re: “congrats on 200 followers, lovely!! you deserve 100x more! could i request 8 from the angst prompt + hurt/comfort 5 ❄️❄️”
oh my gosh i didn’t even realise i forgot to put a character - suppose that’s what happens when you spend all night on tumblr 😭 tasm Peter or Matt Murdock pls <333
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--genre: angst :(
--pairing: matt murdock x gn!reader
--word count: 1.1k
--warnings: language, mentions of alcohol, arguing, matt is the king of self sabotage, angst.
i'm a sucker for some good angst omg
“He hasn’t been alright (Y/N),” Karen sighs, “when he’s here he’s on edge. I know he can hear things we can’t, but it’s like…it’s like he’s not really here.”
You’re sitting next to her at Josie’s bartop, the crowd is mellow on this rainy Wednesday night. You can tell Karen is genuinely concerned about Matt, the look in her eye tells you so. You’re running through the possible reasons why your boyfriend could be feeling this way, but you draw a blank. You furrow your eyebrows, frustrated, “He’s been quiet lately, but he never brings it up.”
The blonde in front of you takes another sip of her drink before she clears her throat, “I don’t know what’s going on, but I have a feeling it has something to do with the devil.”
You can only nod your head. You hate when Matt gets in over his head about his nightly activities, it’s hard when you can’t do anything about it, not like he lets you anyway. “I’ll keep an eye out for him the next few days,” you reach into your wallet for cash, “just keep me updated about how he is at work, okay?”
She stands with you from the seat, giving you a tight hug as you say your goodbyes, and heading home to your apartments. You can’t help but think about Matt the entire walk home, your mind taking you to dark places. It wasn’t hard to worry about him, considering the fact that he loves to push himself past the limit more often than not.
You would never tell him to stop, right?
***
For the next few days, you start to pay attention to Matt when he’s home. The first thing you notice is that he seems to always be in a rush. He’s quick to get ready for the day, and he’s quick to get ready for the night. You’re not sure where this sudden boost in drive has come from, but what Matt doesn’t realize is that the quicker he riles himself up, the harder he plummets.
You’ve gotten multiple texts from Karen during the day that Matt is blowing up on Foggy while clients are in the room. You know that something’s wrong, and you don’t know how to fix it, but you have to try.
Later that day, you caught Matt putting his suit on to go out into the city, the sun draining the light away from your apartment. As he’s about to put his helmet on, your voice interrupts his movements, “Matty, can we talk real quick?”
He sighs, already walking away from you, “I’m about to leave, can we talk later?”
“How long have you been feeling like you need to do more for the city when you do more than enough?”
Your question catches him off guard, he stops in his tracks, his back facing you. He can hear that your heart is beating faster than normal, the question making you nervous. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he responds, quickly.
You cannot help but laugh at his response, “You’re a terrible liar.”
Shaking his head out of frustration, he takes a deep breath, “You don’t need to worry about anything that I do when I’m out at night, trust me.”
“Another shitty lie, Matty,” you walk towards him. Once you reach his back, you raise your hand to hold his arm, giving it a soft squeeze. Unconsciously, he leans into your touch. You know that he’s been craving this kind of softness since he started to act differently. “You know that I still worry, even though you tell me not to. I can’t help it,” you speak softly.
And suddenly, it’s like his hard demeanor returned with a flip of a switch, “I need to get out there (Y/N),” he shrugs his arm out of your hold.
You’re left there standing like an idiot in the middle of the living room as you watch your boyfriend walk away from you. You can’t help but feel angry, it’s like everything you said went through one ear and spilled out the other. Turning on your heel you walk to the closet, pulling down the suitcase, letting it slam on the floor. You don’t care.
The obvious slam caught Matt’s attention, his worries now focused on you. He hears more shuffling coming from your shared bedroom, along with sniffles. He calls out to you, before walking to you, “(Y/N)?”
He’s met with no response, just the sounds of your muffled sobs and the rustling of clothes. As he gets closer to you, he can taste the salt in the air as your tears stream down your face, and suddenly he’s panicking. “I never wanted it to get to this point,” you zip up the suitcase as you rise to your feet, Matt’s sudden appearance scaring you as you see his figure.
His eyes are darting back and forth as he tries to de-escalate the situation, yet his tone is still sharp, “What point?”
