Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8
It’s been a month since I’ve actually gotten to see Jay. A few days since we’d had an actual conversation last more than twenty minutes. For the last couple of nights, he’s been falling asleep almost as soon as he saw my face through Skype. As weird as it sounds, I’ve grown to anticipate falling asleep to the cute sounds he makes when he sleeps.
Every time I think I might get a weekend off, something comes up. It would be easy to just say no or pass it on to Bora but I can’t do that.
For what seems like the hundredth time this week, I’m scrolling through possible flights to the States with my planner in my lap. Junior jumps down from the headboard beside me as if he knows I’m going through some internal struggle.
“Next weekend, no matter what,” I say out loud to no one. The apartment seems completely empty lately, hallow almost. The first couple of days were hard, naturally. I’d roll over and the bed would be cold, or I’d wake up in the middle of the night needing Jay’s body against mine with no relief. It’s not like I can just call him when I’m needy, the time differences as he moves from city to city makes sure of that.
Junior climbs up on my laptop and lays down as if he knows I’m doing something Jay related. In his defense, he didn’t get to spend nearly enough time with him.
I reach out to grab him so I can shut my laptop and set it on the table beside me. My phone rings frightening Junior a little but he relaxes in Jay’s spot almost immediately.
“Hi,” I yawn as I slide beneath the duvet.
“Do you want me to call you later?”
Jay has been worried I’m not getting enough sleep again. Honestly, he’s not wrong. My schedule is once again thrown off with trying to keep up with time zones. I’ve been staying up later and later just to talk to my boyfriend, and in the morning I get up early so I can talk to him before he goes on stage. We’ve made up our own unspoken schedule that has been working for us. Still, he’s worried. I’m worried. It’s been a month. The three of us have long become restless.
“No, talk to me before I fall asleep,” I tell him. I reach out running my hand over Junior and close my eyes. “Can you FaceTime me?”
“Yeah, hold on baby,” I wait, pulling the duvet up to my chin.
His goofy smiling face fills my phone and I feel my heart ache just a little bit more. I rub my thumb over the screen, touching the compass, my compass.
He pushes his hair back out of his eyes and puts a hat back in place. He looks so happy, not at all the exhaustion I’d seen the first week of the tour. Then, I barely got more than a five-minute conversation before he passed out.
“How are you still so pretty so late at night,” he groans playfully.
I roll my eyes and prop the phone on his pillow so I can pull my arms beneath the sheets as well.
“What did you do today?” I ask him.
I watch him run his tongue over the corner of his lips before he starts telling me about his day so far. Interviews seem to be taking up most of his time. It’s a good thing, I guess. It’s exposure, exactly what a newly signed artist wants. I want it for him. He deserves for everyone to know his name.
“How are the shows?”
“Good,” he smiles. “They’re a little bigger but it’s still pretty intimate,”
There’s a pause in conversation as my eyes close. I don’t realize I’m drifting off to sleep until I hear what sounds like a shutter of a camera. I crack one eye open to see a guilty smile on my boyfriend’s face.
“Did you just take a picture of me?”
His smile widens. “You look calm for once in your life. Let me keep this moment,”
I laugh and shut my eyes again. “I miss your annoying ass,”
“I miss you too, baby. Call me when you get up,”
“Ok,” I promise.
Waking up to go to the office is harder than usual. I stay in bed an extra twenty minutes with Junior. When I can’t afford any more time, I grudgingly get up and get ready.
Bora is already at her desk when I get in. She shoots me one of her her ‘I know you’ve been up all night’ looks before stretching her hand out towards me.
“Good morning, sunshine. You look like a breath of fresh air,” she jokes.
I’ve done the bare minimum this morning; not bothering with my hair or makeup. I’m also wearing all black sweats.
“Thank you,” I sigh.
I take the outstretched cup from Bora and head to my desk. I set Junior down and he slinks over to Bora and snuggles under the blanket that’s on her lap and touches the floor. I swear that cat likes everyone more than me.
“We have to finalize the looks for the shoot you have next Wednesday, I already updated your portfolio for you, you’re welcome, the new stuff that Jay wanted came in, and he sent us a copy of the AOMG and H1ghrmusic promotions that are coming up in about a month and a half,” she finishes with a sip of her own coffee.
“Those shoots usually have their own stylists. What do we need to be there for?”
“You know how those guys are. They’re so picky about fashion. They want someone there to make sure everything is how they like it,”
I roll my eyes and make a mental note to tell my boyfriend that he’s become way too high maintenance. Still, I add everything to my schedule.
“That reminds me that we have to decide what we’re doing for the hip-hop awards. Three guys from AOMG are nominated, two from H1gher and that’s not including Jay. So we have to fit in six clients between now and December. Whether we want to pick up anyone else has to be decided this week,” I say.
Bora sighs and pulls her bottom lip between her teeth as she flips through her planner.
“I don’t know, Y/n. We’re already running this close. I say we’re done. We haven’t even met with the guys from h1ghermusic before to know what they’ll like,”
I shrug and make a note to decline any artists that emailed about us helping them with the award show. If there were more than two of us, we’d be able to handle it, but we’re barely managing as much traffic as it is now.
“Do you think we should hire another person?” I ask Bora.
She uses her pink pen to scratch at her scalp before taking a long sip of her coffee. I take the opportunity to elaborate.
“I just feel like we’ve been turning down a lot of people because we’ve been too busy. Maybe if we had another person we wouldn’t be spread so thin,”
“Honestly? I’m all for it, Y/n. You’ll be able to be with Jay more, Jin and I can finally get engaged and plan our wedding, I feel like we’re living our lives in this office,”
“I agree,” I say easily.
“Can we afford it?”
“We definitely can. I’ve been looking at our expenses and such which really isn’t that much, we’ll be ok,”
Bora smiles widely at me. “Great!”
“I was also wondering something else,” I say suddenly feeling nervous.
Her eyebrow pulls up.
“I was thinking, maybe you shouldn’t be my assistant anymore. You do as much work as I do if not more,”
Bora frowns. “What are you saying,”
“Let’s be business partners. You deserve to own half of this company,”
“You’re kidding right?”
I shake my head, waiting for her to give me an answer. She could say no. I wouldn’t fault her. There’s a lot of free time that goes into running a company even a small one like ours. But she’s been doing it.
“We have to go out to celebrate tonight,” she exclaims with a big smile.
I smile back at her. “So that’s a yes?”
“It’s a hell yes, Y/n. Thank you!” She comes over to my desk and wraps her arms around me from behind. I reach up and hug her back.
We do end up going out. We go to a small bar after work with Chae and her husband along with Jin. I can’t help but feel a little like the fifth wheel. Watching both couples move around each other, trade small glances that they think no one sees, I miss Jay even more.
“Not to ruin the mood,” Chae says, “but Elise keeps asking if she can talk to us,”
“No,”
“No,” Bora and I say the same time.
“I agree,” Chae says. “She says that she wants to settle with Haute magazine and can’t do it unless Y/n sides with her. I think they’re really getting her for a lot, and since it’s American court there’s also defamation charges that can be brought against her,”
I nod. “They’ve been in contact. I told them to do what they have to do. I can’t fly over though. They said they’ll get as much as they can done without me and try to avoid a subpoena,”
“Holy shit,” Bora smiles.
“Have you guys been getting any other press offers?” Chae asks.
“Yeah,” Bora says. She scrunches up her face a little. “It weird to have people ask about my opinion on celebrity fashion,”
“Get used to it. You’re the Co-CEO of a company now,” I say.
The five of us push our glasses together and take a shot to celebrate Bora.
The night ends pretty early for me. Everyone else heads over to the club for dancing but I’m not really up to it.
When I get in around nine, I send Jay a text letting him know I’ll talk to him when he gets up and go shower.
When I get out, I see a message from him telling me to call when I can. I press his number and put the call on speaker phone so I can get dressed for bed.
“Hello?”
“Why are you up so early?” I ask him. It’s almost five in the morning where he is.
“You never called, then I went out to some club that everyone wanted to go to, and then I couldn’t sleep because you weren’t home yet,”
“Shit, I’m sorry, I had a pretty rough start this morning,” I explain while pulling a T-shirt over my head. “Did you at least have fun at the club?”
He yawns. “Not really. It was ok, I guess,”
“What’s up with you?” I ask him. It’s very unusual for him not to have a good time going out.
“I miss you,” he sighs. “I want to come home, and I’m exhausted,”
“Well, go to sleep, Jay. I’m fine you need to sleep before you burn out,”
“I will, I will,” he insists. “I just need something. I don’t know what it is but I just need to hear you,”
I climb into our big empty bed and grab his pillow to wrap my arms around like every other night.
“Tell me about your day,” I say.
“I don’t want to talk about work, Y/n,”
“Well, what do you want to talk about then at five o’clock in the morning-,”
“Where’s Junior?”
I roll my eyes. “Your cat is sleeping soundly in his bed in the living room,”
“Good,” he says. There’s something in his voice that wasn’t there before. “Take your panties off,” he whispers.
I feel my pulse pick up at how deep his voice sounds. I can’t say anything, his words had my own voice caught in my throat.
“I want to hear you come, Y/n. It’s been too long. Is that ok?”
“Yes,” I whisper while easing my underwear off of my hips.
“Touch yourself,”
His voice is so quiet but it still feels like he’s right next to me. I feel a shiver work its way down my spine. I imagine him guiding my hand with his own as I do what he says.
My fingers feel too cold to be mistaken for his. My body can’t be fooled no matter how good his voice sounds in my ear.
“Small circles,” he instructs gently. “Don’t go too fast, I don’t want you to come yet,”
I move my fingers over myself slowly. A small sigh escapes my lips.
“What are you thinking about, baby? I want to hear it,”
*His mouth.*
“Your mouth on me,” I say a little breathless. I feel my heartbeat start to pick up, climbing until I can hear the thumping in my ears.
Jay laughs lightly. He pulls in a sharp breath suddenly. “I miss tasting you, too, sinking my teeth into that part of your hip and your thigh. Can you feel me there right now?” He asks.
I do.
I feel his mouth moving against me, never staying in one area for too long. I feel his teeth scraping across my skin, his tongue soothing away any sting.
“Make yourself come for me, Y/n. I want to hear it,”
I do as I’m told, once again. Touching myself while imagining Jay being home. My fingers tease my body like it’s him entering me slowly.
I focus on his harsh breathing and I’m sure he’s touching himself too like I’m there with him. He moans causing me to squeeze my legs shut. He’s not near to keep them open for him. I take a breath and open them myself, focusing on him, on the sounds he makes in my ear.
“Baby,” he says it so softly that it echoes in my bones. *Baby*. He could destroy my whole world and rebuild it with those two syllables alone. Right now, though, he’s making me come.
“Fuck,” I curse as my body starts to react to him. My legs quiver while I pull at the sheets.
“I bet you look so pretty, right now, Y/n,” his quiet voice brings me down until all that’s left is goosebumps on my skin that he usually soothes away.
“Go to sleep,” he says quietly. “I love you,”
Then he’s gone.
Only, I can’t sleep. I make a list of all the reasons why booking a ticket to America is the last thing I should do right now.
It’s the middle of the week
There’s too much to do
I can’t interrupt his work
There’s not enough time
He’s busy
I’m busy
He’ll be home in a few weeks
“Damnit!” I groan while pulling the pillow on top of my face. I’m weak. So fucking weak. I sit up and grab my computer off of my bedside table.
I check any flights available. There’s one, flying out in forty minutes. *I can’t make it. Between packing, figuring out Junior, finding a way to wherever he is, it won’t work.* All my excuses last for five minutes before I’m up and taking a quick shower. I pull on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt and I’m out the door before I’m even realizing I made a decision.
I call Bora while my car pulls up.
“Yeah?”
“I’m catching a flight, I need you to check on Junior this weekend,”
She laughs and pulls the phone from her ear like I won’t be able to hear her. “You owe me thirty won, Chae,”
She gets back on the phone. “Have a good weekend you lovesick girl. Text me when you land,”
“Am I that predictable?”
“Completely. Go and have fun and when you come back no more moping,”
“Thanks, Bora. I love you guys,”
“Tell Jay I said Hi,”
Without luggage, getting through check-in is quick and easy. All I have is my boarding pass and my purse.
I’m tired, but the thought of seeing Jay doesn’t let me sleep until I’ve been on the flight for at least a few hours. I’m so keyed up that I can’t think of anything other than this possibly being the wrong decision.
The 15 hour non-stop flight is filled with me sleeping and a reappearance of my nervous ticks. My lips feel raw from biting on them and I’ve shaken my right leg so long it’s probably ten times stronger than the left.
When we land Friday afternoon, I head straight to the venue Jay is supposed to play in San Fransisco.
The exhaustion I felt on my flight is nowhere to be felt. I’m too keyed up, too excited to feel tired and I just want to see my boyfriend. It’s been too long; longer than either of us expected. The month flew by so fast at times, but other times it dragged, making it even more obvious just how long he’s been away.
Too long
There’s an ache in my stomach that pulls from somewhere deep. The thought of getting to touch him again, kiss him, there’s too much anticipation. I pull out my ticket for the show, having just missed the long waiting line. My position in the venue is bound to be shitty, but I don’t care. I get my ticket scanned and follow through to the venue full of anxious girls.
I listen to them talk about Jay like he’s the best thing in the world and I feel proud. It’s all he’s ever really wanted. To make music for people and he’s getting to do it. And I’m grateful that he has such devoted fans.
“Hey,” someone nudges me gently. I turn to look at them. “You’re Jay’s girlfriend right?”
The fan waits for the obvious answer to her question. It doesn’t make sense to lie, but I honestly didn’t expect anyone to actually notice me.
“You guys are really cute,” she smiles widely at me.
“Thank you,” I say awkwardly. I’m still getting used to the whole fan interaction thing.
“Why are you all the way back here, though?”
“He doesn’t know I’m here,” I can’t help but grin toward the stage that he’ll be on in another forty-five minutes.
“You’re surprising him?” She exclaims. “That’s adorable. I like you. I think you guys are good together,”
She says this like she’d given me a seal of approval. I guess to his fans who feel a slight ownership over him, they believe that they have to sign off on everything he does. I get it, kind of. Not really but I sympathize. Jay has put most of his life on social media so fans can feel close to him. For some of them, he’s what they look forward to starting their day or at the end of the night.
“You don’t want to be recognized do you?” She inquires.
I shake my head and look around us to see who’s listening. We’re in such a close space that its almost impossible to hear snippets of everyone’s conversation. Still, everyone is engrossed in what they’re saying, no one pays attention to me.
“You should pull your hood over your head. You’re really pretty, Y/n. People will notice sooner or later,”
I do as she suggests and pull my hood over my head, and lower my hat.
“Better?” I ask hopefully.
“Just don’t look at anyone,” she laughs.
“Thanks,” I smile. “Are you here alone?”
She nods. “I don’t have any friends who like Korean music,”
“What’s your name?” I ask her.
“Lauren,”
“Nice to meet you,” I smile. “We’ll be alone together then,”
She smiles back and we wait for the show to start. It’s been a least six months since I watched Jay perform. Every time I watch him it’s like we’re kids again. He’s his happiest and I’m cheering him on.
The show starts and ends so fast, I have to keep my eyes open and on every moment for fear of missing it. I can’t take my eyes off of Jay. Seeing him, finally, it’s like I can breathe again. He’s so far away but not as far as he’s been for the last couple of weeks. Watching him in secret brings a certain thrill as he moves without knowing I’m here. I wonder how frustrated he is that I haven’t called him.
Still, he does well. Better than well. He’s always been a performer. He knows how to build anticipation and deliver. His interactions with fans are cute too.
When the show ends, Jay is shirtless and oblivious and I’m...nervous.
Lauren and I file out to the parking lot.
“You have Instagram?” I ask her.
She nods and spouts off her Instagram username. I follow her and tuck my phone back into my purse.
“It was nice meeting you,” she smiles.
“You too,” I grin. “Thanks for not ruining my secret,”
“No problem. Tell Jay I said Hi,” she laughs while walking toward her car. I watch her get in and safely pull off before I round the parking lot toward the lot where the buses are parked. Getting them to let me on the bus is going to be the hardest part of tonight. I’d rope Chase or someone into helping me but men are worse at keeping secrets than women.
“Ma’am You can’t get back here,”
It only takes seconds for someone to stop me. A guy who looks like he’d rather be anywhere than here making sure a bunch of young girls don’t sneak onto a tour bus.
“I know you won’t believe me but my boyfriend was one of the performers,” I say. I wince at how fake it sounds.
“Listen, you’re the third girl in the last ten minutes. I can’t let you back. I’m sorry,”
“I can prove it,” I say quickly pulling out my phone.
I show the guy a picture of me Jay posted the other day. I hold the phone up to my face and try to pose to look like the picture.
“My plane literally landed three hours ago. I’m just trying to surprise him,”
He shakes his head. “I believe you sweetheart, but I can not let you back there. I’ll lose my job,”
I sigh, closing my eyes and rubbing my temples. My eyes start to burn. I just want to see my boyfriend, dammit.
“Are you crying?”
He groans and takes a small step away from me. I wipe my eyes with the sleeve of my hoodie and wrap my arms around myself.
“I’m sorry. I just haven’t seen him in so long and I miss him so much. I just really needed to see him. My job has been so stressful lately and he got us a cat but I think he sort of hates me because he thinks I sent Jay away. And-,”
“Ok!” He interrupts holding his two hands up like he’s afraid I’m going to fall into a blubbering mess. “I’ll call someone to come get you,”
“It’s a secret,” I pout, sniffing a little.
He nods like he’s placating a child. “I’ll make sure they know to keep it quiet,”
I wait as he speaks into his walkie-talkie. After three minutes of awkwardness, a lady guard comes to bring me back. I thank him before waving as I walk off.
“Which ones your boyfriend?” She smiles at me.
“Jay,” I tell her feeling the butterflies come back as I say his name. “The one with the tattoos,”
“The one who took his shirt off on stage?”
I nod rolling my eyes at his antics on stage. He really does love showing his body off.
“Yep, that’s him,”
“He’ll be happy to see you then. He seems kind of fresh,”
We both laugh as we come up to the bus in the middle. She knocks on the door and we wait.
“I have to wait with you until someone confirms your identity,”
I nod understandingly.
The door opens and I hold my breath waiting to see Jay’s face.
Instead, it’s a woman. She looks confused as she twists her dark hair into a bun. She looks comfortable in sweats and fuzzy socks that says she’s in for the night.
The guard clears her throat, looking over at me awkwardly.
I speak up first. “Where’s Jay?”
“Who are you?” She asks, her eyebrows furrowing.
“I’m his girlfriend. Who are you?”
She ignores my question and crosses her arms over her ample chest.
“His girlfriend lives in Korea.” She comments before adding, “and you aren’t Korean,”
It takes me several seconds of deep breathing to find the patience to keep calm.
“I’m American. Where’s Jay,” I ask again. “And why are you on his bus? Who are you with?”
She smiles, pulling her bottom lip between her teeth.
“Chase,” she says.
I resist the urge to roll my eyes at my friends taste in women. It hasn’t developed, unfortunately.
“What’s going on?” Chase comes behind her, wrapping his thick arms around her waist before looking up at me and the lady guard. I wiggle my fingers at him and roll my eyes.
“Holy Shit,” he smiles.
“Do you know her?” the guard asks.
“Holy Shit,” Chase says again smiling wider.
“Do you allow this person on the bus? I need a yes or no answer sir or I have to escort her off the premises,”
“Oh, Yes,” he says like he’s finally snapped out of his surprise. “Actually, we’re getting off the bus,” he says pulling the girl with him.
“Wait, I don’t have shoes,” she exclaims.
Chase throws her over his shoulder and walks toward another bus.
“You kids have fun,” He yells.
“My job is done. Have a good night,” the lady guard says as she gestures toward to the open door. I thank her before climbing onto the bus.
I look around. It’s the first time Jay got tour buses for a tour. It’s big and spacious with a few beds lined up. I hear the shower running and I resist the urge to barge in, knowing he’s so close. Instead, I sit on a couch against the wall of the bus a pick up a Rubix cube that’s laying on the table. I twist it in my hand, trying to calm my racing heart.
Finally, the shower stops running and it takes everything I have in me to wait. It’ll be worth it, I tell myself.
The door opens suddenly. “I don’t think I’m going out. I’m going to call Y/n,” he says. He pulls a T-shirt over his head, still not seeing me, as he heads to the back.
“Lock the bus before you leave if you can,” he calls.
I roll my eyes and smile at how oblivious he is. I stand and make my way through the door he disappeared to. I lean up, watching him collect his computer and his phone charger.
“What if I don’t want to leave,” I say smiling at him.
He turns quickly, his computer falling on the floor and on his foot. His winces in pain before looking back up at me.
I want to be cute and say something quirky, but I can’t think of anything other than how good he looks, his hands on me, and the way he’s looking at me. My feet carry me forward toward him. I reach out to touch his side, running my hand up and down his T-shirt.
“Hi,” I smile up at him.
His hands reach up, cupping my face gently. His thumb runs across my bottom lip, pulling my mouth open.
“How are you here right now?” he whispers.
I pull myself tight against his chest. I can’t stop smiling. He feels good, thicker, more muscled. He’s put the weight he lost during the first week of the tour back on in muscle. I think about my body and what he probably sees. My hips are a little wider, my stomach softer, I have a bit more curves than when he left.
“Surprise-,”
His mouth comes down hard on mine, interrupting the word. He grabs my thighs and hikes me up against his waist easily. His tongue pushes past my lips and meets my own. He tastes so good. A shiver runs down my back as a part of me that’s been needing to be quenched for over a month is finally satisfied.
All of him engulfs me, as he pulls at the hat I’m wearing and throws it on the ground. His fingers tangle in my hair roughly, as he holds me against him. He pulls gently, tilting my head up so his mouth can move down my chin to my neck.
I moan as he touches a particularly sensitive area. His teeth pull at my skin. He drops me on the bed behind us and climbs on top of me. His hands go to my jeans and he gets them off quickly. I pull at his black T-shirt and he pulls it the rest of the way off.
My nails scrap over his skin. He still hasn’t said anything. I want to hear him. As much as I miss his body, I miss *him* more. I need him to say something.
“Jay,” I call to get his attention. He doesn’t look at me, just kisses me so hard that I almost forget what I want.
“Jay,” I say again pulling away from his mouth. “Why don’t you say something?”
He looks at me for a long time before his lips touch mine softly. He draws back and smooths a hand over my forehead to move my hair.
