About four days later the guys are finishing up their final practices for the SMTown performance and even though I know I was labeling it as ‘perfect’ earlier, it’s beyond perfection now. They move in complete, somewhat psychotic sync, popping and jerking their ligaments in a flowing wave of harmony. We’re leaving for Tokyo tomorrow at unbelievably early hours, and I haven’t even found out when so I won’t dread waking up at whatever ungodly hour it is.

It’s the group’s last day of practice since everyone’s leaving at different times tomorrow, Super Junior and EXO leaving earliest, f(x) and TVXQ leaving after them, then SNSD and SHINee in the afternoon. The solo artists are leaving at random points in the day, since some of them have much different practice schedules compared to the groups.

We had to leave earlier for practice today since they want to get through all performances as much as possible to perfect everything. The guys have decided to practice this dance for about four hours before going to their own groups to practice their performances.

I’m sitting on the couch like usual, my head lolling on the back of it as I attempt to keep myself from falling to sleep. It’s hard to, seeing as waking up at three a.m. isn’t a part of my normal sleeping schedule.

Good thing they’re finishing up right now, though. Then we get to walk, and I’m pretty sure walking’ll help me stay a bit more awake.

The music ends for what seems like the trillionth time and Eunhyuk claps, a wide grin spreading across his face. “Alright! I think we’re done!”

The guys start howling with happiness and I smile along with them, my eyes closing slowly. Even happiness can’t keep me from drifting off right now.

Wow, I sound like I’m dying.

Even seeing the love of my life can’t help keep death away as I struggle against the rope of life, the final threads ripping apart, my life line breaking after a long fight with stereotypically losing my memory after a spontaneous car crash unknowingly driven by the angry ex of my true love.

Yay for Korean dramas.

A finger pokes my forehead and I reluctantly open an eye, peeking out.

“Come on!” Kai chirps, pulling on my arm. “Time to go to our practice room.”

I nod and stand up, rubbing my eyes. Someone gently pushes me from behind and I can practically hear Sehun smirking behind me.

I turn around and thump his forehead, hurrying off before he can thump me back.

We get to the room and I plunk down against the mirror, closing my eyes immediately. A strong arm wraps around my shoulders and pulls my head against their shoulder and I open my eyes, Chanyeol’s big grin immediately appearing in my vision.

“Uh…” I scrunch my eyebrows and he chuckles.

“You didn’t notice me sitting here when you came in, huh? You look like a zombie, ya know.” He comments and I stick my tongue out at him.

I want to fight back and say “go away you tower-person hybrid” or something but I’m too tired to even think correctly.

Excuse my sleepiness.

I close my eyes and enjoy the warmth of Chanyeol’s arm, his shoulder the perfect amount of cushiony-comfiness.

And then, as I honestly completely expected, Kai’s screams burst my few precious seconds of complete comfort.

“CHANYEOL WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

I sigh, lifting my head off of Chanyeol’s shoulder. Surprisingly though, Chanyeol pushes it back down on his shoulder, chuckling.

“It’s fine, no offense but I’m not really afraid of your brother.” He says and I grin at his confidence.

Kai stomps over and sticks his hands on his hips, smoke flying out of his ears. Picture-perfect moment, right here. What with his bright red ears and fuming expression, I know all EXOtics would love to see that their ‘precious god’ is actually an angry hippo.

I blink. “Kai calm down, seriously I’m just tired and Chanyeol’s just being nice.”

Kai doesn’t appear to calm down and turns to Chanyeol. “TAKE YOUR ARM OFF HER!”

I roll my eyes and the other guys watch in interest, some of them laughing at the explosive dancing derp.

Chanyeol shrugs and my head moves along. “I’m just being a pillow!”

“I thought I was her pillow,” Kris frowns and I chuckle.

Kai scoffs and crosses his arms. “Get. Your. Arm. Off. Her.”

Chanyeol’s hold on me tightens. “No.”

I hold in a smile, knowing that if I do show any happiness with the situation then Kai’ll spontaneously shout “OH SO YOU’RE SMILING I SEE HOW IT IS WHY DON’T YOU TWO JUST GET A ROOM THEN” or something idiotic like that.

I shake my head in disgrace at my brother’s stupidity and thankfully, the manager walks in when it seems like Kai’s going to attempt to attack Chanyeol.

“Good, you’re all here.” The manager says, pulling over one of those director’s chairs from the side of the room and sitting in it. “Why don’t you guys circle up over here where Chanyeol and Eunji are cuddling.”

I can’t help but chuckle and so does Chanyeol, his deep laugh rumbling from beside me. Kai’s jaw drops, staring at the manager.

“Don’t you want them to separate?!”

The manager sighs, rubbing his eyes. “It’s fine unless it’s not in public, and no one would want to date Chanyeol anyways so no need to worry about that, Kai.”

Chanyeol slumps, as does my head and he frowns. “Hey!”

The manager ignores him and begins to describe what the flight plans are and schedules for SMTown and I notice that Chanyeol’s still slumped, his head tilted slightly down.

Aw.

He must get affected by words easily, huh?

I poke the side of his stomach and he squirms slightly. “I think any girl would be lucky to date you,” I say, trying to cheer him up.

