nonnie nonnie anonnie · 4d
Joshua’s words turn over in his mind even as he jiggles the key in the lock, cursing when it catches on the edge and has to be shoved in.
“You’re back,” Seungcheol calls out, oddly pensive as he stares at the envelope on the table.
Jeonghan’s heart sinks. No. Not this. Not now.
“You never tell me anything,” Seungcheol murmurs quietly, barely audible over the sound of the door falling shut behind Jeonghan’s back. “I didn’t—I’m not going through your things, but you left this here. And you told me to stop paying for the camera, so I didn’t—”
“Did you look?”
Seungcheol looks up at him, crestfallen. “What? No! I wouldn’t do that—Jeonghan-ah, I wouldn’t do that to you. I just—it feels like we never talk about anything.”
They’ve been sharing a bed as long as they’ve been sharing this apartment. Joshua isn’t the first of their friends to assume there’s something else there, and he isn’t even the first one to call them on Mingyu’s entanglement either.
They talk, of course they do.
just this whole scene.
literally just finished rereading this for the 5th time when i saw your tweet btw.
god i love that fic thank you for picking it
as for this scene! the story is told more from jeonghan and mingyu's points of view (even if the narration itself is third person limited to jeonghan, we know more about mingyu because of it and because of both their jobs at kasa) than seungcheol's and i wanted that disconnect to hit jeonghan, but also for the reader to remember seungcheol and how he's on the outside of everything. he doesn't know it's the end of the world, he doesn't know exactly how everyone is feeling, and he knows there are things he doesn't know. i liked the idea of jeongcheol having their own issues on the side that they haven't gotten around to talking about, even if it is the end of the world, and how they only ever seem to communicate via mingyu, like they need him for the balance. they're both a little more avoidant when it comes to acknowledging their own feelings, and that's how they end up in this situation where everyone seems to know before them.
i also might as well talk about the camera here, since it's mentioned, but that's a clear line he draws—just like we see in the different scenes, mingyu and jeonghan find themselves in the aquarium store, mingyu and seungcheol find themselves in the camera store, and jeonghan and seungcheol have the apartment. jeonghan draws a line with the camera because he doesn't want to encroach on that space, but he also doesn't want seungcheol to feel obligated, nor does he want seungcheol encroaching in his own.
