Heeeyyy if it's still open, may I request number 16 (100 ways to say I love you) for Mingyu? Thank youuuuu!
16. “It’s okay. I couldn’t sleep anyway.”
The tall boy doesn’t like you.
You don’t know when he first saw you or if he even knowsyour name, but you first saw him when you were talking to Wonwoo after class.You don’t know the tall boy’s name, but the way he’s looking at you and Wonwoomakes you feel unwelcome, somehow. And disliked. You’re in the middle of wavingyour arms wildly as you retell the story of your worst drunken night when theheavy book in your hand hits the tall boy in the middle of his face. Hard. Youdon’t even notice he was already there until you hit him.
Immediately, you say as many apologies as you could squeezein one breath. The boy only smiles at you, his incisors showing, and you areutterly scared for your life.
“It’s okay,” he says, drops of blood tricklingdown his chin from his split lip because you just had to hit him in the face with your hardbound Calculus book. Youdon’t even know if he liked Calculusfor that matter. “It didn’t hurt anyway.”
And how he could stillsmile while bleeding is way beyond you.
You pick your book back up and say your apologies onceagain, but you hurry out the room afterwards. Because as much as you would loveto talk to Wonwoo again, you don’t want to hit the same boy on the same spot withthe same book twice.
You learn next that his name is Mingyu. And even though thetall boy already has a name, you’re still convinced he doesn’t like you.
He’s just kind, you tell yourself. Because you meet him forthe second time in the same classroom where you first met – or hit – him, andhe offers to carry your things for you after seeing you struggle.
When you downright refused, “It’s okay,” he says,coaxing your things out of your hands and into his. He then starts to walkahead of you, and since you were in a hurry to get to your next class, you’releft with no choice but to follow after him.
“It doesn’t seem that heavy anyway.”
Mingyu shrugs nonchalantly. But not a minute later, he hasalready accidentally dropped one of the heavier books, which he attempts topick up as quickly as he could. To cover his embarrassment, he flashes you asmile.
You laugh. He’s kind andfunny.
Okay, so maybe he doesn’t hate you. But that doesn’t mean helikes you. Not even if he ditches basketball practice to walk you back to yourdorm room. As soon as you find this out – not from Seungcheol – you smack himin the arm and frown.
“You’re in the varsity team, dumbass. You should bepracticing!”
Mingyu only laughs, unwrapping a lollipop to shove into yourmouth. “It’s okay. I didn’t have much to do anyway.”
And with your favorite candy in your mouth, you have nothingto complain about.
Except maybe Minghao, and the way he feeds your brain withlies. “Oh my God he likes you!” Minghao exclaims after lunch one dayas you’re both exiting the cafeteria.
“Who?”
“Mingyu!”
You frown. “We’re just friends. I’m sure he doesn’tlook at me that way.”
Minghao stops you from walking and looks you dead straightin the eyes it almost scared you. “He’s been complaining about starvingjust before lunch. And usually, if he’s thathungry, he doesn’t let any of us be at least a mile near his food.”
“And so?” You snort. “What does that have todo with me?”
“He let you take a bite of his burger, didn’t he?”he says, and you vaguely remember Mingyu himself offering to let you take abite of his food less than an hour ago. While you’re lost in your own thoughts,Minghao starts dragging you by the elbow towards your next class. “So helikes you!”
And you don’t admit it to anyone’s face, but you’re startingto want him to like you. But only because you’re beginning to like him as well.
Mingyu has become the first person you want to telleverything to, like that one time you randomly found a channel playing the ToyStory movie. You hurriedly reach for your phone and dial his number.
He answers as soon as you thought about hanging up.“Hello?”
“Gyu!” You immediately greet. “Turn tochannel 55! They’re showing Toy Story 3.”
You hear loud shuffling from his end as he seems to begetting out of bed. “Okay.”
The realization that maybe he was already getting the resthe needed hits you late. You glance at the alarm clock near your bed. 12:33 AM.Immediately, you feel bad.
“Hey, were you already sleeping?”
”It’s okay,“ Mingyu says, not denying the fact.From where he was, you could hear the sound of a television switching back tolife. ”I couldn’t sleep anyway.“ But a yawn punctuates his sentence.
