"My partner is picking me up after work today."
She stopped what she was doing and looked at him.
The tops of his ears were pink.
She had known Choi Daehyun for long enough to know he did not share things he was not ready to share. The fact that he had said it simply, without making it a whole thing, was the whole thing.
"I'm glad," she said.
He nodded once.
She went back to her kit.
He went back to his lineup.
Nobody needed to say anything else about it.
She was putting brushes back in order when she caught movement in her peripheral.
She had spent enough early mornings in enough green rooms to know every LUMEN member by silhouette at this point.
Jisoo bounced slightly on each step like the floor owed him something.
Taekyung moved like he was conserving energy for something more important than walking.
Doyun led with his chest, the whole corridor becoming his the moment he entered it.
