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“It was nice meeting you Liyu-ssi”
Filming for Mnet’s programme was wrapping up by now. It was almost 7.pm. Nicholas and his co-guest Chuei Liyu stood beside each other, greeting before they had to part their ways.
“Like-wise hyung” Liyu says, smiling back at Nicholas.
“Oh come on” Nicholas chuckles, reaching forward to pat Liyu’s arm. “I was hoping we got closer through this meet up. Stop with the honorifics!”
Liyu gives a shy awkward smile in return. “It just slips out, Nico it is then”
“That’s better”
They both are interrupted when Nicholas’s manager comes running towards them “Nicholas-ssi, Euijoo-ssi is asking me why aren’t you picking his calls?”
Nicholas frowns. Euijoo was calling him? He clearly texted him that he would be busy with filming today’s content. “Sir, tell him I will call back later. Liyu and I still have to take some photos together before leaving”
His manager nods, before walking away to call Euijoo in order to get Nicholas’s message through. He rings up Euijoo, telling him Nicholas was still occupied with the schedule and couldn’t attend to his call.
“Excuse me?” Euijoo speaks through the phone, scoffing so loud it pierced through their poor manager’s ear drums. “He doesn’t wanna answer my call?”
“He seems a bit busy Euijoo-ssi” the manager answers.
“Turn on the video for a second, and show me what he’s doing” Euijoo demands.
Their manager lets out a long sigh, but complies to his request anyway. “Alright!”
The moment their manager turns the video towards Nicholas, Euijoo scoffs loudly, forcing a laugh. “So this is why he’s ignoring me”
Nicholas and Liyu were taking selfies together, and Nicholas was leaning way too close to Liyu, barely leaving any physical space between them. The sight was enough to throw Euijoo off completely.
“Fine manager-nim! Thank you so much for updating me on him!”
“Well have a good day Euijoo-ssi—“
Before their manager could even finish talking, Euijoo hung up the call.
He was mad. Furious in fact. He needed to ask Nicholas something really important, and here he was.
Cheating.
He had to ask Nicholas if he should wear a dark blue shirt or checkered flannel for the selfies he was going to post on Weverse.
But here he was, ignoring him.
Nicholas could go to hell. Euijoo doesn’t need his opinions. He can post photos without his validation. And he will post whatever the fuck he wants tonight.
He rushes back into the living room, stomping his feet so loud it wakes Maki up from his evening nap.
He rubs his eyes looking up at Euijoo. “Hyung?”
“Do we have a chart paper? And some markers?”
“Do you feel crafty today hyung?” Maki asks, blinking before opening his eyes wide. He notices the annoyed look on Euijoo’s face, not quite understanding the reason behind.
“Feeling very crafty indeed” Euijoo answers with a loud scoff.
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Nicholas walks back into their dorm, extremely tired from the day’s schedule. He yawns, almost tripping when he steps on a black marker underneath his feet.
Which leads to the next train of thoughts. What the fuck was a marker doing on the floor?
He walks further inside to find Maki on the couch and then looks around to find no one else.
“Where’s everyone” Nicholas asks.
“Probably asleep” Maki answers, scrolling through TikTok.
“Where’s Euijoo?”
Maki pauses, before slowly turning towards Nicholas. “I think you should take the couch tonight, I will get up”
Nicholas frowns, walking towards him before settling beside him. “Why? I have my own bed”
Maki takes a deep breath, before patting Nicholas’s shoulder. “Well, did you see the sign pasted on your room door?”
Nicholas furrows his eyebrows in confusion. What sign? What the fuck was Maki even on about right now?
“What are you saying?”
Maki clears his throat. “Well get up and go over to your room”
Confusion is plastered all across Nicholas’s face. He immediately stands up, before giving another skeptical look to Maki, as he makes his way towards his door.
The moment he turns the corner for his room, he pauses in his tracks.
Okay, what the fuck?
There was a huge chart paper pasted on the door which read.
WELCOME HOME CHEATER
Nicholas stares at the sign in disbelief before reaching forward to twist the doorknob, only to find it locked.
“Oh fucking great” he groans loudly. He bangs his fists on the door. “Euijoo open up!”
There is silence on the other end, which adds to Nicholas’s frustration. What the hell was up with Euijoo?
“Euijoo! Open up! I am tired I need to sleep!” Nicholas knocks on the door once again, staring at the huge ass poster on the door.
There is shuffling on the other side before the door is swung open, almost sending Nicholas to the ground.
Euijoo stood there holding the doorknob with one hand, glaring back at Nicholas. Nicholas doesn’t mean to exaggerate but he could literally see fire in his eyes.
“What’s with this sign?” Nicholas asks, pointing towards it.
“It’s to welcome you” Euijoo answers, tilting his head sideways, having a very unpleasant smile across his lips. “Cheater”
“What?” Nicholas asks. “What the fuck did I do”
“Cheat, what else” Euijoo says, rolling his eyes.
“Okay, did I miss a chapter?” Nicholas asks in confusion. “I didn’t cheat?!”
“Manager-nim showed me live proof, wait” Euijoo says, before pulling out his phone, skimming through his gallery to shove the screenshot of that video call in his face.
“There you go, cheater” Euijoo mutters.
Nicholas groans, facepalming loud enough for the sound to echo. “Are you serious right now?”
