Entering Room 1 on time, Siwoo saw the staff busily preparing and awkwardly stepped aside to one side. Yechan was sitting on the long three-seater sofa looking at his phone, and Sangjun was on a single-seater sofa with a tablet.
“My bro, you came back alive. Hey man, you worked things out well with Evan, right? Stop fighting with each other already.”
At Chan’s words, suddenly hugging Siwoo from behind, Siwoo couldn’t do anything. Moreover, as if he had said everything he wanted to say, he lightly patted Siwoo’s butt and sauntered over to the sofa, lying down with his head on Yechan’s thigh.
“I’m hungry.”
“That’s why I told you to finish the hamburger earlier, didn’t I? Let’s order lots of room service after filming.”
“If we order a lot, who’s going to eat all that?”
“Me. Ah! Hyung. Stay still.”
“You just look at your phone even though I’m here?”
Siwoo, who had suddenly been hugged by someone he was seeing for the very first time and even had his butt lightly touched, lowered his head in absurdity.
Yechan fiddled with his phone without caring whether Chan was lying down using his thigh as a pillow or not, and Chan, lying comfortably, playfully interfered with Yechan looking at his phone.
Right. Since they’ve been eating from the same pot and sharing the same blanket from trainee days until now, this kind of thing was common teasing.
“Everyone here? What about Evan? Everyone’s here. Everyone focus. Talk about your impressions of coming to England, what you did during free time today. Tomorrow we’ll play a game to divide teams for the photo shoot. Since this photo shoot is fan-participatory. This is the result of voting on the concept. Divide into teams of two and three. These are the two concepts that got the most votes. Divide these however you want too. Since we just have to do this, we can do it quickly, right?”
Siwoo still stood on one side without even getting close to the sofa, and Evan, who came in last, sat on the two-seater sofa.
“Siwoo. Hurry and go sit down.”
“Ah. Yes.”
In awkwardness, Siwoo pressed his earlobe with his hand for no reason, but couldn’t readily move. Where should he go? Logically, the place he should sit right now was next to Evan. But according to what he heard consecutively from Yechan and Chan, it seemed he and Evan didn’t get along very well.
In a short time, Siwoo’s head started spinning rapidly. I’m really feeling this feeling often lately.
The first day of filming ‘Journey’ came to mind. That day was quite perplexing too. But it didn’t seem right to sit on the floor either, so hesitating, Siwoo headed toward Evan.
“Did you rest a bit?”
Siwoo nodded at Evan’s words as he moved slightly to the side to make more room for him to sit.
“What about you?”
“I just unpacked simply. Going out for dinner won’t work. Is there anything you want to eat?”
“I don’t really have anything in mind. I ate biscuits and this and that during tea time earlier.”
Since the filming equipment setup wasn’t finished, Siwoo conversed comfortably with Evan. If it comes down to it, I’ll just say we made up like everyone’s saying.
Still, it was a broadcast, so while talking, Siwoo raised his hand and tapped and touched his hair. While touching his curly hair, he looked up at a staff member who had come close.
Only after seeing the comb and lip gloss in her hands did he straighten his expression that had been flustered. She must be a staff member they always work with, but while becoming close with the members was work, the homework of learning the staff members’ faces and names also arose.
“Still, you have to eat something. How about steak?”
“Medium rare.”
Since the staff was touching his hair, he answered without looking at Evan.
“Salad dressing?”
“You decide.”
“Beer?”
“I want sweet white wine.”
Evan picked up his phone and noted down the content of his conversation with Siwoo. Room service was fine, but he couldn’t fill Siwoo’s stomach with just that. Since there was a restaurant famous for steak nearby, he was thinking of having it delivered to the room around the time filming ended.
He couldn’t go get it himself, but there were many people who could bring it instead.
“Not soju?”
Evan, who was taking notes, laughed quietly while teasing Siwoo.
“Hey! No matter how much I like soju-maekju, I won’t drink soju-maekju after coming all the way here! I know how to drink wine too.”
“I know.”
Siwoo wanted to snap at Evan, but since lip gloss was being applied, instead of snapping he glared at him. Then he raised his hand and lightly hit the thigh next to him.
“I’ll order it to my room.”
It was the usual conversation. Sometimes the conversation would break off when things got subtle, but there was no big change with Evan after the regression. If Evan had been unfamiliar too, it would have been harder to adapt.
When it was finished and the staff moved away, Siwoo looked at Evan. He said he’d be a bit late, and in the meantime it seemed he had already finished filming preparations and come.
“What game are we doing?”
“Everyone will be tired, so I thought it would be good to do something simple. For teams, choosing items. For concept, drawing number cards.”
“Items? Using ours?”
“No. Since they prepared them, we just have to choose. Today Sangjun will host, everything’s ready, right?”
