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If two months ago anyone had told Chan that he was going to be in his study with Changbin, Jeongin, Felix and Hyunjin with a whiteboard behind him and a marker clutched in his hand…well he wouldn't have entirely disbelieved it but he would have been confused. Regardless he would have been happy to draw the conclusion that this meant most of them were close friends now and they can finally plan a party together. (Maybe the white board was for planning the party. Don't mind him, he's a bit of a nerd.)

And he wasn't wrong about the close friends part. All eight of them got along surprisingly well now. Two months ago they were all colleagues. Now they were friends.

Little over a month ago Hyunjin and Jisung had their sudden moment of connection and ever since they had gone from rivals who could barely see each other eye to eye to absolute best friends. Chan was still aghast at how this happened so easily when he had been trying to make them friends, or at least to be civil towards each other, for so long. The fact that their sudden friendship came into being because their boss had scolded them for messing up a coffee order when they did not deserve it at all so they took revenge by pulling pranks on said boss and almost got caught and fired was unexpected but somehow so on brand for them.

(‘I think something is wrong’, said Seungmin with visible concern. He had taken a leave just on the infamous prank day and returned the next day to see Hyunjin and Jisung being besties. ‘Did I just hear Hyunjin call Jisung Sungie? ’

‘It’s a long story’, Jeongin informed him.)

Changbin had revealed there to be something more than his self proclaimed "darkness." Chan had been friends with him for long so he already knew of course but it was still amusing to see everyone's surprise when they discovered the frankly high number of things he owned which were unapologetically pink. 

('But don't you "love dark" or whatever?' Hyunjin asked and Changbin shrugged.

'I love pink too.')

Minho had opened up a lot more and had even let them meet his three cats, even let them touch and pet his three cats (only condition being that they should be able to name all three perfectly). He had taken it upon himself to be the food provider in the group because even though they all worked in a café, most of them didn't exactly have kitchen skills beyond making coffee. And he was a really good teacher too. He might have a sharp tongue and the scariest glare but he was so gentle and encouraging while teaching them that he was everyone's favourite teacher.

Jeongin had finally stopped getting shy every time a compliment came his way and accepted the fact that he would be absolutely smothered with love at every other second of any given day. He had even started calling himself "maknae on top" jokingly (a term Chan himself had coined and felt intense satisfaction on hearing every time).

Seungmin, the cleanest one in the whole bunch, had actually agreed to have a sleepover at his house and that really said something about how close they had gotten. Sure, he had sighed loudly and pointedly when things got a bit messy but he had also smiled fondly when they enjoyed themselves. In fact, he created the mess a few times. Once while trying to annoy Changbin and once while trying to annoy Jeongin.

('Are you sure about the sleepover here Seungminnie?' Chan asked the day before. 'It can get a bit messy. We can always do it at my-'

'I'm sure hyung. How bad can it get?'

'We have Jisung.'

Seungmin sighed, a mixture of fondness and exasperation lacing through his features. 'Don't worry. I will manage. It will be fun.')

As for Felix, he had gotten so comfortable with everyone that spontaneous hugs were the norm now and no one could refuse him, not even Minho or Jeongin. He had gotten so comfortable that he yelled out "yeet!" randomly, no context whatsoever, and then continued on with his day like he hadn't caused Hyunjin to nearly fall dramatically.

So yeah. They were all very close now.

However two months ago he wouldn't have assumed that he would be smack dab in the middle of a shipping war that entailed the three missing guys in the room. He hadn't considered that particular definition of close when he had wanted them all to get along.

The words "MINSUNG OR 2MIN??" written in shiny black marker ink seemed to glare at his back. And that was because everytime he managed to actually turn and face the words he himself had written he would be overcome with a wave of embarrassment.

This is what the 5 of them were doing on a saturday evening?

‘So’, said Chan. ‘Start...I guess.’

'Obviously', said Changbin getting up, flashing his "obviously" smile and proceeded to speak in English, 'Minsung forever and ever.'

Everyone rolled their eyes at his theatrics, even Jeongin who was on Changbin's side, even Hyunjin, who was really no better when it came to theatrics.

'Yeah but why and how?' pressed Felix. 'Seungmin and Minho hyung have more chemistry.'

'Are you blind? Jisung obviously has more chemistry with-'

'The sexual tension Minho hyung has with-'

'OKAY', Chan interjected. 'Please let's not go there.'

