Understanding

Polar.

      Wonwoo and Mingyu continued texting, their exchange of words going on until Wonwoo fell asleep with his phone on his chest. When the Class President woke up the next morning, to the blaring alarm that was ringing closer to his ears than usual, he groaned and hesitantly opened his eyes. Wonwoo stretched, making a strange noise, and rubbed his tired eyes. He turned off the alarm on his phone, and when he did, Wonwoo smiled at conversation between him and a special someone with a lame heart emoji in his contact name. His screen displayed a pattern of white and blue text boxes that seemed to go on for an infinity if you scrolled up. The last text was sent by Mingyu, probably after Wonwoo fell asleep, and it read 

Mingyu♡: you stopped replying, call me in the morning so I know you're not dead... hopefully.

Wonwoo looked at the weird text, laughed and decided to call him, to assure him that he in fact, wasn't dead. He went to his contacts and pressed on the number 1 in 'Favourites'. The phone rang for quite awhile, and Wonwoo was about to hang up when he heard the dial tone stop, and rustling from the other line.

"Hello?",

Mingyu's normal voice was already deep, but his morning voice was extremely attractive. Wonwoo was kind of surprised by the deep, sleepy voice coming from the other line. He was going to simply say hello, and tell Mingyu he was okay, but he decided to play around with Mingyu, since the latter always did it to him.

"Oh sorry! Meant to call Jun."

Wonwoo said, repressing his laughter as he did so.

"Good morning to you too, then."

Mingyu said sleepily. While Wonwoo was on the line sitting straight up on his bed, Mingyu was still in bed, his shirtless body sprawled, intertwined with sheets and pillows.

"Good morning." Wonwoo replied, with a smile on his face.

"Why are you calling so early in the morning. Did something happen?" Mingyu asked, half awake 

"You told me to call you, and so I'm telling you that I'm not dead." Wonwoo replied.

He heard a low, raspy laugh from the other end that stopped briefly, and Mingyu said

"I was just kidding..."

"Oh." the Class Pres. replied awkwardly.

The low laugh began again,

"I can't believe you actually called..."

Wonwoo became flustered and argued,

"You asked!" the fully awake boy replied in his defence.

"Okay, well... Nice to know you're alive." Mingyu said, followed  by an awkward silence.

"Thank you...?" Wonwoo said, his voice slightly raising as he continued his sentence, making it sound more like a question than words of gratitude. 

Mingyu laughed again, then groaned as he was stretching his body and struggling to get out of bed. Before Wonwoo or Mingyu could say anything more, the call suddenly dropped. Wonwoo looked at his phone as the screen turned black, and a white loading symbol appeared in the middle of his phone. Since he fell asleep talking to Mingyu, he realized that that meant he wasn't able to charge his phone over night. So, his phone died while on the call, and Wonwoo groaned and scrambled for his charger, and plugged it in. Meanwhile, Mingyu who was talking to the Class Pres. with both eyes closed, trying to savour the sleep, slowly opened one of his eyes and look at his black iPhone. The screen notified the tired delinquent that the call between him and 'Nerd♡' had ended. Mingyu didn't bother to call him back, coming to the conclusion that his boyfriend's phone had died. He smiled sweetly at their conversation, and was embarrassed by his own action. He ruffled his hair, and sat up from his bed,

"I'm so lame."

The latter said to himself as he rubbed his face, trying to wake himself up. Mingyu groaned some more as he stretched one last time, then finally got out of bed. He looked at the clock on his bedside table which read 6:27AM, and thought to himself

"Who the Hell calls so early?"

