The touch of your lips || Janiel Lookism

1.

Emptiness.

That is what the young man felt as he sat on the edge of his bed.

He could not remember how long it had been since his lips forced themselves against his classmate. Every time he pictured the scene, he felt his stomach go hollow, twisting and turning as he visually cringed at himself. How could have he been so stupid? So idiotic? He had promised himself to never consume alcohol ever again a long time ago, yet there he was at the graduation party, chugging shots like they were nothing, and endangering one of his most precious friendships. Before he could dwell any longer, he heard a slight knock on his door, he jumped slightly as he twisted his head, glancing towards the entrance of his bedroom, where Hyeong Seok, his brother, stood.

"Hey, I prepared dinner, you should come out, you've not eaten properly in days, I am worried about you." The shorter one of the two mentioned, his brows frowning as his eyes were filled with concern. The two brothers were pretty similar looking to each other, they were almost like twins, their only difference was that Hyeong Seok had a thicker figure, while Daniel was slender. It was quite ironic, they were jealous of each other's physique.

"Leave me alone..." Daniel groaned, as he avoided eye contact with his brother, and went to shuffle around his bed. Hyeong Seok's face went from worried to annoyed, as he crossed his arms and watched his brother make a fool out of himself. The shortest sighed softly as he walked deeper within the room, it was dark, empty bottles of water at the side of the bed, and the clothes from that night laying on the floor, Daniel in simpler terms, was completely miserable.

"How long do you plan on living like this? I mean, you can't be miserable forever, you know?" Hyeong Seok commented, glancing at his brother while he grabbed the empty plastic bottles. As expected, he did not receive a reply from Daniel, aside from the sound of his bedsheets shuffling around of course. This got Hyeong Seok to get extremely annoyed.

"FOR FUCK'S SAKE DANIEL!" Hyeong Seok yelled at the top of his lungs, making Daniel shoot himself upwards, his reddish and swollen eyes widened as he saw his brother fuming. "It has been a week, a week where you've only eaten shit you'll find in the fridge, barely go outside, don't talk to your friends, and don't even look at ME." He complained. "Do you think I can just sit here and tolerate this? Watch you rot away in your bedroom over ONE misunderstanding?" Hyeong Seok had an aggressive frown on his face, his arms still crossed. He acted more like a mother than a brother when it came to Daniel, to be fair when Hyeong Seok is the one working while his brother went to school, the conclusion doesn't seem senseless.

"...You wouldn't get it..." Daniel muttered his bangs covering his face as he looked down, his voice was raspy and low, Hyeong Seok however was not buying it at all, he grabbed Daniel's arm and pulled him forward making him yelp as he supported himself by taking a tight grip onto his bedsheets.

"Do not pull that bullshit on me, Daniel, do not act like your life has been so miserable and that you'll end it just over this one thing. Get up, take a shower, and come eat your first meal in forever for the lord's sake." Hyeong Seok growled, barely managing to get his brother up on his feet, who could've guessed his training with Vasco would've been able to make him strong enough to pull a man almost twice his height up on his feet?

For the first time in days, Daniel was not leaving his bed to just grab more water from their fridge, but rather because his brother was forcing him out, believe it or not, he was quite glad he had a caring brother, someone who was willing to make him try to better himself, you don't get relationships like this these days.

"You have 30 minutes to get ready and go do something with your life, I have a movie night with Zoe, I don't want the depressing aura around you to affect it in any way." Hyeong Seok commanded while Daniel chuckles. So he did have different goals after all.