❀ taken by the storm; for cam_yeol
author: miliaax
for: cam_yeol
title: Taken by the storm
rating: pg-13
length: ~5.4k
summary: Maybe Kyungsoo judges people too easily, and maybe he should listen to others more. Just maybe.
warnings: mild violence probably, disgustingly pg romance
notes: thanks for the mods for being so patient, and to my recipient: I’m sorry if this is not what you expected, but I hope you like it anyway!
Taken by the storm
"I swear to God he is the laziest piece of shit I have ever had the displeasure of knowing," Kyungsoo said, narrowing his eyes towards Sehun who sat at the opposite side of the room, and Junmyeon sighed beside him.
"Sehun is..." the older started, pausing to look for the right word to describe him. "A special case?" Junmyeon continued while cringing himself, because he knew it didn't really help. Kyungsoo just rolled his eyes and scoffed.
"A special case? He's a fucking basket case", he huffed out, "he's a waste of time."
"Don't be so harsh on him, he is just a kid."
"He's only a year younger than me. I don't see a reason why I would need to pamper him and tolerate his behavior. Jongin is his age and he works hard, harder than anyone. It pisses me off that Sehun does absolutely nothing." They had only been training together for a year but Kyungsoo was quick to notice how Sehun seemed like he wanted to be anywhere else than in the training room with them.
At first he thought he was maybe shy and didn't really know what to do with his power, since none of them had gotten them before they turned 18, but from what he had seen (only a few times though) Sehun definitely knew how to control it. They were tested monthly on their progress, and Sehun always passed without a problem, which pissed Kyungsoo off even more because they all worked their asses off and then there was Sehun, who barely lifted a finger to work together with everyone.
It was like his face was made of stone. Kyungsoo was pretty sure he had never seen Sehun smile and no matter how many times Jongin defended him by saying he just had a resting bitch face, Kyungsoo was sure he hated them all and was plotting how to get rid of them.
Junmyeon just offered him an apologetic smile, and Kyungsoo didn't understand why he was the one being sorry when Sehun was the one who was acting like a little brat. He clenched his hand into a fist, hitting the ground with slightly more force than he intended to, making the ground crack all the way up to Sehun, finishing with a big chunk of ground bulleting right at Sehun's face from his feet where the crack had abruptly stopped.
Kyungsoo watched the scene with slight horror, thinking about how much trouble he would get in to from this, but when Sehun dodged the chunk with little to no effort, blowing it away like slapping a little fly with a flick of his wrist, all he could see was red.
Kyungsoo stood up in a second and started stomping towards Sehun, dust flying everywhere. If he would have been thinking straight he would probably have noticed the slight change in Sehun's expression, how it changed from nonchalant to a little terrified, but all he could think about was how angry he was.
"You," he growled while pointing at Sehun, stopping to stand right in front of him.
Sehun just stared back at him, confusion written all over his face. To Kyungsoo it looked like he was being arrogant so he jabbed his finger on Sehun's chest.
"You don't do shit for this group here," he started, scowling at the other. "What gives you the right to laze around when we all work our asses off, hm? What gives you the right to act like you're better than all of us?"
This was what made Sehun snap out of his confusion. He was clearly getting worked up too, because there was suddenly a chilly wind blowing around them, which was obviously his doing because they were in a huge room that was made to look like a field with forest around it.
"Shut up, you don't know anything," was Sehun’s reply.
"I don't need to know shit about you, I have eyes, I can clearly see how you're acting."
"You don't know shit about me and you're still blowing ground to my face and sticking fingers at my chest?"
Kyungsoo jabbed him at the chest again, and it was all Sehun needed to push Kyungsoo's chest hard, sending him stumbling back a few steps. This didn't sit well with Kyungsoo so he rushed forward, fisting Sehun's shirt to make it tighter around his neck. He got a strong blow on his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. He let go of Sehun to gasp for air and the latter stepped away from him.
"I really don't want to do this," Sehun said and Kyungsoo just scoffed.
"You don't really want to do anything, do you." Sehun just sighed loudly and Kyungsoo took this as a cue to pound the ground with his fist, making it crumble under Sehun's feet, making him fall on his back.
Kyungsoo scrambled on top of him, fitting his hands around Sehun's throat and squeezed, still trying to even his breaths himself. Sehun, with his damn long arms, returned the favor by wrapping his long, slender fingers around Kyungsoo's neck. Kyungsoo soon realised it was going nowhere when they were both just wheezing, red faced and losing their energy so he untangled his fingers from around Sehun's neck just to bring his fist to Sehun's cheek.
The punch was enough to make Sehun drop his hands, but the younger was quick to recover, grabbing Kyungsoo from his shoulders and spinning them around, hitting him in the gut instead. Kyungsoo coughed, but wasn't willing to go down without a fight so he grabbed Sehun's hair and yanked his head backwards.
"You fight like a girl," Sehun grunted, but Kyungsoo thought otherwise.
"I'm smaller, I'm allowed to play dirty." His answer was followed by a kick to Sehun’s groin, making the latter double over with a pained whine. Kyungsoo scrambled to get up, but just as he was about to kick Sehun again someone grabbed him from behind, holding his arms so all he could do was kick his feet around, a good half a meter away from Sehun who was now being treated by Yixing.
Damn it, why did they all have to side with Sehun. Seeing people hovering around Sehun didn't help his annoyance at all, but for some reason it made him incredibly sad. He felt like he was alone in this because no one took his side and he couldn't understand why.
"Why are you on his side," Kyungsoo said, and it came out more pathetic than it was supposed to, but he couldn't help it.
“That’s it,” Junmyeon said, sighing loudly while he stood up from beside Sehun. “I’m tired of you both acting like immature brats by not listening to me. You two have to talk.” The last part was mostly directed to Sehun, since Junmyeon was looking at him hard in the eye, which made Kyungsoo a little confused.
Kyungsoo flopped down on the ground, proceeding to lay on his back, covering his eyes with his arm. The shame from finally snapping was slowly starting to creep to him and he was too tired to face any of them right now, and his head hurt from the fight and he just really, really wanted to sleep it all away.
So he closed his eyes and did so.
//
When he woke, he wasn’t on the ground in the training room anymore but instead on a bed in the infirmary room of the building. His headache had eased down a little, but it still made him wince when he lifted himself up to a sitting position.
And, as if his mood wasn’t already sour enough, on the bed right next to him lied the reason why ended up in the infirmary in the first place. Well, it was Kyungsoo who couldn’t control his anger but to his defense Sehun didn’t do much to calm him down either. Kyungsoo would say they were equally at fault since Sehun’s attitude was the one that made him lose his temper like that.
