❤️ Match Fixing ⚽

#2

Minho placed the cardboard box on their joint study table.

Hyunjin was standing still in the middle of the room between the 2 beds.

"Are you okay?" Minho asked hesitantly.

"Thank you!" Hyunjin said curtly before he went about unpacking his bag and putting his things away.

Minho stood for some time, watching Hyunjin silently.

Hyunjin was almost done unpacking and putting away his clothes. He moved to arrange his cosmetics and creams and sprays on the dressing table that the 2 shared. He sat down on the stool and started neatly arranging his stuff in the empty space next to Minho's neatly arranged range of bottles and cans and jars.

The one thing about them was they both were very similar in habits. Which was probably why they never seemed to get along.

Suddenly Minho came up behind Hyunjin and bent to open the second drawer of the dresser. Hyunjin froze. Minho wasn't exactly touching him. Yet he was close enough for Hyunjin to feel his body heat.

"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" Hyunjin questioned through gritted teeth, looking at Minho's reflection in the mirror.

Minho raised his eyes and they both looked at each other through the mirror. "What did you think I was going to do to you?" Minho questioned in a cold voice.

"Don't think we became friends just because of what happened that night." Hyunjin said with equal coldness.

"Good! The last thing I want, is to be your friend." Minho stated firmly.

Hyunjin suddenly broke the eye contact and looked down. In a small voice he asked, "So what do you want to be? My Enemy?"

Minho didn't immediately reply. While continuing to look at Hyunjin's reflection he took out something from the drawer and then held it in front of Hyunjin.

Hyunjin looked up to see what was dangling in front of him. "My locket!" He cried out, reaching out a finger to glide over the silver Angel wing locket. "How did you....?"

"Didn't I tell you that night to wait till morning and we would go together and find it." Minho gently scolded. "But instead you just packed up and disappeared." He took Hyunjin's hand and placed the locket and chain in his palm. "The clasp was broken so I got it fixed."

Hyunjin kept staring at the locket and chain in his palm mutely.

"I tried calling you several times but couldn't get through. I even tried to DM you but I guess you have blocked me." Minho said a little miffed.

"Aahh... Sorry about that! I kinda blocked your number when we had that fight when one day you came late and kept calling me to open the door for you." He said sheepishly.

Minho ignored the explanation and instead continued with a shrug. "I decided you would someday turn up so I kept the chain and locket. I was planning to give it to Felix but I wasn't sure if you had told him about it going missing."

He didn't add that he had wanted to give the locket to Hyunjin himself, or that he had gone to great lengths to find out where Hyunjin was and then on one of the weekend's even made a trip to Hyunjin's hometown where he had been staying with his grandma. He had gone to the house, but no one was there. He had then very awkwardly made the effort to talk to a couple of the neighbours. Finding out that Hyunjin's grandma had suddenly taken ill and had been admitted to a nearby hospital, he had felt worried and gone to the hospital. He had seen Hyunjin sitting in the waiting room and had almost walked up to him. But then he had seen Felix bring a hot cup of coffee for Hyunjin, and he had simply left.