underage | kim jongin

eight

The feeling of two eyes arms wrapped around your presence is what you woke up to, in Jongin's room. Jongin lifted his hand and placed the hair that was in your face behind your ear. "Good morning," you say and slide out of the bed, looking for your phone. "It's downstairs, hun,' you hear from Jongin and smile. You walk down the stairs and pick up your phone, reading the notifications. You had gotten some TikTok's from Ten, in which you'd watched them all sending a reply that was so blatantly keyboard smashed and capitalized, only he could understand the point you were trying to get across. and a text from your mom saying 'just about a month and a half, Paris is awesome!! I love you! Be safe!'. Suddenly, you hear the radio turn on at a high volume playing 'Heart Out' by The 1975. You jump slightly and turn around looking for Jongin, him smiling and dancing towards you. Jongin takes a hold of your hand, spinning you around and dipping you down. You just go along with the dances he's doing with you and laugh at the silly side of him that he rarely lets out. "Hey baby," Jongin calls out while your back is pressed up against his chest and you're just swaying to the music. "Yes," you reply looking up at him. "You wanna get some ice cream?" he asks. "Sure, are you driving or me?" you ask, wondering if you get to take another ride in Jongin's cool BMW "i'll drive, i know you love my car," he says, trying to be cocky. You slap his arm and the two of you laugh. "You wanna go get ready?" Jongin says and leads you to the door with a hand on the small of your back. You put on your shoes, making sure to kiss him before he opens the door for you. "I'll meet you back here by like 7," you say, making sure to give yourself more time than needed just in case you'd decided to change outfits after looking in the mirror. Jongin just nods his head and rubs your back before you exit the door. "Bye bye," he says, while waving and you wave back. Jongin waits until he can see your front door to close until he closes his, making sure you made it home. As soon as you step in and take your shoes off, you get a text saying 'I miss you already'. You just laugh at Jongin's goofiness and reply with something corny. You almost slam yourself against the back of the door and whisper to yourself  "god i'm falling in love with this man,". You remember what you were actually supposed to be doing and go upstairs, to your room to look for an appropriate outfit for the ice cream date you were about to have. You feel a ping of sadness wash over you after remembering that even if you two are together behind closed doors, you still have to act like friends out of the house. You just sigh and try not to let it affect you while swiping through every blouse in your closet, knowing you want to pair it with jeans. You decide to finally let your ego lessen itself and give up, finally texting ten for ideas. You didn't even have to send any photos to him because he's been through your closet so many times he knows exactly what's in there and what looks good on you. Immediately after you text him ' i need help plz me n jongin are going to get ice cream and i have no idea what to wear...' you get an answer with ' oh god let me know how it goes. do not whatever you do spill ice cream on yourself. wear the white tank top with the pleather stripe on the top with the blue jeans in the third drawer to the left and then put the long brown coat over it. ikr i'm such a stylist no need to thank me i love you be safe'. You jump around, excited and satisfied with the amazing outfit choice Ten had picked out. You quickly reply back 'omg ur a lifesaver i love you so much have fun on your night out with the infamous Jackson Wang *side eye emoji*' You'd forgotten to mention that the night you and Ten spent together he told you about how randomly, this guy named Jackson that you and Ten had been friends with over Instagram DM's for like a year until he had cut all ties had tried to get in contact with Ten again. You were happy that Jackson started to talk to Ten more because you'd been very occupied with Jongin and you felt bad that you couldn't be with him as much as before you did before you started dating Jongin. It was also a plus because while you were in America, Ten and Jackson were always in Korea so they had gotten closer than you and Jackson or all of you as a group. Ten had told you about some of his tiny crushes before but it never went anywhere but this time you hope it's different. You have quite a while until you need to be ready for ice cream so you decide to lay down and watch random YouTube videos and switch in between apps at a rapid pace because you have ADHD like no tomorrow. Before you know it it's 5:30 and you start to get your things together before you get in the shower. You turn the knob to the shower and wait for it to get warm till you step in and do your thing. You step out and get dressed, followed by your makeup and hair. After you've finished with all the minor details to your routine, it's almost impossible to get rid of the smile on your face remembering that you're literally going on a night ice cream rendezvous with the guy that you're falling in love with. Out of the corner of your ear you