Disclaimer: Nope. No matter what I do, I still own nothing.

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The next morning, the CNBLUE’s dorm seemed a little bit brighter than usual. The members were looking at their drummer suspiciously, because the usually calm guy looked exceptionally cheerful today. He was whistling all morning while helping Jungshin preparing breakfast, while the youngest member took a glance at him every once in a while like he had grown a tail.

At last, Jungshin couldn’t keep his curiosity any longer. He tried to sound as casual as possible as he flipped the omelette, “Looked like someone’s in a good mood today... Did something happen yesterday, Minhyukkie?”

Minhyuk took the bait but only chuckled lightly at Jungshin, “Hmm...” he pretended to think about it, and flashes of Soojung’s lips came to his mind. Yes, something good indeed happen. He nodded at Jungshin, “I guess so.”

“Tsk...” Jungshin mocked him for being so secretive. For all the years he had known him, Minhyuk wasn’t the type of guy who would kiss and tell. He loved to keep his feelings and ideas to himself, only sharing them if it was necessary or if he needed some advice. Jungshin himself had some problems on figuring him out, but of course it never stopped him to digging it out. “Let me guess... it happened on the set?”

Minhyuk contemplating if he should give in some hints with Jungshin’s attempt. He wasn’t stupid nor clueless, there were times when Jungshin surprised him at how observant he could be. Sometimes Minhyuk wondered if his childish attitude was only a facade to get close to everyone since he wasn’t their original bassist. Even if that’s the case, well it was working. That didn’t mean that Minhyuk didn’t trust him, they’ve been through a lot of things together, too much things, that it was impossible not to consider him as a brother.

But Minhyuk wasn’t ready to share it with anyone yet, he still wanted to keep it to his own happy land. So he decided to confuse him, “Probably.”

“Did it have something to do with a certain girl?”

Damn.

Minhyuk’s widen grin was Jungshin’s only clue that he was on the right track. He placed the omelette on the plate before continuing his interrogation, “Wae? Did you finally had a kiss scene with her?”

Minhyuk made an expression like he had been caught with his hand in the jar. That was so close.

“Heol,” Jungshin threw the frying pan to the sink as he saw Minhyuk’s apparent blush, “Lucky jerk. How come you’ve always got a kissing scene with a pretty girl? Daebak... uri Kang Minhyuk daebak!”

Minhyuk did nothing to correct him, if only he knew what was actually happen, he would eat him alive. Minhyuk took the plate to the dining table, calling for his hyungs that breakfast was ready. But Jungshin took him off guard by shouting the news for everyone to hear, “Yah hyung, did you hear that? Uri Minhyukkie just had a kissing scene with Krystal Jung yesterday...”

Minhyuk snapped immediately, almost ready to threw the chopstick in his hand to Jungshin, “Yah Lee Jungshin!”

Jungshin burst out laughing as he ran to the other side of the table, hiding behind Yonghwa’s back who was taking a seat right in front of Minhyuk. Even the ever ignorant Jonghyun snickered at Minhyuk as he took a seat beside him, “Aigoo... no wonder he look so happy today...” Minhyuk was still throwing daggers at Jungshin, blatantly blaming him that everyone teasing him now, when Jonghyun hyung asked him again, “So how does it feel like? Kissing Krystal?”

“A-aniii...” Minhyuk denied it quickly, “It wasn’t like that, hyung... It was just a peck on the cheek. Not on the lips.”

Well, at least that what’s happen on screen.

“Is that so?” Jonghyun again.

“But the look on your face tells there’s something more...” Yonghwa hyung joined in, pointing a chopstick at Minhyuk’s face, “You know your face always given you away. You have to practice to control your expressions more, Minhyukkie, sooner or later someone would ask you about your relationship with Krystal, and if you didn’t do something about it, you might get yourself into trouble.”

“Ne, hyung, I’ll practice more,” Minhyuk bowed to Yong hyung like the obedient boy he was, “But really, it was only on the cheek, hyung...”

