blinking to try and comprehend what they heard, they all blankly look at each other as anton’s words continue ringing in their heads. trying their best to put into words what they were all thinking, they continue staring at each other in complete disbelief. shotaro is the first to break the silence by loudly scoffing at his younger friend.
shaking his head at him, he takes a step forward towards anton. bringing the back of his hand up, he smacks anton’s chest causing anton to let out a small “ow.”
“and what the actual fuck posessed you to say that?” shotaro asks, disapproval written all over his tone.
“it was a joke!” anton quickly yells back as he rubs his chest.
“look around,” eunseok states as he moves to point at the rest of the boys. “is anybody laughing?”
“i panicked, i’m sorry!” anton sighs, bringing a hand up to nervously chew on one of his fingernails. “i was just trying to lighten the mood,” he mumbles to himself.
“you said sohee was going to get a restraining order against her!” wonbin quickly yells back. “in what world is that funny?”
“okay, i did not say it like that!” anton immediately argues back, shaking his head at wonbin’s words. he doesn’t understand why everyone is making such a big fuss. anton swears he has jokingly told sohee that before and it didn’t result in him crying. he genuinely does not understand why him making that joke towards you led to you crying and locking yourself up in your room.
“if anyone should get a restraining order is yn but on this guy over here,” eunseok sighs shaking his head as he uses his index finger to point towards seunghan’s direction.
rolling his eyes at eunseok’s comment, seunghan brings a hand up to flip eunseok off; this instantly causing eunseok to flip seunghan back with both of his hands.
“she literally texts him everyday! i was just trying to be funny,” anton continued on defending himself, ignoring the two boys bickering.
“god,” shotaro sighs once more. “anton, do you not know how to read a room?”
“your sister is in love with sohee,” shotaro states. with wide eyes, anton quickly looks at your friends for confirmation. when getting the confirmation he needed, he awkwardly shifts in his spot.
“she texts him every day probably hoping he’s going to magically unblock her one of these days– she wants to work things out with him but he refuses to hear her out,” shotaro sighs, shaking his head at sohee’s way of handling the situation. “you told her he was out of town so that most likely caused her to believe you’re still in contact with him–” shotaro continues explaining. “you made a tasteless joke about sohee getting a restraining order against her so she most definitely believes that came out of his mouth.” shotaro finally concludes.
“do you now understand why your sister is crying or do i have to dumb it down some more?” shotaro speaks up once more causing eunseok to let out a small snicker at his choice of words.
“wait—” eunseok’s eyes immediately go wide. “yn,” he says, turning to his friends as they all instantly gasp and make their way up the stairs to go to your room and comfort you.
from up the stairs, eunseok turns back for a brief second and points down at seunghan. “and don’t you dare step foot upstairs,” he states before turning back to continue walking up the stairs.
rolling his eyes at eunseok’s comment, seunghan lightly pats both shotaro and anton’s chest to signal them to follow the rest up the stairs.
JUNE 24TH, 2024 11:13 PM
“baby, open the door,” wonbin sighs as he continues to knock at your door. turning back to look at sungchan and eunseok, he shakes his head at them.
“pretty girl?” sungchan tries now, jiggling your doorknob.
“sugar plum, please!” eunseok desperately yells out, wanting nothing more than to be there for you.
“baby? sugar plum? pretty girl? what the fuck?” seunghan mumbles to himself, confused on the sudden pet names you were receiving.
shaking his head at seunghan, wonbin couldn’t help but roll his eyes at him. “platonically, asshole.”
“you’re just mad yn didn’t like it when you called her pretty girl,” eunseok quickly shot back, turning to smirk at the shorter boy.
gasping at his words, shotaro and anton bring a hand up to smack their friend. “you called her ‘pretty girl’?” shotaro asks in full on disbelief.
“you fucking called my sister ‘pretty girl’?” anton angrily asks.