You’re still a mess, running your hand across your eyes to wipe your tears, you smear your makeup across your skin. With an uneven breath, you respond, “You’ve reached the point where you stop valuing yourself and the people around you to dig your own grave, Matthew.” You try to make your way around Matt, but he doesn’t make it easy as he holds your shoulders, keeping you in place.
“Don’t make me do this,” he says quietly, “don’t make me choose.”
You think that you’ve actually gotten through to him, you hope a sense of clarity has finally washed through his senses. Until you see his head twitch, his ear lifting towards the air. You can’t hear anything, but you know that he already has an exact location of whatever commotion is happening in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen.
With your boyfriend distracted, you shrug his hands off your shoulders, “Looks like I didn’t have to make you choose, you’ve already figured out your answer yourself.”
As you’re walking out of the bedroom and towards the front door of the apartment, Matt calls for you, “I’ll be back in a few hours, then we can talk, okay? Just–please, don’t go anywhere.”
And just like that, he slips out of the window, not even waiting for your response. Maybe Matt’s heart will never fully belong to you, and you should’ve known that when you first met him. He has always and will always dedicate himself to the city, and you’ll just have to come to terms with not being his priority. That is if you stay.
--author's note: I KNOW THAT MY 200 FOLLOWER CELEBRATION IS DONE, BUT I HAD A BURNOUT PERIOD SO HERE'S ONE LAST FIC!!! ❄️ anon this is such a good request, thank youuuu! don't forget to like, comment, and reblog to support me and your fav writers! my asks/inbox is open, so send me your juicy ideas baes...ok, bye ily<3333
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Criminal Love : Getting entangled.
CHAPTER ONE ⸙͎۪۫。
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Pairing ~ Jake x reader (Jisu)
Genre ~ Fake dating, contract relationship, forbidden love.
Warnings ~ contains excessive use of Cuss, angst, one or two punch scenes, kiss scenes, etc. (But nothing too over the top). Mention of Karina & Ningning (Aespa), Yunjin (Le Sserafim), Yujin (IVE), Hanni (New Jeans), Beomgyu (TXT), and Enhypen's Hyung line.
Author's note ~ idk how to use Tumblr for the love of god. So, I hope you'll enjoy this as, I've wrote it after listening to criminal love. You can also find this work on wattpad too. And as for the oc, her name will be Choi Jisu as I really don't like working with Y/N. Anyways, happy reading <3 and another thing is that, I've excluded some parts like the texts and social media parts because it would've been too lengthy.
Word count ~ 5.3k
When it comes to your first love, it usually hurts more than you think.
If you've never been in love, that's not my problem.
But the fact is, if you get dumped by your boyfriend, who you dated for a whole year, it hurts. It hurts more when you find out the fact that he was bored with you.
The current situation of Choi Jisu was that. She dated this untouchable boy, Han Renjun who broke her heart.
They dated the entire senior year, well, he was in the freshmen year. And the break-up was too painful.
But right now, Choi Jisu was more focused to get to her new dorm. She didn't know who her dorm mates were, but she hoped that they would be, a bit nice. If it's her friends, that will be an Oscar award for her.
She was already assigned a dorm room and was walking towards it. Sliding the door open softly, she took off her shoes, dragging her two big suitcases in.
She scanned the place until she heard two girls, too familiar voices. They walked out as Jisu gasped.
“Yujin and Yunjun!” She screamed, along with the girls, as they hugged each other and started to jump.
“Oh my gosh! Jiji! I never thought we'll be dorm mates." Yunjin exclaimed, pulling out of the hug as they smiled at each other.
“I guess all of us got on with our high school friends. Hanni got on with Karina and Ningning" Yujin stated as Yunjin dragged her suitcases in.
“What do you have in here? Atom bombs?” Yunjin groaned, dropping them on the living room floor.
“I'm happy that I'm living with the indistinguishable Jin's” Jisu smirked as both the girls groaned.
Well, one's Ahn Yujin and another one's Huh Yunjin. They both have 'Jin' at the end of their names, one had 'Yu' another has 'Yun'. So, during high school, the girls used to tease the hell out of these two girls because of this.
“There's still two days until the college” Yunjin stated. “And, the guys asked us to go to the club tonight” She finished as the three slumped on the couch.
