platonic ✔ jjp

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All eyes landed on Jaebum as he crashed his way through the halls. His head so light he felt like he could float or just pass out. The worst part about it is that he vowed to Keuran that he wouldn't do anything at all. He had to save Hwaryeong's ass and it made him sick. Because it only meant he couldn't come clean to Jinyoung because he didn't know if he could trust him with such information.

He eventually barged his way into Keuran's student office like he owned the place. The rest of the student representatives watched as he dragged her out of the room making everyone gasp.

"Who the hell are you!? Don't grab me like that!" He let go of her immediately when people started slowing down in the hall. "We have an article to publish in a few days and you're preventing that right now."

Jaebum groaned. "I don't give a fuck about your article. I can't take this anymore. People are laughing and pointing. They're even calling me names. The freaking school board contacted my parents."

Keuran didn't care. As long as it wasn't her name blasted out to the public, Jaebum could take the fall. As he has already done so. "I'll talk to Hwaryeong." She lies and he knew she was. "I understand that you're feeling stressed. As a girl, it's hitting me harder."

She placed a soft hand over her heart and wrapped the other around Jaebum's wrist. He looked her up and down and realized he couldn't be mad. She was trying at least. Trying to sympathize with him.

"I love you," he spoke. This time he said it without being in her bedroom or feeling pressured. He meant it.

Youngjae was running like his life depended on it. His phone was flailing in his hand and a printed out proof  was almost falling out of his backpack. He knew Jinyoung was waiting impatiently for him since Youngjae was blowing up his phone.

"What is it!?" Jinyoung screamed the moment Youngjae crashed into him. They both went falling back on to the waxed floor but Youngjae held onto his phone.

"I know who started the account!" He screamed in his face. They were getting stares since they were on top of each other in the middle of the hallway. Jinyoung beamed as he lightly pushed Youngjae off.

"Tell me! Hurry so I can show Jaebum!"

Youngjae tried to gather his thoughts as he unlocked his phone. "Yeah, I know. But I have this all scripted out in my head since five in the morning." Jinyoung felt soft instantly. He didn't think one request would keep Youngjae up all night. He felt bad since he gave up the moment he saw those pictures.

Nonetheless, Youngjae passed over the phone and pulled out the papers so he can read off them. "YK Vlox? Who is that?"

"Yung Keuran. Vlox is the group she was obsessed with at the beginning of the year. Which is around the time this account was made."

He showed Jinyoung the paper. It was YK Vlox account. The group plastered all over it. Then a picture of the side of Keuran's face with Jaebum and Jinyoung studying together in the background. But Jinyoung's face was crossed out.

"She wasn't very good in covering her ass."

Jinyoung could feel it in him that this was the right thing to do. He had to show Jaebum that this was all Keuran's way of driving them apart. Because she did like Jaebum from the very beginning. And her plan was executed flawlessly. Except the fact her record wasn't clean.

"So do we tell him now?" Youngjae whispered over his shoulder. "I really wanna tell him now."

Jinyoung folded up the papers and put it into his thin bag. "We have to make Keuran aware of it first. It'll be better if she let him down compared to him finding out he was the only one who didn't know."

"Can I... ask you a question, Jinyoung?" The older nodded while standing up from the cold floor. "Are you doing this out of hope that Jab um might actually go public with his feelings for you or because you truly don't think Keuran and him were meant?"

"I know Jaebum isn't going to go public with us. He's so fearful of what others would think about him being gay. I just need my best friend back."

Youngjae knew after all of this, being by Jinyoung's side everyday and helping him cope with everything, he'd always be just a friend.