“ow–” seunghan states as he begins rubbing his head and arm. “sungchan just called her that and nobody fucking cared!”
“she’s my best friend!” sungchan quickly reasons back. “besides, it’s platonically. yours on the other hand was not.”
“eunseok, what else has he done.” anton asks as he continues to angrily eye his friend.
“oh, i’ll gladly tell you–” eunseok begins as he turns to look at seunghan’s panic figure shaking his head at him, pleading him to stop.
“yn,” shotaro randomly speaks up. at the sound of his voice, everyone shifts their attention towards him and watch as he brings a hand up to knock at your door.
“what the fuck are you doing?” anton whispers out towards his older friend.
“trust me,” shotaro quickly answers back before softly knocking once more. “i know you don’t know me like that but it’s shotaro,” shotaro quietly says.
“i’m really close to sohee,” he adds as he continues speaking to you against your door. “you-” at the sound of the door unlocking and swinging open he closes his mouth.
“i didn’t kiss seunghan,” you quickly state, looking up at shotaro with tears spilling from your eyes.
softly smiling down at you, he nods his head at your words. “i know,” he reassures you.
“please tell him that,” you desperately plea with him.
as you watch him shake his head at you, you feel your bottom lip start to quiver. looking up at him once more you try to plea once again.
“i’m not going to tell him because you are,” shotaro says, sending you a warm smile as he takes out his phone to text sohee.
“i’m going to text sohee and tell him i’m coming over so he’ll know to expect someone over,” shotaro tells you as he finishes typing on his phone. “but instead of it being me, it’ll be you.”
shaking your head at his words, you couldn’t help but let tears spill. desperately running to whichever one of your friends was closest to you for emotional support.
“oof,” wonbin softly says, taken back at the sudden contact. quickly snapping out of it, he brings his hands to your frame to hug you back.
“he’s going to get a restraining order,” you sob, hiding your head on his chest.
hearing your words, eunseok annoyingly turns to anton as he brings a hand to slap the back of his head. “you fucking see what you did?”
“baby, he’s not going to get a restraining order,” wonbin lightly laughs to try and reassure you. “do you know how silly that sounds?”
“sohee told anton,” you mumble, hugging wonbin tighter to try and calm yourself down.
angrily turning to look at your younger brother, it’s sungchan’s turn to slap the back of anton’s head. “you fucking see?”
“ow— it was a fucking joke!” anton whispers back.
“he’s not going to get a restraining order, i promise,” shotaro states, side eyeing anton in complete annoyance. “sohee never said that, i swear.”
“i can even show you our texts–” shotaro continues trying as he takes his phone out of his pocket. “he wouldn’t do that.”
“he wants to talk things out, trust me. he’s just hard headed.” the older boy tells you.
“very hard headed,” seunghan mumbles to himself, agreeing with shotaro.
discreetly nodding his head at their words, eunseok slowly makes his way to where you and wonbin were standing.
“move. my turn!” eunseok pushes wonbin off of you and quickly takes over, hugging you gently as he places a quick kiss on the top of your head.
“what the actual fuck is your problem, eunseok!?” wonbin groans, shaking his head at his friend as he dusts himself off.
“what? i’m just trying to be here for my best friend,” eunseok reasons, causing you to let out a small chuckle at their banter.
“okay! now, it’s my turn,” sungchan says, making his way towards you.
smiling at the sight of you no longer crying, anton begins walking towards you as well. “i’m sorry you have a stupid little brother,” he sighs as he sends you a sad smile.
“i got nervous and made a dumb joke,” anton admits to you as he nervously scratches the back of his neck. “i’m also so fucking sorry for the way i spoke to you the other day, you didn’t deserve that all.”
“i don’t know what i was thinking. i was just so angry and instead of taking it out on seunghan– like i should’ve– i took it out on you,” anton sadly states, completely ignoring seunghan reaction at his sudden words. “i-” anton continues once more but stops at the feeling of your arms wrapped around his torso.
