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oop love the new pfp and header !!
THANK YOU ML đŤśđŤś i might change it later but ! jay looks too good so i couldn't resist
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Alice. New pfp AND bg of your blog? AND that Jake fic? You're on fire latelyđ§đŤŚ
it is indeed đ¤ not sure how i feel about the layout yet ngl but i like the red and black theme i've had for a while now :') BUT THANK YOU the fic happened so spontaneously and then i just felt like a new theme was the move đŽâđ¨
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IMPORTANT - PLAGERISM
Itâs come to my attention that a user on this platform copied my original story âNerd, Interruptedâ â not just vaguely, but blatantly. The themes, character dynamics, the pacing and major plot elements were all taken from my work, repackaged under a different title, and posted as if they were original. I was anonymously informed, looked into it myself, and the similarities were undeniable. When I confronted them, they denied everything â claimed they didnât know me, had never read my work, and had never followed me. Yet, soon after, they deleted the story entirely⌠and then their entire account. If you really didnât copy anything, why go to those lengths?
Whatâs worse â this same person @snowho0n was commenting on my anon post pretending to support me throughout the ordeal, agreeing I had been wronged, only for me to later realize it was them the entire time. A friend of mine recognized the aesthetic, formatting, and behavior â it was unmistakable. And now, from the same account, theyâve started posting again, this time putting âinspired byâ in the description and tagging me along with other writers. Let me be very clear: writing âinspired byâ after the fact does not make anything better. You didnât own up to what you did. You didnât apologize. You didnât take accountability. Instead, you erased the evidence, played both sides, and are now trying to rewrite the narrative while avoiding the actual consequences. This isnât inspiration â itâs theft. And no amount of sugar-coating or emotional guilt-tripping will change that. If youâre bold enough to steal, deny, lie, fake support, and then try to quietly rebuild â you should be called out publicly.
below are the screenshots (proof) my friend and i collected
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crazy world we live in
#again?? đ what is going on with this hellsite#i'm so sorry op this is horrible#plagiarizing just to cause drama is so mean-spirited too omg#also im ctfu their old layout is literally my fic layout gn#like wtvv but feels intentional considering they plagiarized everything else too yikes#lowkey enhablr needs a cleanse
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my kcon experience was so much fun 𼚠i don't think i'll ever recover from that insane lineup
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DESIGENES WE UP???
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thank you so much for 2k notes my loves !! đĽš
implausible deniability
â don't spin this on me. this is about you getting turned on by your best friend's sister, you freak. â
PAIRING ⸠jake sim x fem!reader
GENRES ⸠smut, crack, fluff, college au, brother's best friend au, academic rivals to lovers au
WARNINGS ⸠profanity, alcohol, weed, lots of banter, sexual tension, dry humping, dirty talk, teasing, unprotected sex, fingering, oral (m. receiving), semi public sex, jayhoon bullying jake
SUMMARY ⸠in which jake comes to the horrifying realization that he might have somewhat of a masochistic streak. case in point: he can't stop himself from getting turned on whenever you argue with him.
WORD COUNT ⸠12,652 words
PLAYLIST ⸠sweet lies by exo ⢠damn right by jennie, childish gambino, kali uchis ⢠red angel by s.e.s. ⢠thirsty by tinashe
AUTHORâS NOTE ⸠this was written on a whim because of that weverse live clip of jake nerding out lol hope u like it!!
JAKE SIM WAS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A MAJOR PREDICAMENT THAT PROBABLY WOULDNâT SURVIVE MOST FRIENDSHIPS.
To preface, when it came down to it, he respected Lee Heeseung a whole lot (although he would rather die than admit this out loud). There was something special about having a childhood friendâsomeone who was there for him at the awkward stages of puberty and lowest points of his lifeâand Jake wouldâve been a fool to ever take that for granted. For their tight-knit friendship to carry into university made their bond irreplaceable to Jake. He genuinely trusted that he and Heeseung would be friends even when they were old and cheating at bingo together in a retirement home.Â
That being said, the chances of that happening were looking bleak now that you, Heeseungâs younger sister, were constantly occupying a space in Jakeâs head that was strictly reserved for something more⌠impure.
