Ten knew better than to spend his free hours on the phone and scroll through useless Twitter posts.
Pretty much all of them have secret SNS accounts - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Some of the members, Ten included, even have two separate ones: public accounts with them disguised as fans and private accounts for ranting and stuff.
Other members, counting Taeyong, just use it for monitoring purposes. That's boring if you ask Ten, one who has had these accounts before becoming a trainee.
Twitter in particular interests Ten the most. It's a fast-paced timeline with tons of memes that has Ten laughing for hours ans he could spend literally a day with just being on this bird app.
Of course Ten enjoys screaming at his timeline, have a meme war with his mutuals, be the hoe in the nsfw gc he's part of, search for aus (TaeTen, of course) and sometimes he also writes his own.
Ten enjoys it, for the most part. He even has his notifs on for all the NCT accounts so he could retweet in support of his groupmates.
He finds all the recent ISAC uploads cute, even screaming while quote retweeting Taeyong's photos.
Ten could only wish he could have joined them too. It's tiring with the whole day filming from very early in the morning till late night. But it's also fun, having to bond not only with his group but with other idols too.
Ten knew he couldn't. With Wayv just debuting in China and with 127 being the main focus on Korea right now, it's impossible. But he ought to be happy with what he's got right now, right?
Ten, being the optimistic person that he is, believe that everything will fall into place.
He shouldn't feel the little pricks in his heart, right? The ones the throb whenever Ten scrolls down to pictures of Taeyong with other members.. it is just momentary, right?
That was what Ten thought until he read the replies under one particular selca.
"JaeYong is perfect for each other!"
"Taeyong oppa only belongs to Jaehyun oppa!!"
"Can't JaeYong just date in real life??"
"They look so in love!"
"JaeYong the superior ship!!"
"JAEYONG IS REAL"
Ten had to shake his head and close the app before his fingers start to think for themselves and defend his ultimate and the realest ship of all that is TaeTen.
Can't people see how in love Ten and Taeyong were? How they have eyes only for each other? Sure, there are a lot of TaeTen stans and Ten is grateful for it but will when will the bigger part of the fandom realize?
It doesn't even help that he and Taeyong can't be in the same fixed unit. It frustrate Ten at times despite understanding that it's part of their job. LDR is LDR and it still sucks especially now that his boyfriend would be busy touring Japan and other parts of thd world while he'll be going back and forth KR and China.
Was he being petty jealous? Perhaps.
It's getting upsetting and Ten will deal with it the only way he knows how: time to update his AU on Twitter!
Ten was so engrossed with working on the updates that he didn't hear the door open and see his boyfriend come in until he felt the bed dip and strong arms hugged his waist.
"Ten baby," Taeyong kissed his shoulder on the exposed skin that made Ten shudder. "What are you so busy with?"
Ten pouted and flashed his screen to Taeyong's face.
"Look!"
"What's wrong with these Tweet? The replies are mostly in english!"
Ten rolled his eyes at that, knowing perfectly well his boyfriend could read them just fine.
"Well, Lee Taeyong, Czennies are saying you and Jae are the perfect pair!"
Taeyong just laughed at his boyfriend's cuteness and hugged him tighter.
"What are you laughing at!" Ten slapped the arm that was around his waist in frustration. "Can't you see our ship is sinking?! Even some of our loyal TaeTenist say so!"
"Oh baby, look at me." Taeyong propped his elbow so he could take a proper look at Ten before nosing his cheek and giving him at light lingering kiss.
"No one can ever be truer than you and me."
Ten sighed before turning to face the love of his life.
"You know that I only love you, right? My heart only belongs to you."
Ten smiled. He knew he was being silly for nothing.
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Ten pulled his boyfriend down for a longer and proper kiss on the lips, having missed the feeling for too long, taking every chance he gets before they get busy and apart again.
"I love you so much, Yongie."
"I love you more, baby."
"And I'm sorry. I don't know why I felt jealous for a moment."
Taeyong rested his forehead on Ten's, smile ghosting the other's lips.
"It's okay. I know you just miss me. Miss us."
Ten just nodded, reveling in the feeling of having his boyfriend near.
"Besides, our TaeTenists will always come back to support us. If that's what you're worried about, we'll always be superior to them. Hmm maybe we should drop a random selca soon."
Ten giggled knowing how his timeline would explode and his mutuals would lose their shit if that happens.
"Maybe we should."
[[TAETEN PLS FEED US ANYTHING WE GOMMA GET DEM EVEN JUST CRUMBS ALSO JAEYONG STANS PLS DON'T KILL MEE HEH XOXO]]
