The Project 'Buddy'

~31~

"That stupid-"

"Hey, hey. Calm down."

"How can I? He hurt my best friend! Even after knowing his past love stories!"

Jungwon shuffled around and realised he was on a bed. He groaned and stirred awake, grabbing the attention of his friends, who were hovering around him anxiously.

"D-did I..pass out?" He mumbled, looking around, realising they were in his dorm. Sunoo immediately went to his side and hugged him tightly, stroking his hair.

"I'm so sorry..." he whispererd.

Jungwon pulled back and saw a tear rolling down the latter's cheek. He gave a small smile.

"It's fine. I shouldn't have trusted him that easily."

"But it's not your fault! He just lead you on like that! Totally not cool," Niki chimed in, crossing his arms over his chest. Jungwon laughed at the youngest cuteness. He got out of bed and messed up his hair.

Slowly, he headed to the living room, where Heeseung and Jake were on the sofa. When Jake saw Jungwon, he practically pushed Heeseung as far away as he could as possible and brought Jungwon into a rib caging hug, while practically not letting Jungwon go by side hugging his waist.

"Hyung!" Jungwon chuckled, seeing a betrayed Heeseung.

The oldest had his eyes wide and lips in a small pout. He started acting childish and completely turned his body towards the window, not facing his boyfriend and gave a loud, "HMMPH!"

"Aw, I'll kiss you later, baby. Now I need to lookout for my bestie ya knowr?" Jake giggled. Jungwon laughed at the two when Heeseung continued sulking. He smiled sadly, suddenly remembering Jay.

Jake noticed the change in his expression and pursed his lips, while patting Jungwon on the back. "There are better fish out there, won."

Jungwon glanced up at Jake. "Yeah...but I feel that Jay might be my last ever encounter with love. My heart belonged to him, and I can't seem to find any other person to trust it with..." he trailed off.
Jake nodded, understanding the situation. He just gave Jungwon one last big hug and told him,

"Aish, let's not think about negative moments. What are you guys going to do after Uni? I mean...except you Niki."

At this, Niki scratched his nape and chuckled sheepishly. "I...actually plan on moving back to Japan. With Taki and Daniel and the rest of my dance team. We have a competition there and I thought maybe to just finish school there..." he admitted and everyone turned to face him, shocked.

"Wait..so you're leaving?" Sunoo asked, in the softest voice Jungwon had ever heard him use.

Niki glanced at him before answering, "yeah. And I really miss my family back home. I haven't seen them in 3 years..."

Sunoo just nodded along with the rest.

"I mean, you guys can join me? If you want...i don't know..maybe a break from the drama?" When he mentioned that, he faced Jungwon specifically.

He got the hint and Jungwon smiled. "Okay, I guess. I'll join you...Sunoo?"

Jungwon had kind of expected Sunoo to say yes, but he shook his head no and just mumbled something about visiting his parents during the break. Jake and Heeseung told them they were planning to move in together and meet each other's parents before they got busy.

So it looked like only Jungwon was following Niki to Japan.

"It'll...be a good experience," Jungwon concluded, fishing out his phone to call his Mum. After the first ring, Miss Yang answered at her voice was extremely shrieky and full of concern.