#ohsoweon

Jongin knows without a doubt that life has taken a drastic twist from where he was a year and a half ago. The most obvious change is the fact his once lonely apartment is filled up with couple sets of everything. In the kitchen, there is matching pink and blue tableware, in the bathroom an extra toothbrush, and in his closet, Sehun’s clothes mix with his own. For someone who spent the majority of their life stuck in another person’s dream Jongin can say with utmost certainty he’s never been happier.

His fingers slide over Sehun’s arm, gingerly stroking the smooth skin exposed from his cuffed sweater rolled up to his forearm. They’ve been laying like that for minutes since Jongin has gotten home and showered off the sweat of practice from the ballet. Their children - three hyperactive poodles and one ill-tempered, often misgendered cat - all laying in various places in the room waiting for the dads to pay them any mind. Jongin can only sigh in content burying his face in his lover’s dark hair nuzzling as his eyes fall shut at the comfort.

He’s in love. There is no doubt about that. Their match is an odd one. Sehun is a genie who has a life dedication to granting people’s wishes. Jongin is the deity of dreams forsaken in the human world and now working as a full-time principal dancer at the Seoul Ballet. They’re a peculiar pair but it somehow works out. It had been rocky at first, as most relationships can be. But after a long time of just getting to know each other Jongin can admit he's a lot more honest and attentive of Sehun than he is to himself.

Jongin’s lips press against Sehun’s forehead as his legs intertwined with the other’s. They need a bigger couch but they just haven’t gotten around to it. Jongin enjoys doing those small domestic things with Sehun: grocery shopping, picking out furniture together, walking the dogs hand-in-hands, or just going to see a movie. It does not really matter what it only matters that after many, many, many decades of loneliness and misery Jongin has learned to love again without restraints. Sehun will not hurt him. Sehun will not lie to him. And Sehun will always be there for him. To think this is what would have come of the best friends turned lovers. Jongin would have never guessed in a million years he would be resting as he cuddles with Sehun wondering what it would be like to spend the rest of his life with him. Would they retire off to the genie realm? Would they venture to another place in the human world when they outgrew this place? Perhaps, Jongin would ask to go around helping Sehun with his genie duties. Maybe they’ll find a house next to Soojung? (Although, that would be certainly no good because Jongin still gets a little jealous when Soojung cuddles with his boyfriend - but he owes her. Without her there certainly would be no them.)

He came here to escape --- escape everything and everyone he didn't like in his old home. The ways he felt tied down and restricted. Or how his morals and mind didn't fit in with what was expected of him. He wanted to do more than dream, he wanted an opportunity to live those aspirations out. What was the use of immortality if he did not make the most of it? So for Jongin, it seemed almost suitable that he spends most of his days falling more and more in love. In a way he's living selfishly - soaking in as much as his beloved’s presence as he could. Another part was living to make sure he always brought a smile onto the other's face. Loving Sehun had not been totally expected and by the time he falls he cannot do anything to salvage his rampant heart. Jongin had always thought love would come in the form of some girl he would pretend to be human for and they'd live together until her time was up. A silly thought of his he's never confessed to Sehun. But little did he know that a genie would walk into his life and turn it upside down.

There is something glorious about being able to be himself when he had so little practice doing it. At first he is standoffish and likely to complain - somewhere along the way Sehun melts that frosty interior and he finds himself unable to get rid of the dumb lovesick grin that dances on his face every time the other enters the room. He's so incredibly lucky he thinks. For being able to experience the life he has been given a second chance for so thoroughly and blissfully. He has had his fair shares of heartache and suffering - Sehun hadn't accepted him until recently. He's glad, even if Sehun hadn't accepted him, that he has had these chances to see this world that way. To soothe his loneliness and his insecurities. He use to wear his hurt on his sleeve; blaming senselessly all the happy people around him, and he's endured much alone when he had to. not just Sehun, just a large consistent percentage, of it had been the other's doing. 

Jongin of course probably never get use to the moments he feels Sehun is being a little bold. Usually it’s him declaring things outwardly or progressively gaining back all his squished courage. There is no denying the warmth that easily spreads down throughout his chest when Sehun says things that normal people might find ridiculously cheesy. With Jongin, it’s alright because he is ridiculously cheesy. Life on earth has made him a romantic — he tends to see things those a rose tint and probably a bit disgustingly optimistic. He has been on the other side of it all: moping about the unfairness of life or wanting to wish himself away when he feels like crap. 

There are moments when he plummets down when he’s really sore from work or has had a bad night during his real job. But the difference is now he doesn’t have to feel so damn alone all the time. He knows he has a few friends he can depend on when things get bad but they’re not Sehun. It’s different. Sehun is compassionate and understanding, even if he himself hasn’t experienced the same feelings – he tries to comfort him without being overbearing. Without expecting him to smile all the time. 

There are the moments when Jongin feels like he’s soaring even if his feet are securely touching the ground, more moments when he feels his chest expand with feelings to the point he’s sure no one man can F E E L this much without bursting, and so many more where he’s just grateful. Grateful that Sehun hasn’t abandoned him despite his clinginess and bad habits (i.e text Sehun with too many emojis, demand fast food too frequently, let his dogs kiss his mouth). “Ahhh --- Sehun! I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else either. I really don’t want to be without you permanently so I’m happy to follow you wherever you go next when you cannot stay here any more. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately since we’re bound to be noticed for not aging. My home is with you not a job or location. ”

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