Alone | Jake Sim x OC

Hi

Day 18 ½

It was midday, and Heesung still hadn't come back. Two days ago, Isabella had misguidedly believed he would come and talk to her when he waved goodbye at the once again locked door, but it was not to be. 

Bella dramatically slid off her bed to the floor, a hand pressed tragically to her forehead. She would be lonely for the rest of her life, grow old as a crazy cat woman and never communicate with any cute boys that smelled like vanilla again-

A loud banging sounded on her door, almost as if a statue was being rammed into it. Quickly, she sat up.

"Who is it?" Bella backed away from the door, slowly scrambling to find something to use as a weapon and coming up with only an empty 2L bottle of her precious apple juice. 

"IT'S ME, NIKI, AND IF YOU DON'T OPEN UP RIGHT NOW I SWEAR TO GOD YOU WILL NEVER DRINK ANOTHER DROP OF APPLE JUICE IN YOUR LIFE." Isabella stood there in shock for a split second, before she scrambled to grab the keys off the desk to unlock the door, dropping the carton unceremoniously to the ground.

"Is Jungwon with you?" Her voice was a little shaky, still dumbfounded by Niki's yell. 

"Yup. You gonna open the door?" Jungwon's voice sounded as Bella fumbled with the keys.

"Is anyone else out there?"

"Just me." Heesung's voice sounded calm amongst the rapid knocks coming from who she assumed was Niki. "Nobody else, I promise. No-one's home to hear Niki's shouting too, so don't worry." 

The door clicked open again, to reveal a very tall, very grumpy looking Niki. 

"Hi-?" Bella hesitated, slowly backing away as Niki advanced into the room. Suddenly he pounced, pushing her back onto the bed and trapping her in a tight hug.

"Hi? That's all you can say to me after this stunt you're pulling?" His voice cracked, a huge contrast to the loud volume before. His head raised and Bella felt tears prick the corner of her eyes at the sight of his. Suddenly, she was reminded of the fact that he was 16 and still without much world experience.

"I thought we were besties. What did I do? I'm so sorry we made you feel alone." Immediately, Bella pulled back. She grabbed Niki's shoulders and shook them, forcing his eyes to meet hers.

"No. It's not your fault, Niki I'm the one who's sorry. We are besties, I just couldn't tell you about Jake. It's not a you problem it's a me thing, don't worry please. Please, please, please stop crying." She handed him the tissue box as both of them sniffled, breaking down again in each other's embrace.

"I-I love you, you know that? In like, a friendly way." Niki hugged Bella tighter, wailing on her shoulder.

"Me too Niki, me too." She sobbed back at him, hugging him tighter.

"Why didn't you tell usss?" Isabella clung to him like a koala.

"I couldn'tttt." Niki gripped her shirt.

"And you love Jaaake? You're in looooove?" He smirked at the girl, gently pulling back from the hug with tears still streaming from his eyes.

 A throat cleared. 

"Um, hello." Jungwon waved at Bella, awkwardly interrupting their very wet bonding moment. 

"Jungwonieeeeee. Thank you for the cookies and jajangmyeon." Bella cried and flopped off of Niki onto the floor, standing up and hugging the poor leader. He stiffly patted her head.

"That's okay. Sunoo and...Jake helped." All noise stopped, trying to gauge Bella's reaction to hearing Jake's name.

"Oh. Tell them thank you from me." She smiled back up at Jungwon, and went back to hugging Niki.

"I told them about most of the things you said yesterday. I hope that's okay?" Bella nodded at Heesung, before gesturing to Niki's back from the hug. 

"This one obviously didn't listen very well though, he thought it was his fault." Heesung sighed.

"Yeah. He ran off to bang on your door and we had to chase him." Jungwon checked his phone, the time flashing on the screen.

"Well it was good to see you again and I know it wasn't very long, but everyone will be gathering to practice some choreography. We have to perform it for a special stage or something." Niki and Heesung groaned, whining about whatever they had to go practice. Probably some really hard choreo they'll have to drill over and over.

"Come on. Bye Izzy, I hope we can come visit again sometime, or maybe if you want to come down? We'll be more than happy for you to come back." She nodded quietly in response, waving as they hurried out the door. With some sort of heaviness in her heart, she relocked the door.

Despite the weight that settled in her when she closed the door, a thousand times that weight was taken off her shoulders at the interaction with Jungwon and Niki. Maybe it would be okay for her to go back down. She was gradually starting to accept that no matter what happened with Jake, if they were left alone she would always have the other members and even Jin to always rely on. TXT had already reached out to her to support her and Seokjin, and the members of BTS were friendly to her when she lived there for a week. She trusted these people, which meant she had to trust them all with the little pieces of her heart she gave them. She had to trust them to take care of them without her giving them armies and weaponry to protect it, she needed to believe they would have their own. That they would keep her trust, her heart safe. 

And she did trust them. So, slowly, she reopened the first drawer of her dresser. The phone probably wouldn't have much charge, but it had been off for the past few weeks so hopefully there was still some left. Grabbing a charger from her bag, Bella turned on the phone.

The black screen flashed with the powering on display, and in a few minutes she unlocked her phone. Immediately, thousands of notifications popped up, Beomgyu and Yeonjun asking if she was okay with millions of spammed messages and the rest of the group with a few worried, typed out paragraphs. She had over 70 missed calls from Seokjin and various members of BTS, and a few members of Enhypen had been calling her through the days. 

Blinking, Isabella quickly replied to the messages from TXT and BTS, reassuring her brother especially that she was fine and that no, he didn't need to blow up Enhypen's dorm to find her.

As she read through the messages a small pocket of warmth glowed somewhere near her heart. These people, their concern was proof enough that she would never be alone with them around her. 

Maybe it was time to unlock the door and go downstairs, to reconnect with Enhypen and Jake. Maybe it was time she accepted how she felt about Jake completely and wholly, and let it take her wherever it would go. Maybe for once in her life, she would blindly trust this feeling, trust Jake with herself and hope she wouldn't fall off the cliff she had walked to.

Isabella walked to the desk and grabbed the keys. Her hands shook as she undid the locks for what she hoped was the last time, the familiar clicking only half as fast as her pounding heart.

Finally all the locks were open, and the door swung wide. Bella left the keys on the desk and carefully stepped out of the room, catching sight of a few beautiful bouquets of hyacinths and lilies. The sun was bright, and the artificial lighting in the building even brighter. She made her way to the practice room, remembering Jungwon's words earlier. Vaguely, as she gently knocked on the door and pushed it open, she wondered which choreo they were practicing.

"Bungbungbung ssingssingssing dallineun ge neomu joa." Isabella stood there quietly, taking in the scene. There was the entire group of Enhypen rehearsing Hey Tayo. A few seconds later the song ended and the boys dropped their ending positions. One happened to look to the door as Isabella went to close it to leave them to their practice, spotting the girl.

"Isabella-?" Jay blinked at her, his expression that of a confused wombat. At his question, the room descended into silence and all heads turned to her. Awkwardly, Bella shuffled her feet and raised a sheepish hand.

"Hi."

Unedited, sorry :D