I will Love You through Thick and Thin

Chapter 43 - Couldn't

sunghoon pov.
"oh.." i thought as i watched the boy i bumped into minutes ago crying, now smiling with ethan cuddling him.

that ached a bit but i must accept it right? they love each other and who am i to feel this way right?

oh how do i heal from the scar that smile brought and still lingers in my heart ikue.

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no ones pov.
as the night was young, the young teens was happy, having the time of their lives. jake seems to be ok now since he's dancing happily with sunoo and jungwon

hee stared at him from afar admiring every bit of his person. oh to call him "his person" makes ethan smile like an idiot. ethan never assumed he could still have jake back but his heart did believed.

his heart never stopped beating for him.

everyone could see ethan smiling from ear to ear just watching jake laughing while having fun

"never thought the enemy could make our ice cold lee heeseung back to being soft like a cotton"

jay suddenly spoke from his right,  approaching him dressed like a single rich uncle, his hands rested inside his bonobos Italian stretch chino shorts wearing a plain white shirt with flip-flops as combo.

heeseung did only chuckled.
jake for him was never an "enemy".

for him jake was still his "person"
over those years of testing each others patience, lee only loved the bond he gets whenever they are like that.

"he was never an enemy jay"

he clarified, his eyes shimmering with a smile they all saw for the first time when jake was there for the first time.

"man you're down bad"

jay chuckled adding that

"heck yeah, remember that time he cried while texting him to come home and then jake got stuck in traffic so he called every head chief to get him out of an 30 seconds traffic just because he missed him?"

ni-ki suddenly spoke from behind

he arrived seconds ago but i guess they didn't noticed

"oh yeah i remember that like it was yesterday HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

jay and ni-ki laughed as they fist bumped.

hee only shook his head as his heart shaped lips curved

"you know sunoo is the total opposite lmao"

"why?"

jay asked looking at the younger

"i could never think of anything sweet that happened to us.. well uh.. except those things hehe"

jay and hee laughed as they witnessed ni-ki getting shy and blushing

"won on the other hand, i love him"

jay smiled as hearts could be seen in his eyes

"speaking of won you gotta stop him from jumping of the pool jay jay jay!!"

heeseung uttered that made jay panicked while he run up to the younger shouting "baby! no"

hee and ni-ki chuckled watching their friend struggling to get his kitten not to jump off

"hon~" jake called that made him stop laughing looking to sunghoon supporting him by the waist.

his gaze softened as he faced the younger with sleepy eyes approaching them

"ooh hon you're drunk" hee sweetly said as he managed to catch him as he jumped off of  sunghoon

sunghoon was also tipsy but jake was worse

jake smiled like a puppy while hugging the older

hee felt his cheeks and ears blushing, damn the younger has big impact in him, sunghoon and ni-ki could tell

"ni-ki sunoo is puking in the bathroom heavily"

sunghoon said that made ni-ki worry

"oh no babbbbeeeee i'm cominggg!!"

ni-ki run shouting

he sighed

"well take care of him"

sunghoon said with a tone of defeat as he makes his way to leave.

just as he was hee called him

"hoon?"

he turned to face him

"hm?"

"wanna grab a drink?"

hee said

hoon was facing the ethan lee hugging the younger

"yeah sure"

he nodded

"i'll just settle him inside for a bit"

he said looking at jake smiling

"hm, i'll wait"

"ok"

and ethan left with jake drunkly mumbles i love yous to him.

sunghoon would risk everything just to hear jake saying that to him.

but he couldn't risk anymore.

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to be continued