You see him in school the next day, looking beyond exhausted and carrying alarge cup of coffee. But he smiles as soon as he sees you and argues with youabout how the three aliens obsessed with cranes are the true heroes of ToyStory 3.
You don’t know much about liking someone, but you sure areconvinced that Mingyu doesn’t stay up until dawn for just anybody he doesn’tlike. So to avoid complications created when you ask anybody but the personinvolved, you go directly to Mingyu and blurt the question out while you stillhad the guts to do so.
“Do you like me?”
Mingyu only smiles. “Yeah. I thought that was obviousenough.”
“Oh.”
You’re taken aback. That isn’t what you were expecting. Butnow the cat is out of the bag and you’re both awkwardly standing and blinkingat each other in the middle of the hallway. It takes a full minute for you tofinally come to terms with the situation. “Oh.”
“Yeah. ‘Oh.’”
Your ears start to grow hot. “Well, that’sembarrassing. I sounded so obnoxious and assuming, asking all that.”
This time, Mingyu full on laughs. “It’s okay,” hesays, reaching for your hand. “I was going to confess anyway.”
Being in an orphanage was bad enough, but having to starvewhile watching the other kids get adopted was worse. The government-ownedorphanage you and Wonwoo had grown up in used to be a home for soldiers andcivilians alike during the war. It housed several war veterans, which meant theorphanage had to double as a nursing home. With the government subsidy havingbeen spread thoroughly and thinly across dependents of all ages, the growingchildren were sure to starve.
To survive, you had learned how to steal from the nearbybakery. The trick was to strike at early mornings, when people were in a rushto get fresh, newly-baked bread, and when the baker was more focused onpleasing customers than counting his inventory. By the time you had gotten ahandful and had gone your way back to the orphanage, the baker wouldn’t haveeven notice the dent. Wonwoo stole too, after being taught by his peers. Theywent in two groups. The first, where Wonwoo belonged, would try and distractthe baker by asking about the different selections he had prepared, while thesecond would sneak at the back and get their fill.
Their respective modus operandi worked for a while. That is,until the poor baker decided to hire someone who would handle the selling andend his one-man reign. As you unknowingly went about your routine, Wonwoocoincidentally worked at the front. You tried to be as sneaky and quiet aspossible, but the baker had recently attached chimes to the backdoor. Just asthe baker was about to turn around and catch you in the act, Wonwoo called forhis attention by reaching for a freshly baked muffin and stuffing it into hismouth before running away. The mad baker, together with his clueless employee,dashed out the bakery to go after the thief. They’d let him go after turning afew blocks without catching sight of the brown-haired orphan.
There’s no honor among thieves, as the saying goes. But asWonwoo took the long route back to the orphanage, only to find you sitting bythe porch steps and waiting for him with a brown paper bag full of muffins, herealized the world wasn’t as bad as he thought it was.
“Two minutes, and then we run and go back to the car,yeah?” You managed to say in between pants. You placed the unzipped bag onthe floor before kicking it towards Wonwoo and loading your gun. The .45caliber was cold against your hands as you aimed it towards the door. Themuseum security force was surprisingly less than a bank’s, considering that themuseum now housed recently acquired treasures, which Wonwoo was excited to gethis hands on.
Behind you, he stepped closer to the vault that was twice astall as he was. He pressed his ear against the side of the door and, aftertaking a deep breath, slowly started to turn the knob clockwise. He had hiseyes closed to concentrate on even the slightest click from behind the door.
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He held onto the knob with both hands before applying alittle more force to pry the door open. If he pulled at the door a littleharder than that, and if he got the combination wrong, the glass relocker wouldbreak, causing the metal latch to snap and closing the vault forever. Youglanced briefly at him and nodded, urging him to go on. Although you trustedhis skills, you knew you could never be too careful. And so when the door swungopen fluidly, you almost let out a soft yelp of glee. The celebration lastedfor only a fraction of a second, however, because time was running out. Youchecked your digital watch. You both had 37 seconds left, but Wonwoo was stillstanding in front of the vault doors and seemed to be preoccupied withsomething else.
“What are you doing?” you whisper angrily,alternating glances between Wonwoo and the door as panic starts to creep up onyou.
“Look,” he said. In his hands was a yellowed copyof some book you couldn’t care less about. “It’s the original manuscriptof Dickens'—”
“Wonwoo!” you cut him off, now yanking at his arm.“Now is not the time to be reading.”
