Wallflower [Seungjin]

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[Chapter Thirty Eight]

"Look down, look down, don't look them in the eye. Look down, look down, you're here until you die. "
Victor Hugo- Les Misérables

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Hyunjin woke up on top on Seungmin, their legs intertwined and his head laying on the boy's chest. He instantly smiled, and almost stretched his hand up to poke his cheek, but then he remembered how little the other one had slept the night before, and sat up, kissing him temple before staring in awe as the shorter whined at the lost contact and turned to the side to hug himself.

Hyunjin pulled the covers up and moved to his bathroom, wincing a bit at the discomfort in his lower back and washing his face before he left.

"Morning.", his mom smiled as she looked up from the papers she was writing. Hyunjin kissed her Sm cheek and sat next to her.

"Good, morning. What are you doing?"

"Preparing my next story!"

The boy lifted his eyebrows.

"Weren't you writing something already? Was it... Wallflower?"

The woman smiled sweetly.

"Hyunjin, honey, you should know I write like the flash, Wallflower is finished, now I'm preparing the plot for Rescue Team and At Your Service. "Hyunjin rolled his eyes and chuckled, while his mom scribbled something fast on her notes. "You're early today, you don't have school for another two hours."

"I know, randomly woke up and couldn't sleep anymore."

"Was Seungmin's hug not comfortable enough?", Hyunjin almost choked on air, awkwardly chuckling as the scribbling of the pencil was the only thing to break the silence for a few seconds. "It sure seemed like it when I woke up and checked on you guys. I wonder why you locked the door."

"I wonder how you unlocked it, mom?"

The woman hid her head to laugh at her son's shocked face.

"Nice way to try and escape, I obviously have an extra key." Hyunjin immediately looked down at his lap, playing with his hands and trying to calm his jumping heart. He heard his mom close her notebook and push it aside before leaned over the table. "Jin, sweetie, I knew you liked him the first time I saw you two, okay? I was just waiting for you to tell me. Your dad came to me the other day.", she let out a small laugh. "Asking me if I thought you guys were dating, so you're not that good at hiding, your dad never understands anything."

"Are you serious?"

She nodded. "Plus, I've seen you making out in the kitchen that times your burned the pancakes."

The guy's eyes widened and he buried his face in his hands.

"God, I hate life."

She ruffled his hair.

"No worries, we all hate it, but I bet you hate it a bit less since you met Seungmin.", she wiggled his eyebrows. "But since we are talking about this, how are things with you two? Are you dating?"

Hyunjin shook his head.

"He's scared, and I get him, so we keep it quiet. I want to ask him to date me anyway, no matter if we tell others or not, but I was... also a bit of a coward so far."

His mom chuckled and they both turned to the sound as Hyunjin's door opened again. Seungmin came out rubbing his eyes, just like the first day his mother had seen them both. Hyunjin smiled, getting up and walking to him. Seungmin stated confused as the guy came closer, pulling him by his waist and kissing his forehead gently.

"Morning, babe."

Seungmin's eyes widened and he slapped his chest.

"Your mom-"

"She knows.", Seungmin looked between mom and son.

"What?"

"She said, and I quote, we are not good at hiding."

Seungmin's hands started shaking a bit, but the warm smile she sent them managed to calm him a bit.

"Well fuck.", Hyunjin chuckled and pulled him into a hug, as the door of his parent's room opened this time, his dad smiled at the scene and quickly ram to the kitchen.

"If you want me to drop you off you need to go early, kids. I have a morning meeting."

Hyunjin shouted an okay and pulled Seungmin to the bedroom again, so they could get ready for school.

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"Since we are here early can we just go to the library?"

"Sure."

Hyunjin didn't say anything as he saw Seungmin pull that same book he used to talk to the mysterious person out of his backpack, putting it back on the place he usually found it.

The taller simply smiled in understanding and trying to control his laugh as he realized what was happening, intertwining their hands and guiding him to one of the trees, letting go of him as they sat down.

He made a mental note to go to the library later.

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Guess who forgot yesterday too :)

Also, I'll finish this story today, it's 2 more chapters guys 🥺

Alexa play another day by Straykids.