The sound of clinking glasses broke the awkward silence between five guys in a café called Ojigu.
"Hyung, must we go to Daegu tomorrow?" The one in black hair whined to the guy in glasses, who appeared to be older than the rest.
He fixed his glasses on his nose. "Yes. We must go." He stood up and walked to the coffee station. He reached for something behind the counter.
"Wait. Inhae hyung! Don't take our chocolate milks!" One of them shouted.
Inhae chuckled in disbelief. "I'm not taking your drinks, Mark." He was in fact taking a sheet of paper. A pamphlet of a concert gig. "We're going to meet this venue owner. I wanted to book the place for your next secret gig. This venue will match your concept."
Yuta took the pamphlet. It's Planet D, a franchise venue of Planet One, a hip venue in town which previously held exhibitions for JYPE artists. The others curiously looked at the pamphlet.
"Whoa! This is great, hyung! I'm in!" One stood up with dimples on both of his cheeks. "Jaehyun call!"
"Yuta call!"
"Mark call!" He stood up while reading the pamphlet, obviously just following Jaehyun and Yuta.
Inhae looked at the black hair one. "You're not okay with it, Taeyong? Or you just don't want to go to Daegu?" He asked.
"I don't like Daegu." Answered Taeyong. He looked like he just made that up.
"But this is a great chance, hyung" whined Mark.
"It's still happening and it's not up to you, Lee Taeyong." Inhae took his book and checked something on it. He then noticed another thing. "Ah. My cousin is going to join us. He has this photography project and he will be taking pictures of you guys. He's a friend of the venue owner and he wants to meet you guys there as well. But just act like you usually do, okay?"
He closed the book and the three guys smiled widely. Except Taeyong.
"First the stupid meeting. Now there's this cousin thing." Murmured Taeyong. "I guess Eunbin noona was right to break up with him."
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The hot day in Daegu had plunged Taeyong's mood down into an abyss. He kept squinting his eyes as the sweats streamed down infinitely. He made a plan to escape the meeting. Few minutes after everyone in the team gathered in front of the building, he started to sneak out.
"I'm not going to that stupid meeting." He grunted after few blocks running away. He looked around and wondered what would he do next. He knew nothing about the city. He found a map and it was shown that he was near a park. So he decided to go there.
But he felt something. He heard someone faintly mentioned his name.
One of the crews was looking for him and he could see the crew hadn't seen him.
"I must hide..." Tayeong looked around the park. He couldn't find any place to hide since it was a park, after all. Only trees and benches. It's not like he could fit into a small bush.
He saw a girl was sitting alone on a bench. He had an idea and held his pride.
With a cautious look, scanning the situation, he shamefully sat next to the girl and put his arm around her shoulders. She was startled.
"Let me go." She said.
"I'm sorry. But I can't." Taeyong kept looking at the crew who was looking for him.
"I'm waiting for my team leader. He will be here soon." She tried to remove Taeyong's hand. "Let me go, you pervert."
"What a destiny. On the contrary, I'm running away from my team leader." He glared at the girl. "And I'm not a pervert."
