“Aaaand CUT!  That’s it; we got it!”  The director cried happily, throwing his hat up joyously.  EXO-M collapsed, exhausted on the sound stage while EXO-K looked up bleary eyed from sleeping against the wall.  It was around 6 o’clock at night and since they had been there from 5am, everyone was rather sleepy.  They had done numerous takes with all the guys, including dozens of re-takes and solo shots, so they all hoped they wouldn’t have to do anymore.

Liz and Chanyeol had long since returned, and both were curled up in a corner, drowsily watching the goings-on on the sound stage.  At the proud exclamation of completion Liz stood, stifling a large yawn as she wandered over to the boys of EXO-M who were panting on the ground.  “Great job guys, everyone.  I’m so proud of you all, and I’m so sorry I couldn’t be around more to help you rehearse.  You guys definitely deserve dinner and movies tonight.  No rehearsal tomorrow either, so we can all have a good time tonight.”  She couldn’t help but chuckle as Kris held his hand out to her, silently pleading for her to help him stand.  “Come on, you dork.  Stand up.” 

Once all the EXO-M boys were back on their feet, she gestured for them to go back to the makeup room to have Cat assist in makeup removal.  “EXO-K, you guys go get changed back into your normal clothes; we’ll put you in makeup removal once M is all done, okay?”

Slowly the guys made their way to Cat’s makeup studio, all of them chuckling when they saw Cat still curled up on a chair, sleeping deeply.  Carefully Tao crept up, resting his hands lightly on her forearm as to not startle her.  “Cat-ah… Cat-ah!  Wake up; we need your help.”

Grumbling she nodded, pulling herself from sleep and a rather good dream.  “Okay, okay… Everyone have a seat and push your hair back… I’ll get you cleaned up.”  Yawning she grabbed her makeup remover, cotton balls and hot towel warmer and stood in front of Tao.  Unable to help herself she laughed as she saw how tired the guys were, and how eager they were to be clean again.  “How’d everything go?”  She inquired as she began to carefully clean the makeup from around Tao’s face, careful to not get any remover in his eyes or mouth.

“It went great!  Although we’re all very tired, and very hungry.”  Xiumin chirped sleepily, curled up on his chair with his knees to his chin. 

“Aish, when are you not hungry?”  Laughing she shook her head, turning and handing Tao a hot towel.  “Press this to your face, okay?  If it’s too hot just wait a minute; don’t want to burn yourself.”  Stepping over to Xiumin she did the same process, chuckling as he melted into her hand.  “Feel good?”

Grinning he nodded, sighing happily as he buried his face in his own warm towel.  “Definitely.  It’s cold back here!”

“Well after you’ve been in front of hot lights forever, anywhere seems cold.”  Kris muttered, eagerly leaning forward as Cat stepped near. 

“Your makeup seemed to hold, so I’m happy about that.  Make sure you all wash your faces before you go to bed; especially since you’re all undoubtedly going to stuff your faces.  Otherwise you will break out in the worst way.”  Handing another towel to Kris, she finished up the other three members, all of which were dozing in her chairs and barely moved as she cleaned their faces.  “Alright, you’re all done.  I’m assuming you still need to go back to wardrobe, yea?  Could you send in the rest of the guys?”

Within moments M had been replaced by K, who were sitting there just as sleepy, though slightly more alert since they had been able to doze for an hour or so.  As she removed their makeup they chattered excitedly about what they were going to eat, what movies they’d watch and so on, allowing Cat to move amongst them quietly. 

Each time she finished one, they thanked her, hopped up and romped out of the room, eager to figure out what they were going to order.  Eventually she was left with only Chanyeol and Sehun, both of whom were smiling at her happily.  “Why are you two looking so perky?   Did you get an extra shot of espresso or something?”

“Nah.  Just excited to watch movies with you guys tonight.”  Chanyeol grinned, closing his eyes as she began to wipe the makeup from his face.  “Though Sehun-…”

“Shut it, hyung!”  Sehun pleaded, punching him lightly in the arm as he laughed. 

“Channie, why do you pick on him so much?”  She chuckled, shaking her head as she finished wiping him down and reaching for a towel.

“He’s the maknae!  I’m supposed to!”  Chanyeol protested, his eyes screwed shut tightly.  Huffing, she threw the hot towel at his face, laughing as he cried out in shock.  “Sehun!  Control your woman!”

“Nah, I think she’s doing just fine.”  Sehun replied drily, winking at Cat sneakily.  As she leaned down to wipe his face, he took advantage of the fact that Chanyeol was preoccupied and leaned forward, pecking her quickly on the mouth.  “Are you hungry for anything in specific?”

