"When are you coming back soonyoung-ah?"
Hoshi's mother asked on call addressing her son from his real name as always making hoshi feel warm as even though he love his stage name but whenever someone's call him soonyoung, it make him feel home.
"I'll visit you and dad, on my day- off" Hoshi informed busy doing dishes, with his phone placed on the kitchen island.
"And when will you get another day-off?" Asked his mother to which hoshi puffed as his get his last day off two days ago.
"Don't know mom as the group is preparing for their comeback so I'll be busy with their dance practices tommorow, till their comeback promotions, so maybe next year" Hoshi told, earning a sigh from his mother.
"We are missing you a lot son" his mother said making hoshi feel bad for his parents and sister, he misses them a lot too and wishes to go back to his hometown to have some good time with his parents and sister without having to worry about anything.
But his work don't spare him enough or sometimes no time to visit his family.
"I am missing you guys a lot too" Hoshi said feeling his eyes getting teary, even though hoshi talk to his parents and younger sister through vc or calls everyday whenever he gets time but he as the male is a big softy by heart, gets heavily emotional sometimes by the thought of not being able to live with his loved ones.
"Why being so silent suddenly? Are you crying soonyoung?" Hoshi heared his mother asked in concern and she was right the poor male was actually trying hard to control himself from crying but was failing miserably, suddenly feeling homesick.
"Nah! Just thinking som-ething " Hoshi lied but his mother got it the moments hoshi's voice broke midway saying the last word.
"Thinking about your gf?" Her mother played along in order to not to make her son cry more and teased him, which worked successfully as hoshi choked on his sob almost chuckling at his mother's comment.
"What? Seriously mom! that was a bad joke, what made you think I have a gf?" Hoshi said removing the hand gloves after finishing Dish Washing, placing them down on their precious spot.
Making way to the kitchen island where his phone was placed, holding it up on his hand, removing it from speaker before pulling the phone to ear, and a slow chuckled was heared from her mother.
"I wasn't joking, you are getting old but still haven't found yourself a girlfriend" his mother said and hoshi rolled his eyes at how his mother just called him old.
"I am on my mid- twenties, not that old as you think and yeah I haven't got anyone, when I'll do it would be you who'll come to know about it first" Hoshi said in a baby tone and her mother hummed.
"Do you have any girl in your eyes?" His mom continued making hoshi whine loudly.
"Mom!! Come on, you never ask such thing when dad is around, oh I wish dad was with you right now" Hoshi complainer earning a laugh from her mother.
"Because your dad is too old to understand all this" Hoshi rolled his eyes back once again, scoffing.
"Like you are not around same age as of him huh?" Hoshi commented.
"I am still young, you punk!" Hoshi laughed, even though his mom is the most coolest person and is very open-minded and try to understand everyone's pov but there is only one thing that triggers her, when someones mention her age, specially her husband and kids.
"Of course you are!' Hoshi said assuring his mother, smiling widely as he can already imagined his mom Sulking.
"Forget that, how's my other son doing?" His mom asked referring to taeyong as her another son.
"He is doing absolutely fine" and their talk goes on for few more minutes until the door bell didn't disturbed hoshi.
"I think the food had arrived, mom I'll talk to you tommorow" Hoshi said standing up from the couch making way to the door.
"Sure! Take care of yourself and eat plenty of food" Hoshi chuckled softly.
"You too" and he hang up putting the phone in the pocket of his shorts, grabbing the door knob, twisting it open, in order to grab his food parcel but got surprised seeing it wasn't delivery boy, but yuta standing there looking awkward as hell.
"you?"
Hoshi asked out of blue getting flustered all of a sudden, wasn't excepting yuta to show up in front of his house at such late hour.
Yuta on the other hand was getting equally awkward as he debated himself for hours before finally gathering his courage to show up in front of hoshi's house and the thanks goes to taeyong too who without any question told yuta about hoshi's house no.
