I've been staring at the screen of the homepage and for two days no interesting title has been updated.... what is this sense of disinterest, so unlike when you are anticipating at least a favorite title daily... curious...
No Home/Homeless (Madness) [1 year later] They met in a small cafe, the kind where no one looked too closely at the table in the corner. Eunyung sat stiffly, clutching his bag, ready to say no to the offer of sharing rooms in college. Who says he was going to one? And why was Haejoon persistent? It has only been a year.
Haejoon sat there quietly then slid a folded paper across the table.
Eunyung’s eyes narrowed.
“…What is this?”
Haejoon’s expression remained calm, unreadable. “Adoption papers,” he said simply. No other explanation.
Eunyung blinked. “Wait… are you proposing to me? Do you… like me?” His voice rose slightly, half in fear, half in disbelief.
Haejoon didn’t flinch. Didn’t laugh. Didn’t smile. He just waited.
Eunyung exhaled sharply, covering his face with his hands. “You’re insane,” he muttered. And in the heat of the moment, in frustration and stubbornness, he signed. Just to spite him.
“I signed it. Are you regretting being my family now?” he asked, eyes still sharp, but trembling.
Haejoon’s faint smile widened, almost imperceptibly. He picked up the papers, already ready to submit them to the office.
Eunyung bolted from the table, chasing after him. “Why… why are you doing this? We were strangers. Why—?”
Haejoon stopped just long enough to glance at him. And then an honest smile. “Not anymore. We're brothers."
Eunyung stares. He was right before and he was right now: Haejoon is crazy, so crazy he even thought of adopting Eunyung. Who wants to be his family when his own threw him out? Well.
Apparently someone mad like Haejoon. *Putting here so I can read whenever*
Like an old married couple where touches no longer seem like someone else', not foreign. Casual intimacy at its peak ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