if there’s only one thing that he hates about being a trainee, it’s the fact that he’s losing touch with the people he once knew. this was a known variable though, and seungyoun long since accepted it before he even made the attempt at joining trc - after all, he watched junhong’s time be sucked away often enough that it came as an expectation. it still doesn’t necessarily mean that he enjoys watching the things that he used to enjoy or the people he used to call friends slip through his fingers.
youngjae though, is different. the third of member of their friend group in sopa, he, seungyoun, and junhong were often inseparable. despite a few setbacks recently, their relationship remains as solid as ever, and seungyoun doesn’t think that will change anytime soon. youngjae is the closest friend he has besides junhong.
and that’s why he feels bad for keeping secrets.
although it’s not something that he’s been intentionally keeping from him, they always manage to just miss each other - whether it be because of their respective signing, or youngjae falling off the face of the earth, it just seemed like never the right time to tell him about his and junhong’s relationship. and this is exactly why he hates the idea of losing out on time with friends, because so many things that he doesn’t mean to slip through the cracks. he’s absolutely certain that youngjae won’t take this well at all.
but he’s jarred from his thoughts when youngjae speaks, now in front of him - he’s been dwelling a lot, trying to find the right moment but there’s no way that seungyoun will let today pass without telling him that he and junhong are dating. and / or engaged. one of the two, at least. “ yeah, you have to bring her over to meet our cats. i mean, we have a whole entire zoo by now but it’d be cool to see them get together, right?” he grins slowly, tapping his foot against the floor because seungyoun has never been known for being able to keep still.
he’s searching for the right time, it’s just not yet.
he swipes through at least ten pictures of the kitten, smiling fondly down at his phone as he does. a picture of coco pops up, and the little curl of his mouth splits into and open-lipped grin at his screen. youngjae adores his children, both small and harmless and oh are they cute.
it’s news to him that seungyoun and junhong have cats though. he thinks that he already knew that they were roommates, but he doesn’t remember the adoption of cats. it’s not like he can be mad at them for not telling him though, they know that youngjae usually avoids cats if he can help it, allergies and all, and he did fall off the face of the earth for half a year. it would be significantly more difficult to tell him about new pets when he wasn’t around in the first place.
“i think i might die if i was around so many cats at once,” it’s mostly a joke, and youngjae grins as he says it, but there’s a note of truthfulness to his tone. “i have to be careful with my little girl as is. i think i was my hands about fifty times a day now. but she could use a playmate, and coco doesn’t seem to have much interest in her. she’s really cute, look at this.”
his thumb taps against the screen and he shows seungyoun a video of a little gray and white bundle of fur chasing after a little mouse toy like it’s the most urgent thing in her world. she pounces, and flips and flops all over the place with all the incoordination of the baby that she is. youngjae can’t keep the fond smile off his face, though the video is only a couple seconds long. “you say you have a zoo? how do you guys have time for that?”
