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Chapter 15

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♡ "because you feel like home to me" ♡

-unknown

"Is college treating you well, Jaemin?"

"It's alright, I guess," Jaemin answered as he stared up at the ceiling. He's only been back home for two days and Doyoung had already told Jaehyun to continue their therapy sessions.

"Has anything new happened recently?" Jaehyun tapped his pen against his notepad. As a therapist, it was against his code of conduct to hold sessions with clients who are family, but he was also not allowed to take on someone even close to his friends. However, Doyoung had begged Taeyong day in and day out for him to convince Jaehyun to speak with Jaemin and Jisung one on one.

Of course, he was still refusing to do so even after his lover asked him. But then, his younger brother, Jeno, suddenly came to him about it as well. Jaehyun was honestly confused as to why he was asking, but after seeing Jeno plead with him, which the boy never did, he had no choice but to accept their request.

As a result, he made it clear to Doyoung and Johnny that their meetings were to be held at their home and he was not allowed to collect any form of payment from them. Doyoung obviously felt guilty about it, but both Taeyong and Jaehyun assured them that it was fine.

"Not really," Jaemin played with his fingers.

"Okay," Jaehyun paused for a moment, "are the dreams still reoccurring?"

"Um..." Jaemin tried to remember the last time he dreamt about his parents or his aunt, but he couldn't pinpoint it. In fact, ever since he started talking more with Jeno, he had almost forgotten about the dreams that would taunt him. "I don't think so?"

"You don't sound too sure, Jaemin, but that's okay. Let's not focus on that for now."

"Okay," the younger male sighed.

"Have you made any new friends in your faculty?"

"No," Jaemin immediately shook his head. He hated the thought of going out of his way to allow new people to enter his safe zone.

Jaehyun hummed, "why is that?"

"I can't do it..."

"There's no such thing as 'you can't'. It's all about taking baby steps."

Jaemin thought for a few seconds. He had been taking some baby steps which we would like to call improvement from high school. "I've grown closer to one of my friends. Well, I didn't particularly like to call him a friend back in high school for personal reasons."

"I see," Jaehyun hummed, "what did you do to become closer to them?"

"Um— I wouldn't say that I did anything," Jaemin grew red from the memories of his and Jeno's interactions. "I kept pushing him away if I'm being honest. But he sort of...stuck around?"

"He's a good friend then," the older pointed out. "Are you comfortable with him?" Jaehyun was clearly observing the way Jaemin talked about his friend. Before it was brought up, the younger looked nervous while answering his questions. As if he was stressed just thinking about his answers. But after mentioning him, Jaemin shoulders became relaxed and his voice became clearer.