Doha briefly suspected that he was trying to suffocate him to death.
Even on the way back with ice cream sticks in their mouths, the way he stuck close and wouldn’t detach made it clear there was malicious intent.
“I didn’t know hyung liked refreshing flavors.”
“……”
You’re the one who gave it to me. You’re the one who insisted on putting this in my hand, saying pineapple is good for digestion.
Death…… The word death was circling round and round in his head. How do I detach this leech? The image of rushing to the hospital right after being possessed came back to mind.
When they reached the lobby inside the company building, Sehyun, who had been walking beside him, suddenly stopped. Naturally, Doha’s gaze turned toward him.
Sehyun bobbed the melon-flavored ice cream above his lips.
“Our Doha hyung, why do you keep avoiding my gaze?”
Was that a soliloquy or a question?
But he could understand why he’d ask such a question. It wasn’t easy to deliberately ignore someone who was stuck to him like a cicada on an old tree. But I managed to do that difficult thing, didn’t I?
“……”
Honestly, when someone’s being this burdensome, you expect me not to avoid them?
“Am I so handsome that it’s burdensome?”
If an ordinary person said something like that, it would be recognized as a joke to ease the awkward atmosphere. But when a genuinely handsome person says this, it was annoying.
Ding-!
Just then, the notification that the elevator had arrived rang out. Doha lightly ignored Sehyun’s words and quickly dashed into the elevator.
‘CEO’s office, CEO’s office, where is it?’
Doha rolled his eyes to find what floor the CEO’s office was on, and finally discovered the small lettering and hurriedly pressed 7.
Beep.
Just then, Sehyun entered the elevator. Perhaps because his words were ignored, his expression was somewhat sulky. Sehyun stood next to Doha, and his hand reached out toward the elevator buttons.
Beep, beep.
His touch was twice.
“The practice room is on the 3rd floor.”
Sehyun, who had canceled the 7th floor that Doha pressed and pressed the 3rd floor where the practice room was, smiled brightly.
Hmm…… Not so easy to deal with.
Sehyun placed his hand on Doha’s shoulder again. This kind of skinship seemed to be a habit of his. His hands came up constantly.
When Doha looked up at Sehyun with incredulous eyes, Sehyun turned his head and looked down at Doha. His even lips parted smoothly. The remaining melon ice cream slipped into Sehyun’s mouth.
The sweet melon scent made Doha’s head spin.
‘Why do I keep getting goosebumps?’
It was probably because of the particularly intense gaze of this young punk.
* * *
By the time they returned to the dorm, the sun had already set.
Crazy bastards. How can they use their bodies all day long? The phrase “all day long” should only apply to playing games.
“I’m dying.”
Still, they didn’t seem to be robots as groans came from here and there.
“I’m showering first.”
Yunbeom entered the living room bathroom. The remaining members entered their rooms one by one.
Doha keenly observed their movements. The reason being, to figure out who was entering the room he used.
There were two rooms on the right from the entrance, and one on the left side of the living room that appeared after going all the way down the hallway. The square footage wasn’t small, but instead of having large rooms, there were only three rooms. Haram and Sehyun entered the second room on the right.
‘The maknaes share a room.’
Eden entered the nearby room.
“……”
In other words, no one had entered Doha’s room. At that moment, his spine went cold. The sound of shower water pouring could be heard from the bathroom.
“No way……”
No. It was still too early to jump to conclusions. Eden’s room still had one spot left.
Beep.
“Doha, why are you standing blankly at the entrance? Go wash up and rest.”
The manager hyung, who came in late after parking the car and gathering the luggage, took off his shoes and tidied them up. And…….
‘Fuck……’
He entered the room where Eden was.
“Ha.”
Was it because I only went to church on Christmas as a child? Or was it because I only went to the temple on Buddha’s Birthday? Still, shouldn’t I get points for at least dipping my feet in?
Heaven was cruel, and the sound of the shower water pouring embedded itself louder and louder in his eardrums.
Should I still run away now?
* * *
And taste.
His face looked like he should live with only black blankets and black curtains drawn, but a vivid lavender-colored blanket? Besides, why are all the collected goods only cute things?
The photos in the frames that he had no interest in during the day caught his eye. Now that he looked, they were all photos of Yunbeom.
‘Why didn’t I see this?’
Doha finished showering using the bathroom attached to the room and vigorously shook his hair with a towel.
“What are you looking at?”
