Once the conversation with Matthias ends, Seong stares at his phone for maybe a little too long before deciding to just get up and put his phone in a different room. Surely he'll be less tempted to spend the next few hours texting with Matthias (or at him) if his phone isn't within reach. God, since when was he that kind of boyfriend? Normally, he can't wait for conversations with people to end and for him to be left to his own devices. Normally, he craves solitude. Interactions get in the way of that. Yet with Matthias, he craves attention. He craves contact (both the innocent and not so innocent kind). Probably the side effect of being in a relatively new relationship that he actually wants to be in. The intensity of his want to be near Matthias should fade in time. It should even out to something more normal in time.
Normal for other couples. Not Seong's normal. Seong's normal is not a place he ever wants to go with Matthias.
Seong spends the next few hours mostly staring at his laptop screen. Sometimes he types up a paragraph then deletes it. Sometimes he types a sentence and keeps it. Mostly he watches the cursor blink. Sometimes he looks toward his bedroom door and considers going to get his phone, sometimes he simply browses the internet, then goes about temporarily blocking some sites to keep himself from doing it again. Mostly, he reasons with the blinking cursor, explaining to it that he still has three days to finish writing this article. It'll be quick and easy to write once he can focus on it.
By the time Seong has decided he's spent enough time working (it's almost 8. The time that he decided he's going to head up to Matthias'), he's got roughly five sentences written. Five sentences he'll probably scrap once he sits back down at his laptop. He changes his clothes (baggy, oversized sweater and jeans from a different baggy, oversized sweater and gym shorts), grabs his phone from the other room, then heads upstairs to Matthias' place. It's exactly 8PM when he knocks on Matthias' door.
If Matthias saw Seong standing outside of his door for a few minutes waiting for the time to tick over to 8 o'clock, no he didn't.
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Once the conversation with Matthias ends, Seong stares at his phone for maybe a little too long before deciding to just get up and put his phone in a different room. Surely he'll be less tempted to spend the next few hours texting with Matthias (or at him) if his phone isn't within reach. God, since when was he that kind of boyfriend? Normally, he can't wait for conversations with people to end and for him to be left to his own devices. Normally, he craves solitude. Interactions get in the way of that. Yet with Matthias, he craves attention. He craves contact (both the innocent and not so innocent kind). Probably the side effect of being in a relatively new relationship that he actually wants to be in. The intensity of his want to be near Matthias should fade in time. It should even out to something more normal in time.
Normal for other couples. Not Seong's normal. Seong's normal is not a place he ever wants to go with Matthias.
Seong spends the next few hours mostly staring at his laptop screen. Sometimes he types up a paragraph then deletes it. Sometimes he types a sentence and keeps it. Mostly he watches the cursor blink. Sometimes he looks toward his bedroom door and considers going to get his phone, sometimes he simply browses the internet, then goes about temporarily blocking some sites to keep himself from doing it again. Mostly, he reasons with the blinking cursor, explaining to it that he still has three days to finish writing this article. It'll be quick and easy to write once he can focus on it.
By the time Seong has decided he's spent enough time working (it's almost 8. The time that he decided he's going to head up to Matthias'), he's got roughly five sentences written. Five sentences he'll probably scrap once he sits back down at his laptop. He changes his clothes (baggy, oversized sweater and jeans from a different baggy, oversized sweater and gym shorts), grabs his phone from the other room, then heads upstairs to Matthias' place. It's exactly 8PM when he knocks on Matthias' door.
If Matthias saw Seong standing outside of his door for a few minutes waiting for the time to tick over to 8 o'clock, no he didn't.