“Who's gonna be there?” Jisu asked as Yujin threw her a water bottle.
“Us, means you, me and her," Points at Yunjin “Ningning, Karina, Hanni, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Heeseung” She finished as Jisu finished drinking and placed the half bottle on the center tea table.
“Are you certain, he'll—”
“No he won't” Yunjin cuts her off with a sigh. “You've to admit it, Jiji. Renjun is a fucking asshole that doesn't deserve you”
“That jerk deserves to rot in hell” Yujin joined Yunjin as Jisu giggled.
“Okay, I'm already trying to get over him. And I will, don't worry” She stated as the other two girls smiled at her.
“Alright girlie, we need to get dressed and,” Yujin points at a closed door, “that's your room” She smiled as they shoved Jisu's suitcases in the room with her and shut the door behind her, a giggled falling off their lips.
The strong smell of alcohol, fluttered in their noses as they walked inside the bar.
Yunjin practically dragged Yujin and Jisu inside when she spotted their friends group. They were already chugging on their drinks as the three girls approached.
“Ah! The best girls are here!” Jay exclaimed, handing out 3 vodka shots to the girls who just joined them.
“So, are you saying that we're annoying?” Karina glared at Jay as he just shrugged.
“See, except for Jisu, Yujin and Hanni, none of you are normal” Heeseung stated, as a matter of fact, drinking his whiskey.
“Dude I'm offended!” Yunjin smacks his arm as he hissed. “I'm two years older than you! You should respect me!” Heeseung screeched. His voice was really audible through the loud music, blaring through the speakers.
“I'm genuinely sorry, Grandpa” Yunjin mocked as Heeseung sighed out of annoyance.
Jisu sat herself on the barstool, along with Yunjin and Yujin as they ordered some drinks. For a certain moment, Jisu's eyes got caught with this particular Aussies boy.
Jake.
She smiled and nodded at him as he returned the same gesture, before turning to Ningning who was suddenly whining.
“You know, it's so shit that we're in college!” She exclaimed as Jisu, Yujin and Hanni scoffed in disbelief.
“Weren't you crying a few months back because you wanted High school to end?” Sunghoon mocked playfully as Ningning sent daggers towards him.
“Speaking of crying, how are you Jisu?” Heeseung asked as Karina jumped off her stool and gave a tight smack on the back of Heeseung's head. He whined, rubbing the spot as Karina sat back in her seat, gulping down her vodka from the shot glass.
“You literally poured salt on her drying wound, asshole” Sunghoon slapped Heeseung's back as he raised his hand in surrender.
“Don't worry. I'm fine and doing way better from last month” Jisu offered as smile as Heeseung smirked.
“I told you, be my girlfriend instead. I would've treated the way better than that son of a bitch” Sunghoon grudged, drinking the scotch as Jake sighed.
“He's really an asshole. He might act all smart-ass and shit, but he's just, an idiot” He said, gulping down the scotch in his glass in one go as he ordered for another one.
Jisu was about to say something but stopped when she saw an awfully familiar physique, pacing towards them with a girl.
Others stopped their bickering and looked at the boy who stood in front of them.
Han Renjun.
The boy who broke Jisu's heart and left her numb. The same boy who said that he was bored with her. He had a girl by his side who was clinging to him.
However, Jisu's face remained stoic, but fists clenching at her side. He had this beautiful, innocent face for when she fell, despite warnings from Heeseung, Jay and Sunghoon. Maybe, if she had talked to Jake, Renjun's best friend who, he shared a dorm with, wouldn't have led things too face.
The girl beside him was annoying the whole friends group. She was giggling, her hands all over Renjun.
Hanni poked Jisu on her side and slowly, entangled their hands together, just to make hr know that they were here, for her.
On the other hand, Yunjin, Heeseung and Jay looked disgusted. They didn't even try to hide it. The others threw him a glare but Jake, was disappointed.
His lips twitched, dissatisfied. He was never ever unhappy with his best friend, but now, his actions are telling him the opposite.
“Hey guys” Previously, his voice used to give Jisu butterflies, but now she felt nothing. “Meet my girlfriend” He motioned the girl to speak.
From her left side, she could already sense that Yunjin had turned her body sideways and is, making gagging noises. She hated fake people, and that girl's behavior explained everything.
