Taemin woke up the next morning in pain. From the strain in his neck to his bruised eye he was in extreme discomfort and to top it all off he had a tune imbedded into his brain yet he had no idea where it came from. It wasn't an unpleasant tune, on the contrary it was quite beautiful but it still frustrated him to no end. 

By the time he woke up it was already mid day and Jinki had since left the dorm however Tiffany, the head girl, was hovering over him in concern. "Your eye is starting to turn purple, do you want me to heal it?" He waved her off rather impolitely and borrowed some of his brothers clothes before leaving.

 

He drafted a list of what he had to do that day in his mind and the first task was to find Krystal and Kai. He raced to the Slytherin common room and expected to see his friends draped across the furniture but was greeted by his fellow house mates gawking at him. He sighed in frustration and trudged up to his own dorm where his best friends lazily lay across Kai's bed, they stayed that way for a moment; neither noticing Taemin's presence until he dumped himself on the bed next to them in a huff.

Krystal shot up immediately while Kai took his time pulling himself into sitting position. The pair stared at Taemin with bored expressions as if they were expecting him to speak first and finally Kai broke the silence "so what's up? Heard about you and Jjong" "does everyone know?" 

Kai scratched the back of his head and laid back down "not really, Jinki told us what happened, we would've found you but Kry and I thought you'd go looking for Jjong before you'd look for us" 

 

Taemin laid down on his own bed and placed his hands on his face, he hissed at the contact it made with his eye. "Have you seen Jonghyun?" He asked and Krystal nodded but then spoke when she realised Taemin wasn't looking at her "we saw him this morning, he was by himself at first and we wanted to keep him company but then Kibum showed up with Choi and he chased us off, Choi had this whole big apology and Jonghyun forgave him just like that" she even snapped her fingers for emphasis.

"If it makes you feel better I heard from Amber who heard from Jongdae who saw Choi being sent to the hospital wing at like two in the morning" she stood up and leaned over Taemin with a smile on her face, Taemin laughed at that and didn't feel guilty what so ever "that actually does make me feel better but he probably doesn't look like though" Taemin said referring to his black eye, exhausted expression and his messier than usual hair.

 

"I like it" Krystal said, fluffing his wavy blonde locks even more. Kai hummed in approval and joined Krystal by leaning over him "it makes you look tough, pretty boy" Taemin scoffed and raised his fist at Kai in a joking manner "I'm always tough" 

Kai grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up until he was sitting upright "well tough guy you might want to get going and find that little boyfriend of yours"

Taemin shoved Kai's hands off, stood up and turned for the colourful duo  and asked "I look cool, right?"

Krystal covered with her hand to hide her smile but Kai made no effort "just the coolest" 

" you guys, bye"

"Love you too, Taeminnie!" They both called out in a babyish voice as Taemin walked away from them and made an obscene hand gesture behind his back.

 

On his way down he bumped into a very boisterous Kibum, Taemin stared at him and raised his eyebrow at his boyfriends twin, he'd never seen Kibum this excited and he'd seen him everyday for the entirety of his schooling career. Kibum smiled at him and grabbed both of Taemin's arms and began to literally bounce with excitement. "Taemin! Just the person I was looking for!" "Kibum? What are yo-" "oh hush! There's someone that wants to apologise to yooouu!" This made Taemin's heart flutter, he didn't think Jonghyun would want to apologise to him. He was prepared to go on his knees if that meant Jonghyun wouldn't be mad anymore, Such a small body shouldn't be able to hold that much anger inside.

 

He day dreamed of Jonghyun while Kibum dragged him away; Jonghyun with his large watery eyes, pouting and avoiding Taemin's stare as he stuttered out an apology and Taemin would give his own apology then Jonghyun would be in his arms again but that dream faded when Choi Minho came into view. His lip still split and his long hair wasn't tied back, framing his face. He glared at Taemin but his eyes softened when he noticed Kibum. Kibum batted his eyelashes at Minho and he awkwardly smiled back in return. Taemin was then pushed towards Minho "now I'll leave you two alone!" Taemin wanted to call out to him and ask where Jonghyun was but he was already gone.

 

Minho shuffled to the side to indicate that he wanted Taemin to join him on his spot on the floor. When Taemin made no move to join, Minho frowned and spoke in a snarky tone "I'm not gonna punch you again so don't be afraid and just sit down" 

Taemin scoffed and sat down "I'm not afraid of you, Choi"

Minho sighed and looked away from Taemin "I just wanted to say sorry, I really do hate what I did" "it didn't look like you hated it when you corned my Jonghyun-" "will you let me finish!" Minho spat and stared Taemin directly in the eye; after a minute of silence he continued "I really regret it okay? I didn't mean to loose it, I didn't mean to fight you and I really didn't mean to scare Jjong. That's the last thing I wanted to do"

He took a deep breath in and exhaled with his eye closed.

 

"It really wasn't how I imagined it, you know what I mean?" 

"No"

"I just always dreamt of what it would be like to confess to Jjong and i never thought it would be like that. I didn't think about him or how he feels, it's selfish and really cheesy. I just thought I would feel something if I ever kissed him and he would feel it too but I didn't and neither did he. I thought there would be fireworks-" "it feels that way when I kiss him" Taemin interrupted, Minho laughed a little at that "I expected as much, i just feel bad that I put him on a pedestal he never wanted to be on. I spent all my time obsessing over the wrong twin but I can't help it; I mean I still love Jjong and I'm not going to get over it overnight, I've felt this way about him since forever but I think I need to start moving on *sigh* scratch that, I know I need to move on and besides Kibum is actually kinda cool once you get past the yness"  Taemin agreed, he was chasing the wrong twin, the shorter, more gentle one was his and he wasn't willing to share. 

 

 

"I even told Jjong all this when I apologized this morning, Merlin he's too forgiving sometimes But he'll probably be mad at me again when he sees your eye, sorry about that" Taemin never thought he would be having this conversation with Choi Minho, his "rival", his boyfriends best friend. 

"Do you know where he is?" Minho shook his head "I thought you would know, don't you have that freaky telepathy thing?" Taemin was confused as to how he knew that but Minho answered that question not even a second later "Jjong told me. One of the many reason you two belong together or some like that" there was still a slight bitterness in his voice but Taemin ignored it;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonghyun remained silent and remained calm even when Taemin kissed his head lovingly.

"I've never heard you sing before. What song is that?" Jonghyun shyly looked away as he replied "I wrote it" "you wrote it?!" Jonghyun nodded and rested his head against Taemin's shoulder "that's amazing! I knew it sounded familiar and now I know why" It was surreal for Jonghyun and he wasn't sure if it was a dream or not; he often thought about singing for Taemin but never had the opportunity, for Taemin to praise him in such a way made him the happiest he'd ever been in his young life and for him to approve of a song Jonghyun wrote validated him in ways no one else would understand.

 

Jonghyun nuzzled Taemin's neck when he realised despite their connection Taemin mustn't of heard the entire ensemble "It sounds a lot better with the instrumental" Taemin perked up "does it involve piano?"

Jonghyun nodded again "of course" 

Taemin intertwined their fingers and stood making Jonghyun follow his actions. "Come" neither spoke a word as Taemin led Jonghyun back to castle. They were both out of breath by the time they made it to the seventh floor, Taemin wildly searched for any wandering students but happily found none; he pulled Jonghyun towards a completely ordinary stone wall and to Jonghyuns amazement a door started to appear right before his eyes. He stood there in shock for he knew where the door led, Taemin had to drag him through the door and into the room of requirement.