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taegyu

If someone had asked Taehyun about his first impression of Beomgyu, he would have been perfectly able to tell every detail of what he had thought.

It was almost indelibly carved into his mind, like everything about the dark-haired boy. They were still trainees and Taehyun was terribly bored. They were all seated lined up, as often when teachers had to explain a new choreography to them. Taehyun was sitting next to a boy whose name he barely remembered. He had just joined the agency and the only person he had known was Yeonjun, but it didn’t matter at all, since everyone knew him by his reputation.

Yeonjun, the legendary trainee.

Envied by all his colleagues, he was an inspiration for Taehyun, who wished he could look like him. If they told him that years later they would debut together in the same group, he would probably collapse to the ground. At the time, he didn't even know Yeonjun well, he merely observed him from a distance. Kai and Soobin hadn’t joined the agency yet, or maybe they had, but Taehyun was too lonely to notice them. He was foolishly convinced that he shouldn't make friends with anyone to survive in that place, since they were all competing with each other. Luckily, he was wrong and his friendship with Kai was what helped him the most to overcome the crisis he faced a few months later.

Anyway, that afternoon he sat bored on the floor, along with all the other trainees, eyes on their dance teacher. The atmosphere was quiet, the weekly evaluations were still far away and some of them even allowed themselves to yawn due to the lack of sleep. Taehyun’s attention was captured by a guy sitting in the front row, his eyes big and dark, his hair held back by a headband.

"Hey, do you know the name of the new guy?" he promptly asked the boy sitting next to him, who with bored expression had tried to understand to whom Taehyun referred. The next minute he shook his head, giving him a negative answer. "Well, I’ll ask him myself then. They finally enlisted someone really handsome," Taehyun said, smiling. He didn’t even know that boy’s age, but for some reason he didn’t seem to be that different from him.

Actually, it was several weeks before Taehyun actually got to talk to Beomgyu. He had always been extroverted, yet for once he had found himself shy in front of Beomgyu and his bright smile. When they were put on the same program to debut together, Taehyun wasn't surprised. Years later, they all agreed that they had somehow chosen themselves and that the agency had only paid attention to their dynamics. Yeonjun and Soobin had in fact already started flirting in their weird and awkward way since the first time they had seen each other, Soobin, Kai, and Taehyun had become a close little group and all four had supported Beomgyu in keeping up with trainee training. Taehyun perfectly remembered Beomgyu’s sad, lost gaze, 'cause, having joined the agency last, he hadn't reached their level of preparation yet. Just looking back, those days seemed so far away.

On debut day, Beomgyu was cheerful. He really couldn’t understand why Soo bin and Yeonjun were crying. It was a huge milestone for him, something to be really proud of. But there was something else he didn’t understand, even more than those tears they shed.

Kang Taehyun.

That boy was a huge mystery to him. He behaved and reasoned totally opposite to Beomgyu. Most of the time he addressed others with brutally honest and sincere sentences, which Beomgyu would never allow himself to be spoken out loud. But perhaps this was also where Taehyun’s extraordinary power lay. If you were his friend, it meant he really cared about you, otherwise he would have gladly avoided you. Beomgyu had argued with him several times, he even cried because of the other's words, but in the end they had reached a certain balance. Taehyun was trying to be more empathetic with Beomgyu’s sensitivity and Beomgyu was trying to understand Taehyun’s rationality. That apparent compromise was actually the basis for establishing a solid friendship.