Laughter never ceased especially when it came from Dongmin, Jisung and Joonwoo who were goofing around. The sight was not something new for anybody who had been working with SOU.

Dongmin had been asking questions which led to hilarious responses from Jisung and Joonwoo. More laughs erupted from the boys when Dongmin requested Joonwoo to imitate how their leader spoke and rapped.

Han yelled from his seat, “I heard that!” Since Dongmin was still laughing, the camera quickly panned to the glaring man – with wobbles – who slowly curved a smile, finding Joonwoo’s imitation was funny. Knowing the youngest member was known to be the most mischievous one among them, he did not find his imitation as insulting.

Joonwoo asked Dongmin if he could use the camera. He wanted to use camera to film his surrounding, and might as well, to show a little behind the scene of Sky’s and Hyun’s scene. Dongmin handed him the camera. The younger man received it with a wide smile, taking the camera and started to film around.

First, he went to Han to play with him. Han was still reading his book, began to find his attention was distracted with the camera motion that kept going back and forth his face. Han could not tell Joonwoo to stop.

Without any make-up on his face, Joonwoo’s bare face showed innocent features. The huge smile with his eyes disappeared as crescent moons was one of the reason Han was not able to scold him for playing around while he was concentrating on his reading.

Han closed his book. He turned himself to face the camera, showing an expression as if he was done with Joonwoo for a while and then asked, “what do you want?”

“Han hyung,” Joonwoo called.

“What?”

Joonwoo kept quiet for a kept zooming in and out the camera on Han’s face.

Hyun who just done shooting his part went to him and stood behind him. He snorted as he saw the screen of the camera displayed Han’s nostrils. As he was not able to hold back his laugh, he covered his mouth with his hand.

Han sensed something was wrong.

Joonwoo then proceeded to nonchalantly say, “you’re handsome.”

Han was used to Dongmin, Hyun and Joonwoo’s antics. He tried to grip Joonwoo’s shirt but luckily, Joonwoo managed to avoid him as laughter from Hyun finally left his mouth.

Hyun slung his arm on Joonwoo’s shoulders as he asked Han, “what do you think of this place?”

Han looked at the camera. Lips tightly pursed, he buzzed as he thought. He then answered, “This place is huge. And, a little… spooky to be honest.”

“I agree with you,” Hyun said.

Behind the camera, Joonwoo joked, “heh, my SOU older brothers are cowards.”

Hyun proceeded to headlock him and Han joined to tickle Joonwoo. Joonwoo managed to held the camera well despite his strength weakness because of the tickles. He laughed out loud as he fell on the ground, laying down and struggled to escape from the tickles. When the leader stopped tickling, Joonwoo sat up and took a deep breath as he tried to gain his strength.

Joonwoo raised up the camera to face his face, and stared at it quietly. He then said, “that’s how my SOU brothers show their loves.”

“Sky hyung never tickles you,” Hyun interfered.

Joonwoo placed the camera nearer to his face. He whispered, “Sky hyung shows his love like a tsundere*. He never scolds me too.”

Han and Hyun snorted. Hyun asked, “did we ever scold you?”

Joonwoo stared at older man for a few moment and answered, “you scolded me because I ate your yogurt yesterday.”

Hyun then said, “I left it on the table isn’t for someone to eat it but you ate it!”

“Why did you leave it on the kitchen table? You’d have brought it with you.”

“Are you telling me to bring the yogurt to the toilet with me? Ew!”

“I didn’t know you were in the toilet.”

“But that doesn’t mean an open food left on the table is for you to eat!”

Han rolled his eyes, the three younger members – Dongmin, Hyun and Joonwoo – often bickered over something trivial. It was caught on camera and Joonwoo saw it. He laughed out loud and told Hyun about it. They stopped bickering then, and turned to squish the leader’s cheeks as they laughed.

Nothing could stop the two younger members from treating him like that. So, Han let them did what they want on him. If everyone thought about him as a SOU member more than twice, they could see him as the father of the group.

Joonwoo wanted to end the video. He looked for a button to turn the device off before turned the camera to face him again. He then uttered with a soft tone, “see you in our next comeback. I love you, SWU!” He waved at camera with a smile and then, shut it down.

As Hyun went away to grab a snack from their manager, Han was still reading his book. Not wanting to be alone, Joonwoo grabbed a chair and sat beside the leader. He took the time to take out a SD card out from the camera and put it into his phone, he wanted to see the videos that had taken so far.

While he was clicking on the folders, he managed to ask the group’s leader what book was he reading. The leader told him that he was reading a book about various arts. Then, the youngest member lost interest to ask more as he managed to get into the folder that contained the videos that they had filmed so far.

He scrolled down to look for the video of him and Jisung. When he found a thumbnail of him and Jisung, he clicked on it and the device directed to the video media player. Smiling and chuckling at the acts they had done for the video, Joonwoo heard Han chuckled with him as he heard the part where Joonwoo imitated how he rapped and spoke.

“Really, boy. Is that how I speak?”

Joonwoo laughed, “yup. The point here is you and manager Park Heeseong always call me ‘boy’.”

Han tilted his head once, smiling and chuckling.

As Joonwoo returned to focus on the video, he saw something unfamiliar just passed in the video. His smile fell and eyebrows weakly jumped as the video continued to play. He pressed the rewind button and stopped at a time tag.

Joonwoo began to be keen with the video.

As time passed, he found something in the video. Joonwoo’s eyes trembled. He froze.

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*tsundere - tsundere (ツンデレ, pronounced [tsɯ̥ndeɾe]) is a Japanese term for a character development process that depicts a character with a personality who is initially cold, temperamental, hotheaded (and sometimes even hostile) before gradually showing a warmer, friendlier side over time.