SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT,
save some face, you know you've only got one change your ways while you're young @nasangft
it’s starting to get bad.
junho comes home later than he has in the past, his manager never thinking to question him because leaders are supposed to be busy and out of the dorms often. strings’ light schedules make sneaking out easy, almost like taking candy from a baby; he’s perfected his lies that his debut self would shun him for making. i got caught up writing lyrics at a cafe has become his recent go to following his continuous rendezvous with eunju that, contrary to his white lies, have not consisted of any variety of musical composition.
but he does begin to return home happier with more pep in his step, which is also somewhat odd for a boy who is supposed to be stressed out over maintaining his group. he’s growing careless of his actions and he knows it in the back of his mind, but refuses to take off the rose-colored lenses and snap out of this irresponsible, lovesick pit of quicksand he’s gotten himself stuck inside. it’s doing more harm than good to his group — re-arranging his priorities that he’d been so confident were in order before.
it’s past ten when he arrives back to his dorm, not the latest he’s returned home, but not so early, either. his members tell him that their manager has run out to the convenience store to grab a few things and would be back in awhile; junho assumes he’s probably going to take his time drinking a bottle of soju outside (and he doesn’t blame him, the man has unknowingly had to pick up much of junho’s slack these days). most of them know why he hadn’t been back hours earlier but don’t bring it up — they’re all fully aware of where he really was.
“hey,” junho grunts after he’s taken off his jacket and draped it over the arm of the couch that nasang lays on the opposite side of, sitting himself down with a slight huff of air. truthfully he feels somewhat incompetent asking his members these sort of questions, because he knows he should be there to participate in the first place. “you get much work done today?”