Jiyong was sensitive, as if that weren't obvious. All his life, after the age of 10, he was spoiled by his adoptive parents but he couldn't help but have abandonment issues. 

He was a happy child, not too clingy, not too to himself. That wasn't enough for his actual parents apparently. One day they just took him to the local orphanage and told him to get out of the car, a small bag with his clothes. Nothing else, that was the day he began looking for affections and someone to constantly validate his feelings. 

Throughout school, he was always happy and quite popular. He had lots of friends that were there during the school day but not so much after. Finally, when going to university, he met the love of his life; Choi Seunghyun. The senior was strong and kind and his first. Seunghyun lured Jiyong in with his charms and talked him into having right away, the younger taking this as they were in love. 

Jiyong rolled over and cuddled into Seunghyuns chest, smiling lightly. They'd been seeing each other for about a month now and the older had finally talked Ji into having which he was totally shy about. 

"I love you Seunghyunnie.." 

"Mmm love you too baby."

Jiyong smiled, looking at the senior as if he was the entire world. He was, to Jiyong. The first year sighed happily and laid his head on Seunghyuns chest, honestly feeling so loved. 

Seunghyun wasn't an animal, he did like Jiyong. He just didn't see an entire future with the boy. He really felt that if the teen was gonna make him work this hard for a lay, he might as well enjoy the ride. And he did, most of the time. As of right now, Jiyong was not being suffocating. He was just being affectionate which is understandable, especially from a younger boy who'd never had a boyfriend let alone had with anyone. 

"I'll see you in the morning babe." Seunghyun hummed and kissed jiyongs head, falling asleep shortly after. 

As the months went by, Seunghyun began to find his boyfriend almost intolerable at times. Of course, it wasn't all bad. Jiyong had a wonderful personality and a banging body, just too much of him for long periods a time was a little him. Especially with him being pretty introverted himself. 

By the time Jiyong finished with his small degree, Seunghyun was already working in an office with an easy job that made him lots of money for his hobby of collecting wonderful arts. 

He was fortunate enough to be blessed with money and a boyfriend that came from money. 

Jiyongs parents were kind enough to gift them the villa they stayed at together and insisted they'd pay anything their son needed if he didn't want to work which he didn't. He gladly stayed at home to clean and cook for his boyfriend every day-thinking that's what he wanted. 

After another year or so, Seunghyun just didn't care anymore. If Jiyong annoyed him, he told him so. And if he didn't want the smaller around him, he said so. This obviously took a toll on his boyfriends mental health not that he noticed. 

The way Seunghyun pushed away hurt Jiyong so much but it pushed him to try to do better. He cleaned more, cooked better, tried harder. 

Seunghyun came home and threw his things aside, going right to the kitchen for some wine. 

Jiyong smiled as his boyfriend came in. "Welcome home babe. Dinner is just finishing up, you're home kind of early," he said softly and went to kiss Seunghyun, the older moving his mouth to receive it on his cheek. 

"I've had a long day." 

"Alright, how about I give you a back rub after dinner? That usually puts you at ease. You work so hard, you deserve a break. "

"Why don't you just not talk the rest of the night? You're what I'd like a break from the most."  

Jiyong blinked and looked down, nodding then. "O-okay. I'm sorry baby, I don't mean to annoy you." He said softly before he went quiet again, serving his boyfriend a plate before he ate as well trying to keep as quiet as possible. He was used to these kinds of nights. He'd just hoped today would be a day where he came home and was actually kind of nice; where he at least pretended to give a about his boyfriend. Jiyong really hated when Seunghyun got annoyed by him, he'd do anything to make his love happy.

Fast forward to present day, every day Jiyong feared that Seunghyun will finally leave him. And this morning it had happened. 

God he's so stupid. 

why didn't you just leave it? Why are you so ing stupid? 

No wonder your parents didn't want you 

Who would want you? 

stupid, clingy bastard 

Jiyong whimpered at the thoughts in his mind as he curled up in his empty bed, crying. He'd ruined his relationship after trying so hard to save it. 

No matter what he did, he was still a up and a disgrace. He'd given everything to Seunghyun, his life, his love, his ity. He did everything he could to make the older happy and he was still unwanted. Of course, who would want a pathetic bastard like him? He's just clingy and annoying, so ing annoying. 

Jiyong couldn't help but cringe at the things he'd do and say, which actually weren't bad at all. They just seemed bad by the way his boyfriend reacted to them. 

~

A few weeks later, Jiyong is still miserable and begging Seunghyun to take him back. 

