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gentle breeze pt. 4

♡ - list of chapters

♡ - this part is mostly about seonghwa's past

♡ - i'm mostly writing these in the middle of the night, so my apologies if there are frequent typos or grammatical errors that i wasn't able to spot.

you know why it's so good? because i made it with my love.

the two silently finished up the fried rice, and hongjoong suggested they go for a round of desserts before they start to head back. lunch period lasted for an hour, and they still had 30 minutes left.

hongjoong enjoyed the silence today. he was too distracted by seonghwa's kimchi fried rice, he even forgot about that morning's incident, until he looked up at seonghwa's stiff face, now a lot less stiffer than usual, but still a little stiff.

"let's go to the dessert shop beside our dorm block," seonghwa suggested, after he cleaned up the place. hongjoong replied with an "ok", and they started to make their way over.

hongjoong noticed that seonghwa was still holding the plastic bag with the two empty containers. "are you gonna keep those?" he asked, trying to start a conversation as they walked. hopefully this one won't flop.

"mm," seonghwa mumbled in response, and kept quiet after that. just that?

"are you gonna use it for the next lesson?"

"mm,"

"are you gonna leave extras for me again?"

"mm. home ec classes are every tuesday and thursday,"

"cool. i'll look forward to this thursday then,"

and the conversation ended. not bad, hongjoong thought. this conversation was a little longer than usual. he wanted to ask him about last night, but he didn't know how to start. he kept pondering on question starters the whole trip to the dessert shop.

they arrived at the shop, ordered their desserts and chose to sit in a dark corner.

"haha, this spot is quite cozy. i like it," hongjoong awkwardly said, scratching his head.

"i like it too," seonghwa replied, looking at hongjoong's hazelnut eyes. their eyes locked for a moment, before hongjoong broke it and coughed.

"oh, right. last night, were you okay? you seemed to be dreaming of something scary," hongjoong questioned boldly, finally mustering his courage to ask.

however, seonghwa only nodded. hongjoong was really exasperated at his weird behaviour towards him. sometimes he was cold, sometimes he was caring. so did seonghwa accept him as his friend and roommate or not? or was he just fooling around with him, afterwards throwing him out of the dorm, and then the two of them end up in bad terms. he definitely would screw his life up if he really planned to do that.

they ate in silence again, and were headed back to class in no time.

it was soon fifth period. it was math class again. nothing awkward happened during dessert, but hongjoong was still curious about his dream. and what exactly happened, that the two were in that position.

seonghwa soon arrived, followed by the teacher, so hongjoong couldn't ask much. he was really eager to know now, and just like earlier in the morning, his thoughts were full of seonghwa.

now that seonghwa was beside him, it was harder to concentrate than usual. he had the urge to pass him a paper message since they were all the way back in the classroom. he looked around to check that no one was looking at them, and quickly wrote down a note.

he slid it over to seonghwa, which he coldly looked down at. he wrote a few words quickly, and slid it back.

i'll explain in the dorm.

seonghwa excused himself to the washroom. he had to sort out his thoughts.

he had that same dream again last night. it was a dream about his childhood, where his mom had left him all by himself on a scary, thunderstorm night, saying that she had to go for work. afterwards, some tall black figure entered his room right after his mom left, and started to insult him with things like, "your parents don't want you anymore," and "you're gonna be alone forever".

he didn't remember much from his childhood, but he can't seem to forget about his ugly, mean babysitter. he didn't even have the chance to tell his parents about it, since they were always so busy. they didn't bother checking with him or the babysitter either, so they just let her be, and they let seonghwa become this... sad, emotionless person.

because of that night, he started being scared of thunderstorms. he'd always lock himself in and cry softly during thunderstorms, and no one will ever know.

sure, his past roommates had helped lessen the impact a little, but they always didn't care about him.

all the rumors about him started with this guy, his first roommate. he really pissed seonghwa off in many ways. firstly, he messed up the dorm a lot and didn't clean up after himself. secondly, he often brought his friends over late in the night when seonghwa was either trying his best to complete the tons of homework, or sleeping. thirdly, the worst of all, he used seonghwa's laptop to watch explicit videos and even relieved himself on his chair, and spilled all over his table. what was even worse, he didn't even bother to clear his search history and clean the table. he just left it like that.

this was the last straw. seonghwa couldn't take it anymore. he secretly applied for a dorm transfer for him, and then threw all his stuff out, including the table that he dirtied. seonghwa didn't even want to clean up for him anymore.

the guy couldn't believe it, so he started to go against seonghwa instead of being apologetic to him. that was how his reputation as ice prince further worsened.

since he didn't step out to speak for himself, the rumors started becoming even more twisted to the point he didn't know anymore. that was when everyone started being afraid of him. he thus became lonelier than usual.

now that hongjoong had entered his life, he had hoped he wasn't really like the others, and boy, he was right.

seonghwa happened to be sitting near hongjoong during lunch. he had overheard his conversation with mingi and the others. he didn't really care at first, but when they all left, he had heard hongjoong mutter that last sentence to himself.

he didn't believe the rumors.

that was great! finally someone who saw him differently. seonghwa believed in hongjoong, he believed that they would be good friends, and that he would bring him out of his lonely shell and walk into adulthood together.

he only wanted to be just friends, and nothing more. he wasn't sure why he thought of... that during lunch. maybe hongjoong was just too cute, and he got caught up in the moment... no way he'd be in love with him so quickly.

hongjoong was dying to know. it was like he was sitting on pins and needles. he so badly wanted the time to pass by faster, so he could return to the dorm and hear seonghwa's explanation. maybe they could even establish their friendship later. who knows?

anyway, hongjoong decided he'd go all out and ask him everything he wanted to.

the bell soon rang, and hongjoong waited for seonghwa to pack his stuff, and dragged him all the way back to their dorm.

the door was pushed harshly and it closed with a bang. hongjoong pushed seonghwa to sit on his bed.

"so, what exactly happened last night?" hongjoong dragged a chair in front of seonghwa and sat backwards on it.

"... are you really that eager to know?" seonghwa looked into hongjoong's eyes emotionlessly as usual, which drove hongjoong insane.

"yes, duh! now answer me," he was losing his patience slowly but surely. he didn't care about speaking politely to him anymore. if he was gonna get his ass whooped then so be it.

"i dreamt of my childhood. then i don't remember anything after that. i was just sleeping," seonghwa kept eye contact with hongjoong all the time.

"oh,"

then came silence.

"are... those rumors real?" hongjoong asked carefully, nervous of seonghwa's response. as expected, he denied them and started explaining things to him.

seonghwa felt relieved, all of a sudden. he had never spoke so much in such a long time, and it was even about himself. he felt like a super heavy stone had been lifted off his shoulders, and he felt lighter now.

"thank you," he mumbled, at the end of his little rant.

"for what?" hongjoong raised his brow.

"for... listening. thanks. i had never spoken like this to a anyone in ages," seonghwa mumbled again, his gaze falling onto his lap. he wanted to ask hongjoong to be his friend. he wanted to make things clear. but somehow, he was nervous.

"seonghwa... we're friends now. this kind of thing is normal. you don't have to thank me for it," hongjoong, who felt much more relaxed now, smiled from tooth to tooth, and be even ruffled his hair.

"we're... friends?" seonghwa asked, in a timid voice. he felt like he was going to burst into tears.

"yes, we already were from the start," then the tap started flowing.

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