They shared a very brief eye contact before Kyungsoo got up from his bed, heading towards the door because he wanted to get out of the same room as Sehun as soon as possible, but was soon stopped by Sehun’s voice.
“They locked it from the outside,” Sehun said, sounding a little wary and Kyungsoo couldn’t really blame him for it. He did attack him kind of out of nowhere. Now that Kyungsoo had fully calmed down he actually felt bad about jumping on him like that, it wasn’t how he usually behaved, it wasn’t like him at all. He turned around to stare at Sehun with a confused expression on his face.
“Why?” It came out harsher than he intended, and he winced a little, not sure if Sehun noticed. The other didn’t seem to mind as he just shrugged his shoulders, looking a little helpless.
Kyungsoo rolled his eyes and scoffed.
“Great. I bet it was Junmyeon’s idea,” he muttered, mostly to himself, and Sehun looked like he wasn’t sure if Kyungsoo was actually talking to him or not. The kid looked frightened which was weird since he basically spurred him on to fight with him.
He walked back to sit on his bed, trying to not look at Sehun’s direction. The silence that followed their little conversation - if it could even be called that - was awkward and it made Kyungsoo feel even more anxious and bad about what happened. He didn’t want to be locked up in the room either, and Junmyeon had said they needed to talk, so maybe if he apologized they would be let out.
He turned his head towards Sehun, trying to open his mouth but his lips felt like they were sealed together, and he started to feel a little nauseous. Apologizing was not one of his strong suits, and it was never easy to say it to a family member or a friend, so it was much harder now when it wasn’t even someone he wasn’t close to. He didn’t want to seem weak, especially not in front of Sehun.
The other looked at him, somewhat expectant but mostly confused, since Kyungsoo’s inner battle probably showed very clearly on his face.
“I’m-,” he started, looking Sehun straight in the eye, but shifting his gaze elsewhere when he realised he would not be able to do this if he had to look him. “...sorry. For, you know, attacking you. I don’t know what came over me.”
Sehun looked thoroughly surprised.
“Well, I mean I do know what came over me, I just should not have let it. I’m sorry I couldn’t contain my anger. Or annoyance. Whatever it was,” Kyungsoo blabbered, not really even knowing why. “So there, I said it. Shouldn’t that be enough?” He said, a little too coldly even to his own liking, but it was all he could muster out right now. He lifted his gaze back to Sehun.
He was met with a pair of rounded eyes, and Sehun looked even more boyish like this. When the surprise wore off, the younger gave him a slight smile, at least it looked like one, before hanging his head low with an uncomfortable expression.
“I don’t think that’s why they locked us up in here together,” he said, sounding a little guilty.
A surprised “what?” escaped Kyungsoo’s mouth and Sehun chuckled at that.
“There is something I haven’t told you, which I probably should have, since it seems to have caused some misunderstandings between us. Well, from your side.”
Kyungsoo just frowned at him, now confused himself.
“You don’t really like me because you think I don’t put effort into anything, right?”
Kyungsoo scoffed. “More or less.”
“Well… It’s not as simple as that,” Sehun said, his hand coming up to run up and down his forearm to comfort himself. “I’m… My power… I’m not really…” Sehun swallowed down as his voice started to tremble.
“Just say what you need to say if it’s going to get us out of here,” Kyungsoo said, but his face was softer now than before.
“I had a rough childhood.”
Really not where Kyungsoo thought this was going.
“I don’t really need to hear about yo-”
“My dad died when I was little so it has only been me and my mom as long as I remember.”
That effectively shut Kyungsoo up.
“My power showed signs ever since I was a kid, and neither of us knew what it was or why I had it. It was just really mild and confusing at first, but when I grew older, it became stronger and I had no idea how to control it. I accidentally broke stuff, like reaching out for something at the dining table but instead of getting to it, I tossed it to the wall before even touching it.
“After some time, my mother started to… avoid me. She wouldn’t look me in the eye as much as before, and she would lean away when I got close to her. One time when I touched her hand she slapped at mine and shouted ‘get away from me, you monster’. I was only eleven. I didn’t know what I had done wrong and why my mother resented me. All I knew I had something I wasn’t supposed to have, and my mother called me disgusting for it.
“She kind of stopped taking me outside with her, ordering me to only stay at home and play at our yard by myself. She forced me to not go to school because she was afraid I would hurt someone. I even overheard her telling someone that she doesn’t have a son anymore. As I got older, she stopped caring and she started acting like I didn’t even exist anymore, and in a way I didn’t. I tried to stay out of her way the best I could.
“She made me feel ashamed of myself and she made me hate myself. She taught me that this power, this thing I have is wrong and unacceptable. I was unwanted, and I had started to think it was my fault for being that way. I thought that I shouldn’t even be allowed to live because I was so flawed.
“So, what I’m trying to say is that I am not lazy. I don’t usually participate just because I don’t want to, I don’t use my power because I’m not used to people accepting it, and I have not fully accepted the fact that it’s actually a good thing myself. It makes me anxious to use it, because I feel like people will abandon me again. I feel anxious because for so many years I have thought it’s wrong.”
Kyungsoo was stunned to silence. How could he have not known?
“Why are you telling me all this just now…?” he asked tentatively, and Sehun hummed.
“When I first came here, you were at the practice room and I thought you were really admirable. You seemed to have accepted your power as a part of you perfectly, embracing it, and I really look up to that. And, in case you haven’t noticed, you’re kind of… intimidating, and quiet. You don’t go out nearly as much as the other members.”
“...I don’t really know what to say,” Kyungsoo said, feeling remorseful about all the bad things he had said about Sehun up until now.
“It’s okay, I understand. You had no idea of knowing because I never told you, and the other members respected my privacy.” Sehun offered him a pained smile, and Kyungsoo felt a painful pang in his heart. He couldn’t even believe that his attitude towards Sehun could change so much with just one conversation. He couldn’t believe he had been angry so blindly, not even thinking about the other side’s feelings. He had just assumed things himself.
“Now I feel even worse about attacking you,” he mumbled, ashamed of himself.
“It’s okay,” Sehun laughed. “To be honest, I’m kind of glad it happened. I got to see a new side of you, and we were able to talk. I don’t think I could have mustered up the courage to tell you all this on my own. You gave me the push I needed, quite literally.”
“Gosh, I was such an asshole towards you,” Kyungsoo whined, lowering his head to cover his face with his hands. He let out a long, embarrassed groan before straightening himself up, determination clear on his face. “I’m going to make it up to you, I promise.”
