Chapter 23 (1/1)

It’s a bright Saturday morning when their match day arrived. Because the news had spread out on both schools, Minho decided to use city sports hall as their arena. Just as expected, crowds of spectators lined up from early to get good seats, cheered on their favorites.“Hyung, why there are so many people here?” Mir gulped down. He knew the other fours are popular in their school, but he’s not used to this kind of attention and it scared the hell out of him.“Don’t worry Mir, just do it like we used to practice” Seungho cheered him.“We supposed to decide our line up right?” Junhyung asked “Who wants to go first?”“I will” Taemin raised his hands, he just have to be the first in everything.“I’ll go next” said Kikwang.“Mir’s the third then, I’ll go after him. And you’ll be the last. I’m sure Minho wants some piece of you” said Seungho.“Fine, I’ll give this to the judges” Junhyung took down his notes “Can anyone tell me why my dad’s here?” he whined.“Not only you, my mom and Seungho’s parents and sisters are here too” Taemin replied “See there” he pointed and waved to his mom. Mrs Lee almost dropped her bags when she waved back to her son.“When did it become like this?” Seungho’s jaw dropped “I didn’t even know half of these people”“We’re popular on our school too, you know?” a voice came from behind. They turned around and saw their opponents already lined up in front of them.“So you guys actually good guys or you fooled them?” Taemin asked sarcastically.“Because you’re cute, you’re forgiven” the boy named Key smiled at him.“Whatever…” Taemin rolled his eyes.“I never knew why we’re doing this, though. Clearly I didn’t remember your girlfriend, where is she by the way?” Junhyung sighed.“Ex-girlfriend” Minho bold his words, he narrowed his eyes to the crowd and pointed to the south wing “There, girl with long hair, purple shirt, standing next to the vending machine” he said.The others turned to his direction and whistle.“Wow, Junhyung, she’s pretty” Kikwang said.“I’ll never forget a girl like that” Mir added.Taemin pouted and glared to Junhyung while Seungho stared at him. “Wait, I really didn’t know her” Junhyung hurriedly said something before it gets worse.“Didn’t care much” Minho shrugged “The rumors already spread that she cheated on me with you and now I have to do something to save my face”“So we want you guys to kneel and apologize if you loose” said the dino face with a smirked.“In front of these people” added Doojoon.“I don’t get it, it’s just Junhyung, why we have to apologize?” asked Kikwang.“Fine, if you don’t want it” Minho answered “Only Junhyung had to kneel down and apologize, but I want the four of you to shave off your hair”“Bwooh?” the other shouted.“Except for the pretty face, his hair’s too beautiful” Key stared to his friend.Minho desperately looked at his hyung, he’s irritated by his hyung’s weakness to anything cute that walked “Fine, you can keep him if they loose”“Yah, Key’s my boyfriend” Jonghyung wrenched and wrapped his arms around Key’s waist.“Hyung, I don’t care what you’re going to do to the blonde!” Minho raised his voice “Can we start this?”“What do you mean you could keep him? He’s not a thing” Seungho protested.“Then don’t loose” said Doojoon.“Oh great, I could play with him if I owned him” Key squeeled and jumped on his own “I always wanted to have a pretty daughter”“That didn’t sound so bad” Junhyung mumbled in amusement and earned a smack from his boyfriend.“Taemin is not included in the deal, okay?” Seungho made his point “Fine, we’ll shave our hair and kneel down if we loose, but I expected you guys to do the same if we win”“Of course” a cocky smile twitched on Minho’s lips."We are going to win this, right?" Kikwang whispered worrily when they walked away."Of course, hyung. We don't loose" answered Taemin with a smile."Taemin's right. Don't worry too much or it will affected your game. Beside, it's a teamwork, someone would cover your back when you screwed up" said Seungho.-The arena was crowded when the first match began. Taemin and Key stood face to face, Key was smiling with an evilish glint on his feline eyes, while Taemin pursed his lips and tried his best to intimidate his opponent."Drop it baby, you look even cuter when you glare like that" Key chuckled.Taemin stayed silent and focused on his opponent stance. Key sure made no fauls and didn't give him a blank spot to strike."Not gonna move first sweetie?" Key asked "Then I will" he continued and kicked to Taemin's right side of head quickly. Taemin raised his right hand and firmly blocked the older's kick. A loud thud echoed on the arena and people gasped by the sound of it, they could imagine how hurt it would be for that skinny arm. "Not bad" thought Taemin inside. He didn't even flinched from their first contact and as he expected, Key switched both his legs and directed more kicks to his head and chest. "Chest" Taemin saw the pattern from his opponents attack, not only he blocked Key's leg, he also hit it at the same time and made the boy lost his balance for a few second. Without hesitation, Taemin jumped and used gravity to land his leg to the top of Key's head. Three points for Taemin and the crowds cheered for him. "Do you want to continue?" the referee kneeled down, next to the boy laid down on the mat. "Yah, do I look like I still able to continue?" he yelled, making the referee's face reddened and chuckled from his fans. "What a diva..." Taemin muttered. "Yeobo, do you want to go to hospital?" Jonghyun rushed to his boyfriend and put an arm over his shoulder. "Jagiya, it hurts... My head hurts" he whined "But I want him... Win him for me" he pouted to the other male in a cute way which worked his way as his boyfriend nodded and promised him to get what he wanted. "Nice job, minnie" Taemin's other teammates patted his back and ruffled his hair. "Of course, you don't think I'll lose from that fake mariah carey, right?" Taemin smiled and signed his victory to their opponent's team. -