our rainy days || yang jungwon

Chapter 21

Oh save me world. I want to fall in a deep hole and maybe just never come out.
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Jae-in POV

After an *eventful* dinner, we decided to play rock paper scissors to decide who would wash up and clean the living room, as if they didn't make me and Ni-ki do it anyway.

Sometimes it really sucks being the younger members in the group. Anyway, we played and Jake won, along with Jay, who whooped loudly and slammed himself onto the sofa. Rude.

I won next, with Ni-ki, Sunoo and Sunghoon, since we all put out paper. Therefore, Jungwon and Heeseung had to do the dishes. While Heeseung was whining about wanting to watch the soccer match, Jungwon silently got to work.

Hearing Heeseung mention the match, Jake immediately turned on the tv so the rest of us could watch, causing Heeseung to sigh dramatically.

"Cmon Jae-in you don't even like soccer just this one time PLEASE"

"No way I won fair and square!"

Then Heeseung gave the most puppy dog eyes behind his fake-ass glasses and I caved. I'm strong. BUT I CAVED. Full of regret for letting him have his way, I stomped into the kitchen where Jungwon had already brought all the plates in.

"Oh, where's Heeseungie hyung?"

"Watching soccer." I said, rolling my eyes.

Chuckling, he made fun of my reluctance.

"If you didn't want to do it, you could've just said no, you know?"

"Yeah but he gave me puppy dog eyes!" I cried out, making exaggerated puppy dog eyes at him to emphasise my point, which made him laugh even harder and almost drop a plate.

"You're too soft-hearted."

"Since when was that a bad thing?" I said, slightly offended and still holding a slight grudge against myself for not standing my ground earlier.

"I didn't say it was.."

I ignored him and walked to him, starting to help with the utensils as well as the appliances we had used to prepare the food, like the pots and knives, since we were lazy to clean up before that.

We cleaned in silence for awhile until I heard a bang and Jungwon wince in pain. Panicked, I looked over and saw blood rushing out of his thumb. Oh my god what now-

Seemingly calm, he rinsed it with nothing but a slight cringe in his eye. He was totally just trying to act fine. Hurriedly, I rushed out without a word to grab the first aid kit for him.

Practically running back into the kitchen, I saw him pick up a plate and rinse it with his uninjured hand while he put the injured one behind his back.

"It's fine, I just cut myself a little on the knife, don't worry." He smiled at me reassuringly.

That boy.

I took the plate out of his hand and took his uninjured hand in mine, leading him to sit down at the counter. Putting the first aid kit down, I pulled his injured hand up to my face gently and examined it.

Blowing slightly on the wound, he seemed to flinch. Ha, so it does still hurt. Boys can be so dense sometimes, trying to act strong. I took out the antiseptic solution and cotton q-tips and dabbed some onto the wound.

Seeing him clench his jaw slightly, I couldn't help but ask if it still hurt. In an instant, he smiled back at me, assuring me that it was fine and just touched the first few layers of skin.

Smiling to myself, I thought about how big of a liar he was and that thought trailed off to  Pinocchio and his long nose... so that left us in silence while I tried my best to meticulously bandage his cut.

Afterwards, I told him that he should take a break and that I would finish up, which led to some protests, but ultimately he agreed to it. It was nice to finally be able to take care of him like he always took care of the members.

Once I finished cleaning up the kitchen, Sunoo offered to go take out the trash, which I happily agreed to, thanking him in the process.

Then, I headed wash up, before I knocked out onto the floor from exhaustion. Right before I could enter the bathroom, Sunghoon stopped me with an arm across the door frame.

Thankfully, I caught myself before my chest could slam into his arm. Crossing my arms protectively over my chest, I glared at him.

"You better have a good reason for interrupting my night routine!"

"Looks like someone's in a bad mood...I just want to talk alright?"

"Fine, let's go to my room, there's too may people in yours." I said, signalling towards the chaos coming from the crack in member's bedroom door, where light was streaming out and voices could be heard arguing.

He nodded and followed me to my room, where we sat a distance away from each other on my bed.

Trying to break the tension, I awkwardly started saying "So...you wanted to talk?"

"Yeah.. I was just wondering if we could uh sit together on the van tomorrow?"

Sunghoon POV

"...on the van tommorow?"
As the words left my mouth I internally cursed myself, oh god, why was I making this so weird. Like it's so lame to ask someone to sit with you, am I still in elementary school or something?

To my surprise, she started laughing and said "Sure, but you'll have to ask Jungwon first since he usually sits beside me..if he agrees then I have no problem with it."

Thank god she didn't say anything else about it. Just as I was about to get up and leave, she giggled and said "See you tomorrow van buddy!"

I ended up walking back to my room with an unwavering smile, which caused Jungwon to look at me all confused. Oh right, I still have to ask him...

"Jungwon-ah, can I switch seats with you in the van tomorrow?"

"Hm? Why?"

"Oh uh... I just want to sit with Jae-in for awhile."

"Just for tomorrow...right?"

author's note :
hey babes! im back with another chapter and omg thank yall so much for 1.1k reads!! honestly hope yall enjoy this chapter and you're ready for the next few chapters. raise a hand if you want more rain chapters 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️