Baby Don't Stop

Chapter One

It was already 9:20 and Ten still hadn't shown up. Taeyong tapped his foot impatiently. His arms folded, he looked left and right to see if he could see any sign of Ten on his way. Was that him? No, just someone who had a similar jacket.
Suddenly he felt an arm around his neck. He looked over and there was Ten, goofy smile and everything.
"Man, where have you been? We are going to be late for practice." He gives Ten a light shove.
"No! Listen to this. Eunjin asked me out again. For the third time!" He held up three fingers.
Taeyong sighs. "I don't get why you keep telling her no. She is obviously really into you. And she is super pretty. What's holding you back?" He's inquisitive.
"Eh, she just isn't my type." Ten shrugged.
"I'm not convinced you actually have a type at all." Taeyong jokes.
Ten laughed as well. "Listen I'll tell you my type right now."
Taeyong motions for him to continue talking. They have arrived at the company building and start to walk up the stairs.
" I like short hair, doesn't matter if they dye it. I like deep brown eyes, along with sharp cheek bones. I like someone with a big smile."
"That's a lot of criteria for someone to meet."
"Well maybe I've already got someone in mind?"
"Wait what?" Taeyong wants to question him further but they've arrived at the practice room where the choreographer is waiting.
"Sorry we are late, it's my fault we got held up," says Ten. He is taking of his coat and putting his phone down on top of his stuff.
Taeyong was busy thinking, who could Ten be crushing on. He'll have to make sure to ask Ten later.
"Do you both remember what we learned yesterday," the choreographer asks. They both nod. "Alright then let's review. And then we can move on. I want to finish this dance by tomorrow."
As the choreographer moved over to the computer and stereo to turn on the music Taeyong pulled on Ten's sleeve. "Who is the lucky girl?"
"Well-" but he didn't get to say anything else because the music was on and it was time to dance.
5, 6, 7, 8.

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"Whew, we learned over half the dance today." Ten sighed. "I'm so beat. I could literally fall over and sleep, right here. Right now!" Ten points at the ground.
"I know, you can go home, eat and then take a long nap. I have to do stuff with the company." Taeyong says. "Hey, listen, who is the lucky lady who has your heart? I gotta know. I need to make sure she's worthy of my best friend."
"I don't know if you'd approve of who I like. You might hate who I like." He shoved his hands in his jacket pockets.
"Listen, I'll catch you later." Taeyong starts to jog ahead but he turned around. "If you like her this much that you won't tell me who she is she must be pretty special. You know you can't keep her from me forever. I'm going to meet her eventually." He turned around and ran out of sight.
"You've already met him." Ten smiles to himself before he turns to head back to the dorm.
"Ten? Ten!"
Ten looked around but couldn't find who was talking before he looked ahead and was almost scared out of his wits at the small woman standing before him.
"Eunjin! Where did you come from?" Ten places a hand over his heart. He has got to slow his heart rate down.
"I just saw you walking and wanted to come say hi." She smiled up at him. "Oh my, you look tired. Here have some water."
"Uh, thank you but no thanks." He pushed the water bottle away lightly. "I'm good."
He pushes past her to continue on to the dorm. But she keeps pace with him.
"So where are we going?"
"We are not going anywhere. I am going back to the dorm. You are going where ever you need to go."
She just keeps walking with him. "Well I'm going this way as well so I'll just walk with you." Eunjin skipped along beside him.
Ten let her walk with him a while before he just couldn't stand it any longer. "Listen," he stopped walking and turned to face her. "I, uh," he pauses trying to find the right words to explain that he just didn't like her, and it wasn't just her, he didn't like girls at all. "So, um," Man how did people do this? "I think you are a great person." He could see Eunjin's face light up. That probably wasn't going to help him. "Uh so, um you just aren't my type." He said slowly.
"Well what is your type? Maybe I can become your type?" her hands were clasped in front of her.
Ten ran his hands through his hair. This was way too stressful. "Uh, um, so you can't just become my type, it's not possible."
"Of course it is possible. I can grow out my hair, or wear contacts. I can lose weight. I can be your ideal type."
Oh god, she wasn't going to make this easy on him. "None of those things matter. Just trust me, the one thing that matters to my ideal type, you just don't have it. And you never will." He hated to be mean but it seemed like this was the only way to get her to stop. And he desperately needed her to stop this.
Eujin's face fell. He could see tears welling in her eyes. "What do you mean?"
Just what he had wanted to avoid, tears. "No, no, no! Don't cry. It's nothing against you, really. It's something you had no control over. You're wonderful, and fun, and cool."
"So why won't you go out with me?" she buried her face in her hands. Her shoulders began to shake.
What should he do? He reached one of his arms around to pat her on the back lightly. "It's okay?"
"No! It's not okay! I really like you! But you don't like me!" Her shoulders shook harder.
"Okay, um so." Make the crying stop, "So what if we go on one date. And after that you might not like me and we can put the whole thing to rest." He suggests.
"Wait, what?" she looks up, her eyes wide and tear stained.
"I can see it really means a lot to you if we go on this date. So, just one date, you can see if you can change my mind and if you can't, you have to let the whole thing go. Okay?" What was he saying?
"Okay." She nods quickly.
"But for now I have to go and you also need to go, alright?"
She nods before turning on her heel and almost running away. Probably to plan their date.
He couldn't believe what he had just agreed to doing. He didn't like girls. He liked boys! He liked one boy in particular.
Taeyong.

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Taeyong walks into their room and threw down his bag. "Sometimes being the leader isn't all it's cracked up to be."
Ten laughed from where he was lying in bed.
"Yeah, but you'll never guess what happened to me after you left," Ten says.
Taeyong sits down on Tens bed at his feet. "Hold on, let me guess." He pauses to think. "Did you meet up with that girl you like?"
"No, Eunjin found me. And while I was trying to tell her that I didn't like her I somehow ageed to go on a date with her."
Taeyong was silent for a couple seconds before he burst out laughing. "You're joking!"
"Trust me, I wish I was joking." Ten rubs his forehead.
"Well what are you going to tell the girl you like?"
"What? Oh them, well they don't know that I like them yet." Ten blushes. "So it's not a big deal."
"Alright if you say so," Taeyong realized something and turned to Ten, "Do you need me to follow you on your date to make sure that if you need to get out of it you can? Cause I can do that for you man."
Ten laughs, "Sure, why not? I'm prepared for anything at this point."