hey! you wanna help me hang mistletoe?
he’d usually decline, not being the type to participate in such antics (though don’t be mistaken, he is no scrooge!). but it’s the sweet clear ringing of jung soojung’s voice and it’s almost instinctive for him to blurt out a ‘yes!’ or a ‘sure!’ in an excited fashion like he would years ago.
but this isn’t the past, now is now. so he holds his tongue and let his thermokinetic abilities betray his cheeks and rush to his face, eager to burn.
not to mention the connotations of mistletoe can elude to specific thoughts(…)
his (also, very eager) eyes dare to give her a look and it’s cliche, he knows, but he feels seventeen again. heart skips a beat, chest tightens, his muscles frigid and his mind rushes itself back into it’s seventeen year old state. and it all squishes itself into one whole second. one whole crushing second. but for old times sake, totally disposing his lethargy, sehun shrugs, eyes blinking lazily at her and a lazy grin to his lips.
(hiding the fact that ‘let’s just be friends’ doesn’t ache in a far side of his heart,) “why not soojung?” lips tight, heart searing. that’s what friends do.