Jesse McCartney - Tell Her

 

 

[Word count: 434]

 

Tell Her

      Minseok is almost in tears by the time Kyungsoo picks up the phone after the third call. The younger man’s voice is muffled from sleep, and then he vaguely remembers the time difference.   Whoops.   “Hyung?” Kyungsoo mumbles, disoriented. “What - ”   “I can’t do this anymore,” Minseok interrupts, half sobbing. “Kyungsoo-ah, I really can’t anymore.”   Immediately, Kyungsoo is awake, and Minseok hears rustling sheets. This is not the first time a homesick Minseok has made such a call at late hours of night. He hears another voice in the background, and then Kyungsoo is assuring Jongin that everything was alright and to go back to sleep. He can see it in his mind’s eye: Kyungsoo, wrapped in a blanket, shuffling out to the living room so he can talk freely on the phone without bothering Jongin.   “Hyung, if you miss her, you should just call her,” Kyungsoo says finally with a little sigh.   “I can’t,” Minseok replies miserably. He burrows back under his blankets, where he has been trying, and failing, to fall asleep for the past two hours. As much as he loves China, and all of the new things being in EXO-M has exposed him too, there are times, like these, when he would give anything to have been put in the Korean subgroup instead. “There’s nothing she can