fireflies | oneshot

Part One✨

Lee Donghyuck has some habits that are quite weird to a lot of people. Every night at 11pm he leaves his apartment to go to the forest 15 minutes far from his house. It's not like that the forest is full of bears or wolfs or any wild animals, it's just a the one with a lot of trees of every kind and lots of fireflies.

It is like some kind of therapy for Donghyuck and he enjoys being in the nature at night with nobody around. He can listen to his thoughts that he couldn't by daylight due to the loudness of city he hates a lot. Some nights he listens to his favourite songs and some nights he writes some lyrics to express his thoughts. The moment he sits on the overthrown tree in the middle of the forest he feels like he forgets all his problems.

He had never seen someone in the forest at that late at night until that friday night last week.

He closed the door of his apartment and locked it. Then he headed downstairs. He saw one of his neighbours and said good night to him.

Today was tiring, he thought. He had to deal with Renjun all day because Jeno and Jaemin left him to spend some time together. And of course Renjun freaked out to all that events happening without him knowing. Luckily, Donghyuck was the only one who can make him shut his mouth. That's probably why Jeno and Jaemin trusted him with taking care of their furious baby while they're on a short trip.

I hope he is sleeping now, Donghyuck thought. He locked the door so he couldn't escape to find his boyfriends who left him there as if Renjun's their kid and Donghyuck is some babysitter.

He finally arrived his place and started wandering around the forest like he always did. And eventually he has found his spot and sit beneath the trees. It was dark but some streetlight outside the forest on the carriageway and especially his best friends fireflies were lightening the place a little so it wasn't that impenetrable. He needed to use some extra light if he wanted to read or write something some nights though, but tonight wasn't one of them.

While he was sitting thinking about the things on his mind lately, he heard some voice that he was unused to. He thought his mind was playing with him at first but he heard it again. It was like someone walking
stepping on the seres. He felt frightened because he never saw someone here before. He grabbed a thick branch from the ground to defend himself. Maybe it was someone just wanted to walk. At this late hour? Donghyuck thought but he tried to relax himself thinking maybe it was a weirdo like him. He tried to be quiet. When the voices was no longer audible, he went to check if the person was gone or not. He walked a while but couldn't see anyone then suddenly he heard someone crying. This aroused his curiosity and he followed the sobbing voice till he saw a very long man standing under a tree crying but struggling to keep it silent. He threw the branch away. He decided to stay still and watch because he
wasn't brave enough to go ask him what's wrong. Before anything else, he was a stranger and he seemed like he may get angry if he was bothered now. Donghyuck wouldn't want to annoy such a giant who could beat the daylights out of him. He felt sorry for him, he sighed and thought it's time to go back but he saw the man's knees gave out and he collapsed on the floor sobbing even louder than before. Donghyuck couldn't watch it anymore and ran towards the man in front of him. He approached him and he got down on his knees to face the man. He didn't even care if his clothes got dirty.

"I'm sorry mister, but what's wrong? You've been crying for fifteen minutes." He asked worriedly trying to make an eye contact with him.

He stopped crying, tried to stand up a little and tilted his head up to see who's speaking with him here in a forest, in the dead of night. He wasn't expecting anyone to be here and that's exactly why he came here to break down as he wants. He immediately wiped his tears with the sleeve of his hoodie, and started talking afraid his voice's gonna break.