“it’s okay toni,” you softly smile up at him.
“not trying to interrupt anything,” shotaro speaks up, taking a step forward as he looks down at his phone “sohee texted back.”
at the sound of sohee’s name, you instantly turn to look back at shotaro. sending you a small smile your way, he nods at you. “go.”
“go get your sohee.”
☁︎ — JUNE 25TH, 2024 12:26 AM
with a shaky breath, you close your eyes to try and calm yourself down before bringing a hand up to ring his doorbell. at the sound of his doorbell ringing you feel your heart hammer against your chest even faster— if that was even possible. now or never, you keep quietly mumbling to yourself as an attempt to calm down.
“taro-” sohee tiredly says as he opens his door. at the sight of you in front of him, sohee does a complete double take and stares at you with wide eyes.
“h-hi,’ you quietly mumble, nervously playing with your hands.
staring back at you, sohee couldn’t help but take notice on how red your eyes were. have you been crying? sohee sadly asks himself. he feels himself wanting to reach out for you to reassure you everything was okay. but instead, he quickly shakes his head at his thoughts, forcing yourself to snap out of it. you’re with seunghan, he reminds himself.
“go home yn,” sohee sighs as he tightly grips on the door handle.
“baby, can we please talk?” you desperately ask, taking a step closer to him.
“don’t-” he closes his eyes to try and calm himself down. “don’t call me that.”
“pretty boy-”
“is this funny to you?” sohee groans out as he steps outside while looking at you with tears in his eyes. “stop teasing me and go home.”
“i’m not-” you try but get interrupted by sohee’s scoff. “sohee, please.”
“yn, what do you want to talk about?” sohee asks, shaking his head at you. “if you wanted seunghan, you could’ve told me, you know?” he sadly states. “i would’ve backed off.”
“i don’t-”
“i heard you and anton talking that day,’ sohee cuts you off, not wanting to hear any of your lies. “god, i’m so fucking stupid.”
“baby, you’re not,” you quickly move towards him to comfort him causing him to take a step back, away from you. sadly looking down at the space between y’all, you try and swallow your tears despite your heart breaking by the second.
“please, go home.” sohee tries again, gesturing you to walk away
“i’m not going anywhere until you listen to me,” you firmly state, shaking your head at him. “bab-”
“don’t call me that!” sohee brokenly stops you. “you lost the privilege to call me that the second you decided you wanted my best friend,” he angrily brings a hand to wipe away his tears.
“i don’t-” you try talking once again but are once again stopped by sohee talking over you.
“i’ve been so fucking in love with and i thought-” sohee gulps. “i thought you were starting to feel the same way too. i thought it was finally mutual.”
“sohee,” you sadly say as you take a step forward to grab his hand. not having it in him to move once again, sohee lets you grab him. letting out a small sniffle, he brings his attention back towards you. at the sight of his tear stained cheeks you feel your heart break all over again.
“d-do you like seunghan?” sohee hesitantly asks as more tears begin to cloud his vision.
“baby, no,” you gently say, as you bring a hand to cup his cheek and wipe away his tears. “i like you.”
“then why did you kiss him?” he sniffles.
“i didn’t kiss him,” you begin, causing sohee to shake his head at your words and take a step back away from your touch.
“baby,” you desperately try to reach out for him. placing both of your hands on his cheeks, you try and get him to look at you. “look at me, please.”
listening to you, sohee hesitantly removes his focus from the ground and makes eye contact with you.
“the thought of you and seunghan together hurts me so fucking much,” sohee admittedly whispers out. shaking your head at his words, you bring a hand down and place it against his, intertwining his fingers with yours. “it hurts— it hurts so much,” he repeatedly mumbles.
“i didn’t kiss seunghan.” you reassure him.
“but, anton said-”
“i didn’t kiss seunghan but anton did walk in on seunghan trying to kiss me,” you hesitantly told him. processing your words, sohee finds himself letting go of your hand and creating distance between you two.
