Hands on the clock moved around in a circular motion while the hours of another training day came to a close. Packing up your emptied water bottles and empty packages of snacks that tried to keep your energy up through the long hours of practice, sifting through your backpack, you found your phone and brought the screen to life as the notifications at the top of the screen instantly overwhelmed you.

"See you tomorrow ______~" Allie, one of your band members, cooed to you

"A-Ah, y-yeah see you tomorrow" You cooed back, lifting your eyes slightly from the lit screen in your hands.

"Are you coming back to the dorm later?" Your leader, Minnie, questioned while she stood up and lifted her bag over her shoulder.

"W-We-" You stuttered slightly before you were cut off

"Remember she has a personal practice with Yannie" Another one of your members, Jade, reminded your leader in disgust.

"Have fun with the practice then" Minnie linked arms with Jade before the two of them.

"I will" You whispered to yourself as your eyes returned to the screen.

"Don’t take Jade’s words to heart. She has a crush on Yanu, but you two look cute together" Chloe, the maknae smiled at you before she ruffled your hair a little as she made her leave.

Finding yourself all alone in the dim practice room, you scooted over to the wall and rested against it while wasting a little time before you had to leave to go to the Topp Dogg’s practice room that was only a few doors down from yours. 

Gathering your things, you slowly stood up as you let out a soft moan as your tired muscled ached from the everyday movements. Slowly making your way down the hallway filled with doors, you turned around the corner and knocked on the first door to your right. With a muffled ‘come in’ you slid your hand around the clean, modern handle and pushed open the light colored door.

”_______, it’s you” Yano smiled and sat up a little taller against the black leather couch.

"Who else would it be?" You questioned with a smile as you walked through the door and closed it quietly behind you.

"Maybe an annoying member" He hummed gathering some of his things from the couch so you would have a place to sit next to him.

"Like Jade?" You muttered under your breath while slipping your backpack off of your shoulder and resting it against the couch before you sat in the open seat next to him.

"Yeah, she is the most annoying member in your group… although that is another that I can’t really stand either" Yano chuckled under his breath as he fiddled with his notebook to show you what he had been working on.

"Oh really? Who is that?" You questioned pulling out your own notebook and ideas of your own.

"One of your members" He vaguely answered while his heart started to beat faster against his ribs knowing that it was the girl that it was sitting right next to him.

Nodding your head gently, you flipped to your page of ideas as you clicked the back of your pen slightly while biting your bottom lip as silence started to grow between the two of you.

"So what have you come up with for the collab?" You questioned changing the subject off of your band mates to the task at hand.

"O-Oh… I was thinking something along the lines of like a love song" He rose his hand slowly and scratched the back of his neck as his eyes lifted to see your reaction.

"Hrmmm…" You tapped the end of your pen against your pink lips as Yano could hardly keep his heart from leaping out of his chest from the simple action that you made look so beautiful. "Like a girls perspective then a boys?"

"Y-Yeah" He nodded his head while a smile grew on his lips allowing his eyes to drop down to his paper as his fingers fiddled with the pencil between them.

"That is not bad" You looked off into the distance before you wrote something down on your paper.

"Did I give you an idea?" He questioned leaning over to try and catch a glimpse of what you were writing

"Mhmmm" You hummed as your hand furiously wrote down your idea before it faded, within an instant your eyes lifted and your hand stopped writing mid-sentence as you looked over at Yano.

"What’s wrong?" He questioned seeing the obvious worry behind your eyes.

"How are we going to write a love song if we don’t know what love is?" You bit your bottom lip gently knowing that you have only had a few crushes in the past however you couldn’t classify them as "falling in love".

"I think I have a pretty good idea" He whispers softly as his eyes slowly lifted and moved over your face seeing your bare face and the little strands of hair fallen from your once perfect hairdo.

"Are you in love with someone?" You probed, turning your head slightly to see his eyes on you.

"I think so" He whispered softly as his eyes caught yours and held them lovingly allowing the two of you to peer into each others eyes.

"W-We could go with that idea… I might have to improvise a little with those feelings then" You pulled your eyes away from his a few minutes later as he cleared his throat quietly and nodded.

"Take all of the time you need" He sat back and watched you as you reclined into the couch and pulled your legs up onto the black leather.

"I can work on the lyrics a little" You offered

"Sure~ I can work on the melody then" He stood up and sat behind the little keyboard that sat in the corner of the room.

Staring down at the ivory and ebony keys, his shaking hands gently rested on the cool keys after turning on the keyboard. Yano’s eyes continued to stay on you as you stretched out on the couch a little while your hand wrote line after line. Playing a few notes and chords, he watched you as his fingers just started to play what his heart was feeling.

