than expected.

Jisung crouched down and rolled up his jeans as well as he could, which wasn’t much as they were skinny jeans. Patiently he waited for Minho to do the same and the pair left their phones and shoes before Jisung dragged Minho into the sea.

“I swear to god if you make me fall and get soaked you’ll pay” Minho chuckled as they stood in the shallow part of the sea, the waves rushing over their feet.

“Do you know how to skip pebbles?”
Minho asked Jisung as he bent down to find some smoother pebbles that would be good to skim.

“Umm not that I can remember, maybe one time during a trip to Busan with my school, otherwise I don’t even know how to” Jisung explained as Minho passed him a smooth looking rock.

“Okay, well hold the pebble like this” Minho shows his hand, index finger on the side of the pebble and the thumb on the top whilst the middle is laid on the bottom.

“Similar to how you hold chopsticks then?” Jisung shifted his hand into the position like the elder.

“Kinda of, Just your fingers need to spread more along the pebble surface” Minho reached over and helped adjust Jisung’s fingers.

“Now you need to crouch down slightly, so you can throw the pebble flat across the top of the water” Minho demonstrated and then threw his pebble.

The pebble flew through the air for only a second before landing on the waves and bouncing three times before sinking down into the ocean. The younger stood in awe for a moment before following how Minho stood and attempted to skim the pebble.
The two watch how the pebble flew in the air before sinking down into the ocean.

“Ahhh…” Jisung sighed.

Minho let out a small chuckle, “It’s fine Sung, honestly I would’ve been impressed if you managed to get it to skim on your first go”

Jisung pouted a little, “Still would’ve been nice”
Minho passed him another pebble.

“I think you need been lower when you throw, also try and throw flat”

Jisung got into his position and looked to Minho for confirmation. “I think you are too low” Minho chuckled and he shifted forward to help adjust Jisung’s position.

As the boy moved closer he was suddenly attacked by a splash coming from Jisung.
Minho froze with his eyes shut, mouth open and water dripping down him.

“You really shouldn’t have done that” Minho looked at Jisung with a smirk.

Jisung’s eyes widened and he started to back away as Minho reached down into the water with both his arms and brought up a heap of water splashing Jisung.
Jisung shrieked but then laughed as he attempted to run away, as he reached the edge of the water he turned and came face to face with Minho.
“Don’t feed me to the sharks” Jisung cried as Minho picked him up and put him over his shoulder as he walked back into the water.

“Well lucky for you there aren’t sharks in the water here, and I’m nice enough to not throw you cause I know you don’t have a spare change of clothes” Minho huffed as he dropped Jisung down into the water so he could stand on his feet again.

As Jisung got back down he leant into Minho’s hold on his waist and rested his hand on Minho’s slightly damp chest. Minho gave a small smile and a giggle as he leant down and gave Jisung a kiss. Jisung sighed into the kiss, his other hand grabbing the edge of Minho’s shirt and clutching it. Minho moved his hand under Jisung’s shirt. Jisung assumed Minho wanted to deepen the kiss but instead he was met with Minho suddenly tickling him.
Jisung pulled apart from the kiss and pulled himself away from Minho’s attack and ran back to the sand laughing.
Minho chuckled as his eyes sparkled as he watched Jisung look back at him, giving him a wide smile as he went to his shoes and phone.

-

After eating food, the sun had started to set, and the pair walked hand in hand back to Minho’s car. Jisung assumed they were leaving and made his way to the passenger seat.

“What are you doing?” Minho raised an eyebrow as he opened the boot of his car and pulled out the bags he had brought in secret earlier.

“I thought we were going now?” Jisung said, slightly confused.

“Nope not just yet, we have one more thing” Minho smiled and held up his bags, “Come on” Minho motioned Jisung back so he could hold his hand again.

Jisung skipped over to the boy and took one bag to free one of the olders hands.
“What’s all this for?”

“All in good time babe” Minho winked as he repeated what he had said to the younger yesterday. Jisung felt himself blush a bright red.

“Can’t you tell me?” Jisung pulled on Minho’s hand. Minho just looked at Jisung and smiled.

“If you look in the bag you’ll know” Minho guided Jisung down to a different section of the beach.

Jisung didn’t need to look in the bag to figure out what they were about to do when he saw the small circles of logs with firewood in the middle ready to be lit.
“No way” Jisung squeaked as he pulled Minho to make him walk faster.

“No rush Ji, we have like two hours booked out” Minho chuckled.

Jisung stopped pulling the boy and instead calmed himself down.

-

The sun was casting an orange hue across Jisung’s face as he leant against Minho, the two were sitting on a log, blankets wrapped around each of them. Sticks in their hands with s’mores cooking over the fire. Minho had his left arm wrapped around Jisung to help him keep warm, but mostly because he wanted to be as close as possible to the cute boy.

“Ahh look at that, perfectly toasted” Jisung smiled as he pulled his marshmallow away from the fire and carefully pulled it off with two biscuits sandwiching it.

“Open” Jisung turned to Minho and held up the s’more up to Minho’s face.

Minho turned his face and smiled lightly before opening his mouth so Jisung could put it in his mouth. The older bit down and quickly regretted taking a big mouthful of hot marshmallow.
He turned away from Jisung as he kept his mouth open trying to get rid of the heat.

“Maybe we should leave them to cool just slightly next time” Minho finished the s’more laughing.

Jisung laughed and quickly agreed.

“Aww man..” Minho sighed as he pulled his marshmallow away from the fire, marshmallow on fire, burning.

Pulling it towards him he blew it out.

“I’ll still eat it! burnt marshmallows aren’t that bad” Jisung smiled.

“You sure?” Miho raised an eyebrow and moved the marshmallow on the stick closer to Jisung.

The boy nodded and quickly bit into it. He then quickly regretted it.

“YAH, you could’ve reminded me it would be hot” Jisung said with a mouthful of marshmallow copying what Minho was doing moments ago.

“Cute” Minho giggled as Jisung glared at him.

The two soon settled back down, the sun had fully set and so the only light was from the fire and the shops in the distance behind them.
Jisung was now preparing a S’more without roasting his marshmallow. Minho kept a watchful eye on the boy as he sat extremely close to the flames.

Luckily Jisung quickly returned and sat next to Minho again, closer than last if that was possible.

“Hey Sung” Minho asked softly, he watched Jisung look up from working on his S’more to him.

“Mhmm?”

Minho looked down not wanting to make eye contact, quickly shaking off any negative thoughts, Minho took one of Jisung’s hands off his S’more and into his.

“I was thinking.. Would you.. Like to be my boyfriend?” Minho lifted his head at the last five words to catch Jisung’s reaction.

“R-really?” Jisung lowered his S’more which was about to go in his mouth.

Minho nodded and let out a shy smile, he was slightly worried Jisung would reject him.
The younger suddenly broke out into a massive smile and launched himself onto Minho and hugged him tightly.

“Yes!” Jisung smiled. Minho let out a sigh and hugged Jisung back tightly.

“Thank god for that” Minho chuckled as Jisung pulled away.

Jisung kept a hand on Minho’s shoulder as he tilted his head slightly in confusion.

“You thought I’d say no?”

Minho looked down and nodded awkwardly as he scratched the nap of his neck.
Jisung moved his hand to Minho’s chin and lifted his face up and kissed him lightly.

“Really” Jisung laughed.
Minho broke out into a laugh, “Look, If you said no it would’ve been awkward”

Jisung rolled his eyes and kissed Minho’s cheek, “Well luckily for you I like you too much to say no”

“I like me too,” Minho joked as Jisung shoved him lightly.

-
Just as the pair were packing up they were met with rain, Minho had forgotten that it was predicted.

Grabbing their bags and running all the way back to the car the couple smiled and laughed.
“I was warm but now i’m cold again” Jisung pouted as he helped Minho put the bags in the back

Jisung moved his newly won squirrel onto his lap as he quickly clambered into the car and watched the rain fall down the windows. He felt himself begin to shiver as he took off his wet hoodie.
“Here” Minho leant over in the back and passed Jisung a hoodie and a blanket.

“Won’t you get cold?” Jisung asked as he slid the hoodie on, immediately met with the smell of Minho he unconsciously smiled.

“It’s fine, I'll put the heating on, but I also know how cold you get so you just stay wrapped up in the blanket” Minho smiled gently as he laid the blanket on top of Jisung, and kissed his forehead and passed him his squirrel.
Jisung let out a yawn.

Minho shifted into his seat and started up the car,heater and window wiper before pulling away. He quickly plugged his phone into the speaker and started to play some calming songs. Looking to Jisung he saw the boy watching the raindrops on the window, his eyes barely able to stay open.

Minho began driving back to bubbles. As he thought Jisung was asleep he heard a soft “Thank you Min” from the boy.

Minho took one of Jisung’s..his boyfriend’s hands in his and gave it a small squeeze. We watched out of the corner of his eyes as the boy slowly fell asleep to the sound of day6 and rain.

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧ Honeydew fruit tea with Strawberry popping balls *:·ﾟ✧

Jisung patiently waited outside the college as he watched students leaving, the boy had finished an hour ago but was planning on meeting Minho.
They hadn’t made their relationship completely public yet and Minho had explained earlier in the week he’d rather keep it between themselves for a little bit, and then let people know.

He currently had his headphones in blasting out some of 3racha’s newer tracks so he could give feedback to Chan what he thought before passing them onto their manager and then the CEO.
Bopping to the music, Jisung hadn’t noticed Minho walking over to him.
He promptly grabbed Jisung’s shoulder making the boy jump and clutch his chest.

“Oh my god Min, don’t do that” Jisung let out a deep breath.

“Too tempting” Minho shrugged and the pair began walking to Bubbles.

“Do you need to go to TWave today?” Jisung asked as he walked close to his boyfriend making their hands brush against each other’s, they were restraining themselves from holding hands.

“Only in the evening, I have a lesson with one of my teachers,” Minho said.
Jisung nodded.

“I’m glad I don’t have to go in today, I finally get a day away” Jisung chuckled.

“Shame, we could’ve gone together” Minho let out a small pout, Jisung was tempted to kiss it.

“I’m sure you won’t miss me that much” Jisung chuckled and nudged the boy with his shoulder .

The couple reached Bubbles and Jisung opened the door, making the bell ring.
He was met with his parents packing up the tables and chairs.

“Aren’t we open?” Jisung asked, confused as he also noticed the whole shop was empty.

At this time Minho had slipped his hand into Jisung’s considering there was no one around that didn’t know of their relationship.

“Did you forget that it’s redecorating week starting tomorrow?” Jisung’s dad spoke up as he carried a chair passed them.

“I thought that was next week” Jisung's eyes widened.
“I- haven’t even found a place to stay yet” Jisung but his lip worriedly.

“We reminded you of this last week, Ji,” his dad explained.

Jisung sighed and muttered under his breath, “I’m screwed”

Minho noticed the worried boy, “what’s wrong?”

Jisung sighed and pulled Minho up to his room.

Jisung collapsed on his bed and pulled Minho down to lay next to him.

“Basically Bubbles is getting redecorated, I think I may have mentioned it to you. But I was supposed to find a place to stay but I thought I still had a week to find a place” Jisung explained as he played with one of Minho’s hands.

“That’s this week?” Minho lifted his head and raised an eyebrow.

“Yup” Jisung sighed and rolled himself into Minho so his face was in the elder’s chest.

Minho wrapped an arm around his boyfriend’s waist to pull him closer.

“Just stay with me,” Minho shrugged.

Jisung sat up and looked at Minho eyes wide, “Really?!”

“Of course, besides I feel like you should at least visit my house for once, I always come to yours' ' Minho cupped Jisung’s face with one hand and stroked Jisung’s cheek.

The boy leant into the touch, “Thanks Min”
Jisung leant down and kissed the boy softly.

“I can come and pick you up after I finish my lesson” Minho smiled fondly at the boy, his hand still on Jisung’s cheek as the younger hugged him as best he could whilst lying down.

“As much as I would love to stay here Ji I actually need to leave to get changed and go to TWave '' Minho rubbed Jisung’s back.

“Stayyyy” Jisung whined.

Minho let out a chuckle, his chest rising up and down making the squirrel boy move along with the laughter.

“Do you want my dad to get mad at me? Besides.. if he finds out you're the reason.. staying with me will be awkward” Minho sat up pulling Jisung with it.

Jisung clasped his arms around Minho.

“Ji, come on I gotta go” Minho chuckled.

“Can’t I come and watch?” Jisung looked up and pouted.

“Next time Sung, besides you gotta pack” Minho managed to gently pull Jisung’s arm off him.

“Also you get to be stuck with me for a week straight so think yourself lucky” Minho chuckled and ruffled his boyfriend's hair.

“What time will you be around?” Jisung stood up begrudgingly.

“I finish around six so probably half six, you can eat dinner round mine so don’t worry about tonight okay” Minho tilted his head and smiled at the boy.
Minho leant down and grabbed his bag.

“I’ll be back before you know it”

-

“One and two and for god sake Minho! Get it right! You are off beat” the instructor shouted as Minho dropped to the ground sweating and out of breath.

“I’m trying” Minho managed to get out as he lay on the floor, his chest moving up and down trying to get as much oxygen as possible.

“You clearly aren't,” his instructor shouted and then sighed loudly.
“I don’t want to be here giving you extra lessons but I am because of your dad, so if you aren’t willing to do your best then I may as well quit” the instructor shouted at Minho who had now sat up.

“You don’t want to be here? I don’t want to be here” Minho raised his voice.
“I told my dad I didn’t want more lessons” Minho raised his voice more as he stood up angrily.

“You’re training to be an idol Minho at least put in the effort to actually be a good one”

Minho let out a loud huff and stormed over to grab his bag, “I never wanted to be an Idol, and I never will be. Why can’t I ever make my own choices” he lashed out.

Minho threw his backpack on and pulled the door open harshly. It hit the edge of the wall leaving a mark.

The instructor let out a sigh, “I cannot wait to explain this to his dad”.

Minho let out a sigh as he pulled up to Bubbles. He spotted Jisung sitting in the mostly empty Bubbles, he had a suitcase packed beside him and he was chatting with his parents.
Minho rang instead of entering.

“Hey Sung, I'm outside,” Minho said as soon as the boy answered.

He watched Jisung turn and look outside before smiling and standing up quickly. He heard the boy give an okay over the phone before it ended. Jisung was quick to get his coat and give his parents a quick hug before rolling his suitcase out the shop.

Jisung opened the boot of the car and quickly shoved in his suitcase before making his way to the front, smiling at Minho and giving the older a quick hello kiss.

“Hey, How was the dance practice?” Jisung asked as he belted himself in whilst Minho began to drive.

“I’d rather not talk about it right now Sung” Minho sighs softly, hoping Jisung would get the message that he didn’t want to go into details.

Jisung looked at the boy worryingly and reached out a hand and took Minho’s free hand, well.. It wasn’t free but now Minho was just steering with one hand. Jisung gave Minho’s hand a short squeeze and rubbed his thumb along the back of it.

The car journey was fairly quick and quiet, Jisung knew immediately Minho wouldn’t want to talk much today, especially after how the boy had reacted to being asked how his lesson was. The couple soon pulled up to a large house, a small driveaway holding three cars.

“Woahh” Jisung let out as he peered out the window and noticed there were three floors to the house.

“Welcome to my home,” Minho said awkwardly.

Jisung was one of the first people Minho had actually invited round and he was uncertain what the boy would think. The two clambered out the car and made their way to the front door. Minho easily unlocked it with his keys and let Jisung in.

Inside it was extremely clean, it was a stark contrast to Jisung’s kitchen and living room which was small and very cluttered. He couldn’t begin to imagine what Minho’s room was like.
Minho showed the boy into the kitchen, much like the entrance it was also clear and cream colours with marble surfaces.
“This is such a nice kitchen” Jisung exclaimed as he saw all the different appliances laying around.

“Yeah my mum spends most of her time here when she isn’t busy working, wanna drink?” Minho began to explain.

“No thanks” Jisung smiled and sat down on one of the tall spinny chairs on the island. As he did so he spotted a flash of orange run past him. Jisung was quick to realise it was a cat.

“Hey Soonie” Minho smiled and crouched down to the cat who meowed back and begged for strokes.
Jisung smiled fondly as he watched Minho pick up the cat and bring him towards Jisung.

“Soonie, meet Jisung, my boyfriend. Jisung, meet Soonie, one of my cats” Minho smiled and let the boy gently stroke the orange cat in Minho’s arm.

“Cute cat, you have more than one?” Jisung looked up to Minho as he scratched the cat behind the ear making them release a meow.

“Yeah, I have two more Doongi and Dori. Dori will most likely be on my bed and Doongi will be in my dad’s study” Minho explained as he put the now fidgeting cat on the ground and let them run off.

“Speaking of which let me show you to my room” Minho took Jisung’s hand in his and his other hand carried the boy's suitcase.

Whilst Minho guided his boyfriend through the house they ended up bumping into Minho’s mum.

“Oh Minho you’re back early” Minho’s mum looked up from laptop in the dining room.

“Lesson was cut short” Minho smiled lightly, “Oh and this is Jisung, he’s staying here for a week, his flat is above the shop his parents own and it’s getting re-decorated” Minho explained.

Jisung gave a bow saying hello.

“No need to be formal dear, I’ve heard a lot about you, Minho doesn’t shut up about you” Mrs Lee giggled as she looked at her son who was now blushing brightly.

Jisung let out a small laugh and looked at his boyfriends flustered face, “All good things I hope”

Mrs Lee smiled again, “Of course, he kept ranting to me about the dates you’ve been on, lots of photos as well”

“Okay byee mum” Minho dragged Jisung away so that he wouldn't get anymore embarrassed.

Jisung laughed loudly and squeezed Minho’s hand lightly, “I guess now we are even, and both have embarrassing mothers”

Minho rolled his eyes playfully, after climbing two flights of stairs they made it to Minho’s room. On the door was a small sign saying ‘Cats only’.
“Well guess I can’t come in” Jisung jokingly pulled his hand out of Minho’s as Minho stepped into his room.
Slightly confused Minho raised his eyebrow, Jisung pointed to the sign.

Minho stepped out of the room and pulled his arms around Jisung’s waist, putting his mouth by Jisung’s ear as he whispered.
“Guess I’ll have to call you kitten then.”

Minho immediately saw Jisung’s ears go red. Jisung lightly shoved his boyfriend away, but Minho kept hold of his waist and pulled him in.

“Welcome to my room” Minho moved behind Jisung and hugged him from behind, “Woahh it’s cool.”

Minho’s room was definitely at least four times the size of Jisung’s room. There was a double bed in the middle with bed posts holding up fabrics that created a sort of curtain around the boys bed. Despite the walls being white, Minho had decorated a lot of it with different posters, two bookshelves full of books and there was a TV pointed towards the bed, underneath a case full of different games and dvds. There was a cat post in one corner and Jisung spotted a grey cat there, he assumed it was Dori.

“Okay so I’m staying in here, you can use the guest room” Jisung chuckled as he threw himself onto the bed.

Minho followed behind and lay next to Jisung pulling him closer by wrapping his arm around the boy's shoulder, “Who said anything about a guest room?” Minho grinned.

“Wait really? I don’t have to sleep alone in another room?” Jisung smiled brightly as he sat up to see Minho’s face.

“Nope, besides that means a whole week with sleeping next to you and cuddling you so, i’m not letting you go that easily” Minho pulled Jisung down and rolled on top of him and kissed him on the forehead.

Shortly after Jisung’s stomach rumbled.

“Okay maybe i’ll let you go so we can eat” Minho chuckled and pulled himself up.

-
“Shouldn’t we wait for dad?” Minho asked as they sat down ready to eat dinner.

Minho and Jisung sat on one side, Minho’s mother sat opposite Minho.
“He messaged saying he was on his way home so he’ll be here soon” She responded as she plated herself some salad.

“Jisung feel free to help yourself”

“O-oh okay Mrs Lee” Jisung awkwardly reached for the tongs to get some salad.

“Please just call me Soyeon” Soyeon smiled gently as she waited for Minho to be done with plated his meat and noodles.

As Jisung put the salad tongs back, the front door was heard opening and closing, with a small shout of hello.

Jisung froze up, he didn’t want to leave a bad impression and it seemed that Minho’s dad seemed to be scared from what he had heard when Minho was on the phone with him before. Minho seemed to pick up on his nerves and took one of his hands in his and intertwined them.
Jisung looked at Minho and he gave him an encouraging smile.

As Jisung turned back he was faced with Minho’s dad.

“Hell- Han Jisung?” Mr Lee raised an eyebrow.

Jisung’s eyes widened and he stood up to bow, ‘He-ello Sir”

Jisung looked back at Minho and the boy was scratching his neck awkwardly.

“No need to be so formal, we aren’t at the company after all” Mr Lee motioned that Jisung could sit down.

The boy awkwardly sat down and faced the man.

“I’m surprised Minho was actually telling the truth about you two dating then,” Mr Lee laughed.

“Dad, please” Minho begged to stop his dad from making it any more awkward.

Mr Lee let out an awkward cough and soon started plating up his food. Soon enough the four got in a comfortable conversation about college.

“So Jisung, what do you study?” Soyeon asked as she smiled at Jisung who was picking at his salad.

“O-oh I study Music Production” Jisung smiled.

“How did you two meet then? As far as I can remember the dance studios at JYP college aren’t near the music department” Soyeon questioned.

“I met Jisung at Bubbles,he works there, and I get my bubble tea from there. They have the best bubble tea” Minho explained. He realised quickly Jisung was still feeling slightly nervous, especially sitting opposite the CEO of the company he was training at.

“You must be so busy! College, work and training” Soyeon gasped lightly.

Jisung nodded and scratched the back of his neck, he tried to meet her eyes but they wandered as he explained, “Yeah, I’m pretty busy, luckily I live above Bubbles so I don’t have to commute and then the college and Twave are both within walking distance.”

“Ahh speaking of Twave, Jisung, you haven’t been to any of the Idol introduction sessions” Mr Lee spoke up.

“Introduction Sessions? I went to some with 3racha?” Jisung raised an eyebrow confused.

“Not those ones, we have different ones for soloists, you need to go to both” Mr Lee looked at Jisung.

“So-loist?” Jisung’s eyes widened as he looked between Minho and Mr Lee,” I haven’t been accepted though?”

“We sent you an email about three weeks ago, Jisung,” Mr Lee explained as he drank some of his water.

Jisung quickly pulled his phone out from his pocket and opened his emails, scrolling through his inbox and junk. There wasn’t a single email about it.
“I- I never got it?” Jisung showed the CEO his email account.

“That’s odd, you were on the list. I’ll have to check with that, We can’t have you missing important information” Mr Lee went back to his food.

Jisung sat too shocked to move, it was only until Minho shook him on the shoulder, “Sung.. you got in!” Minho was smiling brightly.

Jisung slowly realised what it meant, he was now going to be training to debut as a soloist and a group.

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*:･ﾟ✧ Sparkling Wintermelon fruit tea with Lychee boba *:･ﾟ✧

Jisung was half expecting to be woken up by his usual alarm of Day6 blasting out a song he would’ve picked randomly through sleepy eyes the night before but today was much different. It began with a hand stroking through his hair, admittingly it actually made him more sleepy so he pulled himself closer to the presence and that’s when he also noticed his pillow was a lot harder than normal. Then it hit him.
Opening his eyes slowly he came to face Minho’s chest, the older boy had one hand in his hair the other wrapped around Jisung’s waist, the younger boy was in a similar position, one of his arms was around his boyfriends waist lightly clutching onto the t-shirt that was loose on the body of the boy.

“Morning Jisungie” Minho spoke softly.

Jisung rolled himself slightly off the boy so he could get a clear view of his face. Minho’s hair was ruffled and slightly sticking up clearly from moving around a lot during the night.
“Hey” Jisung smiled lightly, his voice raspy, and hid himself back in the side of Minho.

Minho let out a small laugh, “As much as I want to keep sleeping and cuddling we both have college, and breakfast is going to be ready soon” Minho glanced at the clock to see it would be served in approximately ten minutes.

“Do we have to?” Jisung mumbled.

Minho lifted himself and the boy up slowly, that’s when Jisung also noticed a sleeping Dori at his feet. Thank goodness he hadn’t haphazardly kicked them during his sleep.

We have like nine minutes, Sung, we should at least put on proper clothes” Minho pushed some strays out of Jisung’s face.
Jisung let out a sigh and collapsed back down on the bed. Minho chuckled and pushed himself out of the bed and made his way to his wardrobe.
Minho grabbed himself some black jeans and a hoodie before making his way into his ensuite, just before he closed the door he looked back and saw the boy slowly climbing out of bed, with a satisfied smile he went to work with waking himself up.

-

Minho carried the sleepy Jisung on his back until he reached the dining room where there was a variety of foods all spread out.
“I would ask if you slept well jisung but you look a bit too tired” Soyeon smiled as Minho placed his boyfriend on the seat beside him.

“Oh I’m okay thank you, just not a morning person that’s all” Jisung pushed his hair out of his face, before it promptly fell back in front of his eyes.

“Morning dad” Minho smiled at his father who had walked into the room dressed smartly ready for work.
“Morning Mr Lee” Jisung quietly spoke.

