NAUGHTY; hyunho ✓

❯ 𝙣 ; 𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚡

❝ minho? ❞
hyunjin asked in a quiet voice as minho was sitting on the edge of the bed, he glanced at hyunjin who sat up and he smiled a little at the older.
❝ did i wake you? ❞
minho asked with a frown and hyunjin shook his head, scooting over to sit beside him.
❝ anything wrong? ❞
hyunjin asked and minho turned his gaze away from him and sighed.

❝ i can't sleep, my anxiety is kicking in. i can't stop hearing these voices in my head and i'm over thinking things just like always. ❞
minho huffed out a breath of frustration and hyunjin wrapped his arms around him.
❝ i'm here. ❞
hyunjin said softly.

minho clung onto the younger and hyunjin smiled as minho buried his face onto hyunjin's chest.
❝ you won't always be here.... ❞
minho muffled against his shirt and hyunjin felt his heart weigh heavily at what he said.
❝ don't think about that, what's important is that i'm here right now. ❞
hyunjin said and kissed his head.
❝ i also.... just want to stay here with you..... ❞

❝ do you want to talk about it? what's bothering you? ❞
hyunjin asked softly and minho took a few moments to reply.
❝ i could hear the sound of my dad yelling at me and jeongin to run as our apartment building was on fire, mom was a disabled person and we got stuck in an elevator. jeongin and i were able to get out through the opening above the elevator but dad didn't want to leave mom alone and told me to run with jeongin to safety, they didn't make it out alive after that, sometimes i think to myself what would happen if i just died along with them, but the thought of jeongin dying too didn't make me feel settled, i guess that's what they also felt when they told us to run. ❞
minho sighed.

❝ but it had gotten worse since i started working, i was dragged into a club by our aunt we stayed at and made me work there and i started doing that job. i was only nineteen, i remembered feeling so disgusted and terrible after the first time i've done it, i remember crying every night because of that and until now it still makes me feel so bad but it was the only thing i could do to sustain both me and jeongin for a living so i kept on doing it as long as i was drunk. i was so down in my life and i almost killed myself multiple times but i couldn't, i don't want anything bad to happen to jeongin so i hid everything i did just so he could live at least a sustainable life and still go to school. i graduated college and earned a good amount, that's when we moved out our terrible aunt's place and settled here. ❞
minho said as he hugged himself clearly trembling inside hyunjin's arms.

hyunjin hugged him tighter, staring into space sinking in those of what minho went through. he wouldn't know how bad it was, or how terrible it felt because he lived a life opposite of what minho had, but it still didn't prove to anything that minho deserved to experience that and he felt terrible. he felt guilty he had to be one of the people who would do the same to minho, treat him the same as those other people did and he hated himself for that. minho wasn't just someone he could use and play around with, nobody should be treated that way and hyunjin knew that but deny it or not, it was the situation they're in and hyunjin resented it.

he sighed and stroked the older's hair.
❝ am i.... as bad as them? d-do i..... make you feel disgusted? ❞
hyunjin asked with his heart heavy and minho hitched a breath.
❝ no. ❞
minho said quietly.
❝ you make me feel safe...... ❞
minho pulled apart and looked at hyunjin in the eyes, seeing a slight sparkle in the younger's eyes as if it was glass ready to break and he smiled at hyunjin trying to reassure him.
❝ everything about you, just makes me feel safe. ❞
minho said making hyunjin smile and nod his head, feeling weight lifted off his chest.

they lied down on the bed with minho still hiding his face in hyunjin's chest and the younger just closed his eyes as he embraced minho who was silent.
❝ hyunjinnie? ❞
minho softly asked a few minutes later and looked up at hyunjin who was already peacefully sleeping. minho smiled a little to himself before burying his face against the younger's chest again. he heaved in a heavy breath and hugged hyunjin tighter.
❝ i love you.... ❞
he said quietly, barely even a whisper.