persiflage: n. light frivolous conversation, style, or treatment; friendly teasing

“You are a man but how can your hair be so soft? Let me try your shampoo today.”

“Lee Donghae, I’m so proud of you for asking and not just taking my stuff like always! Although, why bother making your hair soft when it's all going to be shaved off next week?”

Just one simple sentence, and all their attempts at keeping up the strained persiflage crumbles beyond reparation.

He does not want to think, much less talk about how they have to distance themselves, and change how intimate they had been for half their lives.

He misses him already.

a/n: yes I am very emotionally distressed rn because of enlistment ;__;