There’s an uncomfortable moment of silence when Kang Minhyuk gets into the condo and meets the two EXO brothers. Baekhyun has completely at a loss of words when seeing him in a very good and neat suit while Chanyeol kept smiling foolishly to him, told him the jokes that even Baekhyun and Soojung couldn’t get. Fortunately, Minhyuk kept responding and it somehow created an invisible bond between the two. Soon, Baekhyun involved in the conversation and within fifteen minutes, the three have looked like good friends.

 

“Our Soojung is beautiful,” Chanyeol grins once Soojung got out from her room. She’s also wearing a navy blue dress which really match to Minhyuk. Soojung doesn’t take long to dress and doll herself, only about twenty minutes. But still, Soojung is stunning as ever. Baekhyun blushes at the sight and Minhyuk can’t take his eyes off of her.

 

“Take care of her,” Baekhyun shortly said, when he and Chanyeol send them off in front of the door. Soojung bids goodbye at them as she walks side by side with Minhyuk.

 

It’s uncomfortable.

 

No, she thought. Uncomfortable is not the suitable word.

 

It’s awkward now.

 

“It must be good, living with lots of people?” Minhyuk started the conversation, his eyes are trailing to press the B button as they got into the elevator.

 

“Not really, sometimes you hate it because they stole your food,”

 

Minhyuk giggles, the elevator door is open when they’ve been arriving in the basement. He quickly picks out his key and unlocks the car. He opens the passenger’s seat door first for Soojung and closes it mannerly before plopping himself in the driver’s seat. He fastens his seatbelt and starts the car’s engine. Slowly, they’ve been in the outside of building and meeting with Seoul’s lights which always amused Soojung. She keeps staring outside the window as the car passes by skyscrapers and the lights are pouring into her. She smiles, and that’s when Minhyuk takes a good look on her. He realizes how beautiful the passenger in his car, and he doesn’t realize that he smiles, too.

 

“You seem to like the lights,” he said, eyes are now locked on the highway.

 

She nods, “I don’t like dark places,”

 

And that’s how Minhyuk starts to learn about her. She doesn’t like dark places, he repeated to himself.

 

“How do you befriend with Keegan?” Soojung asked, her first question ever to Kang Minhyuk. She’s a bit curious of Jongsuk-Minhyuk relationship because Jongsuk seems to have no friend in his department. All the time, he only spent it to do research or assisting his professor. If Soojung is asked to mention three of Jongsuk’s friends, she’s sure that she fails at the first attempt because she can only mention Do Kyungsoo. But Kyungsoo is not counted since, they think of him—and the rest of EXO members—as brother.

 

Kang Minhyuk came out of nowhere by Jongsuk’s call is very, very strange.

 

Because it means that the over-protective Jongsuk trust this person so much that he can even give permission to him for going to ball with his sister.

 

“It just….happened naturally?” he answers, which seems like a wonder than an answer to her, “We’re good friend since our first year in Medical Department, but we’re just good friends which help each other, not close at all. We’re getting very close just now, I mean, since in the beginning of this year. We’re getting into the same project, and I sometimes offer him a drive, he also offered me a drive, and that’s how we become really close right now,” he explains.

 

“He invited me to come to your house, about three times, but I always end up having patient or duty, or things which keep making me busy. I’m glad that I made it now,” he smiles, but his face is still focusing on the road.

 

Soojung nods, “I’m very sorry that your first visit is like this,”

 

He shakes his head, completely disagrees with Soojung’s words, “I like it, really. I want to help him tonight in the hospital, he actually got bunch of difficult works to do because of our Professor, but he said that the only way for me to help him is by accompanying his sister to the ball. So, I went, and he told me to wear navy blue,” he chuckles, while taking a quick glance at Soojung whom also wears navy blue, “…and now I know the reason,”

 

Soojung joins him chuckling, she shakes her head in disbelief in how Jongsuk actually sets it that way. She’s also happy that her decision to go with him is so right, because the person beside her is really caring towards her brother, he can even do anything for him.

 

“So you went with me because of Keegan?” Soojung challenges him a question.

 

“Completely,” he takes a glance at Soojung, then raises one of his eye brow, “…but who knows that I eventually got a very beautiful company instead?” he smirks at her, making Soojung’s cheeks flushed in red.

 

“Yah,” she suddenly feels shy and hits Minhyuk’s shoulder softly. The latter only laughs in return.

 

“Minhyuk-ssi—,” she was about to ask him another question, but it was being cut, completely, by Minhyuk. He’s laughing at her. Soojung’s face looks confused, “..w-why?”

 

“Don’t call me with honorifics, please,” he still giggles at the Minhyuk-ssi she mutters.

 

“Okay, then, err…,” she hesitates a bit, but then clearly say, “..oppa?”

 

To be her surprise, he laughs again. Soojung gets more confused as ever.

 

“Aren’t you Korean-American? You can just call me by name,” he simply said, pushing the brake after parking the car. They’ve been there, in front of Soojung’s department. It seems very cherish inside since many people keep coming from outside, hand by hand with their own pair, and there are lots of lights.

