Transient Waters

29

It took a bit longer to figure out where exactly Wooyoung was in the storage room, because the area was rather large., but once he did he barely managed to contain himself from leaping onto the beta. Holding himself back at the last moment, he stood swaying slightly before Wooyoung, who had an arm full of rice. The beta stared at him, narrowing his eyes slightly as he seemed to look Seonghwa up and down head to toe, assessing everything about him. Seonghwa felt himself fidget, lacing his fingers inbetween each other nervously. Wooyoung gave a sly smirk, staring at him with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Yes, Seonghwa-Hyung? What is going on?" Wooyoung asked, his voice rife with mischief. The beta was almost bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet as he watched him carefully. this merely made him more and more nervous. Seonghwa tried to bring up the courage to speak, but all of a sudden he felt this jittery feeling of wanting to flee from the scene. Wooyoung was staring at him in this...this look that made Seonghwa feel as though he already knew full well what was going on, and it just made him feel less desirous to actually talk about it. Still, he had nobody else to actually talk to about this, and he knew Wooyoung would be able to answer his confusing feelings and tell him what was happening to him.

Drawing up the vestiges of his courage he took a deep breath. It would be difficult, but he had to find answers, and Wooyoung knew those answers. Still, he knew Wooyoung well enough to know the devious beta would not actually do anything until he asked. "I...I wanted to talk to you..."

"Yes?" Wooyoung questioned, a smile quick on his face. "And what would you like to talk about hyung?" Wooyoung asked, his voice lilting upwards as he smirked. Seonghwa sighed, but rushed forwards, before his courage ran out.

"I am having these weird feelings, and I just...I knew that you would probably be able to help me figure it out, so I wanted to talk to you about them...is all." Seonghwa stated, his voice wavering slightly towards the end as his courage began to fly away into nothingness. He cursed himself. Wooyoung was his friend. Sure he was a beta, and of course he could be somewhat dangerous if the instincts called for it, but at the end of the day he knew Wooyoung quite well...or at least, as well as someone could whilst in captivity.

"Of course, let me just give these to Jongho-ah real quick and we can go to my cabin! I am sure San wouldn't mind." Seonghwa nodded, his eyes wide, surprised, despite knowing, that Wooyoung had actually agreed. In moments Seonghwa was following Wooyoung back out of the storage room, and rushing right behind him as Wooyoung dropped the rice on the counter near Jongho, and whispered with him for a few minutes. Seonghwa stood waiting for the two to finish talking about whatever it was that they were talking about. He did not really know, he was not quite close enough to hear, and it was obvious enough that Wooyoung did not want him to know. Who was he to try and eavesdrop? It was not in his nature, and Seonghwa would feel really bad if he did do something, particularly since he was supposed to trust Wooyoung. He did not want to anger him either, and despite knowing it was unlikely he could do such a thing, he could not help but worry about it. Especially since Wooyoung had just agreed to help him sort things out.

In seconds Wooyoung had grabbed him by the wrist and was pulling him towards his and San's cabin. Seonghwa could not help but stare as the other had effectively shooed San away from the the room, and shut the door with a slam behind him, causing Seonghwa to flinch slightly.

"So, is this about our lovely, if a bit challenged in the height area, Captain?" Wooyoung asked, templing his fingers together as he stared at him. Seonghwa fidgeded a bit, leaving the boy to lunge towards him and yank him to sit down on the bed besides him. Seonghwa nodded slowly, leaving Wooyoung to shout in victory. "I knew it! I told Yunho too, but the other did not believe me, and so now he has to swab the deck for the next three days!" Wooyoung giggled at the devious gamble. Seonghwa was not entirely sure he was understanding was was going on, but he did not bother trying to figure it out either. Anything could happen with Wooyoung involved.

"I just...I do not understand Young-ah," Seonghwa admitted vulnerably. He kept his eyes on the blankets underneath him. "I get so...nervous when I am around him."

"Many people do," Wooyoung agreed quickly.

"I just...He is so nice..." Wooyoung winced at this, though Seonghwa did not see it. "And he helped me a lot. I can't help but like to be in his company. I want to...to help him, and make him feel better, and..."

"Okay, okay, I thnk I get it," Wooyoung said stopping Seonghwa from continuing further. Seonghwa silenced himself a bit bashfully.

"Sorry,"

"No, no I get it. Look, I am not sure if this means you like him romantically," Seonghwa jerked his gaze up at Wooyoung with wide eyes.

"R-Romatically?" He stuttered out.

"Well, yeah, I mean..." Wooyoung paused, unsure how to state it without freaking the omega out. "You know, we are going to visit Taemin, and I am sure that he could answer all of these questions and more." Seonghwa sighed, his body dropped sadly.

"I...I suppose you are right." Wooyoung felt a bit guilty, trying to shove the complicated talks onto Taemin. Especially since it clearly made Seonghwa upset.

"Look, I just am not too sure about Omega biology. To me, it sounds like you really like Hongjoong, but I just don';t know about the whole...wanting to clean up and stuff that you express enjoying, as you have mentioned it before, that is not something I would know, Taemin would know a lot more. And, we are going to be there soon, so you won't have to wait too long! I do think...I do really think that you like Hongjoong, but if you talk it out with Taemin, you will definitely have more to go off of, and a more resolute answer!"