UNKNOWN

CHAPTER 1 - MIDNIGHT MEETING

SUHO'S P.O.V.

It was seven years of hard work for me to get into where I am right now plus three years for us to get where we are right now. Smiles, tears, frowns, laughter, trials; we've encountered and surpassed all of it together. And all I can say is that, for all those years... it was worth it.

Beside me I heard a very deep sigh. Standing next to me is a tall, young man with a define jawline (which really reminds me of someone, someone who was used to be just in our reach), and a bored and tired gaze to nowhere.

"What is really going on?" It's our youngest member, Sehun. He turned his head and looked at me, "In this group? Leader-hyung," pronouncing the last word syllable by syllable then he immediately left, hands tucked in his pockets. He was once playful and acts like a child, but he already matured right before my eyes.

EXO... it used to be a fantasy for the twelve of us. Dreaming and aspiring to be the best idol group, to share our talents and stories to the world, to be the number one. And yeah, we managed to turn that fantasy to reality. But if I were to choose between the two, I still prefer to live in that fantasy where we don't need to think about anything but just dream.

It all started when he left. That's what I want to think, I guess.

Before merging into EXO, the twelve of us were divided into two sub-groups; EXO-K which will promote songs in Korean mainly in Korea and EXO-M which will promote songs in Mandarin mainly in China. I'm the leader of K and he was once the leader of the M group. Kris...

SEHUN'S P.O.V.

"In this group? Leader-hyung?" I looked in his eyes for a bit then left the room.

This is the third time that I left that room with that ambiance. The mixture of loneliness, bitterness, betrayal reeks from it. First it was Kris-hyung, then Luhan-hyung and now Tao. I don't understand why they need to leave the group. Yes, it would probably be money, status quo, family affairs, or even scandals but can't they hang on there for a little longer? Ugh! This really frustrates me. Is that because they have a place to go? That they can have a future there in China at the very least?

"Stop it!"

"Ouch!" I feel a flick on my forehead. "Ah, it's just you Chanyeol."

"Ya! Jugeulae? Call me hyung! You disrespectful brat!" He clung his right arm to me then he pinched and twisted my left ear.

"A-a-a!!! Arasseo, arasseo! Hyung! Hyung! Hyung! Now, let go!" He did let go. "Aish, what do you want?" Tsk! I can feel my ears reddening from the pain.

He put his two hands on my shoulders and look intimately in my eyes revealing the difference of our heights, well the difference is not that big compared to D.O and him, "Sehun-ah, stop it."

Not looking back, I lethargically answered, "Stop what?"

"Just stop thinking about it for now. You're our maknae so I think it's really hard for you to process this. Let's just hope for the better," his voice hoarser and an octave lower.

I lowered my head probably to hide my face 'coz I can feel stupid tears starting to accumulate to the sides of my eyes and whispered under my breath, "Why you're always so positive about things like this?"

"What?"

"Nothing." I removed his hold with my right arm and left.

CHANYEOL'S P.O.V.

Do you think I don't care?

I saw Sehun's back getting farther when I heard Baekhyun's voice calling me. I turned and saw him with Chen and Min Seok-hyung.