Mr Lee gave out a grunt after Minho’s hello but smiled brightly at Jisung. Minho raised an eyebrow but ignored it assuming that the hello was to the pair of them.

The four began filling up their plates. Jisung settled for a small bowl of cereal and a banana.
They sat in silence for the first few minutes as they began to stuff their faces with food, Minho making sure to take extra portions of his favourites.

“Feel free to have more Jisung” Soyeon spoke up from her buttered toast as she noticed Jisung already had finished his bowl and was halfway done with his banana.

“O-oh It’s okay, I usually don’t eat much anyway, for my weight that is” Jisung looked down at his bowl of cereal which had some remnants of cereal floating in dyed milk.

Minho glanced over at Jisung who was fiddling with his fingers, “Sung, you can eat more, don’t worry.”

“My dad doesn’t usually let me eat more than one thing though, so..” Jisung trailed off as he glanced towards the pile of toast.

Minho spotted his eyes trailing over the toast and so he plucked one off the plate and spread a decent amount of butter onto it before placing it onto Jisung’s clean plate.
Jisung looked at Minho and gave him a shy smile. He slowly picked up the toast and nibbled on it.

Soyeon gave Minho a smile as she went back to her own plate of food. Minho glanced towards his father who hadn’t said a word but watched the interaction carefully.
“Dad, I was wondering if I could-” Minho spoke up.

He was hoping to get his dad to get rid of his extra lessons and considering he had one tomorrow it would be best to talk to him today about it.
Mr Lee paid no attention to his son and abruptly stood up, he gave a quick kiss goodbye to Soyeon on the cheek before making his way out the house.

Minho let out a small sigh and leant back in his seat and glanced at Jisung who had finished most of the toast apart from the crust. Cute.

“You two better make your way to college so you aren’t late” Soyeon spoke up as she also stood and took her plate over to the kitchen.

Jisung and Minho followed and made their way to Minho’s car.

-

Jisung sat in the back of his piano lesson lecture. All students were wearing headphones and playing whatever they wanted on the piano rather than listening to the lecture. Jisung however sat with the headphones dangling around his neck as he was writing lyrics down in his notebook.
As he was scribbling out a line he heard his phone vibrate in his back pocket. Glancing up he noticed the professor was busy talking to another student and so Jisung checked what the message was.

Min 💞
Sungie you wanna meet? I’m bored…

Jisung rolled his eyes but still responded.

Ji 🐿❤️
Sure, where though?

Minho was quick to send a response.

Min 💞
Meet me at your locker

Jisung sent back a quick thumbs up before packing up his stuff, he stuck up his hand quickly trying to think of an excuse as he saw his professor approaching him.

“Is it okay if I go? I need to meet with the CEO of Twave soon and if I wait till the end of the lesson I'll be late. '' Jisung rambled out.

His lecturer gave him a brief nod and Jisung scurried out of the classroom and quickly to his locker, he felt bad for telling a lie, well… it was half the truth, he was meeting someone, and they were related to the CEO.
As he approached his locker Minho was already there leaning against it, one hand in his pocket the other looking at his phone.

“Hey” Jisung bounced up beside him.

Minho almost jumped at his sudden appearance, Immediately taking his hand Minho began pulling Jisung away without any explanation.
They went up the staircase Minho had asked Jisung on his second date and they reached a floor which had old lockers and it was clearly unused due the very much needed paint job.

“Why’s it abandoned?” Jisung asked as Minho opened the door to a very old room. There was an old blackboard, very out of date when just on the floor below were projectors.

“No Idea, I found it last year and realised that no one came here, so when i’m not in the dance rooms or my lessons i’m usually here. It’s got a strange calming sensation to it” Minho explained as he opened up one of the blinds, letting through some light.
Jisung hopped up onto one of the old desks.

“It looks ancient, they even have old desks with those fountain pen ink wells” Jisung laughed as he stuck his finger down one of them but immediately removed it when he thought he felt something move on top of his hand.

“This is top secret okay” Minho approached him and bopped his nose.

“Sure thing, my lips are sealed” Jisung motioned a zip shutting his mouth. Minho trapped Jisung on the desk, a hand either side of his thighs.

“Did you just drag me here for fun or to actually talk?” Jisung smirked as he crossed his arms.

“What do you think?” Minho whispered into the boy's ear before kissing just below it, making Jisung shiver.

“The latter definitely” Jisung breathed out as his hand moved up to pull on Minho’s hoodie.
Minho lifted his hand up and pushed back the top of Jisung’s hoodie to get better access to his neck before beginning to suck on the clear skin.

“Mmm Min, Don’t. If you leave marks then I have to wear hoodies for a week” Jisung whined lightly but gave no attempt at actually pushing Minho off him.
“Guess I’ll let you steal mine” Minho gave Jisung’s neck a soft kiss and looked at the small mark that had begun forming.

Bringing his face up to meet Jisung’s, he connected their lips, Jisung wrapped his legs up around Minho’s waist to pull him closer.
The older boy began deepening the kiss and used one of his hands to rest on Jisung’s thigh, moving it slowly upwards and inwards until he felt Jisung give out a gasp. Smiling into the kiss Minho moved his hand up further and let them rest on Jisung’s hip after moving his shirt and hoodie up.
Jisung pulled away lightly for some air, a small string of saliva hanging between the two which Minho got rid off by kissing Jisung softly.
Jisung chased his boyfriend’s lips as they began to move away, instead of deepening the kiss the two stayed in the slow motion of longer pecks. Minho’s hand was stroking Jisung’s hip whilst Jisung’s were clinging lightly around his hyung’s neck, occasionally playing with the older’s hair.

Minho slowly broke apart from Jisung and kissed his cheek just as the bell for lunch rang.
“Perfect timing if I do say so myself” Minho chuckled as he smiled at Jisung with his red, swollen lips.

“I have to teach a lesson later so we can’t skip the next lesson after lunch” Minho pouted lightly, his hand still resting on Jisung's hips causing the younger to feel his stomach fill with butterflies.
“I have my production class, so neither,” Jisung sighed slightly.

“Also I wouldn’t want to make you skip a lesson anyways” Minho helped Jisung off the desk and picked up the younger’s bag and passed it over.

“You don’t have to go in tomorrow right?” Jisung asked as they made their way out of the old classroom.

“Nope, I already told you. Just wait for me outside or by my locker at the end of the day okay?” Minho smiled and gave Jisung a quick kiss before rushing off.

Jisung went to shout but realising that he was now in a very busy corridor wouldn’t help.
Letting out a small smile the boy went and got his lunch.

-

The couple finally had finished for the day and were back at Minho’s house. Walking into the kitchen they were met with Soyeon cooking and Soonie eating some food. Jisung immediately rushed over to the cat to give him some strokes.

“Oh hi, I thought you’d be late back” Soyeon smiled as she flipped over some chicken that was cooking.

“The lesson I taught was finished earlier than usual” Minho smiled and grabbed a glass of water for both Jisung and himself.

“Let me know when you’re both starting to get hungry and I'll begin making dinner, well, finish it, your dad is going to be back late so we’ll be eating without him” Soyeon spoke to the pair.

“I’m kinda hungry now” Jisung muttered under his breath although it was still heard by Minho.

“I could eat now, or as soon as the food is ready,” Minho spoke up, he moved to where Jisung was stroking Soonie on the ground.

“Okay perfect I’ll call you when it’s ready, unless you wanna help” Soyeon suggested.

“Oo I’ll help, I haven’t cooked in a while, Jisungie you wanna help?” Minho looked at the boy who seemed content with Soonie in his lap.

“Well, I don’t want to move,” Jisung chuckled as he motioned to Soonie.

Minho let out a small laugh and nodded ruffling the boy’s hair before going to help his mum.

-
“What do we wanna watch?” Minho asked as he stood in front of his TV trying to get the DVD setting to work, he was holding the remote in all sorts of positions to make it work.

“I’m fine with a cartoon or something” Jisung shrugged as he lay on the boy’s bed scrolling through his phone.

“How about 21 Jump street?” Minho suggested as he scanned his shelf of DVDs.

“Ooo I haven’t watched that in ages!” Jisung perked up at the name of the familiar film.

“Okay awesome” Minho opened the casing and put the dvd in the player, praying that it would work. He was worried the DVD may be scratched, Doongie used to have a habit of scratching anything shining, and so his dvds were never safe. He could vividly recall coming back from school to the site of half his DVD cases laying open with the films themselves upside down, scratched and unplayable.

When the film began to start up Minho let out a smile and a happy sigh, “Do you want any snacks?” Minho looked over to Jisung who was already under the covers looking far too comfortable.

“Sure! If you have popcorn” Jisung let out a toothy grin.

“Any drinks?”

“Whatever you have”

Minho made his way down to the kitchen and quickly opened the snack drawer for some microwavable popcorn before popping it on for a couple of minutes, as he did so he also grabbed two glasses and a litre of diet coke for the pair to share.

At the sound of the front door closing Minho could only assume it was his dad.

“Hi Dad!” Minho turned as he heard movement.

His smile immediately dropped when he came face to face with a very angry looking Mr Lee.

“Care to tell me why I got a message this morning about you leaving halfway through your lesson the other day?” Mr Lee raised an eyebrow.

Minho stopped himself from rolling his eyes and instead checked on the popcorn.

“I don’t know, It’s not like I was missing much” Minho bit his tongue trying to not explode at his dad.

“You have these lessons so you can get better Minho, I don’t expect you to slack off, you’re training to be an idol” Mr Lee raised his voice.

Minho scoffed and turned to his dad as he put the popcorn into a bowl, luckily it hadn’t burnt.

“Don’t you get it, I want to dance, i don’t want to sing or rap, just dance” Minho clenched his jaw.
Mr Lee slammed down his bag onto the island.

“That’s why I am giving you extra lesson’s Minho, so you can dance more than just singing and rapping, so when you debut you will be known for your amazing dancing abilities”

“I don’t want to be an idol” Minho shouted. How many times did he have to tell people?

“Don’t want to be an idol? Minho you are at TWave for godsake, of course you need to be an idol. What’s the point? You are so ungrateful” Mr Lee shouted back swinging his arms to exaggerate.

“No, I want to dance for fun, I want to teach dance, I don’t want to be an idol and be restrained to the stupid diets, the endless schedules and no rest”

“You are wasting the opportunity to train for free to just do dance? Do you know how much it costs to train? Jisung pays for his training,everyone pays for their training, you don’t Minho, do you understand the difference? Not one single penny is used on your training and you want to throw those years away? Can’t you understand- “

Minho was quick to interrupt, “ Don’t you dare bring Jisung into this, he wants to be an idol, I don’t, and I do understand, but you never gave me the choice. You’re ungrateful for not giving me the freedom of my own life” Minho gritted his teeth as he tried to stop the tears forming in his eyes.

Without waiting for his dad to speak he grabbed the bowl of popcorn and stormed upstairs. He walked into his room looking down hoping that Jisung wouldn’t see the tears he was so desperately trying to stop.
Jisung peered up from where we had been laying on the bed when he heard the door open, he smiled happily for the popcorn but quickly faltered when he saw Minho’s face.

“Baby?” Jisung asked, worried. He had heard a bit of arguing but couldn’t hear what was said.

At that, Minho broke down onto the floor, and the bowl of popcorn was dropped as well.
Jisung scurried out of the covers of the bed to Minho who was a mess on the ground curled up his head in his knees.

Jisung pulled Minho into his side, Minho easily complied and fell into his chest, Arms wrapping round the younger’s waist.

“He-my father-he won’t listen to me” Minho cried out.
Jisung bit his lip driving not to cry, “It’s okay Min,he will, he will eventually”
Jisung pulled Minho closer and rubbed the boys back trying to calm his shaky breath. They stayed like that for a few minutes, Jisung carried on saying small comments to calm the boy in his hold.

Minho pulled his head away from Jisung’s chest and looked up at Jisung.
The younger boy let out a small pout and used a hand to wipe away some of the fresh tears pouring down his face.
Minho smiled slightly and hid his face again.
“Come on let’s watch a film to cheer you up yeah”
Jisung helped his boyfriend stand and pulled him to the bed.
Jisung climbed in and held up the covers and let Minho crawl in and clutch onto Jisung like a koala.

“The popcorn” Minho pouted as he looked down to where the bowl of popcorn was scattered across, Dori and Soonie making it their mission to eat it all up. Minho whined and fell against Jisung.
“They’ll get ill now”

Jisung let out a small laugh and pulled Minho closer by the waist, “well as long as this kitten here is okay that’s all I care about” Jisung kissed the boy's forehead.

Minho lifted his head and frowned, “I’m not a kitten..that’s you”

Minho turned off the light from the switch by his bed and began the film.
Jisung rolled his eyes, “whatever you say kitten.”

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*:·ﾟ✧ Peach fruit tea and Orange popping boba *:·ﾟ✧

The next couple of days were extremely tense in the Lee household. Minho refused to talk to his dad and vice versa. Luckily for Jisung he got away with staying in Minho’s room with his cats.

“Why are you showering now?” Minho raised his eyebrow as he watched Jisung grab his pyjamas and a towel.

“Because I need to wash,” Jisung said, confused at what Minho was getting at.

“You have a dance session today though?” Minho shuffled in the covers of his bed, sitting up.

“Well.. I’ll have a shower after that as well” Jisung shrugged and made his way into the shower.

Soon after Minho heard the shower going and was met with Jisung’s singing. Minho recognised the song was the same one he had done his dance audition with.
Minho got out of the comfort of his bed and quickly recorded the bathroom door, Jisung was singing trying to act out the different singer’s voices. Stifling a laugh Minho pushed the door open ajar to get a better listen.
Just as he was about to scare Jisung there was a bang of a shampoo bottle falling and a loud string of swear words let out by the younger.
Minho let out a loud laugh.

“Yah Minho?!” Jisung shrieked.

Minho stopped his recording and began laughing loudly. Only a few moments later Jisung swung the bathroom door open,wrapped in a towel around his waist and hair covered in shampoo.He had his arms crossed over his chest, conscious of his state. He immediately spotted his boyfriend in stitches on the ground.

“I’m glad my pain is your enjoyment” Jisung grumbled and turned back around to go and shower off the shampoo.

“Wait- Jis-sung” Minho laughed, trying to get the boy’s attention.

-

“I cannot believe you filmed me. '' Jisung mumbled as he and Minho began the walk to TWave.
“It’s funny! Besides to begin with I was only filming for your singing” Minho smiled as he swung their connected hands.

“Yeah but now you have blackmail material” Jisung whined and looked to the ground and watched how their feet were in sync.
Minho let out a chuckle, “Well.. now you mention it, I will be using it for that”
Jisung’s eyes widened and he looked back to the smirking boy before whining once more.

“I’m kidding don’t worry” Minho leaned forward and kissed the boy lightly, “It’s for my own entertainment, when you leave tomorrow I’ll just keep replaying it” Minho smiled lightly.

“You've already played it like five times in the space of me getting out the shower and eating, not to mention you showed it to your mum”

“Be lucky I didn’t send it to Felix '' Minho chuckled and wrapped his arms around Jisung’s shoulder pulling him closer.

“Don’t you dare send it to Felix” Jisung’s eyes widened. If Minho let Felix get ahold of that video then he would spread it everywhere.

“You’re lucky you’re cute” Minho smiled lightly and softly kissed Jisung, “Come on, don’t want to be late for your lessons” Minho pulled Jisung into TWave.

The pair were quick to sign in and scan their way through the gates, “What do you have first?” Minho looked over Jisung’s shoulder who was checking his schedule.

“Umm One of the Idol introduction sessions, which lasts like 2 hours, then I can eat lunch and then I have dance” Jisung sighed at the long lecture he was probably about to have.

“Good luck with that first one, I have a similar lunch time so I’ll meet you in the canteen okay?” Minho smiled and quickly gave a wave to Jisung before he headed in the direction of the vocal rooms.

Jisung checked his room number and made his way there, he was not going to like this one bit.

-

“Jisung Oppa! Did you want to eat lunch with me?” Mira scooted up beside Jisung as he was packing up his bag.

“Oh, umm well I was meeting with Minho hyung for lunch” Jisung scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

“Great! He can join as well” Mira smiled brightly and pulled Jisung to his feet.

Mira began walking to the door and waiting for the boy to trail behind. Jisung checked his phone, his phone lit up with his lockscreen of a photo of Minho hugging Soonie, checking the time he realised Minho still had about an hour before his lunch would start so Jisung could sit with Mira and then move.

Making their way to the canteen, Jisung was quick to pick up a couple of sandwiches,a few slices of fruit on the side. Mira opted for the hot meal which seemed to be some stew.

“Let’s sit over by the window!” Mira pointed towards the seats. Jisung gulped and slowly walked behind, he really did not want to sit right by the window where he could see how high up they were.
Slowly sitting down, Jisung shifted his seat so he had more of his back towards the window and he couldn’t see it as clearly.

“So Oppa, I remember you saying you were friends with Minho Oppa? Do you think you could get me a date with him?” Mira said right out.

Jisung choked on his mouthful of sandwich.
“Oh..um.. I’m not..I don’t know if he’s even interested in girls” Jisung bit his lip.

“I’m sure he is, he winked at me during the auditions” Mira smiled brightly and started on her soup.

“Right…” Jisung muttered as he left his sandwich for some fruit instead.

“Minho Oppa is so talented don’t you think?” Mira chatted away, Jisung internally groaned and turned his head. Bad idea when he forgot he was sitting by the windows.
Quickly looking away Jisung shut his eyes and tried to focus on the floor he had his feet on, and not at the fact he was so high up.

“He is such an amazing dancer, I really hope he could teach me one day, maybe I can even get some private lessons from him, I heard he teaches lessons at college” Mira paid Jisung no mind as she carried on.
“Have you heard his singing?” Mira gasped as she remembered yet another thing about Jisung’s boyfriend.

Jisung bit his tongue trying not to say how he heard Minho singing in the shower, just to shut her up but in retrospect it would actually just keep her asking more questions.

“Hey Sungie!” Minho called over as he walked over to the pair. Carrying two bubble teas from an unknown shop.
Jisung let out a visible sigh of relief.

Minho stayed a bit away from the seats as he tried hard not to look outside so he kept his gaze on Jisung.
“Do we wanna go and sit in a booth?” Minho motioned to the same booth he and Jisung had found themselves in during the younger’s auditions.

Jisung immediately stood and picked up his food and moved away from the window, Minho placed a hand on his shoulder seeing the slightly shaken state he was in.
“You okay Sung?” Minho checked to see Jisung was slightly pale.

“Let’s go and get you some water okay, and sit you somewhere away from the window” Minho softly spoke and guided Jisung towards the booth, leaving Mira behind.

“Minho Oppa!” Mira spoke up just as the couple began to walk away.
Minho turned around and looked at the girl who was standing up with her stew, “Can I join?”

“Sorry Mira, Jisung doesn’t seem to feel great so probably best you don’t” Minho gave her as much as a sympathetic look he could towards the girl.
Turning back to his boyfriend,Jisung had already made himself comfortable in the booth.
Minho walked over to the water dispenser and got a cup full for Jisung to sip on.

“You should’ve told her that you can’t do heights Sung” Minho explained softly as he passed the cup over to the boy.

“I was going to, but she just kept chatting and chatting and I felt like she would’ve been annoyed if I tried to change the topic” Jisung gulped and looked down at his half finished food.

Minho took the boy’s hand and squeezed it lightly, “Next time make sure you speak up, hopefully you are going to be okay for your dance lesson, but besides that, I brought bubble tea, I felt like you probably are craving some since you haven’t had your daily bubble tea in a few days” Minho let out a chuckle at the end and passed over the drink.

“Thanks!, What flavour is it?” Jisung inspected the drink trying to guess the flavours by the pinkish tint and the orange bubbles.

“It’s peach and orange boba” Minho smiled as he took a sip of his own identical one.

“Interesting combo, we don’t have orange popping balls in Bubbles” Jisung raised his eyebrow but took a sip.

“‘Yeah I thought you’d enjoy a new flavour” Minho smiled as he sipped on his own bubble tea of the same flavour.

After a few minutes of quietly sipping on his drink Jisung started to feel better, he no longer felt as shaky, especially his legs, and the slight nauseous feeling had gone.
“What was Mira chatting about anyways? I’m surprised she could think of anything to talk about, I very much doubt the pair of you have a lot in common, no offense” Minho asked as he pulled out a salad he had in his bag.

“Well.. actually she was talking about the only thing we have in common” Jisung let out an airy laugh as he picked up the rest of his sandwich.

“What’s that? Training?” Minho raised an eyebrow.

“You” Jisung chuckled as he bit his bubble tea straw watching Minho’s face scrunch up in distaste.

“Why am I not surprised?” Minho rolled his eyes as he saw Mira looking at the pair from her seat as she finished off her stew.

“Yeah she kept talking about how she wanted private dance lessons from you” Jisung smiled in amusement.

“Yeah, no thanks” Minho scrunched up his nose, and went back to his salad.
-

Jisung stood amongst a group of nine or so dancers as they were learning the choreography to a new song, Jisung couldn’t remember the name of the song, only that it was by a group called seventeen.

“Is everyone ready to do a full run through?” The teacher asked, he wasn’t really waiting for an answer as he put the music to the start and waited for everyone to get into the positions.

Jisung was quick to rush to his position on the edge, hearing the choreographer count down he got into the right pose ready to start, Jisung was quick to start on beat as he counted in his head and referenced the person in front of him to make sure his spacing was correct, he really didn’t need to bump into anyone.
It got to halfway where Jisung had his center part when he noticed Mr Lee walk in and talk to the choreographer, giving a nod, the music was cut. Everyone stopped confused.

“Han Jisung, I need to talk to you, bring your stuff with you,” Mr Lee announced looking straight at Jisung.

Jisung’s eyes widened but he nodded and rushed to collect his things as Mr Lee waited by the doors. Jisung gulped as he saw his classmates watching him leave. The CEO didn’t speak to him as he followed. Jisung felt very tense, he was trying to rack through his brain to figure out if he had done anything wrong, the only thing that seemed to pop up was him missing the first few weeks of the individual training, but Mr Lee knew that, he even explained to Jisung it was weird.
What did surprise him was when Mr Lee opened his office door, Minho was already sitting there.

Minho looked at Jisung and shrugged as the younger sat beside him on the sofa. It was only then he realised how sweaty he had become from dancing.
Minho could see Jisung was shaking lightly and so he rested his hand on the boy’s knee and gently rubbed it reassuringly.

“I’m sure you’re wondering why you are here, technically you’ve done nothing wrong, so don’t worry you aren’t in trouble” Mr Lee reassured the couple.
Jisung let out a loud sigh of relief and visibly relaxed.
Minho also let out a happy sigh.

“So why did you need to talk to us?” Minho asked his dad, It was the first time he would be having a conversation with his dad since the argument a few days back.

“Well, I wouldn’t say it’s good news, but something has arisen and you two are going to have to be more careful” Mr Lee walked behind his desk and pulled out a piece of paper.
Sliding it over the coffee table in front of the pair.
It was a picture, a series of pictures in fact.
It started with Minho and Jisung holding hands as they were walking towards TWave, then it was the pair with locked lips and then Minho pulling Jisung closer with his arm around the younger boy’s shoulder and then finally another picture of them kissing and smiling as they were by the entrance of Twave.

“Now dispatch have posted these photos, and so if you want to go public, now is your chance, but be warned.” Mr Lee spoke as he leant back on his desk with his arms crossed.

“Minho I’m sure you’re aware of this, but Jisung you will now get swarmed with paparazzi more, and at college.” Jisung gulped again and Minho felt him tense up, he took the younger’s hand in his and rubbed his thumb over his boyfriend’s hand.

“It’s okay Hannie” Minho said softly as he looked at Jisung who was staring off into space trying to not work himself up.

“Minho you must stay with Jisung until it dies down, I already heard about what happened when Jisung got swarmed last time, and I know he definitely doesn’t want to experience that again. I trust you to do that Minho” Mr Lee explained as he sat down on his chair behind his desk now.

Minho nodded immediately,” Of course, I’d never let Jisungie have to go through that again '' Minho sat up straight.

“It does come with a perk, it will give you both exposure before you debut, Jisung you’ll still get photoed even without Minho there so if you do hang out with Chan and Changbin it can help your exposure as a group. Minho you already have to deal with dispatch, but this will help boost your popularity, If all goes well you may debut sooner” Mr Lee typed away on his laptop as he spoke to the pair.

“If you are fine with coming out we will post an official announcement on the companies social media”

Minho looked at Jisung and his boyfriend shyly nodded, with a small but excited smile on his face.

“Let’s do it” Minho looked to his dad who gave a single nod before he dismissed them.

The couple stood up, Minho taking Jisung’s hand in his and squeezed it excitedly. They began to walk out the door before Minho turned to his father.

“I told you I don’t want to be an idol, and that’s it”
He shut the door rather forcefully before his dad could respond or argue back.

“Let’s go celebrate with cheesecake!” Minho smiled and brought Jisungs hands up to his lips and kissed it lightly, Jisung let out a giggle and immediately agreed.

