A flower for a flower, baby." Minho knelt before Jisung who was doom scrolling on his phone. He sat up to take the precious yellow sunflower his soulmate had probably found somewhere. The kids were all still in the waiting room, around half an hour before the concerts would begin, some practicing vocals and other stretching while the rest scrolled through their phones or laughed at the playful ministrations of the younger members. Among all of this, the two best friends or the so-called 'soulmates' of the group were busy hanging around in their own world.
Han was adjusting the yellow flower behind his left ear as an appreciative response and fooling around on the camera with the maknaes. He struggled with the job and the room erupted into a roar of laughter when he accidently poked the stem in his ear instead. The camera went around the room to catch these reactions and landed on the provider of this prop.
A pair of eyes were set fondly over Han, the thoughts behind them basically yelling their way out. It was a heart falling in love again after-all. His hands reached out behind the boy as he helped him fix the flower on there. "So pretty jagiya..."
The squirrel faced boy pulled his chin to his chest in a shocked 'o' expression as if playfully asking if Minho was talking about him. The older boy blinked his way out of the trance and shook his head urgently, pointing too the flower instead. Jisung whined and it endeared his heart, pulling all the strings at once.
He took the flower back to himself and walked afar to compliment his joke. Minho sat on the sofa, now sniffing and admiring the flower, part of his joke still. But only he saw the vision in his eyes, before the flower, he saw the face of his best friend, giggling and acting all cute.
"Why don't you tell him already hyung?" Or so he thought because what Min-sung moment would ever pass Changbin, the boy who'd been rooting for the ship ever since pre-debut.
"Tell him what Binnie?" He tried to play it off, knowing fair well that his tactics wouldn't work here.
"Oh! Come on, you know you aren't subtle at all. We all saw it. I'm sure the Stays will notice it even through the camera hyung. You practically fell in love all over again. It's about time you tell him."
"Yah!" Minho yelled, trying to deflect the argument, but when it didn't work, he gave in with a sigh.
"You know I can't just do it like that. It's bad enough that we're both guys and idols but we're also in the same group and best friends. Soulmates too, yes, but only platonically. It doesn't really go any further than being just a combination of 'soul' and 'mates', that's it."
"Try at-least hyung..."
Just then the pouty Jisung made a comeback, asking Minho to pin the flower to his hair so he could wear it on-stage as well. Changbin saw their bickering process and took it as his cue to leave them on their own. He crouched beside Chan who was clicking pictures for Felix and Hyunjin and watched as Minho taped the flower to Jisungs head with a tape as yellow as the flower.
"They're so cute, aren't they?" the voice beside him called out.
"Yeah...yeah they are."
