Scarlet Shadows || Kaisoo

Chapter 7 | Well.

"Fallen Angel? The fuck are you blabbering again?" Krystal probed.
I kept staring down at my palms, when she hit me, "Aish! That hurts!"
"Don't tell me you got one of your stupid unrealistic dreams of that jerk again?"
"Jerk who?" Sehun morbidly asked.
I kicked Krystal under the table, asking her not to tell him, not like I don't trust Sehun, but it's too early for him to know so much about me, when I don't even know a letter about him.
Krystal blinked, and said it was about the guys who were bothering me the other day.
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Myself and Sehun decided to skip Math, because both of us hated it. And Sehun had suggested that we ought to bond over bubbletea, whatever the hell that was.,so went went to the nearby café.
"So Sehu..-"
"How long have you known Kim Jongin?" okay weird
"For almost 7 or 8 years? I mean, I know him, but he doesn't know me..I guess." I tried to conceal my frown.
And almost till my bubbletea was cold, he kept bombarding me with questions solely concerning Kim fucking Jongin. All hell broke loose, and I asked him, "Why the hell are you so stuck up over Jongin? What is it that you need to know?"
He stuttered with his words, but I probed him on and on. Finally, he spoke up,

"Jongin is my brother."

I stopped breathing for a minute, the world around me was full of utter chaos, the noise, the bric-a-bracs, and this, all of it flooded my mind, and I lost control of what I was thinking. I screamed at him for playing such a sick joke on me, much to the other people's annoyance. But Sehun, he just looked at me, his eyes bloodshot and tears clearly stinging his eyes. For a minute, even his eye color seemed to turn deep crimson, and even expresssion hardened, just to soften immediately. Am I dreaming?

"I am his brother, more like. He was actually adopted into our family, when he was really young, like really young, when my parents thought they couldn't have children.. But then in almost a year, I was born too. The secret that he was adopted, was kept till he was 9 years old, but because of some ugly misunderstanding, it came out like a slap on his face, and that was the day he left the house.. To never return back." Sehun finished, his eyes still lowered down.

I couldn't respond.

This one thing, this one thing made me feel so many fucking things all at once. The fact that he was so cold, and odd, was because of this, right? And the fact, the fact that nobody could ever connect to him, and bring this out of him, clearly shows how much he must've despised this one fragment of nightmare. I suddenly felt very stiffy and sultry.

"So, I guess that's why you wanted to know about Jongin" I muttered.
Came a small nod of approval, from Sehun, who was quite uneasy about something. I held his hand, and he asked me with a small voice, "I won't be judged right?" I guess its time I tell him a bit of my secrets, so he feels assured.
"Not all all. And listen, I've to tell you something too.. Promise me, that you won't judge me."
He nodded.
I cleared my throat, sucked in a breath,

"I'm gay, and I'm in
love with Kim Jongin."
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Slayin'
-authornim