summer love | jaywon

03

"will they really like me, hyung?" jungwon ask his cousin with worry in his tone.

they are on their way in a place where sunoo and his friends hang out. it was a tree house near a lake behind one of their friends house who was called jake.

"of course they will. we get along well so I'm sure you will with them too." sunoo assures him. "they are bunch of dorks but I swear they are all nice too."

jungwon tries calming himself by what his cousin has said but he was still really worried. him and sunoo gets along because they've been together since they were little but now, he's meeting others for the first time.

a few more minutes of walking, a huge house came into view and sunoo drags him toward it. he thought they were going inside of it first but they just went pass it and behind it was their destination.

jungwon looks at the place in awe. there were a lot of various plants and flowers there, also trees but the one that stood out was the huge tree with a tree house. he was sure that it was what sunoo's been excitedly telling him about. 

"it's pretty, right?" sunoo looks at him with a bright smile. he only respond with a nod since he was too busy admiring the place. "we swim there when we were kids. oh well, we still do it until now anyway." he pointed the lake near them.

it wasn't hard for them to climb the tree house. once you got up from the ladder, you'll be standing which seems like a balcony. jungwon was amused of how huge the tree house is. he only has seen little ones from the tv. he wanted one before but then changed his mind when he thought that he did not have anyone to play with there.

"come on. they must be waiting inside already." sunoo nudges him.

and there he heard noises from inside. they sound like they were chatting with one another.

sunoo opens the door and there came into view five boys and a mess. jungwon was shock to see three of them strangling each other on the floor, one of them reading a book while the last one has his earphones on, only listening to music. he was weird out by how the two who was calm wasn't slightly bothered by the three who was so close to taking each others lives.

"what the hell is going on here?" sunoo yells, catching the attention of the three. 

"sunghoon ate my cookies without my permission!" 

"it didn't have your name on it!" the one, who he figures out was sunghoon, said.

"what did you expect? for me to write down my name there? dumbass."

sunoo rolled his eyes. "sunghoon hyung you don't make sense at all." he scolds. "you better buy heeseung hyung a new batch of cookies or I won't be going with you to pick flowers tomorrow."

from what jungwon remembers, most of them are older than him. so he's amuse to see sunoo scold them like little kids.

"oh come on! I was looking forward to flower picking with you." sunghoon pouts.

"then do as I say." sunoo then gives attention to the other one. "how about you, jay hyung? what did sunghoon hyung did for you to strangle him as well?"

"hey! why me?" 

"because it's always you who starts and is the cause of things like this." 

"oh sunghoon didn't do anything to me. I just wanted to join them since I was bored." the said guy then looks at them which surprise jungwon. "hey I know you. weren't we just together a few hours ago?" 

it was the guy who helped him find his way home. he didn't know that he was sunoo's friend. so that explains why he said that he'll see him later. the stranger, well jay now as what he  heard from sunoo, figured out that he was the cousin sunoo told them.

"ah yes. it's me." he awkwardly responsed.

"told you we'll see each other again." jay smirks at him which he found handsome. not that he was starting to like him, jay is just really attractive.

"wait, what are you two talking about?" sunoo interfers.

"he.. he helped me on my way home. I got lost this morning, remember?" jungwon answers.

"yeah, I did. you should keep an eye more on your cousin, sunoo." it was now jay's turn to scold sunoo.

"I didn't mean to. I already said sorry to him." sunoo scowls at the older. "but thanks, hyung. I got really worried of him."

jay only nods at him as a response before turning to jungwon and smiling at him. jungwon got startled when he felt a funny, tingly feeling on his chest. he felt like it stop beating for a few seconds. 

just before he can smile back, someone from behind him cleared his throat. he turn around and saw that it was the one reading a book awhile ago, also smiling at him.

"I think it's time for sunoo to introduce me and niki." the guy then nudge another blonde one, making him take his earphones off. 

"oh I didn't notice you and sunoo hyung coming in." he said, now acknowledging him. is the guy that unbothered to not even notice sunoo scolding the other three? "I'm niki and you must be jungwon. sunoo hyung told us a lot of things about you."

"it seems like sunoo is really fond of you, his cousin." the other one said. "by the way, my name is jake." 

so he was the guy who owns the house, jungwon takes note of that.

"we're sorry if you had to witness their childish antics." jake continued speaking, referring to the three awhile ago.

"sometimes I feel like I'm actually older than all of you." niki scoffs at his hyung.

he earned a smack on the head from heeseung. "as if you don't join us sometimes."

"that hurt." niki pouted, caressing his head. 

jungwon was really amuse by all of them. is this what it's like having your own circle? it seems chaotic but fun. 

"anyways, we're glad to have you with us jungwon." heeseung said smiling at him.

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