Hongjoong looks at the café across the street.
His crush, Park Seonghwa, and his boyfriend Song Mingi, enjoy their time together. It's late afternoon and the young boy was heading home. He has a younger brother, Yunho, who has a boyfriend, Yeosang. Hongjoong dreams of a relationship like that with Seonghwa.
But he can't take Mingi's place. Mingi earned that spot in Seonghwa's heart.
So Hongjoong continues his way home and almost bursts into tears as he passes the café.
With an aching heart, Hongjoong stops in front of his house and breaks down crying. Yunho, and his amazing memory of „locking" the door, forgot to lock it so he and Yeosang could hear the older's sobbing from in front of the window.
„I'll go check what is it, babe," Yeosang announced as Yunho nodded with a sweet smile and put their drinks on the counter, waiting for Yeosang's shout.
„Hyung? What's wrong?" Yeosang crouched down beside the oldest on the doorstep.
„Babe! Come here! It's Hongjoong hyung!" Yeosang shouted while rubbing the older's back gently. Yunho after hearing this, rushed to the front door and back-hugged his brother. Hongjoong coughed harshly before he turned towards his younger brother and hid his face in his chest.
Yeosang gently took both of their hands and stood them up, dragging both of them into the house.
„Hyung, what's up? Why are you crying?" The younger brother asked, his voice filled with concern.
„S-S-Seonghwa hyung..." The older sobbed in Yunho's shoulder and the younger started comforting him. Hongjoong ended up falling asleep in Yunho's hold in the living room, so it was Yunho's job to take the older in his room without waking him up. Yeosang helped him and they safely put him in his room without causing trouble.
Hongjoong woke up in his bed with a headache. Yeah, it's not the best to cry yourself to sleep. He felt his throat being sore which was unusual and it's not supposed to happen when someone cries themselves to sleep.
He just shrugged it off and got ready for school. The first class started. Yunho and Yeosang sat right behind Hongjoong and Seonghwa and Mingi were a few seats away behind Wooyoung and San.
It was a pretty boring class until Hongjoong started coughing harshly, grabbing everyone's attention. Yunho started patting his back from behind and Hongjoong coughed up a lilac-coloured petal which was covered in his blood.
Panicked he looked around, seeing all the eyes on him and with trembling hands then he looked at Yunho, who was now standing next to him. Yunho looked at Yeosang, giving a come-here face. As Yeosang checked what they were watching, he visibly went pale, his eyes wide as he couldn't take them off of the petal.
„H-He has...H-Hanahaki..." Yeosang stuttered before Hongjoong had another coughing fit, coughing up more of the petals covered in blood.
There were now a total of 5 petals in his palm that were getting bloody from the petals.
Hongjoong got a longer and harsher coughing fit, now a whole ass flower coming out of his mouth, covered in blood. Yunho took a tissue and took the petals and the flower with it, before telling Hongjoong to go and wash his hands.
„Babe? Baby? Earth calls Yeosang!" Yunho waved his hand in front of the younger's face while holding the petals and the flower with the tissue in the other.
„We have to take him home. He shouldn't be out here any longer." Yeosang looked at his boyfriend with a worried expression. Yunho sighed.
„This must be because of Seonghwa hyung..." Yunho said and all the attention turned towards the said person.
