Mir tapped his foot, waiting for Jinwoon to finish his performance and bowed politely with a smile every time someone he knew, be it staffs or celebrities walked past him.

          The backstage kind of busy with  people buzzing around back and forth and Mir could have just told 2am manager that he wanted to meet Jinwoon and used the room for 2am to wait. But, he wanted to surprise Jinwoon.

          It wasn't long until the 3 minutes performance of 2am's new song came to an end and Mir peeked through the mass of staffs as he watched 2am dressed in white, walking down the stage and heading towards him. They seemed to still was excited from their performance to notice someone, meaning Mir, was standing against the wall of the hallway, waiting for that one particular person whom was now happily chatting with Seulong.

          Jokwon and Changmin walked past Mir first and when Jinwoon was almost there, Mir pushed himself off of the wall and stand in the middle of Jinwoon's path, blocking it.

          Seulong who was walking together with Jinwoon was the first to notice Mir and tugged on Jinwoon's elbow so his maknae didn't walk straight into Mir.

          "Cheolyong." Jinwoon stated that name,  his smile fell and replaced with emotionless mask which unnerved Mir even more.

          Mir threw a look to Seulong whom nodded in understanding. "Don't take too long. We have performance at baseball festival after this." He patted Jinwoon's shoulder and left the two friends alone.

          Jinwoon crossed his arms, intimidating the smaller one a little bit more and looked down on Mir with expectation.

          When Mir didn't say anything, Jinwoon rolled his eyes and maneuvered around the other to walk past him but Mir quickly stepped in the way, taking out something he was hiding behind him and that something was shoved against Jinwoon's chest.

          The first thing Jinwoon noticed was the faint flowery smell before he saw the bouquet of yellow flower Mir was giving him. "Really? Flowers?" He arched one condescending brow towards Mir who was visibly turning into deeper shade of red.

          Some of the staffs stopped to stare and smiled at the duo. And unfortunately enough, B2ST was walking past them too towards the stage and started their ruckus, teasing Mir and Jinwoon to kiss with their loud obnoxious cat-calling.

          "Shut up." Jinwoon growled at Dongwoon whom obviously the one who started the ruckus and rolled his eyes, grabbing Mir's wrist and pulled him to walk down the hallway towards a more private space to talk. They rounded a corner and stopped in front of 2am's waiting room.

          "I told them I was sorry." Mir spoke quietly.

          "Good for you." Jinwoon still didn't drop his emotionless mask.

          "They told me they were sorry too." Mir's voice came to a halt as he peered up at Jinwoon.

          Jinwoon sighed. "What else now?"

          "It was too... Easy?" Mir questioned but that question was more towards himself.

          "What do you want then? You want them to ignore you like before? Stomped all over you and get you to kneel before them?"

          "Jinwoon... The pain didn't go away." Mir whispered sadly. He took out his phone and opened it. A smile made up to his lips. "It didn't go away just like that but, whenever it became unbearable, I look at this."

          Mir showed the wallpaper of his phone which finally brought smile to Jinwoon's face. He looked at Mir and patted Mir's shoulder. "Of course the pain won't go away right after you guys apologized to each other. Wound need time to heal. If it heal too fast, it will become scar, if it heal too slow, it might not even heal, who knows. I'm bad at philosophy anyway." Jinwoon smiled wider at the soft chuckles which escaped Mir's lips. "But you are going to be fine."

          "Are you sure?"

          Jinwoon couldn't believe it. Mir was looking for reassurance from him. The way Mir looked up at him reminded him of child looking up at his parents and asked them to confirm that santa do exist. "You will be fine. You have me. You have all of our crazy friends. And now you have them."

          "I still have you?" Mir asked fearfully. After all, he had kind of pissed Jinwoon off last time.

          "You had me before. You still have me. You are going to always have me." Jinwoon snorted. "After all, what kind of man do you think I am if I ditch you just because you went all PMS over me like some emotional teenage girl."

          "Well you did ditch me in the middle of highway." Mir laughed at Jinwoon's sheepish grin. "Thanks for telling my father about everything."

          "Seungho is the real spy here. He report your every move to your father."

          Mir laughed. "Yeah, I was not even near ready when I found that out. It was so weird to see them so close behind my back."

          "That's how I know they care for you."

          Mir nodded. "So... We're good?" Mir looked hopefully on Jinwoon.

          Jinwoon punched on Mir's shoulder playfully, "We're good." He retreated back his hand to caress the silky velvety petals of the flowers.

          It was yellow roses...

          Warm friendship...

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Mir was watching the television when Cheondoong sat next to him. He ignored the older only until the lad started slumping against him. "Right. I'm just a pillow." Mir moved as Cheondoong laughed but the older didn't bother pulling away and Mir kept his eyes glued on the television. After all, it was beautiful and charming Minzy on the screen. He really wanted to talk to Minzy again. Maybe next time. He had to find a chance. If he needed, he would talk to Cheondoong for help later since Sandara could be the middle person.

          As he was planning, Cheondoong once again disturbed his train of thought.

          "Hey."

          Mir just hummed in reply.

          "I think Seungho hyung is getting a pet."

          "Huh?" Mir let out a confused noise, finally ripping of his gaze from the screen to look at Cheondoong. Only then he noticed the older was flipping through a book.

          "He's getting a pet?" Joon popped his head out from the kitchen, approaching the two maknaes on the couch with a bowl of popcorn. "What kind of pet?"

          "I don't know... One of these little fury things?" Cheondoong tossed the book in his hand to Joon with Mir following closely with a pair of narrowed eyes.

          "He's not big on pet if I'm not mistaken." GO came this time, bringing a few cans of soda.

          "I'm back." Seungho came in through the front door. "I got the movieee..." Seungho trailed off when four pairs of eyes were looking at him. "What?"

          "Are you getting a pet, Seungho?" GO get straight to the question, sitting himself on the floor next to Joon, leaning back on Mir's legs who was sitting on the sofa behind him.

          "Huh? What are you talking about?" Seungho sat on the armchair.

          "These guys are cute." Joon held up the book. The front page of the book filled with random picture of hamster, mouse, squirrel and hedgehog.

          Seungho stiffened up, throwing himself at Joon, trying to snatch the book back but he was a step late and now the book was in Mir's hand as Mir flipped through it with interest.

          "Hmmm..." Mir humm-sang. "I don't look like any of these though." He looked up to the leader with humor in his eyes. "Can't say you didn't try though." Mir giggled, handing back the book to now tomato red leader.

          "Doojoon told you." Seungho groaned.

          "What? I don't get it?" GO piped up.

          "Yeah." Joon agreed.

          "Just something sweet and cute Seungho hyung did for my sake." Mir winked. "Our little secret."

          "I hate you maknae."

          "Oh you loved me so much."

THE END

Bye Bye~