I don't want you like a "Bestfriend" | C.S.C x Y.J.H ✔️

my one and only, my lifeline

Jeonghan looked heavenly in white.

Seungcheol could already feel tears filling up his eyes but he didn't let the smile on his face dwindle.

That was his bestfriend, the love of his life.

"I now pronounce you husband and husband."

Crowd bursted into claps and cheers. Seungcheol closed his eyes, the moment burning his chest. But as a good audience and great friend, he joined in too, for the celebration of Jeonghan's wedding.

Seungcheol woke up startled and in tears. The dream still burning his chest. Something shuffled by his side and Jeonghan's angelic face came into his view.

"What happened, baby? Nightmare?"

"The worst", Seungcheol sniffled. Losing Jeonghan to someone else was, indeed, his worst nightmare.

"Tell me?", Jeonghan pulled Seungcheol into his embrace and caressed his hair gently.

Something broke inside Seungcheol as the visions flashed through his eyes and he buried himself deeper into the embrace, "Why were you getting married to someone else?"

"What....?"

"You are going to leave me, aren't you? It's a terrible thing to do to me, Jeonghan. The most terrible thing", He pouted.

"What are you talking about?!"

"You were getting married."

"Our wedding is a nightmare for you?!"

"No, it was your wedding. I was in the audience".

"What were you doing in the audience?"

"Huh?", He looked up at him in confusion, "Jeonghan, don't you understand what I'm saying? You were standing on the stage-"

"Don't you understand what I am saying? Why would I stand on a wedding stage when you aren't there standing with me, as my partner?", Jeonghan wiped the traces of dried tears and emphasised on every single word, making Seungcheol smile at the interpretation.

Jeonghan looked heavenly in white.

Fortunately, Seungcheol's nightmare didn't come true and Jeonghan's words did. They found themselves standing on the wedding stage together.

"I remember writing something beautiful", Seungcheol started with his vows, "But you look so beautiful, I forgot everything". Audience laughed, Jeonghan also chuckled. "Trust me it's not a metaphor, rather it's in literal sense when I say that you're the light at the end of the tunnel as well as the presence beside me in the darkness. You are my hope, my salvation. My one and only, my lifeline. It is my greatest pleasure that you saw every inch of my broken soul and deemed it worthy of your love. I don't think this whole life will be enough to tell you how much you mean to me but I promise I will tell you, I will spend every single second in making you believe that you are my everything. I, Choi Seungcheol, take you, Yoon Jeonghan, to be my husband, to have and hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for poorer, for richer, in sickness and in health, to protect you, to love you, to cherish you, till death do us apart- no, even after death do as part."

Jeonghan was in also in tears by the time Seungcheol finished his vows.

Seungcheol gently wiped the few tears that escaped the other's eyes but he knew wiping his own tears would be futile as there would be more with Jeonghan's vows.

"I have always wished to spend all of my life with you, even if just platonically. That's why the crush I had on you", When Jeonghan had confessed, he had hinted to something like that but it wasn't discussed further, "didn't seem worth the risk because I couldn't afford to lose you, since the very beginning. I can't afford to lose you ever. I know people think you're the only one who's on the receiving end, that I'm your strength and escape, and even you think so. But you are all that to me as well. You're the one I lean on. Members find me when they have troubles, I look for you. You're my sanctuary. Talking to you or simply letting myself bask in your presence is healing for me, is living for me. If it is anything, it is my greatest blessing that you decided to love me, that too so beautifully. And it will be for the rest of my life. I, Yoon Jeonghan, take you, Choi Seungcheol, to be my husband, to have and hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for poorer, for richer, in sickness and in health, to protect you, to love you, to cherish you, so much so that even death can't do us part."

After the exchange of vows, they exchanged the rings.

"I now pronounce you husband and husband", Husband. Jeonghan's husband. Seungcheol could feel those words getting deeply engraved in his heart.

Shyly, they went in for the kiss. Of all the kisses they've shared, this one felt very different and Seungcheol knew Jeonghan felt it too when they broke the kiss and he looked into the other's eyes.

The ceremony smoothly moved forward with happiness bouncing in each and every corner of the wedding hall.

Of course the first dance was going to be theirs but that didn't stop Seungcheol from extending his hand forward and asking, "May I have this dance?"

Jeonghan teased him for a bit but gave in at the end, like he always did. With Jeonghan's hand in his, he brought him to the middle of the dance floor. He held him by the waist and pulled him close.

I would need a million words
If I tried to define
All the things you mean to me, yeah
For you, I'd die a thousand lives

Seungcheol mouthed a 'thank you' to Joshua for the song choice.

Every time you touch me
You remind me that I'm still alive

Jeonghan's hand snaked and settled around his neck, bringing all of Seungcheol's attention back to him.

Even though their faces glowed, their wedding bands shone, under all the lights, it all still felt like a dream. Moreover, with Jeonghan looking no less than an angel, it was too surreal.

So promise you'll never change
And I'll always be the same

But this was reality and it was the most beautiful reality Seungcheol had ever lived in. He truly wished it would never change, that they would never change.

We'll be dancing the same groove
When we're ninety-two, the same as seventeen

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I truly don't know how vows are actually supposed to be. I might not have done justice to it but if you haven't, please go back once and read those as the characters. Don't compare the vows, they are in different approaches for a reason. I'm sorry if I disappointed any of you.

The song is "17 by Pink Sweats" and it just had to be here. See, the lines fit perfectly.