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"Just like yesterday," Jiseok mutters to himself as he places his beautiful electric guitar named Snoopy, back to its guitar stand. Jiseok happily sighs as he looks around the band practice room, realising that it is the perfect place where he can constantly unleash his talent to the fullest.
As he opens the door of the band practice room to go to the hallway, he stands face to face with Seungmin, who eventually smiles back at him while clutching his petit round bag.
"I thought you already went back to the dorm with the other boys," Jiseok sounds amused as he closes the door and proceeds to grab Seungmin's left hand, "I was ready to sing some heartbreaking love songs out loud on the streets if you leave me alone here."
"Don't be so silly," Seungmin giggles, which is actually Jiseok's favourite sounds to hear in this entire world, "You know that I always wait for you."
"You didn't wait for me two days ago."
"Ah, I already told you that I need to buy-"
"Okay then, let's go!" Jiseok immediately stops Seungmin from nagging which makes the younger one cutely whine.
The midnight walk to their dorm — or what Jiseok likes to describe as their second home, is indeed peaceful. Just him and Seungmin, walking down the usual path from their company to the dorm.
Once they reach their dorm, they will start doing their night routine in which either Jiseok or Seungmin will take a bath first and one of them will eliminate the little mess in their shared room. Somehow, the perk of having your boyfriend as your roommate is that you can arrange any item that is placed in the room and the other person would not care much about the arrangements that tend to change on a daily basis.
Like always, the full-of-energy Jiseok goes around the dorm talking and playing with the other members before he goes to sleep. Seungmin knows that it usually takes around 30 minutes for his boyfriend to mess around with slightly annoyed sleepyheads who just want nothing but sleep before he returns back to his bed.
Unfortunately, it has been 40 minutes and his adorable extrovert boyfriend is still not coming back to their shared room yet. Seungmin decides to wait for Jiseok as he reads the messages by their loyal fans — Villains on Bubble and sends a mirror selfie that he took in the small-yet-well-built individual practice room after he was done with his daily warm up practice.
Fortunately, this time, Seungmin realises that it is already 12 o’clock which means that it is already April Fool’s Day in Korea so he decides to joke around with the fans. He completely removes his profile picture on Bubble, his name and also his profile status. Then, he proceeds to click on the Twitter application on his phone — that he installed a few months ago — to check on Villains’ reactions. He wholeheartedly chuckles when he sees the fans start freaking out and expressing their confusion. Just like what I expect to happen, Seungmin mumbles as he sighs in amusement.
Seungmin is about to send some messages when out of the blue, he receives Bubble notifications from Joo — which is Jooyeon. It is true that all of them are subscribed to each member of the band but this is somehow confusing to him.
“Joo? Jooyeon? But why did I save this contact number as my love instead?” Seungmin thought to himself.
The now perplexed Seungmin decides to go through his Bubble subscription lists — even though there are only five people that he is subscribed to — and it brings great surprises to him. A lot.
He can confirm that Jooyeon’s actual contact number is still saved as Wolfie Bassist but his love — his Jiseok, has changed his profile picture, name and everything while currently impersonating his bassist best friend on Bubble.
It left Seungmin baffled, as Jiseok didn’t tell him earlier about his plan to impersonate Jooyeon on April Fool’s Day.
Don’t get him wrong, Seungmin is not a controlling type of boyfriend and he lets Jiseok do whatever he wants as long as it doesn’t tremendously affect their relationship and their career as a band. He knows that the thought of being jealous should not even come across his mind but it's just that he feels super tired today, after doing long hours of band practice. He wishes that he could cling to his boyfriend and spend some alone time with him, cuddling and whispering romantic love notes to each other.
"Get yourself together, Oh Seungmin!" He tries to remind himself.
Even in daily life, he actually always finds the Nugget Times — Jiseok and Jooyeon — to be extra entertaining and makes him energised simply just by their usual chaotic antics.
But today somehow feels different. It has been a while since both of the lovebirds spend cuddle nights together — with usually one of them immediately falling asleep as soon as they lie on the bed — which makes Seungmin misses Jiseok more.
Seungmin's eyes are now fixed on his phone screen, currently seeing how Jooyeon is impersonating Jiseok by changing everything on his Bubble profile to resemble his best friend. It successfully makes Seungmin's pout more prominent.
Seungmin sulks as he types "Hello, I am . (dot)" on Bubble, he then throws his phone on top of his fluffy purple pillow and starts doing his night skincare routine.
—
The situation in the other room is indeed chaotic. Jiseok laughs while he tumbles on top of Jooyeon’s bed and Jooyeon crouches next to his bed while gripping on the bed, waiting for another wave of laughters to hit both of them.
