I N N E R C I R C L E

PART I

Y O U T H
 

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1.

“We gotta stop doing this.” One day, Mino told Seunghoon. It was a late afternoon, the sun finally burned down the rest of the day in a hidden corner of the sky. Mino was sitting on Seunghoon’s bed, his back facing him, and Seunghoon could feel that the younger one just trembled a little as he raised his arms to put on his shirt.

“Thought you’d never said.” In the end, Seunghoon sighed. He wasn’t quite taken aback at what he heard, but he wasn’t exactly happy either. But isn’t that a fifty percent of every kind of relationship one could ever have with another human being, you either stay together, or you break apart. There is no need for further exploration, he guessed.

“What do you mean you thought I’d never said?” Mino turned around facing him. His voice sounded a little upset, only a little bit. Seunghoon knows Mino, this childish-but-tender kid, no matter how mad he is, he would never raise his voice with anyone. These two hold a total opposite images that they have on screen. Somebody, who was it, probably Tablo of Epik High, mentioned that their high and low rapping voices compliment each other well. On stage, Seunghoon always looks more passionate and lively, his light, cheerful and slightly childish tone combine perfectly with Mino’s laid back, masculine rapping style. Mino’s image on stage would always make people think Mino is the mature one, but he has always been the most gentle kid. Unlike him. “We also compliment each other well, don’t you think?” – Mino once said in one of those chances when both of them