Blushing, she shook her head, shrugging slightly.  “Close your eyes.  No, not really.  I’m not too picky.  I’m sure you’ll have enough food for any palette to be satisfied.”  She grinned at him as he stuck his tongue out at her.   “Are you guys almost ready to go?  Or is there anything else you need to do?”

“Nope, we’re all done.”  Chanyeol replied, handing back the now cool towel as Sehun used his own.  “We just have to pile in and go back to SM!  Are you guys coming back with us?”

“Well yea.  We’re moving in, you goof.  Of course we’re coming back.”  She giggled, shaking her head.  “Well let’s go; we gotta get moving if we want to eat before everyone falls asleep.”  Chanyeol leapt to his feet and ran out of the room, screaming something about wanting pork belly immediately.

Chuckling, Cat rolled her eyes and turned around to pack up her things.  Before she knew it Sehun’s arms were around her waist, breathing in the smell of her hair.  “Hello, Cat-ah…”

“Hiiii, Sehuuuuun.”   She grinned, continuing to pack up her stuff into her duffle bag, sliding the used brushes into a plastic bag to wash later.  “Can I help you?”

“Are we going to finally tell them tonight?  Am I going to be able to kiss you in front of them?”  He whined, nuzzling into the crook of her neck, tickling her skin with his breath.   “It’s not faiiiiir… Chanyeol gets to kiss Liz!”

“That’s because Chanyeol isn’t the maknae.  He isn’t giving them a chance to ridicule them for the rest of his life.”  She turned in his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck and smiling gently, brushing his hair from in front of his eyes.  “…And you look silly in that headband.”

Cursing, he pulled it from his head and threw it at her duffle bag, pouting playfully.  “If you don’t want to tell them tonight I understand, but you just know that I’ll find ways to get you alone.”  Grinning lasviciously, he waggled his eyebrows at her as he his lip.  “And that’s a promise.”

“Oh I don’t doubt that, Sehunnie…  At all.”  She murmured, feeling her heart race as she heard the husky tone of his voice, sounding very familiar to the sound that he had when he had pinned her against the wall.  “I’m just nervous.”

“…I like it when you’re nervous.”  He all but growled, leaning in and nipping at her neck with his teeth lightly, causing her to shiver violently.  “But we’ll take it slow, I promise.  I won’t tell them if you don’t want me to.”

Sighing, more relieved than she wanted to let on, she smiled and nodded, nuzzling into his chest and hearing his heart beat.  “Thank you, Sehunnie.”  Pulling away from him, she scooped up her bag from the floor, zipping it shut.  “But you must be starving; let’s feed you, hm?”

Immediately he stole the bag from her, slinging it over his own shoulder and taking her hand in his.  “I like the way you think!”  He crowed, leading her from the makeup room and out to the van; luckily all the fans had gone home already so there was no chance of them being seen together.  Once they all piled in they set off for SM, both vans a twitter of excitement over the prospect of food.

Soon enough they arrived back at the dorms, the guys practically running from the vans inside, all pulling out phones to order their favorite foods.  “We’re going to run to our room first; should we meet you at your dorm?”  Liz called to their retreating backs, laughing as only D.O. stopped to nod at them, grinning as he turned and raced after the members.

“Weirdos.”  Liz muttered, shaking her head as she and Cat got into the elevator, wearily pressing the button to their floor.  Both girls stood in sleepy silence and walked equally as quietly to their room.  Once inside they dropped their stuff, collapsing on the large cushions on the floor.  “Ugh… so tired.” 

“You’re telling me.  I’m beat.”  Cat groaned, stretching out onto the cushion and sighing.  “At least we’re not doing anything super taxing tonight; food and movies.  Though with the guys, who knows.”

“Chanyeol and I had !”  Liz blurted, covering with her hands and clenching her eyes shut.

Cat paused, then rolled onto her stomach, staring at her sister.  “What?!?!  When?!”

“At the studio… we were fighting, then… ugh.  Caaaaaat… what am I going to do?!”  Liz whined, covering her face and kicking her feet in a mock tantrum.

Cat burst into laughter as she watched Liz flail about, burying her face into the pillow.  “When I told you to go make up, I didn’t mean that!  Jeez.  Talk about taking things to the extreme, Lizzy.”  Seeing the shock on Liz’s face caused her to burst into laughter again as she pushed herself up to a seated position.  “I’m kidding, I’m kidding.  I guess the only question here would be… was it fun?”

“…Freaking… phenomenal.  Oh my god.  Whoda’ thought that gawky awkward boy would be such a vicious creature!”  She breathed, her skin prickling at the memory.  “God Cat, I just don’t know what happened.  One minute we’re fighting, then the next minute we’re literally against the wall!!”

