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Sunghoon really wishes he could read peoples minds. As a child, that was the superpower he had always wished for but now, more than ever, he wishes he had it. Sunoo hasn’t come out of his room all day. All day. Sunghoon doesn’t even think he’s seen the boy go to the bathroom. It’s been like this for a little over a week. they haven’t seen each other in a week. They live together, god dammnit!
Sunghoon wonders if he’s done something wrong. This is so out of the norm for sunoo, the guy can’t go a day without human interaction. He misses his best friend and decides to go check on him.
He knocks on the door once. Twice. Three times before he decides to just open the door. He slowly turns the knob and pushes the door open, to see what looks like a potato underneath a blanket, with all of the lights turned off. “Sunoo-ah?” He calls, hoping the boy isn’t asleep. He sighs in relief when he gets a broken “yeah?” In return. He takes this as an invitation to walk closer to the bed, making sure to flick on the lights first.
“How are you?” He asks in a gentle tone “fine” sunoo replies in the same quiet, broken voice as before. Damn, it hurts to hear him like that. “We both know thats not true, love” the pet name slips out. He sees sunoo slightly tense, but is thankful when he doesn’t say anything about it. “Tell me what’s going on, you won’t come out of your room, and you won’t talk to me. you denied cuddles! That’s just not like you!” He sees sunoo begin to sit up. He looks awful. Well, not like that. He has bags under his red eyes, his face is puffy, and his hair is a mess.
“I’m sorry” he utters. “No, no, don’t apologize! That’s not what I’m here for!” Sunghoon immediately rushes out. “It’s okay, I just want to know what I did wrong” sunoo looks at him like he’s grown and extra head. “What are you talking about?” He asks, with an unfairly adorable head tilt. “Well I had to have done something to make you want to avoid me” he explains. He sees sunoo’s eys widen in realization. “No, no! You haven’t done anything wrong! I did something wrong…” he trails off at the end. “What are you talking about? You haven’t done anything wrong” sunghoon says, utterly confused. “Sunghoon you don’t understand…” sunoo mumbles, now with his head down in…shame?
“I’m sure I would if you just talked to me! I’m your best friend, I’m always here for you, you can tell me anything” god, mind reading would be so useful in this situation, sunghoon thinks. “Not this” sunoo replies in a shaky voice. He’s not even looking sunghoon in the eyes but sunghoon can see tears pooling in them. “Sunoo-ah, look at me” he says quietly. Sunoo doesn’t budge. Instead, sunghoon grabs his chin and brings sunoos eyes to his. Those gorgeous fucking eyes. “I would never judge you, Kim sunoo. You mean the world to me, and it hurts to see you like this”
Sunghoon wonders if he believes him. His words must’ve done something, because he hears sunoo breathe out, “you won’t like it” he now has tears running down his cheeks. “I don’t care. If it’s bothering you, I need to know” sunoo backs away from him a bit and says “I love you”
“I love you too” sunghoon says, still waiting for sunoo to tell him what’s wrong. “No, I love you. I’m in love with you…” sunoo says, as if he’s holding back tears. Sunghoon just sits there like an idiot, unable to speak. Luckily he doesn’t have to because sunoo continues.
“I Have been for years and I knew that you could never love me back, and I knew that I could never be enough for you” sunghoons heart breaks. How could he ever think that? Doesn’t he know he’s the most perfect person to ever walk this earth? Sunoo is full on sobbing at this point and sunghoon wastes no time pulling him into his chest.
“I thought that-that if I distanced myself from you, it would go away but it’s not working, hyung. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry” sunghoon wishes he would stop apologizing. He lets go and for a second, sunoo is afraid he will leave, but he doesn’t. Instead, he lifts his chin up and connects their lips. Oh. His eyes widen but after only a second, he reciprocates. After they pull apart, all sunoo can do is stare up at the older boy. “You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do that” sunghoon says, breathlessly.
“Are you playing a joke on me?” Sunoo asks, not able to process the fact that someone like sunghoon could ever like him back. “Of course not. How could you think so low of yourself?” Sunoo kind of wants to cry again. “I didn’t think- how could-“ sunoo is cut off with another kiss. He can feel sunghoon smile into it and can’t help but to smile back. Sunghoon pulls away slightly to ask, “can we cuddle now? You’ve deprived me for too long”