Chapter 27

Jae

“I can’t believe it,” I say breathlessly, lying with my hands over my eyes.

“What?” Sunggyu says, next to me he sits up to look at me. His voice brings a new warmth to my skin along with the once currently radiating from his body next to mine. “What’s wrong?” I shake my head, dropping my hands to turn and look at him. I wrap my arms around his back and look up at him.

He’s perfect. He looks back at me with his small eyes, full of worry and warmth. His skin is soft against mine, his hair is tousled and messy, and his arm rests under my head. The only confirmation that what just happened wasn’t my dirty imagination is that neither of us is wearing clothes and as I look at him, I can only smile. “What?” he says again, assured by my smile and returning one of his own. He brushes back my hair and touches my face. I shake my head again; saying this feels like a dream would be way too cliché. “I think I know,” he says smiling and gently brings us closer. I shiver as he envelopes me and kisses my head. I wait for his guess; wondering if he’ll even come close to what I’m thinking about. “You love me,” he says and I can’t help but laugh. It almost sounds like a question but it’s completely right. I nod first, closing my eyes against his skin.

“I love you,” I say, looking up into his warm eyes. They almost shut when he smiles back at me, just the way I love and he kisses my forehead gently.

“I love you,” he repeats.

I didn’t know that hearing those words could make me want to cry, but they did. I’d heard them so many times when they spoke to their fans; so many times I smiled at a computer screen thinking he was saying that to me. It actually is for me, I think squeezing my eyes shut so I don’t actually cry.  

We lay there for a couple minutes, listening to the sounds outside and our heartbeats inside. Sunggyu eventually slides out of the bed and puts on his clothes; laughing at me embarrassedly as I watch him. I feel an embarrassed blush coming to my face, but I don’t look away. My minds void of any thought besides what he said to me and how perfect he is. Then he suddenly pulls me out after him. I manage to cling to the covers as he presses our bodies together.

“Doesn’t matter anymore,” he says, smiling mischievously and slipping his hand round my . “I’ve already seen everything. You could walk around if you really wanted.”

“Oh really?” I ask him with raised eyebrows. “Could I?”

“I won’t stop you if that’s what you wish,” he replied with a falsely innocent expression. I stick my tongue out at him; covering up anyway and shoving him out the door for good measure. I throw on shorts and a tank top and go back out to living room where he’s waiting for me on the couch. I lean against the archway, watching him for a moment. All I want to do is watch him. He opens his arms for me when he notices me, eyes not moving from the TV he switched. I sit down on the opposite side of the couch, still watching him. He turns to frown at me, drops his arms and then nods to the screen.

“Saela’s going to be on live after this commercial,” he says, immediately getting my attention.

“Really?” I ask, now my eyes focused on the TV. I hear him chuckle and then move across the couch to put his arm around me. I smile a little, still watching the screen and waiting patiently. The commercial ends and the talk show is shown. The host welcomes everyone back and introduces the guest of the day.

“I’m sure that all of you have heard about the latest Idol scandal,” she says, nodding at the crowds affirmative noises. “So here to help us all understand what’s really going on, we have one half of SaeHyun, Saela!” The camera pans to where she walks in, smiling confidently and waving as she meets with the host and takes her seat. “Saela, thank you for coming on the show today. I think that everyone is very curious about what you have to say regarding the SaeHyun scandal.”

“I’m here to speak honestly to everyone,” she nods. I see that she sits tensely and I want to be with her. I sit up straighter, hoping she can feel my support from here. I know it’s stupid, but I want to help. I suddenly realize how lucky I am to be sitting here with Sunggyu without a huge problem on my hands. Turning quickly, I place a kiss on Sunggyu’s temple before turning back to the TV. I feel his questioning eyes on me for a moment before he chuckles and return the kiss.

“Please tell us anything you wish for us to know,” the host says, watching Saela as intently as everyone in the crowd. I’m sure that the host is as curious as everyone else. Plus it’s the host’s job to get new and interesting information out of Saela to get publicity for the show.

“Well first off,” Saela starts, taking a deep breath, “I want everyone to know that Woohyun and I are not dating currently and we haven’t ever dated in the past. I really can’t predict what’s going to happen in the future, but I wanted everyone to know that we are not sneaking around or anything- right now.” She adds in her “right now” a little late and the host laughs pleasantly.

“We all know Woohyun’s feelings towards you,” she says, and Saela bites her lip a little. She nods slowly before the host continues. “He was very straightforward at the press conference. So I think everyone wants to know what your feelings are towards him. Are you considering anything, right now?” The audience laughs a little at the host’s joke and then quiets quickly, anticipating Saela’s response as much as I am. We hadn’t talked about what was going on in her head in a while. She usually tells me when she’s ready.

“Woohyun and I,” she starts cautiously, “We are both very conscious of each other and of our decisions impact. He has Infinite and the Inspirits to think about and I have Jae and my Dragon Flies to take into account. We don’t want to hurt each other or anyone else with our actions, but we also realize that it’s impossible to make everyone happy. It’s kind of a mess,” she chuckles a bit.

“You didn’t answer my question,” the host reminds her gently and Saela blushes.

