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08. ( mw )

TITLE : the flying crow with a broken wing
DUO/COUPLE : minwon ( mingyu+wonwoo )
GENRE : angst / ex-lovers au (they don't get a happy ending)
WORD COUNT : 755 words

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wonwoo felt his heart crack in his body. his eyes glistened with tears but he quickly blinked them away— refusing to cry over some stupid breakup that happened a year ago. painfully, it had happened a year ago.
sure, he had texted the younger, tapping his thumbs against the mobile keyboard with a tear-stain face as he punched in messages that would never even send with an angry face before letting the phone slip out of his hands as he cried again.

the day of the breakup— he typed out in such a hurried manner that the spelling was never really checked.

"february 5, 20xx"
"you really left huh?"
"twi years, out the window that quicj."
"thanks, i guess."
"for nothing."
"i guess.. yoy were only thinking of forever with our memories and not mr."
"fuck you."
"but yk"
"i hate myself too."
"i hate myslef bcs i still lobe you."
sent.

"april 6, 20xx"
"happy birthday kim mingyu, you still have my heart, return it."
"please,"
sent.

wonwoo clenched his teeth, forcing his feet to walk away from a painful scene in front of his eyes. hands whitening as his grasp on the shopping bags of the new clothes he bought tightened with each step he took.
"you will not cry over your stupid dumb ex wonwoo, just keep walking and pretend you never saw him."

• • •

mingyu bit the inner skin of his lip, bringing his hands to pretend he was acting embarrassed over what his friend had spoke to him but in honest reality, he only covered his face from the incoming tears that soon escaped his eyes once he laid his eyes on a familiar boy with those all too familiar glasses on his pretty face.

"holy shit mingyu! are you okay?!" jungkook asked, panicking over that he just seen the kim mingyu tear up.

"kook, calm down, it's just his ex that he saw and that's why he's crying." eunwoo started, and jungkook looked all around to find the glasses male but failed.

"i swear mingyu, you could've just told us you fell for him and still be dating him, you're stupid you know?" mingyu nodded, agreeing that he was stupid but he still cried, his lips trembling as he continued to cry.
"let it all out big guy," eunwoo patted his friend's back, ultimately gaining the attention of their other friend.

"holy shit is gyu okay?"
"crying over wonwoo problem," eunwoo replied to jaehyun's question as they confronted mingyu through his crying feast in public.

mingyu entered his lonely apartment, it used to be so bright with wonwoo around but as he left, the color in his apartment left as well.
he searched through a box, pulling out a phone he knew so well and with a sim card taped to the back of it.

he wanted to hold himself back, but felt his hands fiddle with the phone by themselves as if his heart was finally taking control over the damage his brain has done.

sim card has been inserted, recover all data from sim card?
no | yes

and there he went— going through pictures, rereading messages and crying all night as he hated himself for leaving.
it was his choice, yet he regretted it so much.

why did he have to listen to his mother?

"kim mingyu, i am heavily disappointed in you." his mother's voice boomed in the apartment after mingyu let her in— some of his items were over at wonwoo's place so the apartment did look a bit bland.

"what do you mean mom—"
"don't act dumb on me. i know why you keep ignoring my calls, you've been dating some guy behind my back right?!" shit.
"ma—"
"you gay piece of shit."
"break up with him or i'll hurt him slowly."

thank the gods his father understood him— and helped him hide things from wonwoo's place— that smelled like wonwoo and especially the little polaroids that wonwoo took in a box.
wonwoo.
jeon wonwoo was his peace, his safe haven and slowly his cure to his loneliness.

jeon wonwoo was the crow that flew away with a broken wing.
jeon wonwoo walked away with a broken heart after seeing mingyu just standing and laughing with his friends.

and kim mingyu didn't know how to solve his aching heart that pleaded for the warmth of wonwoo.