17

F i f t e e n

J quickly changed out of her wet clothes and put on dry ones. She went downstairs to where coups was waiting and they headed out.

"Are we all going shopping together?" Vernon asked.

"No!" Coups abruptly let out. "I-I mean, me and J have some things to discuss, we'll be back in no time!"

He left first and J was right behind him. She laid down in the back seat of his car but quickly got up when she saw rowoon and wonho opening the doors for them to leave. She stuck her tongue out at rowoon and laid back down.

"I think I figured it out." Coups began, his eyes fixed on the road.

"What?" J mumbled.

"I think I like chan. Like really him." Coups voice had gone a little soft.

"What?" J was now up and sitting in the middle staring up at coups.

"At camp, when he was with felix, I didn't realize how much I truly missed him. Even now or just on normal days where I don't see him, I wish I was with him. I just want- ugh I don't know. Why is this so difficult?" He sounded frustrated.

"It's okay, it's okay." J repeated. "At least you've come this far. You're finally realizing your feelings ya know?"

"Yeah but what if he doesn't feel the same way, he probably sees me as a ruthless gang leader and nothing more." Coups sighed a little.

"Not true. Chan isn't like that. He's different from everyone else. Trust me." J reassured. "I think you guys need to spend more time together."

"I asked him to hang out this weekend, he said yes so that's a good sign right?" He was still looking straight ahead.

Yes! That's really great. You just have to get closer to him and it'll get better from their!" J smiled.

They got out of the car and J realized they were in front of a huge fancy clothing store.

"Find whatever you'd like and just grab." Coups started walking in.

J walked in behind him and she recognized many of the brands since her dad would always buy her name brand clothes. She was still walking around when coups came back with a handful of clothes. He handed them to the lady on the counter who just looked at him in awe. J grabbed a couple of nice and fancy outing outfits and gave them to the lady as well. She didn't grab a lot and coups made up for it by grabbing triple as much clothes as J would.

"Hey hey. I don't need that much." J whispered.

"Yes you do. We're going to be going out a lot and these will all suite you really nicely." Coups shook her off.

They checked out and it was more than she would've thought but coups didn't even look paused and just swiped his card. There were about 6 bags in total from that one store.

"Alright. Let's go home." J said trying to juggle all the bags ok both hands.

"Uh no. We're already out so let's just get everything you need." Coups sassed.

"This is all I need?" J stopped walking.

"Theres a makeup store around here somewhere." Coups trailed off still walking.

"I don't wear makeup, genius." J was now almost falling over.

"You will. Just trust me, it's nice to sometimes." Coups noticed and went to take the bags from her hands.

They walked into the makeup store and it was so pretty J stood there with her eyes wide for a second before coups dragged her to look for makeup. He put things in the bag that she'd never seen before. She got a new lip tint that was kind of a dark red and a new perfume. Everything else like foundation and mascara, coups grabbed.