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*:·ﾟ✧Plum Bubble Tea with blackcurrant Popping Boba *:·ﾟ✧

-

“You ready Sungie?” Minho asked as he sat in his car with Jisung in the college car park.

Even though Jisung had now moved back to Bubbles and was within walking distance of the college, Minho had insisted that he picked the younger up. Especially today. Mr Lee had posted an official announcement about Minho and Jisung dating and Jisung’s phone had been exploding with notifications since last night.

“Yeah, i’m okay” Jisung let out a shaky breath. Minho immediately knew the boy was anxious about going in, he didn’t want to get swarmed again.

“We don’t have to go in if you don’t want to Sungie. It’s not a problem” Minho squeezed Jisung’s hand which he had already been holding the entire Journey here.

“It’s fine, I need to get it over with, the longer I wait the more anticipation there will be” Jisung took in a deep breath before letting it out slowly.

“I’ll be with you the entire time” Minho gave a reassuring smile.
“I’ll be fine when I'm in my lessons….I think” Jisung glanced towards his boyfriend.

“Okay that’s fine, I’ll drop you off and pick you up okay?” Minho smiled and once Jisung nodded he climbed out of his car. Rushing over to the other side to meet with Jisung he immediately connected their hands and shoved his bag over his shoulder. Jisung went to put his backpack on but Minho took it from his grasp and held it.

“What are you doing?” Jisung frowned.

“Can’t I carry my boyfriend's bag?” Minho winked and pulled Jisung towards the entrance.

Even just walking in caused a crowd, cameras and phones were immediately shoved into their faces, Jisung felt Minho’s hand tighten around his. He barely noticed how much he had begun panicking, he just tried to focus on his boyfriend’s hand in his. They were swarmed, barely any room to move. Jisung really didn’t understand why everyone cared so much. Neither of the boys had even debuted yet.

“Hey look over here!”
“Look, it's Minho oppa!”
“J.One OMG”

Jisung hid his face in Minho’s back as Minho pulled him away from the crowds. He noticed Minho began to walk in the direction of the deserted Classroom.

Once they were behind the classroom door Minho spun around and cupped Jisung’s face, “You okay Ji?, I didn't realize they would be that bad” Minho bit his lip worried.

Jisung’s mind was sparadict,he didn’t even hear what Minho had said, his head was spinning needing air, he knew he was safe but his body didn’t believe him as he started to gasp for more air despite having plenty already.

“Hey Ji, look at me” Minho spoke softly as he anchored Jisung’s face towards his. Jisung had his eyes scrunched up trying to get the bright flashes of cameras out of his head.

“Ji.. baby open your eyes, it’s fine..you’re safe” Minho stroked the younger’s cheek.

Jisung slowly opened his eyes and blinked a few times to take in his surroundings.
“No one else is here, just me” Minho brought Jisung into a tight hug and kissed his head.

As their chests were pressed together Minho felt how the younger’s heart rate slowly but surely calmed down and went at a normal pace again. Jisung clearly felt it as he pulled away and looked down at the ground.

“Thank you”

“It’s fine Sungie, I think I should stay with you the whole day though, even if it’s fine in the class you still seem shaken” Minho stroked Jisung’s hair out of his eyes.

Jisung didn’t even argue and instead hugged Minho again hiding his face in his hyung’s chest.

–

“Oh Minho hi” Chan smiled as Jisung walked into his classroom with Minho right by his side, hand clasped with his own.

“Hey Chan Hyung” Minho smiled and let Jisung pick a beanbag to sit on.

The squirrel boy collapsed on a large green one, making sure there was room for Minho to sit on it as well. It was still slightly smaller than they had thought and so Minho sat down behind the younger and pulled him in between his legs, arms around his waist. His right leg was pulled up against his left leg's thigh.

Jisung immediately fell against his boyfriend and began playing with the hands that were holding his waist.

“I’m assuming Minho is here to stop people swarming you?” Changbin guessed as he already noticed how Minho was scanning the classroom to see if anyone would dare approach them.

Jisung gave a small smile and a nod. Mr Park came in moments later. His eyes lingered on the couple but he didn’t bother asking Minho to leave, he had heard about the chaos outside and didn’t need anymore of it happening.

“Right class today we will be watching through examples of your work, giving feedback and giving you a chance to go and fix any of it.” Mr Park began to explain as he set up his slides and the students' work.

Jisung leant back against Minho as he waited for the class to continue.

“Does this mean I get to hear you sing again?” Minho asked from behind.

“Oh god no” Jisung hid his face in his hands, he didn’t even like the recording he had handed in. Not thinking Mr Park would be playing them out loud.

“Don’t worry I’m sure it’s adorable” Minho giggled.

Jisung pouted and turned to look at his boyfriend, Minho held a small smirk on his face, Jisung childishly stuck his tongue out, “If you make fun of it then I’ll make sure you don’t get free bubble tea anytime soon”

Minho’s mouth dropped, “But we were going there after lessons ended today, I want my bubble tea” Minho softly whined.

“If you behave the rest of the day, I'll think about it,” Jisung laughed before turning back to the front to pay attention to his lecturer who had finished setting up.

“We all know you have a great voice Sungie, don’t stress about it” Minho whispered in Jisung’s ear before kissing the edge of his jaw lightly.

Minho felt Jisung tense suddenly but then relaxed almost immediately and sank back into Minho’s hold.

Maybe he could convince Minho just to stay with him always, especially when Minho’s in a cuddly mood. It was cute.

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Minho happily swung his and Jisung’s hands as they got out of the boy's car and made their way into TWave, Minho could see a few cameras pointing their ways and following them as they made their way to the entrance. It had been a few weeks and they still hadn’t shown any signs of stopping their eagerness to catch the boys locking lips or anything that would be worth a publication.

“Have you got any lessons today Min?” Jisung asked as he swiped his card and made his way through the doors waiting for Minho to do the same.

“I have one at around one, so I’m just going to hang around with you until then” Minho smiled and grabbed Jisung’s wrist pulling him closer before moving his arm from his boyfriend's wrist to over his shoulder.

“But I’m recording” Jisung pouted.

“I’m sure Chan and Changbin aren’t going to kick me out Sung” Minho chuckled as he let the smaller boy guide them towards 3racha recording studio.

“Yeah but it means you get to listen to me mess up, stumble over my words and just do awful for like most of the time” Jisung let out a small sigh.

“Perfect” Minho laughed lightly before squeezing Jisung’s shoulder, “I’m sure you’ll do great Jisungie, and I won’t make fun of you, besides I can barely rap”

“I thought you could?” Jisung tilted his head as he turned to Minho looking at the boy whilst he opened up the door to the recording booth.

“Nope” Minho smiled popping up the ‘p’

Chan and Changbin were already sitting in the studio setting up. Changbin standing in the recording booth doing the mic check and Chan setting up the session.

“Oh hey, Minho” Chan gave a warm hello and a small wave.

“You don’t mind me crashing here until one do you?” Minho asked, not really waiting for an answer as he got himself comfortable sitting next to Jisung on the sofa and wrapping an arm around his boyfriend pulling him closer.

“Sure, that’s fine, I trust you not to leak anything” Chan laughed as he spun back around to continue to set up, as he did so Changbin came out of the studio and saw Minho before immediately groaning.

“Yah, now Jisung is just going to be distracted Hyung” Changbin pointed towards the couple who were already in their own world again,
Tightly cuddled up.

Chan rolled his eyes,” Chill Bin, besides Jisung is going to be the first one to record and he’ll probably be done just before Minho has to leave anyways.” Chan checked the time noting how it was already ten past eleven.

He spun around towards the couple getting their attention, “As much as this is cute and all…”
He gestured to the pair, pulling a slightly disgusted face
“…Jisung you’re recording first”

“But I’m comfy” Jisung pouted as he grabbed Minho’s arm that was resting on the back of the sofa and wrapped it around his stomach.

Changbin rolled his eyes and looked at Chan before gesturing to the couple.

“Ji you have a vocal lesson at like one-thirty, so actually you don’t have a choice” Chan shrugged.

“How do you know my schedule better than me!” Jisung pulled out his phone to check his schedule and sure enough, Chan was right.

“If you finish before one I’ll buy you something from the vending machine” Minho tried to persuade Jisung to move.

“Two things and a drink” Jisung crossed his arms and turned to Minho.

“Deal” Minho grabbed Jisung’s hips and pushed him to stand up. He then promptly patted his butt as it was right in his eye line as Jisung stood.

Jisung happily skipped into the recording booth and immediately put on his headphones.

“Ready J.one?” Chan spoke into the microphone waiting for Jisung to give him the thumbs up.

Jisung turned towards the three boys and held both thumbs up with a smile and a nod.

—

Minho bopped his head along to the intro of the track and his mouth promptly fell open when Jisung’s voice suddenly came through the mic rapping hard.
He got a couple of lines in before he accidentally messed up.
Minho chuckled as he watched the rapper twist his face up in annoyance and promptly bounce on the spot shaking off his nerves.

“Don’t worry Ji, that was a good take if you want you can start on the third line instead of the beginning and we can layer?” Chan asked as he saved the recording on the track.

“I’ll give it one more take and if I mess it up then we can, I think I just forgot the rhythm and lost my flow” Jisung explained as he read over his lyrics once more checking on where he had messed up.

Minho could barely take his eyes off Jisung as they continued to do take after take, waiting for Jisung to be happy with at least one of them before he had a break.

“Okay, I think one more will be good” Jisung took a sip of water and adjusted his headphones waiting for the track to begin again, he only had to re-record the pre-chorus as Chan began the track two lines before Changbin’s verse ended.

Minho watched in awe as he listened to Jisung’s perfect pronunciation and energy in his rap. As Jisung recorded one final time, Minho got a message through.

Father
Junghoon is off today so I need you to cover his lesson at 4 today.

Minho rolled his eyes, seriously… His dad was the CEO of TWave and instead of getting another instructor to cover he asked Minho?! Like sure he wouldn’t mind covering, especially that’s the job he wants to go into. But his own lessons ran until 4, meaning he wouldn’t even have time to eat, or prepare.

Minho sent a quick response not bothering to check his phone after he knew his dad was more than frustrated.

Minho
No, I’m busy.

Right after he put his phone down Jisung came bounding out the recording booth with a large grin on his face.

“That was great Ji!” Changbin smiled as he waited for Chan to playback what Jisung had recorded.

The four boys listened to Jisung’s rap and Chan was quick to quickly edit it onto the track's channel, snipping it roughly.
“I’ll edit it a bit more, and then we can see what layering or re-recordings you want to do before we send it to Mr Lee” Chan turned to Jisung with a satisfied smile.

“Perfect! Just message me if you need me then” Jisung nodded.

“It’s twelve forty Sung, if you want your treats from the vending machine we gotta go” Minho awkwardly chipped in as he stood up sliding his phone into his back pocket.

“Ah right yeah, let’s go” Jisung let Minho slip his hand into his own and start to get pulled out of the studio.

“Good luck Hyungs!” Jisung called just as he was out of the door.

—-

“Okayyy what does Prince Jisung want from the oh so expensive vending machine” Minho chuckled as he crossed his arms and leant against the machine watching Jisung’s eyes glisten slightly as they roamed over the different food and drink options.

“Well I definitely need a drink that’s for sure” Jisung muttered as he crouched down to look at all the drinks which were stored on the bottom two rows.

“Oo they have the strawberry and kiwi drink stocked up!”, Minho gasped and didn’t waste a second before tapping his card and buying himself the drink.
Jisung watched as the machine spun it forwards before it tipped and hit the edge of the front glass.
Then it didn’t move.

“Oh come on” Minho loudly whined causing a few heads to turn their way as they were near the reception, many people also lingered by as some of the lockers and seating areas were on the same floor.

Jisung cracked up as soon as he saw Minho’s pouted and furrowed eyebrows, he raised his hand and went to ruffle the elder’s hair but Minho whilst sulking still managed to have quick reflexes and move out of the way.

“Stupid machine” Minho was half tempted to kick the bottom of the vending machine to see if it would top the drink but he didn’t get the chance when he noticed Jisung buy the drink that was directly a row above.

The pair watched as the bottle fell without getting caught and the base of the falling drink managed to hit the stuck bottle just right so it tipped back away from the glass and the two tumbled down into the bottom section so they could be retrieved.

Jisung let out a sad smile as he realised the drink that was directly above Minho’s was cherry flavoured cola. Sure Jisung liked Cherry but …mix it with coke and it was vile. Jisung couldn’t stand it, and Jisung being Jisung didn’t even realise that it was the cherry flavour when he first tapped in the code.

Minho clearly saw the dissatisfied look on his face, “Don’t you like cherry cola?” Minho asked.

“Nope..I thought it was just the original,” Jisung pouted and decided to just pick out his snacks.

Minho waited for the boy to pick out the snacks, which consisted of a bag of crisps and a small packet of sweets. As Jisung was collecting the goodies Minho swiped his card again and purchased a full fat coke.

Jisung jumped slightly when the coke fell as he had just removed his hand from the bottom. “Yah Minho that’s dangerous, I could’ve hurt my hand” Jisung tried to look at the boy angrily from his crouched position.

The dancer chuckled and crouched down beside the boy and pulled out the drink before placing it in his boyfriend's hand, plucking the cherry flavoured bottle off the floor.

“Huh?” Jisung watched Minho ruffle his hair as he stood holding his own drink and the cherry cola.

“Come on, we don’t have all day Sungie, I have a lesson to get to” Minho smiled nonchalantly.
Jisung slowly raised and played with the bottle in his hands, “Thanks Min”

“You’re lucky I like you so much and you’re cute” Minho used his free hand to pinch the younger’s cheek causing him to frown and pout.

Minho removed his hand and pulled out his phone to check the time, as he clicked the unlock button the Home Screen flashed up showing Jisung playing with Dori whilst Soonie sat beside him. The screen showed the time as 12:57.

“I gotta go Hannie, I don’t want to be late” Minho smiled sadly as he pointed the screen to Jisung who had already uncapped his coke.

“Nooo stay” Jisung pouted and grabbed Minho’s shirt as if it would stop him from moving, Minho let himself get pulled closer wrapping his hands around Jisung’s shoulder lightly.

“If you keep pouting i’ll have to kiss it away” Minho smirked as he watched Jisung make the pout more prominent.
Minho tsked and gave a small chuckle and pulled the boy closer so he could kiss him lightly.
The boy could tell Jisung wanted to deepen it to keep Minho from his lesson but the boy had to part.

“Ji, I gotta go, I’m going to be late” Minho rested his forehead against the younger, smiling fondly at the boy. Jisung let out a whine and a small no.

“Fine” Jisung huffed and parted from the boy, “Thanks for the snacks.” Jisung smiled bashfully as he hugged the packets of food.

“I’ll message you later okay?” Minho smiled as he began to walk backwards before giving a wave and turning after Jisung rescinded with a “Sure.”

—

Minho collapsed on his bed, luckily he hadn’t seen his dad and so he didn’t have to talk about him saying no to covering a lesson.
He dried his hair with his towel, letting Doongie and Dori play with the loose threads on it.
“Ugh just have the whole towel” Minho rolled his eyes as he let it fall from his head and the two cats immediately began tugging back and forth with it.

Minho laid back and shuffled around looking for his phone in his covers. He finally found it after lifting up a blanket and hearing it thud onto the ground. Grabbing it off the floor Minho prayed it hadn’t made his screen crack.
He let out an annoyed sigh as he saw a small crack,luckily on the screen protector, coming from the left corner and up just past the home button.
Minho laid back and got comfy as he unlocked his phone to check through his social media, he chuckled as he saw a picture Jisung had posted on his Instagram of him holding Dori. It was clearly one Minho had taken as the younger had tagged him in it.

He liked it quickly and commented about how cute the two of them looked.

Minho continued scrolling looking at a few cat videos when he got a notification from the entertainment company newsletter saying he had been tagged in a post.
He hadn’t done any interviews lately and so he just assumed it was about his and Jisung’s relationship.

Not thinking about it Minho clicked the link, his breath hitched when he saw the title.

‘Trainee Han Jisung Dating the CEO’s son to debut faster’
What we know so far…

Minho’s mouth dropped as he saw a picture of them standing by the vending machine earlier that day, clearly someone from TWave had made the post. How would they have gotten this picture?

Minho forced himself to read the rest of the article.

‘Han Jisung a Music production student at JYP recently got recruited to TWave moments after an impressive audition, however sources have come forward saying that Han Jisung had been planning to involve himself with Lee Minho long before he was accepted to the highly competitive trainee programme.
Reports state that Han became friendly to Lee through his work,at a bubble tea shop. Becoming close to the CEO’s son only helped him during auditions where Lee Minho aided and helped Jisung.
Even now there have been sightings of the two in a tight official relationship, and Jisung’s debut has reportedly been pushed forward.
Did his link with the CEO’s son help him push his debut earlier?
Will 3racha’s debut be sooner because of his connections?
More will be reported soon..

By anonymous’

Minho dropped his phone in shock. There’s no way Jisung was using him for his connections… Minho tried to steady his breathing as his thoughts became more uncertain.
It almost seemed like fate that Jisung began calling him right then and there.

💕Hannie 🐿

Minho let it ring through…

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*:·ﾟ✧ Passionfruit and Pineapple mix with tapioca *:·ﾟ✧

Minho paced his room, he was undeniably stressed. Jisung had rung a couple more times the evening before but Minho had ignored them, he probably should’ve answered but he didn’t even know what he would say to the boy. Minho kicked Dori as he paced around his room not looking where he was going.
“Sorry, Dori” Minho let out a small sigh and stroked his cat. Dori didn’t seem to be in the mood and scurried out of the room.

Minho huffed and collapsed onto his bed, maybe talking in person would be easier, at least he knew from Jisung’s constant complaining the other day he knew the younger was working an extra shift today and could probably talk to him there.

The dancer rolled himself off his bed and shuffled downstairs to grab his jacket and shoes. If he remembered correctly Jisung’s shift finished at around three, it was currently two-fifty, enough time to get there right when he finished.

“Oh Min you are going out?” Minho’s mother called from where she was sitting watching a random reality TV series.

“Hmm? O-oh yeah, I’m meeting up with Jisung” Minho gave a smile as he tied up his laces.

“If you want to eat round here just let me know and I’ll cook some extra” his mother turned back to her programme not really waiting for an answer out of the boy.

“Sure”

Minho decided to drive to Bubbles so he would get there faster, the sun was shining and it was a warm day but he wasn’t exactly in the mood to be swarmed by cameras at the moment especially after the post he saw.

Soon enough the boy had arrived at the bubble tea shop and he could see Jisung laughing at something with Mako whilst they chilled out, it wasn’t busy at all. A couple of people were dotted around, someone doing work on a laptop and another couple chatting away to each other.
Minho pulled in and got out of his car, he pulled open the door and Jisung’s head lifted from where he was fiddling with his phone.
A bright smile on his face.

“Min!”

Minho gave out a slightly forced smile, “Hey, Could I get a passionfruit and Pineapple mix with tapioca please” Minho tapped his card on the side of the counter as he read off the board.

“In or out?” Jisung bit his lip as he concentrated on making sure to tap in the correct stuff whilst Mako began making the tea.

“I’ll have it out thanks, also as you aren’t busy could we made talk outside real quick?” Minho asked, he really didn’t want to talk about it in Jisung’s workplace especially whilst they had customers.

“Oh um sure? I mean I finish soon so if you’re fine with waiting until my shift finishes? If I clock out early again my parents will most likely fire me” Jisung chuckled lightly as he let Minho pay for his drink.

“That’s fine, I’ll wait outside okay?” Minho nodded and gave thanks to Mako as she passed his drink over.

Jisung nodded and began cleaning up some of the tables as Minho went outside and leant against his car sipping on his drink.

It wasn’t even five minutes until Jisung could finish, but it felt like an eternity. Minho struggled to think how he should even bring the topic up, he didn’t want to start off annoyed with Jisung, but then that would be the quickest way to get it over with. He fiddled with the straw of his drink, pulling a face at the aftertaste of the bubble tea. Definitely not a combo he will be getting again anytime soon.

The sound of the shop door ringing made Minho lift his head and he saw Jisung now wearing a jumper over his work clothes and his apron was discarded.

“So what did you wanna talk about? It’s not your dad again is it?” Jisung asked as he approached his boyfriend slightly worried.

“No it’s umm…” Minho went to look up and make eye contact with the boy but faltered and looked back down at his drink.

“It’s about you I guess” Minho looked up to see Jisung’s reaction.

“M-me?” Jisung brows furrowed and he pointed to himself slightly confused,” What about me?”

Minho let out a shaky breath to prepare himself,” Is it..Is it true you used me for my connections?” Minho watched how Jisung’s eyes widened, he took a step backwards.

“What…” Jisung stared at his boyfriend shifting on his feet.

Minho breathing became more unsure as he looked at Jisung, he began fiddling with the straw of his drink again.

“Is it true you’re only dating me because I’m the CEO’s son?” Minho looked up to gauge Jisung’s reaction as he tried to push back the tears that were threatening to spill.

“I- what Min? Why are you saying this?” Jisung stepped forward wanting to take one of Minho’s hands in his.

Minho shuffled away just slightly making Jisung stop his movements.

“Tell me Jisung” Minho gritted his teeth.

Jisung’s jaw was left slack he was unsure what was even happening.

“I have no idea what makes you think that Minho” Jisung shook his head.

Minho looked up and let out an airy chuckle, “I knew it… how could I be so stupid”
Jisung tilted his head slightly confused at what Minho was getting at.

“Why would anyone date me for being me.. I get it Jisung..” Minho unlocked his car and walked around to his door and pulled it open before turning to Jisung.
“Wait Minho… what are you talking about?” Jisung went to grab the door his hand narrowly missing getting caught as the older boy began to pull it.

“You want to debut faster…that doesn’t mean you have to string me along too”
Minho pulled the door shut without listening to Jisung.

“What… Min..” Jisung burst out tears flowing down his face, “I have no idea what you are talking about!” Jisung shouted at the car that was now pulling out of the shop’s car park.

As Minho drove back home one thing kept replaying in his head, Jisung never denied it.

Han Jisung
We’re Done Jisung.

Chapter Text

“What do I do Hyung?” Jisung asked into his phone as he was getting ready to go into college. After Minho’s confrontation last night he had no idea what was happening, and he was even more confused when he got a text from the older boy promptly calling off their relationship. Confusion was an understatement.

“Just try and find him today okay, you know where he usually hangs out so it should be easy” Chan responded through the phone.

Jisung stopped himself from sighing as he grabbed his bag and went into the kitchen where his parents were already eating breakfast.

“Yeah.. okay, thanks Chan hyung” Jisung ended the call and slumped into his seat.

His parents gave each other knowing looks before they continued to pick at their own food. Jisung grabbed two slices of toast and buttered them generously.

“So did Chan give you any advice?” Juyeon asked her son as she watched him pull apart the toast and bite it slowly.

“He said to look at all the places Minho Hyung would visit during college, he isn’t answering my phone calls and so it’s the only way I can try and talk to him. Otherwise, it will be at TWave.” Jisung explained.

“Hopefully you can find him then” Jisung’s father nodded and started to collect the plates regardless of whether Jisung had actually finished his food or not.

Jisung said a quick goodbye and made his way out of the house and through the shop which was yet to be open.
He had planned to arrive slightly earlier than usual to walk down to the dance rooms to see if Minho was using one of them, it’s one of the most obvious places Minho would be so when Jisung peers through the windows and sees the room void of any sign of the boy he isn’t even surprised.

He didn’t have a chance to search the abandoned classroom that morning and so instead walked to his production classroom and collapsed on a beanbag in the corner. Luckily today's lesson was just about writing lyrics and so Jisung stuffed on his headphones and ignored everyone around him.
He played the beat on loop and quickly got to work on writing out some lyrics, it didn’t come to any surprise that when he re-read them they were clearly about Minho.
Ripping the page out of his book he screwed it up into a ball and shoved it in his bag to throw away later.

As the bell rang signalling lunch Chan and Changbin strolled over to him as he began packing his headphones, notebook and pen away.
“Hey Ji, you wanna eat with us and the others today?” Changbin asked.

Jisung thought for a moment before responding as they walked out of the classroom and down the main stairs.

“I think I’ll just buy my food and look for Minho Hyung again” Jisung shrugged as he followed in tandem as the two older boys joined the queue. Searching the different food options Jisung settled for a strawberry sandwich and a slice of cheesecake in the hopes it would lift his spirits ever so slightly. He also grabbed a bottle of Ramune.

He said a quick goodbye to his hyungs and headed up two floors hoping to spot Minho. As he walked he made sure to keep his eyes peeled for the older even though it was unlikely he could hide away in a crowd so easily.

He passed up the stairs and soon reached the abandoned floor, he peered in through the classroom door and let out a sigh when he noticed it was empty. Of course, it was.
Pushing the door open he stepped in and planted himself on one of the chairs and placed his food down on the wooden desks.
Maybe he was just early and Minho would arrive later.

Deciding to just spend the rest of the lunch period in the solitude of the classroom Jisung ate his food and continued to write some lyrics. And if he did try to ring Minho again, no one needed to know.

