note below!
TAG: "did you always have the cosmos in your eyes?"
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"have they now?" jihoon grins sleepily. soonyoung hums.
they lie in the dark, bodies pressed up against each other, intertwining like the tail ends of nebulas. jihoon swears he's never felt so happy in his life. promotions are coming to a close and he's happy to have this free time to spend with soonyoung.
they don't have a label though. and it kind of bothers jihoon, but if bringing it up destroys his little illusion, then he won't even try to. it still bothers him to the ends of the universe though.
"i think you do." soonyoung murmurs, thumb tracing the shell of jihoon's small ear. why is the damn air-conditioning up so high?
"do what?" jihoon whispers back. the time is 10pm, but it feels like midnight. soonyoung chuckles, inhaling cold, biting air, "i think you do have starlight in your eyes." jihoon hums, acknowledging this repeated fact.
"what i'm wondering is, since when?" jihoon has to laugh softly, "i don't know."
[ did it start from the moment i met you? ]
"maybe," jihoon says. "i know i'm just so charming." soonyoung has to snort, "you're charming alright, but i don't think that's when."
their eyes are closed, but they don't sleep. even though they wear their warmest clothing, their own warmth seeps through the threads to graze each other. jihoon likes the way soonyoung smells now. he decided to steal some shampoo from the hotel they were at previously and said he was going to use it up now that he's taken it.
it smells like herbs and lavender. jihoon thinks it's so nice.
"d'you know what i think?" soonyoung asks. jihoon pushes him on.
"i think it's when we first started this." jihoon notes soonyoung doesn't address what 'this' is. his heart aches like it's being pulled apart.
[ the moment i followed you; without knowing, my heart moved too ]
"...oh- really?" jihoon feels his words choke up. "mmhm. maybe it was my doing."
"what was?" soonyoung puts his fingers in jihoon's hair, softly petting him. "me putting stars in you."
the innuendo is sickening and jihoon responds with a groan. soonyoung smiles in the dark, proud of himself.
[ can i make a move, follow me ]
"what move?" soonyoung asks. "i love you, soon."
air-conditioning is one hell of a bitch.
the air is stilled upon jihoon's revelation. soonyoung doesn't know what to do and jihoon struggles between apologising and saying it's a joke, or pushing through it. his decision making takes awfully long so soonyoung already responds.
"you never say that outside..." soonyoung trails off. jihoon's confused, "outside...?"
soonyoung sighs, "outside of sex, hoon..."
ah...
the taste is a little bitter on his tongue.
"i'm in love with you," jihoon reiterates, eyes teary, now from embarrassment. "i know, ji- wait," soonyoung sits up suddenly, turning the bedside lamp on.
"jihoon! are you crying?" it sends jihoon into a deeper wave. he's full blown bawling and soonyoung panics all of a sudden. "oh, baby..." he guides jihoon's tired body into his arms and hugs him, holds him close and stays silent. the younger's tears do all the work.
"what am i even doing this for if you don't love me?"
[ i like it best when you smile ]
"so please don't cry." soonyoung's heart aches. soonyoung finds himself petting jihoon's ash blond hair as his cries soften and simmer down. after much decision, he presses a kiss to the top of his jihoon's head. "can i tell you something, ji?"
jihoon sniffles, "mhm..."
soonyoung lifts up jihoon's head so they're looking into each other's eyes. soonyoung sees those stars again. and smiles. "oh, jihoon..."
"you don't know how precious you are to me." soonyoung says. "you're worth billions and billion of galaxies, all of which you hold in those eyes of yours."
[ without knowing, my heart moved too ]
jihoon's glassy eyes stare back at soonyoung's. the older wipes the tears off his face with his thumbs, squishing jihoon's cheeks in the process. "my mochi." soonyoung comments, making jihoon squirm a little in his hold.
"please tell me something nice so i can sleep tonight." jihoon begs. soonyoung softly smiles, "you heard me, ji. i love you too."
soonyoung sighs, lying both of them back down on the soft bed. he dims the light. "i thought all these things we were doing were just... play to you, that you didn't take it seriously." jihoon feels relief knowing they started off in the same boat, having already liked each other at first.
"well, i don't know if this is love but since i met you, basically, i just felt overwhelming sense of emotion. i just wanted to be around you all the time to take care of you." soonyoung looks into jihoon's eyes, a little puffy now from the crying.
his baby looks so cute still and his heart aches even more.
"i love you soonyoung." soonyoung chuckles, brushing hair from jihoon's forehead. "i know, baby. we can just keep going like this okay? nothing will change. but now we can sleep at night knowing we have each other." jihoon smiles.
"knowing we love each other." he softly corrects. soonyoung giggles, reaching over to fully turn off the light.
[ without a sound, i've fallen into your eyes ]
by the stars in your eyes and the stars in the sky, my whole world is filled with glittering starlight.
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note: PLS i wrote this in such a rush idk why i suddenly thought of loona odd eye circle's starlight n just ,, here is the result LOL idk if it was obvious but the lyrics (underlined in swuare brackets) are basically what they're saying to each other as well <3
wrote it at 11pm and it's like 2am now rereading to edit and by golly i was like "🥺 AW" ANYWAY thanks for reading HAHAHA also we don't talk about how like 90% of this book is soonhoon they r my FAV pair n i cant stop thinking abt them sobs

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Short Storytitle from 999<3 by Kid Milli one shots , mostly seventeen argh, i write the same three pairs anyway (HEAVY one shots indicated!!) edit: some are cross posted on AO3! link in bio:3