The Perfect Crime || BoyxBoy

The Beginning Of The End: Father

Jongin gripped Kyungsoo's arms and slowly brought the sobbing male onto his lap. Kyungsoo's arms automatically went around Jongin's neck as he tightly wrapped himself against the other and placed his head on Jongin's shoulder.

Jongin's arms enveloped the sobbing male around his waist and he embraced the shaking frame gently, rubbing the doctor's back in a soothing manner. After a few minutes, when the crying quietened down to soft sniffles and occasional hiccups, the arms around Jongin's neck loosened up and Kyungsoo pulled back to look at Jongin.

Jongin couldn't help but break into a small smile seeing Kyungsoo's red eyes and a red nose from the crying.

"What are you smiling about?" Kyungsoo asked, sniffling.

"Just... how adorable you look with your red eyes and ever reddening nose," Jongin said smiling as he brought his right hand up and brushed the red nose, making Kyungsoo twitch his nose in annoyance.

"It's not funny," the doctor mumbled, as his ears also started to turn red, causing Jongin to chuckle. "I'm serious, Jongin. It's not funny. How can you be laughing during such a serious situation?"

"Okay, okay, I'll stop," Jongin said as he softly kissed Kyungsoo.

Jongin burst into laughter when the surprised doctor hiccupped loudly. Kyungsoo smacked Jongin's shoulder embarrassedly before placing his head again on the other male's shoulder, his hands also snaking around Jongin's waist.

They remained that way for a long time, with only the sound of their breathing and Kyungsoo's soft, irregular sniffles filling the silence.

"Jongin?" Kyungsoo asked after the sniffling had stopped after a while.

"Hmm?"

"Can you tell me more about your past? Like, about Sehun? And your step-mother and all that happened?"

Jongin remained silent for a few seconds before he shifted a little and lay down on the bed with the doctor facing him.

"What do you want to know?" Jongin asked hesitantly.

"How about from the beginning? If it gets too hard for you, you can always stop. You don't have to force yourself, understand that. And also know that I am here with you now."

Jongin smiled and rubbed Kyungsoo's cheek softly, "I know, Soo. Thank you."

Jongin's brows furrowed as he began to sift through his memories back to where it all had started; to the very beginning of the end.

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Months had gone by after the accident when Jongin had lost all hope that Kyungsoo would ever call him, and it was then that he started to slowly lose hope in his father as well - or at least the shell of a person that used to be his father.

The man that Jongin once knew as his father was slipping through his fingers like fine sand. Being blown away by a wind so strong that he couldn't have grasped it even if he had tried to.

So many months went by with Jongin mourning for his mother, and also wondering where it had gone wrong or what he had done wrong with Kyungsoo such that he had lost all contact with the boy. With the heartbreak of his mother gone and the end of his innocent first love, Jongin trapped himself in a world of pain trying to fix the million shattered pieces of his heart alone; all the while unaware about his father falling deeper into a pit of misery and depression by the day and teetering dangerously close to edge of insanity.