Hyunjin's seven pet wolves (SKZ werewolf AU)- OT8

Hyunjin misses movie night

Hyunjin had lived in the small town for nearly a month now, an entire month of stressing over classes like a normal college kid (because apparently, he was the only normal one in this town.)

But it was still a blissful month because he never would have imagined he would make it this far with just his work alone. His father hadn't even blown up his phone, and he didn't know if he should be salty about that or utterly thankful.

In the end, he did make friends. Ajax, then another art major who sat on the other side of his shoulder in lectures, and seven very overexcited men who acted like puppies most of the time.

It seemed like he couldn't spend a day away from seeing them because he always saw them at least once- if not multiple times a day. Once the snow started to fall, they all crowded into his small apartment even if the heater was broken, bringing blankets and snacks and their warmth with them because they all felt like furnaces every time Hyunjin touched them.

It was nice- everything he had ever wanted and more because they may have their quirks, but Hyunjin thought they were cute quirks. The way they made a strange whimpering sound when they didn't get what they wanted, the way they all lived together in some cabin in the middle of the forest.

That night, the snow had started to come down slightly worse than it had been before. Hyunjin had read that the snowy season here lasted almost half of the year with his cold and how elevated the town was- but he was vastly unprepared with his thin sweaters and the plethora of medical issues like asthma and anemia that he tried his best to ignore.

By the time he returned to his apartment, fingers frozen, the first thing that he noticed was that instead of almost falling off of its hinges- his door was actually upwards and locked into place. Hyunjin actually had to search for the key at the bottom of his backpack because he had never used it before.

"Hello?" He asked once he stepped in, shucking his shoes off at the entryway where the other seven were. So he wasn't alone.

"Hi," Chan poked his head through the small hallway that led out to the rest of the open floor plan to his apartment. He smiled sheepishly, "I hope you don't mind, but me and Changbin fixed your door for you- it's unsafe for you to have it open all the time. What if someone had robbed you?"

Hyunjin snorted, "I don't think you had to worry about that, the only important thing worth stealing in this apartment is my paints."

Chan frowned, and Hyunjin would have thought he was offended if he hadn't known him any better. "And you, Hyunjin. You could have gotten hurt."

Warmth flooded Hyunjin's chest like he was standing in front of the campfire known as Chan. He smiled and tested the newly fixed doorknob. It didn't even creak under his hands.

"I appreciate it," he finally said, swallowing down the wobble to his voice because it had been a while since someone had done something like this for him. "Thank you, Chan."

Before Chan could reply, Jisung flew past him to tackle Hyunjin into a hug like he always did when he saw him- but this time he gasped dramatically. "You're a popsicle! Frozen solid! You shouldn't walk out in the cold for too long."

Before Hyunjin could pull away and claim that he was fine, Jisung was grabbing his bare hands (because he didn't own mittens) to rub them between his own and puff some warm air, breathing the life back into them.

"I'm okay-"

Too late.

Jisung had already dragged him to push him down onto the new couch that he scrounged the money for with the small salary he made at the coffee shop. That, and Chan had been nice enough to donate a small television that apparently had been sitting in his closet and collecting dust.