best friend's love | jakehoon ✗

04: understanding love

"eh?" was all that came out of jake's mouth. after sunghoon's whole confession, well, more like "small" confession. still, it surprised jake. 

"i love you, jake. ever since that day we met. ever since that day you saved me." sunghoon says so delicately. jake flushes red, whole face red. then, a small snowflake lands on jake's nose. "oh, look, it's snowing." sunghoon says as he lets out his hand in the air, waiting for a snowflake to fall. just as it fell on his hand, it quickly disappeared. 

jake watches an admiration of his friend, well, at lest that's what he thinks. sunghoon is a friend. but why are all these different emotions filling inside him. it's like...he likes sunghoon, but then, he doesn't know why. does he deserve to love sunghoon? after all those girls he's denied to date?

"i...i..." jake is left speechless. 

"you don't have to say anything, jake. i just...wanted you to know...it's getting hard to just keep it inside me. i needed to tell you. if you don't feel the same and you need your space, then, i can understand that. so if—"

"no!" jake rapidly blurts out. 

"no?" sunghoon questions, backing away. 

"no, as in, i don't want you to stay away. i don't want to leave you." jake admits, already feeling the heat rushing to his cheeks.

sunghoon's face lightly blushes, he covers his mouth to suppress a chuckle. "what?! what did i say?!" jake panics, embarrassment washing over him. 

"nothing," sunghoon lightly chuckles, "nothing. i just thought you looked cute right now." sunghoon says, removing his hand. jake notices how hard sunghoon is blushing, red cheeks. so he's not the only one, after all. suddenly jake has the thought of touching sunghoon's cheeks. slowly his hands move towards sunghoon's face. 

sunghoon can't really see since he has his eyes closed as he laughs. jake holds sunghoon's cheeks making sunghoon stiffen. his eyes meet jake's. it only lasts for a moment until jake recollects himself, he removes his hands. "s-sorry..." but before his hands fully withdraw, sunghoon reacts quicker than expected. he grabs jake's hands, faintly their fingers interlock. 

"yeah, i hard about that movie. we should watch it together." a persons voice broke them apart from the touch, remembering their still in public. 

the both stay numb as a pair of girls pass them. sunghoon opens his mouth, "i think i should go...i'll see you tomorrow." sunghoon says before walking away. even if jake didn't like the idea, it's probably for the best. jake begins to walk back to his home, his blush never leaving, instead it increases more. 

jake's mind runs everywhere, questioning so many things. while on the other hand sunghoon is panicking on what he just did. 

what was i just about to do? what could've happened if they didn't interrupt us? 

with his free hand he covers his mouth as he takes a stop. he clutches harder on his bag straps. was i about to...kiss him? 

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this time jake doesn't see sunghoon waiting for him on his house the next morning. where is he? jake thinks to himself. he checks his phone and sees a message from sunghoon. 

sunghoon:

[got a head start for school. i'll see you there.]

jake:

[okay! see ya]

jake runs off to school, eager to see his best friend. good thing the school isn't so far away to where jake lives so he gets there 20 minutes later, hoping to see his friend but he doesn't find him. not long he bumps into his other friends.