Sehun looked stunned before breaking out into the most radiant smile Kyungsoo had ever seen on Sehun’s face.
Maybe the things that happened happened for a reason.
//
Now that Kyungsoo knew the truth, he started to pay more attention to Sehun during practices than he did before (though if you would ask Junmyeon he’d say it’s impossible since Kyungsoo did nothing but glare at Sehun before this). He didn’t even have to look that hard to notice that the expression he so carelessly had dubbed as nonchalant actually showed so much more than that.
Kyungsoo was ashamed of his attitude towards Sehun and he couldn’t believe he was too blind to notice the clear discomfort and pain on his face. The fact that he might have caused even more pain to Sehun with his actions made him really uneasy and he just wanted to apologize to the boy even more and more. He wanted to help him, but Kyungsoo wasn’t sure if it was his place to do nor wish for such things, considering they hadn’t been close at all before this (not that they were close now either).
Still, somehow, when Sehun noticed Kyungsoo staring at him, the younger boy gave him a tiny, warm smile and a wave of his hand and Kyungsoo felt something warm in his chest. How could he have thought that this boy would have wanted anything bad for anyone. He was kind enough to be friends with Kyungsoo even though he treated him like a piece of trash and badmouthed him many times, probably in situations where Sehun was able to hear it too.
He also saw why people were around him constantly and spending time with him, and to be honest, he wanted to go with them too but he was too embarrassed. He knew the others would give him shit about the fact that he was such an asshole before and now wanted to be friends with Sehun.
He had learned from his mistake to not judge people too much and too hard before knowing all the facts, even without all his friends telling him so, thank you very much.
Nonetheless, Kyungsoo was determined on making it up to Sehun as he promised, but to do so, he had to be sneaky. He didn’t want any unwanted attention, meaning when Sehun one night left behind to practice on his own because he had been late earlier, Kyungsoo waited for all the others to leave before he sneaked into the practice room himself.
“Hey,” he said softly as he approached Sehun whose back was turned towards him, purposefully keeping his voice low in order to not scare the other one, since he probably thought he was in the room alone. Sehun turned around, his eyebrows lifted up a little.
“Hey,” he said back after a short pause. Then, there was a long, awkward pause making Kyungsoo fidget on his spot.
“I wanted to see how you were doing,” he finally said, not daring to look Sehun in the eye.
“Well, one would think you know exactly how I’m doing with the way you’re staring at me for most of our practice time,” Sehun laughed with a teasing tone in his voice, making Kyungsoo blush. Damn it, he was not supposed to be shy and blush like a school girl. Why is he shy and blushing like a school girl anyway?
“I’m… sorry?” Kyungsoo squeaked and winced at how embarrassing he sounded. Sehun just laughed.
“It’s fine.”
“I’m just, you know, trying to observe where I went wrong. I didn’t think I was stupid enough to not know how to read someone’s expression right, especially when I saw you so many times,” Kyungsoo told him, looking at the ground. “It’s really embarrassing because I treated you so badly.”
“Hey, we’ve been over this so many times, and every time I have told you that I don’t mind, it’s okay, I understand.”
“It shouldn’t be okay. Why didn’t you just come and punch me in the face when I was talking badly about you?” Kyungsoo whined.
“Because you were intimidating?” Sehun chuckled. “Not that you are anymore, now that I know just how squishy you are in reality.”
“I’m not squishy!” Kyungsoo gasped, looking at Sehun scandalized. How dare he!
“Sure, sure,” Sehun sing-songed while he turned to walk away from him, deeper into the training room. Kyungsoo bolted after him, giving a satisfying slap on the back of Sehun’s head when he reached him while muttering about Sehun being such a brat to him even though he is older.
//
After the first time Kyungsoo stayed behind in the practice room with Sehun, it sort of became a routine for them. They didn’t really talk about it nor did they ever set a time for it, it just sort of happened. Many times.
Kyungsoo had also unconsciously started to spend more time with Sehun in public too and while the others were around. He had avoided doing it because he didn’t want to listen to Junmyeon’s “I told you so”s, and he was really ashamed of his past behavior so his shame forced him to stay away from the boy.
Or that’s what he thought at least, because before he even realised it, he was the one Sehun came to when he was troubled or wanted to hang out before going to sleep. Kyungsoo was actually proud about it, and it made him happy, but if Junmyeon were to ask he would deny it with all he could.
“I’m glad you accepted me as your friend,” Sehun said to him one night when they were sitting alone in Kyungsoo’s room. It was one of the times when Sehun sneaked there because he wasn’t able to sleep and he knew Kyungsoo well enough now to know that the older wasn’t able to fall asleep early anyway.
“What,” Kyungsoo spluttered and turned a little red. “I should be the one to say that.”
“I know, I know,” Sehun laughed, turning to look at Kyungsoo with bright eyes. “I still wanted to tell you how grateful I am.”
It made Kyungsoo’s heart flutter a little painfully, which was now a normal occurance when he spent time with Sehun. He didn’t say anything, just stared at the other boy’s smile in wonder. He truly had the most beautiful smile he had ever seen.
God, how I want to kiss him.
The urge was something new, but it didn’t scare Kyungsoo because honestly, he knew it was coming. What else could his heart speeding up whenever he was close to the boy or the way his heart hurt when he smiled at him mean? He was head over heels for him already.
He noticed he had been staring for a bit too long when Sehun started to look at him a little weirdly. Clearing his throat, he turned away to hide his deepened blush. He wasn’t sure if he wanted Sehun to know about his feelings yet, or if he wanted him to know at all.
There was definitely mutual admiration towards each other, but Kyungsoo couldn’t be sure if Sehun just looked up to him because he was older and more experienced with his powers. He wasn’t sure if Sehun would only think that he liked Kyungsoo back because he admired him so much. They would both end up hurt once Sehun would realise it and apart from not wanting to go through the pain himself, he didn’t want that burden on Sehun, because hurting someone else wasn’t easy either.
Or you could just give it a chance and not put thought in his head, nagged Junmyeon’s voice in his head and Kyungsoo sighed loudly.
“What’s wrong?” Of course Sehun would pick up on it immediately.
“Nothing, just silly thoughts, don’t worry about it,” Kyungsoo said, giving him and encouraging smile.
“Seriously, Soo. I’ve opened up to you so much, it would be nice if you did the same for me too,” Sehun said, a little too serious. “Don’t you trust me?”
“No! I mean yes!” Kyungsoo quickly responded, not finding the right words. “I mean, I do trust you.”
