summary: what if woodz and yeonjun went on the show and kissed. and yeosang is there too. reallizing now that this is absolutely nothing like what the prompt was trying to achieve. ah well, at least someone came to yeosang's show.
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it’s awkward. yeosang was expecting it, or course, but that doesn’t really make it any easier to live through. he clears his throat and both yeonjun and seungyoun turn their heads to him in an instant. he claps his hands and it resonates louder than he was expecting in the small backstage room. “it’s great finally meeting you,” yeosang says with his MC voice. it’s not a great MC voice, he’s still working on it, but it should do the trick at making people talk. at least out of politeness. “hongjoong and wooyoung have mentioned both of your names before, they speak of you very highly.”
seungyoun makes the facial expression of a sad puppy. it’s kind of awful to witness. absolutely does not help yeosang’s nerves. “aw yeosang, thank you for saying that. i care about hongjoong a lot, he’s a really good friend.”
yeosang wants to say yeah thanks i know i’m in a band with him and he’s one of my best friends, but he figures that might come off as more petty than he feels. just slightly more petty.
“wooyoung talks about you so much,” yeonjun says with a smile that makes yeosang feel a little less like a butterfly pinned down on a display and a little more like a human being. a great improvement to his mood. yeonjun looks at seungyoun with a polite smile. “and it’s a pleasure to officially meet you too.”
before the riveting conversation can go on any further, a staff member comes knocking on the door of the small waiting room they’ve been pushed into by yeosang's manager (under wooyoung’s orders). yeosang goes back on stage to actually work, and he’s able to step back a few minutes later, right before it’s time for woodz to do his pre-recording. he asks around to see where the two guests went and he’s surprised when he hears they’re still in the waiting room. so yeosang heads back in there, and knocks softly on the door before opening it just a little and freezing on the spot.
from the inside of the room, he hears muffled sounds.
if he had been any less experienced in walking on people making out, yeosang would have kept pushing the door open and barged in without any finesse. however, and unfortunately, this is not his first walk in on something he should not see. thought usually when it happens it’s in the safety of his dorm and he doesn’t fear anybody else stumbling in and potentially ruining lives.
he could close the door and pretend like he hasn’t heard nor seen anything, but then in between the (quite frankly gross) kissing noises he hears soft whispers and he figures it might be in his duty to protect nice moments for the friends of his friends. he quietly slips through the door and closes it as loud as he can without actually breaking the thing. he clears his throat and turns back to face seungyoun and yeonjun, still holding each other close.
“sorry to ruin your moment,” yeosang says. “but this is really not a safe place to do this. we don’t even have locks on the doors.”
yeonjun raises an eyebrow at seungyoun like this is news to him. seungyoun smiles sheepishly. “i thought i heard something click when i went to close it. sorry i was in a hurry to do something and i didn’t double check.”
yeonjun rolls his eyes and drops a little kiss to the corner of seungyoun’s mouth. yeosang quickly looks away before he’s forced to burn their image in his mind. “sorry for the trouble,” yeonjun says and yeosang takes a second to look back up and realize he’s being talk to. “we don’t really get the opportunity to see each other very often, so we got carried away.”
yeosang shrugs. “i get it.” he clears his throat. he shouldn’t ask, really, but… this is his opportunity. sure he took on the MC job because it’s fun and it’s something he likes and also because it’s something that would help both his image and the band. but also, and just as an afterthought, he did also take the job because of the social status it would bring. he’s heard stories, legends almost, of MCs at bigger show orchestrating hours worth of drama. he’s heard that the MCs end up knowing so much about everyone regardless if they want to or not. and maybe, just a little bit, yeosang wanted that for himself.
but the problem is that he’s MC’ing on the show. it’s no inkigayo, most of the bigger groups don’t even come here anymore. and the newer groups… well, yeosang has been having a hard time really coaxing any juicy story out of them. so this is it. his moment to become the guy he’s always dreamt of being: the keeper of secrets.
“so,” he starts, drags the vowels as much as he can. “how did you two become a thing?”
seungyoun seems surprised at the question and a light chuckles escapes him.
“well it’s… kind of a long story,” yeonjun mumbles.
for a second, yeosang thinks that he might have overstepped. and then seungyoun smiles reassuringly - and it works, yeosang does feel reassured. what the hell. “you know how it is in this business,” seungyoun says. “everyone knows everyone. kind of.”
“you know wooyoung,” yeonjun says like he just remembered the concept. “you know what it’s like!”
yeosang frowns. “i know what what is like?”
yeonjun makes a vague movement with his hands, looks back at seungyoun with obvious distress. “you know… what it’s like to be gay in this environment. like, everyone knows each other. that’s how wooyoung knows people. you know that,” he adds for good measure.
well, for one, yes yeosang does know what it’s like to be “gay in this environment” because he is also gay in an environment. it’s even the same environment! but apparently he hasn’t been invited to any of the “gay people in enviroments” meetings because he was not aware one of the perks was that he knew every other gay idol. he’s gonna have a strong word with wooyoung when he gets back. if he can remember to be angry about this.
