I don't know if this is my story to tell, but I only know my point of view on things. Everything was left unsaid until 'that' happened. I will only be telling my point of view and the truth is maybe some of these things never really happened.
"The raining season has begun, I remember asking cole to come home with me." the story went on from there...
"Dang it, it's raining again," Cole pouts. Jun couldn't get the idea of how feminine Cole looked. Almost always people mistake him for a girl, but it never phases Cole. Almost like he used to it.
"You hate the rain that much". The latter hooks his arm around Cole's shoulder and Cole looks at him with anger.
"How am I going to get home now?" Cole says sadly.
"Don't your parents usually take you home?" Jun turns towards cole who was looking at the rain with a sad look on his face.
"Yeah, but today my parents have something important to do." Cole continues to pout.
"Why are you so cute?" Jun screech his cheeks and cuwed. Cole pushes his hand away, with anger in his eyes.
"Tell you what. Why don't you stay at my house?" smiling at how Cole's eyes went wide.
"Can I really?", Cole asked excitedly.
"Yes, you can". The two young boys with no care in the world, except for the rain and took a short way home. Jun didn't leave far away from the school nor too close, but it was much easier than going to cole who leave an hour away.
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"Jun is that you!? cole who was carefully taking of his shoes, shakes, and fear and proceed to step back from the man's voice.
"Yeah, I'm back," he responds while putting his bag away.
"You should have called me. It's raining so hard outside, you might catch a cold.' Jun roles his eyes from his brothers saying.
Meanwhile, Cole still stood before the door not moving one bit. As the voice gets closer, it gets deeper yet softer and more calming. It made cole's legs go jelly. How odd for him to feel such a way just by someone's voice. His heart would stop beating, like when watching a scary movie.
"Jun---"
Dean paused seeing the gorgeous boy in front of him he gulps. He looks down at the boy who wasn't moving from the door and smirks. The feeling was a stranger to him, yet he liked it. He likes how the boy looks at him and doesn't know why.
"Hi?" it sounded more like a question than anything. Cole stops staring at the man in front of him and looks towards Jun who was smiling at them both.
"Um, are you guys going to stay like this forever?" Jun sips on his tea, almost too dramatically. Both Cole and Dean look at where the sound is coming from.
"This is my friend Cole and Cole this is my brother Choi Yungjin, but we call him Dean for short". Jun sips his tea again but this time looking over the cup like an old lady would.
Meanwhile, Dean's eyes go wide, this is the Cole Jun have been talking about for months. The one he would always think of and imagine he would meet someday is now in front of him.
"Hi," the shy boy says again under his breath.
"Hey" Dean responds. Cole's knees buckled after saying such blain words. He quickly balances himself with the couch handle. How could his voice be so deep?
"Where are your manners?" Dean slowly excused himself and walks towards Jun, hitting him in the process.
"What did I do?" Jun cries.
"Get him some clothes or he might get sick". Dean glances at cole who wasn't looking at them.
"Young love". Jun walks away slowly. Dean was about to hit him again.
"What!? I'm older than you", Dean hits Jun once again this time much harder.
...
Jun went away to grab Cole some close as well as changing his own. He didn't want to think about how the two boys reacted with each other, hr didn't want to overthink something that isn't there.
Jun handed the clothes to Cole and Cole takes them. Walks away with the clothes, Stopping in his track, and turns around.
"Um---
"Oh sorry about that. My room is the second one to the right and there's a restroom in there". Jun Smiles at his brother creepily.
"Okay?". Cole walks away with warm clothes.
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A few minutes later
*Thud
My brother and I ran towards the loud thump. Turns out Cole fell, because the floors were wet. My brother gave him a hand, I've never seen my brother be so delicate with someone. I mean he's always kind and sweet even with that annoying voice of his. He picked Cole up like he was glass.
But why do I ship it?
"Are you alright? Did you get hurt?" Hyung says.
"Yeah". Cole did get hurt a bit but he didn't want to show it.
"You guys are so cute. You need to stop". Jun says jokingly. He was enjoying how small his friend looked in front of his brother. Not very surprising but his brother loves working out. It's his hobby.
"Let's get your hand treated yeah", my Hyung said. Grabbing his arm and holding on to his waist.
"I'll do it", Jun says. He didn't want Cole to explode from the embarrassment.
"Yeah okay", Dean says. "I'll cook dinner before mom and dad come home". Dean walks away giving cole another look and leaves.
"Okay, I want spaghetti today please". Jun says.
"Wait, Sweetie do you have a ride home?"Where did that come from? Cole froze at the nickname, but he refuses to think too much about it.
"Um-----uh no". Cole's loss of words resolves on him embarrassing himself again. Which wasn't fun for him, especially when he feels this way about the man.
"His parents are busy today". Jun explains.
"Don't worry about it. Well talk about it later". Dean walks away hitting his lips in the process.
Jun took Cole to his real room and waited for Cole's reaction.
...