—----

Minho lifted his head from the cocoon he had created out of the duvet, blankets and pillows to check who had opened up his bedroom door. As soon as he spotted the familiar face he let out a huff and fell back down before rolling over so his back was towards the door.

“Min come on, it’s been two days already, you need to eat something” Soyeon tried to cox Minho out of his burrito as she held up a bowl of Kimchi fried rice knowing it was Minho’s favourite.

“I’m not hungry” Minho grumbled as he rolled into a small ball ignoring the pain he felt of his stomach begging for the rice.

He felt the bed dip and a gentle hand rubbing the small of his back.

“I know how you feel, but remember what happened last time you didn’t eat?” Soyeon gently brought up some bad memories hoping that it would push Minho to pick up the spoon.

Her son shuffled around under the covers and soon his head popped out, she held back a gasp as she saw his red eyes and the bags under them, she knew immediately he had probably spent the last two days crying for hours on end and getting no sleep.

She placed the food on the bedside table, gently moved Doongie out of the way and pulled her son into a tight hug, it was enough to make him break.

“Do you know who wrote the article?” Minho’s mum asked him after his tears had slowed down and he wasn’t gasping for breath.

“No… but they would’ve seen me and Jisung at the vending machine” Minho sniffed as he pulled away from his mother and let Soonie climb into his lap.

“How about I get your father to look at the CCTV okay?” Soyeon suggested.

Minho nodded and hid his face in Soonie’s fur, Soyeon ruffled Minho’s hair slightly and stood up.

“Eat..please Minho”.

Minho didn’t lift his head away from Soonie’s soft fur until he knew his mother had finally left his room, he glanced over to the kimchi fried rice and slowly picked it up. It would be a waste-and he really did love it.

—

Jisung kicked a stone as he began to walk to TWave, he had a fairly chill day, mainly only having a vocal lesson and then in the afternoon he was set to be recording with Chan and Changbin.
He spotted a few bystanders with cameras and pulled his hood up to cover his face as he swiftly walked inside swiped his card and made his way up to the third-floor vocal rooms.
Jisung made sure to take the long route around the buildings so he didn’t have to pass the dance rooms.

Sure Jisung wanted to talk to Minho, but that was for a time when he wasn’t stressed about his lessons and is actually in the mood to talk to someone, with his headphones shoved into his ears he was hoping people would gather he didn’t want to converse with them in any way.

The lights in his vocal room were turned off and so Jisung got himself situated before his teacher arrived. Slinging his bag onto the floor next to the piano, he leaned down and pulled out his notebook and the lyrics he had been practising. He sat down on the chair by the piano and started to warm up his voice.

Just as he had finished his first scale the door opened and his teacher entered.
“Ah Jisung, perfect you’re already here..”

Jisung headed up to the canteen after finishing his very long lesson. Checking the time it was already one which meant he must’ve been there for at least three hours.
“I didn’t even get a break” The boy whined lightly to himself as he entered the room

It was fairly busy due to the lunch time rush and so Jisung wasted no time in joining the queue and checking out the menu. Grabbing a wooden tray, Jisung settled for a small bowl of the kimchi fried rice that was being served, a side bowl of fruit salad and a bottle of water.

As he began looking for a free seat Jisung could see people staring at him, before not so subtly whispering to their friends. Jisung gulped and ducked his head making his way to a corner trying to not attract attention. Pulling out his phone he tried to not get distracted by the people who continued to look at him whilst he settled down to eat his meal.

Maybe going to the canteen wasn’t the best idea.

“Did you see the article about him and Minho?” Jisung heard one of the people sitting diagonally to him speak to his friends who were surrounding the table.

“Can’t believe he would do that, he must’ve just gotten into TWave because of him then” another guy spoke up.

Jisung bit his lip and pretended to go through his phone, whilst trying to block out the comments.

“His dancing isn’t even that good.. I don’t know how he passed the auditions, probably because Minho is an amazing dancer” One of them scoffed.

Jisung shut his eyes and took a deep breath before pulling out his headphones and untangling them so he could block out the sounds. He dug into his food and kept his head down so he wouldn’t make any awkward eye contact with anyone.

3Rachachacha

Changaroo 🦘

Hey, We have a week until the next deadline so we are going to take a break over the next few days so don’t worry about coming to the studio after college Ji.

SpearB 🔥
I’ll probably go anyways to tidy up some of my lyrics so if you wanna join feel free.

J.One 🐿
Ok, thanks for letting me know, I probably won’t go but I’ll keep it in mind.

With his headphones still in, Jisung made his way through the canteen to drop off his rubbish and make a quick exit. Glancing at the time it was quarter past one. His breath caught when he saw the lock screen of Minho sitting playing with Soonie.
Usually the older boy would be teaching a group of younger kids so Jisung made his way to the dance studios.
Now that he had eaten he was more prepared to chat with the boy. He needed to figure out why he was ignoring him and not letting him explain what had happened and what’s the truth.
Spotting room 205, Jisung came to a halt and glanced in the kids were taking a break and the teacher wasn’t Minho. Knocking on the door and pushing it open.
As soon as the door was open the teacher looked up and the group of kids glanced to the door.

“Can I help you?” The older man pushed off where he was leaning against the mirrors and began walking towards Jisung.

“Oh..Um Is M-Min-inho Hyung here?” Jisung stuttered out.

“Nope called in sick for the fifth day in a row” The teacher tutted, “Is that all you need?”

Jisung quickly nodded and bowed before rushing away without saying thanks or goodbye.

—

Minho plopped down in his car and let out a deep sigh, of course, his mother would force him to go into college after laying in bed wallowing in his self-pity for nearly two weeks.
“It’s not like I learn anything there” Minho had tried to reason with her as she practically pulled him out of his cocoon and pushed him into his bathroom.

Starting up the car Minho decided to drive slowly to College, he wanted to be late anyways- that way no one would see him, and he doesn’t have to deal with annoying students and could also avoid Jisung whilst he was at it.
Whilst he drove Minho began thinking about where he could go whilst at college, he wasn’t going to go to his classes, because he shared some of them with Felix and Hyunjin. He could hide away easily but not in the abandoned classroom because Jisung knew about the spot. And.. well knowing Jisung, the boy would probably be sitting up there waiting to see him and try and reason with him.

Pulling into the college parking Minho was happy to see that it was empty from students sitting around and waiting to go to classes. He pulled into his usual parking spot and sat for a little while whilst planning where to go.
The next best place was the old college library, it was in a separate building adjacent to the new build. For the most part, it was empty except for the reception desk which still had a computer on it, and a few rows of very outdated textbooks that the college didn’t use anymore.
Minho found his way to the old relaxing area, which was basically a small area of the library which had lots of beanbags and sofas. Minho was surprised to see it was in good condition, almost like someone had still been using it.
Dropping his bag down and collapsing on a bean bag Minho pulled out a book and got himself comfortable.

Minho was happily zoned out reading when a shadow loomed over him, glancing up Minho jumped and clutched his chest.

“What the heck Hyunjin?!”

“Thought I would find you here” Hyunjin shrugged as he picked up Minho’s bag and began walking out.

“Yah! That’s my bag where are you going?!” Minho shot up and rushed after the tall boy.

“Well, we need to talk, and I also left my bag in the dance room so we can just talk there instead” Hyunjin passed Minho’s bag back and glanced to make sure the older boy would still follow him.

“Could we not just talk here” Minho grumbled, he didn’t want any of the dancers to see him.

“Too bad, trust me it will be quick” Hyunjin hummed.

“Are you seriously looking out again?” Felix sighed as he saw Jisung glancing at the door of the canteen every time someone entered.

“Look, his car was in the parking lot, which means he’s clearly in.” Jisung’s head shot back to the door when he caught it swinging open.

“Do you really think he would come to the canteen? Doesn’t he hate coming in here?” Seungmin questioned as he sipped on his coke.

“I’m going to look for him” Jisung stood up and grabbed his bag along with the kimbap he had been eating.

“Don’t you think you should wait until he comes to you?” Chan asked as he watched Jisung pack up his bag with his notebook he had out.

“Well he needs to hear my side of the story and I can’t do that if he doesn’t approach me, and I can’t be asked to wait any longer, it’s been two weeks since he’s gone to the company or even come into college. This may be the only time I can catch him” Jisung explained as he situated his bag on his right shoulder.

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you” Chan let Jisung go.

Jisung first headed up to the abandoned floor, glancing into the classroom it was clear no one was in there so he headed further down the corridor, he’d never been further down but wasn’t too surprised to find another classroom except this one was empty, by the looks of it there was a small set of speakers on the ground... Maybe Minho dances here sometimes?
The other classrooms were filled with filing cabinets and broken lockers. Deeming the floor void of Minho, Jisung headed to the next most likely place the dance studios.

Taking a sip out of his water Jisung began peering into each room, some of them had classes going on and so Jisung immediately crossed them out, Minho never went to his classes so there would be no point trying to see if he was there.

The very end room was ‘Minho’s’ Dance studio, the lights were on. Rushing down Jisung looked through the glass and smiled brightly when he saw Minho finishing his dance, there was a loud cheer and clap which meant he wasn’t alone. Looking through the glass on the door Jisung was about to knock but hesitated when he saw Minho smiling brightly at Hyunjin as he let the taller boy pull him into a tight hug.
Jisung’s hand faltered as he made eye contact with Hyunjin. He smirked, then winked. The pair pulled away and Jisung rushed away before he could see their lips connect.

Chapter Text

“I was right wasn’t I” Hyunjin chuckled as he pulled out of the hug.

“Yeah” Minho gasped for breath but laughed lightly, “It definitely got my mind off things”

Hyunjin passed the dancer a bottle of water and they both sat down on the sofa in the dance studio, Hyunjin waited patiently for Minho to catch his breath as he thought back to Jisung glancing into the studio to see the pair hugging.

He had looked distraught, and the smile on his face diminished as soon as they had made eye contact, and then he had run away- it was obvious he wanted to talk to Minho but if Minho hadn’t seen Jisung, he didn’t need to be any the wiser.

Minho let out a sigh and allowed himself to slouch down on the sofa, kicking off his shoes and crossing his legs.
“This reminds me of why I started dancing in the first place” Minho started as he looked at his flushed self in the mirror, light red face with messy hair covered with a thin layer of sweat.

“I started to dance to take my mind off my parents, which was great - at first- I used to only dance at school using their free studio, I managed to make some friends and then.... Of course my dad ruined that” Minho took a gulp of his water.

“I thought you chose to go to Twave though?” Hyunjin raised an eyebrow, shifting in his seat to face more towards Minho.

“I didn’t want to go to TWave, I actually wanted to go to GlideNstep because it specialised in dance and teaching people how to coach. Sure TWave was specified in Dancing as well, but it’s different when you get forced to train as an idol” Minho rolled his eyes just thinking about the day his dad had dragged him to his work and signed him up to the trainee programme without him even auditioning. People hated him for it, mainly due to jealousy that he got to rock up and just join without having to go through the auditions for anything.
It made the first few years at TWave unbearable and once he went to college he managed to stay away from the company and just dance in the college studio.

“I think if you hadn’t joined Twave I would’ve actually been at GlideNstep now, you were the reason I stayed there” Minho glanced towards the boy.

Hyunjin scoffed,” I mean I did nothing”

Minho let out a small ‘pfft’ and turned towards the other dancer completely.

“I mean you used me, so you did do something” Minho rolled his eyes as he looked towards Hyunjin who leaned back letting out a huff.

“When you put it like that, yes I did, but I had my reasons” Hyunjin shrugged.
“Yeah, I look where that got you” Minho scoffed and shook his head in a playful manner. Hyunjin shoved him lightly.

“I do regret it, but I’m honestly surprised that Jisung did the same” Hyunjin glanced towards Minho unsure about how he would react.

At the name, Minho let out a long sigh, “You really think he did it on purpose?” Minho questioned Hyunjin who gave a shrug.

“I mean think about, You met Jisung in Bubbles right?” Hyunjin waited for Minho’s confirmation before he continued, once he got a small nod he continued his explanation.

“From what I heard around, Jisung told you about his auditions? He obviously knew who you were and mentioned TWave and started getting friendly with you so he would know you when he went for the auditions. I guess it was similar to what I did, but I met you after I had auditioned, but I knew who you were so I became friendly with you, he clearly knew that your dad was the CEO, and that he could get a step up if you guys were dating. Trust me, I would know..” Hyunjin explained thoroughly.

“But it seemed like he really liked me..” Minho looked down and played with the hem of his shirt.

“Did it seem like I liked you?” Hyunjin questioned, tilting his head curiously.

“Well…yeah” Minho furrowed his eyebrows.

“Exactly my point, I would stay away from him because if you truly do like him.. I wouldn’t want you to get caught up in another scandal especially cause he started using you, don’t you think if you got back with him he’d just continue to use you for the same reasons and possibly more? His debut already got pushed forwards, there’s no point in getting back at him Min” Hyunjin stood up and stretched out his limbs.

“You know where to come if you want me, and you know I wouldn’t use you again, it’s not like I can anyways” Hyunjin chuckled as he picked up his bag and made his way out of the studio without saying goodbye. He knew Minho would come after him again soon enough.

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧ Kefir and Pinepple Tea *:·ﾟ✧

Minho looked down at his phone and saw the missed call from Jisung, every morning the boy would call him, hoping for a response. Minho felt bad about leaving it to ring through, he really did want to talk to him but not over the phone. This is why Minho was currently in the queue at Bubbles hoping to talk to Jisung.

Scrolling aimlessly throughout his social media's nothing really takes his fancy apart from a video of a cute cat rolling around on a bed. As the line shortened the dancer glanced up to pick out a drink as he did so he spotted Hyunjin standing up from where he was sitting.
Did he come to Bubbles often?

“Hey Minho, what can I get you?” Felix smiled as Minho reached the counter.

“First can I speak with Jisung and also can I get-” Minho went back to check the menu before deciding on his boba.

“Oh, Minho hyung hey!” Minho turned and came to face Hyunjin who had spotted the older when he entered.

“Hyunjin” Minho turned back to Felix to continue ordering.

“I’ll get a-” Minho started before he was interrupted my Hyunjin.

“Oh don’t worry! I wanted to hang out with you so I’ll buy you a drink later” Hyunjin rushed out and grabbed Minho by the wrist and began to pull him away.

“Yah! Hyunjin!” Minho tried to pull his arm out of the boy’s strong grip, as he got dragged he heard the door to the side open and he was met with Jisung carrying a box filled with straws and cups.

Minho’s breath hitched as he noticed Jisung had dyed his hair an electric blue, it was messy from his work which unfairly made him look cute but hot at the same time.
The two made eye contact and Jisung looked like he was about to say something but Minho saw that his eyes spotted Hyunjin pulling Minho away. He let out a sigh and went behind the counter just as Minho got pulled out the door.

“Yah! Hwang Hyunjin!” Minho shouted as he finally got away from Hyujin’s deathly grip, he rubbed his wrist as it let out a sore hum.

“Come on Hyung, let’s go!” Hyunjin smiled and reached for Minho’s arm again.

Minho promptly stepped back, “What the hell Hyunjin?! Couldn’t you see I was busy..” Minho crossed his arms in frustration.

“How was I supposed to know” Hyunjin gave a shrug, “I really did want to hang out with you though”

Minho scoffed and rolled his eyes, “Why would I want to hang out with you? I have a relationship I need to go and fix... Or at least find out the truth about.”

“Well you can do that later, The arcade finally got DDR and I want to play with someone but no one else is good and obviously Felix is working today” Hyunjin grabbed Minho’s arm and began pulling him again.

“I didn’t even say yes to this…” Minho complained as he reluctantly let himself get pulled- he would be lying if he didn’t want to try our the DDR game, he had seen them installing it just the other day when he walked past it.

—

“What song do we want to do?” Hyunjin rushed up to the machines and pushed in his coins whilst Minho followed shortly behind.

“I’m only doing one song, so you can pick” Minho let Hyunjin go wild and scroll through the song selection with ease.

“Okayy…let’s do this” Hyunjin smiled widely at his song choice. Pompeii by Bastille began playing out of the speaker.

“I barely even know this song” Minho whined slightly as he got into his position ready to dance.

“Well, I offered” Hyunjin bounced and shook out his legs before immediately beginning the dance.

Minho quickly caught up from missing the first few beats too distracted at thinking how much he wished he was doing this with Jisung, they had found out about the machines getting installed when they had decided to play a few games to waste some time before they went to see a movie. The pair had overheard the staff talking about where they should put the machines. When they found out that it was DDR the two had decided they would check them out together when they were finally installed and up and running… Minho shook off the thought.

“Come on hyung, you’re doing rubbish, it’s a team effort” Hyunjin huffed out as Minho caught himself from his haze and started to concentrate.

He needed to beat Hyunjin, team game or not.

—

“Let’s go again!” Hyunjin gasped out after downing a bottle of water, they had just done three songs in a row.

“No..” Minho let out a tired breath as he leant against the railings by the machines, holding a half-finished water bottle loosely in one hand.

“Well..I’ll go again” Hyunjin swept his hair back from his sweaty face and happily slotted in yet another coin.

Minho decided to walk around the arcade as he let Hyunjin play another round or two of the dance dance revolution game. The arcade was busy considering it was a Friday afternoon. There were a few teenagers playing some of the shooting games. Minho watched them for a bit from afar wondering how someone could be so good at the game. The two boys seemed to be competing against each other trying to hit each other, one of them complaining about how he was inexperienced.
His glance soon fell on a kid with her dad trying to win a crane game, it just so happened to be the same one that Jisung and Minho played on for Jisung to start off his Squrriel plushie collection. Minho could see how the dad seemed to be struggling to win one and the little girl’s eyes lost their sparkle every time he dropped it.

“Sorry hun, but I guess you can’t get the little guy today” The dad crouched down and stroked the girl’s hair as she pouted and looked to the floor.
“Let’s try a different game yeah?”

At that sentence, the little girl looked up and a small smile grew on her face and she began to drag her father across to a different game. As he looked to see where they were heading a pair of hands came down fast on his shoulders making him jump.

“Boo!” Hyunjin loudly said before chuckling after seeing Minho’s surprised face.

Minho quickly recovered and rolled his eyes at Hyunjin’s actions, “Very funny”. Minho began to make his way out of the arcade knowing Hyunjin would follow.

“I’ll buy your bubble tea now!” Hyunjin quickly caught up to his hyung.

Minho stopped himself from rolling his eyes again and bit his tongue to stop himself from asking Hyunjin to leave him alone. He continued to ignore Hyunjin as he started ranting on about what he had been doing the past few days, including every audition he had and how they all went…in extensive detail.

“Oh look a bubble tea shop” Minho suddenly turned down an alley towards a small bubble tea shop, the faster he got rid of Hyunjin the better. There was only one other person in the store looking at the menu.

“What drink do you want hyung?” Hyunjin asked as he looked at the chalkboard filled with different flavours.

“Umm..the one Jisung makes.. But I don’t know what’s in it” Minho muttered to himself as he looked over the board trying to think of what the flavours were.

—

“Come on tell me Sungie” Minho tried his best to coax Jisung into telling him what he used in his bubble tea creation.

“Nope,” Jisung grinned as he leaned back on his side of the booth sipping on the drink in question.

Minho sighed and let out a small whine and climbed round to Jisung’s side of the booth.

“Why no? Would you really keep your boyfriend in the dark about this” Minho pouted trying to add some aegyo to his voice as he leaned into Jisung’s face.

Minho saw Jisung’s ears turn red at the close proximity, the younger boy put down his drink and with his hands now free he cupped Minho’s face before squishing his cheeks. Jisung laughed as he saw Minho’s face turn a light shade of red.

“Sorry Min, but it’s still not perfect” Jisung explained and let go of his cheeks but still left a hand resting on his boyfriend’s jaw.

“Unfair” Minho furrowed his eyebrows still pouting.

Jisung leant forward and softly kissed off his pout, “Here’s a hint, there’s blueberry in it.” Jisung smiled and happily let Minho kiss him again.

A loud bang was heard at the entrance of the door heading up to the Han flat.
“Han Jisung what did I tell you about making teas at night again” Juyeon tutted as she had her hands on her hip and an eyebrow raised.

–

“Minho? Minho hyung? What did you want?” Hyunjin pulled Minho from his daydream as he smiled sadly at the memory.

“O-oh..umm something with blueberries in” Minho coughed out as he looked away from Hyunjin and out of the windows.

“Cool” Hyunjin shrugged and went up to order the drinks.

Minho sat down at one of the tables and looked out at the quiet street, he missed Jisung…

At that thought he heard his phone buzzing, he looked down to check who was messaging him, it was his mum.

Mum
We found the CCTV footage, we know who wrote the post.

Chapter Text

*:·ﾟ✧ Blueberry Bubble tea with Orange boba *:·ﾟ✧

Minho let out a loud groan as he was awoken by his phone ringing loudly, rolling over squinting to find his phone under his pillow he winced at the bright light.

‘Hwang Hyunjin’

Minho rolled his eyes and declined the call before shutting his eyes to go back to sleep. Why was Hyunjin calling him at 1 am? Did he forget that Minho actually liked sleep?.

Moments later the same ringtone was heard once more, “what the heck” Minho muttered to himself as he picked up his phone and begrudgingly answered it.

“What do you want Hyunjin” Minho sighed down the phone.

He didn’t get an immediate response only the sound of static, he was about to hang up when Hyunjin’s voice came slurring down out the speaker.

“Heyyyy Hyung~” Hyunjin slurred out.

“Are you drunk?” Minho raised an eyebrow as he sat himself up on his bed careful not to disturb Dori who was laying peacefully beside him.

“Why don’t you like- why don’t you like me Hyung” Hyunjin stuttered over his words, Minho could barely hear him over the background voices and the loud music.

“What? Hyunjin why are you calling me?” Minho pinched his nose in frustration, all he wanted was some sleep.

“I miss you hyunggg~” Hyunjin whined, “I don’t like it here”

Minho stopped himself from rolling his eyes and pushed himself up in his bed more, he couldn’t believe he was about to do this.

“Where are you Hyunjin? I’ll come and get you unless you have a ride home”

Immediately Hyunjin’s voice became happier, “Really? I’m at..at that place, um the what's it called.. The bar.. The brain bar?” Hyunjin stumbled over his words.

“Brain? You mean the break bar?” Minho questioned, of course, Hyunjin managed to get himself into the break bar, it was supposed to be an exclusive club and you had to get invited to it. Minho didn’t understand how Hyunjin could get in there.

“Stay there okay, I’ll come and get you” Minho barely waited for a response as he shifted himself out of his bed making sure not to accidentally kick Dori on his way out. He shrugged on a pair of joggers and a hoodie before grabbing his keys.

“I can’t believe I’m doing this” Minho muttered as he shoved on his shoes and hurriedly rushed to his car to get out of the cold night air.

He knew he shouldn’t go to help Hyunjin but considered the boy seemed very out of it and alone the dancer wouldn’t forgive himself if he had ended the call and went back to sleep and something happen to the younger. Sure he despised the boy and wanted nothing to do with him, but if he woke up the next morning to something bad had happened... He’d never live it down.

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Minho was glad he already knew the way to the Break Bar. It didn’t take him long to spot Hyunjin. The boy was crouched down sitting on the edge of the curb playing with a loose strand of his hair that had fallen out of his ponytail.

“Hyunjin?” Minho slowly approached the boy to not scare him, Hyunjin’s face slowly lifted and a smile grew onto the boy’s face.

“Minnieee, you’re here, stay with me” Hyunjin pushed himself up off the curb and nearly fell right into Minho.

Minho caught him by the shoulder, “Come on let’s get you home okay?”

Hyunjin just nodded and mumbled letting most of his weight fall onto Minho as he struggled to support the boy to his car, luckily Minho had only parked a few metres away and managed to open the passenger and let Hyunjin slump into the seat.
Minho helped Hyunjin get his feet into the car and sit up properly before leaning over to strap on his seatbelt. As he did so he felt Hyunjin’s breath.

“Hyunggg don’t leave” Hyunjin grabbed Minho’s wrist as he started to move away, the smell of alcohol making his breath disgusting.

“I’m not going anywhere just to the other side of the car” Minho explained and pulled his hand out of Hyunjin’s grip with a bit of struggle. It was scary how strong his grip was despite him being out of it.

Minho rushed to the other side of the car into the driver's seat so he could get Hyunjin back home as soon as possible.

Despite not having been around Hyunijn’s house for a couple of years Minho still left his breath hitch when he saw the familiar driveway and house. The driveway was empty so the older boy guessed it was another week where Hyunjin’s parents mysteriously went on business trips leaving Hyunjin in charge of the house, which led to the boy leaving and getting drunk like always when he managed to.

“E.T is hommeeee” Hyunjin slurred as he saw the front door, as he tried to get out of the door forgetting he had a seatbelt on.

Minho rolled his eyes and scoffed, he forgot how stupid Hyunjin became when he was drunk, amongst other things. He leant over the drunk boy and unplugged the seatbelt, Hyunjin grabbing his wrist again, “Stay”

Minho pulled out of Hyunjin’s grip, “Come on let’s get you to bed”. The older dancer swung one of Hyunjin’s arms over his shoulder’s so it was easier to get him to walk. Luckily Hyunjin had forgotten to lock his front door and so it was easy to get in. He didn’t bother taking off his shoes considering he was going to get Hyunjin to lie down on his bed and then leave.

