He is rather delighted when he receives news that he got the job. This morning when official shooting begins, Top offers him a ride from the apartment. Zelo stays temporarily at the man’s apartment even if he has a home to go to and Top doesn’t ask a thing about this. He knows the boy enough to be real brothers. Zelo always makes a face when the older man makes a joke about their shared surname and the affinity but Zelo knows Top’s probably the next best thing that has ever happened to him after Yongguk. They’re both protective and caring in their own way, never making him uncomfortable in his own skin but Top could never replace the void after Yongguk disappeared from his life.

As he alights from the car and waves back at Top before entering the company’s building, Zelo walks in oblivious to the pair of eyes trained on him intently.

He almost scoffs out loud at the coincidence if it wasn’t so cruelly ironic. If he had looked through the photographs Youngjae prodded him to, he would have escaped this distasteful inner turmoil. When his assistant bounces in with supposed joyful news of a perfect candidate picked for their publicity, Yongguk had took over the file with a light smile that dimmed out immediately when his eyes found the familiar face under a different glow.

Youngjae was coldly excused because Yongguk couldn’t let anyone else see him in such an awful state. His face must have paled and his hands were tremblin