Abscond || Taegyu

Is this what "keep your enemies closer" mean?

A week left before the competition, Taehyun, Beomgyu, and the two seniors became naturally friends.

Although the almost cat-and-dog-like pair still bicker every time they get a chance, they don't take it personally anymore unlike what happened last time at their practice room, instead, it became their daily routine.

Though, their words are far more careful now to not go too far. Let's say, they became closer(?) as they kept verbally fighting each other.

Surprisingly, after the cafeteria incident, the two seniors came the next day to eat with Taehyun, but his best friend's presence was now present.

Soobin and Huening Kai knew each other since Soobin was also part of the student council committee as the second-year representative so getting closer to the seniors wasn't that hard and they became a regular in sitting with Taehyun and Kai in their usual seat at the cafeteria.

About Beomgyu? He gets dragged by Yeonjun every single time so he rarely eats with the rowdy boys every lunch nowadays, hence, Kai and Beomgyu growing closer and becoming friends as they should and that made Taehyun a lot more irritated at Beomgyu.

'I told you he isn't as bad as you think', that line Huening Kai said after having a conversation with Beomgyu made Taehyun really salty and also the sole reason why their occasional banters became frequent until the boys' day won't be complete without hearing the two throwing words at each other left and right.

And back to the present where everything is hectic for the two freshmen. Only one week left, three activities to try to achieve perfection.

Their dance practice seems to have better progress considering the competition is like days away resulting in Taehyun overworking himself to balance out his studies and his activities.

He was always dead tired. He experienced this twice when they were in middle school but his body never got used to it. And also, by the fact that he's now in high school where everything became one step harder than his early years.

Recently he's been trying to fight dozing off in the middle of his classes. Huening Kai had to tap him every 5 minutes so he wouldn't unintentionally sleep in the middle of the class.

He sometimes also uses their lunch hours to take a very short nap, resulting in short banter and insults with Beomgyu but more of a heated one since Taehyun was sleep deprived and can easily be pissed.

Last three sessions for their dance club and the school allowed the students to stay longer for practice.

Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu and Taehyun of course stayed behind to practice more, striving for perfection in their part and praying that their part can carry their whole score points in the competition since if you ask them about the final choreography, they would say it's a 'so-so' since it's been altered by the other members to make it easier for them.

Or atleast the winning team would scout dancers from other schools this year because even with the synchronization criteria, they doubt that they'll get a good score from it.

"Do you think we're not wasting our time here practicing our asses off? I mean, the others still dance lazily like the competition isn't days away. There's no way we'll win this." Beomgyu stated when Yeonjun gave them a 10-minute break.

"Of course we know we won't win but at least the four of us can follow the beat and can dance in sync, it's just for compensation. You know, so we don't atleast embarrass ourselves." Soobin deadpanned answered him.

"And there's also a rumor that the winning team should scout some dancers from the other schools. It's just a rumor but who knows, it might be true. We can atleast get scouted, it's a chance", Yeonjun followed.