•Room 1004, Hotel Diamond Stay•

Seungcheol woke up to the bright sunlight falling on his face through the window. When he was fully awake, he saw Jeonghan dressed in a suit as he was fixing his wrist watch.

"Jeonghan?"

"Oh you're up? I was going to wake you up anyways."

"Are you going somewhere?"

"Yeah, I'll visit the branch of my company here." Jeonghan informed, "You're going on a shoot anyways so I'll keep myself busy too."

"Oh okay fine." Seungcheol nodded.

"I forgot to inform you yesterday." Jeonghan continued, "I hope it's alright."

"Of course, don't worry much."

"All the best for your shoot." Jeonghan chuckled, "I'm going, bye!"

"Wait, I'll accompany you till the parking lot at least." Seungcheol stood up, "Let me freshen up a bit."

"Yeah sure, I'll wait." Jeonghan sat down and waited for the older one.

"Let's go." Seungcheol came out after a while and both of them left. As promised, Seungcheol escorted the younger till his car as he waved him a goodbye.

While returning back to his room, he saw their main manager, Yang Jungwon and Hana discussing about something so he joined them, "What happened guys?"

"Oh hyung!" Jungwon acknowledged, "Remember, you've a shoot today? Actually the thing is, you can't take more than two staff members apart from your guards there."

"So?"

"So I was thinking to keep Hana out of it and let your head make-up staff and the head of our official photoshoot and videography manager go with you." Jungwon explained, "But she's insisting to go with you as she's your manager. And I too know that it's her duty to accompany you for these kind of events specially when she's good in foreign languages."

"Oh I get it." Seungcheol nodded, "It's fine Hana, I know sufficient japenese. You can rest today."

Hana's face dropped but she quickly managed to display a forced a smile, "Okay sir."

She bowed to both of her bosses and left to her room. Anger rushed through her veins as she immediately knocked off a vase kept on the table, "So now those little bitches will replace me? Make-up manager? Photoshoot manager?"

Yes, now she officially hated those two people because of whom she was restrained from going to the shoot with Seungcheol. An evil smile crept up on her face, "I'll show them their place now. How dare they try to fuck with me?"

She pulled out her phone and made a call, "Hello? I need a quick help."

•Rose Quartz HQ, Tokyo, Japan•

"Okay guys, I'm not here to eat." Jeonghan scoffed as the staff and the boss i.e. the main handler of the Japan HQ of Rose Quartz kept bringing food for him and treated him like a king. And why not? He was the CEO of the company after all.

Kang Yeosang and Park Seonghwa were the main handlers of the Japan HQ and they were really good friends with Jeonghan.

Jeonghan ordered the staff to provide the three some privacy and hence, they complied.

"So, how's everything here?" Jeonghan asked, "It has been a while."

"Everything is great." Yeosang chuckled, "And yeah, congratulations for your secret wedding."

"Are you mad at me?"

"Of course!!" Yeosang squinted his brows, "You didn't even invite us. We got the information through news and articles."

"I'm sorry but everything happened in a rush, I didn't get the time to think and all." Jeonghan explained, "But if you're free let's have lunch or dinner tomorrow, together."

"Are you going to introduce us to your husband?" Seonghwa raised a brow.

"Of course." Jeonghan nodded, even though he wasn't sure if Seungcheol would agree, "His group finished a concert yesterday. We're staying for two more days, let's organise a get together."

"TWO DAYS?!" Yeosang stood up, "Still you didn't bother to inform us?"

"Calm down sir." Jeonghan joined his hands, "I told you I'm sorry, okay?"

"Whatever." Yeosang rolled his eyes, "Fine, I'll forgive you for this time."

"Thank you." Jeonghan chuckled.

"Jeonghan, let us organise tomorrow's dinner." Seonghwa stated, "You and your husband are invited, I'll text you the information by the evening."

"No that's not fair, the party should be on me." Jeonghan protested.

"That doesn't matter, does it?" Seonghwa intervened, "The main purpose is to have a get together so don't worry."

"Okay fine!" Jeonghan gave up. It was when he got a phone call from Mingyu. He excused himself to pick up the call.

"Hyung!" Mingyu's voice was shaky, he seemed extremely worried, "Coups hyung- he-"

"What happened Mingyu?"

"We got an information that Coups hyung and his staff got into an accident while returning from the shoot. And it's- they said it's a bit severe uh- very severe to be honest."

"WHAT?!" Jeonghan yelled as the other two males in the room flinched and stood up.

"I'll text you the address of the hospital. We're almost there."

Jeonghan muttered a small "I'll be there" and hung up the call. Fear, worry and several negative thoughts began to crowd his mind. Numerous 'what ifs' began to mess with his brain.

"Emergency!" That's all he could inform the two males in the office. He stumbled against the table after which he rushed down to the parking lot.

He couldn't think of anything except for Seungcheol's condition. He just prayed that he was alright but of course he couldn't let go off the heavy feeling burdening his heart.