“I can’t focus,” he whispers. “I’m thinking about everything at once. I missed you so much, but today was harder for some reason. I just couldn’t stop thinking about you, and wishing that I could just go home. And then you’re here. Almost like you knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through another day without holding you,”
I reach up and pull his face back down to mine. It’s that same feeling that made me book a plane ticket last minute. I had to see him. It’s like his heart pulled at mine. We needed each other.
“I love you,” I whisper against his mouth.
His own mouth comes down on my neck, suctioning against my skin. I throw my head back so he can have better access. Reaching up, I tangle my hands in his hair that curls slightly because of the length.
“Wait here,” he says. He gets up quickly, leaving me in the middle of the bed. He’s only gone for seconds. When he comes back, a row of foil packets hang from his fingers.
I watch him ease his shorts down his hips before he climbs back on top of me.
“I’m not going to last tonight, Y/n,”
“I don’t care. Just fuck me,” I’m finding it hard to breathe while his hips move against mind. I tilt my hips up and wrap my legs around him, pressing myself against him. Only the thin material of my panties and his boxers separate us, but really it has no difference as I press my core against his bulge.
I reach between us to pull my panties down my hips and off before shimmying his boxers down his own hips a bit. I wrap my hand around him, feeling how soft and hard he is. It never really made sense to me how someone can feel both sensations at once. But here he is, like granite and silk all at once. I reach beside me and grab the row of foil packets before ripping one off. I don’t take my eyes off of him as I ease the latex over him.
He still hasn't moved, but his breath is labored like he's restraining himself. I want him to lose control. I want him to fuck me like he hasn't seen me in almost two months.
I reach up. My thumb goes to his perfect deep pink lips. He pulls the appendage between his teeth and bites gently. "Come on, baby. Let go. I'm not going anywhere, Jay. We get more than this,"
I touch his lips to mine. My legs tighten around his waist. His skin is so hot against mine. He feels like he's on fire.
He pulls back. His hands rest on my hips and his eyes focus on where we connect. Without warning, his hips surge forward. I watch him clench his jaw tightly as holds himself back.
Every move he makes against me is rough and hard. When his pelvis bone hits mine, it starts to burn after a while from his hard it hits. I don't want it any other way right now.
"Yes," I sigh out. My hands grip on his wrists tightly as he holds me. I have no choice but to chase my release. Everything about him is just about sending me over the edge; the smell of him, the little frown between his eyebrows, the way he licks his lips every so often. It's like my favorite movie, shot scored and broadcasted exclusively for me. I grab one of his hands off of my hip and bring it up to my mouth. My tongue flicks out to swirl around his middle finger. When he hits a spot just right, my teeth come down on his skin. He winces, pulls his finger back before kissing me again. It's messy, rough, so full of everything that I can't pull away even as I run out of breath.
"Come on baby, I need you to come for me," his teeth grind together as he talks. He kisses me hard and it's what sends me over the edge. I moan against his mouth as my legs quiver around him. He pulls back, flips me over, and pushes back in. An arm under my waist coasts my ass up in the air. His hands squeeze and kneed at my skin roughly.
Finally, with a loud grunt, Jay comes and collapses behind me. I fall to the bed with his body crushing the air out of me. He rolls so that we lay sideways and he's not squeezing my lungs.
His fingers curl around mine, intertwining with my own. It feels too good to be pressed skin to skin with him again. He’s warm, and soft, and smells like the body wash in our bathroom back home. It smells much better on his skin than mine. I press my lips against his throat and breathe in.
“Did you just smell me?” He laughs pulling back to look at me. I shrug and nuzzle my nose back into the crook of his neck.
“Just let me have this. I’ve been cuddling with Junior for the last month and a half,”
“Why didn’t you bring him,” I can basically hear the pout in his voice.
“I’m sorry,” I sigh. “Next time I’ll send him alone,”
“Shut up,” He laughs.
“Clearly, your girlfriend who flew across your world just to fuck you pales in comparison to your cat,”
Jay’s arms come around me as he lifts my body to straddle his hips. His hand strokes up my body, touching my hips and chest before settling on the side of my neck. I watch his eyes take in my skin. I wonder what he sees. He hasn’t commented on my recent body changes and I can’t help but be a tiny bit worried.
“So I’m just a long distance booty call?” He jokes. “I feel so used,”
“You love your cat more than me,” I say, crossing my arms over my chest. His eyes immediately go to breasts. His tongue comes out to swipe across his bottom lip slowly. I watch as his eyes move over my skin like he’s soaking me in.
“Do you know that you glow?” He asks suddenly.
“What?” I drop my arms, grabbing his hands and lacing our fingers again.
“You glow,” he repeats with a small smile. “I can’t explain it really. You just look like you have a golden light around you. Your face is so lit up right now, it’s like,” he trails off, his brows furrowing.
“You’re so pretty,” he whispers. “I told myself I was going to tell you more often but it’s so obvious that I forget sometimes,”
“I glow,” I smile down at him. I could say the same about him. I’ve always thought that he was light personified. He shines. Whatever he does, where ever he goes; he shines.
His hands slide up to cup my face, pulling me down to his mouth. My chest presses against his skin, while his arms come around me. He kisses me softly, gently like he ‘s telling me something.
“How long are you here for?” He asks.
“I can fly back early Monday morning, so we have all weekend,”
“Where’s your luggage and stuff?”
“I didn’t have time to pack anything. I have to find a store in the morning,”
Jay’s eyes narrow on me, his lips pursed. “You just want to steal my clothes,”
I smile kiss his neck. “You’re right,”
Jay sighs and wraps his arms lightly around my head, holding me against his body. “You can just work from the tour bus like you do at home. Don’t leave,”
“I have a shoot on Tuesday, and I’m meeting with all of your AOMG guys for the award show at some point this week,”
“Cancel. As the CEO of the company, I’m rescheduling the appointments,”
“Nope,” I smile. “You’ll be home in five weeks for your own fitting and the endorsements so I can manage on two and a half days,”
Jay laughs before rolling over so he’s on top of me. “We’re doing Seattle on tomorrow night,”
“I know,” I smile. “We can pretend like we’re in high school again and sneak out of the house to make out,”
His hand pulls at the ends of my hair while his eyes scan my face. The way he looks at me, it’s everything I never knew I could have. Thinking about being with him back home where we started long before we knew where we were supposed to end up.
“I think I caused enough trouble for your parents,”
I raise an eyebrow up at him. “What do you mean,”
“You moved away from home, you get so much shit online, you’re home alone most of the time; because of me, baby,”
“For you,” I correct. “They love you. They always have,”
“Still,” he says with a small smile. “We have to behave. Don’t pout at me like that, Y/n,”
I roll my eyes, sighing. Since when does Jay Park behave himself? He’s the one person in my life I can count on to be down for just about anything, and yet he asks me to behave.
“We’ll see,” I smile up at him.
He groans and buried his face into my shoulder. “I know you, Y/n. You’re going to make every moment we’re with your parents absolutely hell for me,”
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
I try to hide the smile on my face as Jay is scolded by his mother on the other end of a phone call. She barely lets him get a word in. Instead, his mouth is left open, little sounds coming out to interject.
“No, Eomma, I didn’t mean to keep it from you,”
My conversation with my own parents this morning went pretty much the same way. My mother scolded me for not telling her Jay and I had gotten together finally. My father had asked me to keep the public displays of affection to a minimum, in reference to the picture that has now been posted on almost every Korean blog site, and even some Americans sites.
There are also photos of me at Jay’s events popping up from the depths of the internet, all of my social media accounts have doubled in following, and there’s been a few younger girls trailing around my apartment and office. No one seemed to care when I was the friend from back home. As much as I thought none of this would be an issue, it’s turned out to be a bit inconvenient for me. I wouldn’t say it’s life-changing, I would just rather not have kids coming up to me to ask me about my boyfriend.
“Ok, we’ll make a trip soon. I promise. Yes, Eomma, I love you too. She loves you too. We’ll see you soon,”
Jay sighs as he finally hangs up. He sits on the edge of my bed and falls back, his head resting on my thigh. I reach out, running my hands through his hair.
“She thinks we’re getting married by next year. You also owe her an explanation so prepare for when you head back home,”
I laugh. “Yeah, well my dad’s not too happy that there’s a picture of me with some guy’s hands gripping my ass while he tongues my throat,”
“Those were his exact words?”
I smack his shoulder, laughing. “No, but he wants to speak with you the next time you’re in town,”
He blows out a breath through his pursed lips. He reaches up and grabs a piece of hair that hangs down in front of his face. “Are you ok?” He asks me seriously. “Really, Y/n, I need to know if you’re cool with all of this,”
I smile down at him. He’s been worried about me for the last week and a half since this first came out. No matter how many times I tell him that he’s worth all the small annoyances in the world, he still checks constantly. I think me potentially being stressed out is actually stressing him out which is counterproductive in general.
“My world is hardly collapsing, Jay,”
“People can be mean,” he whispers.
“So can I,” I tell him. “Everything is fine. I promised I’d tell you if I can’t handle something, and I will,”
He rolls his body so he can lay on my bed beside me. His arms come around my waist as he rests his head in my lap. He’s been more tired than usual. He has a few shows lined up the next couple of weekends that he’s been getting ready for along with what he calls a small American tour with some new music some of his artists are planning to drop soon. He’s been incredibly busy, we both have.
I have a few clients who need fittings and I told Jay I’d go with him to his first show in Macau next weekend. We’ve both been too exhausted to do anything more than fall asleep as soon as we see a bed. Most of the time lately, he’s been in his own bed and I mine. There’s been a night or two when we managed to stay up just long enough to fall into each other before crashing.
We’re both up early today, hoping if we start earlier we can end early too. Jay has a few radio interviews he needs to do for his upcoming U.S debut under roc nation. I’m on breakfast duty, which just consisted of me ordering food and waiting for him to get the door.
“You excited?” I ask him, running my fingers across his jaw. We’ve been in a good space lately even with our relationship going public. We talk again, just like before. We laugh and fall in love with new things. But we also give ourselves space. Sometimes you just have to miss someone to appreciate how much you want them close. We’re used to not seeing each other for periods of time. Neither of us wants to become too dependent on falling asleep right under each other every night.
We’ve discovered we aren’t set up to be clingy and inseparable. It’s never been like that. After we made up, we had a conversation about all the misunderstandings and faults we were having. For one, we can’t overthink any of this. We’re still the same people we were before he kissed me. It’ll be complicated if we make it complicated. So, we’re taking it a day at a time, and it’s been working for us. I also made sure to let Jay know where I drew the line at jealousy and possessive. I think he got it. My flowers are still placed around my apartment, thriving. No doubt they’re the expensive sets that last months without even wilting a little bit.
“For what, the interviews?”
“No, for everything else. The album, the tour, it’s just something different than what you’ve done before,”
His thumb circles my sides, gliding over my skin as he thinks. “I mean, I don’t want it to become something that’s too big for me. It’s different but I want to treat it all the same way I’ve been doing everything over here,”
“You nervous?”
He scoffs but I shoot him a look. He hates opening up. He rather keep the mood light and positive. He forgets I know him better than anybody.
“A little. Like you said it’s new. I’ve never been in a relationship on tour before. I’m apprehensive about how it will affect us,”
“Us?”
“I feel like I have to protect you, or I should say I do have to protect you,”
“I can handle myself,” I roll my eyes. “And protect me from what?”
He shrugs. “I don’t know. Whatever comes up. I just don’t ever want you to think I’m not thinking about how every move I make is going to impact you,”
“You can’t live your life for me, Jay,”
“You moved out here to be with me, Y/n. We can try to pretend that it’s not true and that your dream has always been to be a stylist in Seoul to up and coming idols, but I know it’s not true. The least I can do is be worth your time,”
“You’re ridiculous you know that?”
He laughs. “How am I ridiculous,”
“You should listen to yourself talk sometimes, that’s all. One day you’ll understand that I’m not just here for my health,”
“Then why are you here? All this time, I was with other people and you’ve just been here,” he trails off.
“Waiting, I guess,” I finish for him. “I’ve been waiting for myself to realize that it’s always been you. And waiting for you to get your miles in,”
“But why? How could you just watch me live that life and still want me like this?”
“You were happy,” I smile down at him. “And I was too. I just wanted to see you do well and enjoy everything around you because you deserve it,”
“That’s wild to me,” he says quietly. “I hated every single guy you’ve been with by the way,”
I gasp and hit his shoulder again. “You’re lying. You got along with most of my ex-boyfriends,”
“I didn’t have a choice. You loved some of them. In some way, at least. Like you said, you were happy, I was happy. We were stupid,”
“We weren’t stupid. We just weren't ready to be together,” I tell him.
“We wasted so much time,” his hands run over my thighs. “We could’ve been doing this years ago,”
I laugh. “Years ago you didn’t want anything other than aomg. And I was trying to figure my own life out,”
“I think we could’ve done it,”
Maybe so. Maybe we aren’t giving ourselves enough credit. I rub his jaw, the pad of my fingers drifting over his skin softly. He looks tired, if he’s not in bed he’s at the studio working. I keep telling him he doesn’t have to keep up with anyone but himself. He’s running himself ragged trying to help other people with their projects as well as working on his own. Of course, he won’t have it any other way.
“Why don’t you rest here and I’ll come get you when the food is here?” I say bending down to kiss his cheek. I try to get up but his arms tighten around my waist.
“I can’t the first interview is supposed to call in a few minutes,”
I try to get up again but he holds me tighter, burying his face in between my thighs. His teeth pull at my skin gently. The bite turns into suction as his lips work over my skin. I will never get his obsession with leaving marks on my skin. No one will see them so it’s not like it’s for anything other than his own self-satisfaction. He pulls back to stare at his work, a smirk on his mouth.
“You’re like an eighteen-year-old boy,”I roll my eyes at him while he switches to the other thigh. This time he bites a little harder.
“You’re coming to Wegun’s wedding with me right?” He asks suddenly.
“Do you want me to?” I raise an eyebrow at him. I’ve known about the wedding for a while now, and he’d asked me to go with him a while back. Now just seems a little more formal. I don’t spend much time with any of Jay’s friends, it’ll be weird to see them again as someone he’s dating now.
“Yeah, I do,”
I sigh. “Yeah, ok I’ll go. When is it?”
“Next Friday, then we’re flying out to Macau,”
I run my thumb over his shaved eyebrow. “You know how to keep a girl busy don’t you?”
He laughs and sets his chin against my thigh. “I’m not quite ready not to see you every day again,”
I push my hands through his hair. “Are you worried?” I ask him. “About us, I mean, not me,”
He shakes his head, pressing his lips against my skin. “No, not at all. You’ve always been my reason to come home. Even when we didn’t know it,”
I smile, pulling the corner of my lip between my teeth. It still feels like I shouldn’t be so lucky to hear him talk like this. Not about me. I’d always imagine what he’d be like in a relationship. If he was softer, and gentler, behind closed doors, it feels weird still to actually see it. The soft eyes, lazy smiles, he’s as much my dream come true as I am his.
“Why do you look like you’re about to cry or something? I’ve reached my quota of tears with you last week,”
I roll my eyes but force myself not to get emotional. I bend down to press my lips against his cheek, running my fingers over the spot.
“Be nice to me, we only have a few more days before you’re leaving me again,”
His arms tighten around my waist. He’s quiet for a while. There’s a wrinkle between his brows that tell me he’s thinking about something important. His mouth opens, he draws in a breath only for his lips to smack shut again.
“Spit it out, Jay,”
“I’m trying to be tactful, baby, give me a minute,”
“Tactful?”
“Yeah, you know, delicate easy-“
This guy I swear. I scoff. “I know what tactful means but when are you ever anything but blunt,”
“So, I’ve been thinking,” he starts.
“Yeah, I can tell by the way your nose wrinkled up just now,” I sigh.
Jay clears his throat. “No I mean, lately,”
“Jay,”
“Y/n,”
“Jay,”
“Can you just shut up for a minute,” he sighs looking up at me.
Whatever it is is important to him. I shrug my shoulders for him to go on. He starts again.
“I’ve been thinking that it would be easier for the both of us if-,”
I’m about to say something but he reaches up to grab my lips as he continues to talk. “You moved some or all of your stuff to my place. You know, if you want to,” he trails off as I shake free of his hand against my mouth.
“You want me to move in with you?”
He narrows his eyes at me, his head tilting. “Yes...no?”
“Absolutely not!” I say.
He sits up beside me.
This is the final piece of evidence I need to support the idea that men are literally the dumbest creatures on earth. Exhibit A, my boyfriend Park Jaybeom.
“Is that your answer to the question or a denial of the actual question?”
“It’s absolutely fucking not,” I laugh crossing my arms over my chest. “It’s no in every language, even the dead ones. Are you crazy?”
“I asked if you wanted to move in with me and you say no in every single language?”
“Absolutely not, Jay,”
I stand up, my feet carrying me around my room as I calm my nerves. I shake my arms out, crossing them, un-crossing, and then recrossing them. He’ll give me an early death. And the worst part is he’ll get away with it because he’s beautiful and can sing. Bastard.
“Can I ask why ‘absolutely not’?”
“Because for one, we don’t know how to operate seeing each other every single minute of the day. We just decided to give each other space,” I shoot at him, still pacing around my room.
He tries to say something but I continue to tick off the reasons he’s absolutely ridiculous on my fingers.
“Second, we’ve been dating for a month and a half,” I hold up my finger as he tries to give the bullshit about being in love with me for half our lives. “Third, moving in is basically marriage and you really don’t want to get married. You never have,”
“But why shouldn’t we get married? We’re in love, we’re happy, we’re in a good place,”
“Exactly! Wait, what? We’re not getting married. We’re in a good place. Do you know what they say about marriage? No sex, Jay. Can you live with that? No sex one day, then the next I’m going through a mid-life crisis because my husband is never home because he’s fucking Jay Park and then I have my mom asking why we aren’t having kids. And we can’t raise children with you on the road like this, right?”
I realize I’m rambling and I make no sense. But neither does he.
“Why would you even suggest it? ‘If I want to’?” I mimic his voice.
“One minute we’re fine the next I’m picking up your underwear and falling into the toilet because you left the seat up and then you’re complaining about how my shit everywhere,”
Jay stands and catches my waist as I pass by him. One arm snakes around my waist while the other pushes my messy hair away. He’s so soft. Even as I reject even the idea of living with him.
“Relax, baby. Relax,” he says again when I open my mouth. His stupid full lips pull into a smirk. His hands come up to hold either side of my face, thumbs working over my cheeks.
“I got it at ‘absolutely not’, it’s ok,” he tells me.
The way he’s looking at me is too much. His eyes soften on my face as I stare back trying to figure him out. Marriage, right now, is out of the question. Not only because we don’t have the time in his schedule, but we wouldn’t be doing it for the right reasons. We love each other, of course, we do. We just shouldn’t rush to take up each other’s space, even if it would be nice to fall asleep wrapped around him every night or to be who he comes home to after work.
“I’d be lying if I said I never thought about it,” I start slowly. “But when I do think about it, we’re more,” I trail off searching for the words I want.
“Settled,” he says.
I nod in agreement, dropping my eyes from his gaze. I focus on the cluster of stars on his neck instead, because now I’m thinking about it.
I run my hands up his sides underneath his t-shirt. “Why are you always ready for the next step?”
His lips press against my forehead. “I love you, Baby. I can’t get enough of you,”
I lean my head against his chest. No one has ever loved me the way he does. No one has ever been so determined to keep me their life the way he is. He’s simple, straight to the point, and it’s hard not to feel the same way. All those excuses, are simply just that. Excuses. Non-reasons meant to placate my anxiety over moving a step too soon and losing him.
“After you finish these next few shows, give me a month to get everything in order here. Then you can help me pack up my stuff when you get some time off,”
“You’re moving in?” He smiles so wide I can’t help but lean in to kiss him.
“Not right now, but yes,” I smile at him leaning my chin in the middle of his chest while I look up at him. His hands come up to smooth my hair away from my face.
“There’s a weekend no clothing rule for residents,”
“Funny you tell me that after I agree to live with you,”
“I don’t make the rules, babe,” he sighs and shakes his head like it’s out of his hands.
“Ok, I agree to your no clothes rule, but I want unlimited access to your closet and freedom to give away any repulsive clothing,”
I hold my pinky between us, wiggling it so he can latch his own finger around it. I press my thumb against his own, sealing the deal. He kisses my lips, then my nose and my cheeks, he moves to my mouth again. His tongue moves past my lips. As soon as I open my mouth for him, we jump apart as his phone rings. He scrambles to grab it off of my bed, pressing it to ear.
“Hello? Yes, this is Jay,”
I pass by him pressing a kiss on the back of his shoulder as he gets into his interview. I grab my own laptop to check any emails from Bora. Her and Jin landed a few days ago in L.A. From all of the pictures she’d sent me, they were having a good time, which makes me going that much more so the right decision.
I sit out in the living room and scroll through my recent emails. Several social media sites asking me to verify my accounts. I open the message up top.
*Hello, Mrs. Y/N. My name is Gina Waters. I work for a small American fashion magazine called Haute. We heard that you were involved with styling a rising artist for an award show this week. We’re interested in doing a feature on how you’d ended up in Seoul with your own company. Please contact us if you’re interested.*
Holy shit.
Press means publicity. Publicity means more clients. I could never imagine a time when my business could be in any kind of fashion magazine. If I’m honest, there’s not much of a story behind my business. What would I even tell them?
*I followed my best friend across the world because I was secretly in love with him and here I am!*
Jay comes out of my room. His phone in his hand. “Done already?” I ask while re-reading the email.
“One down, twenty more to go,” he laughs. He sits beside me throwing his legs over my lap. I lift my laptop and set it on his shin.
“Read this,” I turn the laptop toward him. “Do you think this is real? I mean they seem like they did a little bit of research,”
I watch his face as he reads through the email. He types something into his phone before handing it over to me.
“It looks pretty real,” he says.
I look at the page; full of links to online articles with a few thousand hits. This isn’t just a small magazine. They have a pretty decent sized following.
“You should do. Think of all the people who would be interested in how shit you are at learning Korean,”
“You’re really a pain in the ass,”
“You say that a lot,” he notes tilting his head. “Anyway, I have a few more calls and then I’m going to head over to rehearsals. I’ll pick up dinner on my way home,”
“You don’t live here,” I remind him again.
“So you don’t want me to get dinner?” He smirks. “Because I can just take it back to my place and let you starve,”
I set my computer down on my coffee table in front of me. I turn to Jay and wrap my arm around his waist. He pulls me down so that I’m laying on top of him. I wish we could stay here all night, watching bad tv and getting on each other’s nerves.
“Can you buy me ice cream too?”
