“Seungyoon are you home?”

As soon as he picked up the call and heard that desperate voice, he just knows.

He is needed again.

Seungyoon covers the phone speaker and let out a sigh, bracing for what to come. He mutters into the phone.

“Yeah, I’m home.”

“Ok!”

Mino hangs up first before he can even say anything else in return.

Seungyoon looks around the room.. It’s a mess. So he quickly fixes it. He clears up the couch, the bedroom and picks out some DVDs from the box that Mino might want to watch later.

He starts dozing off on the couch when Mino presses the door code and let himself in. He always does that. Seungyoon snorts but with no bite at all.

He looks up to the big puppy on-the-verge of bursting into tears and realizes it’s more serious this time. He pats the space next to him on the couch. As he leans forward to grab the tissue box on the coffee table, he feels hands wrapping him tightly making him unable to move.

“Seungyoon-ah~” He starts wailing.

Seungyoon squeezes a hand out from the suffocating hug with difficulty. He runs his hand in Mino’s hair and softly questions_

“So what happened this time?”

“She has a boyfriend all this time. Actually, even before we met. So it’s like she’s cheating on her boyfriend with me. What have I become then?” Mino muffled into his shoulder, voice quivering.

“Tsk! What did I tell you about club hook-ups?”

Mino looks up at him, eyes widen. “How do you know we met at club?”

He gently smiles at the man-child who’s leaning so much that almost sitting on him.

“When you ditched me on our movie night, I know you went clubbing. You met her then right?”

His eyes get even wider that he looks like a cartoon character now, but still ridiculously cute to Seungyoon.

“So you.. you know I was lying about the group project? Why you didn’t say anything?”

He pats his back soothingly. “I just thought you have your reason to lie to me. It’s ok.”

Mino hides in the crook of his neck and mutter in his weepy voice.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry Seungyoonie.” Then he starts crying his heart out, sobbing and choking.

Seungyoon wordlessly shoves him a handful of tissues hurriedly or else he might end up with a sweater full of snorts like last time. He keeps on rubbing a hand on his back and whispers comforting words to him as Mino cries. He doesn’t want to see his best friend’s tears.

 “Everything will be Ok.” He mutters but honestly he himself has lost trust in those words.

It will not be Ok. Not his heart for sure.

Because he is madly in love with his best friend.

To make it worse, Song Mino is straight and would never see him as a love interest.

He swallows the lump in his throat. Although he is used to Mino crying on him for several reasons, it hurts him the same every damn time. Especially when it’s for some girls.

It breaks his heart so badly.

He wants to cry.