they had rented a room, which was basically on the other side of the city; they had organized the food and drinks, but they hadn't planned much on what to do.

not that they needed to plan this after all.

in the end they really had invited their old highschool friends plus minhyuk and taehyun. although seungyoon was constantly worried, whether taehyun wasn't too soft for the conversations the others were about to have.

at first everyone was a little awkward due to the fact, there were two people, who didn't use to be part of their old group of friends.

but as time went by and everyone downed a few drinks, the tension began to losen. eventually sohee would come up with do you still remember when... and they began telling one anecdote after another.

although both minhyuk and taehyun couldn't really join in, they had different ways of handling the situation. while taehyun was cuddled up next to seungyoon, resting his head on his shoulder carefully, minhyuk seemed to become more and more upset.

especially everytime when kyungmi would tell a story about her and seungyoon, he interrupted her roughly and pulled her closer, overreacting for no specific reason.

unlike seungyoon had expected, he didn't seem mad at him, but at kyungmi.

the way minhyuk glared at his girlfriend, scared seungyoon as if he was threatened to death; he was scared that kyungmi would have to go through the same things, he had been going through.

suddenly he couldn't bear this anxiety anymore, so he just ran out of the room, leaving everyone confused.

a few floors upstairs he finally stopped, and sat down on the stairs. powerlessly he rested his head on his knees.

soon he could hear someone open a door downstairs and walk upstairs, to where he was sitting. at first he thought it might be kyungmi, but the footsteps were more heavy.

he didn't find the power to look up, but when someone hugged him from the side, he immediatly knew, it was taehyun.

"what's wrong?" taehyun whispered close to seungyoon's ear.

somehow he hesitated to reply, searching for the right answer. "i'm just constantly reminded of something, that i don't want to remember." hopefully this would be enough of an explanation for now.

seungyoon turned and hugged taehyun back, hiding his face in the crook of his neck, so he wouldn't see him shedding some tears.

they remained like this for what seemed to be forever until taehyun broke their silence. "this probably isn't the right time, but" he hugged seungyoon even tighter. "i love you, seungyoon."

but no matter how much seungyoon wished to tell him, that he feels the same, he just couldn't. and his heart shattered into a million tiny pieces.