Only one best friend »Samhoon« [EN]

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"So, what's the news you want to tell us?" Our choreographer, In Hyeseob, asked.
"I've decided who's my best friend."
"And do you want to say it out loud?"
"Yes."
"So, who is it?" Hyeseob looked at me and back at Samuel. Why didn't he look at Soonyoung?

There was a while of pure silence as all of us were waiting for Samuel's answer.

"Soonyoung hyung." Seriously? After all I've been doing for you? You just break my heart like this? I felt tears getting into my eyes, so I quickly looked to the ground. Better let them think I'm sad about it than letting them know it hurt me much more than that...

"But!" He continued his speech. I looked at him just like everyone else. "Jihoon hyung," the boy said, looking straight into my eyes. "To me, you're more like my brother." I smiled. Better than nothing I guess...

"And who's the one you like more? Best friend or brother?" Best friend...

I was ready to look away once he goes to hug Soonyoung.

"Brother." Samuel went straight to me and hugged me.

I couldn't believe what I just heard. I hugged him back and let the tears slide my cheeks. It was tears of joy. Then I quickly wiped them, so he wouldn't see it and wouldn't worry about what happened.

"Thank you." I whispered only for him to hear. The little boy hugged me even tighter and I did the same. I wish we could stay like this forever.

"Okay, we get it, you can let go of each other now..." Seungcheol whined. I glared at him. Are you jealous, because you've got no one to hug like that?

Samuel let go of me and I let go of him as well. He smiled at me and turned around. I hugged him from the back and wished I never had to let him go. Never ever.

Please don't ever leave me...

That was my only wish.

"Alright then, let's get to work." Hyeseob said. "Let's try Action."

All of us made the formation we always did. Samuel went to turn the music on. He stayed there as he wasn't part of the formation. Sadly.

When the music begun to play, we danced.

After we finished, which didn't take long, since we didn't practise the entire choreography yet, I went straight to Samuel. I hugged him, exhausted. He hugged me back. We let go of each other and looked to the other one's eyes.

"You did great." He said with a big proud smile.
"Thank you."

He put his hands down on the floor and so did I. None of us broke the eye contact. I felt my hand touch his as I wasn't looking where I put it and just looked at the gorgeous boy in front of me.

He still didn't break the eye contact and neither did I. I didn't mind my hand landing on his. He didn't seem like it would bother him either.

And then he put the hand to his heart, wrapped in the other one and looked at the floor. The boy started blushing.

"Is everything alright?" I questioned.
"S-sure, I- I just- I did not... expect it?"
"Me neither." I replied calmly.

He looked into my eyes again and I started to get lost. All my thoughts were gone. It was just me and him in the moment. My mind could not think of anything else. Just him, sitting in front of me, staring right into my eyes and me, doing the exact same thing.

"You two okay?" I heard Jeonghan say and flinched.
"Sure." I assured him.
"I'm just asking, since you two seemed like frozen in one place, at some time... I'm glad to know everything's alright. If anything happens, you know you can come to me."
"Sure hyung!" Samuel claimed with a smile. Cute!

I ruffled his hair.

"But Jihoon hyung... !" The boy whined.
"Don't worry, I'll fix it." I smiled, sat behind him and begun fixing his hair. It didn't take long.

I hugged him from where I was and put my head on his shoulder.

Then I decided to do something crazy...