“I am so damn serious Nicholas. I have never been this serious my entire life”
“I was literally just taking photos for the promotion content!” Nicholas defends himself. “How can you categorise that as cheating?! This is unfair”
“You were ignoring my calls and texts for hours” Euijoo scoffs. “If you had an ounce of decency you could have texted me yourself. But wait no, you couldn’t because you were out there cheating”
“Byun Euijoo. It’s fucking 11 PM right now. I have been awake since 17 hours, I need to sleep please” Nicholas begs, reaching forward to grab Euijoo’s arm, who swats it away.
“Cheaters not allowed in this room” Euijoo says.
“Oh my god, you can’t be serious! The sign outside literally says WELCOME HOME CHEATER! at least welcome me in!” Nicholas argues, trying to make a point hoping that would get him inside the damn room.
Euijoo gasps. “So you’re admitting! You were cheating. Fucking asshole!”
Nicholas groans loudly. Euijoo was being ridiculous right now. Before he could defend himself, Euijoo reaches for the door, closing it shut.
“Take the couch tonight, cheater” Euijoo shouts from inside, after locking the door.
Nicholas tugs his hair in frustration, as his back hits the wall. He stares at the WELCOME HOME CHEATER sign at the door, which was staring back at him.
Guess he has to take the couch tonight.
He walks back into the living room, to find Maki already laughing at him.
“I told you, you’d have to take the couch tonight” Maki says, breaking into fits of giggles.
Nicholas glares at him, exhaling a frustrated breath. He grabs a cushion before hitting Maki with full force.
“Alright alright!” Maki says, standing up. “I will give you the couch, cheater”
“Maki!” Nicholas shouts, hitting him once again until he disappears into his room, laughing all the way.
Nicholas grabs the cushion before settling down on the couch, facing the consequences of that damn kcon date and a jealous possessive boyfriend
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Well, Euijoo didn’t seem to let it go. The next morning, Euijoo had pasted another identical CHEATER NICHOLAS poster across the dorm room.
When Nicholas tried to kiss him as a way to make up, Euijoo pushed him away, muttering ‘cheater’ under his breath.
Everyone at this point, was making fun of Nicholas. Euijoo taking the lead, calling him out every few minutes.
“Euijoo what are these photos you posted on Weverse?!” Nicholas says, seeing the photos his boyfriend posted, which clearly looked like thrist traps.
”I should keep my options open, since you’re a cheater” Euijoo says, turning away from him.
Nicholas groans, following Euijoo around in attempts to make things right, but his boyfriend was acting extremely petty.
“Cheaters not allowed to sit on this couch” Euijoo announces, grabbing Maki and asking him to sit beside him before Nicholas could come.
“Oh my god, can you let it go?” Nicholas groans, staring back at Euijoo who clearly was having too much fun with all this.
“No” Euijoo answers.
“What will it take for you to let it go!” Nicholas asks. “Please my back hurts so much after sleeping on the couch”
“Well, deserved,” Euijoo says, leaning back on the couch comfortably.
“Can you stop please? I am sorry!” Nicholas requests, frustrated by his boyfriend’s cheater remarks. “I promise I won’t do any such thing again!”
“The apology seems very insincere,” Euijoo says. “I am not convinced”
Nicholas glares at him. “How will you be convinced?”
“Hmm let me think” Euijoo hums, pretending to think before an evil grin forms across his lips. “Beg me for it”
“Woah” Maki turns his attention to the two, grinning widely. “Interesting”
“Seriously?” Nicholas asks, in disbelief.
“Yeah, go ahead” Euijoo continues. “I wanna see how sorry you are for it, cheater”
Nicholas sighs, as he gets down on his knees in front of Euijoo, before taking a deep breath in.
He can’t believe he’s doing this. Especially in front of Maki who was definitely going to tease him for life.
“Euijoo, please forgive me. I am a cheater indeed. I shouldn’t have ignored your texts. Or gotten that close to Liyu. It won’t happen again. You can break both of my legs next time!”
Euijoo covers his mouth, trying to stop his laughs from escaping. He was tearing up by now, finding the whole situation extremely amusing. “Continue, please”
”I regret my actions deeply” Nicholas grabs Euijoo’s knees. “I made the mistake of upsetting you. Please Byun Euijoo, my boyfriend, give me another chance. I beg”
“Oh my god” Euijoo says, hitting Maki’s shoulder as he tries to breathe for a moment after laughing so hard. “I can’t believe you actually did it”
Nicholas looks up, shaking his head in disbelief. Euijoo was a fucking menace.
After laughing for a good few minutes, Euijoo finally catches his breath, enjoying the look on Nicholas’s face.
“Fine, forgiven” Euijoo says, playfully rolling his eyes at Nicholas, who seemed to be sulking now.
“You’re so mean to me” Nicholas complains, now standing up from the floor. Euijoo laughs, grabbing his arm before pulling him on the couch beside him, and throws one arm around him.
“Huh, you deserved it though” Euijoo says, giving Nicholas a kiss on the cheek, who melts in his arms almost immediately.
“Those posters are something” Nicholas comments looking around their dorm.
“Euijoo hyung was feeling crafty” Maki comments, snorting.
“Very crafty indeed” Nicholas says, grabbing Euijoo’s chin before kissing him, and finally smiles when Euijoo doesn’t push him away this time.
“Let’s hope you don’t give me more opportunities to let my inner artist out” Euijoo says, slightly blushing.
“I promise, lesson learnt” Nicholas says, with a laugh as he throws his head on Euijoo’s shoulder.
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