If Yunjin throws up right now, it's that clingy girl's fault.
“Hey guys!” She exclaimed in a whiny tone with made Hanni, who was sitting next to Jisu, scoff. “I'm Sooji"
Multiple snorts and few coughed up laughs emitted from them during her introduction. Including, Jisu. She tried hard to not let out any sound, but she snorted.
This current situation explained everything. This girl, Sooji, wasn't welcomed here.
No matter how he dumped her over a five-minute phone call, he checked Jisu out. Karina and Sunghoon saw that as they came forward, but Renjun simply walked away with his new girlfriend, waving a small 'bye'.
Jisu didn't wasted the time to drink her third shot. They all did. Even though they were a group, the actions of Renjun had been pissing everyone off.
“Jisu” Yujin spoke out.
“I'm completely fine Yu" She offered a smile which didn't reach up to her eyes.
She wasn't jealous of that clingy girl, but her mind was messed up.
The sound of the alarm clock, startled Jisu as she groaned as turning it off. Her headache from her hangover not helping at all with this situation.
She then spotted a bottle of water and some pills on her table. She sat up and quickly gulp it down. Furthermore, she turned her head to the side and screamed.
“Fuck!” She looked at Yunjin, sitting on a chair, which was in a corner. “What are you doing here?” She hissed, messaging her head.
“The girls called. We're going for a lunch-ish brunch. So, get showered and get ready. We're leaving in thirty minutes” Yunjin spoke as she walked out of the room and shut the door softly.
A groan emitted from Jisu as she walked into her bathroom and took a quick shower and dressed up in a sage green crop top and some light blue mom jeans with, her Gucci sneakers.
She blow-dried her hair and let it fall over her shoulders as she quickly grabbed her bag and her phone and walked out of the room.
She wanted revenge, that was clear. But didn't know how to. She wanted to ask Yujin and Yunjin but she knew, they were still in hangover, and she'll get scolded.
Soon after, they walked out of Yujin's car and linked their arms together as they walked inside the restaurant. Before she could sit somewhere, Sunghoon grabbed her arm and pulled her to sit beside him. So, she sat in between Sunghoon and Hanni.
Ningning started to tell, how drunk Jay got and kissed the wall, crying. The scene played on their head as they burst into laughing, making Jay whine more.
Dude didn't like to made fun of.
The laughter soon died down as soon as Renjun walked in with his girlfriend.
“I didn't remember inviting you” Jay pointed at them as Jake sat beside him. Jake was invited too, but not Renjun and his girlfriend.
“Hey man! Don't be like that” Renjun spoke, sitting on an empty seat with his girlfriend.
Jake and Jisu looked at each other and smiled a bit. “Should I punch this asshole straight across his face?” Sunghoon asked as she shook her head. She came here to have a fun time with her friends, not to waste over some asshole.
Then, Sooji kissed Renjun and giggled. Disgust plastered on each and every one at the table, except for Sooji and Renjun.
Now, Jisu was questioning whether, she felt like puking for them or of the hangover. “I just lost my appetite” She stated as Sunghoon looked at her and Hanni grabbed her jaw.
“No honey” She shoved a piece of meat in her mouth as Jisu widened her eyes at her sudden move. She slowly chewed the meat as her phone vibrated.
Both Renjun and Sooji were eating each other's faces. It might not be believable, but Renjun and Jisu never kissed.
The drive back to the dorm wasn't really long as Yujin played some songs.
As soon as they got in their dorm, Yunjin shut the door shut as both the girls narrowed their eyes at Jisu. “What?” She asked, setting herself on the couch.
“Spill” Yunjin stated. “You're thinking about something and it's bothering you” She completed.
“Fine! I want revenge. He looks too happy and hi? He's greeting me like he didn't dump me!” Jisu ranted out as Yujin and Yunjin looked at each other, baffled.
“Got any plans?” Yujin asked as Jisu shook her head.
“Google is only saying to flirt with other guys in front of him” She stated as Yujin blinked.
“It's not like he'll get jealous of a random guy” Yujin stopped herself from snorting as she grabbed a water bottle.
“And it's not like you'll date Jake to make Renjun jealous” Bad move, Yunjin.
Upon hearing that, Jisu's lips turned up into a wicked grin. That caused both Yujin and Yunjin to exchange nervous glances.