It looks like his luck is definitely not on his side right now otherwise he wouldn't be here afterall he got nothing to do with this korean male but no after reaching back home and deciding to clean his wardrobe today out of all days yuta my mistake or my chance stumbled onto something that he didn't noticed was there for so long.
And upon realising who this thing belong to yuta can't help but curse at himself for being so forgetful and then cursed his fate as to why is he keep on finding himself in such situations?
The more he want to live peacefully by ignoring someone who hasn't did anything to be ignored, his destiny is just pushing him toward that one person by any means and this is the another way.
"Please come." Hoshi politely said after remembering that he still holding onto the door knob, letting the door wide open moving aside he give way to the Japanese male who was interrupted by his thoughts and realised what hoshi said.
Yuta hesitantly accepted the offer and went inside, hoshi following later, making way to the living room yuta noticed how clean hoshi's house was, feeling good to see that the Korean male maintain hygiene out of his expectation.
"Please sit" Hoshi said pointing towards the couch he was sitting earlier, yuta nodded, taking his seat meanwhile hoshi standing there rubbing his nape awkwardly, thinking of something to talk as the awkward silence was making him uneasy.
"Wanna have water? coffee?" Hoshi asked breaking the silence.
"No thankyou, I was here to give you this" yuta said standing up from the couch, pulling his hand out in air, hoshi saw it was square shape wooden box, yuta was pointing toward him.
Leaving no minutes to waste hoshi took the box from the Japanese male's hand and opened it just to get another surprise, with mouth agape in wonder seeing it was his watch that he had forgotten at yuta's car back then.
when he was helping the Japanese to regain his consciousness and he didn't realised that his watch loose open and fall behind the driver seat of yuta's car.
By now hoshi himself had forgotted about it but yuta made him remember it again and hoshi is surely thankful for it.
"You have this with you, all that time?"Hoshi asked looking at yuta with a look of pure amusement, as he can't believe yuta kept his watch safe with him for so long, and this time it was yuta feeling flustered by the way hoshi was looking at him in awe.
"I had found it on my car back then" yuta said looking at the watch hoshi was holding remembering how the mechanic has given it back to yuta when he had took his car for reparing the next day.
Yuta himself has no idea as to why he kept that watch with him for so long if it wasn't for him checking his old stuff that is kept aside at his new home he wouldn't had remembered about the watch.
"I lost it there accidently, and came to realise it next day"
Hoshi said feeling his heart getting overwhelmed with joy, first because he got his watch back as it means a lot to him, he had bought this with his savings on his birthday celebration in Seoul after getting into Pledis and second he can't help but feel a tingy sensation in his stomach at the thought of yuta still had it with him.
"Thankyou so much, for keeping my watch safe and for giving it back thank you so much hyung " Hoshi said genuinely feeling grateful and didn't realised how he addressed yuta as 'hyung' until he didn't saw yuta breaking the eye contact looking at the other side showing a hint of sadness? and hoshi internally cursed himself.
"Sorry for that" yuta looked back to the Korean male who was smiling apologetically.
"It just slipped out" Hoshi told, yuta nodded still feeling weird hearing someone calling him hyung after so many years, as it was his ex who once used to call him that.
"No problem, its pretty late now, I should leave"
Yuta said not looking toward hoshi and the Korean male even though wanted to stop yuta so that he could spend some more time with him as it's the best moment to break some ice around them.
Trying to get to know each other a bit but he know he is asking for too much and that's not possible so he decided to respect his choice and nodded in agreement.
"Goodnight, yuta-ssi" Hoshi greeted yuta on the door, addressing the male like he did when they first met and yuta nodded and left without saying anything back, hoshi closed the door and went back to living room throwing himself on the couch, looking at the ceiling above him, wondering about what happened just now.
"Did I said something wrong?"
Thought hoshi.
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"I can't do this anymore.... i don't have courage to face people looking at me like I am some disgusted thing, I don't want people to call me names, hyung.. that's why I am going back forever. Let's end this here."
