adore you | l.hs & k.sn

will you count me in?

"you have been staring for the past 5 minutes, hyung." jake's newly arrived presence lightly startles him in his stance.

heeseung turns away to acknowledge him. "what?" his voice was small and on guard.

jake offers him a sympathetic smile. "things will at least shift if you talk to him, hyung. you haven't had an actual conversation with him in a long while."

by 'him', jake means sunoo. kim sunoo who heeseung's eyes have been glued on since their dance jam started.

he breaks eye contact with jake and looks at himself in the mirror. just as he expected, his eyes instinctly drift to the figure on the other side of their practice room, near the door. sunoo seems to be immersed in his own little world, walking in a small circle and swaying his hips to the beat of the song. he doesn't notice heeseung looking at him at all. in fact, he has inadvertently been ignoring heeseung these days.

heeseung hardens his gaze, intensifying his stare in hopes that it somehow gets any type of reaction from sunoo.

nothing happens. sunoo continues dancing and heeseung resists slamming a hand on the glass. he hears jake walk away.

an idea formulates in heeseung's head and he backs away from the mirror. he strides toward the phone connected to the surround speaker as nonchalant as possible.

ni-ki shoots him a questioning look which he counters with an indifferent shrug. wordlessly, the youngest moves from the phone to give the eldest space. heeseung throws him a grateful smile at that.

as heeseung scrolls through the playlist, he racks his brain for a song to pick. he needs something to call sunoo's attention to him. something. anything.

he pauses from scrolling once his eyes lay upon one song that really stood out. the rest of the song names fade except for one.

heeseung's jaw tightens as his thumb hovers above the name of the song.

he just hopes this get sunoo's attention.

heeseung inconspicuously looks at the mirror in the corner of his eye as the familiar, too familiar, tune plays through the speakers and fills the room. his pulse quickens as he spots the most subtle change in sunoo's fox eyes. the younger pauses from dancing as the beginning strums of the guitar replace the upbeat melody of itzy's wannabe.

'will you count me in?'

"heeseung-hyung, it is a dance jam. not a jamming session." jay's complaint has heeseung tearing his gaze away from the mirror and to his oldest friend.

"sorry. accident." he lies and smiles apologetically. jay just sighs good-naturedly and continues doing his warm-ups.

heeseung moves to look at the mirror again as the song reaches its chorus. his heart lurches to his throat when his eyes meet sunoo's through the mirror. the fox eyed boy has an unreadable expression on his pretty face that has heeseung's air caught in his chest.

sunoo looks away first.

heeseung sinks deeper to a state of confusion and misery.

the song changes halfway.

the moment jungwon turns off the live camera, heeseung immediately steals yet another glance at sunoo to find that said boy has exited the room. heeseung sighs, dejected.

"i told you you should talk to him. not play a song, hyung." jake appears beside him as heeseung gathers his jacket from the floor.

"he won't talk to me. not since i played that song for him the first time." heeseung discloses, voice devoid of any emotion.