Don't Rush, Don't Stop
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They chat lightly for a little while more before Maddox gets around to his real reason for calling; he wants to see if Joong is still doing okay, and to be updated on what he terms the ‘Seonghwa Situation’. “I’ll be honest, dude, when you didn’t call me begging me to break you out of there by day three, I started thinking maybe you’d tossed yourself in the lake.” He pauses. “Or that maybe Hwa tossed you in and you just… sort of let him, like a lovelorn assclown.”
“That’s a good album name,” Hongjoong replies dryly. “You should write that down.”
“Avoidance,” Maddox notes, “and attitude. You’re down bad. You’re not fucking him again, are you?”
Hongjoong winces guiltily. “No.”
“But you’re gonna.” It’s not a question.
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- Part 1 of Don't Rush, Don't Stop
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“What helped?”
Beside him, Mingi shrugs. “A bunch of things, I think. Time was the biggest thing. Time and quiet and my mom. She always knew when to talk or when to just sit. Talking to Yunho.” He turns his head to look at Wooyoung. “FaceTiming with you helped. I don’t think I ever told you, but it did.”
Wooyoung’s smile is slow and a little shy. “I thought I was bothering you.”
“I looked forward to those notifications just as much as Yunho’s phone calls. I never knew where you’d be, you know? In the practice room or eating with the members or at a schedule or in the park on the swings— and it got to the point where I realized I was excited to find out where you’d be next. The constant change of it didn’t freak me out like it had. You gave me a way to distance myself and not miss out entirely.” He sighs, looking back up at the sky. “I was so homesick for you all.”
Wooyoung stares up at the stars and breathes slowly and evenly until the urge to cry recedes. He can’t think of a single thing to say.
Between where they lay side by side, Mingi hooks his pinky around Wooyoung’s. “If you need a motive, you can have that one. I’m looking out for you because you did it first.”
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- Part 2 of Don't Rush, Don't Stop