“But this is an original,[Y/N]. Works of art like these are supposed to be appreciated slowly! It’s aliterary masterpiece that needs full attention. Just one more chapter, I swear—”
“I’m not going to risk getting caught just because yournerd is showing. Now, come on!” You scooped the remaining contents of thevault with your arms into the bag and unzipped it quickly. You weren’t sure ifit was just your imagination, but you swore you could already hear the blaringof sirens from afar. Your adrenaline spiked up to its usual high and forced youto start running for your life.
Just as you were about to look back and check if Wonwoo wasfollowing behind you, he overtook you and led the way to exit the same way youentered — through the sliding glass windows. He helped you down as soon as hegot out and made sure you exited safely before dashing off once again up untilyou were both a safe distance away.
Slowly, you peeled the gloves off your hands and the maskover yoour face, carefully stowing them into the bag you carried. Wonwoo didthe same with his and the precious masterpiece he had been cradling in his armsthe whole time.
It didn’t take long before the sound of police sirens grewloud and clear. You both had no fear — you blended nicely with theheavily-dispersed crowd in the busy business district you were in. You had yourarm looped around his as you walked, looking just like any other couple whowere on a late night date, talking and laughing like you didn’t have a care inthe world.
Like you didn’t just cause the heart attack of the curator of one ofthe most famous museums in the world.
Like you weren’t two of the most wantedin the country.
+ just some headcanons i’ve thought abt during the past few weeks (read more link still isn’t working, sorry :/)
will teach you how to play some of his favorite video games. he’ll be so patient with you. doesn’t matter if you suck, what matters is you’re trying your best to learn something that he loves to do
if you happen to enjoy some mobile games, he’ll lay his head on your shoulder watching you play. he loves the annoyed huffs you let out everytime you lose
when he’s not playing video games, he’s probably doing something else with you
like going to bookshops to look for new books to read
sometimes you based it on how cute the cover is without actually reading the synopsis of the book
he laughs everytime but also picks out some books he knows you'll like even if the cover design is ugly
since you two don’t live together, it’s sometimes hard to buy books especially if you two want the same one but they only have one stock
which will prompt the two of you to share. much like how other couples watch a tv show together, not watching the next episode if the other one isn’t there
that’s how you are with the book.
he probably has a goodreads to keep track of everything he’s ever read. it’s a private account with only you as his follower so you can look at his reviews and pick a book to read
sometime he’ll address you directly on the review section
“i know you’ll love this just as much as i did, it’s very perfectly written and i’m hoping you’ll give reading this a chance once you have the free time to do so.” or
“this book reminded me of you while reading it. everything that’s written here encompasses everything i admire about you. maybe one day, if you give me a chance, i’ll read it to you with you laid on my arms.”
treating goodreads like a post office for love letters
speaking of love letters
will let you borrow his books and midway through reading you’ll see a paper in between the pages
“how are you liking it so far? i hope it suits your taste. i can’t wait for you to finish this and talk about it with me. just seeing the look on your face when you talk about something that you enjoyed keeps me going.” swoons
will look at you funnily when you ask to recreate a scene from a book
like.. idk.. a kiss? slow dancing?
but he won’t refuse cuz he secretly want to do it as well <3
matching bookmarks hehe
either customized or something sentimental to you both
like the first note you gave him while you two were still new and vice versa
or maybe you two do activities like making bookmarks for each other?
watching the film adaptation of books
even if you or him fall asleep midway, atleast he/you know what happened in the end cuz you read the book
will probably rewatch it again after a few days, powering through the end just to see how well the film was
if you two didn’t like it, it’s fine. you can always count on the book
if you two ended up liking it though, he’ll add it to the list of movies you both liked.
ok…. are you ready…. letterboxd
he probably has one too
he has these types of account for you
so even if you two are away from each other, you can see his recommendations and what he’s been up to
the fact that all his reviews somehow ends up being about you and how you might like it/reminds him of you says a lot about your relationship
the way he thinks of you everytime he does something while you two are away from each other and he makes it known by writing reviews on goodreads or letterboxd <3
notes. i feel like i always centered wonwoo around books so much cause when i was still learning about svt, my best friend sent me a video guide and the description for wonwoo was something about liking books and during that time i was reading soooo many books and thought “oh wow is he meant to be my bias” then a couple months later here i am.
