Love Contract | haobin

Thirty-One

"You remember?" Zhang Hao gasps. "But when? How?"

"When we first met up to sign the contract, I thought you looked really familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen you before. I remembered when we kissed... in our wedding." Hanbin tells him. "I realized it was a really familiar feeling and I remembered that day."

"What? But why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable. I thought that if you knew, you'd be uncomfortable since our marriage was a contract marriage after all..." Hanbin starts. "But honestly, I was just too embarrassed to say anything." He feels his face heat up. "I'm not a lightweight, so I don't usually do those kind of things... but that day I drank too much. I was so embarrassed and I thought you'd think I go around kissing everyone when I'm drunk... but I really don't. I don't kiss just anyone."

Zhang Hao feels his face heat up and isn't able to hide the smile on his face. "Thank you for being honest with me, Hanbin... and thanks for being so considerate. If you would've brought that up when we were still in just a contract marriage, I would've probably been really awkward around you."

"Well, now that we were honest about that, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, of course." Zhang Hao nods, already assuming what it'll be.

"Is everything okay? Earlier it seemed like something was bothering you. I could see that you cried, but I pretended not to notice since it seemed like you didn't want me to ask in that moment."

"I guess I just get emotional this time of the year." Zhang Hao says honestly. "I haven't told you the full story of what happened with me and my parents, but I'll tell you soon, I promise. I just don't want to make myself more sad by talking about it. It's still my birthday after all."

Hanbin just nods, understandingly. Zhang Hao is still drunk after all. Maybe it's better to have this conversation later on.

"I'm going to go take a shower." Zhang Hao tells him.

"Alright, I'll go check up on Gunwook and Yujin."

Zhang Hao just nods and they both go upstairs. Hanbin makes his way to Yujin's room, but he sees neither of them are there.

"Yujin? Gunwook?" He calls out, but neither of them say anything.

Hanbin ends up checking the toys room and sees they both fell asleep on the floor. There are toys everywhere, so Hanbin is barely able to walk over to them without stepping on a toy.

"Yujin? Gunwook?" He tries seeing if they might be half awake, but Yujin opens his eyes a little, before closing them again, falling back asleep. Hanbin starts picking the toys up since he wouldn't want to trip and fall while carrying them out.

He then picks Yujin and Gunwook up before taking them to Yujin's room and laying them on the bed. "Goodnight." He tells them before kissing their foreheads and walking out of the room.

He then goes downstairs since Zhang Hao left his birthday presents in the living room. The guys had bought Zhang Hao everything it seemed like he liked at the mall, so there's a lot of gift bags.

-

The next day, Zhang Hao woke up with a really bad headache... but thankfully, he can still remember the conversation he had with Hanbin last night. Hanbin remembered him too. Now there were no secrets between them.

Zhang Hao gets up and gets ready for the day. They don't have college today, but he and Hanbin had agreed to go and talk to Gunwook's father, hoping he'd let them adopt Gunwook.

He goes downstairs and as every morning, he sees Hanbin and Yujin having breakfast. The difference is that today Gunwook is also here with them. Zhang Hao smiles, hoping this is what he sees every morning for the rest of his life.