Jihun’s Quietness

Right after their debut the NEO members were separated into different dorms according to their sub units, where the NEO FREE members were in one, the NEO 35 members in another and NEO U members yet in another. Thus, following his Young-ie hyung's advice, Jihun wanted to confess his feelings as soon as possible but in such a manner that it would be remembered by them forever and be dated as their most pleasant memory.

11th September, 2017, 9 am in the Morning ~~~

The NEO FREE's dorm contained Ren, Jino, Jae, Chen and Jihun. As Mark and Hajoon, also being a part of NEO 35 were supposed to stay with their 35's hyungs in the NEO 35's dorm. So after leaving the 35 hyung's dorm, Jihun came back to his dorm aka the NEO FREE Dorm, where he found the NoRen couple cuddling with each other, on the sofa, in the living room, whispering and sweet talking to each other in short being all lovey-dovey.

Jihun being Jihun, just ignored his hyungs who were shocked at the sudden appearance of the younger because he had informed Jae that he would stay over at the 35 hyung's dorm, they immediately separated by pushing each other away, being again caught by Jihun embarrassed them.

On hearing Jihun's voice who commented sassily seeing the NoRen couple separate “Get a room already hyungs~ Argh my eyes!” Jae came running from his room to welcome back the dear maknae, he was so against the idea of Jihun staying over and knew that Jihun would return after sometime, getting bored with their hyungs who were boring as hell according to the Freelies humor.

"JIHUN-NAH~~!!!" Jae came calling out delightfully for Jihun, like a mom finally getting to meet her teenage son after he came back from a week long school trip. As soon as he saw the younger, Jae hugged him tightly whereas Jihun who did not like the skin-ship tried pushing or to say escaping from the latter.

"Aniya~ (means No in Korean) I knew this would happen! Jihun-nie can't stay away from us long. Why do you know? Whose gonna do all the work for him there? Jihun-nie can't go on long from us!!" Jino teased the maknae about still being a baby for needing his most closest hyungs that being the Freelies, always there to take care of him. Because of all the commotion in the living area Chen was woken up, thus Jihun saw Chen coming out of his room which was supposed to be shared by Chen and Ren.

Chen rubbing his eyes like a kid, having just gotten up from sleep due to all the commotion in the living room, having disturbed his sleep, Chen said in his morning husky voice "Jae hyung! Keep it down, I was sleeping---" His eyes widened when he saw the youngest, Jihun, amongst them that morning.

Jihun was not supposed to be there, Chen was also informed by Jae, about how the evil maknae, Jihun left his poor single, lonely, Jae hyung all alone in their empty dorm to play by himself. Thus in his shocked state Chen showered Jihun with questions “Yah, Lee Jihun-ah!! Why are you here? Did something happen at the 35 hyungs dorm?? Why are you up so early in the morning???" Jihun in return gave a little amused laugh as he answered all the questions that were basically thrown his way as all the curious eyes in the room turned towards him looking forward for his reasoning.

"Firstly, hyung's~ Calm down nothing happened! Secondly, I'm here because I was getting bored there without you all~ Those hyung's seriously have no jams." The maknae's remake made everybody burst into a fit of laughter.

But actually the real reason for Jihun's sudden end of him staying over at the 35 hyung's dorm was him wanting to confess his feelings to Chen before it was too late or before he could actually regret for not telling like Young had described. But he lied because, though he had come with full courage to tell Chen but lost it all just by seeing him, that's how much he had fallen for his hyung. So after all the chit chatting, Jihun went to his room which he shared with Jino and laid on the bed, lifeless, lost in deep thoughts.

"YAH LEE JIHUN!!" When Jihun slowly opened his eyes, he saw Ren giving him a death stare.

"God this kid is so hard to wake up! Come on~ Wake up and eat breakfast now! I have already cooked and set up the table to eat, so you have no work to do now except for eating. Get Up!!" On hearing Ren complain about his struggles of waking the maknae up, Jihun realized that he had fallen asleep.

He had not been able to sleep the whole night, thinking and planning a perfect plan for his confession. Jihun getting up from his bed, rubbing his right eye to remove his remaining sleep away, Jihun asked "Ren Hyung~ What's there for breakfast?"

"Strawberry pancakes, toast with strawberry jam, Strawberry milk from the convenient store and Strawberry yogurt smoothie made by me!!" Ren listed out all that he prepared.

"What?! Hahahahahahaha!! Ani~Is it strawberry day? Or Hyung, did you again buy a lot of strawberries and were not able to finish it so you are now feeding us all of it?!" Jihun accused Ren

"Ani~ You know right, Jae likes Strawberry the most?! Though he hates artificial strawberry flavor, anyways yesterday when I and Jino were out for our date, we saw some great looking fresh strawberries and I thought of making some pancakes for Jae." Ren tried to justify his actions making Jihun burst out laughing.

"Oh-ii, Ren Hyung~ Good job! I'm now looking forward to Jae hyung's reaction! Hahahahaha~~ Pulling a prank on him this early in the morning is so fun to watch!!" Jihun forgot all about his tired self and was now excited about their prank. Because, Jae hated artificial strawberry, where Strawberry yogurt was something he hated the most, then came strawberry jam and strawberry milk.

"I have now decided to give him a whole box of strawberry yogurt for his birthday!!" Ren announced making both of them laugh even harder than before.

"Ren Hyung, I'll first wash up then come to eat. Call me when Jae hyung is about to eat, ok? I so wanna see his reaction! That hyung gives some great reactions." Ren just nodded in agreement laughing at the maknaes evilness and left the room for Jihun to freshen up.

Jihun now wearing fresh clothes after a good shower was headed to the kitchen because Ren had not yet called for him. So assuming two things, one that Jae was still not there he hurried out for their kitchen which had a dining table, that's where he saw his hyungs talking and eating breakfast with Jae, thus his second assumption being that he had missed Jae's reaction and they would have left already after eating while he was still showing and lost in his world but no.

Thus, he just went ahead and greeted his hyung's good morning, finally minding his manners and sat down at the only empty space available that was next to Chen who was eating his cereals with strawberry milk while laughing a storm at the same time which would so get him to choke on his cereals, reason being Ren's prank on Jae still stuck in his mind.

Whereas Jihun lost in his thoughts, made him rather quiet which was so not him, he was known as the most talkative member of NEO FREE, such a type where if you entered their dorm once one would want to leave immediately. So noticing this everyone on the dining table being worried sick about their beloved maknae decided to send Chen to have a chat with Jihun. Chen was the only person Jihun treasured and listened too, this was well noticed by every member except Chen himself, he was too dense or to say in denial, thus to encourage them in their relationship by giving Chen an indirect push, they decided to send Chen.

8 o'clock at night ~~~~ *Knock knock*

"Jihun-ah~ Hey, you up for a talk?!" Chen asked, knocking on the door to Jihun's room.

To which the latter replied with a "Oh Chen-ah! Sure, come on in."

Chen saw Jihun playing games on his phone as usual but still remembering the instructions by his hyungs asked "Yah Jihun-ah! You looked distracted the whole day, is something worrying you, if there is then you can talk to me. Didn't we promise that there should be no secrets between us!!" Jihun sighed knowing this was coming for him sooner than later because he was too quiet for his liking as well so it would have not been unnoticed by his hyungs. Thus he sat up to face Chen who was sitting opposite to him on Jino's bed.

"Chen-ah~I need to tell you something, it's important." Chen nodded eagerly for the maknae to continue, signaling that he was listening.