dear j.

excitement.

Jaehyun's POV

It's been a week since the letter. There hasn't been another one.

I spun around in my computer chair while my roommate, Jungwoo, said "Hyung, what is it? You've been sighing and spinning for the past hour, please tell me what's wrong." I turned my head and looked at Jungwoo while asking "Can you keep a secret?" He scoffed and said "A secret? Of course, Hyung! Who do you think I am? Donghyuck?" I rolled my chair over to my bag and warned "You better keep this a secret. If I hear anyone asking about this letter, I will strangle you, Kim Jungwoo."

He gave me a salute and said loudly "Yes, Sir!" I chuckled and pulled out the pristine envelope that I carried around in my bag. I handed it to Jungwoo, and I saw his eyes open widely. I said "Do you recognise this envelope? "He said "Huh? No, I don't, Hyung. Just surprised that a secret admirer would go as far as embossing your name on the envelope. Printing one piece wouldn't be cheap." I nodded and said "Precisely. But it's been a week. There hasn't been another letter."

He asked cautiously "Can I read it?" I nodded and he read it and said "Y? Do you have an idea who it is?" I shook my head and said "The only Y I know is Yuta Hyung." Jungwoo laughed and said "Or YangYang. But that's not false. But it seems like such a generic letter, it can be from anyone, Hyung." I sighed and said "Precisely...And it seems like the person isn't writing anymore, Jungwoo. Do you think they gave up?"

Jungwoo said "Maybe she's just scared. You should wait for tomorrow, Hyung. It's your birthday and Valentine's Day, I'm 2000% sure that they will give you a letter." I sighed and said "I hope so."

The next day, after our classes, Jungwoo came over to the Faculty of Business from his faculty so we could grab dinner and head back to our dorm. He was already at my locker when I turned the corner from my lecture hall, and I waved at him. He waved back, and as I approached him, I received many birthday wishes from people. I thanked them and I could feel my heart beating faster as I approached my locker step by step.

I opened my locker excitedly and Jungwoo said "Hyung, my bag is full of chocolates. Your locker should be overflowing." I laughed and said "Unfortunately it isn't." There was a stack of chocolate, and I took each of them out. As each box landed in Jungwoo's hands with no sight of the ivory white envelope, my heart fell as the stack dwindled.

I let out a dejected sigh and Jungwoo patted my back with his free hand and said "Maybe tomorrow, Hyung." When I lifted the last box of chocolate, I smiled when I saw the ivory white envelope, stuck on a bag of gummy bears and an unfortunately flattened rose. Jungwoo gasped and said "I told you!" I grabbed them and placed them into my bag carefully. I said "I'll open it at home."

We headed out for dinner, and went back to our dorm.

"Happy Birthday, Jaehyun!" I gasped as my friends hopped out from their different hiding places in our dorm. Everyone started singing 'happy birthday', while Taeyong and Doyoung walked out from the kitchen with a birthday cake. When the song ended, everyone chanted "손을 맞대, 손을 맞대, 손을 맞대 now make a wish!" Ever since Taeyong composed that song for one of his assignments, it was a chant that we used constantly during birthdays.

I placed my hands together and closed my eyes, wishing in my heart that I will find Y.

I blew out my candles and everyone cheered. We sat down and had cake, it was a small one for all 23 of us, but it was the small delights in life. Johnny announced loudly "Everyone!" We all turned and saw Johnny holding up cans of beer. He said "Let's crack our cans open! We're only having one each tonight because there's still classes tomorrow and we have to be responsible." Lucas and Johnny handed out cans of beer excitedly while we drank and chatted.

After the boys went home, I was finally able to take a shower and sat down on my bed. Jungwoo was already fast asleep, being the lightweight that he was. I pulled out the familiar ivory white envelope that I had grown a connection and attachment too and thumbed the embossed "dear j." .

I opened the envelope, and as I unfolded the letter, the familiar handwriting jumped out at me.

dear j.

Happy birthday to the one and only Valentine's boy~

I hope you have / had a wonderful birthday celebration with your friends.

Getting chocolates was so mainstream so I decided to get you some gummy bears instead! Seeing you around school, I've only witnessed you eating gummy bears so I thought these would be a better choice.

Hopefully by the time you get to this letter my rose hasn't been crushed yet. I hope you haven't ran for the hills because of my first letter, so hopefully you're reading this too.

well, I should go get some sleep before my roommate screams at me, here's the end of my letter, J!

once again, wishing you a happiest birthday, may your year be filled with happiness and good health :)) oh! and may all your wishes come true!

Yours Truly
Y.

I hope my wish comes true too.