“Well…?”
This is not the right time, Kyungsoo thought to himself as he plastered a fake smile on his face.
"I'm just stressed about the monthly test that's coming up, I think they're expecting too much from us already," he lied smoothly, shoulders sagging but it seemed to work because Sehun gave him one of his genuine encouraging smiles.
"You'll do great, Soo. I've been practicing with you every day so trust me, I have seen you," he said cheerfully and oddly, Kyungsoo did feel relieved even though he didn't notice he was actually honestly stressing about it. Huh. "We can practice some more together if you feel like you need it, though. I'm happy to help even if I don't know much about your power."
"Thanks," Kyungsoo said and his heart melted a little.
They continued chatting a little more, but Kyungsoo noticed how sleepy Sehun started to be, with his eyes drooping a little, closing from time to time. He just claimed to be resting his eyes but Kyungsoo knew that if he laid down even for a second he'd be in his dreamland immediately, with the way he was yawning.
Which brought him to his problem, which was that he could not stop staring at his lips after his little revelation. He wasn't too worried about it because Sehun didn't seem to notice, or if he did, he was definitely too sleepy to even think about it. But it was very distracting and he found himself asking Sehun to repeat himself multiple times because his mind had been somewhere else than listening to his talking.
"I should probably go, we're both going to pass out any minute now," Sehun chuckled after an exceptionally long yawn.
"Yeah," Kyungsoo mumbled, ready to lay down on his bed to catch some shut eye.
"I'll see you tomorrow, we can stay later so practice. Or we can do something else," Sehun said quickly, and if Kyungsoo weren't so sleepy he would have noticed the faint blush on his cheeks.
"Mkay," he mumbled again before he put his head on the pillow, shutting his eyes.
//
“So…” Junmyeon starts, walking closer to Kyungsoo to bump him with his elbow. “I heard Sehun lingered pretty long in your room last night,” he continued and Kyungsoo didn’t like his suggestive tone.
“What are you trying to say,” Kyungsoo asked, trying to play it cool, but his irritation was clear in his voice.
“What I’m trying to say is that we all see that there is clearly something going on between you two.” Kyungsoo gave him a glare. “I can’t believe this, my Kyungsoo is growing up! It feels like yesterday when you were sending death threats to Sehun with your ey-”
He didn’t get far with his speech because Kyungsoo interrupted him by slapping his hand on Junmyeon’s mouth before he could get any further. He knew this time would come and he would do anything to prevent continuing.
“Shut up, I don’t want to, nor need to hear your nagging,” Kyungsoo hissed. “I’m perfectly aware of the fact that I did wrong, but we’re friends now, isn’t that all that matter? So shut up.”
“Geez, no need to get so fired up,” Junmyeon said with humour in his voice once he detached Kyungsoo’s hand from over his mouth. “Also, are you sure you’re just frie-”
There was no hesitance in the punch that landed on Junmyeon’s face.
//
“What did you talk about with Junmyeon earlier today?” Sehun asked later on that day when they were alone in the practice room, when the others had left already. “It seemed a bit heated.”
“Oh, it was just Junmyeon being an ass,” Kyungsoo replied vaguely. He was really bad at lying and he didn’t want to admit that Junmyeon was being an ass about him being so close with Sehun.
When he turned to look at the boy though, Sehun seemed a bit upset.
“Why are you making a sad face?” Kyungsoo inquired and Sehun just sighed.
“You never tell me anything,” he whined, and it made Kyungsoo feel a little bad.
“It’s not something I can just talk to you about.”
“But you can. You can tell me anything, seriously, I won’t judge. I want to help because something seems to have been bothering you a lot.”
Why do you have to be so cute and observant, Kyungsoo whined inside his head. He looked at Sehun with his eyebrows furrowed, but the other one stared back at him just as intensely and in the end, Kyungsoo gave up.
“Fine,” he grunted. “He was giving me shit for us being so… close, you know. Because I was an ass to you before it.”
“Why did you punch him, though,” Sehun asked and Kyungsoo was a little surprised that Sehun had noticed that too. He didn’t know anyone was watching them.
“Because he said something,” Kyungsoo said and tried to make the discussion end there, but Sehun didn’t stop.
“Something what?” he asked further and Kyungsoo felt how blood started to creep onto his cheeks.
“Something about us,” he said, taking a pause to swallow, trying to find a good place to look at, finally deciding it would be better to just look Sehun straight in the eye to see his exact reaction. “Being more than friends.”
There was a long pause, and Sehun’s face didn’t even twitch, which Kyungsoo didn’t know if it was a bad thing or a good thing. They just stared blankly at each other for a good while.
“Oh,” Sehun finally said, and Kyungsoo felt a little pang in his heart because Sehun didn’t react at all, and that could only mean that it didn’t faze him much and the really didn’t think anything about it. Kyungsoo was just about to laugh and brush it off when Sehun opened his mouth again. “Would it be that bad?”
He sounded genuinely concerned and Kyungsoo just stared back at him, dumbstruck.
“I mean, I wouldn’t mind it,” he continued and Kyungsoo spluttered.
“Wha- Why- What,” he stuttered. “When did you get so bold?!” Kyungsoo shrieked and Sehun just laughed.
“At first I didn’t know what exactly you thought of me, but I have caught you staring at my lips quite frequently during the last two days so… I’m not wrong to assume you feel something for me, too?” Sehun asked, and now Kyungsoo could see the blush on his face and he actually looked a little nervous and shy, a huge contrast to his words.
“I-,” Kyungsoo didn’t know how to place his words or even what to say, staring hopelessly at Sehun. In the end he grabbed Sehun’s hand, squeezing it firmly and looked at him intensely. “Yes, I do feel something for you too.”
Sehun broke into a huge grin, squeezing his hand bag before tugging at it firmly so that Kyungsoo stumbled forward, right into his embrace.
“I’m glad,” Sehun sighed against his shoulder and Kyungsoo couldn’t help the grin that was splitting his face. They hugged for a while before Sehun pulled away just enough to look at Kyungsoo’s face.
“It’s okay to lock lips, isn’t it?” he said with a grin and Kyungsoo swatted his shoulder and laughed.
“Not exactly the words I would use but yes, I think it’s more than okay,” Kyungsoo said and decided that it was his turn to take the initiative, so he grabbed the back of Sehun’s neck while lifting himself on his tiptoes to press their lips together.
It didn’t last long, but it was a perfect first kiss, and it left them smiling brightly at each other.
