accidental encore | taegyu

chapter twenty eight

it wasn't exactly something friends who weren't dating would do, but neither of them said anything about it. neither of them wanted to.

"so," beomgyu mumbled, watching as taehyun lightly pressed down on his fingertips. "how's it feel being famous? going viral every other week?"

taehyun scoffed. "i don't go viral every other week. the group does."

"same thing," beomgyu said, adjusting against taehyun's shoulder. "i literally couldn't scroll through my feed the other day without seeing your stupid face on some edit."

"oh?" taehyun smirked. "were you looking me up?"

beomgyu scoffed, shoving taehyun's leg lightly with his knee. "as if. soobin sends me your guys' clips all the time."

"mhmm," taehyun hummed knowingly. "soobin, huh?"

"yes, soobin," beomgyu said firmly. "but you didn't answer the question. how's it feel?"

taehyun was quiet for a second, his thumb grazing over beomgyu's knuckles. "i don't really think about it too much. it's cool, i guess? but sometimes it's kinda weird seeing clips of myself all over the place."

"yeah, i bet. but some of them are funny," beomgyu said, grinning as he remembered a recent one. "oh, like the one where yeonjun tried to do that high jump on stage and totally ate shit."

taehyun chuckled. "he wouldn't shut up about that after. said it was a 'bad landing' and not a fail."

"bro fully tripped on air," beomgyu said, laughing.

taehyun shook his head. "he's still in denial. but i think the funniest one was hueningkai trying to do that one trend and almost falling off the stage."

beomgyu gasped. "wait, i saw that! the way he tried to play it off was actually impressive."
"right?" taehyun laughed. "he acted like it was part of the performance."

they kept talking, exchanging jokes and teasing each other about different things, all while taehyun continued playing with beomgyu's hand. their fingers occasionally brushed, and every now and then, taehyun would squeeze beomgyu's hand lightly.

it was casual. comfortable. yet, somewhere in between all the laughter and teasing, there was something there, lingering between them. but neither of them brought it up. they just let themselves exist in the moment, in the warmth of each other's presence.

taehyun's arm eventually shifted, wrapping around beomgyu so he could reach both of his hands. beomgyu barely reacted, just comfortably leaning further into him, now resting against taehyun's chest. taehyun intertwined their fingers at one point, then let go just to run his fingers over beomgyu's knuckles again. it was like he was trying to memorize the shape of beomgyu's hands.

"you know," beomgyu said after a while, "if you like my hands that much, you could just say so instead of acting like some weird palm reader."

"hm," taehyun hummed, flipping one of beomgyu's hands over and studying his palm. "you have a long heart line. means you're very romantic."

beomgyu snorted. "shut up."

"no, i'm serious. i think you're falling for me."

"i think you need to shut up," beomgyu shot back, adjusting his position against taehyun's chest.

taehyun smirked but didn't say anything else. he just continued playing with beomgyu's fingers, occasionally squeezing them before letting go again.

they kept teasing and joking, the atmosphere so easy, so natural. at one point, beomgyu tried to roast taehyun, but he laughed too hard at his own joke before he could even finish delivering it properly.