It was strictly lust; however, that somehow made matters much worse because how could he possibly lust after his best friendâs sister? If it was some complicated emotion like love, then at least Jake could tuck his heart away and hide his feelings until the day he died.Â
Hiding a boner, thoughâthat was difficult.Â
Even more so because you were in the same Engineering & Society seminar as Jake, and since the course was structured for small group debates, the two of you were often at each otherâs throats in heated arguments. Of course, Jake tried to approach you as civilly as possible, so their professor believed the intense back-and-forth was simply a healthy dialogue, but neither of you would back down once it started.Â
The problem only made itself clear last month, despite how many excuses Jake made for himself to deny your involvement. It took him three more weeks to accept that his hard-ons were your doing and not simply a standing ovation out of respect for the debate (which was one of his worst possible reasons, to be honest).Â
And the cherry on top was that they always happened when you two were quarreling.
You two could be insults deep in what was supposed to be a casual discussion about greenwashing in product engineering, and Jake would, without fail, feel all the blood rush to his dick until it was uncomfortably stiff.
Unsexy thoughts, unsexy thoughts, unsexy thoughts, he kept chanting to himself, attempting to force an image in his head of Heeseung kicking his sorry ass. Unfortunately, it did very little to prove effective against the scarily overwhelming libido that tented his pants.Â
Jake was ashamed to admit that he was also mildly turned on by the idea of being caught, which made absolutely no sense because that was also his biggest fear.
So, to summarize, Jake now found himself horny in situations where:
he was pissed off
he was in the middle of a heated argument
he was potentially going to get beat up
It wasnât looking good for him, to say the least.
Now, there was a justifiable reason as to why Jake was under the assumption that Heeseung was going to punch the living daylights out of him. Although you were only a year younger than your brother, he was awfully protective of you because a little sister was all he ever wanted.Â
Back when they were middle schoolers, running over to each otherâs houses across the street to show each other their new comic books, Heeseung would always bring you around. Jake had nothing going on in his head but Spider-Man and legos back then, so he wasnât very pleased with you constantly trailing behind them like a lost puppy. Naturally, that led to you and Jake often bickering about your annoying, lingering presence.Â
The last time Jake ever complained about you hanging around them was when he blew up on you for following them to the corner store. That place was practically their sanctuary back then. The 99 cent AriZona iced tea was like uncut cocaine to him. The fact that you, a mere fifth grader, encroached on their safe haven was an insultâa disgrace! The reputation of the fine establishment simply didn't allow for puny elementary kids to come and go as they pleased (in Jakeâs head, at least).Â
âQuit following us, Y/N,â eleven-year-old Jake muttered back then, throwing you a glower over his shoulder. âDonât you have other friends to bother?â
âNot really.â
âYeah, I can tell, so stop trying to steal mine.âÂ
Although you were all pigtails and Barbie dolls back then, you were surprisingly sharp-tongued for an elementary schooler. âSure, Jake. You can have my brother and the rest of your imaginary friends.â
He wasnât even the type to get angry. In fact, Jake had glowing reviews about his personality; moms loved him, the guys always picked him first for sports teams, and he even caught the attention of some of the girls at school. It wasnât like him to get so riled up over something so small and petty, but he always happened to blow his top when it came to you.
It was rather unbecoming of him (considering Park Sunghoon later deemed him Mommyâs Little Misogynist for this one), but Jake was boiling with so much anger that he wound up chugging the rest of his iced tea in one go, crumpling up the aluminum into a disc, and throwing the empty can straight at your forehead. The force of his throw, normally reserved for intense sessions of Four Square on the playground, left behind an angry red mark that quickly brought you to tears.Â
Before Jake could even stutter out an apology, he was met with a blow to his gut that had him doubling over Heeseungâs fist. It was then that Jake realized that his friend did not take any disrespect toward his sister lightly.Â
This carried on into high school, too, where Jake got to witness Heeseung hunt down your first ever boyfriend for cheating on you. It was quite the scene, full of threats and rather creative insults, but Jake realized that he was only let off the hook because of his close friendship with Heeseung.Â
Over the years, he learned he could bicker with you all he wantedâHeeseung finally realized that you could stand up for yourselfâbut to lust after you so shamelessly was a death wish. It was the pinnacle of disrespect toward you. If your brother ever found out, Jake was a dead man.Â
That was why he was now fiercely determined to get through the rest of his seminar without having to cross his legs and hide the deplorable tension in his jeans.Â
Today, he prepared himself by starting his day off with a bowl of Corn Flakes, intended to curb sexual desires by John Harvey Kellogg himself. Then, he devoured a handful of graham crackers before class, which Jake wasn't quite sure would be useful as an anaphrodisiac, but it was worth a shot. Actually, he wasn't very confident with either of these options, but desperate times called for desperate measures.Â
The question they were tackling today was whether engineers were to be held accountable for how their inventions were used, such as facial recognition for surveillance or military drones. Thought-provoking, for sure. Jake made a mental note to discuss it with the professor at office hoursâanything he could do to suck up to the guy to compensate for his crass behavior during discussions.Â
âYou canât just start something potentially dangerous and walk away from the consequences,â you claimed, that challenging look in your eyes daring anyone to speak against you.Â
Usually, no one other than Jake dared to oppose you, so the silence that followed after was thick with anticipation, stuck in their throats like honey. Your gaze met Jakeâs for a split second, eyebrows lifting in mild surprise. He would usually be standing up by now, but he didnât feel the need to. To be quite honest, Jake agreed with your point this time, so there was no reason for him to come up with some half-baked counterargument for the sake of participating. Plus, it was far too risky to argue with you; he was already determinedly set on making it through this class without his blood rushing to rather inappropriate regions.
