୨⎯ 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂⎯୧ᵗᵃᵉᵇⁱⁿ

| 𝗶 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲

The following morning, I woke up pretty early, a gut feeling to remember something important. Oh yeah, 3 AM with Soobin. Who looked so ruined, I remember seeing ruby ombre his skin around the eyes and pigmenting his lips and the tip of his bunny nose. "How did your makeup artist mess up that bad?" Ruffling my hair, I waddle my way to the seating area to see no one. We're making a song together. WE'RE MAKING A SONG TOGETHER. My mirror and wardrobe have never been greeted so rapidly, rushing on my prepared clothes from the night before.

Everything looks okay...except my hair. Shit. Before I could run back to our residency, Iseul catches me also looking strange. Red poofy eyes and blushed nose and lips. "Did you cry or..?" I start off, beginning the awkard conversation. "Me? Cry? Never! Oh, by the way Soobin's already working on your shared project, I'd go see him, he looks insane." She adds on, pointing towards the conference room, and in the window sits a Soobin, flicking through papers and taking notes. "Me and Jungmin would stay in the room to help you out. We aren't much help though." Iseul looks deeply into the window at Jungmin who's laughing with Soobin now and returns her gaze back to me, and interrupts my thank you. "What do you think of Soobin?" The words just casually slip out, a weird expression on her face. It looks..I can't even explain it.

"He is really hardworking, he's definitely got good morals and is an amazing influence. Not to mention his dance and falsetto!"

"Mhh, I agree, but what else?"

"What do you mean?"

"How does he make you feel?"

my eyes drift to Soobin in the window.

"He.. makes me feel...upset."

"Woah, why is that?"

"I don't know really. I just have heart aches around him."

"Is it because you think he doesn't like you back?"

"Sorry, I didn't catch that."

"Oh no its nothing! Have fun, and cheer up. Soobin doesn't bite."

"He threatened to bite me one time."

"What?"

"Ah- nothing!"

GOD THAT WAS AWKWARD. The way she just randomly asked that question made her so shady. I answered truthfully to someone I don't really know.

"What made you so late?" The older looks up with a clearly bothered expression. His eyes are dark, the past redness faded a lot into a faint pink. He wasn't smiling, eyebrows furrowed. I know Soobin has his priorities straight in work and I interfered with that. "I'm sorry. I had some side duties." I bow along with my words, he looks away and hands me his notebook. I stifle a laughter from what his notebook contains, bunnies! The purple notebook is in the theme of bunnies and Soobin realises my stifled laugh, suddenly shying away with a gigantic smile. I notice and can't help but frown, why though? Do I just want to spill out how my heart feels? "Just read the notes, idiot!" He giggles even more, along with a little hit. Doing as told, I read what he wrote. A list of concepts for our song, one caught me out. Longing. "I like this one." Soobin looks over the notepad and nods at my thoughts. "It's quite an easy concept but its not really needing a choreo." He's not wrong, who dances vigorously to a sad song. To that, an opportunity pops up, something that could get us closer.. "Although its a sad concept, I feel ss if we can add some..energy to it. A story! You know those songs that sound so happy but when you translate the lyrics it's upsetting. Why don't we do that?" My eyes widen for every idea that pop into mind, impulsively getting closer to Soobin who's now against a wall. "Y-Yeah that sounds good." He mumbles, grabbing my arm lightly.

"I don't want to let you go anymore, Kang...Taehyun."