𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 | csc

𝙭𝙫𝙞𝙞.

There are two types of people in this world: the ones who get the job done the moment it's assigned, and the ones who procrastinate until the very last minute to eventually stress themselves out cramming the work in.

Aerin was a procrastinator through and through this time around. Instead of getting to it the moment she left Seventeen's dorm, but she opted for ignoring it and giving herself only two days to actually collect anything at all. Luckily, Jeonghan had made another one of his surprise visits Aerin could report to Seungcheol and well, collecting evidence about someone she knew for the entirety of her adult life proved to be pretty easy.

Collecting her folder under her arm, she hurriedly made her way inside the small café. She was more than late but to be fair Seungcheol decided on a pretty hidden location which proved to be convenient for their idol career but inconvenient for Aerin's poor sense of direction.

Making her way inside, she quickly scanned the area as instict. Score for her though, that same damn cap gave away his presence and she jogged her way over to him, taking off his cap upon arriving.

"Look who decided to show up" Aerin rolled her eyes and took a seat across from him.

"Oh please i'm not the one who decided to pick a café IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE" At Aerin's exclamation, Seungcheol only put his hands up in defense. This was when the girl was able to actually see his look for the day. He was wearing a particularly normal outfit with just a mask and cap which made Aerin glad she didn't happen to under or overdress.

"So. Yoon Jeonghan." Seungcheol's eyes matched the assertion in his voice and Aerin immediately whipped out a flash drive and folder.

The items were slid across the table into the hands of Seungcheol who upon receiving them, gave her a question look which called for explanation. He knew what would most likely be in the folders, but the flash drive was throwing him off.

"To answer your facial question, the flash drive contains the video i took of him at out dorm and the folder has some photos including my own personal notes. You're welcome." She held a cocky look on her face yet Seungcheol did nothing except for give her a firm nod while looking at the documents then proceeding to pull out a flash drive of his own.

Aerin anxiously took a sip of the iced coffee placed in front of her preparing for whatever the man in front of her was going to spew out.

"Okay listen, i know the owner of a convince store across from that sketchy alley on 21st street. I wasn't hoping for anything when i asked him to let me check the security but luckily for you, my superstition was on the dot. You might wanna see this." Seungcheol pulled out his laptop from his bag and plugged the flash drive in. He swiftly turned the laptop to Aerin before checking to make sure no one was behind her to see the footage.

The video started playing and showed a woman walking as she checked her surroundings suspiciously. Aerin's eyes widened when she noticed a small detail though.

"That's Hyunjae's jacket...how-how did you know it was Hyunjae!?" Aerin was almost shocked. If not for Hyunjae's personalized jacket, even Aerin wouldn't have even recognized her, so how did Seungcheol catch on? The girl had to admit, this was getting crazy.

"I saw you guys walking out of music bank that one day. She was wearing that jacket and when i saw the footage i just connected the dots."

Aerin immediately stood up from her seat with the brightest smile on her face. She jumped to seungcheol who was now standing up as an instict and threw him in for a hug

"Ah you genius!!" She started jumping up and down before letting go and smiling widely at the idol who was stunned. He felt weird, very weird. Seungcheol had skin-ship with many people before sure, but for some reason, this was the only time the leader felt something attached to it and he wasn't sure what that was but the gorgeous smile on Aerin's happy face was leaving him unable to think quite clearly.

"Seungcheol..?" Her voice shook him from his momentary trance and he hurriedly pressed play on the video once again which just to his luck caused Aerin to look away from his flustered face.

The video continued and Hyunjae met someone dressed in all black who held a duffel bag. They pulled out a white bottle with gold accents yet Aerin couldn't quite distinguish what exactly the product was that Hyunjae paid for as the video cut.

"What could that bottle be? God Seungcheol do you know- Seungcheol?" The girl looked up to be met with seventeen's leader completely spaced out as he stared at her, but he quickly shook his head and tried to collect himself.

"I'm uh not too sure, but we can try and figure that out between now and our next meeting." The two idols high-fived in agreement and got up to leave before being stopped by a café staff in an apron.

"Excuse me! I have these two tickets for the fair tonight and my husband and i couldn't make it so since you two look like such a cute couple i thought i'd offer these to you if you'd like them?" Aerin was completely stunned. Couple? Them, couple? What in the hell?

"No um we're not a-"

"Thank you! We'd love to go!" Aerin whipped her head in shock as Seungcheol calmly took the two tickets in his hands and walked on ahead.

"Are you not coming?" She slightly recollected herself and jogged up to Seungcheol, waiting until they were out of sight to slap him on the back.

"Hey! What was that for?" Aerin let out a scoff at his exclamation.

"What do you mean what was that for!? We're not going to the fair!" For some reason Aerin didn't want to bring up the misconception that they were a couple and she wasn't exactly sure why.

Seungcheol only rolled his eyes and leaned down to her height, waving the tickets in front of her face teasingly.

"Well now...we are!"