Everything Has Changed /Hyunho/

4 - A little crush

A phone alarm woke Jisung up. He gets up and grumply walks through the bathroom to get to Hyunjin's room.
Empty bed.
Empty room.
Jisung walks back to his bed, looks at the phone - "I'm staying at the other dorm tonight" message sent at 3:45.
Jisung smiles. He knows.

Not that Hyunjin told him or anything, he just has eyes and notices things. Like that one time when Minho saved the last dumpling for Felix and didn't let anyone come close to the plate. Hyunjin's face was so sad, Jisung wanted to kick Minho's dumb ass.

Or, that time when Hyunjin came back from a photo shoot all dressed up, looking insanely good...
Minho's mouth stayed open. Jisung, sitting next to Minho, literally lift his jaw up and pretented to wipe up drool at corner of his mouth.

Minho is his best friend and they talk about everything. Everything but this. It's a hard topic. As much as you're expected to flirt with your band members, and fluster them in front of tousands of people - that's all a performance, a role to play. Real life is not a fan fiction. There are families, relatives, expectations, judgement... all that times tousand when you're a popular name and face.

As far as Jisung knows, neither one of them ever kissed another guy. But girls were many. Sometimes even the same girl. On another occasion, of course. Their company circle is not that big anyway. And everything stays in the circle, most of the time.

Later that morning, when Jisung entered the conference room, Minho and Hyunjin were surprisingly sitting at opposite sides of the table. Jisung sat next to Minho and mumbled something like a greeting. Meeting started. Hyunjin is dreamily looking at Minho, not at the manager.
Jisung the cheerleader is happy.

Manager keeps talking... a photo shoot, TV performance, another photo shoot, annual health check up (blah...), a song recording, "must do more lives", "make sure you mention new album".... the usual stuff. And off they go to do the dance practice.

In the hallway, Minho "accidentally" brushes Hyunjin's hand. Butterflies (or more like fireflies) are released in Hyunjin's chest. His fingers stretch and flex in a desire to grab Minho, but he's already gone. Hyunjin presses his lips and promises himself to fluster Minho later.

Everybody's working really hard today. They feel the pressure of upcoming concert in Japan. During the practice break, Hyunjin wipes his face with a towel, walks to Minho casually, and without any hesitation, gives his ear a little lick.
Mission accomplished. Minho is definitely surprised, and he adjusts his position from one leg to another while shooting hungry looks to Hyunjin's back.

Jisung wishes he had a popcorn to hold. Who needs k-drama? Being Minho's shadow for once turned out to be interesting.

As usual, Minho flops to the sofa next to Jisung.

- So.... what did you and Hyunjin do last night? - Jisung asks innocently.

- Nothing. Netflix. Sleep. - a cryptic response.

- You know, you two are so good looking, it's just annoying sometimes. Can you like get a pimple or something for once? I mean, look at him! All sweaty and shiny, but still so stupidly attractive. Does he even have a bad hair day?

Jisung sneakily looks at Minho. Minho doesn't say a thing. He observes the said sweaty and shiny skin.
"Damn you Hyunjin, you're too much for my tortured heart," thinks Minho, leans his head on the wall behind him and closes eyes.

Jisung almost feels sorry for his friend but he also enjoys this. I mean, it's probably just a little crush cause Hyunjin is so good looking.
Everyone crushes at that guy at some point. It's not like a full blown love.
Is it?

Minho doesn't read Jisung's mind and can't answer. If he could, he would probably make a joke like "You're the only one for me." to deflect the situation and keep his cool.

- Let's go, break is over! - Chan is relentless today. But nobody complains. Everyone's back on their feet in a second.

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