[Book I] Winter Falls [ENG]

Chapter 41: Just a moment with you

Hey! First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WINTER FALLS!!! :D Today is the 1st anniversary of publication! It's been a year since I started posting this fic! I am really happy that so many people follow it (French and English, AO3 and wattpad combined).

As I warned last week, to celebrate, you have a super long chapter today! 14,000 words in gift! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

TW: anxiety (mild), scars (mention), nightmares (mention), internalized homophobia (somehow? not really? but I prefer to mark it in case)

Timeline: the two weeks of Christmas holidays, late December to early January 

Very small message to say that we will see the boys' families in this chapter. They are only fictional characters and in NO case I do consider that real families behave in this way in real life (I specify especially for Jisung and Chan's families)!

Enjoy!

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18th December

Felix sighed heavily, finally sitting on his seat. The wait for boarding had been terribly long. But he was finally on board. He glanced at his phone. The take-off would be in the next fifteen minutes. And it was gonna to be eight long hours.

Fortunately, the young man had thought to take care of a book, his tablet with all the downloaded Voltron seasons, his Switch and his headphones. It was going to be long, but not insurmountable.

He started by taking out his tablet, since he was rather in the mood to watch the animated series. He needed humor right now.

The young man glanced at his phone again. He slipped his thumb, removing different notifications from his social networks. He quickly replied to a message from Hyunjin wishing him a safe flight.

However, a feeling of emptiness sank in his stomach, to the lack of message from Changbin. They had fight five days ago. It wasn't uncommon for their radio silence to last longer. But that didn't stop him from feeling bad about it.

He hesitated for a moment before finally shutting down the messaging app. He switched his phone to airplane mode.

Then he put on his headphones and opened Netflix.

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"Felix! Here!"

The young man raised his head with joy as he heard his first name. Pulling his suitcase behind him, he rushed to his mother and older sister, who had come to meet him at the airport. He threw himself into their arms, enjoying their embrace. He had missed his family so much! He hadn't seen them or felt them in his arms for four months.

His mother kissed him in both cheeks, before letting him go so that his sister could hold him properly in her arms.

"Olivia's gonna loose her shit when she sees you! She was so disappointed when you told her you couldn't come home for the holidays!" She exclaimed.

"Did she really fall for it?"

"Yes! She's been sulking for a week."

"Poor thing. Let's go home then, so I can hug her too."

Felix couldn't stop the smile on his face. He was really happy to be here.

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20th December

Jisung dropped his suitcase before lying on his bed. He let out a long sigh.

He had only been home for 15 minutes, and he was already fed up. His brother had already managed to grab him by the neck to rub his head until he yelled at him to stop. His mother didn't waste any time asking him when he was finallygoing to meet a nice girl to couple. And his father had not failed to tell him about his studies and his future wobbly and unrealistic job.