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Just a few days before their tour with Jay started Louis decided to play a little on Weverse. It’s not like he knew what people were going to say about it. Or what Ryul might do about it.
It was innocent on his end, replying to a fan’s comment:
User: Ohyul I know u like someone..;)
ㄴ LOUIS 🌟: SUUUUIIIIII
Just agreeing to that Ohyul likes someone.
That’s it.
Then Twitter did what Twitter does, it talks. Talking about possible people who could be named. KiiiKiii’s Sui was brought in, Carmen of Hearts2Hearts even. Any female idol of age really.
Ryul saw this while stalking the timeline, as he usually does. His first thought?
“What the fuck?” Ryul saw the first post under his thumb as he swiped. He thought it was just a post of a person posting their biases until he saw the caption:
“Is this who Ohyul is crushing on 👀”
Ryul swiped past it, “Ohyul? Crushing on someone? Please, let’s not be kids here. If anything he’s already dating someone.”
Another one, a list of girl group idols that Ohyul could possibly be crushing on. Ryul furrowed his brows letting out a scoff. Then another, not a post, but an article actually.
“What the hell? They already wrote something about this?” He sat up straight, clicked on the link and began to read. “This is total bullshit. Ohyul hasn’t even said anything.”
Then he saw the screenshot of Louis’ comment on Weverse.
“That kid…” he stood up and walked over to Louis’ room, barging the door wide open. The boy was sat down at his desk, he looked up pulling his headphones off.
“What’s up, hyung?” Louis brows raised.
Ryul walked in closer, his eye was twitching slightly but he tried to keep his cool. “What did you say on Weverse?”
“Oh, yeah. The comment? I wanted to tease Ohyul hyung that’s it.”
“Do you know what people started saying about it?”
“No? Not really. Why?”
“You’re lucky I said something and not Manager hyung. Go text him real quick and then make a post clearing it up.”
“What’s wrong with my comment?” The young boy swivelled around in his chair waiting for an answer.
Ryul looked down. His eyes darting around Louis’ room. “People started dating rumors about him…”
Louis’ confused face quickly turned into a smirk. “Oh! I see.”
“What?”
“You’re sad the rumors aren’t about you and him. Am I right?”
Ryul turned around shutting the door loudly behind him. Behind the door he could still hear Louis shouting teasing remarks about Ryul.
It wasn’t the rumors he hated… He hated that Louis was right.
“Hey did you see the stuff people are saying online?” Delivered 11:34 PM
“Ah… does it matter?” Did it matter? Ohyul and Ryul were already dating. For a while now. Dating rumours weren’t a new thing for them. Especially when it wasn’t between the both of them. But it really got under Ryul’s skin.
Two days until the concert now. The timeline was lightening up, not too much though. Some posts would pop up from time to time. It wasn’t the time to get distracted over stupid things like this. Ohyul was already his.
“Yah, Ryul-ah, what are you thinking about?” Ohyul shuffled closer, he had his phone out, scrolling through stuff. Did he see his message last night? Did he see the articles maybe?
“Nothing… just the tour.”
“Oh, you texted me last night. Sorry I didn’t see it.” Ohyul opened the message, he turned his head to Ryul. “What are people saying online?”
“You seriously don’t know?”
“No? Not really? That’s why I’m asking you.” Ohyul chuckled.
Ryul looked really serious though. Was he taking this to heart too much?
“What are people saying, Ryul?”
“Dating rumours.”
“Oh, so nothing really new. Where did it start from though? I haven’t said anything on fromm that could’ve hinted anything.”
“Louis.”
“Aish— that kid, well what did he say?”
“He just agreed you had a crush on someone."
Ohyul let out quite the laugh, he leaned against the wall and started hitting Ryul as he fell over onto his side. "That's it? A crush? He agreed? Well yeah I do have one…"
He leaned in close to Ryul, resting his head on his shoulder. "Right here."
