home ; joohyuk ∏

1.2

long chapter ahead, I've been laying in bed all day without doing anything 🗿

Lee Minhyuk

"What happened to your hand?"

His question caught me off guard, having just heaved a sigh after slotting my bag into the overhead compartment & collapsing into the seat opposite him, dropping my hands on the table before me. It took a few seconds of buffering to actually reply but strangely, Jooheon was one of the few who never prompted me to speak even if it took me a while longer to do so.

Instead he just blinked with an amused smirk, existing in all his rightful adorableness, making the sentences I was working on forming become mush in my frontal lobe. Hence the buffering time.

"I," I lamely began. "I smacked my hand on the lift as I was coming out of it."

"Ah, okay," He nodded innocently, proceeding to bring out a sketchbook and an array of colouring and shading pencils. From his bag, he also produced black, round glasses & a hairband. As he pulled the two front parts of his hair up into painfully adorable bun, he smiled to me. "is this what you plan on doing for the next three hours?"

"I'll probably just sleep or something, don't worry," I chuckled. "are you hungry? Do you want anything?"

He shook his head, the train beginning to pull out of the station. "I'm okay for now."

It was hard to miss the way he was glowing today; I couldn't lay a finger on exactly why, but he just radiated this happiness so contagious I caught myself smiling like an idiot as I watched him draw, completely oblivious and in his world, nodding to the music blaring through his earphones.
After a few minutes, I plugged in my own, scrolling through social media.

Yoo Kihyun
Today 11:43am

how's the trip going

It's going okay, I'm just sat here rn, Jooheon's drawing

**you're sat watching him draw

hEy why are you yelling

😂😂
I'm not even shocked at this point
but regardless I hope it goes well!!
I hope you smash too

I don't even have it in me to tell him that I like him how exactly would I find the courage to propose that

I wouldn't put it past you regardless

foh horre

relacks damn
anyway, I have lives to go save so bYE message me if anything decent happens

ofc ofc

I pressed the sleep button, dropping my phone on the table and propping my chin up with my hand. Jooheon had stopped drawing for now, head cranes towards the window, the train zipping through nature and stations. At one point, he looked away, immediately meeting my eyes. "May I ask something?"

"Of course." I choked out.

"Are you seeing anybody right now?"

The forwardness and confidence in his voice had me stunned for milliseconds before I started to shake my head, slowly at first and then faster. "I'm not seeing anybody. Why's that?"