“Come on up the stairs Hyunjin” Minho practically dragged the intoxicated boy up the stairs.

“Minniie you are the best boyfrienddd” Hyunjin giggled.

⚠️

“I’m not your boyfriend Hyunjin” Minho huffed out of breath from having Hyunjin leaning all his weight onto him.
Hyunjin’s room was the first door on the left up the stairs and so Minho wasted no time in kicking the door open with his foot and getting the younger boy over to the bed in the corner of the room. As he finally reached it Hyunjin leant back and pushed Minho down onto the bed, climbing on top of him.

“Ugh, Hyunjin seriously, get off, I’m not staying here” Minho tried to push the taller boy off him but Hyunjin decided to cuddle him.
Minho grabbed the drunk boy’s shoulders and shook him before pushing him off.
“Nooooo” Hyunijn whined and grabbed Minho by the shoulder as he attempted to get off the bed.

“Get off me Hyunjin” Minho whined and huffed as he tried to get his face away from Hyunjin’s as the boy breathed right in his face. Minho grimaced at the smell.

“Mine” Hyunjin’s voice became a lot more possessive, he gripped Minho’s waist and straddled him.

“Get off me Hyunjin” Minho became more panicky as he tried to push the boy who was towering over him.

Minho’s breath hitched and became more rapid as he felt Hyunjin’s hand travel up his leg,
“Hyunjin, stop” Minho gasped as Hyunjin suddenly pressed his lips on Minho’s.

Minho pulled away as fast as possible but that only surged Hyunjin on, the younger began tugging on Minho’s joggers.

“Stop please!” Minho cried as he tried to reach down and stop Hyunjin from pulling his boxers down with his joggers.

“Shut up, let’s go back down memory lane shall we” Hyunjin grinned and roughly grabbed Minho’s frantic hands pressing them into the mattress to stop him from pushing Hyunjin away. Hyunjin had now pulled his Joggers and boxers down and was trying to make Minho separate his legs.

Tears were streaming down Minho’s face as he became panicky, his breathing was sporadic and he didn’t know how to calm his breathing, everything was happening too fast.
He could only think of one thing and so with one of his knees, he roughly pushed upwards kicking Hyunjin hard making the younger double back in pain and rolling off the older boy.
Wasting no time Minho clambered out the bed and didn’t look back. Yanking up his joggers and boxers in one, he ran.

⚠️

Thankful he never took off his shoes, the dancer ran to his car barely thinking straight, turning on the ignition he quickly pulled out of the driveway. He couldn’t see clearly due to the streams of tears running down his face, he couldn’t even remember the directions to get back to his house because his mind was racing and his breathing was coming fast and hard. He didn’t even want to go back home in this state, his parents would ask him where he was at 2 am.
As he drove down the road he only managed to think of one place nearby. Bubbles.

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Minho held back a choke of cries as he pulled into the Bubbled parking, he frantically climbed out of the car, only just remembering to turn off the engine and lock it before he was buzzing the bell for Jisung’s family flat.

Buzz
Buzz
Buzz
Buzz

Jisung groaned as he heard the bell go off again and again. “I swear to god if it’s a thief or someone ringing the bell”
He wrapped himself up in his blanket and climbed out of his bed he walked through the kitchen and began walking down the stairs.

“Ji? What’s going on?” Juyeon asked sleepily as she stood at the top of the stairs.

“I’ll deal with it mum, go back to sleep”

Buzz
Buzz

Juyeon nodded and sleepily turned around to go back to sleep, as Jisung walked into the dark shop floor he saw a figure at the front door. A hand is constantly on the buzzer clicking it every few seconds. “Those batteries are going to die”

Jisung pulled up the lock and pulled the door open, Jisung immediately recognised the face. Minho, except his face, was all blotchy and tears were streaming down his face and he was shaking.

“Min?” Jisung asked softly, the boy looked so fragile.

At the sound of Jisung’s voice, Minho fell into the boy and hugged him tightly. “Ji- Jisung” Minho gasped out as he hugged him tightly.

Through the hug Jisung could feel how fast the dancer’s heartbeat was going, deciding not to question it he carefully guided Minho upstairs, not before wrapping his blanket around the boy’s shoulders due to him shaking.
“Ji..Ji..Ji” Minho mumbled as they walked up the stairs one at a time.

“I’m right here Minho hyung” Jisung stroked the boy’s back gently.

Jisung wasn’t surprised to see his mum waiting in the kitchen to see who was buzzing the bell at 2am, “let me get you some water” Juyeon gave a gentle smile as Jisung nodded before saying a small ‘thanks’.

Minho continued to grip Jisung’s shirt as they walked into his bedroom. His feet suddenly freezing as he saw a bed., “No..no.. please. No” Minho shook his head and hid it in Jisung’s neck.

“Let’s get back to the kitchen then, okay Min?” Jisung stroked the boy’s hair as he turned them. He felt a small nod in the nook of his neck and took it as a yes.
They slowly made their way back to the kitchen and instead of going to the table and chairs Jisung led them towards the sofa and let Minho sit on the comfy cushion.
Immediately Minho attached himself to Jisung when the younger tried to stand.

Juyeon came over with a glass of water and another blanket, “Here, you need to drink Minho, you must be dehydrated”

Minho finally took his face out from Jisung’s neck and shakily took the glass of water, sipping on it gently. Jisung helped hold it steady with one of his hands over Minho’s as he drank.
The glass was quickly empty and as soon as Juyeon took it from his hand Minho immediately buried himself in Jisung’s chest.

“I’ll stay with him here tonight, he doesn’t want to go into my bed for some reason, and I don’t want to leave him on his own” Jisung spoke quietly with his mum as he continued to stroke Minho’s back, he could already tell the older’s heart had slowed down and he was slowly falling asleep from exhaustion.
Juyeon nodded understandably, she unfolded the blanket she had brought and covered Minho and Jisung with it.
“I’ll grab you some pillows”

Once she had left Jisung pulled Minho even closer.
“It’s okay Min, I’m here”.

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*:·ﾟ✧ Peach and grapefruit with strawberry boba *:·ﾟ✧

Jisung slowly woke up to the sound of the soft banging of pots and boiling of a kettle, Lifting one hand to rub his eyes he went to roll over before suddenly remembering Minho was with him.
The boy look exhausted and was wrapped up in the two blankets, hair ruffled and his face pressed into Jisung’s chest. Jisung didn’t even realise that Minho had lightly taken hold of his hand throughout the night.

“Oh, morning Ji” Juyeon smiled as she noticed her son ruffling his hair and sitting up just slightly.

“Morning” Jisung responded quietly so he wouldn’t wake up the sleeping boy.

“We have some breakfast ready if you want to wake Minho and eat something” Juyeon spoke before making her way back into the kitchen area to continue setting up the breakfast.

“Minho hyung” Jisung spoke quietly into Minho’s ear and stroked the boy’s head to slowly wake him up.
It didn’t take for Minho to react and attempt to hide himself under the blankets, Jisung chuckled at the action and pulled Minho up with him as he sat himself up, he didn’t need to get a back injury anytime soon.

“You want food?” Jisung smiled as Minho wrapped his arms around Jisung’s waist and stayed close to him.

He felt a nod and so attempted to push Minho away slightly, as he did so he finally got a good look at his face since he saw him at the door. His eyes were still puffy from the mountain of crying he did yesterday and his face was paler than the blotchy red it was last night.

“Aww Min” Jisung pouted slightly as he saw how tired the boy looked. He carefully pushed away the hair in the dancer’s face and smiled gently at the boy.

“Let’s get you some food” Jisung pushed himself up and took Minho’s hand and gently led him over to the kitchen.

Jisung’s parents were chatting lightly at the table already digging into a few pieces of food, mainly toast and some croissants that had been heated up.
Minho took the seat opposite Juyeon with a blanket still wrapped around him and he continued to look at his empty plate not really sure what to do. He had just turned up last night with no explanation and now they would most likely want to know what he was doing out at 2 am.
The dancer slowly began plating up making sure to grab a croissant before they were all gone as well as some cheese, it seemed like Juyeon had taken on a more European breakfast today.

Breakfast passed easily, no one asked Minho what had happened but from Jisung’s constant looks of concern Minho knew he would have to explain what happened sooner or later, he also now could apologise to the boy for ignoring him and not hearing his side of the story.

“Minho hyung? Can we talk?” Jisung turned to his hyung as his parents started to tidy away the breakfast.

“You can have a shower first if you want” Jisung suggested as he stood up and waited for Minho to follow him.

“That would be great thanks..” Minho mumbled slightly, there was definitely tension, they were almost stepping on eggshells around each other, after not speaking for nearly a month.

“You know where the bathroom is, I’ll grab you some clean clothes” Jisung smiled and made his way to his room.

Minho headed across the hall and shut the door to the bathroom, letting out a shaky breath he bit his lip trying to forget what had happened last night. He prayed a warm shower would help clear his head and get the feeling of Hyunjin’s hands over his body away.
Turning on the shower to let it warm up he heard a knock.

“Come in” Minho raised his voice to make sure Jisung could hear, the door opened slowly.

Jisung was holding some Joggers, a t-shirt and one of his oversized hoodies, along with a towel.

“Here you go, I’ll be in my room so just come in once you are done” Jisung let out a small grin and passed over the clothes.

“Right... Thanks” Minho smiled gratefully. As quick as Jisung came in he was gone.

–

Standing in the shower Minho scrubbed his body harshly trying to get rid of the feeling of Hyunjin’s hands on him, particularly his thighs and waist. His eyes swelling up and he kept thinking about the hands gripping him tightly and moving up and up… the voice of Hyunjin being possessive and drunk, he needed to forget it… he needed to replace it...
Minho gasped for breath as he snapped himself out of the memory and turned the shower off. He quickly dried himself and was thankful that the smell of Jisung’s perfume on the boy’s hoodie made him feel somewhat calmer than previously.
Towelling his hair dry, he let it hang and he didn’t bother brushing it through.

Grabbing his old clothes he threw them into the washing basket knowing that Jisung’s parents wouldn’t mind it. He carefully made his way across the landing and towards Jisung’s room.

The squirrel boy heard a light knock on his door and he called for them to come in, knowing immediately it would be Minho. Sitting up on his bed he paused the video of some documentary he was watching.
Minho stood there looking tiny in the clothes Jisung had given him, despite them being the perfect fit.
Jisung’s eyes softened and he held out his hand as if to tell Minho to come closer. The blue-haired boy immediately noticed how hesitant he was at approaching the bed just like last night.

“It’s okay Min, nothing is going to happen” Jisung let out an encouraging smile as the dancer carefully took hold of Jisung’s hand and sat on the bed with his back against the wall.

They sat next to each other for a few minutes in silence, shoulder to shoulder. Minho had begun picking his fingers, a habit Jisung knew all too much about. He was nervous, which was no surprise. Reaching out Jisung lightly pulled the boy’s hands apart and intertwined one of them with his own to stop the boy from damaging them.

“I-I’m sorry” Minho muttered looking down to his lap not wanting to make eye contact with Jisung.

Jisung let out a sigh and squeezed Minho’s hand, “You had every right to be mad at me hyung, but... You didn’t even let me explain my side of the story, it made me feel like you didn’t trust me, and then you avoided me completely not even giving me a chance to talk to you” Jisung let out another deep breath and looked over to Minho who looked like he was about to cry again.

“I-..I know Jisung.. I should’ve asked you before believing what I had read, but I wasn’t even thinking straight.. And then Hyunjin convinced me that you and he were similar and you used me like he actually did… which I should’ve known was a lie. Like we barely even knew each other at the auditions and so I don’t know why I trusted Hyunjin’s judgement.. I’m sorry.. I’m an idiot” Minho spoke quietly as tears poured down his face.

Jisung squeezed Minho’s hand comforting him, Jisung knew Hyunjin had to have a bigger part in this… “Min.. was he the one who posted it then?”

Minho let out a scoffed through his tears, “Nope.. It was Mira.. which doesn’t surprise me when she’s been flirting with me since the auditions and like you said, she wanted private lessons..my dad found the security footage of her taking the photos. It couldn’t have been Hyunjin because there would’ve been no way for him to get into the building.. So I’m guessing Mira was just extremely Jealous.”

“Your kidding?!” Jisung raised an eyebrow in surprise, “I Just assumed she was another one of the trainees who just wanted to learn from you because you’re amazing at dancing.”

“Apparently not” Minho clicked his tongue.

The two fell into another silence, Minho turned his head away from Jisung knowing exactly what was about to be asked. He shut his eyes as he heard the boy start to talk.

“Umm Minho Hyung..”

Squeezing his eyes shut he begged Jisung to not ask him, even though he knew it would be impossible to avoid it.

“Why did you turn up here at 2 am? Did you and your dad argue again?” Jisung asked curiously.

Minho hid his face in his knees, “No..it’s..”
Stopping himself from stumbling over his words Minho took a deep breath to try and stop his tears and heartbeat down. He was grateful that Jisung stayed quiet and let the boy collect his thoughts before speaking.

“I-um..Hyunjin..he” Minho looked up at Jisung whilst he began to explain, despite him collecting his thoughts his body still reacted and he could barely stop the tears from falling and his breath catching.

“Hyunjin.. He..he was drunk..and-” Minho stopped as he tried to not full-on cry.

Jisung moved closer to the older boy and wrapped his arm around his shoulder pulling him closer, “You don’t have to explain Min”

Minho quickly shook his head,” I-I he forced..um.. He… forced himself on me” Minho managed to get out before the floodgates opened and he began crying again.
Jisung was quick to pull him into a tight hug, Minho wrapped his arms around the boy and buried his face in his neck.

“Minho, that’s horrible, I’m sorry you had to deal with that, just know you’re safe here okay, you are away from him here.” Jisung consoled him as best he could not really sure what to say in the situation.

Slowly Minho calmed down letting go of Jisung slightly as he pulled back.
Jisung pouted lightly at seeing his face once again red and slightly puffy leaning forward and kissing Minho’s forehead. The older boy leant into the touch and wasted no time in connecting his lips with Jisung’s missing the feeling. Also not to mention he could get rid of the feeling of Hyunjin’s rough lips on his.
Jisung didn’t seem to mind and happily kissed back also missing Minho, The dancer pushed Jisung gently down and climbed on top of him, kissing more roughly.
Jisung was quick to pull away after realising what Minho was doing.

“Min, Minho hyung stop” Jisung managed to pry the boy off him so they could sit back up.

“Please Ji” Minho begged as he tugged on the younger’s shirt trying to pull him back down so their lips could meet again.

“Min not now.. You aren’t in the right headspace for this, you’re just trying to forget what happened and after you’ll regret it more” Jisung tried to reason with him.

Minho let out a pout and whined, “I won’t no.. please” Minho attempted to push Jisung down again but he didn’t put much strength into it as he soon collapsed again into tears.

Jisung brought him back into a tight hug and kissed the crown of his head.

“I’m sorry” Minho mumbled whilst choking up again.

“It’s okay Min, don’t apologise I know why you did it.” Jisung bit his lip trying to stop himself from crying and also to stop himself from wanting to beat Hyunjin up. How could he do that to his boyfriend?.

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*:·ﾟ✧ Strawberry Milk Tea with tapioca*:·ﾟ✧

Although Jisung was supposed to have a shift at Bubbles today, his parents immediately agreed to him staying with Minho, so now the two sat together on Jisung’s bed lounging around not doing anything except bathing in each others presence. After a month without seeing each other they had both realised how much they had missed each other’s touch.
Minho lay against Jisung, his head on the singer’s chest with his arm wrapped around the younger’s waist. Jisung was lightly playing with Minho’s hair. There was no TV playing instead Jisung had turned on some music on his phone and they laid on the bed listening to it.

“Do you think there’s still a way for me to convince my dad to let me quit idol training?” Minho asked softly breaking the silence as he played with the hem of Jisung’s shirt.

Jisung stayed silent for a moment, There must be a way, it’s unfair for Minho to be forced into a career he doesn’t want, especially one which means he is always followed and under the public eye at all times. It was scary for Jisung to even think about and he was the one who was pursuing this career for real.

“We’ll find a way Min, and i’ll be there even if it goes wrong okay? He can’t keep forcing you to do what he wants, and besides you’re 18 you should actually technically be allowed to make your own decisions without his opinions and views. ” Jisung pulled Minho closer gently by the waist so he didn’t bring up any bad memories.

“Thank you Sungie” Minho turned his face upwards and looked at Jisung, “I… I love you” Minho blushed lightly and quickly hid his face into Jisung’s neck.

Jisung giggled and kissed the top of Minho’s head, “ I love you too”.

Minho felt Jisung squeeze his waist lightly and he rolled himself away from Jisung slightly lying on his side, Jisung noticed the boy’s action and copied him so they were facing each other.

“Does this mean we can be boyfriends again” Minho chuckled nervous that Jisung would suddenly refuse even after they had just confessed.

“On one condition” Jisung smirked.

“What’s that” Minho asked unsure. He knew it couldn’t be that bad but knowing Jisung it would probably be something embarrassing.

“When..when did you know you loved me” Jisung said quietly almost a whisper as he looked down at the pairs hands which were lightly clasped together.

“When I took you on a date to the beach, and we were in the water and I’d just got revenge after you splashed me first” Minho blushed lightly once more, a tiny smile on his face as he recalled the memory.

“I-really?!” Jisung looked shocked by the answer.

“Why? When did you realise?” Minho shifted closer to Jisung letting one of his legs fall over the younger’s hips.

“When we snuck out of lessons and went to the abandoned classroom” Jisung let out a small smile when he saw Minho’s eyes soften.

“You’re so cute” Minho chuckled and raised his hand and rested it on Jisung’s jaw before pulling him in for a soft kiss.
Jisung pulled Minho back onto his chest and slowly deepended the kiss his hands resting on the dancer’s waist. Minho bit on Jisung’s lip which he took as a sign to be able to make the kiss more heated than before. Letting one of his hands slide slowly under Minho’s -his- hoodie and stroking Minho’s soft skin. He was hesitant at first making sure Minho was fine with the movement.

“This okay?” Jisung breathed out catching his breath as he double checked.

Minho only nodded and brought their lips together again, his left hand still on Jisung’s jaw whilst the other was on Ji’s shoulder letting him straddle the younger properly. He slowly edged down to Jisung’s neck and softly sucked on the skin knowing how much Jisung would hate to have to wear hoodies with the now increasing summer days.
“Min.. whyy” Jisung whined lightly as he quickly caught onto what the dancer was doing.

The older boy giggled and sucked harder, teasing his boyfriend.

Jisung pushed Minho away and saw Minho smiling happily, Jisung rushed to the bathroom to check what state Minho had left his neck in.

“Seriously?! Babe” Jisung’s whine was heard all the way back into the boy’s room where Minho was smiling and laughing at his masterpiece.

—-

“Why did he only message you?” Jisung asked through the phone as he paced his room walking back and forth, he was biting his lips nervously, “We have to go now?” Jisung raised an eyebrow and looked over at Minho who had fallen asleep on his bed an hour ago.

Jisung sighed into the phone and rubbed his face, “ Yeah…okay I’ll wake Minho hyung up…what? Yes we did…..i’ll explain later.. See ya” Jisung responded to his phone and ended the call.

“Who called?” Minho asked sleepily as he sat up not realising he had fallen asleep.

Jisung took a seat on his bed next to his boyfriend and pushed his own hair out of his face and rubbing his eyes as Minho shuffled around sitting up besides him.

“Your dad..he’s thinking of terminating our contracts” Jisung sighed and hid his face in his hands.

At that Minho got out of the bed and began grabbing his coat and phone from Jisung’s desk.

“Umm what are you doing?” Jisung raised an eyebrow at Minho’s haste.

“Well, let’s go and talk to my dad” Minho pulled his coat on regardless of the weather.

“It’s fine Min, I’m going there in an hour to meet with Chan and Changbin hyung to talk about, we have time before we need to go.” Jisung got himself up and grabbed his shoes.

“Bubble tea before then?” Minho asked expectantly as he grabbed Jisung’s arm.
“Sure” Jisung chuckled.

“Wow looks like you had a fun time” Felix joked as he eyed up the hickey’s on Jisung’s neck as he typed in the couples order.

The rapper rolled his eyes, “I didn’t want them, but Minho had a different idea”

“Clearly” Felix chuckled as he turned to make the two drinks.

Minho was standing outside of the shop waiting for Jisung to come with their drinks, they were originally going to sit in and drink but they got distracted and now where in a rush to get there on time, but with Minho’s pestering Jisung still agreed to ‘buy’ them some boba.

“Did you and Minho sort everything out?” Felix asked even though the answer seemed almost obvious.

Jisung nodded and took the drinks from Felix, “Yup, We are just sorting out a couple of things dealing with TWave though” Jisung let out a huff of annoyance.

“Well at least we won’t have you moping around anymore” Felix chuckled as he saw a new customer coming in.

“Shut up” Jisung stuck out his tongue and made his way outside to meet Minho.

The walk to Twave was fairly quick and filled with the pair catching up on everything they had missed disregarding the rough patch in their relationship, at one point Minho had slipped his hand into Jisung’s causing the boy’s to both smile secretly at how much they had missed their weekly walks together to the entertainment company. Surprisingly when they reached the entrance there wasn’t any cameras waiting outside like normal.

“Chan and Changbin are already inside” Jisung checked his phone to confirm if they were already waiting or on their way.

“You can probably just go straight up to my dad’s office, there’s no point in waiting for the actual meeting time” Minho shrugged as they linked up with the other two rappers.

Changbin smirked at the pairs connected hands quickly clocking that they had clearly sorted things out between them, Chan noticed as well and his lips twitched up.

“Let’s go sort this out” Chan led the four up to the CEO’s office. Minho squeezed Jisung’s hand gently knowing that the boy was already stressed about the rumors and so being told his contract could be terminated terrified him.

“It’ll be fine Ji” Minho whispered to him in the lifted, he kissed the side of the boy’s head letting Jisung play with their intertwined fingers to calm his nerves.

—-----

The four boys entered the office and immediately took their seats on the sofa facing the desk where Mr Lee was typing up something.

“So, Jisung.” Mr Lee started before he stood up and walked around his desk and took a seat in front of the four boys. Jisung took a large gulp and took a deep breath.

“Y-yess sir?”

“Is it true you are using Minho to debut faster? If you aren’t aware of previous situations, we’ve had someone blacklisted because of using my son for his own aid in debuting. I’d hate to think the same thing has happened again, it would mean not only your solo career but your debut in 3racha would also be affected.” Mr Lee looked between the group noticing how Chan and Changbin had tensed up at the last statement.

“I- no I never used Minho hyung, the post about us was wrong, the only truth was that we met at Bubbles- where I work- but I didn’t know who Minho was at the time” Jisung stated his cause, tightly gripping Minho’s hand making the dancer wince in pain.

“So you used him in your auditions?” Mr Lee raised an eyebrow.

Jisung’s eyes widened, “No I didn’t I- I got lost and I” Jisung became a stuttering mess worried about saying the wrong thing.

“Ji really didn’t.” Minho spoke up and interrupted Jisung after seeing him struggling.

“Jisung really didn’t use me, he got lost and left his application form downstairs in one of the waiting areas and to stop him from stressing I went and grabbed it for him. I would’ve done it for anyone” Minho calmly explained the situation.

“Okay, so Jisung you aren’t using Minho?” Mr Lee asked.

“No I promise, it was just a coincidence, as much as i’d like a step up i’d never do it by playing with someones feelings, I’d do it by working hard and proving myself” Jisung bit his lip hoping to get his point across.

“Chan, Changbin what are your take on this?” Mr Lee turned his body towards them. As they began to explain Jisung turned towards Minho who looked slightly worried about what his father’s outcome would be. Making eye contact with his boyfriend he gave an encouraging smile and lifted up their connected hands and kissed Jisung’s hand lightly, making the younger give a nervous smile.

“Okay.. I guess we can believe the sources and not terminate your contract, however if I find out you are using your connections you will be out of this company immediately” Mr Lee stared at Jisung waiting for him to respond.

Jisung gave a deep bow and quickly agreed to the CEO.

“Now I just need to talk to Minho, the rest of you are free to go” Mr Lee waved them out and the three boys stood up to leave.

Jisung looked at Minho as he stood and the dancer gave a square smile and shooed him away.

“Minho, I have a proposition for you” Mr Lee announced as he went back to sitting behind his desk, almost hiding from Minho as the dancer stood up.

“If I allow you to quit your idol training will you instead take up a position as a choreographer or teacher? We are low on dance teachers due to a couple of them leaving because they neglected their work” Mr Lee shuffled around looking for a file.

Minho’s jaw dropped, “your serious?”

“Yes Minho, I realised there is no point in trying to get you to go to your lessons if you’ll just skip them, if you want you can still have dance lessons and if you want you can still learn how to sing and rap, I will just not force you to become an idol. I think we will both agree that Jisung is clearly more suited for the idol life considering his determination to debut” Mr Lee glanced up at his son and passed over the paperwork already knowing Minho would agree.

