bodyguard || heejake

chapter three

A/N: early post yay!

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everyone was making small talk to ease the weird tension. we chatted about school and got to know everyone better. however, i was hardly listening as my eyes were glued on sunghoon the whole time. genuinely, how could someone look so majestic?

"jake!" jungwon snapped his fingers in front of me. did you hear what i said? or were you busy staring at sunghoon?" he whispered the last part in my ear and wiggled his eyebrows.

i rolled my eyes and punched him playfully, a light blush gracing my cheeks. "no! anyways, what did you say?"

"tell everyone your hobbies."

i pondered for a moment. i didn't really have many hobbies unless it was something i really enjoyed doing. "i like fishing and uhh, building legos i guess."

"cool, i like fishing too," i heard sunghoon's voice across me. i nearly fainted. this was the first time my crush of two years talked to me!

i shakily nodded my head and looked down. heeseung raised an eyebrow at me but said nothing. hopefully he doesn't suspect anything. "yeah me too. maybe we could all go together during spring break?"

everyone agreed and resumed the conversation with laughter and smiles. i felt happy seeing everyone grow closer so quickly so i joined in too.

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"see you guys tomorrow!" i bid goodbye to my friends and headed towards the exit.

i saw heeseung leaning on the building outside and i frowned. what was he doing here? he saw me and waved me over. "was waiting for you for like twenty minutes."

"uh yeah. i was talking to a teacher. why were you waiting for me?" i asked.

"isn't it obvious? i'm picking you up. can't risk anyone kidnapping you," he stated with a small chuckle.

"it's really not a big deal but i'm not complaining. i don't feel like walking anyway."

"great 'cause i'm gonna be doing this everyday."

he dropped me off at my house. "don't forget to leave a good review to your mum!" he shouted as he drove away.

my mother was waiting for me inside. "how was your day today? was heeseung any help to you?" she queried me when i sat on the couch next to her.

i sighed. "yes mum. he had nothing to protect me from anyway since my bullies are suspended for two weeks."

"only two weeks? you're kidding me." she said angrily. "that principal of yours needs a good kick to the balls."

"mum! it's fine, two weeks is more than enough. at least they're getting anything at all, thanks to jungwon and sunoo."

she nodded approvingly. "those boys are a good influence on you. they're very smart, aren't they? you should bring them over more often."

"i will, seeing as you like them better than your own kid," i grumbled. (teasingly of course) "also, i wanna know where you found heeseung for this job."

she shrugged nonchalantly. "i'm friends with his mum at church. she's a wonderful woman - i see where her son gets his good manners and beautiful  looks from. hopefully you find someone like him in the future."

"you're thinking too far ahead mum. i need to focus on my end of year exams right now," i told her. the only exception to that was sunghoon but i didn't mention that.

"come on! when i was your age, i had many relationships. it's good to have someone by your side."

"didn't you sign heeseung up to stay by my side anyway? also, if you had so many people after you, why did you pick dad? he had like no friends back then."

she gave me a look. "your dad was something else. he had that special charm of his that i fell for." she sighed dreamily. "oh, this is making me feel so nolstalgic thinking of my teenage years. this is why you have to make the most of it, jaeyun! you're going to regret it later."

"whatever you say, mum. i'm gonna do my homework." i went upstairs and plugged in my favourite headphones and listened to frank ocean.

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school was the basically the same as yesterday. the whispers died down a bit. however, apparently a crowd of people went up to jungwon and sunoo to ask why we were hanging out with the popular clique. that's what they told me at least. at that moment, i felt grateful that heeseung stayed around me since people were too shy to go up to him.

after school, heeseung asked for my number in the car, explaining that he needed it just in case anything bad happens to me and because we were technically friends now.

i shrugged it off. i was definitely in a jubilant mood since even being able to interact with them was like an unimaginable dream come true.

i sat on my bed scrolling through instagram when i got home when i received a notification.

bambi.boy has requested to follow you.

my eyebrows fly up immediately and i sit up. how did he find my instagram account? i click accept hesitantly. my account was private so if he saw my posts, he would definitely judge. however, i decided not to dwell too much. i only had like three posts up anyway.

one with me eating ramen, another with jungwon and sunoo at an ice cream parlour since sunoo wanted mint chocolate ice cream for the third time that day and the newest one with my my dog, layla when i went on a walk with her at the park.

bambi.boy liked your post.

bambi.boy liked your post.

bambi.boy liked your post.

oh.

bambi.boy added you to the cool kidz 😎

bambi.boy
don't mind the name
ni-ki made it

michaeljacksonmogs
what's wrong with it
u don't like it?

michaeljacksonmogs changed the name to the cool kidz 😎 (except heeseung)

bambi.boy
wow that really hurt my feelings

guitarman
can u guys shut up
im tryna sleep

michaeljacksonmogs
sleep? never heard of it

skaterhoon
isn't it your bedtime ni-ki?
if u don't get ur sleep in u won't
grow yk

michaeljacksonmogs
im taller than all u losers
please 🙄✋

ddeonu
hey guys!!

jungwonie
you're a bit late

ddeonu
did i ask for ur input 😒

bambi.boy
wheres jake

aussiejake
here lol

jungwonie
i gtg eat dinner
bye guys see u tmr

michaeljacksonmogs
who eats dinner this late
it's like 8pm

bambi.boy
don't judge other ni-ki

michaeljacksonmogs
sorry forgot u were my dad 🤓

aussiejake
gtg study
see ya

i shut my phone off and got started on another pile of homework. i groaned internally; this was gonna be a long night.

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A/N: this chapter was kinda boring. the next one is more interesting i promise

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