Stay ||| Wooyoung/Jongho/San (Ateez)

24

Everything stopped.

Time.

Noise.

His heart.

Wooyoung didn't even feel like he could breath right now.

"I want you to meet my brother, Jongho!" San's face was so bright an animated as he wrapped an arm around Jongho's shoulder and pinched his cheek.

Jongho had visibly lost color in his face as well. His mouth opened a little in shock and he stood rooted to the place.

Somehow, though, the younger managed to regain ground before San noticed anything. "It's nice to meet you." He held out his hand, which Wooyoung had to almost force himself to shake it.

"Y-You too." He squeaked.

Jongho dropped his hand immediately and shoved his hands in his pockets before turning to look San. "This is a great event. Everything looks really nice."

San's eyes grew wide and he beamed. "Thank you! I'm so happy that you came. It's been too long, I can't wait to catch up with you. But I need to make a couple of rounds. You're going to stick around, right? Please say you are! We could all go get dinner. I saw Mom, but Dad is here too, right?" He bounced in place as he spoke, which is something that Wooyoung would have normally found adorable.

But right now he couldn't stop his head from ringing and repeating he same word over and over...

Brothers.

Brothers...

San and Jongho were brothers.

And he had been seeing both of them without knowing it.

Which was crazy, because now that he saw them together, he could kind of see it, at least with the light blonde hair and there were some slight similarities in their face shape.

But not enough for anyone to notice without them standing directly next to each other.

"I can stick around for a little bit, but I don't know if I'll do dinner." Jongho said, still not looking away from San.

"Oh come on, you're still not mad at Dad, are you?"

"Can you blame me? He made his choice."

San bit his lip and looked down. "But she loves you just the same..."

Jongho closed his eyes and pulled San into a hug. "I'll think about it, ok?"

"I'll take that for now." San hugged him back. "Please, get some food and look at the auction and I'll find you later!" He turned back to Wooyoung, "Coming?"

"Um... I..." Wooyoung tried to swallow the lump in his throat.

"Are you ok?" San took a step forward while Jongho turned his back to them.

"B-Bathroom?" Wooyoung placed a hand over his stomach when it started to churn within him. San started to lead him but Wooyoung held up a hand, "Just tell me..." He said weakly.

"In the corner over there, just down the hall."

Wooyoung started pushing his way through the crowd before San had even finished. Everything was spinning, and he could hardly feel his legs.

Brothers.

A few people muttered complaints when he pushed past them, but he didn't care.

Brothers.

He barely made it to one of the stalls before he purged the contents of his stomach in the toilet. Several times. His entire body was clammy and he couldn't get his hands to stop shaking, even when he clutched the side of the toilet.