goodnight | junhao au

37.

Junhui, Wonwoo and Mingyu sat in front of the crackling fireplace at Mingyu's gigantic house. His parents weren't at home, so he invited the two over. Most of all because he thought Junhui deserved an explanation about what happened that night and way before. And Wonwoo needed to hear it too. 

They were all wrapped in blankets, Mingyu and Wonwoo together in one, holding a cup of steaming hot chocolate. The couple tried their best to try and lift up Junhui's mood. They ordered Junhui's favorite take out food and watched a movie. But still, it didn't seem to really work on him. Of course Junhui was very grateful for all the effort they did for him, but for some reason he kept feeling horrible as the memory of Minghao and that girl kept flashing in his mind. 

Junhui stared in front of him, totally zoned out, watching how the fire crackled up in the fireplace.  He couldn't believe everything that had happened and he absolutely didn't know how to handle it. 

He knew Minghao didn't belong to him, but he couldn't help to feel horrible. Especially because Minghao gave him hope. Mingyu even told him that Minghao was in love with him too. But was it the truth? Was he sure it weren't all lies? Because suddenly everything they ever had seemed so fake to him. But who was he to say that, he knew about Minghao having a hard time and all he wanted right now was to run to him and comfort him, but he didn't know how he could possibly do that. 

"I think I need to tell you what happened.." Junhui shot up from his thoughts and shifted his gaze to Mingyu. Wonwoo looked at him and replied with a nod, since he also hasn't heard a thing about what happened. Mingyu took a deep breath and started talking.

"A little before the party a little group of students approached me. I didn't think too much of it since I didn't know them and I tried shaking them off friendly, until they started throwing serious threats of what they'd do to Wonwoo if I didn't listen to them right away.."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Wonwoo suddenly interrupted him, what made Mingyu's face go to an even more guilty expression. 

"Because I was scared that something might actually happen to you if I wasn't there to protect you. I'm sorry.." Mingyu looked a bit down. Wonwoo gently pecked his cheek and rubbed his back. "It's okay, just tell me next time. Please continue." 

"I will Won, anyhow. They showed me pictures they had of Minghao and Junhui. They said if I didn't brought Minghao to them right away they'd hurt me, Wonwoo, Minghao or you Junhui." A little doubt was heard in his voice, but he continued talking. "Of course I couldn't let that happen, so I figured that Minghao and I maybe could fix this all together, since the pictures were about him. So I brought Minghao with me, so we could all talk about it. They told him they knew everything about him and Junhui, and they absolutely didn't like it. They didn't wanted Minghao to be gay. And so, they decided Minghao had to act like he was dating the girl with the blue hair, because she liked him for a really long time now. Some sort of psychopathic crush. Minghao panicked and didn't know what to do, because the last thing he wanted was cause hurt to you Junhui." 

Junhui swallowed, feeling tears welling up in his eyes again. He didn't expect anything like this to happen to Minghao and immediately regretted yelling at him in the first place. It wasn't Minghao's fault at all, he was wrong. They threw serious threats to him and of course he didn't know what to do. Junhui would've probably done the same if he was in his position. 

"Anyways, Minghao tried his hardest to keep it all a secret and he was really good at hiding it from everyone, until the party came. He had to act nice to her and walk along with her because he knew he was forced to. Until I heard from you who he went with, and I was done with it. I knew how much he liked you and so I was sure about the fact I was going to end all of their crap. Then we saw Minghao kissing her, because he was out of consciousness. They had drugged him by putting something in his drink. He only drank a little that evening, but because of the drug he was completely out of his mind. He didn't even notice everything that happened." 

Junhui's tears started flowing again after Mingyu was done talking. He put down his hot chocolate milk in front of him and let it all out again for he nth time that day. Of course you wouldn't expect anything like this. How could he? It seemed like such a simple situation. But there was such a complicated web of plans behind all this. Junhui felt horrible for reacting on Minghao in this way..

"I-It's all my fault..." 

He felt a huge load of panic slumping into his system. How was it ever going to be normal inbetween the two again? He fucked it up for real this time..

"Junhui listen, it's not your fault, nor Minghao's. It's because of the clique that lured Minghao into all this. You have nothing to do with it. And okay, maybe it was for the best if Minghao just told you, but he didn't even know if you liked him back and he was scared he might make this whole situation only more complicated." Mingyu reassured him.

But Junhui still felt horrible. He was so scared everything had changed between the two of them. Not only that, he was so scared Minghao still thought his reputation was more important that him. It sounded so selfish to him, but the thought kept lingering in his head and he couldn't push it away. 

"Min-mingyu.. do you think he'll ever see me as mo-more important than his reputation..?" Junhui sniffed, trying to calm himself down a little.

Mingyu laughed about it, as if Junhui just said something really stupid. "Trust me, Junhui, you are the world to him. I've never seen him so in love before. Of course you're the most important thing to him."

Again, sparkles of hope filled his insides. Maybe, everything would be alright between them again. He didn't knew how long it would take the two of them to actually start talking with each other again, but something told him that all these troubles wouldn't last.

"Just give it a little time and talk to him when you're ready." Wonwoo said, joining Mingyu with telling reassuring things. "That doesn't mean you have to confess your feelings, but just make it okay again."

"Wonwoo is right." Mingyu added. "Just take a little time, stay the weekend at my place with Wonwoo and find a way to talk to Minghao again."

It was Friday, so he could easily stay for the weekend. That way, he had enough time to think about everything and how they were supposed to make up again. Junhui was determined he would do his best to make it up.

"I will. Thank you guys."

And after that they proceed drinking their chocolate milk, in front of the crackling fireplace.