The World Through Your Eyes || SeungJin

Epilogue

There is a breeze and it is stirring, gentle, calming, and loving. Nonetheless, Seungmin doesn't want to open his eyes because he is afraid that once he does, he'll find himself in a meaningless dream that only dead people dream. And then, of course, he'll be greeted by Hell.

"Spring is the season that I couldn't give you as a gift," a voice sings softly near Seungmin's ear, and only then does he realize that his head is resting on someone's knee. The man hums, presumably because he forgot the lyrics that come next, but Seungmin can't be sure. Out of pure reflex of being in an unknown place (and in someone else's personal space), Seungmin tries to sit up. He fails.

"After becoming the one who loves you," the man sings again, a bit louder this time. Ignoring the surprisingly lovely singing, Seungmin tries to open his mouth to ask what the everliving fuck is going on, but fails because his tongue feels like lead in his mouth and his jaw seems unable to move.

"I'm becoming the one who loves me," the man finishes as he turns his head around. Seungmin makes eye contact with the man, and they both gasp in pleasant surprise. Well, the man gasps. Seungmin just stares wide eyed, because he still can't move anything that well.

" Oh god, Seungmin, you're awake now. Don't scare me like that again," Hyunjin says, his voice a bit unsteady. Seungmin watches as crystalline teardrops falls from his eyes and Seungmin feels himself tearing up as well, but can't help smiling at how soft Hyunjin looks. He gasps in surprise at the fact that he can move. Did seeing Hyunjin help him gain control of himself?

"Your hair," Seungmin says simply, not bothering to finish his statement. He goes and gently tugs at a particularly long strand of Hyunjin's hair. It's cut shorter than he had last seen it (because it was years ago). His currently silvery-blue strands of hair shimmer under the moonlight.

Hyunjin nods. "I dyed my hair a few months back. It used to be a deeper blue, but it's faded now. I cut it pretty recently though, and — Seungmin, why are you crying?" He helps Seungmin sit up and they shift where they are sitting until they are both sitting shoulder to shoulder whilst leaning their backs against the sliding balcony doors.

Seungmin tries to wipe his tears away, but they simply wouldn't cease. "It's just," he says between sniffles, "that I didn't think that you'd wait for me. I made you wait for so long, and yet here you are caring for me and talking to me like nothing has changed. I guess seeing your appearance change made it really hit me that time has passed and that you could've moved on from waiting for me." He looks up at the night sky, and smiles ruefully.

Hyunjin laughs softly. "Waiting for you was as easy as breathing, because if I wasn't alive and well, then how could I ever hope to see you again? I got really sad when I first came back, but realized that you wouldn't want that, and neither did I."

"I'm glad." Seungmin's hand finds Hyunjins', and they fit perfectly like a lock and key.

"And Seungmin, your hair's gotten longer too! Can I tie it up? I've been wondering how you'd look with your hair tied up, and, forgive me for being blunt, but it looks better in person than it did in my head. My imagination couldn't do you justice," Hyunjin says, a smile blooming on his face.

This time it is Seungmin who laughs, but it is a laugh that feels the most deserving of its own description. He feels that he has never laughed this freely in his life.

"Thank you, Hyunjin."

"For what, Seungmin?"

"You know what I'm talking about."

Hyunjin retorts and says that Seungmin could be talking about anything, and Seungmin explains that he is thanking Hyunjin for everything and anything that he's done for him.

Their conversation under the night sky doesn't end, even as the sun appears on the horizon.

And the words exchanged between them will never cease, not as long as Seungmin can see the world through Hyunjin's eyes. 

fin.

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