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A story where your boyfriend is your wingman.
Time was like a ticking time bomb for Wu Jaehyun, and every passing moment he could feel himself drift further away from his only source of happiness, his girlfriend.
He wanted things to be...
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-Flashback- -A Week Ago-
An agonising scream filled the whole house as soon as a black cab drove away. Sunghoon clutched his hair tightly, pulling on his delicate and soft hair strands, as tears poured out endlessly, wetting his eyelashes, his eyelids squinted shut.
Things around him started to make sense, every little memory seemed to fall together, making a bigger piece of information.
Panting out deep breaths, his hand reached out for his phone, his fingers wet due to his flow of tears.
— "Ayo Hoon!" The cheerfulness in his voice earned another sob from Sunghoon, as he bit his lip to suppress it. "Sunghoon..? Are you alright?"
"Where are you?" Sunghoon blurted out, wiping his eyes to stare at the screen of his phone. He looked sick in the reflection of his phone screen, eyes bloodshot and bloated.
— "I'll be leaving for Airport in sometime, why? If it's anything then I can meet you after I reach Seoul tonight—"
"Why didn't you tell me?" Sunghoon whispered into the speaker, "You're sick, aren't you?" He dropped the bomb, clutching the phone tightly despite the slippery grip.
The line was silent, not even Jaehyun's calm breathing could be heard. Jaehyun's eyes flickered open in shock, before Taehee's thought crossed his mind.
— "Who told you?"
"Your father," Sunghoon chuckled a bitter laugh, "He knew something was wrong with you. So, I got your samples checked on his orders by Jaeyun—"
— "Dad? He knows?" His voice broke, disbelief penetrating his whole being.
"No, I didn't tell him yet. No one knows yet," Sunghoon wiped his red nose. Again silence fell between the two mates, before another tear rolled down Sunghoon's eye. "Why didn't you tell me before?"
Jaehyun on the other side of the line closed his eyes shut, the vulnerable, broken voice of his best friend was sending waves of guilt down his system, but he had his own reasons to keep things a secret. — "I just didn't want you to worry—"
"Stop lying!" Sunghoon yelled into the phone, "What's up your sleeve, Wu Jaehyun?" He growled in a dead serious voice, closing his mouth to prevent any hiccoughs to escape.
Sigh. Jaehyun massaged his forehead, feeling blue on being exposed like that. He had to blow his cover to everyone.. unless Sunghoon gave in.
— "Meet me at the Airport on 6." He said before the line was hung up.
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"Hoon, stop crying.." Jaehyun sniffled, pulling the elder in a tight hug, "You look like a Rudolph," He snorted dryly in an attempt to lighten the atmosphere.
Sunghoon didn't pay heed to the comment, even so tightening his grip around Jaehyun's torso, "You're dumb, you know that? So dumb.." He parted his lips, a hiccough interupting the moment, "..How can you even think of leaving us all like this? Dumbass.. idiot.. dickhead.. Nothing will happen to you!" Sunghoon lightly slapped Jaehyun's puffed cheeks.
"What about Areum, huh?"
"I told her that my flight is delayed—"
"Not that," Sunghoon cut the younger off, "What's with all this fake cheating act?" He frowned, wiping his eyes with the paw of his sleeves, "That too with Taehee.." He mumbled the last bit.
"I know that she is your ex-girlfriend, but I had no other choice.." Jaehyun rasped, "As for cheating on Areum.. I did cheat on her even though it was all an act."
"Why—"
"Because I want to make things easy for her after I die!" Jaehyun raised his voice abruptly, attracting looks from several other people in the food court of the Airport. The drugs they gave him for his health did him wrong. He had abrupt and uninvited mood swings and would get angry at the shittiest of things.
Seeing Sunghoon fall quiet, Jaehyun mumbled a low 'sorry', protruding his bottom lip in guilt.
"I also know that you love her." Sunghoon snapped his gaze almost immediately at the young man, his eyelids parted hugely in shock, "I saw your camera the other day, didn't mean to nose in though." Jaehyun muttered.
Sunghoon clamped his mouth shut, cocking up his eyebrow as if he was challenging Jaehyun to spill the remaining beans. He couldn't just conclude that Sunghoon loved his girlfriend after seeing a stupid camera reel, there had to be more to it.
The simple gesture, which usually girls would find rather hot, seemed rather intimidating to Jaehyun. He gulped once, twice under the undeterred gaze, before parting his lips to spew, "Do you remember the valentine's day celebration we had back in 4th grade?"
Sunghoon seemed rather flustered at the memory, sheepishly nodding, "Yeah, we had to draw a potrait of someone we loved."
"And you drew Areum's picture."
Both felt silent, as Sunghoon bit his lip as nostalgia hit him, sending him crashing down as a wave.
"I only recognised it the other day I saw it tucked inside your closet. You don't know the guilt that had fucking seeped into my system that day. Taking the girl whom my bestfriend loved since forever away from him." Jaehyun clenched his jaw, his teeth gritting themselves against each other, "Why were you hurting all this time alone, Park Sunghoon?"
Sunghoon looked away, as a tear slipped down Jaehyun's eye. He bit his lip to control his emotions, he didn't want to cry again. He didn't want these last few memories to be sad.
"I think I'm getting punished fo—"
"Don't say that," Sunghoon clamped his hand over Jaehyun's mouth, "You didn't know anything. It isn't anyone's fault. Please don't say that.." He whispered as Jaehyun nodded meekly, wiping the tears with the back of his hand.
"You know what to do. Keep her happy and safe. For me."
