Within a week, the only person who didn’t know about Junmyeon’s crush on Jongdae was Jongdae himself. This didn’t please Junmyeon, who had worked for years to keep the whole thing secret. It had been quite easy because his friends were only interested in the lives of everyone else, and couldn’t care less about Junmyeon. He wasn’t exciting. He’d been born in California and had a biology degree and knew lots of things about medical research and absolutely nothing about which clothes were last season.
He knew that this didn’t exactly place him on an equal footing with Jongdae. At the age of twenty-five, Jongdae was the marketing director of an international cosmetics chain. He owned a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan and wore specially tailored suits and was dating a French model who Junmyeon wanted to set on fire.
“That guy’s a jerk,” Kyungsoo had said, the first and only time they’d met Marc. Zitao had told Jongdae so to his face. The man hadn’t spoken to anyone, only in French to Jongdae, and left early without telling anyone. Baekhyun had just informed them that he’d stormed out of a photo-shoot today because there weren’t enough ice cubes in the water.
Junmyeon slumped across the bar, almost upsetting Baekhyun’s cocktail. Baekhyun moved it out of the way, sucking on an orange slice. “What is he doing with that guy,” he groaned. “He’s a dick head.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Luhan said. “He just has really terrible taste in guys.”
There was a pause. “Hey,” said Zitao, hurt, because he and Jongdae had dated briefly during college before it became apparent that their separate collections of designer clothing were at war and their relationship couldn’t be salvaged after an argument over wardrobe space.

