you can rest here
cast and plot: lee jisung ( @typicaljisung ) and heo yujin having a moment after that happened.
yujin’s used to seeing people fight—he grew up listening to his parents scold him and his brother, even worse heard both of them argue when he would wake up in the middle of the night for a glass of water or to sneak off to the bathroom.
he’s also used to the uncomfortable silence that comes after those moments, when the adrenaline dies down and his father tells everyone to “let it go” in that stern, firm voice that wasn’t quite a yell, but wasn’t gentle in the slightest in how he’d raise his volume ever so slightly.
but that doesn’t make experiencing it any more comforting.
when micah got up from their seat with a quick mumble to him, he turned around in his seat to take a peek at what was going on. and then he almost immediately wish he didn’t, because it was hard to tear himself away from watching some of the people closest to him fight.
then there was the blunt thud of punches being thrown. he squeezed his eyes shut, pressed himself into his seat with his bag squishing against him, and tried to ignore it—all of it.
he doesn’t know when it happens, he doesn’t even realize exactly how long it’s been since he started blocking it out, but he feels the seat cushion underneath him sink down and it makes his eyes open again immediately to look at who’s next to him.
he looks… honestly, he looks pissed. yujin doesn’t know what to say—whether saying something will make it worse or help him, and hell, even if he did know what to say, does he himself even want to speak right now?
(the answer, evident in the way he was still gripping his bag to stop himself from shaking from fear, was obviously no. if he tried to even talk, yujin’s pretty sure it would come out as just a spiral of stuttering incoherently.)
so he decides to stay quiet—let the uncomfortable silence speak for itself.
but with a slightly still trembling hand, he remembers how he was watching an episode of an anime—well, half-watching, half-teasing micah about the very guy sitting next to him now—and sits his phone closer to rest on both of their thighs.
he looks back over at him again, a hesitant look in his eye, worried if he was bothering him. but regardless, he holds out his own earbud to him to take, if he wanted.
you can rest here, if you want.