Jaemi let out an agitated sigh as Hyuk kept his eyes glued to the TV screen. It was Hyuk’s last night in Korea before he had to go back to school, and Jaemi expected him to take her out on a date, but instead, he insisted on watching the latest broadcast of Music Bank because VIXX was nominated for first place. As much as she loved VIXX and wanted them to win, she loved Hyuk more and wanted to go out with him.

                “You know, you could always just find out online if they win or not,” she grumbled just loud enough for Hyuk to hear.

                “But that’s not that same as seeing it happen,” he answered, not taking his gaze off of the screen. Just as Jaemi was about to argue back, the MCs invited all of the artists onto the stage with VIXX and Hyorin standing at the front.

                “It’s them! Look! Jaemi, are you looking?” Hyuk said excitedly while swatting at her thigh to get her attention, which was already on the TV. She smiled and laughed at him, thinking that this actually wasn’t such a bad way to spend their last night together.

                Their scores appeared on the screen and Hyuk let out an excited squeal and squeezed Jaemi’s hand while trying to calculate in his head if their score was higher or not. Luckily for him, the final score immediately followed and showed that VIXX had won.

                “YESSSS!” Hyuk yelled, jumping onto the couch and yelling some more. Jaemi smiled at him and watched as the VIXX members cried over their first win while N gave their winning speech. Seeing all of them overjoyed from their win made her feel so proud of them for all of the hard work they’ve put into their music. She caught a glimpse of Hongbin with a bright smile on his face and she smiled. It was nice to see Hongbin being happy and not trying to impress her.

                After VIXX’s encore performance, Hyuk finally stopped jumping on the couch and plopped down next to Jaemi.

                “Wow, I’m so happy I could kiss somebody right now,” he said seriously, making Jaemi laugh so hard she snorted. Hyuk burst out laughing in response. “Aw, that was so cute! Do it again!”

                “No!” she refused, still laughing uncontrollably at him.

                “Fine, then kiss me, woman!” Hyuk declared, throwing his arms around her to pull her in for a kiss. She happily kissed him with no hesitation. Despite it being three and a half years since they started dating, Hyuk had yet to wrap his mind around the fact that Jaemi liked him as much as he liked her. And every time he remembered that, his heart would skip a beat and make him feel like a little school boy again.

                But that innocent feeling went away when Jaemi let his hand travel under her shirt. He almost forgot how to breathe when he felt Jaemi gently bite down on his lip. His head was spinning, but he loved every bit of it, except for the annoying sound of his phone ringing. He blindly reached out to turn it off, only to be stopped by Jaemi tugging on his hair, as if asking him to just ignore it.

                He let the call go to his voicemail and felt Jaemi smile against his lips. He slowly pushed her down onto the couch, only to be distracted by his phone ringing again. Despite Jaemi’s protests, he decided that it was too annoying and went to turn off his phone. Just as he was about to press the power button, he saw that it was Ken calling and answered the call without thinking.

                “Oh, Ken hyung!” he greeted happily, oblivious to Jaemi scowling at him from behind. “Ah, that was N hyung calling? Haha, I didn’t even know, Jaemi just told me not to bother answering the phone since we were mak—busy. We were just busy. Very very busy,” he explained awkwardly while Jaemi giggled in the background. “Anyway, enough about us. You guys won! Congrats! Yeah, we watched it. Tell N he looks ugly when he cries. Oh really? Like right now? Yeah, yeah, sure. Ok. See you then!”

                Hyuk turned around fast enough to see Jaemi go back to pouting after laughing at his awkwardness, so he knew she wasn’t genuinely mad at him. He sat back down beside her and rested his head on her shoulder.

                “Jaemi, can we go to the bar tonight?” he asked cutely, looking up at her with his puppy eyes.

                “The bar? Which one? Why?” she asked.

                “Uh, Ken said it was called The Villa? He said they were going to get drinks and celebrate their win. Can we go, Jaemi? Please. Pleeeease,” he pleaded with his hands clasped together and lower lip extended out.

                Jaemi smiled and couldn’t help herself from pinching his cheek. “You’re so cute, Hyuk Hyuk. Of course we can go.” She gave him a quick kiss before going to fix her hair and makeup.

                While she was in the bathroom, Hyuk went to change out of his sweat pants. He picked up a pair of jeans off of the floor and inspected them for any noticeable stains, causing some change to fall out of the pockets in the process. He bent down to pick up all the coins and lifted the bed skirt to check if any change had rolled under the bed, and he was surprised to see a white box hidden underneath. He smiled to himself, thinking that it was a surprise gift from Jaemi. He was about to pull it out from underneath when Jaemi walked out of the bathroom. His lightning fast reflexes kicked in and he sat on her bed and whistled casually as if nothing happened. Jaemi gave Hyuk a weird look, but decided to let him be, knowing that he was a rather strange kid.

