Annyeong~ Here's Chapter 9 for you guys. ^^ Special thanks to the new subscribers. Much love. :*

Ps: Lyrics were taken from the english translation of Park Boram's Falling (Hyde, Jekyll, Me OST). Try listening to it. Sucha wonderful song. <3

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Living with him every single day made me used to all his nags and fuss, but why now? Come on. It's too late for a chiding session, leader. Mino is psychologically wailing as he scratched his nape before he answered the hot-tempered Seungyoon.

"You know I have a separate schedule today, right?" Mino placidly explained. Not Seungyoon's nagging disease could ruin this awesome day he had.

Even for a second, Seungyoon doesn't abolish his glare at him, that only if it could burn, poor Mino might have turned into ashes.

"Well, yeah. And I also know that you should be here earlier, at least before sundown."

Emotion is unreadable in Seungyoon's countenance but his words are more than enough to express his exasperation. "Now, explain." He continued.

"Ah.. About that... Uhh.. I-i just hang out with a friend." Mino exquisitely stammered. Cheeks of his started getting red when he remembered who he is with the whole day.

Taehyun, who is pretending to focus on the televison, couldn't even resist the impulse to giggle at how his Mino hyung sounds like a teen-age girl who has seen her crush.

"A friend, huh?" Seungyoon pleaded with sarcasm, fist clenched tightly. He doesn't want to admit it to himself that he hates how Mino, amongst other girls out there, chose to mess with Boram. "Just tell me directly if there's a new girl you're playing with nowadays." He scoffed.

Seungyoon's words started getting into Mino's nerves. The sound of accusation triggers the rage inside him. It's true that Winner members would always caught him spending time with girls, but it's not how they see it. Most of the time, he is just keeping in touch with an old friend he met somewhere accidentally for pete's sake. And no matter how he tried to justify it to them, he would always end-up accused of the same damn thing. Flirting with girls.

Of all the things they could label him, this is definitely the one he hated the most. Mino evolved from a lad to a man disapproving guys who toyed with girl's feelings. Guys who disrespect girls. Guys who make girls cry. The reason might be kind of obvious. Of course, he has Dana. His little sister whom he loved the most. That's why he wouldn't dare do anything that could hurt an innocent girl like his sister.

Thoughts debated on Mino's head. Should I explain? Most probably, no. You'll just waste your saliva explaining to people who already had a verdict even before the hearing commence.

"If that's what you think." Mino answered fervently. The radiant mood he had earlier turned to a whole stern face.

Tense surrounding the living room is now getting worse. Taehyun stand up from the couch, getting ready to meddle in case anything unwanted would happen. He even tried to pull out an inside joke to cool down the situation, but then drop the idea on second thought upon realizing that it's not his style, unless, otherwise he wanted to look like a complete moron at the center of the scene.

"So I am right." Seungyoon huffed.

"What's your problem, Kang Seungyoon?"

"What do you think, hyung?"

Before Mino could take a step closer to Seungyoon, someone in pink pajamas came out from one of the rooms. Nice timing.

"What's wrong?" Jinwoo, who's sleep was disturbed, innocently asked, hair tangled in different directions. He rubbed his eyes with one of his hands which were supposed to be hugging the baby blue pillow he brought outside the room with him.

When no one cared to respond, Jinwoo moved his gaze around to find out the answer to his own question.

"Oh. Mino~yah, you're here. Did you just came? How's your practice with Boram-ssi?" The eldest again asked, with aegyo, of course. Knowing nothing about this little tension between his dongsaengs.

Taehyun heaved a sigh at Jinwoo's perfect timing. To be honest, he doesn't know exactly what to do if these two hyungs of his, actually started fighting.

"Going great, hyung. I think we could perform well in the actual stage." Mino replied in delight. Heavens, thanks to Jinwoo who eased this guy's anger.

"So how abou--"

Before Jinwoo could finish another question that would most probably just increase the level of his annoyance, Seungyoon gawked at Mino. "Prepare your explanation tomorrow." He ordered before he finally took his step back to go to his room.

Jinwoo ogled to chase the leader who just walked out. "What's wrong with Seungyoonie?"

Taehyun just shrugged his shoulders. It's not that he don't know what's happening. In fact, he's the most knowledgable about everything regarding the leader. It's just that he doesn't want to be burdened explaining. Most especially, to Kim Jinwoo.

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Gust blowing from outside is drowning Seungyoon so he decided to close the car's window beside him. He leaned his back and rested his head on the back seat, attempting to take a nap.

Several days have passed already, but his "business" with Mino is still a case unclosed. Aside from having these bunch of rehearsals, music shows, radio shows, variety shows, photoshoot, fansigning events and many more for their debut as Winner, fate seemed to take every possible way for the confrontation not to consummate. He took his snapback off and placed it over his face for cover while sleeping, in any case his mind would allow him to. It's one of those moments where his brain wouldn't stop thinking about the 'Mino and Boram scene' he witnessed days ago. He actually begin to prefer the hectic schedule over frequent spare time, since it became his only escape to all his dilemmas. In times like this where he could think o