Me (Jeongcheol) [Wattys2017]

6

"Just go away!"

"No!"

"Please, leave me alone!"

"No!"

"Can you say anything different than no?!"

"Yes!... Listen-"

"No!"

Seongcheol sighs as he runs after the long haired boy he starts to like a lot.

"Jeonghan! Please, I want to help you", he says and grabs the other's wrist.

Jeonghan stops and looks at Seongcheol.

His eyes look teary and he tries to get out of Seomgcheol's grip.

"Can you please let me go?", he whimpers.

Seongcheol takes away his hand and Jeonghan seems to relax a little bit.

"Jeonghan, just let me...just let me help you."

Jeonghan furrows his eyebrows and looks at Seongcheol confused.

"Why", he asks after a while.

"Why would you want to help someone like me?"

Seongcheol takes a step forward and slowly lies his hand on the other's arm so he won't feel uncomfortable.

"Because I know how it feels to not be accepted and I want you to know that there're people that do accept you", he explains.

And every single word he said was true.

When he came out as bisexual at his old school people started looking at him weird. They started throwing mean words and even the teachers seemed to not like him that much anymore.

That's why he changed schools but that it would be the same here wasn't what he expected.

But exactly those facts were what made him be sure about this. He wanted to help Jeonghan.

He wanted this beautiful boy to stand to his real self and to know that he wasn't alone.

Jeognhan nods after a while and lies his hand on Seongcheol's.

"But they will hate on you and-"

"No talking back!", Seongcheol's stops him.

"Let's starts slow, okay? You could sit with Soonyoung, Jun and me and you should bring Jihoon along."

Jeonghan nods.

"Can I hug you", the long haired boy asks quietly.

Seongcheol doesn't answer. He just takes Jeonghan into his arms and holds him close.

"I like your hair by the way", he says while he plays with the braid that Jeonghan's hair was braided in.

"Thank you, my brother made it."

"Come, we have the next class together."

And Jeonghan does. He goes with Seongcheol and the black haired boy was proud of himself.

The key to all of this was not giving up.