“fine,” he finds himself saying. “whatever. just be a little more discreet maybe? at least lock the door next time.”
seungyoun doesn’t drop his smile. “this door doesn’t lock, you said so yourself. and it’s the show, it’s not like anyone is gonna come knocking on every door trying to find who ate which number from the inkigayo sandwiches.”
yeosang frowns. “maybe the show has its own version of the inkigayo sandwiches. what do you even know? maybe everyone knows this is the hottest place for gossip.”
yeonjun raises an eyebrow. “is it, now?”
yeosang deflates a little. they’re looking at him a little too seriously and it’s hard to keep his marble cold facade in front of them. “maybe not. but maybe yes! or maybe in the future.”
yeonjun smirks. “right. while you work on making this the hottest place for music shows drama, i’m gonna go back to work.” he pets seungyoun on his hip and pecks his lips quickly. “see you at the end babe.”
seungyoun grins and ruffles yeonjun’s hair a little. after some protests from him, he says, “makes you look crazier! rockier! go kill it out there my little rock star!”
yeonjun winks at him and leaves, awardly shuffling in front of yeosang who’s still standing in front of the door.
seungyoun keeps smiling at yeosang when it’s just the two of them standing on opposite corners. “thanks for being cool about this,” he says. yeosang does a poor job at hiding his surprise.
“of course. why would i be weird.”
seungyoun raises an eyebrow in his direction as he goes to gather his things. “you know i talk to hongjoong a lot, right?”
yeosang deflates. “fine. why would i be weird about this.”
seungyoun shrugs. “people have been weird before.” he straightens up and heads for the door. “say hi to hongjoong for me?” yeosang nods.
as soon as he’s alone, he takes a second to rejoice. this is the start of a turn around in his career, he can feel it. now he’s going to be known as the guy who knows something. whatever that thing might be. hopefully it might encourage more people to tell him things. and anyway, now he can gloat to-
he pauses in the middle of his celebration. wooyoung knows about this. there’s no way he doesn’t. he’s in on the whole “gay in the environment” deal. well, yeosang will have to brag about it to seonghwa. less rewarding but he doesn’t know a damn thing.
yeondz - things you said with no space between us
reallizing now that this is absolutely nothing like what the prompt was trying to achieve. ah well, at least someone came to yeosang's show.
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it’s awkward. yeosang was expecting it, or course, but that doesn’t really make it any easier to live through. he clears his throat and both yeonjun and seungyoun turn their heads to him in an instant. he claps his hands and it resonates louder than he was expecting in the small backstage room. “it’s great finally meeting you,” yeosang says with his MC voice. it’s not a great MC voice, he’s still working on it, but it should do the trick at making people talk. at least out of politeness. “hongjoong and wooyoung have mentioned both of your names before, they speak of you very highly.”
seungyoun makes the facial expression of a sad puppy. it’s kind of awful to witness. absolutely does not help yeosang’s nerves. “aw yeosang, thank you for saying that. i care about hongjoong a lot, he’s a really good friend.”
yeosang wants to say yeah thanks i know i’m in a band with him and he’s one of my best friends, but he figures that might come off as more petty than he feels. just slightly more petty.
“wooyoung talks about you so much,” yeonjun says with a smile that makes yeosang feel a little less like a butterfly pinned down on a display and a little more like a human being. a great improvement to his mood. yeonjun looks at seungyoun with a polite smile. “and it’s a pleasure to officially meet you too.”
before the riveting conversation can go on any further, a staff member comes knocking on the door of the small waiting room they’ve been pushed into by yeosang's manager (under wooyoung’s orders). yeosang goes back on stage to actually work, and he’s able to step back a few minutes later, right before it’s time for woodz to do his pre-recording. he asks around to see where the two guests went and he’s surprised when he hears they’re still in the waiting room. so yeosang heads back in there, and knocks softly on the door before opening it just a little and freezing on the spot.
from the inside of the room, he hears muffled sounds.
if he had been any less experienced in walking on people making out, yeosang would have kept pushing the door open and barged in without any finesse. however, and unfortunately, this is not his first walk in on something he should not see. thought usually when it happens it’s in the safety of his dorm and he doesn’t fear anybody else stumbling in and potentially ruining lives.
he could close the door and pretend like he hasn’t heard nor seen anything, but then in between the (quite frankly gross) kissing noises he hears soft whispers and he figures it might be in his duty to protect nice moments for the friends of his friends. he quietly slips through the door and closes it as loud as he can without actually breaking the thing. he clears his throat and turns back to face seungyoun and yeonjun, still holding each other close.