“baby, wait. please listen to me,” you say, catching his hand before it fully slipped away.
“were you gonna kiss him back?” sohee asks, looking down at you with watery eyes.
“no.” you immediately reassure him. “i only ever want to kiss you.”
“have you ever had feelings for seunghan?” sohee sadly asks, still trying to piece together the whole situation. “please don’t lie to me.”
☁︎ — JUNE 25TH, 2024 1:48 AM
sitting down on his bed, you nervously chew on your bottom lip as you wait for sohee to speak up. you were finally able to explain everything and he’s been quietly processing the situation ever since.
“why didn’t you tell me he was pursuing you?” sohee breaks the silence, looking at you with hurt written all over his eyes.
“i didn’t want to hurt you,” you try reasoning with him. “i thought i was protecting you—”
“bab- yn” sohee sighs. “that’s not protecting me, that’s leaving me in the dark.”
“my best friend was going after my girlfriend, don’t you think i would want to know that?” sohee bitterly laughs. “i would’ve loved to know that my girlfriend once had feelings for him too.”
“baby, it was just a tiny crush.” you quickly jump to your defense. “i was in denial—”
“you still should’ve told me,” sohee lets out one last sigh as he brings his hands up to rub his eyes.
“i should’ve,” you nod your head at him and shift your focus down to your hands.
“it’s getting late you should go-”
“that’s it?” you sadly ask, looking at him with wide eyes.
“are we still-”
“we can be friends,” sohee cuts you off, offering you a small smile. “i don’t think we should date.”
“ever?” you quietly ask. “never again?”
“c-can i fix this?” you hesitantly ask. scooting closer to him, you take his hand in yours. “i can fix this, i promise.”
“yn,” sohee mumbles, wiping away your tears with his thumb.
“this was all just a big misunderstanding,” you desperately plea with him.
“pretty girl, you still kept secrets from me,” sohee softly states. “i’m not mad at you,” he reassures you. “we can still talk but as friends— at least just for now.”
“friends,” you defeatedly state, scared that if you continue pushing he might completely pull away from you again.
not being able to help himself, sohee leans forward and places a gentle kiss on your forehead. there’s no denying that he still holds— and will always hold— strong feelings for you but truth be told, he’s terrified to try again. so, he’ll settle for a friendship instead, at least just for now. “friends.”
☁︎ — CLOUD 9
CHAPTER 44 — friends
summary !! after years of constant pining after his best friend’s sister, yn finally takes notice of sohee and sohee swears he’s on cloud 9. or in other words, loser sohee finally gets the girl.
WARNINGS: SUGGESTIVE JOKES, LIGHT MAKE OUT SESSION, READER SITS ON SOHEE’S LAP (idk if that should even be a warning but just in case 😭)
DISCLAIMER: please keep in mind ALL cloud 9 characters are FICTIONAL. i’m never claiming any of the riize members are like how i’m writing them out to be in this series. if you don’t like how i’m portraying a member please simply stop reading and scroll away. thank you! 🤍
☁︎ — 7:28 PM MAY 31, 2024
looking at the mirror one last time, you quickly turn off the restroom light and move to go open the front door. at the sight of SOHEE standing in front of you, you immediately let go of the door handle and rush towards him.
meanwhile, sohee stood there rehearsing what he wanted to say to you. at the realization that the door was now open, he looks up at you and sends you a nervous smile.
“pretty girl-” he begins but is completely caught off guard with the feeling of your arms wrapping around his waist. tightly wrapping your arms around him, you rest your head on his chest. stumbling backwards a bit, sohee quickly regains his balance before dropping what he had in his hands and making way to wrap his arms around you.
“your heart is beating really fast,” you mumble after a while, slightly moving your head from his chest to take a peek at him. with rosy cheeks, sohee lets out a small chuckle and nods his head at you.