hear the doorknob twist and you look to see the tall Jongin you were so very fond of. You look him up and down to see that he was wearing a deep tan button down top, tucked into his blue jeans with a few buttons at the top undone, showing his chest. While you're bending over to tie your brown boots, Jongin walks his way over to you and strokes your hair "hey," he says as you finish tying your left shoe you stand up straight and pull him into a warm hug. "I missed you," you say patting his back. Jongin just hugs you back. After about a minute, you let go of his grasp and he kisses you on the cheek softly. "You ready to go baby?" he says as he gives you the sweetest smile. "Yep all ready," you say and he opens the door, letting you exit before him. The two of you walk to his BMW that he parked at the end of your driveway. Before you can reach to open the door, he maneuvers his arm under yours and opens the car door, putting his arm out acting as formally as he could. You just laugh at him and sit down. Jongin closes the door and walks to the driver's side. Jongin starts the car and you can feel the purr of the engine below you vibrate and he turns up the volume to the radio, hooking up his phone to play Seattle 2 Seoul by Jay Park. "I love this song so much," you say and lean your head back, closing your eyes just to enjoy the beat and vibe the speakers are releasing. Jongin looks at you and smiles while switching gears and pulling away and going in the direction needed. Before you know it you and Jongin had been in the car for 30 minutes and you'd passed the ice cream place about 20 minutes ago. "Uhm sir where the hell are we going," you say and look at him like he's crazy. "So I know that anyone we'd see at that stupid ice cream place already knows us so I figured we went somewhere nobody knew us," Jongin looks at you, brows raised. "What do you think about that?" he says and takes a hold of your hand, rubbing the top with his thumb. "I love that idea," you say. You were so worried about the fact that you and Jongin couldn't act like you do at home and Jongin somehow read your mind, like the caring person he is. You live in Yangsan, so you just inferred that Jongin was taking you to Busan. Around 10 minutes later, with some traffic you finally arrived in Busan and you could see all the beautiful city lights all around you. You rolled down the window and could smell the amazing aura of city nightlife. Eventually, Jongin pulled up to a small ice cream shop. They had chairs and tables outside and they were all pastel with warm colored string lights hung above them. Jongin opened your door and as you were walking up to the shop, you noticed you were the only two people there besides the workers and one other couple that was sitting inside on a booth. You walked up to the door and of course, Jongin opened it for you. You looked at him and smiled and he exchanged it back to you. "What flavor do you think you want," he says and puts his hand under yours, sending sparks through your arm. "Hmmm I don't know till' I see them all, what about you?" you say. "Oh that's easy, definitely one scoop chocolate one scoop peanut butter," he says and you laugh, knowing in all reality that it sounded so good. You walk up to the counter and see all of the big jugs of ice cream and mint chocolate chip catches your eye. Jongin comes up behind you and puts his arm around you. "Have you figured out what you want yet?" he says. "Yep I think I have," you say as he walks up to the cashier and tells her his order. "One chocolate, one peanut butter please," he says and the girl looks him up and down, winking at him after. You catch this out of your peripheral and walk up, placing one hand on his back and one on his stomach. "Can I have one mint chocolate and one regular chocolate on a waffle cone please?" you say adding as much sas in your voice as possible and a fake shit-eating grin forms on your face. "Yeah, it's $10.50, cash or card," the girl realises what you're doing and gives up. You go to look in your purse for your card and before you can pull your wallet out you hear "card, thanks," Jongin hands the card to the girl, receiving it back. Jongin takes both of your cones from the girl and walks outside, pushing the door open with his back. You pick a table and Jongin hands you your cone. You lick a stripe across the side of the two scoops and Jongin takes a double take. "Thank you," you say with a smile as you reach your hand across half the table as Jongin meets yours. "How is it?" he says and raises his brows. "Oh my god so good," you say, followed by a laugh from him. "I love this place. My dad used to take me here when I was little, my mom always got mad because she said it was too far away," Jongin looks down, remembering his childhood. "Well for me it was different. I never had a dad so my mom and I would have ice cream together all the time. We'd watch movies and just laugh together," you say. You and Jongin sat there, talking and laughing, most of them coming from you. "Kalah how do you feel about going somewhere after this?" Jongin asks you, taking his thumb and stroking the top of your hand. "I'm down. Is it far from here?" you ask, not really worried about the time but wanting to look responsible.