CHAOS - Park Seonghwa

Chapter 16

"Soo.. are you gonna continue pacing this room like your life depends on it or tell your parents and me about why we're in this room instead of attending my brother's wedding like we're here for?" Soojung said as she stared at San pacing in the room and then at his parents who looked as confused as her.

"I.. I gotta tell you all something but I don't want you to think any less of me." He finally said, not looking them in the eyes but choosing to stare down at the floor.

"See babe, we talked about this. If you murdered someone, I need to know to help you." Soojung said with a straight face and San's parents looked at her with such concern that she couldn't help but laugh. But she noticed that San wasn't laughing and she figured it was something waaay serious. She got up from where she was sitting and went near him, slipping her hand in his and giving his hand a squeeze.

He shot her a small smile and took a deep breath.

"I'm gay."

Her head shot up to look at her best friend and she couldn't help but feel a bit hurt by how he hadn't thought of telling her before. But he did tell her in front of his parents before anyone so that ought to count for something. She understood he must have been nervous and she thought she shouldn't give him shit for that at least.

She pulled him in for a hug and whispered softly, "I'll always love you Sannie."

She felt him stifle a small cry and hugged him tighter. This wasn't the way she wanted her best friend to feel EVER.

"Well I thought it was something important son." His father said and she felt him go rigid. She knew San's parents were really cool and understanding but even she felt scared now. What if they were not accepting?

"What.. What do you mean?" he asked, pulling away from her and turning towards his parents.

"We're your parents Sannie. We knew this even before you accepted it to yourself." His mother spoke and she felt San relax beside him.

"You knew?" he whispered, visible tears of relief in his eyes.

His mother came forward and hugged him and said, "We were waiting for you to feel confident in yourself enough to come talk to us. We're kind of more surprised about Soojung being surprised by it." She pulled away from him to stare at her instead.

"Honestly, he only spoke about either you or Wooyoung in the house. So since we knew you two had nothing going on, it was kind of obvious." His fatter spoke and she turned towards San yet again in surprise.

"Wait you like Wooyoung?!"

With the way he flushed coral at the mention of the boy's name, Soojung realized his parents weren't kidding. She wondered how she had managed to miss all this before, how she didn't figure that one out by herself.

"But..Wait.. We? I mean.. You've kissed me?" she stuttered out.

"Well it's time for us to go. We'll see you soon kids." His mother said and they left.

"Technically, I'm bisexual. So.." he shrugged afterwards and she made a noise in understanding.

"Makes sense with all that sleeping around. But how did you decided to come out today?" she asked, purely out of curiosity.

"Uhh apparently Hongjoong figured it out. That I had a crush on Wooyoung."

"He's way too smart I swear." She made an offhanded comment.

"I know right? But the point is, apparently Wooyoung and he went out yesterday and something happened and a drunk Wooyoung confessed to Hongjoong that he had a crush on me but was scared to ask me out because he wasn't sure if I'll be into him."