Skater boy | Taesan x Leehan

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The door opened rather violently. Well, not exactly violent, the person was just excited to see the two. "Hi Leehan! I'm surprised you wanted to see me, Sooha and Haewon are here, so, I'm just warning you!" Leehan nodded and removed his shoes, the boy accompanying him did the same and followed the girl upstairs. "What's her name again?" Leehan rolled his eyes and sat down on the chair next to Sooha after entering the room. "oh! Leehan! What are you doing here?" "I need you to explain!" The boy pointed and looked at the girl who had opened the door.

"Me?" She pointed to herself, the boy nodded and waited for answers. Answers to a question he hadn't even asked. "Oh, right, I forgot to ask you" The teenagers surrounding him laughed. "What is it?" "I need the full story of Jaehyun and Taesan, I know you won't be biased, cause you're friends with neither, unlike Sooha, although I know you wouldn't be too biased, Taesan may have told you some things" The girl mentioned put her thumb up. "I understand!" Woonhak suddenly interrupted "Wait, wait, wait, I'm so sorry, but what is your name, Leehan wouldn't tell me, and I forgot, sorry"

"It's fine! My name's Lily Morrow"

The younger boy nodded and mouthed the name multiple times so that he could remember it. "Anyway, why me?" "Cause you are often with Sooha, especially during that time, and the thing is, Sooha is always near Taesan" The three girls nodded and the Australian started explaining everything, trying to not forget any details. "Basically, Jaehyun had always wanted to befriend him, how'd I know? I asked him once when we were next to each other in English, and since we're both fluent we often just talked, and I had asked him who he wanted to befriend"

Lily paused for a second while trying to breathe again. What she had just said, was uttered in a fast manner, and she didn't have enough time to really breathe. "Cause I had asked him, and so I asked Sooha" Sooha nodded, confirming what Lily had just said. "And so she got the two talking, and I asked Jaehyun why he wanted to be friends with him, and he didn't say it immediately, but one day, he told me, it was because he liked Taesan, so, I told him, to try"

The pink haired girl slowed down her pace. "So, he would often tell me, when they hung out about what they did, and well, sometimes they kissed and stuff, so, that's what I know from Jaehyun's side, before what made them stop being friends, from Taesan, he at first found Jaehyun really annoying" Woonhak looked at the boy next to him and nodded rapidly. "Someone agrees" Haewon pointed out as she noticed the boy's action. "But then, I often saw them together, and I once ate at the same table during lunch, I was just across from Jaehyun, and to say they were flirty, would be an understatement"

Lily crossed her legs as she brought them up on the bed. "Jaehyun was very clingy, anyway, back to Taesan, he started to like Jaehyun, first platonically, but I could quickly tell that the feelings were way more than just simply platonic. They were more than just good friends. And well, I was the only one to witness what had happened between them" Lily paused for a couple of seconds to build up suspense. "So, one day, I was in the hallways, I was busy bringing papers back and forth for the office, cause I was part of the studen- whatever, who cares about what I'm saying"

The singer got back on track. "So, Taesan basically, confessed his feelings towards Jaehyun, and well, Jaehyun, I remember they fought a bit, the fight did get a bit physical. Anyway, anyway, he got mad at Taesan, that was a part I missed a bit, since I was at the very back of the science classroom, you know, room 133, biology?" The highschoolers around nodded, picturing the classroom. "That's why Taesan hates biology" "And that's why Jaehyun always makes us go faster when we pass those rooms"

Lily nodded and continued her story. "So, Jaehyun, he got mad, apparently, he didn't want Taesan to have feelings, and I remember seeing them pushing, and shoving each other, they stopped after they noticed me take out my phone, you know, to record, to show proof of violence, and they were on the floor and they immediately got up. Jaehyun stopped me, he told me I couldn't tell anyone, but uh, I clearly told someone" Lily concluded her story and looked around the room. "any questions?" "This is probably more on the rhetorical side" Leehan started, he thought for a while on how to formulate his inquiry.

"But, if they liked each other, and as you told us, they kissed, why didn't they start dating?" Woonhak spoke up, he had known Jaehyun for the longest time after all. "As someone who's known him since like, kindergarten, he doesn't deal with emotions- specifically love very well, it usually takes a lot of time to even bring up the idea of love" "I didn't know that" "Me neither" Sooha, who was rather quiet during Lily's story time, who didn't react to much of the knowledge that she had just learned, decided to add something.

"Taesan usually is too blunt, and too fast with his emotions, it comes from a place that just makes him unable to talk about them very often, when he does, it can feel like he's being insincere, but I promise, that's the opposite" Leehan finally remembered the main question he wanted to ask, the reason he came over to Lily's infact. "Oh, right, well, why did we see them making out, in the theatre" "I thought you were dating" Sooha, who not only knew about Leehan's feelings, but had also heard a lot from Taesan half-asked and half-stated.

"Well, Jaehyun is Woonhak's boyfriend, and Taesan's mine and like, today we saw them make out, so why?" "I always had a feeling that Jaehyun was never completely over his emotions towards Taesan, and I'm going to say this in the kindest way possible Woonhak, but he's thinking of you like you're some kind of placeholder-" Lily was interrupted by Haewon, who was about to say something quite intelligent. "A placeholder for something he'll never have" Sooha nodded and added one last thing. "Taesan really likes you Leehan, he doesn't fall in love easily, you must've marked him, I'm guessing that Jaehyun had started everything" "But Taesan continued it" "Maybe unwillingly, you know, it's hard to stop Jaehyun once he has something on his mind" His boyfriend, or whatever he is at this point, reminded.

"Well, anyway, Lily, thank you so much for your time, and sorry for interrupting, have fun with whatever you were doing before" "Thank you for coming over! Bye!" Woonhak and Leehan said bye to the other two girls and went downstairs, they were followed by the Australian who closed the door behind them.

"I guess we finally have an answer for this, what are you going to do hyung? Oh, and how did you know about Lily?" "We do, I don't know yet, I feel like if I just forgive him immediately, then it won't be good, so I'll just wait now, oh, and I knew about Lily since I often saw her around the two"

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A/n
This is probably my favourite chapter I have ever written, hopefully you liked it as much!

-Jude out!

03.01.24