Hellevator

Every hallway looked the same, so Jaewon didn't really blame himself when he realized he was hopelessly lost in an unfamiliar building. Mayhem's first time at the Golden Disk Awards, and he had just stepped away for a minute to find the bathrooms so he could compose himself. Obviously he must've taken a wrong turn somewhere, and now he was seeing empty hallway after empty hallway- no familiar landmarks and even worse, no one to ask for directions. He honestly wasn't sure how long he had been wandering when he heard a familiar voice call out behind him.

"Wyld? Is that you?" Unfortunately, it didn't belong to anyone he was too fond of, but at least it was a familiar face. Jaewon turned around, startled to see that Minsung was there and even more so that he was speaking to Jaewon by choice. "Are you lost too?"

"Wh- I- Minsung? I... why are you here?"

Minsung stopped a few feet from Jaewon and frowned, getting defensive. "Are you questioning why Sa1nt was invited to the Golden Disk Awards? Like you think we're not good enough?"

Jaewon's eyes went wide at the accusational tone in his voice. "What- no! That's not what I meant, I just meant... why are you here? In this very location at this moment. Should you be with the rest of your members?"

The taller guy flushed in embarrassment. "Well- shouldn't you?"

Fair point.

Thankfully, Minsung glossed over Jaewon's momentary stupidity. "Have you managed to find anything that looks somewhat familiar at all?"

Jaewon shook his head, the chain earrings dangling from his ears clinking like wind chimes as he did. "No, sorry. I hope we can find our way back soon though, the others are probably getting worried."

"We should look together." Minsung suggested, then hurried to defend himself in response to the weird look that Jaewon gave him. "I just think that it would help to have more pairs of eyes looking at once."

"... There's not really much to look at." Jaewon mumbled, gesturing down the still-empty hallway. But then his hands shot up in surrender. "But hey, I'm not complaining. It's nice to see a friendly face."

Minsung nodded in agreement, roughly combing a hand through his blue and pink ombre hair, showing his level of stress. "Right. Lead the way, kid."

Jaewon made a face at the name, but didn't comment. Instead, he continued on the way he had been going before, through more deserted hallways. Minsung was complaining practically the entire time, but Jaewon did his best to ignore it as he carried on, and eventually they came to a set of elevators.

"Finally!" Minsung breathed, trudging over to the pair of buttons between the elevators. "If we head back downstairs to the main entrance we can probably find our way back, right?" Before even waiting for a response, he pushed the down button.

They were probably both relieved to be nearly free from this awkward situation as they both stood rigidly next to each other, waiting for the elevator to arrive. Jaewon had just cleared his throat to break the silence when the elevator dinged and the doors slid open, saving them both from the small talk. Maybe, just for once, the universe was actually on his side.

Relieved, they stepped into the elevator and pushed the button for the ground floor. And...that was when their luck ran out. The elevator shuddered and stopped abruptly mid-ride. Minsung had good enough reflexes to grab onto the rail as he stumbled so as to prevent him from falling over, but Jaewon being as clumsy as he is, tripped over his own feet as the elevator shook and landed on his butt on the floor.

"What the hell-" Minsung glanced around at the ceiling, eyes wide like a spooked deer. "What was that?"

"I think we stopped.." Jaewon commented, still on the floor. He wasn't sure why he blushed when Minsung offered a hand to help him up- or why he noticed how warm and soft his hand was, or the scent of Minsung's cologne lingering in the air between them.