"Wait that wasn't your room?" Jun shook his head no. "You tricked me". Jun just stood there laughing. A couple of minutes later, he started to look for the first aid kit.
"Why would you do that?", Cole says.
"You seemed to be very interested in my brother". Jun changes the subject.
"What do you mean?" Cole says confused. He was.
"You two looked like a whole couple about ten minutes ago", Jun laughs.
"No, we didn't". Cole looks away from Jun and twiddles his fingers. Even so, why would a guy like Dean want to with him? He's a nerd a nobody.
"Yeah okay". Jun found the first aid kit and started to treat both Cole's arms and legs. Cole winces, but he was okay after a while.
"I never heard of two guys liking each other". Jun says in confusion. If his brother liked Cole he wouldn't mind it at all. Love is love.
"Who said I liked him?", Cole says crossing his arms.
"You do. I could tell. Love at first sight I guess". Jun says. Smirking at Cole. Cole just looks at him confusedly.
"How you know all this?" Cole asked.
"I read it off a book". Jun says. Cole almost didn't believe him. Jun reading an impossible book, but he saw a bunch of comic books on Jun's bed and that might be what he is talking about.
"You think so. My heart beats out my chest when I see~
"Ah--- ah I didn't ask for details". Jun says. Feeling a little bit weird, because that is his brother we're talking about.
"I think I have a little crush on him. Honestly, I am a bit confused", Cole didn't say anything after that and continue to look down.
"You want me to help you". And that's when I realize I fucked up.
" I don't know yet though I have to think about it". Cole says. Looking at Jun. "But he's a guy", Cole says.
"So, love is love", Jun hugs his friend.
"This is more of a love story than it is sad". Yuna asks. She was starting to understand why Cole was hugging that guy in the picture and why Dean is so important? His special.
"That's just how they met". Jun says. "Do you want me to tell you what happened to him or not"? Jun softly said.
"Please tell me why Cole is crying so much?" Yuna asked. Jun shakes his head.
"Wait?!", Jun paused, confused. Why isn't Yuna complaining?
"What?" Yuna looks at Jun.
"You okay with two guys liking each other". Jun asked.
"Why wouldn't I be? Coles my friend I'll support him in whatever decision he makes". Yuna says and she had no lie behind her words. "Like you said love is love". Yuna smiles and Jun smile back at her. I love this girl.
"Okay". Jun continues.
"Um—— our village had this rule. You are unable to fall in love with the same-sex - rule 0034. You would be banished if you broke that rule. I didn't know this rule. Cole and I didn't know this". Jun continues
"But my brother did. After the day I brought Cole into my house. Cole and my brother fell in love. We thought it was natural". Jun said sadly.
"They----they love each other so much. And I loved them being together. My brother was happy and my best friend was happy. I was happy. My parents were okay with it. Not at first, theirs a whole story about that. Coles parents didn't accept it", Jun wanted to cry but he has to stay strong.
"Coles parents reported it all to the counsel", Jun tears up this time. Yuna puts her hand on his shaking ones. While wiping his tears away. She was also crying.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to", Yuna says but Jun shakes his head and continued.
"They were so in love. I envied them. My brother was going to propose to Cole. I thought it was a dumb idea because we were still so young. My brother was 25 and Cole was 16.
On the day of the proposal. They took my brother away from me. It was the same day Devan was getting banished.
My whole family had to go and so did Cole. He saw him get banish as well. Cole's parents were in the front row. Cole had to watch it all.
Cole—— Cole had to watch his love disappear right in front of him. My family and I grieved for many years, but not as much as Cole. Cole stopped talking to his parents and started to live with us.
We didn't hate Cole. How could we? He loves Dean more than he loves himself. He did everything for him.
We tried finding him, we did but we find nothing. Cole cried for years. The Cole you know now is the Cole my family grew up with. The Cole that cries all the time is the Cole I knew from that day on.
Dean is gone and Cole is still dying to this day. I feel like it was my fault". Jun cries louder. He didn't want to wake up Cole. Cause if he does. Cole won't go back to sleep. Everyone was in tears.
"When did this whole thing happen?", Yuna asked sobbing.
"It happens on August 1st. I remembered it so vividly", Jun but his head down.
"You mean tomorrow, is the day Dean, Devan, Holly, Devan's dad all disappeared", Yuna concluded, thinking how strange this whole thing is.
"Yeah, How you know about Holly?" Jun looks up at Yuna.
"I know things". Yuna says smirking. "Does this sound like a coincidence to you?", Yuna says. She's onto something.
"What do you mean?", Jun says still on the verge of crying.
"I don't think this was a coincidence. Let me explain, what if it was all a distraction. You said everyone was in the court right. What if, just what if Devan's dad wanted a distraction to get to me", Yuna concluded. And Jun's eyes open.
"You think so," Jun says,
"I know so". Yuna finished. Jun was still confused. he was not understanding what Yuna was saying.
"Now if he's not dead, let's go find Dean". Yuna smiles.
"Yeah", Jun said carelessly. "Huh--------