As if telling him to answer quickly, when Evan’s foot touched Siwoo’s foot again, Siwoo quickly wrote his answer.
[Sorry.]
When he sneaked a glance up to steal a look at Evan, he began moving his fingers quickly with quite a serious expression.
[Is sorry enough? So when are you going to kiss me?]
What could have been quite a serious matter flowed by like a small joke.
[…….]
Along with an emoticon of a character with an awkward expression, Siwoo could only add dots.
“Hmm.”
A small disgruntled sound was heard from in front.
[Should we sleep together tonight?]
In that instant, the cell phone Siwoo was holding fell onto the table. And making all his efforts not to look at Evan pointless, Siwoo’s two eyes turned toward Evan, who was still keeping his gaze fixed on his cell phone.
[Our Coco. What are you thinking right now?]
Siwoo’s ears turned bright red after checking the text that flew in again along with an emoticon laughing while holding its stomach. Unable to do this or that, Siwoo, who only chewed his lower lip, moved his fingertips quickly over his cell phone, then deleted everything he had just written.
[Kim Siwoo, really stupid. You don’t like being alone. And tomorrow’s the first broadcast so it’ll be even more so. We’ll just hold hands and sleep. You trust oppa, right?]
[ㅡㅡ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Sorry! It’s not that I don’t trust you, I don’t trust myself.]
[Hey! Then I’m very grateful.]
[What are you saying;;;;]
The tension and anxious feelings disappeared, and before he knew it, Siwoo was focused on messaging with Evan. Even though his heart trembled moment by moment, only empty laughter kept coming out at Evan’s all-too-comfortable cheekiness.
[Should we eat pork cutlet after filming?]
At the end of what seemed like playing word games with no nutritional value, Evan was the first to ask about the lunch menu.
[Deal.]
Clearly Chan and Yechan were seriously debating about the lunch menu next to them, but Siwoo and Evan had already decided on the lunch menu this simply.
The busy staff’s movements slowed down, and the clock behind them gradually ran toward noon.
“It’s up!”
The ‘Lucifer’ music video began appearing on the TV hanging on the video room wall. At Yechan’s words, who had been fooling around with Chan, Siwoo’s gaze also turned that way.
He couldn’t believe how fast the music video view count was rising. To exaggerate a bit, hundreds and thousands went up every time he blinked. Whistles were blown next to him and satisfied voices went back and forth, but such things didn’t catch Siwoo’s attention.
Since they had never received this much attention just from opening a music video, Siwoo couldn’t easily get rid of his dazed feeling even when they started the live broadcast.
The live broadcast proceeded smoothly.
The members simply revealed behind-the-scenes stories from filming, and as everyone added to the stories, time quickly passed.
“Anyway, our Siwoo did everything for this music video, everything.”
“It’s Lucifer.”
At the members’ words, Siwoo just scratched the back of his head and smiled. One of the reasons he had declined Lucifer was because of reactions like these.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
If it were his old self, he would have been desperate to somehow stand out more than the members and catch people’s attention, but now, honestly, he didn’t know.
“Now, this is the highlight of our music video. Finally meeting Evan, how to seduce Evan. Right…… this is it.”
Siwoo walks through a space full of splashing water.
Siwoo in the video really looked like he was walking on water. The black waves rippled uneasily as if they would pull Lucifer into the deep abyss at any moment.
A space filled with darkness on all sides. Evan, sitting in a chair with a prominent gold border, looked bigger.
Large wings that had even been produced as actual props were attached to Lucifer’s back. And the closer he got to the demon, the smaller the wings gradually became, and by the time he climbed the steps and stood in front of the sleeping one, Lucifer’s wings had completely disappeared.
Until then, Lucifer was still arrogant. Because he failed to recognize who was in front of him.
And the problematic scene unfolded.
The demon fiercely snatching up Lucifer. Lucifer helplessly embraced in his arms.
At the same time, pitch-black wings spread brilliantly behind the demon sitting on the throne.
The demon’s eyes cradling the back of Lucifer’s head were clearly closed. But they flashed open inadvertently, and green eyes harboring countless rippling emotions glared at the camera.
At that moment, the screen froze.
“Everyone’s going crazy because of this part right now. So, Evan-ssi and Siwoo-ssi.”
At Chan’s words, Siwoo stuck out his tongue slightly to moisten his dry lips.
“The original concept wasn’t like this. That scene got NG’d about ten times, I think. How was it?”
“It did. Originally, Lucifer was supposed to approach and wake the demon with a light kiss.”
Looking at Evan answering with a grin, Siwoo scratched his cheek with his fingertip.
“Every time I walked on the set, my pants gradually got wet, so by the time we did the last filming, they were wet almost to my knees. The pants might look fluffy in the video now, but later when I walked, they even made splashing sounds.”
Siwoo mentioned the most mundane episode.