Still, the way you were looking at him, waiting for him to argue back with those sickeningly adorable eyes, had him rising to his feet, anyway. What a weak-willed man he was. Sunghoon would laugh right in his face.
âBut if someone misuses the technology, thatâs on them, not the people who created it,â he countered, surprisingly convincing for someone who didnât believe a word he was saying. âThe engineers canât control how their technology is used once itâs sold to whoever.â
âBut donât you see how technologyâs being used? You really think mass surveillance keeps improving because engineers are just super passionate about innovation? Itâs all about the money, isnât it?â He could hear the emotion rising in your voice; you were just an overly-passionate person when it came to these things, but you sucked in a breath to collect yourself. âIf they know the harm their inventions cause and keep going, they should be held accountable for what they make!â
This was honestly ridiculous. Jake fully agreed with you, yet here he was, scrambling to think of a rebuttal so that he could watch the irritation grow on your face.Â
âThen what about the ones built with good intentions? Should they be held responsible because their honest work was manipulated?â
âImpact over intent,â you replied with a firmness intended to shut him up. âHonest work only goes so far. Would you be okay with the vision for your product getting warped into something else entirely?â
âSo, you think if someone designed tracking features on a health app or some shit, they should be held responsible if that data gets sold or used by the government?â
âYes. Thatâs exactly what I think.â
Well, yeah, that checked out.Â
Jake raised a brow. âHow are they supposed to know? Most engineers are working on small parts of these big projects.â
âSeriously? Look at Boeing! All these sloppy engineering decisions resulted in those plane crashes.â There was a hint of venom in your tone and your eyes were sharp. Jake could tell you were getting to that level of frustration that he couldnât help but get excited over. âOver three hundred people died because of plain negligence. Whoâs to blame, then?â
âI just wanna ask where you think the line should be drawn,â he said. âIf we hold every single engineer accountable for how their work gets used, then no oneâs gonna build anything. You just end up driving them all into a corner.â
âAre you trying to be an engineer for the money, or are you in it for meaningful work?â
âUh⌠yeah, the meaningful work, of course.â And the six-figure starting salary. That was beside the point, though.Â
âThen shouldnât you be approaching what you create with some more tact? You canât just mindlessly build whatever without thinking beyond your creation.â
âAre we still talking about engineers here, or are you just coming for me now?â
âWell, if the shoe fits.â
âThe most Iâve done is code a calculator. I donât think the governmentâs interested.â
âIâm clearly not talking about that. Iâm talking aboutââ
âThis is a seminar, Y/N. Weâre supposed to be talking about society here.â
âAre you not part of society anymore, Jake? I sincerely apologize for assuming.â There was nothing sincere about your tone, though. âWhat? Youâve got nothing else to say?â
And, like clockwork, there was that telltale strain once again as Jake felt his chest grow hot. He reached behind him to grab the head of his chair and sit back down, slowly crossing one leg over the other. You frowned as you watched him concede, and Jake felt rather pathetic that everyone was under the impression that he surrendered. There was a chill in the roomâwhether it was from a draft or the tension from the conversation, he couldnât tell.Â
âI think Iâm done, but I agree with you, by the way,â he said, a sly grin spreading across his face. âJust wanted to participate.â
A few snickers rose from some of their classmates. You scoffed, partly out of amusement and partly out of exasperation, and slumped back in your seat with your arms crossed. The seething look on your face wasnât doing him any favors, nor did the Corn Flakes and graham crackers, apparently.
