I'm curious on what your thoughts are on the characters thus far 🤔 who is your favorite if you have any? 👀

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Sohyun pulled up in front of Taehyung's house and texted him that she arrived. Taehyung didn't plan his outfit with precision like he normally did because he knew he would have to change again once they went to the photoshoot.

Going down the elevator from his condo, he reached the first floor and walked off to the front to see a white car parked near the doors. Being told what colour the car was and the brand, he assumed which one was hers. But it didn't take much searching because she popped out her head from the window and yelled, "Over here!"

Taehyung subconsciously made his way to the passenger side beside the driver seat and opened the door to see that it was blocked with boxes and purses. Sohyun shyly laughed as she crouched her head into her neck. "Heh, I'm donating all that stuff on the way home. The seats at the back are free."

Taehyung went to look at the back of the car and saw Jeongguk already there with earphones on, scrolling his phone with his head leaning on the glass.

"I picked him up first." She pointed out the obvious. Taehyung went to shut the door and open the other one behind it and sat himself down.
He put his seatbelt on when Sohyun started the engine.

Taehyung looked over again at Jeongguk who was minding his own business when Taehyung decided to tapped on his shoulder. Jeongguk went to remove a part of the earphone and looked over at Taehyung.

"Hi." That's all Taehyung managed to say. Jeongguk took out the other earphone and started wrapping it up and shoved it into his pocket as he replied, "Hey" back.

A small space was between them and with Jeongguk man spreading, his legs slightly went over to Taehyung's side who self-consciously squeezed his legs together to avoid any unnecessary touching.

Sohyun turned on the radio and let the music play in the background during the silent car ride. It was casual, she was car pooling with a couple of co-workers on their way to work. Sohyun's eyes were focused on the road while Taehyung was picking at his nails.

He felt like everything that happened at the retreat disappeared. At least all the things that happened when he was alone with Jeongguk. He still managed to continue with the shitty attitude and treatment every time they were at work. But something inside of Taehyung didn't understand how him missed the version of Jeongguk from the retreat vs the Jeongguk at work. It felt like every encounter and every experience they had didn't matter to Jeongguk and was a occasional thing.

It was all new to him. Those sexual touches, the pleasuring feeling shared with someone else. Taehyung gulped thinking about it all over again. He was even more anxious as he sat beside Jeongguk at the back of Sohyun's car.

So, he kept to himself, reinforcing what he thought what was best for right now. Avoiding any imprudent behaviour's despite his selfish goals.

"Who wants coffee? Starbucks anyone?" Sohyun said as the car began to slow down as they approached the drive through.

"Sure." Jeongguk answered first, leaning forwards to the drivers seat.

"Is Seokjin going to kill you?" Taehyung remembered his first time walking into his cafe and Jeongguk being accused for betrayal.

"Not if he doesn't find out." Jeongguk turned his head to the side, "I'll have a ice americano "

"Alright, Taehyung do you want anything?" She placed two orders, looking back to Taehyung for his.

"Ugh...I'll have a pink drink." Sohyun nodded before placing in his order and driving up to the window. Sohyun paid with her debit card and handed the drinks to the back one by one as she was given them.

Taehyung had the sweet drink in his hand as he took sips of it after putting in his straw. Sohyun put her drink in the cup holder to focus on driving out back onto the main roads.

"How much was it?" Taehyung put the drink in between his lap and fished out his wallet from out of his coat pocket.

"Don't worry about it. It's on me." She glimpsed at them from the top rear-view mirror.

"Thanks." The males said in unison, looking back at each other simontenuoualy peering away drinking their beverages.

Once they got there, the trio stepped out of the car and shut the doors behind them. Sohyun walked ahead of them sipping her drink holding one hand in the air that had the car keys to click a button to lock all the doors. Jeongguk fixed the collar of his long black coat, brushing off his shoulders joining Sohyun.

They presented themselves on pedestals and sometimes their presence could be intimidating to Taehyung because of their moments of classiness.

Following behind him he walks into the familiar building. Taehyung had done of one of his modelling gigs the very same place. It settled his nerves slightly, but was curious how a group shoot would turn out like.

Taehyung had done many solo shoots in the past and never done anything with another model or person. If Taehyung wanted to cheer himself for his lack of acting experience at least he could say that he knew more about modelling.

