eighteen.

Autumn Love
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Last night, Jeonghan got a text from Wonwoo which is an invitation to Minwoo’s birthday party that will be held tomorrow in one of an indoor playground for kids. Jeonghan received the news excitedly and surely promised to come. He planned to go buy a present today.

 

 

Other than buying a present, Jeonghan was actually been thinking about cutting his hair since it’s getting long past his shoulders by now. He kept on cancelling the plan for quite a while and now he think that it’s already the time to do it.

 

Jeonghan’s phone rung showing Seungcheol’s name on the screen. He swiped it to take the call.

 

 

“Why, Seungcheol?”

 

 

“Have you get the invitation yet?”

 

 

“Yes, Wonwoo sent it to me last night, why?”

 

 

“Do you wanna come together?”

 

 

“Sure sure”

 

 

“Have you buy a present?”

 

 

“Nah, I’m planning to buy one this evening.”

 

 

“Can I join, please? I don’t have any idea”

 

 

“Said someone who bought many things for Yuchan,” Jeonghan said cheekily.

 

 

“Hahaha come on, let me join okay?”

 

 

“Yeah sure, why not?”

 

 

“Yes! What time can I go pick you two up?”

 

 

“Don’t you think it’s more efficient if we just meet somewhere at the store?”

 

 

“I don’t want to~”

 

 

“Stop whining, you’re old!”

 

 

“I’m not old!”

 

 

“Come at five then”

 

 

“Four? Oh yes, okay four”

 

 

Jeonghan rolled his eyes, “Yuchan hasn’t up from his nap around that time.”

 

 

“It’s okay, we can always wait for him”

 

 

“Hmmmm”

 

 

“See ya at four?”

 

 

“Alright”

 

 

It turned out that Seungcheol was the one who come late due to overslept. Jeonghan nagged about how could he came late for two hours along the way and only stop when they arrived at the parking lot of the shopping mall.

 

 

They headed to the toy store right away. It doesn’t taketoo long to find some stuff for Minwoo, Seungcheol chose a go kart toy while Jeonghan got a bow and arrow set for kids. But it took longer to stop Yuchan from running around and beg his Didi to buy the toy for him.

 

“Baby, we promised to only buy a gift for Minwoo hyung, right?” Jeonghan kneeled to get on the same level with the boy.

 

 

“Nooo, please just this one, Didi, pleeeasee” Yuchan whined and hugged the box of big airplane toy trying to bring it over the cashier. Seungcheol gave Jeonghan a look as if telling him just to buy it but he shook his head no.

 

 

“Yuchan, we made a deal to buy a new toy only once a month, and it hasn’t been two weeks since we bought one. You still remember it too, right?”

 

 

Yuchan pouted, tears already threatening to fall.

 

“Give it to me or do you want to put it back yourself?”

 

 

Yuchan cried and threw the box towards Jeonghan before running to hug Seungcheol’s legs who quickly hold him up. Thankfully Jeonghan catched it just right before the box could hit his face. Jeonghan sighed then took it to put it back on its shelf. It has been a while since Yuchan threw a tantrum at him like that. He thinks that it must be because Seungcheol was there so that he has someone to take cover of him.

 

 

Seungcheol who’s already experienced soothing Yuchan down doesn’t find it hard anymore to do it now that the boy is leaning his head on Seungcheol’s shoulder and hug his neck tightly. After finishing their payment transactions, Seungcheol asked Jeonghan to have dinner which the latter agreed on.

 

 

Even after they done eating, Yuchan still refused to talk to Jeonghan and clung onto Seungcheol the whole time. Jeonghan got a headache when they get into the car Yuchan said that he doesn’t want to go home with his Didi, that he want to sleep with uncle Cheol.

 

“Yuchan, you’re too much, why are you acting like this now?” Jeonghan turned his body to look at Yuchan.

 

 

“Uncle Cheol, I can sleep with you tonight, right?” Yuchan ignored Jeonghan and attacked the other adult who started driving nervously.

