strongchxn said:
-he furrowed his eyebrows at your silence and ran his fingers deeper through your hair when you buried your face into his abdomen again; Hey.. You okay? -he lightly poked at your side, hoping to get your attention; You’re acting a little strange.. quiet.. you’re being too quiet.. -he worried that somewhere along the way he upset you, which was what he’d been trying to avoid, upsetting you;
Youngjae’s not sure what to say. At some point he just doesn’t have any words anymore, but he doesn’t know why. He doesn’t want Himchan to think any of this is his fault, because he honest to god has no idea what’s going on with him, but he still finds himself a dead giveaway when his shoulders heave a little and an involuntary sob escapes his body, despite his attempts to suppress it. He doesn’t want to talk about it though, because he doesn’t know /what/ to talk about.
What is he supposed to say exactly? He has no reason he knows of for bursting into tears, so he can’t just make up some bullshit answer because Himchan’s smart enough to know when someone’s lying, but then Youngjae’s always been a really bad liar anyway so maybe that’s why the older always catches him. Still, now that he’s given himself away, he finds he only presses his face further into Himchan to hide, trying to keep himself locked in place as he silently lets the tears finally free themselves from his body. He wants to say something, but what?
He just told Himchan everything was fine, that neither of them were actually ready or stable enough to date. He just assured the older that just a friendship for now was all that was necessary, but deep in him somewhere was he lying even to himself? He doesn’t want to think that, he doesn’t want to think he may actually be desperate for more because he doesn’t want to lose his closest friend, his favorite Hyung. He doesn’t want to pressure Himchan, or make him uncomfortable. He wants just a friendship to be okay because asking anything more could scare his fragile older counterpart away from him, and the last thing Youngjae could handle would be Himchan being scared to face him, leaving his life because he couldn’t control his own feelings. He needs Himchan there, they have a bond he hasn’t found with anyone else, and even the thought of losing him now to /this/....that scares him. So he wants to say just a friendship is fine for now, that they don’t need anything else to develop because Youngjae /truly/ believes neither of them are ready for the dating world. But then he has no other reason to be crying, so why is he such a mess? Why can’t he control himself or come to peace with talking about it? He doesn’t even understand himself right now, and that might be the scariest thing he’s ever experienced. For a boy with as many fears as himself, he knows somewhere in him that that’s a problem.