Jay’s hands stroke up my back, his fingers pressing against my skin. I close my eyes savoring the feel of him. We have a week before Macau. A week of contented domestication until everything gets crazier.
“Actually, just stay here,” I say gripping at his T-shirt. His chest vibrates with a laugh.
“You go from telling me not to come back to wanting me not to leave,”
I lift my head to look at him. “I don’t want you to go on tour. I don’t want you to be big in America. I want you to stay here to love me and buy me ice cream,”
Jay sighs. His mouth touches mine softly before he pulls back to rest his head back. “15 shows. I’ll be home when I can. I’ll fly you out. We’ll figure it out, baby,”
“I know,” I say. “I know. I just, I missed you a lot before, but now,” I trail off pressing my face against him.
“You’ll be fine, Y/n. You’ll do better than I will. Besides you don’t even like me half of the time,” he laughs. “You’ll be so busy doing interviews you’ll forget about me,”
“Shut up,”
“I’m serious. I’m going to be begging for your attention while you sip margaritas with the Kardashians at the met gala or some shit,”
“First of all, Kanye is the real fashion icon of that family. Second, if you happen to get invited to the met gala, I’ll kill you if anyone else styles you,”
“Noted,” he smiles down at me.
Sighing, I sit up; straddling his hips. His hands go to my thighs, stroking up my skin. I smooth my hands over the center of his chest. “Go to work, and don’t forget my ice cream, and try not to come home too late,”
Jay shakes his head at me; a wide smile on his face. “So demanding,”
“And you want me to move in with you. Are you sure?”
“It's the reason why you’re moving in, baby. You’re just so damn hot,”
I stand, rolling my eyes at him. “I take my pinky shake back,”
“That’s not how it works,” he smiles back.
We eat and he heads out to work. I remind him not to take forever and he reminds me that he has a tour coming up.
I email the magazine back, deciding that nothing bad could really come out of it.
I call Bora too to see if everything is going well with Zino.
“Y/n!”
“Hey, Bora. Are you having fun yet?” I laugh. From the pictures she’d sent me, it’s like her and Jin are having a pre-honeymoon. They’ve done so much in the last four days I’m actually jealous I didn’t go.
“Jin says we should we relocate to the states,”
“Tell him he’ll get tired of L.A after two weeks,”
“Seriously, Y/n, we need to take a girls’ trip or something. I love Jin but he gets agitated in the sun,”
I laugh. “We’ll schedule something. We can bring Chae with us too,”
“God that would be amazing. Anyway, so everything is set for tomorrow. I’m going to email you a copy of the final accessories he picked out for the lookbook. He wants to do an outfit change for the after party but we’re not sure if he should just do no jacket to be consistent or just do something new,”
“Try no jacket and switch the button up for a plain white u-neck. What is he doing for hair?”
“Slicked back. He’s getting a cut in the morning,”
“Perfect,” I smile. “Honestly, Bora, what would I do without you? Listen, I just got an email from an online magazine. They want to do a feature on the company,”
“What! That’s amazing! You’re going to do it right?”
“I want to. It’s exposure right?”
“So you’ll do it, Vogue will see it, fall in love with you and you become the next Anna Wintour,”
“Hardly,” I scoff. We talk more about how her trip is going, and she makes me promise we’ll take a trip back out before she has to go rub ointment on Jin’s sunburns.
Jay gets back late. He’s so tired I can see the dark circles under his eyes. Still, he curses at the fact that he forgot my ice cream.
“Jay, you’re not going back outside. It’s close to midnight,” I wrap my hands around his thick arm and pull him toward the bathroom. “I’ll pick some up tomorrow. Go shower and come to bed,”
His arms come around my waist. “Come shower with me,” he says in my ear slowly. I feel goosebumps rise on my skin as he walks us to the bathroom.
“I showered right before you walked through the door,” I say pushing my bottom lip out.
“Well come help me get clean. I’m too tired to lift my arms,”
“You’re full of shit is what you are,”
Jay pushes his hand up the hem of my T-shirt. His fingers close around my breast, squeezing. He kisses my jaw pressing his bulge against my ass. I moan as his teeth scrape softly against my skin.
The hand that isn’t under my shirt reaches down beneath my shorts and underwear. His fingers glide against me slowly.
“Y/n,”
“Shower,” I sigh as his fingers move against me.
Jay laughs, stepping with me toward my shower. His hands make quick work of my clothes, leaving me standing in nothing. I turn the shower on as he strips behind me. I can tell just how exhausted he is with how sluggish he moves.
He reaches down to grab his wallet out of his pants and pulls a condom out. He holds the foil packet between his teeth, his hands coming to my waist so he can hoist me up on my sink. My ass presses into the cold ceramic but he’s there between my legs to warm me up.
I grab the foil square from between his teeth and tilt up to press my lips against his. His hands reach up to cup my face as he holds me against him.
“Can you imagine this almost every night? Waking up next to you,” his hips press into mine. “Fucking you whenever I want,”
“That’s the only reason you want me to move in, right? So you can use my body however you want?” I laugh. Jay cuts the sound by bending down to take a nipple between his teeth. He looks at while his lips wrap around the little bud.
“Fuck,” I curse, grabbing his hair. My legs come around his waist.
“Let me get this on,” he says taking the condom from me.
He sinks into me slowly as steam starts to surround us and fog up the mirror. He moves so slowly I feel desperate. I don’t think I’ve ever truly understood the meaning of the world euphoria. I never tried drugs, I’m not one to get drunk, sex has never been my vice, but when Jay moves against me, it’s love and lust and everything good in the universe wrapped in a single moment.
“I think about you every second I’m not with you, Y/n. When I’m working, I’m writing songs about you, when I should be sleeping I’m worried about you,” he says.
Still, his hips move painfully slow against me. I throw my head back against the mirror behind me as he hits a particularly sensitive angle.
“I want you in my space. Especially when I’m not home, I want you getting into my stuff. I want to find your makeup brushes all over my room, I want to trip over your shoes. I want all of your messes,”
He kisses me hard, his arms wrapping around me. His hips pick up speed, moving just a bit faster enough to make me call out his name. I reach up to wrap my arms around his neck, pulling him closer.
“I’m going to come,” I sigh against him. “Fuck,”
“Let go, baby,” he grits out between clenched teeth.
My legs shake around him. Jay leans back, holding on to my hips at he rolls against me harder. I watch his eyes follow where we connect. He pulls his bottom lip between his teeth. His head throws back as he fucks me harder. I don’t think I’ve ever found him more attractive.
After a few more minutes, he falls against me, trying to catch his breath. His chest moves rapidly against my own.
“Let’s get cleaned up so you can get to bed,” I say, running my hands through his damp hair.
He moves back so I can hop down off the sink. He holds my hand and helps me step into the shower underneath the hot water. He steps in beside me.
We get cleaned up and head to bed, wrapped around each other. I count down how many more nights I’ll get to have him like this; seven more. That’s all I get of domesticated Jay before he’s gone again.
“What are you thinking about?” He asks with his face pressed into my neck.
“I accepted the interview,” I say.
“Even in the dark you’re a bad liar, baby,” I feel him smile against my neck. “Still, I’m proud of you. You deserve for everybody to know your name,”
“I’m also thinking about how much I’m going to miss you,”
“Don’t think about it. You always sound like you’re going to start crying and I can’t handle you crying anymore, Y/n. I’m tapped out,”
I laugh. “Shut up. Sleep,” I tell him. We both pass out in each other’s arms.
In the morning, I have another email from Haute asking me to call Gina Waters as soon as I can. I call her on my way to my office deciding it’s better to just rip the band-aid off.
“Is this Y/n?”
“Yes,” I say nervously. “Gina, right?”
“Right! I’ll be doing your phone interview. It’s super informal so don’t be afraid to tell me if you aren’t comfortable answering something just say so and I’ll immediately move on,”
“Ok,” I stutter. “Right now?”
“If you’re not too busy,” she says brightly. “Our blog is all about the love of fashion and the places it could take you. Your story has been interesting to me since I heard about you and I’m excited to get started,”
“Oh, okay yeah that’s fine I guess. I have about an hour. Will that be enough time?”
“Awesome. Why don’t you start by telling me how you got into fashion and what prompted you to move to Seoul,”
I start from the beginning and she asks all the right follow up questions. By the end of the conversation a little more than an hour has passed and I’m actually comfortable enough to answer her questions about Jay.
“I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask the question you thought I would lead with, Y/n. Are you dating Jay Park?”
There’s really no reason to deny it. My face is everywhere, there are pictures of me coming out of Jay’s place from a few days ago. I also should have to lie.
“If you aren’t comfortable, I completely understand, Y/n,”
“No, it’s fine,” I insist. “Yes, I’m dating Jay Park,”
Gina laughs lightly. “And if I may, one more question about Jay; can you tell me one thing about him and fashion. Anything from his preferred style to something he hates wearing,”
“His style is very easy I think. He gets into his phases. So right now he’s very into t-shirts, joggers, and silk button downs. So I just buy him things that he’s into,”
“So are you his personal stylist?”
“Unofficially,” I laugh. “I’ve been telling him what to wear for years. He was my first client, you could say,”
Gina laughs too. “Thank you so much, Y/n. You can look for the article in the next few days on our website. If you have any questions, please shoot me an email,”
And just like that, it’s over, taking with it my stress and anxiety.
Jay is staying at his place tonight. I know it’s because he doesn’t want to tell me that he won’t leave the studio until at least two in the morning. I always try not to be the nagging girlfriend, and I can tell him how ridiculous he is thousands of times but nothing can compete with that boy’s work ethic.
After a few meetings with clients and shamelessly saving my first American red carpet look on my phone, I head home. Zino looked amazing. He even shouted out Bora and me as his stylists which was pretty cool of him.
My place feels too empty. Ever since I decided to move in with Jay, it’s like it knows I’m getting ready to leave it behind.
I send Jay a text message before I fall asleep. In the morning I wake up to my phone ringing. I have ten missed calls and a bunch of texts from Bora and Chae. I open Chae’s first message before anything.
Chae: Your interview with Haute came out..
Chae: it’s not bad...but it’s not good, Y/n.
Chae: call me when you can. I love you...
I switch to Bora’s angry messages.
Bora: This is why we don’t deal with American media
Bora: all they care about is who’s dating who
Bora: can we sue or something. I mean they promised you a piece on your business, not your boyfriend
My phone rings again, Jay’s face flashing.
“Hello?”
“I’m outside. Can you let me in?” He asks.
“Yeah, I’m coming,” I hang up and get up to let him in. When I open the door, he kisses me hard; pushing himself into my apartment. I pull away, covering my mouth with my hand.
“I haven’t brushed my teeth yet. I literally just got up,”
“Your article came out,” Jay says as I make my way back to my room. I turn to look at him, a frown on my face.
“For Haute? We just did the interview yesterday. She said a couple of days,”
Jay grabs my laptop and types quickly before pushing into my lap.
Jay Park’s New Stylist Girlfriend
I scroll down to my article. A picture of Jay and I at some event is the photo they chose to use.
“We weren’t even together,” I whisper.
Jay sits beside me and takes the laptop. “Do you want me to read it for you?”
I nod. I can’t read it. Not when they didn’t even mention my name in the title.
“Korean-American singer Jay Park brought more than his music over from America when he moved to Seoul, South Korea,” Jay pauses to look up at me.
“Keep going,”
“American stylist, Y/N, came into fame only weeks ago when news of her relationship with the singer was made public. Sources say that the two have been dating for a little more than a month, with Y/n attending concerts and events affiliated with Jay’s record label. When asked who her favorite person to dress was, she couldn’t help but gush about her fashion-forward boyfriend stating, ‘We bond over clothing. I buy him things I know he’ll like and he’ll send me a text asking if I like something. It’s something entirely different from work’. Sources say that the singer, who has just signed a contract with Rock Nation And is embarking on a 15 city tour, is the reason Y/N moved to Seoul from their hometown of Seattle. She co-heads her own styling company with social media queen Kim Bora,”
There’s more but it’s more or less the same as the other two paragraphs praising my boyfriend. I feel ridiculous. I talked to her for an hour and a half. I told her about everything. I trusted her to do the right thing with my story so much that I didn’t even mind answering the one or two questions about Jay.
Jay reaches out to me. “Hey, don’t cry. Dammit, Y/n,”
I wipe my eyes. “This just feels super shitty, Jay,”
“I know, baby. I’ll fix it,”
He pulls me into his lap, his arms coming around my body.
“It’s already out. There’s nothing to fix,” I sigh, closing the laptop.
Jay is quiet for a long moment before he pulls me into his lap. His lips come to my neck.
“At least we look nice in the picture,” he smiles against my skin.
“Shut up,” I laugh leaning against him. “It is what it is, right?”
“You don’t need validation from an online blog,” Jay tells me. “You’re working with people far bigger than they could know. All those girl groups, you’re responsible for making look amazing, and you’re good at it,”
“I know, I know. I just thought that finally, I was breaking into things,”
“You’re already on the scene, baby. You’ve been so busy you haven’t taken time to look around you. Bora is in L.A for some big award show. You’re doing award shows here, video concepts, debuts, comebacks; it’s all you,”
I look back at him, reaching up to cup his face in my palm. He wraps his hand around mine, the letters on his fingers lining up perfectly with my own fingers.
“Since when are you so good at pep talks?”
“I’m just telling you the truth. If this was a pep talk I’d tell you to get over it. There’s plenty of other blogs out there that would kill to talk to you,”
“You’re the king of backhanded-ness,” I sigh.
He wiggles his fingers that spell out ‘King’ in my face, a wide smile in place.
“And lame-ness,” I add.
“Lame?” He raises an eyebrow at me, his arms come under my legs and he tosses me on the bed behind him. He stands above me for a second before pulling his shirt over his head. He stalks forward slowly, a smirk on his lips. His legs come around my hips, straddling me. His arms trap my head as he bends down to kiss me.
“Honestly, Y/n,” he says seriously. “You and Bora are too amazing at all of this to worry about them,”
I reach up to wrap my arms around him to pull his body flush against mine.
“Thank you,” I tell him.
“For what?”
“Being my favorite person in the world. For supporting me. I don’t really know,” I laugh tiredly.
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
“Someone pushed the story without me, Y/n. I can promise you that whoever had access to my files will be found and repercussions will be done,”
Gina Waters has been trying to contact me for the last two days. I’d blocked her number, email address and purposely found her social media accounts just so I could block her on them as well. I was feeling quite bitter a day and a half ago. It seems like Gina has made it her mission to speak with me considering this is the fourth unknown number she’s tried to call me with. The only reason I answered was so that I can tell her that I’m definitely pressing harassment charges if she continues to contact me.
I sigh pressing the phone to my ear. I stand up, trying to ease out of Jay’s massive bed as quietly as I can. I pull a pair of his basketball shorts and pull them on before slipping out of the room.
Because of Gina Waters, my apartment has been deemed as no longer safe by my very protective boyfriend. The few young girls who were outside sometimes doubled overnight, and they aren’t as nice as before. I don’t understand Korean completely but I know when I’m being insulted. Jay hasn’t let me walk to work in the last two days and I’m exiled to his apartment once again much to his pleasure.
“I don’t believe you,” I say, pulling my wild hair into a ponytail. I head to the bathroom to see just how scary I look. There’s dried drool on the corner of my mouth, and I’m starting to break out probably from stress. One of the best things about being with Jay is that he already knows I’m in a constant state of mess.
“Why would I be calling you if I put the article out, Y/n?”
I think for a long minute. When I can’t come up with anything, I roll my eyes at myself.
“So, what do you want then?”
“I want permission to run the story I actually wrote. I can send you a copy, you edit out whatever you don’t want in,”
“Why? I’m hardly interesting enough to be worrying about. Just call it a loss and we both pretend that someone at your office didn’t try to ruin my career and reputation,”
“Y/n,” Gina sighs like I’m the one being exasperating. “I believe you will single-handedly leave a mark on the fashion industry in South Korea. Your impact has been noticed and I want your story to be told the way I intended it to be told. I want to omit any mention of Jay Park. And I want you to get the recognition you deserve,”
“I’m really not that important over here,” I laugh. I put the phone on speaker so I can brush my teeth.
“Y/n,” she says my name like she’s talking to a child who refuses to listen to reason. “Styles found only in Southern California are popping up on Korean boy group members. Jay Park just made a top twenty list of the most fashionable men in the world. It’s your impact. It’s your influence,”
I groan around the foam in my mouth. “Fine! Fine, I don’t care. Do whatever you want. No mention of Jay and I want a name of who sent the story in,”
“Perfect! I’ll send you a link to what I have you tell me what to take out,”
“Don’t worry about it. Just try not to do any more damage, please,”
I don’t even know what I’m doing it, but for some reason, I believe her. I believe her and I trust her more than I probably should. I don’t know what it is about Gina Waters that has me once again putting everything in her hands.
“I’m sending it in for publishing first thing in the morning, Y/n. Thank you by the way,”
“For what?”
“You’re the biggest new thing coming to fashion, Y/n. I get to say that I had a hand in getting you that Vogue editorial,”
What’s up with everyone and Vogue?
“I’ll be in touch,” she says.
“I don’t doubt it,” I murmur.
“Oh and Y/n, I didn’t send the shitty story in, but someone did. I’m going to find out, but don’t forget someone has something against you. Be careful,”
I’m not sure what to say. “Okay, thanks, Gina,”
We both hang up. I lean against the sink and sigh. Thinking about her words, I can’t put a finger on anyone who would gain anything from running a story on Jay. Granted the article didn’t explicitly make it seem like I was using him for his name, it’s just what people have started to conclude. I don’t get it.
There’s a knock on the bathroom door and I open it so Jay can come in. He hesitates in the doorway. “I need to pee,”
“Well pee, then,” I laugh frowning at him around my toothbrush.
“Aren’t you going to get out?”
“No, I’m brushing my teeth,”
“Can you please get out so I can pee,”
I pull my toothbrush out of my mouth so I can look at him. He has stubble around his mouth and chin, his dark hair sticks up in every direction, and he’s still so handsome it’s unfair. He scratches tiredly at his bare stomach as he waits.
“I’ve seen your dick before. I’ve actually touched it too if you remember. I’m not phased by you peeing for less than thirty seconds, but if you insist on being this high maintenance in the morning I will leave. But I have you know you could’ve been done using the bathroom right now if you had just come in and peed three minutes ago,”
“I’m trying to be considerate,” he frowns while I move out of the bathroom.
“You do realize that I’m used to you being the opposite of considerate right?”
I hear the toilet flush before the water runs. After a few seconds, I hear the unmistakable sound of a toothbrush moving against teeth. I push into the bathroom.
“You asshole!”
He smiles around his toothbrush, moving over so I can finish brushing my own teeth.
“You’ve been in here for twenty minutes brushing your teeth, Y/n,” he laughs.
“I was on the phone,”
“I figured from all the sighing I heard,” he laughs. He pulls the foamy brush out of his mouth. “Are you ok?”
“Yeah, it was the writer I did the interview with. Someone pushed the article through without her consent,”
“And you believe her?”
I reach up to smooth my thumb over his raised slitted eyebrow. “Are you going to redo this? Yes, I believe her. If she’d been the one to publish the story she wouldn’t be calling me,”
“Yeah, I’ll do it before the wedding on Friday. I guess you’re right. What did she want then?”
He waits as I rinse with mouthwash and put my toothbrush back in the cup. I sit on the sink in front of his toiletries.
“She asked permission to publish the story she actually wrote. I told her I didn’t care as long as she didn’t mention you,”
Jay rinses and reaches behind me to grab his razor and shaving cream. I watch as he lathers the cream on his face.
“You think that’s a good idea?”
“I don’t know. For some reason, she believes I’m going to be bigger than whatever I’m doing now. I rather not miss my opportunity. And whoever pushed the story obviously wanted me to. I feel like I’m letting them win or something,”
“Ok, baby,”
I narrow my eyes at him while he glides the razor over his skin. He seems so focused that I’d miss the pensive look in his eyes if I didn’t know him so well.
“Is that ‘okay, baby. I don’t agree with you, but you look scary in the morning so I’ll shut up’?”
“I’ve seen you look worse-,”
“Oh fuck you,”
He leans over to press his lips against mine which gives me a shaving cream mustache. I look in the mirror. We look fucking adorable if I’m honest. I grab my phone and snap a picture of us smiling in the mirror.
“You know I’m kidding. You’re beautiful all the time. That’s like the boyfriend thing to say, right?”
I slap his arm and hop off the sink to grab a towel and wipe off the shaving cream.
“And, you’re grown, Y/n. You don’t need me to sign off on your decisions. If you trust her, I trust her. Whatever you decide is the right decision for me too,”
I wrap my arms around his waist, running my hands over his chest. I press my cheek against his broad back.
“Who are you and where is my asshole friend Jay Park?”
“He’s crazy in love and being supportive of his pretty girlfriend,”
I press my lips against the center of his back. “You’re working today,”
“Yeah, I’m going to try really hard to keep everything short. I know you hate being here by yourself,”
I sigh, letting go of his waist. “It’s ok. I’ll be fine. I’m going to the office. Bora got back in yesterday. We might go get lunch after,”
“Ok, baby,” he pats his face dry. “But take the car with you. I don’t want you walking anywhere. Not even down the street,”
“I’m not in danger, Jay,”
“I don’t care. I’m not risking it. There are too many people with access to you right now,”
“Ok,” I concede. “I’m going to shower, so get out,”
“What if I wanted to shower,”
I peel my clothes off and step into Jay’s large shower. It was definitely made with luxury in mind. With different jet speeds, this is the real reason I decided to move in. I could happily spend hours in here.
“I don’t think anyone is using the bathroom in the guest room,” I smirk.
“You should just move in now,” Jay says suddenly. I look at him through the glass. His head tilts as he watches the water flow down my body. His tongue comes over his bottom lip.
“What?” I tap the glass to bring his eyes back up. “What did you say?”
“There’s hardly any security at your place, Y/n. I’m going to be gone weeks at a time. I would feel more comfortable if I knew you were safe here,”
“I don’t want to,” I pout. I’m going to miss my little homey place. Its the only other place I’d lived at besides home. I already feel like I’m abandoning it whenever I spend a couple of days at Jay’s.
“You don’t want to,” Jay crosses his arms over his chest.
“I haven’t had a proper goodbye yet, Jay. You can’t give us a few months and then change it to a couple of days,”
“Us?” His eyebrow raises.
I turn away from him, grabbing my washcloth.
“Me and my home,” I sigh, a little embarrassed at the attachment I have.
“Ok, fine,” he says. He turns to leave the bathroom but I tap on the glass again.
