Apr. 14, 20XX

Of Paper Planes and Paper Hearts

After that day, an idea came to Junhui's mind where he knew now it would be the best if he started planning out sessions to help Jeonghan if the plan was mutual for both sides. Now here Junhui was, staring intently even though the atmosphere was rather awkward but he had to accomplish something or else they'd be back to square one. He spoke up quietly, "Jeonghan, my eyes are up here."

The long-haired boy still flinched at the sound of his voice as he was looking at the couch that they were sitting on as though there was something new about it as he fiddled with his fingers. Jeonghan barely turned his gaze upwards before immediately letting out a small yelp and looking down again, his now red ear peaking through his hair.

He could only sigh and lean back in defeat, wondering what he could possibly do now that he was cold-free and spring had fully taken place. Junhui murmurs a rant of some sort, "I'm completely stumped here. We made some sort of progress when you stepped out of your house and we've been trying to make these sessions in trying to progress further but I feel like we're missing a crucial step somewhere... Now that I think about it, do you keep eye contact with Yewon whenever you guys talk to each other?"

Jeonghan shook his head, making Junhui think of a different plan, "How about you try keeping eye contact with Yewon then?" and that was where Jeonghan flinched as the coincident of the door opening happened, revealling said girl.

"Yah Junhui, I thought I told you to make sure oppa stays in his room while I'm away even if you guys are doing your session things! We don't want another PTSD moment to happen now do we?!" Yewon's voice was raised in irritation as per usual for Junhui but that line did bring up a certain point: the day that Jeonghan left the house was the only day where he wasn't afraid of the barriers between his house and the outside world. His fear of going outside and being exposed it it came back once Junhui got better.

Somehow she still manage to scare Junhui- especially with that door slam in her moment of anger and forgetting that Jeonghan disliked and was afraid of loud noises- and he can only stutter, "I-I know, but do you mind coming over here for a moment?" to try to move to a different topic as he got up from his seat and motioned for the small girl to sit where he was sitting.

Yewon raised an eyebrow at the motion before following along with Junhui's motions, she turns to Junhui after sitting down, asking, "Is this another part to your session thing?"

"Yeah, I'm just trying to figure something out right now though but this should be a good first step for him," Junhui informed, "Hey, Jeonghan, can you try now?"

She looks back to her older brother in confusion as the latter didn't move at all, fiddling with his fingers. Slowly, Jeonghan raises his head slightly and meets Yewon's confused gaze with his own scared one for a good couple seconds before his cheeks turned a light pink and he looks back down, fiddling with his fingers more.

"Are you trying to help with his anthropophobia first?" Yewon asked, a concerned look on her face.

"Well that's what I've been trying to do. I was thinking that since you're the closest to him that maybe that was the first step to helping him..." Junhui murmured, deep in thought.

"But I'm not the closest to him."

The sentence put an abrupt stop to his train of thoughts as he saw Yewon's ashamed gaze as she looked away, "I... Well, yes I've been there to protect him... but there are some things that even I don't know about him... all I know is that those that were closest to him were the same reasons why he has so many problems."

Junhui could only scratch the back of his head as he looks over to Jeonghan, who's head was now dipped lower than before. He lets out a small sigh because he really did want to help the boy but the first step seemed too far and too complicated.

"Is there a different step to start with?" Junhui turns back to Yewon, "It would be helpful if you gave me a list... well, that is if Jeonghan doesn't mind that I know," a quick glance and he sees a small but quick shake of the head from Jeonghan.

Yewon lets out a small sigh herself before using her fingers to count, "Anthropophobia, social anxiety disorder, PTSD, agoraphobia, and somewhat minor haphephobia. Five- you have a total of five starting points."

"The last part I haven't heard about," Junhui said.

"Well like I said, I consider it somewhat minor for the reason that only I can touch him without anything going terribly wrong and even then it has to be light touching," Yewon said, "That's one of the reasons why we're not living with our parents- they are really protective and soft-hearted people so sometimes they'll make skin contact with oppa forgetting that he has haphephobia. Other than that, oppa ends up scratching the area he's been touched until he bleeds."

That was where realization and panic dawned on Junhui as he thought back to the day that he was sick and how he heard all of the shuffling. He turns back to Jeonghan, "W-Wait, but your hand... when I was sick..." and he thought back to previous sessions where he remembered that he was too focused on eye contact.

And at that Yewon managed to connect the pieces before turning to her older brather, worry laced into the tone of her voice, "Oppa, did you...?"

Suddenly, Jeonghan stood up as he held his hand with his head down and quickly walked back upstairs and to his room, leaving the room in tense silence.

"... It's best if we leave him alone for now..." Yewon said quietly as she staired at the stair case.

"... I'm-"

"Don't apologize. Just... for now, give him some space... I'll call you out if something bad happens again."

Just know that it isn't your guys' fault either... so Junhui wanted to say but he could only slowly but surely grab his school bag before quietly leaving the house, too many thoughts pounding against his head.

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vitaminlover61
#1
Chapter 20: Uou really did the right thing authornim!! And thank you for this wonderful story!! JunHan for life!! ❤️❤️❤️
LemonCandy1093 #2
Chapter 19: So much angst, my heart can't take it, yet barely enough subtle fluff to keep it alive, how cruel author-nim. Thanks for the update!
EUNKYEBIN #3
Chapter 18: It's going great ~~~
yukirianne
#4
Chapter 17: Im intrigue in what will happen to the story
LemonCandy1093 #5
Chapter 17: .... You literally made me be on the verge of tears. This was our ing conversation three days ago. Three days ago when you went to use the bathroom at our friend's house and I knocked on the bathroom door, worried, and asked you if you were okay and you said you were fine and I had to walk away from the door instead of persisting and making a scene because I trusted you and your judgement, to end up having you fall asleep shortly after on our friend's chair, only to have you tell me later in our personal chat you cried in there and lied to me, telling me you were fine when you weren't. Three days ago. This was our conversation. Correction, re-read, now I ing cried. Author-nim, I'm sort of at a loss of words here... There are so many questions but I already know there will be very few answers... We have to talk. Please.
happyponky #6
Chapter 17: so cute and adorable
xnamxhun #7
Chapter 16: I'm really looking forward to how this fanfic ends
LemonCandy1093 #8
Chapter 15: Woooo, go Jeonghan for going out of his comfort zone for a sick Junhui, it's really sweet. :3 also their interactions are really adorable, specifically Junhui calling Jeonghan cute <3 ahhhh this is just adorable all the way around, thx for the update(s) author-nim!
happy2bFAN #9
Chapter 15: Can't stop smiling...and i think i got a cavity