synopsis : fans reminisce on your relationship with seungcheol
pairing : rapper!seungcheol x gn!, actor!reader
genre/s : mini smau, angst, fluff, some humor mixed in
part one : memory lane | part two : hopelessly devoted | part three : beginning, middle, the end
from reese, with love <3
highkey inspired by a vague memory of what my tl looked like when hyuna and dawn broke up and as you can see... this is a three-parter hehe. no promises on when the next parts will be out, but if you want to be tagged for the other parts, just send me an ask or reply to this post :) thank you for reading! i'd really love to know what you think for this one bec i had a lot of fun making it :> hope you're all doing well and taking care !
GENRE: best friends to lovers, all of the girls you loved before by taylor swift
WARNINGS: none, just fluff
AUTHOR'S NOTE: this has been in my drafts for way too long. hope you like it! please consider donating/tipping me
all of the girls you loved before is the fourth installment from 23 moments with donghyuck
lee naeun, June 2013 - July 2013
Lee Donghyuck’s first love turned out to be the quickest one.
It was a whirlwind romance, like how he would describe it whenever you’d ask him. At thirteen, you and Donghyuck were finally catching up to the rest of your homeroom’s growing pains—both literally and figuratively. Your legs were longer now, albeit Donghyuck’s becoming longer than almost everyone else’s, and you were prettier than most. Letting your bangs grow was a wise decision in the summer, after all. Long gone were your chubby cheeks and you’d learned how to put on some lip tint before jumping on the bus to school. The internet was a better teacher when it comes to styling your hair; you’d never expected hairstyles come with face shapes. Meanwhile, Donghyuck, though his cheeks are still as round as they were in primary school, has learned that the hugs and kisses he used to give everyone in homeroom erupted butterflies all over.
You’d wondered, of course, because among everyone in class, Donghyuck’s probably given you the most hugs and kisses, yet you haven’t quite figured out what they meant when they say he gives people butterflies.
In the same year, Donghyuck learned consent. His mother and father gave him a lecture on why kissing people randomly isn’t ideal at his age and why consent is important. Hence, he’d stopped giving everyone random kisses. The last one he’d kissed you on the cheek was a week before summer started—not that you were keeping a record of all the stolen kisses—right when you were about to jump off the bus you and him were on.
Lee Naeun gave the first consent at thirteen. On the last day of classes.
She was moving to the US the next school year. Donghyuck made you wait by the benches as she packed up her duffel back after soccer practice.
She was taller than everyone else. Sporty and ambitious, Lee Naeun was every boy’s kryptonite. Just like how Lee Donghyuck was every girl’s.
“Can I kiss you?” Donghyuck asked. Naeun blushed like crazy. She was taller than Donghyuck, so when she’d nodded, Donghyuck had to go on his tip toes to reach her lips.
You looked away when Donghyuck got his first real kiss, wondering if the sudden pain in your stomach is the same as the butterflies that people get when Donghyuck kisses them.
kim haerin, August 2016 - January 2018
Kim Haerin was Donghyuck’s girlfriend all throughout junior high school.
Contrary to popular belief, Haerin pursued Donghyuck from the first week of classes. You and Donghyuck had moved to a different school after middle school as the one in your hometown didn’t focus much on arts, leaning towards STEM more, which, if you and Donghyuck were being honest, is the last thing you’d want to do in high school. This also meant that you and Donghyuck were new in town—the new girl and the new guy—and that people your age were particularly curious about you and Donghyuck that school year.
Oddly enough, the first thing they needed to confirm was whether you and him were dating. As soon as it was a clear no, you and Donghyuck received flowers left and right. You wondered whether this is what high school should be like and expected Donghyuck to feel the same, but that school year was different. The people liked the extroverted, friends with everybody Donghyuck, so it was easier for him to adjust to the new place and the new people.
They’d started dating the week after school started. Haerin was a part of a big group, the ones who’d studied in the school’s sister middle school down the road, and she knew everyone. She was nice, or so you’ve heard because you didn’t have that many conversations with her to confirm if she truly is, and she’d say hi to you when you passed by her by the lockers.