“What’s that supposed to mean? ‘Ok, fine’” I mimic his voice while pulling a face. “What’s that?”
“It’s ‘Ok, fine,’” he laughs. “I’m not going to force you to do anything, Y/n,”
I turn off the shower and reach for a towel to wrap around my body. I breeze past him back into his room.
“Now, you’re turning up your nose at me,” he says following close behind.
“I didn’t like your ‘ok, fine.’”
“First of all, stop doing that face, and I don’t sound like that. Second, what do you want me to say, Y/n?”
I follow him into his closet and lean against the door frame. I watch him sift through t-shirts he has hanging up.
“I don’t know. Why ask me to move in sooner if you aren’t 100 percent behind the idea,”
“Who says I’m not 100 percent behind it,”
“‘Ok, fine’ says so,”
He turns to look at me. Before I know what’s happening, he has his arms wrapped around my waist and his mouth against mine. His tongue pushes past my lips roughly before meeting with mine. When he pulls back I’m breathless and a little lightheaded.
“You,” He says as he catches his own breath. “Are the most difficult person I’ve ever fucking met in my life. It’s like you live for confrontation and being a pain in my ass,”
I run my tongue over my lips, smiling up at him. “I’ll start packing today,”
“You’re the worst,” he laughs and kisses my forehead. “Give me half an hour and you can drop me off at work, ok?”
I nod, puckering my lips for one more kiss. He touches my lips before going to take a shower. He turns to look at me.
“Hey, wear your own clothes today,”
I push my bottom lip out having just spied a pair of jeans I know will fit me.
“Why, I have nothing to wear,”
“You never give me my shit back,”
“All you ever do is complain these days,” I say, faking disappointment.
“Go to work and annoy your friends or something,” he says disappearing to go get ready for work himself.
We drive together, with Jay promising to get home early as I drop him off. I refuse to get used to driving a Bentley. Whatever sacrifices I have to make so I can still pay rent and get a car is going to have to be made. Jay can keep him monstrosity even if it is pretty. There’s still people milling around outside so I hurry into the studio garage.
When I get in, Bora is already there, sun-kissed and prettier than ever. I’ve missed her so much.
“Look what the cat dragged in from fucking her hot boyfriend,”
I frown at my friend. “You sound bitter,” I laugh.
“I am. Jay stole my friend, and she doesn’t even give me all the juicy details,”
“I know, I know! We haven’t had time to get together,”
Bora narrows her eyes at me. God, she’s so perceptive.
“Something is happening. What did you do?”
I peek over her shoulder pretending to be engrossed with whatever she’s working on.
“Try a higher heel. It’s perfect but I think a tiny bit of a lift is what’s missing,”
“Thank you and I will do that. What did you do,” she says again.
I sigh, leaning my forehead on her shoulder. “I’m moving in,”
“Oh, my god, Y/n! Domestication! When?”
“Sooner rather than later. He doesn’t think I’m safe at my place from the teenage fans that follow me to work,”
“He’s right,”
“So coffee at my place? While I con you guys into helping me pack,” I smile hopefully at her.
“You’re lucky you’re cute. I’ll let Chae know. She’s going to give you a lecture though,”
I sigh taking my own seat at my desk. “I know,”
Chae doesn’t give me a lecture. Instead, she looks at me like she’s totally unsurprised by the turn of events. We get started packing my little apartment into boxes surrounded by coffee and snacks while talking about our relationships. It’s the girl friendships I’d missed out on when I was an awkward kid who couldn’t dance but spent most of her time at b-boy shows.
“I know he wouldn’t, Y/n. But how do you just trust him completely? He’s surrounded by women everywhere. How is there no doubt that he won’t fuck up,” Bora asks while folding some dresses.
“I just know that he’s Jay. I can’t explain it. He’s always just said what he meant. If he wanted out, I know he’d tell me before going behind my back with someone else,”
“See, I don’t see how you guys aren’t married by now. It took me three years of being with Jin to get to that point,”
I shrug. “We’re not in a rush. I’m not going anywhere,”
Chae comes back to my room with a few more boxes. I feel weird about taking up Jay’s place with all of my stuff. His apartment is very much so a reflection of him; straightforward and to the point with hints of his personality mixed in. I can’t come with my cat duvet and quartz collection. Not only are they random, he’d never let me live down bringing my rock collection.
“You guys realize it’s just a ring, right? Everything changes with this little piece of metal,” she wiggles her fingers before going back to unfolding boxes.
“Is that a good or bad thing,” Bora asks.
Chae tilts her head to the side. “It’s neither. It’s just a thing. I can say I never loved my husband more than the week after we were married. And I never hated him more than that week either,”
I think about what she says and how much Jay and I have changed too. I get it, I think. Sometimes it seems like we aren’t even in the same book, let alone on the same page. He throws me every time he opens his mouth.
“It gets better and it gets worse,” I say.
Chae nods. “You and Jay might be the exception. But then again you might not. I think you guys are still discovering each other no matter how much history you have. Ride that out for a little while,” she turns her eyes to Bora.
“And everyone progresses at different paces. You are Jin are like a slow burn instead of this one’s” she jerks her thumb at me. “fucking explosion of everything at once. There’s nothing wrong with that either,”
Chae, the mom friend. We continue like this, talking and laughing while we pack up boxes and divide them between storage and Jay’s place. At the end of it all, the main thing I’m taking is my clothes and shoes. Everything else isn’t really a necessity. I still have a lot to do but in the next few days, I can be completely packed and in Jay’s place. How fucking weird is that? It seems like only yesterday I was kissing him for the first time, now I’m moving in. Granted it’s not completely by choice, but it still feels like I’ve passed a monumental milestone.
“He’s leaving. Are you guys ok?” Chae asks me.
I think about it for the first time honestly. There’s no denying that he’ll be gone for a long time. He won’t be able to just hop on a plane and come home whenever he wants and I won’t be able to go to him either. I’ve been spoiled for the last month or so. It’s been just kismet that he’s had as much time off as he did while we were still figuring everything out.
“Yeah, we’ll be fine. I just, I want to do something you know. I can’t just let him go without us having a night to ourselves. With his schedule in the next few days, I don’t know if we’ll get a proper send-off,”
“Why not tonight?” Bora holds up a strapping black bodysuit with the tags attached while wiggling her eyebrows.
I shrug. “He’s working,”
“I think he’ll be more upset if he knew you weren’t putting this to use,” She laughs.
“I second that,” Chae says pulling out a pair of scarlet red heels.
“He’s working,” I groan.
They both roll their eyes at me.
“Curl your hair,” Bora says standing to shuffle around my room. “Actually, I’ll do it,” she says finally locating my straightener on my dresser.
Chae smiles at me. “You don’t have a choice anymore,”
I’m anxious to get back to Jay’s. I get ready in the lingerie Bora forced me to bring along and pull out a pair of strapped red heels.
I call Jay to make sure it’s safe to come by wearing literally nothing.
“Is there anyone there with you?” I ask while tying the red string of the heel around my ankle.
“No, I’m here alone. Everybody went home a few hours ago,” he says. He sounds tired as usual. I’m hoping he’s in the mood for what I have planned because this will all be a waste. If I know my boyfriend as well as I think I do though, I’m betting he’s always in the mood.
“Did you eat?”
“No, not yet. I was just about to order something. I’m sorry, baby. I know I said I’d be home earlier,”
I smile at myself. He’s too considerate. “Hey, don’t worry about it, Jay. I do want to see you, though. Do you think you can take a break? We can have dinner,”
“You don’t have to come all the way out here, Y/n,”
“I want to. I miss you a little bit,”
He laughs. “A little bit? Ok, thank you, I appreciate it. Can you drive yourself over?”
“Yes,” I laugh. “Give me maybe twenty minutes and I’ll be over,”
“Ok, baby. I’ll see you in a minute,”
We hang up with me securing my other shoe in place. I stand and head to Jay’s closet. Hanging on the back of his door, the tan trench coat he’d bought me. I look at myself in the mirror. The black ensemble fits too perfectly. My breasts are framed by lace, velvet straps cross around my waist holding up more lace. It’s not his birthday but it sure will feel like it, if I have anything to do with it. It’s only seven-thirty so we have plenty of time before it gets too late and we’re both too tired for anything.
I pull the trench coat on and grab my purse and Jay’s keys on the way out.
I don’t know why I’m nervous. Maybe it’s the probability of someone being there or walking in. Or maybe this whole thing is freaking ridiculous. I shift against the leather seats, my thighs sticking a little bit.
I park in his garage and head upstairs. Hesitantly, I press the key code hoping like hell no one decided on late hours tonight. I need this. A fun, wild night of him. Just because. When I walk in, the main area is empty thank goodness. Still, I pull the jacket down to cover a centimeter more of my thighs.
“Jay?” I call.
“Y/n? That was quick. What happened to picking up food-,”
He stops mid-sentence when he sets eyes on me.
“No, fucking way,” he whispers.
His eyes follow me as I walk further into the massive space. There’s so much room around us, yet I feel like none of it matters when he looks at me like that. All the confidence I had is now depleted, replaced with nerves and overwhelming need to just have his hands on me.
“I forgot the food,” I say quietly. I watch his eyes travel up from my feet and linger around my thighs.
“That’s ok,” he says quietly.
I pull my lip between my teeth, suddenly shy at his reaction. My hand goes to the belt of the coat.
“Wait,” he says. He comes close to me until he’s only a couple of feet away. He leans against the back of the couch.
“Someone could come in,”
“Your office?”
He reaches out for my hand and leads me behind the glass of his office. He grabs a remote control, turning the clear glass opaque. He leans against his desk, waiting for me to move first.
“Is this a late birthday present?”
I smile at him, pulling the belt. The coat falls open just enough to give a peek at just how little I’m wearing beneath it. Jay’s eyes eat up the sliver of skin he sees. He reaches out to set a hand on my hip but I pull out of his reach.
“Don’t touch,” I say. “Not yet,”
He pulls back ready to listen and follow whatever else I say. I kind of like this power. The man who quite literally never stops talking has been struck silent by a few straps of flimsy fabric.
My hands go to the waistband of his pants. My eyes don’t leave his as I push the elastic down away from his hips along with his boxers. I stroke his silky skin. When he leans in, I let him kiss me softly. I’m glad I remembered to just go with lip balm instead of the red lipstick I wanted to use. His teeth pull gently at my bottom lip. His tongue pushes against mine while his arms come up to wrap around me. I’m so lost in how he feels in my hand and against my mouth, that I forget he’s not supposed to touch me.
His hips start to move into my hand, jerking me out of my stupor. I pull out of the kiss and step back. He opens his mouth to protest but stops as I sink down to my knees in front of him.
I don’t wait. I wrap my lips around him until he hits the back of my throat. I circle my tongue as his hands come up to tangle in my hair. I look up him, watching his head drop back and his lips part. If I could take a picture of him like this, I would. I want to savor the look of complete pleasure on his face.
His neck stretches, showing me the black lines of the compass etched into his skin, probably my favorite of his tattoos. I close my eyes and focus on making him feel good.
“Y/n,” he says my name like it’s a cuss word. Like maybe the way he’s thinking about me is sinful. I understand it because I feel the same way.
I’m finding out fantasies aren’t just for the person who has them. There’s a certain pleasure in being the one to carry it out. This, this is my own fantasy; to have him be completely enamored with me that I alone can be responsible for the pinch between his brows and the hardening of his jaw.
Jay grabs my shoulders and pulls me up off my knees. He takes my mouth again, pushing the coat off and onto the floor. When his lips trail down to my neck, I reach up to pull at his hair and draw him closer. He pulls away, his chest moving against mine rapidly. His hands on my hips spin me around slowly as he finally takes in the whole outfit.
“Fuck, you’re so damn hot. Look at you, baby,”
His fingers trace the straps that cross over my body. His hands smooth down until he covers my ass.
“Desk or couch?” I ask raising an impatient eyebrow at him. Honestly, I would even settle on the floor right now. I still feel the weight of him on my tongue and I’m tempted to sink back down and make him come with my mouth.
“Right here,” he says while gripping my hips suddenly. He lifts me up on the edge of the desk. I reach behind me, moving papers out of the way so I can lay. Jay nudges my legs apart so he can stand between my knees.
“I don’t have anything,” he says looking around as if a condom is going to appear among the papers and other shit.
“My purse,” I say tapping at his arm impatiently. He pulls his joggers back in place which does nothing to hide the bulge. He hurries through the foggy door, leaving me staring up at the ceiling above me.
He comes back quickly and gets back into position. He pulls the latex on before bringing his hands down on my hips. He glides in slowly. His fingers dig into my skin like he’s trying to control himself.
“Jay,” I call. I try to wrap my legs around him but he pushes on my thigh to keep them open. He moves too slowly. Tortuous pulls draw out moans from my lips. My fingers ache to hold some part of him, but I can’t reach anything other than his hands on my waist.
“Tell me what you want,”
“Harder, faster, please,” I beg.
“Fuck,” Jay breathes out. “I’m going to miss this,”
One of his hands slides across my stomach up toward one of my breast covered in lace. He pulls the material down, covering my skin with his palm. His hips pump faster against me.
I’m so lost, I don’t even notice the fact that my back is pressed against the cold glass or that I’m knocking papers off his desk, fact that I’m digging my nails so deep into his wrist I’m sure I’ve punctured his skin.
He groans loudly before pulling away from me completely. I whimper at the loss of his body against mine.
“Up,” he instructs. I do as I’m told, sitting up on the desk before hoping down. Two hands come up, cupping the back of my neck as he brings my mouth in. This time, I catch his lips between my teeth before he can pull me in. I nibble on his bottom lip, bringing my own hands up to comb through his dark hair.
He pulls away suddenly, a hand on my hip spins me around so that my back is toward him. He runs his palm up my spine, applying the smallest amount of pressure to get me to bend. My chest presses against the desk as he bends over me. His lips fall on the back of my neck, and then my ear.
“You like when I take you like this, right?”
I nod wanting nothing but to taste his mouth again. He pulls away only a little. His lips move down my spine slowly. A hand moves against my ass, squeezing my skin.
“You’re so sexy,” he says against my skin. “And you’re all mine, aren’t you? You’ve always been mine,”
I can’t speak. It’s like my tongue is caught in my throat or something. I look back at him. His wet hair, a little too long falls over his falls over his forehead barely covering his eyes that work over my skin.
He draws back fully standing above me. Without warning his hips snap against mine. I moan out as he continues at the rough staggered pace. I reach out to hold onto the edge of the desk.
“Fuck, Y/n, fuck,”
Whenever I think I can’t be more attracted to him, he surpasses expectation. It makes me weak. It makes me give him pieces of myself that I should maybe keep to myself. With Jay, he’s made it so that there’s no such thing as holding back for me. He owns everything. Like he said, he always has.
“God, I love you,” I cry out.
“I love you too, baby, so much,”
I feel my knees finally give out, and I’m not able to hold myself up anymore. I feel like I’m floating, moving through time with nothing pulling me back to earth but his hands on me.
A hand slides up my back toward the back of my scalp. His fingers tighten around my hair gently as he fucks me. I feel dirty. Like we’re doing something we aren’t supposed to. Realistically, anyone can walk in at any time and this isn’t a soundproof room. There’s a thrill at the possibility of someone coming in to hear the sound of Jay’s skin moving against mine, and just how good he’s making me feel.
“Jay,” I sigh, swiveling my hips in time with his to get closer to him somehow.
“I’m right here, baby. I’m not going anywhere,”
But, you are.
I shake the thought of him leaving me away. I’m here. He’s here. And it’s not forever.
His hands move all around my body, touching skin that he knows as well as his own. I wonder when exactly all the small pieces of me became more for him. When the beauty spots on my shoulder became parts of me he’d fallen in love with too. When did he know that the birthmark on the back of my left thigh belonged to him along with the rest of me?
He curses, suddenly. His movements become more erratic and rough with his fingers digging into my skin. My knees bump against the glass of his desk as he comes against me. I feel myself come again wrapped around him with a loud groan. His hands rest on either side of me while we both come down from wherever we just were.
I’ve never been one for passion. I’ve never been one for deep affection. I always thought it was just how I was set up. Sometimes I’d wonder if I just didn’t have the capacity to fall head over heels in love with someone.
But here I am; draped across a glass desk, drenched in sweat, thoroughly (roughly) fucked, and so damn in love, I could burst. All four of these things I never thought they could be with Jay. Jay who knows all the bad parts of me. Jay who gets annoyed at how indecisive I am. Jay who introduced me to my first boyfriend. Jay who has seen all of my emotional wreck moments.
It’s Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay. It always has been. And no matter how much we fight, how much we bitch and complain and annoy each other it’s always going to be Jay for me.
Jay pulls away from me and helps me stand up. I pull the straps of the thin outfit back in place. He disposes the condom in a trash can behind his desk and comes back to me. I lean against the desk and watch him pull himself back into place.
“Are you ok?” He frowns at me. “Was I too rough?”
I shake my head and clear the lump of emotion out of my throat.
“No, it was perfect. You were perfect. I just,” I trail off searching his brown eyes for something. For some hint that everything for the last decade and a half leading up to this moment was somehow wrong. That for some reason we’d gotten it wrong and we’ll crumble tomorrow.
I think about what Chae said about marriage making everything worse and better. I don’t think it’s the act of marrying someone. I think it’s the act of irrevocably committing to someone that has everything in chaos after marriage for some people. I also think Jay and I have been committed to each other for years before we got together. We’d decided to be apart of each other’s life forever a long time ago so maybe we’ll be ok.
It’s this moment that I feel myself stop walking on eggshells. This is it for me. I can say that without fear or hesitation now. No, matter how bad it gets, or what stupid mistake either of us makes, it’ll never be enough to ruin us.
I’m right here. I’m not going anywhere.
His words feel like more than a promise. It’s like a law now. It can’t be undone.
His hands cup my face, his thumbs swipe under my lips that feel a little bit swollen.
“You’re scaring me, Y/n,” he gives me a small smile. “What’s wrong, baby?”
“I’ve been afraid that I’ll lose you all this time. I’ve been so scared that anything one of us did could make everything just implode,”
I reach up to run my hands along his sides. Even touching him like this is comforting.
“I just realized that we’re stuck with each other whether we like it or not,” I smile.
Jay rolls his eyes and brings his mouth down to mine. When he pulls back, his tongue comes across his bottom lip before he gives me a smile that tilts everything inside of me on its axis.
“I’ve always known you were a slow learner,”
I scoff, rolling my eyes, but I can’t stop smiling. “You’re so annoying. So, so annoying,”
I duck under his arm and grab my trench coat that I’d discarded on the ground. Jay laughs and helps me into the jacket, even tying it securely at my waist.
“Let’s go home and do this all over again,”
I smile up at him ready to say something smart back but my phone rings. I pull it out of my purse. It’s Gina Waters. She’s somehow managed to both start and end my day. I don’t know how I feel about that.
“Hey, Gina,”
“Y/n. I have news. All kinds of news,”
“Ok, I’m ready for all kinds of news, I think,” Jay frowns down at me but I shrug not knowing what she’s talking about.
“First, and most importantly, my article is up on Haute. It has tons of traffic and I want a dedication when you write your first memoir,”
I laugh. “Ok, noted. Thank you. I know I sounded more than a little hesitant this morning but I appreciate you caring enough to put something else out,”
“Of course, Y/n. It was an honor, trust me. Second, we figured out who was behind the first article. A writer who was just looking to write big story confessed this morning. I guess news got around that I had gotten a story with you, he did some digging, got in contact with a friend of yours. He said she gave him everything he needed to know about your boyfriend,”
“A friend of mine? I don’t actually have friends. I have two,”I look at my boyfriend who’s cleaning up the mess of papers. “Three. If you count my boyfriend, which we aren’t because he’s out of the question,”
But Chae and Bora wouldn’t do this either.
“Well, trust me he’s being more than dealt with. Using unreliable sources is the least of what he should be worried about. Unfortunately, because Elise Reagan doesn’t work for us and didn’t do anything illegal, we can’t actually deal with her,”
My blood runs cold. Then hot. Scorching hot. I can feel the heat on the surface of my skin.
“You said, Elise, right? I’m not going crazy. You said, Elise Reagan?”
Gina pauses. “I mean, yeah. You know her, I’m guessing?”
“Yes. Listen, I’ll handle Elise. Thank you. I have to go,”
“Y/n, wait wait,”
“Thank you, Gina. We’ll talk tomorrow. My tomorrow, I guess. I hate time zones. I’ll call you,”
I hang up. I set my eyes on my boyfriend who looks at me wide-eyed.
“Why are you so damn pretty,” I groan.
His eyebrows rise up.
“Excuse me?”
“You just attract fucking crazy ass women. Before, it used to be funny watching you navigate the trouble your face and your stupid smile and everything else you have going on,” I gesture up and down his body. “caused. But, now I’m annoyed,”
“So this is my fault,” he laughs incredulously.
“Yes...no,” I groan again. “Let’s go, I’m hungry, and I need to think about how I’m going to deal with this,”
I can see it now. Jay Park’s American girlfriend who uses him for attention found attacking Elise Reagan for exposing her demon ways.
“What’s wrong with your face? You look like you’re about to have a stroke,”
I roll my eyes and grab his extended hand. “I’m pissed,”
“Clearly,”
“And I’m hungry. And I rather not think about this girl right now,”
“Ok, so food, more sex, and sleep?”
“Food, the rest is debatable,”
Jay rolls his eyes but leads me out of his office. I hand over his keys on the way down to his car.
We pick up food on our way home and by the time I’m done eating, I’m so angry with only have Jay to take out my aggression out on (much to his appreciation). We curl around each other late at night.
“You and your stupid pretty face,” I curse into his neck. “Everyone is obsessed with you. Literally everyone,”
“You can sue her or something,” he suggests.
“No, she has money. She won’t care. She wants you. It’s hurting her stupid rich pride that she can’t have you. Not just that she can’t have you. She’s seething that someone has prohibited her from having you. She’s not allowed to,”
Jay is quiet for a long time. Finally, he sighs and pulls me in tight. “I feel like a piece of meat,”
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6
I leave Jay’s bed in the morning before he even wakes up. I thought I was ok last night, that I’d come to a resolution, but when I opened my eyes and felt his arms around me all I felt was how cold he was last night. I spent my life brushing Jay’s antics under the rug, forgiving his actions as quickly as they came solely because it’s what I thought I was supposed to do as his friend, his best friend.
Today I feel a little betrayed. I’d always given a hundred and ten percent of myself into the relationship between us back when it was only platonic. I couldn’t help the hurt deep in my chest at the inkling that he had been accusing me of maybe wanting the attention or even choosing it over him.