“for you,” sohee responds back. “it only ever beats fast for you.”
smiling up at him, you move over to place a kiss on his cheek and slowly remove your arms from his waist. not wanting to let go of you, sohee quickly moves a hand to grab on to yours. quickly looking down at your hands, you gently intertwine your fringes with his before taking a small step backwards to get a better view of him.
“i’m sorry,” you say, causing sohee to immediately scrunch up his face in utter confusion.
“no,” he shakes his head at you. “i’m the one who’s sorry.”
“pretty boy-” you start, only for sohee to continue shaking his head at your words.
“you have every right to be upset.” he states as he lightly squeezes your hand.
“pretty girl i’ve never-” he quietly continues. sohee finds himself avoiding eye contact, embarrassed on what he’s about to say.
“i may not know what i’m doing but what i do know is that i want you.” he says, shifting his focus back on you. “i want to keep learning more about you and what you like and don’t like,” he begins ranting. “i’ve never done this before—“ he lets out a shaky sigh. “but i really want this with you. i want to learn. i may be confused right now, not fully knowing how to navigate this but i really do want this. i want this with you. i want you.” he slightly repeats himself, trying his best not to stutter as he gives your hand another tight squeeze.
“i’m sorry it took me forever to realize i was upsetting you, i swear i didn’t do it on purpose. i didn’t mean to ignore you, or make it seem like if i was putting anton before you. i was hanging out with him to try and get him to be okay with us dating. i didn’t fully understand what was happening until it was too late. i didn’t know he was rubbing it in your face. i never meant to-”
“pretty boy-”
“no, pretty. please listen,” sohee pouts at you. “i didn't mean to hurt you and god i am so sorry that i hurt you-”
“sohee,” you let go of his hand to place both of your hands on his cheeks. “look at me,” you mumble out.
“we’re okay,” you say, causing sohee to immediately shake his head at you. “pretty boy, i was jealous because you kept hanging out with anton and ignoring me-” you sigh as you look up at him.
“it wasn’t on purpose,” sohee cuts you off, sadly eyeing you.
smiling at him, you nod at him before continuing. “i didn’t know it was because you were trying to get on his good side.”
“he’s your brother, pretty. i want him to like me enough for him to like the idea of us dating,” he mumbles shyly.
“pretty boy-”
“don't get mad but i also showed him our texts so he could help me figure out what else might be wrong.” sohee immediately scrunches up his face and closes his eyes to avoid seeing your reaction.
gasping at his sudden confession, you bring both hands to cover your mouth. “sohee,” you say in disbelief.
hesitantly opening his eyes, sohee tries his best to not mumble how cute you look with your current expression. “pretty girl, he’s my best friend,” sohee tries reasoning with you.
shaking your head at him, you bring a hand up in the air to let him know to give you a moment. “my brother saw my down bad texts,” you mumble out in complete horror. “oh my god.”
biting his bottom lip to stop himself from letting out a small chuckle, he brings his hand to grab yours once more and gently caresses your hand with his thumb.
“pretty, he saw my down bad texts too,” sohee tries making you feel better. “but thanks to him i realized what was going on.”
looking up at him confused, you tilt your head at him waiting for him to continue. “i’m sorry for not catching on to your hints. i honestly didn’t even know they were hints. i was too busy focusing on getting anton to like me again and i just- in my head it doesn’t make sense that you would want to hang out with me so i didn’t read too much into them,” he quietly added. at his confession, you soften your expression.
“pretty boy, i like you. of course i’m going to want to hang out with you. i don’t want just texts or phone calls or facetime calls,” you say pouting at him. “i want you. i want to see you, physically. i want to learn everything about you too.” you ended, smiling at him before slightly tugging at his hand. “let’s go inside?” brightly smiling down at you, he nods at your words.