Donghyuck tried to take you with him whenever they’d hang out, of course, but his attempts could only do much because you weren’t into the same things as they were. Eventually, you’d found your own group and adjusted to the new school all by yourself. It made you worry about Donghyuck less whenever you’d see him all happy and loud like the person he is. While Donghyuck’s name stuck with Haerin’s all throughout high school, yours remain independent. You’d decided you’d start dating when you’re ready.
The only times you’d see each other, apart from the classes you shared, were weekends with your families. You and him talk, of course. Donghyuck at home is different from Donghyuck at school. But it was different. The memories of you and him going to and from school gradually blurred between all the people you’d met in high school.
Kim Haerin broke up with Donghyuck as soon as you all came back from Christmas break on the last year of junior high. She’d started dating the new guy from the other class who transferred all the way from Germany. She’d given Donghyuck a kiss in the middle of the empty gymnasium and told him she’d loved him but the sparks were gone.
Donghyuck waited with you on the bus stop that same day. To this day, he waits with you.
im jieun, November 2019 – December 2019
Im Jieun was one of a kind, and if you could pick, she was your favorite from Donghyuck’s long list of lovers.
She was a couple of years older than you and Donghyuck. How Donghyuck even got the slimmest chance of dating her, you have no idea. She was a freshman in college. You and Donghyuck met her at one of your seniors’ birthday party; they’d hit it off easily. They had the same personality, almost like twins, and were pretty much the perfect couple in your newly found friend group.
That year was the most life changing for him because Donghyuck lost his virginity with her, and for quite some time, similar to when he’d dated Kim Haerin, he disappeared from your life, and not that you’d cared at much at that time because you were also dating your first boyfriend, Na Jaemin.
Jaemin was everything a first boyfriend should be. Gentle and sweet, determined and future-driven, truly the kind you’d want your parents to meet. He’s been in the same class as you since junior high, but he wasn’t the kind to approach women that easily. He was brought up loyal and kind, and it showed with the way he treated you. He asked you out on a dinner for the first date, at an amusement park for the second, and a picnic by the park for the third—which was the same day he officially asked you as his girlfriend.
When Donghyuck had learned, he was as surprised as a best friend would be.
“You never told me you liked Jaemin,” he commented when you’d told him the news. He was sitting on the swivel gaming chair you and him bought as pairs right beside your bed, where you were still half asleep because he barged in at seven on a Sunday morning. Apparently, he learned it because he saw Jaemin’s Instagram story from your date with him last night.
“Because I didn’t,” you groggily replied. You squinted, trying to make up your mind whether Donghyuck’s a dream or not. “I mean, I like him now. But it didn’t occur to me until he started asking me out for dates.”
Donghyuck leaned his head against your chair, kicking his feet off the floor to spin himself around. “You never even told me you went out on dates.”
You giggled. “Are you sulking now, Donghyuck?”
He sighed. “I tell you all about the girls I date. Even the ones I dream on dating. And this one time you finally decided to start dating, I wasn’t there for you.”
You sat up, watching as your child-like best friend spins himself dizzy on your chair. “Check your phone. Every time Jaemin and I went out, I texted you.”
He sighed again, pressing his foot on your bedroom’s floor, stopping so he could look at you eye to eye. “You didn’t tell me it was a date. You said you were having dinner with him, going to the amusement with him, and hanging out with him at the park.”
“We’re 19,” you pointed out. “What would 19-year olds do alone together?”
Donghyuck tilted his head sideways. “You and I are always alone together.”
“It’s different.” You throw a pillow at Donghyuck, kicking off the blanket from your body and moving to give him some space to lay on. “Come here, you big baby.”
Donghyuck’s mouth formed into a pout but occupied the space on your bed anyway.
“I’m a big girl,” you reminded him as he rested his head on your chest. “I don’t need you to be there for me on my first relationship.”
“Ouch,” he mumbled.
“I will always need you in my life, Donghyuck,” you clarified, knowing well how Donghyuck hates being not needed. “Just, not for this one. I might actually, truly like Jaemin. He’s a good guy.”
Donghyuck hummed. “But I’m still your best friend, right?”
You laughed. Because it’s the most ridiculous thing you’d ever heard. Donghyuck will always be your best friend. You were certain no relationship would break that. You and him were past being insecure about your friendship.