Ryul's ears suddenly turned warm and red. He turned his head away, trying to be nonchalant. He let out a cough. "You should see the people they're saying your dating…"
"Does it matter though? It'll die down in a couple hours, this wasn't the first time this happened."
"I guess…"
If it weren't for the fact they were idols, that even though they were free to do the things they wanted, well limited, he would show off that Ohyul was his. Constantly. If he could then no one would pull this kind of stuff.
Possessive? Yeah, he was, what could he do about it? Ryul would try to touch Ohyul, put his around his shoulder, waist, whatever, just so someone could see. That quiet action that showed that Ohyul was already taken. He'll just have to keep doing it until they remember who belongs to who.
The day before the concert. They were rehearsing again, but Ryul seemed more out of focus than Ohyul. That's saying something.
"Ryul? Can't you focus?" The choreographer pressed. Of course everyone was on edge. The tour was going to start. Bags were packed back at the apartment. Goodbyes were ready in drafts. Just a little practice for the next night.
"Ah, yeah. Sorry."
"What's on his mind?" Woojin mumbled to Louis. The younger boy shook his head aggressively, putting a finger to his mouth to shush the older. "What? I can't know?"
"Shh!" Louis turned around, there stood Ryul. "Ah, Hyung, hey."
"What's up with you dude? You look constipated."
"It's nothing." Ryul grumbled.
"Lucky we don't need to practice too much then if it's nothing… is this about Louis' comments? Or the posts about the comment."
"Bro, oh my god, I told you to be quiet." Louis groaned. He awkwardly shuffled away. "I'm going away now, don't follow me."
Woojin scratched the back of his head, "So, it is about those posts?"
Ryul stood there silently. Pursing his lips as he looked over at Ohyul who was stuck look at his phone again.
"You guys are gross. You don't even have to do anything. I don't know how you don't see all those shipping posts about you and Ohyul hyung. You're blind."
"I'm just… stupid."
"Uh, yeah. Sorry, hyung, but like? Can't you relax? I'm sorry yeah you're dating but you guys were bound to get countless dating rumors ever since debut."
Woojin was right. It was a stupid truth. He thought he made it quite obvious to the viewers, to Shotties. Guess not enough.
"What are you thinking about?" Ohyul snaked his arm over Ryul's shoulder. The staff around them fixing up their hair before they got onto the stage to join Jay. Ohyul hurriedly snuck a kiss onto Ryul's lips. "Hehe, you're so focused. Are you nervous?"
"Not anymore."
It was the nearing first pre chorus to MOYA, Ryul noticed Ohyul walking closer to the edge of the stage to fans. It was his chance.
He placed a hand on Ohyul's shoulder, tapping him to get closer. The older boy turned around, smiling brightly seeing it was Ryul. He turned the other way, leaning his back onto Ryul as the lyrics played through.
It wasn't until that night where Ohyul realized why Ryul pulled him.
"You're pointing to the camera! And— you! You're smiling to another one." Ohyul was snug in Ryul's lap, the two scrolling through posts made by fans attending the concert.
"Oh, yeah, don't you look cute here?" Ryul dodged Ohyul's remarks.
"You're doing this after those stupid rumors? Really?" Ohyul laughed. "You're so possessive, really, oh my god. Ryul-ah, you look so smug in the other—there's so many angles."
"Good. So everyone knows."
"Ryul, you broke them." He continued to swipe through Ryul's timeline.
Ryul felt prideful, he should do that more. He already did that lots, but it always felt right.
"Are you gonna do this for every stop?"
"If there's more things said, I'll let them all know you're mine." Ryul put his phone down, pulled Ohyul closer by the waist.
"Ugh, you're seriously cringing me out." Ohyul laughed as Ryul's hands tickled him. Ryul pressed a kiss to his lips, smiling as he pulled away. "You could prove I'm yours to them another way."
"No way, I'm going to get in trouble with the makeup artists again if I give you another hickey."
"Ryul-ah, you're no fun."