"If I knew this is what you were doing in korea.. I would have called you back that instant.. You already did enough to hurt us and yourself"
yuta woke up rather violently, shrugging the memories off his mind, cursing, turning the lights on to see time and it was showing 3am, the male being unable to sleep again got up from the bed, went to the balcony to calm himself down, standing on the railing, looking as far his eyes can see with no thoughts.
Yuta who was busy spacing out, came back to reality because of a car horn, tilting his head to see who was blowing there car's horn at such late hours, he saw it was hoshi and the security guard came running hurriedly, opening the main door to let the Korean male in and this caught yuta's attention.
"Why is he coming so late?' Yuta asked going back to living room, checking the time and it was showing 3am making yuta look puzzled and concern for the Korean male.
"What kind of job he have which demands this much time?" Yuta asked himself feeling a bit irritated without noticing it himself.
But besides being concern he can't do anything else as he got no right to meddle into hoshi's life.
And that thing Continued for many days, with yuta sometimes caughting hoshi coming late after work and leave early in the morning, few times bumping into yuta in morning.
quickly apologising and leaving not letting yuta to say anything and this made the Japanese male heavily concerned for the male's health, even though he don't know why.
Sometimes he think of asking about the same to hoshi but the male is too busy to even greet him properly and he can't ask anyone else as he don't know anyone else here expect hoshi and taeyong.
And yuta got no courage to ask anything to taeyong as he know nothing about the male expect that he is his neighbour and hoshi's friend, and among the passing days an opportunity itself comes to yuta, when the male was coming home late from his work than usual.
"Oh wait!" Yuta who got inside the elevator heared a shout in a familiar voice making his hear shot up to see hoshi was running toward the elevator in order to not to miss it, getting inside on time, huffing.
"You okay?" Yuta asked looking at the Korean male with concern and hoshi nodded in yes giving a small smile.
"You are early today" yuta commented out of blue caughting himself and hoshi off guard.
"You usually come around 3 or 4am" yuta reasoned out himself and hoshi mouthed an 'o' understanding the thing now.
"Yeah because of my work, but how do you know?" Hoshi asked and as expected yuta got no answer for that and hoshi smiled teasingly, getting encouragement to tease the Japanese male.
"Don't tell me you are keeping an eye on me" Hoshi said it without thinking twice in a manner as if he is taking to a friend and yuta looked at him feeling flustered as to how come hoshi even get such ideas from.
"Of course not" yuta replied and hoshi chuckled and for the first time in months they didn't found themselves in an awkward position around each other for once they were relaxed in each other's presence.
which was quite a surprise for both of them but no body wanted to pointed it out as they both liked it like that.
"Yeah I know. It was just a joke, don't mind it" Yeah it's better be a joke for yuta's sake, as the male for a moment was highly flustered thinking was he really observing hoshi all these days without even knowing it himself?.
"Your floor has arr-ived" Hoshi said to yuta, when the elevator showed 5th floor suddenly feeling his vision getting black for a moment, feeling headrush.
"You okay?" Yuta asked noticing hoshi feeling uneasy, leaning back on the wall to support but nodded nonethelessly to the question asked.
"Hoshi?" Yuta took a step ahead toward the male trying to hold his arm but hoshi shook his head before looking at the male in front of him.
"The door is closing, leave" Hoshi said pointing at the elevator door starting closing back but yuta don't care as he know hoshi is having health issue which he had expected the moment the saw the male a few minutes ago.
"Let it be" yuta said, holding hoshi's by his arms gently, pulling the male toward him getting an idea what's coming next as the sand things had happened with him too quite a lot of time.
Hoshi seeing this all opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out and he became unconscious, falling in yuta's arm with head on the Japanese male's shoulder, yuta sighed.
"Guess I'll be sacrificing my sleep tonight." yuta said to himself, hesitantly wrapping the his arms around hoshi's waist gently.
To be continued.....