And caught himself smiling at the name that was the answer. He wanted to go back to sleep, in fact he didn't even want to go to school. Mingyu wouldn't admit it, but Wonwoo made him want to go to school, attend other classes than Science, and try to tolerate the other students. So, he groggily began putting on his clothes. He slipped on a plain white t-shirt which underneath was the chain necklace and rings. He rummaged through his closet and grabbed a pair of the uniform pants, and put those on. Despite the first impression Mingyu's appearance may give off, he was actually quite neat and organized. The only reason why his uniform wasn't crisp and looked brand new because of the fights he often got into. Anyway, he finished getting dressed grabbed his prepacked backpack and made his way down the stairs. When he passed by the kitchen, he saw his mom making breakfast. The tall boy sat at the table, waiting for his mom to place the plate of food infront of him. When she did, he smiled sweetly at her, and she reciprocated, then the teen began enjoying his breakfast. After eating, Mingyu went upstairs and brushed his teeth then returned to his room where he waited until it was time to walk to the bus stop. When the clock was at about 7AM, Mingyu made his way out the door, not saying bye to his mom, but just smiled awkwardly, and left. 

At school, Junhui had returned after missing a day. He was trying to get a hold of Wonwoo to ask him if they could meet up before class starts so that they could go over what he missed... and that was quite a lot. However, Wonwoo wasn't answering and Jun looked at his phone. He was sitting in class at his desk, when Wonwoo walked into the class.

"Wonwoo-ah!"

Wonwoo smiled at the presence of Jun, but then was overcome with nervousness. 

"Why am I nervous? It's not like I've done anything wrong to Jun... Right?" 

"Jun-ah!"

The two gave each other a high-five, then Jun asked to speak to Wonwoo outside of class. Wonwoo agreed and the two went out of class,

"Yah, I've been trying to call you all morning!" Jun said, showing how he was slightly worried at the bestfriend that usually answered, but didn't this time.

"Ah~, sorry. My phone was dead this morning, so I left it at home to charge." the Class Pres. explained.

Jun just smiled, and then proceeded to say

"So~, do you have something to tell me?", referring to the homework and lessons. However, signals and messages got tangled and messed up, so Wonwoo became nervous, his eyes darting and dropping eye contact with Jun.

"O-Oh... you found out?", Wonwoo said, slight guilt tainted his voice.

"About what?" Jun said, generally confused and pretty sure they weren't on the same page. But, Wonwoo thought he was prompting that he himself should say it... so he did,

"That Mingyu and I are dating." 

Jun gasped slightly, not loud enough for Wonwoo to hear. "So Mingyu won, huh?" the boy thought to himself. They say when you really, truly love someone, that you would rather see them at their happiest, even though you're not the cause for their smile, or laughter. Even if they're not with you, if they're happy, then it's okay. And so, Junhui faked a smile and said,

"Ofcourse I found out. You can't hide anything from me~", he said while hitting Wonwoo's arm. Wonwoo smiled awkwardly, questioning if Jun was really okay.

"Jun-ah... are you okay with it?"

Jun forced a laugh,

"Yah. Why do you need my permission?"

"Jun-ah-"

"I gotta go to the bathroom. I'll see you in class, okay?"

Jun smiled forcefully, and waved as he walked down the hall, leaving Wonwoo standing outside of their classroom, unaware of what to do. As soon as his back was turned towards the Class Pres. Jun's smile disappeared and he made his way to the washroom. He walked in the washroom, and went into a stall. Emotions boiled inside of the teen, anger, sadness, regret, jealousy and a hint of guilt of not being able to be the bestfriend that is happy for the other's happiness. These emotions caused Jun to become frustrated, and acted out with a punch. He punched the wall of the stall, and incidentally someone was in the other one beside it.

"Yah. What're you doing?" a voice said from the stall. Jun, immersed in his emotions didn't reply, and just punched the wall again.

"Yah... You got a problem?" the voice said again, irritation becoming evident. 

Jun stopped punching and said,

"I'm not in the mood."

He heard the other stall's door open, and heard footsteps approaching his. The voice said, as it got closer,

"Not in the mood?", the boy scoffed, "Yah, don't punch the stall, I'll help. Come out here" the voice said, intimidating. 