âOkay, good stuff, good stuff,â said Jay Park, Jakeâs longtime friend and current TA for the semester. âAnyone who isnât Y/N or Jake wanna give it a go? Hopefully without making the rest of us painfully uncomfortable.â
He unfortunately had to bear witness to every single one of the showdowns between you and Jake, but he always kept his mouth shut in front of Heeseung because, as Jay put it, the feud between the two was âtoo messy to escalate.â Jake was just glad he didnât have to resort to blackmail to shut Jay up.Â
It turned out that people were, in fact, willing to participate as long as you and Jake werenât involved. Jake got to sit back for the rest of class and grit his teeth, willing his hard-on to go away before they were all dismissed. What made that quite the feat was the fact that you kept watching him for the rest of class with calculating eyes, as if you were peering into his very soul.
By the time class ended, Jake felt relief flood his chest. He needed to get a mile away from you before your eye contact made his situation a whole lot worse. As he was zipping his backpack back up, Jake saw your perfectly manicured fingernail dragging across the grain of his desk through the corner of his eye.Â
You were standing right in front of him.Â
He looked up, alarmed. From behind you, Jay, who was about to approach him, was backing up slowly, shooting his friend a grimace and opting to duck out the door instead. As the last few people in the classroom were filing out, Jake realized he was now left alone with you.Â
Fuck.
Jake cleared his throat. âCan I help you?â
âYou can start by explaining why you keep going out of your way to get on my bad side,â you said. âIf you agreed with me that entire time, why were you purposely trying to piss me off?â
âWell, I wouldnât call it going out of my way,â he retorted. âClass participation is a requirement. All I did was stand up.â
âAnd refute every single point you believed in?â
He clicked his tongue. âWhat can I say? I do it for the love of the game.â
âUh-huh.â Completely unconvinced, you looked him up and down. Your demand was simple, yet downright mortifying: âUncross your legs.â
Jake froze.Â
âOdd request, donât you think?âÂ
Your gaze dropped for a split secondânot long enough for it to be obvious, but Jake caught it in time. âI donât think so. Weâve known each other since, like, forever. I think weâre at the point where I can make odd requests.â
He felt his mouth going dry. What were you even on about? Sure, Jake was probably close to you in a forced proximity sort of way, but that didnât mean you two were suddenly buddy-buddy. You two were close in the sense that Jake went to your high school graduation (as per Heeseungâs invite, of course) and drove you to your tennis practices whenever your brother was busyânot whatever this was.Â
But who was he kidding? Nothing about this conversation screamed buddy-buddy. You were clearly onto him, and all Jake could do was think of every sad movie heâd ever watched to get rid of the growing erection in his pants.Â
Jake swallowed thickly. âYou want me to uncross my legs,â he stated matter-of-factly, and you snorted.Â
âWhat, didnât hear it the first time?â
âCanât do that,â was all could say in responseâstrained, like something was lodged in his throat.
âYou canât⌠move your leg?â
âNopeâarthritis.â
âArthritis,â you repeated blankly.
âYeah. Runs in my family.â
You shook your head, seeing right through his attempt to steer the conversation back into calmer waters. âYouâre a terrible liar, Jake.â
âReally? I thought I was doing a pretty good job earlier.â
âMmhm. A real Oscar-winning performance for someone arguing against his own opinionâtruly,â you said. âAlso, youâre stalling.â
âHere,â he bit out, and slowlyâdeliberatelyâJake uncrossed his legs for you to see. The bulge in his pants had effectively gone down with much mental gymnastics, and you simply stared down at his groin with a frown settling on your lips. âHappy now, you pervert?â
All you did was look at him with a beady gaze, raising a perfectly arched brow before pulling your phone out of your bag. Jake could only return a look of absolute bewilderment as you flipped your hair over your shoulder and tapped away furiously, the glow from the screen illuminating your features just enough for you to look even more radiant.
âI see. So, uh⌠Heeseungâs gonna be out of town for his hockey tournament and I need a ride to Kazuhaâs place tonight. Sheâs throwing this huge party, and I was planning on pregaming before I head over, but Iâm not about to drunk drive, for obvious reasons.â You wouldnât even look up as you spoke, keeping your eyes trained on the text messages that seemed to be delivering in a flurry. Notification after notificationâJesus, would it kill you to turn your ringer off? âPick me up at eight?â
Jake blinked slowlyâa few more times, for good measure. He couldnât believe his ears. You just grilled him to a crisp, and now you were acting as if nothing happened? He was fighting his own blood from pumping to his dick, and you were just casually changing the topic?
