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“You're going to do a collab!” The manager brought up this news very happily, but he seemed to have forgotten that this person was top one on Hongjoong's list of people he hated. The guy's look changed in the same second, as if he had been told something more terrible than just recording a song with that annoyingly handsome boy.
“Did you decide to joke now? We're still a long way from April Fool's Day.” Kim turned to his computer, simply ignoring the manager, who was now staring at him.
“It's not a joke, you two are really trending right now, so the companies decided to increase their ratings even more, you'll need to meet to get to know each other, and then write a song, record it and get it on the charts!” The man takes this quite seriously and Hongjoong is already feeling bad, he really isn't joking, the company decided to give him hell on earth.
“Did you really listen to me when I told you that I don't like him? That I don't even want to see him?”
“You just need to release a song together.” Yunho turned the guy's chair around to look him straight in the eye. “With your talent, it won't take you that long, be an obedient boy for once.”
“Do you have a kink to praise?”
“Don't get off topic!” Jeong exhales heavily, as if he's run a marathon, although being the manager of this stubborn guy is much worse than a regular marathon.
“Listen, I understand you, but I don't care.”
“Director doesn't care either, so you can start thinking about what song you'll record together.”
Hongjoong glared at Yunho, and then just nodded and continued working.
***
The sound of the car engine pleasantly calmed the guy, especially after such news. Seonghwa always dreamed of being an idol, he wanted to perform on a big stage, hear the screams of fans, read a bunch of news about himself. This is a dream that he was able to fulfill. That's where the joy ended.
For more than a year he has been competing with a rapper with a stupid, in his opinion, nickname no1likeme, to be higher in everything. They don't even know each other, but the competition gives rise to hatred for the person, as if he really did something to him.
Park presses the gas even harder and doesn't notice how he finds himself near his friend's house. The guy doesn't even care that he slammed the car door so hard that it probably almost broke. He quickly gets to the right apartment and knocks so hard that he can already hear the owner of the apartment swearing very loudly.
“Damn Park Seonghwa, just because you have millions doesn't mean I have them, leave my door intact!” Wooyoung looks like an angry cat, that's cute. Seonghwa noticed that the guy was already in his home clothes and his long hair was tied in a very cute ponytail.
He unceremoniously entered his friend's apartment and just as unceremoniously took out a bottle of wine from his refrigerator.
“Park Seonghwa! You really lost your conscience!” Although the guy was arguing, he took out his glasses and handed them to the other guy to pour.
“I lost my mind! You have no idea what news I was told today.”
“I hope there's really something trashy in there.”
“Very much.“ Seonghwa pours wine, takes a sip and continues: “I'm going to have a collab.”
“That's cool, isn't it?”
“Cool, if you forget who.”
“I hope with that hot rapper.“ Jung watches the wine run down the sides of the glass, and then takes a sip too.
“Don’t call him hot in front of me, but yeah, this walking joke who acts like he owns the world.”
“Oh God, really?” Wooyoung jumped up.
“Yeah.”
“Can you get me his autograph?"
“I can only leave him an autograph in the form of my slap on the face.“ Park drained his glass and was already pouring another one.
“The guy didn’t even do anything to you, and you hate him so much.”
“We’re competitors.”
“Now you two dudes are in the same boat.“ Quiet laughter. “I’m sure your song will become very popular.“ He lightly taps his glass on someone else’s. “What an incredible collaboration!”
Seonghwa was silent. The main thing here is that they don’t bite each other’s throats, because for now this is the only option for Park how to endure the next days with this burden.
***
The day was beautiful, the sun was shining, it was warm enough that Hongjoong was even able to leave the house in just a sweatshirt, although it was autumn outside. The road was not very busy. Could anything be bothering him? Yes.
His arrival point is a company where they are already waiting for him. He will lie if he says that he doesn’t want to just run away and close himself in his studio, but Yunho will definitely hang him right in the same studio.
After standing for a while in front of the door, he was still able to gather the courage and go in and someone must have cursed him, because the first thing he saw was someone else’s eyes and perfectly styled white hair. What kind of vampire parody is this?
“Hongjoong, you’re finally here!“ Yunho immediately runs up to the guy, it seems to everyone that he is hugging him, but he hits Kim on the back and hisses quietly “If you're late again, they won't be able to put you back together, I will try to divide you into very small pieces”.
“Since everyone is gathered, let's get started.“ The director of Hongjun's company, Lee Yonghae, a man who looks too perfect, sits at the head of the table and looks from one side to the other. “You've already been told that we've come to the conclusion that you need to record a song together.“ The man turns the laptop screen so that everyone can see it. “We leave all this up to you, we just want the concept to not be snotty, we want to see something more disruptive.” The screen just says "You need to break the scene" and that makes Kim laugh. “I know that Seonghwa is not very good at writing music, but Hongjoong is one of the best producers in our company, so i'll trust him with it, but Seonghwa is not shy about getting involved in the process, i'd like you to gain experience, this is a chance! What do you say?”
“Is it really necessary that he gets involved in my song writing process?“ Although he was addressing the director, he was looking at the guy who was also not ashamed to look at him.
“Yes, this is not up for discussion. Another question?”
“Can I hit him...”
Yunho suddenly caught himself and closed the other person's mouth until he finished what he wanted.
“No more questions, I'll make sure he doesn't forget to include Mr. Park in the song writing process.“ Jeong smiled at the director.
“Okay, I trust you, Yunho, now you can talk to each other, and I'll go work on it.”
Here the director made a big mistake, although their managers are sitting next to the guys, they won't be able to stop them, because the fire has already started to burn.
“Don't worry, I'll beat you up faster, dear.“ Seonghwa smiled and got up to leave, because he had nothing to talk about, but he was abruptly stopped by grabbing his hand.
“Oh, I already dear?“ Kim smiled with one corner of his lips. “Maybe then you'll crawl for me on your knees?”
“I like it better when men crawl in front of me.” Park abruptly takes his hand from someone else's grip and takes him by the chin, as if assessing someone else's face. “Although you are beautiful,” The guy abruptly pushes someone else's face aside. “Too short for me.“ With these words he leaves the room.
Hongjoong wanted to rush after him, but here he is already being detained and he sees his manager, who looks at him in a way that he will definitely tear him to pieces.
“Calm down.”
And what about Kim? He has no choice, he has calmed down, but in his head he was already coming up with a plan for revenge.