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Jaehyun didn’t particularly want to dance. He’d spent years already getting off of work and coming to this same bar. He remembered when it was exciting, a good way to blow off steam and get a little buzz before going to the main event for the night, whatever club or underground party they were going to stumble out of before dawn. He’d only come out to the pre-game tonight because Doyoung had said Jungwoo wanted to go. Jungwoo still looked around all the places that Jaehyun used to love with sparkling eyes. Jaehyun didn’t particularly want to dance, but he did want to dance with Jungwoo.
Jaehyun lives and plays in San Francisco, even though the scene has lost it's luster. Jungwoo comes into his life and into his friend circle. He flirts with everyone, loves everything, and Jaehyun catches feelings he didn't know he could have any more. Jungwoo wants to drink, dance, and be tucked into bed by 1. Jaehyun wants to be the one to take him there.
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- Part 1 of 138 BPM
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“I want to be with you.”
Months later, Ten would wonder if he should have been more practical in that moment, but at the time, Johnny was looking at him so tenderly, shifting around on Ten’s sofa like he was nervous and playing with Ten’s fingers, that Ten wanted to be romantic and reckless. What was distance to a declaration like that, to the warmth in Johnny’s gaze and the way he sighed when Ten kissed him and said:
“Alright, then be with me.”
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A relationship in three long, slow acts: meeting, loving, losing.(Part One of Two)
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- Part 2 of 138 BPM
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He wanted to believe that Taeyong, who didn’t really seem to hang out with anyone so far as Doyoung could tell, came out that night because he was happy to have an excuse to hang out with Doyoung. He wanted to think that the sparkles and the newly dyed hair were for him because Doyoung had once said he thought Taeyong would look good platinum blond. He wanted to hope that Taeyong liked him, that he felt the same insane pull of attraction that Doyoung did every time they touched, but it was hard to know anything for sure when it came to Taeyong.
Doyoung and Taeyong, 6 months in San Francisco, trying to make it work.
A prequel to "Breakbeat."
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- Part 3 of 138 BPM
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"Mark only touched him in San Francisco now, when he felt like it. When he was bored of other people or when he wanted someone who knew how to kiss him the way he liked and make him laugh when the sex was over and they rolled over and went back to being best friends. Sometimes, Mark had someone else, but Donghyuck came anyway because he liked it too much when Mark asked for him."
Mark and Donghyuck figure out their messy, sometimes totally fucked situationship over eighteen months in San Francisco. Mark thinks about the straight and narrow but can't remember how to stay on the supposedly righteous path. Donghyuck tries to live in a new city and remember all the reasons that he shouldn't give his heart to Mark, looking to new friends for lessons in how to grow up and move on.
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- Part 4 of 138 BPM
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Johnny thought that breaking up with Ten was the right thing to do. He's certain up until the moment he sees Ten again, four months later. Ten has never been entirely convinced that Johnny wasn't totally full of it.
A story of how to rebuild a relationship from the foundation up. One room at a time, until a house becomes a home.
(Sequel to Deep House).
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- Part 5 of 138 BPM
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“I’m trying to tell you that it’s okay to look at someone else,” Yangyang murmured, letting his wrist go limp in Kun’s hold. “You should try. If you look around, you never know what you might see.”
“I’m looking at you right now,” Kun said, almost like he couldn’t believe it. But he was still holding onto Yangyang’s wrist and Yangyang could feel the press of his fingers, the digging between sinew and bone.
______When Ten and Johnny got their happily ever after, Kun felt cut adrift. Yangyang was there to pick up the pieces, after years of waiting for a chance to hold out his hand. As they fall into each other in secret, things go too far.
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- Part 6 of 138 BPM
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In the immediate aftermath of a confession and a rejection, Yangyang tries not to want what he had and Kun tries to understand what he lost.
“How could he be happy when he’s still wearing that awful necklace?”
“Maybe he just likes it,” Kun said, remembering the tang of precious metal on his tongue, the feeling of it between his fingers when he held Yangyang on the couch, stroking the marks he’d left on his throat. “Maybe he thinks he looks good in gold.”
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- Part 7 of 138 BPM
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Five months after the conclusion of Darkstep, Johnny is getting ready to move out and Donghyuck continues to take an inspired and hands-on approach to helping Mark move on from the past.
"Mark had already made the biggest deviation, turned the corner from the land of denial and Donghyuck took it as his responsibility to hold Mark’s hand and walk him down whatever filthy off-beaten path his horny, repressed heart wanted to take."
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- Part 8 of 138 BPM
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Doyoung smiled at him from across the room, his cheekbones lit up by purple and gold lights flickering in time with the beat. Now, Taeyong wanted Doyoung to close the distance and kiss him, wanted Doyoung to dance with him and then take him home.
There were some things, Taeyong knew, that would never change.
(A second chance romance story that coasts along on EDM vibes, a constant thrum of pining, and builds towards the inevitable dirty romantic beat drop).
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- Part 9 of 138 BPM
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Jisung got into Jeno’s bed and thought about the endless possibilities of the universe, the last of the vodka making him think about what domino it was that had tipped at some unknown moment and cascaded into a series of other moments, dominoes falling and falling until Jisung ended up in Jeno’s boring bedroom waiting to see what happened next, wondering what Jaemin was doing with someone else, somewhere else, in a different corner of their little universe.
The perpetual youngest of the friend group, coddled ballet prodigy Jisung lives in San Francisco, waiting for his star turn and his chance at love. Jisung wants it to be Jaemin. Jaemin who lives with best friend Jeno. Jeno, who smiles for everyone but Jisung, but who wants to take him home and feed him dinner anyway. In the run up to another gray summer in the City, Jisung explores his endless possibilities while Jeno plays reckless games and Jaemin tries to think better of it all.
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- Part 10 of 138 BPM
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"He tried to know as little about Sion as possible, which was difficult because Sion loved to lore drop about his life at any given time... Riku didn’t need to know more. He knew enough. Sion cost him daydreams. Sion cost him money. Sion cost him sleep and the last of the ice cream."
Riku is used to temporary roommates who understand the blessing of silence. Sion, a struggling dancer crashing in his best friend's spare room on a whim, has no such understanding. He wants to talk, he wants to laugh, and he wants to occupy every inch of Riku's space. Riku knows better than to let him get closer. But under the flashing lights of a Vegas bar, with Sion wearing Riku's stolen cologne and looking at him with that perfect face, Riku is finding it harder and harder to say no.
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- Part 11 of 138 BPM
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Daeyoung is a traveling nurse who tries too hard to keep things casual because he knows he falls too easily. Yushi is a brilliant, reluctant medical student who has spent years quietly carrying a torch for the guy who made room for him at a crowded freshman orientation table and took him to bed weeks before graduation.
Years later when their paths cross in San Diego, Yushi claims he has no game, Daeyoung thinks Yushi more than knows how to score, and neither one of them knows what the other is actually playing for.
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- Part 12 of 138 BPM