“Yah, if you’re blushing that much with just a kiss on the cheek, I am seriously worried if you eventually had a real kissing scene with her,” Yonghwa added.

Jungshin, who apparently had taken a seat beside Yonghwa, nodded along in agreement, “Yong hyung was right, Minhyukkie. Please control your expression,” he laughed out loud as Minhyuk once again threw his fist out at him.

“Oh by the way, would you pass my greetings to Krystal, Minhyukkie?” Jonghyun spoke up again, “I’m a big fan of her.”

“Yah hyung, I thought you were trying to approach Yoona noona,” Minhyuk asked him back.

“Don’t you know, Minhyukkie?” Yonghwa answered him instead, “He liked her because she look exactly like Yoona.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk...” Minhyuk shook his head in concern for his hyung, “You need to focus on one girl, hyung. Noona might think that you’re a player.”

Jonghyun shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, “Wae? Are you afraid I’m going to take her away from you?”

Minhyuk rolled his eyes, “It’s not that, hyung... Soojung was mad at you when you said in an interview that she was pretty. She was scared that your fans would throw some tantrums at her. I’ve even heard that the SNSD’s members were acting weird at her since then.”

The other 3 members were genuinely surprised with the news. Jonghyun’s only response was, “Jinjja? Wah... I really didn’t think it would go that far...”

“Soojung was very sensitive with this kind of thing,” Minhyuk explained, “So please, hyung, just stop it. I just don’t want her to feel uncomfortable around any of us.”

Jonghyun nudged him on the elbow, “Don’t take it seriously, Minhyukkie. I’m really just a fan of her, nothing more. Tell her, there’s nothing to worry about.”

I really hope so. Jonghyun hyung was the most unpredictable one out of the four of them. No one knew what was going on in that head of his. Sometimes his words contradicted his actions, other times they were perfectly in sync. There’s only one thing that Minhyuk’s sure was constantly in Jonghyun’s mind: his guitar. While Yonghwa hyung would put everything into words, using a whole lot of different instruments he could get his hands on, Jonghyun hyung would stick into his guitar. Not even a pretty girl could take his attention away from it. For that reason, Minhyuk shook the thought of Jonghyun hyung might have had an interest for Soojung out of his mind.

They continued to chat idly with each other throughout their breakfast. And since Yonghwa’s filming had already ended, Minhyuk asked him to use his car for the rest of the week. He took his leave right after breakfast. He had planned on picking up a certain pretty girl this morning. Hopefully, she hadn’t left her home yet.

He jumped out of the car as he arrived at her front door. He’d given up on calling her out by phone, it was obvious that she was trying to avoid him again after last night. But hell, there’s no way he would let her get away easily this time. As far as he knew, he liked her, probably even more than he liked Lee Bona character, and if her kiss was any hint, it was most likely that the feeling was mutual. He knew exactly that they were threading a very dangerous line here, what with the filming had come to an end, but don’t call him Kang Minhyuk if he wasn’t persistent.

He pushed the ring button on her door once, and he could already heard someone rushing from the opposite side of the door. He braced himself, straightened his shoulders and put on his best smile, only to find Jessica behind the door.

He tried not to look so disappointed as Jessica tilted her head, absolutely confused to find him in front of her door in the morning, “Good morning, noona,” he bowed to greet her with his most polite smile. “Ah, I believe I haven’t introduced myself properly yet. I’m Kang Minhyuk. I’m sorry if I disturbed you this early.”

“Oh, don’t be so stiff, Minhyukkie,” Jessica dismissed him with a wave of her hand, “Of course I’ve known you. C’mon in, have a seat,” she stepped aside to let him in.

“Oh, it’s okay, noona, I’m only here to pick Soojung up to the set. She... hadn’t leave yet, right?”

