dear soobin || yeonbin

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beomgyu steps into the classroom, inner him hoping that the older would be at his usual seat next to him, but as expected, it was an empty seat. his things were still laid out messily, which indicated that he was still in school, but that was what beomgyu hoped. he knew that yeonjun had the capability to escape school during school hours.

there were still a few minutes before break ended, and beomgyu moved slowly towards his seat. his brain was flooded with so many things at once, but taehyun's words kept on replaying in his mind.

"do you ever think that you like yeonjun hyung?"

there is no way that beomgyu would fall for yeonjun, they were only friends with benefits and nothing more.

but why did it hurt whenever he said those three words to soobin?

beomgyu sighed, and he buried his face into his hands, leaning forward on the table. he wanted the ground to swallow him whole. he felt like shit. he sworn to himself that he was not going to make yeonjun upset whenever he was around with him, beomgyu wanted yeonjun to treat him as if he was a safe place, but he failed.

he suddenly got up, and a sudden surge of determination filled his body.

"i'm going to find a way to make everything better again."

~

yeonjun was sitting behind a bathroom stall, hugging his knees close to himself. he was still in school, but he had no intention to go back to class.

he stares at the plain bathroom wall in front of him, remembering what soobin would do all those years ago whenever the older would feel overwhelmed and run to the toilet to cry his eyes out.

he could remember how nice soobin's embrace felt whenever he brought him into his embrace, rubbing comforting circles on his back and playing with his hair in an attempt to soothe the older.

"i love you so much yeonjun. promise me that you'll come to me whenever you feel upset, and i'll try my best to make everything better for you okay?"

soobin's voice rang in his ears, and yeonjun chews on his bottom lip, feeling the sudden urge to fly to Ansan and run into soobin's comforting arms again, something that he lacked since 8 months ago.

"yeonjun."

there it is again. his stupid voice is making me feel nostalgic again.

"JUNNIE HYUNG."

"what the fuck beomgyu just leave me a-"

yeonjun swiftly turns his head towards the closed bathroom stall door next to him, staring at the unknown person's feet.

converse shoes.

beomgyu doesn't wear converse shoes.

yeonjun stopped breathing for a moment, feeling his throat tighten and he blinked madly. there was in no fucking way that soobin was standing a few centimetres away when he should be 30.1km away.

"soo..soobin?"

yeonjun mumbles, voice coming out raw and cracked.

"have you gone nuts? i'm taehyun."

yeonjun's heart sank back down to rock bottom again. right, of course soobin wouldn't be here. he was just imagining his voice like a totally normal human being!

yeonjun gets up and unlocks the bathroom stall, looking at the shorter male squarely in the eye. taehyun sighs and leans forward, giving the older a long and comforting hug.

yeonjun blinks, not knowing whether to hug back or to stand there awkwardly. it felt nice, the comforting feeling of someone's hands wrapped around him. he embraces back, heart still feeling heavy.

after a minute, taehyun pulls away, a smile plastered on his lips.

"don't tell kai that i hugged you, he doesn't like it."

yeonjun smiles back, not knowing what to reply with. he hasn't been particularly close to taehyun and hueningkai, mainly because of how he would hang out with beomgyu majority of the time.

"if there's nothing much i can leave now, take care hyung."

taehyun says, flashing yeonjun one more smile before turning around to leave the bathroom.

"wait!"

i guess it wouldn't hurt to open up.

taehyun turns back around, tilting his head in slight confusion.

"yes?"

"do you mind skipping class with me while i rant?"

yeonjun whispers softly, looking on the floor. he felt slightly embarrassed to ask taehyun for comfort, but he was desperate. taehyun never seen yeonjun upset before, he never expected the cheerful older to even have the capability to feel sadness, and he felt bad. the younger nods, and yeonjun's face lights up almost immediately.

"thank you."

~

a/n: i hate this chapter bruh.
ok but i didn't want to write the part when yeonjun tells taehyun everything because it would be rewriting all the things that i wrote previously, and it'll be pretty boring. 😭😭