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【34】

mingi's world had been quiet lately. not good kind of quiet—like rain tapping the window while you're wrapped up in something soft. it was the kind of quiet that made him feel like he was stuck underwater, everything a little too far away, a little too slow.

yunho's room would always smell like vanilla or strawberries and mingi's favorite hoodie always waited for him on the edge of the bed like a friend who never left. but staying with yunho place was different, he'd changed in a lot of ways. he'd started staying there after a rough patch—first for a night, then two. then a whole week passed, then from there a whole month seemed to pass. yunho was ecstatic when mingi choose to stay with them. he had a therapist session once a week and he was getting better, sometimes he would hang out with hongjoong, they would go to the gym or go to the studio. hongjoong thought going to the gym would be a good form of stress relief... or something.

even school was getting better for mingi he was passing all his classes with everything above a eighty, which made yunho very happy knowing that there had been a change with mingi life since, he moved in with them. and even though mingi would still have some moments where he couldn't sleep or almost relapsed, yunho would be there all the time to comfort him.

——

'you didn't sleep again," yunho said softly, as he stretched from the bed.

"i did," mingi replied, voice scratchy. "but i woke up."

yunho raised an eyebrow.

"like, i was sleep... but also awake at the same time..?"

yunho snorted. "yea, and that totally makes sense."

mingi rubbed his eyes, sitting up slowly. "i was thinking about you."

"you always think about me."

"yea cause you're my favorite person."

yunho tossed him a clean shirt. "you said that to joong as well, but okay."

mingi groaned "you know what i mean hyung."

"sure, just hurry and get ready we don't wanna be late for school." yunho said walking to the bathroom and mingi followed.

"can you do my hair again? like last time." mingi questioned.

yunho raised his eyebrow, "you mean blow dry and flat iron?"

mingi nodded.

"mh, just shower first." yunho said.

mingi obliged and quickly got into the shower while yunho showered in one of the guest rooms.

about thirty three minutes later, they were both out the shower, changed into their uniforms and now they we're starting to do mingi's hair.

your hair's doing that thing again," yunho said, gently tugging at the mess at the back of mingi's head.

"let it live," mingi mumbled.

yunho combed mingi hair while blow drying it, "your hairs getting really long, the color is also fading."

"yea, i know. im probably gonna cut it and dye it back to black soon, maybe during the weekend." mingi replied.