High On You | chensung

epilogue

A year later.

Jisung was finally being released from rehab.

Recovery wasn't as easy as everyone thought, so jisung's stay had to be extended. His family kept their promises on visiting regularly. Jisung wasn't allowed visitors for the first 3 months of his stay. Once visitors were proven to be good for his recovery, his family started visiting regularly. They'd visit together once a week, though some of them would visit alone if they had the time.

Jisung was nervous about being put back into the real world. He'd been trapped away into the comfort of the facility that he'd forgotten he'd have to avoid certain people and environments in order to stay sober.

Lucky for him, when the police arrived to the party and started searching for other drug users, yangyang was found. He ended up in rehab with jisung to avoid prison as well. With the help of each other, the two were bound to stay sober.

Jeno, jaemin, donghyuck and his parents were all gathered in the Lee family home for a 'welcome home' party for their beloved jisung. There were no alcoholic beverages, only juices and sodas. He had to avoid alcohol just as much as he did drugs.

"Welcome home jisung!" his entire family greeted in unison with ridiculous smiles on their faces as he and donghyuck walked through the front door. He placed his bag down at the door and gave each of them a hug. He was so glad to finally be home. "You've been sober for a year now!" jieun applauded.

It was no longer donghyuck's house, it was his home as well. It always has been.

"Okay I might have not been completely honest with you but-" donghyuck gathered everyone's attention and went to open the front door again. "I have another surprise!"

The door opened to reveal a smiling mark, renjun and chenle.

Chenle.

They hadn't spoken to each other in a year. A rush of emotions filled the both of them as their eyes met. In a room full of people, their eyes still immediately found each other.

"Junnie!" jaemin and jeno rushed to their boyfriend's side, peppering him in kisses. With chenle's promotions in china, they weren't able to see each other in almost 3 months.

Mark had met taemin and jieun a few months after jisung was emitted, once he and donghyuck had become an official couple. He and taemin got along very well like they were already close friends, but he treated jieun like she was royalty. He felt indebted to her for giving birth to such a perfect human being.

Chenle slowly approached jisung. He wasn't thinking, their bodies were pulling towards each other like magnets. "You look so well, ji." chenle whispered, admiring jisung's appearance. jisung looked tidy and very well taken care of, but chenle was still his very expensive self.

"As do you." jisung replied. Before their conversation could continue, jisung grabbed chenle's hand and dragged him outside away from their family and friends.

They started at each other in a comfortable silence for a few minutes, adjusting to being in the presence of one another after being apart for so long.

"I missed you." chenle admitted, tears rimming his eyes. He couldn't believe they left off on such negative terms and he still gets to be here. Standing in front of the perfect boy who he was sure hated him.

"Chenle... I've never hated you. Even after the events at the hospital. I didn't mean to rope you into my shit, I know I shouldn't have gotten so involved with someone in that state, but those events have led me to get better. I want to get better for my health and you. I've been through a lot but i'm ready to go to therapy and start the next chapter of my life." jisung explained his thoughts before sucking in a deep breath. This moment was gonna come sooner or later, and he wanted to be more open with himself and chenle so they could work on their future.

"My parents were alcoholics and naturally aggressive, they beat me. They found out I was into boys and were disgusted. Finally, hyuck's parents took me in and my parents were arrested. Even then, I refused to get help and started hanging out with the wrong people. I got into drugs and alcohol which led to all of the current events taking place." Jisung wiped the tears from his eyes as he finished. Chenle hadn't noticed he was crying himself. Chenle thought jisung was a very strong person. He couldn't imagine having to go through all of that for years.

Chenle threw himself into jisung's arms with a big smile on his face. "I'm proud of you." his tear stained cheeks were being absorbed into jisung's shirt. Jisung held onto the boy like he would leave if he let go.

"Does this mean we can get back together?" jisung asked nervously.

Chenle began to laugh into jisung's shirt. "Technically, we never broke up."

Jisung thought back to all of the events from a year ago and chenle was right. Nothing along the lines of 'we're breaking up' left either of their lips. This made jisung laugh too.

"Well, I haven't spoken to my boyfriend in a year." jisung placed a kiss onto chenle's forehead and wiped what was left of his tears.

"I love you, jisung."

"I love you too, chenle."