“What’s going on here, boys?” Gunil asks as he enters his room in amusement. “What happened?”
“We just pranked the fans by impersonating each other and we changed everything, our profile pictures, the names. Everything!” Jooyeon dramatically gasps for air as he continues, “Even the way we send messages on Bubble!”
Jiseok adds once he can breathe properly again, “And it’s Jooyeon’s idea, I can’t believe that I didn't think about doing this before!”
The Nugget duo cheers out loud, which makes Gunil endearingly laugh as he comments, “Do whatever you guys want but make sure that you don’t stay up too late, or you’ll be late to attend tomorrow’s schedule.”
Gunil then grabs his laundry basket and waves at the boys as he exits the room, “I’m going to do the laundry and go to sleep later. Don’t wait for me to come back to the room, Lee Jooyeon.”
“Ah hyung, but I can’t fall asleep if I’m all alone by myself.” Jooyeon childishly shouts as he stares at the closed door.
A few seconds of silence passes as the duo try to calm themselves after laughing way too much.
Jiseok evidently tilts his head as he suddenly receives Bubble notifications on his phone.
“Hello, I am dot.” Jooyeon reads the message on his own phone. “Jiseok, what is your boyfriend trying to do?”
“I’m not so sure about that, Joo.” Jiseok answers, but still pleased by the situation. “I think he’s also doing some pranks, oh! I better go back to our room, I am pretty sure he’s waiting for me right now!”
“You know your boyfriend really well.” Jooyeon wiggles his eyebrow as he gives a thumbs up.
Jiseok proceeds to wink as he says, “Look at who I am, I’m Kwak Jiseok.”
—
Feeling excited to have snuggle time with his boyfriend, Jiseok visibly skips in his walk towards his shared room with Seungmin.
Jiseok slowly opens the door to their room and he sees Seungmin putting down what looks like the very familiar skincare product that the younger one uses every night on the table. Opening his arms as big as he can, Jiseok tries to engulf Seungmin in his embrace but shockingly the younger one backs away from him.
As oblivious as he can be, the guitarist makes a confused noise, wondering why Seungmin is not even looking at him.
Seungmin decides to move further away from Jiseok, with his face almost brushing against the closet. Jiseok agrees that he looks super cute acting that way but he has other thing to handle right now. Jiseok tries to grip Seungmin’s shoulders and smoothly turns his boyfriend facing towards him.
“Baby, what are you doing?” Jiseok concernedly asks.
No response from his boyfriend. Seungmin is still looking at his feet, not even moving an inch from where he is standing, and somehow Jiseok sees him so small — pocket sized he can even say.
Jiseok takes both of Seungmin’s hands and holds them gently, then proceeds to push Seungmin to lean on the closet while attaching their hands on the said furniture. The romantic soft gesture successfully makes Seungmin lift his head and hesitantly look at Jiseok. He can clearly see the blush faintly appears on the younger’s cheeks but he says nothing.
“Why, baby?”
Again, no answer or response from Seungmin.
However, Jiseok just smiles and tries to kiss his lover but Seungmin turns his head away from the kiss.
Seungmin hurriedly pushes Jiseok away too, as he utters, “I have something to discuss with Jungsu hyung.” And he leaves the room, leaving Jiseok alone while standing in the middle of the empty space.
“This is weird.” Jiseok scratches his not really itchy head in confusion.
—
The confused yet oblivious boy goes out to the living room and he sees Seungmin, who is obviously talking to Jungsu. He doesn't even attempt to get closer to the keyboardists but from what he can barely hear, they are currently discussing about keyboard-related stuff, something Jiseok struggles to understand.
Jiseok just shrugs and he enters the leader-maknae shared room again. He sees the eldest hyung getting ready to go to bed as he gently hits his pillow as if he is currently playing the actual drums with it.
"Why are you here again?" There's no hint of annoyance in Jooyeon's voice, just pure curiosity mixed with sudden enthusiasm.
Jiseok sits on his best friend's bed as he answers, "Seungmin is discussing about something important — something about the keyboards? With Jungsu hyung so I decided to come here again."
"Okay then," Jooyeon just laughs before he continues, "You can stay here for a while, Gunil hyung won't get mad."
"Hey! I never get mad at you guys." Gunil desperately chimes in.
Trying to distract himself from his unknown conflict with his boyfriend, Jiseok asks Jooyeon, “Joo, what is the nickname that you gave to your fans?”
“My fans?” Jooyeon thinks before he answers, “They’re called Sojung-ie, my precious ones!”
“Alright,” Jiseok slightly smirks as he types something on his phone, “I did it.”
