wrong number, sunghoon

thirty five

JAKE

hayeon
jake
can you pick me up please
i'm stranded rn and my ride share app won't fucking load
and i'm crying outside of this restaurant in the pouring rain
not having a fun time rn

jake
omg what
what happened??
are you okay?????

hayeon
not really no
i just broke up with junseo

jake
oh shit
i'm so sorry hayeon
i really wish i could pick you up but i'm in the middle of this meeting rn
i can send someone to get you though?
send me your location real quick

hayeon
yeah that works thank u
sry jiwon and sohee are both out rn i didn't know who else to ask

jake
no it's totally ok
you can ask me for help whenever you need anything
and hopefully i won't be stuck in boring ass meetings when u do

hayeon
you're my fav person ever i love u

jake
I LOVE YOU MOREEEE

hayeon
ok now get back to your "boring ass meeting" i don't want to get you in trouble

jake
ugh fine
but call me later tonight and we can talk about the breakup ok?

hayeon
ok...
if i'm alive by then

jake
THE PERSON I SENT IS ALREADY ON THEIR WAY YOU'LL BE FINE.

hayeon
just wanted to make u freak out a little it'll make ur meeting less boring😇
spike the blood pressure or wtv

"hayeon?" the girl heard a familiar voice call out her name, causing her to immediately panic.

she had to have been dreaming, there was no way jake had sent him out of all people. he could have just sent a car with a driver why the fuck did someone have to be in the car too?

snapping her head around to where the voice had come from, hayeon was met with the backseat window rolling down and sunghoon gazing back at her. at the sight of the state she was in his face became visibly more concerned, which wasn't much of a surprise to hayeon.

she was standing in the rain with her clothes drenched, mascara running down her face, her dress ripped at the bottom, and her body shaking from the cold. she had brought a jacket, but it didn't provide hayeon with much warmth after it became soaking wet too.

"jesus christ," sunghoon said under his breath, not expecting her to look this disheveled. what had happened?

"get in the car hayeon," he urged the girl who was staring blankly back at him, "you're going to catch a cold in this weather."

"i'm good," she replied, her stubborn nature overpowering her need to get out of the rain.

walking in a direction that she wasn't sure was correct, hayeon decided she would find another way home. she wasn't quite sure how, but she was not getting into a car with sunghoon after she had been crying over him for the past week. she had had enough emotional damage for one day already.

"where are you even going?" sunghoon called out to her, the car he was in slowly following her as she moved.

"walking home," she shrugged, not turning to look at the boy she knew was in the car.

"you live like eight miles away hayeon," sunghoon argued, "just get in the car."

"not with you," she muttered, thinking he wouldn't hear her.

hayeon tried her best to ignore how uncomfortable she was and how desperately she wanted to leave. her socks were starting to get wet after stepping in so many puddles that the water got through her shoes, and she almost couldn't stand it.

but still, she would not get into a car with him.

"okay fine," sunghoon replied, catching her off guard. "i'll get out then, if that's really what it takes."

"what are you doing?" she panicked as she saw his perfectly dry self willingly step into the rain, becoming wetter and wetter every second he stayed there.

"you said you won't get in the car if i'm in it," he explained as if it was the simplest thing in the world, "and now i'm not in it."

"are you fucking crazy?" hayeon's eyes went wide, not understanding why he would do this.

"yeah maybe i am," sunghoon replied, not caring about logic anymore. he just needed to get hayeon back home safely before her body broke down on her.

her immune system had to have been weaker than normal already as she had just recovered from her past cold, it wouldn't be long before the weather got to her.

"sunghoon get back in the car what the fuck!" hayeon exclaimed, more worried for his health than her own. he had never ending schedules to attend and couldn't afford to get sick, they were not in the same situation.

"only if you get in it with me," sunghoon replied, refusing to budge.

everything in her was screaming to get away from him, but for his sake she finally agreed. her head hung low as she was filled with dread over the long car ride back, it was like hayeon was living in her own personal hell at the moment.

"i hate you," she grumbled as she opened the car door, and this time sunghoon wasn't sure if she really meant that.