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If he has to be honest, the TikTok trend about Riize being everywhere was pretty fun to Wonbin. It was awesome to take some break from his busy schedule to see what Briize was doing and, of course, give them some funny responses. Right now he was scrolling through the group's TikTok for you page and liking those videos that made him laugh. That's when a girl in one of those videos was saying that Riize members clearly knew about the fanfiction stuff that has just started to pop up. "Guys, I can't see it coming," she says. "Since they're everywhere soon they'll also be in AO3."
It just makes him curious, but a little cautious. He knew about how some fan's like to write or read stories about their idols. Before debuting he also used to read some fanfictions about Exo and it was actually really fun. But someone writing something about him? It just made him wanna take a look at it. So that's how he ended up opening the search app and typing for the A03 website. He takes a look at its initial page and, since it was very intuitive, he just clicks on the search icon and types his name. He just ignored the ship's within other members and went straight to the tag "Park Wonbin (RIIZE)".
The first summary was a bit strange, something about buttocks so he just skipped that. Probably it was better not to know what this is about. The next one was probably an angst about him and Anton. Actually it wasn't his cup of tea, but he opened it. Well, it's better than something about butt's. He was almost fini shing, and despite the harsh words, it was interesting. He wouldn't describe himself that way, but it wasn't boring to read.
"Hyung" It was Anton calling him. "It's your turn to record."
"Oh, thanks." He says, quickly closing the website and leaving the iPad on the couch. "You'll wait for me for dinner?"
He made the question since the other members had already finished the recording and now some of them had different schedules so just him and Anton were there.
"Sure." The younger one just sat and started to look at his cellphone. With that, Wonbin made his way to the recording room.
Park Wonbin spent like an hour recording his part. After all he was still a perfectionist and he was lucky to have lines that were so catchy so he should do more than the best. He received compliments from the producers before he headed out of the room and bowed in gratitude.
"I'm done." He says as he finds Anton still seated.
"Finally! I'm starting." The younger one says.
"So what do you want for dinner?"
"I'm fine with anything, it's your choice."
"Cool, because I'm craving pork belly." Wonbin says, packing his things in his backpack. "I know a place, let's get going."
They got out of the building and took a car to the restaurant and it was a little crowded but they managed to take a table in a discreet place. When the waiter came they ordered the food and got into a discussion about what to drink.
“I guess it isn’t good for us to drink soju today, hyung.” Anton says. “After all, we have dance trains tomorrow.”
“Yeah, past 12 p.m. C’mon Chanyoung, one bottle wouldn't kill us.”
“Just one bottle.”
Indeed, they each got one bottle of soju, but it didn’t take too long for Wonbin to finish his and order a beer while Anton was busy looking after the meat. When the younger one finished, even before he fed himself, he took a perilla leave and put lettuce, onions, garlic and smudged the meat in ssamjang before putting it inside.
“Here” he says with his usual soft tone, feeding Wonbin on the mouth.
“It tastes so good,” Wonbin says with his eyes closed and mouth still full and Anton just nodded, knowing that it was a clear sign that Wonbin wanted more.
When they finished the meal, they paid and left the restaurant immediately. Since it was near their dorms they took a walk back home. It was early autumn so the breeze was a little bit cold.
“We should go camping on one of our days off.” Anton said.
“Yeah, but I think that our pd has plans about it for our variety show.” Wonbin mutters. “It’s like a super autumn coded activity. But it’ll be so cool, we can burn some marshmallows and I can bring my guitar.”
“I was planning on just the two of us doing it.” It was enough to make Wonbin’s jaw drop.
“Oh… that would be… fine too.”
They spent the rest of the walk in silence. And when they got into their dorm, they found Sohee and Eunseok watching a movie while eating some snacks.
“Chanyoung!” Sohee yells. “Sit there, we just started watching Scream 6.”
“I’ll pass.” He says and heads to the bathroom.
“What was this?” Eunseok asked, it wasn’t like Anton to decline a snack and movie night.
“Don’t know, but he must be tired.” Wonbin said. “I’m also tired. But we already had dinner, so there’s no need to worry.”
“Okay.” Enseok said, looking back to the TV.
So Wonbin made his way to his room, taking his pajamas while he waited for Anton to get out of the bathroom. Once he did, Wonbin walked in and spent a long time there. When he finished he went back to his room just to find Anton lying on his bed. It wasn’t uncommon. They usually hang out in each other’s room, but all he wanted to do was sleep.
“I didn’t know I had a roommate.” Wonbin joked.
“I thought you would like me to sleep here today, but I can go back to my room.”
“No, you can stay. But I was about to sleep.”
“That 's okay. I’m tired too.”
With that Wonbin closes the door and turns the light off, lying next to Anton who immediately clung into him. He was so tired that it didn't take much for him to fall asleep.
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The next few weeks were just like that, every time Anton got the chance to spend time with Wonbin he was clinging to the older. That roommate thing also became more pertinent, every night Anton was sleeping at Wonbin’s.
It wasn’t like the older one didn't like it, but it was making him so confused about his feelings. And everything became worse when Sungchan with the tragic line:
“You and Anton need to be more careful.” He wears a real serious expression. “I know it’s common in new couples to be all clung and everything but we are still rookies.”
“Me and Anton what? We’re not a couple.”
“That’s not what he said to me. Anyway, whether you’re together or not it’s a problem between you and him. But you guys being so clingy on the cameras is a problem for our group, and you guys need to fix it.”
That’s why the same night, before entering his room, he took a deep breath. Anton was lying on his bed, like the past days.
“We should talk.” Wonbin said, biting his lower lip.
“Sure.” The younger one sat and waited for his hyung to talk.
Wonbin also sat in the bed and breathed again before starting talking.
“Sungchan talked to me today about our relationship.” Even with all the time he spent thinking on the best way to say that, it was still so hard. “I really don’t want to hurt you, but I didn't know you thought about us as a couple.”
“Sungchan hyung also talked to me about it and I explained that we were hanging out and that we had feelings for each other.” The younger one started. “I didn’t say that we were a couple, he must have just assumed.” And his voice turned even softer. “I was planning to ask you on a date this weekend.”
“Hey, how do you know that I have feelings for you? I’m not even sure about it!”
“That’s a funny story” Anton let out a shy laugh. “When you were recording I borrowed your iPad. I swear, I was just wanting to do some… hmmm… professional research.” His ears were getting a reddish tone. “But you didn’t close the last page you searched and I saw that you were reading fanfiction about us.”
Wonbin couldn’t believe it was that. Indeed, Anton became more clingy with him that day. But still he wasn’t sure about his feelings for the younger. So all he could do was to explain exactly what happened that day as Anton listened carefully.
“So you’re saying that actually my feelings aren’t mutual?”
“I’m not saying that Chanyoung.” Wonbin answered. “I’m just not sure about it, but I have an affection for you. I just need some time to elaborate my feelings. And of course, spend some time with you without seeing you as a younger bro.”
“And that means…”
“That we can give it a shot. Of course, we need to be careful and know that this can’t affect our work.” Wonbin says.
“That’s awesome!” Anton smiles. “So, we have a date this weekend?”
“Sure.”