they decided to play rock, paper, scissors to decide the one who had to pay for all of their foods. fate not really being on his side that day, jooheon lost, causing him to sulk. all of them thought of it being the cutest whenever the second youngest is sulking, but they also knew that if they didn't act quickly, he'd hold grudges forever, so hoseok and minhyuk did everything in their power to make him happy again. as a price, minhyuk was left with the duty to buy the younger ice cream whenever he wanted for the next two weeks straight while hoseok got away with having to get him one thing of his choice, but it was worth it because eventually, it worked and jooheon had the brightest smile on his lips again. after paying however, they left the café and headed back to the hotel.
"hyung?" changkyun started, looking at kihyun who was walking beside him.
"yeah?" he answered.
"why did you lie to me?" the younger said, seemingly surprising kihyun with the sudden question.
"what? what do you mean?"
"about eating.. yesterday. you told me that you ate already when i texted you, but jooheon hyung said you didn't eat anything."
"when did he tell you that?" kihyun asked.
"does it matter? can you please just tell me? was it because of me? i mean- did you worry that much?"
"yes changkyun, i'm sorry but you didn't answer any of my texts and i was really worried. i had no idea what was going on with you. like if you were even okay and i just- i don't know, but i wasn't that hungry anyways."
"hyung, promise me that you'll always eat enough. i'm sorry that i made you worry that much, i just- i didn't want to bother you during the meeting and.. ugh, i don't know." changkyun said, guilt spreading in his voice.
"i promise you if you can promise me to text back whenever i message you, alright? especially in such situations." kihyun said, looking him directly into the eyes again and changkyun couldn't refuse to that. he just smiled and nodded contently. "i promise you, hyung."
back at the hotel, they were stopped by their manager.
"hey guys, i need to tell you something." he said and led them to the right, so that they wouldn't block the entrance. "but firstly, changkyun how are you doing?" he started. the mentioned one was surprised by the sudden question, it was a but unexpected but he still tried to reply somewhat formally.
"i- i feel better. a lot better. i think it gets better day by day. i'm sure i'll be healthy again soon." kihyun next to him only chuckled. of course they let out the fact that he was at his worst the day before and that kihyun kept staying over in his room all the time.
"good. okay, so now: i talked to the staff members and they got the information that the next flight to seoul would be in two days. we'll stay that long and no matter what, on sunday we need to get to the airport. we still have a lot to do at home and we gotta continue working. when the plane takes off though, i don't know yet. i'll give further information tomorrow, understood?" he explained and all the members listened carefully, nodding in response. they got to spend some more time in boston and even though it was nice for them to have more free time overseas, for changkyun it wasn't quite the same. after the conversation with the manager, all of them, excluding changkyun, started planning on what to do. right when they were about to go to their rooms to get whatever things they needed to spend the day though, it started raining heavily and just like that, all of their plans of going outside were dumped.
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