Tell Me Without Telling Me || Sope

In which Hoseok is touch starved, isolated, and alone at university, and doesn't know enough to realise his disinterest in sex might mean something more than not having found the right person to do it with.

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Or, where Hoseok's two best friends Seokjin and Jungkook, who he's been planning to attend university with almost all his life, suddenly bring his world crumbling down when they get accepted into a prestigious American university, leaving him behind in Seoul.

Two years later, Hoseok is alone at university, lying to them about friends he doesn't have, parties he doesn't go to, and struggling to stay afloat in the emotional wreck of his mind.

Then, one day, just before Christmas, a man approaches him during lunch and offers him a badly designed flyer for a party at one of the on-campus boarding houses. Maybe it's because the man has been the only person to smile at Hoseok, to acknowledge him truly, for two years, maybe he's just fed up with being alone and wants to start trying for once, but he goes to the party all the same.

And at that party he meets Yoongi.

Healing is a slow process, but Yoongi and his friends might just be the people Hoseok needs to begin the arduous process, and as they welcome him into their gay little world, they'll help him discover more about himself than he knew was possible.