꒰ ETERNAL ꒱ - JOOKYUN ˎˊ˗

💫 || one.

changkyun rolled his eyes as he heard his phone ringing. there was only one person who could be calling him, especially at a time like that, and he definitely didn't want to deal with him or with anyone else when he just wanted to rest.

he picked up anyways since he didn't know what he could expect. there could be some serious problem for all he knew.

"hello, lim changkyun on the phone, guardian angel by day and someone who wants to get some rest at night, what's your problem?" he quickly spoke in a joking manner, purposefully trying to sound as irritated as possible.

"hi, lee jooheon speaking," the other responded the same way, "i've always wondered - if you are an angel, why do you have a phone?"

"it's 21st century, sweetheart." a smile tugged at the angel's lips. "did you call me just to ask me that?"

"no."

the line went silent for a while. changkyun heard jooheon shifting a bit. he was probably in bed, supposedly going to sleep soon.

"i just miss you a lot," jooheon suddenly said. "i haven't seen you in a while. i always expect that you would pop out of nowhere but that doesn't happen," he let out an airy chuckle to not sound as upset and desperate as he was.

the other pressed his lips in a thin line. he really wanted to be rude and sound like he didn't care, but he actually got worried by jooheon's shaky voice. it was just that the human was way too used to his angel's presence. "you haven't gotten into any trouble for me to appear," he explained.

"please, come over. i can't sleep."

"jooheon, i can't do that. it's the rules."

"just for one night. please."

changkyun unexpectedly hung up. he was having none of this. he knew what jooheon's "one night" meant. because it all started with one night and then it continued the next night, too, and the one after that, and so on.

as someone who was trying to stay as far away from his human as possible (and even made up rules that sounded believable enough, just so he wasn't around him), the angel found it really difficult when jooheon called him, telling him he needed him around.

fuck it, he thought. he loved being with jooheon outside of "work".

he was in the other's house in almost no time. jooheon was a bit surprised as he saw him along with his soft white glow.

"i thought you weren't going to come," jooheon mumbled.

"i really wasn't going to." changkyun lied down on the bed next to the other, trying to not get his wings in the way.

"there is another thing that i have always wondered."

"what?"

"how do you manage to get yourself comfortable with those wings?" jooheon reached out, running his fingers against the soft white and grey feathers on one of changkyun's, slightly torn at places, wings.

changkyun giggled. "you don't. it's just that we grow up with them and kind of get used to it in our early years. they're a burden and sometimes i wish they were gone, honestly."

"for fifteen years they've grown so much," jooheon smiled.

"you've grown, too," changkyun smiled back, cupping the other's cheek. "i remember when you were five and i scared the life out of you just because i decided to show up for the first time."

jooheon laughed. "you still scare me a lot."

"shut up, you love me." changkyun playfully hit jooheon on the shoulder

"i have no other choice."

when they stopped giggling, changkyun put the other to sleep, gently stroking his arm or running his fingers through his blonde hair.

then as soon as he was asleep changkyun was gone, leaving jooheon all alone. it was better for him that way, changkyun believed.