Somewhere, from the forest next to them echoed Junmyeon’s loud “I knew it!” before the ground under him cracked.
for: cam_yeol
title: Taken by the storm
rating: pg-13
length: ~5.4k
summary: Maybe Kyungsoo judges people too easily, and maybe he should listen to others more. Just maybe.
warnings: mild violence probably, disgustingly pg romance
notes: thanks for the mods for being so patient, and to my recipient: I’m sorry if this is not what you expected, but I hope you like it anyway!
Taken by the storm
"I swear to God he is the laziest piece of shit I have ever had the displeasure of knowing," Kyungsoo said, narrowing his eyes towards Sehun who sat at the opposite side of the room, and Junmyeon sighed beside him.
"Sehun is..." the older started, pausing to look for the right word to describe him. "A special case?" Junmyeon continued while cringing himself, because he knew it didn't really help. Kyungsoo just rolled his eyes and scoffed.
"A special case? He's a fucking basket case", he huffed out, "he's a waste of time."
"Don't be so harsh on him, he is just a kid."
"He's only a year younger than me. I don't see a reason why I would need to pamper him and tolerate his behavior. Jongin is his age and he works hard, harder than anyone. It pisses me off that Sehun does absolutely nothing." They had only been training together for a year but Kyungsoo was quick to notice how Sehun seemed like he wanted to be anywhere else than in the training room with them.
At first he thought he was maybe shy and didn't really know what to do with his power, since none of them had gotten them before they turned 18, but from what he had seen (only a few times though) Sehun definitely knew how to control it. They were tested monthly on their progress, and Sehun always passed without a problem, which pissed Kyungsoo off even more because they all worked their asses off and then there was Sehun, who barely lifted a finger to work together with everyone.
It was like his face was made of stone. Kyungsoo was pretty sure he had never seen Sehun smile and no matter how many times Jongin defended him by saying he just had a resting bitch face, Kyungsoo was sure he hated them all and was plotting how to get rid of them.
Junmyeon just offered him an apologetic smile, and Kyungsoo didn't understand why he was the one being sorry when Sehun was the one who was acting like a little brat. He clenched his hand into a fist, hitting the ground with slightly more force than he intended to, making the ground crack all the way up to Sehun, finishing with a big chunk of ground bulleting right at Sehun's face from his feet where the crack had abruptly stopped.
Kyungsoo watched the scene with slight horror, thinking about how much trouble he would get in to from this, but when Sehun dodged the chunk with little to no effort, blowing it away like slapping a little fly with a flick of his wrist, all he could see was red.
Kyungsoo stood up in a second and started stomping towards Sehun, dust flying everywhere. If he would have been thinking straight he would probably have noticed the slight change in Sehun's expression, how it changed from nonchalant to a little terrified, but all he could think about was how angry he was.
"You," he growled while pointing at Sehun, stopping to stand right in front of him.
Sehun just stared back at him, confusion written all over his face. To Kyungsoo it looked like he was being arrogant so he jabbed his finger on Sehun's chest.
"You don't do shit for this group here," he started, scowling at the other. "What gives you the right to laze around when we all work our asses off, hm? What gives you the right to act like you're better than all of us?"
This was what made Sehun snap out of his confusion. He was clearly getting worked up too, because there was suddenly a chilly wind blowing around them, which was obviously his doing because they were in a huge room that was made to look like a field with forest around it.
"Shut up, you don't know anything," was Sehun’s reply.
"I don't need to know shit about you, I have eyes, I can clearly see how you're acting."
"You don't know shit about me and you're still blowing ground to my face and sticking fingers at my chest?"
Kyungsoo jabbed him at the chest again, and it was all Sehun needed to push Kyungsoo's chest hard, sending him stumbling back a few steps. This didn't sit well with Kyungsoo so he rushed forward, fisting Sehun's shirt to make it tighter around his neck. He got a strong blow on his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. He let go of Sehun to gasp for air and the latter stepped away from him.
"I really don't want to do this," Sehun said and Kyungsoo just scoffed.
"You don't really want to do anything, do you." Sehun just sighed loudly and Kyungsoo took this as a cue to pound the ground with his fist, making it crumble under Sehun's feet, making him fall on his back.
Kyungsoo scrambled on top of him, fitting his hands around Sehun's throat and squeezed, still trying to even his breaths himself. Sehun, with his damn long arms, returned the favor by wrapping his long, slender fingers around Kyungsoo's neck. Kyungsoo soon realised it was going nowhere when they were both just wheezing, red faced and losing their energy so he untangled his fingers from around Sehun's neck just to bring his fist to Sehun's cheek.
The punch was enough to make Sehun drop his hands, but the younger was quick to recover, grabbing Kyungsoo from his shoulders and spinning them around, hitting him in the gut instead. Kyungsoo coughed, but wasn't willing to go down without a fight so he grabbed Sehun's hair and yanked his head backwards.
"You fight like a girl," Sehun grunted, but Kyungsoo thought otherwise.
"I'm smaller, I'm allowed to play dirty." His answer was followed by a kick to Sehun’s groin, making the latter double over with a pained whine. Kyungsoo scrambled to get up, but just as he was about to kick Sehun again someone grabbed him from behind, holding his arms so all he could do was kick his feet around, a good half a meter away from Sehun who was now being treated by Yixing.
Damn it, why did they all have to side with Sehun. Seeing people hovering around Sehun didn't help his annoyance at all, but for some reason it made him incredibly sad. He felt like he was alone in this because no one took his side and he couldn't understand why.
"Why are you on his side," Kyungsoo said, and it came out more pathetic than it was supposed to, but he couldn't help it.
“That’s it,” Junmyeon said, sighing loudly while he stood up from beside Sehun. “I’m tired of you both acting like immature brats by not listening to me. You two have to talk.” The last part was mostly directed to Sehun, since Junmyeon was looking at him hard in the eye, which made Kyungsoo a little confused.
Kyungsoo flopped down on the ground, proceeding to lay on his back, covering his eyes with his arm. The shame from finally snapping was slowly starting to creep to him and he was too tired to face any of them right now, and his head hurt from the fight and he just really, really wanted to sleep it all away.
So he closed his eyes and did so.
//
When he woke, he wasn’t on the ground in the training room anymore but instead on a bed in the infirmary room of the building. His headache had eased down a little, but it still made him wince when he lifted himself up to a sitting position.
And, as if his mood wasn’t already sour enough, on the bed right next to him lied the reason why ended up in the infirmary in the first place. Well, it was Kyungsoo who couldn’t control his anger but to his defense Sehun didn’t do much to calm him down either. Kyungsoo would say they were equally at fault since Sehun’s attitude was the one that made him lose his temper like that.