“Always.”
Donghyuck broke up with Jieun before Christmas break. The reason, you have no idea. But he’d told you it wasn’t as fun as it was in the beginning anymore. And Jieun was in university, after all, and you and him had SATs to pass and college essays to ace before the school year ends.
You and Jaemin took him out for clubbing that night, in hopes of cheering him up. It was a mystery to you why he’d suddenly decided to end it when the relationship seemed like it was smooth-sailing. They’d even talk about Donghyuck going to the same university as Jieun next year. You didn’t recall any fights within the relationship, so you wonder why.
Donghyuck leaves the club without you and Jaemin.
lee naeun (again), February 2020 – April 2020
Donghyuck learned from Lee Jeno that his first love returned from the US to take her bachelor’s degree in Seoul on Valentine’s day. He found her wandering around SNU’s main lobby on the first day of the spring semester. You and Donghyuck were visiting the university after receiving your acceptance letters, looking for an apartment to share. Jaemin was going to another university, so it wasn’t wise for you and him to move in together, hence Donghyuck offered to move in with you to save up some money for rent and other expenses.
Lee Naeun stood there, still taller than Donghyuck, still the first person who ever kissed Donghyuck’s lips, still the first person you’d ever compared yourself to, wondering what she had that you didn’t.
Like the day they kissed in 2013, you looked away when Donghyuck finally reached to where she stood, wondering why, all of a sudden, many years later, the butterflies were flying all over in your stomach once again.
ginny williams, September 2020 – October 2020
Of course, the first woman that Donghyuck officially dated in university is from the UK. Jeno said he only dated her to show everyone he’s immensely improved in English.
The break-up was proof Donghyuck never improved in English. He didn’t even understand why she was breaking up with him.
park yesol, September 2021 – February 2022
You introduced Donghyuck to Park Yesol because it’s what she wanted for her birthday.
She had invited you to her 21st birthday. You and her, if you were being honest, barely know each other. You only shared a class in Literature once, so at first, it was a mystery to you why she suddenly invited you. When she’d asked if you could ask Donghyuck to RSVP with you, you’d known that it’s all she wanted from you.
Eventually, they’d start dating. Donghyuck, at that time, had been single for almost a year. He thought he convinced you that college was finally catching up on him hence he’d put a stop to his “demanding” dating life. However, Donghyuck is your best friend, and you could see right through him. You knew he liked someone he wasn’t willing to share with you, and he was probably working up the courage to ask that person out, which, when you thought about it, was new. Donghyuck was cunning and ambitious and he knew what he wanted and how to get it. He was never one to shy away from the people he liked, so it was a little suspicious that it took him almost a year to start dating again. You did not figure out who he liked, and you knew he’d only started dating Yesol to get you to shut up about it.
You and him knew it wasn’t a serious relationship because Yesol was dating other guys while she’d dated him. Donghyuck told you it felt like the relationship was just for sex because of his oozing sex appeal; you’d thrown a cushion at him when he’d said that.
Meanwhile, you and Jaemin were almost at pointbreak.
You didn’t want to spend Valentine’s Day being uncertain of the relationship would go, so you broke up with him on the first day of February. Jaemin had gotten an internship in Japan a few months ago, and the company that hired him liked him so much that they wanted to keep him while he finishes his degree virtually. You wished you could say the same, that you loved him so much you also wanted to keep him.
It was finally catching up to you and him, the distance. So, it was better you’d break it off before you and him start failing subjects just to keep a relationship steady.
Two and a half years together wasn’t enough. You and Jaemin wanted to spend the rest of your college years, at least, together. But like he said the night you’d ended it: it wasn’t worth it if it was compromising your mental health and studies. You’d cried so much that night, and you wondered if Donghyuck pretended he couldn’t hear you sobbing from the other side of the apartment.
Come Valentine’s Day, Donghyuck asked you to dress up, throwing a paper bag at you.
The place he “luckily scored” a reservation from, on a busy, fully-booked Valentine’s night, was nice. It was romantic and you were flushed and giddy from all the wine and all of the Donghyuck.
“Why are you here with me and not with Yesol?” you’d asked after the waiter filled your glass.
Donghyuck smiled at you. “I broke up with her two weeks ago.” Around the same time you did with Jaemin. “I figured if my best friend would be miserable on Valentine’s day, I should be, too.”
