《Log In》 [Yeonbin/Taekai]

Level 25

Taehyun frantically scrolled through the servers notifications, trying to understand why the match had been cancelled by the server itself.

He had gotten a message through the system, just an address which he was asked to come to. The company of the game itself was inviting him to their building!? Had he fucked up??!

Either way, he had found himself in the lobby of the companys building in Seoul as fst as he could. The entire team was invited, but no one wanted to talk to taehyun after what happened and hueningkai hadnt logged on since his avatar died, so soobin and hueningkai wouldnt be gaming for another 2 months.

"Mr. Huening will see you now." The receptionist stood and gestured politely towards the elevator opening.

Huening?? As in Hueningkai? Is this a joke? Did we get in trouble for glitching??

A hundred things raced through Taehyuns head as he entered the elevator, the screen already setting itself to stop at the top floor.

Despite the mix of a thousand thoughts, the most prominent one was excitement.

Im going to see Hueningkai in the flesh? I dont ever want to log on to that game again....buf if i could see him in real life, everyday....that wouldnt be too bad.

The elevator chimed as it came to a halt and opened its doors to a hectic looking ceos office. Papers scattered, and a man at the desk with his face in his hands.

When the man heard taehyuns footsteps over the clutter of things on the floor he immediately jumped to a stand to greet him.

"Username: Moonlight Spirit??" Mr. Hueningkai had eyebags down to his nose, and red swollen eyes lacking sleep. His face leaked sadness and concern all over it.

"Yes, Kang Taehyun actually. Is this about the major league fight? We did use glitches, but it wasnt technically cheating, theres no rule against it." Taehyun set his defense straight and strong, but mr. Hueningkai waved his hands, brushing off any concerns over major glitching.

"No nono....thats not why youre here at all. Your team, it had a user named 'Cantwejustsummoncuteanimals?' Right? Our server picked it up when it caught a glitch used by that user." Mr. Huening held taehyuns shoulders tightly, not breaking eye contact.

"Excuse me, can you let me go please? I havent done anything wrong and youre asking me to give away information when i came here 2 seconds ago....what is this all about?" Taehyun brushed off mr. Huening, taking a few steps back.

"My sons username was that.....weve been looking for him for a very long time..." Mr huening gave a pitiful look as he stared taehyun down, fishing for a response.

"Yes, he was on my team. Hueningkai?" Taehyun quickly raised his arms in defense when mr huening got wild again.

"HAS HE TALKED TO YOU?! ASK HIM TO LOG ON FOR ME, PLEASE!!" mr huening was frantic, pulling a headset out of his desk for taehyun.

"WOAH WOAH STOP!! what is this about?! I will call the cops if you put that thing on me!" Taehyun hadnt expected the ceo of the worlds most popular vr game to be such a creep.

"Hueningkai?....you even know his name..." mr huening surrendered, setting the headset back and giving a small smile to himself.

"Its rather hard to explain....if you would, please sit with me?"

-

Soobin let yeonjun in the window only because of the chance of him falling and being hurt was high.

"Please leave...." soobin held his arms as if he were cold, turning away from yeonjun.

"I know what i did was wrong....but i will tell you the truth if you listen to me." Yeonjun pulled out soobins school uniform jacket he had been stowing away all this time.

"Does this mean nothing to you? Us? A simple misunderstanding is whats going to break this?" Yeonjun waited a few minutes, afraid soobin would never give him the chance even now.

Soobin eyed the jacket, eyes watering as the turned to look at the jacket, then yeonjun, repeating the look over and over.

Yeonjun took soobins turning around to face him as permission.

"Juri is my girlfriend. I broke up with her months ago, but she needed help keeping an old ex off her back, so i never told anyone we broke up. It ended that day becuse the ex ended up changing schools......i never meant to cheat on you, or make you feel like an experiment....its true ive never seen a guy like that, but i truly love you, and i swear by my mothers grave, that jacket hs brought me more joy in life than anything....if you truly want this to end, keep your jacket, ill leave you alone...if you believe me, please trust me and give me another chance to love you..."

Soobin held the jacket in his fists tightly, biting at his lip and staring yeonjun in the eyes. He wanted to convince himself to say no, to not get played again, but yeonjuns eyes convinced his heart, ignoring his head.

"AH! I hate you so much Choi Yeonjun...." soobin threw the jacket on his bed, running and hugging yeonjun around his waist, burying his face in yeonjuns neck.

Yeonjun gave a shaky breath, relieved and grateful for the forgiveness. He hugged soobin back and pulled his face in for a kiss, long and gentle.

-

Taehyuns feet ran almost as fast as the words looping in his head, all mixing and burning through his eyes in the form of pure anxiety and fear.

"My son is Hueningkai, and I am the creator of your game."

"There was an accident around a year ago-"

"Heres the file if you still think im a predator..."

Taehyun had spilled the file running through the hallway, leaving mr huening picking up the papers as he trailed in taehyuns dust.

"KANG TAEHYUN PLEASE WAIT!!" mr huenings voice echoed far behind trhyun as his shoes squealed to a halt in front of the room door.

'Patient name: Kai Kamal Huening'