They shared a very brief eye contact before Kyungsoo got up from his bed, heading towards the door because he wanted to get out of the same room as Sehun as soon as possible, but was soon stopped by Sehun’s voice.
“They locked it from the outside,” Sehun said, sounding a little wary and Kyungsoo couldn’t really blame him for it. He did attack him kind of out of nowhere. Now that Kyungsoo had fully calmed down he actually felt bad about jumping on him like that, it wasn’t how he usually behaved, it wasn’t like him at all. He turned around to stare at Sehun with a confused expression on his face.
“Why?” It came out harsher than he intended, and he winced a little, not sure if Sehun noticed. The other didn’t seem to mind as he just shrugged his shoulders, looking a little helpless.
Kyungsoo rolled his eyes and scoffed.
“Great. I bet it was Junmyeon’s idea,” he muttered, mostly to himself, and Sehun looked like he wasn’t sure if Kyungsoo was actually talking to him or not. The kid looked frightened which was weird since he basically spurred him on to fight with him.
He walked back to sit on his bed, trying to not look at Sehun’s direction. The silence that followed their little conversation - if it could even be called that - was awkward and it made Kyungsoo feel even more anxious and bad about what happened. He didn’t want to be locked up in the room either, and Junmyeon had said they needed to talk, so maybe if he apologized they would be let out.
He turned his head towards Sehun, trying to open his mouth but his lips felt like they were sealed together, and he started to feel a little nauseous. Apologizing was not one of his strong suits, and it was never easy to say it to a family member or a friend, so it was much harder now when it wasn’t even someone he wasn’t close to. He didn’t want to seem weak, especially not in front of Sehun.
The other looked at him, somewhat expectant but mostly confused, since Kyungsoo’s inner battle probably showed very clearly on his face.
“I’m-,” he started, looking Sehun straight in the eye, but shifting his gaze elsewhere when he realised he would not be able to do this if he had to look him. “...sorry. For, you know, attacking you. I don’t know what came over me.”
Sehun looked thoroughly surprised.
“Well, I mean I do know what came over me, I just should not have let it. I’m sorry I couldn’t contain my anger. Or annoyance. Whatever it was,” Kyungsoo blabbered, not really even knowing why. “So there, I said it. Shouldn’t that be enough?” He said, a little too coldly even to his own liking, but it was all he could muster out right now. He lifted his gaze back to Sehun.
He was met with a pair of rounded eyes, and Sehun looked even more boyish like this. When the surprise wore off, the younger gave him a slight smile, at least it looked like one, before hanging his head low with an uncomfortable expression.
“I don’t think that’s why they locked us up in here together,” he said, sounding a little guilty.
A surprised “what?” escaped Kyungsoo’s mouth and Sehun chuckled at that.
“There is something I haven’t told you, which I probably should have, since it seems to have caused some misunderstandings between us. Well, from your side.”
Kyungsoo just frowned at him, now confused himself.
“You don’t really like me because you think I don’t put effort into anything, right?”
Kyungsoo scoffed. “More or less.”
“Well… It’s not as simple as that,” Sehun said, his hand coming up to run up and down his forearm to comfort himself. “I’m… My power… I’m not really…” Sehun swallowed down as his voice started to tremble.
“Just say what you need to say if it’s going to get us out of here,” Kyungsoo said, but his face was softer now than before.
“I had a rough childhood.”
Really not where Kyungsoo thought this was going.
“I don’t really need to hear about yo-”
“My dad died when I was little so it has only been me and my mom as long as I remember.”
That effectively shut Kyungsoo up.
“My power showed signs ever since I was a kid, and neither of us knew what it was or why I had it. It was just really mild and confusing at first, but when I grew older, it became stronger and I had no idea how to control it. I accidentally broke stuff, like reaching out for something at the dining table but instead of getting to it, I tossed it to the wall before even touching it.
“After some time, my mother started to… avoid me. She wouldn’t look me in the eye as much as before, and she would lean away when I got close to her. One time when I touched her hand she slapped at mine and shouted ‘get away from me, you monster’. I was only eleven. I didn’t know what I had done wrong and why my mother resented me. All I knew I had something I wasn’t supposed to have, and my mother called me disgusting for it.
“She kind of stopped taking me outside with her, ordering me to only stay at home and play at our yard by myself. She forced me to not go to school because she was afraid I would hurt someone. I even overheard her telling someone that she doesn’t have a son anymore. As I got older, she stopped caring and she started acting like I didn’t even exist anymore, and in a way I didn’t. I tried to stay out of her way the best I could.
“She made me feel ashamed of myself and she made me hate myself. She taught me that this power, this thing I have is wrong and unacceptable. I was unwanted, and I had started to think it was my fault for being that way. I thought that I shouldn’t even be allowed to live because I was so flawed.
“So, what I’m trying to say is that I am not lazy. I don’t usually participate just because I don’t want to, I don’t use my power because I’m not used to people accepting it, and I have not fully accepted the fact that it’s actually a good thing myself. It makes me anxious to use it, because I feel like people will abandon me again. I feel anxious because for so many years I have thought it’s wrong.”
Kyungsoo was stunned to silence. How could he have not known?
“Why are you telling me all this just now…?” he asked tentatively, and Sehun hummed.
“When I first came here, you were at the practice room and I thought you were really admirable. You seemed to have accepted your power as a part of you perfectly, embracing it, and I really look up to that. And, in case you haven’t noticed, you’re kind of… intimidating, and quiet. You don’t go out nearly as much as the other members.”
“...I don’t really know what to say,” Kyungsoo said, feeling remorseful about all the bad things he had said about Sehun up until now.
“It’s okay, I understand. You had no idea of knowing because I never told you, and the other members respected my privacy.” Sehun offered him a pained smile, and Kyungsoo felt a painful pang in his heart. He couldn’t even believe that his attitude towards Sehun could change so much with just one conversation. He couldn’t believe he had been angry so blindly, not even thinking about the other side’s feelings. He had just assumed things himself.
“Now I feel even worse about attacking you,” he mumbled, ashamed of himself.
“It’s okay,” Sehun laughed. “To be honest, I’m kind of glad it happened. I got to see a new side of you, and we were able to talk. I don’t think I could have mustered up the courage to tell you all this on my own. You gave me the push I needed, quite literally.”
“Gosh, I was such an asshole towards you,” Kyungsoo whined, lowering his head to cover his face with his hands. He let out a long, embarrassed groan before straightening himself up, determination clear on his face. “I’m going to make it up to you, I promise.”
