Kids In The Dark || 2Jae

Chapter | 7 |

Youngjae's POV

My heart is still beating at the fact that Jaebum was holding my hand. I can't think straight, let alone eat straight. I have trouble eating the Chinese food and almost choke. Yes he held your hand, but it doesn't mean anything. He saw you were upset and he tried to make you feel better. That's it.

Every once in a while, I look at Jaebum across the table to find him looking at me but he keeps sipping up his noodles. Stop feeling this way. It's stupid. He's just some weird, nice kid with nice skin and long dark silky hair and... Stop.

"So then James goes inside of the peach and meets all these bugs after going through some type of portal that alters dimensions or something like that-"

"Wait what?" Mark is always talking about the randomest shit. I can never blank out for more than 5 seconds.

"Nothing. I was just talking about a movie we could watch. Oh wait! Let's watch Rush Hour!" He jumps off his bed, almost spilling his food, to get to his tv and put in the movie.

(A/N: I love Rush Hour with my heart and soul.)

I get up from Mark's desk table and sit on the bed, lying down at a comfortable position. Jaebum does the same, lying down next to me, too close.

Oblivious Mark sits at our feet and laughs at the appropriate parts, finishing his food. My skin starts to feel hot from the proximity of his thigh next to mine. It's fine. It's fine. Not a big deal. I cough and shift a little farther away, trying to regain my breath.

Unfortunately, he somehow scoots closer and our thighs are touching. I don't dare look at him and scoot a little farther. Our game keeps going until I scoot too far and fall off the bed. "Holy shit are you ok?" Jaebum asks, helping me up while Mark paused the movie to laugh.

"Yeah I'm fine." I grab Jaebum's hand and he pulls me up onto the bed, right back where we started. "Actually, I'm going to the bathroom." I get up from the bed and walk to the downstairs bathroom.

Once the door closes, I turn on the faucet and splash cold water on my face. "You can do this. Just last a couple hours and then you're out of here. Or he's out of here and you can stay over." I dry the water off my face in a hurry and step out, bumping into Jaebum. "Oh sorry."

He says nothing, instead lifts his hand to rest on my cheek. "It's ok." His thumb runs along my jawline and realize he was wiping some of the leftover water from earlier. He smiles a little and drops his hand. "Let's go back up."

He starts walking away and I take the opportunity to feel my cheeks, knowing how red they must look right now. Oh god. This is going to be a long afternoon.

I'm eating lime chips.