Feel your lips crush (j.j)

7.

I feel so comfortable with you (you make me)

H.E.R

Johnny's birthday goes by with the blink of an eye. He gets a text from everyone and their mothers, a call from his own, and a polite fuck you from the professor that decided the 9th was the day to do presentations. Ten comes by with a mini cake for them to share and they shoot the shit for a while until Ten has some class he needs to go to. Johnny likes every instagram post made for his birthday and thanks everyone for their well wishes. Mark makes him a playlist since it's usually the other way around and by the time it gets dark outside, Johnny is satisfied.

The phone rings just as he sits down on the couch to eat, a comfort show put up on the TV. It's Jaehyun.

"Hello?"

"Hey, birthday boy. How's it feel to be old as fuck?"

Johnny smiles. "I don't know. How about you tell me in a few days?"

"Sorry to break it to you, but I don't age."

"Oh, really? The date February 14th doesn't ring a bell for you?" Johnny waits for an answer, the TV screen going dim and his food cooling off, abandoned in his lap.

Jaehyun hums negatively. "No, no I don't think it does. Is that...Valentine's day? I hear that's a human custom."

"A human custom?" Johnny asks for confirmation, eyebrows raised just slightly. "What are you then? An alien?"

"No, of course not, that'd be silly." There's commotion going on on the other side of the line. Something that sounds a bit like echoing voices and squeaking shoes. Then it stops as if a door closed and muffled the sound. "I'm just a higher being, you know, beyond the comprehension of a mere mortal like you."

"Ah right, right." He opens his mouth to say more but it seems as though whatever door was closed reopens. The noise filters back in and someone says something but they're too far away for Johnny to figure out the words. All he can hear is Jaehyun saying some version of okay got it and then the noise is gone again. "What was that? Where are you right now?"

"Locker room. Coach is getting ready to start practice soon."

"Then what are you wasting time talkin' to me for?"

"I haven't really talked to you today. I wanted to make sure you weren't wallowing in loneliness on your birthday."

"Nice to know you're worrying about me."

"I try. Seriously though, I should probably go. Happy birthday!"

"Thanks."

"I'll talk to you later. That is, if I don't get totally wiped from practice."

"Don't even worry about it. Good luck!"

"Thanks, bye."

The call ends and Johnny is left with a smile and a cold plate of food, but he can't even bring himself to be mad. He forgot the wine anyway.

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Johnny doesn't get to see Jaehyun until the next day. Or rather, the next night.

Jeffery

Can you pick me up?

Johnny, worn out from a multitude of assignments and studying, says yes without question. He makes the trip to Jaehyun's apartment, pulling up to the building to see Jaehyun clad in a pair of baggy sweatpants and a black sweatshirt with some sort of faded print on the front. He has the hood pulled over his head and it hangs past his forehead. Johnny watches as Jaehyun takes slow steps to the car that somehow still seem hurried. Which makes absolutely no sense but it's the only way Johnny can describe it.