BinHwan : Delicate ¦ o m e g a v e r s e

3 ¦ chaos

It's not a surprise that Bobby's not talking to him after their heated argument inside his room that day. Bobby was hysterical, the guy was making up scenarios inside his head and just plain blabbering about how it was a crime to force anyone to have sex. Bobby even said something about not getting to share a bed with their hyung and someone has the audacity to take away his chastity. He knew he had to point out that Bobby doesn't even comply with that rule anyway. It was chaos. Even their members are knocking on the door, asking what's happening.

Jinhwan was going out of his mind. Pure shocked run through his body for a good five minutes before he took hold of Bobby's shoulders and stopped the guy from talking. He told Bobby that it was nothing, that Hanbin didn't do anything that he doesn't want. He explained to the guy that it was consensus on the both of them and Hanbin didn't force himself on him, but that only made Bobby even more furious.

Jinhwan couldn't help but feel guilty. The relationship between Bobby and B.I is tight. The guys are like brothers from different wombs. They wrote music together, hang out together. They had the same taste in everything that their friendship could pass for brothers. And thinking how they might drift apart because of him made his heart lurched down to his stomach. He's not worth it.

And as if the universe is trying to fucked everything up, even more, their manager called that day and announced a meeting with Hanbin the next day. It was a sudden call, a scary sudden call that made him overthink things. What if Hanbin said something about withdrawing Jinhwan from the group. What if he got offended with what happened and can't work with Jinhwan anymore? It was stupid, but the thoughts didn't go away. Until the day of the meeting came.

"Manager-hyung didn't even tell us what this is about," Chanwoo complained as he kept on fiddling with his phone.

"Put that away Chanwoo, I told you to stop playing games, it's bad for your eyes." Yunhyeong tried snatching the phone away from the youngest but Chanwoo dodge him faster than Yunhyeong could even say 'Shit'

"Hyung, you okay?" He felt Donghyuk's hands on his shoulders,

"Yep." He nodded but let out a shaky breath afterward. The younger reached out for a bottled water and handed it to him. "Thanks." He took off the cap and drank from it. It somehow relieved some of his nerves but not entirely, he's still silently trembling on his seat.

The door finally opened and came their manager and of course Kim Hanbin tailing from behind. Seeing Hanbin after the anniversary, everything seems to come back to him, refreshing all the things that happened that night. Suddenly he felt the queasy feeling in his stomach as if his insides are gyrating. The embarrassment and nervousness started eating him from the inside.

"Good morning guys." Their manager greeted but get a grumpy grunt in return from the members. "Come on guys. You've had your fun, now time for some work. Come on, shrug that lethargic energy off."

He saw the seat in front of him getting pulled so he immediately averted his eyes away when he saw Hanbin settling down in front of him.

It was hard not to feel Hanbin's gazes on him. It's harder to keep his insides calm and not to look back on the person in front of him. It was pure torture. The guy's eyes felt like magnets, the more he tried to avert his gaze away the more they wanted to look back at the guy.

"B.I, you cool man?" Bobby's voice rising above the chatters inside the room. They might not notice it but Jinhwan clearly heard the mockery in his words. B.I seems to hear it too as he turns to look at Bobby questioningly.

"Why not?" Hanbin shrugged. His answer was dripping with venom everyone had to stop talking and looked at the two. They all couldn't help but watched their rappers challenge each other's gazes. With the way it was looking, it seems like no one plans to back down anytime soon. He knew he had to butt in. Being the oldest and of course being the person of interest, he clearly had to do something.

"Hey, stop it you two." Their manager said. "Bobby, stop it."

Bobby snickers but didn't even falter. B.I is serious but he can see that the guy won't even let Bobby off of his stares. That's when he decided to step in.

"Bob—"

"Hyung, why don't we start the meeting then." Yunhyeong butted in obviously trying to ease off the tension inside the room. Everybody knows Yunhyeong hates it when they fight or disagree with each other, so he tries his best to stop a fight before it even happens.

"So..." their manager clapped. Both Bobby and B.I had to stop their staring contest and listen instead.

Jinhwan breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Yunyheong in his head.

The meeting proceeded with other staff from the company. It was about their next repackage album which they all didn't expect since they just had a comeback before the end of summer.

"You mean a new single?" Bobby asked.

"Yep, and... we decided that Hanbin will take part in the comeback."

"He will write it, of course, he will take part on the comeback, particularly on the line distribution," Junhoe said.

"What we mean is, he will promote with the group together with everyone."

What? Jinhwan thought.

"He will dance, sing and performed on the stage with you all and go to every schedule with you."

Suddenly, the room is eerily quiet, the only sound that can be heard was the continuous tapping of the ballpoint pen on the metal table. Digesting the whole situation seems impossible, and it seems like he's not the only one who feels like that. Everyone was flabbergasted.

The questions running inside his head were faster than dominos falling continuously.

After three years.

Why? Why now? Is it also Hanbin's decision? Was he forced to promote with the group? What the hell is happening?

Then it hit him.

"You mean even on concert tours? What about the choreography? Will we adjust everything? The line distributions? That is impossible. Everyone is already having a hard time, you can't do that." He was suddenly heated to stand up for everyone.

"Of course we couldn't do that in a span of a month. That's why we're adjusting the group for a whole year."

Adjusting... for a whole year, a whole year?!

"You can't do this." Donghyuk butted in.

"You mean you agreed to all this bullshit?" Bobby was now pointing a finger at Hanbin who kept silent the whole time.

"Guys, calm down. It won't be a sudden change. We will slowly, slowly adjust everything, you won't even notice that the whole group changed."

"B.I did you agree to this?" Yunhyeong asked. Jinhwan was also waiting for the answer like every decision depends on it, base on B.I's answers.

Hanbin lifted his head and his eyes directly searched Jinhwan's. Jinhwan's breath halted as the words left their composer's mouth.

"I wanted to be on the stage with everyone."

Everyone became silent after that.

Everyone knew the feeling of longing for the stage that nobody tries to retaliate against Hanbin's reasons. They all knew how hard it is to deprive yourself of the needs that are been running in your veins.

"And... B.I will be living with you guys. Yahoo." The manager said, making them all flinched in shock.

Jinhwan's in a lot of fucking trouble.

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i'm really sorry if iKON's portrayal in this fic isn't as canon as it should have been. i hope you all trust me and my stupid plot to take responsibility.

sehubo