“Thank you..dad”

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*:·ﾟ✧ Chocolate Milk Tea *:·ﾟ✧

Minho sat in the corner of Bubbles as he pretended to focus on his college work, he didn’t have much to do really, just planning out a few choreos that he could submit to his teacher for his end of college performance, he still had a year to go but someone from each year would be picked to perform regardless of whether they were graduating or not. Minho was definitely behind on his work though, but he mainly blamed Jisung for that.

The younger boy had convinced his boyfriend to study at Bubbles so they could chat whilst Ji was on break, little did Jisung know was it also meant the two of them would equally be distracted from their own respected work. Jisung had already messed up an order, and Minho hadn’t even looked at his notebook since about an hour ago when Jisung had spilt a drink down himself and had changed into some tight leather pants, claiming that they were the only pants he had that were clean.

It was nearing closing time so the shop was practically empty, only Felix, Jisung, Juyeon and Minho were there. As well as a couple of stray customers who were coming to the end of their drinks.

“Min do you want anything before we shut the machines off?” Jisung came over to Minho’s table and took a seat opposite the boy.

“Sure! You can make me that secret drink of yours” Minho winked causing the worker to giggle.

“Ok! and before you ask, nope I’m still not telling you the flavours” Jisung grinned and skipped off with a smile.

“Of course he wouldn’t” Minho tutted as he gathered up his stuff, haphazardly throwing it into his bag before making his way over to the counter.
He leant against the counter trying to look at what Jisung was putting in the drink, he saw a blue liquid, which he already knew about he just needed to figure out what else was…

“Ah, Minho! Are you staying round?” Juyeon suddenly appeared in front of the dancer making him jump back.

“Oh- um if that’s okay!” Minho smiled lightly.

“Of course, of course... No funny business though” She joked as she pointed a figure at the boy.

Minho nodded and their conversation was cut short by Jisung appearing with the drink, blue and purple… what even is the purple…

“Here you go Min” Jisung passed over the drink and Minho gave a thankful smile before poking it and taking a sip, still just as sweet and sour as the last time.

“Jisung I trust you to lock up, when you come upstairs we have something important to talk about though okay, so don’t take too long” Juyeon gave a stern look at her son before making her way upstairs.

The couple watched her go as she walked up the stairs to the Han flat. Jisung turned to Minho confused, “Did she tell you anything?”

“Nope, but I am staying round tonight” Minho smirked, “I can always add another to your collection” eyeing up Jisung’s neck.

Jisung rubbed his hand over the slowly fading red hickey, “no thanks, I have to perform in front of the college and I planned on wearing a t-shirt because, ya know, it’s summer” Jisung covered his neck as if to stop Minho from doing anything at that moment.

“So” Minho smirked and leant over the counter so his face was inches away from the boy, “I know you like it kitten”

Jisung went bright red and hit Minho on the shoulder. Hard.

“Ow!” Minho moaned and rubbed where his boyfriend had just hit him, he gave the younger a small glare.

“Thank god it’s closing time and I can leave and don’t have to see you acting all lovey-dovey” Felix commented as he walked past them after coming out of the staff room.

“Lovey-dovey” Jisung mocked and pulled a face at Lix.

“Bye guys!” Felix gave a wave as he walked out the front of the shop not waiting for a response.

Jisung made his way to the front door and made sure the sign said ‘closed’ and locked the doors, he flicked on the fairy lights and made his way back over to Minho who had collected his bag and was standing by the Han’s flat door.

“My mum seemed serious, I hope it’s nothing bad” Jisung looked over at his boyfriend concerned.

Minho took Jisung’s hand in his and started walking up the stairs after the lights were flicked off letting the fairy lights glow overtake the shop floor.

“I’m sure it’s fine Sungie, you haven’t done anything wrong recently right?” Minho asked.

“Nope,” Jisung shrugged as he pushed open the front door which led into the kitchen.

Jisung’s parents were sitting at the table doing their usual paperwork and taxes which happened every Sunday evening like clockwork. Mr Han had his reading glasses on whilst looking over letters regarding their renovations and taxes, whilst Juyeon had a calculator out typing away and jotting down notes.

As the front door was shut Juyeon looked up and gave a small smile and patted the seat next to her, motioning for Jisung to sit. Minho stood behind the boy’s chair, a hand on the younger’s shoulder.

“So Jisung, we wanted to discuss something with you regarding College and the payments you need for Twave” Mr Han looked over sternly to Jisung.

Jisung gulped, he knew Twave was expensive after all it was one of the best entertainment companies. Minho gripped Jisung’s shoulder to keep him grounded as they both waited for Mr Han to continue.

“Did you want to explain what this was about?” Mr Han passed over a letter, addressed to himself about Jisung.

Dear Mr Han,

After many meetings and reviews regarding your son's performance and dedication to TWave Entertainment, We have spoken to his teachers about his lessons and whilst he is excelling in them we have no doubt he will be able to make his debut very shortly, this means his trainee fees will becoming to a halt as he begins his career as an idol.
As CEO of TWave, I would like to reduce Han Jisung’s fees as we believe he isn’t in need of much more training as of right now, and so his lessons will become fewer. By standards, this means you won’t have to pay for the full trainee programme and we have therefore discounted his fees accordingly.
See attached the new fees and Jisung’s newest timetable.

Sincerely
Seokmin Lee

“I-i’m debuting soon?!” Jisung looked up from the letter wide eyes, he turned to his boyfriend who seemed just as shocked. Clearly, his dad hadn’t mentioned anything to him.

“Jisung that’s excellent news, honey!” Juyeon smiled brightly and gave her son a side hug in his seat.

“Because of this, and the money you’ve been earning. You’re able to move into the college dorms” Mr Han gave a small smile as he explained the situation to Jisung.

“You’re kidding?! I can move in?” Jisung was bouncing in his seat, barely staying still. He would’ve already jumped out of his seat if it wasn’t for Minho who was giving him a back hug from where he was standing behind the chair.

“Let’s get you all packed! You move in tomorrow” Juyeon announced as she stood up from her chair.

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“Woah, this is such a big dorm” Jisung’s jaw had dropped the moment he had stepped into his dorm room.

As soon as you stepped into the dorms you were met with an open plan living room with a kitchen immediately to the left. There was a small corridor on the left next to the living room leading towards a bedroom and a bathroom and on the right of the living space, there was another room.

“Do you have a roommate?” Minho asked as he pulled one of Jisung’s suitcases into the open space.

Jisung nodded looking around the room, it was neat and tidy but was still obviously lived in from the ruffled up sofa and blanket as well as the shoes that were dotted around, not to mention some cakes in a box on the kitchen island.

Jisung could see that the room to the left was already inhabited and so began taking his luggage to the empty room, once inside he smiled at the size, it was spacious considering it was a student accommodation, a nice sized desk which was perfect for his monitors and mixing board, and a bed which was definitely larger than a single but not a double, where Minho had already collapsed onto regardless of it being duvet-less.

The pair quickly got into the flow of unpacking and filling drawers and cupboards with whatever Jisung had brought with him… the mini-fridge? It was unnecessary but Minho had agreed immediately when Jisung wanted to buy it that morning.

It only took a few hours for the pair to finish unpacking Jisung’s things and they were soon both lying on Jisung’s already messy bed, Jisung’s arm acting as a pillow for Minho as they let their legs tangle lightly together.

“You better visit me Hyung” Jisung broke the comfortable silence that had surrounded them.

“Of course Hannie, I'll make sure to walk you back here every day after training- well drive you back- I’m not about to walk an hour after dancing for like three” Minho chuckled as he rolled as he could wrap as an arm around Jisung’s waist.

“I’ll probably still work at Bubbles for a bit so don’t worry you can still get free bubble tea, but not daily now” Jisung poked Minho’s nose as he screwed up his face.

“Good, I’ll contract you to at least once a week, I need my bubble tea fix” Minho chuckled as he let Jisung play with some strands of his hair.

“One is fine, any more and that’s a push” Jisung joked.

There was a timid knock at Jisung’s door, it was already opened but when he turned around from his bed he saw a boy with black hair standing at his doorway.

“O-oh..um hi..I didn’t realise you were moving in today” the boy scratched the back of his head.

“Ah yeah,” Jisung chuckled awkwardly, “You’re Jeongin right? You’re in my music history class right?” Jisung sat himself up ignoring Minho’s complaints at suddenly being pushed away from his comfortable position.

“Yeah, You’re Jisung right? From 3racha?” Jeongin asked, it was more of a comment.

“That’s me, in the flesh” Jisung smiled and pulled himself off his bed, “ Oh this is Minho my boyfriend, you’ll probably see him around here a lot” Jisung pointed to Minho who had now sat up as well.

Jeongin’s eyes widened, “I- I thought you guys had… sorry, I probably shouldn’t say anything about that”

Minho spoke up before Jisung had a chance to respond, “ It’s fine, you’ll find out soon enough that we’re back together after the rumours anyways. My dad was going to post about it this week” Minho announced.

“Ah cool, well I was about to get food-well order food- so if you want you can join me” Jeongin gave a wide smile.

Jisung happily nodded, “Sure! I’ll come out in a minute”

Jeongin gave a quick bye and left the couple to go and grab his phone and start the order.

“You want to stay Min?” Jisung looked over at his boyfriend who seemed to be deep in thoughts.

Jisung lightly tapped his thigh, “Min? You okay?”

Minho snapped out of whatever he was thinking and looked up at his boyfriend who wore a worried expression. Minho let out a small sigh and looked down into Jisung’s lap. Han picked up on his feelings quickly and took hold of one of his hands giving it a gentle squeeze.

“You okay kitten?”

Minho felt himself heat up at the nickname, he had tried to make the name stick to Jisung but the younger ended up using it more than him. He’d have to think of a new one for Jisung.

“Yeah, it’s just what Jeongin said..made me think back to last week and what happened” Minho shut his eyes trying to forget what had happened between him and Hyunjin.

“What about it Min?” Jisung pushed lightly for his boyfriend to continue.

“I want to press charges. I know Hyunjin was drunk but he still..he still..um yeah..I want to press charges” Minho mumbled out as he played with Jisung’s hand trying not to think too much about it.

“Okay, let’s do that, not right now, because I’m hungry, but we can tomorrow if you want” Jisung moved his free hand up to stroke Minho’s cheek making the older boy look up.

“Yeah, thank you” Minho bit the inside of his mouth.

“It’s no problem, I was going to suggest it myself, but I didn’t want to push you to do anything you didn’t want to do. It will cause a lot of stirrups in the company and just for us so I wanted you to decide” Jisung lightly pulled Minho’s cheek to stop him from biting it.

Minho smiled and kissed Jisung lightly, “Let’s get food.”

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Jisung rushed up to the abandoned classroom in search of his boyfriend, Minho and Jisung had both been super busy preparing for the end of year performance and so for the last few weeks they hadn’t had a chance to really hang out, and Jisung had been loaded with a lot of work from TWave regarding his debut, he was in the recording studio for most of the days he wasn’t in college and had dropped his shifts at bubble so he was able to also focus on the performance at the college with 3Racha. Minho had been equally slaving away at his performance but also now that he was becoming an official teacher and choreographer for TWave he was preparing for ‘interviews’ which was really just him being assessed on his choreo skills and how well he could teach a class, ranging from all ages.

It was lunchtime, one of the only times the pair really saw each other whilst at college and so they always met in the same spot so they didn’t waste any time in finding each other, they were also then away from peering eyes especially since Jisung’s debut had officially been announced and so people were always badgering him and Minho especially.

Jisung made his way into the empty classroom and dropped his bag down onto a chair before fishing out his food, as he did so he could hear some music coming down the corridor. Someone was here?

Peaking out of the classroom to see if he was just imagining, the music was louder, stepping into the corridor Jisung slowly made his way towards the music, if he remembered correctly the last time he had come down this far was when he was searching for Minho hyung and he found an empty room with a speaker. Logically speaking, that’s probably what the music was.
As he started to get closer he spotter Minho dancing, hard and powerful, it was also very fast and looked confusing.
Jisung leant against the door as he watch what seemed to be the ending of Minho’s dancing.
He smiled brightly and clapped loudly which made Minho snap his head to the door, his eyes widened and he rushed to stop the music.

“Ho-how long were you standing there for?” Minho said out of breath and seemed very worried.

“Just for the ending, it looked really good hyung!” Jisung smiled brightly as he saw Minho’s face relax slightly.

Minho gave a square smile and collected his bag and water as well as his jumper.
“Did you have a good practice?” Minho asked as Jisung took his hand and led them to the classroom.

“Yup! It was good, Chan hyung gave me some really good pointers and I have finally gotten the lyrics down, thank goodness otherwise Changbin hyung would probably hit me round the head with the lyric sheets.” Jisung chuckled as he walked over to his bag, Minho following closely behind him as he took a seat on one of the chairs and grabbed out his own lunch. Since Jisung had moved to his new accommodation Minho had made sure to go round and cook for both of them a lot, which also meant cooking food for their lunch, he had also occasionally cooked food for Jeongin, who could say no to him?

“Was that the dance for your performance?” Jisung asked as he bit into one of his onigiris.

“Yeah, it’s still nowhere near perfect though and the performance is tomorrow” Minho sighed and rubbed the side of his head.

“Min, I’m sure it’s perfect don’t put too much pressure on yourself for it, it’s meant to be a fun performance!” Jisung nudged his boyfriend lightly with his shoulder.

“I suppose, but my dad told me he’s coming to watch which makes it a big deal. He’s never come to watch one of my performances since I joined TWave.. And now he’s coming to watch this one. I have a feeling it’s about me actually getting a job there, probably assessing me or something” Minho slouched in his chair rubbing his head.

“He’s not seen you perform?” Jisung asked slightly confused about how his dad could just not go and watch his son perform something he loved, especially considering the man ran an entertainment company.

“Yep, ever since I turned 13 he has stopped watching me, so tomorrow is a big deal” Minho closed his eyes.

Jisung looked at his boyfriend worried, he’d never seen Minho this stressed about a performance before. Taking one of Minho’s hands in his he gave it a light squeeze before shuffling forward in his seat to pull Minho into a tight hug.

“I believe in you Min, regardless of if you mess up or if your dad doesn’t enjoy it. I know I will” Jisung felt Minho’s arms wrap around his waist pulling him into his lap.

“I hope you like it” Minho mumbled into Jisung’s neck as he pulled out, eyes slightly glistened over and a small pout on his face.

“I’m sure I will” Jisung gave an encouraging smile and leaned forward to kiss the pout off his boyfriend’s lips.

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“There you two are!” Chan rushed over to Minho and Jisung who were running into the backstage area, they were both a mess.
Jisung was wearing ripped black jeans with a slightly cropped cream and red jumper on, his hair was a slight mess hair all ruffled, Minho was no better, his white shirt had the top buttons undone and his leather trousers were the only thing that looked somewhat in place.

“If you two want to make out, next time don’t do it when we are supposed to perform” Changbin rolled his eyes and pushed the two into chairs in front of the mirrors so they could sort themselves out.

The couple both blushed lightly but gave small smiles to each other as they went through their bags to find what they needed to make themselves look more presentable.

“We were only getting rid of nerves” Jisung explained as he began combing through his hair.

“Next time find a better way to do that, you literally have two more performances until you are on Minho, and Jisung we are on one after Minho” Chan explained as he showed the pair the schedule.

“Cool thanks hyung” Minho nodded and snatched Jisung’s comb out of the boy’s hand and started to fix his hair.

“Yah! I was using that” Jisung gasped as he turned to his boyfriend who was laughing.

“I’m on first Hannie, besides you look fine” Minho stuck his tongue out at the younger and turned back to his mirror to fix up his look.

Jisung huffed and decided to at least fix his makeup, luckily he hadn’t smudged anything just needed to touch up with some concealer.

—-

“Good luck Min!” Jisung smiled brightly as the performance before Minho’s was about to finish up.

Jisung gave his boyfriend a tight hug, “Remember what I said yesterday, even if your dad doesn't like it, I will.”

“Thanks, baby” Minho smiled and Jisung gave him a quick kiss for good luck.

“And now our next performer is Lee Minho who will be dancing to a self-choreographed performance titled Dawn”

Minho took a deep breath and stepped out onto the stage and took his position, he didn’t dare try to look for his father knowing it would only make him more nervous. He gave the thumbs up to the sound tech and waited for his cue. He wouldn’t mess this up, he was doing this for himself, not for his father, he was proving himself and his dancing skills.

Jisung stood in shock as he watched Minho dance, he had never really seen him dance properly before, only small snippets from when he would pass by him in TWave or when he did small practices in the dance rooms and Jisung would hang out there, but even then he never went full out when the younger was in the room. This... this was different.. Minho seemed like a totally different person, his moves were accurate and powerful but still had incredible flow and he made the complicated moves look so effortless. As Minho did a turn to face the back of the stage the music came to stop.

Minho gave a smile and a bow before making his way off stage, he barely made a foot from the curtains before Jisung was lunging at him and praising him.

“That was amazing Min! I’m so glad I didn’t see it all yesterday because it would’ve thoroughly spoiled me” Jisung ranted out more and more compliments.

Minho gave a bashful smile and rubbed the back of his neck as he heard more compliments from the other performers backstage, Jisung stayed by his side as they made their way to their stations so Minho could get some water.

“Ji, As much as you would love to gush over Minho some more, we have to perform next” Chan held up the boy’s microphone and pointed towards the stage.

“Ah right yeah, I gotta go Min, but you did incredibly I’m so proud of you!” Jisung kissed his slightly sweaty cheek and rushed off to wait until his turn.
Minho chuckled to himself and grabbed his bottle to go and watch his boyfriend and 3racha perform.

The three boys began by sitting on chairs as they sang their first song.

“Hey everyone, this is our first song called ‘Placebo’” Chan announced to the large crowd.

After the cheers had quitened down Chan gave a thumbs up to the sound tech and he began their backing track.

Jisung easily stated off the track and began rapping with ease whilst sitting on his seat.

I’m doing good, I’m doing fine
잘 하고있어 I’m doing alright
믿어 날 believe it or not
잘 하고 있어 계속 앞으로만 가 (go go)
하지만 가끔 걱정해
혹시라도 내가 노력하고 있는게 진실이 아니라면
어떤 기분일까
나는 믿지 않아 이게 지금까지 나는게 만약에 placebo라도
Placebo 효과
사실 아무 효능 없는 말 하나에 속아
자신 없는 동안 꾸준히 또 속아
주는 척 들이켜 그럼 찾아와 영감이 말야
환각 속에 살아가다 보면
어느새 그곳이 현실이 되길 말했냐
나도 알아 어렵고 무서워도
나 모른채 믿어볼거야 그게 거짓말일지라도 괜찮아

Chan sang after Jisung standing up as he did so to sing slightly as well, Jisung added in his adlibs when needed and harmonised with Chan.

Cause later when I become addicted to life
아플 때 먹었던 약은 사실 효과 없지만
날 위로해 난 날아가
저 위로 해를 향해서 yeah
It’s all up in my mind
날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘

Once Changbin started they were all standing, seats disregarded as they enjoyed the crowd and the music.

나도 그래
곧 다른 일들이 눈 앞에 수두룩해
불안감이 밀려와 답답해
잡 생각이 많아
독처럼 온몸의 마디마다 퍼지는 피로와 짜증에 예민할 때
해독제는 따로 없다 해도
긍정적인 생각으로 살자라는 내 좌우명이
작지않은 큰일이라해도 좌지우지하며 좌우하더라고
맞아 꿈도 막연한 건 없어 마음 먹기 나름

Placebo 걸어 시동 꿈을 시도
한 계단 한 계단씩 올라가
미동 없는 꿈을 향한 믿음
남들 다 부러워하는 내 작업물의 양은
할 수 있단 기대와 믿음이 있었기에 가능
처음엔 나도 몰랐어
열정과 노력이면 다 된다는 약은 흘려 듣고
몇 달 전까지만 해도 흘러가는대로 시간보냈거든
먹고 난 후 빨라지는 꿈을 향한 나의 걸음

Cause later when I become addicted to life
아플 때 먹었던 약은 사실 효과 없지만
날 위로해 난 날아가
저 위로 해를 향해서 yeah
It’s all up in my mind
날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘 this time

Cause later when I
Addicted to life

Cause later when I become addicted to life
아플 때 먹었던 약은 사실 효과 없지만
날 위로해 난 날아가
저 위로 해를 향해서 yeah
It’s all up in my mind
날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘 this time

날 속여줘 this

After the song finished Chan and Changbin left the stage and Jisung was left on his own, he hadn’t told anyone besides Chan and Changbin about him doing a solo, they’d even made it so that the schedule just said that 3racha were performing two songs.

“Hey everyone, um the next song I am performing is a song I wrote whilst going through a hard time, I hope you enjoy it and listen to the lyrics!” Jisung smiled and got ready to sing ‘Wish you Back’

Minho stood in the wings listening to the lyrics, he immediately realised Jisung must’ve written the song during the month they had broken up over the rumours. His heart clenched as he realised how bad it must've been for Jisung, especially considering he hadn’t let the boy talk to him. Minho held back the tears as he watched Jisung perform.

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Minho stood by the wings as Jisung finished up the song and left the stage, just like the boy had done to him Minho wasted no time in hugging the younger. At that, the waterworks broke and Minho was a mess.
Jisung hugged Minho tightly and guided them to the sofa that was backstage for people to relax on.

“Min it’s okay, there’s no need to cry” Jisung stroked the top of his boyfriend’s head and let him fall on top of him whilst they sat down on the sofa.

Minho choked out his sentence,” I’m so sorry Sungie, it made me realise how wrong I was for not letting you speak and I left you alone and clearly you weren’t doing well and I left you to suffer and I- “ Minho tried to keep explaining but ended up just hiding his face in Jisung’s neck again.

“Min, it’s in the past, you had every right to do what you did, let’s forget about that now okay, I’m sorry the song made you upset” Jisung pouted slightly sad that he had made Minho so upset.

The two sat cuddled together on the sofa as Minho calmed himself down and the rest of the performers took to the stage. Jeongin was one of the performers and so Jisung and Minho watched proudly in the wings as he did a trot performance.

—--

“Can we go and get some food? I’m starving” Jisung whined lightly as he tugged on Minho’s hand begging the boy to hurry up and pack up his things, he had changed out of his performing clothes and into a much more comfy hoodie and loose jeans.

“One sec Ji” Minho chuckled as he ruffled Jisung’s hair.

“Oh, Minho there you are!” Chan walked over to the pair who were getting their bags packed.

Minho’s head looked up as he spotted his hyung walking over, “Hey Chan hyung, what’s up?”

“Oh, it’s your dad. He wants to talk to you” Chan swallowed, he pointed behind him and Minho spotted his dad standing by the exit of backstage, he could see some bodyguards of sorts stopping people from approaching him.

“Ah.. right yeah... I forgot that he was here” Minho muttered, “I’ll be right back” Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair once more before kissing his cheek quickly before making his way over to his father.

“Hi” Minho shoved his hands in his pockets so he could fiddle with them without his dad seeing how nervous he was.

“Ah Minho, there you are. I thought you’d come out from backstage after the performance.”

Minho scratched the back of his head, “I was but Ji and 3racha were performing so I wanted to watch from the wings, I also didn’t know where you were sitting”

His dad gave an emotionless reply, “ They were very good, I’m surprised Jisung did a solo performance this close to his debut” his dad clicked his tongue.

“Yeah I didn’t know about it either” Minho chuckled awkwardly as he noticed people were watching the interaction with interest.

“Anyways, I wanted to say I enjoyed your performance Minho, it was good, very powerful. TWave is going to have a great new choreographer” His dad gave out a small smile.

Minho blink in succession, “Wh-what?”

“You’re our newest choreographer, as much as I know you’d drop out of college for it, I don’t want you to, you have one more year and we can ease you into more and more classes and sessions throughout the next year”

Minho shook his head and held back a smile,” Thank you, dad, it means a lot” Minho happily exclaimed.

“Now if you’ll excuse me I need to get back at the company, I'll see you at home and we can talk about what’s happened with Hyunjin as well.” Without waiting for a reply Minho’s dad turned on his heels and began leaving the area.

Minho wasted no time to rush back to where 3racha were to tell them the news.

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Jisung rolled over on the bed and huddled back into Minho’s warmth as he heard the older boy's alarm ring out, Minho grumbled and moved his arm around to find his phone underneath his pillow where he left it the night before.

“Rise and shine, Ji” Minho croaked out.

“Noooo let me sleep” Jisung hid further into Minho’s chest and pulled the covers up to his chin so he was nearly all covered up.

Minho chuckled and pulled Jisung up onto his chest full, “It’s debut day though” Minho smiled widely as he saw Jisung slowly register what date it actually was and a sleepy smile appeared on his face.

“I still want to sleep though”, Jisung mumbled before letting out a tired yawn as Minho pulled them both up on his bed so they were sitting upright at least.

“I would happily stay in bed all day as well but I have a lesson to teach” Minho pushed the fallen hair out of his face as he watched Jisung rub his eyes.

“You better at least watch my live” Jisung stretch his back letting his joints click before grabbing a blanket and wrapping it around his shoulders whilst he watched Minho climb out of his bed.

