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07 | one step back

07. ONE STEP BACK

— JAY'S POV

The revision night with Anais turns out to be a horror scene for Jay when Heeseung decided to make a surprise arrival at her apartment. Who would've thought he'd make a fool out of himself by hiding and holding his breath quietly inside the closet. Five minutes in, there was still no signs of Heeseung leaving the property yet their conversation echoed from the outside of her room.

"Are we really over, babe? You really don't love me anymore, do you?". Jay heard Heeseung in a pleading tone of his voice as smooching sound emits right after.

'That's it. He kissed her again' Jay mumbes to himself in disbelief. He continues to eavesdrop their conversation even more although the fact it hurts him deeply inside.

"I don't know Heeseung. You tell me about it"

"If you ask me about it, I am in fact, still in love with you, Anais"

"Why don't we fix us now huh?"

"Yes, let's fix it".

Ten minutes have finally flown away, the conversation between Anais and Heeseung is layered by their heated kissing session in between them as if they are craving and suffering from each other's absence. Jay, on the other hand, feels this waves of disappointment and betrayal crashes all over him and it suddenly hits a realisation on him about the whole things for Anais— his pure feelings for her, the friendship he just builds with her. What was he expecting for exactly? Being stuck in her closet while having to find out that Heeseung and Anais are making out on their revision night was never on his bingo list.

He pokes the side of his inner cheeks with his tongue in annoyance. His patience is gradually wearing thin but to crash out of this room will never be the good idea to begin with. His breath gets heavier as he gasps desperately more for air. He wants this to stop. He wants both of them to puts their action at halt but he jolts in his own position when the door was being slammed open by the attached bodies of those couple. Heeseung pushes Anais rapturously on the bed while his hands are busy discarding the shirt off his body.

The moment Jay peeks through a hole, he immediately turns away from the unwanted sight of them. 'Great. Now they're about to have sex' Jay thought to himself while making a minimal movements and noises as he possibly could. The closet has a small space enough for his huge, gigantic figure, causing him to toss and turn. The sound from the outside just grows louder than ever— those smooching sound that emitted, the moaning that they swallowed, the giggles that escaped through their teeth.

It feels as though Jay is interrupting the biggest intimate moments between those two which resulted him to shut his eyes and brain tight so this can be over sooner. Before Heeseung could even dig himself further into Anais, the female eventually pulls herself away in disbelief and demands him to pause, "I am sorry babe. I can't do it tonight. My little brother is coming back in any minute and I am afraid we're going to freak him out" she hovers under him.

"Alright. We should stop and resume tomorrow at my place" Heeseung replies quietly, ebbing away his touch from her body. The male grabs his piece of cloth on the floor and snuggle into it. Before he leaves the place, Heeseung pulls Anais for a final shot of kiss and muttering his I love you to the girl. And just like that, the night culminated with a horror sigh that leaves Anais' lips as soon as she's watching Heeseung walking away from her apartment.

"Jay, come on out. . ." Anais commands. She stands there in her living room awkwardly when her eyes are meeting with Jay's. "—I know it's probably something that you didn't expect while you're here. I wasn't expecting for Heeseung to come—"

"That's okay, Anais. You don't owe me any explanation. I get it. He's your boyfriend after all. You guys should make up as how you used to" Jay states as he's looking away from the subject. He is still trying to process what just happened for the past 20 minutes. Unknowingly, his hand is already collecting for the stuffs in the living room.

"Jay, I am very, very sorry okay?" she pleads.

Jay nods and pats her shoulder softly, "That's alright, Anais. Atleast we had an hour session of this whole revision thingy. Thank you for inviting me over".

"We should definitely do this again next time"

"Sure thing! It's also kinda late now. I've got to catch the last bus too. So take care?" he reassures.

"Yup, you too. Take care on your way back".

𖦹彡

Since the mid-term season is around the corner, Jay would find some time to be away from his friends to have a solo revision at the library. He's very sure of it if he's studying with his friends, he'd up playing around more rather than studying for the test. Jay is very meticulous with his grades and constantly excelling every subject in his class, therefore, taking some time off to study by himself is extremely important to him. While he makes his way to the library, he was stopped by an unexpected figure that he didn't wish to meet or see. It is someone that he loathes; Lee Heeseung.

"Don't you think we should have some talk, dude?" Heeseung aggressively pulls Jay's shoulder in a strong grip. As much as Jay wants to ignore this dimwit at all cost, the words still manage to escape through his gritted teeth. "We don't have anything to talk about".

With a rage tone, Heeseung's strong grips immediately latches onto the collar of Jay's shirt, strangling him by the neck "You sure you have nothing to say about my girlfriend?". Jay could notice the veins on his skin pops off as he snaps further, "Did you fuck her?!". Jay pushes the arms away frantically but before he knows it, a strong formed fist is hitting at the corner of his lips.

"What are you talking about man?" Jay jerks away before Heeseung could react more recklessly.

"Did you manage to fuck Anais?" Heeseung stares deadly into his eyes before he sighs.

"I have no idea why are you asking me this. There's nothing going on between me and her!" Jay's voice enraged as he explains.

"Then what happened that night at her house? What were you doing there? I saw you left her apartment dude"

"We were studying, fuckass! Nothing more!"

The statement almost made Heeseung trails off a giggle, "Studying. . ?" He pokes the inner side of his cheeks with his tongue annoyingly. "Next time, stay the fuck away from her. I don't want to see my girlfriend near you, ever again. You know the consequences of it if you do it again next time" Heeseung walks off with a warn that pangs across Jay's face. Jay hisses slightly when his finger traces on top of his mouth. He scrapes his skin a little after the punch earlier.

With all this unexpected incident happening, he cancels his plans to study and makes his way back to his home to clean off the bruise and wound. Luckily, his parents aren't around for the week or else he will be damned to be interrogated with endless questions about what just happened. Guess that's that. Now that Anais and Heeseung are finally back together, he should take a step back from her like before.

As much as he adores her, he'd lost his place with Lee Heeseung for sure. Though cutting her off as friends will be a tough decision, but for the sake of not ruining other people's love affair, he should definitely be away from Anais Kim from now on.

THE END OF CHAPTER