You laughed. “Well, you don’t look too miserable for a newly single man.”
“I’m not,” he confessed. “I’m never miserable when I have you.”
You reached out one hand, palm facing Donghyuck. He intertwined his hand with yours. And it fit perfectly. Just like the dress he got you.
your name, June 2022 – present (or alternately, sometime in 2005 – forever.)
“Lee Naeun, Kim Haerin, Im Jieun, Lee Naeun again, then Park Yesol,” you enumerate. “You were a ladies’ man!”
Donghyuck whines, begging you to stop as you go through his things in his room, particularly the notes and letters from the girls he’d dated.
You and him are moving out. Graduation is just around the corner, and you and Donghyuck decided to move on to a better place. Your boyfriend got a job in one of the biggest companies in his industry, while you’re yet to find yours.
“Don’t forget Ginny Williams,” he teases, throwing you a love letter from the bunch.
“You did not date Ginny Williams, Donghyuck. It was an illusion,” you scoff. “Tell me one conversation you had with her. A real one.”
“I swear to God, she loved me,” he answers. “Stop playing around and help me in here.”
You stand from the carpeted floor and walk towards Donghyuck as he sorts out the things from his study desk. Donghyuck starts with the tower of books and folders, organizing them alphabetically as he carefully places them on the box labeled as books. The other box is labeled as essentials; hence you start throwing his headphones and speakers and its chargers in. While doing so, you get a hold of a small box that contains what you thought were miscellaneous items mixed in with trash, until you realize what’s inside.
There are a few polaroid pictures of you and him from high school, including a picture of you and him on your high school’s graduation day, some receipts from, now you recognize, the places you’d gone to. There’s a receipt from when you and him took the subway to visit a museum at the other side of the country back in 2018, another from Valentines day 2022, when you and him celebrated being newly single, the old ticket from your senior prom when he’d gone with you, and so many more that you could recognize just from its dates.
“Donghyuck,” you whisper as you look at the box of memories. Donghyuck turns, eyes wide when he recognizes the box you’re holding. “Where… where should I put these?”
Donghyuck loved many girls in his life. You can recall their names in the order of when he’d dated them. You had your favorites and the ones you didn’t like that much. Some of your friends wonder if you’ve ever been insecure knowing you weren’t the first kiss or the first person he had sex with and if you were okay with knowing all of that. You weren’t the first and you wish you’d be the last. The only thing you’re certain of, is that he had always loved you, and that alone erases all the other thoughts.
If you could say so, you’re thankful for all of the girls he loved before because they made him the one you’d fallen for. Every dead-end street led him straight to you.
➝ fluff // non-idol!au // university!au // friends to lovers.
➝ Shiny Star masterlist (can be read as standalone)
밤하늘의 별을 따서 너에게 줄래
너는 내가 사랑하니까 더 소중하니까
오직 너 아니면 안 된다고 외치고 싶어
그저 내 곁에만 있어줘 떠나지 말아줘
I want to pick a star from the sky and give it to you
Because I love you and you’re important t me
I want to scream how I can’t be without you
Please stay beside me and don’t leave me
- Shiny Star (2020) - KyoungSeo
A/N: lowkey inspired by Shiny Star (2020) by KyoungSeo bc that song makes me wanna fall in love D:
If someone asks you when did you fall for Jeon Wonwoo, you’re not sure how to answer.
You’ve known Wonwoo for long, though you weren’t the bestest of friends. He was just… Wonwoo. You went to the same school for years and he was your classmate once during high school. Wonwoo was kinda cool and that’s it.
Okay, maybe that’s not it. Maybe you had always had a crush on him though it was just a crush. Maybe.
in honor of donghyuck's twenty-third birthday, i present to you,
23 moments with donghyuck
if walls could talk
➼ The first mission with the notorious Lee Donghyuck involved looking for the hoodlums who attacked Na Jaemin during his trip to Beijing. | mafia au
amortentia (the room smells like absolute shit)
➼ The room smells like the Quidditch pitch when you arrive fifteen minutes into the class. | harry potter au
frequent flyers
➼ Donghyuck looks enthralling like this: beautiful even after all these years, charming like he’s the day he turned 21, grown, earnest, and at ease. It’s agonizing to look at from where you sit across the room—hands wrapped around her waist, eyes closing as he leans in, drunk, drunk, drunk like the night you’d left him, heart void of you.
all of the girls you loved before
➼ “Lee Naeun, Kim Haerin, Im Jieun, Lee Naeun again, then Park Yesol,” you enumerate. “You were a ladies’ man!” | all of the girls you loved before by taylor swift au
"it's swowwen."
