Broken | Jaeyong

chapter 2

Taeyong lowered his head with a groan, picking up his walking pace as he heard the familiar approaching footsteps. No doubt it was Jaehyun. The boy has been on his heels for a week now trying to get his name, having given up trying to get his number.

He continued to hastily walk along the pathway. Trees ran along each side, glowing a bright shade of lime as the beating spring sun shun through the delicate leaves. His lectures had just ended for the day and he was walking back to his dorm. He thought that he'd finally be able to walk in peace for the first time in a week when he didn't feel Jaehyun's presence follow him out of the room, but apparently he was mistaken.

"Hey, baby boy." Jaehyun called out, picking up from his fast walk to a slow jog.

"Stop calling me that."

"Tell me your name then."

Taeyong turned pointedly on his heels. Jaehyun stopped dead in his tracks as the icy gaze of the smaller met with his.

"Just give up." He told him. "Haven't you got the hint yet?"

"No."

With a sigh, Taeyong turned back around and continued walking, Jaehyun quickly following behind. Taeyong's jaw clenched with annoyance as Jaehyun caught up with him, walking swiftly beside him.

"How about dinner then?" He proposed, looking down at the other searching for any expression. "You pick the time and date."

Taeyong continued walking in silence with a solid poker face.

"Any restaurant." Jaehyun told him. "I'll pay."

"You seem to have a lot of money." Taeyong spoke, gaze still on the path ahead. "You come to class in a suit every day, drive an expensive car, you don't even live in the dorm blocks. You must come from a rich family."

Jaehyun grinned boldly, "I knew you weren't ignoring me."

Taeyong let a subtle sigh leave his lips. Jaehyun almost didn't realise, but had caught the slight rising and falling of his tired shoulders.

"Fine, I'll stop the jokes I'm being completely serious." Jaehyun ran in front of the boy, walking backwards as he spoke, "You, me, dinner this week."

"I have to study." Taeyong stated, trying to walk around the other but failing as Jaehyun blocked his way. Taeyong stopped in his tracks and looked up at Jaehyun with brows furrowed in frustration. "Get out of the way."

"Please." Jaehyun's expression flooded with genuineness. It shocked Taeyong a bit as his own expression loosened at the sincereness the other was showing. "It doesn't have to be this week if it's not okay with you-"

"Tomorrow, at the small Japanese restaurant near the park. Pick me up at seven o'clock on the dot, if you don't, no dinner. Understood?"

Shallow dimples appeared on Jaehyun's spotless features as he smiled with open joy. Taeyong for the first time was seeing the adoring side of Jaehyun, the side that rarely appeared, that no one saw or knew about. The whole cocky rebellious fuckboy persona he wore all the time had seemed to never exist.

"Okay." Jaehyun nodded, moving out of Taeyong's way. "See you then. Seven o'clock at room?"

"Twenty-five."

"Room twenty-five." He repeated after the other, continuing to smile. Taeyong began to mirror his overwhelming smile, the action only making Jaehyun's heart swell with a radiating warmth. "See you then..." He said, waiting for the other to tell him his name. To finally put a beautiful name to his even more beautiful face.

Taeyong softly shook his head with an endearing smirk as his patted Jaehyun's shoulder, continuing to walk around him. "You'll have to wait big boy. Baby boy will do for now."

Jaehyun stood in his placed as he turned around and watched the other walk off. His smile only growing bigger as Taeyong waved at him, his back still facing Jaehyun.

Jaehyun cupped his mouth before projecting, "See you tomorrow at seven, baby boy."

Taeyong's shoulders faintly rose and fell as he walked down the path. Jaehyun knew it wasn't a sigh this time.

It was a laugh.