Changlix// Afternoon Lessons

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“What? You can’t give me Korean lessons today? Why, Teach.” The Australian boy whined, jokingly pushing his “Teach” to the side.
“I’m sorry, Felix, Jisung promised me to help me get better at rapping. I don’t know how long it will take.”, his “Teach” answered. “And don’t call me “Teach”. I’m Minho. Just. Minho.“ Felix laughed, patting the boy he so lovingly called “Teach” on the back: “Haha, it’s fine. I’ll find someone else. You’re not the only Korean here.”
“How about asking Changbin to teach you? He could also help you with your pronunciation while rapping.”, Minho suggested. Felix nodded accepting. “Sure. I’ll do it. We’re good mates, so I’m sure you it will work out well. And now you go on your date with Jisung- uh, I mean, now go train with Jisung.”, Felix joked, grinning widely at Minho. The latter rolled his eyes and walked away, waving Felix a goodbye before completely leaving the practice room.
The young Australian sighed. He really liked Minho’s teaching method. Calm and collected, for whenever Felix didn’t listen or didn’t get what he was explaining. Changbin on the other hand… He seemed as if he would get annoyed quickly at how dense Felix can be sometimes. Sighing Felix walked outside where he already spotted Changbin. “Hey, Changbin!”, he shouted out to him. Changbin turned around, giving him a confused look: “Aren’t you supposed to improve your Korean with Minho?”
“Well, Minho has a- I mean, he’s training his rap with Jisung.”, a little bashful Felix scratched the back of his head. “So he told me I should ask you to teach me. I think that’s a great idea! You could help me with my pronunciation while rapping!”, he said, enthusiastically grinning at him, although he secretly was a little nervous.
“I suppose it doesn’t hurt.”, Changbin shrugged. The sight of his happy smile caused his heart to sting a little.
Hearing those words Felix was surprised. He didn’t expect him to agree just like this. “Then let’s begin!”, he cheered, pulling him inside the practice room. “Say, could it be that you got smaller?, he joked, but quickly stopped laughing as he felt Changbin’s unamused eyes piercing his body. "Sorry.”, he gulped, although he couldn’t contain his smile.
“Let’s begin with basic syllables first and then-” Felix touched his shoulder, interrupting him: “Binnie, I’ve already been through this.” In response Changbin sighed. “Then let’s get straight to rap. We’ll go over your rap in ‘Hellevator’ and at the end you’ll try my part, okay?” Felix nodded, focusing on his first lesson with Changbin.

“Woah, today’s lesson wasn’t even as bad as I thought!” Minho chuckled relieved as he heard the good news. “Does that mean you don’t need you anymore?”, pouting, he turned away. “Of course not. Binnie got this dark aura around him which creeps me out a little. You in the other hand are totally calm. Always!”, Felix smiled reassuringly. Minho smiled back. “I was joking. But actually…”, his smile faded. “Tomorrow I’ll be going an a- I mean, I will train with Jisung again.” Trying to hold in his laugh, Felix nodded quickly and turned around. “Sure, sure.~”, he snorted, waving his hand to belittle Minho’s words. “Don’t worry, I’ll get along with Changbin just right. Maybe even forever!”, he laughed, patting his friend on the back. Minho stared at him, his cheeks bright red.
“It’s time to sleep now anyways. Goodnight!”, Quickly Felix left the room, still chuckling a little.

“G'day teach! Did Minho already inform you?”, cheerfully Felix waltzed into the practice room, greeting Changbin, his new “Teach”, with a friendly grin. The new teacher nodded and sat down on the floor, signaling the optimistic boy to sit beside him. Said lad quickly jumped next to him, starring at him interested in what they will do today.
“Uh, yeah.” Changbin stuttered as he felt a little uncomfortable with Felix almost sitting on his lap. “You definitely improved your Korean pronunciation, so let’s practice a faster rap today.”, he gulped. For some reason he felt uncontrollably nervous around Felix today. He never had a problem with him. In fact, they were buddies, best friends. “Look.”, he pulled out a few pieces of paper from behind his back. “I have prepared a few raps. Some are 3Racha ones, these two are ‘Hellevator’ and ‘YaYaYa’.”, he pointed at each song respectively. “And those are all from other artists.”, his hand moved over said songs. Carefully Felix looked at the sheets of paper laid in front of him. “Take your time.”
“Oh, I think I will take this one.” his finger landed on 'YaYaYa’. Changbin nodded and began rapping, getting faster with every run. Felix listened carefully, mouthing every syllable and trying his best when he had to rap himself, but for some reason he couldn’t focus. The way Changbin’s lips moved, so smooth and soft, made his heart best faster. He didn’t know why. He just wanted it to stop.
Thankfully, it didn’t take too long until the evening came along and the both of them had to end their lesson.
“Hey, you have done well, Felix!”, Changbin mentioned, proudly patting him on the back. “Now go take a rest.”, he told him before leaving him alone.

Sitting on his bed Felix bit his his lips. He was confused. Why did his heart begin to race when he was focusing on Changbin’s face? Did he feel the same way? He sighed deeply, heavily falling on his bed.

The next day after dance practice with the other members, Felix and Changbin met up again.
An uncomfortable silence surrounded them. “So, what’re we going to do today… Teach?”, Felix asked hesitantly.
“Quite honestly… I don’t know. You nailed the rap pretty much perfectly and I think you’re fine on your own if you just believe in yourself.” Changbin’s words made Felix feel pride, causing him to smile brightly. “Why did we even meet again.”, Changbin added.
“Maybe… We’re drawn to each other!”, Felix joked, putting his arm around Changbin’s shoulder and pulling him closer. He may have been joking, but he wasn’t calm. At all. His heart felt as if it would jump out of his rib cage any moment now. With a bright red face and a shocked expression Changbin quickly pushed him away. “Woah! Don’t do that! It’s not the right time for jokes.”, he whined, crossing his arms.
“Why?” Felix asked, feeling his heart pound up to his head. “We’re not practicing.” Changbin kept quiet. He just turned his head away and breathed deeply.
“May I have a guess?”, Felix asked calmly. Changbin turned to look at him. “You are…” He moved closer to Changbin. “In love…” Now his nose almost touched Changbin’s. Felix grinned cocky. “With me!”, he exclaimed, poking Changbin’s burning forehead. Changbin stayed still. Frozen.
“Hello?”, Felix asked, waving his hand in front of his face. Still no response.
Suddenly he grabbed Felix by the collar, pulling him closer to him. As their lips almost touched, he bit his own and gulped before taking action and kissing Felix. Completely taken aback, Felix didn’t know what to do. All he did was to let Changbin act his way, who grabbed Felix’s hands and put them on his shoulders. Felix accepted and put his hands on Changbin’s face, leaning into the kiss. It was… Messy, inexperienced, but none of them cared. All they were interested in was each other and the love contained in this kiss.

“I saw you two, Felix.”, Minho said, falling plump on the seat next to Felix.
“W-where?”, he tried to act it cool.
“In the practice room.”, Minho answered.
“What?! Don’t tell Chan this happened, okay?” Felix almost screamed at Minho.
“Calm down, calm down.”, The latter chuckled. “I didn’t see anything. But now I know.”, he winked at him.
“Oh shut up. You and Jisung are totally a thing too!” Felix winked back. They both shared a laugh, though with looks on their faces that could kill anybody.