[✓] KING OF HEARTS ☾ jaewin.

˗ˏˋ 04 ˎˊ˗

work is hell today.

sicheng's head spun from drinking the night before, and he got a major migraine during a meeting much to his boss's chagrin. thus it earned him some scolding, adding more to his headache, and left him wanting to evaporate into the horizon.

luckily during lunch he gets to escape early after submitting his work.

yukhei, his friend whom he also met at a club, had invited him for lunch together. yukhei's pretty cool, even if he's a college student sicheng thinks he's matured for his age. to make everything better he always finds way to soothe sicheng's stress – so sicheng agrees without much thought.

but today, out of all days, yukhei chooses to nag at him.

" look, I don't wanna be a busy-body ge, but I think you've been drinking too much ," he says as he stirs his drink using a straw. " maybe you should lay it off for a while ."

sicheng swallows the chicken sandwich he's eating and deadpans yukhei. " seriously? I came here after getting nagged at for, like, four hours and now you wanna nag at me too ?"

" I told you, I didn't want to be noisy, but I'm just concerned, okay? it's really unhealthy for you, if you didn't figure it out. but if you think I'm nagging then I'll stop ." yukhei raises his hand defensively.

sicheng sighs. he takes another bite of his sandwich, eyes casted downwards.

" I know. I'm sorry. that's just... drinking is my way to cope ."

" with what ?" yukhei raises a brow, words slurred as he drinks his smoothie.

" feelings ," sicheng swallows again. " stress. shit like that ."

" language ."

the older male rolls his eyes. " you're twenty-one, not eleven ."

" yeah, still. back to topic, though. there's many other ways to cope... wait, is this about doyoung hyung again ?"

" no ." sicheng bites his bottom lip. " another man ."

yukhei lifts a brow. " jaehyun ?"

sicheng throws his head back and groans. he regrets telling yukhei about his relationship with jaehyun. he should've never told anyone. damn his drunk self, always snitching on his sober side.

" so it is jaehyun. are you two together now ?"

" that's sorta the problem ..." sicheng trails off, looking down to his shoes.

" what do you mean ?"

sicheng takes a deep breath and sighs. it's been a whole week. a week since their friendly-date, and a week since sicheng's been thinking about what he truly feels about jaehyun. he's been asking himself why he gets flustered by the littlest things jaehyun does, why he doesn't feel it towards anyone else except for doyoung back then, and why now.

he doesn't get why he likes skin-ships with jaehyun, smiles every time he gets a text from jaehyun even if it's stupid, or even looking forward to spend time with him.

he told himself it's just a stupid crush because jaehyun's been kind to him. but deep down, he himself isn't even convinced.

" I think... I might've caught feelings for him ." he confesses.

" so you think you like him ," yukhei pauses. " to be honest I think it was bound to happen, just a matter of time. have you talked about it to him ?"

" no. that's the thing. I can't. the whole ordeal was only to be fuckbuddies. no commitment, no feelings, nothing ."

" the ordeal isn't a crime punishable by death if broken. I'm sure he'll listen to you if you try to talk about it. jaehyun hyung is thoughtful, I'm sure he won't mind ." yukhei reasons, pointing his fork to sicheng.