Alone | Jake Sim x OC

This is Fine

She saw a member step forward, dark brown hair framing a beautiful face.

"Hi Bella, I'm Jake." He smiled warmly at her.

Her heart exploded into butterflies.

"Oh, hi Jake." She blinked for a second, casting a net over the fluttery feeling in her stomach. He noticed her slight hesitance and immediately flushed red.

"Oops, sorry, do you mind if I call you Bella-? Sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, I can call you Isabella instead-"

"No no, It's fine." She smiled shyly down at the floor. "I...I like it." She murmured, almost inaudible. But Jake heard it, and a smile spread again across his face. With his Australian accent, hearing this guy call her 'Bella' had her stomach performing an Olympic gymnastics floor routine with extra backflips and rotations on the parallel bars. Her gaze lifted slightly, only to catch Jake's and she couldn't seem to look away.

A throat cleared awkwardly.

"Sorry if I'm interrupting something. Hi, I'm Heesung." A polite hand outstretched towards her and Isabella shook herself out of whatever just happened. 

"Isabella." She grinned at him, as the rest of Enhypen introduced themselves, but her mind seemed out of it.

Jake looks like a puppy. That's why I find him adorable. There's no romantic feelings here, it's anxiety from meeting to many new people. Trying to justify her thoughts and flipping stomach, she desperately buried the fact that she was more of a cat person.

"Anyways." Huening Kai clapped his hands, jolting Isabella back, once again out of her thoughts. She didn't quite catch a boy next to her doing the same thing. "More Karaoke?" 

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She had been handed off to spend some time with Enhypen alone and was beginning to feel like a package in a game of pass the parcel. She wasn't complaining though- they'd hopped into a minivan to shuttle them across to the Belift dorms and she was slightly squashed against the boy from before, Jake. The incredibly cute boy from before. 

Remember, puppies.

She hushed the voice in her head as they pulled into an underground parking space. They all hopped out dutifully, and began to shuffle over to the doorway in a huddle. Obviously, they were trying not to be seen which Isabella found confusing, as they were in an underground carpark. 

They finally found their way to the common room for the group. As Isabella stepped in, she took in the few couches and armchairs scattered around a dark wooden table. A landline phone sat on top of a ledge that seemed to create a window to a small kitchen space, and a door that probably led to a corridor with dorms or a bathroom sat on the opposite wall. A staircase lead from the end of the room up to some corridor upstairs, and another door sat slightly ajar to show the way to what she assumed were their studios. 

"Welcome to the Enhypen dorm. Sorry it's kinda plain compared to your brother's." Heesung led the way into the room, everyone filing in behind him. She shook her head quickly at him.

"No no, I like it. Jin's is kind of... spacey." Isabella smiled warmly at him, and as he opened his mouth to reply he was quickly cut off by the telephone in the corner ringing. Jungwon walked over to pick it up, gesturing for them to continue. They didn't, instead hearing a familiar voice over the phone.

"Hello, is Isabella there? If so, can I speak with her?" Jungwon nodded despite Seokjin being unable to see him. He put the phone on speaker and handed it to her.