Off Key

#19

Minho and Jisung were on their way to school since it was Friday. They had practice after school at Chan's so Minho was driving his car.

"Hey, I wanted to say thank you." Jisung looked at Minho, confused about where that came from. "For what?"

"For, letting me stay over, and helping me feel better." Jisung smiled, "It's no problem, seriously." Minho glanced over at the younger seeing his smile. God, he's adorable.

"I'm surprised I went to you because, when I'm, usually sad, I'll always go to Felix and Chaeryeong." Jisung didn't know what that meant, but he appreciated it. "Well, I'll always try to help you." Jisung smiled, brightly, at the older.

Minho felt his heart beat faster. I need to talk to Felix. Maybe he can help me understand what I'm feeling... "Oh, and I never mentioned it before but you're a really good producer/singer." Jisung blushed at the sudden compliment. "O-oh, thank you, but you're a really good singer and drummer too."

Minho could tell the younger was flustered, by the compliments. "Thanks." The car became silent, but they were still comfortable. "Do you know what songs we are playing?" Minho asked, entering the school parking lot. "Chan said that he'll give us the setlist today."

Minho said an 'okay' and got out of the car, as well as, Jisung did.

~~~

Felix was currently waiting for his older brother with his sister and his friends in front of the school. The class hadn't started yet, so they still had time before they had to leave.

"Remember, don't be too harsh on him." Felix scoffed at his sister's words. "Don't be too harsh?!" Everyone looked at Felix, surprisingly, while Chaeryeong stood there, unamused. "That bitch hung up on me! And didn't tell us where he was!"

Chaeryeong waited beside Changbin, giving up. Changbin walked to Felix's side, holding his hand. This came as a surprise to Felix but enjoyed it. He felt better.

Until Minho walked in with Jisung.

He let go of Changbin's hand and went straight to his brother.

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Felix said shaking Minho's shoulders. Jisung looked at Felix and saw the rest of the guys, and the girl, behind him. Chan signaled Jisung to stand beside him because... Felix was pissed.

"What the-" Minho was confused but thought for a second. He never told them where he was. "FELIX!" Felix stopped shaking Minho and let go of his collar. "I slept over at Jisung's." He said adjusting his collar. "Okay? You still could've told us. We were worried about you!" Felix said pointing to him and Chaeryeong.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't in a mood for talking really." Felix sighed and just patted Minho's back. "It's- it's okay, just tell us next time, and don't hang up on me! That was so rude!" Minho smiled and nodded. His smile faded once he saw everybody staring at them.

"Oh, hey guys. You're here.." Chaeryeong went to Minho hugging him since she was also worried too. After Minho hugged Chaeryeong, he saw Seungmin, who waved at him. He waved back. Seungmin felt relieved right after.

"Oh and I might've told everyone, what's going on with us and Seungmin." Minho let out a little 'o' after hearing Felix. "Are you okay?" Seungmin asked.

"I'm fine. I'm okay, and don't think that I'm mad at you because I'm not." Seungmin nodded his head but still couldn't feel a little guilty. Hyunjin noticed this and held his hand, interlocking them, resulting in Seungmin blushing.

The bell rang and they all headed into the school.

~~~

"Alright, what the hell is going on?" Seungmin looked up from his lunch to see an upset Lia with him. "What are you talking about?" Seungmin asked with a mouthful of food. "You're up to something, aren't you?" Lia looked around Seungmin, checking for who was there. "What would I be up to?" Seungmin was confused.

"You haven't backed out from going to the party." Seungmin sighed. "Really? That's it?" Lia nodded her head proudly. "I'm going because I'm curious about what's going to happen. Especially since now one of them is going to be my stepbrother." Seungmin said muttering that last part. "Okay, what?!"

Lia sat down and slammed her hands on the table. "You're telling me everything." Seungmin had no other choice than to proceed with the story.

After a while, Lia was mind blown. "So you're going to be living with them?" Seungmin nodded his head. "But you don't even know them." Seungmin coughed. "Well, I don't think that matters much."

"No wonder why you haven't backed out. I'd go to if that were happening to me." Seungmin felt relieved that his surprise was still a surprise for now.

"Wait.." Seungmin panicked. What now!? "Isn't Ryujin friends with Minho?" Seungmin swore he could strangle the girl. "I think but no, I will not invite you over just so you could see her."

Lia pouted at Seungmin trying to get his attention with her puppy eyes. This was something Seungmin was used to, so it wasn't going to work on him.

"Please?" Seungmin shook his head while Lia just scoffed. "Fine." She said rolling her eyes and giving up. Seungmin smiled to himself, feeling content that he won.

~~~

"Alright, so the setlist." Changbin started handing out papers to everyone. They were currently at Chan's practicing one last time before the party, that's tomorrow.

They were all in their positions with their instruments, holding the paper, looking at which ones they have to play.

"Okay, we think these are the perfect ones to play for tomorrow night. What do you guys think?" Jisung asked.

"I'm content with all these," Minho said, with the rest agreeing.

Rereading the setlist saying:

Hello Stranger
Easy
God's menu
TOP
Pacemaker
Side Effects
Back Door
Etc...

"But hello stranger is probably our main one, right?" Hyunjin asked. Jisung nodded his head. "Okay, does anybody have any more questions?" Nobody said anything, meaning nobody had any. Chan clapped his hands together and got in his spot.

"Okay, let's do this."

J: The songs would-be rock/band version of the songs, also, currently on vacation and have been busy but I'll still update.