{NINE.i}
{pt.3 of Highschool Lovers}
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Joohyoung swears the warmth spreads through their palms, tightly pressed against each other. Wanders through his own fingertips and straight into his stomach, where it lives on as the soft shine of a candle in...
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"Aromantic asexual, also known by the abbreviation aroace, means people who are both aromantic (aro) and asexual (ace) or on the aromantic spectrum (aro-spec) and the asexual spectrum (ace-spec). As terms for specific identities, aromantic refers to someone who experiences little to no romantic attraction and asexual means someone who experiences little to no sexual attraction.
Aromantic asexual people may or may not feel other forms of attraction that are neither romantic nor sexual."
Joohyoung sends him a screenshot of a website he finds as soon as he lays down on his bed that night. He knows better than to put his entire trust into a five-second Internet research.
[link attached: [https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Aromantic_asexual] Is that accurate to you??
Jiho🦊 You're fast I recognize that website help It makes me unreasonably happy that you are looking this up yourself skwhs
Of course?? Hello?? You're important to me and so is your sexuality How did you find out you were aroace? I didn't know this was a thing, I feel bad Educate this poor peasant over here pls
Jiho🦊 Most allo people haven't I think Allo meaning non-aspec And I don't know, I just never wanted to date anyone, never had any crushes and I really don't get thirst like WHAT IS THERE TO SEE THAT'S JUST ANOTHER PERSON OKAY COOL Then that awkward middle school thing happened And there is this guy at my school who used to tutor me, he had an aro pin on his bag before people started asking weird stuff and he removed it I guess him explaining it to me made me realize
Woo Jewon??
Jiho🦊 YOU'VE MET HIM??? Fuck now I've outed him against his will This is terrible
Hey no you couldn't have known!!!! I talked to him about biology notes once, but that's ages ago And I won't go around telling people, I promise
Jiho🦊 I still feel bad Brb I have to apologize to him
No let me text him It's not your fault Pfft Now he's sending boomer gifs because we both panicked to him at the same time He's such a nerd But overall a cool guy
Jiho🦊 He really is He's nice to me, but in a casual way and I don't know how to handle that Like either ignore my existence or hold hands with me, idk what to do with these awkward nods of acknowledgement in the hallways
You can always hold hands with me
Jiho🦊 That's what you took away from my dilemma, I see how it is And I know <3 I want to clarify though that not all aspec people like that Jewon probably just needs books and his family of house plants to survive I'm not kidding, his room is a jungle I just happen to be both aroace and extremely touchy And everyone is different in what they are okay with in terms of touch, romantic gestures, engaging in sexual stuff
