Faces Of You

54

   Felix pulled on his shirt. He wasn't really feeling up to going out.

  “Felix, ignore him, ignore that he is here and her, just ignore it and have fun tonight,” Yuqi said, putting some glitter on Felix's collarbones.

    “I don't know,” Felix said.

   “I love you and I know you are putting on a brave face and trying to be happy, but you need to get out there and forget about it and him,”

   Felix nodded, she was right. He needed to get out there and forget about Hyunjin.

  “I just can't drink too much, I have a work interview tomorrow,”

  “Okay, but try to get laid or something,”

   “I will try to at least make out with someone,”

  Yuqi nodded, “That's the spirit, let's go,”

  -

  So, Yuqi, Soyeon, and Jisung tried to make sure Felix didn't drink too much. Keyword tried.

   “Damn it, he is such a bouncy, energetic, horny drunk that it is hard to keep up with him,” Jisung huffed.

   “We need to take a laid leash with us when going out with him,” Soyeon stated.

   Yuqi's eyes widened, “I forgot. I put a tracker on his phone just in case,” she said, pulling her phone out.

   “You put a tracker on his phone?” Jisung questioned.

  “Hello, do you not remember the Halloween party? I try to make sure he doesn't do anything he'll regret,”

  Soyeon hummed.

  “It says he is still in the club,”

  “You don't think…” Jisung trailed off looking up.

   “He wouldn't, not even drunk,” Yuqi stated.

  “Okay, but, drunk, heartbroken, and horny?” Soyeon said.

“Shit…”

   The three went upstairs.

   Doors lined the walls, each going to a private room that patrons could go to, to hook up.

  “How are we supposed to know which room he is in?” Jisung questioned.

  “Knock on each door and pray?” Yuqi suggested.

  That is what they did. They knocked on each door and said sorry to the couples in each room.

  Then there was one door.

   It opened and Yuqi could've clocked the man in front of her then and there.

   “Yuqi,” Hyunjin said sheepishly.

  The woman turned away and shook her head.

   “Wait, Yuqi,”

   “Don't. Just don't, because for the past three days, I have been trying to talk myself out of not punching you when I see you and trust that right now I am very close to punching you,”

  “Yuqi, I want to talk to him. I made a mistake and I want to rectify it,” Hyunjin said.

  “I don't care. You made the mistake, it isn't my mess to clean up, you figure it out, but I promise if you hurt him more, I'll be a bitch and I won't regret it,” Yuqi stated.

   “Yuqi, I get him being upset about me missing his graduation, but to the point where he won't talk to me?”

   She thought for a moment and then punched the taller male.

  “If you think this is just about the graduation then you truly are not the guy I thought you were,”

    “Yuqi! We found him,” Jisung said.

   Yuqi glanced at Hyunjin once more, before shaking her head and leaving.

   Hyunjin touched his jaw and winced.

   “Whoa, are you okay?”

  “Uh, yeah… I deserved the punch,” Hyunjin said.

  “First, Hyunjin you are bleeding. Second, no-one really deserves to be punched unless there are like extreme circumstances,” Sophia said examining the wound.

  “Trust me, I truly deserved it. Shit, I forgot how bad her right hooks hurt,” Hyunjin winced.

   Sophia glanced around spotting Yuqi, Jisung, Soyeon, and Felix.

  “That is the guy from earlier. You know the girl who punched you?”

  “Yeah, we knew each other a while ago,”

  “And what did you do to make her want to punch you?”

  Hyunjin pursed his lips, “I don't really want to talk about it right now… can we just go back to the house?”

  “Yeah, we can go home,”

   Hyunjin glanced at the room, Felix came out of, only to see another man stumbling out.

   He took a breath and held Sophia's hand as they left.

-

   “He is so going to regret this in the morning,” Soyeon muttered.

   Yuqi nodded.

   They had successfully gotten Felix to their house. Jisung had gone home a little while ago.

    “Can we talk in the living room?” Yuqi asked.

   Soyeon gave a small nod and went to the living room with Yuqi.

  “Is everything okay?”

  “I punched Hyunjin,”

Soyeon blinked a coupled times.

  “You what?”

  “Sharp right hook to the jaw. Thought about it for about a minute then did it, like two minutes before we found Felix,” Yuqi said.

  “Okay,” Soyeon said.

    Yuqi tilted her head confused, “I was expecting to be scolded,”

  “Physical violence is never the answer, but I can understand where it is coming from, however, I need you to remember that none of this is probably easy on Hyunjin either.

  I know it may be his own fault, however, we need to try to maybe be a little understanding,”

  “It will take a while to get there. I just… maybe he was ready to move on and didn't know how to tell Felix, but he went about it the wrong way and wonders why Felix won't talk to him.

   It isn't just about the graduation, I'm sure Felix could careless about it. It is the fact that for three years hyunjin hid a relationship not once trying to tell him about it and then announced to the world that he proposed to the love of his life.

   You know what maybe she is the great love of his life, but by doing what he did, he…” Yuqi trailed off.

   “Felix built up sky high walls after Wes and barely let Micah in. After Micah… those walls doubled and then here came Hyunjin. Hyunjin broke down walls that even I couldn't.

  He saw parts of Felix that have been so hidden that I have never seen. We joke about the faces of Felix, but it is true, he has them and we only see a fraction of what Hyunjin saw… I'm just scared that with what happened, that Felix will just check out.

  That he won't let anyone in because last time he did, it broke him down and hurt him so much that he is scared,”

    Soyeon understood that so much.

   She was scared too. Scared of the same things and while she tried to give Hyunjin the benefit of the doubt, she was having a hard time doing so and believing it.

   She truly just hoped in the end it would all work out the way it needed to.