say don't go | heejake

2.18

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*ding dong*

sunghoon's hotel room door rang. it was his first time staying at a hotel where you had a doorbell. he didn't understand why jake didn't come to retrieve his stuff himself, but since he had to leave the room before 4 p.m. he was thankful they sent someone early.

even though it was someone he had never heard of before, which meant that it wasn't someone jake knew.

either way, sunghoon was a little cautious of the person on the other side of the door. he opened it, revealing a very, very good-looking man.

"hi!" the guy beamed. "i'm kim sunoo! i was asked to pick up some luggage that belongs to sim jaeyun?"

sunghoon couldn't feel any sign of suspicion about the guy, so he let him in right away.

"y-yeah, hey... it's right here," sunghoon guided sunoo.

"excuse my intrusion~" sunoo sang as he put on a pair of slippers.

sunghoon handed sunoo the luggage and the latter smiled at him once more. sunoo was used to people either smiling back or completely ignoring him, so seeing the handsome stranger in front of him trying his hardest to smile back accordingly was a new experience.

sunghoon smiled sometimes, mostly when he laughed, but he was not used to smiling at people just because they did. kim sunoo's smile was so endearing though, that he didn't want to keep his usually expressionless face on. it was hard for him to give sunoo a proper smile, but sunoo seemed to appreciate his efforts.

"you have a really handsome face you know? i bet your name is just as handsome," sunoo said unfiltered.

sunghoon was amazed. he never received such compliments to his face and much less from someone he had met for the first time. he didn't intend to be rude, so he spoke as soon as he could.

"well, your name is very pretty, and now i see you are beautiful too," sunghoon grinned.

sunoo felt so happy and flustered. he had initially regretted what he said, but just after sunghoon's reply he realized he had made the right decision accepting heeseung's favor.

"you must be jake's friend. i'm a friend of heeseung's and he never told me he had such a handsome friend," sunoo smiled.

sunghoon was taken aback in a good way by sunoo's straightforwardness. he was intrigued. "i am, my name's park sunghoon. i'm jake's age and i met him in australia when he first arrived there for his exchange. if it's okay to ask, may i know your age?"

sunoo giggled. he liked how an older guy was being so careful with him. he was intrigued as well.

"i'm 20, a year younger than jake. feel free to speak comfortably with me, it's okay."

and like that, after an hour sunoo texted heeseung hysterically saying how glad he was he accepted the favor and that he would be sure to return it.

heeseung laughed at sunoo's texts and jake couldn't help but be suddenly conscious of it.

"what is it?" jake asked very curious. he thought that maybe heeseung would brush it off, but he was surprised when the latter just showed him his phone.

"i think sunoo's glad i asked him to get your things from sunghoon," the older stated with a smile.

jake let out a deep sigh he didn't know he was holding in. jake even laughed at how euphoric sunoo was being through the texts, but he was interrupted by his own phone ringing. it was a call from sunghoon.

"pfft it's sunghoon," he told heeseung before picking up. "hey! sorry i left my stuff with you, and thanks for taking care of it."

"jake, don't even apologize. just get me the cute guy's contact info and i'll consider the favor returned." sunghoon said in a serious tone.

jake couldn't help the laughter that escaped his lips. heeseung was so happy he was right next to jake in that moment, able to see him smile.

"alright, i will. thanks again! see you later," jake said as he hung up.

after almost crashing onto heeseung he stopped on his tracks and looked up from his phone. he looked at heeseung first but the many other things behind him were so eye-catching that he just hung his mouth open in amazement.

heeseung smiled knowingly.

"i did promise i'd bring you here again when you came back..." he said.

jake looked back at heeseung in awe and still some guilt twinged his features.

"i'm sorry i doubted you so much, hee..."

"hey, we talked about this, okay? just..." heeseung held both of jake's hands in his and looked at jake in the eyes. "we promised to start over, right? let me be your date today and let's leave the past in the past. let's be here, in the present. what do you say?"

jake almost teared up. almost. but he willed himself not to, for he knew this was only the very beginning of something great.

"let's go, then."

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Updating before I kms 😀

We are so close to the end now!

I might make it a bit longer if I get the inspo and the time to

In the meanwhile, enjoy this short (sorry 😭🙏) chapter!

-nova<3