Jun stood still in the stall. The pitch of the voice sounded familiar, but not the way it spoke, or the way it caused him to feel a little scared. The boy standing outside of the stall kicked the door, 

"Tch."

He said, impatiently. Jun hesitantly unlocked the door and the stall slowly opened. When it was fully opened, the boy who was staring at the ground, raised his intense gaze to Jun, but the eyes suddenly changed and Jun squinted and furrowed his brows, surprised at who it was.

"Jun-ah?"

"Minghao-ah?" Jun said, not believing that the same voice that was challenging him belonged to this sweet, blue haired boy who had a cute smile. 

"Yah, Jun-ah. What's wrong?" Minghao asked, knowing something wasn't right, since the normally peaceful and positive teen in front of him was punching the wall of the stall. 

"Nothing," he lied, it normally worked with Wonwoo who wouldn't press further into the subject once Jun answered that way. 

Minghao rolled his eyes, and groaned

"Really? You're going to lie? I'm seriously worried, so don't give me that bull." he said and stepped forward.

"What's wrong?", Minghao asked again

Jun sighed, and locked eyes with the boy. Before he could say anything the bell for first period rang, and the two looked at each other with wide eyes, and they both ran out of the washroom and towards the class. Thankfully, they weren't late but the class took note of the odd two entering class together, both out of breath from running. Wonwoo took the situation in a little more than others, considering he knew that Jun went to the washroom. The first half of the day went by quickly, Jun not talking as much as he usually did. When the lunch bell rang, Jun walked towards Wonwoo's desk, and Wonwoo shuffled in his seat preparing to greet his friend, but Jun took a sudden right and was now standing infront of Mingyu's desk. Mingyu was napping, as usual but when Jun said his name, he slowly opened his eyes and looked up. 

"Can we talk for a minute?" Jun said. 

Wonwoo looked at the two, feeling the tension between them. Mingyu nodded, and got up from his seat. The taller followed Jun outside, where they stood face to face.

"So, I heard about you and Wonwoo.", the shorter said bluntly. Mingyu smirked and said,

"Okay, what about us?", Jun made a disgusted face at the word 'us'. 

"You better make Wonwoo happy...", he said. Mingyu's facial expression changed, as Jun conveyed his feelings more calmly, and the hate was evident, but wasn't as intense. 

"I will.", the taller replied.

"Because the minute you take him for granted... I will be there. And I won't give him back, or forgive you. Do you understand me?" Jun said, almost gritting his teeth at the fact that he was saying this to Mingyu. 

Mingyu scoffed,

"I'll never let you have him.", Mingyu promised. The duo returned back to class, and Minghao suddenly wrapped his arm around Jun's neck.

"Jun-ah. Let's go out for lunch," he said. Jun honestly didn't feel like staying in class due to the eventful first half of the day, and smiled at Minghao who smiled back. The two left the class, and went out together for lunch. When Mingyu returned to his desk, he started packing his stuff, to which Wonwoo said

"What did you guys talk about?"

Mingyu smiled,

"You", the taller answered honestly. 

"Where are you going?" Wonwoo continued with the questions. Mingyu slung on his backpack, and smiled again saying,

"I'll be back. I'm just going to the base."

The latter kissed the Class Presidents forehead, and walked to the exit

"Okay, see you."

Mingyu just winked at his boyfriend as he walked out the door, and made his way to the base. 

Meanwhile, Minghao and Jun were walking down the halls, and suddenly Minghao opened a door that led to a staircase, and started walking up. Jun was taken aback a bit, and almost stumbled as he followed the blue haired boy. The two ended up on the roof, and Jun who had never been up there asked,

"Are we allowed up here?"

"Yup! Until we get caught." Minghao said, causing the other boy to laugh. There was this upper part of the roof, so the two boys climbed up a ladder and sat down on the concrete. Jun was sitting cross legged, while Minghao leaned his elbows on his knees,

"Minghao-ah, you're actually really scary." Jun said while laughing, referring to the persona he witnessed in the washroom. Minghao laughed too,

"I'm nothing compared to when Mingyu loses his cool..." he said unaware that Mingyu was partly the cause of Jun losing his cool.