Butâwhatever. As long as the attention wasnât on his crotch anymore, he could roll with this.Â
He scowled. âKazuhaâs? Hey, Iâm not your chauffeur.â
But you were already walking out the door. âYeah, yeah. So, eight?â
A retired sigh fell from his lips. âSureâfine, whatever. Iâll be there.â
In a happy world, Jakeâs schedule was packed with classes all day so that he wouldnât have to run into Heeseung right after that not-so-fun encounter with you.
In the real world, however, Jakeâs schedule was specifically structured so that he and Heeseung had the same breaks between classes. They planned this out well in advance so that they could meet up once they were done with class. Of course, this didn't always work out because of overlapping course times, but the two of them happened to luck out this semester (although it wasn't exactly working in Jakeâs favor right now). Just as he walked out of his classroom, his friend was making his way down the hallway to get to him.
âYo,â Heeseung greeted. He had his hockey stick slung over his shoulder; for weekend tournaments like these, Heeseung would usually leave campus early so that he could commute before nightfall. âI thought youâd be at our table already. Jay isnât with you?â
âI was hanging back for, uh⌠homework help,â he lied, hoping it came out smooth enough to convince his friend.
âCouldnât you just ask Jay?â
Well, he had a point there. Jake settled for saying, âNah. Fuck that guy.â
To his relief, Heeseung just laughed. âYeah, true. That fucker goes on for hours if you get him to start explaining something. I asked him one question about my calc homework the other night, and I swear the sun was coming up by the time he was done.â
âThatâs why you come to me first.â
âI tried. Your ass was knocked out, so all I had was Jay.â Then, Heeseung added, âBy the way, since Iâm gonna be out this weekend, I need you to do me a favor.â
âYeah?â
âY/N said she needed a ride to this⌠I donât knowâI guess Danielleâs sororityâs hosting something? A charity event or some shit like that. Anyway, I wonât be here, but she needs a ride. Are you free? Itâs Saturday evening.â
âIâm alreadyââ Jake stopped himself. Maybe he wasnât supposed to disclose the minor detail that he was also going to be driving you to Kazuhaâs party tonight. As hard as he racked his brain for an excuse, he couldnât think of anything productive heâd be doing the next day. âYeah, itâs no problem.â
âAppreciate it, man,â Heeseung said, thumping Jakeâs chest with the back of his hand.Â
Their chatter continued out of the science building, pushing open the doors to be hit with a gust of cold wind. Heeseung then stopped dead in his tracks, looking down at his phone before throwing his head back in exasperation.
âCoach wants us to meet in the gym before we leave,â he told Jake with a resigned shrug. âIâll see you on Monday, okay? Tell Sunghoon and Jay I said bye.â
The one thing Jake despised in the world was saying goodbye to people. He got far too emotional over a gesture that really wasnât that dramatic, and he hated how seriously he took them. Still, acting as if he was a normal person who knew how to act normally about such matters, he clapped his friend on the back and wished him good luck before watching him walk off.Â
Seriously, he felt like a military wife sending off his husband.
When Jake found the table that Sunghoon and Jay were sitting at, scarfing down their sandwiches at record speed. Jake dropped his bag on the ground and collapsed into the seat next to Sunghoon. He reached over to grab one of Jayâs curly fries, twirling it around in his finger before he nibbled on it.Â
âHeeseungâs gone,â he told them.
âOh. His tournament?â Jay took an obnoxiously loud sip from his drink. âYou phrased that like he died.â
âHe said bye.â
Sunghoon nodded wistfully. âHe will be missedâmostly âcause he always does the dishes. Now weâre responsible. Ugh.â
With his elbow on the table and chin sunk into his palm, Jake nodded along to Sunghoonâs words, still stuck in some strange sort of daze.
Sunghoon shot him a questioning look before turning to Jay. âOkay, I'll bite: Whatâs up with Sadness?â
âDunno.â Jay covered his mouth to finish chewing the rest of his bite. âHe and Y/N were getting into it during class today.â He looked up from his food to turn back to Jake. âWhat happened after she cornered you after class?â
âCornered?â Sunghoon asked with sudden intrigue.Â
To state his concerns as vaguely as possible, Jake groaned feebly into his hands and said, âIâm in deep shit, you guys.â
The two men were dumbfounded to hear Jake Sim, who had a shiny record of being a perfect son and perfect student all his life, make such a claim. (Well, perfect enough to make his parents proud; there were surely several imperfections that wouldnât earn Jake his Perfect Son badge if they were ever to find out. Exhibit A: whatever was happening to him because of you.) Not once had he gotten a detention or even a warning. Jake was a poster child all his life, which was why he felt especially embarrassed that he was acting so shamefully when it came to you.