“I don’t need details!”  Cat cried, leaping to her feet and running down the hallway toward her room. 

“You’d tell me if it happened to you!”  Liz hollered back at her, remaining on the cushion and staring at the ceiling. 

After a few minutes Cat returned, laughing as she read her phone.  “The boys have outdone themselves.  Tao just texted me a picture of them all sitting outside, grilling what seems to be the bellies of like, twenty pigs.  Do they ever stop eating?!”  Shoving her phone in her pocket, she looked at her sister who was still lying on the floor.  “Are you coming?  Or are you still languishing in the post- glowww?”  She mocked, snickering. 

“Yaaaa!!! You’ll be the same once you and Sehun finally seal the deal.  So shuddap.”  She grumbled, crawling up to a standing position and making sure she had her phone and keys.  “Let’s go, I guess.  Otherwise they’ll be no food left over for us!  And don’t you dare say anything to anyone!!”  She hissed, pointing at her menacingly.

“Fiiiiine… I’ll be good.”  Cat muttered, rolling her eyes as she followed her sister outside and back to the elevator.  Once outside, they were greeted by the savory smell of crispy pork, kimchi, rice, and a large pot of hot soup.  “Where’d you get all this?!”

“We had most of it delivered from a local restaurant, but the pork we ordered from the butcher down the street.  We like to cook it on our own.”  D.O. chirped, hovering over the grill and carefully flipping the meat.  Chanyeol was standing at the picnic table spooning out bowls of rice, while Kris and Tao were carefully ladling out soup.   The rest of the guys were currently playing rock-paper-scissors to see who could eat first, all crying protests as they thought someone else had cheated.

Cat hovered over the guys, watching their game with an amused expression.  “Hey you know what?  I know who won.”

“…Okay… who?” Luhan questioned, looking up at her with a curious expression.

“Me!”  She cried, turning and running toward the picnic table, scooping up a bowl of soup and rice and curling around it, chopsticks in hand.  The guys cried out in protest, and Sehun was laughing so hard he was nearly crying as the other guys slapped him playfully.

“Of course the maknae would date someone exactly like him!”  Chen howled, falling to the ground in mock despair.

“Hey, I never said we were dating.”  Cat mumbled around a mouthful of rice, causing the guys to cackle as they stood to get their own food.  “What?!”

“Yea, right Cat.  Like we’re so oblivious to see how crazy you two are about each other.”  Suho grinned, nudging her with his foot as he stood next to her.  “You’re constantly together, all cuddly and hand-hold-y.  You might not have the title, but you’re definitely dating.”

Looking up at him, she grinned, shrugging.  “Whatever you say, hyung.”   Looking over at Sehun she winked, laughing as he shook his head in disbelief.

Liz chuckled as she walked over to Chanyeol, who was holding a bowl of rice out to her, smirking playfully.  Shaking her head slightly, she pursed her lips hoping he’d remain quiet about their activities earlier.   She walked down to Cat and sat down on the ground next to her, absently eating her rice.  “Wasn’t Nana supposed to be here?”

“Yea, she’s on her way.  I texted her and told her we were done, so she made arrangements to get here.  She sounded like she was half asleep, hah!”  Cat giggled, poking the rice grains around her bowl with her chopsticks.  “But she certainly sounded excited to be around the guys, and not as my shadow this time.”  Waggling her eye brows, she looked at Liz through the corner of her eyes.

Grinning, Liz nodded, looking up at Tao who was currently doubling over in laughter as Kris tried to fight him.  “She certainly seems crazy about him.”

“And he definitely likes her, for sure.   Actually, she seems to have a couple admirers amongst our ranks.”  Cat smirked, surveying the guys as they romped around the grounds.  “I… hear things.”

“More like Sehun tells you everything and anything he hears.”  Liz challenged, smirking playfully as Cat flushed crimson and suddenly became very interested in her food.  “Why don’t you just let them call you his girlfriend?”

“I don’t know…  I just… It feels like we’re moving too fast.”  Cat whispered quietly, and then chuckled as Cat scoffed at her.  “Well, clearly not as fast as you but hey; fast for me.  My track record hasn’t been that great, you know?

“Ya!  You guys have to stop speaking in English; not fair!”  Luhan cried, sitting on the picnic table and pouting.  He had obviously been staring at them trying to figure out what they were saying, but were speaking too low and too quick for him to catch it.

Liz snickered at Luhan, shaking her head. "Well, maybe we did that on purpose so a certain little snoop can't overhear the stuff we say." Grinning, she couldn't help but laugh as he grumbled into his bowl of rice.

