"Hyungs~ ChenJi is now OFFICIAL!!! Chen and I are dating." On hearing that all the members started hooting, clapping and congratulating their two youngest members. It was an atmosphere filled with happiness and celebration.
But there was one person who was jealous and envious of them because even he wanted to make progress in his relationship. It was Young, he was thinking how wonderful a boyfriend Ten was but in reality they had never gotten their own space or time as a couple after their debut, they were always busy being responsible leaders for the NEO sub unit members. Ten being NEO U's leader, whereas Young being NEO 35's as well as NEO as a whole group's leader.
Whenever for the past months since their debut, were they about to have a romantic moment or to say finally their private couple time together, something or the other would pop out where the members would need their leaders or in general their hyungs to help them. But Young knew it was not only Ten's but also his fault for always ditching the other for their members.
As even Young himself was overprotective of his members, always wanting to be there for them to protect them because NEO was like a second family to Young which he wanted to protect and keep it strong together so they could go on for a long time as Idols.
Sometimes Young couldn't even spend time or see Ten for a whole week as Ten had his room in the NEO U's dorm whereas Young being the leader of NEO 35 had to stay with them in their dorm and them being in different units did no justice to their relationship. Having different schedules on different days, different albums to promote at different times of the year, etc.
Young would always feel lonely these days with NEO U promoting their recent album and Ten being busy with it but he never showed it or consulted his members about his issues. Young thought he would unnecessarily be troubling them with his childish problems of his relationship. He wanted to confide in Tae, the eldest member of NEO, the only one after Ten. Young talked about his problems but even Tae was busy with writing songs for NEO 35's comeback album.
After the party was done all returned to their respective dorms and again Young had to part with his lover Ten. Whereas the others had their partners to themselves as they lived with their lover's and could spend time with them whenever they wanted.
Young always felt insecure about his relationship as he never knew what was happening to Ten who was a very reserved person in matters of his feelings and Ten who confided in Johnny, Ten's best friend, whom Ten was the closest to since trainee years. That was also a reason why they would always fight over small and useless matters which even the maknae's Chen and Jihun would think were so childish. (maknae- youngest in Korean)
After the celebration for the ChenJi couple being official, Young got a call from their Manager hyung saying that the CEO had called for him so he was asked to visit the next day itself. Thus, the reason Young was called to their company was to discuss their upcoming whole group album aka NEO as a whole group.
This album was supposed to be a joint album by the whole of NEO as all 18 members were to take part in making the album. He got up early and reached the company by 9 am where he was having a talk with the producers about the kinds of songs but was not able to pay full attention, still worried about failing his relationship with Ten.
But this one thing grabbed his attention, pulling him from his deep thoughts. He was told to do a duet song with none other than the love of his life, his beloved boyfriend, Ten which brightened up his mood immediately. He wanted to make the best out of this chance and show Ten how much he loved him in return as Ten had never once complained about the differences in their relationship. And this being a love song just worked wonders for him.
Reason of Young wanting to do something for Ten in return was that even if they had ever fought over any stupid cases Ten would make sure to clear their misunderstanding about the topic and say sorry first every time they fought weather it was or not his mistake saying that he understood Young not approaching him first.
That Young had a reputation of being their leader to keep thus, Young couldn't be the first one to give in and be soft for Ten only. Ten was also the first one to confess his feelings about how he had fallen for Young at the first sight when he had first joined their company upon arriving from Thailand, whereas Young had already been a trainee since a year back then.
Now Young was only thinking and focusing about his duet with Ten throughout the car ride back to his dorm. He had put up a message on their group chat room for NEO members to gather at the 35’s dorm to talk about their upcoming album.
When he climbed into the lift to reach his floor, to his surprise Ten was already in the lift alone, thus on seeing his boyfriend Young couldn't contain his happiness inside anymore and jumped Ten bringing the younger into a tight and warm hug who had not even noticed Young entering the lift, he was busy looking down at his phone.
"AH!! Huh?! Young-ie hyung?! Ah hyung~You scared me!! But what's with this sudden morning hug, huh?! Not that I'm complaining." Ten spoke for the first time that morning with a smirk on his handsome face as he hugged his boyfriend back, tightening the hug, having missed their lovey-dovey moments.
"Ten-ah~ You won't believe what I'm about to inform you but it's all true. I was super excited and was just thinking how I should definitely tell Ten about this first and here you are! I love you sooo much~ " Young rambled on with a happy smile making Ten smile in return seeing his hyung so happy about something, Young had now completely lost his cool and was grinning like an idiot.
"Ten-ah~~ we are going to do a DUET SONG TOGETHER!!" Young exclaimed happily, stressing on his words to be heard loud and clear with an ear to ear smile.
"What-WHAT!!!.....Hyung you're seriously not kidding me right?!.......B-But seriously! Like OMG! Whoa hahahahah!!'' Ten was shocked at first and was having a hard time digesting the news but when he saw Young smiling so brightly, it confirmed the news for him to be true.
Happiness filled his mind and soul even faster than any bullet train on earth which made him pick Young up by his hips who was still smiling like an idiot and turn around in excitement. But he lowered Young down at once when Young kept on laughing yet still screaming to put him down.
But the lovely YoungTen couple was so engrossed in their conversations, their moments and expressing their love to each other that they had not heard the bell on the elevator which indicated that they had reached their destined floor. On seeing Ten's reaction, Young had fallen even harder for his boyfriend because Young was also having double thoughts that what if Ten didn't wanna do a duet song with him but he was foolish to think so.
Young was slowly leaning ahead, going in for a kiss, to thank Ten for happily accepting this duet offer. But they were oh so rudely interrupted by a cough which made both of their heads turn instantly towards the unknown sound.
"Cough cough cough!! Um.....hyungs........"