“What are you doing?” The voice made Tang stop in her tracks.

“Are you running off with our vocalist?” Key called out, this made Tang turn around.

She looked from Taemin to the confused expressions of the members.

What a great way to introduce yourself, thought Tang. She tried to suppress a giggle that rose to her throat, but it ended in failure. Minho looked at her with confusion, then a small smirk was starting to grow on his face. Soon Minho’s laughter echoed throughout the house, Taemin found it impossible not to join in.

Onew didn’t see the humorous side in this, Key was tempted to laugh but when he saw the look on Onew’s face, he thought it was better not to. Onew cleared his throat loudly. Taemin heard Onew cough and opened his eyes. At first it was a little hazy, tears had stuck to his eyelashes because he had been laughing so much. Onew’s unimpressed face came into his vision and he straightened up almost immediately. He always respected those who were older than him, it was due to his good upbringing. Taemin gave Minho a worried look but either Minho didn’t see it or he ignored it.

 Onew glanced at them and cleared his throat, louder than before. This time, Minho heard but Tang didn’t. Soon, Tang realized she was the only one laughing and slowly came to a halt.

 Taemin glanced to Tang and she could clearly see the worry in his eyes. Onew tapped his foot impatiently, waiting for someone to explain the current situation. When nobody did, he sighed rather loudly. Jongyhun slammed the bathroom door as he walked out, hands in his pockets. Eyes followed him as he walked towards him. He had no idea what just happened and was rather freaked out that everyone in the house was staring at him like he just killed a wild animal.

“Err, what’s going on?” Jongyhun looked at each of them with confusion.

“YES! Will someone please EXPLAIN what’s going on?” Onew’s voice rose slightly and the atmosphere tensed.

“Well you see-”

“This isn’t what-”

Tang and Taemin started talking at the same time and then shared a look that the others couldn’t define.

 Tang didn’t know where her new found confidence came from but she was determined to keep it. “The truth is that I-” She started but Taemin interrupted her quickly.

“She was injured so I decided to take her in, seeing as she couldn’t walk properly and get her treated.”

The words  were flowing out of his mouth, they seemed so natural.  Tang frowned at his lie, wondering how she was going to fake a injury if they wanted to see the injury. Realization hit her, she had got injured recently and an ugly bruise had started to form on her knee. Did he know that or was that a coincidence? She mentally shook her head free of the thoughts

Key peered at Taemin and instantly knew that what he was saying wasn’t completely true but Key masked his face free of all emotions.

Onew looked skeptical at first but believed him anyway. Jongyhun was confused.

“Wait, that doesn’t explain why you guys are holding hands.” He pointed to towards their hands.

 Taemin and Tang looked away in embarrassment. Minho waggled his eyebrows, causing Tang to blush.

“I lost my footing on that huge step in front of the house, Taemin was pulling me up and I guess there had to be something sticky on the ground because when I- we tried to pull away, we couldn’t.” It was half true, that was good enough for Tang.

While Tang was talking, Taemin noticed his hands were becoming less stickier than before and he gently separated his hand from hers. Tang looked down in surprise, her hand was cold now and she missed the heat that was shared.