“Depends on the time, but you know I wouldn’t miss it, besides isn’t the music video to your debut song dropping later today?” Minho asked as he remembered how Jisung had gone back to his black hair for his debut, both the boys didn’t want to say goodbye to the very faded blue but alas.

“Yeah.. also because our relationship is already public I don’t have a dating ban” Jisung hummed as he watched Minho pick out some clothes to put on. Jisung then went over to the drawer he had designated himself in Minho’s room which held spare clothes for whenever he stayed round. Most of it consisted of Minho’s clothes that were either too small or Jisung stole, mostly the latter.

“Are you going to post about us all the time then” Minho raised a playful eyebrow along with a smirk.

Jisung let out a scoff, “Nah, don’t want everyone to know what I do in my spare time. But I suppose I could boast about it” Jisung laughed after he also grabbed his towel to make his way to the shower.

“You better not use my shampoo, use your own, I brought it for a reason” Minho called as Jisung shut the door.

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The couple climbed into a company car ready for their journey to TWave. It wasn’t really necessary as Minho had always driven himself and Ji to the company. But now that the younger was debuting they didn’t want fans to note down Minho's number plate and follow them.

“You excited Sungie?” Minho asked as he linked his hand with Jisung’s who was sitting right beside him in the passenger seat.

“I think I’m more nervous, it made me realise that now I’m not going to get any privacy, and less so at college” Jisung gulped just thinking about how bad the crowds were now and how bad they will become.

“Trust me, you’ll get used to it really quickly, and I’ll be with you at college and when you’re in TWave it’s a lot more chill. Trainees will probably be scared to approach you and if they do they are usually friendly. And now other idols under TWave will approach you so just remember now you are an idol, not a trainee. The jump is big” Minho explained softly as they watched the streets pass by them.

“Everything feels like a blur, especially after the college performance, it was only a few weeks ago but it seems like yesterday” Jisung watched the surroundings outside pass.

“Tell me about it,” Minho agreed, ever since the performance his dad had thrown him straight into work, he was working with some of the new trainees that had joined the teen section.

The journey to TWave was quick as usual, the car pulled upright to the front entrance, cameras and journalists already taking photos and trying to get to the door of the car. Minho leant over and locked the door from the inside so they couldn’t get in as he turned to Jisung.
The boy was frozen, wide eyes and shaking purely at how many people were waiting for him.

“I can’t do this” he whispered so quietly Minho could barely hear him. The older boy moved closer to Jisung and gently pulled him into a hug so he didn’t have to focus on the cameras outside.

“You can Sungie, besides you can’t get cold feet now” Minho let out a small chuckle, “I’ll stay with you and be with you the entire time you are getting inside, and then we can decide what to do okay?” Minho pulled Jisung out of the hug and stroked his cheek lightly. Just from the look in the younger boy’s eyes, the dancer could tell he had calmed down slightly.

“Please stay with me” Jisung whimpered slightly as Minho pulled out fully from the hug but quickly took Jisung’s hand in his.

“I will” Minho kissed Jisung’s cheek lightly before unlocking the door and sliding it open.

Minho stepped out first with his back turned so he could help Jisung out and so he wasn’t blinded by the flashes, the dancer let the boy stay close to him as he closed the car door and lightly tugged on his arm.

“Don’t stop walking and keep your head down” Minho muttered as he checked to see where a good route to get to the building would be. Thankfully some of the staff had managed to push some of the fans and journalists away to make somewhat of a pathway to the door. The older wasted no time in pulling Jisung down the trail. Making sure Jisung was still tucked away from the lights, he had covered one of his ears with his hand clearly sensitive to the shouting.

“Nearly there Sungie” Minho reassured the boy who nearly stumbled over his own feet as he wasn’t watching where he was walking.

The moment the doors shut behind the couple as they got into TWave was a relief, Jisung let out a huge breath collapsing into Minho’s side, “I’m not going to get used to that” Jisung sighed as he let Minho hug him.

“Ah Jisung you’re here” Mr Lee walked into reception spotting the couple in a tight hug.

Jisung peered out of the hug and quickly made a space between him and his boyfriend before bowing to the CEO, Minho gave a small smile to his dad loosely wrapping an arm around Jisung’s shoulder.

“You have a fairly packed schedule today Jisung, we have a few things for you to record, one of them being a music video reaction and another being a Vlive, ask your manager about the rest of your schedule but these are the two we will be filming this morning”

As Mr Lee was talking with Jisung, Minho saw the clock on the wall and gasped when he realised he was almost ten minutes late to a lesson he was supposed to be teaching.

“Sorry, I gotta go I’m late for a lesson, Sungie message me when you have lunch and are doing your vlive okay..bye.. Love you” Minho rapped out before giving Jisung a chaste kiss on the lips are rushing over to the barriers quickly scanning his card and running off to the dance studios.
Jisung blushed brightly at the action right in front of Minho’s dad and squeak out a bye when Minho was already far away.

“Let’s get you ready” Jisung’s manager approached him and began showing him to one of the makeup artist rooms for him to have his stylish choose out some clothes and makeup.

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Jisung sat awkwardly on the dance room floor as he let his manager get the staff phone and tripod set up ready for his first-ever live. Would anyone even watch?

Minho 😽💞

About to do the Vlive!
I think you are still teaching though :(

Jisung set his phone down ready to open it to view the comments as his manager gave him the thumbs up for it being ready. Jisung took a quick sip of water nervously screwing the cap back on.
The live started and Jisung waited patiently for a few people to join before he officially began talking, rocking from side to side he waited for the count to get to over 100. Which didn’t take long.

“H-hi everyone” Jisung chuckled as he gave a timid wave to the screen, “This is my first live” Jisung gave a wide smile as he began to look through some comments.

“Jisung Oppa hello!”
“Do a dance!”
“Where is Minho?”
“Spoil your song!”

Jisung happily read a few comments out loud, especially some funny ones and ones asking about what things he preferred. He was glad he was getting asked questions so he didn’t have to think of anything to talk about. After he saw a comment asking him to freestyle or rap a 3racha song he felt more relaxed doing things he was used to. He complied and rapped a bit of the performance he had done with Chan and Changbin at the college end of year show.

“Where is Minho?”
“Who’s Minho Oppa?”
“Call Minho!”
“Are you dating Minho?”

Jisung’s eyes zoomed in on the vast amounts of comments about his boyfriend and he felt himself grow warm at the thought of Minho possibly watching his live.

“Where is Minho hyung?” Jisung read and looked back up to the screen, “I think hyung is teaching a lesson right now, otherwise I'm not too sure”

Jisung saw another comment saying he should call the boy, a few agreeing with the comment.

“I can’t call hyung sorry, he’s busy... Maybe next time” Jisung apologised for not being able to fulfil his fan's wishes. Luckily the comments soon stopped asking for Minho and they turned back to asking Jisung some questions about his album and his debut.

“Are you excited about performing on music shows?” Jisung read out the comment before giving it some thought before responding.

“Definitely! Not only will I be able to perform in front of fans and just perform in general, but I’ll also be able to meet some other idols! I haven’t had much of a chance to talk to any from TWave yet because I’ve been so busy. It will be exciting to make some friends with them all.” Jisung explains.

“Dance to a song?” Jisung read on the comments as he scrolled through the endless comments coming from fans.

“Give me a song!” Jisung smiled up to the camera as he began to adjust it so he could show his whole body dancing.
His manager stepped forward and took over when Jisung couldn’t figure out how to lift it up and so the debut idol went back to see what dance they wanted him to do.

“Oh! TXT crown! I can do that, a Lil TMI is I auditioned my dancing with this song” Jisung explained as he pulled up the song on his phone. He moved away from the camera and sat down in the starting position and pressed play on his phone before sliding it out of the way.

Jisung was dancing as the door was pushed open and Minho peeked his head through and noticed the boy dancing. The older knew the boy was still live and so sneaked beside him and started dancing alongside him. Jisung looked at the boy before doing a double-take and laughing lightly.
“How do you know this dance?!” Jisung joked as the two continued to dance.

“I had to teach it to a class”, Minho explained as he danced beside his boyfriend.

The couple got to the bridge before they both stopped after not knowing the rest of the choreo, Jisung grabbed his phone and immediately saw the comments pouring in about Minho, not to mention the dancer was now sitting in front of the live chatting with the fans.

“Yah Jisung why do your fans think you’re a better dancer than me” Minho playfully pouted as Jisung walked back towards the phone and tripod and sat beside the boy.

“Aww don’t worry Min, I’m sure you’ll find something else to be good at” Jisung joked and patted the older’s cheek.

“Yah! You see what I have to deal with” Minho whined to Jisung’s fans as he pushed the idol away.

Minho tutted and shook his head as Jisung laughed at his antics, “Keep practising hyung, fighting!” Jisung gave a small cheer before he got pushed down by Minho.

Minho rolled his eyes at the live and stood up,” I see my fabulous skills aren’t appreciated here”
Jisung looked up as he watched his boyfriend stand.

Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair knowing full well the stylist had fixed it up for the purpose of filming, “Hyunggg” Jisung whined and swatted his hand away.

Minho giggled and cheekily kissed Jisung on the cheek before waving goodbye to the fans, “bye Jagi” Minho said loudly making Jisung flush bright red.

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Minho scrolled through his phone as he waited by the buffet stand in the canteen, he was waiting for Jisung, as well as Chan and Changbin who had come to congratulate the boy with a surprise cake.

“Minho, there you are.” Minho perked up at his name and saw his dad walking towards him.

“We need to talk” he motioned towards his office which was conveniently down the same hall as the canteen.

Minho gave a slight nod very confused at why his dad needed to talk to him, as far as he knew he hadn’t done anything wrong unless he wasn’t allowed to be in Jisung’s live. Which no one told him about.

They entered the room and Minho saw his mum sitting in one of the seats across from his dad’s desk. Minho took the seat beside his mum looking between the two of them he then noticed his dad sat down on the other spare chair, not his desk. Very weird.

“Minho, we need to talk to you about something” Soyeon began, “Don’t worry you aren’t in any trouble” She reassured her son as she noticed his very anxious and confused state about why both his parents were sitting in the office.

“What is this about?” Minho asked as he looked towards his dad who was holding a pile of paper.

“I think you will want to have a look at this first” Mr Lee passed over the paper.

Minho read the title and it immediately perked his interest.

‘Official restraining order on Hwang Hyunjin against Lee Minho’.
“I’m signing,” Minho said immediately not wasting any time for his parents to explain.

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*:·ﾟ✧ The Han of a Kind (Han Jisung special drink) *:·ﾟ✧

“No Dori, move” Minho nudged his cat with his foot as he tried to open up his bedroom door with his hands full of snacks and drinks. The grey cat let out a meow and continued to run around the dancer’s legs as he attempted to pull down on his door handle to push it open.
With the use of his elbow and hip Minho managed to get the door unhinged and pushed it open.

Muttering about how annoying Dori was he made his way over to his bed and unceremoniously threw the food onto the bed and the drinks on his bedside table. His room was a tip. He had been so busy with work that he barely had any time to even think about picking up his dirty clothes and old crisps packets, let alone clean up his college books and notes that were littered over the floor, which were in pretty good condition considering Soonie and Doongie usually loved to nibble away at anything they could find.

He still had an hour until Jisung was done with his schedule and so quickly got to work cleaning up the disaster, putting on some music to bop along to as he did so. His first task was to get rid of all the rubbish that had slowly been piling up around his room.

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Jisung let out a huff as he finished recording the dance practice for one of his new songs, it had taken him a few times to finally nail the whole song without making any mistakes and so he felt a bit sorry for all the staff who had to keep his makeup in check as well as getting him to recover quickly so they could do another full take of the performance.

“That’s it for today Jisung” His manager walked up to him as the boy was chugging down a whole bottle of water and holding a mini fan up to his face to cool him down.

“I don’t need to do another take?” Jisung perked up at being free from his schedule.

“Nope, it looks all good, your schedule for tomorrow starts at 11 am so make sure not to be late”

Jisung gave a firm nodded and pulled out his phone immediately to write down the times and to turn on an alarm so he knew he would wake up in time, luckily he was going to be round Minho’s and didn’t have to worry about getting up extra early to get from the college dorms to the company.

Giving a quick thank you and a goodbye to the remaining staff, Jisung rushed out of the doors of the dance practice room, he was supposed to meet Minho in an hour but he still had a few things to do.

“Hey, Jisung!” A voice called from down the hall as Jisung fiddled with his headphones to untangle them.

Looking behind to see who called he saw Beomgyu from TxT calling him. Jisung’s eyes widened, he had forgotten they were under the same company, he had been so busy just with training he never really took notice of the actual idols in the company.

“Oh, Hello Sunbaenim” Jisung bowed politely as the boy caught up with him.

“No need to be formal! I just wanted to say I really enjoyed your cover of Crown on your live the other week!” Beongyu beamed.

Jisung blinked a few times as he was shocked at the compliment, “oh-uh thank you, Minho Hyung was far better than me” Jisung chuckled awkwardly, his hand coming to rub the nape of his neck as usual.

“Well, I was complimenting you Jisung, I’m sure Minho Hyung hears enough compliments about his dancing from you alone”.

“That’s true” Jisung let out a smile.

“I’ve got to go but we should go and get a meal sometime, Soobin has been wanting to meet you for a while but we’ve been too busy to finally chat to you,” Beomgyu explained as he pulled out his phone and clicked away on it before passing it to Jisung.

“Add your number, I can also add you to the TWave idol chat we have!” Beomgyu excitedly began to explain how the group is used for meeting up with people, to easily let people know about things happening and all the fun gossip, along with many memes.

Jisung nodded along as he typed in his number, double and then triple checking it was right before passing it back.

“Thank you so much! I have to go and meet Minho hyung but it would be fun to meet up with you all” Jisung let out a relaxed smile. He was glad they had thought about adding him to the chat, sure he had no idea it existed, but being acknowledged immediately even only after a few weeks of debuting. It was exciting.

“Have a fun date!” Beomgyu grinned before waving goodbye and rushing down the corridor he had come from.

Jisung let out a quiet laugh and checked his phone when he saw Beomgyu had already messaged him a ‘hi!’. He glanced over the time and saw he was behind schedule so quickly rushed off to Bubbles.

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“Let me know if you need anything” Soyeon smiled at Minho as she saw her son raiding the airing cupboard for blankets upon blankets.

“Will do!” Minho huffed as he tugged on a blanket high up to get it to fall off the shelf.

Soyeon stopped herself from laughing as she watched Minho struggle to see where he was walking, luckily if he walked into a wall the blankets stopped him from hitting his head.

“I will kick you out of my room if you keep doing that Dori” Minho scolded his cat as he picked Dori up from ruining his work and drop him on the ground before going back to building the blanket on his bed. It was times like these where he was so glad to have a four-post bed, making hanging blankets a whole lot easier.

Dori had made it his mission to try and ruin Minho’s hard work by pulling on the blankets that were hanging, luckily Soonie and Doongie seemed to not be bothered and lounge on the cat post whilst watching Minho struggle.

“Minho, Ji is here!” Soyeon called up to her son who clearly hadn’t heard the doorbell go off, “Just go right up Ji” Soyeon let him kick off his shoes.

“Thank you” Jisung gave a small bow and rushed off up the stairs with two bubble teas in his hands.

Jisung got to the familiar door with the ‘cats only’ sign and knocked lightly, he waited for a beat before he heard Minho saying he could enter. Pushing open the door Jisung immediately noticed how the main lights were off and instead were replaced by a galaxy light making the ceiling look like the night sky. Jaw dropped, Jisung didn’t even notice the blanket fort with fairy lights that Minho had made before he nearly walked right into one of the ‘walls’.

“Huh?” Jisung frowned slightly confused and moved round to find an opening at the foot of the bed, he spotted Minho burrowed in a pile of blankets, pillows and cats, all three of them. Jisung chuckled at the sight and dropped his bag on the ground before climbing inside holding his boba.

“Hey, what’s all this?” Jisung asked as he shuffled towards Minho giving him a kiss hello.

Minho let Jisung get more comfortable before explaining his plan for the day, “Well, I realised it’s been a while since we had gone on a date, and because we’ve both been so busy I thought going out would be too tiring… so I made this instead!” Minho motioned around to his fort proudly. Soonie climbed over Jisung to chill on the other end of the bed. Jisung stroked the ginger cat as they passed by him. Doongie made a quick exit jumping off the bed, Dori stayed at the foot of the bed not making any effort to move any time soon, clearly exhausted from misbehaving earlier.

“It’s cute, never knew you had this many blankets” Jisung commented as he pulled one over his lap as he rested his head on Minho’s shoulder, the older boy’s arm immediately wrapping around Jisung’s waist out of reflex.

“I don’t, most of them are the spares for around the house when it’s winter, so they’ve been stored away for a few months,” Minho explained as he looked at the drink Jisung had brought him.

“Ooo you’re special drink” Minho smiled and pushed himself up, plucking a straw from Jisung’s hand to poke it.

“Mhm, I have finally perfected the flavour” Jisung hummed as he copied Minho’s and quickly took a sip.

“Does that mean you’ll finally tell me the other flavours?” Minho moved his face closer to Jisung, smirking slightly.

“Sure” Jisung shrugged nonchalantly as he pulled out his phone to answer some messages from his manager and the 3racha group chat.

“Tell me” Minho shook Jisung’s arm in anticipation.

“It’s just purple syrup” Jisung answered monotone not even batting an eyelid as he typed out a message.

“What?!” Minho’s mouth hung open, eyes wide in shook. There is no way that was true?! He saw the sides of Jisung’s mouth quirk up into a smile.

“Jisungiee tell hyung the truth” Minho whined and pushed Jisung lightly causing the younger boy to giggle.

“Fine, it’s a mix of blackcurrants and strawberries for the purple part, and blueberries for the blue part.” Jisung rolled his eyes but smiled finally letting Minho into his secret drink.

“Interesting…” Minho peered into the drink almost to try and decipher how it worked.

“Anyways, what are we doing here in your blanket fort?” Jisung turned to his boyfriend after putting his bubble tea on the table nearest him.

“Ahh right yeah, so as I was saying, we are having a movie night” Minho exclaimed throwing one of his hands in the air, the other too preoccupied around Jisung’s waist.

“But.. not just any movies, I remember going to your room and seeing some very specific posters on the wall... So it’s a Studio Ghibli movie night” Minho proudly explained as he pressed the remote control beside him to turn on the tv and up popped a set of Studio Ghibli films ready to be played.

Jisung let out a small pout and his eyes softened as he turned to his boyfriend, “Min..” Jisung looked almost like he was about to cry but instead turned the pout into a smile and hugged Minho tightly.
“I love it” Jisung’s voice was muffled inside Minho’s neck.

Minho smiled happy with the success of how things are going and patted his boyfriend's hair as he let him come out of the hug, Jisung leaned forward and kissed Minho lightly. Minho pulled Jisung closer by the arm that was still resting around his waist, Jisung easily wrapped one arm around Minho’s neck the other gently holding his jaw as he allowed the older to deepen the kiss with one quick swipe along the younger’s lips. Jisung shifted himself so he was straddling the older, legs on either side of his hyung’s.
Minho let his hand wander from the younger’s waist down to the hem of the hoodie he was wearing and pushed his hand under the shirt making Jisung flinch at the sudden hand on his toned stomach. As Minho traced the light abs on Jisung’s stomach, the younger shifted his kissing down Minho’s jaw trailing down to his neck. As he softly sucked on the skin Jisung heard Minho whine lightly.

“Sungie, didn’t we agree to not do that when we have schedules”

Jisung smirked and just sucked harder to leave a darker mark, Minho’s grip tightened around Jisung’s hips as Jisung bit his skin before going back to connect their lips softly.

“You’re such a menace” Minho muttered between the lips.

“You love me really” Jisung giggled his eyes gleaming.

Very true” Minho took his turn to then lightly kiss along the idol’s jaw and down to his neck to return the favour.
Minho held back his laughter as he felt Jisung squirm around knowing he would have a matching mark on his neck, the older knew Jisung had a photo shoot coming up in the next few days for his album and so the makeup artists will have a lot of fun teasing the fresh idol about this whilst they have to cover it.

Jisung lightly pushed Minho away hand resting in Minho’s hair as he looked at his boyfriend, “Can we actually watch something” Jisung said slightly breathless.

“Sure baby” Minho softly smiled also out of breath and gave Jisung a chaste kiss before patting his bum and letting him climb off his lap and cuddle right up beside him, Jisung quickly wrapping an arm around his boyfriend's stomach and his head on Minho’s chest.

“Which one do we want to start with?” Minho looked down to Jisung who was shifting around grabbing his drink from the table.

“Howl’s moving castle first of course” Jisung chuckled as he took a long sip out of his bubble tea to let him catch his breath.

Minho nodded and selected the movie letting it start as he also grabbed his own drink and shuffled back into a comfortable position with Jisung resting on him. As the movie began Minho absentmindedly linked his hands with Jisung’s gently stroking the boy’s hand with his thumb.
He watched how Jisung grabbed his phone and pulled up his camera to take a picture. He positioned it so that the camera captured his and Minho’s hands as well as the fort with the galaxy sky and Howl’s moving castle in the background. Jisung carefully tagged Minho as well as added in the iconic Moving Castle track. Minho smiled softly as he watched Jisung happily post the story before cuddling closer to the older. Lifting up their connected hands Minho kissed Jisung’s hand a couple of times before fully focusing on the movie.

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“Which pizza did you want?” Minho asked as he nudged Jisung’s shoulder slightly.

After Howl’s moving castle, the pair quickly changed the movie to Ponyo before not even getting halfway through before deciding they needed food to go with the film. Jisung was currently resting his head on Minho’s shoulder watching the boy scroll through the delivery app menu trying to decide on a take out.

“Pepperoni is fine with me” Jisung hummed before watching Minho add it to the basket before also adding in some sides of cheese bites and a small box of fried chicken. Quickly adding in his details the order was easily received.

“We can carry on watching whilst we wait, it shouldn’t be too long” Minho explained as he checked the tracker on the app which estimated a thirty to fifty-minute window until it arrived.

Jisung nodded and pressed play on the movie letting it continue as they watch Sosuke and Ponyo meet for the first time.
“This is such a cute film” Minho commented as the film played out.

Thirty minutes passed in a flash and there was a knock on the bedroom door.

“Come in?” Minho called, he was half guessing it was his mum bringing up the pizza, he heard the door buzz and had gone to get it but he already heard his mother talking to the delivery person, most likely tipping them.

Soyeon appeared with a large box, a medium box, most likely containing the chicken and finally a small one with the cheese bites, “ Wow Minho you’ve definitely outdone yourself here, Jisung is never going to want to leave” She laughed as she passed the boxes to Jisung who thanked her.

“That’s the plan” Minho laughed, turning to Jisung to gauge his reaction, he simply shrugged before opening up the cheese bites and quickly biting into one.

“I like that plan” Jisung agreed.

Soyeon watched on as Jisung plucked out another cheese bite to feed Minho who easily complied.

“Yah! You bit my finger!” Jisung grumbled pulling back his finger.

“Weren’t you the one sucking of my face a minute ago” Minho retorted with a half attempted scoff considering his mouth was full with the cheese bite.

Jisung rolled his eyes and stuffed another cheese bite in his mouth, “ Lips have fewer bacteria on them than fingers, especially nails”

It was Minho’s turn to roll his eyes before he pulled himself forward so he could open up the pizza box and start the film. Soyeon chuckled at the couple's antics before quietly leaving the room so she didn’t disturb them anymore.

Jisung moved between his boyfriend’s legs resting his back on Minho’s chest before picking up a slice of the pizza and turning around awkwardly to feed Minho it. Minho raised an eyebrow before leaning forward slightly to capture the slice in his mouth.

“Can’t bite my finger this way” Jisung stuck his tongue out before letting Minho take over holding his slice of pizza before retrieving his own cliche to munch on.

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“Would you still love me if I looked like no-face when they are eating everything?” Jisung turned around and looked up towards Minho.

The couple had reverted back to their original position of lying down, Minho slightly propped up by a large number of pillows whilst their bodies were covered with blankets. Jisung was back to lying on his boyfriend’s chest, Minho playing lightly with his hair.

“I mean if you didn’t eat me as well... Then sure” Minho smiled down at Jisung who pouted slightly.

“But if I did eat you?” Jisung looked expectantly at his boyfriend waiting for an answer, his fingers playing lightly with the hem of the boy’s shirt that had raised up slightly from the fidgeting he had done throughout the film.

“Sure Sungie, whatever makes you sleep at night” Minho chuckled as he saw Jisung tut and huff before squishing his squirrel cheeks back onto the dancer’s chest.

As the film drew to a close Minho could tell Jisung was trying hard to stay away. Especially since Minho had now also decided to lie down fully Jisung had decided to shift himself upwards so they were lying side by side. Jisung’s eyes kept closing for small intervals at a time before he suddenly would blink rapidly to try and stay awake.

“Cute” Minho mumbled as he watched Jisung bring a closed hand up to paw at his eye.

Jisung turned to look at his boyfriend through sleepy eyes, “ Min, what’s your favourite bubble tea flavour?”

“So sudden?” Minho asked turning completely to be face to face with the younger boy.

