It's been {not} so long; Junhao

{5}

The unpleasant sound of the very loud alarm clock wakes Junhui from his peaceful sleep. He groans and turns to turn it off.
As he sits up, he stretches out his arms and lets out a big yawn. Compared to yesterday, he did not have any dream that was even slightly as graphic as the last one.
He gets up and follow his routine. As soon as he finished, he goes to grab the newspaper from the mailbox downstairs. Heading back upstairs to his apartment, he already reads some of the headlines. As he turns the page and looks at the biggest headline of all, his mouth drops to the floor. That is him on the picture!

»Dance icon seen with new lover«

"What in the world!"

, he bursts out saying, still standing in the staircase. He realizes he did not only think that and quickly rushes to his apartment and starts reading the whole article.

»The young man Xu Minghao, also known under his stage name The8 is a Chinese dancer who came to South Korea to proceed with his dancing career. He already appeared on multiple shows and always manages to stun every coach.
With his flawless performances, handsome looks and his charm, he has got a lot of young people falling in love with him and they will follow him everywhere. That is exactly what they did on last Saturday. Dozens of screaming fangirls and news channels followed the star down the street.
Many young teenagers' dreams of being their celebrity crush's sweetheart were crushed as he stops to help up another man that apparently fell down and also smiles widely at him. The two have never been before and were never seen together afterwards but fans are eagerly trying to find out who this handsome stranger is.«

It takes him quite a few minutes to really realize the words he just read.

»This cannot be real!«

He packs his stuff and quickly heads to work to talk to Soonyoung about this.
Arriving there, his colleague already speeds up to the older.

"What did you do???"

"A wonderful good morning to you too, tiger."

"Scratch the 'good morning'! I let you unsupervised for two days and I open the newspaper to see you are getting married soon!"

"Getting mar-...who ever said anything about marriage? I honestly have never met this guy! Up until one hour ago, I didn't even know where I know his face from!"

"You know that you will have to deal with all the jealous admirers?"

"There is nothing to be jealous of! I am not this guy's lover! The press is lying!"

"Well, explain that to your newly won enemies."

"Gosh! Why is it so hard to have a calm life!"

Soonyoung cannot help to laugh a bit at Jun's desperation and puts one hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Just be a bit careful and you will be alright! They cannot do that much except haunting you down wherever you go and make life a living hell for you!"

He giggles again. Junhui brushes off his hand and sighs.

"They will probably forget about it soon anyways...at least I hope so!"