I've always wanted to wrap myself up with you
If we're walking closely like this

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It didn't even take 3 weeks until Lei had settled in his new home and Taeyong was right because he and Johnny became one heart and soul. During the 3 weeks everyone helped to teach Lei everything. They helped him almost daily in the studio to learn the choreus of the old songs, while Lei always tried to remember the lyrics in the evening. After the 3 weeks there was already a clear improvement. Lei was now able to do almost all choreus without any mistakes. Only with more difficult ones like Cherry Bomb he had to fight a little bit. Also with the lyrics he became more and more secure and confident. Lei was a vocalist, his voice was a little bit similar to Yuta's singing, but what was really extraordinary was that his voice could go quite deep.

SM had postet a statement about Lei a week ago and informed the world about the new NCT member. The announcement hit like a bomb. In the social media there was wild activity. The opinions of the fans were divided. Many accepted Lei and there were already the first dozen fan sites about him, others didn't want a new member. To calm down the fans a little bit, the guys made a common livestream a few days ago where they answered a few questions before they played a round of Mafia. Yesterday evening the management uploaded a cover video of Lei on their YouTube channel and the fans loved it. Most of the negative comments about Lei quickly turned into positive ones and the new one from the group was accepted quite fast and especially loved and idolized by the fans. During the time Taeyong got more and more the feeling to know Lei and it confused him a bit. He couldn't imagine where he already knew the boy from, but the feeling didn't disappear and he decided to talk to the older one about it. Determined, Taeyong left his room only to stumble directly into Jaehyun, who looked at him in surprise and held his shoulder lightly. "Oops, not so rough." Taeyong smiled apologetically at Jaehyun, and the younger one immediately returned his smile. "I was going to ask you,  if you'd like to have dinner with me." Now Taeyong looked at him in surprise and nodded immediately. He had not spent any time alone with Jaehyun for a long time and missed it quite a bit. Lei could wait, Taeyong could talk to him later. For now, only Jaehyun counts. Jaehyun smiled even more because of his reaction, but Taeyong could immediately see how tired his smile looked and he started to worry immediately. Jaehyun didn't seem to notice this because he directly grabbed Taeyong's arm gently and pulled him down with him so they could go straight off. The way to the restaurant was silent and also in the restaurant both of them just kept silent for a while before Taeyong cleared his throat. "Are you alright?"
Jaehyun hummed slightly and looked up. Slightly puzzled, Taeyong returned his gaze and waited for his answer. Jaehyun sighed slightly.
"I feel like we are drifting apart Tae."
Taeyong immediately looked at him in shock and choked on his drink.
"I know I agreed to keep this all secret but I'm tired of hiding." Jaehyun sighed again and began to play with the tablecloth in front of him.
"I miss you Tae." At those words he looked up and looked Taeyong straight in the eye. Taeyong immediately recognized the sadness in them and swallowed slightly.
"Yes, I..."
Jaehyun, however, interrupted him immediately.
"I know I agreed to keep our relationship a secret but at least we could tell our friends and band members about it. I miss you at home where we are undisturbed by the management. I miss being close to you, Tae."
Taeyong looked slightly at the table. Of course he wanted to hug Jaehyun 24/7, but he was simply not ready to tell the others. He had hoped that Jaeyhun would understand this and would give him time.
"Tae listen." Jaehyun reached slightly over the table and took Taeyong's hands in his. A little surprised, Taeyong looked up. "I may not necessarily understand why you don't want to tell anyone but I accept it but please don't push me away from you completely. I feel like we are strangers to each other. We can behave the same way, we can still hug in front of the others or even cuddle together. We've done that before, so it wouldn't make any difference."
Taeyong ran his thumb gently over Jaehyun's hand and nodded slightly. Maybe he should really start to see everything more relaxed, because it was true. Since they were together they were more strangers to each other than ever before. Taeyong avoided almost every contact out of fear the others would get suspicious. He knew that this wasn't right and that a relationship would never work that way. "I'm sorry Jae. I'll try to be better." Smiling sadly, he looked at his boyfriend who immediately nodded contentedly, lightly squeezing Taeyong's hand and smiling cheerfully at him. Taeyong returned the smile lightly before a waiter interrupted them both and brought their food. Both had ordered a sushi plate together and shared it with each other. Taeyong decided to really change his behavior because Jaehyun was definitely right. There is no point in being in a relationship if you just stay away from each other.