Jihoon woke up feeling someone lightly shake him. He opened his eyes to be greeted by smiling Samuel asking whether he is okay. Samuel even apologizes on his inconsideration words towards him not knowing Jihoon is actually not feeling well. Jihoon shake his head abruptly muttering that it wasn’t Samuel’s fault that Samuel doing this for the team. They chatted a little and Jihoon scanned the room noticing their leader and one of their members is not there.

“Where’s Daniel hyung and hyungseob?” he asked no one in particular

“Ah, hyungseob hasn’t finished his dinner yet, so Daniel decided to wait for him to finish it up. So maybe he is still in the canteen” Ong answered him

“I see” Jihoon said, then as if on cue, his stomach start grumbling.

Woojin heard it, suppressing a laugh and said, “You should go and eat too”

Without being told twice, Jihoon run out of the room to the canteen. The canteen is almost empty, leaving only some people cleaning and organizing the food left. Jihoon easily spotted Daniel and hyungseob at the corner of the room talking, more like Daniel do all the talking and hyungseob only eat and listening sometimes adding some remark to whatever Daniel was saying. Jihoon’s train of thoughts interrupted when the canteen lady asked whether he had eaten or not. Snapping out, Jihoon reached for the tray and fill is up with food and go to where Daniel and hyungseob are. Putting down the tray on the table, Daniel and hyungseob both looked up and greet Jihoon. 

Hyungseob keep asking Jihoon how he was feeling and Daniel just sit there looking amused at how Jihoon ignored hyungseob’s questions after answering he was fine for the 3rd times.

Not long after, hyungseob is done with his food and excuse himself saying he was dead tired because all the routines that Samuel tried to shoved in his head and need his quality time to rest. He bid both Daniel and Jihoon goodbye and left the room. Jihoon half expect Daniel to do the same as Jihoon know how tired Daniel is now seeing from his dishevelled hair, eye bag, and tired eyes. But Daniel remained sitting there and looking at Jihoon with the same smile although this time he looked very tired.

“You don’t have to stay here you know, I can eat by myself” Jihoon said

Hearing Jihoon’s usual sarcastic tone, Daniel think that Jihoon is at least getting better and he couldn’t help but praise himself, thinking he actually did the right decision by letting Jihoon rest. Daniel always thought that Jihoon is perfect. He is handsome, lovable, good at dancing, rapping, and singing. But seeing Jihoon in his weakest state just now make Daniel realized that Jihoon is just a normal human being. Although he is not supposed to be happy, but he is, because he is the one that was there when Jihoon needed someone. He hoped that one day, Jihoon can trust him enough to share his worries and depend on him. Why? It’s because Daniel has always been a maknae in his circle of friends despite on bein