He decided he should start cleaning the house just in case his love changed his mind. So, Jiyong got himself dressed decently before he headed out. First, he went to return the pieces of art he'd stupidly bought for Seunghyun. Which were a waste. 

"Oh, gotta watch out. Those things are bigger than you." 

A brunette smiled as he held the door open for Jiyong. The orange haired smiled gently and blushed, having almost knocked into the other on his way in. "I'm sorry, I didn't see you," he said softly and the brunette who was his height if not shorter, but much stronger, helped him carry the art into the building. 

"It's no problem, what are you doing bringing these pieces back anyways?"

"I-I got them as a present for my um my ex.." 

"Ex? These are pretty recent paintings. Did you guys just break up?"

Jiyong frowned deeply and looked down, biting his lip slowly tears filling his eyes at the question. 

"Oh . I'm sorry, I am so stupid for asking. Please don't cry," the brunette said quickly when he realized how sore the wound probably was. 

"It's..it's okay, I should get over it. Besides, I think he wants to take me back soon," Jiyong forced a smile, trying to keep positive. "I'm Jiyong," he said eventually, realizing he had a solid conversation with this stranger without an introduction. 

"I'm Youngbae, it's nice to meet you. And just so you know, any guy that is stupid enough to break up with a sight like you in the first place probably doesn't deserve you." 

Jiyong blushed, that being the sweetest thing he'd heard in such a long while. 

"Th-thank you..I- um. You don't have to be so nice," he insisted shyly, not believing this handsome brunette was saying that for any reason other than he felt bad for him. "Thank you for helping me too. Means a lot," he added, dragging the paintings to the office where he would speak to the director to take them back. 

Youngbae smiled lightly and nodded, just giving the thinner boy a wave. He was about to finish his way out, when he heard Jiyong trying desperately to give the paintings back insisting he'd maxed out all his fathers credit cards to buy them. "Ah hey, come on Dae..you know you won't have a hard time selling them again. We just had someone asking about this one the other day." He stepped in, pointing to one of the pieces. 

The muscular man huffed lightly but gave a nod. "Fine. But I won't take full price. 85%"

Jiyong nodded, "okay! That's okay, my dad won't murder me that way," he said quickly, giving Daesung the cards he'd used for the refund.

"Thank you, again.." he smiled, he smiled at Youngbae. "You work here?" 

"Yeah, part time. That turd in there is one of my closest friends." 

Jiyong giggled a bit and smiled, "thank you for talking to him. Would've been a nightmare to have these paintings. They contributed to the end of my relationship," he said and frowned a bit. 

"How so?" Youngbae was nosey. 

"I thought I would surprise my boyfriend. But, he hated them. I thought if I took them all down and put his art back i he would be fine. But, I'm a bit of a fool." He sighed. 

"Your boyfriend sounds like a if I'm honest. Don't take him back," 

Jiyong blinked, "he's not, he..he was sweet sometimes..." he said, never really seeing the abusive ways of his ex boyfriend. He didn't know there was any other kind of abuse than physical. 

"Sometimes?" 

"Yeah.."

Youngbae chuckled, "I think you deserve someone who is sweet to you all the time." He insisted and pulled out his phone opening the keypad. "Put your number in, I'll show you how a real boyfriend is supposed to act." 

~

Seunghyun didn't realize how much he under-appreciated Jiyong until months later, when he decided to stalk his ex boyfriends social media. 

Jiyong had deleted most of the photos with Seunghyun, only leaving up significant moments they'd happened to share together. Most of the pictures were replaced with some another guy, who cares what his name is. 

There was a picture of what's his face in a pink sweater sitting and eating dinner at what looked like Jiyongs parents place, with a caption under it that made Seunghyun toll his eyes. 

i smile every day because of you, you taught me about true love, kindness, and happiness♡ 

So Jiyong was just going to act like they weren't together two years, and like he wasn't just doting on Seunghyun every second like 6 months ago? The older huffed, continuing to scroll through the Instagram seeing many posts of Jiyong with youngbae and their friends-new to Jiyong. This guy was even introducing Ji to all his friends? Whatever, Seunghyuns friends were too mature for the younger man anyways that's why he never bothered. 

The ravenette decided to stalk Youngbae's page next, knowing that Jiyong had to be posting about their relationship more than he was. 

Ok he was wrong. 

There were plenty of posts of the couple together, along with pictures of him performing but the caption always had to do with Jiyong. 