"So tell me, what's wrong?" Minghao asked, generally concerned for a friend.

"Nothing, I said!" Jun lied again. Partly because he didn't feel like burdening Minghao with his problems, and the other half because he wanted to see if Minghao would push further, unlike Wonwoo.

"Fine..." the blue haired boy said, making Jun slightly disappointed

"Is that what you thought I was going to say?" Minghao continued,

"I'm not stupid, so just tell me what's wrong... And if you can't, just say so. Don't lie and say "nothing" when something definitely wrong, and people are actually concerned for you..."

Jun was surprised at the boy's words, and decided to tell him.

"It's kinda stupid, but I'm just upset that Wonwoo are Mingyu are dating."

Minghao nearly spat out his drink, then looked at Jun with wide eyes,

"Wait! They're dating?!" he asked

Jun gave Minghao a confused face, considering Mingyu was like his bestfriend.

"Well.. Yeah."

Minghao thought to himself, "So that's what happened yesterday."

"And so, that completely ruined my morning.... Finding out the guy I love is dating someone else," he scoffed, "great news."

Minghao looked at the sad eyes of Jun,

"I can't say I fully do, but I think I understand you..." Minghao said,

"But the difference is, for me, I don't love the guy. And, I don't know why, but I like him. But he's in love with someone else.." he finished his thought

Jun thought for a second,

"Wait... Is it... Mingyu?"

Minghao looked at the boy who asked sincerely, and burst out laughing, holding his stomach trying to inhale oxygen. Jun looked at the boy who was laughing hysterically,

"What's so funny?" he said, missing the amusing part of what he said.

"I-can't-believe-you-thought-I-liked-Mingyu." Minghao said in a broken up sentence, each word interrupted by uncontrollable laughter. By now, he was in tears, 

"Nah~, he's like a brother... That'd be ." he continued, making a digusting face at the thought of him and Mingyu together.

"So then who is it?" Jun asked, Minghao still chuckled while saying,

"This guy is barely my friend... I honestly don't know why I like him, it's not like we're close."

Jun's reply was silence,

"But, he's madly in love with someone else... So, I think I understand you a bit."

"I feel, like.... guilty? Because I can't be sincerely happy for Wonwoo... But at the same time, I-"

"Like seeing him happy, even if it's not with you." Minghao finished Jun's sentence with the exact words we was going to use. Junhui nodded at the truth the blue haired boy spoke. Suddenly, Minghao stood up and ran towards the edge of the elevated part of the roof they were sitting on

"Yah!" Jun screamed, panicked, thinking that Minghao was going to jump off.

"I PROMISE TO MAKE..."

Jun couldn't hear the name clearly, as a plane flew right above them. The engine was extremely loud, so he only heard the rest,

"HAPPY!" Minghao exclaimed. He turned to look at Jun who was sitting and he smiled. Jun then smiled and got up, and ran up beside Minghao

"MINGYU-AH! I PROMISE TO BE THERE FOR WONWOO WHEN YOU AREN'T! SO, I'M WARNING YOU!"

After yelling out their resolutions, Jun felt a lot better and his smile went back to normal. Minghao became happy when Jun's sadness toned down. The two spent the rest of their lunch on the roof, eating, talking, and sharing the Bubble Tea that Minghao had bought.

Meanwhile, Mingyu was at the base and was greeted by the boys,

"Where's Minghao?" Jisoo asked, immediately noticing the absence of the blue haired boy.

"I don't know, somewhere with Jun or something.", he said plopping down on the couch.

"So Mingyu-ah! Tell us!", Mingyu lifted his head from the arm of the couch

"Tell you what?"

"Don't give us that ," Hansol said, and Seungcheol slapped him on the head,

"Watch your mouth... ."

