Team Jackbummers... HOW WE DOING
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Team Jackbummers... HOW WE DOING
This week’s jaebeom compilation
Hesitate (1)
Im Jaebum x Reader
Part 2
Plot: You reunite with your friend.
Words: 1,432
You wail in pain and rub the tears with your fists.
“Aish! Why are you crying?”
You look up to see your neighbor, Bummie. With ragged breathing, you answer, “I tripped and scrapped my knee...” Your cheeks flush a bright red, embarrassed to be seen in such a state.
The young boy turns around and walks into his home.
‘He thinks I'm pathetic to cry over this...’ You slowly push yourself up and try to walk back to your home when you hear soft footsteps nearing you. You look behind you and there is Bummie with a first aid kit. “Hey Kitty, let me take care of that wound for you.” He shyly smiles at you.
Kitty. Your nickname. Bummie first called you Kitty when he met you. You were such a timid child that you reminded him of a kitten. So cute and innocent.
After Bummie cleaned up your wound and bandaged it up, you smiled up at him. “Thank you Bummie!”
“You were just crying a minute ago! Such ugly tears!.”
“Bummie! You are so mean!” You retort back and attack him with a hug.
*Present Day*
You smiled to yourself, reminiscing about the good old days. When you were younger, you were neighbors with Im Jaebum. The boy next door. Your best friend. He may have been intimidating to some but you always got along with him. Even after you moved to the United States, you guys managed to stay in contact all these years. Jaebum said mean things but that's because he was shy with expressing his feelings and so he demonstrated it instead with actions. He would always do something nice for you. Jaebum was a few years older than you but you guys were inseparable. Whenever he was angry you would jump onto his back and hold on tight. This allowed him to relax for some reason. Maybe it was because your presence somehow calmed him. Jaebum would get into fights whenever someone bullied you and in those moments he became terrifying but not once did you feel scared of him. You for some reason felt safe around him, even during his scary moments.
Your smile fell when you looked back on your last day with Jaebum.
“Bummie! Open up!” You kept knocking on his bedroom door but to no avail. Jaebum would not come out. You grew worried. “Please open the door..”
“Just go away.”
THE BEGINNING
(the pic is from jaebum’s instagram!)
Jaebum never thought he’d meet someone who is as captivating as her. The way she’d sway to music while standing around for the bus to show up, or the way she would watch people with wonder walk down the street or how she would always seem to be in a good mood even when the sky was grey and the wind was chilling. Or how she stood out against the sea of seoul natives who littered the street as some kind of foreign beauty. He was so enthralled with the small glimpses he got of her on his morning bus rides to the studio. The rest of his members would prefer to travel with their manager but he liked getting his morning coffee in before he dealt with the 6 rowdy boys all day. He also liked squeezing in his daily dose of watching her from afar. He knew he probably never stood a chance, idol or not. She was way too invested in her own world to notice him, but he was okay with that. He hadn’t gathered the courage to talk to her yet.
There came a day though, real late at night, when he was frustrated with the way a song for Got7’s most recent comeback wasn’t coming together properly; nobody could come up with a melody strong enough for a song and Jaebum really didn’t want to be in a room full of people at that moment. The night air was biting against his cheeks, turning them red, as he walked around the block of their building. The streets were dotted with few people, most were either at a club or sitting at home. He was grateful for the lack of crowds, as he walked into a music shop. Hoping some inspiration would strike him, he browsed through the titles of albums and band names. Randomly picking up an occasional CD or cassette that he wanted to play at the back of the shop near the check out counter. And that’s when he saw her: standing behind the counter so breathtakingly, scribbling on a notepad. She was lost in her own world again, swaying to the slow r&b song that was plying over head, not paying much attention to anything aside from her notebook. And just like that, spurts of inspiration hit and Jaebum finally found the courage to speak to her. Asking her about what she was writing and what kind of music she liked as he set up the music he had in his hand in the players. Her laugh would ring through the almost empty store as he would clumsily figure out certain music players and she would walk around the counter to help him. He’d blush down at her and laugh nervously as she stood a couple feet away from him. He watched intently as she tried explaining to him how it works (in pretty good korean might he add). And so they stayed in that little area of the shop talking about their favorite artists and songs and how Jaebum is in a band and how she’s in the early stages of college and trying to decide what she wants to do since she started late. They stayed enthralled in conversation until one of the boys called asking Jaebum to come back to the studio.
So he’d bid her goodbye but not before asking for her number. He’d use the excuse of wanting to talk more about music with her, but he’d actually just want to get to know the girl he’s been infatuated with for a couple of months now. And she’d been so unbelievably interesting and intelligent. The boys would see the difference in their leader and in his writing and composing. But Jaebum would just be so invested in translating his feelings for her into music that he wouldn’t notice and that’s probably how he’d confess. Just a song completely made for her. No lyrics, just music because she always loved the way artists are also able to put so much into the notes of a song. They’d probably both be a blushing mess and so smitten.
(A/N: hi! this is my first time actually posting something like this! if you like it or if it’s trash please let me know! my inbox is always open! i hope you have a good day!)
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