The nine of you continue with your meals while talking. Throughout dinner you realized that jaemin was sitting next to you, but he was oddly quiet.
Jaemin POV
"I'll be right back, I'm going to go to the restroom." Jumin said standing up out of her chair. As she went up my eyes followed her, I'm not sure why, but they did.
Shortly after she left I got a text. I looked at it, and was very confused.
4:07 p.m.
Jumin🌸
Hey Jaemin. Meet me by the bathrooms okay? I want to ask you something.
Me
Why?
Jumin🌸
Please just hurry. I "went to the bathroom" so they're gonna expect me to be back soon.
Me
Okay
"I'm actually gonna go to the bathroom too." I try to say nonchalantly, I think it worked.
I get up and speed walk to the bathrooms and see Jumin waiting for me. I walk up to her with a puzzled look.
"Are you okay?" She whispers looking at me concerned.
"Y-Yea, why?" I stutter. How does she know something is wrong?
"Jaemin..." She looks me in the eye sternly.
I let out a sigh and shake my head slightly. "I don't want to talk about it right now. Please"
"Okay, but can we talk about it later? I know it sucks to tell people, but it also sucks to keep it in."
I nod my head and let out a weak smile. "Okay."
"You go ahead and walk back. I'll be right behind you." She waves her hand gesturing for me to go.
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I get back to the table and Jumin is back after me. Everyone continues with their conversations, acting like we never left. Good.
"Alright, I'm stuffed." Mark said leaning back on his chair.
"Me too." Chenle pushes his empty plate.
Everyone continues to push their plates away and say they're full.
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The check comes and we all sit there awkwardly, seeing who is gonna pay.
"I got it." Jumin grabs the check.
"No Jumin, you don't even have a job right now. Let me get it." Haechan looks at her smiling.
"It's okay Haechan." She pulls out her wallet.
Before she gets the chance to get her card, I hand her mine.
She looks at me confused.
"Take it, I'll pay." I say smiling.
She looks at me, still confused, but slightly smiles. "You sure?"
I nod and put my card in the pocket of the check, and stand up to bring it to the waiter.
"Thank you." She says softly.
I smile at her and walk to the waiter to pay. It's the lest I could do.
Jumin's POV
"Thank you." I smile.
Jaemin walks away with the check to go pay, and I can't help but smile at his kindness.
Something is wrong, but he's still the sweet guy I used to hate...used to.
"Make sure to thank Jaemin for paying once he gets back. Okay?" I whisper as he starts walking back.
I pull out $20 to pay for myself. I can't just let him pay for everyone.
He comes back and smiles. "Okay, were good to go."
We all stand up and head out the door. As we walk out I nudge his arm with my elbow.
He looks at me, and raises an eyebrow. I hold the 20 in front of him waiting for him to take it.
"What's this for?" He laughs.
"My meal, I can't let you pay for me." I say pushing the 20 closer to him.
"No, no. Jumin it's fine, really. I can't let you pay for yourself when you've been so nice to me." He pushes the 20 back towards me.
"Jaemin please." I beg.
"No, if anything, I was more or less paying for you. I know you don't have a job right now so I wanted to help you out. Please, it's on me." He half smiles, half begs.
I let out a sigh. "Fine." I smile at his kindness.
"Thank you." He looks back up after looking down at me.
"Thank you." I say looking forward.
We reach the parking lot and I go to my car.
"Hey! Jumin! I'm gonna ride with Jeno now Okay? Can I just leave my bags in your car?" Haechan shouts already heading to Jeno's car.
"Yea." I shout back laughing.
"Shotgun!" Jaemin jokes running to my car.
"Aww come on!" Jisung whines.
I giggle to myself and unlock the car. Jaemin immediately opens the front door and sits down, and puts on his seatbelt.
Jisung gets in the chair behind Jaemin and buckles up. I start the car and start driving.
"Hey Jumin?" Jisung says softly over the quiet radio in the background.
"Yea?" I look quickly in the rearview window to see Jisung.
"Can you just drop me off at home? I gotta do some things before we start back at school on Monday."
"Yea no problem." I smile. I forgot school was already stating up again.
"Thanks." Jisung sits back and puts his earbuds in and goes on his phone.
I continue driving, with the soft sounds of the radio in the background filling the silence.
Jaemin looks out the window, somewhat frowning.
I look over at him. "You okay?"
He nods his head and continues to look out the window.
"I don't think Jisung can hear if you want to talk about it." I look back on the road. "Jisung?" I test to see if he can hear. No response.
I take one hand off of the wheel and pat Jaemin's knee to get his attention.
