❝𝐁𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄❞

8 || Choice

Hongjoong was waiting for Seonghwa right now. He asked Seonghwa to come at 7 and right now it's 7:15. 'Maybe, he forgot? Or maybe he is busy?' Hongjoong thought. He waited a bit more and after fifteen minutes it was 7:30. Hongjoong picked up his phone, ready to text Seonghwa. As he was about to write something to text Seonghwa he heard the bell.

'Oh! Maybe it's him now' Hongjoong thought and closed his phone leaving it on the desk in his bedroom. He went down and opened the door. He was right, it was Seonghwa. He stood at the door looking down a bit so that only half of his face showed. "Oh, I thought you forgot or you were busy." Hongjoong said. As soon as he said that Seonghwa looked up.

His face was always experssionless and Hongjoong wondered how could someone have such a beautiful face even after no expressions. "Hey! You better come in first! It's cold out there." Hongjoong said moving aside to let him in. Seonghwa just said a small "thank you!" before coming in. "Hey, let's go to my room and I'll bring something warm for you to drink." Hongjoong said to Seonghwa.

Seonghwa felt weird. Though his inner self would just not agree, he had to say Hongjoong was too sweet. "No, you don't need to." Seonghwa immediately said. "Don't you dare say that! It was really cold outside! Just come with me!" And as he heard Hongjoong say this, he was once again shocked by him. It was probably the first time someone acted this way to him.

Seonghwa just followed him silently to his room. As he entered Hongjoong's room he saw a big glass window with a balcony just like his room has one. "Hey, just sit down and I'll be here in a minute." After Hongjoong said this he went out of the room and down to his kitchen to prepare something for them. Seonghwa saw Hongjoong leave.

Now that he was alone, he just sat down on Hongjoong's bed. He looked around for a bit. Hongjoong's room looked just different or probably Seonghwa felt like this cause he has never been to anyone's house in the first place. He saw a minion plushy on Hongjoong's bed. He looked at it for a second. And then he looked around more and then there was one thing that caught his eye.

It was two photo frames on Hongjoong's desk. One of them showed a beautiful couple with a cute baby and he must say the couple looked really nice, while the baby looked really cute, probably to a point he could say that the baby was one of the cutest he saw in his life ever. The other frame showed a grown boy and an older woman. The grown up boy was Hongjoong while the older woman was someone he didn't know about.

As he was looking at the frames he was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't notice Hongjoong who came in with two coffee mugs in his hand. He saw Seonghwa looking at the photo frames of his family and grandma. He just went there and stood beside him, but to his surprise Seonghwa didn't notice him. He was probably lost in his own thoughts. He could see a hint of sadness in Seonghwa's eyes and he became curious to know about that sadness. But he could wait to be friends with him first.

"It's my picture with my family before they passed away on my 8th birthday while the other one is with my Grandma." He spoke softly not having any proper intention of interrupting Seonghwa. But, Seonghwa heard it. He turned his head towards him and looked at Hongjoong.

Hongjoong stood there with two coffee mugs in his hand and when he noticed Seonghwa looking at him, he turned his head. They looked in each other's eyes for sometime, lost in the emotions they held.

Hongjoong, probably saw someone who was......alone? Someone who never had someone to be by their side? While Seonghwa just saw a guy who has probably a lot with himself but doesn't want to bother others with it? Someone who just wants to look out for others instead of stressing them out with his problems? But, at the end, though both of them felt this way about each other, they weren't sure if it was true. It's just what they felt about each other.