the doppelganger | xiuchen

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The six of them sat around a table on the floor, beers in their hands.

"What is something you never did before, but want to do?" Minseok asked.

"I want to sell my art for millions of dollars."

"I want to own a Gucci store."

"I want to have a more manly face."

"I want people to automatically smile when they see me."

"I think it'll be nice to go to a concert with someone. I think it'll be fun. We can sing and dance and enjoy the performance together."

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"Hm, which shirt should I put on today?"

Minseok looked over at Baekhyun. As usual, the latter was acting as if he were in a commercial as he looked at his shirtless self in the mirror. "Maybe you should put on the one shirt in your locker and leave quickly," Minseok deadpanned.

Baekhyun dropped the act as he looked over at Minseok with what looked like a pitying expression. "Hyung, you do not know what you're missing out on," he said. "You have abs, too. You should try it with me."

Minseok shook his head. "This is something I'm willing to miss out on."

"Come on," Baekhyun whined. "Sehun does it with me."

"Exactly. Sehun is in high school."

This shut Baekhyun up for a moment.

As Minseok neatly folded his apron so there were no wrinkles, a piece of paper fell out of it onto the floor.

"Hey, what's that?" Now with both his shirt and pants off, Baekhyun reached down to pick up the white card. "SoMa Festival," he read aloud. "Sunday, July 21, 2018 at Han River. 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. Join us for live entertainment from the next top stars . . . Hm, sounds interesting. Are you going to go?"

"First of all, put your clothes on. This isn't your house, so you can't run around naked," Minseok said as he closed his locker door shut.

Baekhyun made a face. "I don't really do it anymore," he said as he reached for his pants, "though I think you should be honored. The fact that I can be undressed like this in front of you shows how close we are."

"That's great." Minseok turned to face Baekhyun. "Are you going to keep holding onto that?" he asked, gesturing to the white card.

"Oh, right." Baekhyun quickly threw his shirt on. "Are you going to go? Since it's our day off, I was going to ask Chanyeol if he wanted to go."

"Um, you can do that if you want," Minseok said. For a moment, he envied Baekhyun. He could easily ask Chanyeol to go somewhere with him.

"Cool. Thanks!" Baekhyun smiled, then suddenly gasped. "Hey, do you think Jongdae will be interested? Then us four could go together."

Minseok reopened his locker door, pretending to look for something so Baekhyun couldn't see his face. "Do you think he'll want to?" he asked as he tried to keep a poker face. "I guess I'll go if he goes."

"Okay, I'll ask him as we're leaving, then," Baekhyun said happily. "I'm going to go out first. You can continue doing . . . whatever you're doing in peace."

Minseok withdrew from the locker, just barely containing his smile. Hopefully, Jongdae would say yes.

At that moment, he received a text from Baekhyun.

jongdae wants suho to come what do i do

As Minseok started typing out a response, another text came in.

sehun found out and also wants in
but suho doesnt want sehun to go
jongdae is trying to reach a compromise
i dont think its working well
please come out

Smiling to himself for a different reason now, Minseok headed outside.

***

Nine minutes later, it was decided. Baekhyun, Chanyeol, Minseok, Jongdae, Suho, and Sehun were all going.

"I can't wait for Sunday," Jongdae said.

Minseok nodded, smiling. "Yeah."

Then, the door opened and the bell chimed, signalling a customer.

"Well, I've got to go," Jongdae said. "Work is calling. See you tomorrow."

Minseok waved before heading out with Baekhyun. As he did so, however, he heard something.

"Chen?"

Minseok spun around quickly. Jongdae had an awkward smile on his face as he faced the customer.

Minseok went over to the man and tapped his shoulder.

Yixing turned around, a confused look on his face.