Flowers of Despair || Haruto from TREASURE

twenty eight

cw // mention of leaving the group

April 13, 2022

"Make way for the food." Mashiho said as he brought the food to the table located at their dorm living room.

There was a small bowl of blueberries, a large pitcher of water, chips, soda bottles, and boxes of pizza. The boys digged in and opened some bags of chips and some soda. "Blueberries? Whose blueberries are these?" Haruto asked as he grabbed the small bowl with a confused look on his face.

"Oh that's mine." Junghwan got the bowl from him and popped some blueberries in his mouth.

"I didn't know you liked blueberries." Jaehyuk said while opening the box of pizza on top.

"I expected most of the food to be junk food, of course I need to eat some healthy stuff too." Junghwan said while eating more of the fruit.

"Pause the game, pause the game!" Junkyu panicked as he could see that his favorite flavor of pizza was starting to get finished. He furiously pressed the pause button but the game wasn't cooperating. He groaned in disappointment as his character died.

Haruto laughed at Junkyu who was pouting in annoyance while grabbing a slice of pizza. "Calm down, you can restart it." He placed a chip in his mouth while trying to comfort the older member.

"Yeah, too bad I couldn't finish it first." Junkyu took a big bite of the pizza, still with a pout on his face.

"Junkyu hyung." Mashiho handed him a bottle of soda while chewing on his food. He thanked him for the bottle and continued eating.

They ate in silence after almost 3 hours of gaming non-stop. From their PS5, to their Nintendo Switch, and to their own mobile phones. They didn't notice how hungry they were til' they saw the food on the table.

"Hyung, are you alright?" He heard Jeongwoo whispering to Jihoon who was next to him.

"Yeah." Jihoon shortly replied while pushing his hair back in distress.

"Why aren't you eating?" Jeongwoo whispered again.

"I'm not hungry." He said while looking at his phone and shaking his leg.

Jeongwoo and Haruto looked at each other due to their concern to the older member. Haruto lightly shook his head as a sign on not to push Jihoon to eat or to tell them what happened.

"Oh Haruto I just remembered, you had something to tell us right?" Mashiho mentioned as he sat down on the floor.

Haruto almost choked on his pizza when Mashiho mentioned it. Despite the gloomy mood, Jihoon immediately handed Haruto a glass of water. The way he coughed caused attention to the other members who were calmly eating.

"What are you gonna tell us?" Jeongwoo asked while lightly tapping Haruto's back.

"I... do I need to say it now?" Haruto took his last sip of water.

"Well now that it was mentioned, yeah." Hyunsuk said.

Haruto took a big gulp before proceeding. "Uhh... do you want me to tell you the long version or the short version?" He nervously chuckled.