It wasn't until early the next morning that the three went to bed. And none of them slept really well, even though they slept together in Jisung's bed.

But the time pressure weighed too heavily on them.

Chan found it incredibly difficult to fall asleep at all and Jisung kept getting scared out of his sleep. Only when Changbin had lay down between the two and pulled both of them in his arms, they became calmer and could at least sleep a little.

And yet the alarm clock rang at eleven o'clock in the morning. They urgently had to continue working and actually start recording demos.

They could use some of what they had recorded some time ago to show their manager the first approaches of which direction the next album should go, but unfortunately that wasn't really much.

Jisung startled even before the alarm clock rang. As carefully as he could in his excited state, he crawled out of bed without waking up Changbin and Chan.

He grabbed his notebook, his phone and his headphones and ran into the living room.

He absolutely had to write down the ideas in his head before they disappeared again. It didn't matter how tired he was and how much he would have liked to go back to bed with Chan and Changbin.

At some point in the night he had known exactly in which direction their album should go. Had known exactly what he wanted to say and what he wanted to convey.

His pen nearly flew over the paper and slowly individual lines became something that was more and more reminiscent of a song lyrics.

When Chan's alarm clock rang, he almost immediately startled out of his already restless sleep. Worries and nightmares had haunted him in his sleep and held him captive.

Sighing, he turned off the alarm clock and looked around. Changbin looked at him sleepy and looked like he would fall asleep again the next moment.

Smiling, Chan bent over to him and kissed him.

"Good morning Binnie!"

Grumbling, Changbin pulled the blanket over his face and turned away from him.

Only then Chan noticed that Jisung was no longer in bed with them.

"Binnie, where is Ji?" he asked, confused.

Tired, Changbin sat up and looked around.

"Not here."

"No, really," said Chan laughing and stood up.

He didn't have to search long. He found Jisung surrounded by written pages scattered everywhere. Smiling, Chan watched him for a moment.

He would have liked to go to him to kiss him, but he knew very well that it was better not to disturb him now. When Jisung was so deep into work, it made him crazy if he was disturbed by someone.

So he went to the kitchen to cook something to eat, which he would then put in front of Jisung without comment, in the hope that the younger one would notice and eat it.

Frustrated, he realized that they didn't really have anything there that he could cook. What he should have been aware of, but somehow he hadn't really thought about it.

Sighing, he went into his room, grabbed fresh clothes and went on to the bathroom.

He could have simply ordered something to eat, but somehow he was very keen to cook something himself.

After a short shower, he got dressed, put on a beanie and then looked for the two again before leaving the apartment.

The way to the supermarket was not far and his hope of not being recognized in the thick winter jacket and with the beanie was high.

Fortunately, there was not much going on and he could shop everything he needed in peace without being recognized.

When he got home again, he found Jisung and Changbin exactly as he had left them.

Smiling, he set out to cook food.

Just as he was almost finished cooking, Changbin came sleepy from Jisung's room and looked around searching for them.

"Good morning Binnie," Chan said with a smile, while Changbin slowly approached him.

"Morning...," Changbin muttered tiredly and leaned against him.

"Do you want to eat with me? It's almost ready," Chan asked and gently stroked the younger's back.

"So I would be hungry!"

The two jerked apart astonished. They hadn't even noticed that Jisung had come to them and had watched them.

"Nice, then let's eat something."

After the meal, Jisung disappeared wordlessly back to the sofa, put his headphones back on and continued writing while he hummed to himself.

Shaking their heads, Chan and Changbin looked after him. They had tried in vain to get out of Jisung what he was working on.

"We should maybe also work a little more...," Changbin said sullen.

"If you feel like it, you can also wash up the dishes first and I'll start working," Chan said laughing.

Astonished, he looked after Changbin, who took their plates and brought them to the kitchen.

The rest of the day, all three were busy working on different projects. Each for himself. Even if they usually finish the songs together, they often started working on new songs for themselves.

When Jisung finally looked at the clock tired at some point, he was surprised to find that it was already late after midnight.

Tired, but also extremely satisfied with himself, he went in search of Chan and Changbin.

Chan was sitting at his desk in his room and he looked like he would fall asleep at any moment.

"Hey Channie, would you like to come to bed with me?" he asked quietly and leaned from behind against the older one.

"Actually, I have to keep working..."

"No, you don't have to! You're tired and we're going to sleep now!" Jisung said certainly, which led to Chan being so stunned that he simply complied with the request.

Tired, he let Jisung drag him into his bedroom.

"Lie down, honey! I'm going to look for Binnie quickly," said Jisung and disappeared from the room again.

Changbin sat awake and humming at his desk.

"Channie and I are going to sleep if that's okay with you?" Jisung asked.

Changbin nodded, pulled Jisung to him and kissed him fleetingly. After that, he immediately turned back to his screen.

Jisung, shaking his head, left the room.

Chan was already in bed and almost fell asleep. Yawning, Jisung crawled to him in bed and cuddled up to him.

Somehow it was unusual to lie in bed without Changbin, but in Chan's arms he felt safe and so it didn't took long for him to fall asleep.

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