Loving You Forever Can't Be Wrong | C.S.C x Y.J.H

seventeen

Listen to "Photograph" by Ed Sheeran to enjoy the chapter better :D

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We keep this love in a photograph

We made these memories for ourselves

Where our eyes are never closing

Hearts are never broken

And time's forever frozen, still

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Jeonghan pulls himself together overnight and gets back into the shape of the person who came here from Seoul, not that begrudged but a bit hard-hearted.

His fingers trace the photo which he had sneaked into his pocket out of all the photos the trio had taken in the photo booth. In the picture, he is looking at the father-son duo - Seungcheol bent and kissing Sunjae's cheek which is raised because of a wide smile, and he is looking at them with so much love in his eyes. He remembers not wanting to be in the frame at that time and letting the other two have their moment but guess he couldn't escape it. The photo seems to be an accurate representation of current him; him standing away, staring at a family - not his - with love and want in his eyes.

Now, he's staring at the photo with longing as well as displeasure.

The capture is beautiful but in his eyes, he has never looked so pathetic.

He decides to rip the photo apart. Yes, he should do that. At least he should tear his end away so that he is not a part of this, in any way. Yes-

"Jeonghannie samchon", At Sunjae's voice, he quickly hides the photo behind his back and slowly slips it in his back pocket.

"Yes?"

"Look, look. Isn't this cute?", It's another photo from the photo booth, where Seungcheol and Sunjae are deciding on poses and both of them are looking extremely adorable and happy. Jeonghan is hardly in the frame in this one, "This is like the only photo of me and appa together", The statement shocks and saddens Jeonghan. His resolve of tearing the photo he has weakens. If he ruins the photo for his part, it gets ruined for them as well.

"Samchon, where do we keep this? Fridge, people put it on fridge, no? How to put it on fridge?"

He ends up helping Sunjae put that photo on the fridge.

"Sunjae, can you close your eyes?"

The boy obediently closes his eyes without asking any questions. Cute. Jeonghan takes out the photo from his back pocket, folds his end and tapes it to the back of the photo, completely removing himself from the picture and sticks the photo below Sunjae's, "Open your eyes now".

Sunjae's eyes land on the photo as soon as he opens them and he instantly jumps with joy, happy to see another photo of him and his appa, "This one is better. But why are you not in any of them?", Because I don't belong there, "Appa has other photos I guess, you must be in those", Hm, but maybe your appa forgot those at the fair. He seemed quite lost in his own world with Daehyun-sshi-

"Seungcheol", Speak of the devil, "Sunjae".

Sunjae runs out of the kitchen and Jeonghan follows.

"Sunjae-ya, is appa not home? I'm not able to connect to his phone."

"No, he's at work. Appa's phone is broken", Seungcheol still hasn't changed his phone?