NEW HEARTBREAK [jake] *EDITING.

28.

another week has passed, jake and sunghoon are still friendly towards one another despite that awkward incident.

while bella was still curious about it. rethinking and reimagining what had occurred. it was strange for her as well.

bella had to do some errands for the teacher, carrying some papers for them up and down the stairs.

when she went downstairs, leading towards outside to return back to her p.e class, she had a quick moment of unbalance.

her foot twisted down the stairs, her body slamming at the cold ground.

"fuck!" bella yelped, holding her ankle tightly compressed with her two palms.

she couldn't stand up at all due to the pain.

it was so unbearable that she started crying.

'no no stop crying bella.' she mentally tried to calmed herself down, her tears overflowing. she removed her glasses and placed it in her pockets since it her own tears were ruining her own vision.

it reminded her of the old times.

"fuck i can't even stand up." she muttered with panic. she tried lifting herself up with her hands on the ground, but failed.

"bella!" a familiar voice shouted at her.

the person immediately ran up to her.

"oh my god bella are you okay?" the person's tone was also full with panic and worried as they pressed their hands on bella's shoulders.

bella looked up with teary eyes, "jake?"

jake's eyes widened a bit, it was such a familiar scene to him. a cold memory revisiting again.

jake followed his eyes to where bella was placing her hands on, and it was her ankles.

immediately, jake carried bella in bridal style, picking her up easily.

bella's arms were wrapped around jake's neck when he picked her up.

jake ran towards the nurse's office where the hallways were empty, bella bouncing in jake's arms still sniffling at how painful it was.

bella felt jake's hand gripping tighter in her shoulders,

and she felt his heart beating.

and her heart beating.

bella looked up at jake, as if time was going by slowly. she noticed the worried eyes on jake's expression, she couldn't help to think.

do i like him?

quickly, they arrived at the nurse's office, jake gently placing bella down at the bed, crumpling the paper.

bella was rubbing her eyes, more like covering her eyes in embarrassment with her palm.

while jake was busily finding pain relief cream and an ice pack.

"god this is so embarrassing." bella whined, covering her whole face with her palms. she was ready to cry around round, out of embarrassment.

jake walked back to bella's bed, placing the ice pack and the cream at the side table.

"why?" jake asked, untying bella's shoe laces slowly and carefully (a/n note, this coincidentally seems familiar ..lol i didn't realized..)

bella didn't mind, understanding what jake was doing. "you saw me when i was crying!" bella stated, still covering her face.

jake peeked up at bella while carefully untying them, thinking that bella was cute at that moment.

he chuckled, "it's not my first time seeing you cry." he stated, taking off her shoe.

"you still have small feet." he softly stated.

bella's heart started pounding when he said that.
"this isn't helping the situation better." she replied, feeling suddenly nervous.

jake slowly pulled bella's pants up to see her swollen ankle. "where does it hurt?"

genuinely, bella was touched and admired jake for taking care of her. she was honestly grateful that he cared for her.

bella gulped when jake cold fingers started touching bella's skin, peeking up to see bella's reaction.

bella slowly moved her fingers apart to see, making eye contact with jake's eyes.

"ah!" she yelped with her eyes closed when jake
pressed the swollen spot softly.

jake removed his hands, "i'm sorry!" he quickly apologized, feeling bad for hearing bella's painful cry. "i didn't mean to." jake replied, frowning.

jake grabbed the ice pack from the table and slowly placed it at the swollen spot, hearing a sigh from bella.

"what even happened?" jake asked, crossing his arms after placing the ice pack at bella's ankle.

"i don't know, bad luck started playing with me and i tripped a step on the stairs!" she cried out.

"good thing i saw you.." jake sighed.

bella quickly got her glasses from her pockets to somehow cover up her swollen eyes.

she sniffled when putting them on and started closing her eyes. "where even were you?" she asked back.

"i was doing soccer." jake responded as bella nodded.

"thanks jake." bella sniffled again.

jake awkwardly smiled, holding the back of his nape.
"for what~?"

"this." bella replied.

jake awkwardly chucked. "it's fine, seriously."

bella opened her eyes and turned her head to make eye contact with jake. "it really means a lot." she softly smiled.

someone behind the door was watching them carefully, scanning every action.

the person lowered their shoulders, throwing away a strawberry candy in their palm in a nearby trash can.

sunghoon was watching them.

he felt like his heart shattering into a million pieces to see the person he likes talking to someone else.

sunghoon's eyes shifted back at jake and bella smiling and giggling with one another with a saddened expression before walking away.