"it feels lonely without yuyu's presence" sunghoon sighed to jake who was across the lunch table from him

"i didn't realize how much she brighten up the mood" jake responded and sunghoon agreed with him

usually the three would eat together but yuna wasn't going to be there for the next week or so, so now it was just going to be the 2 boys. 

to be honest, jake and sunghoon had 2 other friends within the school but one of them was a 3rd year so he didn't have the same lunch schedule and the other one was one year younger than them so his lunch schedule was also different from the two who were 2nd years.

"so since yuna isn't here" sunghoon began as he leaned towards jake, "you like her right?"

jake rolled his eyes and shook his head, chucking afterwards,"we are just good friends sunghoon. just like you and her"

"me and yuna are good friends..true" sunghoon agreed but shook his head, "but there's something between you two! i swear. you treat everyone nicely but when it comes to yuyu, you treat her just a little bit differently"

"so you can notice how i act towards people but can't pass a test?" jake tilted his head at the boy

"this is different, don't start coming at me" sunghoon pointed his chopsticks at jake

"we've known yuna for a long time-"

sunghoon cut off jake, "yes which is why you guys should be dating already"

jake ignored the boy and continued his sentence, "but i could never see yuna as more than a friend. even if i did like her" sunghoon looked at him with hopeful eyes, "which i don't" sunghoon sighed, "she probably doesn't even want to bother with a boyfriend right now"

"how would you know?"

"i don't know" he shrugged, "just a feeling"

'definitely a wrong feeling' sunghoon thought

"but either way. i'm not ready for a girlfriend nor am i looking for one. im too busy that i wouldn't have time. i barely have time to see you guys let alone a girlfriend" jake explained

"come on" sunghoon kept trying to convince him, "there haven't been any instances where yuna just makes your heart race? where you've felt flustered with her"

jake couldn't lie; there were moments where yuna did make him flustered

♤

jake and yuna sat on the field during lunch waiting for sunghoon to come back from his makeup test since he missed it due to his ice skating competition.

"hey! look at this girl" yuna showed her phone to jake, an instagram page on her screen, "she's so pretty! you know her right?"

jake looked at her phone, and looked at the username, "karina?" yuna nodded, "she's in 3rd year and friends with minjeong who's in student council"

"she's so pretty" yuna smiled and looked back at him, "minjeong-oh! winter?" he nodded, "minjeong looks pretty in short hair! they're both pretty"

jake just laughed, "yah they're both pretty"

yuan put her phone down and faced him, "should i do short hair like minjeong?" yuna questioned and jake just looked at her, tilting his head and tried imagining her with short hair

he smiled, "you'll look pretty both ways so up to you"

she smacked his shoulder lightly, "flirt" she chuckled then noticed something on his cheek

she moved slightly towards him and leaned in towards him. the boy was stuck in place as yuna lifted her hand to his cheek, rubbing off something, "you had an eyelash on your cheek"

"o-oh" he stammered and bit his lip, flustered by her action. yuna chuckled and cupped his face in her hands which made him even more flustered

"your face is so cute" she spoke out of no where and he quickly took her hands off of him and looked away, turning red from it

"t-thank you" he stammered then mentally slapped himself for doing that

"are you blushing?" she teased him, trying to see his face but he kept making sure to cover his face with his hands so she couldn't see

"n-no!" he yelled out

yuna chuckled and was glad that no blush appeared on her cheeks because her ears were super red

♤

"jake!" someone yelled for the boy while he was at his locker, grabbing a few of his workbooks before class started

jake turned his body to the right but didn't have time to process what was happening before two arms wrapped around his neck immediately

jake stumbled back, his back hitting the locker door but caught his balance before realizing that it was yuna who was hugging him

"hey yuna" jake grinned as he wrapped his arms around her, patting her back, "someone's happy"

"i am!" she pulled away, clapping her hands together, "guess why!"

"hmm..you got a boyfriend?" she looked at him with a 'really?' look. he just chuckled, "i'm kidding. you got 1st place at your competition!"

"yes!!"

"congrats yuna!" jake congratulated her, hugging her again. she smiled as her head resting on his neck. the two only had like a 2 inch height difference with yuna at 5'7 and jake at 5'9

"thank you jake!" 

the two pulled away and jake was going to speak but yuna cut him off, "hold that thought for a second" she turned around, pointing at her backpack, "can you grab my textbook from my backpack?"

jake said okay and opened her backpack but was met with a box on top of her things, "a box?"

"oh right! i forgot that's in there" 

jake proceeded to take out her textbook as well as the box before closing her backpack. she turned back around as jake held out both items. she grabbed her textbook but not the box

"take it" she spoke, pushing the box lightly back to jake, "it's a present for you"

"a present? for what?" he questioned, confused as he looked at the white box

"do i need an occasion to give you a present?" before jake could respond, she spoke again, "no i don't. so open it!"

jake looked down at the box and took off the top. there was black tissue paper inside the box and he began taking out the tissue paper only to see a small binder inside, "a journaling binder?"

"open it!" she smiled, excited to see his reaction. he took the binder out of the box and placed the box in his locker 

he looked at yuna but she just gestured to open the box. he opened the binder and inside were 4 sleeved pockets to fit 2x3 pictures. inside it was also multiple polaroids of yuna and jake but also empty sleeves

"you kept the polaroids?" he asked and flipped through the pages, looking at all the polaroids that yuna had put in it

she nodded, placing her head on his shoulder, looking at the pictures as well, "of course! you looked cute in them, i couldn't just toss them"

jake cleared his throat, flustered at her comment, "i made it so we can preserve some memories i guess. i made one for me, you and sunghoon so he doesn't feel left out. he doesn't need to know about this one"

jake laughed and nodded, "thank you my star. i will treasure this"

"you're welcome!" she exclaimed, a smile on her face that made jake's whole day. she then backed away from him, waiting for him to put his stuff away

"hey, are you coming to my soccer game?" jake then asked as he began putting things away into his locker

"of course" she spoke, "sunghoon pushed back his ice skating practice and i got out of track meet so we'll be there!"

jake grinned, nodding and closed his locker door, looking at yuna, "great! should we go to class?"

yuna wrapped her arms around his arm, standing beside him, "yup! let's go"

jake chuckled and let her keep her arms there, a pink blush on his cheeks appearing without knowing yuna's ears were just as red

♤

jake shook his head of the thoughts and continued to eat his food and didn't answer sunghoon's question

"whatever you're uselessly in love" sunghoon scoffed before he switched the topic of the conversation, "oh! my competition is tomorrow, you coming? you told me that you would get out of your meeting or whatever you have that day. it's been a while since you've been to one of my games"

jake stopped eating, completely forgetting about it and knowing he couldn't call of his meeting the day before

sunghoon sighed, already knowing his answer, "judging by your silence, i'm assuming you forgot"

"i got really busy-"

"it's okay" sunghoon spoke, "i'll have more in the future. just make sure you don't miss yuna's track even. she'll be upset with you"

"i-"

sunghoon stood up from his seat, excusing himself "i'm going to get a water bottle, be right back" sunghoon got out of his seat and walked away from the table

jake sighed. he knew sunghoon was mad since he had a water bottle right in front of him but the boy just didn't want to see jake at the moment. 

jake felt horrible since they always pushed back their things for him but he could never do it for them even though he tried, "i need to try harder.."