REWRITING!!!!!! PROMISE (Ateez/seongjoong fic)

Chapter 10: Docking

Outside was light again, and the ship was busy with life before Hongjoong and Seonghwa got up again. A knock on their door was the only thing that finally managed to get them up. The dark metal creaked open and Yunho stuck his head into the room with tight shut eyes.

"My eyes are closed in case the two of you aren't decent, but they sent me to tell you that we're gonna dock in like an hour. Oh, and also when you get dressed, which better be soon, make sure you wear something nice, yeah?" Yunho said, dissapearing almost as fast as he had arrived, and slamming the door back shut.

"We should get up soon," Hongjoong stated, unmoving from his position on the bed. Seonghwa was laid comfortably on his chest, his eyes still closed but he was definitely awake.

"No," he huffed, and snuggled into Hongjoongs arms more.

"How about 10 more minutes?" Hongjoong offered.

"20 and you've got a deal," Seonghwa negotiated. Hongjoong didn't accept verbally, but instead pulled the blankets up higher on their bodies, and turned so he could hold Seonghwa better.

20 minutes came and went, and Hongjoong had to literally drag Seonghwa out of bed, only for him to get back in and hide under the blankets, where it was warm, and still smelled like his lover.

Hongjoong figured he should leave him for now, and get dressed on his own, and set everything out for Seonghwa. Or else there was one in a million chance he would actually get up and get ready. So he did. He pulled out a fitted black button up, and dark gray slacks. The outfit he pulled out for Seonghwa was just the opposite. Dark gray button up, black slacks.

Once he had dressed himself, fixed his messy hair, and brushed his teeth, he returned to their room to find Seonghwa still sleeping soundly. He looked beautiful like that, but they needed to leave in like twenty minutes. Hongjoong thought he had already messed up by letting him sleep for that long.

"Baby," called Hongjoong as he gently shook Seonghwa's side to wake him up. Seonghwa reluctantly peeled his eyes open and rolled to face Hongjoong, squinting through the bright light entering the window.

"Wow, you clean up nicer than I remember," Seonghwa complimented, and leaned up for a kiss that Hongjoong reciprocated almost immediately. But the affection was short lived, because Hongjoong pulled back and began to instruct further.

"I laid your clothes out for you on the bed. We're matching," he grinned softly and the man in his bed looked visibly deflated from the lack of lips on his, "I'll kiss you again once you're ready, okay?"

Seonghwa immediately stood from the bed, grabbed his clothes, and zipped into the bathroom to change. Hongjoong grinned to himself and shook his head in disbelief that kisses were all it took to get him moving.

The truth was, even if he didn't know it himself, Seonghwa had felt starved of affection since he and all of his friends fell out. More specifically when he and Hongjoong fell out. It wasn't like either of them wanted to lose the other, but they figured that at the time being around one another was causing them more harm than good. So he left.

He left and he met that girl. Of course, he didn't love her. Not in the way that he pined for his friend even after they went seperate ways (albeit temporarily), but in the way that she was practical. Conventionally pretty, and she got along well with his family.

Maybe she knew he didn't love her, and that's why she did it. Cheated. Seonghwa hadn't realized it at the time, but maybe he was finally catching on now. He felt infinitely sorry that he had treated her so poorly, and hoped that she had found someone who could truly love and cherish her the way that he couldn't.