“So, are you considering it?” Yujin asked nervously as Jisu nodded, sprinting towards her room to text Jake.
“You did it again” Yujin smacked Yunjin's arm, hard.
“I didn't mean to. Who knew she'll actually consider it” Yunjin whined, making Yujin sigh.
Jisu opened the Starbucks door and walked in as the smell of coffee immediately hit her nose. She looked around to see Jake, sitting in one corner with a book in his hand.
King of Pride by Ana Huang.
A blush crept up on her cheeks because, she read books, written by Ana Huang. Let's speak about research because her major is literature because she, particularly, wanted to become a writer.
She walked towards him and cleared her throat, making her presence known.
“Oh, hey!” Jake greeted, offering her a small smile.
“Hi” Jisu smiled back and sat in front of him. He closed the book and kept it by his side of the table.
She never thought Jake, The Jake who's good at studies and was called a nerd before they graduated from High school two years ago, would read, billionaire, smutty romance. And the main thing, Jisu was obsessed with Kai Young, the male protagonist of, King of Pride.
“I never knew you liked to read, these kinds of books” She said, looking at him as, a small smirk set upon his lips.
“Well, they say, don't judge a book by its cover” Jake smirked. Jisu knew, all nerds were freaks, and her theory was, hence, proven. He stood up and looked at Jisu. “What drink will you have?”
“Jake it's fine, I dragged you here! I should be the one to—”
“Shh. Now tell me” He looked at her intensely as she gulped.
“Vanilla sweet cream cold brew. But I should be the—” He gave her a smile and walked away.
A few minutes later, he came back with two cups in his hand and set hers, in front of her.
“I know you'll say that you should pay but, I can't let someone pretty like you pay, can I pretty?” He smiled and sat down. He was drinking an iced latte. She saw him drinking this once. “So, what's up?”
“I know it's sudden, weird and stuff, and I like…" She trailed off, searching for words but, she couldn't. She looked down at her drink and sighed. “Well, will you answer a question for me?”
“Umm, sure” He said, sipping on his drink.
“What if I asked you to pretend to be my boyfriend?” She asked straight away as Jake looked at her, baffled.
“Umm, okay”
Jisu blinked a few times at his reply.
“Is it like a question 'okay' or an answer 'okay'?” She tilted her head, confused, as Jake chuckled softly at her confused state.
“An answer. And I know you'll not just ask me to pretend to be your boyfriend. So, what's up, Jisu?” She knew Jake was smart and today, all her theories were being proven.
“Renjun” She muttered out quietly. “I want to make him jealous and when he realizes his mistake of dumping me, I'll tell him, and I'm over him” She said, looked directly at Jake's eyes, but her tummy did a flip as she diverted her eyes.
“So you're saying that we'll date to make him jealous? Sure! That asshole deserves it anyway" Jake stated as Jisu's eyes lit up.
“Alrighty! Let's lay down some rules!” She look out her notebook and a pen, amusing Jake.
“You came well-prepared" He chuckled. As she started to jot down some points.
“By the way, Jake, what's your age?” She asked, not glancing at him as she kept writing down.
“Twenty” He spoke softly, sipping on his drink.
“Nineteen” Jisu replied as she placed the pen down. “Okay! Let me spell it out for you. Rule one: do not fall in love” She stated as Jake nodded.
“Rule two: drive to uni together”
“I would've added that myself”
“Rule three: hold hands in public”
“Okay”
“Rule four: act lovey-dovey in front of our friends group”
“Yup! That's a must”
“Rule five: no kissing”
Jake smirked and looked up at her. “But don't you wanna feel my lips against yours, princess?”
Jisu's eyes widened, and her cheeks flushed with a pretty shade of crimson. “Hey." She looked at him as he raised his arms up in surrender.
Man's definitely freaky.
“Okay so Rule six: no one should know except for Yunjin and Yujin" She stated as he blinked.
“So I assume they already know about this?” He asked as she nodded.
“Rule seven: break up once the goal is reached and Rule eight: go on some dates and post each other on social media to make it look obvious” She ended and pushed the notebook in front of Jake as he read through.
“Can I write it freshly?” He asked as she nodded. He gripped the pen in his hand as he started to write the rules down. “And I'll add one more rule”
His veins popping out, making him look undeniably hot as he slid the notebook in front of her.
