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42. Unexpected Surprises

The whole week was very intense for swim team members. The boys stayed for practices after school until late hours. Whenever Hoseok would return home, he was so exhausted that sometimes he didn't even make it till his bedroom. The boy would pass out on the couch in living room and Yoongi had to carry him to the bed.

Yoongi understood why his boyfriend was trying so hard. Hoseok couldn't forgive himself for not taking first place during last competition. The swimmer was determined to improve that this time. The older indeed missed his boyfriend who was too busy these days but he himself didn't sit idly by. Yoongi too was preparing for Friday game.

That day when Mina approached him for the first time in two months, she came up with an idea that would greatly support Hoseok and swim team in general. To say Yoongi was stunned would be underestimating. He didn't expect that Mina would ever want to talk to him, especially about how to cheer up Hobi during competition, but he wasn't complaining. If anything, he was grateful that she cared enough to help.

So while Hoseok was busy training, Yoongi and Mina, with help of their friends, were working on special project for Friday. Mina's new friends gladly agreed to participate in it. It turned out she had found eight girls and now is inseparable with them. What surprised Yoongi even more was that many other students who had heard about the plan to support their athletes joined them as well. It wasn't anything extraordinary, they would just create big writings saying "Go, Yeonjun", "Go Beomgyu" and like this for every swimmer. Each student would hold his piece of pasteboard and all together those pieces would display encouraging message to athletes.

When Friday finally arrived the whole school was in anticipation. Hoseok didn't know how he managed to sit still during the classes. It wasn't that he would be doing something new, but after the last fiasco he couldn't help but feel nervous. Jin even had to force him to eat food during the lunch because Hoseok wasn't in the mood for it.

The competition would start at 3 and Hoseok just couldn't take his eyes off the clock. He and the team members were freed from the last period so they could prepare for the tournament.

"Hyung, I have never seen you so nervous before." Yeonjun told Hoseok while they were changing in the lockers room. "Relax, we got this."

"Yes, this overgrown baby is right, Hobi." Jin butted in. "We have more chances to lose if you continue acting like this. You know that you're the backbone of our team, we need you concentrated."

Hoseok nodded taking in his friend's words. Now wasn't the time to let his inner demons take over. He has to do everything possible for his team and people who believe in him.

"I got this, hyung." He replied with determined gaze. "We got this. I know we can do this."

"Of course we can!" Beomgyu exclaimed with winning spirit and small sparks of fire behind his chocolate orbs. Hoseok couldn't help but find the boy cute.

"And we will. Let's go and beat ass of our opponents." Jin commanded happy that his team members were spirited to win.

While the swim team was on their way to the pool, Yoongi was trying his best to organize the order in which students with their pasteboards had to sit.

"No Jihyo, you have to go one row up, you're sitting next to Sana, remember?" The silver haired was giving instructions to Mina's friends and badly tried not to lose his patience. "Wait Soobin, what are you doing here? I told you to sit at the end of this row, go there. Jennie, come down here, you'll be next to me. And where is Lisa?"

Yoongi felt as the only adult left in the kindergarten to look after bunch of kids. He was ordering everyone around where to go and next to who sit. If he knew that little 'project' would be so stressful he would have never agreed to it.