" i'm here and you're here. "
sim jaeyun / park sunghoon ♡
𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝,
an unexpected friendship blossoms between two boys, and they begin to realise that they are more similar than they anticipated.
@JJAEYUN - 2022/2023
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time merged together as the two boys held each other in the empty school bathrooms. the tears on sunghoon's cheeks were now only a salty residue that would disappear in a single wipe, jake was sure his uniform blazer had the taller boy's tears drenched into it - he didn't mind, at least sunghoon was able to cry onto his shoulder, he definitely had some bottled up emotions that finally were released. jake was glad to be here, for once his curiosity was of good use.
their bodies shifted and peeled off one another as sunghoon regained composure. he felt more than embarrassed, humiliated and frustrated. how could be cry in a place like this, in the arms of some random pretty boy. he wanted to scream, to cry again to run away and never come back but yet, he longed for the comfort and warmth that the male in front of him provided him with seconds ago. he yearned for it. like a baby yearns for their mother. he could feel the sticky trail left behind by fallen tears, his nose blocked up and runny, his whole face a crimson red - a truly tragic sight.
jake just stared back with bright eyes, curious eyes - he wanted to ask questions but didn't dare with the exhausted and emotionless expression sunghoon wore. jake broke the eye contact and looked at his feet, clearing his throat.
"we should go to class.."
the taller boy just stared at the wall behind jake, he was not going to go to class looking like this, even if he'd stop crying the puffiness of his eyes wouldn't disappear, he was in no mood to sit down and listen to the teacher talk for hours.
"let's not..." sunghoon said in a low voice, almost a whisper
"huh?" jake turned back to look directly into sunghoon's eyes.
the black haired boy stepped closer to jake and bent his head down to be level with his ear.
"i said.. let's not go to class today." he whispered again into his ear"
jake said in a gentle and calm voice "okay."
"i think... we should skip today..? hmm?" sunghoon spoke softly as he leaned down to place his head on jake's shoulder again. this strange feeling of company and touch made jake feel so warm and happy, being so close to another person was really nice.
so he easily obliged to sunghoon's words, like a puppy, whispering another soft "okay."
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the two boys peaked out the bathroom doors, the corridors were empty, not a single person in sight, how perfect. sunghoon pulled his phone out to check the time, it read 9:24, the next bell wouldn't ring until a little while so he slid the door open and looked both ways before grasping jakes hand and running.
jake almost gasped from being pulled by his hand, he was not expecting to be pulled along, still, he followed the dark haired male. sunghoon suddenly ducked as the classroom window was beside them, pulling jake down with him. they walked quickly in a crouched position beneath the windows to avoid being seen.
jake had never done this before, the feeling was thrilling and he felt excited like a little kid. sunghoon's grasp on jakes hand had loosened up and now as they walked down the stairs his hands felt so snug, like he never wanted to let go.
they crouched past more classroom windows before reaching the school's entrance, now an exit to them. they both gave each other a tiny smile and ran out the school gates, still hand in hand.
they ran, along the streets, jake was not familiar with the place at all so once again let sunghoon drag him along, he could see shops in front of them as they ran.
he could feel the looks on him as they reached a crowded area nearby all the shops.
they were looking at their intertwined hands.
jake wanted to tell sunghoon to let go of his hand or let go himself, but the warmth radiating from sunghoon's fingertips and palms that held his own hand felt so unforced and gentle, like the small connection they had built in the past few hours would be lost.
sunghoon looked around until something caught his eye before turning his head. jake stared sunghoon, he hated himself for wanting to hold sunghoon's hand longer than necessary, his touch was almost addicting, but he didn't want to be seen as clingy or weird,
two boys aren't supposed to hold hands like this anyways.
now, he had let the embarrassment get to him to let go of sunghoon's perfect hands and place both his hands beside him, standing awkwardly. the missing touch was slightly paining him, maybe he was just touch starved. he doesn't know when was the last time he had hugged someone, the last time he had held someone's hand.
sunghoon would be the only person he could remember.
sunghoon had little to no reaction like nothing happened and quickly told jake to follow him. they entered a small clothing store, it was dimly lit and the light mostly came from the shop's front window, the walls were plain white with simple light wooden clothing racks. the woman sitting at the counter had circular silver rimmed glasses looked middle aged. jake wandered around, the clothes were nothing too special - he didn't even know why he was here after all, he followed sunghoon.
he followed his legs to the front of the store, in the display window was a large oversized white sweater vest on a mannequin, with simple patterned embroidery, he though it was cute. there was a hushed murmur of words exchanged between sunghoon and the woman, when he turned around to look, he was already walking towards him holding two caps. a black one and a white one.
sunghoon placed the black cap on jakes head, which pushed his hair over his eyes blocking part of his vision, he felt sunghoon's fingers slide across his forehead down to the side of his face a he tucked his hair away. his eyes widened as he panicked slightly under the shade of the hat and watched sunghoon put the white cap on his own head before signalling to leave the store.
jake swallowed his own saliva and let out a shaky breath.
what is he going to do with park sunghoon acting like this ?
