⌗ chasing hearts | meanie

thirty-nine

after mingyu and wonwoo headed down, jeonghan and all of them agreed to finally head out for the school as 6:30 pm in the evening strikes- before any guard or staff even catches them being there at non-class days. they settled as well to eat dinner at jeonghan's place, which was seemingly expected already. since one of the eldest promise was to let them visit there again, once theyre complete.

"wait. mingyu."

"yeah, hyung?" mingyu who was about to cross the intersection with the boys, was tapped off by junhui. "i uh- theres something i need to tell you. if its o-okay?"

"yeah. yeah, sure. what is it?" mingyu properly faces the older. yet junhui cant seem to find the right words to say, so it continues to linger in his mouth. "um first- wonwoo really did a great job stopping you from uh- falling."

"oh, heh. yeah, he did." mingyu chuckled. "and uh- i w-wanted to say this for a long time now but- i really couldnt find the right time when to. nor how to." junhui speaks nervously in a chortle, looking away from the boy's sight- and cracking his knuckles shakily. "what is it, hyung?"

"well its uh- i know its sound weird but,"

"gyu! and- jun-hyung! its time to go." minghao disrupts the two's conversation, jeonghan honking the car horn intensely. "well uh- i guess we'll just have to continue this later, hyung." he patted the chinese's shoulder, calling shotgun on the minivan. "y-yeah sure. its not that important anyways." he chuckled as mingyu ran away, then gave a deep sigh- hopping in, too in the minivan.

the boys traveled home to jeonghan's home. eating through all the food jeonghan had prepared for them. "hyung, if your parents die, and you get the house to yourself, dont forget to let us live here too, okay?" soonyoung winked, scrumptiously digging into two fried chicken legs he's holding in each hand. "oh come on, show some manners, soonyoung!" jihoon slight elbowed the boy underneath. "why not? sure i will!" jeonghan winked likewise, finger-gunning him.

"junhui-hyung, i-is everything okay?"

"oh yeah. i-im fine." he stuttered in front of the other chinese, eating his food in a gloomy manner. "are you sure? if this is me disturbing you and mingyu, to whatever you were talking about a while ago- hey, i-im sorry, hyung."

"what? no no no. its fine. it wasnt important anyways." he mustered out a smirk, awkwardly. "o-okay then." minghao, too, grinned- then returned in eating his food.

the boys spent most likely the evening with them chattering and telling each other stories. it happened chaotically if i may say- throughout dinner. "ah hyung hyung! remember that time when we forced junhui-hyung to ride that slingshot ride and he went like 'AAAH LET ME DOWN! MY BEAUTIFUL FACE STILL NEEDS TO LIVE!" chan explained laughing hard, mimicking junhui- who embarrassedly
chortled along with the group.

"wait that happened too?" mingyu asked the boy up front him, grinning from laughter. "oh yeah. but that ride was legit crazy man! it was a whole piece shit that tried to kill me, ah." junhui joked, shaking his head. then he turned back to look at mingyu- still the smile on his face remained. then his lips quite lowered after remembering what he was trying to confess towards mingyu earlier. but after seeing mingyu happy with the boys, and wonwoo- he decided to not say it longer. and just planted a smirk, then rattled along again with the rest.

they all continued clamoring about some stories they shared- and it was very fun indeed. they were the entire group of friends that is proven the people who you can really trust for your whole life; just being judged at how their bond is so, strong.

mingyu really did made the right choice in picking his friends. because he knows that he'll treasure this type of moments- forever.

"alright, thats it for today perhaps. i guess, we'll have to clean up then." jeonghan stood from his chair, just as they ended eating. "okay!" soonyoung nodded, then they all started cleaning the table nice and tidy.

after cleaning the place up, they then chose already to go home as well. as the usual, seokmin, hansol, and chan went together. jisoo offered soonyoung, and jihoon- a ride. then unexpectedly, minghao and junhui started going home together. "those two are forming something arent they?"

"heh. maybe." wonwoo chuckled along eith jeonghan, them staring at the two chinese, who bickered along the streets. "well, you best be off now."

"yeah, okay. goodnight, hyung!"

"and uh- you know, gyu's still out there." he gave a wink to wonwoo, folding the towel that was on the floor. "oh uh- okay." wonwoo blushed, rubbing the nape of his neck- glancing at the boy who stood lone outside the premises. "alright, now go." he gave a goodbye to the other, smiling till the end. and after that, wonwoo exited the glass doors of jeonghan's place. he run down the porch steps, and slowly walked up to mingyu- who was quietly enjoying the night.

"de ja vu it is, if i may say." wonwoo said, stepping closer to the boy. "oh uh- yeah. hehe, i guess so too." mingyu smirked, looking at the bright moon that glimmered- in front of them.

"so what do you say, want a ride home?" he asked the boy, just like what happened before at their small party jeonghan threw too, at the cafe.

"alright then, sure." he smiled.