On The Cold Night

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Hakyeon's expression suddenly changed into confused ss he kept an eye contact with the now serious Leo. "What? Isn't it true? The song suits you so much. You even composed the piano piece for it and sings the melody perfectly." Leo sighed and tried to relax. It was now Leo's turn to surprise everyone as he smiled while replying to Hakyeon.

"I'm glad you appreciate my performance. Who else would give you the best support than your friends." Hakyeon's expression immediately changed into a glare. Everyone watched their expressions turning into a vice versa of smiling and glaring. The two girls were too speechless, their boyfriends hadn't even mentioned to them what is going on between the two.

To immediately bring back the peacefulness, Ken clapped his hand briefly which caught the attention of everyone. He mentally slap himself though as he did what comes in his head first. Who'd clap at a time like that? He smiled as he spoke. "That was indeed a great performance but mime and Hani's performance was also great wasn't it? I bet my mother has been shouting 'That's my Jaewhanie!'".

Luckily, Hongbin's laugh are funny which made Soomi and Hani to laugh as well. "Hey, Soomi gave Leo hyung a thanks giving gift. As far as I remember I also help some people by playing a guitar at their performance." Hongbin immediately followed Ken' s lead in changing the topic and bringing back the comfortable atmosphere. Ken resume eating as soon as Hongbin finished saying it as he he didn't hear him.

" What about your performance, Hyogi." They then laugh at Ken's obvious way of changing the topic. Leo, Hakyeon and Ravi aren't laughing though. Leo just resumed with his food, trying his best to relax more and be prepared for any following scene that Hakyeon might do again. The others are laughing like good actors but in their minds they are all as shocked as Leo is to the fact tgat Hakyeon can do savage thing like that.

Ravi is still confused, thinking about what does Hakyeon mean bybwhat he said. He is the lyricist if the song but he still can't decipher what he meant by that. "Out of all the performances, ours is the best for me." Hakyeon joined the conversation again.

"Me too. Leo hyung is really talented. I'm a proud son." Leo smiled at Hongbin who gave him a gummy smile.

"That's right. I even cried while watching it." Soomi added with a dreamy look on her face as she reminisce the performance.

"If I weren't part of the performer, I think I'd also cry. Taekwoonie seems to be really talenat writing depressing songs. The lyrics seems legit." Hakyeon said with a fake smile to Leo who is sighing deeply again now, getting frustrated at how the elder is roasting him." Same goes with 'Nowadays'. It's so heartbreaking. Where did you get the inspiration to write them?" Everyone is quiet again, Ken and Hongbin's minds are battling on thinking of the way to let the tension slide of again and trying to read the situation to know what's really going on between the two. They stayed silent when the mental inability is unbearable.

"I can write with whatever context that I want. You call that talent." Hakyeon internally cursed at how witty Leo's replies are so he immediately tried to press on the tension.

"Ah, I got too worried. I thought you are going through something and here I was about to say something like 'We, your friends are always here if ever need a shoulder'. So I was wrong." he laughed sarcastically. "Then you really are a talented artist for being able to write something you can't relate with." Leo faked a smile as well and his reply annoys Hakyeon more.

"Thank you for the compliment." he replied then made an exaggerated surprised look as he noticed everyone with their mouth shut. "Ah, stop doing that, you're making them uncomfortable. You didn't invite everyone to eat with this silence right?" Hakyeon glared at him.