don't hurt me. ❖◈➼ sunoo x jungwon

【15】

『 What if you and I fell on that star? Will you know, will you be of the same mind, everything about you. Will your world become my universe? 』— Lyrics of ONEWE's song,  ❝Universe_❞

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today, jungwon doesn't mind the stares and the whispers. it had all faded to the back and what kept flashing in his mind was his friends. jihoon had healed properly and was granted permission to once again attend school, and soonyoung and he had made up.

jungwon hoped things were back to normal. he takes a seat in the classroom and opens his textbook, fiddling with his pen until his phone pops up with a notification.

it was from another user on kakaotalk, and it was an unknown account.

he clicks open the message and it was an anonymous message.

you do not need to know who i am, but i require you to stay the fuck away from my sunoo. he is a lovely angel and you deserve none of it. doesn't matter whether it's you fucking dying, or just staying away from sunoo. no one cares if you left, because no one likes you. if you keep it up and annoy sunoo any longer with your presence, i will not forgive you and come to you to punish you for your evil doings.

jungwon reads the message slowly and turns his phone off. he notices sunoo's friend, ni-ki, taking a seat beside jungwon.

❝hey, you okay?❞ ni-ki asks, and jungwon fakes a smile.

❝i'm fine.❞

before ni-ki could continue to ask, the bell had rung. truly saved by the bell.

all during class, jungwon was thinking of a responsible and kind reply to the message, but he couldn't come up with anything. instead, his mind full of hatred and pain, not being able to think straight, he elegantly excused himself to the bathroom.

sitting in the bathroom stall, he wondered who in the world would have sent him a message like that. it could be any of the students in the university, but there was no way any of them can reach his kakaotalk without anyone else giving his account away.

he slowly stepped out of the stall and washed his hands, until he was slammed against the wall of the washroom.

❝going somewhere?❞ he could see the other smirk.

jungwon tried to push the person off him, but they were too heavy.

so he lifted his head to see an exceptionally pretty young lady, with her two friends behind her. if jungwon wasn't mistaken, she was sunoo's longest official girlfriend, for about 6 months, before they had broken up.

everyone had expected them to stay together but because she had cheated on sunoo, they caused their relationship to fall apart and all of a sudden, sunoo had started to fuck around with others.

❝what do you want?❞ jungwon asks, feeling quite overwhelmed since the other's size was larger and taller.

she smirked, and jungwon felt a chill through his body, sending shocks with a terrible feeling up his body. he knows her answer will not be anything good, so he braces for any harsh words and actions.

and as expected, she released her words.

❝what i want is for your disgusting poor fat ass to slither your sneaky brain away from sunoo. you've badly influenced him enough. all you want is popularity from him, you're nothing but a useless toy to him. you sure have not been raised properly, this is why your brother is so much better than you.❞

jungwon didn't mind being called useless, but he cannot handle it when his brother was bought into the conversation. he ignored her and shoved her out of the way. 

he ran as fast as he could, not caring about the rules of walking only in the hallways, and reached his classroom and slowly regained his posture, sitting down quietly. 

he focuses his gaze outside, where the winds blew and the trees shook lightly because of the impact, and the flowers beginning to bloom. his thoughts were slowly distracted by the beautiful cherry blossom tree growing outside. the pink, with red tips petals, had blown into the classroom, right into jungwon's grasp. he stared adoringly at it, its colours were beautiful and the faint scent made him feel warm. as the bell had once again dismissed them, he brushed passed his friends, wanting to clear his head and enjoy his personal space under the tree. 

as he rushed outside, he apologizes swiftly to those he had bumped into, beaming when the view of the tree reaches his sight. as he placed himself under the tree where layers of fallen petals had laid, he pulls out a book recommended by wonwoo, and puts his headphones on. he knows there are those who are still staring but he raised his head and smiled at them. some people returned a friendly smile, some had a confused smile and some just continued to glare.

as soon as he had heard footsteps, he raised his head quickly, afraid it was the girl from the bathroom again. it was only sunoo, with an angelic smile on his face. he took a seat beside jungwon and sighed. jungwon expects sunoo to once again, ask him what he was doing here, but instead, sunoo only asked what book he was reading.

❝see for yourself.❞ jungwon replies lowly, eyes not peeling off the book anymore and sunoo smiles again. 

❝did something happen?❞ he whispers softly.

jungwon ignores him.

but sunoo is persistent.

❝are you upset with me?❞ he asks, voice wavering slightly, but nothing enough to frighten jungwon.

jungwon himself could not respond to sunoo, afraid he'd be annoyed that jungwon had picked a fight with his girlfriend.

but with the look in his eyes, sunoo could already tell. even if jungwon never opened his mouth, sunoo could read him like an open book.

❝it was her, wasn't it?❞ he asks, and jungwon dips his head.

sunoo doesn't respond for a while, and from instinct, jungwon raised his head and meets sunoo's gaze. the look was nothing but filled with worry and sunoo lifts jungwon's head with the tip of his fingers, making jungwon shudder from the sudden contact. sunoo does nothing but pecks jungwon lightly on the forehead.

jungwon completely flushes from the action. his face goes beet red and hides his face in his book. sunoo laughs from jungwon's reaction and once again plops beside him.

❝i felt i had to do that. you were nervous, no?❞

jungwon snaps playfully. ❝doesn't mean you had to do that!❞

❝how would the rest of the world know you're my boyfriend then?❞

jungwon huffs. ❝not like you're my real boyfriend anyway.❞

sunoo falls silent and jungwon panics, worried that he'd said something wrong.

❝i'm sorry...❞

sunoo shakes his head. ❝there's nothing wrong and you're right. i'm sorry if i made you uncomfortable.❞

jungwon reaches towards sunoo's hand. ❝it's alright. i'm fine with it.❞