Swimming practice starts exactly fifteen minutes after the final bell rings, and ends two (or more) hours later, and at the end of it everyone’s tired and some tempers may or may not be flaring. Kyuhyun wonders, sometimes, why he even puts up with Siwon’s slave driving, but it’s the quiet requests of Ryeowook to go home together that make him stay.

“You are so obsessed with him,” Siwon says, sighing.

As if you aren’t either, Kyuhyun would have retorted, only Ryeowook takes the timely opportunity to enter the locker room, towel drying his hair with some difficulty.

“Yeah,” he mutters, rushing over to help Ryeowook, “yeah, whatever.”