As soon as they left Jaehyun walked over to the counter. “I didn’t know you knew that Joshua guy,” Mingyu said as he grinned at his friend. “Oh, Joshua, he’s my ex actually. Small world.” His smile seemed a little forced and Jeonghan eyed the two younger men with amusement. “Oh, really? I guess that was awkward,” Mingyu ran a hand through his dark hair but Jaehyun just laughed again. “We ended on good terms. It wasn’t real serious anyway we were just messing around.” Jeonghan snorted under his breath. He was perceptive and the interactions he’d had with Joshua had shown him a person putting up a front with a soft and sentimental heart inside. He couln’t picture Joshua in any sort of relationship with this guy.

“Anyway, seems like a good excuse for a party!” Mingyu grabbed his phone out as he hopped around in excitement. “Gyu,” Jeonghan frowned at him as he almost knocked over a tray of brownies. “Sorry,” the tall man whispered as he winked at Jaehyun. “Time to get the whole gang back together. Eunwoo will be so excited, we can have a party at Yugyeom’s share house, his friends won’t care. Their place is always trashed anyway.” Jeonghan watched Mingyu tap frenetically at his phone with a huge grin on his face as his friend leaned casually against the door frame of the kitchen.

“Invite Joshua,” Jaehyun said and Mingyu frowned. “I don’t know him that well. I don’t have his number. Don’t you?” Jaehyun shook his head. When Joshua left so suddenly he’d cut off all contact including blocking Jaehyun from his social media and changing his phone number. Jaehyun was dying for more of a glimpse into this new life his ex was carefully cultivating after being shout out so unceremoniously.

“I have it,” Jeonghan offered up. “I’ll let him know.” “Awesome,” Jaehyun smiled in a way which was really quite unsettling. “Make sure he brings his new boyfriend.” Jeonghan nodded his agreement and turned back to his tray of baking as Mingyu began to walk Jaehyun out without saying goodbye.

“Your friend seems like a real jerk,” Jeonghan said without looking up from his tray of brownies when he heard Mingyu return to the room. “You know hyung, people say that about you,” he clapped back and Jeonghan shrugged. He knew he had his own issues. He’d even acted like an to Seokmin before he knew the truth of what was going on with them. Before he understood that they were two lost souls searching for something not knowing it was right under their noses. Joshua was smitten, he’d admitted the depth of his feelings, and Jeonghan could tell Seokmin felt the same.

He could tell the moment the boy walked in and expressed his disgust at Jaehyun’s choice of coffee. Seokmin knew how Joshua liked his coffee because he knew him, the real Joshua, not the fake persona he was trying to portray. And that was real love. True feelings found in something as simple as a cup of coffee and expressed in such a quiet and genuine action.

Jeonghan wouldn’t interfere with things between Joshua and Seokmin. It wasn’t his place. But he would sure as hell keep an eye on this Jaehyun guy and hopefully keep him from causing too much damage if he could.

“Jaehyun is very