You Meet The Other Members For The First Time ~ Woo Jiho
Your feet firmly planted into the ground as you recognised that you’d finally reached the end of your walk and were stood at the front of the café that you had arranged to meet Jiho’s friends at.
“It’ll be alright,” Jiho smiled from beside you, encouraging you to try and walk alongside him, spotting several of his members already sat in one of the booths of the frequent store that he visited.
Although it was a place that he’d visited several times before, it was your first time. And what made it worse was that it was also the venue for your very first meeting with the boys. The boys that you had heard countless memories and stories about from Jiho.
He knew you were nervous, and best of all, he understood. Meeting your friends was a daunting prospect for him, but he knew that you were much more terrified than he ever was. He had a reputation, a fanbase, as did all of them, which instantly felt like an intimidation towards you.
“I’m nervous,” you whispered across to him when Jiho realised that you weren’t budging at all from your spot outside the store, staring blankly through the window.
He took a few paces back towards you, making sure that the tight grip that he had on your remained. After a few moments of helping you relax, he finally managed to get you to walk in.
As soon as the boys noticed the two of you walk in, they all stood up to greet you properly. Taeil was the first, stepping forwards and inviting the two of you to sit on the end of the cushion that he had already occupied, keeping you nice and secure.
“It’s so nice to put a face to a name,” he spoke as you sat down, glancing at him past Jiho who was at your side. “This guy honestly does not shut up about you.”
“We can tell you all of the sweet things he’s said about you, all you have to do is say,” Jaehyo grinned from the other side of the table, instantly trying to make you relax around them all. “Give me a nod and I’ll fill you in on it all.”
After a quick slap against his arm from Kyung who was at his side, Jaehyo gave you a knowing glance before allowing one of the other members to speak up and introduce themselves.
“I’m sure Jiho has told you all of the terrible stories he has about us to make sure that he remains your favourite,” Minhyuk noted, waving to you from the other side of Jaehyo.
“Has he told you all about the time we nearly left Taeil stranded in Japan?” Kyung questioned, applauding loudly as your head nodded, having heard the story several times before.
“I’ll never forgive you guys for that,” he muttered underneath his breath as the rest of the table sniggered. “Or has he told you about the time that Jihoon and Yukwon ended up spending the night outside of the hotel because they lost their keys?”
“I’ve told her everything,” Jiho reassured them all, “every possible story we have about our time together, I can guarantee that Y/N has already listened to it.”
Their heads all nodded, “how are we supposed to let her get to know us if you spoil all of the good stuff first?”
“I had to find a way to make sure she liked you,” he teased, “you can all be very difficult people.”
“How dare you!” Jihoon hissed, holding his hand across his chest.
Your head could only shake at how clear it was how well they all got along after so many years, appreciative of the effort that all of them went to in order to make you feel as comfortable as you could around them.
Throughout your afternoon, all of them had plenty of questions for you to try and get to know you a little better and find out everything that they could about the person who had stolen their leader’s heart.
“I suppose there is one question we really do want the answer to,” Taeil noted as the group fell silent, all sat around the table still of the coffee store. “Why Jiho? How did he mange to pull you?”
“I think you meant to ask how I managed to pull him,” you challenged, but Taeil’s head shook back at you. “Jiho takes great care of me, I’m very lucky to have him, as I’m sure you all know.”
Underneath the table, you felt Jiho’s hand reach out and rest gently against the top of your head. Anytime a compliment for him was uttered from you it brought a smile to his face and a gentle red glow across his cheeks anxiously.
“You guys all know that I wanted to make sure that when I finally settled down it was with someone special too,” he admitted, “and I definitely think I’ve found it.”
The boys couldn’t deny how evident it was that their leader was happy, nor could they avoid the fact it was so obvious how well the two of you got along. They’d only ever wanted for Jiho to be happy, professionally and privately, and finally it seemed like he truly was.
“We can’t wait to get to know you better,” Yukwon smiled as your afternoon together naturally began to draw to a close, “hopefully we weren’t as intimidating as you thought?”
Your smile grew a little wider, “Jiho told me that I’d get along with you guys and that I had no reason to be nervous, and I definitely think he was right.”
“You definitely had no reason to be nervous, Jiho didn’t give us much of a choice but to like you.”
The boys had been briefed for a while the day before you scheduled your afternoon together, making sure that they made the best possible impression of themselves. Jiho knew he was serious about you, and there was no way he was going to let the boys jeopardise anything going wrong and risk something so good for him going so badly.
“I told you not to be hard on them,” you scolded.
Jiho could only shrug back at them, perhaps with hindsight he’d been a little hard on them but seeing how well you got on with them all was the proof that he needed to know the effort he put into convincing them how amazing you were had paid off.
“It did the trick,” he whispered down into your ear so that none of the others could hear, “they all adore you, like I told you. I always knew you’d get along with my team.”
“I don’t think you gave them much of a choice but to like me,” you argued back to him, pushing his shoulder as his head shook back at you. “I’m guessing because today was your suggestion, you’re going to be the one paying the bill?”
“I love her!” Jihoon cheered as he overheard your question. “She can definitely stay.”
“She’s got a point,” Taeil added, slapping Jiho’s shoulder a little harder than you had done, “your suggestion, you pay. I could get used to Y/N being around with suggestions as good as that.”
“See what you’ve done?” He frowned in your direction, pulling his wallet out of his back pocket.
“You told me that you wanted me to get along with your friends, it just so happened it was at your expense.”
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