“Men are idiots,” I mumble to myself, pulling a wide tooth comb through my wet hair. My apartment seems foreign and maybe a little neglected. I’d spent most nights at Jay’s over the last few weeks and even when I didn’t, I was only home long enough to fall into bed. I can’t remember the last time I’d used my stove or even opened my fridge.
My phone rings from my bedroom. I pull the towel around my body tighter. Pulling the phone to my ear, I don’t bother checking who it is first.
“Hello?”
“You’re still mad at me,” my boyfriend’s voice sounds so tired, like he literal just woke up. It’s nearly eleven, he’s usually awake by now but granted we both had a late night.
“I’m not mad, I’m just a little disappointed,”
He groans into the phone. “Don’t say that, Y/n. That’s worse than you being mad at me,”
“I know. That’s why I said it. Listen I’m in the middle of sorting my hair out. Can I talk to you later?”
“Y/n,”
“Jay,” I shoot back at him.
“You left,” he says. “You said you would stay,”
“I never said I wouldn’t go home, Jay. It was late, so I stayed the night. And second, how do you think I felt when you left me ass naked on your couch? Or when you’d had your fill and decided I wasn’t worth even talking to,”
“I don’t want to fight with you, Y/n,”
“Oh trust me this isn’t a fight yet. We’ve had plenty so I’m surprised you can’t tell the difference,”
He’s quiet for a long time. I roll my eyes up at the ceiling waiting for him to come up with something else. He’s used to getting his way in all aspects of his life. He works harder than anyone I know to ensure that he’s always on top. What he says goes. Not this time. Not with me.
“I over-reacted, I know. But don’t give up on me-,”
I scoff interrupting him. “Stop being so fucking dramatic. I’m not giving up on anything. You can’t treat me like a toy, Jay. I’m not some girl who’s just itching to make you happy and do whatever you want,”
“I know, Y/n. I know. What do you want me to say?”
I sigh and pull the towel tighter around, getting cold as my body dries off.
“I don’t want you to say anything, Jay. I want to get some work done. I want you to go do whatever it is you usually do. And I want to sleep because I’m living on four hours of sleep right now,”
He scoffs. “You’ll call me? Ok, Y/n. Let me know when you’re over your little-,”
“You’re the one who fucked up, Jay. Don’t act like I’m not justified in wanting to be away from your possessive ass. I said I’ll call you, so I’ll call you,”
I feel the tears prick behind my eyes again. I can’t do this. The tension, the angst. I don’t know how to function. I look up at the ceiling, willing the tears to pull back in. I don’t know why I can’t just keep it together.
“Are you crying?”
Instead of answering his question, I wipe my eyes. I fail at making my sniffle as quiet as possible.
“We’ll talk,” I whisper. “We’ll talk. Just let me have a few hours,”
I sit on the edge of my bed.
“Ok, baby,” he says quietly.
I flop back on my bed when we hang up. It’s a new relationship I keep reminding myself. You could think you know everything about a person. You could think you know how they’ll react in any given situation. And yet, this hostile Jay replays in my head dragging me away from the club, leaving me discarded after he’d fucked me, refusing to talk to me, and then expecting a few sweet words and kisses was the resolution.
We need space. We need to set some boundaries in this new relationship. And we need to come to an understanding that he’s done taking his frustrations out on me.
I get dressed and head to my studio to start sorting through whatever is left before Bora leaves me all alone for three days. I’m hit with how much I actually have to do. There are at least four groups who are on the schedule for consultations and fittings for several different events. I focus my attention entirely on the work in front of me. I’m so focused, I don’t have time to be stressed out about Jay or anything else for that matter.
When I’m done, I feel accomplished, my head seems a bit clearer, and I can admit to missing Jay just a little. Not enough to call him yet. Maybe that’s what we need, time to miss each other.
When he’d get these pockets of substantial time at home, we put pressure on ourselves to make time for each other, to stay involved despite our busy schedules. Now, it seems like it has become expected for us to see each every night. Don’t get me wrong, I much rather prefer going to bed and waking up next to him, but it’s starting to feel like maybe we’re moving a little quick.
I roll my eyes at myself. With the amount of time we’ve known each other, this shouldn’t feel like a new relationship. Still, we’re navigating, discovering, even more, layers about each other day by day. We’re finding things we don’t like and that’s a new concept for both of us.
Y/n: I’m going out to meet up with friends after work. I’ll see you after if you’re not busy
He texts back within seconds.
Jay: I’ll be over
I’m meeting Bora, Elise, and Chae-won at a coffee shop a few minutes away from my office. It’s been too long since I’ve seen Chae and I miss her terribly. Elise and the other hand I could honestly do without. She has always been intrigued by my relationship with Jay.
Very early she’d taken the platonic status of our relationship as an excuse to get closer to him. Back then I couldn’t really do anything about her inquiries.
The three of them are seated at a table in the back of the cafe. Bora is deep in conversation, talking animatedly about something with her purple hair swinging around her ears. Chae smiles and stands from her chair when she sees me. Her arms come around me tightly, my face pressed into her teased long dark hair.
“Girl, it’s been too long!” She tells me. Chae and I have always been close. She’s from New York, and we bonded over how much we miss home sometimes.
“I know, you got married and decided you didn’t need us anymore,” I laugh. Chae rolls her eyes at me but smiles wide taking her seat again. I sit between her and Bora, across from Elise.
“Hey, Y/n,” she says.
“How are you?” I ask her.
It’s always awkward but we try. Her long blonde hair is pulled into a tight severe ponytail. She’s a model, finding it easier to get work in Korea because she’s a foreigner. She fits the standards of beauty here, and good for her. I just always found her tactic a bit...manipulative.
We all fall into conversation, catching up on each other’s lives. The four of us together never go too deep into our lives. I’m sure Elise has a deep stimulating conversation with Chae-won or even Bora but when we’re together, we keep it as surface level as possible.
“Did you forget to give Jay my number again,” Elise’s crystal blue eyes narrow on me.
I’ve always made excuses; leaving early before she’d gotten a chance to hand her information off, or pretending it had gotten lost in the bottom of my purse. By now she has to know that it’s not going to happen.
“Actually, Elise, I don’t think I will,” I say taking a sip of the coffee Bora had gotten for me.
Elise’s smile drops, her eyebrows raising to her hairline.
“God, Y/n. You’re so protective,”
I laugh shrugging my shoulders. “It’s not like that. He’s just seeing someone,”
“Is it serious?” She asks me.
“A few weeks, I think, but-“
She interrupts me, her mega smile back in place. “So it’s not. I don’t mind competition. And you’ll be my foot in the door right?”
“No, I really won’t,” I laugh. “It’s me, Elise. We’re together. I’m not trying to be an asshole but he’s kind of my man now,”
Her light eyes narrow on me, her long fingernails tapping against her cup. “You’re kidding. Wait, that girl in the picture he posted a week ago? That’s you?”
I shrug shooting her a look that I hope looks apologetic rather than smug. I am a little, though. Being close to Jay has always made me feel a bit smug; like I was in on some secret that everyone wanted to know. He’s cool, he’s popular, he’s the elusive bad boy that no one can get to.
“You said you weren’t into him,”
“Come on, Elise. You can’t actually be mad. You told me you just wanted to sleep with him,” Chae-won chimes in.
“Yeah, but it was common knowledge that I called dibs,”
“Actually, Y/n had dibs on him for the last fifteen years,” Bora says nonchalantly.
“But you said you’d help me,” Elise pushes out her bottom lip.
“I lied,” I wince. “Listen I feel a little bad, but I’m not going to just let him go just because he’s missing out on one chance to get his dick wet again,”
“This is ridiculous, does everybody know about this?” She asks us incredulously.
Bora and I shrug. Chae looks like she’s bored of this conversation. “No, Elise, but it’s been pretty obvious they were going to get together, you noticed too,”
“Yes but, what happens to bros before hoes,”
“Oh hush, Elise, you know this doesn’t apply to Y/n and Jay,” Chae says.
Elise crosses her slender arms over her chest. “I feel cheated,”
“There are hundreds of other guys in the city trying to be Jay Park, pick one,” Bora tells her.
“So that’s it? It’s set in stone that she gets to just take the guy I like,”
“You sound like a child,” Bora laughs, pushing her short hair behind her ears.
“I’m leaving,” I announce. I’m wasting time. This whole conversation is a waste of time. I could be cuddled up to my boyfriend instead of explaining myself to someone who pretends to be a friend of mine.
I think she used to like getting under my skin about Jay. A Cheshire smile at the knowledge that if he had decided to link up with her, there wasn’t anything I could do. Now there’s plenty. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I pass anything from her on to my boyfriend, and even then it’d be a stretch.
“I’ll call you,” Chae says.
I hate that she seems to have to pick sides. I don’t want her too. There really isn’t any reason to. There’s no way that Elise is even playing the game to even get her own side, and if she is, she’s playing by herself.
I call Jay on my way home.
“Hey, I’m almost home. Are you coming over?”
“Yes, baby, I’m still coming over,” we’re quiet for a second longer than normal. It’s awkward and I hate how it brings a lump to my throat. Maybe I’m blowing this out of proportion; dragging it out. I’m not sure, I just know that I want nothing more than to have his arms around me again.
“Listen, we’ll talk about this and then we’re done with it ok?”
“Whatever you want, Y/n,”
“I want us to be ok, Jay,”
“We are, baby. We’re fine. We just need to make sure we’re on the same page,” he tells me. “And we are, I think. We’re fine,” he repeats. I don’t know if it’s for his benefit or mine.
He promises to meet me outside of my place in a few. I tell him he doesn’t have to leave work just to spend the rest of the day with me. He calls me ridiculous before hanging up. My pace seems to pick up at the thought of seeing him. I don’t know if this is the love or infatuation part of our relationship, but either way, I’m almost jumping into his arms when I see him waiting for me right outside my place.
My arms wrap around his neck, my lips falling onto his cheek. He kisses my neck before pulling back to kiss my mouth quickly.
He looks too good to just be some guy meeting up with his girlfriend. A black T-shirt stretches across his chest, his ever-present cap hiding his face just a bit.
I lead him up to my apartment, my hand tangled in his. We’re silent, both trying to figure out what to say. I left. I think he’s a bit scared of what that meant.
“I got you something,” Jay whispers as his arms cage me between his body and the door. I lean into him as I unlock my door.
There are roses on every flat surface of my small apartment. Thick bundles with silky ribbons tying them together.
“You broke into my place,” I laugh.
Jay’s arms come around my waist, his chin resting on my shoulder. His head tilts against mine. “Yeah well, you weren’t talking to me so I had to figure something out,”
I pick up a vase that sits on my coffee table. Jay moves with me, watching me bring the flowers to my face. I run my fingers over the silky petals.
“They’re so pretty, but you didn’t have to,” I tell him setting my vase down.
Jay pulls me tight against his body. I feel good here. It’s still weird that I know what he feels like, but it’s right. We aren’t meant to be anything other than what we are in this moment.
“I did, Y/n. I wanted to. I know that I hurt your feelings. I just want you to know that I hear you. I need to chill out, and I’m sorry,” he drops his arms but spins my body so that I’m facing him.
He leans in, his nose brushing against mine. He’s so close, his warm breath washes over my mouth. I’m dying to eliminate the space between us, but that’s not the adult thing to do. Ideally, we come to an agreement that he’ll no longer be an asshole, and I’ll continue to give him shit about everything. It’s how we work. It’s how it’s always been. He doesn’t get to change the rules just because I’ve given up my panties. Still, I miss his mouth enough to not care even for just a second. I lean in first, pressing my lips against his. His mouth opens immediately, welcoming my tongue against his bottom lip. He pulls back after only a few seconds, his lips hot pink and glistening.
“I’m a dickhead,” Jay says against my mouth. His lips drag against my skin as I pull my fingers through his hair.
“You’re right,” I sigh as his lips move to the corner of mine before peppering down to my neck. “You can make it up to me,”
I feel him smile against my skin. “What can I do? Whatever you want is yours,” he tells me.
I try to focus on one train of thought. One favor I can cash in, but there’s a fury of scenarios flashing through my head, giving me too many options. His head between my thighs, tattooed hands wrapped around them, his chest against mine, my legs wrapped around his waist.
I pull away from him, grabbing his hand I lead him toward my bedroom. His fingers intertwined with mine as he walks behind me.
I stop in the middle of my room. He watches me pull my clothes off slowly. His eyes roam every piece of skin that’s revealed. He lingers on my chest, my hips and right below. I climb onto my bed and cross my legs out in front of me.
“I want a striptease,” I smile at him.
His head drops down to his chest, his shoulders shaking with laughter. When he looks up, there’s that wide smile that I think about all day, gums and all. He really is beautiful. He’d kill me if he knew I think he’s beautiful above anything else. But he really is. He licks his lips before his face goes serious.
“We doing this no music?”
“Just you baby,” I say trying not to smile.
He nods at himself before shaking out his limbs like he’s gearing up for a fight. His hips start to move first, swiveling in a circle. He rolls his body, pulling off his T-shirt at the same time. I’m torn between swooning and laughing hysterically. His lips move like he’s mouthing a song that’s playing in his head, his brows wrinkling in concentration. Jay swings the shirt in the air before slinging it my way.
I can’t help the cackle that escapes my lips as it lands on my face. I move it aside to see he’s still concentrating on his dance. His hips shimmy out of his joggers and fall to the floor leaving him in his dark boxers.
“Ok, Ok,” I laugh as his thumb hooks into the waistline of the underwear.
“Did I do good?” He smiles at me.
“Yeah, you did good. Come,” I beckon him to climb on my bed. I’ve come to like him in my bed better than his. We seem average here in my apartment, and I prefer that more than anything else. Here in the comfort of my worn in springs and curtains that blocked any semblance of light just how I like it, he’s irrevocably mine. My bed’s smaller, my air a little drier, there’s a hump in my mattress, still, it’s home with Jay.
I watch him climb the short distance, his muscles flexing. He holds his body above mine, his face so close I can see the faint hairs on his upper lip that he’ll shave in the morning. His forehead drops to my shoulder.
“I missed you,” he says. I’ve seen him this morning and every night beforehand but I understand him. There’s a contented comfortability we’d developed a long time ago. He’s not always here, but I feel him like he is. I know that he is a phone call away and that’s enough. Today felt like eggshells constantly chipping away more and more every time I thought about texting him.
I trace my fingers over his high cheekbones. The way he’s looking at me, I can’t help but want to fall in love with him all over again from start to finish. The way I feel about him, the way we feel about each other, it’s expansive, making my chest feel so wide. I think about all the things we’ve done together, all the times we’d skipped classes back home just so we could go to his tournaments. We have always been a little bit together with the way we are, testing the fragile boundaries of our relationship.
“Thanks for the roses,”I say, kissing his cheek. He turns his head, taking my mouth. His tongue moves against mine so softly that I melt against him. He pulls away leaning his forehead against mine.
“No more fighting,” he tells me.
“We weren’t fighting,” I lie.
Jay shakes his head smiling at me.
“We’re going to always get into it, Jay. We just need to know where it stops,”
He raises an eyebrow at me. I already know what he’s going to say. “This morning, you didn’t want to see me, understandably. What changed,”
“Someone asked me to pass on her number to you today. I might have gotten jealous,”
“You? Jealous? After all the shit you gave me,”
“It wasn’t drag you out the club jealous, Jay. It was, you’re mine and I’m a hundred and ten percent sure she’d still try to fuck you if given the chance,”
“And that made you not mad at me anymore?” He guesses.
“No, it made me understand that the dynamic of our relationship is not the same anymore. There are boundaries and rules people abide by in relationships. And just because we’ve known each other forever doesn’t mean we’re exempt from these expectations,”
I watch Jay’s eyes flick to my lips before he decides to actually kiss me. He’s so soft and sweet, a side of him I’m not quite used to. Of course, he ruins it a second later.
“Sometimes, y/n, you just talk so much and I have no idea what you’re talking about,”
I roll my eyes and fall onto my pillow. He’s close, using his arms to hover over my body.
“You are such an asshole,” I laugh at him. “You’re an asshole and you don’t give a shit either,”
Jay laughs too before dipping his head and kissing the corner of my mouth. “I’m kidding. I get it, and you’re right. The way I acted, it won’t happen again,”
“Ok, cool. Now that that’s out the way, I want one more thing tonight,”
He raises an eyebrow. “What,”
I lean in close to him. “I want you to fuck me like you did last night,”
He drops his head against my shoulder. “You really are my fucking dream come true,” he laughs slightly.
I feel his words deep in my bones. I want to be his dream come true. I want to be everything he wants. I hope I am, because I know for sure he’s the one I’m supposed to be with. His mouth moving on my shoulder brings goosebumps to my bare skin.
When he pulls back, he looks deathly serious. His eyes darken, the set of his jaw harden. He’s so fucking hot, I want to burn this image of him in my head. I know for a fact I’ve never been more attracted to another person in my life.
“Lay on your stomach, Y/n. Put that ass in the air,”
I do as I’m told. We separate so I can lie with my chest pressed into my mattress, my knees drawn up so that my bare behind sticks up in the cool air. I can feel his eyes on me. I feel exposed. Like he’s seeing too much of me. His hand smooths over my back, up so that his fingers curl around my neck. His hips press against me. The only thing separating us is the thin cloth of his boxers.
I move my hips, grinding against the bulge that presses exactly where I need him to be. I feel him start to harden against me. I’m pulsing, salivating, every nerve in my body is lit up ready for whatever he’s going to give to me. He feels perfect and he’s not even inside me yet.
“Don’t wait,” I say, the side of my face pressed into my pillow. “I want you now,”
The fingers on my neck reach round teasing my lips.
“Open,” he instructs.
He sets two fingers against my tongue. When he draws I close my lips around them, my tongue swirling. He releases a sigh, pulling them free.
He pushes the two fingers against my entrance, before pulling back and entering me again. His fingers move against me so slowly that I can feel him everywhere. He’s insanely good at what he does, pulling sound from my lips in deep moans.
He bends over me, his lips coming against my shoulder. His fingers continue to work, his free arm comes around me to hold me up. My knees start to give out but he has me, pulling me tight against his chest.
“Come on baby,” he says against my skin. I don’t want to cum yet; not without him inside me.
“Not without you,” I say, my voice shaky.
His hand moves against me faster. He’s not giving me a choice. His knuckles touch my clit with each flick of his wrist and I’m falling fast. My breath comes out rough as my knees finally decide they can’t take it anymore. I collapse onto my stomach, shuddering around him.
“Jay, please,”
“What do you want, Y/n,”
“You,” I beg. I feel him move behind me. He reaches beside me to pull out a foil Square from my night table.
Without warning, he falls into me, quick and hard. His hips move against mine so roughly that I’m moving up my mattress. He steadies me with hands gripping my ass, kneading my flesh with his hands. Without warning, his hand comes down hard against my skin. The sound is followed by my moans into the pillow.
“You feel so fucking good, baby,” he says through clenched teeth.
He doesn’t feel close enough. I reach back, searching for his hand. I pull it so that his body covers mine. Our skin is slippery, flushed like we’re running miles. He feels so good I don’t think I can last any longer than the next few seconds.
“Oh fuck,” I say as I feel myself start to cum again. I shake around him. He continues to move his hips roughly against me. The arm I’ve pulled around me holds my chest like he’s holding himself down to earth with me.
He squeezes at my flesh, his fingertips hard against my skin. His mouth touches my shoulder and neck every few seconds. He makes rough grunts like he’s lost somewhere. I’m spent, ready to drop down on to my bed but he holds me still.
“Shit,” he calls out. He falls on me, his chest moving rapidly against my back.
We lay still for minutes, catching our breaths. Jay’s fingers smooth my hair out of my face. He reaches for my hand, intertwining our fingers while we lay together.
He gets up too soon. He disposes of the condom and brings another hot cloth to clean me up. He climbs into bed beside me again.
My phone lights up on my table. It’s Bora. She’s sent me a screenshot of some gossip blog post.
“Shit,” I curse.
“You ok? What’s wrong?” His arm wraps around my waist, pulling me against his body. He sounds exhausted, his face pressed into my back.
I look at my phone one more time before handing it back to him. I can’t read the article but it’s easy to pick my name out in among the symbols. Right below it, a blurry photo of Jay and I outside of the club pressed tightly together. No one can see my face, but it’s obvious Jay had his tongue down someone’s throat, and I’m guessing it’s finally confirmed to be me.
“Jay Park’s new girlfriend Y/n, sources say the two have only been seeing each other for a few weeks but are already in a serious relationship. The couple were first seen at Henz nightclub this past weekend,”
Jay sits up and hands the phone back to me.
“I mean, I’m not surprised,” I sigh looking up at my ceiling.
“This can be from anybody. We haven’t kept it from any of our friends,”
“No, no this was too quick. I know who this came from. I met with Elise earlier today, she has friends on all of these online blogs,”
“I thought you guys were friends,”
I shrug. “Not really. She likes you. Or rather she wants to fuck you. Regardless, I told her it’s not going to happen,”
“And she leaked information because she’s mad?” He asks. “What is she, fifteen?”
I roll my eyes and pull him to lay again. His arms come around me, pulling me against his chest. I’m not worried. I refuse to let anything she does affect me and my life. So what if people know I’m dating Jay. We’ve been seen more than once together at parties, though even then some people assumed. Even if it’s confirmed, it doesn’t affect anything. We won’t let it.
“She’ll get over it,” I say.
“If you don’t have a problem, then neither do I,” Jay tells me. “But you’ll let me know if it becomes an issue, ok baby?”
I kiss his neck and nod in agreement. I’m not too worried. I’m annoyed but there’s hardly any damage done.
“Let’s order food,” he suggests.
“You read my mind. You go ahead and wake me when it gets here,”
“All you do is sleep,” he scoffs. I watch him stand and stretch. He’s so lean, and muscular, and pretty. And mine. I smile at myself. If I wanted to I know I could have him back inside me within seconds. At some point, I have to draw a line no matter how difficult it is to force myself to live outside of fucking my hot man every minute.
“I’m worn out. Blame yourself,” I say wrapping my arms around his abandoned pillow.
He pulls his boxers on. “Oh, you thought we was done? You not getting any more sleep for the night. Rest up, baby,”
Anticipating rolls in my stomach but I roll my eyes at him pretending that I’m not eager to have him on top of me.
“Feed me first,” I tell him.
His lips pull into a devastating smirk, his eyebrow raises. “I’ll definitely feed you something,”
He leaves me watching him, my appetite for food replace with an appetite for his skin. He thinks he’s so slick. I have tons of tricks that I haven’t shown him yet and I think it’s time to bring them out.