“I kept my eyes closed the whole time, so I kept thinking about when Siwoo would arrive. After hearing it several times, the sound of walking on the water on the set and the sound of climbing the steps were different, so later I roughly thought it must be now.”
Unlike what Siwoo worried about, Evan also brought up an ordinary story.
“We’re curious about this! So did they touch? Or not touch?”
At Chan’s question thrown while giggling, Siwoo’s pupils trembled anxiously. He hadn’t made eye contact with Evan since the broadcast started, but now he unconsciously looked for Evan.
This situation is familiar. And the answer back then was.
“They touched.”
“They didn’t touch.”
The two answers overlapped. If there was a difference from a similar situation before, this time Siwoo admitted they touched, and Evan said they didn’t touch.
Yechan laughed while drumming on the table, and Sangjun asked several times questions like, “What? Did they touch? Didn’t they touch?”
“They didn’t touch.”
“They touched.”
Evan and Siwoo, who made ‘oops’ expressions at each other, hastily corrected themselves, but again their voices overlapped. Of course, this time Siwoo said they didn’t touch, and Evan answered that they touched.
The members roared with laughter. Laughter also flowed from the production team’s side.
Even in this situation, unlike Evan who just shrugged his shoulders and laughed, Siwoo’s face and ears turned red.
“No. That’s not it.”
Siwoo tried to speak while extending both hands forward and waving them to somehow smooth things over, but the laughter that had burst out once didn’t easily stop.
And with even the fans watching all of this in real time joining in, numerous posts began rising rapidly as if the chat window would burst.
“They touched, they touched. You two should get your stories straight. This is actually something we and the production team didn’t know because of the filming camera angle.”
“Right. When I asked Siwoo hyung if they touched after he finished filming then, I was dragged away by Chan hyung!”
“You have no sense. When we’re busy filming, where’s the time to ask about such things!”
“Ah! Really……”
As everyone raised their voices explaining the situation with this topic, in the end, Siwoo chose to cover his face with both hands. Even in his own opinion, he had basically revealed himself that their lips touched.
“Wait, wait a moment. This was an important scene. The scene we filmed earlier wasn’t that bad either, but just! How should I say it. It was okay but it didn’t really hit. So I suggested to the director that we film it again.”
Unlike Siwoo who had given up on everything, Evan organized the situation and spoke up.
“I really didn’t know it would be like this.”
With his face covered with both hands, Siwoo mumbled his own excuse.
“I thought if I explained that I would embrace him like this when he came up the steps, Siwoo would get nervous and filming would become even more difficult. So I just said I’d handle it on my own.”
“Originally, the demon is sitting half-reclined on that throne. So I approached and tilted my head slightly to film it like I was waking him up. But suddenly Evanie said he’d handle it himself. I was caught too! I was caught. When he’s holding me like that, how can I avoid it!”
At Evan’s words, Siwoo lowered the two hands that were covering and quickly continued speaking. He should tell the truth honestly.
But excited Siwoo’s words were faster than ever. The usual appearance of Siwoo speaking while thinking a bit slowly couldn’t be found at all.
“Right. I did it, I did it. It’s my fault, it’s my fault.”
Everyone was surprised at Siwoo’s fast speech for just a moment, but in the end, at Evan’s confession laughing and admitting that he did it, the video room was once again filled with the members’ laughter.
“Alright, alright, these things can happen during filming. It’s not like it’s the first or second time Evan and Siwoo’s lips touched. You know? The Pepero……”
“Hyung! When you say it like that, it’s even stranger. Everyone, it’s absolutely not like that.”
Finally, Chan seemed to organize the situation while bringing up another episode. Siwoo hastily grabbed his forearm and cut off Chan’s words.
“Ah, forget it. I don’t trust what two people who pettily got friendship rings just between themselves say. Let’s move on to the next.”
As if he had decided to gang up on them, when he stopped Chan, Sangjun, sitting on the opposite side, went even further and added more. Then Yechan completely laid face down on the table and even wiped away the tears pooled in his eyes.
And Evan across from them had his arms crossed and was covering his lower face with one hand. Surely an action to hide his laughter.
Only Siwoo, the person in question, didn’t know that his appearance of being flustered and surprised and trying to somehow manage the situation was further fueling it.
When the 18-minute live broadcast ended, Siwoo was completely exhausted. He didn’t properly remember how the rest of the live went or what he said.
“Wow, Siwoo hard carried today’s live. You saved everything.”
After confirming the camera was off, Sangjun patted the back of Siwoo, who was lying face down on the table, but Siwoo couldn’t easily raise his body. He would probably have to cut off the internet for a while.
There was a time when he thought malicious comments were better than no comments. Anyway, he thought even malicious comments were reactions shown because there was interest, whether good or bad, but when actually faced with them, it hurt considerably.
Not looking is beneficial for mental health.
It seemed he needed to be a bit more careful from now on. While thinking such thoughts, Siwoo’s right hand was already touching the ring on his left hand.
