COLD • Hyunsung

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Mr. Ahn cleared his throat to gain the attention of all students.

"So, how was it, kids?" He asked as the whole place filled with applause, whispers and whines.

"How did you feel coming out of your virtual world? See, the real world has a lot more, thousands of beautiful places like this. But now that we've finished this treasure hunt, it's the time for dinner. The losing team is going to prepare for the dinner. I hope you'll have a great meal and a great time, we'll set up tents here for tonight, tomorrow, we'll return to our base camp." The instructor finishes.

One team cheered and the other whined. "I'm going to get bored." Felix whined as he back hugged Jeongin and looked at him, smiling sheepishly.

"Lix, no-"

"Please Innie, you know I love you.."

"Felix I love you too but no I'm not doing it-"

"I know your secret. I know you like-" Felix was going to speak but was dragged away by Jeongin, Jisung stood there puzzled. He shrugged it off as he smiled, taking his diary out of his bag.

He took a seat on a platform in the corner, away from everyone, and opened his diary, writing some words in it.

"I didn't know, the road in front of me seemed dark,
'Cause I never ever let it go,
Now I feel comfortable, I like it, this feeling,
And I'll never ever let it go,
I like the view right now."

Jisung closed his diary as he stared off in a distance.

'It's working? I'll try to smile more and more. I'll try to move on from the past events, I don't want to live in the past when I have people who care for me by my side, until now, they took care of me, now it's my turn to take care of them.' He thought as he didn't even notice when he started tearing up.

He tried to take a deep breath, but all he wanted was to cry, for the last time, to let all his frustration and sadness out, for the last time, he wanted to be a burden on his own heart.

As he hugged his knees, he proceeded to cry. His friends were all preparing for the dinner anyways, who would care? Atleast that's what he thought.

But just a few seconds later, he felt a light tap on his shoulder and he turned around to see Hyunjin, with worry evident in his eyes. Was he being for real? Was it another prank of his? Jisung couldn't quite decide, all he knew was that his heart skipped a beat.

"Why're you crying?" The boy asked as he wiped the crying boy's tears.

Don't trust him. He's a trouble. Don't trust him. He's a trouble. Don't trust him. He's a trouble.

Jisung's heart conflicted with his brain as he let the brain win.

"It's cold. Crying makes me feel warm." Jisung mumbled, he didn't even know if Hyunjin could hear or not.

Hyunjin could feel Jisung was lying, but he wanted to apologize, he had a lot to say to Jisung but seeing the boy like this, it made him forget 80% of the things.

"You don't need to cry anymore." Hyunjin spoke as he grabbed Jisung's shoulders and turned the boy towards him.

"Who are you to tell me-"

Jisung gets cut off by a hug as he let out a little gasp in surprise.

Out of all the things Jisung expected Hyunjin to do, a hug was definitely not what he expected.

He wanted to pull off from the hug, but he didn't know why, he let his heart win this once. Hyunjin, he felt warm, the cold wind was too cruel on human bodies, but Jisung was glad, even for a moment, he could feel the warmth, a warmth that felt like a missing piece of his heart's puzzle.

And that's how both the boys pulled off from the hug, and stared at the distant stars as the comfortable silence engulfed them.
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Felix was arranging some utensils with Minho as Jeongin helped Changbin with the water refill.

Staring off in distance, lost in his thoughts, Felix unintentionally slipped a bowl from his hand, he gasped and tried to catch it before it could fall, but before he could catch it, Minho did.

"You're okay right Felix? You really look lost today. You know what, take a seat over there, I'll do it." Minho spoke up as he took the bunch of chopsticks from Felix's hands.

Felix looked at Minho and nodded as he took a seat.

'Maybe he's not that bad.' He thought as he took a seat and looked around.

And he noticed Changbin trying to flirt with another student, he whispered something on the boy's years as the other boy blushed, making Changbin smirk a bit. Felix honestly wanted to scream from inside. He didn't even realize how this inner frustration made him tear up a bit. He decided to get out of there as someone grabbed his arm.

"Felix, right?" There was this boy, Felix faintly remembered his name...Yejun maybe?

He turned around and looked at the boy with questioning eyes, he was annoyed, he had no mood to talk and honestly, he just wanted to leave the camp.

"Just curious, are you single?" Yejun guy asked while Felix just hesitantly nodded.

"Why?" He asked as the other boy smiled at him.

"Well...Can I take you on a date?"

Felix was in a bad mood. Like what did this guy even know about him? A date? Out of nowhere?

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested." Felix said as he gave him a small smile and turned around to leave but Yejun grabbed his wrist rather harshly.

"Don't be like this. Do you perhaps like someone-" Felix tried to yank his hand away as someone forcefully removed Yejun's grip from his hand.

"He said he's not interested." Changbin spoke as he harshly yanked Yejun's hand, as if he wanted to throw it on the ground.

Yejun scoffed as he left, of course he didn't have the guts to mess with a popular dude.

"You oka-" Felix didn't even let Changbin finish as he grabbed his hand and dragged him to an isolated corner.

At this point, Felix wasn't even hiding his tears. And the glare that Changbin recieved from him made him go weak. All his 'moving on' plan flopped.

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...should i continue this?? 😭