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“There’s something for you in the glove compartment,” Minhee says quietly. He looks calm but Seongmin starts to feel dread. He knows Minhee well enough to know that this serious tone is more ominous than anything else.
Seongmin reaches for the glove box and opens it. There’s a pearl-colored envelope. To Seongminnie, it says on the front. The handwriting is clear but not neat, like someone trying to write each stroke with careful precision, someone afraid to mess up the characters of Seongmin’s name. There is only one person Seongmin knows that writes like this.
He glances at Minhee, who doesn’t look back at him. So this is why.
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“Did you ever tell anyone about that day?” Allen says softly like he doesn’t want anyone else to hear this. Seongmin leans in, only stopping before he’s almost nose-to-nose with Allen.
“No,” Seongmin whispers back. “Did you?” He doesn’t know why he asked— he could never bear it if Allen said yes, if Allen had told Serim or one of the other members years later, if Allen had told anyone at all.
Allen shakes his head and he starts to smile, a small knowing one.
Wonjin’s right; Allen is his favorite hyung, but not because he’s the nicest or doted on Seongmin the most. Allen is his favorite because he’s the only one Seongmin trusted in that way, the only one he could have given a part of himself to. The fact that Allen liked him the most is just a bonus.
Allen grins. “I guess it’s still our secret.” Our secret. Seongmin feels his throat clench. The secret that still binds them, one of the many roots entangling them together. Is there even a way out?
“After all these years…” Seongmin trails off. He doesn’t know where the sentence is going. Allen is looking at him expectantly, wide eyes blinking slowly. Everything is melting altogether. After all these years, you’ve never told anyone? After all these years, you’re still my favorite hyung. After all these years, I still…
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I am nearly in tears wtf