“My precious ones should only trust me… Kwak Jiseok!” The bassist laughs out loud as he reads the message on Bubble then he stops. “Wait, why are you not laughing? You were happy just a moment ago. What’s wrong?”
Jooyeon’s question makes Gunil turn his head and look at the duo, “What’s wrong, Jiseok? Who hurts you? Should hyung beat someone up?”
Jiseok hesitantly answers, “I think Seungmin is upset with me but I don’t know why.” He starts fidgeting as he pouts.
“Did you ask him why?” The leader patiently tries to help the guitarist. He sure does have a soft spot for Jiseok.
“I didn’t.” is what Jiseok said. “He won’t tell me anything.”
“I believe that you know him really well — damn you’re his boyfriend! Just try your best to ask him why and he’ll eventually tell you.” Jooyeon says as he pats Jiseok’s back.
Jiseok nods his head and a beautiful smile reappears on his face. “Okay got it! Thanks, you’re the best friend that I ever had!”
“Hey, why not me?” Gunil gasps.
Jiseok sends a sinister smile and runs while he says, “I’m sorry, Gunil hyung!”
“Hey! Jiseok, get back here!”
—
Jiseok once again goes to the living room but he can only see fellow guitarist, Hyeongjun playing his favourite electric guitar while sitting — or actually slumping into the sofa, he might say.
"Where's Seungmin and Jungsu hyung?"
Hyeongjun stops strumming on his guitar and says, "Jungsu hyung is in the bathroom and Seungmin, he went back to your room." Jiseok utters thank you to Hyeongjun as he walks away.
"Jiseok," Hyeongjun pauses before he asks, "What did you do to Seungmin?"
"What?" Jiseok's eyes widen.
"I know he's upset about something and I know it must be you who are causing it." Hyeongjun voices out as if it's a matter of fact.
Jiseok starts to get nervous as Hyeongjun stares at him like a hawk. "How did you know that?"
Hyeongjun just gladly smiles and says, "I can always sense when something goes wrong."
Hyeongjun pats the seat next to him as a sign for Jiseok to sit. "Remember when Gunil hyung got upset? It turned out that Jungsu hyung forgot to buy Coke for him."
Jungsu who returns from the bathroom starts thumping his feet and tries to defend himself, "Gunil hyung mentioned about wanting to drink carbonated drinks 8 days before I went out so it was nearly impossible for me to remember what he asked me to buy at the mart."
"I can accept that reason." Jiseok hums.
Jungsu then sits next to Jiseok and asks, "So, did you say anything that makes Seungmin sad?"
"I swear to God I said nothing." The flabbergasted Jiseok rapidly waves his hands in defense. "We went home together and he looked really happy, we even held each other's hands while walking on the streets."
Jungsu blinks his eyes like a curious kitty before he continues, "So, it must be something that happened just now."
Hyeongjun, on the other hand, checks on his phone and knowingly smiles since he can already guess about what is going on based on the Bubble notifications that he received.
After a while, Hyeongjun decides to butt in, "I think it would be better if you quickly resolve this issue before you lose your boyfriend."
Hearing those words makes Jiseok whine like a kid, "Hyeongjun, please never say things like this ever again."
"Hyeongjun is right, I know it's good for you if you go back to your room and talk to him." Jungsu gently massages Jiseok's shoulders to relieve the tension in his body.
Standing on his feet, Jiseok takes a deep breath and slowly but surely walks towards their shared room. He can faintly hear both of them cheering for him and at some point, he can also hear Jungsu mutter a quick “good luck”.
—
Holding the door handle, Jiseok opens the door and the first thing that catches his curious eyes is Seungmin, who is sitting on the edge of his bed while scrolling through his phone — is he looking at Twitter?
Jiseok then closes the door behind him and tries to greet Seungmin but indeed, the younger one is faster in reacting. Seungmin gets too shocked and he immediately closes the application. Was he about to tweet something? Whatever, what’s important now is how Seungmin is — once again, starts walking towards the closet and pretending as if he’s arranging his clothes, his neatly arranged clothes that he tends to share with Jiseok.
Jiseok carefully approaches him and traps his boyfriend with his arms, so that he can’t escape from having the most important conversation for the time being with Jiseok.
“Oh no, I’m trapped again!” Seungmin says to himself but he never dare to say it out loud, “Fuck you Jiseok and your stupid clingy ass.”
On a daily basis, Seungmin would love it when Jiseok corners him like this, as they will share some soft loving kisses and giggles before they start their hectic full-of-schedules days.
Even on this morning, they had shared some kisses and hugs and the thought of this morning suddenly makes Seungmin’s heart beat erratically. “I shouldn’t feel like this — not in this situation.” Seungmin thinks to himself.