"Mr. Kim, I presume?" A man in black attire addressed him.

"That would be me, yes?" His attention was to the man who continued to walk down the hallway.

"Right this way, I'll be leading you to your fitting room." It wasn't chaotic to the normal setting he's gotten used to at work. Employees left and right, getting ready in positions and setting up prop designs. Not to say it was mellow in any way but since he's gotten into the acting business he sees that it's far more frantic and busy than it was here.

The man knocked on the door before entering. A couple men designer's were shifting through hangers skimming through the clothes selection. "He's here." The man Taehyung was with announced. Both the male and female staff turn their head and went to greet him.

"Here change into this." A man with A pile of clothes in his hands said handing it over to Taehyung.

He walked over to the corner of the room and saw the curtain where he would get dress behind. He didn't even have a chance to look at what he was going to wear. He decided that he would get the chance to look at it in the mirror what he had it on.

Sliding on the tight fitted denim jeans, it wasn't really any different than the ones he would wear at work. The shirt wasn't anything out of the ordinary because they played the parts of seniors in high school. It makes sense that they wouldn't be wearing high end fashion, unless they were rich. In a burgundy turtleneck sweater, he even had shoes they prepared for him in the getup.

Walking out from behind the curtain there was a full body mirror against the wall. Taehyung examined the way the clothes hung from his body and accentuated some of his lower body curves.

Routinely he went through hair and makeup and went out of the fitting room to meet up with his other co-workers. Sohyun was the first person Taehyung as she sat prettily on a bench in a man made garden with trees in the background along with a green screen. Her white summer dress with little daisy decals gently brushed to the side by a fan.

"Hey Mr.Model." Sohyun finally took notice of his presence.

"Hey there yourself." He smiled.

"You're a pro at this, so if you think I'm doing something wrong let me know." Taehyung laughed in response and went to take the seat on the right side of the bench.

Entering from the other side, came Jeongguk with a black leather jacket, black top and dark blue jeans, making his way to the same bench they was sitting on. He didn't speak a word to them, but then again since the morning Jeongguk hadn't spoken a lot.

The cameraman was fixing the lens before he spoke up, "Alright seems everyone's in place. Now, let's have a couple basic pictures having you three looking just at the camera facing front."

They followed what he said and he snapped a couple shots, "Okay do what you think suits best." Taehyung automatically propped a leg up on the bench while having the other one hanging. He put his elbow up on his knee, to use his hand to pull up the neck part of his shirt over his mouth as he matched with a realistic facial expression looking away from the two.

When he did that, he couldn't see how the other two were posing. If he did, he would of saw Sohyun with both her hands on her lap looking at the camera man with her signature shy smile. While Jeongguk comfortably faced his body towards Sohyun looking at her side, with an arm making it behind her body, holding onto the bench.

When they stopped seeing the flashing of camera lights, pink flower pedals started falling from above before more picture were taken. The photographer kept muttering "Great.Good.Perfect." Throughout the first shoot and once the man was satisfied he said they were finished.

They did another wardrobe change and makeup touch ups for the next shot. This time, it was only duet shots. The first pair was Jeongguk and Sohyun. Given that they were the main couple in the movie, Taehyung figured as much.

He watched from the sidelines as they were close and comfortable in their photos. Some pictures even teased the audience as it was an almost but not quite kiss. Sometimes Taehyung couldn't watch it when they got too close. He said to himself that it was because of her past thoughts about Jeongguk. Not to mention, how his past encounters with Jeongguk had been like.

They did what they did for show, it doesn't have to mean anything. Halfway through their shoot, Taehyung decided that he would wait in the lounge. With a heavy chest, he stayed stationary on the couch while scrolling on his phone to get his mind focused on other things. It helped for the most part till an employee called him to do his shoots with Sohyun.

It was nothing similar compared to how Jeongguk's and hers went. But then again, their characters were in different positions with Sohyun, he was just her friend. Not her love interest.

It ended in a flash, Sohyun giggled most of the time and less serious with him then with her previous partner.

But Taehyung was surprised when they called him out again and then Jeongguk as well. (Considering he thought it was only for the love interests)

"Taehyung before you go!" Sohyun jogged up to Taehyung as he was about to walk to the studio set.

