Together

chapter thirty-nine

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warnings

- angst
- alcohol consumption
- hurt heeseung 

this chapter takes place in the same amount of days as the previous chapter just from jake and heeseung pov! 
happy reading to all ❤️

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He's late, again. Third time this week alone and it's starting to make Heeseung wonder if he's cursed.

"I packed a lunch for you!" Yeonjun says as Heeseung dashes down the hall his hair just barely styled up in a way that didn't make it look like he'd only rolled out of bed five minutes ago. He swipes the lunchbox from Heeseung before planting a quick sniff like kiss on his cheek.

"Thanks hyung! You're the best!" the alpha shouts as he shoves his homework and books into his bag before shoving his feet into a pair of his shoes that are actually Beomgyu's but he'll come to find this out later on. It feels like a blessing when he makes it out the door without banging his head on the elevator door like he'd done the previous day, too busy in a rush to notice the doors were closing rather quickly.

Waiting for him with a smile is Mr.Shin the man dressed rather casually finally taking Heeseung's advice (it was lowkey a demand because that's the only way he gets Mr.Shin to listen to anything these days) to not drive him to school in a full. It was embarrassing and attracted way too much attention. The last thing Heeseung needs right now is a posse of people eyeing him and trying to pry into a life they have no business sticking their noses into.

"Good morning Mr.Heeseung!" Mr.Shin greets kindly. Heeseung tries not to frown knowing the man couldn't help himself. One day maybe Heeseung will break him of all the formalities.

"Good morning Mr.Shin. Sleep well?"

"As well as one could. Are you ready to head to school now?"

"Yes." any other day and Heeseung would have gone the back way avoiding Mr.Shin and the sleek black car he drove. It made him look like a cliche straight from a kdrama set but as we've said Heeseung is running late and has no time to play the rich boy who desperately needs an escape. Instead of escaping he needs a reverse getaway driver to get him to his desired location, quickly and that's what Mr.Shin provides. Quick and easy transportation.

As the car rolls along the street and Mr.Shin softly hums to the radio, Heeseung unlocks his phone heading straight to his messages with a certain golden retriever like male. Heeseung originally had the intent to be polite, he was the one who'd offered his friendship to Jake so the least he could do was be friendly and message him. However it became less of a formality as he sent a good morning text to Jake everyday, a beautiful friendship blossoming rather quickly.

The text was usually quickly followed by a cute sticker of some kind or a meme on Jake's part, never failing to make Heeseung smile.

It feels a bit unreal how Jake had become someone he looked forward to seeing, to speaking with every day but the world works in mysterious ways. How many interactions can you have with one person before it starts to feel less like randomized events but rather fate? Even if it started off awkward Jake didn't hold any animosity towards him and Heeseung has grown rather fond of him in a short amount of time so per usual to his new routine Heeseung types up a quick good morning followed by a cute sticker because why not?

After sending the message Heeseung waits, staring at his phone as if doing so will send it faster so that Jake will read it and reply back. Desperation truly is a sick thing, a disease and it holds Heeseung between its dark cold fingers refusing to let go. Shamelessly Heeseung is ok with that just as much as he's ok with messaging Jake throughout the car ride as if he won't see him the moment he steps into honors physics.