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60. taeyong and jaehyun [fluff?/angst?]

"Don't you think it's time get yourself a girlfriend? Or a boyfriend  maybe?" His mom asked while wiggling her eyebrows at her son. As she asked him this question, he choked on the food he had in his mouth.

After he gulped down a glas of water, he could finally breath normally again.

"I don't have time for that, mom." He said. The boy had enrolled in medical school. He had so much homework and classes to attend, it wouldn't surprise him if he had developed some sort of insomnia.

"Oh come on, Yong. You have to make time for love if you really want it. And besides, what about Jaehyun? He's a nice boy." His mom put another scoop of vegetables on his plate before picking up her chopsticks again.

"No, mom. He's my best friend."

-

"Aloha Jaehyun! Ready for the beach?" Taeyong and Yuta stood on the porch of the boy who lived in America for four years. Both had their swimming trunks on already and covered their upperbody with a simple shirt, they had their towel was tugged under their arm.

Taeyong had packed his stuff the night before and dubble checked everything in his bag since he was really looking forward to this day. Jaehyun on the other hand was still running around the house a second before Taeyong knocked on his door, searching for his sunglasses. 

"Hey guys. Yeah, almost ready, I lost my sunglasses." Jaehyun opened the different drawers but didn't find what he was looking for. Yuta and Taeyong looked at each other with wide grins on their faces. It was a silly sight, a boy searching for something he already wore.

"Jaehyun?" Taeyong called out, hoping the other boy would spare him a look. 

"Yeah?" Instead of looking at his friend, he continued to make a mess in his house, still not finding his shades. 

"Jaehyun?" Taeyong called him again but this time he didn't wait for the boy to look at him, instead, he immediately pointed to where his sunglasses were. 

"What- oh. Thanks, Yong." Taeyong had pointed to Jaehyun, more specifically, his hair. Jaehyun felt patted his own head since he didn't know what his friend meant by the gesture, when he felt a certain object sitting on top of his head, he wanted to die of embarrassment already.

Jaehyun took the sunglasses from his head and folded them so it could hang of his shirt. "Let's go, the hot girls on the beach are waiting for me." Jaehyun bragged. He was known as the biggest flirt in their high school, but ironically enough, Jaehyun had never had a girlfriend.

"Please keep it in your pants this time, Romeo." Yuta commented as he swung his arm around Jaehyun's shoulders while they walked to Yuta's jeep.

"No promises." Jaehyun answered, raising his hand in the air. 

-

After a whole five hours of swimming, playing volleybal and sunbathing, Yuta had to return home after he got a phone call. Jaehyun and Taeyong both didn't really know why he had to leave so suddenly and when they asked they only heard Yuta mumble something about Sicheng.

Packing his stuff and heading back to his jeep, Taeyong and Jaehyun were left alone at the beach. 

As if the Gods from above heard Jaehyun's pray, there were a lot of hot girls in bikinis waiting for him. Even before Yuta left, a bunch of girls from different cliques stopped by to give them the attention they was waiting for. 

They stuck to Jaehyun like glue and swarmed around Yuta like bees. 

And as if on cue, another girl came by and tried to seductively blink her eyes at Taeyong's friend. Knowing he shouldn't be a third wheel, Taeyong told Jaehyun he would return to their spot which now got a nice golden afternoon sun.

"I'll join you soon, Yong!" Jaehyun yelled after him but he was unsure if Taeyong heard him. After that, he turned back to the girl in front of him again. 

"So, is he someone special?" The girl asked, wanting to know if she even had a chance with this Greek God in front of her.

"Yeah, well no, yes but not in that way," Jaehyun scratched the back of his head when he heard himself babble. "He's my best friend, he's the best of all best friends." 

"Off limit." The girl told herself when she saw the tips of the boy's ears turn red. "Keep your hands to yourself, Heejin." 

"My friend and I are going to buy some ice cream, wanna join too? You could get some for your friend." Heejin offered. Jaehyun was hesitating, he knew how much Taeyong loved ice cream, but on the other hand, he didn't want to come off as a friend who would ditch a friend for a girl. 

But he was going to get him ice cream anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal. Right? 

Heejin felt Jaehyun's inner conflict and decided for him.

"Come, I'm sure he would love some ice cream." The girl nudged Jaehyun gently before walking out of the sea and heading to her friend. 

Taeyong, who was reading the book he brought, saw Jaehyun leave in the corner of his eye, with a girl. 

"He wouldn't, right?" Taeyong asked himself. He tried to convince himself Jaehyun would never take off with a girl without at least telling him first. He still followed the pair with his eyes but when he saw them stopping at the ice cream stall, he felt a sting in his heart. 

"He wouldn't, would he?" Unconsiously, Taeyong closed his book and started packing his bag. Ocasionally he averted his eyes, but the only thing he saw was Jaehyun along with some girls talking and laughing.

"He never would." Taeyong said to himself sternly but before he knew it, he was already on his way to the nearest bus stop with tears on the birms of his eyes.

-

"Hey Jaehyun, don't you have to go back to your friend?" Heejin asked when she saw he finished his ice cream already. 

"Right!" Jaehyun turned to the man. "Can I have a scoop of chocolate ice cream in a cup please and a cone on the side?" He may have requested something weird but he remembered how much the other hated his waffle cone getting soggy.

After saying his goodbyes to his new friends, Jaehyun almost ran back to where he last saw Taeyong. But to his surprise he only saw his own stuff there, it almost seemed like Taeyong was never there with him. 

And there he stood, with a cup of chocolate ice cream, Taeyong's favorite, and a waffle cone in his hands, looking completely lost as to where his friend was.

"Yong?" 

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18.12.2020

lockdown 2.0 started ,,,, fuck