Chapter twenty-eight

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"I saw him."

Jisung sits up straight after hearing this sentence. "Who did you see," he asks. He knows who Felix was referring to, the twinkle in his eyes gave it away, but he asks either way. 

"Him."

"Thought so. So, what now? I'm very happy you've seen him, but what about it."

"I think I was in his dream, Ji."

"Wait...so your dream...was actually you spawning in his dream."

"Basically."

"And now?"

"I don't know either, Ji, but he sounded like he was waiting for me. Expecting me even."

"You think you can talk to him?"

"If I'd get in his dream again, I think that I could."

"Wait what?"

"I was paralyzed, Ji. He-he touched me and my whole body started burning. My body was shocked, incapable of moving at all." 

"What why?"

"I think that's what a mate does to you." 

Ha, Lix, if only you knew what a mate does to you. My body has been and still is burning up every time I thought of him, saw him, felt him near. I couldn't nor can I now control a single muscle in my body or thought. So my mate makes me want to take action, and Lix's makes him...paralysed?

"Yeah, maybe that's what your mate does with you. The mating bond is different for everyone, isn't it? Maybe you feel flabbergasted every time you're near yours. For now at least."

"Yeah, I think so...Ji?"

"Yes?"

"Did you make your bags yet? I don't really know what I should take with me."

"Make my- What you should take with you where?"

Felix looked at Jisung as if he just said the weirdest thing ever.

Oh god...Did I forget one of the plans Felix made...again...

"The trip, Ji!"

"Trip?" Jisung asks Felix, "Did you plan a trip?"

"Oh my fucking goddess, JISUNG are you for real?!"

"I'm sorry, Lix, I really don't know what you mean," Jisung answers while fake crying making Felix laugh.

"We're going on a trip next week with school, Ji. For bonding n stuff. How could you forget?"

"WAIT WHAT?!"

"Yea..."

"SO, THE WHOLE WEEK? NO LESSONS? JUST A STUPID SCHOOL TRIP?"

"Yes?"

"OH MY OH MY OH MYYYY," Jisung yells while getting off of the couch and kissing Felix on both his cheeks repeatedly. 

"Am I interrupting anything?" Someone standing in the door opening says.

"OF COURSE NOT!" Jisung answers smiling broadly at Minho, "WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP NEXT WEEK MINHO! NO SCHOOL!"

Minho had needed a minute to process this. "I know?  Everyone knows that."

"I DIDN'T! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?"

"Why would I? Shouldn't Felix have done that? Since y'all are best friends and stuff?" Minho answers. Jisung saw him do something with his eyes. It was really fast and small so Felix hasn't caught it. It was a kind of small, fast sorry with no words. 

Oh, I almost forgot how cold Minho was around other people.

Jisung turns back to Felix, "Yes, Felix, shouldn't you have told me? Since we're best of friends and stuff?" He questions him jokingly while jumping on top of him and tickling him. 

"S-stop," Felix stammers between laughter, "I-I'm sorry, I'll double-check from now on if you know the information every other person knows," He says while playfully trying to push Jisung off of himself.

Jisung stopped for a second, still sitting on top of his best friend. "Thought so," he says while smiling sweetly at him, only to continue his tickle attack a second later.

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Minho smiles at what is happening in front of him and leaves for the kitchen. He had just put Jisung's bedsheets and stuff in the washing machine and changed them for new ones. 

While Minho made breakfast he could hear his two roommates laughing in the room next to him. He wasn't really fond of loud noises, he had never been. But somehow, he had the feeling that he was happy too now. 

As Minho took the kettle off of the fire the two boys walked into the kitchen after hearing the boiling of the water. 

Jisung took place opposite Minho and Felix sat next to him. As Minho looks up he makes eye contact with Jisung. He shot him an excusing smile and pointed at the male sitting next to him with his eyes, Minho answered these minor signs with a reassuring smile and started eating. 

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"Felix," Jisung calls to the boy sitting on his bed packing his suitcase, "Maybe you should take your favourite pair of underwear with you," and Jisung throws him the pair of tiger-striped panties he had once bought for Felix's birthday as a joke.

Jisung was sitting on the floor in front of their closet with his suitcase while Felix had already chosen what he wanted to take with him and was packing it neatly on his bed. Minho had already packed his suitcase yesterday after school. Before Jisung came home, that is. 

He looked up from his bed where he was reading a book to see the two boys once again play fighting and giggled to himself. How did I end up in a room with these two little kids? 

"Hey!" Jisung yells, stopping with fake strangling Felix and crawling back to his place in front of the closet, "That's not nice," he adds pouting. Minho looks confused at Jisung. He was looking at him so that sentence was obviously aimed at him, but Minho didn't get why, he was just sitting on the bed. How was that 'not nice'?

"Ji? What are you talking about," Felix laughs, "Minho didn't even say anything? What are you mad for?"

"What? I'm not mad. I meant it jokingly, why are y'all so tense all of a sudden. I was just joking since he called us little children."

"Ji, Minho didn't say anything since we got in the room."

Jisung looks at Felix and then Minho, when he sees the look on Minho's face he knows he said something wrong.

  "AHHAHAHAA," he laughs, "you should've seen your face. Like you thought I could see ghosts or something," he falls back, fake laughing.

"O my goddess, Jisung," Felix says, rolling his eyes and continuing to pack his suitcase. He was used to Jisung's weird behaviour after all these years.

Jisung stops laughing and throws Minho a small smile and continues packing his own suitcase too.

Minho was still looking forward in utter confusion. Did he just hear my thoughts?