“All I’ll say is that he is very special to me,” she says and the audience makes an oohing noises. She laughs a little, looking out at them. “And that I am conscious of my feelings now. It was never as one sided as he thought it was. I was just good at fighting it.” The oohing is louder this time and she looks down, laughing at herself.

“So you two dating is a possibility?” the host prompts once the crowd quiets.

“Since we’ve already realized that we can’t make everyone happy,” she says, seeming to regain a little bit of confidence, “I’ve decided to take my own advice from my favorite song on our new album. Since I wrote it along with Woohyun, I feel that it’s best that both of us do dive into this situation with our own happiness in our hearts as first. I hope that everyone can understand our sincere hope that none of this affects the movie negatively, but I’m going to try and do what I really want.” The host and the crowd both make approving noises. I want to jump up and scream because none of them look anything but supportive and understanding. I smile over at Sunggyu who smiles back brightly, small eyes and all. I want to jump him right there since my emotions are going wild, but Saela is a little more important right now.

“Are you going to perform it for us?” the host asks and Saela nods. The crowd claps and the camera pans to a white grand piano that is rolled out on the stage. She walks over, smiling at the audience. Saela takes her seat on the bench and she seems confident again. I realize I’m still beaming as I watch her, but I don’t really care.

“This is my first live and acoustic performance of ‘Dive In’,” she says into the mounted mic. “I hope you enjoy it.” She begins, the camera shows the fluid movement of her fingers across the keys, and the relaxed focus on her face. She begins to sing and Sunggyu sways, his arm bringing me with him. I snicker and shake my head at his cheesiness but I join in. We both sing along quietly, watching her. She looks like she really believes in the lyrics she’s singing and I feel stinging in my eyes when she finishes my part with a smile at the camera. She’s singing for Sunggyu and I too, I realize and remind myself to hug her when she gets home and tell her how much I love her. Because I really do.

When the bridge begins, her smile widens and she closes her eyes in happiness; probably thinking of the person who helped her write those perfect lyrics. Just then a second voice, throaty and beautiful, joins in on the harmony. Her eyes flash open as the camera pans to look at Woohyun entering form the other side of the stage. She keeps singing and playing, but now her eyes are locked on his and her smile is wider and her voice more confident. She plays around with the last chorus, riffing over the top of Woohyun’s harmonies. He reaches the piano, smiling at her, and sits down next to her on the bench. As she plays the last chord, leaning into it and smiling at Woohyun, the crowd is already clapping and cheering. She releases it and they hug each other, the crowds noise increasing.

“What a touching performance!” the host says, joining them in the screen. “We’ll be back after the break to discuss with both of them their plans for the future and talk about their new movie!” As the crowd cheers, it pans across them. Sunggyu and I watch the people, and I see that all of them look content with the outcome. Even the fans are watching with happy tears in their eyes; not hate or anger in their teary eyes. The last shot before commercial is Saela and Woohyun, their arms around each other as they face the crowd, smiling, bowing and waving thankfully.

“Do you think they’ll be ok?” I ask Sunggyu as it goes to commercial. “The fans…” I tapper off, looking at him instead of saying what I’m thinking. There were only so many people in that broadcasting room. Plus they could have been told to react that way. My mind goes crazy with possibilities of fan recoil. He smiles and messes up my hair.

“They’ll be ok,” he says. “We’ll all pull through.”

“Why are you saying ‘we’?” I ask suspiciously, looking at him with narrows eyes. “Why’d you bring us into this?”

“Because we’re just like them,” he laughs. “I’m just not as stupid as Woohyun because I don’t advertise everything. And you’re kinda like Saela, but more contained. Much more contained,” he laughs again and I know we’re remembering her punching Woohyun in the face. “At least violence wise you’re contained,” he adds, a teasing smile on his face.

“What are you talking about?” I ask innocently. “What else would I have to contain?”

“You know,” he says, kissing my neck and succeeding in making me shiver. I can only gasp when he pulls me onto his lap.

“But I’m only 18,” I say as an innocent excuse and he winces this time instead of me. That’s my revenge, I think as he slowly lets go of me, but I’m done now. I laugh and put my hands on both sides of his face. “It’s ok,” I tell him, squishing his face because he’s just so damn cute. He laughs, pulling my hands off his face and kissing the backs of them.

“Everything is going to be ok,” he nods, putting my hands around his neck.

“Everything,” I repeat and smile at him. He smiles back, abandoning my hands and kissing me gently. “Better than ok,” I revise my statement when he pulls back a little. He chuckles and comes back to me again. “Amazing,” I whisper as his arms snake around my waist and he smiles against my mouth. Moving genlty and slowly, sunggyu lays me down on he couch under him. "Perfect," I revise for the last time. Because that was an accurate description of what it felt like. 

“I love you,” he whispers, his words submerging me all over again in the most pleasant warmth I’ve ever felt. I never want that warmth to go away, and right in this moment, I feel like it never will. 

            That's the last JaeGyu chapter everybody!! 

The last chapters will be a prologue of sorts from Saela's POV so please look forward to it soon ^-^ 

Thank you for reading it!!! 

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