A Letter From Me To You

Part 02

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Jinyoung thinks he's ready to face his best friend. After meeting up with Jackson it gave him the courage and to give Jaebeom some answers. After all, the poor guy deserved it after being ghosted for almost a week.

Today was his day off work so he spent a good half of his morning catching up on the sleep he had lost this week. He was ready to make a call to Jaebeom when he hears his cousin's voice from downstairs.

"Jinyoung hyung!" Yugyeom's voice booms throughout the house. He could hear the heavy footsteps making its way up the stairs. Next thing he knows his door bursts open revealing his exciting cousin. "Look what came back in the mail today!" Waving a letter in the air Yugyeom plops right down on his bed to sit beside him.

Jinyoung eyes widen in surprise because a familiar-looking envelope was in Yugyeom's hand.

His cousin hands over the letter to him, "One of your letters returned back to you! I guess the person no longer lives there. This is good news, right?

This was good news, right? So how come he's feeling disappointed that the letter was returned back to him? Did he want Mark Tuan to receive and read his letter? Did he want him to come and meet him just like how Jackson did?

'That's nonsense. You don't want him to ever find out you liked him in the first place.' Shaking his head Yugyeom taps him on the shoulder to ask him a question.

"Hyung, who is this letter intended for?"

Staring at the letter in his hand, it was the last one he ever wrote to a boy. Looking at the unopened letter brings back fond memories of the person he still seems to have lingering feelings for.

Jinyoung first met Mark Tuan halfway through his junior year of college. It was after he had broken up with Jackson. Like Jackson, Mark was a foreigner who was American Taiwanese from Los Angeles. The LA native wanted to study abroad for his college years and picked Korea. He was a year older than Jackson and him which meant he met them during his last year of college.

Jackson was the one who first met Mark and introduced him to Jinyoung from one of his class courses. The three of them naturally became close. The guy was only an inch or two shorter than Jinyoung with black hair. He was lean but built underneath the hoodies he preferred to always wear. Similar to Jackson, he had a burst of high pitched laughter with cute canine-like teeth that show whenever he smiled.

Jinyoung and Jackson never hid the fact that they dated to Mark. It never got awkward, that is. until Jinyoung started viewing him differently.

Jackson got busy to hang out with them most of the time leaving Mark and Jinyoung to hang out by themselves. Mark was the opposite of Jackson. He was not a complete social butterfly and tended to stick to a few close friends. And he and Jinyoung got along so well, even more so than Jackson which Jinyoung had to admit. Of course, there was Jaebeom but that's different. They were both quiet people and found peace and comfort within each other. They both preferred midnight movies, strolling at night, and were 'foxes' (stated by Jackson) when it came to playing games.

Jinyoung found himself falling for the American Taiwanese all too fast. Never before has this happened from the last two men he had ever loved. He was so comfortable with him. Jinyoung found himself letting his head fall on the male's shoulder whenever they laughed a little too hard. Mark didn't seem to mind since he never pointed it out. Nor did he pointed out the occasional hand entwining whenever their hands came close to each other which was often. From sitting beside each other on the couch to sitting across one another while doing their homework.