“sorry to ruin your moment,” yeosang says. “but this is really not a safe place to do this. we don’t even have locks on the doors.”
yeonjun raises an eyebrow at seungyoun like this is news to him. seungyoun smiles sheepishly. “i thought i heard something click when i went to close it. sorry i was in a hurry to do something and i didn’t double check.”
yeonjun rolls his eyes and drops a little kiss to the corner of seungyoun’s mouth. yeosang quickly looks away before he’s forced to burn their image in his mind. “sorry for the trouble,” yeonjun says and yeosang takes a second to look back up and realize he’s being talk to. “we don’t really get the opportunity to see each other very often, so we got carried away.”
yeosang shrugs. “i get it.” he clears his throat. he shouldn’t ask, really, but… this is his opportunity. sure he took on the MC job because it’s fun and it’s something he likes and also because it’s something that would help both his image and the band. but also, and just as an afterthought, he did also take the job because of the social status it would bring. he’s heard stories, legends almost, of MCs at bigger show orchestrating hours worth of drama. he’s heard that the MCs end up knowing so much about everyone regardless if they want to or not. and maybe, just a little bit, yeosang wanted that for himself.
but the problem is that he’s MC’ing on the show. it’s no inkigayo, most of the bigger groups don’t even come here anymore. and the newer groups… well, yeosang has been having a hard time really coaxing any juicy story out of them. so this is it. his moment to become the guy he’s always dreamt of being: the keeper of secrets.
“so,” he starts, drags the vowels as much as he can. “how did you two become a thing?”
seungyoun seems surprised at the question and a light chuckles escapes him.
“well it’s… kind of a long story,” yeonjun mumbles.
for a second, yeosang thinks that he might have overstepped. and then seungyoun smiles reassuringly - and it works, yeosang does feel reassured. what the hell. “you know how it is in this business,” seungyoun says. “everyone knows everyone. kind of.”
“you know wooyoung,” yeonjun says like he just remembered the concept. “you know what it’s like!”
yeosang frowns. “i know what what is like?”
yeonjun makes a vague movement with his hands, looks back at seungyoun with obvious distress. “you know… what it’s like to be gay in this environment. like, everyone knows each other. that’s how wooyoung knows people. you know that,” he adds for good measure.
well, for one, yes yeosang does know what it’s like to be “gay in this environment” because he is also gay in an environment. it’s even the same environment! but apparently he hasn’t been invited to any of the “gay people in enviroments” meetings because he was not aware one of the perks was that he knew every other gay idol. he’s gonna have a strong word with wooyoung when he gets back. if he can remember to be angry about this.
“fine,” he finds himself saying. “whatever. just be a little more discreet maybe? at least lock the door next time.”
seungyoun doesn’t drop his smile. “this door doesn’t lock, you said so yourself. and it’s the show, it’s not like anyone is gonna come knocking on every door trying to find who ate which number from the inkigayo sandwiches.”
yeosang frowns. “maybe the show has its own version of the inkigayo sandwiches. what do you even know? maybe everyone knows this is the hottest place for gossip.”
yeonjun raises an eyebrow. “is it, now?”
yeosang deflates a little. they’re looking at him a little too seriously and it’s hard to keep his marble cold facade in front of them. “maybe not. but maybe yes! or maybe in the future.”
yeonjun smirks. “right. while you work on making this the hottest place for music shows drama, i’m gonna go back to work.” he pets seungyoun on his hip and pecks his lips quickly. “see you at the end babe.”
seungyoun grins and ruffles yeonjun’s hair a little. after some protests from him, he says, “makes you look crazier! rockier! go kill it out there my little rock star!”
yeonjun winks at him and leaves, awardly shuffling in front of yeosang who’s still standing in front of the door.
seungyoun keeps smiling at yeosang when it’s just the two of them standing on opposite corners. “thanks for being cool about this,” he says. yeosang does a poor job at hiding his surprise.
“of course. why would i be weird.”
seungyoun raises an eyebrow in his direction as he goes to gather his things. “you know i talk to hongjoong a lot, right?”
yeosang deflates. “fine. why would i be weird about this.”
seungyoun shrugs. “people have been weird before.” he straightens up and heads for the door. “say hi to hongjoong for me?” yeosang nods.
as soon as he’s alone, he takes a second to rejoice. this is the start of a turn around in his career, he can feel it. now he’s going to be known as the guy who knows something. whatever that thing might be. hopefully it might encourage more people to tell him things. and anyway, now he can gloat to-
he pauses in the middle of his celebration. wooyoung knows about this. there’s no way he doesn’t. he’s in on the whole “gay in the environment” deal. well, yeosang will have to brag about it to seonghwa. less rewarding but he doesn’t know a damn thing.