Childhood friends

He, who it is not- Johnny

Johnny POV

There were things he had expected to happen.

He had thought about the party and what would happen, like Tao leaving to meet up with Sehun, and Kris being paranoid, and following Johnny and Tao.

There were just things he never had expected would happen.

When Tao had left for the bathroom he knew it was a lie. He felt bad for Tao. His heart hurt seeing the fear appear in his eyes before he put on that fake mask again. He locked eyes with Baekhyun who was also in shock, It was way too close, way too close.

He exchanged one last look with him and Mark, before taking a big sip of his beer, but before he can put it down, an old friend announces his arrival "Hey!" he speaks, and Kris greets back, while Johnny exclaims a "Ten!" with Baekhyun and Mark, maybe not as excited as them.

"Shouldn't you be with Taeyong?" He blurts out. For fun? Or to see Kris' reaction, but the latter just sits there, lost in his own world "Haha" Ten lets out and gives him the middle finger and Johnny finds himself chuckling softly.

"Where's Tao?" Ten asks, looking at the empty space between the two, and Johnny knew he knew something was wrong "He left for the bathroom" he heard himself answer, not letting Kris breathe, but noticing how Kris seemed absent, it was okay. Kris didn't have any right to speak about Tao's whereabouts anyway.

"He's probably not coming back" Seulgi chirped in and took a sip of her beer, to which Johnny rolled his eyes, of course, he's not, I wonder why!

"Why?" Ten asked of course and looked at Kris, who couldn't answer, so Johnny did it himself, it'd been a while since he's seen Ten too, might as well bring attention to himself "Seulgi asked him a shitty question" He let out "Oh you're playing truth or dare?" he asked again, this time his attention diverted to Johnny, but as the latter was about to answer Kris spoke

"Yeah" He managed to croak out, which made Ten give him a worried look "You okay buddy?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, just come sit down," He said and motioned for Ten to sit down in Tao's spot.

Which annoyed Johnny, was Ten just another Tao? Is that what he is? Come on Kris! Leave them alone and just go back to girls! They deserve better!

After a while of being a passive player, laughing when he had to, he decided he had to go. Knowing Tao would still be by the bathroom, taking his state into consideration, he walked through the kitchen, ignoring whoever was there, because frankly, they were nothing to him. All he needed was to be close to Tao. He felt himself grow needier and felt the longing creep out, and he heard his heart too, it was calling, or so it felt. He just hoped that Tao would hear it someday.

He remembered Tao telling him he would leave the party to go see Sehun, and it pissed him off. If he could leave Kris why leave him for Sehun? Why not him? He was right there! Right by his side!

He should really make it clear to Tao, and so when the latter exited the bathroom one question fell of Johnny's lips "Hey when are you leaving?" the other turned and saw him standing there and gave him a shrug "I don't know? In an hour maybe?"

An hour he repeated in his head and nodded. That's enough time.

He couldn't help but check the other out, he wore simple black jeans, a basic white shirt, but he was wearing their team jacket, and it looked so good on him.

He couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and ask a question which he already knew the answer to "Is the jacket..."

"Yeah" Tao answered catching the question even though Johnny never finished it. Johnny, as if burned, quickly let go, hurt by the fact that it wasn't meant for him.