Secret | Jaehyun x Woonhak

(XVIII)

"You sure you don't like him?" Riwoo asked, struggling to put his arm on his shoulders. Woonhak awkwardly laughed and put his arm away. "Yes hyung! He's my best friend! Nothing more, nothing less!" Woonhak explained, Riwoo had been trying to make the younger boy realise his very obvious feelings for Myung Jaehyun. Everyone, even Taesan who didn't know him very well, could tell that Woonhak had romantic feelings for him.

Well, everyone except Woonhak and Jaehyun obviously, maybe, the former was also denying his feelings. He was afraid of things changing in their friendship.

Riwoo hummed, obviously, he didn't believe a word of what Woonhak was saying. In a way, the younger boy wasn't really believing his own words either. He knew deep down that he was lying to himself.

"Let's be true, you kinda like him, right?" Riwoo was insitant, he wanted to help Woonhak, as he knew in a way that it would hurt him to deny his feelings for a long time. "Will it make you shut up if I say yes hyung?" He would base his answer on what he would hear.

"I just want to help you, you stare at him a bit too much, plus, you look at him so fondly." Riwoo tried to make Woonhak understand, the younger boy looked at the floor. He took a deep breath, if he really listened to Riwoo and replayed the events of the past couple of weeks in his head. He did realise that there was a bit of a dynamic shift between them. How natural they were with each other changed, things started feeling a bit awkward.

He had never understood why he felt this weirdly, but if what Riwoo was saying was true, then it could mean that he was in love with Myung Jaehyun. His best friend.

Without even getting any answer from Riwoo, Woonhak decided to finally accept the truth. The one he's been denying for so long. And the one thing he hoped wasn't the truth.

Riwoo turned to him, he noticed that he was slightly teary eyed. Something that he usually only saw when Jaehyun was about to cry.

"You're right, I do like Jaehyun." Woonhak let out, at first Riwoo thought he was just saying that to make him stop. But when noticing that Woonhak was wiping his face with his hands, he realised that he was being genuine.

He paused for a couple of seconds before embracing him warmly. He wanted to calm the younger boy who was starting to cry quite a lot. He was slightly shaking, Riwoo didn't realise that persisting to get to know his feelings would put him in such a state.

"I'm sorry Woonhak, I didn't know you'd be this shaken up." Riwoo apologised, he felt really guilty about it now. He was rubbing the younger boy's back, nothing he was doing seemed to calm him down. "Come on, let's get some mint chocolate ice cream, it'll make you feel better." Riwoo said, ending the hug, he took him by the arm and left his house. There was an ice cream parlour rather nearby so that's where they went.

Most of the time, Woonhak couldn't get ice cream while being with Jaehyun as he wasn't the biggest fan of mint chocolate ice cream. So he wouldn't get it, even if he knew that the older boy would still eat it.

"Thanks hyung." Woonhak sorta smiled at him, obviously it wasn't a full on smile, he was still not alright about just discovering his feelings right now. But getting ice cream with his other best friend made the discovery a bit better.

"I'm sorry again, I won't force you next time."

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-Jude out!

23.07.24