Window to freedom °•Minsung•°

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Jisung was talking to Julia's click when Minho showed up.

"We're worried about Matt" the conversation had started like that and immediately it had captured all of Jisung's attention.

"There's no way it's just uni getting him this exhausted" Julia explained.

"But he never manages to sleep at night and..." continued Nagyung, agitated:

"...and that one time, he got here with such a bruise on his waist..."

"....and him and Evan don't even talk anymore even tho they're twins..."
added a worried Beomseok.

"Woah, woah calm down" Jisung waved his hands around, trying to get everyone to stop talking over eachother:

"Do you guys think it's something serious?"

"Well, yeah!" Julia exclaimed:
"We want to help but he won't talk to us! So...well..."

"You know how they always say to go to a <<trusted adult>>" shrugged Beomseok, gesturing to Jisung.

Jisung did not feel up to that name but he still felt some sort of pride in having been selected as <<trusted>>.

"Allright" he sighed:
"I'll try to talk to both Matt and Evan. And maybe get Mr Lee involved too"

"Thank you! Really, thank you so much" Julia said, on the verge of tears.

"No problem. Now please focus on your studies allright?"

The three students nodded and started leaving then, right as Jisung's brain formed its first thoughts on the situation Minho appeared next to him.

"What was that about?"

Jisung trembled slightly upon seeing him. He wasn't ready to hear what Minho had done about his almost wife, he wasn't ready to be rejected. Because in no reality would the professor actually choose him.

So...
"Can we talk about it in private?"
he sighed.

Soon they were in their usual lab but in very unusual positions: no kissing, no hugging, no warm flirting...just two men sat on the opposite sides of the room, thinking over the same problem.

"It's probably some sort of abuse" Minho said, scratching his chin:
"Isn't Evan trans? Maybe it's got something to do with that"

Jisung remembered seeing Evan's name on the register one of the first days...

"Amy?" he had asked Minho:
"That does not look like an <<Amy>> to me"

Minho had laughed:
"Because it's not. That's his deadname. He came to talk to me earlier...wants to be called Evan"

"Oh! Neat..."

Now Jisung thought this over.
Yeah, transphobia had been rampant the past months, could be that.

"Overall, this is a very delicate issue. And Julia said the brothers aren't talking to eachother... So I think they argued about...whatever this is" Jisung said.

"We should talk to them one at a time. I take Matt, you take Evan. Boy seems to look up to you" Minho stated.

He looked so in his element, brainstorming and coming up with solutions to help his students.
Jisung couldn't help but stare, ever so in love.

"What? Is it a bad idea?" asked Min with his eyebrows furrowed.

"Nah, it's a great idea" Jisung smiled.

Minho smiled back.

"God, this man is going to be the death of me"

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