Personal Sunrise

All For One

Minho's POV

"Minho hyung... Are you listening to me?"

I pulled my gaze away from the TV to see Taemin staring at me with an annoyed expression. I smiled and tugged at his hair. "I'm sorry, Taemin-ah. What did you say?"

He smiled and rested his head on my shoulder. "Do you think our plan worked?"

I laughed softly. "I don't know. Do you think it did?"

Taemin nodded and grinned. "Ne. I think it did."

I laughed again as my mind flipped back to the day before. Taemin could be so mischievous...

"Hyung~," Taemin sang, running through the snow to greet me. I laughed as he wrapped his arms around me and buried his face in the fabric of my coat.

"Hey, Taemin."

"We're still going to that Christmas party at Jonghyun hyung's tomorrow, right?"

I smiled. "Of course."

"Is Key hyung going to be there?"

"I'm guessing so. Why?"

Taemin smirked. "I have an idea."

I pulled my feet up on the couch and wrapped my arms around my knees. "So... Let me get this straight. You think that Jonghyun is in love with Key?"

Taemin nodded vigorously as he sat down on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate. "Don't you see it, hyung? He doesn't hide it very well."

I shook my head. "I haven't really noticed that much. I mean, I can see that they're good friends and all, but nothing more..."

"Nothing more?" Taemin scoffed and took a sip of his hot chocolate. "Jonghyun hyung acts like a lovesick schoolgirl every time Key hyung comes around. His face turns bright red whenever Key hyung touches him or whispers in his ear. He stutters like an idiot and totally loses his nerve. He wasn't like that at all before Key hyung moved here."

I nodded as I thought about it. It was true that Jonghyun had never been this way. He was always the school's playboy, the bad boy who turned down girls left and right and brushed away their heartfelt confessions with a smirk. Before Key had arrived, he never blushed, stuttered, or showed any sign of losing control. His cool demeanor was what made half the girls at school fall madly in love with him.

I rested my chin on my hand as I compared his previous character to the way he was now. He really did blush a lot when Key was around, now that I stopped to think about it. He averted his eyes when Key looked at him. He stumbled over his words and did things he never used to do, like eating his carrots at lunch. None of us had ever been able to get him to do that before.

But Jonghyun? In love? With Key? Jonghyun had a reputation for being a playboy. A straight, cool heartbreaker. The girls fell all over him while he sat back and enjoyed the attention. It had been that way since the 10th grade. There was no way that he could be gay. But his behavior around Key was so...strange.

"Okay...," I began, rubbing my temples in an effort to clear my mind. "So...you want to do what, exactly?"

Taemin smirked and wrapped his arms around the large teddy bear he always kept at my house. "While we're at the Christmas party, I want us to find a way to get Key and Jonghyun hyung alone together. I was thinking all of our cell phones could ring and we'd act like our parents called us back home or something... What do you think?"