chamber of 7 | enhypen re-editing

-☽ ch.13: the blooming feelings

𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴:
Polariod Love - ENHYPEN
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love, that old-fashioned emotion.

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sunghoon opened his eyes, lunging at jungwon. the younger let out an irritated noise from his throat, avoiding the older easily.  "you're so childish right now."

"stay away from my affairs, jungwon." sunghoon warned, his fangs protruding from his lips and his irises turning red. "if you're not interested in her, stay that way."

"and what? allow you to use eun noona's daughter?" jungwon snarled back. "have you forgotten about how much we owe her?"

sunghoon's eyes narrowed, and he let out a dark chuckle. "don't act so saint-like, jungwon. i know who you have been contacting, so you are so, so much lucky that i didn't tell the hyungs about you-"

"that's because you'll break the promise you made to noona." jungwon said, as sunghoon gripped his collar, glaring at him. "am i wrong? you're so fucking selfish, all seven of us knew what really happened during the war, don't we?"

they stayed like this for a while, before a pale boy entered the room. ddeonu strode in calmly, seemingly oblivious to the tension between sunghoon and jungwon. "i heard raised voices." the child said, his yellow eyes scanning sunghoon's room. "you two should take this outside or hyunli noona will hear you two."

"what, and destroy another patch of the forest? i'm not jay hyung, alright?" jungwon scowled, rolling his eyes and giving sunghoon a smirk. "besides, i don't let myself get rejected several times."

"that's because she doesn't even like you." ddeonu yawned. jungwon's pupils widened a little, but he quickly recovered. "good, because the feeling is mutual."

ddeonu merely stared at him in response. he only removed his gaze when jungwon was about to snap. "i supposed so." he shrugged, slowly exiting out of the room. "i hope the feeling is truly mutual between the both of you."

sunghoon rolled his eyes, following after ddeonu and slamming the door behind him, leaving jungwon alone in the room with his thoughts.

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hyunli laid upon the soft grass in the green house, staring up at the stars in the sky. heeseung  was also laying beside her, pointing to the stars he knew. 

"that's sirius, the brightest star. and do you see that one over there?" hyunli followed his fingers. "that's called polaris."

"they're beautiful." hyunli sighed, as heeseung turned his head slightly, looking at her.

"so are you."

silence followed. hyunli feel the heat creeping to her cheeks, and beside her, heeseung blushed. he didn't mean to say that out loud, but he was secretly praising himself at his own bravado for saying this to her. hyunli looks cute blushing.

"thanks..." she turned her face away from heeseung, biting her lower lip. first jay, then sunghoon, now heeseung... is something going on in this household? "that's... nice of you."

heeseung's mood fell a little. he could hear the underlying tone of rejection in her polite voice. "well, i'm only saying what everyone else is saying, and it hurts me for you to be so formal with me."

"i'm sorry... i'm just... a little taken back." hyunli breathed slowly, feeling her cheeks cool down once more. "i'm not very used to this kind of... conversations..."

"you have never flirted or been flirted with?" heeseung asked curiously. hyunli let out a chuckle, shaking her head. "no. i was busy repaying debts and... taking care of my mum. which is a puppet." hyunli snorted at the thought, while heeseung got up on his elbows, looking at her. 

"well, if you need someone to teach you on how to flirt, you can always look for niki or me." he winked, as hyunli laughed, her eyes twinkling. "thanks for the offer, lover boy, but i think i'll pass. i have no use of that anyway."

"well, you might find that you need to charm others in some situation, so why not take up that little lessons? besides, i know that you have ongoing lessons about vampire anatomy." heeseung raised his brows. "tomorrow afternoon with sunoo, right?"

"yeah." excitement crept into hyunli's voice. "i hope i can understand you guys and myself better. and i discovered this..."

she raised her hand up, pointing her index finger out. a jet of water shoots out from thin air, and hyunli controlled them, twirling her fingers. the jet of water followed her movements, and heeseung stared, impressed and in awe. 

"wait, it has only been two days!" he exclaimed, his eyes wide. "you can do that in two days? do you know how much time it took for me to even do tricks like that with the plants? twenty years!"

"maybe it's because i'm a pure blood?" hyunli asked, as the excitement died in heeseung's eyes. he laid back down next to her, eyes looking up at the sky. "yeah, you're right. perhaps so."

hyunli wasn't sure about heeseung's sudden mood change. "what's wrong, heeseung oppa?"

heeseung thought about his choice of words for a moment, before speaking. "do you prefer pure bloods to mixed bloods?"

"what?" hyunli sat up, suddenly flustered. "no, i didn't mean it that way!" she said, the red creeping up to her cheeks again, this time because of her embarrassment. "i would never think that way!"

"oh, i thought..." heeseung seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at her words. "well, i mean, not that our purity of blood matters, right?" his voice trailed off slightly at the end, and hyunli couldn't help but notice how disturbed he seemed with the fact. she grabbed his hand, squeezing it affectionately. 

"it doesn't matter, heeseung oppa. being pure blooded or mixed blooded. at the end of the day, you're still you."

heeseung stared at her. without warning, the surrounding flowers in the greenhouse started to bloom, signalling how happy the flora-powered vampire is. he covered her hand with his in turn, and leaned in. "thank you. this really matters a lot to me."

hyunli blushed again at the closeness. "n-no problem." she stuttered weakly, wriggling her hands out of his and getting up. "i'll go off to bed. see you tomorrow, heeseung oppa."

"wait." heeseung stopped her. he got up too, and hyunli froze as she feels his lips touched her forehead. "goodnight kiss."

"goodnight..." heeseung swore hyunli flew out of the greenhouse at her speed, and he let out a light, hearty chuckle. "and do dream of me when you sleep."

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a/n: happy jake day hehe