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I look closely at his face and watch him as he bites his bottom lip nervously with his finger trembling as he slides it across the white page trying to skim read through the script. Our debut showcase is today and the lives starts in about 12 minutes. I can sense how each one of the members is nervous, myself included. I feel my heartbeat ringing in my ears at this point and my leg constantly bouncing up and down feeling a bit restless.  I get up from my seat and walk towards Yunho who's sitting beside him and nudge him on the shoulder making him look up.

"Think you can switch seats with me?" I ask him, my tone a bit requesting making him smile a little and tap his head pretending to think.

"Hmm...I'm not sure hmmm" I roll my eyes and grab his wrist pulling him to stand up to which he instantly whines at but thankfully none of the members notice. I don't want them to see me trying to force him to change seats with me just because I want to sit with Hongjoong.

"Fuck you" he says before walking towards my previous seat but I see his cheekbones rise up from behind meaning he's probably smiling right now. Satisfied with the interaction I finally take the seat sitting beside the smaller male. I put my hand on his stopping the motion of his reading which makes him look at me.

"Oh Hwa hyung you're here! I didn't notice, sorry" He scratches the back of his neck with a soft smile painted on his face and almost enough to make my heart explode. I smile back at him and nod.

"You seem tense joong trust me this will go great just smile and be yourself."

He exhales loudly and gives me a small nod the same smile forming back on his lips. The light bulb suddenly lights up in my brain and I take a quick glance at him before looking at the countdown playing on the screen infront of us. The numbers '00:08:45" blink on it. Right just eight more minutes to go. I look back at Hongjoong before grabbing his hand and pulling him away from his seat.

"W-what the heck hyung!!" He yells as I drag him. My eyes move around the room to see if anyone has noticed but thankfully because of Jongho and Wooyoung's bickering everything is fine for now. I bring my finger upto to my lips and signal him to stay silent as I take him towards the restroom.

"Seonghwa, Hongjoong! Just seven more minutes to go where are you two off to?" I stop frozen on my tracks but then turn around to face our manager and give him an awkward look.

"Erm just going to wash our hands since the nervousness is making our palms sweaty" I spit out a lie praying he believes it and he just nods giving us an awkward thumbs up. We quickly bow to him before moving again. Once we're inside I make sure to lock the door and turn to face him while he looks at me with the same nervous face from earlier. He walks forward and tries to unlock it and I understand that he's trying to leave so I block him.

"Hwa move we'll be late" he says with panic flowing thick in his voice.

"Hush I'm just going to try to help you calm dow" I say to him and he gives me a very confused look and tilts his head a little to the left looking as adorable as heck. I move closer towards him and pull his body towards mine. We stare at each other for a few seconds before I slowly bring my face to him, much more closer than before and attach my lips to his. He gives in without wasting anytime. The kiss is tender and sweet. I feel the taste of the light strawberry flavoured lipgloss on his lips no longer peach. Once we pull apart I see how his eyes look around instead of looking into mind making me chuckle at his shyness. My hand travels to his chin and I move his head to look at me.

"It'll be alright I promise baby" I try to reassure him beifre continuing "you can hug me if you want." He gives me a small nod before bringing himself into my embrace. I've never been much of a big hug person, actually I'm not a fan of physical touch at all but I recently came to realise how this soft side comes into play only with Hongjoong.  We stay in the position for about a minute before he finally pulls himself out from the hug. I notice a soft pink colour on his cheeks. Is he blushing? He smiles at me and blinks a few times making me slightly confused and then I feel his lips on my cheek but before I can even sense it he's gone.

Hongjoong just gave a me a tiny peck on my cheek. Oh my god he's going to actually make my heart explode one day and I wouldn't even blame him. I smile to myself before walking out as well.

"1 minutes to go!" I hear one of the staff members say as I try to make myself comfortable on my seat. I take a deep breath and press onto my knuckles making a noise. I'm ready.

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The soft fabric touches my skin and pats it absorbing the sweat from my face. My fingers swipe on the glowing screen in my hand as I go through the comments under our music video. A smile simply stays on my face as my eyes skim read through the feedback. Once I feel the patting of the white towel stop I look towards the staff member who offers me a sweet smile and congratulates me. I bow to her and say thanks in appreciation. I looked over to the other side of the room to see San and Mingi laughing loudly at Yeosang I think? My eyes then travel towards Jongho who's being hugged by our leader. I laugh how the maknae tries to push him off but he doesn't budge. Oh to be Jongho. 

"Seonghwa hyung come here!!" I hear Wooyoung yell and wave his hand at me as if I'm on the other side of the world where I wouldn't be able to hear his naturally loud voice.

"Alright guys get ready, we're going out on a company dinner for the celebration" I hear  manager-nim announce as he claps his hands together and smiles at us. A few minutes pass and we all start to move into the changing room of the studio we booked for this showcase one by one and start changing into casual outfits. Once done we grab our belongings and separate ourselves into groups to get into the cars. I get into one of them the manager pointed at and see Hongjoong already sitting there with his phone.

"Oh? Hwa hyung." He mumbles my name once he sees and moves closer towards the side of the car he is on patting his hand on the seat motioning me to sit with him.

"Why aren't you sitting in the front?" I ask him and rolls his eyes pointing at a figure standing outside the car. San. He's blocking it from Yunho.

"He's such a little kid" I laugh out loud and shake my head. 

"Good job on doing so well on the live" I hear him say, his pretty smile a little bit visible in the moonlight as well as the streetlight. He's so pretty. So gorgeous. I want to make him mine.

"You did even better. I told you it would go great and it did yeah?" He nods and I see his pink cheeks come into display again making me smile even wider.

I hear the doors to the car open and see both Wooyoung and San sitting in laughing at Yunho who's flipping them off. A soft grunt fills my ears making me look beside me to see my baby looking sleepy. Wait...my baby? He gently hits San on his shoulder with his fist and makes a little 'shh' sound. I chuckle at his adorable behaviour and he notices looking a bit embarrassed. Keys in, engines start and the car starts moving I look away to focus on the road but stop as I feel my arm being grabbed and tucked into another. I whip my head around to see Hongjoong hugging me by my arm, he taps my shoulder and signals me to sit back a bit more and once I do he positions himself beside me properly and lays his head on my shoulder.

"Tired?" I ask and he makes an incoherent sound shaking his head as a yes. Eyes closed. I brush off the hair strands that fall on his eyes and gently pinch his cheek making him whine. Cute. Wooyoung and San are yapping too busy in their own world. Maybe I can just...

"H-hwa!" Hongjoong jolts up and whisper yells at me making me laugh.

"You can't just kiss me like this, what if they saw us?" He pouts and I want to kiss that pout off again so bad but I need to hold myself back from doing so or he might get upset.

"Yes I can and they won't catch us" I shake my head and pull him back into our previous position. And make him stay like that.

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