SEQUEL TO HOLD ME
"it's only human."
those are words that stick in the minds of eight boys who have found themselves closer than ever because of a year spent at the same college.
minsung, seungin, changhyunlix... and chan :')
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It'd been one heck of a vacation... If anything, Chan found himself more exhausted than he was at the start of it. And now what would he do?
Jisung had asked for Minho at the hospital, not him— and that was good, he was glad, but then again, honestly he would've liked to see her. Maybe he'd go visit tomorrow. He wouldn't want to crowd her or Jisung.
And Seungmin and Jeongin had dipped even before he got back... Hyunjin and Felix disappeared together... Changbin went out...
There was nothing for Chan to do. Even with a hundred things to worry about, there was not a thing to be done. And man, he was just so tired...
It wasn't even dark out when he got into bed. It still could've been considered afternoon when he got into bed. It felt so strange. When was the last time he'd willingly taken a nap? Tried to take a nap, that is. An hour of laying still with closed eyes later, he was still awake, and oh, how he wished he wasn't. He hadn't slept a wink last night, not with the stiff, tense silence in the ocean air after everything went down. Now there was even more to worry about... but if Chan could just forget it for a moment...
If he could clear his mind...
Force the thoughts away...
Just for a minute...
Chan could've sworn he was thirty seconds away from blacking out when the knock came on his door.
Startling back to full alertness, Chan's eyes flew open and he called out, "Yeah?"
The door was slow to drift open. "Chan hyung," Felix whimpered, from behind it. As he came into view, Chan saw that his eyes were brimming and shining with tears. "I— I messed up."
At the sight of Felix, standing there in the doorway, willing away his sobs and clutching the hem of his shirt with his trembling hands, Chan's drowsiness fell away immediately and he shot up in bed.
"Felix? What's wrong? What happened?"
"I—" Due to the fact that he opened his mouth to explain, Felix's uncontrollable sobs burst forth and he dissolved into a miserable heap in Chan's doorway.
Pushing himself off his bed as fast as he could when he was half-asleep, Chan dropped down at Felix's side and stuck his hands forward and grabbed hold of the boy immediately, because he knew Felix. And what Felix needed right now was someone wrapping him up in their arms as soon as possible.
With one arm looping around his waist, Chan drew him in and placed a hand on the back of his head, guiding Felix to tuck his face into his neck, and Felix followed his guidance with no resistance.
