two players; lin yanjun

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third person pov

"You what?! No, you don't do that! Jesus, how many times did you do that?"

"Only a couple," Yanjun shrugged holding his phone up to see the other boy on the screen as they FaceTimed. "She just hit me, why?"

"Because she's not going to fall for dirty comments and I have a feeling it's more than a couple times."

"Okay. Okay, Genius. What do I do then?"

The boy on the other side of the call was pinching the bridge of his nose and shaking his head at Yanjun. They had a talk about this before and it seems he's just not getting it.

"Do something romantic. I don't know," Eunwoo replied and Zhou Rui came into view.

"You're her ex boyfriend and you don't know? What happened to boy genius who was reading all the signs?!"

"Well, think about her ex girlfriends. She was super romantic with them," Rui commented with a shrugged of his shoulders.

"They weren't even her girlfriends. She never dated them," Luke said in the background. "Anyways, just be really sweet to her and be a gentleman. I think the problem is that guys try too hard for her in the wrong ways and she just wants someone who...what's it called..."

"Someone she can rely on," Yanjun thought back to the time she had called him a side chick. She said that girls looks for someone that they could rely on and someone she could connect with.

"Yeah!"

"He obviously already has that down," Rui muttered.

"So I just have to do romantic things? I don't know...I think she likes when I flirt with her how we usually do..."

"Well duh. She likes confidence," Luke came into view and put a hand out.

"Oh! Buy her some bags of Cheetos," Eunwoo said.

"You guys are over thinking it. Just do the small things like hold the door for her and drive her to school," Rui waved off the two boys behind him.

"I already do that."

"So she's probably already in love with you then."

"Don't boost his ego! This is Xiulan we're talking about!"

"Where is she anyways," Eunwoo asked, the three of them settling down.

"She's with Justin and the other guys, helping them record their parts of our songs for this festival we're performing in in a couple of weeks."

"Oh! I know! Sing a song for her," Luke said, excitedly. "She'd like that...you can sing, right?"

"I don't think it would matter. Eunwoo is tone deaf," Rui shrugged, earning a glare from the younger one.

"Am not! I was sick that day!"

"Sure..."

"Getting off topic, guys. Plus, I'm already doing a dance duet with her and I'm going to be performing two other times with the others guys who live here," Yanjun stated.

"Then you should only look at her when you perform. It'll make her feel like she's the only person that matters to you."

"She is."

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"Liar!"

"Boo you!"

"Xiulan told us about your boyfriend!"

"What? Who are you-"

"You Zhangjing!"

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"There's a couple things that we need to fix, but I think this is good for now," Scarlett looked to Kunkun for confirmation, he nodded and she nodded. Xukun sat beside her, in front of her computer, looking over the software as they recorded the others.

The other boys look satisfied, including Yanjun who was standing in the corner of the room. It was Zhangjing, Yanjun, Ziyi, Linkai, and Nongnong's first time being in this particular room since she didn't want anything to get messed up. It's not that she didn't trust them. It was just that the room was very special to her.

"So...who do you think was the best," Justin suddenly asked her and the others quietly looked towards her also waiting her answer except Ziyi who didn't really care too much. However, she did say that she'd enjoyed his rapping. Not that he was going to brag to the others about it.

"Well," she said looking at each one of them, her eyes stopping at Yanjun who raised an eyebrow when she looked at him. He grinned and she smirked before winking at him, he slapped a hand over his heart and she laughed.

"Well," Zhengting tried to hurry her answer.

"Oh," she said looking away from Yanjun. "Well...I can't say. It'll hurt everyone's feelings with the possible exception of Yi-ge."

"Fine, but how about tell each of us our strength then," Chengcheng smiled, excitedly.

"Oh...um okay."

"Me first," Zhangjing said pushing Justin out of the way, making Scarlett giggle.

"It's not going to be a surprise, but you're vocals are some of the best I've ever heard. You're very stable and strong even though you're so cute and little," Scarlett nodded her head while looking at the ceiling.

"You think I'm cute," Zhangjing asked looking at her with sparkly anime eyes.

"Yeah, you're adorable, Jing-ge."

"I love you, meimei."

"I love you too," Scarlett smiled, it wasn't a toothy smile, but it was easy to see how she genuinely meant it.

"Okay. Me next," Justin pushed the eldest away. "Tell me how awesome I am, Jiejie."

"Actually, it's my turn. We're going by age here," Yanjun cut in, wrapping at arm around the laters neck and giving him a noogie.

"Not f-"

"I'm older. I was born before you so I think it's more than fair."

"Agreed," the other boys muttered.

"Fine," Justin pouted and Yanjun released him, pushing him away.

"Well, Crimson. You want to tell me something," Yanjun stared down at her, his pink lips tilting up. She shook her head at him, but her heart wouldn't stop pounding in her chest. Before their trip in America, it wasn't too bad, but now even the shortest glance at him made her heart race.

"Scar," Linkai smirked and her eyes widened.

"I-I think I heard my phone go off," she quickly got up and before they could stop her, she was gone.

"Hey! Only Jing-ge was told his strength," Nongnong whined.

"I'm going to make dinner," Zhengting left first.

"We're going to play video games," Ziyi and Linkai left next and soon everyone else left except Kunkun, who was busy on the computer, Zhangjing, and Yanjun.

"Where were you this morning? I woke up at six and you were gone," Zhangjing asked as the two left Kunkun and closed the door behind them.

"I went running."