Spoiled Brat [ 2Min ]

On the day Taemin joined the basketball club, he was immediately hugged by Key, who kept on gushing over how cute Taemin was and that he was going to make Taemin his son. Jonghyun pinched Taemin’s cheek while Onew ruffled Taemin’s hair. The rest of the basketball club members surrounded him but he noticed how one guy named Minho simply continued practicing basketball.

On the second day that Taemin officially became a member of the basketball club, he arrived quite early for practice because he got too excited. Then he noticed that he wasn’t actually alone in the gym because he already heard the ball dribbling. After changing his school uniform into his practice clothes, he entered the gym and found Minho already playing basketball all by himself.

“Come, play with me.” Minho passed the ball to Taemin.

Taemin didn’t expect Minho to talk to him, much less ask him to play with. He was able to catch the ball but then it slipped from his hands so he hand to bend down to pick it up again. “Please take it easy on me.” He smiled nervously, his cute side showing off again.

Minho didn’t reply. In fact, he didn’t talk to Taemin again as they played the game. It was after Minho’s 5th shot that some basketball members finally arrived in the gym.

“Minho, you should have taken it easy with Taemin. He’s just a newbie!!!” Then Key turned to hug Taemin. “Don’t worry, baby. Minho is always mean to newbies.” Jonghyun wiped off Taemin’s sweat while Onew offered water. Minho simply went to the other side of the court and continued practicing.

They finally started practicing when all of the basketball members arrived in the gym. Everybody took it easy against Taemin except for Minho. Then others will scold Minho for not being gentle with Taemin. Minho would shrug it off. Taemin didn’t like the feeling of someone not being affected by his cuteness. Scratch that. He didn’t like the feeling of being dislike at all. He didn’t even do anything to Minho except maybe acting cute.

After practice, it was expected for the newbies to clean up the gym. “You guys can go now. I’ll finish this up.” Taemin said to the other newbies. It was already dark by the time he finished. He was about to leave the school when he heard a ball being kicked.

“The soccer player is surely working hard. He must be someone like Minho.” Taemin said to himself as he took a good look at the soccer field. That’s when he realized that the guy playing soccer was actually Minho. Then he noticed that there was actually another guy with Minho.

Taemin recognized the other guy as Sungmin. He knew that Sungmin was popular for his cuteness as well. He also knew that Sungmin loves pink and acts girly sometimes but despite that, he’s good at martial arts and can be quite manly in his own way. He started to list down in his mind the reasons why Minho would choose Sungmin over him.

Sungmin was a good cook especially pumpkin pies. Taemin can’t cook except for instant noodles. Sungmin could play the piano and guitar very well. Taemin could only play the basic do re mi on the piano. Sungmin was good at sports while Taemin is well…so-so. Taemin sighed as he realized that he could only compete against Sungmin with his dancing and cuteness. The two traits that Sungmin also possess.

// Wait a minute…why am I thinking these stuff?!?! I don’t want to compete against Sungmin for Minho’s attention. I just wanted to be friends with him. That’s all. //

Taemin was so deep in thought that he didn’t realize that Sungmin already left and Minho was slowly approaching him. “Hey, what are you still doing here? Aren’t you going home yet?”

The sound of Minho’s voice snapped Taemin back to reality. “Ah!! You scared me!” He looked around. “Where’s Sungmin?”

“He already left. Were you spying on us?”

“No. I just happened to pass by and…uh…um…”

“Right, whatever.” Minho cut him off. “Where do you want to eat?”

“Huh?!?!”

“I’m treating you to dinner so where do you want to eat?”

“Oh…um…anywhere would be fine.”

They walked in silence and arrived at a small noodle restaurant. “Good evening! May I take your order? Oh, it’s you, Minho! You bought a date!” Sungmin turns out to be the waiter as a part time job in the restaurant.”

“The usual for me. Taemin can have it too.” Minho replied with a small smile.

“Okay~ please wait for a few minutes.” Sungmin left.

Taemin was able to observe the two. He couldn’t help but ask. “Minho-hyung, do you like Sungmin? No, scratch that. I shouldn’t be asking the obvious. I should ask if you like Sungmin, why can’t you like me?”

Minho raised an eyebrow. “Do you think that I like Sungmin for his cuteness and that I should like you too because you’re cute?” He saw how Taemin dropped his head and nodded shyly. He placed a hand on Taemin’s shoulder to pull the young kid closer to him. “I do like you.”

“Aaawww…that’s so cute!!!” Sungmin said as he arrived with their orders. “Enjoy your meal, lovebirds!!!”

Taemin knew that he must be blushing madly because his face felt warm. He also thought that Minho’s hand must be very warm because his shoulder felt cold when Minho’s hand left. Then they proceeded to eat dinner but Taemin was having a hard time cutting the steak so Minho had to cut it for him.

“Thank you.” Taemin was blushing again because of what Minho did and the fact that he couldn’t cut the steak properly by himself.

The rest of the dinner was spent in silence. Then Minho offered to walk Taemin home. He had a hand on Taemin’s shoulder so Taemin had to walk closely to Minho. In fact, Taemin could feel that warmth of Minho’s body at his left side. Once they reached in front of Taemin’s house…

“Thank you for dinner and walking me home.” Taemin said as he made a little bow. “I hope you’ll continue being nice to me tomorrow.”

“Please don’t misunderstand me. I’ll admit that I wasn’t being nice to you but I wasn’t exactly being mean to you either. I just don’t like the fact that everybody is taking it easy on you because your cute. The other fact is that you’re getting spoiled because of your cuteness. If no one is going to be strict on you, then you won’t be disciplined.” That was probably the most words Minho was able to say for the day…or for the week.

“Oh, I see! I’m glad that you don’t really hate me or something like that…” Taemin smiled brightly.

“You should go inside your house now or we won’t be able to stop conversing. You’re making me talkative.” Minho said as he gave Taemin a little push towards the house.

“You took me to dinner. You walked me home. Shouldn’t there be a goodnight kiss?”

“Aren‘t you getting spoiled?”

“I know you don’t like me being spoiled but can’t you make an exemption tonight? Spoil me, pleeeaaase.” Taemin used his cute voice. He also wiggled his body a bit to add some more cute effect.

“Spoiled brat.” Minho whispered against Taemin’s lips before capturing it for a goodnight kiss.

THE END