UNMASKED || JIKOOK ✅

10.

That night I smiled the whole drive home.

Maybe I should have cared
about my failed test but how could I when Tattooed_Daddy had taken care of me like that?

Sure, it had been over the
phone but he had taken
charge of everything.

For just a few minutes, all
I'd had to do was feel.

And I got to meet him on Saturday.

Maybe I should have been nervous about that too
but when I got home and
texted him that I'd made it safely, the anxiety I normally
felt about dating was gone.

He'd let me call him Daddy.

That meant something,
didn't it?

That was when I
remembered I shouldn't
have driven home at all.

I should have driven to the
rest home to see Mom.

I felt a little guilty but I
didn't want to go.

I just wanted to enjoy this
one night, thinking about Tattooed_Daddy, without
the weight of the world
on my shoulders.

Maybe I could take a
break and go tomorrow.

The next morning when I
arrived at the coffee shop,
Joon was already there,
starting on the opening procedures.

"Happy birthday!" I said with
a little too much enthusiasm, given how early it was.

He rolled his eyes.

Birthdays were hard for
him because of his parents.

Technically, he was on
speaking terms with them
now but they still didn't
want to meet Jin and that
made birthdays awkward.

Who should he spend
them with?

His boyfriend, who he lived
with, or his parents?

For the last three years, he
had decided to spend it with
Jin.

His parents were angry
about that.

Ironically, Jin had to go
out of town for work this weekend.

So he could spend his birthday with his family this year but
he'd asked if he could
celebrate it with me instead.

We planned to drink and
play Monopoly.

"You seem awfully happy."

"Something happened with Tattooed_Daddy, didn't it?"

How did he know?

"Maybe?"

"You're fucking glowing."

"Did you meet him?"

I shook my head and
flipped on the light.

"We, uh... did stuff."

Joon paused from unlocking
the cash register.

"What stuff?"

"Uh, sexting stuff?"

He smiled and finished
punching in the code until
the safe clicked open.

"Yeah? I'm guessing it
was good—"

"No. It was amazing."

Transcendent.

The best sex of my life.

Even though it wasn't
actually sex, We hadn't
even touched each other.