From Forced to Something Real

-Chapter 17-

「3rd Person POV」

Felix and Hyunjin walked back to the Hwang Mansion, Felix's eyes were still red and puffy from crying earlier. When they arrived back at the mansion, they saw Jisung on the phone talking to someone while smiling uncontrollably.

"Is it Minho?" Hyunjin said, startling the cute squirrel looking boy.

"Ya! Don't scare me like that!" Jisung said, putting one hand on his chest to feel his heartbeat.

Hyunjin chuckled along with Felix, "So, was it Minho hyung?" Felix asked.

Jisung blushed, "N-no. I was erm, on the phone with someone el-" Jisung didn't even finish his sentence before the person he was talking to on the phone spoke out.

"Sungie, don't lie to them~ We were talking so happily earlier, don't pretend that it wasn't:t me talking to you." Minho said teasingly.

Felix and Hyunjin bursted into laughter while Jisung turned red from the comment. "Minho! What the heck!" Jisung said, still red.

"It's better to tell the truth then lie~" Minho said. Minho wasn't actually at the Hwang Mansion, instead he was back at the Lee Manion, the three could basically imagine Minho smirking as he said those lines.

"Shut up. We'll continue talking later." Jisung said and hung up.

"Aww, look at you all red from my brother talking." Felix teased.

"Minho even got you a new nickname, Sungie." Hyunjin also joined Felix teasing Jisung.

"Shut up!" Jisung said, turning a bit redder from embarrassment. He looked at the two and noticed Felix's red and puffy eyes.

"Hey, what happened to you?" Jisung said and walked towards Felix.

"Oh, uhm, me and Hyunjin were just talking about our lives. And I may have gotten a bit emotional while talking about my..." Felix trailed off, not finishing his sentence because Jisung had already knew about his mother since the first day they had met.

Jisung didn't waste any time taking Felix into his embrace. Hugging him tightly as he knew the pain that Felix had gone through. He felt sympathetic for the younger and always wanted to take better care of him. Jisung has wanted to make sure Felix was going to be okay and was going to be happy ever since Jisung heard that Felix's mother has passed when he was so young.

"Are you okay now? Did Hyunjin make you feel worse?" Jisung glared at the elder.

"No, no. Hyunjin actually... He made me feel better." Felix said, leaving Jisung in shock.

"He comforted you?" Jisung asked.

Felix only nodded. Jisung was wondering what had happened to his brother. Hyunjin wasn't the type to comfort people aside from Jisung and Yeji whom he'd comfort when they broke down. But he usually makes other people them feel even worse then they were before.

"What the hell happened to you?" Jisung muttered.

"What? I can't comfort people?" Hyunjin said.

"No, it's just strange to hear that you comforted someone that's not me or Yeji, because you usually don't do that." Jisung said.

Hyunjin rolled his eyes. "Ji, people can change." Hyunjin said.

"And I can see that you've changed a lot since you met Felix." Jisung said.

"W-what? No, I didn't change because of him." Hyunjin blushed a bit but hid it well.

"Come on, it's so obvious that Felix has changed you." Jisung said.