He turned around and stopped walking once she was standing in front of him. "Tomorrow, do you want to go over lines?"

Taehyung heard a crew member call his name again and he brought his attention over to them, frantically he whipped his head back over to Sohyun, "Sure, spare the details later cause I have to go now." He then started walking onto the photoshoot area where Jeongguk had already been standing.

The thought itself was unnerving to Taehyung. Being next to Jeongguk as they posed for pictures. His mind wrapped around the younger and it had been like that for most of the day. He always seemed to lose focus around Jeongguk and stop from doing what he is supposed to. Absentmindedly, while they smile at the camera and change different angles, all Taehyung wanted was for Jeongguk to look at him or even to look in his direction.

He would do something as small as bumping their hands, or longing stares and pull it off as if it's just for the picture. To see if he paid any attention to him.

Jeongguk was one big secret and he can't stop thinking about if there is still that the retreat version of him in there, the one who wasn't always a complete asshole all the time.

He just wanted to know more because he was curious.

But his attempts didn't work, failed with each graze of the finger. As expected, Jeongguk consumed his surroundings with work and focused solely on the work that was needed to be done.

It was annoying. He expected more. No, he wanted more to happen. He wanted Jeongguk to slip up and rehash in his old acts and be reckless. But who was he kidding thinking something as absurd as that. Taehyung knew this isn't some fairy tale romance straight from a book. This was real life and Jeongguk wasn't going to throw it all alway to be reckless with Taehyung, he doesn't even love him.

For all Taehyung knows, he could mean nothing to Jeongguk. But Jeongguk was starting to mean something to him, in his head it seemed like he was. He wasn't just a co-worker, but their relationship isn't as lovers like how those acts are normally shared between.

Taehyung questioned for the first time, what were they? This time, he cared what the answer might be but he didn't know what it was.

Their photoshoot was short and the photographer gave them many praises on their good looks and proportional frames. Taehyung was unfazed by the compliments and was mentally exhausted from too much thinking.

He took a spot on the closest couch and Sohyun was sitting there already huddling her own body as if she took a nap.

"Taehyung." Her voice was mellow and slightly lower.

He hummed. "So... There is this guy who's been doing my makeup at work everyday and he's really sweet, he's super cute too and tells me how he has a brother who is going to go into acting."

"And..."

"I may or may not have a teeny tiny crush on him..." she squinted her eye to use her thumb and pointer finger to show small.

"What? So does that mean your not interested in Jeon anymore?" Taehyung asked as that was the first question to come to his head out of curiosity.

"Well he's still hot and all but I wouldn't date him or anything... But if the opportunity ever presented itself well... How can you say no to that?"

"Got it, so you don't like him but would date him if he asked." He crinkled his nose as he laughed, rolling his eyes.

"Bingo."

"What about the guy you like now? Wouldn't he be jealous that you would jump into Jeongguk's arms if he ever asked you out?" Sohyun paused for a moment and cupped her chin looking up to the ceiling in thought.

She shrugged her shoulders and showed off a bright smile, "He can't be jealous if he never knew I liked him in the first place... If me and Haechan ever started dating Jeongguk would be completely out of the picture, I won't cheat on my man. But it's not cheating if he isn't my man yet. So there is exceptions and loop holes."

"You're ridiculous." Taehyung sighed in defeat before forgetting, "What's the plan for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? Oh! Yeah... We're gonna go to your house to practice lines that's cool right?" Taehyung was confuzzled for a moment before processing what she said. When it finally clicked Sohyun made her way up from the couch and was starting to walk away.

"Wait, so it's not just you?!"

"Yeah, we'll all practice lines at your house. I told Jeongguk that this was your plan. So um yeah, I told him to come at 2 is that okay?" Her voice became more distant as she walked further away.

"I guess...Seems like you had everything planned already." He didn't know if it was loud enough for Sohyun to hear.

"You said spare details later...Later is now. I'm going to be late for a manicure, don't be mad bye!"

"Why would I be mad?" He didn't mind practicing lines because that's what his boss encouraged him to do. But maybe it's because she didn't tell Taehyung she was going to invite Jeongguk to come to. What could go wrong?

There was never a dull moment with Sohyun.