❥・ 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐨𝐟 ❝𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬❞ ▸ After Wooyoung and San realize their feelings for each other in Insomnia, their lives have changed drastically. From moving into an apartment together to getting new jobs, life seems to be changing for...
There is mentions of neglectful parents, an emotionally toxic household, arguing, bad parenting, alcoholism, discussions about anxiety and mental health, lots of angst and crying and slight topics of self-deprecation. Please do not read any further if you are sensitive to these topics.
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"Thank you." Wooyoung smiles awkwardly as he sits in a dining chair, welcoming a warm mug of tea into his palms. His mother had welcomed him inside shortly after discovering him outside the home, nearly expressionless and at a loss. Wooyoung didn't blame her, especially not after avoiding seeing one another for the better part of the last six years.
Wooyoung had gotten into a fight with his mother right after graduation that had been slowly building over time. They were both stubborn and never saw eye-to-eye, and as Wooyoung grew older, the more resentful he had become. Their relationship had always been on shaky grounds, and Wooyoung had known from a young age that he'd hardly ever get along with his parents. His parents divorced when he was ten, his father leaving their family behind soon after finalizing the divorce, not bothering to call or fight for any sort of custody. Wooyoung didn't care, though. He never wanted a relationship with him to begin with.
His mother remarries two years later, and Wooyoung's new stepfather did everything he could to be a good parent. Wooyoung held empathy for him, and even if his stepfather was a kind man, Wooyoung didn't feel the need to hold more than a surface level bond with him.
Wooyoung didn't feel the need to hold onto parental figures in his life as he got older, doing his best to mature on his own and beginning to lean on his friends more. He spent most nights at San's house, practically living there at some point in his final year of high school. His mother made no move to stop him, letting Wooyoung do whatever he wanted, not that she could've stopped him to begin with.
Wooyoung doesn't remember much of his childhood before the divorce, he just knew that his father was an unbearable asshole, that much was apparent. His mother, on the other hand, was irritable and hard to gauge, but she was his mother regardless. He spent a lot of time trying to resolve his own personal gripes with his mother, but had always come up empty handed. The minute he found himself over a previous argument, another came into fruition, and he lost all sense of progress he had felt he made.
He tried to understand her and tried to find reason for her to behave the way she did, but as a growing teen with hormones and uncontrolled anxiety, the anger for his parents grew, and he found himself growing distant. He focused on playing basketball and dancing, going on runs and doing his best to ignore his life falling apart within his own home. His mother was ignorant in his eyes, struggling to understand her son or even just a fraction of his life.
Wooyoung dove himself into reading at a young age, trying to escape into another reality to find an inescapable inner peace. The only other peace he had, he had found with San. His world was always crumbling at the seams, but San found a way to repair it, time and time again.
