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Flower Pickers

Kyun POV

It's been a while since we took our break. We can't even differ day from night whenever we are working. This is the life I chose, I love my craft, my mates, and our fans. It's the adrenaline rush for me, every single time on anything that I do.

And that is anything, even our lives behind the entertainment business. There's a lot of reason why idol life is highly private. We keep a lot of things away from the public eye, some- maybe damaging to our facade, most of the time to protect people we love, but in a few cases like ours it's the other businesses we do behind the curtains.

Our family business, not just me but all of our family in the group. We may be just your lowkey neighborhood singers, but we are a notoriously rare breed of idols and everybody in the industry knows that. It's just so funny that all of us in our group are so passionate about music. That's the bonus package our family got from having us.

The blood that run within us were from old breeds of whatever term you wanna call it-mafia, mobster, gangsters, warlords, gangs, costa nostra ...whatever family. Very unlikely, very tv series profiling but weird one. Soft in the outside hardcore rough inside. Imagine these two types of real opposite worlds lived by us.

Hate make-ups but I'm not complaining.

We just finished the official last virtual event we have and we're on our break. Yup, break from the idol world, but not in our world.

We all moved straight to the dressing room and each one grabbed our own wipes to immediately remove the make ups from our faces.

"Me first.." heard Shownu telling Minhyuk, signaling him to give him a way to the washroom so he can clean his face better. Their family is an old real estate mogul, it is an empire on it's own, they can even buy our entire agency if they want to. And he is the only heir to this empire.

Minhyuk just raised his hand and walked back away from the door he's just about to open. Minhyuk's family made their name on the map with their billion dollar textile empire, whatever we wear may even come from them..for real.

"God, Yass! Peace and serenity..yo Ki can we hang in your villa tomorrow?" Joo asks while still wiping off his make-up while the two sit beside each other on one of our dressing room couches. Can't underestimate Joohoney's fam too, they own the largest freight forwarding company in the country, well that is very well known to everyone since his face is all over their business ads, billboards and what not.

" Our villa? Sure but like which one tho?" Kihyun answered, as he stood up to get a bottle of water from the table. Their family? Oh no biggie..simply put that any alcohol you may have tasted or yet to taste, name it and they own it. They are the entire distillery industry itself, they will be having booze till the nth generation of their names.

"The one in Campania" Wonho suggested as he started to undress, prepping for his usual tight clothes. When you say you need men, for whatever reason you need men, they are the ones not to be messed with; they can come for you wherever you are in the world. They are in the steel business too, the biggest in Asia with headquarters in Dubai.

"Just let me know when so I can prep ahead" Hyungwon, who's already dressed down ready to go and now playing with his phone. Well, fly you say? They own an airline and cruise line business. Traveling was never an issue with us, we always fly private.

"I prefer to stay if you don't mind guys, but if you really wanna go Italy, I could just probably follow after sometime.." As for me, we are the biggest firearms manufacturer and distributor not only in Korea but across the globe, we sell the best weapons and military technology to governments and well anti government entities too.

I honestly am so damn tired, I can't tire myself more by traveling again, I just want to be in my room, sleep and netflix.

"Damn, I know you'll be the party pooper." Joo booed me as I laughed, they know me very well.

"Hyungwon will agree with me, he can be my guest at home and we'll sleep the whole day while you guys can enjoy your italian vacation" by this time I am finally out of my idol clothes and in my shirt and jeans.

"Who's flying to Italy?" Shownu asked as he finally head out the door.

"Us! Until this son of gun shot the entire idea before it was even made a plan" Wonho, obviously siding with Joo

"He really is the son of a gun tho" I fist bumped with him as we all headed out to the door.

We were all in our limo still discussing the damn vacation.

"Guys I just can't okay, family business is busy you honestly think you guys can just have fun like that, I'd rather not waste a day travelling there only to be called back home for some stupid family business shits." I still argued, I just can't, I agreed with my Dad to fulfill my duties whenever possible, we all kind of agreed this way with our Dads and they know that.

"Fine by me to just go without the rest of us.. Who's with me?" Joo asked everybody, Wonho, Kihyun and Minyuk raised their hands except for me, Hyungwon and Shownu. "Oh c'mon now, seriously Shownu?" Kihyun exclaimed in frustration.

"My hands are tied, you know that I am the only one, gotta follow my Big Boss, can't leave Seoul right now" he answered.

"Hyung, what about you?" Minhyuk asked while he tapped his shoulder from behind.

"You can still use my plane, guys don't worry," Hyungwon replied.

All of them just deeply sighed.

"Okay, here's the deal, we– " Joo while pointing to himself, Ki, Wonho and Min "..the cool guys will fly ourselves to Campania whatever the fuck you guys want, but...okay..but... we are not going till we all get laid the night before our flight" and the devil themselves got even noisier.

"Fine by me" Hyungwon simply answered

"You shitheads, you better plan this well or you know what this stupid plan will get us into." Shownu just shook his head.

"I'll choose the girl not anyone of you" I hate it, I just fucking hate it, this plan is some stupid dirty shitty plan I know, I mean I won't lie I slept with some girls if I can't help it, but not the ones for occasions like this and Joo and Wonho are definitely plotting this to annoy us for not joining them in this random Italian escapade.

"Deal!" They all chuckled and devilishly answered insync.