jake and sunghoon walked into school a few steps behind where yuna and heeseung were, laughing with each other

"you know..if you guys just listened to me, that would be-" jake smacked sunghoon's head

"shut up" jake mumbled, sighing afterwards.

"anyways. where is soovin?" sunghoon questioned

"i'm not sure to be honest. we haven't really texted since the date that i called off because i'm dumb and realized my feelings too late" jake was regretting everything

not that he called off the date but the fact that he realized his own true feelings too late. the fact that he never realized how yuna felt about him. for being smart at school, he was very oblivious to her feelings; well..old feelings now

the two boys walked to the class, passing by as heeseung was saying bye to yuna.

jake walked over to his locker at the back of the class with sunghoon, and smacked his head against it, "i hate life"

sunghoon just patted his back

"hey guys" yuna walked over to them with a smile on her face

"hey yuna" sunghoon responded but jake was zoned out

yuna snapped her fingers in front of him and he snapped out of his trance. he shook his head, "h-huh? sorry i zoned out"

"did you sleep late again?" yuna chuckled

jake nervously laughed and nodded, "yah i was up doing physics homework..."

"wait" sunghoon stopped him, "we had physics homework?"

the two friends nodded and sunghoon looked at jake, "hey best friend..."

jake took off his backpack and handed it to sunghoon, "gray folder"

"thank you! I love you!" sunghoon exclaimed, taking his backpack to his desk to go do his homework

yuna chuckled and looked at jake, "you're such a good friend"

"thank you" jake smiled at the girl, "oh! my group and i are going to practice at jay and sunoo's school afterschool today, do you want to come with us"

"oo sure!" she nodded, "can't wait for it! all of you guys going?"

"yup. even heeseung" he nudged the girl and she just rolled her eyes but the smile came up onto her face regardless

"you guys haven't dance in awhile though" yuna spoke

"yah but we'll be fine. we'll win anyways" jake was very confident and yuna just shook her head at his cockiness

"so cocky" she rolled her eyes and he smacked the back of her head, "yah!" she shouted at him and he just laughed before he saw her serious face, "10 second head start?"

"3"

jake quickly ran out of the classroom and yuna waited 3 seconds before rushing after the boy as sunghoon sat at his desk, quickly filling in his answers from jake's answers

♡

"sunghoon you get behind him too late. be faster" niki spoke as he examined the group dancing, "heeseung bend down more. your legs are longer so you look weird in the front with your legs not as bended. hoon you're too far from jungwon at the ending pose, get closer so your arm is at the end of his back"

yuna chuckled at this and all the boys immediately looked at her, "what?"

"nothing" she shook her head, "it's just funny seeing a 16 year so strict and all you guys obeying him"

"this is how it always is" niki responded, "plus im the best so"

"not when heeseung is there" yuna then replied and quickly covered her mouth afterwards from embarrassment and heeseung quickly blushed from her compliment

sunoo saw heeseung blushing and bursted out laughing, pointing at the boy, "are you blushing??"

"n-no!" the boy denied it, slapping his hand away, "c-can we take a break!"

"but-" jake cut off niki

"niki, it's been 2 hours with like 2 5 minute breaks, let's take a break" jake reasoned

niki sighed and nodded. the 7 boys broke away into their own group while niki went over to yuna who was on the couch in the practice room.

"so riki" yuna handed him a water bottle as he sat down on the couch beside her. he grabbed the water bottle, drinking it, "you never told me about the girl you confessed too"

niki choked on his drink, coughing afterwards and leaning forward. yuna patted his back, hoping for him to catch his breath, "i thought you forgot about that"

"of course not" yuna leaned back in the couch, "so what happened?"

"can i run away?" niki asked as he stood up, pointing at the door

"sure" she smiled, replying in japanese, "i'll give you a 10 second head start"

"okay never mind" he sighed and sat back down, "well uhm she rejected me. she doesn't like me"

"aww" yuna frowned, "that's okay-"

"actually she doesn't like boys" yuna raised an eyebrow, "or girls" yuna was confused but then slowly understood the boy, "she's aromantic. she just thought we were close friends and nothing more because she doesn't have feelings towards people"

"let me guess" yuna spoke, "you had to look up the definition of aromantic didn't you?"

"yah.." he sighed and yuna patted his back

"it's okay. you'll find someone for you eventually"

"easy for you to say when you have both jake and heeseung after you" niki mumbled

yuna heard him but ignored what the boy said, "you're still young so don't worry about relationships at your age"

"you act like you're so much older than me" niki scoffed

yuna smacked the back of his head and he just muttered random words. niki looked at the girl, "are you over jake?"

yuna looked over at the boy who was talking with sunghoon. a small smile planted on her face before she looked at niki, "i like him still but just as a best friend. nothing more. seeing him with soovin and how happy he was with her made me realize that i'm just happy if he's happy. plus i'm happy having a 'thing' with heeseung"

"but..soovin and jake are no longer seeing each other. so what if you have a chance again to be with him?" niki asked

"i don't want to leave heeseung hanging like that" yuna smiled at the boy, "i'll have jake by my side as my best friend not a lover"

niki sighed. the boy turned his body and laid his head down on yuna's lap. she looked down at the boy and chuckled, "yes riki?"