He pulls his frown upside down into a small smile, winking slightly. “Thanks, Eunji.”

I grin, realizing that his hold on me tightens and he’s sitting up straighter, his head now leaning on mine.

It feels good to be nice to people.

After the manager finishes talking a good half-hour later and I get to rest my eyes, Chanyeol not moving from his position as my pillow, my head being his head rest the whole time, I feel more energized as I watch them perform History and MAMA, bobbing my head along to the music. To entertain myself, I squish whoever’s singing at the moment with my index finger and thumb, receiving a lot of grins and chuckles from them as they try dodging my squishes while simultaneously focusing on the dance.

Somewhere in the middle of their 14^th run through of History, I hear my name being whispered just as I’m about to poke Baekhyun’s stomach with my finger from my seat on the floor. I look over at the door and see Bae peeking in, watching the guys dance. He looks at me and gestures for me to come over and I stand up hesitantly walking over.

“What are you doing here?” I ask, stepping into the hall with him and closing the door so we won’t disturb them as they practice.
He bites his lip, smiling sweetly. “I wanted to ask you something, and I heard that everyone was leaving for SMTown tomorrow, so I wanted to ask you before you left…” He scratches the back of his head awkwardly.

“Okay?”

Bae’s not usually so awkward. I hope he’s not asking for me to go out with Jaejin or something.

“Okay, um…” He looks everywhere but at me, then he bites his lip again and fiddles with his fingers, finally meeting my eyes.

“Do you wanna go out with me?”

Whoa.

Wait.

Ha.

Har de ha.

HA.

He’s talking to someone behind me isn’t he.

I turn my head slightly to look behind me and my heart sinks, seeing no one behind me.

So.

Bae just asked me out.

I honestly can’t hear anything over the pounding of my heart. Thankfully(sarcasm) History ended so he can probably hear my heart too.

He stares at me and frowns, seeing my expression. “Do you need time to think about it?” He asks gently, his fingers weaved together.

I shake my head, looking into his eyes.

I know what to say.

Oh jeez. I wonder what everyone else will think.

I open the door of the practice room after Bae leaves to return to his singing class and gasp when I’m met with twelve eager faces staring at me.

“BAE ASKED YOU OUT?!”

“WHAT’D YOU SAY?”

“DON’T WORRY I’LL HIDE YOU IF YOU DON’T LIKE HIM”

“WHEN’S THE WEDDING?”

I stare at Xiumin and roll my eyes furrowing my eyebrows. “How’d you hear?!” I ask and they make way so we can go back inside.

“Bae’s kinda loud, and the song ended at the perfect time,” Chen says, grinning.

I sit down in my spot at the mirror, all twelve of them crowding around me. Kai comes forward and sits directly in front of me, his face tense.

“He seriously asked you out?” He questions, and I nod, biting my lip.

His lips pull back into a thin line and I notice some of them are smiling widely at me, a few of them frowning. I see they’ve already taken sides on whether they support the idea of Bae and I together or not.

I take in a deep breath, sighing. “I said no.”

Collective gasps and whispers sound from all around me, like a surround sound system of surprise. This is kind of creepy, how all of them are reacting so largely. It’s not that big of a deal, right?
Kai furrows his eyebrows slightly. “Why’d you say no?”

I shrug. “He’s my friend and I want him as just my friend.”

“Oooooh,” Baekhyun cooes, “Friend-zooooooooooooooooned!”

I chuckle at the thought of me friend zoning someone.

I do honestly think Bae is cute, but… I think I see too much of a brother in him to want to date him. And I’m glad that he was fully okay with it, since he clearly said that he wanted to make sure that nothing was awkward between us.

“What would you do if I said yes?” I ask Kai, honestly extremely curious.

He ponders, tapping his finger against the ground. He finally looks up, replying honestly. “If he made you happy, then I wouldn’t kill him, but if he made you even just a teensy bit sad, then he’d lose his precious vocal chords.”

I chuckle and slap his leg good-heartedly and I frown suddenly, recalling their excited faces.

“Wait, did you want me to say yes?” I ask, surveying their faces.

“Yes.”
“Nope.”

I look at Kris, who said ‘nope.’

“Why not?”

He shrugs. “You don’t look good together. He looks too… nice.” Kris shudders.

I turn to Lay, who said yes and nod my head at him.

He smiles. “I think you make a cute couple. Don’t ya think?” He nudges Sehun beside him, who’s staring at the floor with glassy eyes.

I nod, imagining us together. I do think that Bae would be a good boyfriend, but not for me… He’s too nice like Kris said, I think. I like when guys are witty and sarcastic, not pouring out love and compliments just because you’re in a relationship.

Suho stands up, gesturing for them all to get in position for another few rounds through History.

Before he gets up from the ground, Chanyeol scoots over to me and pats my head, smiling with his half-wink again.

“Even though you said no to Bae, I think any guy would be lucky to date you,” He says, a twinkle in his eye as he parrots what I told him earlier.

I chuckle and nod. “Thanks, Chanyeol.”

Can you guys tell that Chanyeol's completely ing up my bias list

It's still unofficially Kai who's my EXO bias, but I've decided that whoever's teaser for their comeback I get more excited about, then that'll be my bias.

OTL I HATE INDECISIVENESS

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