trapped in lies || lee heeseung

chapter one

before you read,,

enhypen does not belong to me. neither do any of the other kpop idols. only the story belongs to me,,

|| y/n pov ||

his wonderful, lovely smile warms my heart as he looks into my [eye-color] orbs with his dark brown ones.

"will you go out with me?" he asks, taking my hands into his. wait what? i tell myself there is no way this is happening.

i squeal in excitement and respond with a yes. his eyes light up with happiness and he hugs me tightly.

"let's go to a cafe, okay?"

i nod my head, now gripping onto his soft hand.

before entering the cafe, heeseung pulls me aside and says, "thank you for letting me take you out, i really like you and i hope we can be way more than friends."

"earth to y/n? you were dozing off." my childhood best friend, jake, whispers beside me.

"huh? oh um, yeah sorry, i was thinking about something." i reply, giving him a big smile. jake and i have been friends since we were 3 years old. we met at the park when i accidentally bumped into him. grinning widely, i recall of the fun moments we had together ever since.

"l/n, is there a reason why you are smiling?" ms. choi asks sternly as my classmates turn to look at me. uh oh. i forgot i was still in class.

"oh uh, no ma'am,"

"good. now focus l/n. i wouldn't like giving you detention especially since you're one of the top students in our class." ms. choi replies, her focus returning back to the lesson.

back to the daydream, i've always had a big crush on heeseung when i was little. i'm not sure why but he just seemed like my type. he's good looking and popular and yeah, i think you get it. i haven't really talked to him yet, i just admire him from a distance. i doubt he would like someone as boring as me.

jake and heeseung are good friends but i've never been introduced to heeseung before, i wonder why.

also, did i mention that heeseung is good at singing? last year, he was part of a play and got the lead role. in the middle of the play, he started to sing a song and after the whole show ended, everyone rushed up to heeseung and started to pat him on the back. i think that's how he became popular - by having good vocals.

|| jake pov ||

i know y/n and i are good friends, but i've never told her this. i'm actually... a kpop idol. y/n doesn't follow up with kpop since she's not a big fan. i hide my identity from my school by putting on makeup and stuff. but if y/n ever finds out, i'm dead. she hates when people keep secrets from her even if it's reasonable.

my kpop group consists of 7 members and they are all in my school. heeseung, jungwon, sunghoon, jay, sunoo, ni-ki, and me. they're all really awesome friends and i'm glad they're the other members of enhypen.

being a kpop idol means having your identity hidden from the outside world. if anyone ever finds out about our identities, we're literally so doomed.

- - -

"y/n!" i yell, chasing after her. "do you want to go to the karaoke center?"

we finally got out of school after 12 hours of hard work. y/n and i have been going to the karaoke center since we were 15. it was a way to practice my vocals without revealing myself.

"sure!" she yells back, stopping as i reach her. the karaoke center was only a few blocks away from our school so we go there twice a week.

when we arrive, we pay 1000 won for our entrance and we run to the room that we usually pick out. but as we run to the room, we see that it's occupied.

"noo! this is supposed to our room." y/n whines as i look through the window to see who it is. oh. it's heeseung.

i knock on the door, wanting to ask if we could share the room.

"oh, hi jake and y/n." heeseung says, opening the door. "do you need something?"

i look over to y/n and see that her face is really red. she opens her mouth as if wanting to say something but then shuts it close.

"yeah uhm, can we share your room since we always have this one?" i ask.

"sure," he responds, opening the door wide.

i turn to y/n and ask, "are you okay? your face is red."

"uh huh, i'm perfectly fine."

we walk into the room and get everything ready. since there are only 2 microphones in a room, i offered to share one with y/n so that heeseung could have his own.

eventually, we agree on one song. it's called butterfly by bts.

heeseung starts to sing, "is it true? is it true?"

i sneak a quick glance at y/n, whose face is still red. what's up with her?

|| y/n pov ||

oh. my. god. i cannot believe i'm sharing a karaoke room with heeseung right now.

i can feel my face heating up slowly. listening to him sing, with his calm and soft voice, is killing me. always knowing that i'll never be able to have him and his voice saddens me.

when it was my turn to sing, my mouth failed me. i was so. freaking. flustered.

"it's okay y/n, it was a simple mistake." heeseung says beside me, probably noticing my red face.

"haha... yeah," i reply in embarrassment. oh god. that was so embarrassing...

- - -

"y/n, you're really quiet today." jake says as we walk out the karaoke center.

"i-i guess i'm not feeling well,"

"why didn't you say so earlier? i was worried about you..." he replies.

"i-i wasn't feeling that bad earlier. i guess it worsened." i say, pretending to cough.

"let's take you home," jake says, grabbing onto my hand and leading us to my house.

when we arrived at my house, i couldn't stop thinking about heeseung. i guess i needed to stop. this is awkward. how would i be able to tell jake about my crush on heeseung? if i tell jake about this, he might tell heeseung since they are friends. ugh... i don't know what to do.

i lay down on my bed after jake leaves and try to think of something to do so i can get my mind off heeseung.

ripping a piece of paper from my sketchbook, i start doodling random things like bunnies, dogs, and cats. animals are literally the cutest thing in the world!

- - -

i yawn, getting ready for bed. it was 10:00 pm and we have school tomorrow. i lay down, pulling my comfortable sheets over me.