[taeyoung has a basketball game, and he really wants seongmin to watch. but seongmin was busy with something else and arrives late.]

"serim hyung!" taeyoung runs toward serim, sweat dripping from his hair. "are you going to watch the game later?"

"of course i am going to. all of us will be there." serim smiles, handing the panting kid a dry towel. "what time does it start?"

"at 4pm. make sure everyone comes, okay?"

"i'm sure they'll come. now go, continue practicing. i'll go look for the others."

serim pats taeyoung's shoulder and the younger nods, starting his run again. serim then takes his phone out to text the others.

seongmin was focused and concentrated on playing his video game, making sure he doesn't lose the level again, when his phone suddenly rings.

he glances at the phone, seeing serim's contact number on the screen. he returned his eyes to the screen, focusing on the game again, but his phone rang again.

seongmin groans in frustration when the words "game over" flash on the tv screen, followed by "you lost".

he runs his fingers through his hair, picking up his phone to answer serim's call.

"why didn't you answer my first call?" serim asks, right after seongmin clicks the green button.

"i was playing, hyung. sorry."

seongmin hears serim sigh on the other line. "you better stop playing that game and get ready now. taeyoung's game starts at four."

"wait, his game is today? isn't it supposed to be on april 1?"

"it is april 1, ahn seongmin."

"oh," he awkwardly laughs. "pick me up later, hyung? i still haven't ate lunch."

"what?! it's already one!"

"i'm sorry, hyung! i didn't notice the time. i'll go eat now, bye bye~"

"you better be ready when i get there-"

"yes, yes~"

then he presses the red button on the screen, ending the call. not a minute later, seongmin received a notification. it was a text message from taeyoung.

'you're going to watch my game later, right?', the text message said.

'yes~ good luck!' seongmin types. he pauses for a second, staring at the heart emoji, hesitating if he should add it. but he shakes his head and clicks send without the emoji. he thought that taeyoung would find it weird if he added the emoji on his message.

for the past days, seongmin and taeyoung have been a bit awkward with each other, after taeyoung accidentally saw something on seongmin's notes.

seongmin has a habit of writing down his thoughts on the notes app and forgetting to move it to his secret folder.

the night before that happened, he couldn't stop thinking about taeyoung, after he saw him play basketball with his team. he didn't want to talk about it with the others, he didn't want them to know that he was crushing on taeyoung, so he just wrote it down.

they came over seongmin's house the next day. while they were having fun, taeyoung suddenly asks seongmin if he can borrow his phone because his battery was dead and still charging. seongmin, busy with his video game, just said yes without processing the question.

the first thing taeyoung saw when he opened seongmin's phone was the long paragraph he wrote last night. flustered about what he saw, he just returned the phone to seongmin, telling him that his phone is okay now.

seongmin burries his face on the palm of his hands as he kicks the air, feeling embarrassed and mad at himself as the event replayed in his head.

he laid down on his couch and stared at his white ceiling, asking himself if he should go to taeyoung's game.

"what if i stare at him again? what if i get caught? what if he won't talk to me ever again?"

he sighs, picking up the couch pillow then covering his face with it. seongmin then screams, but the pillow muffles it.

"i'll just continue playing, serim hyung will pick me up anyway."

seongmin continues to play his video game, winning and losing, not realizing the time passing by fast.

it was now 3:45pm, 15 minutes till taeyoung's game. and seongmin was still playing, smiling widely as he was winning level after level.

he places the gane console down, smiling proudly at himself as the words "you win!" flashes on the tv screen.

seongmin stood up and went to the kitchen for a glass of water since he felt his throat was dry. while he gulped his water, he opened his phone.

when he saw the time, he almost choked. it was a few minutes till taeyoung's game, and the venue was more than ten minutes away.

hurriedly, seongmin opened his contacts list to call serim. after three rings, serim picks up the call.

"hyung, where are you?"

"i was just about to call you. i'm sorry, i can't pick you up. the traffic is heavy. if you ride a bus now, maybe you can still catch up."

"okay, i'll try."

seongmin immediately ran to his room and changed into better clothes. he fixed his hair and sprayed perfume all over his body before he ran out of his house, hoping to catch the bus on time.

he continues to run to the bus stop, panting for breath. when he saw a bus stop, he runs faster, trying to catch it, but he wasn't fast enough and the bus left even before he could arrive at the stop.

seongmin sits down and takes a deep breath. he opens his phone to check the time, he was already late.

the coach continues to remind taeyoung and his teammates things before the game starts, but he just kept glancing at the empty seat beside wonjin, wondering why seongmin still hasn't arrive.

"kim taeyoung!" coach lee yells, getting taeyoung's attention.

taeyoung immediately turn his head to his coach, telling himself in his head to forget about seongmin for the moment. "yes, coach lee?"

"we're you even listening?"

he nods. coach lee looks at everyone before he continues to talk and taeyoung to pays attention this time.

seongmin couldn't put his feet to rest. he has been walking in circles for minutes now, waiting for the next bus. right now, the game was starting already, and he could stop scolding himself for leaving earlier.

not long after, the bus arrives and seongmin hurriedly gets in. he sits down, fiddling his finger and biting his lower lip, hoping that the driver would drive a bit faster.

the game was almost ending. taeyoung's team was leading the scores. they were given a short break right now. as he chugs down his water, he glances over the seat next to wonjin, which was still empty.

"he's not coming." taeyoung tells himself, feeling upset.

then the short break was over. the game starts again.

"let's go, let's go!" his teammates call him, and he follows them.

after a few minutes, seongmin finally arrived at the basketball court which was noisy and busy cheering for their teams. he hurriedly runs inside and looks for the boys.

his eyes move around, looking for serim who said that he'll be waving at him, until he found him. he smiles as he carefully walks down to them.