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 2 Part 3
“Are you home?”It’s been a while since I’ve heard his voice. When I moved to Seoul to further my career as a stylist, I imagined that I’d see my best friend who incidentally lived in Seoul a lot more often. As the head of not one but two independent record labels, Jay is busier than I could’ve ever expected. If he’s not working at the studio, he’s doing a show, if not that he’s shooting for some high fashion magazine. His schedule is so packed that it’s a miracle when I get a phone call every few days, a luxury that I appreciate considering he’d much rather text me.
I sandwich the phone between my ear, careful to not burn myself on the leftovers from last night that I’m taking out of the oven. “Yeah, I just got in probably twenty minutes ago. What are you up to?” I ask him.
I could never be over how proud I am of him. I’d grown up with him back in Seattle talking about all of our dreams, and though he never planned to do this he’d always wanted to be big. I used to go to his b-boy tournaments, now he’s this big star with a billion and one projects under his belt.
“Can I come over?” I pause. “What? Where are you? I thought you were helping one of your artists with promo in Malaysia or something,”
“I was but I’m home now and my house is empty,” he whines. I can imagine him pushing his pink lips out in a pout.
“You mean your bed is empty and you have nothing better to do, so you want to come and raid my fridge,” I correct.
“Exactly, baby. Are you busy?”
Like I’d tell him if I were. Its been a good few weeks since I’d laid eyes on him briefly at a club appearance he’d been working. Probably two months have passed since we’d actually spent any time together. I’d be crazy not to jump at the opportunity no matter what I have going on.
“No, come over. Bring alcohol and chocolate ice cream,” I tell him. I look down at the sad pan of lasagna that seems less appealing. “And bring food too,” I add.
He laughs lightly, promising to see me in a little bit. I take advantage of the little time I have to straighten up my small one bedroom apartment. I know Jay won’t care, but there’s always been a part of me that aches to have him see me as an adult. It’s a funny thing; being friends with your childhood best friend. They know too much, the can tell when you aren’t 100% honest, and they could revert you back to the child-like headspace with just a look. I’ve always felt the need to have myself look put together particularly around Jay. He’s always known what he’s wanted out of life. And he’s always known the best paths to get there. For me, I’d tried too many things out, failed at so many options. When I moved to Seoul, I promised that I would focus on being the adult little me would want to have been. I’m succeeding I think. I’m happy, content at least. There are things I have that I’m grateful that I’ve been able to achieve. For the most part, I’m living my best life, but there’s always one part of me that’s never completely satisfied.
I pretend that I’m ok with it a lot. I pretend that I don’t think about him for a good part of my day. And I pretend that I’m not still a little in love with my best friend. Jay and I have always raised questions. No one really knows what to make of our relationship. On the outside looking in, I think it’s a bit more obvious than the two of us give ourselves credit for. There’s always been chemistry, an undeniable connection that has me wishing that there were a bit more going on. After he’d moved back to Seoul the second time, I’d given up my infatuation. He was so busy building his name back up while I was trying to move on with my own life. And it worked for a while, but then he’d become so much more than that shy talented kid I’d grown up with. He developed both mentally and physically into more of a man than I could have hoped for. At some point, while we lived on opposite sides of the world, the flame that had dwindled down to an ember, had been sparked again. He grew up. We both did. And somehow we’d reunited in South Korea.
I grab a towel and hop in the shower. With Jay most likely sleeping over tonight, I’m expecting to fall asleep right on the couch. I won’t make it to my bed let alone the shower. It’s in the middle of me washing my hair that he decides to ring the doorbell. I wrap a towel around my midsection and open the door for him.
“You didn’t even check if it was me,” he frowns making a beeline for my kitchen counter. He unloads all of the grocery bags he has, putting the ice cream in my freezer. He looks over at the abandoned lasagna and rolls his eyes at me.
“Who else is going to be ringing my doorbell, thirty minutes after I get off the phone with you?”He trashed the lasagna and sticks a frozen pizza in my oven. He turns to look at me, his arms crossed over his chest and a frown still puckering his eyebrows.
“I’m serious Y/n, you need to be careful,”
“I will,” I promise, drawing closer to him. He’s been working out a lot more than usual. He’s training with an MMA group that’s super into intense work out. It shows. His arms are thicker, his chest broader.
“I missed you too by the way,” I add, leaving him to stand in my kitchen. I’m pulling on underwear under my towel when he follows in a few second later.
“If your way of showing you miss me is by answering the door naked, I think I’m missing out on a lot,” he bounces on my bed, picking up the magazine I have on my bedside table. It’s the cover shot of Bazaar that he did last month.
“Are you going to sign that one for me so I can pay my bills,” I laugh. I’m still not used to the fact that he’s such a huge star now. If I was serious, I’m sure I could make tons of money off of the shit he leaves lying around every time he comes by. I turn my back to him, covering my chest so I can pull a t-shirt on and a pair of sweats.
“Hey, is that a tattoo,” He eyes the dark ink on my shoulder blade like it’s somehow betrayed him. “I told you I’d go with you,”
I shrug. “You were busy. It’s fine. How was work?” I sit on the edge of my bed.
“Well, at least let me see it,” he says, ignoring my question. He moves so that he sits beside me. His fingers move toward the collar of the back of my shirt. He pulls the material down to get a good ink at the week-old tattoo. “Carpe Noctem,” a finger traces the cursive lettering on my back. “What does it mean?”I look up him. He’s so close. It’s moments like this that I’m reminded that the way I feel about him lies way beyond the boundaries that we’ve allowed ourselves. It would be so easy to lean in, to finally know what his mouth feels like. Instead I pull away, standing and crossing my room toward the door to put some distance between us.
“It’s Latin for ‘seize the night’. I’m going to check on the food,”I leave him there staring at me while I go to look at the pizza. For some reason, my appetite has disappeared. All I have on my mind is how good his fingers felt against my skin. When he comes behind me while I bend over to pull our food out, I hold my breath, careful not to touch him. I stretch over the stove to turn the oven off to keep from looking at him.
“Y/n,” he calls my name quietly from behind me. His hand rests on my hip lightly. I jerk away from him, startled by the warmth of his palm on me. He reaches over, taking the pizza cutter out of my hand.
“Why didn’t you wait for me?” He asks. I can see how deeply he’s hurt by it. Tattoos are a little bit of a big deal in the Korean culture. It’s an experience he wanted to be there for.
“It seems like I’m always waiting for you,” I tell him. “You have your life here, Jay. I can’t expect you to drop everything just for a tattoo,”
He frowns at me. His tongue comes out quickly to swipe over his bottom lip. He looks too good, too attractive to just be Jay. He’d surpassed the average quota of beauty a few years back, now it’s just criminal. Even now while we’re just talking, I can’t help but think about him touching me.
“You know it’s not just a tattoo, y/n. I promised I’d take you,”
“Months ago,” I laugh quietly. I cross my arms over my chest as a small barrier between us. “Honestly, Jay. It’s ok. I understand that you don’t just belong to me anymore,”
His lips pull into a sad smile, the frown slightly still in place. “I know you’re trying to make me feel better but it’s not really working,”
“What do you want me to say? You’re on your own path. As much as I love it when we get to spend time with each other like this, we’re both adults. I can’t rely on you to hold my hand through the city,”He sighs and moves to lean against the counter besides me. “I’m doing a shitty job in filling my best friend duties,”
I laugh loudly, looking up at him. “What, are you five? I’m fine. I promise. I’m even making friends, Jay,”
“Still not making me feel better,” he groans. “Actually that’s worse. What if you meet some other guy who can pick up your favorite ice cream whenever you want?”
“It doesn’t matter,” I tell him. I lean my head against his shoulder. “He won’t be your dorky ass,”
He’s quiet for a long time. “I think about that a lot you know,” he finally says softly. “I’m always so scared when I call you, one day you’ll tell me I can’t come over because there’s someone else here doing all the things I’m supposed to be doing,”It’s the first time he’s ever hinted at being jealous of any other guys. Jay has always gotten along with people I’ve dated in the past. Granted, he hasn’t really been around to really get to know any of them.
“Where is this coming from?” I ask, looking up at him. His eyes are soft, his lips glistening like he’d just licked them recently. I’ve never wanted to kiss him more than I do right now. He grabs my hand, pulling me so that I stand directly in front of him.
“I’m always thinking about you, y/n,” he tells me. “Even when I shouldn’t be. Even when I’m with someone else. Lately it seems like the longer I am away from you, the more I miss you, the more I imagine what it would be like,” he trails off not finishing his thought. I step closer to him, emboldened by the heat in his eyes. My chest presses against his.
“What do you think about?”His eyebrow ticks up and his lips pull into a smile. How he goes from soft and sweet to arrogant, is beyond even my understanding. His hand reaches down to cup my neck, drawing me closer. His breath fans over my face. “I think about kissing you,” he leans in so that his lips brush against my jaw.
“I think about touching you, but most times I just think about being with you. Getting to hold you like you’re mine,”
I can’t hold back the sigh that escapes my lips when his mouth travels down my neck. He’s barely touching me aside from his fingers softly cradling my neck. This is everything I’ve wanted. It’s everything I’ve denied myself to think about since I was sixteen. And it’s happening in the middle of my kitchen like it’s the most normal thing in the world. Jay is far from normal. He’d left my little world of ordinary years ago, but right while he touches me like there’s nothing else he’d rather be doing, it’s like he’s back with me. It’s like I don’t have to try just to get a minute of his time. But how long will it last? Tomorrow he’ll still be Jay Park. He’ll still have the same responsibilities that kept him away all this time. We’re holding on tight to the thinning threads of our friendship as it is now, any more than this would decimate.
I pull away. My arms cross between us as I look down at the tiles under my bare feet. “You should go,”
“Y/n,”
“We’re not doing this. If you think you’re going to just come in here and say all the right shit just because you didn’t have enough time to find someone to fill your bed,” I trail off not able to finish. Everything else gets stuck in my throat, choked off by emotion. I could lose him. Everything I’ve been holding onto just to keep him in my life would come to a screeching halt the minute this went wrong. I’m not willing to risk it just because our bodies want more than our hearts are capable of giving.
“Y/n, you know it’s not like that,”
“Well then what is it, Jay. Why now?”
“Look at me,” I immediately meet his eyes. I’ve always been able to tell when he’s keeping stuff from me. For one, Jay has never been one to lie. He’s too blunt, too straightforward to see the point in not telling the truth. When it comes down to it, I trust his eyes more than anything else in the world. Right now there’s nothing but sincerity. I have no choice but to believe him. His hands come out and settle on each hip.
“I’m obsessed with you, Y/n. I have been since I was fifteen years old. I’m tired of trying to think of reasons why we shouldn’t,”
“It’s going to ruin our friendship,” I whisper.
“Good,”
The single word is followed by the sound of his lips crashing against mine. I’ve written about what it would be like to kiss Jay a dozen different times when I was a kid. I’d thought about what his arms would feel like wrapped around my waist. I’ve wanted to touch his body like it belongs to me years after he’d stopped being that kid who teased me every chance he got.
His tongue swipes against my bottom lip. It’s too much and not enough all at once. My hands grip at formerly coifed hair, pulling my fingers through the ends.
“More,” I moan against his mouth. His hands grip at my ass, pulling me right against him. When we’re so close together that there’s nowhere else to go, he grips my thighs and hoists me against his waist. Turning, he sets me down on my kitchen counter. All without breaking his mouth away. His hands tunnel through my hair like he’s holding me still so he can taste me exactly how he wants. I lock my legs around his waist, pulling him tight against my body.
This is the kind of kiss that starts wars. This is the reason Helen of Troy is so popular. She held so much power, enough to take down nations. That’s kind of how I feel; like I’m conquering ancient Rome, and Greece, and all the Spanish and French territories. I feel like I’m flying. I feel like I’ve won. And it’s all because of the man in front of me.
“Jay,” he tilts my head back so that he can get to my neck. His teeth graze over my skin, followed by his tongue. He sucks at my skin, alternating between harder and softer pulls. As good as this feels, I want more. I’ve waited so long.
“Jay,” I say again. I move my hips, grinding against him.
“Tell me what you want, baby,”
“Touch me,” I say. “I need you,”
He curses quietly. His lips come back to mine and it’s softer like he’s trying to hold himself back. He’s hesitating, something I don’t see him do too often. “There’s no going back from this in the morning, Y/n,” he moves my hair out of my face.
“I know,” I tell him. I run my hands up his sides, lifting the white T-shirt with my movements. Each inch reveals more of his body. The tattoos, the muscle, the low slung jeans around his hips, it does nothing but spur me on. I graze my nails over his skin softly. Looking up at him, I reach down between the front of his boxers. Jay sucks in a sharp breathe the minute my skin touches his. He feels so soft, like silk almost. My hand works over him. Closing my eyes I imagine what it would be like for him to slide into me. And there’s nothing I want more right now.
“You’re sure?” He asks quietly. His thumb grazes my cheek as he looks at me.
I don’t answer him, instead I reach into his back pocket to pull out his wallet. I open it up, grabbing the condom that I’m sure he keeps there for situations like these when he can’t stand the wait anymore. I hand it off to him. He looks at me for a long time, like he’s searching for a crack. He knows me more than anyone else in the world. He’d be able to tell if I’m not completely down for it. When his mouth comes back down on mine, I feel just how much he wants me too. His hands push at the band of my sweats pushing them off of my hips. I kick them to the floor,and wrap my legs back around his waist. My fingers push at his own sweats, taking his boxers down with them. I want to see him, to finally see what I’ve been coveting since as long as I could remember. He doesn’t let me. His mouth stays glued to my skin. If it’s not my lips, it’s my chin, my jaw, down my neck and back up. His fingers work over himself, securing the protection in place before one settles on my hip again. The other touches the junction of my thighs, pushing my legs further apart. He curls it around my legs as hips move forward. He slides slowly into me. A dragging that I feel down to my bones. I wrap my arms around his neck, drawing him closer.
I’ve always liked sex. I’ve mostly had halfway decent experiences, but right now while he stands still hardly moving an inch, it’s clear that I’ve never felt like this before. I can blame it on the fact that I’m 100% comfortable with who I’m with. I can say that it’s because I know what this is, but the truth is I don’t. It’s about how I feel about Jay. The way he draws goosebumps to my skin, the soft way he holds my hip while he moves against me. It’s the way he drops his head to my shoulder, cursing through his clenched teeth. It’s the way that I already know his body. He’s holding back, I can feel it in the rigid way his muscles contract like they’re trying their best not to extend fully. But I want it all. I want him to grab me too roughly, to hold me too tightly, to show me the parts of him I’ve been dying to see.
“Give me more, Jay,” I breathe against the side of his neck. “Don’t hold back,”
A hand slides behind me on the small of my back as to hold me in place. His hips pump faster drawing out a loud moan from my lips. I throw my head back against the cabinet door above me. This feels too good, it’s too potent. He squeezes at my bare thigh as his hips move against mine.
“You feel amazing,” he tells me. I move with him, trying to get as close as possible. He leans back, looking down at where we connect. He shifts his hands to curl around my hip. His thumbs move down to rub against me. I call out his name, feeling my body react to how he moves against me. I feel myself tighten around him, and I can feel him seem to get harder. His hips slow against mine into a maddening languid pace until he pulls out. I’m about to protest, but he lifts my hips and places me back on my feet. He spins me quickly so that I’m bent over the counter., the air hitting my bare ass. He uses a foot to nudge my legs apart before falling back into me. A hand strokes from my hip down to my thigh. He grips it in his hand drawing it up against the counter. I’m begging now, for what I’m not sure. All I know is that this position is far more than I can handle. My bones and my skin feels like jelly. I’m not even holding myself up. The edge of the counter presses painfully into my stomach. Each time Jay’s hips hit me from behind, I slams against the counter. Still, I can’t get enough. I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of this.
He whispers in my ear, how tight I am and how hard he’s going to cum. I already knew he had a dirty mouth, but I’m finding just how obscene he can be.
“Cum for me,” he says. His voice has gone hoarse and deeper. His fingers reach around to stroke me while his hips move against me. I feel his mouth against my neck, sucking at my skin.
It’s when he turns my head roughly to the side to take my lips again, while one of his hands palms my breast under my t-shirt I feel myself start to quiver. When I finally give in, I’m shaking so hard, that Jay has to use his arms to keep me upright. He falls against me only a few seconds later, breathing heavily into my ear. I struggle to draw air into my lungs, still I can’t remember a time I’ve been this thoroughly fucked. Nor can I remember a time we’re I’ve been so completely satisfied. I’m sore and achy. There’s bound to be bruising on my hips, my ass, my stomach where the counter pressed painfully, but a part of me is eager for them to materialize if only because they’ll stay around longer than Jay will.
He pulls out, taking care of the condom behind me. A few seconds later, a hand on my shoulder spins me around. His hair is a mess, sticking up in places where I’d pulled to hard. There’s a sly smile on his face that tells me nothings changed. He’s still my best friend who knows too much about me and gets on my nerves a little bit sometimes. He pulls his lip between his teeth, looking down at me.
“You look terrible,” he says.
I laugh, rolling my eyes at him. The more he looks at me, the more aware I become to the fact that I’m naked from the waist down. I move to slide past him but he grabs me. His hands grip my bare thighs, hoisting me up against his waist. The arrogance has disappeared. Now all that’s left is tenderness in its place.His hand smooths my hair away from my face. His thumb swipes across my bottom lip, pulling it down. He looks at me like he’s seeing me for the first time. Maybe it’s because he’s finally seeing me look at him the way I always have. I expected to feel different, to feel like I made some huge mistake that there’s no going back from.
“I can see you overthinking,” he smiles at me. “Don’t do that thing where you pull away from people when things get to heavy,”
I shake my head at him. “I’m just thinking about how I’ll disinfect this counter,”
He laughs pulling my lips back against his in a soft kiss. Don’t get used to it, I remind myself. I hardly see him as it is. I can’t imagine getting my hopes up and having it affect our relationship. He walks slowly, carrying me to my bedroom. He stops, gently sitting me in the middle of my mattress.
“Don’t move,” he tells me before disappearing into my bathroom. I obey, using my elbows to hold me up while I wait.When he comes back, there’s a wet washcloth in his hand. He climbs in bed beside me. His hands push at my thighs to open. The hot clothes comes down on my skin as he gently wipes away any traces of what we’ve done. When he’s finished, he drapes the towel on my dresser and pulls out a draw. He pulls out a pair of cotton blue under and come back over again. Silently, he pulls them on leg by leg when my underwear is on, he dips his head to place a quick kiss on my stomach.
He climbs up further into my bed, pulling the duvet back so he can lay. “Come here, y/n,”
I slide beside him into the waiting open space. When his arms come around me, I close my eyes. He’s warm, and soft, but he feels like man and sin and everything I shouldn’t be feeling right now. I feel his lips press against my forehead and for a little while I don’t think. I’m happy, I’m contented. I’m in the arms of my best friend, the safest place in the world.
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 5
We fall into a routine.
He’s working on an album right now on top of tons of collaborations. In the morning, I can account for him to be either at the studio or the gym. I work at my studio with Bora preparing for award season. We book a lot of consultations and do hours of research to the point that we could name menswear by designer from this season.
At night Jay’s at the studio. He works into the morning often, sending me snippets of him singing riffs. Sometimes, he’s at my door at two o’clock in the morning, a sleepy smile on his face. Other times it’s me, climbing in his bed waiting until he slips in beside me.
We talk a lot. We talk about how different our lives are compared to how we thought it would be. We talk about each other, we talk about love and hope, and wanting more still.
We have sex; slow, hot, and tired; rough, knee-shaking, fucks; quick mid-day romps that leave us wanting more but holds us over until we can get our hands on each other again.
Most importantly, we laugh. I’ve long since gotten used to the universe knowing that I’m in love with my best friend. Sometimes I wonder exactly what it is about him that made it essential for me to love him the way that I do. I don’t think I’ll ever really get an answer. I just know that he’d always meant to be apart of my life. From childhood to adulthood, we’d found each other again and again.
Jay: I think this is the ugliest picture I have of you.
We’ve been doing this for the past hour. He includes a picture of me that I’m sure is hidden somewhere deep in my parents’ basement back home in Seattle. I’m crying hysterically over a pair of concert tickets on Christmas morning. My hair sticks up in every direction which luckily (I think) draws attention away from the reindeer pajamas my mom pressured my sister and I into wearing. I’m at least sixteen by the way; old enough for this to be the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever laid eyes on.
Y/n: Burn it. You win.
Jay: I’ll delete it if you replace it...
I roll my eyes. The idea of sending nudes has never been something I really scoffed at. I’ve done it at least twice in my life. But there’s just something about how bad Jay wants a photo of my body that he’s sees almost every night that has me feeling a little bit powerful. I’m not ready to relinquish that yet.
Y/n: the porn industry is a million dollar business for a reason
Jay: it’s not the sameee😩😩
Y/n: just delete the damn picture Jay
Jay: nope. I think I found my next WCE picture
Y/n: im not having sex with you until you delete the picture
Jay: 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jay: Says the girl who begs me to come over at four in the morning.
Dammit. He’s right.
Y/n: That was one time and I was hormonal.
My phone rings, Jay’s face flashing.
“What do you want?”
He laughs and I’m so glad he’s at work instead in front of me because I can’t even pretend to be upset at him when he laughs. Bora shoots me a look from her desks. I think she’s a little confused as to how Jay and I actually like each other when we’re bickering every other minute.
“Is this how you treat me? After I spent all night letting you have your filthy way with me,”
“You’re probably the most annoying person in South Korea,”
“You love me,” he says.
“I do,” I tell him. We don’t say it often. Sometimes I whisper it at night when I’m sure he’s half asleep and the only response I get is his arms tightening around me as if he’s saying, ‘Yeah, me too,’. Or sometimes when he feels too good sliding against me, I think the words so hard that they slip out.
“Did you tell Bora about Henz tonight?”
“I did. She’s in,”
Jay has been working non-stop since he came back from the states two weeks ago. And because he feels like going out tonight, we’re going out. It’s been a while since I’ve been out with Jay and his friends.
The day passes slowly. Bora and I finalize Zino’s look and pack away everything neatly for next week. She laments again about how she’ll be so lonely in LA without me. I assure her that her boyfriend Jin will more than make sure she has a good time. Giving my plane ticket to Jin seems to be becoming more and more of a good idea.
As much as Jay pushed me into the decision a little, I know it was a good one. I can’t lie and pretend that if the tables were turned, I’d be 100% comfortable with him on a weekend trip with someone I’m not fond of. I trust him. I really do, but I’m selfish enough to want every part of him to myself.
