unspoken

chapter 10

the dismissal bell rung, and the halls were immediately flooded with students.

"hey, jake!" sunoo called, catching up to the older boy who was already a few metres out the school. "where is he?"

"where's who?" jake said, tilting his head out of confusion. 

"jungwon!" sunoo exclaimed, disappointed at his cluelessness. "why wasn't he here all day today? i saw him at the hospital yesterday and he said he was okay, but now-"

"relax, he's fine." jake cut off. "it's just a cold."

"he didn't obligate you to say that, did he?"  sunoo raised an eyebrow.

"no, what makes you think he would do that?" jake questioned.

"i dunno, he just never tells me when he's not feeling well." sunoo frowned.

"maybe because he just never felt unwell till now" jake shrugged. "or you overthink too much"

"maybe." sunoo sighed. "but why hasn't he texted me or something"

"he's probably asleep." jake shrugged.

"for the whole day?" sunoo exclaimed, furrowing his eyebrows. "i don't think it's possible to sleep that many hours. especially since he can't sleep very long"

"how did you know that?" jake said. "but he's probably trying to get better quickly. for you"

a small smile finally escaped sunoo's lips. "that does seem like something he would do."

jake nodded. "i should probably get going now, is that all you needed to ask?"

"oh right, i was actually finding you for another reason." sunoo said, swinging his backpack to the front of his body and pulling out a piece of paper, which he handed to jake. "here."

"you guys are going to japan overnight in may?" jake remarked, reading the captions on the form.

"yup, for universals!" sunoo cheered.

"lucky, back then we had to sleep over at the school." jake groaned. "the whole grade was packed in the gymnasium and it smelt like shit."

"hah." sunoo teased. "so anyway, can you give it to jungwon? the school needs it back by the end of the week."

"sure thing" jake said. "aight, i should go home now. bye!"

"thanks hyung, bye!"