🔞I May be Falling in Love // Hwang Hyunjin🔞

🖤Chapter 29🖤

Cole looked at me blankly, and I immediately regret what I asked.

"I'm sorry that was dumb." I say and mentally slap myself in the face as I storm out of his room. Cole chased after me and grabbed ahold of my arm, stopping me in my tracks.

"We can't do that, it will ruin everything Audrey." He says and I look down knowing he is right.

"I'm sorr-"

Cole silences me with a hug before speaking. "Don't apologise, you're going through a rough time and would want to make stupid mistakes."

That's when I break out in tears in his arms. He pulls away from the hug and sits us down on the couch.

I wipe my tears before explaining, "I kissed Felix."

"You... did?" He asked, shocked by what I had told him. "You realise you're going to hurt him?"

I begin to whimper more as Cole was right. Felix may be interested in me like that but I can't help but still be madly in love with Harley.

"I don't know what to do." I looked at the ground wiped my tears.

"You need time to yourself, to think about what you want." Cole reassured while rubbing my back to calm me down.

"I want Harley." I yell out and walk off to my room, tears pouring down my face. I never heard Cole's footsteps behind me nor did I hear his voice.

An hour passed and I ended up falling asleep from crying. I woke up to the slight sound of chatter outside my door and checked my phone for the time to see it was 9:30PM. I heard Cole's and the familiar voices of everyone else, including Felix and Harley. Why would he invite them over? Especially Harley. I knew I couldn't leave my room and face both Felix and Harley. Without hesitation, I called Cole, hoping that he would storm into my room.

I sat upright in my bed and felt an intense sharp pain in my head, it must have been from crying. Cole knocks on my bedroom door before opening it and stepping in, closing the door behind him. He was about to begin talking until I cut him off.

"Why is Harley here?" I ask, standing up and folding my arms across my chest, feeling the headache growing worse.

"He wanted to see you and apologise." Cole replied. Why is he taking his side? He hated Harley.

"Are you serious right now?" I shouted and regretted yelling as the noise outside the room went silent.

Footsteps approach the door and Chris' voice broke the silence. "Is everything okay in there?"

"Everything is fine." I yell out and the noise continues outside my room.

Cole walks towards me whispering in a low raspy tone, "I talked to Harley before everyone else arrived, I truly believe he is the one for you. He cried in my arms... real tears. Audrey... he started drinking again."

My eyes went wide and my heart sank to the bottom of my stomach.

Without replying, I made my way out of the room and spotted Harley chatting to Jesse in the kitchen. He looked shocked as he stopped his conversation and turned his gaze towards me. I grabbed his arm and dragged him into Cole's room, closing the wooden door behind us.

I burst out into more tears as I leaped into his arms. He caressed my hair and he also shed a few tears.

"H-have you been drinking again?" I stutter and he pulls away from the hug, wiping my tears away with the pad of his thumbs.

"I-I..."

"Tell me the truth."

His head tilted down. "I have."

I couldn't help but feel terrible for him; that I was the cause of this.

"Promise me you won't drink again."

"I need you, please." Harley begs with tearful eyes.

I embraced him in a tighter hug before saying, "I'm right here."

We stayed in that comforting hug for some time before he pulled away and placed a soft and warm kiss on my lips. It sent those familiar waves of heat through my body that I felt every time we kissed. Harley's tongue gently grazed my bottom lip so I opened my mouth to allow our tongues to intertwine with each other.

"Don't scare me like that ever again." Harley demands in a soft and broken voice. Hearing how much pain he was in makes my heart want to break into millions of pieces. It's also the fact that I feel like I have cheated on him which was not true as we weren't exactly together when I kissed Felix.

"Umm... Harley?" I begin and his brown eyes look into mine with concern behind them. I take a deep breath to quickly think if I should even tell Harley, but before I could even reconsider, the words slipped form my mouth. "I kissed Felix."

Harley's expression doesn't show betrayal or sadness, he has a neutral expression.

It was silence. A long pause of silence.

Before I could say anything else, Harley walks out the door. I quickly chased after him as I knew he was going to see Felix. As I exited Cole's room I see Harley and Felix chatting in the kitchen, the other boys were with Cole on the couch watching a movie with a few bottles of premixed gin in their hands. I'm surprised that Felix didn't already have a black eye but instead... they were laughing?

"Harley? Felix?" I question as I approach the boys, clearly confused.

"Yes?" They reply in chorus. I look at Harley trying to see if his eyes will tell me what's going on before I have to ask in front of Felix.

"Felix already told me this." He said and I felt frustrated.

"Why didn't you tell me then?"

Felix walked off to join the boys, I kept my gaze on Harley. "I was seeing if you would tell me or if I had to ask you. Thank you for being honest." Harley smiled and planted a soft peck on my forehead. It's almost like he knew I enjoyed Felix's soft kisses so much as he took the advice. I let out a small chuckle thinking of that and Harley guided his hand over my arms as he walked past, picking up a gin on the way.

I turn around and tug his arm so he would turn to face me. "You're not drinking that."

"It's only one drink babe, I promise." He reassured and I nodded.

I ended up getting really tired and went to bed while the boys enjoyed their time together. I could hear them playing truth or dare and laughed with everyone when I heard that Luke and Hayden were dared to kiss. For some reason they are always shipped together.

I'm still confused with Harley, did we both just forgive each other in the same day of our breakup? Did I already make the mistake of kissing someone just after we split? Harley and me are like magnets, except we know how bad we are for each other.

My mind continues to wonder and remains confused as my eyes eventually shut and I feel my body shut down for the night.