"You want me to marry who? You hate the Chxi family!" he yelled in disbelief. "We do, but unfortunately your grandfather has political ambitions and wants to forge alliances and show that the K!m family are patriotic and in support of the military. We have tried to argue with +

him, but he's adamant." "The old goat will live another two decades on stubbornness alone," HJ told his bandmate Hwx. "I have no choice. My life is over." "Is it that bad? Sn is pretty hot," Hwx said, whose 'fvck the system' attitude folded quickly at the sight of biceps. +

HJ groaned and rolled into a little pile around his red electric guitar, covered in skulls and Hellc Kitty stickers. "Don't worry, we'll help you cheat," Wcc promised from his keyboard. "You can relieve him of some blood money, and buy us new gear. It's basically +

robin hood, since me and Mang! are poor." Mng gave him a flat stare and a middle finger. "If he thinks he can order me around or lay a hand on me so help me I'll bite his fingers off!" HJ declared. Things hadn't gone over much better at the Chxi family home. +

Sn had been called into the study to stand at attention in front of his dad's desk, and informed he was to be married. "I haven't even done my service yet," Sn had pointed out, and been scolded for talking back. He was told a lot of things that were expected of him, but +

didn't get a reason, which wasn't unusual. However when they told him who he was marrying, his astonishment burst out. "The guy who got suspended for spraying anarchy symbols on the walls?" He'd sooner expected to be ordered to assassinate the guy. And equally unwilling. +

It was his duty, but it was more than that. Prestige and honor didn't pay the bills and Sn's grandfather had gotten them into deep financial trouble. HJ's family was well connected and could get them out of this. "Everything is on you now, son. You have to keep that kid happy +

and I know it won't be easy, he's a menace, but you absolutely cannot let him call this off before we've gotten things in order." If there was anything Sn expected less than being married off at twenty, it was to be whxred out to a pvnk rocker. But duty was duty and +

family was family. And K!m Hcngjccng was damn s3xy. Sn admitted as much when Jcnghc alluded to his behind. "So you won't have to pretend too hard," Yvnhc said. Both of them came from military families too and accepted the news in compassionate silence. Yecsang was confused. +

"He's kind of intimidating," Sn complained. "If I try to kiss him he'll probably kick my balls in." "So just make friends. Ally with him against your parents. Make yourself not the enemy," Yvn suggested, always the diplomat. It was worth a shot. +

So when both families met at a hotel for dinner, Sn tried to be nice and polite and friendly, even when the guy was rude and rolled his eyes. He offered his arm when they left, and HJ shoved it away and said he wasn't a frail little old lady and Sn could stop being patronizing. +

"I know this isn't what either of us had in mind," Sn said, and got a hopeful glimmer of a not-hateful glance. "But I swear I'll be a good husband, and I would never ask my wife to-" "Oh my fvcking god," HJ exclaimed, storming off. Well, the guy was cute but crazy, Sn thought.+

HJ crouched down around the corner. This was a disaster. Chxi Sn was an idiot, so polite, trying so fkn hard, why couldn't he piss and moan like HJ instead of making HJ look like a whiny baby! And he clearly assumed some archaic gender roles, and dressed like +

a damn European prince, and looked stiff and repressed and like he hadn't smiled since last summer. But the worst of it all was that Hwx was right. Just a nudge of HJ's hand had made his pulse explode because Sn was /fkn hot/. What the fvck. //End?? Tbc? 😅