The Deal * Seokmin x Joshua

Thirty three

"Drama," Seungkwan said as they piled into Seokmin's tiny dorm bedroom. "Tell me about it," Hansol echoed as he climbed onto Seokmin's bed and lay flat across the older man's back. "You're crushing me," Seokmin managed to eek out from under the quilt and the weight of his best friends body. "It's alive!" Seungkwan yelled loudly and began jumping on the end of the bed unbalancing Hansol from his perch and dumping him onto the floor.

"Ouch," Hansol scowled and rubbed his knee where he'd landed heavily on it. "You guys are the worst," Seokmin grumbled from under his layers. "You're supposed to be comforting me." "What do you want us to say Seokmin hyung?" Hansol asked from his seat on the floor. "Your very fake boyfriend cheated on you with his very real ex boyfriend. He looks like the asshole here." Seokmin began to sniffle and Seungkwan lay down next to him and put an arm over his shoulder.

"Oh no!" Seokmin suddenly sat up making the covers spill around him. "My notes are there, all my notes for the musical, I have rehearsal later." He flopped backwards on the bed and sighed aloud. "My favorite shirt is there and my best jeans. What am I going to do?" "Do you want us to go there and get the stuff later?" Seungkwan asked and Seokmin thought about it. He wanted to go himself. He watned to check on Joshua and make sure he was okay, he knew the embarrassment would be killing him inside. Most of all he just missed him. He'd been planning on waking up next to him this morning and hopefully taking a nice long semi-hungover walk around the campus parks before sharing a brunch at the café. Now it had all gone to shit.

"Maybe," he said. "What if I go there and he's there?" Seokmin was so afraid to face Jaehyun. He'd walked into their lives and staked his claim on everything Seokmin held dear. All he needed was for the jerk to show up in the musical and his life would be over. Not much chance of that happening with Jihoon in charge though, he realised, as he relaxed a little. He couldn't stand the thougth of turning up at Joshua's apartment to find himself replaced.

"I don't know if Joshua hyung really likes him that much," Seungkwan said. "Well it was his idea to go to the party and it was his idea to kiss him in front of everyone," Seokmin snapped and then the tears fell again. "I just thought I would be able to get him to like me if I could just keep this thing going. I really thought I might get him to think of me as more than just a friend."

"Well whatever you had it's over now for sure hyung," Hansol said from the floor. "Maybe you can just work it out from here. I mean, technically he didn't cheat on you, because technically you guys weren't really dating, so technically he kind of hasn't done anything wrong. Am I right?" "No," Seungkwan said as he leaned over and flicked Hansol's forehead. "The point is everyone knows what he did. Everyone thinks he cheated on Seokmin. You can't try and get him back hyung. Everyone one will think you're a fool."

Seokmin didn't care what everyone thought. He didn't care if he looked like the biggest fool on the planet. All he cared about was getting Joshua back.

A loud knock roused Joshua from his uneasy slumber. Hed been napping on and off for a few hours and he dragged his heavy limbs off the bed and towards the door. A little part of him allowed himself to be excited thinking it might be Seokmin coming to get his things but that part was quickly squashed. "You look like shit," Jeonghan said as he walked into Joshua's apartment and handed him a tall iced Americano. "Thanks," Joshua mumbled as he flopped onto the couch. "I feel like shit."