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jungwon reached to cut the camera, clasping his hands together in excitement at finally finishing the recording.
their fans have been begging for some sort of challenge video, and so they obeyed. and it being summer made it even better.
they decided to do a pool challenge, it was easy. or so for the six. because riki, oh was he suffering.
he couldn’t keep his eyes of sunoo. and what wasn’t helping was the way sunghoon kept by his side, eyeing him in the corner of his eye before turning his attention back to the smaller.
riki had noticed the comments whenever they went live on twitch to play games with their fans. he always did. and it hurt how even their fans didn’t like when his game character was to close to sunoos.
they didn’t even like that he’d gotten a mullet -just in a different color- saying he copied sunoo.
he didn’t like this at all. he’d always liked sunoo in a way he thought was different, but apparently sunghoon held the same
feelings. but harder.
now riki doesn’t even know if he’s got a chance. the fans expect sunoo and sunghoon, not sunoo and riki.
he just didn’t understand.
back when they first started youtube, the fans loved them -sunki- together. always voting for them to be a team on lives.
but ever since riki started finding himself, experimenting with which hyung he could trust the most and trying to socialize with all six.
it became hard to just focus on sunoo. he felt weight while being the youngest in the group. having to find a hyung he could depend on and go to whenever life felt to hard.
he felt like he needed to talk to everyone, not just one. so that’s what he did.
he spent time with others and found comfort. but as he did that, he failed to notice he growing relationship between sunghoon and sunoo until early last year.
he’s tried to talk to sunoo, but no use. every conversation was split by sunghoon, coming to ask sunoo various things and sunoo just going with the flow, walking away with him.
that’s when riki realized, he may never get him back.
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riki scrolled through the comments on their newly uploaded video, noticing how many despised his ‘actions’.
‘sunghoon come get your man away from riki 😭🙏’ riki read.
‘why does riki keep looking at sunoo like that?’ he read another.
why were they so mad about where his eyes fell? now he couldn’t even look his way.
he knew sunoo and sunghoon saw these comments. he knew they did.
but they failed to have a talk about it. riki’s tried multiple times in a row, but sunghoon, the big knight in shining armor, had to come save princess sunoo from dragon riki once again.
you’ll expect them to have some type of friendship behind camera. it’s surprising they hadn’t have a decent conversation since they were forced to in a video a while back.
and so he kept reading and reading, many telling him to back off so ‘sunsun could happen’.
that’s what scared him. he didn’t want it to happen. he never wanted it to happen.
but he’s got to give the fans what they want. he couldn’t afford the group going down for his own ‘actions’.
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it’s a friday, meaning it’s time for a new video. riki had a job to do.
operation: avoid sunsun at all costs! starts now.
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sunoo glanced at the younger once again, only to see him standing as still as a lap post, avoiding contact with him once again.
he’s found himself so caught up in teams with sunghoon, he’s forgotten all about the talk him and riki were supposed to have before recording.
he wanted to tell the younger he’s noticed the comments to and not to take it to heart because him and sunghoon are nothing more than friends.
and what he never wanted to happen is happening right in front of his own eyes.
riki’s avoiding anything about sunoo. whether he’d touch something, he’ll make sure to leave it there until someone different touched it. then he’ll use the item.
sunoo noticed the way the youngers eyes lingered on his wet body when he analyzed the previous video. he’s found himself even feeling his eyes on him in the moment.
he wasn’t disappointed nor mad. he was rather excited, finally feeling noticed by the younger.
but today he didn’t feel the cold eyes on him. he didn’t like that either.
now he had to interfere.
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it took a lot of push and pull to finally leave sunghoons side after the recording. he had nothing against sunghoon, obviously.
but sometimes he wished he didn’t treat riki like a villain in his life. he treated riki like a obsessed fan trying to stalk him.
he hated seeing the flash of hurt in the youngers eyes whenever he’s forced away by their hyung.
all he wanted to do was hug and comfort the younger. tell him he’s not the only one feeling alone in such a dark time for them both.
so now he has to take this situation in his own hands.
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here, sat beside sunoo, was riki. he didn’t know why he was here. it was after midnight and the only thought in his head was that sunoo was gonna take him out alive..
which didn’t surprise him much, he felt like he deserved it.
but he never expected sunoo to take matters in his own hands and finally start a conversation. he thought sunoo would be happy with his disappearance.
he noticed his smile today, he automatically thought it was because he was gone. but he guessed not.
“riki, let’s talk.” sunoo said, straightforward. sunoo realized the out of touch look on the youngers face. sort of uncanny.
sunoo rested his small palm on the rough bare knee of the younger. “come on, you can talk.” sunoo urged, thumb brushing his knee every now and then.
“eh?” sunoo giggles, riki was always so funny in serious situations. “are you okay? i’ve noticed the comments..”
riki snapped his head towards sunoo, faster than humanly possible. it was scary but delightful.
sunoo picked up again, “you don’t have to change yourself for the viewers you know?”
riki shook his head horizontally. “i don’t wanna ruin our reputation, sunoo.” sunoos eyes flashed with sadness.
“our reputation doesn’t matter when your feelings are on edge, riki.” sunoo reasons more on.
riki differs, “they clearly don’t like me sunoo. i can’t look your direction without getting attacked. they treat me like a villain and i don’t want the hate to turn into death threats, hyung.”
the frown on sunoos face made it look like he was melting. he couldn’t believe riki would say anything like that.
it was sad but it was true, so unbelievably sad riki had to deal with this at such a young age.
sunoo couldn’t take it anymore more. so he chose not to.
sunoo shuffled to the head of the bed, once made to the destination he’d pat the space beside him.
riki took the invitation and slipped beside the older, as still as a pet rock.
“now, let’s just sleep it off. i don’t wanna stress you further.” sunoos says as he pulls riki down with him.
riki doesn’t even try, he lets himself get pulled. let’s his arm get pulled around the slim waist of the older. even lets the older pecks a kiss to his lips.
is he ready for the morning?
no
so he just ignores it.