“Mhmm..” Jisung nodded his hair falling in his eyes. The dancer gently brought a hand up to push it out of his face before leaving it to rest on Jisung’s jawline stroking his puffy cheeks lightly, he was going to be so puffy tomorrow for his schedule, it would be cute.

“You” Minho whispered as Jisung peeked back at him through his half-opened eyes.

Jisung let out a tired giggle and rolled closer to his boyfriend kissing him softly, “I love you.. Min.” Minho pulled him closer as he let Jisung fall asleep to the fast beats of his heart racing.
“I love you too Sungie.”

*:·ﾟ✧ The End *:·ﾟ✧

(Epilogue to come)

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*:·ﾟ✧ Happily Ever After Special Edition Tea *:·ﾟ✧

Jisung let out a deep sigh as he leaned back in the car as he quickly got away from storming fans. This tour had been hectic. Ever since Jisung’s debut three years ago his fanbase had been growing steadily. This was his first world tour and so there was an abundance of fans who had brought the VIP tickets to have a hi-touch and fansign with the boy, which was fun. But absolutely draining for the anxiety induced boy.

As the car pulled away Jisung clicked on his phone and checked the time in Korea, it would be around 2 am so Jisung didn’t want to call his boyfriend, but Minho being Minho told him to call regardless of the time, claiming it would be the perfect thing to wake up to instead of Dori and Doongie scratching him.

Pulling up the call screen Jisung clicked on Minho’s name which was always at the top. It rang through a couple of times before the older boy picked up.

“Jagi, you finished?” Minho’s sweet voice flowed through the phone, no trace of just being woken up.

“Hmm yeah I did, the venue was packed today! I think I had the most amount of people at my fansign today, so I am very tired” Jisung laughed, “I thought it was early in Korea, didn’t I wake you up?”

“Oh right, Nah Dori decided to wake me up earlier by meowing right in my ear and so I decided to just stay awake and get some paperwork done for the trainee auditions later this week” Minho answered.

“Dori is such a menace, I can’t wait to be back next month though! I miss the cats” Jisung pouted, “and you.”

Minho chuckled down the line, “Wow am I just a second thought then”

“Ahhh n-no of course not Min, but I haven’t had any cat updates for the last few days so I feel cat deprived. Not bubble tea deprived though, Always making sure I get my weekly bubble tea in regardless of where I am in the world”

“I’ll make sure to send you some later on today” Minho smiled at the thought of Jisung begging his manager to stop at a bubble tea shop.

“I have to go, we just arrived at the hotel so message me in a few hours, unless I’m knocked out asleep!” Jisung laughed and the pair said a quick goodbye and hung up.

Grabbing his bag, mask and a hat Jisung covered his face so that he wouldn’t get recognised and he and his manager headed into the hotel back to their hotel rooms. Luckily Jisung didn’t have to share with any of the staff and so could call Minho late into the night.

“Night Jun-nim” Jisung waved to his manager who was a few doors down from him.

“Enjoy your evening” He gave a smile and a nod back before entering his respective room.

The idol managed to unlock his door first try and dropped his bag by his door and rushed and jumped on the newly made bed completely disregarding the random red roses and letter that he had now just squashed with his body. At the sound of something crumbling Jisung shifted himself around and his eyes widened as he suddenly noticed the rose petals and letter on the bed, not to mention the box of chocolates on his desk.

“What the-” Jisung frowned and picked it up and noticed the envelope.

‘Jagi’

Jisung smiled as he immediately realised it must be from his boyfriend, weird that he had sent a letter, especially as Jisung hadn’t even told him what hotel he was staying in.

Pulling out the letter a few stray petals also fell out as well as a lollipop which Jisung immediately unwrapped and popped into his mouth as he read through the letter.

Hello Love,

I hope your tour is going well and you get to meet all your lovely fans as well as doing some sightseeing. I miss you a lot and miss your cute puffy face in the morning whenever you have a later schedule than me.
I found out from your manager that you have tomorrow off before you head over to France. So I thought this was the perfect time for you to have a nice break from performing.
Be ready by 8 pm and go outside and look for a person holding a sign with your name on it. Wear something smart casual.
Enjoy your break.

Min <3

Jisung had to read the letter over a few times before he fully understood what was happening. ”There’s no way Minho’s in Italy..” Jisung muttered to himself as he read through the letter before glancing at the time. He also saw a message from his manager saying ‘yes you can go’.

Jisung broke out into a grin and jumped off his bed and rushed over to his suitcase to find something appropriate to wear.

–

Italy was luckily had warm evenings and so Jisung stood outside the hotel wearing some black skinny jeans and a strippy black and white shirt along with some doc martins which he had finally broken in. Brushing a hand through his hair Jisung spotted a man with a sign holding up his name and approached him cautiously.

“Uh-hi, that’s me,” Jisung said in English and scratched the back of his neck unsure what else to say.

“Perfect, follow me” The man gave a warm smile speaking in Korean.

The boy visibly relaxed at the familiar language and gave a bow when the man opened up the back seat. As he slid into the seat he noticed another person in the car and had to do a double-take when he saw the familiar styled brown hair and cat-like eyes of Minho.

“Min?!” Jisung gasped as his boyfriend turned and smiled at him.

“Hey Sungie” Minho greeted him and Jisung jumped into his arms and hugged him tightly.

“One sec Ji, do your seatbelt up, otherwise we aren’t going anywhere” Minho leaned over the idol and pulled his seat belt over his chest and clicked it in.

As soon as Jisung’s seatbelt was done up the car began moving.

“I-I I thought you were teaching?” Jisung's eyes glistened at the sight of his boyfriend. They hadn’t seen each other for over a month.

“I was, but when you sent me that picture of you alone in your hotel room all cocooned like a caterpillar I realised how much I was missing you so I contacted your manager and found out when you were next having a break.”

Jisung pouted, “I missed you too”

Minho brought his hand up to cup his boyfriend’s cheek, lightly stroking his jaw. Leaning forward the pair’s eyes both shut and their lips finally connected after such a long wait. It was soft, nothing rushed or heated. The perfect ‘hello’ after months apart.
Minho pulled away and connected one of his hands with Jisung’s and squeezed it softly.

“You know what, surprisingly my dad actually helped book my flights and get the time off” Minho hummed as Jisung rested his head on Minho’s shoulder and played with their linked fingers.

“Really?” he lifted his head briefly to look up at his hyung before returning to his comfy position.

“Yeah, I asked him for the time off and I had to give a reason and when I told him, he told me he can help me get flights because it was so last-minute” Minho explained with a slight hint of surprise in his own voice.

“Better thank him then” Jisung chuckled.

Han pulled out his phone and opened up Instagram onto the story mode, flicking through the filters until he found one with sparkles he made it selfie mode, “Smile”
Minho looked up at the camera and quickly kissed Jisung on the cheek as he clicked the shutter.
“Cute, it was a boomerang!” Jisung smiled happily and turned to Minho before giving him a quick peck on the lips before tagging the boy and country in the boomerang.

Minho smiled gently as he watched Jisung add on some music and post it onto his story.

—-

“Min this is way too fancy for just ‘casual smart’” Jisung hissed as the pair were being shown the way to their seats.
A few heads turned as the couple walked through, clearly, a few people must’ve recognised the pair but luckily not many considering they were in Italy and not Korea. That, or they were judging their clothes, which right now seemed more plausible.
Minho looked slightly fancier with a shirt and a loose blazer with his own black jeans.

“Would you like to start with some wine?” The server asked as the couple sat down in their seats and she passed the menus to them both.

“Yes please, some Richebourg would be great thanks” Minho smiled and replied without even thinking.

Jisung blinked a few times before realising just how expensive this menu actually was, the pasta was extremely overpriced and knowing that it was expensive would probably mean that they would also barely get anything on the plate.

“Min this is way too expensive” Jisung bit his lip as he tried to look for one of the cheapest options there were.

“It’s fine Sungie trust me” Minho smiled and thanked the waitress who just brought over their wine.

“Still, it doesn’t feel right” Jisung sighed. Sure Minho has the money to spend here but he felt like he was leaching off him.

“Are you ready to order?” The waitress asked as she pulled out a pad and a pen.

“Can we get the margarita pizza to share as well as the pasta of the day to share as well please” Minho responded in a fluent English accent.

“Of course” the waitress smiled and walked away.

Jisung picked up his wine glass to taste the expensive red liquid. It was strong that’s the first thing that Jisung picked up on, but it went down smoothly and didn’t leave a horrid taste in his mouth which was a bonus.

“Hmm, it’s pretty good” Jisung hummed as he put down his glass., “All these years and I didn’t realise you knew this much about wine” Jisung chuckled.

“What can I say” Minho chuckled, “I only know them from the business meals I got dragged to” Minho explained as he fiddled with the rim of the glass.

“Well you made a good choice” Jisung beamed and took another gulp of his own wine.

—-

After twenty minutes of waiting for food, the couple had already finished their first bottle of wine and were onto their second bottle. The food came along with the new bottle, Minho making sure to divide the pizza up into six pieces for them to share.

Jisung wasted no time in taking a slice and practically shoving it in his mouth, he was starving after the concert and so was glad to finally have food in front of him. Minho seemed equally hungry as he took his own slice.

“How has teaching been then?” Jisung asked once he had swallowed his mouthful.

“It’s decent, the new trainees are really talented, which is expected, and we are actually entering them into a dance contest. Usually, Twave wouldn’t do anything like that, but I spoke to the head choreographer and he had said that it would be good to get the new trainees some exposure before their debut” Minho explained as he rolled up some of the pasta onto his fork and held it out to Jisung.

The idol leant forward and easily bit the food off the fork, “mmmh!” Jisung’s eyes widened when he tasted it.

“It’s good?” Minho rolled up his own forkful to try.

“Waitt noo!” Jisung whined and pulled the fork out of the boy’s hand. He turned it around and gave a wide smile as he held it out to his hyung to eat.
Minho gave a small smile and rolled his eyes before opening his mouth and waited for Jisung to feed him himself. Jisung being the clumsy boy he is managed to miss Minho’s mouth and ended up getting sauce over the boy’s cheek.
Minho let out a chuckled as he blushed lightly after realising a few people had watched the interaction. Jisung gave a small gasp and a sorry as he grabbed his napkin and leaned over the table before gently rubbing the sauce off his boyfriend’s face. Minho smiled gently and raised his hand and brushed some of the hair out of his boyfriend’s face. “You’re cute”.
Jisung blushed and let Minho kiss his lips softly tasting the red wine and a hint of pizza. Knowing they were in a public place Jisung pulled away after a couple of seconds.
“No-no you are cute” Jisung’s voice was slightly slurred from the wine.

“Maybe you shouldn’t drink more wine” Minho laughed and jokingly pulled the wine bottle closer to himself. Jisung pouted and snatched the bottle before pouring himself another glass and downing half of it.

“Oh god..” Minho muttered.

“Well, I guess I’ll join you” Minho shrugged and poured himself another glass.

—----

“Min Min Min Min Min” Jisung slurred as he clutched onto Minho as the taxi drove them back to the hotel.

After the couple had finished their mains, they had both easily ordered a cheesecake as well as another bottle of wine which Minho was now thoroughly regretting as he rested his head on top of Jisung as he tried to not throw up whilst in the car due to the turns and the breaking. Jisung seemed to be very chatty whilst drunk which Minho had often forgotten due to Jisung not being able to drink that often when he had schedules.

“We’ve arrived” The driver announced when he noticed how both the boys in the back hadn’t tried to move.

“Thank you, sir! Have a good night, I had a great time in your car” Jisung chatted on as Minho pushed him out of the car door. Before drunkenly giving the driver way more than was actually required on the fare.

Minho gripped onto his boyfriend’s shoulder as he stumbled out of the car and the pair swayed up the stairs into the reception area.

“We should go out clubbing” Jisung bounced up and down making Minho’s head hurt after the younger’s shoulder hit it.

“Not tonight Ji, wanna sleep” Minho yawned as he let the younger pull them over to the lifts.

Dragging their feet into the lift, Jisung managed to remember which floor he was on and tapped the fourth floor, not before also clicking on every other floor possible.

“Ugh… Sungie whyyy” Minho grumbled as he wrapped his arms around Han’s waist and burying his face in his shoulder.

“Funny” Jisung replied in English.

The couple waited in surprising silence as they slowly went to the first, second and third floors before finally reaching the fourth floor. As Jisung stepped forward to get off the lift he realised Minho had fallen asleep whilst standing in the lift.

Laughing lightly at his hyung he guided him out of the lift before piggybacking him as he shifted awake slightly to register what was happening.

“Hi Sungie” Minho muttered as he smiled and went back to sleep.

Jisung muffled his laugh as he carried the boy over to his room which he managed to unlock fairly easily. Carrying his hyung over to the bed before dropping him unceremoniously onto the bed making him wake up.

“Ahhh a bed” Minho smiled as he smiled and rolled over the bed.

“We-we need water, no sleeping Minho hyung” Jisung grabbed one of Minho’s hands and pulled him up.
“Stay up so I can get the glasses of water” Jisung instructed Minho as he rushed to the bathroom, well stumbled to the bathroom to collect two glasses of tap water for them both to down.

The idol walked back into the room trying to not spill any of the water and let out a loud sigh when he saw Minho lying on the bed fast asleep.

“Minnn” Jisung whined as he put his hyung’s water on the bedside table and downed his own.

Feeling slightly less tipsy thanks to the water, Han shook his boyfriend awake, “Minnie, you gotta drink some water otherwise you’ll have a hangover” Jisung continued to shake the boy until he got a loud groan from the older.

“Is it morning?”

“No it’s night, and you need to drink some water” Jisung explained as Minho sat upwards blinking sleepily.

Holding the glass near his hyung’s mouth Jisung helped him finish the whole glass, after a lot of complaining. The younger then helped Minho out of his clothes so that he wouldn’t be uncomfortable and overheat under the thick hotel duvets. Following suit Jisung also stripped down to his boxers and climbed onto the other side of Minho.

“Hmm, Jisungie” Minho smiled as he curled up to his boyfriend, pouting his lips whilst looking expectantly.

“And you call me cute” Jisung laughed as he leaned forward and kissed Minho lightly.

Despite being sleepy Minho seemed to still be conscious enough to find Jisung’s waist and pull him flush to his chest so that they were closer, Jisung gripped Minho’s shoulder and jaw as the older bit the boy’s lips and deepened the kiss after Jisung let out a gasp. It didn’t get much more heated than the pair letting out a few moans here and there, after all, Jisung’s room was sandwiched between his makeup artist and a few other members of staff and so really didn’t need to wake them up and embarrass himself.

A few minutes passed until Jisung needed to catch his breath, pulling away slowly he made eye contact with Minho and let out a loving smile, “I’m so glad you’re here, I missed you so much” Jisung said in a soft voice.

“I wouldn’t have been able to wait another month,” Minho said still slightly breathless.

“I love you Min” Jisung smiled and gave his boyfriend another kiss before making himself comfortable on his chest, making sure his arms were wrapped around the older boy’s waist and legs tangled together.

Minho wasted no time in playing with Ji’s hair as they slowly regained steady breathing. Both slowly drifting off, Minho pulled the duvet up to cover himself and Jisung up to their heads.

“I love you too Sungie” Minho yawned lightly, making Jisung chuckled lightly.

“Let’s sleep, I want to spend all day with you tomorrow” Jisung decided as he wiggled around slightly to get comfortable.

The room was still dark and silent, both boys on the edge of falling asleep, eyes dipping closed before they both tried to keep them open to bask in the comfort of finally being with each other after Jisung’s departure for his world tour. Minho slowly stopped playing with Jisung’s hair and rested his hand on the idol’s shoulder.

“Jisung..” Minho started, wondering if Jisung was even awake still.

“Hmm?” Jisung was clearly about to fall asleep right there and then.

“Marry me?” Minho said barely without any thoughts.

Jisung’s breath caught.

“‘sure Hyung,but ask me that again when you aren’t drunk and with bubble tea” Jisung joked but still turned and softly kissed his boyfriend.

*:·ﾟ✧ The End *:·ﾟ✧

Chapter Text

“One last show, are you ready?” Jisung’s manager came up to him just as the boy was putting in his in-ears.

Jisung gave a small gulp and nodded. The crowds were huge, he wasn’t expecting so many people to turn up but it was his fifth world tour. He was expecting crowds — but to sell out? Never in his right mind would he believe that. 

“I’m good, ready.” Jisung nodded as he was shown towards the stage entrance. He could hear his fans screaming along to one of his older songs waiting for him to appear. 

After a quick check to see if Minho had messaged, he passed his phone over to one of the social media managers who always took the time to get footage for Jisung to then post on his Instagram after the concert had ended.

Minho was busy back in Seoul trying to sort out the new companies section to help grow a gateway from young talents to move into a trainee setting. It was hard work but his Dad had trusted his knowledge of dance to help run the section. 

“No message yet?” Mia asked as she got his phone ready to film his entrance. 

“Nah, it’s fine, I knew he had a lot of meetings today.” Jisung gave a square smile trying to not act disappointed. He’d been sent a photo of the cats wearing hats sitting next to a cake saying 'Last concert day’ earlier though.. 

“I’ll let you know if he messages during your breaks.” Mia smiled as Jisung was called up to enter onto the stage. A deafening collection of screams engulfed Jisung as he stepped onto the stage. 

- - - - - - -
 

“Put your foot down, come on!” Minho exclaimed to his driver as they finally hit a stretch of road with no traffic. 

“I’m going the speed limit.” His driver announced.

“I’ll pay the fine, I need to get there quick, his plane apparently landed a few minutes ago.” Minho stressed out as he tapped his fingers on the window sill. 

“I think Jisung would rather see you slightly later than seeing you in a hospital bed huh?” 

Minho grumbled an agreement about that but still couldn’t rest. He wanted to surprise Jisung and it was not going to plan. 

Instead of constantly asking how long they’d be and checking his phone for any signs of traffic, Minho ended up scrolling through Twitter. Looking at clips of Jisung’s concert making sure he was up to date with what fun things had happened during the concert — mainly Jisung accidentally throwing his mic into the crowd. 

Soon enough Minho was pulling into the airport, he was quick to jump out of the car, a sign folded up ready to greet Jisung, as well as a couple of guards. 
He was quickly escorted over to the arrivals entrance. There was already a large crowd of people and cameras ready to film the Idol coming back from his world tour.

Minho felt his guards tighten up beside him, cameras had already panned over to him bright flashes blocking his vision on the occasion. 

It wasn’t long before a few passengers were trailing out of the entrance, Minho was quick to unfold his sign ready for Jisung to see. 

- - - - - 

Jisung let out another yawn as he walked off the ramp back into Seoul international airport. 

The long journey back was never something he looked forward to, he got no rest because there were children screaming all throughout the flight even when it was night and the lights were turned off. 
His manager took his rucksack off his shoulders to let the Idol walk more freely whilst rubbing his eyes before going through the arrivals passport check. 
He was surprised he didn’t get questioned as his passport photo was a few years old and the boy now has longer hair, which was currently blonde, and the dark circles under his eyes probably didn’t help. 

“We are skipping duty free right?” Jisung turned to his manager who looked just as tired. 

“Definitely, I can tell how much you just wanna be in your own bed. Don’t worry you have a week off so you’ll be able to sleep all you want!” 

Jisung let out a tired chuckle.

“Ready for the cameras?” 

Jisung scoffed, rolling his eyes lightly. “Never.” 
Jisung let out a small shudder remembering he’d have to pretend to not be completely exhausted. 

“We’ll get you through quickly, apparently there are barriers up so you won’t get bombarded” 

Jisung let out a sigh with that knowledge, he really didn’t want to get pushed about constantly until he got out of the airport.

The glass doors slid open and with it thousands of cameras began flashing in Jisung’s eyes, he’d gotten used to the constant lights over the years but it was nevertheless daunting. Not to mention the sheer amount of screaming coming from fans who clearly had nothing better to do with their lives.

With his manager and a guard by his side in case a rogue fan decided to break from the barriers,Jisung began walking past Giving small waves and smiles on the way. 
He didn’t pay much attention to the fans on the sides, he felt bad not wanting to interact but after coming off a 10 hour flight he just wanted his bed. 

He started zoning out the screams when they got louder and suddenly people were shouting his boyfriend's name. 
Glancing up Jisung stopped in his tracks. 

Minho was there. 
Standing holding up a sign, he was only slightly discreet in his outfit, wearing a cap and no face mask. 

‘Welcome home Baby’ 

Jisung broke into a grin and rushed forwards. Minho dropped the sign just in time to catch Jisung in his arms as he came tumbling towards him, barely having time to balance them before they fell backwards on the ground. 

The pair broke out into laughter as Minho squeezed Jisung’s waist. 
Jisung quickly pressed his mouth onto his boyfriends not caring that there were hundreds of cameras and fans. Not caring they were currently lying on the ground on probably a very dirty floor in the middle of the airport. 

Minho broke from the kiss laughing, pushing back Jisung’s bed head that had fallen in front of his eyes, he sat them both up. 

“Hi my love.” 

“Hey.” 

Jisung grabbed Minho into another impossibly tight hug. 
“One year is too long. Never again.” Jisung spoke as Minho shuffled them around to stand them up. 

By now their guards and managers were surrounding them so they could have a bit more privacy and probably to hide them once the embarrassment settles in. 

“Never again,I got you Sungie.” Minho chuckled as he interlocked their hands making sure they were tightly entwined as they began making their way out of the airport. 

- - - - - 

“My bed!” Jisung groaned as he fell face first onto the double bed. Head falling flat on the pillow. 

“Our bed, you mean!” Minho jumped onto it just beside Jisung. 

“It was so lonely without you here, the cats have taken up your side of the bed because it was abandoned for so long.” Minho pouted slightly as he watched the three cats trying to find a new spot to rest in now that Jisung was back. 

“Before you fall asleep give me one second to grab something okay! I’m sure you’ll appreciate it.” Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair as the boy groaned. 

“I just wanna sleep.” Jisung whines loudly as Minho patted his butt as he stood up to leave the room. 

“I’ll be quick, don't worry baby!” Minho called, already halfway down the stairs. 

Jisung believes that moving in together was the best decision they had made in a long while. Minho would disagree and say that it would be if they got another cat, but they made it work. 
Jisung had been searching frantically for another kitten to adopt but he still hasn’t found the perfect one. So he was hoping that this would be the surprise. Finally another cat. 

“Soonie, do you want another sibling? How about a girl huh?” Jisung stroked the cat who had come up and laid down right beside the boy. 

It seemed the three cats had missed Jisung as equally as Minho, they had barely left the boy alone. It was like four different cats wanting attention non-stop. 

“Close your eyes!” Minho shouted as Jisung heard him walk up the stairs. 

“Oh my god it’s actually a cat!” Jisung grinned as he covered his eyes, not daring to peek. He wanted it to be a complete surprise. 

“Okay…. Put your hand out, but don’t open your eyes just yet.” Minho asked the Idol.

Jisung felt the bed dip as he held out one hand, the other resting over his eyes.

Minho placed what felt like a cup into the boy’s hand. 
“Huh?” 

“Just wait Jagi..”

Jisung hummed trying to figure out why he was holding a cup, or was it a bottle?

There was some more shuffling and cats meowing and moving all over Jisung. 

“Okay, open your eyes.”

Jisung looked and noticed that he was holding a bubble tea, more specifically the drink he had invented. Jisung grinned and took a sip.

Jisung turned to Minho to ask how the boy even managed to recreate it perfectly. “How did yo-“.

Jisung’s heart stop. 

“Last time you told me you needed bubble tea, so now you’ve got it. Han Jisung, will you marry me?” 

Jisung had to shakily put down his drink so he wouldn’t spill it over their bed before failing miserably at stopping himself from crying. He shuffled over the bed to where Minho was crouched on the ground holding up a ring. 

“Yes yes yes.” Jisung nodded as he rushed to try and kiss the life out of his fiancé. 

Minho could barely kiss back he was grinning too much. 
“I didn’t mean you literally had to give me some bubble tea to propose, you idiot.” Jisung slapped Minho’s shoulder lightly before sticking out his hand ready for the ring to be placed. 

Minho stuck his tongue out and stood up, closing the case the ring was in, “let’s redo it, I’ll be more romantic.” Minho pretended to walk out the door.

“Noooooo” Jisung was quick to grab his arm and pull him back giggling lightly.

“It’s perfect. Thank goodness you didn’t do it at the airport because otherwise I would’ve broken up with you then and there.” Jisung chuckled as he let Minho slip the small golden band over his finger. There was a small golden gemstone covered with a couple of diamonds.

“You don’t think us falling to the ground was romantic enough? Your fans are having a ball with that content.” Minho smiled as he wrapped his arms around Jisung’s neck. 

“I love you Babe.” Jisung smiled, leaning towards Minho bumping their foreheads together lightly. 

“Mmm I think I love you more my love. After all, I proposed first.” Minho smirked as he brushed their noses together. 

“Not fair! There’s a ring somewhere, I just maybe lost it.” Jisung pouted lightly. 

Minho leant forwards and kissed the pout off his lips. 

“Let’s find it shall we?” Minho tickled Jisung’s side making him squirm. 

“YOU FOUND IT DIDN’T YOU!”