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"Why were you hugging him the whole live?" Han almost hisses through his teeth, attacking Minho right after Chan's Room, where they all showed up in white.
Minho expected this after barely noticeably hugging Felix half the stream, but an involuntary sigh still escapes his chest.
"He needed support," he answers calmly, though the misunderstanding and hurt in Jisung's eyes makes everything inside him twist—he hates upsetting him.
"Ah, support," Han says sarcastically, narrowing his eyes. "He wasn't f–"
"Hannie," Minho says warningly. Jisung falls silent but presses his lips together.
A tense silence hangs between them. Minho thinks about what exactly he has the right to say, and finally breaks it.
"I can't tell you everything, just trust that it wasn't about any feelings between us. I wanted to support him as a friend because he was sad."
Han doesn't believe him. Minho knows it's not because he doesn't trust him, rather because of insecurity in himself. Or more precisely, certainty that everyone around him is better than him.
During such periods, when Han becomes this vulnerable, it's harder than usual to convince him otherwise.
At that moment Felix comes out of the studio, and he looks so devastated that Minho's heart clenches.
"Yongbok-ie," he calls out, and feels Han immediately pull his hand away and quickly leave.
Fine. He'll deal with that later.
Minho approaches Felix and gently runs his hand over his shoulder.
Felix looks like he's on the verge of tears.
"How are you?"
"They... they're together now," Felix says in a voice breaking into a whisper, and a ragged sob escapes his chest.
With an aching heart, Minho pulls him close, puts his palm on the back of his head and gently runs his fingers through his hair, stroking it soothingly.
"I'm so sorry, Yongbok-ie," he whispers into his hair while Felix, trembling slightly, soaks his shoulder with tears.
Everyone knew that Felix was obsessed with Changbin, but only Minho knew that he was truly in love with him. Everyone knew that Felix and Seungmin had a bad relationship, but only Minho knew that they argued and hated each other because of Changbin.
Everyone knew that Changbin was trying to keep everyone happy and take care of both Seungmin and Felix, and even Hyunjin, but only Minho knew that Changbin had been messing with Felix's head for a year and a half, giving him hope and letting him stay in his bed at night, only to end up choosing Seungmin.
He knows that Changbin was also torn between them while Seungmin kept pulling him close then pushing him away, and still he can't help being angry that he hurt the younger one so much.
Felix calms down after a couple of minutes, hearing footsteps in the hallway and the voices of Changbin and Seungmin. He quickly wipes his face, sniffs, and throwing Minho a "See you at the dorm," quickly leaves to avoid running into them.
Changbin has his arm around Seungmin's shoulders, Seungmin is holding his hand, and both are completely happy. Minho meets Changbin's eyes and shakes his head, and Changbin immediately looks sheepish, as if knowing why hyung is reacting that way.
Minho watches their backs and sighs, running his palm over his face. At home he'll need to talk to Han, comfort Felix, try not to punch Changbin, and continue acting normal with Seungmin.
Chan, Hyunjin and Jeongin come out of the studio, Hyunjin habitually hangs on Jeongin who's displeased by it, and Chan smiles at Minho.
"Felix already left, right?" the oldest asks in some strange voice. His face shows concern and something else, distantly resembling hope... and suddenly it clicks in Minho's mind.
No fucking way.
"He left. Why?" he asks carefully and walks alongside him while the gears in his head spin intensely.
Chan shrugs awkwardly.
"He was so strange the whole stream and left so quickly... Is everything okay? Looks like I missed something..." he says sadly.
Hyunjin at this moment stops fooling around and listens attentively to the conversation, looking from Chan to Minho.
The latter smiles artificially.
"Everything's fine, he's just a bit sick," he's not even really lying, Felix was sniffling all day, though a cold has nothing to do with it. "He'll be better soon."
"Oh, should we buy him meds?" Jeongin immediately chimes in.
"Everything's fine, he has everything he needs," Minho cuts off his enthusiasm. How are you supposed to keep secrets when everyone is so damn caring?
Jeongin nods and continues telling Hyunjin something, and Chan guiltily presses his lips together, as if he should have been the one to take care of Felix, and slows down slightly.
When Hyunjin and Jeongin walk ahead, Minho, without turning around, says, "So, Felix, huh?"
Chan looks at him surprised and almost runs into an open door in his path.
"What? What are you talking about?"
Minho sighs again, the third time in the last ten minutes.
They're both silent, and Minho tries to put together this crooked puzzle in his head.
Chan loves Felix, Felix loves Changbin, Changbin loves Seungmin.
Well, at least someone's feelings are mutual.
Minho
Hannie, let's have dinner today and I'll tell you everything?
Han
Have dinner with Felix
Han answers instantly, as if he'd been waiting for the chance to write this angry message.
Sassy Jisung always amuses him, and Minho lets out a kind chuckle.
Minho
Don't want to. He's in love with someone. And that someone is with another guy. And someone else is in love with Felix. And I'd like to note that I'm not part of any of this. Intrigued?
Han
I'll kick Innie out, order food
Minho smiles. He doesn't like gossip, but Han knows how to keep secrets, and he also likes it when Han isn't mad at him.
Besides, saving all these idiots from loneliness is easier with two people—one can't manage anymore.
He gets in the car and opens the delivery app, looking forward to a good evening and quietly happy that he and Jisung don't have any triangles.
He doesn't know yet that Jisung only bickers with Hyunjin because he's insanely jealous of Minho over him.