Boy across the street (KSM/HHJ)

twenty-eight

Hyunjin PoV

My head was on his chest and I could hear Seungmins heart beating. His fingers played gently with my hair and I loved the feeling so much that I could have fallen asleep.

After breakfast we decided to make ourselves comfortable on the couch and watch a few of our favorite films. And somehow we ended up cuddling.

I didn't mind that at all of course but it felt a little like we were already a couple and that made me nervous.

Out of nowhere it occurred to me that Seungmin loved music so much, so I looked up at him and asked, "How come you like singing so much?"

"The reason for this sounds stupid," he said.

"No, definitely not. Tell me."

A sigh escaped him and he stopped playing with my hair for a moment.

But then he started to talk:

"I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was taking the bus to school when I was ten or eleven and I sat there looking at a girl, she was older than me, probably sixteen or seventeen. I still remember her curly blonde hair and brown eyes. She was listening to music with headphones and suddenly she closed her eyes and moved her hair lips to the song she was listening to. And I thought, Wow, she must really like music. Thats when I decited that I wanted to be like her, I wanted to like music so much that I forget everything and everyone around me. It doesn't make sense i know but after that i told my parents that I wanted to sing."

"It makes sense," I said, carefully taking his hand and lacing it with mine.

It somehow touched me how he started liking music because of a stranger, a person he will never see again in his life made him so passionate about something and that person will never know it.

"Can you sing something to me?" I asked and he was silent for a moment.

"Okay, but don't judge me," he murmured, but then fell silent again. I could feel his heart beating even faster than it already was.

Slowly and quietly he began to sing a song that I didn't know. I immediately got goosebumps and it was hard to describe how beautiful his voice was.

I closed my eyes and listened carefully. It was so beautiful, so clear and he brought across all the emotions that needed to be conveyed.

I could feel the pain of the lyrics and was just amazed. He became quiet again and was silent.

"Wow, I'm speechless. Your voice is beautiful," I said, squeezing his hand that I was still holding.

He didn't answer and when I looked at him he was just looking at the TV in silent. "What's wrong?" I asked with a slightly worried look.

His gaze wandered to me and our eyes met. He quickly looked away and mumbled: "Nothing... I'm just not used to all this." He sat up differently so I had to sit up and saw him staring into space.

"I just- Of course I hug Changbin and Minho, I love resting my head on Minho's shoulder, it makes me feel comfortable and safe," when he said that I could feel a little jealousy inside me. "But with you everything feels so different, so special and I don't know how to deal with it," I barely understood anything because he spoke so quietly.

My eyes looked him up and down and then searched for the other's eyes. He avoided eye contact and I said, "I can stop being so touchy if it makes you uncomfortable."

"It doesn't make me uncomfortable, I just feel so comfortable with you that my thoughts can't sort themselves out," he said, finally looking at me. I knew exactly how he felt and could completely understand it.

Our closeness was driving me crazy, what happened last night was repeating itself in my head all the time and I would love to feel his warm and soft lips on mine again.

But somehow it all happened so quickly for me. I didn't hate the idea that we could soon become a couple, but it felt like our story was still going on and like things were going to happen before we decided on something like this.

Besides, it was as if Seungmin was still a closed and locked book that wouldn't open because he had so much to hide.

"It's okay Minnie, you can feel that way, you can always tell me when something is too much for you, I just have this habit that I like to be touchy around the people I care about," I said and stroked his hair.

With him, it wasn't just because he was important to me, but because my heart screamed and cried out for him, my heart wanted to hold him and never let him go.

"I'm sorry if I went too far with anything."

"You didn't do anything wrong, Hyunjin, it's just that my head is going a little crazy. Plus, I've never sung in front of anyone other than my singing teacher, so that must have confused me a lot," he laughed, scratching the back of his head.

I had to yawn, so I lay on the sofa.

I didn't see Seungmin, but I heard him coming towards me and the next moment I felt two arms around my waist. I turned a little so that the younger's head was on my chest, but he seemed a little ashamed, so he buried his face in my chest and hid himself like that.

He murmured, "I want to be close to those I care about too, Hyunjin." I could imagine his pink cheeks so well and the way he tried to hide them was just adorable.

I smiled and just hoped it would stay the way it was. I haven't felt as safe as I did at that time for a long time.

If you would describe something as pure happiness it would be what I felt when I was with him and when we could just be ourselves.

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A bit of a boring chapter but i needed a cute chapter ~Yumi