➼ You find yourself running from your unit’s floor down to the main entrance. Donghyuck needs to be taken care of today, and with Dream’s schedule, none of the managers will be available to tend to him today, which is why they ended up deciding to send him to your apartment for the day.
the first time (coming soon)
smoke in your lungs (coming soon)
that one afternoon in jeju (coming soon)
lights, camera, lee donghyuck (coming soon)
➼ It’s a universally known truth that successful empires come from humble beginnings. In interviews, Donghyuck's grandfather talks about hard work and creating your own vision, which he says he’d learned from his parents who learned it from their parents. He emphasizes the importance of ethics in business and networking, expanding one’s territory by partnership. He brags about working at a young age, getting a degree and an MBA, and how he’d imposed and required higher education for his own children. What he doesn’t talk about is all the arranged marriages the entire Lee bloodline had signed up for—had committed to—to keep the entire expanding like the fucking universe. It just keeps going; there’s no stopping.
starbucks lovers (coming soon)
before the coffee gets cold (coming soon)
i don't wanna be your friend (i wanna kiss your neck) (coming soon)
➝ fluff // non-idol!au // university!au // friends to lovers.
➝ Shiny Star masterlist (can be read as standalone)
밤하늘의 별을 따서 너에게 줄래
너는 내가 사랑하니까 더 소중하니까
오직 너 아니면 안 된다고 외치고 싶어
그저 내 곁에만 있어줘 떠나지 말아줘
I want to pick a star from the sky and give it to you
Because I love you and you’re important t me
I want to scream how I can’t be without you
Please stay beside me and don’t leave me
- Shiny Star (2020) - KyoungSeo
A/N: lowkey inspired by Shiny Star (2020) by KyoungSeo bc that song makes me wanna fall in love D:
If someone asks you when did you fall for Jeon Wonwoo, you’re not sure how to answer.
You’ve known Wonwoo for long, though you weren’t the bestest of friends. He was just… Wonwoo. You went to the same school for years and he was your classmate once during high school. Wonwoo was kinda cool and that’s it.
Okay, maybe that’s not it. Maybe you had always had a crush on him though it was just a crush. Maybe.
this is PART ONE of my svt recommended fics. this post contains hiphop unit fics. you can access vocal unit's recos here and performance unit's recos here. don't forget to like and reblog the fics below to show some appreciation for the writers <3
💋 - smut
☁️ - fluff
🧃 - angst
🎧 - absolute fav
crossing boundaries - wonusite 💋☁️
bouquets for a friend (from a friend) - thepixelelf ☁️
gryffindor captain - http-mianhae ☁️🧃 (part of the amortentia series)
very nice - venerex ☁️
hello tutorial - 97-liners ☁️🧃🎧
livestream - pileofwords ☁️
what besties do - wonusite 💋
neighborly (ft. mingyu) - ncteez 💋🎧
what a bore (ft. chan) - hwanghyunjinenthusiast 💋
cupid - yoongiseesawmp3 💋☁️
caught with your pants down (ft. chan) - bitchlessdino 💋
summary ━ four different departments, four different love stories, all in one hospital; hospitalplaylist!au
pairing — seventeen (he/him) x fem!reader (she/her/they/them)
genre — fluff, angst, smau, more to be added in each part
warning(s) — medical terminology is not 100% accurate, cursing, more to be added in each part
author’s note — my sister got me to watch hospital playlist and i’m still suffering from post concert depression after be the sun so this happened LOL this will be the main masterlist and each story will have its own masterlist from there!
taglist — open for either all svt hospital stories OR specific svt hospital stories.
please refer to and/or fill out my taglist google form on my masterpost that’s pinned on my blog
Indi’s note: here I’ve compiled all the Wonwoo fics I’ve recommended so far and put it all in one page for easier access. 💕 This will be updated and if required more volumes will be added.
