Sweet CEO's First Love

Seungwoo got up and joined the other conversation but not before Heart noticed their hands were intertwined for a moment. Before he let his hand slip-free and both of them treated it like nothing had happened, neither of them looked at their hands.

Heart looked up, and Miran turned to look at him, saw him staring, and waved, she smiled sweetly. Her pretty face brightened and lit up like a light beam, her eyes sparkling reflecting the light.

She scooched over to the other side of the sofa and blinked at them sweetly.

"So, what are you two talking about?" She asked carefully, in smooth but slow English.

Heart smiled at her, his heart happy by the effort she was putting into everything.

Heart noticed as he waited patiently in the pause for her to figure out how to say what she wanted to say in English that they had, had music playing lightly in the background the entire time. A stream of soft melodic k-pop music, all-new trendy stuff. Probably had some YouTube or music app open somewhere.

"How do you like Korea so far?" She asked slowly.

Mina turned and said something to her in Korean, and she flushed.

"Ah, yes, you haven't been here a longer time, yet. Jaemin is my brother he is nice, but can't speak English or Thai, and is bad at talking." She said, giggling when she looked over at him. He scowled at her unimpressed.

"He understands... but cannot speak." She giggled even harder, and Heart joined in on the laughter. Jaemin turned to look at him and stared blankly. Heart had to suck back the laughter really hard as he realized it was the same annoyance you would give a small kid pulling on your pant leg and being annoying.

'Well, at least he isn't actually offended.' He thought.

Heart waved at Jaemin. "Nice to meet you, Jaemin." He said slowly in his own very formal Korean. They all turned to look at him. Even Saint and Heart blinked suddenly, stuck as he was put on the spot.

"What, you didn't expect me to know I was going to Korea and not even learn how to say hello at least, did you?" He flushed, turning back to the girls and ignoring them. Not wanting to say anything else to draw attention to himself, because he was half worried Saint would do something hugely embarrassing in front of everyone. Like feeling him up like he had done before. Since when he had become enamored with Heart he generally couldn't keep his hands off him, public or no public.

Heart chuckled, following each of her words carefully, unable to stop beaming back at her sweet, adorable effort to communicate. Completely enthralled by her shy sweetness, he could tell how nice a person she was just from the way she held herself, the way she tried, and the way she cared enough to try and make him a part of something while all the rest of them had no problems conversing in Korean on the other side of the room.

Mina said something to Miran, and Miran gushed about something in length for a bit before Mina turned to him and smirked.

"Miran says that she wishes she could talk more, or better, she really likes your voice, it's very soothing, and has this amazing calmness that just resonates with her really well. Which means a lot coming from her, trust me, she has a thing for voices." Mina said.

Heart nodded.

"Thank you, very much," he said in Korean.

Miran giggled, falling back onto the sofa, very pleased.

Heart looked over at Mina confused, but she too was grinning big, and he wondered what he had done to please the girls so much.

"What? Did I say it wrong?" He asked.

Mina chuckled.

"No, no, just when you speak in Korean, you have something we would call an Agyeo voice, a cute character when you speak. It's the way your tone sounds in Korean. Korean's are a huge sucker for cute culture over here." Mina said.

"Oh, okay," Heart stated, nodding simply. Not sure what else to say. His voice was his voice, after all, he couldn't do much about it, and since they liked it that was a good thing.

"So, how long have you known Mark for?" Heart asked.

"Oh, not very long, a few months maybe... Why?" Mina asked.

"Ah, well, when we walked in, you guys were talking quite closely about something, you seemed like a good match." Heart said.

Mina flushed a little, her ears turning red at the tips, and she pet the bottom of her hair, self-consciously.

"We are not a couple, just a couple of co-workers." She said, gesturing quickly.

Heart and she winced at the same time realizing just how dumb that had really sounded. With the chipper way she had said it, along with the gesture.

Heart's pants vibrated and started to play the tune for All the City Lights. He pulled the phone out of his pocket and turned off the alarm.

"Oh, I will be right back, I have to see what my friend is doing back home. I am going to go make a phone call, okay? Be right back."

Heart got up and walked off, looking for Ten and somewhere quiet. He located Ten in one of the rooms with both Ten and Kit's bags in it.

Ten was sitting down on the bed, and he could see him through the window into the room. He knocked on the door lightly, and Ten looked up and motioned for him to come inside.

He opened the door and came inside and saw Ten taking large breaths to even himself out.

Heart plunked down on the bed next to him.

"Feeling nervous?" Heart asked.

Ten nodded his head.

"Yes, this is my first time going live after one of our official releases. This is our first time all of us standing strong together as a group ready to face the world and anything it throws at us. And I am not even there for them.

Heart nodded along with what Ten was saying.

"It's okay the guys understand you had this trip planned first, and you have been waiting as a person who needs and wants love from their loved one in their life for a whole year as the world kept you two apart with your busy schedules. The fans understand, and the group will always have your back. You can do this." Heart said, then he pushed off the bed and walked over to the little sofa sitting area and sat down on it so as not to get in the way of Ten's video.

Ten nodded and started the filming. Heart turned, looked at him, gave him a thumbs up, then turned back to look at his own phone. 'The photos are out... it's time to be a great best friend.'

Heart opened his phone and went to the site with the little popup that said 'New teaser release photos for H.M>L's hot debut.'

He clicked on it and began scrolling, the individual shots were really pretty, in the dark green and purple ethereal colors and the aesthetic scenes they were going with, and he sat up gasping softly, then covering his mouth. His mind raced.

'What are these guys doing in the couple photos?' His finger stopped scrolling over Ring and Tones, and he couldn't stop staring. 'Oh my gosh, what are these two doing in that field together? They look like more of a couple than Saint and I do. I swear I feel like I am looking at private photos that got taken secretly without their knowledge as they just expressed their deepest desires in secret. Why does it feel as naughty as peeking in a bathing pool?'

Ten hung up his live, saying he had to go to bed, and Heart stood up. "I am going to call Ring right now. Did you see the photos? Wait, what am I saying... Of course, you saw the photos, you were on set with them when they made them. It looks so racy... The tension there..." Heart paused.

Ten chuckled. "It was worse on set. Let's call together okay?"

Heart nodded, and they dialed together, the phone rang a few times, Tone picked up on the other end, and Heart and Ten stood together to fit into the screen. Tone smirked at them.

"Hey guys, we are just finishing up here, and after that Jennie says they have a surprise up on the rooftop, so I don't think we can talk right now. Can we call you back tomorrow?"

Heart nodded, surprised. 'Tone always took his calls.... Always.'

"Sorry, Ten." Tone said, and Heart looked over and saw how upset Ten looked.

"I promise we love you and are thinking of you. But it's also like a honeymoon for you guys, a second try. So go have fun, we won't bug you on your first night there. Go to sleep, it's late, and we can chat tomorrow." Tone said.

They nodded. "Okay, bye, talk to you tomorrow." Ten said.

"Have fun." Heart yelled back just as Tone hung up his phone. heart let out a deflated sigh.

'He was starting to feel that twinge of sadness and jealousy in his heart. It had been so long since the guys and he had just got together. He was starting to miss them terribly.'

'Soon, we can chat again soon.'

'Right now, Saint needed him just a smidge more. he hadn't said anything, but he could tell Saint was still a bit worried about his dad, and he would be worried until the final step to everything was sealed tomorrow. After this there was no going back now.'

'Tomorrow.'