Sehun looked stunned before breaking out into the most radiant smile Kyungsoo had ever seen on Sehun’s face.
Maybe the things that happened happened for a reason.
//
Now that Kyungsoo knew the truth, he started to pay more attention to Sehun during practices than he did before (though if you would ask Junmyeon he’d say it’s impossible since Kyungsoo did nothing but glare at Sehun before this). He didn’t even have to look that hard to notice that the expression he so carelessly had dubbed as nonchalant actually showed so much more than that.
Kyungsoo was ashamed of his attitude towards Sehun and he couldn’t believe he was too blind to notice the clear discomfort and pain on his face. The fact that he might have caused even more pain to Sehun with his actions made him really uneasy and he just wanted to apologize to the boy even more and more. He wanted to help him, but Kyungsoo wasn’t sure if it was his place to do nor wish for such things, considering they hadn’t been close at all before this (not that they were close now either).
Still, somehow, when Sehun noticed Kyungsoo staring at him, the younger boy gave him a tiny, warm smile and a wave of his hand and Kyungsoo felt something warm in his chest. How could he have thought that this boy would have wanted anything bad for anyone. He was kind enough to be friends with Kyungsoo even though he treated him like a piece of trash and badmouthed him many times, probably in situations where Sehun was able to hear it too.
He also saw why people were around him constantly and spending time with him, and to be honest, he wanted to go with them too but he was too embarrassed. He knew the others would give him shit about the fact that he was such an asshole before and now wanted to be friends with Sehun.
He had learned from his mistake to not judge people too much and too hard before knowing all the facts, even without all his friends telling him so, thank you very much.
Nonetheless, Kyungsoo was determined on making it up to Sehun as he promised, but to do so, he had to be sneaky. He didn’t want any unwanted attention, meaning when Sehun one night left behind to practice on his own because he had been late earlier, Kyungsoo waited for all the others to leave before he sneaked into the practice room himself.
“Hey,” he said softly as he approached Sehun whose back was turned towards him, purposefully keeping his voice low in order to not scare the other one, since he probably thought he was in the room alone. Sehun turned around, his eyebrows lifted up a little.
“Hey,” he said back after a short pause. Then, there was a long, awkward pause making Kyungsoo fidget on his spot.
“I wanted to see how you were doing,” he finally said, not daring to look Sehun in the eye.
“Well, one would think you know exactly how I’m doing with the way you’re staring at me for most of our practice time,” Sehun laughed with a teasing tone in his voice, making Kyungsoo blush. Damn it, he was not supposed to be shy and blush like a school girl. Why is he shy and blushing like a school girl anyway?
“I’m… sorry?” Kyungsoo squeaked and winced at how embarrassing he sounded. Sehun just laughed.
“It’s fine.”
“I’m just, you know, trying to observe where I went wrong. I didn’t think I was stupid enough to not know how to read someone’s expression right, especially when I saw you so many times,” Kyungsoo told him, looking at the ground. “It’s really embarrassing because I treated you so badly.”
“Hey, we’ve been over this so many times, and every time I have told you that I don’t mind, it’s okay, I understand.”
“It shouldn’t be okay. Why didn’t you just come and punch me in the face when I was talking badly about you?” Kyungsoo whined.
“Because you were intimidating?” Sehun chuckled. “Not that you are anymore, now that I know just how squishy you are in reality.”
“I’m not squishy!” Kyungsoo gasped, looking at Sehun scandalized. How dare he!
“Sure, sure,” Sehun sing-songed while he turned to walk away from him, deeper into the training room. Kyungsoo bolted after him, giving a satisfying slap on the back of Sehun’s head when he reached him while muttering about Sehun being such a brat to him even though he is older.
//
After the first time Kyungsoo stayed behind in the practice room with Sehun, it sort of became a routine for them. They didn’t really talk about it nor did they ever set a time for it, it just sort of happened. Many times.
Kyungsoo had also unconsciously started to spend more time with Sehun in public too and while the others were around. He had avoided doing it because he didn’t want to listen to Junmyeon’s “I told you so”s, and he was really ashamed of his past behavior so his shame forced him to stay away from the boy.
Or that’s what he thought at least, because before he even realised it, he was the one Sehun came to when he was troubled or wanted to hang out before going to sleep. Kyungsoo was actually proud about it, and it made him happy, but if Junmyeon were to ask he would deny it with all he could.
“I’m glad you accepted me as your friend,” Sehun said to him one night when they were sitting alone in Kyungsoo’s room. It was one of the times when Sehun sneaked there because he wasn’t able to sleep and he knew Kyungsoo well enough now to know that the older wasn’t able to fall asleep early anyway.
“What,” Kyungsoo spluttered and turned a little red. “I should be the one to say that.”
“I know, I know,” Sehun laughed, turning to look at Kyungsoo with bright eyes. “I still wanted to tell you how grateful I am.”
It made Kyungsoo’s heart flutter a little painfully, which was now a normal occurance when he spent time with Sehun. He didn’t say anything, just stared at the other boy’s smile in wonder. He truly had the most beautiful smile he had ever seen.
God, how I want to kiss him.
The urge was something new, but it didn’t scare Kyungsoo because honestly, he knew it was coming. What else could his heart speeding up whenever he was close to the boy or the way his heart hurt when he smiled at him mean? He was head over heels for him already.
He noticed he had been staring for a bit too long when Sehun started to look at him a little weirdly. Clearing his throat, he turned away to hide his deepened blush. He wasn’t sure if he wanted Sehun to know about his feelings yet, or if he wanted him to know at all.
There was definitely mutual admiration towards each other, but Kyungsoo couldn’t be sure if Sehun just looked up to him because he was older and more experienced with his powers. He wasn’t sure if Sehun would only think that he liked Kyungsoo back because he admired him so much. They would both end up hurt once Sehun would realise it and apart from not wanting to go through the pain himself, he didn’t want that burden on Sehun, because hurting someone else wasn’t easy either.
Or you could just give it a chance and not put thought in his head, nagged Junmyeon’s voice in his head and Kyungsoo sighed loudly.
“What’s wrong?” Of course Sehun would pick up on it immediately.
“Nothing, just silly thoughts, don’t worry about it,” Kyungsoo said, giving him and encouraging smile.
“Seriously, Soo. I’ve opened up to you so much, it would be nice if you did the same for me too,” Sehun said, a little too serious. “Don’t you trust me?”
“No! I mean yes!” Kyungsoo quickly responded, not finding the right words. “I mean, I do trust you.”
“Well…?”
