𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚢 | 𝙹𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

.₊̣̇.ෆ˟̑*̑𝚃𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢*̑˟̑ෆ.₊̣̇.

Jeongin sat down on the curb as he watched minhos car get smaller and smaller.

While he waited for chan he played on his phone and replied to more texts that he'd gotten throughout the day.

His thoughts kept going back to jisung and how he asked if he was sure chan was going to pick him up for sure or not. Truthfully he didn't know if he would or not. Jeongin was trying to have a bit more faith in the older since he realized that he'd lost a bit of it. The boy didn't want to jump to conclusions and just go with the ideas of suspicion he had. He really wanted the truth but there was no sense in pushing for it if he was only going by a small inkling of suspicion.

After replying to a few texts he looked at the time. It had already been fifteen minutes since chan said he was on his way. Jeongin sighed and rested his head on his knees.

Just moments after his head hit his knees a honk came from the parking lot in front of him. Almost immediately his head snapped up and he smiled upon seeing chan waving with his passenger window down.

He grabbed his bag and phone and rushed towards the car with his smile growing even bigger.

"Hi, Channie!" Jeongin said as he climbed inside the car.

"Hey, how was your day?" The blonde asked in return and leaned over to press a soft kiss on the boys cheek.

"It was long... But it's okay because we're together now," a small chuckle came from the boy as he buckled his seatbelt and turned towards chan.

"I got you something," chan said after a moment of looking at jeongin

Upon hearing those words his heart fluttered but this time in a good way.

"You didn't have to-"

"That's why it took me so long.. I had to stop by and get them," chan reached in the backseat and pulled forward a plastic bag. After opening it he pulled out a glass bottle of Coke and handed it to him.

"Thank you~" jeongin just about beamed at the thoughtful gesture "in return can I give you my math homework?"

Chan cracked open both bottles and took a sip of his own as he raised an eyebrow.

"It's the first day and you already have assignments?"

Jeongin took a sip of his as well and hummed a bit as a reply

"The algebra teacher is kind of a hard ass... I can already tell that's gonna be my hardest class," jeongin pouted a bit.

Chan saw the pout and leaned in to kiss it. Upon pulling away he kissed jeongins lips three times per usual.

"It will be okay," he said with a small smile "I'll help you when I can yeah?"

Sadness.

That was the feeling that rushed throughout jeongins body in that moment.

It was a promise that seemed empty and already broken.

Jeongin knew, contrary to what jisung and his other friends thought. He didn't know the full truth but enough to the point where he didn't count so much on his promises anymore.

"What's wrong?" Chan asked once he saw jeongins face fall and a soft glimmer come to his eyes.

"Nothing," his smile immediately came back and the shine in the brown orbs seemed to brighten a bit "...I just missed you today"

"You sure?" The blonde pried a bit more

"Yeah, I'm sure hyung. I should probably get home though, my parents might start to worry,"

Chan took one more sip of his coke before setting it in the cup holder and began to drive to jeongins house.

Jeongin looked out the window as the houses and buildings passed by rather quickly. He thought of this morning. The girl in the front seat and sighed not wanting to be jealous over a probable co-worker of Chan's. Though he told himself this morning that he wasn't jealous his actions said otherwise.

He was totally jealous of her.

It made him feel so guilty however when he thought about it.

"Who was the girl?" Jeongin asked quietly and turned his attention to the blonde.

Chan glanced over and shrugged

"She's just a girl who works at the cafe."

"Why we're you together though?"

"Oh-" Chan waited until he turned down jeongins street to speak again "she went to a party last night here and her friends brought her to my house so she could sober up,"

"So she doesn't live here?"

"No, she lives out by the cafe"

Jeongin let out a soft hum. How did he know where she lived?

Chan pulled up to the parking lot where his parents car would be parked but it seemed that they were gone.

"You wanna come in?" Jeongin asked as he unbuckled his seat belt.

"For a little bit sure,"

They both climbed out of the car and made their way up to the door. The moment jeongin walked inside he unplugged the nasty apple cinnamon air freshener like he always did.

They both kicked off their shoes so they didn't get yelled at by Mrs. Yang and moved to the couch.

They sat there in the quiet and didn't say a word.

All jeongin did was move over to Chan and curl up to his side, hugging him so tightly that the boys ribs were liable to break.

Chan wrapped his arms around jeongin in return and neither said anything because they knew.

They knew that they were drifting apart.

They knew change was happening.

They knew that they loved each other.

But they also knew that it might not be in the cards for them to be together for as long as they truly wanted.
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Thank you for all your get well wishes 🥺💕

Also this story is probably gonna get sad from here on out because there's like three major plot points that still have to happen before it ends kdhsksb