If the first semester was remarkable for the welcome festival, the second one was expected for clubs’ extracurricular activities and many small vacations. They had Christmas then year- end party, Western New Year and Lunar New Year, not to mention the Sport day of SIA held up in March.

For the senior year students, this semester was the last chance for them to show what they had learnt from almost four year. All of them had to hand in their final concept at the end of the first week of this semester and the professors encouraged their students in feeling free to do their creativeness. Therefore this period time of the year was extremely tense for everyone.

Well, except for a particular Chinese one.

Luhan beamed brightly and sped up his paces as he spotted the dark brown hair of his boyfriend at the corner of the canteen from afar. It was a little sad for him that he spent last Sunday cleaning up his shared room with Yxing and moved back to his dorm. Of course Sehun was always by his side to help him here and there but still, he wanted to be somewhere more private with the younger boy. Besides he also had promised Sehun’s uncle to persuade him go to America for his birth mother but after two days being together, he couldn’t find the right moment to talk about it yet.

“Guess who?”

He sang playfully, covered Sehun’s eyes with his both hands.

The maknae was surprised at the sudden touch but quickly regained his self-possession as he knew who was behind him. His lips unconsciously curved into a smile and before he could say anything, five other boys in his table whistled and made comments at the same time.

“Oh love birds…”

“Ahhh I feel so lonely.”

“Baekhyunieee…. marry me!”

“Diamond ring, car, house and deal!”

Luhan laughed loudly and pulled out a chair to sit next to Sehun. Looking around, he realized someone was missing.

“Where’s Suho?”

“He went to the library from early morning.” Sehun shrugged “Unlike you he’s still working on his concept.”

The Chinese boy nodded his head understandingly. To finalize the concept, it took more time and effort than you thought. It’s not just about the idea but also the ulterior meaning, the steps of performance and the practicability. It was not exaggerative to say that this step was very important, affected the success or failure of the project. He was glad that the maknae had agreed to take part in the last minute, otherwise he might be over head and ears in finding someone else to replace or had to come up with another idea and started all over again in just one week.

“Speaking of that” D.O’s voice brought him back to reality “How can you persuade Sehun to be your model hyung? I mean, he rejected Suho hyung once.”

“Oh, really?” Luhan’s eyes opened wide, he turned aside to face his boyfriend, chuckling “He seems accepted my proposal quite easy.”

“Really?” now it’s turn of the others in the table to drop their draws. They all thought Luhan had to do something special to “trap” the younger one into this. That was not Sehun they knew. Maybe it was right. People could change because of love.

“I think Suho hyung will have a heart attack if he hears this news, hyung.” Chanyeol commented, earning some sympathy from his friends.

“Will it hurt him that bad?” the Chinese boy pursed his lips, suddenly feeling guilty.

“Of course hyung” Baekhyun followed in his partner’s footsteps “His pride is this big.” he drew an imaginary circle in the air with both his arms.

Luhan shifted his worried eyes to Sehun as if asking him whether it’s true or not. The younger one shook his head in disbelief, grabbed the other’s hand and squeezed slightly.

“Just not mention the ‘quite easy’ part and he’ll be okay.” then threw to the two playful hyungs stop-there-or you’re-dead eye message.

Answer to his fierce look, Chanyeol and Baekhyun laughed and gave each other hi five, totally enjoyed messing up with the new couples.

Staying quiet from the beginning, Yixing suddenly spoke up, gaining everyone’s attention. After a week living with D.O and Jongin, he finally became a member of the group.

“Sehun ah, as much as I’m glad you two finally being together, I think it’s my responsibility to warn you this.”

The serious tone and straight facial expression of his best friend made Luhan innerly jolted. Was that about the ‘obsession’ with his bed or did he have any bad sleeping habit that he didn’t know. Don’t judge him, everyone had weird things.

Besides him, the maknae on the contrary stayed calm, he even leaned in a bit curiously.

“What is it hyung?”

“His fan girls. They’re scary.”

The Chinese dancer whispered the last part, looking around to see if anyone could hear his words. Fortunately, the canteen was quite deserted because there were not so many classes started on the first day of semester.

Not only Sehun, the whole table gasped at that statement, except for the oldest one who choked on his saliva. They all knew that Luhan was really famous among the girls, he even had a fan club inside SIA but they didn’t think those girls could do anything dangerously.

“They’re not scary Yixing.” Luhan winced.

“Oh they’re not?” the younger boy arched his brow and raised his voice “You should see their faces when they’re threatening me.”

“You were threatened?” four other boys said in unison, the atmosphere was getting more strained.

 “No he’s not.” Luhan flapped his hand in the air, trying to save his fan club’s image “They just had a friendly confrontation.”

