Rubbing his stinging eyes, Mir just kept walking like a living dead towards his next schedule. Crying before sleep was a really bad idea. Now he had a red and puffy eyes and he felt dizzy for the whole day already. Sniffing a bit,he pulled his jacket so it wrapped around him better to provide him warmth. "Why is it so cold today?" He commented, lips quivering a bit.

"This is the last for today." Kyungho said and blinked when he looked over to the MBLAQ maknae. "It's not cold today." He muttered to himself under his breath as he studied Mir's face. "Cheolyong-ah." He called and Mir just hummed as reply while he got his make up done for a magazine photoshoot. "Are you sick?"

"Huh? What are you talking about, hyung? I don't think so."

Kyungho would have felt Mir's forehead by himself to confirm his suspicion, but Mir was getting his make up done and they were already late to this schedule in the first place. He had to make sure Mir wasn't sick after this photoshoot end instead.

"Stop rubbing your eyes. You'll mess the eye make-up." The make up artist nagged.

"Opps. Sorry, forgot."

"You look like a mess." The make-up artist commented while shaking his head and clicking his tongue.

"Yeah... I feel like ." Mir commented.

"Cheolyong!" Kyungho almost squeaked when he heard the maknae using vulgar words. This was unusual. Not that he never heard Mir swearing. The maknae came up straight from Jansung after all. He grew up while talking freely including curse words. But, the rapper never let it loose when he was with someone older which included him and the staffs. Manner. Mir was never one to forget his manner.

"Huh?" Mir turned and looked innocently towards Kyungho, blinking his wide eyes a few times. Kyungho noticed the empty stare of Mir's brown orbs. Now, he was sure even without checking the maknae. Mir wasn't focusing on anything. He didn't even think before he spoke. Mir was sick. Probably a nasty flu.

The MBLAQ manager took his backpack and rummaged through all kinds of things in his bag until he got out a tablet of medicine. "Cheolyong, take this first." He handed two pills and a bottle of mineral water for the rapper.

"But, I'm not sick?" The rapper said monotonously.

"You are."

"I'm not."

"You are."

"No!"

"Yes, you are. Take this pills or I'll shove them down your throat." Kyungho stared at Mir in expecting look as he kept holding out the pills near to Mir's face.

Mir looked blank as he stared absentmindedly at his manager. He couldn't really make his brain to work right at this moment, so he just took the pills and swallowed them so Kyungho would just stop pestering him about it.

"Good boy." Kyungho cooed with playful smile and chuckled when he got a weird stare from the make-up artist. "Let's just finish this and you can rest." He smiled as Mir nodded weakly. Let's just hope, Mir's fever didn't get worse.

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Sanghyun fixed his jacket while he paced around the empty hallway. He heard Mir was having a photoshoot in this studio and it would be the last schedule of the MBLAQ maknae for today. He decided by himself to pick up the maknae to have lunch with him and Joon after receiving no reply to his texts from the maknae.

"Sanghyun-ah." 

Sanghyun turned and bowed politely when he saw MBLAQ manager was making way towards him. Standing up straight, he smiled as he saw Mir following close behind Kyungho while yawning. As Kyungho reached him, the manager smiled kindly at Sanghyun and patted the man's shoulder. "Are you here for Cheolyong?" He asked.

"Ye, hyungnim. Cheolyong? Why are your eyes so red?" Sanghyun asked when he got a good look on the MBLAQ maknae who was looking at him with no expression. He reached out to run his finger on the flesh under Mir's eyes, but the younger flinched away, looking uncomfortable. Mir looked at him as if the younger couldn't recognize him. Somehow. "Did you get no sleep last night?"

"Not that. Are you going to take him out?" Kyungho asked when Mir just stick to his silence.

"De. I thought of having lunch with him."

Kyungho scratched his nape as he smiled guiltily. "Not today, I guess." He said. "Don't get me wrong." He added quickly as Sanghyun was throwing him sad gaze. "Cheolyong isn't-"

"What are you doing here?" 

