Not Just Fan Service

stage 33: spill

★·.·'𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎'·.·★

"Hey, is Ji here?" Minho asked the second Changbin had opened the door, cutting off the younger's greeting though he hadn't exactly intended to.

Changbin looked back at Hyunjin and Chan before turning back to Minho as the dancer stepped through the doorway, "yeah, he should be in his room."

The older sighed gently and started down the hall, "thanks."

"Why do I feel like something may happen?" Changbin asked as he walked back over to the other three in the living room, joining them on the couch to continue their movie.

"So, it's not just me then," Hyunjin added, Chan chiming in to say, "oh, no, it's definitely not."

Minho closed his eyes and counted to five before knocking gently on Jisung's door, and when he heard the younger say, "come in," he took a deep breath before doing so. When he walked into the room and shut the door behind himself, jisung spoke again without looking up from his computer, "what's up?"

Minho knew that Jisung clearly didn't realize it was him who had entered and basked in the way Jisung was behaving even if only for a moment. He couldn't even think of the right thing to say, so he stood frozen. And when Jisung looked over him, Minho's heart clenched as he saw the uneasy feeling wash over the younger male. As he watched the way Jisung tensed and swallowed anxiously. He wanted to know why it was that the younger felt such a way around him so suddenly. Why he had before, why it had changed back to normal, and why it seems that feeling was back. Jisung spoke up again since Minho remained silent, "what, uh, are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see you," Minho replied honestly, even though they'd seen each other only a couple days prior. But Jisung was being so distant towards him it felt like he wasn't sure he was seeing Jisung properly. Not when the younger wouldn't look him in the eye, or face him most of the time. Not when Jisung had been rejecting Minho's hanging out proposals. Though last time Jisung said it was because he wanted to work on a song and even though Jisung was rejecting him, Minho was relieved to see Jisung was actually doing that. Relieved that Jisung at least hadn't lied to him.

"You saw me just the other day," Jisung forced a laugh and hoped that Minho took it as a normal one. Unfortunately for him, Minho could tell it wasn't natural at all. Even more unfortunately for Jisung, he could tell Minho didn't buy it.

"Right, but, we haven't been able to hang out outside of working," Minho shrugged as he slowly walked over to the older's bed and sat down, not wanting to make the younger uncomfortable by moving to stand right by him. Minho figured Jisung was tense enough.

"I see," Jisung replied, clicking away on his computer as they both fell silent for a while, Minho trying to come up with the right words to say and the right way to say them at all. Jisung could tell that Minho had things on his mind. Something he wasn't able to read before. Jisung wondered if maybe he was the reason that Minho so... readable so suddenly.

"Are you- uh, what are you working on?" Minho asked, "Is it- is it it like a solo song? Or one for an album?"

"I'm... not too sure yet," Jisung replied, shaking his head as he tried to figure out what to do, Minho in his room throwing him off and he couldn't concentrate. It was part of the reason he wanted the distance. That and the whole liking him thing.

Minho nodded despite knowing Jisung couldn't see him. Didn't want to see him. He didn't say anything for a minute, not just because he wasn't sure of what to say, but because he wasn't sure it was a good idea to say anything anyway. He watched the way Jisung was just staring at his computer and wondered why the younger seemed frozen. The older male refused to believe that he made the younger one so uncomfortable that he couldn't even work anymore.