baby (seungmin centric skz fic)

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          seungmin knew he shouldn't have answered the call. but he was curious. nobody he knew would usually call him, because they knew he didn't like talking on the phone and would rather do it through text. maybe it was an emergency? maybe it was his mom? he wasn't sure. but as soon as he answered that call and heard the voice, he regretted it so badly. he knew exactly who it was, but he couldn't bring himself to press 'end call', because he had to know how daniel got his number again. "daniel? how did you get my number?" seungmin tried to be as quiet as he could while talking though, seeing as he was sitting on a bus with at least 5 other people. "i just wanted to make sure you were okay. you know how much i worry about you, baby." seungmin almost melted at the voice, but the second he heard it, memories of what he did to him just came flooding into his brain. 

           "no, you don't even care about me. tell me, how'd you get my number?" seungmin hissed at him, with the passenger next to him leaving the bus. "oh, c'mon baby. don't be like that. you remember how good i was to you? why don't you come on back?" daniel insisted, but seungmin swore he knew better."y..you'd do better to just leave me alone, si-daniel." seungmin stammered out, his finger floating over the end call button again. "you almost let that slip baby, don't you miss calling me that? don't you miss the old apartment? all the old places we used to go?" daniel questioned him, his gruff voice filling up both sides of seungmin's headphones. seungmin shivered at the thought of the old places he was forced to go, throughout the entirety of their relationship. "just, leave me alone, daniel." seungmin chose his words carefully before ending the call. seungmin sat there for a long time, before looking up as the bus stopped, only to see they were at his stop. seungmin picked up his bag and headed off the bus, looking a lot paler than he was when he stepped on.

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        "ji?" seungmin called out, slipping off his shoes and pulling on the dull slippers that were sitting next to the door. "ji?" seungmin called once more, his voice echoing throughout their shared apartment. realizing that jisung was not in the house, seungmin left to sit on his bed, turning on his phone and just looking at the call on the phone number earlier. after he had got the phone call, he wanted to tell jisung so badly. his brother, albeit not blood brother, always fixed things for him. but he wasn't sure he could fix this. seungmin was scared that jisung would have to fix this mess, seungmin's mess. if only i didn't answer that call.. this wouldn't have happened. daniel probably knows where i am too... he was always so nice to me. seungmin quickly shook himself out of his thoughts, pulling out a book from his bag and trying to read it in an attempt to take daniel off his mind.

         seungmin's phone pinged from where he threw it on the bed to get the book out of his caramel-coloured bag. he cautiously picked up the phone, worried it would be a text from a certain someone. he tapped the notification to see he was added in a groupchat, with 8 other people, with two numbers already entered into his phone. 'chan 🦘' and 'jisung 💙' he opened the app, before typing in the chat, a simple hello. he was instantly bombarded with answers, but he could tell these were the other guys he met at lunch, so he asked them to type their name so he could set each of them a contact. they complied, and they all texted a bit, before hyunjin asked if they were still going to a mall on saturday. he read a text from chan that said, 'only if seungminnie and jisung are going with!" seungmin pondered what his answer should be, if jisung got close enough to the rest of them that he would actually have a good time, or he would just be bored, and unhappy with seungmin for making them go. but before he had even typed out a single word, jisung responded for the both of them, with a, 'minnie and i would love to go! what time will we be going?' after reading that, seungmin almost dropped his phone, jisung didn't really go out with anyone other than seungmin, so how close had he gotten to these guys? in only a few days, they had gotten almost to the same level he was at.

wordlessly, seungmin continued on reading, the thought of being forgotten, by maybe the only one who cared about him, staying close to him.

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           saturday came as fast as monday usually came, with surprisingly light homework on jisung and seungmin's first week back at school. seungmin sat himself infront of his closet, worrying himself half to death, trying to figure out what he should wear. was it formal, or was it just whatever? seungmin decided that he needed a dress code. jisung walked into his room, sighing after looking at seungmin, once. "c'mon minnie, it's not that hard to find something to wear." jisung said, opening up seungmin's closet doors wider, pulling out a single article of clothing, one seungmin himself had wondered would be okay to wear, but eventually decided against it and put it back into the closet. "it's not an important trip, all we're doing is going to the mall. y'know, you could probably wear a trash bag and chan and woojin would both say that you look beautiful... which you honestly would." jisung said this as he pulled out a light blue pair of skinny jeans, one that seungmin hadn't worn in a long time, and by that, he meant he hadn't worn them since daniel and himself started dating. but he wasn't with him anymore, so he took the jeans and began changing, jisung sitting down on his bed, texting someone on his phone. 

         as soon as seungmin had put the entire outfit on, he realized him and jisung were wearing almost the exact same thing, but seungmin was wearing an electric blue sweatshirt over his. "minho said that we're all meeting at the candle section in target because changbin wants to go smell all of them." jisung murmured to him, not even looking up at him from his phone. "minho really likes you.. for whatever reason." seungmin said, slyly. "yah! i'm amazing! anyone would be lucky to have me!" jisung exclaimed, sitting up on the bed. "yeah, sure, ji."

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          jisung walked in front of seungmin, but even if seungmin was trying to hide from anyone, his height was a giveaway. they walked into the small target, in the center of the mall, before asking a rather dead inside looking employee where the candles were, and the man pointed towards the back, then looked back to the shelves. jisung and seungmin slowly made their way to the area the employee had pointed, with jisung gripping seungmin's hand tightly, as a way to tell him not to be scared, which seungmin definitely was.

        they entered the aisle, where 5 other boys were standing, opening certain candles, smelling them, then letting the others smell it. they all looked up to see who entered the aisle, chan and woojin's faces lighting up, and going to put an arm around seungmin, and minho putting a candle down to head over to jisung and then give him a light kiss on his temple. seungmin was kind of used to this behavior from them already, even though they were in no means together. changbin had told both jisung and seungmin once, during lunch, that chan and woojin were together. that was also the same day that minho asked seungmin if he knew what a poly relationship was, and if he was okay with them. seungmin panicked, and thought that minho was inviting him to be together with himself and jisung, and seungmin, as respectfully as he could, asked minho if he remembered that jisung and him were step-brothers. minho laughed for a solid 5 minutes, before saying it wasn't for him. seungmin didn't understand who he could be possibly talking about.

he didn't know what couple in the entire school thought he was good enough. as far as seungmin knew, he was damaged goods. daniel had told him enough times, that he was the only one who would ever want him. jisung called him dumb, then told him that chan and woojin basically fell in love with him the first time they saw him. (respectively)

seungmin was a bit more confused now, because he didn't know how he hadn't caught on at all.

chan put his arms around seungmin's waist, and set his chin on seungmin's shoulder. seungmin finally realized what jisung and minho had been talking about.

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the following monday, seungmin blushed every time that chan and woojin were mentioned, and every time that he saw them during lunch. the following tuesday, the same thing happened. on wednesday, during lunch, jisung asked seungmin if he could help him with his locker, and seungmin followed him to his locker. jisung pushed him into the bathroom, and put something there to block the door, because it wouldn't budge. that's when seungmin realized that there were two guys behind him, specifically, chan and woojin.

"minnie, we just want to talk. you've been avoiding us all week."