'Channie hyung is embarrassed', said Hyunjin, giggling. 'Don't worry, we will not be telling Minho hyung. You are safe from his wrath.'

'You will be the first one to get tissues in your mouth if he gets to know actually', retorted Chan and Hyunjin’s mouth fell open.

'See, that is it!' saud Jeongin, getting up from his chair, excited. 'Minho hyung threatens a lot of people. Hyunjin hyung, Seungmin hyung….'

'Me', added Changbin.

'Everyone threatens you. My point is, how many people is he that soft with as he is with Jisung hyung? I have only seen him act that gently with his cats.'

Changbin clapped his hands and then proceeded to thump Jeongin on that back. 'Exactly! Good point, Jeongin-ah, that is so smart of you.'

'You can butter me up later', Jeongin deadpanned with a smile and Hyunjin laughed at Changbin's affronted face. Meanwhile Felix, who had been quiet for a while, spoke up.

'So you're saying Jisungie is like a cat to hyung?'

A loud burst of laughter erupted from Hyunjin, Felix joined in and Chan, despite his best efforts, felt his lips curve up.

'To be honest, hyung is a bit gentle towards me too', Felix continued.

'Lix hyung, everyone is gentle towards you. It's like an unspoken crime to not be gentle towards you- no! Do NOT try to hug me-'

Chan sighed as the whole "official discussion” descended into total chaos. Felix tackled Jeongin into a hug which Changbin was all too happy to join. Hyunjin looked at them with an exaggerated disgusted face but soon he was joining in too. Jeongin looked like he was having trouble breathing.

Chan wanted to join too but right now he was supposed to be a moderator. Nevermind the fact that he had spent this entire time just thinking how exactly he will face Minho and Seungmin and Jisung the next day, knowing that there was a full blown shipping war going on within the rest of them. Which he had, for some reason, agreed to be a part of.

He tapped his marker on the table to get their attention.

'So under Jisung I write that Minho is soft towards him? And for Seungmin I write….' Chan coughed, 'tension?'

'Sexu-' began Felix but Chan made a squeaky noise he didn’t know he was capable of making and cut him off.

'Does hyung secretly ship himself with Minho hyung?' said Hyunjin in a loud whisper. Chan sighed.

'Well, who doesn't', said Changbin dreamily. 'Have you looked at that man?'

‘Don’t know about Channie hyung’, said Jeongin, ‘but Changbin hyung definitely does.’

‘Can’t I just appreciate a man’s beauty in peace?’

'Of course you can. But before that we need Channie hyung's vote', said Felix. 'Vote: Minsung or 2min.'

Chan felt his ears burn despite knowing this was coming.

'What difference will it make?' he protested.

'We are equally divided right now', said Jeongin. 'You choose one side and that side wins.'

'That's not important.'

'It totally is', said Hyunjin firmly. 'Choose.'

'But-'

'Choose.'

'Okay, then...I think Minho actually likes...Jisung….'

A loud gasp came from Felix and Hyunjin's general direction and Chan couldn't for the life of him discern who made it.

Changbin and Jeongin high fived.

'You know what, it's not important', said Hyunjin, quickly changing track. 'What's important is...which ship is real?'

‘Only one way to find out’, said Changbin and everyone looked at him expectantly. ‘We…uh, we find out.’

‘What a plan’, snarked Hyunjin. Changbin tried to reach for him, which Hyunjin expertly escaped.

'Okay so, we report our findings over this week and tell everyone else’, said Felix. 'Everyone try to observe all three of them and tell us your findings.'

~~~

A finding came to light surprisingly soon. And from Chan himself.

He texted everyone to come to a corner of the cafe quickly, making sure Minho, Jisung and Seungmin were all busy doing something else.

'So I found out that Minho', Chan gulped, a bit surprised at his own eagerness. 'Minho is dating someone.'

The statement caused some loud sounds and Chan hurried to shush them all.

'How-'

'I was talking to him and he accidentally let slip that he was dating.'

'What!? Seriously?'

'Just then a customer came to us so I pretended that I didn't hear him because….he seemed embarrassed. But I do know this much, he is dating and it's either Jisung or Seungmin.'

'Were you guys talking about anyone in particular right before that?' asked Changbin.

'We happened to be talking about both of them unfortunately', said Chan. 'So I have no idea who it is. We were talking about how Seungmin reprimands Jisung about cleanliness. And then he said', Chan remembered the fond smile Minho had in his face before repeating his words, '"That's why I date-" and stopped talking suddenly.'

'Oh my god', said Jeongin and Chan had to agree.

'Well then', aaid Felix. 'We have no confirmation. Maybe hyung will tell us himself? But then if he is dating and hasn't told us yet….I doubt he will now.'

'Let's find out if either Jisung or Seungmin are dating anyone', said Hyunjin. 'That way, if only one of them is, we know for certain.'

'Okay, but don't be too obvious about it', said Chan. 'Don't directly ask them if they are dating. Ask questions like whether they like someone or if they are thinking about dating anyone. Because if either of them are dating Minho and then he tells Minho we asked…'

'Got it', said Jeongin. 'I will ask Jisung hyung.'

'And I will ask Seungminnie', said Felix. 'Let's go!'

