My only wish this year | h.js x l.mh

I have been so good this year

17.12.10

cause i heard that you're coming to town

jisung wakes up to frantic moving coming from his parents and opens his eyes to be met with minho and his mother. he's confused because he doesn't know them very well, but he does know that minho's mother came rushing out begging them to take her last $5 because jisung bought minho another snow cone. 

he doesn't know what's going on, but suddenly twelve year old minho is trudging to the couch shyly, minho's mother frantically leaving and thanking his mother. he sits up on the couch, giving minho room to sit down and make himself comfortable. he can smell food and knows that his father is the one cooking, his mother too busy opening the door and doing the laundry, at least that's what the basket in her hand implies.

jisung pats the couch softly, telling minho it's okay to sit with him. minho complies, cheeks fuming as he takes his coat off and slides onto the couch with an almost silent hi. he scoots closer and offers minho to share his blanket, the older boy shyly scooting closer and eventually cuddling close to jisung.

they were  in the middle of watching the polar express (the grinch long finished and in the past) when jisung feels a light weight on his shoulder. he turns to realize that minho had fallen asleep and cuddled closer. he smiled and pushed the hair out of the older's eyes, snuggling up and falling asleep. jisung's awoken by a quiet whimper, quickly registering that it was the boy next to him. he opens his eyes and looks up at minho, pulling him close and hugging him tight before falling back to sleep.

santa, can you hear me?

jisung wakes up when the door bell rings, his mother shouting a quick 'coming' and rushing to open it. he looks to his left and sees that the older is still sleeping peacefully so he runs his hands through his hair gently. 

when minho's mom walks through the door and tries to wake minho up, jisung stops her in her tracks, quietly looking to his parents and asking if minho can stay over. he begs for their approval, tears threatening to spill, but when he sees his parents glance at minho's mother he knows the answer's got to be a no.

'honey, i don't think she traveled all this way just to go home without him'

'but mom, he's my friend! i wanna hang out longer!'

'your mother's right, he should go home and rest up, maybe tomorrow okay? he's coming back over when you get out of school'

'he is?'

'yes, we're watching him while his mom goes to work honey.'

jisung wakes minho up, the elder snuggling closer and begging for five more minutes.

'hyung, you gotta go home'

minho's eyes open and he turns to see jisung looking at him (fondly possibly, but maybe he's just getting ahead of himself- jisung wants a pretty girl to fall in love with) and turns away flushing. he looks up and finds his mother motioning for him to get up and get ready. he can see jisung's parents giving him looks of affection too as he walks out the door, thanking jisung's parents and waving a little to femininely at jisung (fluttering his eye lashes and smiling just a little too widely, perhaps he was falling for the straight boy).

jisung waves excitedly, hoping his parents were right and that he'd get to see minho the next day. he waits for his parents to leave the room to pull out his letter making kit for santa and finding the lightest pink paper, the one that reminds him of minho's flustered cheeks, and thinks of what to write.

when he finally finds his words he pulls out his pink pen and takes the cap off, putting it to the paper and writing away.

dear santa,

i don't know if you read any of my messages i send to you, but can you please read this one for me. i want two things this year and i've been a really good boy so i know two things won't be too hard for you, right?

the first thing is what i've been wishing for recently. i want someone to like me like mom and dad like each other.

and secondly, i want minho hyung to be my friend and maybe kiss me like dad kisses mom? i don't know too much about kissing but mom and dad kiss each other and they're really close friends so like minho kissing me would mean we're really good friends, right?

i don't know i might be overthinking this santa, I just want minho to be my friend!

sincerely,

the goodest boy jisung