12

It was the Wedding Day and Seokmin woke up early today, even with a hangover, he still managed to wake up early. No one knows why would they plan a bachelor/bachelorette party the night before the wedding. And now, everyone will have a hangover at the actual ceremony.

He opened his phone and surprised to see 150 missed calls from his friends. Seokmin immediately called Hoshi, who answered in a span of a second.

Hoshi: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? ARE YOU HURT? ARE YOU SICK? WHAT'S HAPPENING SEOKS, ANSWER ME NOW!!!

Seokmin: Calm down Hoshi. I'm sorry I didn't answer all your calls, I turned off my phone because I wanted to unwind a little bit.

Hoshi: Oh good you're fine. So, how's the Philippines?!

Seokmin: It's great here. The beach is so nice and clean, and the food taste good! I've enjoyed my stay here.

Hoshi: That's great! How's the bride and groom? Are they kind? Or bitchy?

Seokmin: The bride is uh, kind. She invites me everywhere and treats me like her friend.

Hoshi: And the groom?

Seokmin: All I can say is that I hope the bride will see that he's an awful piece of shit who likes to manipulate people.

Hoshi:  . . . Did the groom do something to you?

Seokmin: Not really. Joshua's been here to keep me company so I rarely talk to that shithead groom.

Hoshi: Who's Joshua??

Seokmin: He's the guy I met here. We've been hanging out a lot.

Hoshi: Ooh no wonder you weren't answering the phone, you've been busy.

-- Their call was interrupted once Seokmin heard a knock on the door. “I'll get it!” Seokmin shouted.

Seokmin: Hey Hosh, I'll have to call you again soon. I think it's Haesoon at the door. Bye!

Call disconnected

“Hi Haesoon, what's going on?” Seokmin asked at the panicked woman standing at his doorframe. “The w-wedding. . . It's cancelled!” Haesoon freaked out.

“WHAT? WHY? HOW?? WHAT HAPPENED?!” Seokmin exclaimed, dragging Haesoon to sit down and tell him everything.

“I don't know!! Jaeha called in this morning, she said the wedding's off and that their relationship was over.” Haesoon kept fidgeting, she didn't know what to do as well. “Where is she? I have to talk to her.” Seokmin replied but Haesoon did not know that either.

“I've looked everywhere, but I couldn't find her. Apparently, she left this morning as well. I heard she and her fiancé had a huge fight last night.”

Seokmin then remembered what happened last night.

:::

“I’ll break up with her. Let's just get back together. Please?” Seunghoon pleaded. Seokmin stopped for a second, it was as he'd hoped before; Seunghoon coming back to him and try to win him back.

But that's not what he hopes to happen now.

Seokmin gave his ex-boyfriend a huge slap he would never forget. It stung so badly that Seunghoon's face turned red. “I will never get back with you. You fucking bitch don't deserve your girlfriend. How can she have this piece of shit as her husband?” Seokmin coldly said. Seunghoon got mad, and gripped at Seokmin's wrist tightly, while forcefully kissing him and biting his lips. It was painful, too painful to the point where the younger was already tearing up.

“And for your information, I am in love with Joshua. I can never replace him with someone like you. You're worthless and I hope Jaeha finds a guy that she deserves.” Seokmin glared at his ex-boyfriend. But before Seunghoon could reply, he grunted in pain as he meet Joshua's fist, punching him in the face, many times.

“Fuck you, Seunghoon. Go rot in hell.” Was the only words that came out of Joshua's mouth as he gently lead Seokmin away from the scene, to his room.

A bluish mark was left on Seokmin's wrist, and his lips were bleeding. Joshua took out the first aid kit and quickly treated the bruise. He was mad at his bestfriend and didn't want anything to do with him.

Joshua already told Seunghoon about his feelings for Seokmin, with the groom saying it was okay and he supports them.

But that all changed once Seunghoon tried to get back with Seokmin, even hurting him at one point. Joshua was furious.

“Does it hurt?” The older asked. Seokmin nodded slowly, the bruise was painful. He couldn't feel his hands at first.

“Thank you for saving me back there, I didn't know he could actually hurt me. He was very kind to me during our whole relationship.” Seokmin said, as Joshua pressed compress on his bruise.

“No worries. That's what I thought at first before I found him and his friends ganging on some innocent boy. I've always felt regret that I was too scared to stop his schemes.” Joshua replied.

“You saved me earlier, though. You were brave enough to stand up for me. I'm so proud of you.”

“Thank you. But truthfully, I've never felt angrier in my life than what I felt today. When I saw him hurting you, something kicked in me that I straight up just wanted to punch his face.” Joshua said, making Seokmin laugh.

The two stayed in silent afterwards, before Seokmin blushed, remembering something.

“Hey so uh, before you punched him. . . Did you. . . Hear the words I said?” Seokmin asked, embarassed that he might've revealed a very important secret to Joshua out loud.

Joshua stopped for a second, trying to think about what had Seokmin said and widened his eyes. He had also dropped a gauze in surprise.

“D-did you mean it? What you said earlier?” Joshua asked, shyly looking down.

“Every single word.” was the only answer Seokmin had, looking down on the floor.

“oH MY GOD YOU LOVE ME TOO! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I LOVE YOU SEOKMINNNN!!”

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