~~~

Turned out they both gave vague answers to any questions regarding dating. Jeongin did say that Jisung got a bit flustered when he asked him if he liked anyone.

'But that doesn't prove he is dating', pointed out Hyunjin. 'It might just be a crush he has, probably not even on Minho hyung.'

'It's a fair point', conceded Chan.

‘Man, trying to figure out whether two of our friends are secretly dating each other without letting them know that we are trying to find out their secret while also trying to win a shipping war is much more difficult than I thought.’

‘Yeah, who would have thought’, said Jeongin.

‘Exactly!’

‘Sarcasm is not your strong point.’

'Look, let's talk about this later’, said Chan. They all agreed and got back to their work.

~~~

‘Jisungie blushed when Minho complimented him today’, said Changbin.

~~~

‘Seungminnie and Minho hyung were totally flirting across the entire span of the cafe’, said Hyunjin. ‘The audacity.’

‘They were just looking at each other-’

‘Exactly! The tension...’

~~~

‘Pretty sure I noticed tension between Jisung hyung and Minho hyung today’, said Jeongin. ‘No, Hyunjin hyung, you cannot tell me that whatever that was, wasn’t tension.’

‘Hyung almost kissed him right there and then’, added Changbin.

‘There was also that thing they did where Jisung hyung was serving someone something and Minho hyung looked at him like he was his whole world from far away.’

‘Oh my god, I will literally die for them.’

‘You are such a shipper’, said Chan. Changbin nodded enthusiastically.

~~~

‘Oh my god, did you SEE that’, exclaimed Felix and took out his phone. ‘If you didn’t, no worries, I took a picture. Hyung got BOLD, he….look!’

He showed the picture and everyone leaned forward. It was a picture of Seungmin against the counter with Minho’s hands braced on the counter on either side of him. They were facing each other and-

‘Can’t tell me that isn’t a smirk on hyung’s face’, said Felix, his deep voice sounding very unnaturally shrill. ‘Man, effing smirk…’

~~~

‘Tenderly brushes away his hair from his eyes while he is working’, said Changbin, jumping up and down. ‘And hyung’s ears! They were so red! And Jisung dropping his hand like that as if he had forgotten they weren’t alone? What was up with that?’

‘Changbin, I think you read too much fanfiction…’

‘Oh come on, I write fanfiction’, he said and with that single line Chan was suddenly very concerned about whatever was on Changbin’s phone.

~~~

‘So I’m fine’, said Hyunjin, smiling too wide and scaring the rest. ‘Seungmin just leaned forward, touched his nose with hyung’s nose and then went back to work as if that was nothing, yeah I’m fine, I’m totally not hyperventilating…’

‘Have you started writing fanfiction too?’ said Chan, raising an eyebrow.

‘Well Changbin hyung told me it’s stress relieving…’

‘Wow.’

~~~

‘Jisung kissed him! How can you say that’s nothing?’

‘On the cheek! And it’s Jisung! Do you not remember him trying to kiss every single one of us?’ Hyunjin looked straight at Jeongin. ‘ You definitely do.’

Jeongin hesitated. ‘I mean…’

‘Yes or no?’

‘Okay, fine, yes. Yes. Too many times to count. I let him do it finally because he won’t give up.’

‘See? In contrast the tension-’

‘Enough with the tension’, groaned Chan. ‘When will I stop hearing that word?’

~~~

Chan spotted Jisung sitting down on a little chair a bit tiredly. Dad mode activated, he hurried to him.

'What happened bud? Tired?'

Jisung nodded with a small smile. 'Didn't get much sleep last night', he said but stopped and smirked at Chan. 'Whom am I talking to? You are a freak who never even goes to sleep.'