âYou didnât make her cry, right?â Jay asked.
âNo!â he exclaimed. In fact, you almost made him cry. âI justâŚâ He sighed and straightened up, his voice taking on an edge of seriousness. âYou canât tell Heeseung.â
Jay raised a brow. âWhatâd you do, throw a book at her?â
Sunghoon let out a low whistle. âMommyâs Little Misogynist strikes again.â
âI got a boner, okay?â Jake blurted out, sick of their mindless assumptions, even though his confession was probably a one-way ticket to the deepest circle of Hell.Â
At first, there was silence. Then, a screamâan obnoxious, garbled sort of scream that Jake almost thought was a squawk. Sunghoon and Jay doubled over in laughter, dropping their sandwiches to swat at each other as they were unable to contain themselves. Jake sat there for a good two minutes, a deadpan expression on his face while he waited for them to calm down.Â
âA boner?â Sunghoon clarified, a Cheshire-like grin plastered across his face. âA stiffy? A hard-on? An erecâ?â
âOkay, Merriam-Webster, I donât need every single synonym,â Jake snapped. âBut, yes, Iâve been getting hard during class because of her, itâsââ
Jay spluttered out, âBeenâ!â And then they exploded into a fit of laughter again, collapsing into each other and wheezing from the absolute joy of their friendâs humiliation. With tears now spilling from his waterline, Jay rose up and pointed a finger at Sunghoon in utter glee. âMultiple times!â
âMultiple times!â Sunghoon cried back, pounding his fist on the table.
Jake was not amused in the slightest. âOkay, I feel like you guys are just overreacting now.â
It took Sunghoon and Jay quite a few minutes to pull themselves together after laughing hysterically for what felt like forever, so Jake took it upon himself to steal a couple more of Jayâs fries as revenge.Â
âItâs fine, dude, seriously,â Sunghoon placated, as if he hadnât been losing it moments earlier. He sucked in a deep breath to collect himself while Jayâs shoulders were still shaking.
âYou guys were just making fun of me!â
âDid we laugh? Yes. Do we think youâre kind of a freak? Also yes.â Sunghoon shrugged. âBut do we have your back? No.â
At that, Jay straightened up. âI think you messed that up.â
âI think so, too.â
âIâd assume we do have his back.â
âShould I change it toââ
âOkay! I get what youâre sayingâvery heartwarming, I think,â Jake interjected. âBut am I seriously in the wrong here? No matter how much Y/N pisses me off sometimes, Iâd never want to disrespect her. It feels weird, you know⌠getting hard over her, of all people. I mean, sheâs Heeseungâs sister!â
âSo you popped a boner over herâwho cares?â Sunghoon placated. Jake fought back the urge to roll his eyes; they clearly cared when they were cackling like hyenas. âIâve gotten hard in situations I probably shouldnât get hard in. It happens to the best of us. Itâs fine.â
âWhat kind of situations?â Jake questioned.
âDonât spin this on me. This is about you get turned on by your best friendâs sister, you freak.â
âBut you said it was fine!â
âThat was before you pissed me off. Now Iâve changed my mind: Heeseungâs gonna kick your nasty ass straight to Hell.â
Frustrated, Jake tugged a hand through his dark hair. âJay, do you have anything to contribute? Preferably anything that shuts Sunghoon up.â
âI knew this day would come.â Jay wiped the stray tears from under his eyes with his thumb. âSee, Jake, when a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, or a person and a perââ
âYes, Iâm aware of all the possibilities on the spectrum,â Jake interjected. âContinue.â
âWhen a man and a woman love each other very much, theyââ
âOh my God,â Jake cut in once again, digging the heels of his palms into the hollows of his eyes. âIâm a grown man. I donât need the sex talkâand Iâm not gonna have sex with her, either!â
âYouâre not?â
âNo!â
âYou donât think sheâs hot?â
âWellâI⌠I meanâthatâs no reasonââ
âYouâre not getting a boner over someone youâre not physically attracted to, thatâs for sure,â Jay said, clearly tired of his friend by now.
âIâm calling for plausible deniability,â Jake announced.
âImplausible. Vetoed.â
âWait,â Sunghoon chimed in before looking at Jay, âhow did you not notice?â
âNotice what?â
âHis boner, dude.â
âAre you crazy? I have better things to do than stare at Jakeâs dick all class,â Jay answered. Recollection seemed to hit him like a slap, his hand raising halfway to his mouth. âActually⌠now that I think about it, I did think it was weird that you sat back down before you finished your debate⌠and your legs were crossed for the rest of class!â
(âSo you did stare at Jakeâs dick all class,â Sunghoon said.)
