Brothers in Arms
Title: Brothers in Arms
Summary: sehun enlists in the army, leaving behind his first unrequited love and tumbling head first into a relationship he isn’t quite ready to commit to.
Pairing: hunhan, sekai
Rating: PG-15
Notes: yay~ exams ended, holidays are starting :) i now have the time to catch up on the fic bits my muse has been dropping me! so, here’s an angsty drabble!
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1. sehun enlists in the army at nineteen, a year after graduating high school and spending two months of his winter holidays at a loss as to what he wants to do now that he’s stepped out into the real world. luhan, his best friend, supports his decision to enlist, accompanying him to the field, his father to disappointed to care and his mother crying at the thought of her son leaving her for two years. luhan is the last thing he sees as he waves sehun off, the younger walking through the gates and he feels regret, a bitter taste on his tongue that he never really got to tell his best friend that he loves him and it weighs heavily in his mind.
2. the army isn’t easy nor is it fun and games. it’s waking up at the crack of dawn, taking a quick five minute shower in cold, cold water and assembling in the field dressed smartly in their uniforms to start the morning march. afternoons are spent with the sun hot on the back of his neck as they crawl and run all over the field for physical training and night is spent marching yet again all the way to the wee hours of the night and the soldiers have barely enough strength to even take a shower after.
3. two months into the army and sehun goes back to the barracks every night, tired and sore and feeling a bone-deep ache and missing luhan and his witty comments and accented korean. sehun misses home, his mother’s hugs and cooking and his father’s presence. but he manages to find solace in another boy, his age, jongin, who is warm and gentle and all sorts of awkward. it’s jongin’s constant strive for perfection that has sehun trailing along behind, eager to match up to him and has him forgetting the ache in his chest. it’s jongin’s sweet kisses and gentle hands that has him forgetting luhan and it’s jongin’s body and the way he arches into sehun and his touches. sehun knows that this friendship and sex means more to jongin than it does to him but they never cross that boundary. jongin knows better than to tell sehun he loves him.
4. jongin curls up into sehun’s warmth, tangling their legs together as his breathing fans out over sehun’s collarbones and sehun runs his fingers through the boy’s hair, presses a gentle kiss to his forehead as sweat cools off their heated skin. sehun drifts off to sleep with jongin’s quiet breathing lulling him into dreamland and as his eyes slip close, he dreams of luhan.