This is not the right time, Kyungsoo thought to himself as he plastered a fake smile on his face.
"I'm just stressed about the monthly test that's coming up, I think they're expecting too much from us already," he lied smoothly, shoulders sagging but it seemed to work because Sehun gave him one of his genuine encouraging smiles.
"You'll do great, Soo. I've been practicing with you every day so trust me, I have seen you," he said cheerfully and oddly, Kyungsoo did feel relieved even though he didn't notice he was actually honestly stressing about it. Huh. "We can practice some more together if you feel like you need it, though. I'm happy to help even if I don't know much about your power."
"Thanks," Kyungsoo said and his heart melted a little.
They continued chatting a little more, but Kyungsoo noticed how sleepy Sehun started to be, with his eyes drooping a little, closing from time to time. He just claimed to be resting his eyes but Kyungsoo knew that if he laid down even for a second he'd be in his dreamland immediately, with the way he was yawning.
Which brought him to his problem, which was that he could not stop staring at his lips after his little revelation. He wasn't too worried about it because Sehun didn't seem to notice, or if he did, he was definitely too sleepy to even think about it. But it was very distracting and he found himself asking Sehun to repeat himself multiple times because his mind had been somewhere else than listening to his talking.
"I should probably go, we're both going to pass out any minute now," Sehun chuckled after an exceptionally long yawn.
"Yeah," Kyungsoo mumbled, ready to lay down on his bed to catch some shut eye.
"I'll see you tomorrow, we can stay later so practice. Or we can do something else," Sehun said quickly, and if Kyungsoo weren't so sleepy he would have noticed the faint blush on his cheeks.
"Mkay," he mumbled again before he put his head on the pillow, shutting his eyes.
//
“So…” Junmyeon starts, walking closer to Kyungsoo to bump him with his elbow. “I heard Sehun lingered pretty long in your room last night,” he continued and Kyungsoo didn’t like his suggestive tone.
“What are you trying to say,” Kyungsoo asked, trying to play it cool, but his irritation was clear in his voice.
“What I’m trying to say is that we all see that there is clearly something going on between you two.” Kyungsoo gave him a glare. “I can’t believe this, my Kyungsoo is growing up! It feels like yesterday when you were sending death threats to Sehun with your ey-”
He didn’t get far with his speech because Kyungsoo interrupted him by slapping his hand on Junmyeon’s mouth before he could get any further. He knew this time would come and he would do anything to prevent continuing.
“Shut up, I don’t want to, nor need to hear your nagging,” Kyungsoo hissed. “I’m perfectly aware of the fact that I did wrong, but we’re friends now, isn’t that all that matter? So shut up.”
“Geez, no need to get so fired up,” Junmyeon said with humour in his voice once he detached Kyungsoo’s hand from over his mouth. “Also, are you sure you’re just frie-”
There was no hesitance in the punch that landed on Junmyeon’s face.
//
“What did you talk about with Junmyeon earlier today?” Sehun asked later on that day when they were alone in the practice room, when the others had left already. “It seemed a bit heated.”
“Oh, it was just Junmyeon being an ass,” Kyungsoo replied vaguely. He was really bad at lying and he didn’t want to admit that Junmyeon was being an ass about him being so close with Sehun.
When he turned to look at the boy though, Sehun seemed a bit upset.
“Why are you making a sad face?” Kyungsoo inquired and Sehun just sighed.
“You never tell me anything,” he whined, and it made Kyungsoo feel a little bad.
“It’s not something I can just talk to you about.”
“But you can. You can tell me anything, seriously, I won’t judge. I want to help because something seems to have been bothering you a lot.”
Why do you have to be so cute and observant, Kyungsoo whined inside his head. He looked at Sehun with his eyebrows furrowed, but the other one stared back at him just as intensely and in the end, Kyungsoo gave up.
“Fine,” he grunted. “He was giving me shit for us being so… close, you know. Because I was an ass to you before it.”
“Why did you punch him, though,” Sehun asked and Kyungsoo was a little surprised that Sehun had noticed that too. He didn’t know anyone was watching them.
“Because he said something,” Kyungsoo said and tried to make the discussion end there, but Sehun didn’t stop.
“Something what?” he asked further and Kyungsoo felt how blood started to creep onto his cheeks.
“Something about us,” he said, taking a pause to swallow, trying to find a good place to look at, finally deciding it would be better to just look Sehun straight in the eye to see his exact reaction. “Being more than friends.”
There was a long pause, and Sehun’s face didn’t even twitch, which Kyungsoo didn’t know if it was a bad thing or a good thing. They just stared blankly at each other for a good while.
“Oh,” Sehun finally said, and Kyungsoo felt a little pang in his heart because Sehun didn’t react at all, and that could only mean that it didn’t faze him much and the really didn’t think anything about it. Kyungsoo was just about to laugh and brush it off when Sehun opened his mouth again. “Would it be that bad?”
He sounded genuinely concerned and Kyungsoo just stared back at him, dumbstruck.
“I mean, I wouldn’t mind it,” he continued and Kyungsoo spluttered.
“Wha- Why- What,” he stuttered. “When did you get so bold?!” Kyungsoo shrieked and Sehun just laughed.
“At first I didn’t know what exactly you thought of me, but I have caught you staring at my lips quite frequently during the last two days so… I’m not wrong to assume you feel something for me, too?” Sehun asked, and now Kyungsoo could see the blush on his face and he actually looked a little nervous and shy, a huge contrast to his words.
“I-,” Kyungsoo didn’t know how to place his words or even what to say, staring hopelessly at Sehun. In the end he grabbed Sehun’s hand, squeezing it firmly and looked at him intensely. “Yes, I do feel something for you too.”
Sehun broke into a huge grin, squeezing his hand bag before tugging at it firmly so that Kyungsoo stumbled forward, right into his embrace.
“I’m glad,” Sehun sighed against his shoulder and Kyungsoo couldn’t help the grin that was splitting his face. They hugged for a while before Sehun pulled away just enough to look at Kyungsoo’s face.
“It’s okay to lock lips, isn’t it?” he said with a grin and Kyungsoo swatted his shoulder and laughed.
“Not exactly the words I would use but yes, I think it’s more than okay,” Kyungsoo said and decided that it was his turn to take the initiative, so he grabbed the back of Sehun’s neck while lifting himself on his tiptoes to press their lips together.
It didn’t last long, but it was a perfect first kiss, and it left them smiling brightly at each other.
Somewhere, from the forest next to them echoed Junmyeon’s loud “I knew it!” before the ground under him cracked.