The boys started laughing, and then redirected their focus on Mingyu and the conspicuous scene from yesterday. 

"About Wonwoo-hyung!" LeeChan specified.

"Ah~ him," Mingyu said.

The boys stopped chewing their food, and became quiet, focused on the reply.

"We're dating." Mingyu said.

Immediately, all the boys exchanged looks, and got up from the floor and rushed towards Mingyu. They congratulated him and started hitting the leader, who was smiling and was struggling on the couch. While Mingyu was getting beaten, his phone was going off, but he didn't notice. It was Wonwoo who was telling him that Mingyu's mom was waiting at the office, and to come back to school.

At school, the classroom got another call, and Wonwoo answered. Apparently, Mrs. Kim was still at the office, and Mingyu wasn't there yet. Wonwoo explained that he had already texted the taller, and that he would go down to accompany the lady.

Lunch was coming to an end, and Mingyu was walking back to school when he finally checked his phone. The text read,

Nerd♡: Mingyu-ah, your Mom is at the office, come back to school.

Mingyu's eyes widened at the text, and he began to sprint to the school. He ran straight for the office, and sitting outside was his mom, and beside her, Wonwoo. His mom smiled, and Mingyu said,

"Mom! Why are you here?"

But, not with his voice. The tall boy used his hands, and sign language to convey the message.

"I came to drop off your textbook that you forgot at home." she signed back.

"I don't need that today! How long have you been waiting?" , Mingyu's hands said.

"Not long! This nice young boy kept me company... He says you two are close." 

Mingyu looked at Wonwoo, and in his right hand he was holding a pen. In between him and his mom were a bunch of little pieces of paper that had short messages on them. 

"Sorry, I don't know Sign Language." Wonwoo said, with a sad smile. Mingyu looked back at his mom.

"Why you want to go to school recently..." Mrs. Kim looked at Wonwoo, then she continued to sign

 "I understand, now." 

 

 

 

 

AUTHOR'S NOTE;

So, here's Chapter 10! Sorry if it was boring, LOL, but I'll make it up to you in CH.11 . I'm seeing BTS in 3 days asdfgdfkljsf. LOL, okay uh. Comment, subscribe, upvote & whateverrrrr. xD Comment what you thought about this chapter! Subscribe to stay updated! I'll try and update soon, love you guys. Until then, PEACE - Zen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Skdjcjsjeb #1
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wonwoo_wife #2
Chapter 36: WOW thank you authornim. i really love this story. .. ❤️
rindii61
#3
Chapter 36: Hai Zen! I spent a few days to finish this story. And I realllyyyyy love this!!! How the story goes sweetly, then comes the problem that makes me a little scared when Mingyu fights. I like the portrayal of Wonwoo's character. It doesn't feel forced, just flows naturally. And I'm reading this in 2022 which made it easy for me to match their young and current images. Lastly, thank you for presenting a beautiful story!!
And, I was wondering where is Seungkwan? I didn't find him in every chapter. Just curious.
waee09 #4
Chapter 35: Omgggggg whoever you end up marrying is going to be soooo lucky. The vows and the entire freaking ceremony feeels like a dream and something I didn't think I'd need in life. So bladdyyy beautifulllll I cannottt. Thank you sooo much!!
Claudia301a
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Chapter 11: Dsshssdgdss this chapter was soooo cute!! Mingyu is so sweet towards Wonwoo!!
hikachrisya
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Chapter 21: This fic is so GREAT and FLUFFY and ENJOYABLE to read!! Thank you for writing thissss!
MysteryW #7
Chapter 10: After 2years I finally realized this. The story said wonwoo left his phone at home but at the end he had his phone and texted mingyu haha
Mobinarmy
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Chapter 1: now this is my shhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiii
Yankey
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Chapter 35: This was such a sweet loving and beautiful storyyy. I love the couples, I love everyone oh my god I am tearing up because of happiness. Love ya authornim <3