When my brain gets bitter
You keep me close

-Painkiller, ruel

Jooheon had the colorful cards in his hands, his eyes darted from Minhyuk, then Hyungwon and to me. "No! why can't you play with us too?" his shoulders were slumped as he let the uno cards fall on the surface of the table.

"The more the merrier." He gave me the eyes that really looked like he was trying hard to convince me. "Kihyun is not here now. He won't boss you around. Just let loose a little!"

The pout on his face could not change my mind not even a little. My arms were crossed over my chest, wishing I was at home with my mom now. There was nothing here for me to do at the clan club yet they kept me.

Hyungwon sighed to himself as he picked up the cards and started to shuffle them himself.

"Daisy, are you getting bored?" Minhyuk said from his seat beside me in the couch. When I looked at him he had his arm placed on his knee and his chin propped on it.

And then he blinked at me and I noticed the blonde was closing one eye first then the other one. Even though it happened in seconds.

"You have an uneven blink." The words had left my mouth and he laughed in amuse. Almost instantly closing in his face to mine, only a few centimetres away and then he blinked to himself a few time.

Every time the same routine. "I can't believe you only noticed now that I have asymmetrical eyelids!" With another light laugh he leaned his face back.

It was pretty.

A small sound of coughing came from Jooheon that stole my glance from the blonde to him.

"You guys seem like you have a good chemistry." Hyungwon leaned in, his long fingers still playing with the cards on his hands as a devilish smirk slowly spread across his handsome face.

"What?" Minhyuk scoffed to himself, immediately snaking an arm around my shoulder pulling me closer to him but letting go the next second. "We are like siblings," he said in a joking manner. "Daisy and I have a lot in common."

Dare to say I wanted to roll my eyes. I wouldn't say, siblings, as I had none. But Minhyuk did feel a little closer to me after that event of us smashing junks together. Even thinking about that brought a small smile on my lips.

Wonho too, for some reason. He made my heart feel at ease whenever I saw him.

And then I realized not any of these boys made me as uncomfortable as the first time I had seen them. I was slowly getting used to them.

"She's even smiling." Jooheon let out a dramatic sigh as he made his lips turn into a thin line, dimples appearing on both of his cheeks.

"I'm kind of feeling jealous, I don't know why?" He gave a confused look to Hyungwon who sat beside him and I immediately dropped my smile, the resting bitch face was on yet again.

"How about you notice something about me too?" Jooheon turned to me wide eyed. "Do you know I have dimples?" He peered his right cheek to me and his dimples looked so deep that I could forever get lost in them.

"You guys are playing cards without me?" A sudden appearance of Shownu turned our attention to the one in a black long coat towering over us.

"Not poker. It's uno," Hyungwon retorted showing him the cards. Shownu sat right there on the single couch beside Hyungwon.

I lost the chance to tell Jooheon that his dimples were the very first thing I had noticed about him.

"Hyung, why don't you sit with us too?" Shownu looked up to another figure that was standing right behind him. The security guard with a long cut on his face, Ryujoon, I remembered.

"No, sir. You enjoy." The guard handed the clipboard that was on his grip to Shownu in which the latter signed on and Ryujoon disappeared right after.

"Where are Changkyun and Wonho?" Shownu looked at all of our faces for a brief second before directing his question to Minhyuk.

"Wonho hyung is resting in his apartment. And Changkyun, I guess playing animal crossing again," Minhyuk shrugged to himself.

Hyungwon had started to place the shuffled cards before everyone but just before my turn came he looked up. "You sure you don't wanna play?"

Awkwardly I scratched the back of my head under my ponytail. I just wanted to go home and have a proper shower, the last time I washed my hair was three days ago.

To me, I felt really out of place among four boys bathed in pretty and expensive fragrances.

"Actually I..." I breathed in and turned to Shownu. "I was wondering where Kihyun was. I finished going through all the files he gave me."

"You really want him to boss you around, don't you?" Jooheon snickered to himself.

To the point I wouldn't even have time to shower? No, thank you. But I needed to prove him that I wasn't lazing around.

"Kihyun is resting at home. We were just together to visit another of our branches." Shownu told me reassuringly. "If you want to send a message to him I can do it for you."

I brought my fingers together, clasping them and resting my entwined hands on my lap as I debated if I should tell Shownu about what I wanted to, instead of Kihyun. Shownu was way friendlier anyway.

Kihyun and I hadn't even exchanged a proper conversation, now that I thought about it.

"About your beer franchise, I realized that you guys haven't done any kind of advertisement for it," I finally said what had been dwelling in my mind for the past few days.

"Advertisement?" Minhyuk said beside me. "Like tv ads?" He questioned with an expression that said he was interested.

"That's still farfetched. You guys haven't started too long ago. You're still in the process, right?" I said and all of them gave light nods. "I was thinking more on posters about the clan beers, according to your lost, guilty and beautiful concept. I think it has a lot of potentials."

Shownu hummed in the silence, his eyes transfixed somewhere else and creases on his forehead indicating he was lost in his thoughts. "Actually I've thought about that. Hiring models to make online advertisements. But posters sound good."

"We can do the online ones too. On popular online newspapers because people read them first thing in the morning. We can use the same poster ads for the online ads," I elaborated, everyone except Shownu staring at me intently.

"For the model parts I think Hyungwon can do it too, I've seen his past modeling works for the clothing stores at malls," I said and as soon as that Hyungwon scoffed.

"So you acknowledge that I'm handsome as a model but I can't be very glad as I can see that you've been stalking me well." He shoot me a cold stare and I furrowed my brows in response.

"Everyone in the English club knows. Haneul told me," I scoffed back at him. Jooheon asked who' Haneul was but I ignored as Shownu started to speak.

"I think our club activities and our identities might have a chance to get revealed if we use Hyungwon as a model. Why don't we hire someone?" Shownu's eyes suddenly lit up as a smile made its way on his face. "How about you and Kihyun plan on it, can you do that for me Daisy?"

"I can help too," Minhyuk joined in.

I was taken aback by the sincerity from Shownu and how he was really trusting me with this, I could feel it in his voice.

"I'll do my best," and I said just as sincerely.

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A/n: sorry for the filler chapter but it was needed :(

Ramadan Kareem to the muslimbebes! It's been especially hard to write after fasting all day.

I'll try my best. Please take care. Stay hydrated, eat a lot of healthy like wonho. I love you all so much <3