'Hey now', said Chan with mock offence and Jisung chuckled. 'What kept you up by the way?'

Jisung replied fast enough but Chan did not miss the way his eyes widened. Jisung was a very good liar, when he was prepared. Right now he clearly wasn't and Chan remembered how Jeongin had said he was flustered long ago.

'Oh you know, the usual. YouTube too late into the night', he said and got up. 'Anyway, I got some stuff to do. See you later.'

He got up too fast and bumped right into Seungmin who had just approached them.

'Hey, I noticed you guys here so I came to ask if you are okay', he said as he grabbed Jisung after they collided. 'Are you fine?' he asked Jisung.

'Yeah, yeah, I'm fine', said Jisung and Chan narrowed his eyes. Was that haste in his voice? As if he was trying to avoid something?

Or someone , given the way Jisung was looking at Seungmin.

Seungmin let go of Jisung and without another word or glance Jisung left. Seungmin stared after him for a short while before shaking his head and giving Chan a smile.

'Hey hyung, there is this customer and…can you help me with her?'

'Sure', said Chan, getting up. He tried to push whatever he just witnessed to the back of his mind to analyse later. He, and all the others, had imagined that this was a straightforward situation, Minho either liked Jisung or he liked Seungmin and now has finally started dating the one he liked.

He felt guilty for not considering the other two guys' point of view. What if they both liked Minho? What if they both were aware that the other liked Minho as well? What if they both were having trouble among each other because of that?

Should he and the others really interfere in that case? Maybe they should all just back off and keep their theories and speculation about Minho's love life out of this because this was not simply about him. They probably shouldn’t make a possibly bad situation even worse.

On top of that, he knew Minho was always a very straightforward man. If he was dating someone, he would have no problem telling the rest of them directly. He didn't fear what other people thought of him. He didn't fear any possible homophobes or narrow minded people. No, homophobes feared him. If he was so reluctant about talking about his dating life it must be because his boyfriend didn't want that.

'Hyung', called Seungmin and Chan looked at him, startled. 'You okay there? You completely zoned out.'

'Oh yeah, sorry', said Chan. 'What do you need me to do again?'

~~~

'You know what would be funny?' said Jeongin, his face supported by his hand on the table, 'If it turns out Minho hyung is dating some whole other dude.'

'That really would be funny', said Felix, giggling. 'You know what would be funnier? If it turns out that he is dating a girl.'

Hyunjin scoffed. 'Impossible.'

'Just think about it. Hyung never said he likes only guys. What if he is dating a girl?'

'Tell you what', said Changbin, getting up, 'I actually think that’s possible too. We can have another bisexual on the team!'

'Two bisexuals are more than enough', countered Chan. 'You and Felix cause me enough stress to last a lifetime. One more bisexual and I'm retiring.'

Felix fake gasped. 'Is that biphobia, Chris? I expected better from you.'

'I think this is our way of dealing with the fact that Channie hyung forbade us from interfering', said Jeongin. 'Now we are trying to figure out whether the person Minho hyung is dating is a boy or a girl.'

'Which is ridiculous', said Hyunjin. 'It's obviously a boy. I can't imagine him with a girl. Ever.'

'I agree.'

'This time we seem to have different teams', said Chan, lowkey enjoying the mock fight that was starting. Should he add fuel to the fire? ‘Team bisexuals and team non bisexuals. What are each of your points?’

He watched as the teams came into existence and bickered.

His phone lit up with a call.

'Hi Minho', he said, answering the call in a safe place where Minho can't hear the others squabbling.

'Hi, hyung. Are you with the others?'

'Um...'

'Changbin, Hyunjin, Felix and Jeongin...they are all with you right?'

'Right.'

'And you guys keep disappearing together or discussing stuff among yourselves don't you?'

The question took him by surprise and he cursed internally. Nothing escapes this shrewd cat lover does it?

'What are you-'

'You five have a group chat too I guess?'

Yep. They were in trouble.

'Why would we have a group chat without you or Seungmin or Jisung?' said Chan, trying to sound light and breezy.

'I don't know, you tell me.'

'I-'

'Actually hyung I have something to tell you. Why don't you all come to my house? I'm not home right now but you have a spare key right?'

'Yeah, the one you gave me for emergencies but why-'

'Just come and wait for me. We have something to tell you all.'

'We?' Chan echoed, voice shooting up embarrassingly high. 'What?'

'We', repeated Minho firmly. Chan could almost envision his evil, sweet smile. 'Me and… come and find out who.'

The call cut.

Chan stared at the phone in his hand for a long time.

What the actual hell?

