𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 - 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑥

18

one week later

seungmin sat in his lovely boyfriend's lap on the beanbag in their room. he kept on trying to comprehend what hyunjin had just sent him.

--
hyunjin..: seungmin.
hyunjin..: i know you hate me.
hyunjin..: please, meet me
today at 10 am. top of the
city skyscraper.
hyunjin..: please.
hyunjin..: i know you're
seeing these messages.
hyunjin..: i want to talk.
hyunjin..: please show up.
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"binnie.."

"what's up? everything okay dear?"
"hyunjin keeps texting me. he says he wants to talk to me today at the rooftop of the city skyscraper?" he confusingly said.

changbin thought about it.
"well.. maybe it would be best to sort things out. it's literally been a week of us giving eachother cold looks and ignoring at every possible moment, we need to resolve this at some point."
"but, what if something happens?"
"like what." changbin tried to rationalize with him while rubbing his back.
"i don't know-"
"min, i'll go with you. i'll be there in case he tries to hurt you. i know how unstable he is and i've dealt with it first hand."
seungmin turned around and faced him.
"babe, i won't let anyone or anything hurt you again."

seungmin stared at the other, at a loss of words.
changbin pulled him in for a kiss. seungmin hugged him and kissed back, them both melting into eachother's warmth.
"i love you."
-
the two stood at the door to the roof. it had windows, and there was a familiar red long haired guy standing in the middle.
"i'm gonna go in." seungmin said. changbin nodded, and seung lightly opened the door. he shut it behind him silently, and approached the guy.

"you changed your hair." he says, standing behind him.

the guy, now revealed as hyunjin, turns to him.

"seungmin..." his neutral face saddens.
"i'm here now hyunjin. what do you want."

he sighed, and walked closer to seungmin.
"i just,

i'm sorry."

is the only thing that left his mouth.

seungmin got aggravated. "sorry? that's it hyunjin? just, sorry?" he started to tear up.

"i don't know what you want me to say. i can't even say anything. i don't want to accept your apology and i don't think i ever will." seungmin said, tearing up himself.

"please, min." hyunjin started to put his hand on his shoulder, but he quickly shook it off. "don't call me that. only people who i trust call me that name."
"why... why don't you trust me?"

"oh i don't know hyunjin, why don't i trust you!" seungmin screamed at him. "maybe because you took everything i wanted? maybe because you dated every guy i had feelings for and still wanted to be friends? because every person i got even remotely close to you wanted to ruin my relationship with them?! i don't even have the slightest idea of what the hell you get out of it, pride? happiness? popularity?
you have everything i could ever fucking want hyunjin. you can have anything you put your mind to, but i can't have one thing on earth. i can't ever have anything because of you!" seungmin panted. tears were streaming down his cheeks.

"almost an entire year of me hiding almost everyone i felt something for. i told you how strongly i felt about changbin and you went and fucking dated him. on top of that, cheated with my boyfriend while dating the one i really wanted in the first place. for fucks sake what did i ever do to you?! when have i ever wished harm upon you, why do you want everything i fucking have-"

"because i'm in love with you."

seungmin froze.

hyunjin froze.

it seemed that everything froze in time.

"at least i used to be. god seungmin, how stupid are you?" hyunjin wiped his tears.

"you're the one who i always wanted. you've always been my #1 and i've liked you since we first met. you were always first on my list." hyunjin talked back at him.

seungmin went through the 5 stages of grief in one moment. it was silent for a minute or three, but seungmin finally said something.

"so you think..

you think that the way to get me to love you is to get in between the ones i love?!" he was enraged.

"this is what you've been plotting this entire time?!"

they both stared at eachother, out of breath.

"i... i truly. i don't know what to say." seungmin faced away from him and looked out into the city.

"i hate you."

the words rung inside of hyunjin's head.

"i will never love someone like you." seungmin said, as he stormed out of the rooftop and closed the door behind him.

"please..no.." hyunjin pleaded seungmin.

hyunjin started to bawl his eyes out. he stared at the edge of the building and started to move forward to jump.

"for you, seungmin."

he almost fell, but a hand grabbed his and stopped him. "don't you fucking think about it"

hyunjin turned around to seungmin standing in front of him, staring him dead in the eyes.

"don't even try." seungmin says, completely calm.

"i.." the two started tearing up yet again.

"i'm sorry." hyunjin said, finally.

seungmin gave into him, and they both hugged eachother, sobbing.

-

they stood like that for 5 full minutes. seungmin wiped hyunjin's tears and his own.

"i shouldn't have said that. i don't mean it hyunjin."

"i shouldn't have done anything. i should've let you be with changbin. it's all my fault i'm so sorry-"

seungmin put a finger over his mouth.  "don't waste your words on things you already said."

hyunjin nodded.

seungmin inhaled.

"it will never be the same. our friendship and our relationships, and the friend group. but just know, you aren't the same person to me as you were during the summer. you aren't jin. you're different."

hyunjin looked in the corner of his eyes.

"we can stay friends. but it won't be the same, i'm just warning you." seungmin sighed.

"thank you, for a second chance."

"take it as your final one." seungmin gave him a pat on the back, and started to walk off the rooftop.

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a/n: hi guys okay thats the end of the friend groups little side story, this book is almost finished but i hope this chapter fits in the way i wanted it to??