tellonym • luwoo

060.

lucas doesn't notice he's bouncing his leg until jeno forces him to stop. "calm down, man," he forcefully holds lucas' leg still.

"they're here, he's here. why aren't they letting them off?" lucas whines anxiously.

taeil rolls his eyes and powers off his phone. "they have to make sure everything's-"

"they're getting off!" lucas exclaims, standing up rapidly and walking over with the flowers in hand. people slowly trail into the building and lucas examines every face to find the one that he's missed so much.

and then he sees it.

and jungwoo sees him.

and the older flings himself into lucas' arms so quickly lucas doesn't even have a second to make his way to him.

he hadn't even realized just how much he missed jungwoo's smell until it's the only thing he can register.

"i missed you so much," jungwoo cries into lucas' shoulder.

"i missed you more," lucas murmurs. "why are you crying, baby?"

this just makes jungwoo cry harder. lucas looks up and sees doyoung watching them, a pained expression on his face. his eyes meet lucas' and he looks away quickly, focusing on the bag of chips in his hands and taeil, who hasn't stopped smiling since doyoung practically threw himself into taeil's arms.

jungwoo pulls away, wiping his eyes and smiling softly.

"alright, alright, enough with the cheesy couple bullshit," jeno interrupts them. "i wanna go home."

"why are you here?"doyoung asks. jeno presses a hand on his chest in faux offence.

"i'm the driver so that y'all can do your coupley shit in the car without crashing," he explains.

"actually, he just didn't wanna be left alone with jaemin," lucas laughs, earning a fierce glare from his younger friend. jaemin had been hanging out with lucas and kun prior to their departure for the airport and everyone knew that if jeno stayed, shit would go down.

"i will leave you here, i'm not fucking afraid."

"he's sorry," jungwoo apologizes for lucas. "let's hit the road."

inside the car, jungwoo leans up against his boyfriend and falls asleep rather quickly, leaving lucas alone in the middle row of a taeil's soccer mom van.

throughout the entire journey home, lucas can feel doyoung's eyes burning into the back of his head. he knows something's up, and he wants to ask what it is, but he figures it's better to ask when they're alone.

"this silence is deafening," jeno says.

his commentary, unsurprisingly, changes nothing.

"well fuck you all too," he grumbles when no one answers.

"you wish you could," lucas smirks.

"already have," jeno retorts, receiving roars of laughter from the back seats.

"i wouldn't be laughing if i were you, doyoung," jeno says. "i've fucked you too and you were loud as shit."

taeil guffaws as doyoung raises up his middle finger towards the driver.

"you're such a hoe," lucas mumbles, smiling.

"you know it," jeno winks. "wait, lucas, didn't you 'n taeil date?"

lucas nods. "yeah, couple months."

"wouldn't that mean you two have done... it?"

his cheeks burn up as he nods again.

"this conversation is so uncomfortable, jesus christ jeno," taeil groans, throwing his head back.

"so we've done it, you and taeil have done it, and i imagine you and jungwoo have, which means you've had sex with everyone in this vehicle with the exception of doyoung," jeno smirks, continuing despite taeil's whines. "who's the hoe now?"

"when was the last time you talked to jaemin?"doyoung asks, purposely bringing up something jeno doesn't want to talk about to get him to shut up. his jealousy surrounding lucas and taeil is practically obvious and lucas almost laughs, if it weren't for the suddenly pained expression on his younger friends face.

jeno doesn't answer.

"jeno, you should talk to him," taeil says kindly after smacking doyoung upside the head.

"i don't want to talk about this," his voice breaks and he stares at the road ahead of him intensely. everyone takes this as a sign not to push anymore.

after a moment, the youngest speaks again. "i'll drop lucas and jungwoo off, then i'll drive to jaemin's. then you and doyoung can take the van."

lucas can't help but feel extreme pride towards jeno. not only is he slowly shedding his fuckboy ways, but he's facing his biggest fear: confrontation with jaemin. telling jaemin how he feels again has been a fear of his since the first time, over a month and a half ago. they don't even talk, even though everyone can see how badly they want to.

it's in the way jaemin looks at jeno when he's turned away, or the glares the others receive from jeno when they get just a little too close to jaemin. they miss each other desperately but jeno's stubborn and jaemin is afraid to hurt him again.

it's quite tragic to watch, actually.

jungwoo stirs and lucas gently wraps his arm around the smaller boy, rubbing his shoulder comfortingly. the older groans. "too soon."

"we're almost back at your place anyways love," lucas says. "perfect timing."

jungwoo's eyes flicker to doyoung and taeil and then back to lucas. "you'll stay with me."

"of course."

jungwoo nestles back into lucas' side. "don't fall back asleep," the younger warns.

"just resting my eyes," jungwoo murmurs. lucas knows that isn't true and he'll have to wake jungwoo up when they get to his place.

"what's up with you?" lucas asks doyoung once he's certain his boyfriend is asleep.

"nothing."

"don't lie to me, doyoung, something's up."

"i can't tell you," he says softly. "if i could, i would."

jeno interrupts before lucas can says something. "if you keep bickering i'm going to pull this car over and make you walk."

taeil laughs. "you sound like a mom!"

"oh, shut up."

doyoung smiles softly. lucas doesn't mind that doyoung doesn't want to tell him, he gets it.

what he does mind, however, is the way doyoung won't meet his eyes, no matter how hard lucas tries.