strawberries & cigarettes || lee jeno ||

03

Nabi's phone rang as she paused the movie on her laptop, and saw who it was.

Jeno

"Hello, how did you get my number?"

"Uh..." Jeno started, "i texted Jaemin because we need each other's number to ask for stuff about the project"

"Okay"

"What are you doing?"

Nabi glanced at the clock in her room, 1 am.

"Nothing, just got done with my studies"

"Can you come outside? I need a lighter and i don't have one right now"

She sat up, "what are you doing? Burning down my house?"

She heard him chuckle in a deep voice, it seemed like he wanted to keep his cold aura, but wasn't able to
"no just i need something to light up my cigarette. I'm at the back gate and the front gate is closed."

Nabi bit her lip, if she wanted to see Jeno, that meant she had to sneak out because her parents don't allow her to go out.

She sighed, "okay I'm coming there, wait"

Nabi has thought this through several times, how to sneak out of her house, after inspecting her entire house, and she was lucky that it was only her window. Yes, she went around the house when she was home alone, searching for how she would sneak out if she had to, and the only way was her bedroom's window that has a platform not too low, so she can go on that, and then jump down, since her apartment is on the first floor, and below them is a basement parking.

She stood up, took a deep breath, and wore her shoes, looking at herself in the mirror, the sweatpants and a crewneck is fine for this chilly weather. She chose to have a hair tie on her wrist, in case she had to tie her hair. Picking up the lighter from the drawer, she locked her door and opened the window.

She gulps, and then, puts one foot out and the other, sitting on the window rim. Holding the window's rin tightly, she jumped down, hanging from it and then let go, it wasn't a long distance at all and she landed on the platform, and then took a breath and looked around. No one else was there, and then looked down, placing her hand in her back pocket, making sure she has her house key.

And then she did the jump, the same way she did from the window, sitting down first, then hanging while holding on to the platform, and then the 1 foot jump down.

She took a deep breath and smiled, she always thought of sneaking out to get away, but never knew it would be because of Lee Jeno.

Nabi turned around and was about to scream, but someone placed his hand on her mouth.
"It's just me, don't worry, you'll get caught"

Jeno removed his hand, and Nabi scratched her neck,
"You saw that?"

He nodded, with a small smile, "yeah it was quite funny actually, how will you get back though"

Nabi took her keys out from her pocket, "my house door is quite loud if you open and close it from inside, but i only have to use a key from outside so it will be very quiet"

Jeno nodded and walked away, Nabi just followed him. She was thinking that it seemed like Jeno wanted to smile more, but his cold aura and personality was there, so it always restrained him from smiling, so the smiling didn't feel like a smile anymore.

Jeno climbed up the gate, and took his hand and held hers, helping her climb up the gate. Then he climbed down, and helped her again, to climb down.

Nabi set her feet on the pavement nearby as Jeno sat down against the wall, she sat next to him and gave him the lighter.

Jeno placed a cigarette in his mouth, and just blinked. Nabi without a second thought, turned on the lighter and light his cigarette, taking it away after she saw smoke and the end of it being reddish.

Jeno breathed in and removed it, placing it between his first two fingers of his right hand, to let the smoke out.

Nabi just stared at him, and he stared back. She's never felt like this before.

Nabi was never the one to have a crush on "bad boys". She made fun of Jooah many times before for having a crush of those type of guys, Nabi was always the one who only liked someone after getting to know them further, but she's also not the one to openly express her crush on someone. Jooah and Jisung were good at reading her, so they knew who and when she liked someone. Most of her crushes were very short lived, and she's never been in a relationship with someone because of her parents. All of these thoughts were interrupted when she heard Jeno say,

"Nabi, do you want to kiss?"

"Huh?"

"I asked if you want to kiss?"
Jeno asks again, Nabi just looks at him confused.

"Okay"

And it didn't take long for Jeno to throw away his cigarette, and locks his lips with hers. She kissed back instantly, her hands instantly went to the back of his neck, his went to her waist. She could taste strawberries and cigarettes, both for some reason, that she didn't question.

They both broke away 20 seconds later, staring at each other before Nabi stood up and dusted herself off, Jeno just stared at her.

She gulped, "Um... i should go now before my parents get suspicious"

He nodded silently and just stood up, dusted himself off as well and stomped on his cigarette.

Nabi walked towards the gate, and Jeno helped her climb up and he also followed her behind, but he got down first and helped her down as well.

He followed her to her house gate and they climbed up the stairs, she slowly opened the iron door and silently opened the door knob, she made sure those were unlocked before she looked back at Jeno and waved with a smile, she gave a small one back and waved too, as she turned the knob of iron door and closed it slowly, and did the same for the wooden door, Jeno just stared at her through the grill first, still stared at it even when the wooden door was closed.

He nodded and walked away, climbed out the gate and sat in his jeep and drove away to Haechan's house nearby.

Nabi laid in her bed, after turning the cctv on, closing the main doors and changing into her pajamas.

How is this even real? What just happened?

She thought as a smile crept up on her face, as she put her phone on charging and turned the lights off, drifting to slumber instantly.