He didn't realise but tears began to form in his eyes. He got into the car after asking the driver to stay out.

While driving recklessly, he got several calls from Seonghwa, Yeosang and Mingyu but of course his main focus was to reach the hospital so he ignored all of them.

It was when Seungcheol's voice, from the past, began to ring in his brain.

"Why do you care? Even if you didn't know whatever I feel for you, is it okay to play with someone's feelings for a fucking dare?"

"Listen here Jeonghan, you won't understand it now but I hope a day will come when you'll genuinely regret everything you did."

And the things he had said yesterday while explaining his definition of love.

"That one day will arrive, when you would feel your heart almost drop out when the concern of them leaving you would cloud your brain."

"You won't even realise that you're in love."

"That would be the day you'll realise how hard it is to live without them."

Jeonghan kept driving as bad as he could, his only goal was to reach the hospital, and it didn't matter if he had almost bumped his car into others, twice.

"Please be safe Seungcheol." Jeonghan mumbled while sobbing, "I wish I could have understood myself earlier. I wish I could have realised earlier.
I know I'm late but I hope it's not too late."

No matter how much I think, the answer is you but I write the wrong answer in my heart
Even if I push it away, it remains and before I know it, I'm in a dream

As soon as he reached his destination, he somehow parked his car in the parking lot without any casualty, thankfully. He rushed towards the building's reception.

The receptionist greeted him with a smile, "How may I help you sir?"

"Uh- Choi Seungcheol-" Jeonghan's mind was too messed up to form a proper sentence, "His room number?"

"Calm down sir, let me check." The receptionist looked at her screen, "Sorry sir, there's no room booked on his name."

"Damn it." Jeonghan sighed as he found out that he forgot his phone in the car.

"But I think I can help you." The receptionist added, "Are you talking about the Choi Seungcheol of Serenity band? As far as I remember, you are his husband right? I've seen in an article."

"Yeah." Jeonghan stepped forward as he hoped to get help.

"And you're probably talking about the road accident victims who were brought here."

"Yes yes!"

"I don't know the exact room number but after surgery, they were taken to the vip section of the 5th floor." The receptionist answered, "They were brought here an hour ago."

"Thankyou so much." Jeonghan nodded as he rushed to the desired floor. He looked at his watch, he took around 25 minutes to reach the hospital from his company building which meant he was informed about the case after about half an hour according to the receptionist's data.

"That's ridiculous, why didn't they inform me earlier?" Jeonghan mumbled as the elevator clicked open on the desired floor.

Once again, he was lost in the vast area of the floor. He stopped a man who looked like the hospital staff, "Where is the vip section?"

"Go ahead then right." The man informed him.

"Thankyou." Jeonghan muttered and almost ran towards the corridor. Now the said section had several rooms and he didn't know which one belonged to his husband.

While he was contemplating his next move, he heard a really familiar voice, "Jeonghan?"

He turned towards the source of the voice and he could swear that his soul left his body. His heart sank as the dried tears began to well up once again.

Because the owner of the voice was Choi Seungcheol himself. He was standing outside a room, all well and fine along with Mingyu, Wonwoo, Vernon and Dino.

I don't wanna lose you
Be without you, anymore
I don't know how to live without you

His brain was too messed up to actually understand the situation. And hence, he rushed towards Seungcheol and practically threw himself over him. He engulfed him into a really tight hug as Seungcheol stumbled a bit but managed to hold the younger.

Seungcheol was stunned by the younger's behaviour. He never expected Jeonghan to provide him such a heart warming and tight hug, never.

And did he know the reason? Partially. He knew what was going on, he knew about the miscommunication that had happened, he knew that Jeonghan wasn't picking up anyone's call after one single information to clear the misunderstanding.

But he couldn't believe that Jeonghan was worried to this extent.

"Jeo-"

"I was so scared." Jeonghan muttered while clasping Seungcheol's frame into his arms as if he was the most precious to him, "I was so so so terrified that I couldn't just breath. I can withstand anything but I can't see you being hurt at all."

I love you deep in my heart
Don't let me cry

If I could take back the words and actions that hurt you
If that crazy regretful day was given to me again
I will never let go of your hand from me again

It was the moment when Seungcheol realised that the younger was crying, "Jeonghan? Are you-" He broke the hug to look at his face and was left speechless.

Jeonghan's face was just messed up with the loads of tears he was crying. Seungcheol cupped his face as he wiped his tears, "I'm fine, look! Why are you so worried?"

Jeonghan looked up at him as he clutched his shirt, "Do you even know what kind of thoughts came into mind?!! My heart- it- how do I explain it to you?" He choked on his own words, "I knew that nothing wrong would happen to you but this stupid brain!"

Seungcheol embraced the younger and caressed his hair, "I'm all okay Jeonghan, please calm down. Nothing is wrong."

For Dino and Vernon, it was pretty normal. Of course Jeonghan would react in this way as he got such an unfortunate news about his husband.

