The Name Chapter: Yours | YEONBIN

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Later that afternoon when Soobin walks into the building where they're shooting their next To Do episode, he's immediately mobbed by the kids.

"Hyung, your hair!"

"It's so shiny!"

They clamber all over him, fighting each other off to get to be the one to touch his hair first. Kai eventually wins out — or maybe Soobin just happens to lean in his direction, because he's not ashamed to say he has a soft spot for their maknae.

"It's so pretty," Kai says wondrously, petting him, hilariously unbothered by how crunchy it must be to the touch from the bleach. "Hyung, look!"

Yeonjun had hung back whilst the younger members rushed him, hands in his pockets as he watches them, amused. Now they all turn to look expectantly at him, Taehyun and Beomgyu hanging off Soobin's arms whilst Kai plays with his hair.

"I'm looking."

A shiver runs down Soobin's spine.

"It suits him, doesn't it?" Taehyun asks, because he's evil. Soobin takes back anything nice he ever thought about him.

"It does," Yeonjun agrees, a soft smile tugs his lips upward. Their eyes meet. "Hello."

"Hi."

"Good morning?" Yeonjun asks, like he hadn't been the one flirting with him and sending thirst traps for most of it.

"Yeah." Soobin half-smiles back, sees the answering glint in Yeonjun's eyes. "You could say that."

Beomgyu looks between them. "You're being weird."

Oh, right, they're not alone. Soobin pulls his gaze away from Yeonjun's and tugs his arms out of Beomgyu and Taehyun's grips. "Asking someone if they've had a good morning is weird?"

"It is when it's Yeonjun-hyung asking."

"Aigoo, Beomie, are you jealous?" Yeonjun coos, coming up behind him to wrap his arms around Beomgyu's waist. "Do you want me to ask you if you had a good morning too?"

"I had a great morning," Beomgyu snarks back as he wriggles out of his grasp, "Probably because I didn't have to spend it with you."

Yeonjun makes a great deal out of being wounded, hand pressed to his chest.

Soobin folds his arms. "That's no way to talk to your saviour," he points out. "How big was that bug in the kitchen this morning, again?"

He should have known better than to tease Beomgyu because immediately, Beomgyu turns on him, smirking. "You mean the one I came to ask Yeonjunie-hyung to help me with and found you—"

"Okay, let's get ready for the shoot shall we?" Soobin interrupts, raising his voice. Kai blinks at him quizzically and Taehyun raises his eyebrows. Hurriedly, Soobin places a hand on both their shoulders and starts leading them away. "We're going to be late to the shoot if we hang around chatting instead of getting ready—"

For the episode they have to bake in pairs, with one person blindfolded and the other giving instructions, the catch being that they're standing together, chest-to-back, with the blindfolded person behind and their arms reaching through the arms of the person in front, who can see but can't use their own arms.

When Soobin's name is called out of course it's with Yeonjun, who curls up behind him, chin resting on Soobin's shoulder. He threads his arms through Soobin's and murmurs, "This okay?" like Soobin's not imagining them pressed up together this close in an entirely different situation.