“What’s wrong, baby?” Jiseok asks while looking so concerned, which makes Seungmin feel bad. But the younger one just says nothing.
Jiseok gently wraps his arms around Seungmin's neck and tries to kiss him. As expected, Seungmin immediately turns his head away so Jiseok just leaves some soft smooches on his right cheek.
Jiseok tries again, this time he moves his hands to hold Seungmin's waist, the waist that he loves the most. Seeing no response given by Seungmin, the older one proceeds to hug him tighter and starts whining.
Meanwhile, Seungmin tries his best to look away since he knows himself really well — a whining Jiseok is the cutest Jiseok and he's truly weak whenever he sees his boyfriend whining at him.
"Seungmin, tell me what's wrong please~" He adds a little aegyo at the end of his sentence as he carefully draws circles on his waist. "I will fix it, I swear I don't want to make you sad."
Jiseok then affectionately kisses Seungmin's neck which makes Seungmin turn his head and finally looks at him straight in the eyes.
"It's nothing serious."
Jiseok pouts. "If it's not then, why won't you talk to me?" Jiseok pauses before he continues, "Why do you keep running away from me?"
(Think, Jiseok. You're a clever young man. Think. So what did I do today?)
The internal monologue within his mind continues.
(I woke up early in the morning. I went to band practice. I ate lunch with Seungmin. I accompanied Seungmin to buy his favourite drink at Starbucks. Seungmin bought one latte for me. I walked with him and did band practice again. I ate dinner with the members. What else did I do?)
The oblivious Jiseok thinks so hard while he caresses Seungmin's waist, which makes the younger one almost fall on his knees and surrender.
(Wait… Bubble?)
Once Jiseok finally realises it, he wholeheartedly laughs as he lovingly gazes at Seungmin's adorable sulky face.
"Baby," Jiseok says as he wraps his arms around Seungmin's neck, "Did you get jealous that Joo and I impersonated each other on Bubble?"
The reddish blush slowly creeping on Seungmin's cheeks and he swallows his saliva as he nods, "Maybe a little bit?"
"Baby," Jiseok says again as he admires Seungmin's foxy eyes, "Are you tired? You're not always like this, right?"
"I'm sorry that I make you upset." These are the words that honestly comes out from Jiseok's mouth.
"Don't say sorry," Seungmin answers, "Yes, I am just tired and my mind decided to be an ugly mess."
Jiseok smiles brightly, he's not even mad at Seungmin. In fact, he understands why Seungmin acts that way. "It's okay, I know a way to solve this matter."
“Really? What-“ Seungmin wants to respond but he gets interrupted by Jiseok who suddenly is kissing him — oh ever so tenderly.
Seungmin always loves Jiseok’s kisses, his boyfriend’s pretty lips feel so soft like fluffy clouds and fit perfectly with his. As the kiss deepens, Seungmin swears that he can feel Jiseok’s pure overwhelming love for him, so he decides to return the same amount of affection and love as he kisses back.
Seungmin almost turns into a puddle of goo in Jiseok’s arms, and they stay like that for a while. As Jiseok ends their passionate kiss, Seungmin finds himself wrapping his hands around his boyfriend’s waist this time.
The butterflies in his stomach are doing flips as Jiseok asks, “Did the kiss make you feel better?” His beautiful round eyes glitter as he asks the younger one.
Seungmin fondly smiles and kiss Jiseok’s nose before he replies, “Of course, my love.”
The lovebirds start giggling as Seungmin affectionately rubs their noses together, which clearly elicits how smitten they are for each other.
Feeling extra giddy, Seungmin asks, "Jiseok, can we cuddle tonight?"
Jiseok immediately answers with, "You shouldn't ask me that question, you already know the answer." And it leaves Seungmin really hot, his face and ears are as red as ripe tomatoes. Hearing that, Seungmin jokingly tickles Jiseok's slim waist.
The couple moves to Seungmin's bed and makes space for each other as they rearrange the pillows. Before Jiseok can engulf Seungmin into a big warm hug and wrap both of them under a thick fluffy blanket, Seungmin stops him.
"Wait."
Jiseok makes a cute confused noise as he tilts his head. Seungmin then continues speaking, "I want to send my ODTD photos to Villains before we go to sleep."
Jiseok just brightly smiles, and he proceeds to help Seungmin selecting the best photos and also reads the responses from their fans. "Villains are the best indeed, we're really lucky to have them."
But Jiseok knows that he's the luckiest one here since he has Seungmin as his true love.
Jiseok happily sighs as he holds Seungmin's delicate hands, and both of them slowly drift off to sleep — into the magical dreamland.
"Good night, baby."
"Good night, my love."