7 SLEEPLESS NIGHT

(Setting: Tokyo)

Taemin’s world tour kicks off in Japan with a series of concerts in Tokyo and a few shows in Nagoya.

SM booked two rooms at The Peninsula Tokyo: a deluxe suite for Taemin, which he will be sharing with his manager-in-charge, Jonghyun, and a standard room for Kibum. Taemin’s entourage is actually booked in a serviced apartment in Ginza but Taemin convinced the management, with Jjong’s help, that he needs his interpreter close by since they will be squeezing in tutorials and lessons between Taemin’s rest periods at the hotel.

And how can SM say no to Taemin when his concerts have been sold out in less than twenty-four hours upon the opening of ticketing period?

The truth is that Taemin shudders at the thought that the elegant Kibum will be thrown into an accommodation less superior than his. There’s something about Kibum that compels Taemin to believe that he deserves the finer things in life.

He recalls their first meeting wherein he mistook Kibum for an idol. Taemin didn’t think that anyone outside the entertainment industry wears leather pants. And Kibum even wore his with a burgundy satin bomber jacket and pointy boots.

Taemin likes to look nice as he is a celebrity after all, but without the aid of a stylist, he wouldn’t have any clue what to wear to make him look the part. 

As for Jonghyun’s effort in helping Taemin negotiate the hotel arrangements, he has ulterior motives for doing so— Jinki will be staying in Kibum’s room which has twin beds and the suite he shares with Taemin is only a couple of floors up. He will only need to use the stairs to get to the arms of Jinki.

Jjong’s original plan to bring Jinki along out of a lover’s whim had become a necessity when Jinki broke the news to him that he will be fulfilling his mandatory military service at the end of the year. The lovesick musician cannot seem to come to terms with the idea that he will be parting with his blushing new boyfriend this early into the relationship.

It’s just his luck that Taemin surely wouldn’t mind letting Kibum hang out in their suite in case the interpreter needs to be ejected out of the room to give the lovers some privacy.

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When Kibum hears the slurping and sounds that can only be associated with oral , he realizes it is time to bolt. He appreciates Jjong and Jinki’s att