She looked at Jake after reading the last rule.
“Well, don't they act too clingy?” He asked as she nodded.
Rule eight was going on dates and posting each other in social media and rule nine was too much PDA.
Both of them shook their hand as they finalized the contract.
This was unexpected.
It was the first day of college, first day of freshmen year for Jisu, Yujin, Yunjin, Hanni, Karina, and Ningning. Sophomore year for Jay, Jake, Sunghoon and Renjun. Junior year for Heeseung.
Yujin, Yunjin and Jisu walked out of their dorm, just to see a black McLaren, standing outside with, a familiar blond guy, leaning against it.
It was Jake.
He had a denim jacket on and denim jeans with Prada formal dress shoes and black sunglasses. Everything about him screamed rich as Yujin and Yunjin's jaws dropped open.
They never expected that Jake, The Sim Jaeyun will come to pick up their best friend, even if they're fake dating.
“Oh you're here?” Jisu spoke, making Jake look up. He had a charming smile on his lips as he nodded.
“I came just now” Yujin and Yunjin gushed over him.
“You guys look so cute!” Yunjin squealed, pushing Jisu towards him.
“Have a great time, lovebirds” Yujin waved, walking away and getting into her car with Yunjin.
Jisu blinked a few times in disbelief as she looked up at Jake. “They definitely woke up on the wrong side of the bed” She stated, making Jake chuckle a bit. He ruffled her hair and opened the car door for her.
Renjun never once held the door open for her.
She smiled and spoke out a small 'thank you' and got inside the car as Jake shut the door and jogged towards the other side and got into the driver's seat. He started driving.
It wasn't an awkward silence. Both of them felt comfortable and peace with each other. That's until Jisu spoke.
“Well, you never told me why you agreed to the contract” She stated, looking at Jake as a smirk, played on his lips.
“Why butterfly? Are you curious?”
Jisu's eyes almost popped out at the nickname he gave her. No one gave her a nickname, except for 'Jiji' which is her world-famous nickname, given by Hanni. But butterfly, princess? Never.
“I am. Never have I thought that, the Sim Jaeyun will agree with my proposal” She stated, trying to hide the blush on her cheeks.
“Well, you see, the girls on the campus are a pain in the butt. They're always asking me out, which is fairly annoying. And if they see that I have a girlfriend, who's as pretty as you, they'll stop bothering me” Jake said, glancing at Jisu then smirking. He turned back to face the road.
Jisu was as red as a tomato. The blood rushed to her cheeks, burning them.
The car comes to halt, indicating that they've reached their destination.
Sure as hell, the girls on the campus would go bonkers after seeing Jake, coming out of his car with a girl. Jisu tried to open the car door but, was stopped by Jake.
He walked out of the car and towards her side and opened the door for her. He extended a hand towards her, as she smiled and grabbed it, getting out of the car.
“You're sure as hell a gentleman, Sim” She teased as he swiftly shut the car door. He crouched down to her lever to meet her height and smiled at her.
“I am. Does that make you flustered?” He tilts his head, innocently, as he placed a kiss on her forehead.
“You're flirting with me” Jisu stated with a done tone, trying to hide how flustered he made her feel.
Nerds are the biggest freaks.
The reminder crawled up to her head as Jake smiled. “I'm doing it with my girlfriend” Jisu blinks a few times, registering what he just said.
“Fake girlfriend” She stated nonchalantly as Jake brought his hands near her hand and squeezed it a little.
“No one needs to know” He said, kissing her cheek and pulling her out of the parking lot.
“Before you lash out, Heeseung, Jay and Sunghoon were looking at our way” Jake stated as they reached the entrance.
“But, do you know where the literature classroom is?” She asked as they stopped by their lockers. Coincidentally, their lockers were next to each other.
“It's on the third floor. There are multiple rooms there, so you can check it out. And all the classes of the literature department and the architecture department in this building by itself” He explained as Jisu blinked.
“Right, you're in the architecture department” She took out some notebooks, along with her pen pouch and shoved it in her book bag as Jake did the same.
He turned towards her and ruffled her hair. “See you later, butterfly” With that, he flew away to his class, leaving Jisu who was completely baffled.
