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Waxing & Waning: Two MoonsA/N for Ch 25 and 26:
Guys, I’m sorry. I’m afraid this is what the story demanded, so I wrote it (kinda kicking and screaming tbh). Ch 26 was the original ending I had in mind back when I first started writing this fic on April 2nd (yes, the day after the Kaistal announcement at the height of my sadness). Back then, I thought it’d be just a couple of chapters with Kaisoo’s feelings growing/shrinking on different times, then them getting together but not (like it always being ambiguous as per chs 7-9) and culminating in this letter of Kyungsoo’s years later where he confesses (to no one) how he really felt.
Sorry for those of you who didn’t want to read a sad end, but I just couldn’t bring myself to throw away these ending scenes in the back lot of Lotte World and then in Soo’s apartment with the letter. I had started working on them the first day I started writing the fic. I worked really hard on them, and I hope it shows. (*Here’s the part where I say too much as the author: I hope you didn’t mind that I put in the symbolism of the dusty median vs the grassy ones. The medians are supposed to represent how SM/the entertainment industry puts hard boundaries on their idols; some still thrive under the circumstances while others (aka Soo) end up getting scorched, in his case because of how brightly his love burned for someone unapproved. As he tried to walk away from it, he could brush off most of the outward signs of his love for Nini, but not all, just as the dust was ingrained in all those hidden crevices of his clothes and fingernails. Just wanted to explain since I don’t normally include so much detail in the physical locations in the story, so some ppl might have been confused why I bothered there.)
Similarly, I spent a loooong time developing the final apartment scene+letter, starting on day 1 and constantly adding to it as the story progressed, so it has a special place in my broken heart. (Did you catch how Soo surrounded himself with Jongin’s skin tone in his furnishings to help his apartment feel more like home since he can’t have the real thing there? I cry.) If you didn’t catch the full meaning of his final line in his letter, it’s back in Ch 19 during Kaisoo’s coffee date. No, it’s not just about coming out… it’s a proposal, one that he knows is too late, a proposal to an engaged man. ;__;
BUT because I’m a er for Kaisoo, I couldn’t end it here like this. Hence, this Chapter and the VERY IMPORTANT A/N below it.
Okay without further ado… Ch 27
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Ch 27 – Epilogue 1
Chanyeol is waiting outside the apartment for his friend to open up. It's freezing out tonight, so he stomps his feet while waiting to regain some feeling. Kyungsoo finally opens the door and lets him in. “Geez, you’re early two days in a row. Is the apocalypse nigh?”
“Naw, I’m just trying to be more responsible! That’s why I keep needing your help to go over these business plans,” Chanyeol yells after his friend who’s disappearing back into his bedroom to finish getting dressed. The giant waits until Kyungsoo is out of sight and starts snooping around the study area. He’s been able to get Kyungsoo to agree to dinner three days in a row now without raising too much suspicion from the other, but he’s really going to be pushing it if he has to try this again. Today’s his lucky day, though. He spots exactly what he’s been looking for: a pristine, sealed envelope in the trashcan. Checking to make sure Kyungsoo’s still in the bedroom, Chanyeol surreptitiously snags the letter, tucks it into his inner coat pocket, and slides back into the entryway before the actor reappears.
“Ready to go?” Kyungsoo asks.
“Yep, can’t wait,” he replies, unable to conceal his goofy grin and an excited shimmy shake of his shoulders. Luckily, the shorter man is accustomed to him being giddy for no reason at all, and just rolls his eyes at him.
"I swear, you get more ridiculously excited over f
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