Just then, Yunbeom, who had finished showering, entered the room. His breath started to catch. Unlike his strong impression, Yunbeom was wearing matching top and bottom pajama sets. The color was gray but covered densely with cute cat characters.
“Don’t be annoying and get out of the way.”
Yunbeom tapped Doha and passed by him. The towel in Doha’s hand fell to the floor. Doha glared intensely at the back of Yunbeom’s head.
‘Violence.’
He wanted to curse satisfyingly, but there was something holding him back. He thought about each member’s controversies when the group exploded. Violence, drug suspicion, fraud.
First, the fraud was already revealed early on as to who it was. So, excluded. Drug suspicion? His mental state was certainly questionable, but violence fit Yunbeom like a glove more than that.
Look at him now. Wasn’t he glaring with eyes full of discontent with society?
‘Pre-violent offender.’
So he couldn’t recklessly confront him. You avoid shit not because it’s dirty, but because you’re scared of it.
The moment Yunbeom frowned while looking at Doha standing blankly, Doha silently picked up the towel. Then he grabbed a pillow from the bed.
I wonder if the dorm sofa is soft? What brand is it?
With that, Doha went out to the living room.
Next to the living room was the kitchen. Eden was looking for something on the shelf above the water purifier.
“I think I’m coming down with a cold.”
Doha looked at Eden and thought.
‘Pre-druggie.’
The person involved in fraud wasn’t Eden.
“Hyung, isn’t the cold medicine here?”
It was that harmless-looking cutie Haram. Of course, he had his circumstances, but anyway, excluding fraud and violence, what remained was the druggie title, so it was naturally possible to speculate that Eden would be that target.
‘What a bunch.’
Doha was treating the members as pre-criminals even though nothing had happened yet. But he thought the members didn’t need to feel wronged.
‘Still, it’s better than me dying.’
There’s a saying that even if you roll in a dog shit field, this world is better than the afterlife. Compared to himself whose death was predetermined, their lives getting somewhat ruined and being handcuffed was a hundred times better.
“Hyung, what are you looking for?”
As Doha was gazing at the members wistfully, Sehyun approached, giving off a soapy scent.
Does that guy have some kind of Baek Doha radar? He keeps sticking like a magnet. Sehyun pressed down on Doha’s shoulder as he stood awkwardly in front of the sofa and sat down on the sofa together.
“Why did you bring out a pillow?”
Sehyun poked at the pillow preciously held in Doha’s arms and asked.
“Don’t tell me you’re going to sleep in the living room?”
Doha didn’t give any answer. He was just pondering how to detach this leech.
“Then I should sleep in the living room too.”
“Why?”
Doha’s mouth, which had been tightly shut until now, flew open.
“Just because. It’s nice after a long time, isn’t it? When we were trainees, the two of us often slept together.”
“You should sleep in a bed.”
“It’s funny when hyung says that after bringing a pillow out to the living room.”
Sehyun chuckled, finding something amusing. His not-quite-dry hair swayed.
“I can sleep holding hyung after a long time.”
Sehyun wrapped his arms around Doha’s waist and rested his face on his shoulder. The shampoo scent rushed in. Doha tried to slowly slip his shoulder out, but couldn’t escape because of Sehyun’s posture wrapping around his body like an anaconda.
‘I’m definitely going to die.’
Otherwise, there’s no reason for a grown man to cling this tightly.
When Doha shrugged his shoulders, Sehyun’s face shook. The sound of teeth clacking near his ear was heard, and soon Sehyun lifted his face with dissatisfaction. Doha glanced down at Sehyun who was leaning his body heavily and stood up from his seat.
“I’ll go in.”
Doha bowed in greeting. In the room, a tiger was opening its jaws, and in the living room, an anaconda was lurking.
Is this a dorm or a jungle?
“Let’s sleep together, hyung.”
Sehyun tried to grab Doha’s wrist as he was moving away, but the herbivore with its guard radar fully lit in this perilous jungle nimbly dodged his hand.
“I can’t sleep when someone’s next to me.”
This wasn’t a lie. When sleeping, he needed there to be no other people not just next to him, but in the same space at all to feel comfortable.
“Hmm.”
Sehyun leaned his body deeply into the sofa. Sehyun’s gaze, leaning crookedly against the armrest, meticulously scanned over Doha. Sehyun sometimes looked at the members with his characteristically slow and sticky gaze even during practice.
“Tomorrow, hyung has to go to the company too.”
“Why?”
