One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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It is a warm, beautifully lit night where two handsome boys around the age of fifteen and dressed in formal attire decided to take a walk around the lavish gardens. It was the first soirée the boys ever attended and the friends needed some fresh air. They come across a fountain and one of them stops, staring at the rippling water and the soft light reflected within. He turns and glances up at the moon, a soft smile appears on his face.


"Looks like the moon is full tonight." The sweetness of his voice sings with the breeze and the dim, radiant light reflects beautifully off his skin. The other boy's eyes widen for many reasons; the alluring moonlit night, the grand music and dazzling party, the overwhelming beauty of who is in front of him. His heart begins to pound.

"You know, when I was younger my father–"

"I think I like you!"

The boy at the fountain looks to his friend, mouth slightly agape, but no words coming out. The sound of sprinkling and sloshing from the fountain fills the air and a pain rises in the other's heart. More and more seconds go by of the near silence between the two that fuels a terrifying feeling of uncertainty in the boy who confessed. Unable to take it anymore, he breaks eye contact and looks away.

What are you doing? he thinks to himself, No , it's time he finally knows how you feel. The boy clenches his jaw and glances back to his friend who never looked away.

"Soobin-hyung, I really like you."

"Kai..."

The sound of chimes wakes a sleeping Huening Kai and he rolls to his side to turn off his alarm. Oh wow, haven't dreamed about that in a while, the blond thinks to himself. He sits up and rubs his sleepy eyes then hums to himself, a dryness scratching at his throat. "Hmmm... I'm thirsty."

———

Soobin's thoughts drain only to be filled with a beautiful voice of the dark haired vampire in front of him. He couldn't hold back his sense of awe and obvious staring, not this time. The way his voice was complimented playing along made Yeonjun's melody even sweeter.

Ba-dum

"See, it's like that," says Yeonjun, then feels a slight sense of embarrassment rises within and quickly looks down at the sheet music in front of him. Jeez, if he stares any longer he'll burn a hole in my head...

Soobin blinks, oh, he stopped.

"Oh uh, yeah, I see..." The pureblood blinks a few times to shake off the trance he had seemed to have fallen under and looks around the room. He makes eye contact with Kai who is sitting behind the piano. That's right, Kai's here and was playing the piano.

"Hyung," the blond says, "wanna give it a go?"

"Yeah, sure." Soobin clears his throat and Yeonjun counts them in and they begin.

Yeonjun peeks his eyes up from the music stand. Those damn dimples... He furrows his eyebrows and looks back down at the paper, eyes being guided along in the music with Soobin's voice. Wow that's some falsetto, Yeonjun rolls his eyes, of course he can sing. Yeonjun asks Kai to loop the section and the two go back and forth practicing the main chorus of the song.

Kai, on the other hand, wasn't oblivious to these little interactions; watching the two in front of him sneaking glances at each other over the piano when the other wasn't looking. Each time Yeonjun gave a glance, a look of annoyance followed, yet Kai sensed confusion within him. When Soobin snuck his glances there was a growing curiosity behind his eyes.

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