“I was surrounded by ten angry girls at my locker after practicing, being asking for not too much close to their ‘angel’. I had the feeling of being stalked for the entire of week after.”

Yixing finished his speech by a shiver, arms wrapping around his own body. Maybe he was a little bit exaggerating about the whole thing, but still those girls were crazy.

Across the table, his ge handpalmed himself in frustration. Now he was sure his boyfriend was not brave enough to hold his hand in the campus. No, maybe he would even refuse to be seen walking with him.

“What did you do hyung?”

Sehun crossed his arms, asking with his not-so-calm voice. He had just recalled the day of the welcome festival when he heard a bunch of girls talking about someone named Luhan and to his opinion back then, they were out of their minds because of that guy.

“Nothing much. Walking him to his class, hand on his shoulder. That’s it.”

So that meant he couldn’t do those things with his boyfriend inside the campus either. The maknae thought before darted his eyes to Luhan, who was still hiding his face with his palm.

“You know what’s their club’s slogan?”

Yixing continued sharing his knowledge, scanned the whole table, patiently waiting for someone answer his question.

“No girl deserves him.”

Everyone turned to the voice’s direction, which was belonged to no one but the youngest male. Luhan got out of his hiding place and blinked several times, couldn’t believe Sehun was aware of it. Although he was sure half of the students of SIA heard about this slogan once but he had no idea his boy friend was one of them.

“How do you know?”

Luhan was not the only one who was surprised by the sudden Mr. I-know-it-all. Jongin placed both his elbows on the table wondering because there was no way he himself was never told about it but his careless friend was.

“From his fans, of course.” Sehun just shrugged, pointed the boy sitting beside him.

The tan skin boy turned aside to his Chinese sunbae and immediately received a nod of confirmation. Then he realized the matter of fact, flapped his hand in the air, chuckling

“But you’re a boy Sehun. You’re safe.”

The joke yet fact actually lightened up the atmosphere with everyone burst into laugh but Sehun couldn’t look on the bright side.

It’s worse!

Of course he was not afraid of his fans. It’s just if they appeared together in public, he didn’t know how they would react toward the Chinese boy. Maybe the older didn’t care about his image but Sehun did. He didn’t want Luhan to suffer what his mothers had been through, especially when the latter used to get a lot of love from people around him. What if they turned their back on him? What if they hurt him?

Sehun felt like it’s his responsibility to protect his boyfriend even if that meant he had to keep a certain distance with the other, he was willing to do it.

“You know what?” Jongin’s voice snapped him out of his thoughts “It’s ‘like idol like fans’”

The new theory again gained full attention. Actually the weirdness of it did. Chanyeol hit his arm, asking for everybody.

“What do you mean?”

The almost maknae grabbed the bottle of cold water on the table, leaned back on his chair comfortably and took a huge gulp, ignored the fact that all eyes were on him right now.

“We always say Luhan’s fans are crazy right? But in fact, I think he is just like them.”

The mention of his name made the older Chinese stirred nervously. He had the feeling that what coming next was not good at all.

“Couldn’t you be more enigmatical?” Chanyeol again hit him at the same spot ten seconds ago.

To prevent being treated like that the third time, the younger boy quickly finished what he had started.

“If I remember clearly, I received a phone call at 6a.m last Sunday from a person who we all know who he is” he lifted his chin up a bit toward the opposite side of the table and continued “He squealed like a girl ‘Sehun likes me Jongin. He confessed to me yesterday. He’s sleeping beside me now. He’s so swe…’ I couldn’t hear the rest of his chatter because I disconnected the phone and went back to sleep.”

Luhan wished there was a hole under his seat for him to jump down and got away from this embarrassment. The stare his boyfriend was giving made him even flushed hard. He scratched his neck awkwardly, tried to explain himself.

“The moment I opened my eyes and saw your face, I couldn’t help feeling like that.” then darted his look to his latest victim “And I had to share my blissful feeling with someone. I called Yixing but you sleepy head didn’t pick up. You have my permission to blame him on this Jongin ah.”

He attempted to act as cute as possible to end the not-so-cool story of himself. Beyond his expectation, Sehun didn’t say anything, silently slid his hand under the table and placed it perfectly on his thigh, gave him a small squeeze while his eyes sent him I’m-crazy-about-you-too-baby kind of message.

They kept sending each other loving look until Yixing, cleared his throat with a cough, once again pointed out his advice.

“So to sum up, you’d better be careful when doing PDA or kissing him in public. Call us if you need back up okay.”

The maknae flashed his strained smile and mumbled ‘thanks’ to his hyung while Luhan, on the other hand, tore out his hair to come up with something that could solve this issue. What was the point to have a boyfriend but you couldn’t show him to the world right? And if anything went wrong between him and Sehun because of this, he swore Yixing would be the first one being hung up outside on New Year’s Eve.