carnations have thorns too || hrj [TEASER]
¤ pairing: huang renjun x reader
¤ genre: fluff, comedy, angst, college! au, childhood friends to lovers !au, friends to lovers! au, step brother's best friends! au, established relationship! hanahaki au! elements of enemies to lovers au!
¤ synopsis: after years and years of hopelessly pining for your step brother's best friend since you were six years old. life for you had gone from stealing roses from mrs. wong's garden to having sushi picnic dates on the park every thursday. to stop you from getting small for the sake of giving him roses, an eight year old renjun told your six year old self that he preferred carnations instead of roses. what he failed to tell you at that moment was that carnations have thorns too.
¤ warnings: angst, signs of unrequited love, heartbreak, swearing, mentions of blood, crying, arguments, mentions of loss of family member, mentions of coughing up blood, yangyang is a slightly shitty brother, renjun is sort of an ass, a character has a severe heart condition, MAJOR character death, probably alcohol warning, throwing up petals. (more to be added)
¤ word count for teaser: 260 words
¤ release date: end of december to beginning of january
¤ a/n: special thanks to @lebrookestore for making the header ♡!!
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Scratching the back of his head in confusion, he furrowed his own brows as he attempted to recall. “The ones I like are yellow, they have petals just like the ends of the dress you wore to my parent’s barbeque. It’s like a rose, but prettier!” He exclaimed, not 100% knowing what in the living world he was going on about.
“Also, roses have thorns too! I think you should stop picking them unless you don’t want me to get hurt too, you know?” he sputtered out, instantly changing the subject as you furrowed your brows in wonder. “Maybe Mrs. Wong has them growing around in her-”
“No!”
Your eyes shot open at his sudden remark, causing both of your eyes to widen before Renjun let out a nervous chuckle. “It’s a flower that you can only find in other places like Italy and Greece!” he exclaimed with an affirming nod, even though he really does favor yellow carnations over any other flower, he was sure that half of the things spewing out of his mouth are utterly nonsensical, but what’s the harm in lying when it’ll keep you out of trouble.
“When I grow up, I’ll give you lots and lots of yellow carnations then,” you beamed, stretching your arms wide as you tossed them into the air to emphasize your terms of ‘lots and lots’. Renjun simply chuckled at this, shaking his head before patting your head softly with an understanding nod.
None of you realised that what he had failed to inform you was that carnations have thorns too.
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