“No, no, no, she’s still having her breakfast inside. Just take a seat first Minhyukkie, I insist,” Jessica gave him that look that he couldn’t refuse. He bowed his thanks before he finally stepped inside, sitting on one of the couch that Jessica pointed at. “Wait here, okay? I’ll call her out for you. Would you like something to drink?”

“It’s okay, noona, thank you,” Minhyuk didn’t know that he would be this nervous to meet Soojung’s sister. For heaven’s sake, he had met her a thousand times before, hell, he’d known her far long before he even knew Soojung, but for some reason this time he felt the need to left a good impression. He let out a heavy sigh as Jessica just smile warmly at him and disappeared to another room.

“Jungie-yah... Minhyuk is here...” Jessica shouted at her sister, sneaking a playful smile as she saw Soojung almost choked on her breakfast.

Soojung took a big gulp of water before she could even process what she had heard, “Who?”

Jessica sat back and continued her interrupted meal, propping her chin with her elbow on the table, “Kang Minhyuk is here. He said he’s picking you up to the set.” Jessica took a bite on her salad, swallowed the food and seemed to think deeply, “He’s picking you up now? I thought he’s only making a habit of sending you home for a few times.”

“Ahh...” Soojung racked her brain for a quick escape, “It’s not like that, unnie. Me and Minhyuk oppa are having a shoot for The Heirs parody today after filming, so he offered to pick me up to save time. I’m sorry, unnie, I must have been forget to tell you about that...”

“Is that so?” Jessica asked suspiciously.

“It’s only for today,” Soojung made a mental note to make sure of that.

“Okay then,” Jessica shrugged. She didn’t feel the need to push for some explanations from her sister, she truly believed that Soojung would tell her the whole story when she was ready. But it didn’t make the uneasiness she felt go away, Soojung is her sister afterall, and with their parents weren’t around that much, Jessica felt the need to look out for her. She was there when Soojung had her first crush on that boy from her high school, and another crush on one of EXO’s member—it ended before they could even started because apparently another boy in that group liked her, too, so Soojung need to stepped back since she didn’t want to be the reason if the boys had a fight. It was a hard time for her, but this is the first time Jessica felt the urge to be truly worried.

Jessica noticed that Soojung didn’t finish her breakfast and threw the rest of the food to the bin. In a rush she did the dishes, took her bag and kissed her sister on the cheek quickly, “I’m leaving, unnie.”

“Hm. Be careful, Jungie-yah...”

Minhyuk immediately stood up as he saw Soojung appeared from the room Jessica had disappeared into. He smiled. She looked like she was about to snapped at the moment her eyes landed on him.

And he was right. “Oppa!” She said in a hushed tone, looking back to make sure her sister didn’t following her out, “What the hell are you doing here?”

Minhyuk replied with an equal tone, “You would’ve known if you weren’t that busy and just pick up your phone, Jungie-yah...”

She hissed, completely irritated at him. She took his wrist harshly, dragging him out of her door to his car. She didn’t hear a single complain from his mouth, so she figured he must’ve been enjoying this. So annoying. Sica unnie had been asking a lot of questions lately, and Soojung had deliberately avoiding her just in case she would ask on things that she didn’t have the answers yet. She need to take Minhyuk oppa out of here, as soon as possible.

Minhyuk pulled the car door open for her, and once again helped her to put the seatbelt on. Soojung couldn’t help but mumbling that it wasn’t necessary, only to have him kissing her to shut her up.

Not again.

She was melting at the sudden contact. She cursed him for being such a good kisser, and damning her traitorous body that she couldn’t help but to return the kiss. It was quick, but it didn’t fail to take her breath away. And she held the urge to smack him on the head just to wipe that triumphant look on his face.

“Yah! Are you crazy? Sica unnie might’ve seen that!”

Minhyuk didn’t say anything to defend himself, he just put another peck on her lips before he walked to the driver’s side, leaving her biting on her bottom lip, all hot and bothered.           

