like a volcano | minsung (and a hell lot of other ships) ✓

𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦.

"Jisung I'm just so sorry."
No reply.
"Jisung, come on. I'm seriously sorry. I know I did something horrible."
Still no reply.
"HAN JISUNG I SWEAR IT'S BEEN THREE GODDAMN DAYS YOU HAVENT SAID A WORD TO ME. YOU KNOW I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU. PLEASE JUST TALK TO ME."

Lee Felix bellowed, causing all the other students nearby to give him a bombastic side eye. "You're wrong." Jisung spoke to him for the first time.
"Thank God," Felix raised his eyes to heavens. "What am I wrong about?"
"That you can't live without me. You obviously can't live without your boyfriend. Don't ever think of talking to me again."

"Sungie.." Felix whined.
"I'm no Sungie of yours," Jisung snapped, walking faster ahead of the younger boy.
"Please Ji.. you know I would never leave you like that. I just didn't expect you to hang around for so late. Seungmin texted me 'we're going home' so I thought you were with them, I told you a hundred times. Kim Seungmin is a fucking bitch."

"And if I tell you I heard that?" Seungmin popped into existence nearby, hands on his hips.
"BITCH YOU FUCKING WAIT. I'LL SKIN YOU ALIVE AFTER THIS." Felix raged.
Seungmin rolled his eyes and slurped his pringles. It was a cloudy day and they were going back to their class since the recess was about to be over.

Once seated, Jisung and Seungmin began talking about Kim Sunoo and his new life. He had already told them all the tea in facetime. It took them some time, but they had visited Sunoo since, and his new change of personality took them both, especially Jisung by surprise.
The boy had transformed into sunshine, which Felix was very proud of. He kept telling anyone who'd listen that it was because of his punch that Sunoo received near the library.

Sunoo had become instantly popular. What with his new friends and academic improvement, he was very happy in school. Jisung hadn't forgiven him until Sunoo kneeled before him in tears. All his friends looked very proud. Jisung had hugged the pretty boy. Now all four of Jisung, Jeongin, Felix and Seungmin were very fond of Sunoo. Not just them, all of their class, Jeongin's class, Chan's class, even his own class, they all liked Sunoo.

But only Jisung, Seungmin, Jeongin and Felix knew about his home life. So Seungmin often brought him stuff made by his mom to make him happy, and Felix sometimes bought him his favourite mint choco ice cream. But these days they didn't really need to do it. There was another guy, in Jeongin's class who kept Sunoo smiling and laughing.

Jisung and Seungmin often giggled about him and the guy, shipping them together when class got too boring. Jisung still hadn't forgiven Felix, so Felix kept being ignored. Felix blamed it all on Seungmin and his straightforwardness. Which made Seungmin mad too, so they both left Felix alone. Jeongin tried to put them all back together, but recess was shorter than all classes combined.

So Felix sat with his boyfriend Changbin everyday and spent time with him. It seemed the last day Felix ever apologized to Jisung. Even when school was over, Felix giggled and held Changbin's hand while they both left school together. Jisung and Seungmin were done sharing tea over Yunho and Mingi bunking classes to sneak into the bathroom for whatever reason. So they both looked at Felix leave in unison.

"Rarely been 3 days and the guy's in the clouds." Seungmin commented coldly.
"Forget him. Let's go home, Seungmin."
"I'll find Jeongin, then, yeah? Bye Jisung."
"Bye." Jisung couldn't help but feel sad walking home alone. Felix had always felt like strength and energy, enough for him to step foot in home everyday. These days he just didn't want to go home. Because maybe he had no energy.

No, Jisung, you're only feeling like this because it's only been 3 days since you went alone. You were just used to Felix's presence, you walked home alone before too. It'll take time, breaking a habit.

But he couldn't help but feel empty when he saw Felix laughing and chatting with Changbin. He missed Felix, he admitted it. And he knew that deep down Seungmin felt it too. But he didn't know what to do anymore, Felix already felt too far away.

He didn't want to go home. He thought he'd sit down in the shade of the black currant tree for a while. He made his way towards the area but then he saw two familiar figures talking. He immediately hid behind a jasmine tree. Lord bless the jasmine trees. He had a clear view of them from between the leaves but the chances of them seeing Jisung were remote. Excellent.

"Guess what my favourite place in this whole school is?" Kim Sunoo giggled. "Three guesses only." He lifted 3 fingers cutely.
"Let me guess," the handsome guy with him put his finger on his lips in the manner of thinking. Jisung thought he had seen the guy before. And then he remembered, the guy was a gold medalist in ice skating segment of inter-school tournament! He had been coming first ever since he joined this school.

Not only was he a talented skater, he did it ever so gracefully, he looked no different than a prince. They both looked very beautiful together, because they both were very handsome. The ice prince guy's face lit up and he said, "cafeteria? Since you get to eat mint choco ice cream here everyday,"
Sunoo shook his head. "Hyung, second chance."

The other boy was slightly worried now. "Your class? Since you have Riki and Jungwon?"
Sunoo shook his head again. "Okay, can you please give me a hint?" The boy asked.
"Sunghoon hyung, the place is very fragrant and hidden," Sunoo smiled.

Sunghoon's lips turned up as comprehension dawned upon him. "This place? No way," Sunghoon laughed when Sunoo nodded. "Why, tho?" The older boy asked.
"Because this is the place where you sat with me and tried to comfort me," Sunoo looked lovingly into Sunghoon's eyes, as if it were the last time he'd ever see them.

"I don't know how miserable I would be if you didn't exist, Park Sunghoon," Sunoo said in a whisper. The air around them had changed. Jisung felt his heart racing. "Thank you, hyung, for everything."

Sunghoon's smile contained the same amount of love as in Sunoo's eyes. These guys were so head over heels with each other, now all Jisung had to do was wait for either to confess.
"Sunoo? You look like you're holding back a million emotions," Sunghoon said worriedly looking at Sunoo who was continuously staring on his lap.

As soon as he heard Sunghoon's voice, tears fell straight on his lap. "Sunoo? You can tell me anything, okay?"
"Its just, I don't want to go home. I want to stay with you."
Sunghoon intertwined his fingers with Sunoo's. "Its okay, its completely fine."

Jisung felt single enough to last him weeks. He carefully turned back, and ran all giggly and excited. Sunghoon and Sunoo were so cute. He wanted to see them together very much. But first, he needed to tell it all to his friends. He laughed as he imagined Felix's excited face—
Oh.