❝ leave me alone, i'm fucking stressed! ❞
❝ well, i'm fucking asthmatic! ❞
+ in which na jaemin found himself chewing a gum instead of smoking a cigarette because of an asthmatic strawberry enthusias...
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jaemin silently watched nari who's mindlessly plucking up the grass. cute, he thought. he sipped his iced americano as he sat, his eyes were still on her.
“is talking to the grass a trend now? i saw jisung doing the same thing.”
nari screeched in shock. she was too preoccupied that she didn't even realize that jaemin was watching her all this time.
nari dusted off her palms. “since when are you judging me?”
“i'm sorry mr. grass, i was unconsciously plucking you,” jaemin mocked her apology to mr. grass.
nari rolled her eyes as she lay down the ground and sighed. her sigh was long and deep enough to worry jaemin, whose gaze turned innocent and soft, as if he didn't tease nari earlier.
jaemin couldn't bear the silence so he spoke. “i know you're not well,” he eyed nari worriedly. “you left me on read yesterday so i assumed you wanted space. you also just handed renjun his wallet and walked away earlier. what can i do to make you feel better?”
nari knew exactly why she was being like this. she was bothered by the photo she saw in renjun's wallet. she didn't want to pry but it's making her heart hurt. it was just a crush, why am i being dramatic? she mentally facepalmed herself.
“does renjun have a girlfriend?” she stared at the afternoon sky even though it's hurting her eyes, just like what she's doing now. she's asking jaemin about the girl in the photo even though she knows it'll hurt her. “he hasn't mentioned having one but that doesn't mean he doesn't have, am i right?”
jaemin kinda knew it was coming. even though they only knew each other for months, it seemed like he knows nari enough to predict what she was going to do.
“if i tell you that he's in a relationship, will you stop pursuing him?”
nari smiled, a gesture that jaemin didn't expect her to do in her situation. “of course, i should respect them and their relationship.”
nari's view was suddenly blocked by jaemin's face. startled, her eyes widen at the sudden action but she remained composed. jaemin moved her head onto his lap and stared at the soccer players on the field, averting his gaze.
he smiled. “he doesn't have a girlfriend. but... i think he's still inlove with someone,” jaemin caressed her hair as a way of comforting her, his hand was shaking but nari didn't seem to notice it. for jaemin, it was quite hard to tell someone that their crush likes someone else.
“it's the girl in his paintings, right?”
jaemin hummed in response even though what nari told him was a shock to him. he still paints her? he thought. his hand was not shaking anymore.
nari chuckled, “i should have known.”
she suddenly remembered asking renjun about his muse in his paintings. he always just smiles whenever she asks him about it, not really answering her question so she just shrugged it off. she felt stupid for thinking that the muse was just from renjun's imagination.
jaemin stared at her for a while before an idea came up to his mind. “i know you're starving. let's eat,” he stood up and dusted off his pants. he extended a hand at nari, helping her to stand up.
“no way. renjun told me you're worse than him,” she reminisced the food she ate last night. jaemin mocked her with a whatever, i'll still feed you which made her laugh.
jaemin laughed along with her. “no, i'm better. so you should think of me more starting today.”