 

Soojung likes light, he silently thought.

 

“…but it’s impolite for doing that to Korean, I heard,” she protested, unfastening her own seat belt.

 

“I’m not a completely Korean either,” he shrugged his shoulders, pressing the button to unlock the car’s doors.

 

“W—what?” Soojung is completely both shocked and amused with the fact.

 

“I’m a British-Korean,” he simply said before opening the car’s door and quickly runs to other side for opening Soojung’s door.

 

 

-xxxx-

 

“Let’s dance,” the girl whispers in his ear, seductively, but Sehun doesn’t bother. He even feels disgusted by the girl and completely regrets his decision to leave for the ball. He shopuld’ve just walked around Han river or went to his company for extra practice with some trainee instead of going to this ball. He can just lie, and Soojung, too, doesn’t know if he lied because she was left in apartment with s.

 

“I don’t dance,” he shortly answers.

 

Or, maybe, he doesn’t completely regret the decision of going to the ball.

 

He just regrets for rejecting Soojung.

 

He should’ve came with Soojung, he silently regrets, really regrets. It was one in a million chance that he completely trash away. He feels his heart is being stabbed as he keeps regretting his own decision again and again, mentally curses himself for always being a dumb. It’s his mistake that he ends up to be with a girl which Soojung completely hates, Yoo In Jung.

 

Oh Sehun is a completely dumb, he admits himself.

 

“Jung Soojung is coming with Kang Minhyuk!”

 

“What? Kang Minhyuk?”

 

“That British guy? How come?”

 

“Kang Minhyuk? That medical olympiad student? Jongsuk oppa’s friend? The flower boy?”

 

“The one that all Medical Department girls have fallen for?”

 

“Jung Soojung is a lucky !”

 

“Jung Soojung is not a ,” Sehun stands up, responding the girls’ talk in his surrounding. He sends them a quick sharp glance which make all those girls completely shut their mouth. He himself suddenly feels curious and looks at the door as all those gossiping girls are looking at the door, waiting for what they said Soojung and Minhyuk.

 

Sehun doesn’t want to believe. Soojung is in condo, she was with the EXO members, so she should’ve not come. He keeps planting the thought in his mind that it must be wrong. It must be not Soojung.

 

But the reality is cruel as hell, and Sehun hates it because reality always corners him harshly.

 

Soojung is really coming, with a taller man beside her. They are walking side by side, Soojung’s hand is circling into that man’s arm, and what makes them surprised and envy at the same time is how they perfectly match with each other with the navy blue dress they use together. All girls mutter about her in front of her as they’re envy with Soojung, and Soojung couldn’t help but only looks at Minhyuk, looking for assurance. Minhyuk looks back at her and smiles, his other hand pats her hand that circles into him, trying to calm her down.

 

Sehun swears that his heart fell into the pit of his stomach.

 

He’s not sure if he can endure to spend another night watching Soojung from distance with another guy.

 

 

-xxxx-

 

Woobin still grunts at how stupid Tao is to ask a meeting right after their arrival in China. Woobin still feels the pains all over his body, even his mind doesn’t go straight because he still feels sickness in his stomach, wanting to throw up. Woobin is the only member in Jung family which can’t endure to board on the plane for long time. He has such air sickness, and the weather of China has added everything to be worse.

 

Perfect is just perfect.

 

Tao childishly pulls Woobin to the café of the hotel while Woobin looks uninterested at all. He looks at the ceiling as if, he really wants to go to his room now, but Tao doesn’t want to understand. He insists to push the hyung forward.

 

“Hyung, he’s there!” Tao points at a man with dark brown suit and gold-blonde hair. He still looks the same, Woobin thought. Except that super happy expression in that face he didn’t use to have, he’s just the same guy that Woobin met some months ago.

 

“I’m going to see you both from upstair, hyung,” Woobin only nods, “..here’s the USB. All the video messages are here,” Tao said, putting it into Woobin’s shirt’s pocket.

 

“Good luck hyung!” Tao bids him a goodbye before running to the elevator. Woobin shrugs his shoulder and pats the parts of his shirt that wrinkle. He clears his throat before walking forward to the man who is just pocketing his phone and looking at the outside of window.

 

“Long time no see…,” Woobin said in Mandarin while walking closer to a guy who has his back facing him. His voice is loud enough to be heard in their distance. That guy suddenly turns around and is in complete surprise to see who’s in front of him.

 

“H—hyung…,” he gapes his mouth, bein completely shocked.

 

“How are you, Kris?” Woobin smirks.

 

 

-xxxx-

 

 

“You’re so busy with the Professors,” Minhyuk teased at her after she goes back from talking again with one of Yale Professors. She’s very active in making network that night, while Minhyuk only watches her from afar and smiles after she’s done. He’s actually completely neglected during the time being, but he doesn’t mind. She just grins in return, “I ne