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Gyuhao~Final.

Main Lead-Kim Mingyu and Xu Minghao

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days pass by slowly. mingyu spends them playing with minseo when she isn’t busy with school. he helps around the house as well and meet childhood friends. it feels comfortable, being at home, yet foreign at the same time.

he expects more people to walk out of the rooms in the house. sometimes, he thinks he hears people calling him, asking to be fed. one evening, he made too much food that leaves his mother in shock due to the amount of leftovers.

alone in the bed he grew up in, he again looks at the ceiling. this time, it isn’t pitch black but is decorated with various glow in the dark stickers. most of them in the form of stars and the different phases of the moon. others are shaped like planets.

and even if the air is more fresh, the bed solely his and the ceiling decorated with stars, he lays awake thinking of minghao.

realization hits him slowly, leaving him in awe. god, he misses him.

in a different way than he misses everyone else. but even if that is so, he doesn’t know if it is comparable to the feelings of like minghao feels for him.

a groan slips past his lips, feeling frustrated once again.

what is wrong with him?

minghao is neither unattractive nor unpleasant (though it depends when you ask). in fact, they get along so well that he feels completely understood.

his closeness with the other members is there but with this specific chinese member, he knows knows him inside and out.

like a twin will. or a soulmate. even if the latter is a very foreign concept for his young mind. but it is the closest thing he can describe their closeness without making it incestuous.

The  last day of his vacation provides no answer either. he wakes up that morning to his mother preparing breakfast.

"good morning, son~” she sing songs, carefully making egg rolls. she places them on a long plate and mingyu inhales the scent of food.

"do you need help, mom?” he asks groggily.

his mother shakes her head in response turning around to face him. “i finished already. i just want you to sit down and tell your mother everything that is bothering you that you had to suddenly come home.”

as expected. his mother sees through everything. even if she hasn’t asked before today, mingyu could notice her observing him. but she keeps quiet and if not for the opportunity given to them today, she wouldn't have pried.

mingyu’s voice shakes as his voices out his concern.

“if...a good friend confesses to you...a-and well, you aren’t sure of what you feel for that person… but at the same time you don’t want to lose them, what do you do?”

he doesn’t dare look at his mother as he asks. the mere fact that he is voicing this out to her is enough to make him feel embarrassed and scared.

after all, minghao is a boy. and he isn't sure his mother is comfortable with him possibly being gay. but that is something mingyu can come to terms with, surprisingly. it isn't that fact that makes him hesitate.

she hums in response, reaching out to grasp mingyu’s hand and squeeze it.

“you’ve told this friend about your uncertainty?"

He nods meekly.

"and what did this friend say?”

"i didn’t have to answer right away. but i told them i need to figure out what i feel. but…i just…”