The three men looked towards the source of that voice and the one that was most shocked of all was Sanghyun. It would be Mir who would be thrown unto panic if not for he was sick and his brain couldn't really process anything around him. "H-hyung." Sanghyun breathed out.

GO stomped towards the three men and his eyes flickered back and forth between Sanghyun and Mir. Everytime his eyes locked with Sanghyun, he realized the former member of MBLAQ was looking down on the ground, unable to hold the gaze between them.

"What are you doing here?" Kyungho asked to break the awkward silence.He was quite flustered at the current situation. GO's appearance wasn't in his calculation. So did Sanghyun. But both of them having to meet each other... He sighed. This was way out of his calculation. "Byunghee. Maybe you shou-"

"I'm here because I'm worried about Cheolyong. He has been acting strange last night." GO paused as he saw how Sanghyun was taking Mir's hand into his, subtly pulling the youngest to stand behind him as if he could hide Mir there. Sanghyun looked like he was afraid GO would just grabbed Mir and took the maknae away. What did all this mean? Sighing, he shook his head. "I shouldn't be here." GO gave one last glance to Mir before he turned to walk away, but he was stopped by a hand on his wrist.

"Hyung..." A timid voice called out. "I... I..." Sanghyun swore to himself innertly for being unable to form any suiting words right at this moment. Well... He was never really one that good with words. He was never one that could express his feelings with words. It was always hard for him. Even now.

Byunghee turned and his eyes fall on the hand that was holding his wrist before his orbs flickered towards Sanghyun who was looking at him hesitantly. "Let's just leave this here for today." GO voiced out and watched as Sanghyun's hand dropped away weakly from him and the younger took a step backward, looking like he was about to cry. But GO was just being honest. He didn't want to deal with any of this yet.

This... This was their first meet after all those long months... Yet GO didn't want to see Sanghyun even for a minute more. The older was obviously trying to get away as soon as he could. Was he that much of an eyesore to the older? Suddenly he felt so small, so weak. His shoulders slumped and his head automatically hung low.

"Hyung?" GO was stopped yet again when this time, the maknae called out for him. The maknae looked tiredly in between the three men in front of him before he narrowed his eyes confusedly. "Wasso?" He said, looking lost and something in his eyes obviously showed the other wasn't focusing on his surrounding.

GO cocked one of his brows before he turned towards the manager. "What's wrong with him?"

Kyungho shook his head weakly with a sigh. "He has fever."

GO was about to jump on the maknae and felt the maknae's temperature by himself when he was frozen on his spot as Sanghyun was a step ahead of him. Sanghyun cupped Mir's cheeks and felt the boy's temperature while Mir was grumbling some incoherent words, hands flailing to stop Sanghyun.

Sanghyun inhaled a sharp breath. "You're burning!" He exclaimed. "You must have caught this from Joon hyung that last time."

GO who was hearing from the side, snapped his head towards Sanghyun and took a step forward. "T-that last time? He... He has been seeing you and Joon?" He asked slowly. Now that he was figuring things out, he narrowed his eyes and studied Sanghyun's change in expression. He was right. He guessed it right. His maknae had been meeting those two behind him. It was written all over Sanghyun's face.

Sanghyun bit his tongue when he just realized what had just escaped his lips. He cursed in his head. Why would he had such a loose lips! Mir would be mad at him for letting the secret out. GO would be... 

Squeezing close his eyes tightly, he was expecting himself being yelled at, but nothing of that sort came. He only opened his eyes one by one when he felt Mir was stepping away from his hold. "H-hyung." He called out when all he could see was both Mir's and GO's back on him, walking away. He was about to follow the duo when he felt a hand squeezed his shoulder, stopping him.

"Let just leave it at this for today." Kyungho said with a small smile. Sanghyun looked back and forth from the leaving duo and the MBLAQ manager before he finally nodded dejectedly. Maybe it was really better not to push this any further. All he could hope was that GO wouldn't get mad at Mir for secretly meeting him. And he was hoping with all his heart so Mir wouldn't change back to the bitter Mir that hated him and Joon just because of GO. After all that had happened, he just didn't want to lose his dongsaeng again. He just... Didn't want to go through the same pain again. Pain of longing...