He looks over at me, and shrugs. "I don't know if I want to talk about it."
"You sure?" I put my hand back on the wheel.
He shrugs and puts his head on his hand, and looks out the window.
"You can talk Jaemin. It's okay. I'm here ready to talk if you are."
He sighs. "I-I just can't stop thinking about my mom, not wanting to me to come back home."
"Jaemin, If I know your mom at all, I know that she'll get over it sooner or later."
"I know she will, but I'm already 19, I'm graduating soon. And then I'll be going to college. And that means moving out. S-so I probably won't be living with my mom ever again."
"Why don't you want leave?"
"I don't know. I guess I just really miss her." His frown deepens.
"Jaemin. Why don't you talk to her?"
"Because, I-I'm scared to."
"Why are you scared?"
"Because, the reason we fought was why she might never want me to come home."
"Can I ask what you fought about?"
He takes a deep breath. "I'd rather not say."
"Okay. That's fine. But why don't you try?"
"I don't know."
"You should try before school starts up again. Just so you know what's really gonna happen, and you don't have to worry about it in school."
He nods and leans back on the chair. "I guess."
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We continue to listen to the soft sounds from the radio and not talk. It wasn't exactly pleasant, but it wasn't awkward.
We reached Town and Jisung pulls out his earbuds.
"Hey Jumin, Jaemin?"
"Yea?" Jaemin and I say together.
"You guys can come and visit for a bit if you want. My mom is always saying that she misses having you guys over, and doesn't exactly love me leaving all the time to see you guys. She'd probably appreciate it." Jisung says wrapping his earbuds around his phone.
I look over at Jaemin and see if he wants to. He looks a little too upset to visit right now.
"Uhm, sorry Jisung. But I don't think it'll work. I've gotta feed Pip and like you said, I've got to do quite a bit before school starts up, I'm sure Jaemin does too."
"Okay. That's fine. I was just asking for her." He slightly giggles.
We reach Jisung's neighborhood and pull in his driveway.
"You got all your stuff?" I ask looking back at him.
"I think so." He opens his door. "Thank you for having me over and driving me, and taking me along."
"No problem Jisung. See you at school." I wave.
"Bye Jumin. Bye Jaemin." He smiles and shuts the door.
He walks to his door and I pull out of the driveway.
"You sure you're okay?" I say. I feel really bad for whatever his mom is mad at him for.
He nods and looks back out the window.
"I don't think everyone will be home until a little later." I say filling the silence. "Jeno is gonna drive everyone else home, then I think Haechan and Yunnie and are gonna go with him to get some groceries."
"Okay."
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I pull in the driveway and we both unbuckle our seatbelts and step out to get our bags.
We both go to the front door with our arms full of bags from shopping at the mall. I grab the key from my pocket and unlock the door. At least, I try to.
Jaemin holds out his free hand, so I gave him my key. He unlocks the door and gives me my key back. He opened the door and holds it open for me.
"Thank you." I smile.
He walks in behind me closing the door behind him. Pip immediately comes running up to me and rubs against my legs.
"Yes, hi Pip." I giggle.
I hear Jaemin giggle a tiny bit, I face forward away from him and smile. It's good to hear him laugh.
I take my shoes off and walk into the living room and put my bags down on the couch. I check my phone and see a text from Yunnie.
5:34 p.m.
Yun🖤
Hey Jumin. Jeno Haechan and I are dropping Mark and Renjun off still but we're gonna go shopping later. If you need anything let us know, we can get if for ya.
Me
I think I'm good. Let me ask Jaemin.
5:35 p.m.
Me
Nope. We're good. 🙂
Yun🖤
Okay. We'll probably be home around 7-7:30
Me
Okay
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"Alright, Jaemin. I think I'm going to feed Pip, then I'm going to just hang out. You need anything?" I say putting my phone down on the couch.
"I think I'm okay." He sits down on the couch. "I'm just gonna take the tags off, and sort my clothes."
"Okay, I'm gonna go that once I'm done feeding Pip. You want me to bring you scissors?"
"Sure. Thanks."
"No problem." I smile.
I go to feed Pip and of course, he's following me everywhere I go. Man I love this cat. I grab two scissors and walk back to the living room.
"Here ya go." I smile handing Jaemin the pair of scissors.
"Thank you." He gives me a fake smile.
I wonder what's really wrong? Is he okay?
A/N-And that's it! Sorry I haven't updated in a couple of days. I've been pretty busy. But I think I'm good for now!
Question-Why do you think Jaemin is so upset? Is he okay?
Well, I'd answer, but I'd give everything away so I'm not gonna do that 😂