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the one - nct jaehyun ft johnny

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winter nights are cold but nothing was as cold as the empty pounding of jaehyun's heart as he stood in front of his door after hearing a knock. he has a bell but there was someone he once knew who never thought of ever using it.

he gulped, pulling himself together, getting rid of all the emotion feelings dwelling in on him ever since that day you broke it off with him. well, you hadn't actually been together but things were complicated then and even more now, so jaehyun's wondering the single thought of what the hell were you doing here?

"jaehyun! are you home?!" you shout from the other side and he can hear how weak your voice sounds, as if you had been shouting or yelling previously. "i know you're here."

there was a silence because jaehyun didn't say anything, he didn't feel like he had words to say to you. nothing was on his mind and there will be nothing to make up for the nothing you gave him.

"please, can you open the door?" you beg in a small wail, placing a hand on his door and dragging it down the cold metal frozen by the winter air dragging through the halls of the apartments. "i need to see you."

he finally makes a move, unlocking the door quietly and wrapping a hand around the doorknob hesitantly. jaehyun retracts his hand and lets it hang by his side once more when he hears that voice.

"jaehyun, are you okay? can you let us in?" johnny says and the man's body droops even more than before from the other side. you weren't just here alone, but with jaehyun's friend, who you had been seeing before your fling with him.

you beg, lowering your voice, "look, i know you're still mad at me but can we talk about it at least? please, it's the least you could do."

jaehyun scoffs to himself. the least he could do? when you were the one to call it off? the whole thing? if anything, he should have forgotten about you long ago.

"leave, i have nothing to say to either of you." you and johnny finally hears the deep voice softened by the soothing tone despite the harsh words he spits out. johnny turns to you and shakes his head, "i think we should just go. come on, i'll take you back home."

"no! i'm not leaving until i see his face and say all that i need to! you cannot avoid me forever!" you shout, pounding on the door, ignoring how all the other neighbors could possibly be enjoying the greatest slumber of their lives. "jung jaehyun!"

there was no point in waiting it out, he knew you weren't going to leave until you got what you wanted. you'd camp outside his apartment all night and day if you had to, but why did jaehyun feel that if he opened the door right now, everything had already changed so it wouldn't even matter?

he lets the door fall open in a slow, swift run; he sees your eyes first and it follows him in the slow motion that plays with the time. you part your lips, in attempt to say whatever was on your mind, but before it could happen, you're wrapping your arms around his neck and lifting your head to meet lips with him.

he lets it happen, leisurely. almost, jaehyun almost lets it happen before he pulls himself together, quickly diverting his gaze to johnny, who was standing there rather awkwardly watching the interaction. jaehyun stiffens, "leave! the both of you!"

in an instant, the door is flown shut in front of your faces and johnny slides his arm around your shoulder to start walking you down the hall, and you grip onto his hoodie, crying into it without the thought of mascara staining it. he lets you, johnny just lets you as he pats your shoulder.

jaehyun pushes his back against the door, sliding down, heart beating at a rate that should've killed him but for some reason he's still alive enough to realise and understand that he had been wrong. even through all the hell he's been through without you, he couldn't miss a single detail.

the kiss brought him back to how it felt to be there with you then, each other wrapped in each other, filled with small cracks of smiles and fingers intertwined with each other, promising that it wasn't love but lust that brought the two of you together; yet, jaehyun could feel it, too, how scared you were to be with him because when you pulled yourself towards him, he saw the glimpse of regret that smacked johnny in the face.

jaehyun might have won your heart in the end but johnny was the one.