HAPPY ENDING | markhyuck/renhyuck [ ✔️ ]

06. FINALLY

❝ 𝑰 𝑭𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖 ❞

renjun knew sitting around and twiddling his fucking thumbs wasn't going to solve shit. it'd been half an hour since he gave yuqi his number and the lack of notifications from her bothered him to no end. maybe it was because he hadn't even left the fucking cafe yet and was already shaking like he was suffering from withdrawal. he gulped his tea and frowned. since when was his drink this bland? ah- must be the overly sweetened coffee... right...

he downed his tea like alcohol, trying to wash away the thoughts of donghyuck but they kept coming and didn't stop; even when his whole cup was empty. he stared at the offending state of his drink. renjun felt like life was on hyper speed and he couldn't catch up to it. no amounts of caffeine would speed him up; life was going by too quick for him.

he had to leave. he had to get out. the cafe was too overwhelmingly full of people who were rushing. their energies rushed him and he hated it. everyone reeked of stress and a one track mindset and the individualistic needs of themselves. renjun hoped they were caught up enough in their own lives to not notice him stumbling out of the doors like a drunkard. in his haste, renjun bumped into someone coming through but his peripherals refused to let him identify the person.

"hey watch it!"

but his ears took charge and a match was made in his head.

lee donghyuck?

his head was too full to comprehend what was happening and renjun had never before felt like there were two people inside of him until this moment. one seemed to be watching from the outside, yelling into silence for renjun to turn around! look! see! while the other controlled his movements and made him run his way back home.

home...

where he was safe from life and stress, where he finally had the chance to swear as loud as possible, "ARGH! SO FUCKING STUPID!" because astral-projected renjun finally caught up with conscious-renjun and connected the dots on the stranger he'd bumped into.

renjun wouldn't pretend and lie and say he didn't cry because he did. he screamed into his cushions and cursed in all volumes while marching around the house. his phone displayed a message:

[ UNKNOWN: hey this is yuqi-jie! um i think donghyuck is in right now but he's not working shift. need me to pass a message? ]

ah, he'll fucking yell again. "I KNOW, JIE. I KNOW. I SLAMMED INTO HIM I FUCKING KNOW!"

at that moment, all renjun knew was how much he needed to see donghyuck, how badly he needed to know if he really still had feelings for him and what the ever-loving fuck he should do. he gathered himself, sniffled one last time in determination, scrubbed the tears into his face and left the house yet again.

ding!

but a follow up text shut him down.

[ UNKNOWN: he just left, i told him you were looking for him though. said he'll send you a message. hope i'm doing my job right 😰 ]

renjun felt faint all of a sudden. like he would collapse any second. so he stopped in the middle of the pavement and stared at his screen.

then he turned, and walked back.

missed him again. fuck it; the universe may tell him to give up on donghyuck but he wouldn't. no, no, no he wouldn't. fuck, he'll stand against it and give it two beautiful fuck-yous with glee.

hyuck🌻

4:10PM

hey so apparently you hit up woo-gi noona today? 🤨🤨
what's that about

woo-gi?
who

[ hey! a normal conversation! that's... that's progress! ]

4:12PM

you know
the chinese noona with the curly ponytail today on shift?

oh! oh i didn't know that was her korean name :0

the more you know
so yeah what's that about

erm
all i did was ask for her to tell me when you came back on shift...?

4:15PM

oh
okay then

[ a 'last seen' replaced the 'online' status under donghyuck's name and renjun sighed. ]

4:23PM

it's cus i wanted to meet you
in person
i was at the café today and you weren't in so i asked for her to tell me when you came in so that i could talk to you
face to face
seems like i kept missing you though because after she told me you were in i had just reached home and by the time i got out the door again she told me you left
i swear i almost fainted outside

[ ...maybe telling donghyuck how pathetic you are isn't a good tactic. ]

4:26PM

oh.

[ 'oh'? is that all you can say, 'oh'? jesus christ- ]

4:29PM

then let's talk
where and when
let's do it, renjun

[ if this had happened on call in real time, renjun would've been a stuttering mess. but fortunately this was a text. ]

4:31PM

the café, tonight

sure
see you

[ offline again. ]

✨

so he was there? renjun was there. he went to see him, specifically. oh god. oh good lord.

donghyuck checked his messages over again. how did he sound so calm? was that what a regular conversation sounded like?

minhyung was out again. ever since they got back together, those idiots he hung out with, jeno and jaemin, felt like they were genuinely nice to him. he and jaemin seemed to get along quite well and the few times donghyuck actually went out with them felt kind of nice.

then he started to worry. he'd built up this whole narrative of them truly disliking him and only being nice to him because they had to but now that he burst himself out of this ridiculous bubble, he saw true, genuine friendship in their smiles. and he felt guilty for ever thinking them to be evil.

8pm rolled around. donghyuck sat smack in the middle of the store waiting for renjun to walk in. it felt unusual being outside the barrier of the counter. he'd ordered hot chocolates for the both of them. renjun's was getting cold.

renjun🌼💫

8:04PM

hey where are you?

[ a late reply ]

8:18PM

oh shit i fell asleep...

that's fine LOL
get over here

sure sure omg

[ donghyuck sighed and shook his head. nothing ever seemed to go easy. ]