Happy birthday to my bestest boy and leader in this world! The man with beautiful words of wisdom, the man with the biggest heart and the beautiful soul. Thank you for being such an inspiration to many and the sweetest boy. Thank you for giving me strength and allowing me to live life thankfully each time. I hope you have a great day and good day, please stay safe and stay healthy. I love you so much my best friend.
“We live in a society that likes to segregate its citizens with labels and prejudices,” the sociology professor started, making most of the students roll their eyes. “Even here, you have all sat down according to your ‘role.’” She pointed to the left. “Prey.” She pointed to the right. “Predator.” She smiled, as the students seemed to realize their own segregation. “So, I’m going to take matters in my own hands, in this classroom.” She took out a list of students, separated as predator and prey. “Since we are a sociology class, you will get to know the person I assign you to.”
Your expression was soft as you glanced up, finally noticing hat the sun was beginning to lower. It was a sight that you had never tired of, a sight that you sought plenty of comfort from ever since you found yourself flying solo again, opting to enjoy a chance to relax for a while.
The sight of the sunset didn’t stop Jaebeom from playing on your mind from time to time. It had been a good few months since the two of you had separated, but despite everyone telling you that time was a healer, it didn’t feel that way for you.
Random moments after left you thinking, pondering how different things could be if you had Jaebeom by your side. Enjoying a sunset was something that you always hoped to do with him, but before the two of you got the chance to, you found yourselves going your separate ways, unable to see a way to make your relationship work.
You had found yourself heading to the park ever since, dumping most of your thoughts whilst you watched the sunset it. It was exactly what you needed, especially when one person in particular captured your attention.
“Hey…Y/N?”
You thought your mind was playing tricks with you as a familiar voice called out your name, but as you looked behind you, a familiar face stared down at you. A sheepish smile was on their face, not quite knowing what to do.
“Hi, how are you? You look well.”
“Y-yeah, I’m good, thank you.”
Your heart began to race the moment that your eyes landed on Jaebeom, as the feelings that you had soon came flooding back. Nothing had changed for you, he looked just as you remembered, if not even a little bit better.
“Can I sit?” Jaebeom asked you, “are you watching the sunset too?”
Your head nodded as you shuffled a little to make room for him, “I come down here most evenings after I’ve finished at work.”
“I can see why, it’s great here,” Jaebeom remarked as he took a seat down beside you. “Are you still doing your internship at that office by the café that we liked?”
A lot had changed since the two of you had last seen each other, with plenty to catch one another up on. As you began to tell Jaebeom that you’d ended up securing a job at the office, his smile grew, proud of how hard you had worked.
For a moment all he wanted to do was wrap his arms around you, but then he remembered. It felt as if the two of you had never been apart, but at the same time there was months of history behind you both, having never said a word to each other.
“I always knew that that place would want you,” Jaebeom smiled as soon as you finished speaking, “you used to come home with so many compliments.”
You smiled appreciatively back across to Jaebeom, a little uncertain as to how the right way to act around him was anymore. “Thank you,” was all that you ended up saying, choosing to be safe around him.
The two of you soon found yourselves falling silent, both staring across to watch the sunset instead. Your breakup hadn’t left you both hating each other, but it was still the elephant in the room for you both as you tried your best to be civil to one another.
You’d ended up deciding to go your separate ways after you found yourselves at two different stages of your lives. You were a little younger than Jaebeom, and whilst he wanted to think about settling down, you were still pretty keen to head out and explore.
As soon as the fans caught the slightest clue that the two of you were together too, your relationship was pretty doomed. You could never bring yourself to repeat some of the insults that were sent your way, still often hearing a few of them in the back of your mind.
If he could have changed how things would, Jaebeom would in a heartbeat. He hoped that your heart hurt like his did, he hoped that seeing him excited you like the way that seeing you had left him feeling nervous, and hopeful that it wouldn’t be the last time too.
“I’m glad to hear things are going well for you Y/N.”
Your eyes flickered as soon as Jaebeom spoke up, finding yourself listening to everything that he had to say. It had always been one of his favourite things about you, how much you paid attention and always listened to what he had to say.
“I still think about you a lot, I’ve been wondering a lot over the past few months, but I never wanted to reach out and ask,” he told you.
Your head nodded, still a little uncertain as to what to say. As much as you wanted Jaebeom to reach out, you had no idea as to how he felt about you, especially after your breakup too.
“Do you still think about me?”
His question took you slightly by surprise as your body tensed up. “I do,” you sheepishly told Jaebeom, watching as his eyes lit up. “It’s pretty impossible not to think about you when you constantly come up on my TV screens, releasing yet another incredible song.”
Your words made Jaebeom’s heart soar, struggling to control his smile as he listened to you, not wanting to let you see just how touched he was to hear you.
“I always knew that you’d smash it.”
“There’s always felt like there’s one thing missing from that though.”
You knew straight away who Jaebeom was talking about, feeling his stare intensify in your direction. There were so many times when Jaebeom wanted to have you by his side, enjoying the moment with him, but instead he was left wondering where in the world you even were.
“I’m so glad that I came down here tonight, I was thinking of just heading home, but I thought a walk would do me good,” Jaebeom told you, “it’s done me the world of good getting to see you, there’s been so much that I wanted to say to you over these past few months.”
You weren’t quite sure where Jaebeom was going with what he had to say to you until you felt a hand rest over yours. You didn’t react for a few moments, but after realising what Jaebeom was doing, you turned your hand so that it pressed against his.
“Let’s not do anything too quickly,” you warned Jaebeom, “if this is the two of us deciding to at least see each other past tonight, then I don’t want to rush anything Jaebeom. I don’t want a repeat of what happened last time between us.”
“I won’t let that happen, I promise you,” Jaebeom smiled in reply to you. “You have no idea how happy my heart is just being able to see you again Y/N.”
“I never thought I’d see you again,” you admitted, still stunned to see Jaebeom before you.
Although he had gone on to do plenty ever since the two of you separated, he still thought of you, still wished that things could have ended so differently between you both too.
“What are you doing tomorrow?” Jaebeom asked you.
Your lips pursed together as you thought momentarily, “that depends, what do you need to know my plans for?”
“It’s for a thing, it’s called a date, didn’t you know? I think we’ve been on one or two before.”
“It seems that I have plans for tomorrow now in that case.”
Summary:The war of the cheek kisses ended anticlimatically.
It all started with a kiss.
When Jaebeom finally came home from work, you pecked his cheek and darted away before he could return the favour. And then he pecked yours when you were cooking dinner.
And now, it was war. You got him when he was in the middle of brushing his teeth, he got you when you were feeding the cats. A truce was made when the two of you went to bed, but when morning broke, the competition rose.
Jaebeom cornered you when you wre showering and you managed to get him right before he left for wrk. The entire day both of you were planning to surprise each other when Jaebeom returned. A lot of planning went into it, Jaebeom even used his lunch break to discuss his plan with his coworker Jinyoung (who thought he was an idiot.)
But at the end of the day, when Jaebeom returned home, you leapt at him like the day the war first started, but he also made a grab for you, accidentally hitting both your heads together.
“Maybe…maybe we should call the war off,” you groaned, holding a wrapped ice-pack to your forehead. Jaebeom agreed heartily.