Jake threw him a withering look. âYeah, I know. Thatâs probably why she caught me.â
Sunghoonâs jaw froze mid-bite, and without any respect to the onions that were falling off his bread, he dropped his sandwich and exclaimed, âShe caught you?â Jay, who was equally as shocked, seemed to also be struggling to hide how gleeful he was about the drama.Â
âWell, almost,â he corrected. âIt was more of a suspicion, but I didnât give inâand I called her a pervert! It feels good to win.â
âCool! Whatâd you win?â The unexpected voice nearly made Jake jump; thanks to years of working on a collected composure, though, chills ran up his spine instead. Sunghoon and Jay were both caught off guard, too, judging by their nearly imperceptible jolts that had them pulling their shoulders back.Â
He turned to see you with a hand on your hip, a curious smile on your lips. If his expression didnât give it away, surely knocking over Jayâs curly fries was a sure sign of Jakeâs nervousness.Â
âUh⌠League? League matchânothing importantâyeah, um⌠soâwhatâre youâwhatâre you doing here?â
Real smooth, Jake.
Jay, who looked as if the scene before him was physically painful to witness, valiantly chimed in to save Jakeâs skin, âAre you looking for Heeseung? He already left for his tournament.â
âNope,â you said, walking over to stand behind Jake so you could card your fingers through his hair. He remained frightfully still and tried not to think about your fingernails against his skin. Your sharp, manicured fingernails⌠dragging across hisâokay, his mind really needed to stop wandering. âI have a quiz next class, so I came here to ask for a calculator. I just need it for my next class.â
Jakeâs TI-83 was most definitely tucked away in his backpack, but he was reluctant to move with the way you were running your fingers through his hair. Albeit how he had to fight to keep his mind out of the gutter, Jake could also admit that this was rather⌠soothing. He could stay like this all afternoon and he wouldnât mind at all.
Sunghoon started, âOh, Iâve gotââ
âI got it,â Jake, with a deep edge of unease, spoke over his friend. Sunghoon didnât seem to look upset about being cut off, though; in fact, the senior was trying to hide a growing smirk that he had to cover with his hand. Jake dug into his backpack, sifting through each of the pockets haphazardly, before pulling out his graphing calculator and handing it to you. âYou can just give it back to me later.â
âOh, Iâm sure Iâll find an opportunity,â you replied before turning on your heel. âSee you guys later!â
After their goodbyes, the three boys lapsed into silence. Jake wondered if they were all thinking about that interaction with you and how strange it was. The three of them took high school graduation pictures with you, went over for Thanksgiving dinner at your house, and even awkwardly lingered about in Victoriaâs Secret while you were trying on brasâbut this? This change in behavior was something none of them wouldâve ever expected from you.
Sunghoon was the first to break the silence, saying, âThat was weird.â
âIndeed,â Jay agreed, perplexed.Â
âShe was all over you,â Sunghoon observed. âLike, Iâm almost convinced that Y/N was replaced with a horny clone last night.â
âJake, at this rate, you mightââ
âDonât say it,â Jake pleaded. âDonât say anything about me and her. I swear, I just need to get back on Tinder or something, and Iâll forget all about Y/Nâprobably.â
Jay gave his shoulder a weak punch. âYeah, I believe you, man.âÂ
He did not, however, sound like he believed in his friend at all.Â
Jake didnât quite fit the partying archetype.
Heeseung was a social butterfly, Jay and Sunghoon could get by as long as they could slip away to recharge from time to time, but Jake always looked for a way to get out of such events. Whether it was a project or a supposed family emergency, he played any card he couldâalthough it was usually a fruitless attempt. Plus, Jake was strictly herbal; he wasnât a big drinker like his friends were, especially when it came to his mortal enemy (Everclear).Â
So, now, while he was watching you stumble down your driveway to get into the passenger seat of his car, Jake was already trying to do the math in his head to calculate when heâd be back in the comfort of his room.Â
Tonight, you were dressed up a little more than usual. Your strappy black stilettos were dangerously high, and paired with the little black skirt that stopped halfway down your thighs, Jake found it difficult to pull his gaze away from you.Â
âHowâre you getting back home?â he asked as he pulled out of your driveway. Jake recalled several occasions where Heeseung had to do a U-turn to pick you up from Kazuhaâs, so he was quite familiar with the route. âUber?â
ââand he was trying to get with me, even though I know he has a girlfriend! Isnât that crazy? I literally have the same lab section as her, like, I could walk up to her and tell her everything. Are men just stupid? Like, I can literally ruin his relationshipâI mean, he pretty much did that on his ownâbut I could just expedite the process, you know? Ugh, and he wasn't even cuteâso mid, like, not my type at all,â the lilting voice through your phone kept rattling on.
