underage | kim jongin

one

You and your bestfriend ten walked outside and the heavy aroma of fresh-cut grass blissed in the air and swooshed into your nostrils. You felt the box you were holding almost fall out of your hands. You quickly hoisted it up back into your arms as you heard the loud noise of a lawn mower hit your ears like a jackhammer to your eardrum. You wince and look in the direction of the thundering blast. "Holy shit" ten manges to mutter out , as it looks like his mouth could mop up the dust from the ground. "What the hell" you wipe the look off your face and go blank-faced as you see most likely the most single handedly beautiful person you've ever seen in your life. He suddenly turns his head to you and you make eye contact. Am I in a movie? You think to yourself and try to snap out of the haze he's put you in. As he gets closer he spreads a kind smile across his face, your kneecaps almost melted. He approaches you, around a pace away from where you're standing in your driveway by the mailbox and stretches his arm out, for a shake of the hand. You reciprocate the action. "Hello, I'm Kim Jongin," He says with a friendly eye smile. In this moment your breath hitches as you look down and realise he's shirtless. Damn he's one sexy person. You almost catch yourself saying under your breath but keep to your thoughts. "Hey, I'm Kalah," you say, breath shaking. He giggles and wipes his sweat with the shirt around his neck with the hand he used to shake yours before. "You're new here?" he asks and points to the box in your hands. "Yeah, My parents and I just moved in," you inform. "Oh? How old are you?" He asks with hope in his voice that you're older than 18. "I'm almost seventeen." You say. He looks you up and down, hoping you don't notice. "Ah okay well i'm 21...we can be friends!" he states, almost with disappointment during the first statement. You nod your head with a smile and look at ten as he's just watching the conversation happen before him. You introduce Ten and he smiles at Jongin, you can tell by the look on your besties face, he's in love with jongin. They start a conversation out of small talk and you struggle to keep your arms around the wide, heavy box in your grasp as it's weakening. Jongin looks over at you with a strange look on your features, which were mesmerizing to him. A feeling of urgency takes over him as he goes from under your arms and grabs the box, like it was nothing. "It seemed like you were having trouble," he says and grins. "Oh yeah, thank you," You say and walk from the end, to the beginning of your driveway close to the door and let him walk in. He looks around and notices he still has his shoes on. He takes them off at the entrance and walks forward. "Where can I take this for you?" he pushes out the box slightly, signaling to it. Your eyes widen as you see how he's been carrying it for so long. "Oh my! Here just around this corner. You walk to your room and he places it on the white carpet. He looks back up at you and shows another smile. "Where are your parents?" he asks "Oh my mom went to the appliance store to look for another washer. The one that was here is broken," He creates an O shape with his mouth and says "oh okay," dragging out the last letter of 'oh'. At this moment, Ten looks back at Jongin from the kitchen and yells "Aye! You want water or something?" Jongin looks back and calmly says "Nah, but thank you,". As Jongin ends his sentence, you hear a click of a door. Your mother walks in and sees a strange man standing there, shirtless with you and your best friend, which I may add, are both underage. "Kalah what is going on and who is this?" She motions towards Jongin with her and he looks back at her knowing how fishy the situation looks. "Oh hello i'm so sorry, I was mowing my lawn and I saw your daughter and noticed she needed help with the box she was holding so I brought it in for her,". Your mom thinks for a little and then partly accepts what he said. "Okay...if Kalah hasn't told you yet, we're new to the neighborhood. Would you like to come for dinner tonight?". His face lights up after she says that. "Oh of course! I would love to," He says kindly. "Does 7:30 sound nice?" Your mom asks. "Sounds perfect," he adds as he looks at his watch placed around his left hand. He bows at your mom, comes up and nods his head and smiles at you and your best friend. "I'll bring some pie. I'm going to go finish my lawn and get ready, see you then!" he adds as he walks out the door.
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"HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL KALAH. WHY IS HE SO OLD?!" your best friend screams at you while he sits on your bed, legs crossed. "Ten I swear if you tell me one more time how hot my 21 year old neighbor is, my ears WILL bleed." "sorry he's just so mesmerizing,". You smile at how silly ten is. You met Ten online when you were 15 and always knew he lived in Korea but never really thought you would meet him in real life. After so many years of facetimes and messages, you finally got the news from your mother you were moving to korea for her new job opportunity. Many korean lessons after, you finally were almost completely fluent and your mom had found a house close enough so you and Ten could see each other all the time. You were so happy to be able to have a restart on everything, moving to a new country and meeting new people was something that sounded like a dream to you but it came to be true. You had a rough past and were ready to let it all go and finally be happy. Your father was never there and you always just had your mom, who you loved and appreciated so much. "Helooooo?!" Ten says as he waves his hand in front of your face as he attempts to bring you out of space. "Damn you've been out of it for like 2 minutes, it's almost 6 o'clock," he says as he tells you his goodbyes because he had to get ready for tonight, as it was the same for you. As you give him a hug, and he steps out the door, your brain goes into panic mode. What do I wear? How will I do my makeup? Full beat or natural? Should I shower again? I need to shave my legs. All of these things run through your head. You decide to take a shower, using your most beautiful fragrant body soap and shampoo. You step out and put on what feels like 5 pounds of vanilla scented body lotion. You decide to pick out your outfit. You make up your mind to wear something casual, since you were at home of course. A cropped t-shirt and sweatpants will do. You think to yourself . You do your make up, telling yourself to stop being so silly and worrying if you need light or a full beat makeup. Just a light concealer, powder, blush, and gloss. As you finish up and put your hair in a ponytail, your phone vibrates and you check to see a message from Ten- get your ass downstairs and open the door I have an idea. You walk downstairs from the door, ten walks in and quickly runs up the stairs. You just stand there shocked, knowing ten hates any type of running. He says he's too pretty for all that. You walk up the stairs behind him and ask him what's going on. "Watch this," he says, scaring you a little. He's up to no good. You watch him as he walks to your rather large window on the right side of your room, flings open the curtains and yells "VOILA,". You finally understand what he's implying as you look out the window to see someone's room Jongin's room. At this moment it looks empty but his window is open and you can hear music coming from it. "You're welcome Kalah," Ten says "You're a psychopath ten. Why would I spy on Jongin!?" you say knowing exactly what his answer will be. He goes on, starting to ramble on how beautiful Jongin is again. You just sit there and listen to him scold you for being so 'clueless of a beautiful man right in front of me' "okay okay I know he's beautiful but i'm also 16 and you're 17. It's weird even to be friends with him-" as you try to finish what you're saying, you hear your doorbell ring and a flush of adrenaline runs through your veins and you get butterflies in your stomach.
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wow okay so i started a story a long time ago but never committed to it so i'm excited to start again. i'll try to post at least twice a week :)
i welcome constructive criticism so please comment if you have a problem with anything or see if i messed anything up. thank you so much for taking the time to read my story i won't let you down i promise.