Chapter Eight

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Woohyun’s pulled from his dreamless sleep by the buzzing of his phone on the bedside table. He sighs, choosing to ignore it, pulling Sunggyu’s closer to his chest and inhales deeply. The elder reacts and intertwines his fingers with Woohyun’s, holding their hands close to his chest, a warm fuzzy feeling swirling around inside of him.

 

“Sorry about that, hopefully, whoever’s calling realises I’m not going to answer.” He mumbles, voice thick with sleep.

 

Sunggyu shuffles lightly and kisses the back of Woohyun’s hand, “It’s been ringing for the past hour, it might be important.” His voice was drastically more awake than the younger’s and a lot hoarser as well.

 

“Well, whatever it is can wait until morning because I have something more important to do and that’s cuddling you.” The phone rings out, and it’s silent, “See I told you-“

 

The buzzing starts again.

 

“Just answer your bloody phone Woohyun, they might stop then.” Sunggyu releases his hold on the producer’s hand and moves slightly away from him to prompt the younger to answer the phone.

 

A deep sigh leaves Woohyun’s nose as he unhooks his arms from around Sunggyu and swings his legs over the side of the bed. Reluctantly picking up his phone, he’s tempted to just decline the call and turn his phone off when he spots the caller ID but he’d rather not face the wrath of his best friend’s fiancé.

 

He clicks the green accept button on his screen and holds the phone to his ear, “Yes Myungsoo. Of what pleasure do I have for you to call me at 1 am?”

 

“Where are you? Why didn’t you pick up? I’ve been trying to reach you for hours.” the younger sounds stressed.

 

“I’m in Jeon-Ju? I thought you would have known that.” Woohyun’s confused, his sleep-hazed mind not connecting any dots.

 

“Sungyeol’s freaking out, you said you were coming back tod-yesterday Woohyun, yesterday. He’s been scared less because he’s heard nothing from you. He’s even called you Mother to ask if you’d had an accident.”

 

Guilt consumes Woohyun, he had completely forgotten, he had been so preoccupied with Sunggyu that it had completely slipped his mind, “Tell him I’ll be back after lunch and that I’m sorry for stressing him out.”

Myungsoo sighs, “Just don’t do it again and remember we have rehearsals for the ceremony on Wednesday and Thursday, then on Friday you have your best man responsibilities to attend to. And you need a date. Don’t forget about getting a date.”

 

The elder of the two rolls his eyes, “Yes Myungsoo-ah.”

 

“see you tomorrow.”
 

“Yeah, goodnight.” Woohyun is the one to end the call this time, he glances down at his phone and has over at least 60 missed calls, equally from both Myungsoo and Sungyeol, even a couple from Kibum and Dongwoo. Seems like Howon was just a lazy and texted him instead.

 

 

Yesterday 21:54

H - where are you - 21:54

 

Yesterday 22:04

H -youve got everyone worried - 22:04

H - and with what sungyeol told us - 22:05

 

Yesterday 23:48

H - you better be safe - 23:48

 

Today 01:23

W – I’m fine Howon – 01:23

W – I’ve just been busy doing something – 01:23

 

H – thats totally code for – 01:23

H – anyways – 01:24

H – next time you decide to go mia after a pa text me or smg – 01:24

H – better yet message dongwoo i was starting to think hed have a heartatck – 01:25

H - *heart attack – 01:26

 

W – I didn’t mean to worry anyone. I ran into someone. – 01:27

 

H – cool … i hope you remembered to use protection – 01:29

 

W - … - 01:29

 

H – and remember you need a date for the wedding – 01:30

H – rsvps need to be in tomorrow - 01:30

H - and just because youre sungyeols best man doesnt mean you get out of sitting at the kiddie table if you come dateless - 01:31

 

W – I know Howon. I’m working on it. - 01:32

 

H – oh? So you’ve finally bucked up and asked kibum? - 01:33

 

W – It’s not Kibum. You’ll just have to wait and see. – 01:34

 

 

The producer glances over his shoulder and smiles softly at Sunggyu’s peaceful figure. Loving the way his skin is painted with splotches of burgundy, Woohyun would no doubt be sporting matching markings of his own, in addition to the elder’s creation of passion filled red lines reaching the span of his back and chest. Raised and irritated.

 

 

W – He hasn’t said yes yet. – 01:36

 

H – your date has to come to the rehearsals – 01:36

H – so ill be seeing him in like 32 hours – 01:37

H – no point keeping it a secret just tell me now – 01:37

 

W – Be patient. – 01:38

 

H – oh comfvgsjFJKSDAG  – 01:38

 

 

Woohyun snorts, Dongwoo’s obviously gotten a hold of Howon’s phone.

 

 

H – Get some sleep Woohyunnie and good luck with asking your special someone, we can’t wait to meet them ^-^ – 01:40

 

W – You too Dongwoo hyung. GN. – 01:41

 

 

(mia = missing in action)

(pa = panic attack)

(smg = something)

(rsvp = répondez s'il vous plait = please respond)

(GN = Goodnight)

 

 

Woohyun sighs, holding the side button down and sliding the

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so this is the end. its been a journey and thank you all for reading and commenting.

this was kind of rushed and I feel like there's something missing in the middle but i thought i'd post this before i leave it for another few months.

anyways, thank you all so much

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