#;flyer

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2016. once his younger best friend has answered the door, seungcheol’s lips curve into the brightest smile he can muster given the shiver shaking his body. “hey, ji! I can’t stay because I think all my limbs are going to freeze up and drop off by body, but I saved you a flyer, you know, if— if you want one. since you gave me one when you got signed to TRC and I still have it, I thought it’d be nice if I could do the same when I got signed.” he pauses for a second. “maybe you should take two, because otherwise, I’m going to have two when you get signed again… do you want two? is that overkill?” he laughs nervously, running a hand through his hair, jumping when his fingertips graze his scalp.

“so… flyer?”

so, jihoon did take a while longer to get to the door, having his parents in bed and he with his headset on. it was all and all thanks to the cat he heard the bell, and headed down. and boy, was he happy to see seungcheol. he was about to invite the older male in, but couldn’t even speak up as he listened to seungcheol ramble on, eyes widening at the idea of getting a flyer from his best friend and he felt really happy. “ah- well- yes okay, two flyers it is, the more the merrier so i can be proud of you-” he starts, but he;s worried seungcheol might actually freeze outside, because even if jihoon is wearing a hoddie and some shorts, the cold was already killing him “you sure you don’t want to stay in for a bit? warm up before you head back?” he was somewhat planning on begging, since he hadn’t seen the other in such a long time, but if seungcheol was in a hurry, then he couldn’t say now. 

“ hello there, would you like to have a flyer? it’s got all the info on nova schedules, please have one! ”

sic’s halfway through her daily text message rant to noel about how much of an ingrate he’s being for not taking time out of his day to drop her off food for lunch. granted, sic should be more understanding to his college schedule-- but sic’s a selfish girl and she just enjoys any reason to whine if she’s not getting her way. she’ll get over it and she would probably scold noel if he did skip his classes just to do something stupid (even though she would have tripped over her feet to do so).

she jerks to a stop and fumbles with her phone when a girl approaches, eyes with with surprise with her hands pressing her phone to her chest in order for it not to fall. 

rose wanders into his apartment with a sigh, and she looks across to him with a slight smile, nothing too extravagant. “so, JAEBUM.” rose begins as she looks around his apartment with a wandering eye, a hand tucked inside her pocket; while in the other is a singular folded piece of paper, rose’s flyer that she’s due to give to him. “can you do me a FAVOUR?” she asks, perching herself on the arm of his sofa. a flyer folded in half is held in between her fingers, and it’s out of habit now; folding the flyers, the one she gives to people CLOSE to her. is she close to him though? that’s unknown, really. “this is a flyer from ROYAL, and from the looks of things, it’s got your name on it.” she waves the flyer out in front of him with a pout, hoping that he’ll take it without question. she’s really not in the mood to fight with him, or anyone for that matter, and rose came here hoping to keep things civil. “no but, really. you taking this is helping me, and we help each other out, right?” her head falls to the side, hair falling over her shoulder as it usually did. “come on, jaebum,take it!” rose says again, waving her hand again.

{ - gathering his things together a bit slow, he stuffs his music sheets and other notes back into his messenger bag, maybe, a little too careless as the papers crinkle at the edges. baekhyun doesn’t really pay any attention to it, though, just turns his head back to jaebum. - } “you know that doesn’t mean i’m going to leave. i’ll still teach here and we just need to reschedule our lessons.” { - he confirms it with a nod, although he’s not entirely sure if he’s trying to reassuring the other or himself about it. baekhyun shrugs his shoulders lightly, smiling at him. - } “that’s all.” { - looking back at his bag he spots the colourful flyers amongst all the other papers, mumbling quietly as he remembers them. quickly pulling one of them out, handing it over to jaebum. - } “here, take this and maybe look through it if it interests you.” { - he taps the list of the dates printed on the flyer with his index finger and grins warmly at the other. - } “the talent for this is there. you could definitely make it with more training.”

The next time they see each other, it isn’t until their free time matches up again for at least another hour or so to make room for them to talk. “Beommie…” She looks at Jaebum with a smile of anticipation and good news, walking next to him as they find the next place to go. She takes a Royal Entertainment flyer out from her purse and takes a hold of one of his hands to place it in, her eyes looking back up as if asking him if this was alright. “It would help me out if you take one of these for me, please?”

jaebum smiles and takes the flyer from her hand. “so you got in, huh?” he looks at the flyer and back at her again. he’s happy – more than that; he’s proud that all her hard work has paid off. but there’s a part of him that worries that he’ll see her less and less after this… and then suddenly he’s afraid of why that bothers him so much. his mind races and he’s silent before he realizes that the conversation is still in his hands.

he spends the night trying to convince jaebum to let him pay for dinner - after all, it’s thanks to him the track was looked on favourably.  without jaebum and his studio, gunhee wouldn’t have had a track at all.  but it seems that his best friend won’t listen and he can’t help but sigh - at least there’s something he can give him if not to pay for the dinner that jb deserves.  he ruffles in his bag for a moment and pulls out a slightly crinkled flyer for sphere - taking the care to iron out the creases and hand it over to jaebum with a small smile.  it’s like proof that he made it, that this is real - he doesn’t say that he wishes jaebum was with him.  he thinks with the flyer in his best friend’s hands that the sentiment is there.

jaebum is so elated when he gets a text from gunhee that he can barely contain himself but it’s when he’s face to face with his best friend that he’s feeling overly sentimental. he’s been gunhee’s friend for so long that he knows how hard it was for gunhee to get himself out of bed and decide to go to his audition. he can’t help but feel overly prideful that his best friend is now a trainee.

when gunhee hands jaebum the flyer, he doesn’t really know what to do. he’s not totally crying but he looks at gunhee from across the table with tears threatening to spill down his cheek. he stifles them and forces himself to keep his composure.