tamed - nct, shotaro x nct

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"why are we having a double date again?" hikari asked, breaking the – slightly awkward – silence that had taken over their table at the restaurant a few minutes ago.

the three other males sitting around the table looked at her before all eyes diverted on namkyu who was taking a sip of his drink.

"well... you two feel abandoned..." he started, pointing at hikari and hawoon. "...i feel abandoned..."

"i don't feel abandoned." daeho interrupted, raising a brow at his boyfriend who had dragged him here without an explanation.

"yes, but you love me." namkyu explained, bopping his boyfriend's nose. "so, you feel abandoned as much as i do."

daeho rolled his eyes. "yeah, alright." he stated before focusing back on his plate of food.

the table became silent again, none of the betas sitting around it knowing what to say.

they barely knew each other, and yet, namkyu had come to get hikari and hawoon to their house after shotaro had explained to him how sad they felt that shotaro had abandoned them.

so, considering namkyu felt rather useless with nct now that they had found their mate, he had decided to have a double date composed of people feeling abandoned. but for a double date, he needed his boyfriend, so, he had dragged daeho with him, after telling exo to 'manager themselves for a few hours'.

and so, here they were, still not really knowing each other and eating together awkwardly.

"so... you are exo's manager, is that right?" hawoon asked, trying to get rid of the death silence that was making things even more awkward than they should be.

"huh... yeah. i am." daeho replied, nodding his head.

"and... are they easier to manage than nct?" hawoon continued, already dreading the moment he would need to ask another question to keep the conversation going.

"oh, god. you have no idea what you're talking about." daeho chuckled loudly. "they have absolutely nothing in common. exo are betas, so they are much easier to deal with. they don't always try to kill each other when there is a minor disagreement, and they listen to what i'm saying most of the time."he explained. "so, sure, they are chaotic from time to time, but it's nowhere near as chaotic as nct. and not in the same way."

"you see..." namkyu stated once his boyfriend had finished talking. "the company gave him an easy group to deal with because daeho doesn't have the authoritarian vibe much." he finished, grinning at his much smaller boyfriend.

"excuse me?!" daeho gasped. "i can be authoritarian!"

"have you seen yourself? people mistake you as an omega all the time." namkyu ruffled his hair lovingly.

"no, they don't." daeho pouted and crossed his arms over his chest, looking like an angry kitten and making hikari and hawoon think of shotaro immediately. he acted like that when he was angry at something too.

namkyu, hikari and hawoon chuckled at the boy's behaviour before going back to eating with smiles on their faces. the frown that had appeared on daeho's face soon faded, leaving its place to a smile as well.

"so, you are shotaro's relatives?" daeho asked after taking a bite of his food.

"yes. i'm his sister." hikari nodded. "and hawoon is my boyfriend. he's known shotaro for five years and started living with us three years ago."