He gritted his teeth while attempting to smile at the same time, all the while wishing that he wasn’t on couple duty today of all days. But someone had to do it, and he as the maknae had drawn the short straw.

He poked her with a finger as they played footsie while whispering sweet nothings to each other with the paparazzi just three feet away.

He didn’t want to break up their conversation but it’s just that these days, they tend to show up in plenty of shots and fan cams together, behaving so intimately that people were starting to notice. He can read forums, you know. He knew all about the speculation. In fact, he had taken part in some of them under the anonymity of a screen name. Bet the fans would go nuts every time he suggested something that was true which he often posted with a disclaimer that it was a delusion.

Anyway, he had been assigned the duty of keeping them in check for the day so that the news didn’t leak. It was bad for business, especially since they weren’t the official love line. It didn’t help that these two were stuck to the hip and weren’t conscious of the fact that they were fueling the rumors. As their relationship progressed, they seemed to get more careless. It was as if they couldn’t care less if the news broke and were actually anticipating that to happen. It was just a matter of time when the news would break anyway.

He caught him snaking an arm around her waist and had t