✓ that's how the light gets in | heeseung x jaeyun

they'd never exchanged words beyond sorry, my son likes to talk and it's okay, i do too, but then hot single dad had given him a smile - all big teeth and crinkled eyes - and that was enough for him to become a regular cast member in jake's fantasies.

it wasn't purely carnal desire, though. jake genuinely felt an urge to get to know him - both of them, truthfully. riki seems like a sweet kid, and his father seems nice, and he'd met so few people since he moved back to the city. jake often finds himself wondering if he should call his grandmother for her banana bread recipe and knock on their door with a fresh batch in hand and see if they were interested in getting to know him, too.

he's pretty sure there's black mold in his walls - that's what he tells himself to excuse the level of delusion he's reached. he's having black mold poisoning induced psychosis, but it's fine, everything is fine.

Or,

where jake gets a glimpse of the kind of family he'd always wished for, and wonders if maybe, just maybe, they'd been wishing for him, too.