it's okay if you forget me

{NINE.i}
{pt.3 of Highschool Lovers}
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Joohyoung swears the warmth spreads through their palms, tightly pressed against each other. Wanders through his own fingertips and straight into his stomach, where it lives on as the soft shine of a candle in the night, wax dripping into every fiber of his being, a declaration, a promise.

"Oh, you like me so much," Joohyoung whispers, teasing. His voice might be shaking from the gravity of it all. Jiho is a star, and Joohyoung feels honored to be in his orbit.
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or: Joohyoung grieves a relationship that was never really there, holds hands with a stranger, watches a shit ton of studio ghibli movies and slides into a slight sexuality crisis. Exactly in that order.

Contains:
- found family
- queerplatonic relationships
- swearing
- fluff
- a bit of angst? it's resolved pretty quickly
- loads of handholding

Further info:
- multi-chaptered long fic
- finished
- word count: 35k