adorned : in many ways [a series]

part i || adorned

“hyunjae hyung.” these two words shot out of his mouth, hesitation suddenly seeming to be a mandela effect. it was juyeon's answer to eric's question - "what do you find the prettiest?" - who obviously wanted to expose the older.

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it wasn’t the new shade of burgundy on hyunjae’s head. it wasn’t the black leather belts that wrapped tightly around hyunjae’s tiny waist with a gold buckle. it wasn’t his large, white button-up shirt that hyunjae was wearing. and it definitely wasn’t the shiny, silver band around hyunjae’s ring finger.

of all the pretty things adorned on hyunjae, the only thing that juyeon couldn’t seem to stop thinking about was how pretty hyunjae adorned his pretty things. often times than not, it would be a complimentary where everyone would say “wow, this looks good on you!” or “goodness, that looks beautiful on you!”

with his hyunjae hyung, however, was the total opposite. objectively, everything looks amazing on his hyunjae hyung. subjectively, juyeon thinks that hyunjae looks stunning in everything. see the difference right there?

lee juyeon thinks that the most beautiful, most ravishing, prettiest thing – or rather, someone - he had seen in his entire existence is lee hyunjae. the pretty little things that made hyunjae alluring? no, it was hyunjae that made the pretty little things alluring. the aesthetics that decorated hyunjae’s charm? no, it was hyunjae that brought charm to what was called ‘aesthetics’. he couldn’t be decorated with aesthetics. after all, lee hyunjae was the aesthetic himself.

juyeon has probably specified a great deal about these ‘important’ details about the way one should word their sentences when it comes to lee hyunjae. he can’t have discrimination of any sort spoken towards the older, especially not with the crude way people worded their compliments to hyunjae. he had had enough with fans coming up to hyunjae saying “you look handsome with this new hair colour” or “you look pretty with the flower crown.” it had gotten to the point where he actually taught deobis how they should be complimenting someone else – specifically his hyunjae hyung.

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“you really think that i’m the prettiest among so many people, so many things?” a shade too deep to be his natural blush, shy smiles, and a round of rousing cheers fuelled to his answer.

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it was the way aphrodite showered him with so much love – perhaps a little too much, in juyeon’s opinion. the way they shaped his eyes as big as a doll’s, yet held so much innocence and so mellow, like that of bambi’s the deer in the disney’s movie. how stars ravelled in his eyes when juyeon looked at him; the way his eyes glittered and shone.

it was the way aphrodite blessed hyunjae with a slim, elegantly straight nose that curved off at the right end, forming a slope that if a kid were to sit at the peak of his nose, they would slide off perfectly and land as if they were playing on the slides in the playground. or you could perhaps say that it was like the hypotenuse to its right-angled triangle. how juyeon always ran his fingers down the slope of the older’s perfectly sculpted nose just to feel the uninterrupted smooth line - mostly when he was asleep. juyeon thinks that he might be getting addicted to doing so.

it was also the way the goddess of beauty formed the uneven, quintessential pink lips that perfectly balanced off one another. those lips that juyeon lusted for – the lips that sometimes had a sheen coat of gleaming, strawberry flavoured lip gloss; the lips that sometimes were scorched dry by the sun like the sahara desert, chapped and sometimes cut. those lips that formed the cute pout juyeon loved so much. those lips that were incredulously soft – juyeon sneaked small kisses when the older was asleep. those lips that curved into resplendent smiles and unrestrained laughter.

other than that, it was the way hyunjae was gifted with a statuesque body, muscles that moulded easily into their respective forms, and that tiny, snatched waist that juyeon so often snaked his arms around. hyunjae had slim, long legs as well. his body proportions were prepossessing and godly, ameliorating the ideal standards of a ‘good body proportion’. oh, how juyeon observed the older on a daily basis, his eyes roaming to places of the older’s body, admiring and taking in the blessed sight in front of him. sometimes, the other members would tease him for it, only to find him to be stuck in a daze. it was weird and painfully obvious, yet hyunjae doesn’t notice the constant stares juyeon gives him.

if you thought that goddess aphrodite was done, they’re not. to top off the divination of their most beautiful masterpiece, they gave lee hyunjae the fairest skin, swathes of milky tone shaded his skin, flawless, dainty, and pristine. it was the way hyunjae’s skin was kept virgin from spots and scratches that made juyeon develop an insatiable desire to mark him – to call him his.

now that aphrodite was satisfied, they passed hyunjae to goddess hestia, shaping his compassionate side. not only was juyeon’s hyunjae hyung beautiful on the outside, but he was also just as beautiful on the inside – goddess hestia made sure of that. hyunjae was the strongest person, the most compassionate one. he takes care of the members quietly, comforting them when needed, helping out little by little – so much so, sometimes it goes unnoticed. he’s done countless of things to make people happy, mainly deobis and the rest of the members of the boyz. hyunjae, needless to say, is the backbone of the boyz – the one everyone could lean onto.

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“yes, hyung. you’re the prettiest- no, you’re the most ravishing existence on this entire planet. even out to the furthest galaxy, you’re still the most beautiful something to exist.” juyeon answered sincerely, closing his distance with the older, blocking out the ruckus the other members were making. he stared into those doe eyes, his large hands resting on the older’s hips, pulling him nearer and nearer to him, till they shared the same air.

“lee jaehyun, no one can compete. no one should even dare compare to beauty so divine – both inside and out.” juyeon whispered under his breath, loud enough for his hyunjae hyung to hear. he sealed off his promise with a kiss on the older’s lips, feeling hyunjae’s smile.