You Hear That? The Sweet Sound Of My Screaming In The Distance - Tumblr Posts
genre: platonic fluff :> pairing: scoups x gn! reader warnings: mentions of an ex and exes, drunk! cheol
bestie! cheol ✦彡
is the kind of best friend to share everything with you
need a ride? he’s got you.
don’t have cash when you’re out to eat? he’s got you.
you say you wanted to watch a movie? he’s already bought two tickets online and pre-orders popcorn in the flavor you like so all you have to do is pick it up when you get to the theater.
isn’t the most expressive when it comes to how much he appreciates you or likes your presence for that matter, but worries about you a lot
knows you more about you than you think…. always leaving you floored because you’re always surprised by how attentive he actually is
lowkey knows you better than your own family,,,,,
right! he’s the kind of bff to share everything with you - and i mean everything
to him, you’re his “i wouldn’t be able to live without you” kind of friend so there are random moments where he does let you know exactly that
(mostly when he’s drunk because he’d be too prideful and stubborn to admit his feelings to you when he’s sober)
but always gives in and owns up to what he says when you tease him in the morning; which ends with both of you having a really heart-warming conversation
even though cheol is stubborn (has a hard time expressing his gratitude and love toward you), you still love him a lot and he loves you
and you both just know
he’s very much you’re “i wouldn’t be able to live without you” friend too : (
drabble under the cut ! | wc. 1.2k | (y/n) - your name
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“cheol, you’re drunk.”
“am not.”
“then why’d you text me to come to soonyoung’s party to pick you up, if you weren’t?”, you say with a smile.
to your surprise, cheol’s mouth breaks into a smirk and he says “because i knew you’d come get me.”
“were they here? was your ex here?”, you furrow your eyebrows in concern and push cheol’s bangs out of the way. the smile on his face still lingers. “or any of them for that matter?…. hmm, are you okay, cheol? should i take you home?”, you say and rush to put on your seatbelt as you take your eyes off of cheol in the passenger seat for just a moment.
“they were, but you know what - it was better than i expected.”
“okay, how much did mingyu give you to drink to make you feel as if it was better-“
“(y/n), i’m not drunk-“
“yes, you are.” he puts his hands up in surrender, and takes one of your flailing hands in his, “fine i’m tipsy if that’s what you want me to admit!”
you sigh in the driver’s seat, setting up the bluetooth so that at least you’d have a banger playlist on amidst his drunken babbling. cheol’s always been like this, you tell yourself, but today something seems different… because he hasn’t let go of my hand.
“don’t take me home just yet.” he says quietly as he starts fiddling with your fingers. you pull your hand away from his, and he lets out some sort of whine in response. “i don’t want to be alone!”
you laugh, quite literally, to his face and tell him “what happened to, it was better than i expected?”
“i mean… it hurt a bit, seeing them there but i didn’t feel the pull to be close to them anymore. i think i’m getting better (y/n).” he looks at you with such a sincere look in his eyes, you can’t help but smile fondly at your friend.
“like you said, i think i’m making more room for someone else to love now. i thought it was impossible before.”
“but with time it isn’t, right?”
“what would i do without you, (y/n).” he says quietly before resting his head on the closed window as you drive out of soonyoung’s driveway, and leaving the party behind.
“what was that cheol? you hungry? want to go get mcdonald’s?”
“i said—“, normally he’d brush off your requests to repeat himself but tonight is different. he doesn’t know if it’s the alcohol, or the fact that you so willingly came to get him from soonyoung’s party, or the fact that the playlist you chose to play in the car right now was the one he was a collaborator on, but his heart blooms into such warmth when he finally says: “i said what would i do without you, my (y/n).”
it’s tempting to step on the brakes to hug your usually nonchalant and prideful best friend, but a smile creeps its way onto your face instead.
he giggles a bit before falling asleep in the passenger seat, a smile gracing his face. you can’t help but think about how cute he is right now, and how grateful you are to have him as well.
“what would i do without you, my cheol.”
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the next morning, cheol wakes up in a mountain of blankets atop your living room couch.
you’re in your tiny kitchen, brewing some hot water in a kettle and toasting some bread for you guys to eat.
his head feels like its splitting in half - partly,(a) because of how you so brutally opened the blinds he remembers you closing as he fell asleep last night and now he is face-to-face with the harshest sunlight he’s ever experienced in his lifetime but also because (b) of how much he drank last night. mingyu is going to get an earful from me later, he thinks to himself before glancing in the direction of your kitchen, which you have since left.
“good morning, my cheol.” you tease, appearing in front of him with a tray consisting of a plate of warm and toasted bread, butter, strawberry jam, and two cups of orange juice which you put on the coffee table at the foot of your couch’s tiny pull-out couch.
he face-palms in response, “i did it again, did i?”
you laugh in his face, much like you did the night before, “mhm! yes, you did and i found your confession this time very cute.”
he lets out some sort of sound of frustration before letting his curiosity get the best of him, “what did i say this time?”
“i’ll tell you if you ask nicely, and attach ‘my (y/n)’ to the end of it.” you say sweetly, clearly pushing his buttons while smiling at him with your brand of mischief that he knows all too well.
“oh god, did i really say that?”
“if i remember correctly—“, you tease because you and him both know you remember what he said last night very clearly, “you said something around the lines of ‘what would i do without you, my (y/n)’ and something about me being right about getting over your ex.”
something blooms in seungcheol’s chest, a kind of warmth he knows is only associated when he spends time with you, or is near you for that matter. while you busy yourself with doctoring up two pieces of toast for each of you with butter and jam, he looks at you with such care and fascination. seungcheol seemed to be friends with everyone, but didn’t let anyone get too close - say less for a few of his guy friends whom he grew up with. that was the case, until he met you. at that moment he realized how truly lucky he was to have you, and how much your friendship exceeded many of his past failed relationships.
he didn’t need to love you like a lover in order to feel loved. and it made him even softer to know that he still cared for you all the same. he couldn’t imagine the space of you in his heart as empty, in fact it pained him to think that.
he couldn’t imagine a life without you by his side. as his best friend. as his (y/n).
and sure, he was bound to fall in love and settle down sometime. and you were too, it was what you deserved. who else is more deserving of love in this life than they are? he realized how much he asked that to himself constantly.
snapping your figngers in front of his face, you ask “earth to cheol? the toast is going to get hard if you continue to just stare at it.”
he looks at you gratefully, pink dusting his cheeks.
he couldn’t remember what he said exactly last night, but he did remember where he was coming from. and he was going to tell you now.
“thank you for this, my (y/n).” he says casually, before taking a bite of the toast you were referring to. “and thank you for being here. with me. for being my (y/n).”
it’s now your turn to smile, and your heart’s turn to bloom with something equal to the warmth of the sunshine on your skin at this very moment.
“of course, my cheol. forever and ever.”
“forever and ever.”
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💌 : might turn this into a series! hope this one gets a lot of love <3
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