By the end of our day, Bora promises to see me in a few hours and we lock up the studio. I take an Uber back to Jay’s place where I’d left an overnight bag for tonight. I sleep until Jay gets in, waking me up by laying his whole body on me.
“Come on, man,” I groan failing to push his heavy body off of me.
He laughs, holding his body rigid like he’s planking.
“Get off of me you weigh so much,” I say tiredly. He rolls over, pulling my body into his arms.
“Come on, baby. Get up, I miss you,”
“I was sleeping,” I groan into his chest. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s getting woken up. He knows this. He’s been on the receiving end of my wrath plenty of times, yet he doesn’t care.
“It’s about to be nine,” he says, his arms around me. I sigh, squeezing my eyes shut.
“I had an alarm set,”
“Too bad,” he laughs. “Get up, it takes you at least four hours to do your makeup,”
“Shut up, it doesn’t,” I yawn and stretch out my body against him. “Give me another hour. Just lay here with me,”
His arm drapes across my face. “Ok, baby,”
I fall asleep again while Jay taps away on his phone, he plays sound clips really quietly, holding the phone to his ear. When it’s time to get up again, I shower and get dressed while he spends another hour in bed. I finish my light make up and by the time I’m done, he’s right where I left him looking like a whole model. He’d changed into a silk patterned top, tucked halfway into his dark jeans. His hair is gelled up a little.
He stands when he sees me, a cute wide smile on his face. He pulls me against his chest. He smells clean, like the soap I’ve been using every time I stay over. A hand moves up my leg, sliding beneath my dress and settling on my ass.
“We have to go,” I smile up at him. My arms come up around his neck, drawing him close.
He brushes his knuckles across my jaw while his other hand squeezes at my flesh. He looks at me like he’s ready to call the whole night off. All he has to do is say a single word and the dress would be on the floor.
“You look beautiful baby,” he tells me. His tongue presses to the corner of his mouth, his eyes going to my lips.
I look down at myself. A curve-hugging basic red T-shirt dress that brushes the top on my thighs, and black high heeled boots that just barely meet the hem. I’d thrown a denim jacket over my shoulders to keep from freezing to death. It’s nothing special by far. There’s no point in doing the most when it’s all going to be thrown on my floor later. I’d be lucky if my impatient boyfriend doesn’t end up ripping some part of this outfit tonight. Still, the way he looks at me makes me feel like I’m the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. And it hits me like a punch to the chest; I’ve seen this look before. When he’d stepped off the plane when he went back home to Seattle all that time ago, and when he’d picked me up from ICN just three years ago.
I lean up to press my lips against his. His arms flex around my waist, holding me tight against his body. The kiss only lasts a few short seconds, but it’s so sweet I’m not ready to pull away from him yet.
“I’m proud of you,” I tell him. I think I’ve said it a thousand times and yet he just keeps doing more, being better, becoming who he wants to be. I don’t know if I’ll ever be done letting him know. Tonight feels different though. Like we’ve finally arrived where we’ve been meant to be all these years. I’m still right next to him. He’s still rooting for me.
His hands smooth down my dress before he laces his fingers with mine. I reach up to smudge away the red lipstick that’s smudged on the side of his lips. It’s funny how domesticated we’ve become in the last three weeks; easily as if there’s no other way to be.
“Thank you,” he says before pressing his lips against my jaw.
He pulls me through his living room toward the door and I grab my purse on the way out. I follow behind him until we get out front. He moves aside so I can slide in the back of the Uber he’d called for before he slides in beside me. His arm comes around my shoulders.
“Is it bad that I don’t even want to go out anymore?” Jay asks with half a smile, looking at his phone.
I don’t really want to go out either but I think my reasons are completely selfish in comparison to his. He always looks good, but tonight I want to pull him out of that Gucci silk top.
“You can’t work yourself to death,” I tell him, pushing a piece of hair off of his forehead.
“I know, I know. I just,” he trails off for a second, looking out the window of the car. He’s been very introspective lately. I see it on his face. As much as he doesn’t like to let on, I know he’s a little scared. The music industry, especially in the states isn’t guaranteed. He’s willed all of this good stuff to happen on his own, but a record label as big as Roc Nation is a new world. He’s had experiences with a large company before and it almost stopped him in his tracks before he’d had a chance.
“I want to do good,” he says finally.
“I don’t think it’s possible for you not to,” I tell him. “Look at everything you’ve made for yourself, by yourself. You succeed. It’s just what you do,”
“And if I don’t?”
“You’ll still own my heart and this ass,” I joke smiling at him.
He laughs shaking his head at me.
“For whatever it’s worth,” I say seriously. “I’ll be here. I’ve always been here,”
He leans in to kiss me again, his tongue gliding over my bottom lip. It’s making it a little hard for me to be excited about having him out of my bed when he touches me like everything from now on is just a precursor for what’s sure to happen later. I wonder if this is how it always is with everyone else; going through the day just so we can get back to touching each other in the dark away from the world.
When he pulls away I roll my eyes at his mouth. I pull out a makeup remover wipe from my person and wipe his lips before starting to reapply my lipstick.
“Can’t you use like clear or something? I can’t kiss you if you’re wearing that shit,” he pushes his bottom lip out.
“You’re not going to be kissing me at all because you’re going to go have fun with your friends while Bora and I stay on the dance floor,”
As always it’ll be a big deal when Jay shows up tonight. He commands the attention regardless of the occasion. Tonight is all about him, and I want him to have as much fun as he usually does without looking over at me every few seconds.
We pull up to Henz before he can say anything. I see Bora and her boyfriend Jin waiting outside for us. The line wraps around the building as if word got out that Jay would be in tonight. He grabs my hand, pulling me behind him as we exit the car. We greet Bora and Jin as Jay guides us toward the entrance, bypassing the line. I shake myself free of Jay.
“Go have fun,” I tell him.
He shoots me a look just as Bora shoos her own boyfriend away. Everyone has already spotted him, pushing him toward the closed-off section some of his friends are in. I’m sure there are tons of people over there that’ll help him celebrate.
“I’m going to get a drink. We’ll meet up with you guys later,”
“You can get a drink brought to you over there,” he yells over the music.
“I’ll text you,” I tell him, blowing a kiss and leaving toward the bar. Bora’s hand finds mine as we make our way through the crowd.
“You’re the only girl I know that would leave Jay Park in a club full of women,”
“I trust him,” I say dodging out of the way of a girl who’s carrying one too many shots.
“I know it’s not him I’m worried about. There are already girls moving to get their hands on him,”
I look behind me to see that she’s right. People are going crazy as he makes his way toward VIP. From here I can see a few aomg and h1ghermusuc guys welcoming him into the small section. The smile on his face is enough to know that I made the right decision to keep my distance for a little while. It’s been a little time since he’d last came out like this, with his friends just to enjoy the night. I don’t want him catering to me like I know he’d do.
“I guess it’s a good thing I’m the only one that gets to take him home then,” I smile at her while we wait for a spot at the bar.
An hour later and Jay and his friends have commandeered the club just as I expected. They all take turns performing their songs and just generally having a good time. When the DJ makes an announcement, shouting out Jay’s new label deal, the club gets amped up just a little more. I can’t keep the stupid grin off of my own face at my boyfriend’s face. He’s happy. He’s enjoying himself, and it’s all that’s ever mattered to me.
He catches my eye, his head tilting for me to come join him at the center of the attention. I shake my head and wave him off. His lips poke out in the cutest pout but he lets it go. Bora and I linger close to the bar, away from the crowd but close enough to keep eyes on our guys.
“It’s kind of amazing how they kind of just turned this into their show,” Bora notes. She watches as Loco takes the mic and the first notes of a song further hype the crowd.
I nod, tilting my drink back until it’s finished. “It’s a little overwhelming,”
“Get used to it, babe,” she tells me. “The way he looks at you, it’s ridiculous that you guys are only just starting out,”
I laugh and look at her. “How does he look at me?”
She shrugs. “I don’t know like he’s always been in love with you. It’s just weird to see you guys be so domesticated so quickly,”
“He’s been my best friend for years,” I remind her.
“How did you watch all of this; the girls and the parties and not feel,” she trails off.
“Jealous? I don’t know. I just knew he’d always belonged in my life in any way he fit, I made room. And he did the same,”
I think about all the times I had to distance myself from him a little because of someone I was dating and he wordlessly just understood. We adjusted.
“You guys are disgusting,” she laughs. I can’t disagree with her.
Suddenly, Bora slaps my arm. Her eyes follow someone who steps up behind me. I look back. It’s Zino. I inwardly roll my eyes at his dimples smirk. He pushes his hair back out of his face.
“What a nice surprise,” he smiles at Bora and me.
“Nice to see you,” Bora greets.
I manage a smile, thinking about the small fight he’d indirectly caused between Jay and I. It wasn’t his fault. In fact, he hasn’t actually done anything wrong. I can’t hold him accountable for anything. After all, Jay was the one who slept with his girlfriend.
“Let me buy you another drink,” he offers, eyeing my empty glass.
“Oh no, I’m good. Thank you anyway,”
Zino nods stuffing his hands in his pockets. An awkward silence falls over the three of us. He works with Bora more than I, so they should be able to hold a decent conversation.
“I’d like to apologize,” he says suddenly, his eyes on me. “I think I must have offended you the other week,”
“No,” I shake my head. I still haven’t figured out a way to explain that my boyfriend doesn’t like him and wants us to not be associated in any way, which is the reason I’ve decided not to go on the free LA trip he’d offered. “It’s ok. I’m just,”
God this is uncomfortable. “We’re busy,” Bora offers for me. “Y/n forgot we had clients booked for award season during next week,”
He twists his lips, chewing on the corner. I don’t know if he’s buying it. Instead of responding, he orders a beer before turning back to us.
“So business is good?”
I nod. “Yeah, everything is good,”
He tilts his beer at the stage. “Jay’s doing well?”
I don’t know why I feel so protective of Jay. I’m immediately on the defensive when Zino mentions his name.
“Yeah, he’s doing really well. He just signed a deal with Roc Nation,”
“I heard,” he says taking another sip of the beer in his hand. Another awkward silence settles around us.
I clear my throat looking around subtly for an excuse to get out of his space. A sudden push in the crowd forces the three of us closer. Zino’s shoulder presses against me. With Bora on my other side, there’s really nowhere to go.
“So, why are you guys not up there with them,” he asks.
I shrug. “It’s a little crazy up there,”
We all look at the guys jumping around up front. It looks fun and I’m sure it is, but it’s a lot. Zino laughs shaking his head as someone stands on a speaker. He reaches behind me to sit his bottle on the bar, his arm brushes my side slightly.
“What about you Bora,” he leans in to look at her on the other side of me. “No boyfriend tonight?”
She gestures behind her. “Jin’s up there somewhere. Probably completely out of his comfort zone, but he’s somewhere in the mix,”
I feel a hand behind me touch my waist. When I turn around, I’m met with my boyfriend’s hard face.
“Let’s go,” he whispers in my ear.
I frown at him. “That’s fine but we can’t just leave Bora here,”
“He’s making his way through,” he says tugging me further away from Zino.
“It’s ok, Y/n, I see him. Text me in the morning,” she says.
Jay leads me through the crowd. When we make it outside, he silently pulls out his phone to call a car. He puts space between us as we wait.
“What the hell is your problem?” I ask quietly. He hears me though. His grip on my waist tightens slightly. There are people watching, I’m sure. We’re running the risk of pictures of the two of us all over the Internet, something else I wanted to avoid tonight.
“I don’t want to talk about it right now,” he says. His eyebrows pinch into a frown. He looks at his phone, check where our Uber is.
“Jay,” I call him. He says nothing, his lips twisting to the side like he’s trying to hide a scowl.
“For fuck sakes-,”
He kisses me hard, taking the words out of my mouth. His tongue touches mine roughly. His hand snakes up to grip the nape of my neck. The way he kisses me, it shouldn’t be done in public. Yet, we’re here in front of the biggest club in Seoul, kissing like we’re in a bedroom.
When he pulls away, his forehead leans against mine.
“Just stop talking, Y/n,”
Our car pulls up right in front of us. Jay opens the back door for me. I slide in and he follows behind me. The drive feels like it takes forever. He barely looks at me. The tension is palpable. I watch the lights that pass hit his twitching jawline. He supposed to be mad but I’m so turned on I can’t see beyond the hard set of his mouth. I don’t know if it’s the two drinks I had that has my skin buzzing to touch his or the kiss. Either way, my hand slides up his thigh without me actually realizing it. He grips my fingers stopping them from going any further.
When we’re in front of the building, he tips the driver, slides out and waits for me to follow. He grips my hand and pulls me along upstairs.
“You’re mad?” I ask.
“Yeah, I’m fucking mad,”
We step into his place. I reach out to hold on to his shoulder so I can slip my shoes off. He stands still, letting me lean against him. When I’m finally barefoot, I wrap my arms around his neck, tilting my head up.
“Are you jealous?” I ask.
He stays silent, avoiding my gaze. I press my lips against his jaw that’s wound tight. I trail my mouth down his throat. He tugs at my arms. They drop to my side.
“You can’t seriously think that I’m interested in anyone else,” I roll my eyes. When he still doesn’t speak I slide past him.
“You’re fucking ridiculous,”
“He touched you,” Jay says finally. “He touched you and he stared at your body and when he saw that I was watching, he gave me the biggest fucking smile, Y/n,”
“It’s not like I fucked him, Jay,”
“He wants to fuck you though,”
I sigh, rubbing at my temples. This isn’t how I saw my night going. I should be wrapped around him by now, discovering eighty new ways to get him to bite his lip the way he does when he’s feeling extremely good.
“I don’t understand why you’re mad at me, though,”
“You put yourself in that position, Y/n. I told you to come up with me and the next thing I see is him all over you,”
“I’m not even entertaining this conversation,” I say walking away to head toward the shower. His hand on my hip stops me. I look up at him, the thunder in his eyes back.
“I’m selfish, Y/n. I don’t like other people wanting what’s mine,”
I open my mouth to tell him very matter of factly that I don’t belong to him. I’m not a piece of property. His mouth on mine stops any words. He kisses me hard, our teeth knocking together. I sigh against him, reaching up to wrap my arms around his neck. He stops me, gripping both of my wrists in his hands. He walks us backward until my back hits the wall behind me. He pins my wrists against the wall above my head.
“He touched you,” he says against my lips.
His mouth moves down my neck, biting at my skin. His hand tightens around my wrists, holding them above my head. My hips move against his, grinding against the bulge in his pants. His free hand pushes my dress up my thigh, exposing my thin lacy underwear. His fingers pull roughly at the fabric, and I hear the material tear.
“You owe me a pair of underwear,” I moan against his lips that fall on me.
Only illuminated by the light streaming in from outside, he’s like a dream. His light skin reflects yellow light, drawing the dark lines of his tattoos into focus. The only response I get is his fingers tightening around me. He uses his hand to lift my thigh around his waist, pinning my body against the wall with his hips.
“Keep your hands here,” he instructs, his grip loosening on my wrists. I do as I’m told enjoying the fire in his eyes. His gaze doesn’t leave mine as he opens his pants so he can pull himself out. Once he pulls a condom on, he grabs my wrists again. He pulls them down, pushing them against my chest as he plunges into me hard.
He moves against me fast, anchoring me in place with a hand on my hip. My legs wrap around his waist, drawing him closer. When my hips start to move with his, his fingers dig into my skin roughly. It feels too good. He holds me too tightly, fucks me too hard. I don’t last more than a few short minutes, my muscles spasm around him, my legs going slack. He reaches down, grabbing my thighs while he carries me to the couch. He lays me down, his body coming over mine.
“Jay,” I call, reaching up to grab at his slick hair. His mouth comes hard against mine again. Teeth pull at my bottom lip, roughly. He tastes too good to let him pull away. I hold his head against mine, kissing him until I’m gasping for breath.
His hips start to lose their rhythm as he chases after his own orgasm. His face falls into my neck, as he groans against me.
“Fuck, Y/n,”
I pull him tighter against my body, his sweat falling on my own skin. I don’t want to move. I could lay here for the rest of my life with the taste of him in my mouth and his body pressed to mine. He pulls away too quickly, going to the bathroom. I wait for him to come back. When he doesn’t, I sit up, pulling the dress back in place. I hear the shower cut on just as I start to approach.
*He really fucking left me there*
I haven’t been on the receiving end of Jay’s anger before. After being so high, I’m left feeling empty. But I know how he operates. He wants me to go after him, to beg him to talk to me, but I won’t. He’s mad at me because he can’t let this thing with Zino go. Even if I tell him how fucking ridiculous it is for him to feed into a grudge that really makes no difference now, he’ll still think I’m not taking his side.
Loyalty has always been a big thing for him, and I get it. But there comes a point where you have to see beyond what’s right in front of you. I don’t think I have to tell Jay that I don’t want Zino, or that I’m so stupid in love with him that it’s ridiculous. I hurt his pride, at the end of it, but that not for me to deal with.
I take a shower in the bathroom down the hall, ignoring the bruises that are already starting to appear on my skin. When I’m finished getting ready for bed, I slide in beside his still body.
“Did I hurt you?” He asks in the dark.
“No, I liked it,” I whisper.
He says nothing but shifts so that his back is toward me. I roll my eyes in the dark.
“You’re not talking to me now?”
He says nothing.
“God, sometimes, I can’t deal with you,”
I still get nothing.
“You’ve been with tons of women. And I had to see it all Jay. Not once did I hold it against you. All he does is talk to me, and you freak out like I’m some toy of yours he’s playing with without asking first,”
“It’s not the same thing,” Jay says. “We weren’t together,”
“I loved you the same way I do now, so don’t give me that shit. You’re embarrassed because you think he’s going to do to you what you did to him,”
“Don’t say it like that,”
“Fucking grow up, Jay,”
He stays silents which infuriated me even more. I turn, pushing my feet against his ass and kick him.
“Get up. Get up and talk to me,”
“Ow, Y/n, what the fuck,”
I push until he finally sits up. I can’t see his face but I can imagine that if looks could kill I’d been dead ten times over.
“This is how it works. I talk to whoever I want. Out of respect for you, I decided not to directly work with the guy, but I’m not going to ignore someone who is paying my business for service,”
“He’s just trying to get to me, Y/n. He’s not going to leave you alone because he knows how much it’ll kill me if,” he trails off not finishing his sentence. He doesn’t have to.
“You think I’d do that to you? You think I’m not so fucking crazy about you that’ll it makes me sick just thinking about anyone else touching me?”
“Y/n-,”
“I’m going home,” I slide out of the bed, looking for my phone to call an Uber to my apartment. I grab the first pair of pants I see and luckily they’re mine from when I left them here at some point. I slip them on. Ignoring Jay’s hands that grab for me.
“You can’t be mad at me when I’m mad at you,” he says, blocking the doorway.
I ignore him and push past to get my shoes from his living room. I grab my purse and pull it over my shoulder.
“I did nothing wrong, Jay. You don’t get to fuck me and then treat me like I’m part of the problem,” I cross my arms over my chest. We’ve fought more in the last month than we have throughout our whole friendship.
“I won’t keep going in this circle with you about Zino,” I tell him. My phone vibrates letting me know that my car is outside. “So, I’m going to go home. I don’t want you to call me until you figure out your own shit,”
“How did I become the one in trouble?”
“Because you’re acting like a child. Honestly Jay, the silent treatment?”
“What do you want me to say, Y/n? I’m sorry?”
“I want you not to treat me like shit,” I feel my eyes prick. I don’t want to cry in front of him. As upset as I am, I know he’ll feel a thousand times worse if he knows he made me cry. Still, moisture pools in my eyes and drop down my cheeks. I don’t even know why I’m crying. I love him. I love him and I don’t want to fight with him. We get limited time together and here we are arguing at three in the morning.
I turn away from him to wipe my eyes. It’s no use. My shoulders start to shake. I wrap my arms around myself, moving through the apartment to gather the rest of my things.
“Y/n, don’t do that. Come on,” he sees it. His arms come around me as he pulls me against his chest. My face presses against his skin making it impossible for him not to feel my tears smudge against him.
“Shit, please don’t cry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, ok?” He rubs at my back but it only makes me tear up more. He lifts me off the ground and carries me back to his room. He sits on the edge of his bed and pulls me into his lap. His thumb comes beneath my eyes, wiping away the moisture.
“I’m sorry,” he says again.
“For making me cry or for being a dickhead?” I ask through tears.
He holds my face between his hands, forcing me to look at him.
“Both, Y/n. You don’t know how I feel about you. You’ve always been mine. When someone tries to threaten that,” he sighs, pulling my mouth against his. I don’t know how I always end up here, kissing him like he didn’t just make me upset. He has that thing about him. He can charm his way out of every situation.
“I want to go,” I say pulling away from him. “I don’t want to be here right now,”
His forehead presses against mine, his eyes close tightly. I don’t know why he’s doing this to us. We’re fine, actually more than fine we’re perfect until his head gets in the way.
“Sleep here and I’ll take the other room,” he says.
I don’t trust myself not to seek him out later tonight. I think we’re too used to each other. We need a little space. I stand off his lap and gather up my stuff. I have to call the Uber back because he’s long gone.
“I’m going to go,” I tell him clearing my throat. “I’ll call you,”
“Don’t leave,” he says, his fingers lace with mine pulling me back into his arms. His lips press to my neck. “Don’t leave,” he repeats against my skin.
I’m so weak. I’ve always been so weak for him. He looks at me with those brown eyes like he wants to keep me in this room just to love me for the rest of his life. The way he makes me feel, it’s intoxicating. It’s addicting. And I know his heart. I know he doesn’t mean to make me feel bad. I know he loves me beyond the sun and the moon.
Sometimes I wish I’d didn’t know him as well as I do. I wish I hadn’t gotten the chance to fall in love with every single part of him. It’s making me weak.
“It’s late,” he says. It’s nearly four. Too early in the morning for us to be even having this conversation. He’s right, though. I can’t imagine I’d go to my empty apartment and feel any better.
I look at him, his eyes are tired and a little bloodshot. He bites at his lip while he waits for my answer. His hair is a mess. Still, he’s so pretty my heart aches. I press my hand against the compass tattooed into his skin. My thumb tracing the points.
“I love you,” I whisper.
“I love you too,” he tells me quickly like he’s afraid I’ll go if he hesitates.
“I know,” I tell him. “But do you know that I love you? All of you, even the parts that drive me freaking crazy,”
“I’m sorry, Y/n-,” he goes to apologize again but I interrupt him.
