Woohyun’s head lifted up from his pillow as he let his eyes adjust to the bright morning streaming in from the open window. As he moved off from the bed, an arm tightened around his waist.

Suddenly the night before came crashing back as his thoughts drifted to sweaty skin-on-skin contact and whispered words of need and love and near content satisfaction. Woohyun could not believe he’d done it. After years and years of surviving Infinite without giving in, he’d finally caved and kissed Kim Sunggyu.

Imagine his surprise when Sunggyu had kissed him right back.

But none of that mattered now. It was a new day. And while most people would be shackled with the mundane task of a walk of shame, Woohyun’s dreaded walk led him not out of his own apartment but to his desk just a few feet from his bed and his sleeping teammate.

He touched the pad and the laptop sprung alive as he noted the message waited for him. He clicked on it.

LOVR: awesome night

LOVR: didn’t know you had it in you

It was then Woohyun’s horror grew as his eyes lifted to the green light right beside his Macbook’s camera.

He’d been watching.

While Woohyun had with Sunggyu. This was worse than anything he’d been made to do in the last four months and Woohyun did not see any way this was ever going to stop.

LOVR: stop freaking out

LOVR: I would never show this to anyone.

Now Woohyun had to worry that he’d been recorded.

Because that was comforting, Woohyun thought frightfully. He’d been told that the first time he’d received a message from LOVR. He’d thought it was a prank from the members because of the close-up pictures of him sleeping and the pictures of him in the changing room at show venues. There was no way a fan or anti could have gotten that close. But then he’d been horrified to find that none of them were responsible.

By the time Sunggyu joined in on the investigation, he’d received a message telling him to stop looking or he’d be exposed. Woohyun could not imagine what he’d have to be exposed for, till a picture of his diary showed up on the screen. Then another picture taken off a page of his diary followed and Woohyun had gotten up from his desk in fear. No one knew about the diary. Not that one. Not the one where he’d described some of his darkest dreams and fantasies. Not the one where he’d said horrifying things about a fan that had sent him a rather ghastly gift.

He’d run from his laptop to search for the actual diary and was not sure if he was relieved to find that it was indeed still where he’d left it. Which meant that LOVR had been in his room… in his house… had gone through his things.

The next day, he told Sunggyu it was a prank he was playing on Sunggyu to get him to spend more time with his co-leader to which Sunggyu had scoffed, hit him on the back of the head and informed him that Infinite had only one leader.

He’d taken solace in the fact that LOVR seemed to want little things. Like Woohyun’s old toothbrush and a lock of his hair. Or the time he’d asked Woohyun to say a particular phrase during one of their concerts to which Sunggyu had stared at Woohyun in confusion because that hadn’t been in their fanservice routine. But he’d gone along with it because he was Woohyun’s ship-mate and he was dependable like that.

And then out of the blue, LOVR had asked him to kiss Sunggyu.

He really should have seen something like that coming. What with the building up of the creepy factor with each request, he should have known the time would come when he had to do something that might get him in trouble.

It was not as if he didn’t want to kiss Sunggyu. He did. But he’d long resigned himself to nothing but WooGyu-in-front-of-the-cameras because Sunggyu was as straight as a needle and he liked women too much. But it was just a kiss. So he took Sunggyu out, got drunk and made sure Sunggyu walked him back to his apartment. As Sunggyu laid him out to sleep, he’d hooked his hands around Sunggyu’s neck and planted one on him. If Sunggyu got confused, he could swear it was the alcohol.

But Sunggyu had kissed him back.

LOVR: do one more thing for me

LOVR: and I’ll leave you alone

LOVR: scout’s honor

NAM: what?

LOVR: when he wakes up

LOVR: tell him it was a mistake

LOVR: tell him you’re not gay

LOVR: ask him to leave

LOVR: angrily

Woohyun had known for a while that none of this was a joke. Most of what he’d let himself do was much more incriminating than the things in his diary. And yet, now, he’d just had with Sunggyu and was about to cause a major rift in the group if he did what LOVR was asking.

NAM: I won’t do it

LOVR: are you saying no?

Woohyun didn’t reply.

LOVR: fine

LOVR: keep your Sunggyu and I’ll keep my malice

Then LOVR logged out.

Shaking with his fingers hovering over the keyboard, Woohyun sat back, allowing the feeling of victory rush over him. For once, he’d said no and the ceiling hadn’t fallen. Nothing had happened. He was still here. And so was Sunggyu. Who’d woken up, judging by the reflection in his screen that was sitting up in his bed looking right at Woohyun.

“Good morning.” Sunggyu said.

Woohyun turned around, climbed into the bed and kissed Sunggyu on the lips as he kissed him back. AGAIN!!!

“You were drunk.” Sunggyu said.

“You weren’t.” Woohyun said, looking into his eyes, searching for any sign of regret. He found none.

“I didn’t know you wanted… that.”

“I did.” Woohyun said. “I do.” He corrected.

“Me too.”

Woohyun laughed and kissed him again, pushing Sunggyu down on the bed as he prayed Sunggyu wouldn’t say anything about his morning breath.

“Should we brush first?” Sunggyu said as Woohyun groaned.

“You just had to ruin it.”

*****

With Sunggyu in the shower after Woohyun had managed to convince him that spending the schedule-light day in bed was a good idea, Woohyun emerged much later that day to the incessant ringing of his phone. As he answered the call, he couldn’t help the look he shot at his computer and was pleased to find that the camera wasn’t on.

 “What?” He asked.

“Hyung, are you on twitter?”

“Not currently.” Woohyun said wondering why Sungjong sounded amused.

His phone dinged again and he looked at it. There was a screenshot of a twitter feed with both his and Sunggyu’s pictures along with writing that he recognized to be in English. He vaguely remembered it for his Wikipedia page.

“What am I supposed to be looking at?” Woohyun asked.

“Look at your own picture.” Woohyun obeyed. “Near the bottom of the page, can you see Sunggyu-hyung’s name?”

Infinite had been studying English sparingly for the years since they’d been active. So, even though Woohyun didn’t understand what most of what the page said unless he decided to concentrate on it, he knew exactly what all the Infinite members names were in English.

Which was why he was left wondering what Kim Sunggyu was doing on his Wikipedia page.

“Why is hyung’s name on my page?” He asked. “What’s this?”

“It says spouse, hyung.”

“Huh?” Woohyun asked, looking at the picture and then looking at Sunggyu’s to see that his name was indeed in the same place as Sunggyu’s had been on his page. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“The foreign fans saw it and it’s started trending on twitter. Apparently someone thinks you and Sunggyu-hyung are married to each other.”

Woohyun’s brain started pounding in his head as he blindly made his way to his laptop. This was a joke. This was clearly a joke. It was nothing to freak out about.

He clicked the sleeping laptop awake and found a message waiting for him.

LOVR: when next I ask you do something

LOVR: ing do it

Maybe the spouse thing was a joke to everyone who had seen it and was about to see it, but Nam Woohyun couldn’t even bring himself to laugh about it.