Playboy Kyungsoo (1/1)

EXO was lazing around their dorm on a fine morning when their manager came in and sighed at them.“Jongin, I see that you’ve already ate about 2 whole chickens. Please leave the rest alone. Sehun, Pinku Pinku is going to turn as dark as Jongin if you fiddle with it more and no! Don’t put it in your mouth! Baekhyun, please take a shower. Your hair looks so greasy and don’t whine about how you want to preserve that wondrous purple locks of yours. They will all fall off unless you clean them. And if you don’t remove your eyeliner at home, I swear, you’ll get an eye infection you’ll never forget. Tao, what did I say about wandering around naked? One of these days, some TV show is gonna barge in to film you guys and you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”Their manager sighed again and rubbed his head. EXO looks so magnificent on stage but in private, they are just like any other youths their age. He suddenly remembered his purpose of looking for them that day.“Junmyeon, Kyungsoo. You two have something new scheduled. It is a magazine shoot. Junmyeon will do it tomorrow for the next month’s issue and Kyungsoo will do it a month later for the month after that.”The two boys nodded their heads. Junmyeon was curious, so he asked, “What magazine? Why are we split into two months and… only two of us?”Their manager shrug, “They requested for you two. Not too sure what magazine is that, the head manager hyung didn’t tell me. He’ll bring you there tomorrow.”Seeing how their managers always arrange everything out properly for them, no one had this on their mind that much.***The next night, Junmyeon came back, a little withdrawn. Kyungsoo was in the living room, folding his freshly laundered clothes.“Oh, hyung, you’re back. How was the photoshoot?”Junmyeon merely nodded his head to acknowledge Kyungsoo, saying nothing.Kyungsoo frowned, “It can’t be that bad right? What did they ask you to do? And what magazine?”Junmyeon raised his eyes at Kyungsoo tiredly, “Soo… Well, you have to do it next month… Actually… It wasn’t that bad, just… Err… They said that you’ll be doing something different from me… Uhh… Never mind. Forget it. Nothing major.” Junmyeon heaved a huge sigh and disappeared into his room.That actually got Kyungsoo anxious. Nothing much fazes Junmyeon and… this? What’s scarier is that he most probably has to go through it next month.Never mind. I shall let it slide for now and ask hyung when he seems more at ease.***Kyungsoo never found out what was the photoshoot about. He even scoured various magazines but he couldn’t see any with Junmyeon in it, other than those they did with everyone. He got anxious and it seems to be too late, as he is now riding in the car, on the way to the photoshoot. Only one manager went with him, the head manager hyung who also took Junmyeon last month.Kyungsoo decided to sing to calm himself down. He closed his eyes and lean on the head cushion, singing softly.Some time later, he felt the car entering a basement car park and soon enough, he got into a familiar routine of walking briskly with his manager guiding him into the elevator. He asked his manager again regarding this photoshoot and his manager said, “It would be easier for the editors to explain to you. They promised that they are open for negotiations if you find it uncomfortable.”Kyungsoo gulped.While Kyungsoo ran a million options through his mind (They wouldn’t be some pervertic magazine that wants me to be in their version of Fifty Shades of Grey, right?) and each became ever that unlikely than the other, he soon found himself walking into a normal photoshoot studio. He was looking around warily, looking for hints, when a smartly dressed staff came over to shake his manager’s hand. They greeted each other and Kyungsoo was ushered to the meeting area at the side.“Hello, D.O. sshi. I’ve prepared a briefing sheet for you here,” he slid a sheet of paper across, “and I’ll go through it with you together. So. I’m Yoo Hyeseung, the chief editor of Playboy magazine South Korea and-““Wait, what?! Playboy?!”Mr Yoo blinked. Twice. “Why, yes. Didn’t anyone tell you? Your fellow member, Suho sshi, came in last month and we did fine. I thought he would have told you, no?”Kyungsoo turned towards his manager. “What? Just listen to him. You guys can discuss about it. Right, Mr Yoo?” Mr Yoo nodded amicably. His manager’s phone rang and with an “Excuse me,” he left them to pick up his phone.Kyungsoo looked back at Mr Yoo in deisbelief. Mr Yoo is a nice guy and very polite too. But… Playboy???“Mr Yoo, you’re saying that Suho hyung came last month for a photoshoot with you and… got published?”Mr Yoo nodded, “Yeah. Didn’t you know that he had a photoshoot with us?”Kyungsoo became frantic, “I know he did a photoshoot with a magazine and I’m supposed to do the same one a month later but I have no idea it would be for Playboy!”Mr Yoo chuckled softly, “Relax, D.O. sshi. Let me brief you, and remember, we are always open for negotiations. In fact, Suho sshi did negotiate some bits with us last month too.”Kyungsoo took several deep breaths. “Okay.”Mr Yoo beamed at Kyungsoo, “Alright. Now, it is spring and we usually do sweet girls themes in spring. This year, however, we decided to do young boys instead. Why, you might ask? You see, when Playboy started out, we specifically made it clear, ever since our first issue, that we’re an adult magazine, showing the original femme fatale, the girl-next-door kind of girls. As the years passed, more and more magazines began to overlap their themes with us. Most of the folded, because they do not understand that we’re not some trashy magazine. We take great care in selecting our models. Even after the photoshoot, we chose the pictures to be published carefully. Those publications that folded churned out various pictures of their models dressed skimpily, suggestively, even. We don’t. We also did a survey and realised that the readers’ taste are now wider and would also love some what you would call boy-next-door. And so, we decided to kick off this new concept this spring, with three months of boy-next-doors as our Playmate of the Month. Suho sshi was the first, followed by you and after you will be Lee Hyunwoo sshi. Since you have no idea, I have a copy of the latest copy, releasing in a week, that features Suho sshi as the Playmate of the Month.” Mr Yoo passed a nicely printed copy over to Kyungsoo.Kyungsoo eyed at the cover, where Junmyeon smiled shyly, eyes casted downwards on a pile of tiny kittens playing in his lap. He flipped open to look for more of his pictures. Some are innocent, of Junmyeon laughing, holding on a bunch of balloons. As the magazine get more to its centrefold, Junmyeon became, well, lesser clothed.The poster that comes along with the magazine had Kyungsoo gasped in shock. Junmyeon had his body spritzed with droplets of water and he was completely naked, safe for a Pomeranian lying on his lap, obscuring his, well, goods.Kyungsoo swallowed. No wonder Junmyeon hyung seems so distraught. Even Kyungsoo has never seen Junmyeon posing like this. Their shower time doesn’t count, because, well, they were showering.Kyungsoo looked at Mr Yoo and pointed at the poster, “You said that he negotiated?”“He did. We initially gave him a Chihuahua but Suho sshi asked for a bigger dog.”Kyungsoo closed his eyes in despair, “And I have to do this too? All these kittens and puppies and gauze like stuff that doesn’t cover anything?”Mr Yoo hesitated, “Actually, we’re giving you another concept.” He gestured towards the main set in the studio. It was a car garage, with some mechanical tools around the sides. “We’re planning to get you in some overalls and some lubricant smeared on you. Since being all dirty in overalls is basically sexy enough, we only need you to be topless while you bend over fixing the engine. We will only take the picture of your bare back.”Seems okay to him. His manager seems to be coming back, so he stood up and got ready for work.“Let’s get started them. One thing, though. I don’t want to be a Playmate. That’s my only requirement.”Mr Yoo seems flustered, “But our cover model is always referred to as a Playmate.”“I don’t care. No way am I going to be a Playmate.”“…”“It is a boys edition. Call us Playboys. Can you change Suho hyung’s too?” /snort