"Wow that sounds really nice" You complimented, rubbing your hand slightly you turned your eyes to him as you caught Yano’s eyes on you once again. dropping his eyes instantly, blush filled his cheeks before his hands landed in his lap as his fingers played with his rings around his fingers.

"Thanks, how are the lyrics coming?" He stood up and moved over beside you seeing that a few hours had passed already.

"Not too bad, read them and see what you think" You passed your notebook over to him as he took it into his hands with care. His eyes slowly moved over your fluid handwriting, falling in love with another thing that belonged to you.

"I never knew you could write like this" He lifted his eyes to meet with yours again.

"So… you like it?" You questioned shifting a little

"I love them~" He breathed in admiration, a breathy chuckle left your lips.

"They aren’t good enough for you to love them" You pushed his shoulder a little.

"Why not?" He questioned with a genuine smile pulling on his lips as he poked your side causing you to squeal.

"You can’t love something that isn’t perfect" You protested lightly as he shook hie head and started to tickle you.

"Well I think it is perfect" He tickled you more, wiggling under his grip you grabbed his hands and tried to push him away without any luck. With your lungs burning for air, he heard your silent cries for him to stop tickling you.

"It still isn’t perfect" You replied between labored breaths as you tried to breath normally again.

"It has to be perfect since I came from you and you are perfect to me" He confessed, feeling his heart skip a beat, the breath from his lungs quickly left as all he could do now was to watch your expressions.

"Yano, we talked about this, we can’t be together" You turned the happy, light mood into a heavy, serious one.

"Just because you are older than me doesn’t mean anything, I can still love you and you love me" He told you.

Watching his kind brown eyes try to read yours, you closed them and let out a deep breath giving yourself time to gather your thoughts. 

"It wouldn’t work" You whispered as your eyes opened to his still locked with yours more kind and loving than ever before.

"We wouldn’t know unless we tried" He lifted his hand and brushed your cheek gently with the backs of his fingertips.

"Let’s just finish the song" You sat up and broke the moment as you felt your warm cheeks with your own hands.

"I am going to get a drink, would you like one?" He questioned, standing up from the couch

"No thanks" You shook your head along with your soft words, keeping your head down you watched his shoes pad across the carpet of the break room to the door. Hearing the door click closed you ruffled your hair as you knew that you liked him too but you had to face reality.

He was just too young for you

Days passed while the two of you continued to work on the conjoined song together as it came together almost seamlessly. One day as you were just about to head over to the lounge, your phone buzzed with a new message. Stopping in your tracks, you opened the message seeing it was from Yano, reading it slowly, you reread the message over and over again just to make sure you were reading it right.

Meet me in Room 105 I have something I want to show you -Yano

Pushing open the door, you read the numbers on the doors with anticipation of what was behind them. Finding room 105 you stopped in your tracks and felt your heart beating wildly in your chest, placing your hand on your chest you took a few deep breaths to try and calm yourself down but before you could calm down you found yourself pushing open the door.

Seeing all of the Topp Dogg boys standing in front of you, you smiled and wondered to yourself what you were so worried about.

"Hey guys~ Long time no see" You smiled as you stepped inside. Scanning their faces you knew something was up with their lip biting to hide their smiles as they shifted nervously as they stood in front of you. Yet you didn’t see one member in particular standing in line, Yano.

Suddenly music started to fade into the room as you turned to see Yano dressed up and standing beside a table for two with two candles on it and a rose between the two plates of food. Words started to overlap the melody and the music as his voice was beautiful and strong, yet you could tell he was a little nervous. A smile formed on your lips as you nodded to him to give him confidence that you were enjoying his song. His smile joined yours as the members turned around and slowly stepped back and rested against the furthest wall as he sang the song that you two had been working on for the past few months.

Hearing the song fade out again, he smiled and bowed a little to you as you couldn’t help but clap happily at him.

"Yano that was beautiful! You even finished the song!" You smiled as you bounced on your feet a little in excitement

"I couldn’t have done it without you" He smiled and moved closer to you with a smile pulling from one ear to the other.

"Is this what the table for two is for to? To celebrate our song?" You questioned with widened eyes.

"Not quite" He smiled and slowly slipped his hand around yours, feeling his shaky but gentle touch, your eyes dropped down to his hand holding yours. "I wanted to ask you if I could have a chance to make you happy. I just want to chance our feelings and see if they take us anywhere"

"But our age…" You whispered slightly shifting in your feet a little unsure of how to answer him.

"Age is just a number, if it doesn’t work out then it doesn’t but I just want to ask you out on one date. Will you grant me one date?" He proposed, your heart screamed yes as your mind slowly began to agree with the feeling in your gut.

"One date~" You nodded your head and smiled as your hand slowly wrapped around his and held his a little tighter in yours. Walking over to the table, he pulled out your chair and let you sit first allowing the members to make their quiet exit leaving the two of you alone for your first date.