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The music still rang in his ears as he stepped out of the shower in their changing room. The last concert of the tour had been awesome. Tiring, but awesome. He loved standing on the stage with SHINee, with the background dancers. Although this time it had been a little bit different. Because Jonghyun hadn't been allowed to dance that much yet, they had gotten help for their choreographies.
He had just changed his clothes and wanted to leave for the dorm when he heard knocking at the open door.
"Minho."
A shy smile spread on Minho's lips as he recognized the voice before he even turned around.
"Lay."
The slightly older one stood in the open door, backpack in hand and hair in a messy ponytail.
"Don't call me that. I told you to call me Yixing."
Minho just hummed slightly. He knew that Yixing preferred his real name in private.
"Are you ready yet? I thought, if you want you can come over to EXO. After you were with SHINee for the past few days?"
While looking at the tip of his shoes he waited for a reaction of the younger one, until he felt a hand squeeze his shoulder slightly.
"Sure, why not? Let's go. I'm starving though."
A laugh escaped Lay's lips and he mumbled that they could order take out because if they just bought something and brought it to the dorm the others of EXO would skin them alive, either because it wasn't enough, or because it wasn't the right food.
After eating with the others of EXO Yixing brought his guest to his room. He ignored the pointed look of Kai with whom he shared said room and he also ignored the not so hidden noises of encouragement the others threw their way.
"Sit down where you want, I'll be back in a second.", he mumbled, patted the shoulder of the younger one slightly.
Minho sat down on the bed that seemed to belong to Lay, looked around in the room. Although he had met up with the older one almost every day in the past few weeks they had never met at one of the dorms.
His eyes wandered over the books piled up on the nightstand - Korean, Chinese and even some in English - over some personal stuff and a guitar sitting next to the bed. When Yixing came back with something to drink Minho pointed at the guitar, asked:
"Can you play me something?"
He knew that Lay could play the guitar, had even listened to some videos on YouTube, but he had never heard him play live.
The EXO member nodded und put the drinks on the nightstand before he grabbed the guitar and sat down next to his guest. He started to play some notes until they formed a melody and finally even sang. Minho smiled as he watched him play. After a few minutes he lay a hand on the moving hand and effectively stopped Yixing from playing.
"That was really nice. You can play so well and your voice is perfect with the guitar."
Minho hoped he didn't just imagine the light blush spreading over the older one's cheeks, otherwise this could turn really awkward.
He turned around a little bit, so that he looked directly at Yixing and asked:
"What are we?"
Lay put his guitar away and looked up again with confusion and furrowed eyebrows.
"What do you mean?"
"Are we friends? Or are we... I don't know, are we more? More than friends? Because I like you, Yixing. A lot."
Slowly he pulled his hand away from the older one's. He didn't know if he maybe wouldn't even want to be touched by Minho anymore as soon as he understood what he tried to say.
"We are definitely friends. But we can also be more, if you want. I like you a lot, too."
Before Minho even had time to process the words Lay took his hand in his own and intertwined their fingers. When the younger one looked up with a hopeful look in his eyes he saw a shy smile spread on Lay's face. Minho couldn't help himself as an equally as shy smile spread on his face as he squeezed the fingers between his own lightly.
This was the best last day of a concert tour he ever had.