Pairing: kim hongjoong x reader.
Warning(s): angst, cheating, mentions of future infidelity, hj is rlly smth here. erm ft. mingi and jongho. overuse of words "bleach" and "red".
You had always been an overthinker, always able to predit the ending of a movie 45 minutes in.
Hongjoong was like a splash of red in your monochrome life on a checkerboard, the type to read a book backwards, too impatien—he said he liked his eggs a little runny aways, later on you wondered if it was because he just didn't know how to cook them properly.
But hey, this isn't about Hongjoong's inability to cook eggs.
Hongjoong was the butter to your popcorn‐Okay that's actually weird I would rather not describe you both like that.
It had been a long run, a good one, maybe not something you had been able to predict four years ago when he randomly approached you at the Aldi's down the street.
Honestly that splatter of red was very similar to the lipstick stain on the color of his white shirt. Hongjoong didn’t own many white dress shirts, only one, which you’d gifted him three Christmases ago.
Pity you didn’t own lip products in that shade.
Honestly, you didn't know how to confront him. So you didn't. You bleached it off.
Three weeks later it was back, same color same spot. You wished this was some cruel joke, so you bleached it off again.
Hongjoong took you out for dinner that week, he wore the shirt.
(As he made love to you that night, you noticed the red staining the inside of his colar, the next afternoon you bleached it off, again.)
Before you knew it, the red was everywhere, it was suffocating and you wanted to throw up.
Bile was rising in your throat, you cut your finger while chopping carrots, the red on your fingers stared at you tauntingly.
Then it was his phone password changing, the 'incorrect password' was the same shade of red.
You should have confronted him like Jongho told you to, or punched him the way Mingi taught you how to. But you didn't. And so it dragged on—four months later Hongjoong got on one knee in the same shirt.
(seconds later hongjoong was kissing you, the band was of gold, adorned by a shining red ruby.)