i'm your a to z | jihancheol

joshua does NOT have a police kink

chapter 10

Joshua couldn't get the image of Seungcheol in a police outfit out of his mind. He couldn't stop thinking about the tight uniform on his built body or how he'd hold a gun with a handcuff around a wrist. Curse his vivid imagination.

He left Chan to fight the wither by himself and walked to the roof. For him, it was the only calming place in the whole house.

Joshua opened the door to see Jeonghan sitting on the edge.

"Hey, Hannie!" Joshua called but the boy didn't respond.

He walked ahead and sat down next to him. Jeonghan's eyes were staring at the cloudless orange sky.

"What are you thinking about?" Joshua asked.

Jeonghan glanced over before looking back up at the sky.

"I think I knew Seungcheol."

"What do you mean?" Joshua imagined how awkward that would be for everyone. But it made sense, seeing how Seungcheol would call Jeonghan by his last name, when none of them ever said what their last names were.

"I think we were friends in high school but I'm not fully sure if it's the same Seungcheol. High school Seungcheol wasn't a dick." He chuckled before looking down at the road.

"I wouldn't say Seungcheol's a dick," Joshua defended. "He just has issues."

"Yeah, you're right." Jeonghan smiled and his eyes wandered, full of reminisce. "But I'll admit it also might be my fault."

"Hmm?"

"I was the one who began ignoring him, despite how close we were. I guess he does have the right to be mad at me."

"After so long?"

"Some feelings aren't easy to get over." Jeonghan looked over and stood up. "Let's go back inside."

Joshua nodded and followed him to the kitchen. Chan was nowhere to be seen and he had left the game open to a dark cave.

"I can't believe him," Joshua muttered and sat in front of the laptop.

"How do you even play Minecraft?" Jeonghan day in the seat next to him.

"You've never played?" The American was surprised that one had never played the best game in existence. "Do you want to learn?"

Jeonghan nodded and Joshua created a new world. He taught Jeonghan the survival basics but the boy seemed more interested in blowing things up in creative mode.

"Wow, I should've listened to Jihoon when he said it was fun." Jeonghan never took his eyes off the exploding village houses.

"Jihoon played Minecraft?" Jisoo was actually more surprised that Jeonghan has brought up his ex's name.

"Jihoon loved Minecraft." Jeonghan's hands stopped moving and covered his face. Ah shit, he's sad again.

At the same time, Chan walked to the table and closed the laptop.

"Distract him," he mouthed. "Before he starts crying."

"How?"

"Hey, Joshua, you're American right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Tell us about it. Jeonghan's interested in California, especially Los Angeles, isn't that, right?"

"Yeah." Jeonghan looked up and rubbed his eyes.

"Hey, that's where I'm from," Joshua said. "It's a cool place but it's really hot."

"Isn't it on fire all the time and has many earthquakes?" Chan asked and sat on the table.

"Yes, but we don't talk about that. We talk about the famous people from there."

Joshua told them stories of how he met celebrities and how a lot of people from everywhere would visit.

"Is it close to New York?" Chan asked.

Joshua blinked twice before remembering not everyone was from America.

"New York's on the other side of the country and my roommate's from there." Joshua smiled when he remembered how many times they'd argue over which city was the superior one. He'd have to call Vernon soon.

"Jihoon always wanted to go to New York City," Jeonghan whispered and put his head down on the table.

"This ain't about hi—oh no," Chan said before seeing Jeonghan was crying. His ex must've meant a lot to him if everything reminded him of him.

"Story time's over, Chan get the ice cream," Joshua said as he stood up. "Jeonghan, let's go to the couch."

The boy complied and was soon laying on the sofa with a blanket over him. His head rested on Joshua's lap and the American couldn't stop himself from playing with the soft blond hair.

Chan walked into the room pulling a wheeled chalkboard—Seungcheol's mansion had everything—with terrible drawings on it.

"Now that you have settled down, would you like to listen to my plan to break Jihoon and Soonyoung up?"

"No, no one wants to hear your plans to be a homewrecker." Joshua sighed and rested his hand on Jeonghan's shoulder.

"I appreciate the effort though," Jeonghan chuckled as Chan pouted and dragged the large chalkboard back.

Jeonghan yawned when Joshua went back to playing with his hair.

"Does me playing with your hair make you tired?" he joked, though he knew some people were like that.

"It actually does," he laughed and his eyes began to close. "Keep doing it."

Joshua smiled and did as he was told. He found Jeonghan's laugh and quiet yawns cute. After a while, he stopped when he heard the blond muttering.

"Hmm?" Joshua asked.

"Said I'd date you if you weren't straight."

Joshua almost choked on his own spit, not sure if he heard him properly. Before he could ask, though, Jeonghan was crying softly.

"What's wrong?" he asked and stroked Jeonghan's hair to calm him down.

"I broke the promise," he whined.

Before Joshua could ask what he meant, Seungcheol's voice could be heard.

"Look at the freebies I got from—" Seungcheol called out but halted. "Oh my god, why's he crying?"

Joshua looked up to see almost exactly what he'd been imagining. Seungcheol was wearing a fake police officer uniform and was twirling handcuffs around a finger.

Curse Seungcheol for making him question his sexuality but also his police kink that he didn't have.

"Jihoon again," Joshua mouthed.

Seungcheol sighed and signaled for Joshua to stand up. The boy complied and let Seungcheol sit in front of the couch.

"Yoon Jeonghan, look at me."

Joshua decided to give Seungcheol space and went to look for Chan. Meanwhile, he repeated to himself that he was straight and neither Seungcheol nor Jeonghan could change that.