But for Mingyu and Wonwoo, it was different. They knew the whole thing. They were constantly being told that there was nothing between them from Jeonghan's side. Then what was this? What was the reason of such an aggressive reaction?

Why was Jeonghan acting like Seungcheol was his everything?

I couldn't convey my feelings to you, who was moving away from me
You're still crying

Seungcheol gestured Dino to give him a water bottle. He settled Jeonghan on the nearest chair available and offered him water after which he finally calmed down. He could finally understand everything around him.

"What was it Mingyu?!" Jeonghan asked, "Why did you scare me with such ridiculous news? Why?"

"It's not his fault Jeonghan." Seungcheol explained.

"Yeah, I transferred you the news I got from the staff present here." Mingyu added.

"I don't understand." Jeonghan squinted his brows.

Seungcheol patted his shoulders, "Actually the car of the respective heads of the make-up and photoshoot department got terribly hit by a truck. They're admitted here. Because of the ruckus, my phone broke and I was occupied with the formalities and paper work. The staff member who informed Mingyu about the situation, mishandled it and I didn't even know. When they arrived here, I got to know about the miscommunication. That's why Mingyu was calling you again but you didn't pick up."

"Of course, my first priority was to reach here." Jeonghan reasoned, "I wasn't paying attention to my phone or whatever."

"It was just a misunderstanding." Seungcheol hesitantly stated.

"Just a misunderstanding." Jeonghan muttered in a low voice after which he grabbed his hairs and shut his eyes to release a deep breath.

Seungcheol sat beside him and grabbed his hand, "Listen Jeonghan, I know whatever happened, was wrong but it's no one's fault because-"

"I'm not blaming anyone, Seungcheol." Jeonghan looked at the older and then at Mingyu, "I'm sorry Mingyu, I just-"

"It's alright hyung, I know you were worried." Mingyu nodded with a small smile.

Seungcheol stared at the younger. Maybe, just maybe, Jeonghan was finally feeling the same? The whole scenario that unfolded in front of him was making him unusually happy.

But he quickly brushed off the thoughts when he recalled that he had vowed to keep his senses intact with the reality. He didn't have to raise his expectations too high, it was simply dangerous.

In the next half an hour, the boys got to meet the two staff members and the driver who got severely injured due to the accident after which they were told to go back to the hotel while some staff members stayed back. The three victims were glad that all of them stayed to see them and cared for them.

"Did you bump the car somewhere?" Seungcheol looked at the younger while investigating the car which had a few new scratches. The other members had left in the van while the couple had to take the car as it was Jeonghan's responsibility to take that car back to the hotel.

"I think so." Jeonghan avoided to look at the older.

"Great." Seungcheol couldn't believe his ears, "And I thought you were a calm person."

"Can we get into the car first?" Jeonghan scrunched his brows, "You can scold me after that."

"I'll drive." Seungcheol took the keys and made the younger sit on the passenger seat. He got into the car and began to drive.

Jeonghan looked out of the window as his mental state wasn't back to normal yet. He didn't realise but his eyes welled up with tears once again as his mind went through the earlier incident.

Why? Because even then thought of losing Seungcheol was scary enough for him.

Seungcheol understood that the younger was crying even though he tried to hide it. He rolled over the car at a safe place and hence, Jeonghan immediately wiped off his tears.

"Jeonghan? Please stop crying." Seungcheol felt miserable while watching the younger like that.

"I'm not crying." Jeonghan muttered without looking back.

"Look at me first." Seungcheol turned him around and held his hands, "I'm not crying?" He mimicked the younger, "Then what is this?"

"Just drive Seungcheol, I'll be fine." Jeonghan looked down.

"You won't be." Seungcheol caressed his palm through his thumb, "I know you must have felt bad-"

"Felt BAD? Just bad?" Jeonghan stared at the older in disbelief, "You can't even imagine what I went through in that half an hour. Just leave it, you already think I'm insensitive and cold-hearted, why would you understand?"

"There's nothing like that Jeonghan." Seungcheol placed his hand on his cheeks, "Look, I know, whatever you must have went through but see, I'm fine right? Everything is okay then why are you crying now?"

"I don't know, that scenario is just going on in my mind again and again." Jeonghan muttered.

Seungcheol offered him some water, "Please get over it Jeonghan or else I'll start crying with you."

"Shut up."

"Can't you just smile for once?" Seungcheol looked at the younger.

"Yeah very funny." Jeonghan rolled his eyes but eventually smiled when the older kept staring at him without any pause, "Stop-"

"I didn't even do anything." Seungcheol chuckled as he began to drive again.

'I'm definitely in love. You deserve the most special confession from me.' Jeonghan tucked a mental note.

'When can I stop loving him? Never, right?' Seungcheol thought.

A/n : If Jeonghan confesses his love, do you think Seungcheol would accept? What are your thoughts over how should he react after all this?

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