Hearing the conversation between the staff and Chan, Siwoo swallowed the saliva that had pooled in his mouth.
Filming wasn’t very difficult. Under Sangjun’s hosting, mainly Yechan and Chan chattered.
Well, Evan wasn’t originally a character who talked a lot anyway.
Why do I keep thinking of ‘Journey’ filming?
Listening to them excitedly talking about having gone to Big Ben, Siwoo brought his legs up onto the sofa and sat cross-legged. There was too much to think about.
Naturally, one of Siwoo’s legs rested on Evan’s thigh.
These were things that would be resolved one by one with time, but his heart felt heavy.
“I just rested while working. We came all the way to England for two reasons, right? How did the concept voting results turn out?”
At the director’s gesture, Sangjun naturally moved on to proceeding with the game.
“Look. I knew this would come up. Boyfriend moment.”
Receiving the panel organizing the concepts, Chan showed the panel to the camera while explaining. What fans wanted was all similar, and the voting results didn’t stray far from their expectations.
“Number 1 boyfriend, Number 2 basketball. This means any outdoor sport whether basketball or soccer or whatever, right?”
Chan explained the panel and threw a question toward the director.
“Skateboard!”
Soon, at the director’s words that any outdoor sport was fine, Yechan immediately shouted loudly.
“Hey, I can’t ride that.”
“Chan-hyung, take this opportunity to learn from me. You said before you wanted to try riding.”
“No. Totally no. I hate moving the most. When it’s hot outside too!”
It seemed the tiki-taka of this team was Chan and Yechan’s role. The two bickered, and next to them, Sangjun quietly stated his opinion that he didn’t like it either.
He had ridden skateboards quite a lot. Having all kinds of hobbies, it was a really good hobby and exercise to do with a small amount of money.
“Wait! Is Yechan the only one among us who rides a skateboard?”
“No. Me!”
Siwoo, who hadn’t said a word since the broadcast started until now, raised his hand slightly while speaking. Being too showy was a problem, but falling too far back also drew people’s attention.
“You can ride a skateboard?”
There’s nothing I’m really good at openly, but there’s nothing I can’t do either.
Not Yechan, but Evan looked at Siwoo in surprise.
“A little. Not riding well, just to the point of not falling.”
“Why didn’t you say anything when I was riding? Then. We would have gone riding together. I went around lonely by myself!”
Curse my past self. Then.
Siwoo could only answer with a smile and resolve the situation by saying let’s ride together from now on.
It didn’t take much time to divide teams by choosing items prepared by the production team rather than the members’ personal items. It was decided that Sangjun and Evan would film boyfriend, and Chan, Yechan, and Siwoo would film riding skateboards.
After the chaotic filming ended, a long sigh came from Siwoo’s mouth as he stood up.
At least there was no difficulty dealing with Evan and Yechan, but when Sangjun or Chan spoke to him, he would unconsciously pull his body back.
“Evan. What are we doing about dinner?”
“I’m going to eat with Siwoo.”
Evan, answering Sangjun’s question, lightly patted the back of Siwoo who was stretching. Even though he said he rested in between, the most tired person right now would be Siwoo more than anyone.
His thinking was short. He should have let him rest in consideration of him taking a long flight.
He wanted to show him his family.
He wanted to introduce him to his family. To say he was his person. To say he was the person he had searched for so desperately.
The moment both Rush and Roxy welcomed Siwoo as soon as they saw him, his feelings were truly strange. Everyone recognizes you, so why don’t you recognize me?
Even until Siwoo and Evan left the filming room, the two didn’t feel anything strange. Only the minds of the close staff members and members who remained were confused. Just until a week ago, the appearance of the two who had been growling and fighting, unable to devour each other, had changed overnight.
“I’m tired.”
At Siwoo’s muttering to himself as he walked heavily, Evan’s answer was soon heard.
“Is it hard?”
“There’s a lot to think about……”
“Then. After washing up, do you want to come to my room?”
At Evan’s words, Siwoo nodded roughly. Whether room service or whatever, it seemed better to reduce even one thing he had to do from now on in the time waiting for that.
Returning to his room and finishing a shower in warm water, Siwoo rummaged through his luggage to find comfortable indoor clothes to wear. Then he pressed the bell in front of Evan’s room. He pressed it one more time, but since there was no response, he opened the door with the room key Evan had given him and went in.
“Huh?”
The moment Siwoo went inside, his eyes met Evan’s as he was coming out opening the bathroom door.
Evan, who had just washed up, was only wearing bottoms and was shaking his hair with a towel. Even back then it was like that, but there was a time when this kind of scene went out on live without any thought. The difference from that time would be that the current Evan wasn’t wearing a top at all and hadn’t injured his finger?
