#tbffs

“hey johnny! guess what.”

you’re sat on the sofa with best friend!mark, your legs draped over his lap, nintendo switches in both of your hands.

“what?”

johnny, who had just walked through the front door, asks as he takes off his shoes and jacket, slumping down on the couch opposite yours.

“mark confessed to his crush via animal crossing. like in a postcard in new horizons!! how funny is that?!” you giggle, teasing the poor boy who tries to hide his face in his hoodie, mumbling something about regretting telling you about it.

johnny’s eyes flick from you to mark and back, his face a mix of confusion and amusement. “is that so,” he muses, raising an eyebrow at mark who only squirms in his seat in reply.

you giggle again, at last turning on your console and starting your own software absentmindedly. the room is silent save for the low clicking sound coming from your consoles.

haechan was at a crossroads.

the way he saw it, he had two options: one, confess the feelings he’s kept hidden, locked away in a corner of his heart, for years, potentially making you run away with the last of his dignity while his heart breaks into a million tiny pieces, leaving him to spend years trying to pick them up and piece them together again, BUT with the chance that you could feel the same way.... or two, push the feelings even further down his chest, maybe putting up another lock or two to keep them sealed away, an option which did have the benefit of keeping the risk of you running away at a minimum, but likely at the cost of his sanity.

his eyes scanned the room that was full to the walls with people; seniors enjoying their last weekend of freedom before finals begin, freshmen standing in corners looking like deer caught in headlights, a few grad students chatting on the couch in the living room.... and you. haechan’s eyes were pulled to you like a magnet, finding you standing among a group of your friends, laughing at what was presumably a joke cracked by mark who was sitting on the edge of an abandoned beer pong table on your left.

your eyes looked up, as if they had felt his on you, sending him one of your signature smiles that sent a warm rush through his entire body, making him feel both weak in the knees and like he could sprint a marathon all at once. the feeling traveled from haechan’s head to his toes, making his heart overflow with bubbling emotions that were going to spill over any minute now.

haechan mirrored your smile and started taking shaky but determined steps towards you. he had decided. the truth was that he wouldn’t mind all the pain in the world if it meant he could see you smile at him like that just one more time.

my favorite warmups project: The Big Fucking Family Sheet. and a couple extras to see side by sides of the boys & their parents. i made this so i could finally realize the characters as i saw them in my head.

L to R, name & relation:

1. Tychon Whitfrost & Luka Valentino del'Aguaro! The main characters and husbands! You know them!

2. del'Aguaro Family: Fransisco "Franco" Matias Sr. (Luka's father), Carmina Valentina (mother), Francisco "Franco" Matias Jr. & Joaquin Tomas (twin elder brothers), Sylviana "Yana" Julietta (elder sister)

3. Rian & Nell Fleming (Tychon's BFFs from childhood through adulthood), Dascha McKellan (they/he, Tychon's family friend, mentor & distant cousin as well as director of Bells University), Scarlet Aberdeen (Tychon's aunt, his mother's sister)