~~~

'We have permission from Minho hyung himself', said Hyunjin, patting Chan's shoulder. 'It's fine. We are not going to die and I am not eating tissues.'

'Don't get too comfortable', joked Jeongin. 'Who knows what he's capable of. Besides I would love to see some tissues in your mouth.’

‘Screw you too, Yang Jeongin.’

Everyone gasped.

‘How could you say that to him?’ cried out Changbin and Jeongin nodded.

‘Yeah how could you?’

‘We might have spoiled him a little bit’, observed Chan with amusement as Jeongin proceeded to fake cry.

‘And now that we are here’, said Felix, ‘Should we ring the bell or use the key?'

'He said he's not home right now and we need to wait', said Chan, fishing out the key Minho had given him.

'Lies', said Jeongin and nodded towards the pairs of shoes scattered just outside. Chan paused with the key held in his hand mid-air.

'Maybe he came back home?' said Felix. 'But he called you like ten minutes ago. He came back home that fast?’

‘Well whatever it is, I think we know which team is the winner now’, said Hyunjin.

'What?' said Changbin, turning to look at Hyunjin's smug face. 'Which team? How do you know?'

'Look at the shoes', said Hyunjin pointing at the bigger pair. 'Neither Minho hyung nor Sungie have that big a shoe size. Those are Seungmin's shoes.'

'But how can you be-'

'He's right', said Jeongin, sighing in defeat. 'I have seen those shoes before. Those are definitely Seungmin hyung's.'

'Well', said Chan. 'I guess no other thing to do. I'm using the key.'

'Yeah whatever, even if we lost, at least we will get to tease them', said Changbin, brightening up quickly and Chan smiled to himself. Ever the positive.

'Yeah, do it quietly hyung', said Felix, pointing at the key in Chan's hand. 'Let's see if we can catch them making out or something.'

'Oh god, I hope not', said Hyunjin. 'I don't want my lunch to come up.'

'It will be fun though', said Changbin. 'I will finally get to tease Minho hyung. Oh, and Seungminnie.'

Chan put the key in the slot as quietly as possible. He turned it slowly and opened the door even more slowly because the lack of anyone rushing to open the door from inside must mean that Felix was right; they were probably going to witness some making out. He just hoped it was nothing more than making out.

They all quietly filed in. At first nobody was in sight. Chan let the others go in first and entered last.

Everyone stopped in their tracks once they finally caught sight of the couch behind the door.

Oh it was making out all right. Quite aggressive for a matter of fact.

Chan wasn't surprised by that. None of them were.

But moments went by and everyone just kept staring. Chan's eyes were glued to the couple, too shocked to even remember having decency to cough a little to get their attention.

'Oh my GOD?' said Hyunjin, finally breaking the silence and proceeded to say the most beautiful words in the English language. 'What the fuck?'

The pair on the couch sprung apart as if they touched live wires.

Seungmin's eyes were wide and shocked. His lips were red and his hair was a mess.

And beside him, looking equally messed and ravished, was Han Jisung, his eyes even wider than Seungmin's.

'What the fuck?' It was Felix this time. 'I thought- we thought- what….'

Seungmin abruptly started laughing and another ripple of shock went through everyone. Jisung slowly joined in, his loud laughter soon rivaling Seungmin’s.

'Minho hyung was right', said Jisung, now positively crying with laughter as the rest kept staring at the more and more shocking turn of events. 'This was worth it. Your faces!'

Seungmin, between gasps, managed to say, 'Look at Felix', and the both of them laughed even harder, clutching each other for support. True, Felix's face was something to behold but Chan couldn't bring himself to laugh at anything at the moment.

'Wait I-' began Chan. 'Is this some sort of prank?'

It was some time before he even got a response.

'Well no', said Seungmin, straightening a bit. ‘I mean, not quite. We did mean to shock you but-’ he choked on his own words while it seemed like Jisung had a stomach ache from all the laughing, ‘we didn’t know that you guys would discover us like that. ’

‘Well I knew it’, came a voice and Minho appeared. Chan realised none of them had even bothered to close the door until Minho entered and closed it himself. ‘How was the surprise guys?’

