「and every time my heart beats, walk with me so i won't get lost anymore.」
"i can't believe you invited him over," yeosang says in a monotone voice as he fans the grill for his dad who was cooking the meat
"and why not? if he's serious about you, he'd come and face us before making moves." his dad replies, telling yeosang to pick up some slack with his fanning
he was absolutely mortified when his dad, out of nowhere, invited seonghwa to come over for to stay overnight considering yeosang had to go back the next day but they will gladly invite seonghwa back for christmas if ever they deem him worthy for yeosang
"what i can't believe is that he accepted, just goes to show that he's that interested in you." his dad smiles before checking the time on his watch
"oh! the train is almost arriving, you should go pick him up." yeosang scrunches his nose, shaking his head
"why me? you guys invited him over." he points out and his father gives him a warning look "he's your suitor and we can't leave because we're cooking, now go." he puts down his tongs, patting yeosang's head and telling him to go
"you say suitor as if i'm some maiden." he says dryly as he goes back inside the house and his ears perk up when he hears additional words coming from his dad "son, just go pick him up, i'll raise your allowance if you go now."
yeosang stuffed his hands inside his pockets while he waited for seonghwa to arrive, he had his headphones one because it was rather noisy, he was nervous, not only to see seonghwa but introducing him to his parents at such an early stage, their relationship was on the friendship stage and yeosang doesn't even know if he's gonna say yes if ever seonghwa is going to ask him out on a date.
"angel, you seem to be in deep thought." he jumps in his seat as he didn't even realize seonghwa was in front of him as he was too busy being conflicted
"i can't believe you actually came." yeosang says in a low voice as he stands up
"why wouldn't i?" seonghwa smiles before putting a hand over yeosang's shoulders, letting the shorter lead them out of the station
"your dad was very keen on meeting me first before i pursue you so that's why i came." he adds, yeosang somehow avoided that as he explained that they live close by so they were gonna have to walk much to seonghwa's delight because it just means more time with yeosang
"if it weren't for us having to play earlier, i would have been here early in the morning." yeosang snaps his head up at him
"i missed a show again?" he questions, even in the dim setting, seonghwa can see his eyes glimmer "we did, we played a day6 song because it was your request and you weren't even there." seonghwa pokes his nose, causing yeosang to turn away from him "next time, i'll try to watch."
a limited amount of words were exchanged between as seonghwa was the only one talking while yeosang's replies just consists of mumbles and nods and seonghwa just lets it go, knowing that the literature student must have been nervous.
"i'm back, i have the nuisance with me!" yeosang yells when they got inside their house "nuisance? am i really?" seonghwa faux cries as he clutches his chest
"yeosang, that's not very nice!" they hear his mom say as she comes out from the living room to greet their guest "you must be seonghwa, i'm sorry about my son, that's his way of humor." she gives her son a glare before leading seonghwa further in the house
yeosang had slipped away from their sight, silently going up the stairs so he can hide himself in his room as he feels his anxiousness grow, he closes the bedroom door behind him as he clutches his head in between his hands, leg bouncing as he sat on the edge of his bed
he was scared, he is scared of opening himself to a relationship again, he was scared that this is going to be another relationship that will end horribly, years of building himself up and seonghwa might be another reckoning.
he doesn't hear the knock on his door, as well as the soft footsteps coming in "hey yeo, are you okay?" he hears seonghwa's velvet-like voice yet yeosang can't bear to look at him
"angel, come here." he feels the bed dip and seonghwa's arms pulling him close
"your mom got worried and told me i'd find you here." he can feel how tense yeosang was in his hold and he tried to let go of him but the tight grip of the petite boy made him halt his actions
"do you want me to keep holding you?" seonghwa got an indefinite answer because yeosang was shaking his head in the first place and then he was nodding
"how about we go downstairs so you can eat, and after that we can just hang out in your backyard so how about we get some fresh air." he suggests, he doesn't know what was going through yeosang's mind at the moment but it's better to take him outside rather than leave him in the stuffy room.
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throughout the dinner, yeosang was starting to feel better again, he can see how much seonghwa was genuinely engaged in talking to his parents, whether it was about school, his majors, about music and even about yeosang.
and the way he heard seonghwa talk about him was something he'd never heard before from previous relationships
the guitarist explained that no matter how difficult was it to even gain yeosang's name, he didn't mind because yeosang was worth the effort
even admitting to his parents that he thought yeosang was someone who was easy to get due to his reputation in school but he was deemed wrong when the literature student shot him down immediately
yeosang admits that it made him giggle a few times when seonghwa relayed the length of time that passed before he got yeosang's name.
yeosang saw how much his parents warmed up to seonghwa, he bites his bottom lip as he digs his fingers into the palm of his hand as he thought to himself that perhaps it's time to step out of his safe haven and risk it for seonghwa.
after dinner, yeosang had invited seonghwa to go to the convenience store with him, he doesn't know what came over him but he just wanted to be alone with the musician.
seonghwa was admittedly surprised but accepted, even more so when he feels yeosang slip his hand in his while they were walking down the empty, narrow street but he doesn't say a word and just enjoys the moment.
"can i have some of yours?" seonghwa hears yeosang ask in a tiny voice while they sat in the tables outside the convenient store
"my ice cream?" yeosang nodded, still grasping on to seonghwa's hand so the latter holds his ice cream cone towards yeosang who took a bite at the soft vanilla
"i should have gotten vanilla," he pouts as he looks at his mint chocolate ice cream, only buying it out of curiosity but he regrets that decision "it taste like toothpaste." seonghwa chuckles and offers to exchange with him much to yeosang's happiness by the way he giggled
"since i'm in your parents' good graces, may i take you out on a date when we get back to seoul?" seonghwa asks out of the blue, causing yeosang to choke on and cough a bit
"y-you won't do anything to hurt me, right?" he was taken aback by the question but he smiles softly, squeezing yeosang's hand as a way of reassurance "i won't, i promise. we don't even have to go on a date right away, i'll wait until you're comfortable."
[a/n: y'all is it weird that i'm excited for my birthday (which is in june lol) bc that's the only day i get attention? also, thank you for giving this story 100 votes already omg]