Jongho rolls over to wrap his arm over his girlfriend’s, Y/N’s, waist. When he reaches out, he feels nothing. His eyes snap open to look at her spot on the bed only to find a single apple. Grabbing the apple while laughing, Jongho calls out to his girlfriend to stop hiding, “how funny, Y/N. Now come here.”
When he gets no response, he sits up in the bed looking around. She’s nowhere in the room.
He decides that she’s probably already awake and in the living room, so he goes to the bathroom to wash up. Finishing that relatively quickly, he runs to the living room to find his girlfriend.
There’s still no girlfriend to be found; instead, there is a basket of apples on the coffee table with a note attached.
My apple breaker, where did we first meet?
Jongo’s gummy smile pulls across his face, “did she make a scavenger hunt? An apple-themed one at that.” He begins to rethink to the beginning of their relationship, almost three years ago.
The couple met through his groupmate, Yeosang, because Y/N grew up in Pohang with Yeosang and the pair are childhood best friends. These two went to the same school from elementary to high school, and are the same age making Jongho one year younger than his girlfriend.
He considers this an accomplishment since he’s mature enough to get an older girlfriend.
Yeosang introduced Y/N to him, technically the entire group, for the first time in their practice room. Since Y/N began working as a choreographer just that year, Yeosang brought her in to help make some performances.
Jongho takes one of the apples to eat then walks out the front door, heading to the KQ building.
He arrives at the building pretty fast, in twenty minutes or so, already starting to run towards the door and up the stairs to the practice room.
Slamming open the practice room door, Jongho takes in Wooyoung eating an apple while holding the next note.
“Your girl is pretty damn romantic, Jjong. I think I might want to snatch her,” Wooyoung sends Jongho a smirk as he hands him the note. Jongho rolls his eyes at Woo’s words sending a quick thank you before snatching the note.
I apple-solutely fell for you at first sight here. Where did we go for our first date?
Jongho thinks to himself, “is she really going to keep up the apple puns?” He lets his smile break across his face once again slipping the note into his pocket heading out the KQ building.
They never officially had a first date, but the first time they met each other alone was by accident at a cafe near KQ. The two ran into each other, decided to talk over their drinks - an iced americano and an iced matcha latte - then somehow spent the entire day together.
He tossed the apple core into one of the trash piles, there’s hardly a trashcan on streets in Korea, as he makes his way to the cafe.
Right when he walks in, the owner walks up to him handing him an apple, a note, and an iced americano. “I remember seeing the two of you come in years ago. It's amazing to see the two of you still together, not to mention how romantic your girl is. Next time the two of you come in together, it’s on me,” the owner gushes at Jongho’s relationship as she shoos him out the door.
Jongho takes a sip of his drink while reading the next note.
You have to strengthen your core at this place! Haha, core.
This note is the first that makes him laugh aloud, how can my girlfriend be so cute. The next place is Jongho’s favorite gym where Y/N always goes to bring Jongho snacks to take breaks or to walk him home.
He heads down the street towards the gym so far she chose places that were really close to their shared apartment. The walk takes only five minutes until he’s pulling the handle to enter the gym.
Again, a person approaches him with an apple and a note, but this time there’s also a small bag. “You guys are such a cute couple! She told me about the scavenger hunt so I grabbed a small bag to hold the apples in,” the worker hands him the items and waves him off, “good luck!”
Jongho starts walking out of the gym already, excited to be at the next location. Slipping the apples into the bag, he begins to read the note.
You’re so a-peel-ing but I’m running low on ideas so here's the final address.
A frown falls across his face; this place was not in walking distance. Jongho has to get a taxi to get here, and the ride would end up being around thirty minutes.
He flips the note over hoping to get more information - he does. On the back of the note is a phone number. It’s not a number he recognizes so he gets a little bit more confused.
Jongho finishes his drink and pulls out his phone to dial the unknown number. The phone hardly rings once before the other end picks up, “hello, is this Jongho? You’re done at the gym already, I’ll be there in two minutes.”
After finishing the sentences, the phone is hung up. He’s even more lost now, the voice wasn’t even familiar. Jongho finds a bench right outside of the gym to sit down while he waits for whatever is supposed to arrive.
Within minutes of him sitting down, a small white car pulls up right in front of him. An unfamiliar man steps out of the car and hands him an apple with one of today’s notes.
I couldn’t have “picked” a better person to bring you to me! This is my cousin, Dongyul, so don’t be too alarmed.
Jongho stands up to shake his hand, “nice to meet you, could you tell me where we’re going now?” Dongyul shakes his head no as he turns to open the door for Jongho to get into the car. When he gets in, he notices the backseat is filled with baskets filled with apples.
His hand flies up to smack his forehead, “she’s very prominent with the apples today, isn’t she?” Dongyun, trying to remain quiet, starts to laugh, “yeah, but she’s very excited about it, and it’s pretty damn funny.”
The two talk about Y/N on the way to the mystery location, sharing stories of their times with her and her stupidity - though she is very lovely.
Jongho begins to notice the type of trees that they are driving past.
“She is damn dedicated to this theme,” Jongho begins to laugh once more, “I hate her so much.” He rolls his eyes as the car comes to a stop in a circle of the trees.
As soon as he steps out of the car, Dongyun reaches over to shut the door and drive away. Jongho stares in disbelief as he is stranded in the middle of nowhere.
He looks around and sees a singular apple on the ground a little further down the path. Heading towards this apple, he sees that there is, once again, a note with it.
Excited that he will finally be able to see his girlfriend, Jongho runs straight up the path where Y/N is there waiting for him.
He’s running to tackle her into a hug as soon as his eyes fall onto her. Jongho picks her up, spins her, and pushes a kiss onto her lips. “I missed you today. I just wanted to be able too kiss you all day,” he continues to kiss her while peppering kisses around the rest of her face.
“I missed you too, Jjong. Do you have any idea of what this scavenger hunt was about?”
Her boyfriend stares at her blankly, “is it not just for Valentine’s Day?”
Y/N waits for Jongho to place her back down on the ground, then she pulls out an all too familiar jewelry box to hand to him, “could you be any more discreet? You left it on the kitchen counter for days.”
Jongho’s eyes begin to water, “I’m an idiot aren’t I.”
“I’ll only call you an idiot if you don’t show me what’s in the box.”
“Princess, I can’t believe you ended up planning your own proposal. I literally forgot that I bought it already,” Jongho takes the box from Y/N.
He steps backs from her to put his left knee on the ground, kneeling in front of her.
Jongho takes a hold of her left hand and opens the box, “I know this didn’t turn out to be a surprise and you already saw the ring, but this doesn’t change the fact that I really want to be your husband. We’re both still pretty young, but will you marry me?”
“Nevermind then,” Jongho begins to stand up, turning to walk away when Y/N grabs his wrist and takes the box from his hand. She takes out the ring getting ready to slip it on.
Jongho takes the ring from her grasp, delicately holds her hand, and slips the ring onto her left hand.
“I love you, my fiancé, even though you made your own apple themed proposal,” he pulls her left hand against his chest and uses his other hand to hold her jaw, bringing her in for a kiss.
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