"Hey everyone! Sorry I'm late!" Nana cried, running toward them, panting. "I had a hard time waking up from my nap." She chuckled, shrugging and dropping her bag down on the ground beside the girls.

"There's food on the table. Kyungsoo is almost done with the pork, but there's no guarantee you'll get it any so... I recommend filling up on rice, kimchi and soup." Cat chuckled, pointing toward the table. "And I recommend doing so quickly while they're all distracted by the pork."

Nana grinned and nodded, walking toward the table and grabbing a bowl of rice and a pair of chopsticks. "Hello Luhan!" She grinned at the boy sitting next to her, sitting on the table next to him.

"Hey, Nana-ah! How are things?" He replied, scooping a piece of kimchi into his mouth.

"Pretty good! Though I couldn't say the same for that kimchi that's hanging out of your mouth..." She murmured, reaching forward and pushing the kimchi back at his face wit her forefinger.

He laughed and sighed, flushing as he grabbed a napkin to wipe his face. "Thanks. I guess I got carried away. It's just so good!" He grinned teasingly. "Did you have fun at the filming?"

"From what I was able to see, yea! You guys are all so talented." She grinned, scooping a bite of rice into and snorting when he puffed his chest out proudly. "Aishhh, don't get a big head now!"

"I can't get a big head! I've got big talent!" He crowed, laughing enthusiastically.

"What are you yelling about, Luhan-hyung?!" Tao asked, walking over to the table and smiling at Nana. "Hello Nana-ah. Nice to see you again. Is Luhan bothering you?"

"Nah, he's fine. Just thinking he's god's gift to the musical world." She chuckled, laughing as Tao rolled his eyes. "I know, right? He wishes."

"Aishhh!! Don't be mean, Nana-ah!" Luhan simpered, pouting at her over his rice bowl. "Caaaaat-ahhhhh.... They're picking on me!" He cried to the younger girl who was still sitting cross legged on the grass.

Pausing, she raised her eyebrow as she went to stand. "...And I care, why?" She smirked, laughing as Tao hissed appreciatively.

"Sehunnnnnn, restrain your lady!" Luhan whimpered, walking over and putting his forehead on his shoulder. "She's not playing nice."

"Something tells me that Sehun would like that!" Tao smirked, folding his arms over his chest. "What do you think, Nana-ah?"

Nana laughed, covering with her hand as she snorted. "Well I can't really say. I don't know them very well." She said shyly, shrugging.

"Oh feel free, Nana. Cat deserves it." Liz smirked, looking at her now sulking sister. "She's too ashamed to admit that she and Sehun are in a relationship, so in my opinion she deserves alllll the annoying statements."

"Oh, really? You want to play that game, Liz?" Cat said warningly, raising her eyebrow at her sister as she walked over to the picnic table, placing her bowl down in the wash basin. Sehun walked over and slid his arm around her waist and smiled at her, brushing his thumb on her cheek.

"Calm down, Cat-ah. It's alright. Just let them whine." He murmured, and glared at Liz.

Cat grinned, then turned around and stared at her sister again. "And let's just say that I have some definite ammo against my precious, darling sister." She smirked evilly, then laughed as Sehun poked her cheek.

"Pork is done!" Kyungsoo crowed from the grill, holding up the platter of sizzling meat with a proud smirk on his face. "Come and get it!"

The guys surrounded him immediately, grabbing plenty of pieces onto their plates and biting into the flesh excitedly. Chanyeol and Sehun walked over to Cat and Liz, pushing some pieces onto their perspective plates. Tao walked over to Nana and bit his lip, smiling down at her. "Would you like some...?"

"Oh, actually Luhan gave me some of his. Thank you though!" She grinned at him, chewing on an especially crispy piece. "This is good D.O.-hyung! Thank you!"

Cat frowned when she saw Tao's face fell, walking over to her and sitting on the grass beside her. She looked over at him worriedly, but didn't ask since Nana was so close. Wordless she reached over and rested her hand on his knee for a moment, then went back to eat, smiling softly at him.

They all chewed quietly, occasionally some cries of protest arising as someone stole someone else's food from their plates. Eventually the food ran out, and Sehun hopped up importantly. "Movie time?!"

Cat laughed at his audacity, then laughed even harder as all the guys clapped appreciatively. Without much more of a word they all hopped up and raced toward the dorm excitedly. Sehun lagged behind then gently grabbed her hand, smiling at her expectantly. "Are we... going to?" He murmured to her quietly, causing her to breathe in deeply then nodded. It was now or never!