"the game is ending very soon. what were you doing to be his late?" wonjin asks seongmin as the younger sits down.

"i wasn't able to catch the first bus, so i had to wait for the next one."

"taeyoung wouldn't stop looking over here earlier, he was probably waiting for you."

seongmin looks down, disappointed at himself. he watches the game go on, but he was actually focused at taeyoung, who was carrying his team, making them lead the scores.

taeyoung now has the ball on his hands, and the court cheers loudly, hoping that he shoots. seongmin still had his eyes glued on taeyoung.

taeyoung manages to get pass the other players and shoot the ball, making them score and win. the whole court cheers loudly, but among all those cheers, taeyoung only heard seongmin's.

taeyoung turns around to look over at the empty seat before. seongmin was there, standing with a wide smile, cheering taeyoung's name. taeyoung couldn't help but smile and blush a dark shade of pink.

the game was now over and taeyoung had the trophy on his arms. he and his team were done finished taking pictures and he was talking with his coach right now.

"good job, taeyoung."

"the team is nothing without you, coach lee!" taeyoung smiles at his coach.

"see you tomorrow at school, your friends are here." coach lee waves goodbye to taeyoung, and taeyoung waves back.

"our taeyoung did amazing today!" minhee ruffles the younger one's blond hair.

"thank you!" taeyoung laughs as he hugs minhee.

"congratulations." seongmin smiles at him.

taeyoung looks at him, not knowing how to react. he was happy he made it, but still mad because he was very late.

"how about let's go skating or ride the ferris wheel at lotte world as a celebration of taeyoung's winning?" serim asks, breaking off the awkward silence.

"that sounds like a great idea!" hyeongjun smiles.

"let's go~" woobin grabs taeyoung's arm and the both ran to the van. seongmin frowns, wanting to be the one who did that.

"what should we ride first?" taeyoung asks as he looks around, amazed by all the fun rides.

"let's go to the ferris wheel, what about that?" seongmin says.

taeyoung says nothing.

"okay, let's go!" jungmo answers for taeyoung, realizing that he was upset at the youngest.

they were now in front of the ferris wheel. they wanted to go by three but the operator told them that only two people in each cabin is allowed.

"let's pair up! i'll go with woobin." serim says.

"i'll go with wonjin hyung~" hyeongjun hugs wonjin as they both laugh.

"then it's me and mogu hyung!" minhee smiles at jungmo.

"i'll go alone." allen says.

"hyung, let's go together-"

"no, you go with seongmin. i want to take some pictures."

"why? can't you still take pictures even if i'm with you?" taeyoung pouts.

"just go with seongmin, okay? listen to your hyung."

taeyoung looks at seongmin. "fine.."

the first cabin stops in front of them, and taeyoung decides to get in first before seongmin follows inside.

the two of them sat in silence. it was surprisingly awkward, since the both of them were always loud and noisy together.

"you played so good today." seongmin breaks the ice.

but taeyoung just scoffs. "as if you saw the whole game."

seongmin looked down. "i'm sorry. serim hyung said he'd pick me up but the traffic was heavy so he just told me to ride a bus. i tried to catch up with the first bus but i wasn't able to. i had to wait for the second bus to come which took a while."

"yeah, okay."

"you're mad at me, right?"

"what do you think?"

"i was just late! minhee hyung didn't even watched your previous game but you weren't mad."

"he had a valid reason, but i'm sure you were just playing your video games again."

"i told you, i thought serim hyung was going to pick me up which is why i waited for him and while waiting i played some video games."

"do you even care? unlike before, you'd be at the court even before i'd arrive."

"i'm sorry."

suddenly, the ferris wheel stops. the cabin shakes, scaring seongmin. taeyoung immediately stood up from his seat and sat beside seongmin.

without seongmin noticing, he holds taeyoung's hand.

"are we gonna fall?" seongmin looks around, but taeyoung just stares at him.

"taeyoung, we-" seongmin was cut off mid sentence when he realizes that he was holding taeyoung's hand, and that their faces were just a few inches apart.

hyeongjun suddenly screams, probably because wonjin teased him about the ferris wheel falling apart.

taeyoung and seongmin laugh upon hearing their hyung's high pitched scream.

"taeyoung, the cabin is unbalanced."

"i don't care. you were scared."

"i wasn't."

"you held my hand out of panic."

seongmin blushes as he looks at their intertwined hands.

"but why are you holding mine too?"

"i still remember what i saw two days ago when i borrowed your phone."

"please don't mention that ever again. you never told anyone else, right?"

"maybe i told serim hyung." taeyoung laughs.

"i hate you." seongmin takes his hand away from taeyoung, breaking their intertwined hands. he pouts and crosses his arms.

"you hate me now? too bad, i was planning on confessing to you."

seongmin felt his heart do a backflip. "you planned on what?"

"i like you too, ahn seongmin." taeyoung smiles.

seongmin's cheeks and ears turn red. he tries to stop himself from smiling but fails.

"you look so stupid right now." taeyoung laughs at seongmin, who looked like a whole tomato.

"i may look stupid but at least you like me back now."

taeyoung grabs seongmin's hand and intertwines it with his. the both of them just smiled at each other, enjoying the moment.

"seongmin! taeyoung! can you hear me?" wonjin yells from the cabin behind them.

"yes, wonjin hyung! why?" taeyoung yells back.

"the operator said that they'll fix the problem quick, and by quick they mean thirty minutes!"

"that's fine!" taeyoung hugs seongmin. "i got all i need with me."