"play with my hair" he pointed at his hair

"okay riki i love you with all my heart but you're gross right now" she held her hands away from him and he rolled his eyes

he grabbed one of her hands and placed it on his hair, "just do it"

yuna rolled her eyes and began running her hand through his hair that was surprisedly soft for someone who just practiced for 2 hours so far

"you guys look like you're having fun" sunghoon walked over to the two, chuckling

"be quiet. i'm tired" niki told the boy, closing his eyes

yuna shook her head and looked at sunghoon, "you dance a lot better now"

"i've always danced great. thank you very much" sunghoon chuckled, "how was the choreography?"

"good" she nodded, "you guys have a high chance of winning but i don't know..theo and jiung have a good dance team as well"

"well whatever stop encouraging them" sunghoon rolled his eyes and she chuckled

"hey guys" heeseung walked over to the three of the friends and they all looked at him, "jay, sunoo, jungwon, and i are going to get some food from a few streets down"

"oo! i wanna go!" niki exclaimed, shooting up from yuna's lap, "what are we eating?"

"it's a chinese takeout place" heeseung responded

"i'll go too, i need a break from this practice room. plus you guys never get my order right" sunghoon spoke and heeseung rolled his eyes.

niki and sunghoon then walked away to get their wallets from their bags

heeseung looked down at yuna, "you want anything?"

"sure. sunghoon knows what i like" yuna replied and was about to grab her wallet from her bag but heeseung grabbed her hand instead, holding it in his

"i'll pay for you"

yuna grinned lightly, holding his hand as well, "are you sure? i have money"

he nodded, "it's okay. if it's for you, i'll do it any time"

"yah lovebirds! i'm hungry! let's go" jay complained and yuna chuckled before letting go of his hand

heeseung walked over to the boys, smacking jay on his head and then left the room, the rest of the boys following him except for one; jake.

"you're not going with them?" yuna asked as she got up from the couch and then walked over to the boy who was on the floor on his phone

he shook his head, putting his phone down, "i figured i might i as well do my homework in this time"

yuna just nodded as she sat beside him and grabbed the small towel that laid on his lap. she then placed her hand on his shoulder, dabbing his forehead away of the sweat.

"you guys are practicing hard" she spoke as jake looked at her, trying to hide his blush.

"well, we wanna make a good performance you know" jake responded and yuna nodded

"you guys always do well" yuna replied, "i'm glad to see you and hoon dancing again. you guys are so busy with your own things but you guys seem really happy while dancing like more than usual"

"you pay attention to how happy we are?" jake then asked

"of course" she brought down the towel, placing it away from the two, "why wouldn't i pay attention to what makes you guys happy?"

"you're right" jake laughed and so did the girl.

"i thought the dance was harder" yuna spoke and jake raised an eyebrow

"you think it's easy?"

"okay i didn't say it was easy! i just said i thought the dance was harder" she defended herself and then jake stood up

"then let's dance"

he held out his hand and yuna scoffed before grabbing his hand and the two walked to the middle of the practice room.

jake played the music and stood in front of the mirror, monitoring yuna's dance moves

it came to jake's part and she did it so dramatically and jake protested, "yah i don't do that!"

"yes you do!" yuna laughed, "you go up with your hand up and wink as if you're being recorded"

"okay well.." jake couldn't defend himself, knowing well he does that in the performance, "shut up"

"don't worry, you look good when doing it" she replied and now jake's heart was racing again.

"t-thank you.." he stammered and yuna raised an eyebrow and stepped towards him

"you good? you just stuttered" her arms crossed, tilting her head

"yah..i'm good" he put on a fake smile, panicking at the small distance between them.

yuna looked closer at his neck and smiled, "you still have the necklace"

jake looked down slightly, seeing a gold necklace hanging, "you gave it to me so why would i get rid of it?"

she shrugged before reaching her hand for it, touching it, "i'm glad i got you it. it looks good on you"

jake gulped before gripping her wrist, staring at her eyes. she looked up at him, confused, "you good?"

jake leaned closer to her, their faces a few centimeters away from each other.

yuna's heart began beating fast. just like it did before and now it was happening again.

unexpectedly, yuna leaned closer to the boy before eventually their lips touched.

yuna and jake's minds were blank. they were supposed to be best friends but what went wrong?

was it yuna's feelings?

was it jake's realization of his feeling?

this wasn't supposed to be happening at all. no feelings were supposed to be involved

yet here the two were.

kissing in the practice room with no thoughts in their mind.

and while yuna's brain was telling her to pull away, her heart said otherwise.

jake's hand slowly let go of yuna's wrist and instead wrapped one arm around her waist and using his other hand to hold the back of yuna's head. yuna's arms then wrapped around his neck, pulling him closer to her.

jake's heart was just beating rapidly with what was going on. yuna was his first kiss and if he were to say he were unhappy with it, he would be lying.

after a few more seconds, yuna pulled away, realizing what happened.

she quickly backed up and cleared her throat, "sorry.." she mumbled before walking away and before jake could say anything and grab her wrist, she walked out of the practice room.

"damn it.." jake mumbled, bending down to the floor, ruffling his hair in frustration

was their friendship now ruined?