Summary: Christmas eve, a sweet time with your loved ones with an atmosphere embellished in festivities like a Christmas tree, that would be something Y/n would always term it as, except this time, when unexpected Christmas eve, a sweet time with your loved ones with an atmosphere embellished in festivities like a Christmas tree, that would be something Y/n would always term it as, except this time, when unexpected incidents unfolded over Y/n's plans of an eve date with her boyfriend, leaving her in a puddle of loneliness and snowing tears. And yet, as if fate had spared her early this time, her next-door-neighbour and one who caused nothing but chaos for her since the diaper days, Jungwon, caught a hint of her state, for once to be her companion for tranquility at the undertones of an activity of Y/n's he basically invited himself to, with an ending rather unanticipated yet special.
Warnings: intimacy ΒΏ nothing 18+ though
Word count: 2.5k
A/N: A Christmas special one!! This is a holiday gift from me for the readersβπ€ Also the ending scene IDKY IT WAS SO HARD WRITING IT- Maybe cuz it was my first time writing something like that but I would like to forget I ever wrote that. Anyways, Happy holidays and I hope this is a good read!!π
Recommendations: I would suggest listen to 'Dimple' by BTS because I mostly heard it while writing thisβ£
Sweet couples and cheerful families mingling down the streets seemed to contrast the icy, post snowfall atmosphere with their warm smiles very well, as you, a silent spectator walking back home, could offer nothing but addition to the coldness with tears rolling down your cheeks nonstop, chilling your face slightly due to the temperature of the city. It was Christmas eve, a time to cherish love and find warmth with our loved ones to enjoy the freezing winter nightfall. Yet, here you were. Out and about alone in the cold, not by choice, though. Your heart was decorated with the Christmas spirit and love just like others as you went on what you had thought to be an eve date with your boyfriend, only for him to use it as his perfect cue to end the relationship, ironically inches away from a mistletoe. This
had you in shock, leaving you hurt. You did like him a lot, and thought of spending your first, now turnt last, holiday season with him as blissful. On the other hand, you did not want to let down your holiday spirits and waste an amazing Christmas grieving over someone who can't even value love and it's essence in the season. Your picked up a fast pace towards your house remembering you still have a second Christmas tree you need to finish decorating all by yourself before your parents arrive back home. You weren't complaining, you'd always considered this an area of your expertise, just that you didn't want to do it all alone this time, rather with someone whose presence was comforting enough to help you get over what had just happened. Sadly, even your best friend wasn't available to this help today, as she too went on an eve date, definitely more successful than yours. Wiping your tears and accepting your loneliness, you stepped into your front yard, looking for the keys in your purse, when a familiar voice reached you unexpectedly, making you slightly flinch.Β
"How's Mrs. Claus back so soon today?" You already knew who it was, shooting your eyes up across the side fence to the adjacent house, where you knew you'd find the dark haired boy leaning against the fence, poking his small face up at your direction. Though there had never been an interaction between you both since the day you were introduced as neighbours that didn't wreak chaos instantly, you both still never actually remained on bad terms, regardless of this happening since you were nothing but pre school kids. It was a habit of his by then to deliberately do or say things as a joke that pulled your trigger, just like this time, and your families always saw it as nothing but 'adorable'. What about stepping on your nerves was adorable?Β
You sighed before finally choosing your words, "It's 'Miss' now, by the way" He gave you a questioning brow raise as you confirmed his suspicions with a nod and walked straight into your house to prevent him from seeing the watery rim of your eyes.Β
Putting aside your boots and coat on the rack, you had no energy or mood left to head towards the blank Christmas tree and get to your job. Still, after changing into your holiday pj's, some hope set in on you as your eyes set on the box of ornaments, finding your favorite star in it too. You were just about to hit the play button on the sound box to lighten the mood of the moment when you heard some other sound. It was from the doorbell, indicating someone's presence. You knew it couldn't be your parents or siblings as they always carried the keys wherever they went, so you just hoped it wasn't someone you had to induce small talk with in this already tired state. To your surprise, on opening the door, you found the same dark haired boy with a bag in his hands and a concerned soft look on his face.Β
"Did that jerk seriously break up with you on Christmas eve?" He voiced his thoughts.
