cured - im jaebum [sequel]

five

jaebum fell to the floor with a thud. 

subin scattered out of the bed, completely forgetting about the fact that she was only in her underwear. her boyfriend looked like he was ready to pass out at any second. he was pale and he was in a cold sweat.

"jaebum? what's wrong?" subin tried her best to sound calm, but a slight waver in her voice told another story.

instead of using his words like subin wanted him to, jaebum just shoved his phone in her face. without looking at the contact, subin put the phone up to her ear.

"hello?"

"put jaebum back on the phone please, it's urgent," a familiar voice said, making subin's blood boil. she really, really hoped that her memory was fuzzy, and that it wasn't who she thought it was. but, as she pulled the phone away to look at the caller id, the name she expected was on the screen.

"areum, what do you want?"

"i want jaebum to listen to me," she said. subin put her on speaker. jaebum was spaced out, staring into nothingness as his current girlfriend and ex psycho girlfriend talked.

"he can hear you, say what you want."

"i want him to pay child support," she said firmly. 

jaebum, for the first time since collapsing, made a move for his phone. subin, handed it to him. "i am not paying child support for a child that isn't mine, areum. whoever the father is, have him do it."

"but i want you to pay for it, jaebum. you have the money. you certainly won't miss a couple thousand a month," areum said. subin rolled her eyes so hard, she saw her brain.

"oh yeah? well i refuse, areum, what do you say about that?" jaebum asked, crossing his arms like he was satisfied with his comeback. subin shook her head in disbelief at the whole situation.

"i'll leak your identity to the public."

both subin and jaebum blinked at each other.

"you'll what now?"

"i'll tell all of the popular tabloids that i know who defsoul is. i have all of the evidence too, jaebum. i know how much you like your privacy, but you can say goodbye to all of that if you refuse."

"do you really think he'll agree to this bullshit just so his identity won't get leaked?" subin scoffed at the girl over the phone, believing that jaebum thought this was all ridiculous and stupid too. but when she looked at her boyfriend's face, she saw the confliction in his eyes.

"yes, i do. you may be dating him now, but so did i. like it or not, i know what he's like subin," areum said, making subin roll her eyes.

she didn't know what she hated more; areum rubbing it in her face that she had dated jaebum prior, or the fact that she was trying to say that she knew jaebum better. subin met jaebum in rehab for fuck's sake. everything about him was public knowledge in there.

"areum," jaebum said, and subin doubted the fact that it was his voice coming out of his mouth. it was quiet, meek, and broken. one look at him and subin knew that jaebum was done. he didn't want to deal with this at all; why oh why couldn't he have dated a normal girl that wouldn't do crazy shit? "why are you doing this?"

subin repositioned herself so that jaebum could rest against her, and he did, putting his forehead against her shoulder as she wrapped an arm around him.

"easy. you have money, i don't. i can manipulate you into giving it to me. you have a month to decide what you're going to do. if you don't get back to me before then, i'll leak your information anyway. goodbye."

after areum hung up, subin tossed the phone back on the bed. she used her now free hand to rake her fingers through jaebum's damaged hair. jaebum's strong arms were wrapped around subin's waist, perfectly happy and content with being the little spoon for once.

"i'm so sorry this is happening, jaebum," subin whispered, pressing a soft kiss to his forehead.

nuzzling further into her, jaebum shook his head, "no, i'm sorry. if i hadn't dated a complete sociopath, we wouldn't have to go through this. but i guess that's what makes this okay, right? that we're going through this together?"

"of course. i'll be here the whole time."

the room was quiet as their cat, decidedly named 'no-name' since neither of them could settle on a name, padded his way in. he sensed jaebum's poor mood as he rubbing his head on jaebum's hand. jaebum let out a small laugh as he petted no-name.

"no-name will be here the whole time, too," subin lightly joked, making jaebum start to giggle for an unknown reason. his laughter made subin laugh too, and soon they were folded over each other, trying to get a grip on their emotions.

"i love you," jaebum said when their laughter died down. "you know that, right?"

subin looked at her boyfriend, a blissful smile still on her face and jaebum wanted to live in that moment. he hated that he had to drag her into this mess that areum created, but he also knew that she wouldn't leave no matter what. he felt like shit, and the last thing that he wanted was for subin to feel the way he was feeling.

"jaebum," subin said, cupping his face in both of her hands, pressing a peck on the tip of his nose. "of course, why?"

jaebum shook his head, "i just want you to know that i love you a lot. areum will probably try to pull something to make it seem like i don't love you, but i do. i love you so much. i love you-"

"you can shut up now, jaebum. i get it," subin laughed, squeezing his lips shut with her fingers.

they stayed cuddled up on the floor for a little bit until reality set in.

"subin?"

"yeah?"

"do you think we should get off the floor now?"

"probably. and maybe put on some clothes."

"or maybe not."

"shut up, jaebum."

~

so areum makes her return and she's as big of a fuck as ever!

these past two chapters literally went from smut to angst to fluff omg i told yall it would be a rollercoaster!!!!!!!!!

the angst doesn't end here tho srry bros