“I don’t think you know. I don’t think you realize how much I love you, Jay,”
“I’m going to do better with you, Y/n. You just have to let me get used to him being around you,”
“It’s work, Jay. He’s just a guy. I shouldn’t have to tell you that I’m on your side,”
His hand spreads out on my thigh. “I know, baby,”
I stand from his lap again and step out of the joggers I’d pulled on. I climb back in bed behind him and reach my hand out for him to join me. I won’t be able to sleep if I know he’s just in the other room. At least that’s how I rationalize it. I ignore the fact that once again I’m sweeping just how hurt I am under the rug and hoping for the best.
Jay grabs my hand and settles beside me, pulling me against his chest. I trace my fingers over the ridges in his back.
“I’m sorry I made you cry,” he says.
“You’re too good for me,”
“Yeah, probably,” I yawn.
He laughs, taking my lips in the dark. He kisses me so thoroughly, that I forget that I’m supposed to be mad at him. I want him again. He’s turned me into a fiend. I suppress the urge to climb on top of him. Instead, I pull away and cuddle deeper into his chest.
He falls asleep quickly after that. He’s never not touching me during the night. His arm stays wrapped around me, or his hands grip my flesh, either way, he keeps me close. I stay up. To go from not having a single issue with someone for years to this. It’s just one thing, I tell myself. It’s just one thing that we have to get over and then we can get back to being us.
With so many pent-up feelings to literally last more than a decade, we’re just now being able to express them. It’s his personality, he’s competitive, he just doesn’t like the guy. I make excuses because the alternative, losing him, isn’t an option.
I shut my eyes finally, curling closer to him. He pulls me against his side tightly. All thoughts of anything other than how good it feels for him to hold me gets forced out. I don’t think about work, Korean rap stars, award shows. It all gets lost in the cadence of his breaths.
Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.
Genre: Smutty Fluff
Part 1 Part 3
He leaves with a kiss in the morning. I’ve been hyper-aware of his body presence through the night, clutching his body against mine. At some point between two am and three, I’d pulled off my T-shirt and the underwear he’d taken the time to get. We’d made love in slow, lazy, sleepy pulls. Silently, he touched my body like he’d been born to do so. His mouth had moved against my skin so tenderly that there was no mistaking what it meant. Love is easy to fall into. You fall in love at least a hundred times a day; with the sky, the moon, the feel of somebody’s hands touching your body. I think Jay fell in love with my skin. Even as he pulls away, his fingers press against the side of my neck, drawing me closer to his mouth. Light streams in through the peek behind the curtain that I never bothered to close last night. I groan as he stands upright, pulling his boxers and sweats back into place. I watch him move around my room, picking up my discarded clothes. I can only imagine what his day entails with so many artists depending on him. As much as I wish he’d stay in bed kissing me dumb, it’s highly unlikely. Finally, when he’s done cleaning up our late night mess, he stands beside my bed, hovering over me once again. “I don’t want to go,” he whispers. His face falls into my neck when I wrap my arms around him. The thick duvet between us is the only thing keeping my bare chest from touching his. I run my fingers over the wings that cover the lower back of his scalp. My nails scratch against each line slowly. “I don’t want you to go,” I say around a yawn. “I’ll try my best to stop by tonight. I have a flight to New York tomorrow morning,” He grabs my bottom lip, pushed out in a pout, between his teeth before running his tongue against mine.
I moan against his mouth. I don’t think I could ever get used to kissing him. Not only am I still unsure of how often this would be a thing, but also because since last night I’ve felt his mouth against mine in a hundred and one different ways and I never know what to expect. Right now, I’m getting rough dirty Jay who kisses like I belong to him only. His teeth bite into my bottom lip roughly. When he pulls back breathless, his forehead rests against mine. His eyes stay closed as he breathes against me. “I’m definitely stopping by tonight,” he smiles. I laugh and push him away and pull my duvet up over my shoulders leaving my head out.“A bit presumptuous?” I ask. My eyebrow ticks up in defiance but I can’t help the stupid grin that fights its way on my lips. Jay imitates my expression, his own eyebrow raised. His hand moves under the blanket grabbing my breast before continuing its journey lower. His destination is my ass, which he gives a rough squeeze. His fingers press hard into my skin. “I’m not done with you,” he says. I get ready to ask him exactly when he think he would be so I can prepare my heart in advance, but I stay quiet looking up at him. “Go to work, but make sure you come back,” He nods, dipping his head to press his lips against my neck, and then he’s gone. He walks out to collect his T-shirt from the floor in the kitchen and not long after I hear the door open and shut. I can already feel how empty my apartment is. It’s always like that when he leaves like I don’t know when the next time I’ll see him and how long for. I roll over gently, my body aching in some places more than others, but I’m sore all over. My joints feel stiff. My muscles feel like I’d used every single one of them last night. There’s a goofy smile on my face as I remember his hands on me. It was more than I could imagine, more than I could’ve hoped for. Our bodies moved together like there was no other option but to move in sync. Whether that’s just because Jay is good at having sex, I’m not sure. I like to hope that our compatibility wasn’t based solely on his very experienced talents. I look over at the clock beside my bed. It’s barely nine-thirty and as much as I want to spend all day in bed, it feels empty and cold. I stretch and get out of bed to make my way to the bathroom, grabbing a towel on my way. Looking at my body in the mirror, I’m a mosaic of dark purple marks. My neck is covered. My collarbones are marked with evidence of just how many times Jay’s mouth touched my skin. My breasts and hips have a faint but recognizable shape of fingers pressed into my flesh. He’s made his mark everywhere on my body. If it had been anyone else I’d be a little pissed that they’d purposely taken time to stake claim on my body. But it’s not just anyone. It’s Jay, and he’d owned my body before either of us even realized it. I turn on my shower, waiting for steam to fill my bathroom. When I step in, the water sinks deep into my bones, loosening me up. I stretch my neck, my elbows, feeling myself a little bit more. As good as it feels to get clean, I’m already eager to get dirty again. I step out of the shower, wrap a towel around my body. I brush my teeth, wrap my hair into a bun and make my way back out to my bedroom. I look at my sheets, halfway off the bed, a mess; but other than this there’s no more evidence of Jay left. Work is the last thing I want to do when I can still feel his body against me. I can’t fill my day miserably waiting for him to come back. I grab my phone and laptop from beside my bed and head to the living room. If I’m not going to my office today, the least I can do is get some work done from home. So I work. I fill orders, I track shipments coming in, go over looks for events that I have coming up. It’s all a lot to handle on my own, but I do it knowing that I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else. Seoul was a culture shock, of course, but after a few weeks it became easy for me to see myself staying in South Korea long term. Even with Jay on the road, my modest apartment and dream job is home. By the time I’m done, my computer is pretty much dead and it’s almost three. I’ve forgotten that I didn’t eat breakfast until my stomach rolls violently. Reaching for my phone, I debate if it’s too weird to see what Jay’s doing for food. It’s never been uncommon for me to bring food to the aomg office. Now, after last night, it feels a little out of place. Am I being too clingy? Obviously. I’ve been craving just a glimpse of him since he left out this morning. He’s still my best friend regardless of the fact that my heart beats a little faster around him. I can take him lunch and not have it be weird. I’ve been doing it for the last three years. I type the message out and send it quickly before I can over-analyze my way out of it. *Y/N: you hungry yet?*I wait, flipping the phone over and over in my hand. It’s been so long since I’ve felt nervous because of a boy. Not only am I too old for this, but it’s also not in my character to let a guy put me in such an anxious state. And Jay isn’t just a guy. I know him better than I do anyone else. The angst, the uneasiness, it’s all unnecessary. My text alarm goes off. *Jay: what are you offering👀*I get ready to type out a reply but my phone rings instead. “Yes?” I sigh heavily into the phone. Jay laughs at me. “Don’t sound too excited,” he says. “I’m offering to buy you lunch, Jay,”“So it wasn’t a sexual favor offering? I must have read the text wrong,”“Do you want food or not?” I laugh unable to resist. He’s ridiculous, but I’m not surprised. Jay has always been the flirty type; even before I realized my own feelings. The way he talks to women has always been a part of his charm. I shouldn’t feel like this conversation is any different than the millions of others we’ve had just like it. Still, there’s something in his words that has me unsure of just how serious he’s being. “Can you bring it wearing that long trench coat and those red heels I got you for Christmas?” He asks. I roll my eyes up to the ceiling, secretly thinking if I could actually make it all the way to his office in nothing but a trench and five inch heels. *It’ll be tricky but I think...* “No, and never mind I’ll just get food for myself,”He laughs loudly. “Ok fine! I’ll take you just how you are with whatever you’re having,”“God, you’re so lucky I love you,” I say sighing and rolling my eyes again. I freeze holding my breath while I think of something that’ll make this less odd. I tell him I love him all the time. I have for the last fifteen years but...*shit*. “I can feel you freaking out from over here, y/n. Stop being so fucking weird,”“Shut up. I’m not being weird. I’ll see you in a little bit,”I hang up to the sound of him laughing on the other end. I stare at the phone scared that my awkwardness will just materialize out of the blank screen. He’s right. I am making this fucking weird. Afraid of when the shoe will drop, I’m doing what I always do. I over-think, I freak out, I become an awkward robot incapable of rationalizing any actual thought of emotion. Except this time it’s different. It’s Jay, and I’m ten times worse. “I’m such an idiot,” I say laughing as I hear Jay’s words in my head. *Stop being so fucking weird.*After changing my ratty sweats out for a pair of shorts and actually putting a bra on, I head out toward a sushi place between my apartment and Jay’s office. It’s about a five minute walk to the the restaurant and another ten from there to the office. “Damn it. I was hoping you changed your mind about the outfit,” He’s alone thank god. Behind me, producers and artists mill around like there’s nothing out of the ordinary happening on the other side of the glass. I set the bag of food on his desk why he shifts his computer over out of the way. I hand him his container of rolls and take my own before sitting in front of his desk. “You’ve been in town for less than forty-eight hours and I’m already tired of you,” I say digging into my food. “That’s not what you said last night,” he tells me around a mouthful of food. When I flip him off, he returns the gesture with a toothy rice-filled smile. “What time is your flight tomorrow?”“I’m actually leaving tonight,” he says. “Flight leaves at 11, then I should be in New York around noon Korean time tomorrow,” I stay quiet, chewing the rice and fish. I feel like I just got him back and he’s gone already. I clear my throat. “I have some of the Givenchy you wanted me to order for you,”He looks at me like he wants to say something about him leaving so soon. I cut him off before he can. “You can pick it up from the studio when you get finished here. I think Bora is going to be there late so you might catch her, but I’ll text her to make sure all of your stuff is sorted-”“Y/n,” I pick at my food to avoid looking up at him. He calls my name again and it’s so soft that I have no choice but to look at him. His tongue moves over his bottom lip. “How long are you leaving for?”“I don’t know,” he shrugs. “A few days, a week maybe more if everything takes longer. But I’m coming back, y/n. You know I always do,”I nod. “I get it. It’s your job. Nothing changes just because,” I trail off not needed to finish my sentence. “It changes if you want it to, y/n. I told you already, I’ve always been obsessed with you,” “Should we be talking about this right now?” I ask. “You really want to go another week not knowing where this is going to go?” He asks, raising an eyebrow at me. “This?”He rolls his eyes at me seeming a little tired of my behavior. I can’t help it. It feels a little like I’m losing my best friend or I’m losing the guy that I may or may not have been in love with since I was a kid (I’m still figuring that part out). “This as in the fact that we fucked on your kitchen counter last night and I told you this morning that I wasn’t done with you,”“With me or my body?” That’s really the golden question, isn’t it? It’s no secret that Jay is a very sexually driven person. I also know that he’s also not that emotionally present all the time. He never promised me anything, and I know what happens to girls that except him to give more of himself than he wants. “You can’t be serious, Y/n”“I know how you are, Jay. You’re infatuated with a woman for a week or you go through a spell where you’re so focused on work for months at a time before you even look up. I don’t want you to have to try to figure out where I fit into all of that,”He sighs. “You don’t fit into any of it, y/n. You’ve always been something separate from all of this,” he pauses, his lips poke out like he’s trying to phrase what he’ll say next just right. “I want you,” he tells me. “I want you and I think that I have for a really long time. I’m not trying to convince to do something you don’t want to. I’m just telling you how I feel,”“And how do you feel?”“I think I’m fucking in love with you if I’m honest,” he smiles, shaking his head at me. I don’t know what I’m supposed to say. I quite literally have no words, because no matter how good it feels , we could still crash and burn tomorrow. With anyone else, I’d risk it. I’d fall into him so quickly. But once again, he’s him and I’m not willing to trade my best friend in for a half of a relationship just because it feels nice when he kisses me. I’m about to tell him all of that when he’s on his feet, rounding his desk. He sits in front of me, and grabs my hand. He pulls me so that I stand between his legs, my arm around his neck. “You told me to come back over here, Y/n. You’re the one who told me that this is where I’m meant to be. I was in love with you back then too I just didn’t know it,” he reaches up to cup my neck and draw me closer. His nose runs of my cheek. “Then you moved out here too, and you became everything I never knew I needed. I don’t think I was ready for you then. But right now, If you’ll have me I’m yours,”His lips touch mine softly barely a taste before he pulls away. I stretch trying to catch his mouth before he gets away but he’s too fast. “If you’ll have me?” I smile up at him. “You sound like you’re straight out of a Jane Austen book,”He laughs at me, shaking his head. “Shut up,”He pulls me in again, but this time he kisses me like I’m holding his last breath. His fingers on my neck flex as I press my chest tightly against his. His other hands finds my ass, squeezing at my flesh hard. “Tell me you’re mine for real y/n,” he says seriously. “You think you can give up Instagram models,” I ask. “The video girls, the dm’d booty calls,”His hand comes down hard on my ass to my surprise. I feel it straight to my core, and I press my pelvis against his tightly without really meaning to. “You’re so frustrating,” he tells me, groaning up at his ceiling. I finger the collar of his red Tommy Hilfiger shirt. “I’m thinking I fucking love you too,” I whisper against his neck. “But if you break my heart I’m telling your mama so fast, boy,”“I guess it’s good I don’t plan on it then,”“We’re doing this?”“We are,” he smiles at me. “And I have seven hours until I have to be on a plane,” We leave. After packing up our food, we breeze by everyone outside of the office, offering little more than hurried waves and smiles. He drives us to his apartment a short distance away and we hurry upstairs, anxious to get our hands on each other. When we make it to his flat, he has his mouth on me only seconds after we get in. He presses me against the door, his hands sliding up my shirt to lay flat on my skin.It’s too easy to get lost in kissing him. He takes all of my senses hostage and prevents me from thinking straight. It’s only when his lips move down to my collarbone to allow me to pull air into my lungs so I pull away. He looks up at me, his brows wrinkling in confusion. “What’s wrong?”“You should pack,”“I don’t want to pack,” he rolls his eyes at me and leans in again but I move my face out of the way. “If you don’t do it now, you won’t do it at all,”He leans his forehead against mine and sighs. “Give me a minute to stop thinking about you naked,”I slap his should and move around him and make my way to his bedroom. “Does it not feel weird saying shit like that?”He follows behind me, grabbing my hips as I go to his closet probably my favorite part of his place. There’s so much cool stuff to choose from that I could literally pick up anything and he’d look amazing. Well maybe except for the red acid washed jeans I hid deep in my own closet at home hoping they never see the light of day again. “Saying what? That I think about you naked?”I nod pulling down a few of the new Gucci t-shirts that I’d ordered for him. I hand them off to Jay who holds them up while I match them with jeans and joggers. “No, because I’ve always thought about you naked,”I shoot him a look before shaking my head. “So you’re saying, you’ve never once thought about me sexually?” He asks around a smirk like he already knows what my answer will be. “I don’t know. Probably not,” “You’re a bad fucking liar,”“Shut up,” I tell him as I hand over a stack of black jeans. “I’ve seen ninety-eight percent of your body already before last night and so has the rest of the world. Seeing you naked isn’t much of a feat,” I walk over to the stack of shoes on the opposite side of the wall. “Why are these still in the box,” I groan picking up the box of black Fenty pumas. I’d gotten them for him last year thinking he’d finally wear something aside from J’s. Obviously I’m mistaking. “They’re soft,” he says. I say nothing, rolling my eyes and moving on. I pull out his favorites, setting them aside to be packed. “See easy. All you need to do is get underwear and t-shirts,” “God, I miss how demanding you are,” he says leaning in to press his lips against mine before setting down all the clothes I’d set in his arms on the chair behind him. He reaches beside his tower of shoes, and pulls out his suitcase. We pack silently, folding carefully so that nothing gets too wrinkled. When he’s done, we roll the bag by the door. No less than a second, he pushes me against the door again. When I pull away, he groans loudly and reaches down to pinch my but.“Jay,”“What,” he sounds so angry at the delay that it’s almost comical. “Bed,” I whisper against his jawline. He smiles wide shaking his head at me. His hands come around my waist, lifting me so that I can wrap my legs around him. He pretends to almost drop me the whole way to his bedroom. “You can’t help but be annoying can you?” I ask. He laughs, throwing me into the center of his bed. “It’s kind of been my job since as long as I can remember. Now, take your clothes off,”I roll my eyes at his impatience but comply. I peel my T-shirt away from my body and over my head. My shorts follow. He pulls at his own clothes too. Climbing on his bed, he calls me to come closer. I inch up the bed, straddling his hips when I finally reach him his hands smooth up my thighs and up to cover my chest. It’s so intimate it feels like we’ve been doing this all along. I lean in to take his mouth. A hand curls around my neck holding me against him. When I pull back, we’re both breathless, lips swollen; and a little desperate. His fingers pull at my bra roughly, pulling it off my shoulders. I reach behind me to undo the clasps and drop it on the floor. My panties are a little more complicated but we manage them off and they join the rest of my clothes. Jay holds my waist while reaching over to his bedside table to grab a condom. I lift myself off of him so he can slide the latex into place. Once he’s good, his arms wrap around my body pulling my chest against his. He pushes my hair off of my shoulders so he can kiss my skin, his lips dragging to any open space he can get his mouth on. I reach down to line him up before sinking down on him. We both sigh out as if we’ve been waiting all day just for this moment. Jay guides my hips into the tempo that he wants. His mouth presses into the center of my chest while his hands move across my back. I move against him, holding onto his shoulders tightly. He pushes my neck back, his thumbs coming down on the hollow of my throat. It feels too good. He likes it anyway he can have it. And right now, it seems like my legs wrapped around his waist while I ride it might be his favorite so far. I can’t say that I disagree.I press my hands into his chest, pinning his flat against his mattress while I arch above him. My hair falls between us for a second before he reaches up to move it out of the way. “Come on, y/n,” his hands go to my ass, moving my hips the exact way he wants again. His fingers squeeze tightly, before one draws back and comes back hard on my skin. He smooths the sting with his palm before drawing back again. When his hand connects again it’s harder than before, but it feels too good to complain. I grind my hips harder against him, trying to get as close as I can. I reach back to grab his hand and snake it up to grab at one of my breasts. He squeezed my flesh, before bringing his mouth up to wrap around a nipple. His teeth pull softly at my skin while he looks up at me. “Jay,” I call his name like I’m desperate, like he’s the only thing in the world that can bring me relief right now. I’m pretty sure he his. My movements start to lose their rhythm as I start to tighten around him. I wrap my arms around his neck, pressing my chest against his. He holds me tight while I shake against him, unable to move. “You’re so sexy, baby,” he whispers in my ear, his hips moving against mine to get me to my release. I feel like I’m literally about to burst, like every single molecule of me is coming apart atom by atom. Somehow his slips a hand between us to touch me while his hips move.“Shit,” I curse feeling myself come around him. I’m blinded by how good he feels, but even while my mind and body try to find each other again, he flips me so that my back presses against the mattress. He hikes up a leg around his waist as he rocks into me harder. I focus on him. His head is thrown back, sweat falls down his body making the black ink on his skin seem to glisten in the light. He pulls his bottom lip between his teeth and closes his eyes. He’s so fucking beautiful. I take mental pictures of him like this, wild and unhinged for while he’s away. Reaching up, I run my hand through his wet hair. “Fuck,” he says through clenched teeth when I purposely squeeze him tighter. His eyes pop open as he stares down at me. The corner of his lips ticks up into a smirk as he shakes his head at me. “You going to killing me,” he forces out a laugh. His fingers curl into my thigh as he grunts and collapses on top of my body. Our chests move together rapidly, as we both struggle to pull air into our lungs. After a few minutes, he gets up to take care of the condom. When he comes back he wraps his arms around my body, pulling me into his chest as he rolls over. A hand rests on my ass, holding me against him. He looks up at the clock besides the bed. It’s almost eight -thirty and I know he really should be going. Neither of us make any moves to untangle. Instead, I press myself closer to him hoping to soak in what little time we have. I miss him terribly every time he leaves, but I know this time is going to wreck me a little bit. This time I know what he tastes like. This time I know how it feels to have him deep in my bones. It’s only a week, I remind myself. I think somewhere deep down, I’m preparing myself for the later trips; the album promos, concerts in different countries, and the late studio times. I have to make it through this week. I really have no choice because it only gets worse from here. “You’re over-thinking,” he whispers. I can practically hear the eye roll in his voice. I look up at him, pressing my lips against the compass on his neck. “Only happens when I think about you,”He laughs, pulling me up to balance on his chest on my arms. His hair falls flat on his forehead, and I brush it away; running my nails over his scalp. “It freaks me out when you say cute shit,” “I wasn’t trying to be cute,” I tell him. “You’ve been actually causing me a lot of mental anguish as of lately,”He smacks my butt. “I’m not sorry,” he says with a shrug. I lay my head back on his chest. “You should probably go,” I say. “Probably,”Still he doesn’t move apart from the hand that strokes lazy circles on my hip.We stay wrapped around each other and watch the clock until it hits nine-thirty. Silently he untangles himself out of my drowsy grip, replacing his body with the pillow he was laying on. He walks to the bathroom and a second later I hear the sound of his shower running. I would join him, but I know he’d be really late if I did. So, I stay where I am drifting closer to unconsciousness and back out, afraid I’ll miss when he leaves. At some point I eventually do fall asleep only to wake up to Jay kissing my cheek. “I’ll see you in a few days,” he says. I squint at him in the dark, he’s dressed in a pair of sweats and my favorite red Tommy shirt. “I was planning to steal this shirt,” I say reaching out to grab the hem of the it. “It looks better on me,” I yawn. Jay laughs pulling at my fingers. He laces our hands together, bringing our clasped hands to his lips. “I’m sure it does,” he whispers bending down to take lips this time. When he pulls back he adjust the sheets, making sure I’m covered. “Call me,” I tell him. “Always,” And he’s gone.