                The two of them arrived at the bar before the other guys did so they sat down and ordered drinks for themselves. They weren’t alone for long since that bar happened to be the favorite bar of many of Jaemi’s friends.

                “Oh, baby girl! You didn’t tell me you were coming,” Joohyuk greeted excitedly, and noticing Hyuk sitting next to her with his arm around her, Joohyuk smartly added, “with your boyfriend. Hey, I’m Joohyuk and I definitely do not flirt with Jaemi ever, just so you know.”

                Hyuk laughed at him and introduced himself. He smiled and quietly sipped his drink while he listened to Jaemi and Joohyuk talk to each other. He loved the way Jaemi never let go of his hand and glanced at him often while she talked to other guys. It was hard for him to be jealous because he knew that even though Jaemi knew countless models and celebrities, she would pick him over all of them any day and that’s all that mattered. At the end of the day, they were each other’s favorite people and they both knew it.

                “You should probably hurry up and pick your girl. VIXX is going to be here any minute and your chances with any girl once they come goes from slim to absolutely none,” Jaemi teased, making Hyuk nearly choke on his drink from laughing. She smiled at him and gave him a high five.

                Joohyuk scoffed and replied, “Well, I can see why you two are dating.” Jaemi side-hugged Hyuk and stuck her tongue out at Joohyuk. He playfully rolled his eyes, took his drink, and went to find his other friends.

                Soon enough, VIXX arrived and everybody knew it because of all the noise they made. They sat down at a long table and Hyuk and Jaemi went over to join them. The boys made an even bigger ruckus when they saw Hyuk approaching them. N excitedly hugged Hyuk while the rest of them piled on until they were all in one big group hug with Jaemi laughing at them from the side. Hongbin was tempted to pull her into the group hug just so he could hug her, but he didn’t dare with so many people watching.

                They all sat down and ordered beer and many appetizers, at Jaemi’s suggestion.

                “Woah, these are really good. Thanks for ordering them, Jaemi. Do you come here a lot?” N asked politely.

                “Yeah, her friends come to this bar all the time,” Hyuk answered for her, unintentionally making Hongbin jealous. He had made sure to sit as far as possible from the two of them, but he still couldn’t help but take notice of their intertwined hands.

                “Your model friends?” Ravi inquired, earning a slap on the back of the head from Leo.

                Jaemi giggled and nodded her head. “They’re actually sitting over there.” She pointed to the booth full of extremely beautiful girls in the far corner. Hongbin looked over out of curiousity, and did a double take at the girl wearing a beaning over her long, black hair. Although she was surrounded by other stunning girls, she stood out to him for some reason. She looked over at him at that exact moment, making him blush and avert his eyes, embarrassed to have been caught staring.

                “I can introduce you to them, if you want,” she offered. Hongbin shyly looked back up at the girl and saw her still looking at him. Not knowing what else to do, he looked over to Jaemi since she was talking, which was a mistake, since Jaemi was wiping off barbeque sauce that ended up on Hyuk’s face instead of his mouth. He let out a long, tired breath and wished that he could stop feeling like crap every time he was with them.

                "No, no, we’re too busy to date,” N declined on behalf of the eager Ravi and Ken.

                Hongbin was also oddly disappointed, but he thought he was just upset from seeing Hyuk feed Jaemi one of the best pieces of calamari. He bitterly took a bite out of his chicken wing and stared dismally at his plate.

                The seven of them continued to eat and drink while remembering their high school days and sharing stories from their trainee and debut days. As the night wore on, Hongbin found himself laughing at Ken’s crazy antics and even enjoying Hyuk and Jaemi’s stories. He didn’t know if it was from the happiness of their first win, or just all the beer, but he was having a genuinely good time with his friends.

                “One time, Hyuk and I were going to the beach but traffic was really bad, like just terrible,” Jaemi started. “It was like negative ten kilometers per hour, like terrible traffic, but then G.R.8.U. came on the radio and we blasted it and did a full-on duet with the windows rolled down,” she explained while trying to hold in her laugh, unlike Hyuk who was tearing up from laughing so hard. “Hyuk tried to reach Leo’s note, but his voice cracked and it was hilarious!” Hongbin laughed along with everybody, imagining Hyuk trying to sing like Leo.

                Hongbin couldn’t help but notice how animated and lively Jaemi was with Hyuk. Her tired, unimpressed eyes were suddenly not so tired and unimpressed. He noticed every little thing they did for each other when they didn’t think anybody was looking. He noticed how she looked at Hyuk like he was the most precious person in the world. He noticed all of it, and for once, he didn’t care.  

A/N: hi~ sooo I think I'm going to write in a new character since a lot of you don't really like Yeona. I never meant for her to be so annoying, but she ended up coming off that way so I decided to make a new character so little binnie can have a happy ending too :) let me know what you think! thanks for reading<3