jaeyong ✧ skindeep

Forty-seven

Jaehyun ruffled his chocolate-colored hair as he stared at himself in the mirror. He tiredly brushed his teeth and washed his face, afterwards going back to the room and laying next to Taeyong, who was still sleeping.

His hand traced the latter's earlobe, softly smiling at the way his body slightly twitched under the touch.

Taeyong's eyes fluttered open, a tired moan escaping his lips as he awoke and stretched his body.

The brunette's soft voice questioned,"Did I wake you?"

Taeyong daintily shook his head, looking over at the alarm clock,"I need to get up anyway."

Jaehyun wrapped his arms around Taeyong's body, rolling both of them off the bed until they both landed on the floor.

"Jaehyun-"

Jaehyun brushed the strands of hair out of Taeyong's face,"I love you so much."

Taeyong diverted his gaze with a blush on his face. Some things would never change no matter how much time had passed.

He spoke through his pouted lips, looking back over at the clock for a second,"Didn't your lecture end twenty minutes ago?"

He rested his palm against Taeyong's forehead,"And? I just asked Doyoung to write me notes. I want to be with you today."

Taeyong moved his head slightly,"Can we get up first?"

Jaehyun kissed Taeyong's forehead before quickly standing up, pulling up Taeyong against his chest afterwards.

Taeyong ruffled his hair with his own slender fingers, then stretching his arms and back. Despite having just gotten up, Taeyong allowed his body to fall back onto the bed,"If you're not going to your lectures today, what are you going to do?"

Jaehyun laid next to him, his chin supported up by his palm,"Well, what do you want to do today?"

"Um, I don't know? It's... It's been a long time ."

Jaehyun slightly frowned, instantaneously reading Taeyong's shifted expression,"You went to get better. There's no reason to feel bad about that."

Taeyong delicately nodded in response, any of his possible replies being cut off by the sound of Jaehyun's phone ringing.

The brunette heavily exhaled, pushing himself off the bed to achieve his phone from the bedside table and bringing the device to his ear,"Hello?"

A familiar voice replied over the speaker,"I have your notes and stuff, but I don't feel like walking off campus and to your apartment. I can't give them to you after because I have my internship so-"

"Oh, I'll go get them right now then."

Unhesitantly, Jaehyun hung up. He looked over at Taeyong,"So, I need to get my notes from Doyoung, do you wanna come?"

Taeyong sat up, kicking his feet against the border of the bed,"Mhm, I haven't really been on campus since I got back."

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Taeyong walked alongside Jaehyun, his hand shyly and barely touching the latter's. His eyes panned over the accents of the campus ground which now seemed utterly unfamiliar.

His gaze met the eyes of those who were unaccustomed with his "existence". Nonetheless, he remained fixated on Jaehyun,"Is Doyoung near here?"

"He said he's near the cafeteria."

The pair walked for few more minutes before Jaehyun spotted Doyoung's figure sitting restlessly at one of the tables outside the cafeteria.

Doyoung turned his head, standing up with a small stack of paper in his grasp,"Took you long enough, I need to go to my next lecture. By the way, your professor assigned a fifteen page research report or something. Hi, Taeyong."

Taeyong held his hand up,"Hi," he awkwardly stared over at a water fountain,"I'm just gonna... go over there."

The raven-haired boy sauntered the fountain, bending down to taste the relatively warm and undesirable taste of the liquid.

"Taeyong?"

He reacted to the faintly familiar voice by turning around, then seeing the face of the girl he recognized from highschool and freshman year of college,"Oh, hi."

"I heard what happened to you. So you're back now? And still with Jaehyun?"

"Um- Yeah."

He voice and demeanor slightly shifted,"I'm sorry, but do you really believe that Jaehyun never hooked up or had sex with another girl while you were gone?"

"What?" Taeyong dug his nails repeatedly into his thigh and palm.

"I'm not trying to put thoughts in your head, but almost four years is a bit much for a guy to not want to do any of that."

Taeyong gripped the edge of the water fountain with his opposite hand,"Um-"

Jaehyun's voice intervened from afar,"Taeyong, we can go now."

He turned his body around, walking away from the fountain while his eyes remained glued to the pavement.

Jaehyun frowned at the latter's demeanor, his fingers placed under his chin,"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I was just thinking about something; it's nothing."

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Jaehyun gripped the door frame as he peered in the room and spotted Taeyong changing into an indigo hoodie.

"Dinner's ready."

"Oh, okay."

The brunette went back into the kitchen, Taeyong coming out of the room shortly after.

He sat down at the table across from Jaehyun. As he picked up his fork and held it in-between his fingers, he looked up at Jaehyun,"When I was gone, um-"

"Yeah?"

"When I was gone, were you with anyone else?"

"Like in a relationship?"

Taeyong nodded in a close to shameful manner.

"Taeyong, I've never even kissed anyone besides you. Is that why you were worried earlier?"

The raven-haired boy moved his fork against the contents on his plate,"Someone just said something earlier and I let it get into my head."

Jaehyun leaned over the table, his hands pressing against both of Taeyong's cheeks and placed a soft kiss on his lips. He ruffled the top of Taeyong's hair, his lips curving into a delicate smile,"I never told you, but you were my first kiss."

"O-oh," Taeyong hid his face in his folded arms as he leaned down against the surface of the table, earning a soft, fruity chuckle from Jaehyun.

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kinda shit chapter highkey
but i had nothing else to do on the metrolink to my field trip 😳