In response he got five pairs of eyes staring at him in silence. Minho sighed and shook his head.

‘You guys are so predictable’, he said. ‘Or maybe I just know everything. How about I change my name to Lee Know from Lee Minho?’

‘No’, said Seungmin and Minho nodded.

‘Exactly Kim Seungmin, Know. Lee Know.’

Seungmin looked thoroughly unimpressed.

‘All I had to do was tell you guys to come here and say that I am not at home’, said Minho, taking off his jacket and throwing it towards the couple on the couch. Seungmin caught it. ‘You guys were so engrossed in the plan of catching us making out that you didn’t even notice I was right there, watching you all from the end of the corridor.’

‘Of course’, said Chan. Things were starting to make more sense.

‘And then all I had to do was count on my boyfriends not being able to keep their hands off each other and-’

Chan’s brain stopped.

‘WHAT?’ screeched Hyunjin and everyone flinched, both from shock at Minho’s words and from the loudness of Hyunjin’s yell. ‘Your WHAT?’

‘Boyfriends’, said Minho calmly, while Jisung went off on another fit of laughter. Seungmin didn’t laugh this time but he looked pretty close.

‘I’m your boyfriend but I am not going to catch jackets for you’, said Seungmin and threw the jacket right back at Minho.

‘Wait a- hold on- who is whose- what boyfrien-’

‘You need to finish at least one sentence Jeongin.’

‘No but’, said Changbin, finally speaking. ‘Your boyfriends?’

‘We three are together’, said Minho simply.

A few seconds of silence, not even broken by Jisung’s laughter because he was laughing so hard that there was no sound at all. Everyone just looked at each other.

‘Three’, said Felix and sought out a chair to sit on. ‘Okay. And we were all….oh my god we were all wrong.’

‘Look at the positive, you guys were also all right’, said Seungmin cheerfully. ‘Minho hyung is dating both of us. And we both are also dating each other. It’s not that difficult to understand.’

‘Damn’, said Chan. ‘You really played us.’

‘We did, didn’t we?’ said Minho and winked. ‘We didn’t know when and how to tell you all because we thought you guys will be too shocked.’

‘But apparently’, said Jisung, finally having stopped laughing, ‘you guys were already onto something. Asking both me and Seungmin questions and whatnots. It wasn’t as subtle as you thought, you know?’

‘We realised when we were talking about you guys today’, said Seungmin. ‘And of course hyung had the bright idea to let you guys know today itself.’

‘Did anyone take a picture of their faces?’ asked Minho.

‘No.’

‘Oh come on. What’s the point then?’

‘You can take a picture right now’, said Chan. ‘I’m sure we look exactly the same as then.’

‘This is embarrassing’, said Hyunjin, clutching his head. ‘We made shipping teams.’

Jisung looked dangerously close to dying from laughter again. ‘You made what?’

‘Jeongin and Changbin were team Minsung’, said Felix, looking slightly dazed, ‘And I and Hyunjin were team 2min.’

‘2min?’ said Minho. ‘That’s lame.’

‘I think it’s sweet’, said Seungmin. Minho stuck out his tongue at him and Seungmin rolled his eyes.

‘Was anyone team Seungsung?’ asked Jisung and everyone shook their heads. ‘Ah, sad.’

‘So, we all lost the bets?’ said Changbin. ‘Or won the bets, I don’t know anymore.’

‘You guys can all give us the money’, said Jisung perking up and Minho looked proud of him. ‘And then get out of the house because we need some time to laugh at you all behind your backs.’

‘Telling us that defeats the purpose of it’, said Hyunjin and Jisung shrugged.

‘We would still have the money.’

‘I agree with that plan’, said Minho and Seungmin nodded. ‘Whatever bets you had, all of you. Money, now.’ He pointed at his outstretched palm with one finger.

‘And guys’, said Seungmin, glancing at both of his boyfriends before resuming, ‘You guys are okay with this right? Hyung wanted to tell you guys right away but we both were hesitating. You don’t think it’s weird right?’

‘It’s new, yes’, said Changbin. ‘And I guess this is not something I would want for myself. But I don’t think it’s weird. I mean hey, you guys like each other. Who are we to judge?’

Everyone nodded. Seungmin smiled at Changbin who smiled back.

‘Cool, but you are us giving the money’, said Seungmin and Changbin groaned.

‘Have a good ship’, called out Jisung as they were all leaving after the money transactions.