DEAD SENSES || J.JK ✔

42| Submerge

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"Do you want some ketchup?" I take the corndog from the shopkeeper, "nah, this much is fine." Heonsu turns around to look at the bus stop, but I take a bite of the delicious savoury item, "do you want to sit down?" He nods, licking his finger on which the cheese drops.

"Come here," I ask him to follow me, and we exit this small café but sit down on the chairs kept outside.

"This is so fucking good." He bites on his lip, but keeps chewing on the food, maybe he is really starving, I should talk to him about that but I think I have to be patient for it. I swallow the food in my mouth, looking around the table and seeing people enjoying their own foods. Heonsu glances at me, but he licks his lip, passing his tongue down his bottom lip, his nose ring catches my attention.

"How many piercings do you have?" I lean further on the table, but push the tip of my corndog on the ketchup, hearing him chuckle. "I only have six." He tells. So all that I can see is what he only has. Two on both his ears, one on his lower lip, and the last one is the nostril one. "Oh, that's nice."

"Yeah, but I wanna have more in future." He makes me frown, but not unpleasantly. "Why?" I take my phone out, and see the text I got from jungkook.

Can we meet tonight? Hanuel wants to have you for the pool game we planned

Sure c:

I leave my phone on the table after sending him that message, and I focus on heonsu who's busy eating, his cheeks rising cutely. "Why would you like to have more piercings in future, huh?" He looks down at his plate, but swallows, "because it's hot and I like piercings, simple."

"Oh I see," I pretend I didn't hear that, and came to a conclusion that he could even pierce his eyebrows. Whatever. "So," now I approach the topic for what I brought him here with me, having this question in my mind since long.

"Do you and your father stay together?" He stops the movement of his sharp jawline, and he slowly lifts his eyes at me, grabbing the tissues to wipe his oily lips which shine. "Yes, because I have no other choice. I'd leave and be on my fucking own right now, if I could, but I cannot because I'm still underage...." The pain in his voice cracks, and he takes the can of coke to hold it firmly, he drinks it.

This feels terrible to hear this, I never knew there are more children who deserve parents but their parents don't deserve them.

"Do you not have any siblings?" I cannot eat more, I want to help this boy. He rests back, fiddling with the metal ring of the can which you use to open the can, "I have an older sister, but she lives with her boyfriend in Hongdae." This is good, he can stay with her if he doesn't find comfort with staying with his father. "Then why don't you go and ask to live with them?"

I suggest him. He looks into my eyes with his pained ones, and he shakes his head, lowering it. "I'd be a burden on them. I don't want to be another burden. I already am one."

"No," I say otherwise, "you're never one. And if your sister really loves and cares for you, she wouldn't have any problem, especially after knowing how her father is. And I'm sure if her boyfriend cares for her, he also wouldn't mind. You're still a kid, heonsu. You need proper care and attention, I hate the way you're being treated at home with your dad, if it's so bad outside, I know it's worse in the home. I can tell it. You're not liking it there, and you cannot even stay on your own until some months after, so why don't you consider my decision and talk to your sister?"