"Jerk, yes. That's the word I was looking for too. Thank you for that, Jungwon! Now what brings you to my doorstep besides this suitable nickname? Or did you want to use this incident to crack up over me again?" You gave him a surprised face, clearly with sarcasm written all over it.Β
" Do you really think I'm that low? Aish, Y/n. Anyways, won't you invite your guest in either?" He said as he basically barged in through the door, brushing against your shoulder and onto your living room sofa. This would scream entitlement if only he hadn't been doing this for practically your whole life by now.Β
His eyes caught a glimpse of the ornament box and trailed onto the empty tall tree standing behind it with a small gasp. "This is gonna take at least a whole day if you do it alone. Where's the power socket for the fairy lights again? Wait, before that, where even are the fairy lights?" He spoke with his gaze fixed on the tree as he rolled his sweatshirt sleeves to his elbows, indicating his readiness to be your help. You instinctively rolled your eyes out of annoyance, but this time you were internally kind of happy that you after all weren't lonely this time, and thankfully were with someone whose presence you.... didn't quite mind. You point at the container marked as fairy lights below the ornament box as you got closer to the power sockets, when your eyes fell back on the bag he had carried into your living room.
"What's in that?" You questioned.Β
"Oh, how could I forget, mom sent cookies for you." He slowly passed the bag to you as you excitedly opened the bag rememberig your love for sweets. Upon peeking at the brand name of the cookie packaging, you had to press your lips to hide your wide smile after noticing the obvious. "Mom sent huh? But isn't this your favourite cookie brand? I know Mrs. Yang usually sends sweets from the bakery down the street, you know" Trying to hide his nervousness, he did his usual nervous habit of fiddling with his fingers before finally looking at you with an attempted straight face. " Take it while you have it" He said while going right back to untangling the lights as you opened the cookie box anyway and took a bite of the little cinnamon snow man shaped cookie you found, doing a tiny happy dance as you could see Jungwon noticing it and peep a little smile at your actions from the corner of your eye. " Now are you just gonna keep eating or help me out too?" He scoffed as you giggled a bit before shoving a santa cookie in his mouth and picking up an ornament to place. You couldn't clearly tell but he was satisfied that he made you happy at least for a bit after what had happened on this special day.Β
The next few hours were spent over bickering which ornament to put on which branch, why it's a problem to place two giant ornaments next to each other, whether the gift ornament would sit right on the middle branch or the snowman one, which, Jungwon had basically managed to hang on successfully while you continued justifying why the gift ornament would belong there, causing you to pout a little but going back to normal seeing him chuckle over it. You had accidentally touched his hand or brushed his finger for god knows how many times by now, but it always made your cheeks heat a little. And to ensure he doesn't notice this blushy tint, you'd go long extents ranting to him or telling him something to divert his attention. But he too was smart enough, he'd notice you blabbering out of nowhere and know it's your habit to change the point of attention, so he'd just pretend to not know while smiling to himself in secret and waving a cookie in front of you once in a while to try and keep you quiet. Watching his tongue slightly poke out of his lips while he focused on fitting the smaller ornaments on made you forget what happened to you earlier for quite some time, until you chose to ignore it regardless. 'Why would I waste the precious present reminiscing the bad past' You thought to yourself, except the thought became too loud....yes, you said it out, too. You only took note of it when you just Jungwon staring at you, almost as if he was asking for an explanation.Β
Now, obviously you weren't planning on confessing to him while in your pj's, hours after a breakup, right? Even though you wouldn't lie, the atmosphere did feel very warm and honey coated. Just like you had seen happy couples on the streets earlier. Your heart felt comfortable when he was around, and ever so often you found yourself this admiring of him, even his little things. And the pj's weren't that bad, they were literally Christmas special pj's, model walk worthy, you could assure that since you did feel fabulous modelling it around to your dad the day you shopped for it.Β
