NoRen in the Open

Now that all of them had gathered for dinner at the hotel's dining area, they started to settle down for dinner. Young sitting at the head of the table with Ten to his right, Win and Yuka, Lucas and Jungwon, Dowon and Jaeho, Tae, Mark and Hajoon and then Johnny, Kim, Jae. They were just waiting for the remaining four members to arrive.

After a few moments of them chit-chatting they saw Jino, Ren, Chen and Jihun coming laughing over some topic. They sat down besides Young and Ten on their left. Soon after when all were gathered, their food also survived to their table. They all dug in and the room was filled with laughter and chitchats.

"Jino loves Jajangmyeon! (means black bean noodles in Korean)" Hajoon states. The youngest 7 that are Mark, Hajoon, Ren, Jino, Jae, Chen and Jihun were playing, where the member sitting beside the other had to guess their favorite food. Thus, Hajoon had to guess Jino's.

"Jino likes Jjamppong (means spicy seafood noodles in Korean) actually!" Ren counters knowing his boyfriends taste very well.

"Ani! Jino likes Jajangmyeon. I said he likes Jajangmyeon!!" Hajoon still insists as if Jino is obliged to like Jajangmyeon at this point, not wanting to lose the game.

"What do you know about me?!" Jino counters this time not letting Hajoon get away with this.

"Children~ Stop fighting! Or should I call your parents~Good! Stay still." Jae tries to control their fight and there you go he succeeds in doing so by making them laugh at the mention of calling their parents. Like when a teacher in kindergarten would make up that treat to scare the kids who would be fighting each other. That's about how their game ended as Young had to end up interfering by telling them to quiet down and eat their food properly.

Thinking that it was about time, Ren elbowed Jino who was sitting to his right. That caused Jino to leave aside his dear plate full of food and come face to face with his lovely boyfriend Ren who had oh so rudely disturbed his food time like Jino calls it but according to Ren it’s just Jino stuffing his mouth with whatever food is placed for him to eat.

They had never once informed anything about their relationship to their hyungs so Ren thought that this would be a great opportunity to tell the hyungs about it. Ren signaled Jino to spill the tea to the hyungs where Jino just nodded in agreement listening to Ren straight away.

Jino finding the right timing got up saying "ANNOUNCEMENT - Uhm....Hyungs....Ren and I have decided to date! So we're boyfriends now!! And we like each other too much to be just friends. So please accept us!!" Ren nodded in agreement hearing Jino and hurriedly got up from his seat in fear that they would be rejected. Thus, wanting to show that it all was from both sides and not only from Jino, so he stood up for Jino saying "Yes!! Hyungs we are in a relationship and we like each other very much!! So please don't ask us to break up already~~"

All the members were completely shocked by what was thrown to them so randomly. Whereas Young just smiled feeling proud as he looked at the two young kids who had now grown up so much, fighting for their love because he had known them since they were just about 12-13yrs old.

So after Ren and Jino were done with their announcement Ten stood up teasing the two "Awww~~ So you finally admitted it, huh?! We all or to say at least me and Young-ie hyung had an idea but don't worry we will always support you guys!" Upon hearing what Ten had said Jino gave Ten his to die for smiling eyes in return for supporting them and looked at Ren who was altogether still shaking but smiling the brightest Jino had ever seen.

All the other members were now finally coming to terms, thus started to hoot and compliment, in celebration of the couple. That's when came the naughty Hajoon and Jihun duo who yelled in union "YOU MAY NOW KISS THE BRIDE!!!”

On hearing the now openly dating NoRen couple blushed profoundly, so Young had to step in to protect the two, shouting at Hajoon "Yah Park Hajoon!! Stop teaching Jihun-ie such bad things. See now you're spoiling him!!" Soon all were done with their dinner and started to leave, there was only the Young, Ten, Mark, Hajoon, Ren, Jino, Jae, Chen and Jihun left behind as they were just chit-chatting rather than eating, the elder two Young and Ten wanted to pay more attention to the 7 youngest members of the group.

Being the curious person Hajoon was, he asked in an excited and curiosity filled tone, while bouncing in his seat "So who confessed first?? How did this start ?? Ani~ Are we even friends?! How could you hide it from us!!"

Upon hearing Hajoon complain, Jihun choked on his food because he already knew about them for a long time. Chen, looking worried, gave a glass of water to Jihun who was coughing endlessly while Chen also rubbed his back to stop Jihun's coughing. Jino eyed Jihun telling him to keep his trap shut, thus receiving the message Jihun tried to stop coughing on cue because of Jino’s warning.

After all their talks, everyone being tired, they returned to their own rooms, thus Ren, Jino, Chen and Jihun were also on their way to their hotel rooms. On their arrival, Jihun leaned towards his Jino hyung, teasingly saying "Hyung~ Just take it easy for today, ok?! You see, we're very tired today and plan on sleeping early but if you're noisy.....hahahahaha~ We won't be able to sleep." Chen laughed at Jihun's teasing and entered their room which was just besides Ren and Jino. Jihun and Chen just went on laughing while Ren was blushing and Jino was glaring at the maknaes (which means youngest in Korean) in warning.

After entering the room Chen’s expression changed, thus facing Jihun with a serious look, he said "Yah Jihun-ah!! I'm gonna practice more for tomorrow ok?! So sorry if I disturb you."

Jihun now looked worried, thus comforted Chen by saying "Hyung just take it easy, ok?! And don’t be sorry, it's completely fine hyung~ But don't stay up till late in the night.We need to work hard tomorrow since early morning." Chen just nodded in agreement, started practicing while wearing headphones and Jihun fell asleep watching the latter practice cause he was exhausted.

Later in the night~~~~~

*THUD*

Jihun was woken up by a loud sound, it sounded like something hitting the ground when thrown from a height but actually was Chen collapsing to the floor due to exhaustion. Jihun sat up rubbing his eyes, while searching for Chen on the bed but he was left dumbfounded as he saw Chen lying on the ground lifeless.

He stood up and ran towards Chen, shaking him to wake him up with a worried face but Chen’s exhausted body wasn't, thus he carried Chen bridal style and made him lay on the bed. Jihun saw that the latter was red, so he checked his temperature and oh god Chen was burning up with a high fever.

Jihun ran to the restroom returning with a towel and a tumbler filled with cold water. He kept the wet towel on Chen's forehead, having seen Young do the same whenever Jihun himself had a fever.

Jihun, having placed the first cold towel, sat beside Chen worriedly talking to himself "This hyung is seriously something. How could he be so hard working that he just ups and collapses while practicing?! AHHHH!!!! Seriously this hyung, now see what you have done to yourself!" Jihun was so exhausted that he just fell asleep while taking care of his sick hyung who was the most precious to him.

In the morning, Chen was woken up by the sunlight to his face from the window and saw Jihun sleeping like a baby cuddling his legs. Wondering why he was sleeping on the bed, that's when he remembered what had happened last night.

He was practicing but suddenly felt too tired and began panting heavily for air as his body had reached its limit but then he started feeling weak which got him dizzy resulting in him blacking out. Chen finally realized that he had fainted and Jihun had taken care of him the whole night.

Thus, Jihun was now in this position which explained it all, that got Chen to smile happily. That's when he was caught by Jihun who was staring at Chen since the time he was awakened by the kick the latter had given him, who was too shocked to see Jihun near his legs cuddling them but Chen was totally unaware of this situation.