'Sim Jaeyun is dating a fresher'
The news spread like wildfire around the campus. Jisu felt a little uncomfortable, getting all the glances in the corridors.
But what bothered her more was this sudden flirty behavior of Jake. He was someone, who's unapproachable. Scholar who never had a girlfriend and, untouchable.
And him, calling her nicknames and acting flirty, surely shook Jisu but, Yujin and Yunjin almost had a heart attack, seeing Jake's drastic change.
But Jisu told herself that, it was just an act, nothing else. They weren't supposed to fall for each other, as it's simply a contract.
Suddenly, Jake came near her and slid his hand around her and squeezed it, which snapped Jisu out of her daze. They took steps towards the cafeteria as they spotted their group, huddled around in one table.
Karina and Hanni notices them and wave a hand at them. To which, both Jake and Jisu started to walk towards them. The whole group froze as they approached them. Jake asked Sunghoon to scoot a little as he sat beside him with Jisu and Yunjin was sitting next to her.
Taking a quick scan, they saw Sooji on Renjun's lap. But Jisu didn't give a damn but met eyes with Heeseung who looked at them, suspiciously.
“Fish in the air” He stated, looking or more like piercing Jake's and Jisu's soul with his gaze.
“Why is it floating?” Jisu asked, faking innocence.
Jake was silent all along. He slowly wrapped his strong arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. Yunjin noticed that and poked Jisu on her knee, as Jisu poked her back.
“Number one, we saw you getting out of Jake's car, and he placed a fucking kiss on your forehead” Jay noted, sipping on his drink.
“Secondly, holding hands to class” Heeseung added, looking at the two.
“Thirdly, Jake's smiling too much, which isn't like him” Sunghoon finished as Karina chuckled.
“It's a great theory you got there, buddy” Ningning patted Jay's back, thinking that the boys were joking around.
Hanni blinked a few times, looking at the expression of the three boys. “I don't think they're joking” She said.
“It's not! Not, at least this time!” Sunghoon argued, happy that Hanni agreed.
“Does that mean—” Karina's eyes widen.
“That they are dating!” Yujin gasped. Her acting was too believable.
“What?” Collective gasps left their mouth as Jisu tried, so hard, not to laugh out loud.
But Jake watched Renjun who looked extremely baffled. He never thought that his best friend would date his ex.
“They fucking are! Look at Jake's fucking arm around her." Sunghoon almost shouted, over dramatically.
“Guys—” Jisu was cut off by Jake, pulled her hand up to his lips and kissing it.
“It's fine butterfly. They know it now, or else they'd snack on our brain” Jake smiled at her as Ningning banged her hand on the table. That caused Sooji to flinch on Renjun's lap.
The most quiet one was Hanni, who had a pretty smile on her face, seeing one of her best friends in a lovely relationship.
Yunjin and Yujin should burst her bubble.
“They guys are right. We're dating” Jake said, pulling Jisu into a side hug as the group started to mutter out stuff.
“For how long?” Yunjin asked as Jisu smiled.
“A week” Both Jake and Jisu spoke at the same time as they started to create chaos in the table.
Jisu leaned her head on Jake's chest as they were, either debating, arguing or cussing. Her eyes fell on her ex, whose face was slightly red, and his veins were popping out on his forehead.
Jake opened the door of his shared apartment and walked inside, closing the door shut.
He walked inside and saw, Renjun, sitting on the couch with his legs on the table in front of him with a beer bottle in his hand.
He came back after dropping Jisu off, but before, they stopped by a café to take some pictures to post it online.
“So, you're dating, huh?” Renjun asked, taking a sip out of the bottle. His face showed no expression as he stared at Jake.
Jake chuckled, knowing exactly where it was going as he met his eyes with Renjun. “Yeah. No one saw it coming” He gripped on his bag, tighter and sat on the couch, across him.
This caused Renjun to chuckle along, but it wasn't as hearty as Jake's. It ended with a scoff, almost. “I especially didn't saw it coming” It kind of sounded like a taunt.
“You don't really sound happy for me, dude” Jake stated in a teasing tone.
“Why do you think so?” Renjun was trying to keep his fake smile up, but was failing.
“Your smile, it isn't the one you always have” Jake pointed out, grabbing a water bottle from the table in front and taking a sip out of it.