You chose to get back to work before you did something silly out of the thoughts you were having. Jungwon was too concentrated on wrapping the yellow star shaped fairy light wires all around the tree, and you were too spaced out to notice the inched gaps left from him behind you. And when you abruptly turnt around to ne of help, the inches too disappeared as you both noticeably bumped into each other and startled back before the other could think of the accident wrongly. Boy was that awkward. You both let out tiny apologies with your eyes still closed out of embarrassment. This continued for a few seconds until you decided to finally open your eyes and look back slowly, only to find yourself locking eyes with him. From his eyes you could tell that as awkward it was of an incident, it wasn't all unpleasant for him, and clearly not for you either. Finding ways around each other's gazes, neither of you dared to move from the opposites of the room you both landed on, let alone shift from the eyegaze.Β
This remained until you opted to,unwillingly,Β break the contact before it was too late or embarrassing. You looked down at the floor while Jungwon seemingly reaches his peak of embarrassment as his hand found their way to his nape, brushing it ever so slightly.Β
A few more turns with the lighted wire, a last pine cone and the big silver star at the top of the tree which only Jungwon could put up because, and you quote him, "you're too short for the top. You should be thankful I'm tall and helpful at the same time.", that quote according to you being worth your eye roll, you the job was doneβthere stood a fully embellished, beautiful tree in front of you as your tired selves plopped onto the couch behind and smiled out of satisfaction. "Wow... we're good at this huh?" He looked at you, expecting a praise. " 'We' here was mostly just me, and your height benefit for the star on top" Definitely not what he wanted, but did totally expect it. "Oh totally, I wonder who put up the ornaments on the left and all the lights..." He trailed off remembering what had happened while he spun the lights around. A moment of silence later, you turned back at him with a reassuring blink. "So was your precious present helpful enough to comfort you?" He emphasized on precious present as you recalled what you jad unconsciously owned upto earlier, as you let out a chuckle from your embarrassed state. " You were of good help, Won. Even for the tree and" with a slight pause you contemplated on if it was right to make your move, only to decide to your favour and continuing. " even for the comfort." He smiled a bit but immediately shot his head up at you in disbelief upon realisation striking him. "What? And did you just call me Won?" You pressed your lips into a thin line, debating on if the situation went wrong with using his nickname in it. "Well if you don't like me using that then- " "No, that's not what I meant! Won's perfectly fine, although I'd occasionally prefer 'babe' too.." He gasped at his own words. "Well I was gonna say deal with it with you don't like it either but- wait what?" You proceeded to stare at him in astonishment, as if he just broke some impossible news to you.Β
He exhaled deeply before finally opening his mouth to speak and end this silent chaos, mentally preparing himself for the negative reaction coming his way being considerate of how shocked you were of his advancement, though it be the slightest one.Β
"Y/n, I know this is probably the worst time possible to say this but I need to get this off me... I've fallen for you to the point where everything no matter how little about you feels beautiful to me. And I guess it was now or never for me so...." He had been interrupted by what seemed like you choking next to him on.....thin air. You looked right at him for a split second before sharply turning your back at him, giving it a dramatic effect, as he shut his eyes close, still not ready to face the rejection he had been anticipating anyway. But to his surprise, and a random confidence outburst getting to you, you took advantage of his eyes being shut and landed a soft peck on his cheek, as he immediately flinched open his eyes to understand what was real and what not, and you recoiled into the neck of your hoodie trying to hide your flustered state. His hand made it's way to cover his mouth when reality did completely go through his processor while you gathered up your breathe coming out of the hoodie to speak.
"Do you mean what you said? Well I've been wanting to say this for a while too now but I really like you, like... a lot maybe" You hurry to look away before you find Jungwon glanced at you in utter shock, feeling his heart beat in his throat, almost ready to pop out any moment along with the butterflies within it now sat by.Β
He slowly moves his palm into yours, capturing your attention as you scan his next foreseen yet stirring move as the space between the both of you on the sofa shrinked again while your hearts inversely got closer, and in no time the feeling of ecstacy twirled in your gut with the feeling of something saccharine on your lips, that was, your smile, and even greater, his lips.Β
"Be mine, Y/n. For this eve, this Christmas, and forever."
"Say no more, Love." Were the last words he needed to hear before leaning in completely, cherishing the moment and the sweetness your lips showcased for him.