 

 

Seungcheol glanced to his side and came eye to eye with Jeonghan’s sharp stare.

 

“Uncle Cheol!”

 

 

“I.. uhm.. don’t you need to ask Didi first, Yuchan?”

 

 

“Whhyy?? Uncle already said yes earlieeeer!!” Yuchan started whining again, Seungcheol panicked and turned to Jeonghan for some help. But seems like the other was lost for words too.

 

 

“Jeonghan,” Seungcheol reached for Jeonghan’s hand.

 

 

“What? You’re about to defend him again?”

 

 

“It’s not like that.. I was really planning to ask you two to sleep in my place. I want to talk to you, we need to talk, Jeonghan..” Seungcheol said in a low tone, hoping Jeonghan will understand.

 

 

Seungcheol was right. Actually, Jeonghan had been thinking the same way bu

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ververthesecret #1
Chapter 18: omg i really didn't see this coming?! not this soon? Heheee i thought they would beat around the bush for a little more until something forced them to confess (like an accident lol) or one of them overheard the other confession. And this line of jeonghan got me: "do I even have the chance to be sad or stressed over something when i'm with yuchan the whole time?" it hurt and I can totally feel him. Thank you for this cute update!
sassin95 #2
Chapter 18: I'm cheol haha freaking biased for him
Djatasma
#3
Chapter 18: Lol I'm Mingyu.
ververthesecret #4
Chapter 17: you're making it hard for jeonghan, author-nim. Jeonghan's situation kinda reminds me of the time when I was having a secret crush on this guy. We were working together in a group project and it's not easy for me to act like just a normal teammate in a friendly way especially when we had casual talks. Holding in your feelings in front of someone you have romantic feelings for. So I think I have a certain empathy with jeonghan. Moreover, was he more comfortable this way? Trading off familial moments for a (financial) independent life. I thought they were close enough but somehow jeonghan couldn't be totally opened about this yet. Ahh, I was smiling a lot while reading this chapter but after deeply thinking about it... it's just the surface. Nevermind! I hope you know this chapter is still very fluffy and cute, you did well expressing that. 'til next time!
ververthesecret #5
Chapter 16: Aww they finally met, and it's not so bad. I lowkey panicked when jeonghan left the cafe but fortunately they did something about it. Not sure if the problem has been properly fixed but I hope they would remain friends after this, well, at least heheee xD. Thank you for this chapter!
changmin20 #6
Chapter 16: thanks for updating 🥺 i really love this story, jeongcheol progresses so slow it's such a frustration hahahahaha
ververthesecret #7
Chapter 15: So that's how seungcheol used to live. And now jeonghan left, sadly he picked up those bad habits again.

I can imagine how frustrated jeonghan would be if he knew. But now I wonder what's going on with jeonghan too. He was not... miserable, was he? I'm sure he and yuchan would miss seungcheol, well, remember when seungcheol went on a business trip. But I hope at least they're not doing as bad as seungcheol was.

Or, they should be? So jeonghan would realize faster that they needed seungcheol just as much as seungcheol did. Heheee

And of course meanie came to the rescue! May they be easy on the two lost guys hehee. I don't know but I feel like they would make one of them confess his feelings to the other, maybe in the future, maybe soon.

Thank you for constantly updating although it took time. I'll keep my promise to be there always. And don't worry about your english, it's fine as long as we understand what you mean to say!
manlycoupsismanly #8
Chapter 14: To be honest..it was kind of disappointing to know that Jeonghan would do that in this chapter..after them being all fluffly on the previous chapter. I mean..I hoped to read a bit of increase in their romantic interactions before dropping that kind of bomb on the plot. :) But yea..despite my opinion, I really can't deny that I like this story a lot. ♥️
manlycoupsismanly #9
Chapter 14: What?. Please, Author-nim. Update this as soon as possible. This is too much for us.
Loveuseungcheol #10
Chapter 14: I love the story. I read this in one go. And i never felt so fustrated when i saw that this as the last update 🥺