After the rain | ChanSung

Chapter 38

After that, everything went pretty fast.

After having breakfast together with Jeongin and Minho, the two drove home, while Chan, Jisung, Hyunjin and Felix planned their trip.

Chan and Felix sat in Chan's office and booked the flights and a holiday apartment, while Hyunjin and Jisung started packing and cleaning up the apartment.

"If you had told me a week ago that we would soon be unemployed and on the beach in Australia, I would have laughed at you," Hyunjin shook his head in disbelief, folded a sweater and put it in the suitcase.

"Have you ever been somewhere else?"

Hyunjin shook his head with his lips pressed together. His childhood was something of which he had suppressed many things on the one hand and he didn't like to remember the others.

Jisung pulled him to himself. "Sorry..." he murmured.

Sighing, Hyunjin shrugged his shoulders. He wanted to look forward to their vacation and not think about his past. "And you?"

With a sad smile, Jisung leaned against him. "With my parents before my dad died... we lived in Malaysia for a while..."

For a moment they looked at each other and felt the burden of the past far too much, but before one of them could say anything, Chan and Felix came into the room.

"Everything okay?" Chan asked and looked worried from one to the other.

Both shrugged their shoulders almost at the same time.

"What's up?" Jisung asked after taking a deep breath.

"The tickets are booked. The flight leaves tonight at 7. Jinnie and I have to go home beforehand, packing," said Felix and his eyes were shining.

Hyunjin and Jisung looked at each other. The whole thing felt kind of surreal.

"Okay, I'll see you later," Hyunjin whispered and kissed Jisung quickly before he jumped off the bed and threw himself into Felix's arms.

"We'll pick you up," Chan looked after the two, smiling. Arm in arm, they disappeared towards the front door.

Chan went to Jisung, who was still sitting on the bed and pulled him into his arms. "Do we really fly to Australia now?" he asked quietly and leaned against the older one.

"Mhm, we'll do that, baby! And then I'll show you the quokkas, because I think they are almost as cute as you," Chan said, lovingly smiling and pressed a gentle kiss on the lips of the younger one.

Jisung smiled back, but somehow felt a little insecure.

"Okay... we have to finish packing and get your passport.. or do you have it here?" Chan asked quietly as he gently ran his fingers through Jisung hair.

He shook his head. "He's in the bedside table at Changbin's ..." he whispered.

"Okay, baby. We can do that! Are you helping me pack?"

Jisung nodded and although he was looking forward to flying away and getting to know something else, the thoughts of Changbin remained in his head.

The time until they had to leave passed insanely quickly and before Jisung knew, he sat next to Hyunjin in the much too expensive car, on the way to Changbin's apartment.

Felix and Chan sat in front of them and talked about something in English.

Every now and then Jisung grabbed words and sentences he understood, but somehow he was too tired and nervous to really concentrate on the conversation.