Reasons to Stay // Hyunin

~25~

"Hwang Hyunjin is it? I'm Bang Chan, just Chan is okay, Nice to meet you," Chan shook the taller's hand with a smile on his face. Hyunjin's face was dumb because of the change of events, he glanced at Innie lying in the bed who was weakly smiling at him. What was going on in his mind? was it a trap?

Hyunjin didn't know what to do so he just played along. He snapped out of it and plastered a smile on his face. "Nice to meet you, Chan-hyung." But really, what was he doing here? It was as if some magnet attracted him to Jeongin. And yes, there had been a magnet before--the drive to finish his mission drew him to Jeongin. But now, as he stood here in the room, Hyunjin knew that it wasn't a blood-thirsty mission that made him want to see Jeongin so bad.

"Jinnie-hyung? So nice of you to come see me. How are you?" Jeonginnie asked, his head poking out of the bed covers, face smiling and shining.

Hyunjin was dumbfounded and stuttered, "I-i'm fine...but are you okay?" He would have come over to stand right beside Jeongin, but he was afraid that would make Innie scared. But Innie himself waved Hyunjin over, "You don't have to stand by the door," he laughed lightly. So Hyunjin mechanically walked over, Chan giving space by sitting down in a chair.

"I'm...okay..." Jeongin said hesitantly. Hyunjin could see by the look on his face that he was doing a lot of self-convincing. And yes, Jeongin had already convinced himself that the boy in front of him right now was none other than his sweet crush from school, Hwang Hyunjin, not a gangster at all, but a good boy who's dad was helping him pursue his dreams by sending him to elite vocational schools. Besides, the only thing Jeongin had based his thought that Hyunjin was the masked man in the car was because the guy had yelled, "Hwang Hyunjin Who are you" but in Jeongin's current mental state, he could easily convince himself that it was just hearing voices.

Hyunjin felt a wave of guilt as Jeongin gently took his hand out of the covers so he could hold Hyunjin's. "It seems like I saw you forever ago even though we just were at school this morning. A lot of stuff has happened?" he laughed without happiness. Chan noticed the stiffness between the two and he thought it was strange. But he would wait until after Hyunjin left and maybe he could get some details from Jeongin.

Jeongin stared into Hyunjin's eyes and remembered his deal with Kiara from school. He was tiredly amused at himself. Thinking that getting Hyunjin as his boyfriend was so important, but he knew that it was just a small disturbance in life compared to other things.

He didn't want to focus on those other things. He only wanted to dream about him and Hyunjin. Who cares about the boy who saved him years ago, or the criminal who had harrassed him this night. Hyunjin is the only person he wants right now.

"Ummm when I am getting out? Tonight?" Jeongin tilted his head to ask the doctor to his other side.

"Well...we were thinking how about at least this night." The doctor answered and Chan nodded his head in agreement.

It was around dinner time and Jeongin was hungry. But he wasn't someone to ask aloud. At least the doctor remembered that he might be hungry, and he gave Jeongin the menu for the little restaurant in the downstairs. Jeongin picked the least expensive food, then Chan said he would go down and pick it up for him.

Chan was smart though and he could tell by the way Jeongin was acting that maybe he wanted to be alone with hyunjin. He'd never seen Jeongin act like that before, so Innie was probably in love or something. Which Chan found amusing.

He motioned to the doctors where Jeongin couldn't see that maybe Innie wanted some time alone with Hyunjin so they all left the room with sudden tasks. Chan smiled to himself as he went into the elevator to go buy something expensive that Innie was too embarrassed to choose off the menu. He felt happy for that and also that Jeongin seemed to have social interest in school, because it wasn't like Jeongin would ever tell him anything about his school life.

Jeongin thought the abrupt leave of everyone was very interesting, but it only made Hyunjin nervous. Maybe now Innie would break down and cuss him out. Maybe he was just pretending.

But he wasn't. And Hyunjin almost choked upon hearing the next words coming off of Innie's lips--

"Jinnie-hyung, can you kiss me?"

Hyunjin looked down at Jeongin's face with you-just-said-what? eyes, but the younger only looked back at him with endearing and expecting eyes, as genuine and sincere as you could get.

"D-do what?" Hyunjin answered hoarsely.

"...Kiss me?" Jeongin for some reason felt more confident as he saw Hyunjin's embarrassed, shy face towering above him. And he was so confident, that he would take Hyunjin's head and kiss him himself, except that he wasn't sure if it violated the regulations of Kiara's deal when they said "if Hyunjin kisses willingly."

"J-jeongin you don't want me to k-" Hyunjin stammered, he didn't want precious Innie to waste a kiss on someone filthy like him.

"Why do you call me Jeongin instead of Innie now," Jeongin pouted, "and also yes I do want you to. You are not the man in the car."

Hyunjin swallowed. How do you answer a statement like that? Jeonginnie was very obviously mentally confused. He didn't seem like himself either. Should Hyunjin play along? or just ignore the last sentence? or fess everything? ....Ignore the last sentence.

"Jeonginnie, I don't want to spoil your kiss, first or not. I'm no--"

"I want you spoil it." stubborn Innie interrupted again. "And it's okay, it's not my first. But even it was, I want you to take it anyways. Please?"

Not his first?? Hyunjin thought, but then he remembered Jeongin's unfortunate events with the foster sibling in middle school. Poor Innie, his first kiss was probably spoiled already.

Hyunjin didn't want to tangle a web and pretend he wasn't the man in the car, but would Jeongin even believe him if he said it a thousand times? He could only stay as Schoolcrush Hyunjin.

"Are you s-sure?"

Jeongin sighed heavily and pouted, then turned his head to the wall and away from Hyunjin. "Fine hyung. You don't have to." he said lamely. "You obviously don't want to anyways," and the horrifying memory of Hyunjin's words at school came back into his mind-

"He's not gay, he's smarter than that."

Right. Did Jinnie-hyung think gay people were dumb then? And now because he asked hyung to kiss him, hyung obviously knows that Jeongin likes him in some way. "Oh right, sorry I just remembered you don't like gay people." Jeongin mumbled into the covers, trying to sound dull and even, but he was sad.

"When did I say that!" Hyunjin quickly tried to defend.

"In the classroom with Kiara." Jeongin mumbled and buried his face in the blanket even more. Then Hyunjin remembered his careless comment in the class. Because he had felt like making a comment to make Jeongin sad, "unintentionally" but that was when he had a hobby of torturing people, verbally or physically. He felt terrible now because the comment was a lie, he didn't mind straight or gay people.

"I-innie..." Hyunjin didn't know what to say but he felt himself leaning forward and putting his hands to Jeongin's face, turning it to face him instead of the pillow. And then he leaned further so that his face was inches away from Innie's. Innie was shocked and he held his breath, what a random turn of events.

And before either of them knew what was happening, Hyunjin and Jeongin's lips were touching, Hyunjin gently kissing the younger. Jeongin quickly responded and put his hands behind Hyunjin's head, gently pushing it toward him.

It started out sweet but turned a little aggressive as their tongues got involved and biting each others' lips. Jeongin was enjoying Hyunjin's flavor when there was a knock on the door. Channie-hyung's voice was heard "Hey it's Chan?" on the outside, asking if he could come in. Hyunjin was about to pull back and Jeongin quickly took his head and got in one last kiss before he answered "Come in hyung!"

Chan came in seeing Hyunjin awkwardly standing beside Jeongin's bed like he just did something, and Jeonginnie lifted his head giving Chan a bright smile. "Hi Channie-hyung," he said innocently, sitting up.

"Oh um well h-here's your dinner..."