Make Me STAY

Behind the Light

Minho and Jisung were lounging on the sofa in the practice room when Rose entered the room. Jisung sat up from where he was lying with his legs across Minho's to greet her.

"Hello, Noona! How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay. I, um, I realised that I never thanked you, Minho, for finding me the other day and looking after me afterwards, so, thank you."

"It never should have happened. I just wish I had gotten there earlier."

The rapper tried to disperse the tense atmosphere with a small joke.

"Changbinnie-Hyung's already planning to be your personal bodyguard, so you'll be well protected from now on."

"He's so sweet. You all are. Anyway... thank you, Minho. I'll leave you two to get on."

After Rose left, Jisung turned to Minho with raised eyebrows.

"You seem to have changed your tune regarding Rose-Noona."

The dancer fiddled with the sleeve of his jumper, avoiding the other member's gaze.

"I don't know what you mean."

"Hyung, before you couldn't have made your dislike for her any more obvious."

Minho stared at the rapper for a moment before sighing in defeat.

"Fine, but I wasn't trying to hide it."

"And now? You let her sleep in your bed. Even I'm not allowed to do that!"

"Jisung..."

"You like her don't you."

"I'm not blind. She's gorgeous, but the ones that look like that are the most dangerous."

"Hyung..."

The older Idol ignored Jisung's pitying gaze and carried on.

"So, I didn't think she could be trusted, but..."

"But?"

"She's good for Chan-Hyung, and he deserves someone who will look after him. Needs it. The workaholic insomniac."

Jisung chuckled.

"Well, none of us will disagree with you there."

"But she needs looking after too."

"What do you mean?"

"I get the feeling that she's been by herself a long time. She spends all her time looking after others but forgets about herself.

"Chan-Hyung will look after her."

Minho hummed, but all he could picture was the look in Rose's eyes that day as he stood between her and the sasaengs. She had looked so lonely, so vulnerable, nothing like the tough, independent, perfectionist that she appeared to be normally. It had made him second guess his assumptions about her and her intentions with the people who were like family to him.

Rose found Jeongin in the break room, sighing with his head resting on his hand. The table in front of him was covered in books and papers which looked like notes.

"Is everything okay, Jeongin?"

"Hello, Rose... Noona. I'm okay."

The youngest member was still a little shy around his leader's soulmate, but she smiled warmly at him.

"Are you studying English?"

"Yeah. I wanted to practice before we go on tour, but it's so hard!"

"Have you asked the others for help? Two of them are fluent, you know."