Apparently, it wasn’t his last attempt on stealing kisses from her. She was having a hard time on believing that the quiet-kind of shy-polite guy that she used to know was actually a sneaky-mischievous-resident bad boy. It was like he couldn’t get enough of her! He kissed her in one of the corner in the library scene where no one’s looking, he even managed to pull her into an empty changing room to have a passionate make out session there. If it wasn’t for Shin Hye unnie who was looking for her, she didn’t know what they would’ve done.

They were having lunch by now, and even then he kept his arm around her or on her all the time. Her head was spinning around, but she would be lying if she said that she didn’t like the way he made her feeling. The thought that it must’ve been killing him to restrain himself from going too far, especially in front of other people, made her heart fluttered. She giggled everytime he was about to do something overly affectionate, anxious with how people would think about them.

It was then when he the palm of his hand forward in front of her face, Soojung could only blink at it.

“Mwo ya?” She asked, confused with what he was asking.

He moved his fingers impatiently, “Give me back my childhood photo.”

A crinkle molded on her forehead, “I told you, Shin Hye unnie took it from me.”

“Don’t lie,” Minhyuk then wrapped his arm around her, sneaking his hand towards the pocket of her jacket, his lips moved ridiculously close to her ear, whispering, “Then what is it that I saw peeking out from your jacket?”  

Her hand was moving so fast to halt him, securing the photo from his wandering hand. Minhyuk grinned, he knew it. He had asked Shin Hye noona about it and she said that she had never asked for it. The only other person who had it around was Soojung. He grabbed her hand that was holding on to the photo, trying to pry it out from her, but she won’t relented.

“What are you two doing?” Shin Hye noona finally asked, making the other casts on the table looking at them curiously.

Minhyuk let her go for once, having caught in a funny situation with Soojung. He cleared his throat before answering, “She kept my photo as a hostage.”

The whole table snickered at this, barely holding their laugh to themselves.

“Good job, Soojung-ah,” said Shin Hye noona, encouraging the youngest girl in the group, “It was a good strategy from Lee Bona, you should learn from her.”

“I know, right?” Soojung replied happily, knowing that everyone were on her side. “Unnie, did you have any other embarrassing photos of him? Probably from your last drama together? You know... something like a sleeping Hyungsik oppa?”

“Yah!” Hyungsik ears perked up at this, “Why did you have to bring that up?”

“Hmm... I don’t know. Let me check that up once I have some free time. Okay?”

“Noona!”

The girls made their deal despite Minhyuk’s protest. Shin Hye noona had completely went to the other side, forever making Soojung her favorite partner in crime. Knowing that he wouldn’t win her over, Minhyuk asked Soojung again, “Why did you want to keep it anyway, Soojungie? I have a lot of better photos then that, hm?”

Soojung curled her lips in distaste at him, “Shirreo!” she said firmly. “I need something as a guarantee if you ever try to do something funny and...” she lowered her tone so that only him who could hear, “...as a payback for stealing my first kiss.”

“Mwo?!” Minhyuk absolutely startled at her confession that he practically shouted out loud, “That was your first—AAKHH!”

Soojung stomped on his feet violently at the right time, sending him a death glare at how close he was about to reveal their secret. His head was bent over on her shoulder, only to have her shoved his head away to the table since everyone in the room now staring at them. He was hissing in pain, his eyes pleading at her to give him some kind of comfort, but the girl in question blatantly ignored him, her eyes looking around at anything but him.

He almost destroyed her careerr, their own career, there’s just no way she would let him to do that. Not after what she had been through to get this far; especially not when they were just about to begin what seemed like a long path way to success.

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A/N: Well, my mind was in a complete mess while writing this. I just had an interview today and another one on Saturday, so wish me luck! And congrats to our Chanyoung and Bona who won BEST COUPLE on DramaFever Award, teeheee! I wish someone would make a special fic about them to celebrate this, that would totally cheer me up from all this stress. I need a ChanBo fix desperately...