“wait!” he suddenly says causing you to stop your movements. “pretty girl i dropped your flowers,” sohee sadly states as he bends down to pick up the bouquet. pouting at you, he looks down at the flowers once more and takes notice of their current state.
“pretty boy,” you giggle out, trying to take the bouquet from his hand.
“my pretty girl deserves pretty flowers, i’m so sorry. when you hugged me i just threw them on the ground without thinking,” he sadly mumbles, looking at you with big sincere eyes.
“pretty boy,” you chuckle at his expression. moving a hand to cup his cheek, you bring his focus back to you. “i think they’re beautiful.”
“i think you’re more beautiful,” he quickly says back, in a complete daze. blushing at his compliment, you send him a small shy smile.
“i’m going to kiss you, if that’s okay-” you start telling him only for him to quickly nod at you.
“yes!” he immediately answers back. “more than okay.”
giggling at his reaction, you move to stand closer to him. looking at his eyes before looking down at his lips, you move your hand to the back of his neck to softly bring him closer to you. standing up straighter, you lean forward and slowly close your eyes. at the sight of you nearing closer to him, sohee looks down at your lips before closing his eyes and slightly tilting his head and closing the gap between you two.
placing a small peck on his lips, you gently move away and offer sohee a smile only for him to immediately crash his lips against yours for another kiss.
with your lips now touching his once more, you find yourself letting go of his hand to place it on his chest. bringing a hand up to your chin, sohee continues kissing you back causing you to slowly move your hand and place it behind his neck. with both hands on his neck now, you move one towards his scalp and gently run your fingers through his hair as you deepen the kiss.
feeling your hands on him and you lightly tugging on his bottom lip, sohee immediately drops the bouquet of flowers yet again, and brings a hand to your waist to pull you closer to him, if even possible. giggling at his urgency, you give him one last peck before moving away, causing sohee to let out a small whine in protest.
“let’s go inside, yeah?” you breathlessly ask, bringing a hand to his arm to guide him towards the door.
“pretty girl,” sohee whines causing you to stop walking and look back at him. pouting at you, he looks down before shifting his focus on you. “i dropped your flowers again,” he pouts, annoyed with himself.
☁︎ — 8:56 PM MAY 31, 2024
with sohee sitting on your bed, you bring a hand up to run your fingers through his hair.
“my favorite chocolate bar is milky way by the way,” you randomly state as you move to peck his lips.
“hm?” sohee confusedly asks. unsatisfied with the small peck, sohee puckers out his lips, silently asking you for another one.
“i only want you buying me my favorite chocolate bar so i’m telling you what it is,” you giggle at his expression, moving forward to place a kiss on his nose.
“anything else i should know?” sohee asked, smiling up at you as he places his hands on your waist.
“hm, i also really like you,” you chuckle out, watching as his cheeks turn a dark shade of red. embarrassed at your confession, sohee hides his face on your chest and pulls you closer to him by hugging your waist.
“can you feel it?” you gently whisper out. “my heart.” you add.
“it’s beating really fast,” sohee states. looking up at you from his current position.
“yeah, because of you,” you state, softly smiling down at him. with a big smile on his face, sohee places a kiss on your collarbone.
“i really want to kiss you again,” sohee admits. he wants nothing more than to feel your lips against his, especially now knowing that you like him just as much as he likes you.
“nobody is stopping you,” you whisper out, gently bringing yourself to sit on his lap. with your legs now resting on each side of his hips, you shyly smile at him. “is this okay?”
“more than okay,” SOHEE mumbles back before placing his lips against your own.
☁︎ — CLOUD 9
CHAPTER 27 — pretty flowers
summary !! after years of constant pining after his best friend’s sister, yn finally takes notice of sohee and sohee swears he’s on cloud 9. or in other words, loser sohee finally gets the girl.
summary !! after years of constant pining after his best friend’s sister, yn finally takes notice of sohee and sohee swears he’s on cloud 9. or in other words, loser sohee finally gets the girl.
