It happened so quickly he didn’t really have a chance to react at first—he’d been so caught up in trying to just pass the little papers from Kyung to Jihoon that the sudden outburst on the other side of the youngest had startled him.

It was just a mistake, he tried to tell himself, in the few seconds that the game was paused for Jiho and Ukwon to compose themselves after the accidental lip-lock, but the knot in his chest and the burning in his throat weren’t listening to him.

When Jihoon got a bloodly lip almost immediately after, Minhyuk thought it was his fault, for being so distracted with the twisting jealousy—he knew he should have tried to squeeze in next to Ukwon.