“How can you fucking date her? She's my ex. What's up with the bro code?” Renjun snapped, making Jake hide a smirk.
“Why? Weren't you the one to dump her?” Jake asked, failing to hide his smirk but brushed it off, drinking the water.
“She's my fucking ex!” Renjun yelled, slamming the beer bottle on the table.
“She's your ex. But now, she isn't yours but, mine” Jake smiled, keeping the bottle on the table and standing up, proceeding to walk away.
“She never gave me her virginity, let alone her first kiss” Renjun yelled, making Jake turn at him. A bit surprised but masked it off.
“I'm definitely not with her for those shit. And yeah! Try to be happy for us, Jun. I don't want my butterfly to be upset because of you” Jake gave him his infamous eye smile before pacing towards his room, locking the door and dropping his body on the bed.
He himself didn't know why he was flirting with Jisu but, somehow, it felt right.
The feeling he was getting, being with Jisu was driving him crazy.
A week went by swiftly. Their friends group believed their relationship so much that they started to gush over them. Especially, Ningning and Karina.
If Yunjin and Yujin didn't know about this setting, they too would've gushed over them. But Hanni on the other hand was so happy.
You can tell that she's like those innocent bunnies which got happy or blushed in bare minimum.
And on this side, Jisu was distressed. All these girls on the campus came up to her and asked if she's really dating Jake or how cute they looked together.
And simultaneously, Jake and Renjun started to hit off in a bad way. Renjun would never speak to Jake normally after that confession session they had a week ago.
Both Jake and Jisu knew that everything was going smoothly. But will we call it a life if there's no hole in a plain road?
It was the end of the day as Jake was waiting for Jisu in his car. Soon, she got inside the car, closing the door shut.
“I'm—no, sorry. We're so doomed” Jisu said urgently, as Jake looked at her confused.
“What's wrong, butterfly?” He asked, concern latching in his tone. She secured the seat belt in the hook and brushed off her hair from her face.
“My mom came back from Canada yesterday. She's saying that I should make my boyfriend meet her. And she's too, like you know, close with the girls and Jay, so she'll probably blow off our cover” She sighed, looking at Jake for his reaction.
The man just smiled as he secured his sear belt. He looked far too calm for Jisu, who was freaking out.
“When is she expecting us?” Jake asked as Jisu's eyes widened and jaw dropped.
“You'll meet her?” Jisu gasped, looking at Jake as he nodded.
“If we can, we can meet her now” She said ask Jake gave her, his infamous eye smile and started to drive.
The drive was of 45 minutes as Jisu kept on giving Jake the directions and occasionally both of the swayed their head on the track, playing on the radio.
“By the way, have you finished reading King of Pride?” Jisu asked, as Jake glanced at her and then, looked back at the road.
“Just finished it today” He answered as Jisu took out a book out of her bag.
Ignite me by tahereh mafi.
“Never thought that you'll be a bookworm too” Jake smiled as he looked at the book which, Jisu kept back in her bag.
“Don't judge a book by its cover” Jake chuckled at Jisu's words. He said the exact thing that day, in the café. And she's saying that back. “We're here. Another thing” She started as Jake stopped the car, unbuckling the seat belt.
“An aunt is gonna be here. You know, mom's mutual friend. Just saying” She stated as he nodded, getting out of the car as he opened the car door for her.
To everyone on the campus, Jisu belonged from an average family. But they didn't know that she was from one of the richest families in Seoul. But Jake and Jay were richer than the Choi family.
They house was big and modest. Few plants by the driveway and big ones behind the house. The house was of two storeys.
Jisu and Jake were greeted by a maid as they walked inside. A collective gasps were heard as they turned to look at the main lounge area.
“Mom?” Jake asked, baffled.
“Mom? Wait, no. Aunt Miyeon is your mom?” Jisu blinked a few timed, registering the current situation.
“It was funny to see our kids, dating each other. It was, destiny” Jisu's mom, Minju exclaimed.
There's the thing, Minju, Jisu's mom and Miyeon, Jake's mom were childhood friends. Both Jake and Jisu knew each other's mom, but never knew each other.
“How's it, dating each other?” Miyeon asked as both Jake and Jisu sighed.
It's gonna be a long conversation.
@ heartsofpearls-en — 2023
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