The most recent post was from today, of Jiyong sleeping. His ex was a brunette as well now, looking natural and beautiful as ever. 

the best part of waking up is the fact i get to do it next to this beautiful man 

It was so cute and annoying, it was almost like youngbae knew Seunghyun would be looking at his page and was being this extra on purpose. But no, he was just being as affectionate as his boyfriend and showing him his worth. There was literally no point in making Jiyong feel bad for loving him more than anything, Seunghyun realized. It was kind of sad looking back at it, he hadn't had to delete hardly anything from his social media. He never really posted about his boyfriend which was kind of sad since Jiyong was constantly uploading pictures of him or them together talking about howbin love he was. 

Now he's doing that with someone else. 

It's fine. It's only a matter of time before that guy gets annoyed and Jiyong is alone again, just like him. 

~

The next time Seunghyun saw Jiyong, he was looking for more pieces to add to his apartment in the same gallery that his ex was now working at. 

Jiyong had gotten much closer to daesung with the help of youngbae and the three were kind of best friends. Naturally, since the second youngest of the three was there all the time anyways helping Youngbae and Daesung for free, the youngest offered him a job there. 

"Excuse me, id like to buy this piece," 

Seunghyun walked up to a small thin brunette taking the stand down for a painting that had been sold, not expecting to see his ex there at all. 

Jiyong turned, his smile fading when he saw the older black haired man standing there. "What piece was it?" He questioned, trying to keep his cool as he followed Seunghyun back to the painting. "Oh. This artist is very popular," he commented, pulling out his little booklet to see if it was sold or not. 

"You work here??"

"Yup." 

"I thought you didn't want to work."

"Yeah well my..boyfriends best friend inherited it form his grandfather and he needs help keeping it up.."

Seunghyun chuckled that his ex had hesitated to bring up his boyfriend. "You don't have to avoid talking about your boyfriend. I couldn't care less if you were dating someone or not." 

Jiyong nodded, feeling a lump build up in his throat. "Yeah, it had been quite a while since we broke up..how have you been?" He asked trying to keep the mood light. 

"I've been fine. I moved in a new apartment. Put all my art up, I've just been looking for more to add."

"Oh that's nice. I had to get out of the one my dad got for us. I've been moved in with youngbae for a couple months now," Jiyong began, a smile on his face now as he thought of his boyfriend. 

Seunghyun raised a brow, "we haven't even been broken up a ear and you're already moving in with someone else? What are you doing different? I'm surprised he doesn't find you insufferable by now." Where did that come from?? Why was he trying to hurt his ex who seemed so damn happy now? The older realized he was being selfish by being this way, but couldn't just take it back now. 

"Youngbae is different than you, you were and still are an abusive ." Jiyong said, finally speaking up for himself. 

"Abusive? I never laid a finger on you!"

"Mentally abusive! You made me feel like all the time!"

"Maybe you shouldn't be so annoying! You don't think your precious youngbae finds you annoying? Yeah right, I see your Instagram! You post like every 5 minutes about him and it's freaky, you're weird and clingy! It's only a matter of time before he realizes what a mistake he's made and leave too!" Seunghyun raised his voice, only lowering it when he realized people were staring and Jiyong was crying.  

"What the is going on??"

The ex couple looked over to see youngbae heading their way, having been told about the commotion by one of their regulars. 

"Bae-ah," Jiyong mumbled, wiping his eyes. "Nothing he was just leaving.."

"Why were you telling him that ? What you can't stand to see him happy after you broke him??" Youngbae snapped at Seunghyun who was shocked at this shorter guys rage. 

"I didn't do anything to him!" He denied. 

"You're an idiot if you can look at that face and not see how much you've broken it." 

Seunghyun looked over to Jiyong and frowned, seeing the youngest boy's heart broken eyes as he was brought back to the time they spent together. He really did break his boyfriend. "I..im sorry Ji." He said simply, now really feeling like crap as he shook his head a little. "I won't come back, I won't bother you guys again. I promise.."

He quickly fled the scene, intending on keeping this promise and he did. 

The black haired art enthusiast remained to himself, wallowing in his own misery over his ex for quite a while before he began to see other people again. Even then, he still frequently checked up on what Jiyong was doing. His ex was so happy, constantly posting about his boyfriend and their group of friends. He hated how he'd treated his ex boyfriend and he hated how much he'd missed the younger goof. When it came down to it, he was the one born to meet Jiyong. His heart was dyed blue,grey, dull now that all the color Jiyong he brought was gone. Seunghyun knew he couldn't take it back but he knew he could change and be better for the next love of his life. Until then, he remains blue.