You shot Jake an apologetic look before you kept trying to calm down Hanni Pham, who he often saw you with. Well, he supposed small talk was out of the question now, which Jake didnât mind one bit. Still, lowering the volume of Kendrick Lamarâs new album just to listen to Hanniâs incessant ranting for the rest of the ride was starting to drive Jake insane.Â
Finally, you made a quick excuse to Hanni before ending the call, and Jake waited a few more moments before he raised the volume again. He kept his eyes trained on the road, for if they wandered in your direction, Jake was sure he wouldnât get away with crossing his legs in this situation.
âYou didnât have to hang up,â he said.
âI didnât?â You gave him a knowing look. âYou kept looking over at me like you were in agony, so I thought Iâd put you out of your misery.â
A sheepish grin tugged at the corners of his lips. âThanks for that. Whoâs the guy she was talking about, anyway?â
âWow, so now you wanna hear more?â
He shrugged. âYou could at least repay me for the ride by entertaining me.â
âEntertaining you?â This time, you were grinning. Jake felt a bit nervous as you leaned over the center console. âIf you want entertainment, then come to Kazuhaâs with me.â
âReally?â Jake kept his tone light as he looked for street parking, and then he pulled over to the sidewalk to let you out. You had the door half-open, looking at him expectantly. âIâll pass, then. Have fun.â
You leveled him with a glower. âYouâre seriously not coming?â
âIâve got, uh, homework.â
âHomework? Itâs a Friday night, Jake. Just do it over the weekend.â
âJust get inside already, Y/N. Itâs cold.â
âFine,â you said, curt. There was little gratitude in your tone when you added, âThanks for the ride,â and flung the door shut, too.
Jake sat back with a sigh, hoping that the solitude would aid in unclouding his judgement. He couldnât just go to that party with you; things were weird between you two, and that was only putting it as simply as he could. But, on the other hand, maybe he shouldâve just gone. There was no harm in showing face for a while, and it wasn't like Kazuha was a complete stranger, either.Â
He let one opportunity fall right through his fingers; another presented itself right in front of Jake.
Your phone.
You left it on the seat before you left, whether it was intentional or not. The polaroid of you, Hanni, and Danielle showed through the back of its clear case, and Jake stared at your (admittedly charming) smile before he unbuckled his seatbelt in defeat.
One hour. That was all heâd give himself in there.Â
He was sure the duration of his decision-making process wouldnât keep him from catching up to you in time, but that wasnât the case at all. Jake couldnât spot you at all, not even after he did a lap around the first floor. You mustâve noticed your phone was missing by now, so where were you?Â
Cramped, narrow hallways. Blaring music. Flashing lights. Sweaty people packed together. The lingering stench of booze.
It was dreadful.
Jake had to take a break in the kitchen, leaning against the countertop where someoneâs bluetooth speaker was blowing out his eardrums. To his knowledge, Kazuha was renting next to an elderly couple with low tolerance for noise. How she could get away with throwing parties like these was beyond Jake.Â
âOh, shit,â a familiar voice called out. âYouâre here, too? Thank fuck.â
Jake turned to see Choi Beomgyu walking over to him, cradling a red solo cup. Perfect. Jake was dreading the very idea of being sober right now, and he knew Beomgyu would have the fix he needed. Last time he saw Beomgyu, the guy was canisters deep in whippets; it wouldâve been impossible to tell he was conscious if his hand didnât keep inching inside of Jakeâs bag of chips.
âI was supposed to sell Yeonjun some weed, but where the fuck is he?â Beomgyu went on to complain, setting his empty cup down and flicking it across the counter with little care. âWhenâd you get here? Just now?â
âYeah, have you seen Y/N?â Jake shouted over the music. Beomgyu gave him a little shake of the head, and a weary breath escaped Jakeâs lips. His eyebrows lifted as he then suggested, âSmoke break?â
âHell yeah.â
It just so happened that Jake was already breaking his one hour rule. At one minute past his self-mandated curfew, he was not in a state to be driving at all.Â
All thanks to Beomgyu, he was blazed out of his mind now, moving through the house with an air of indifference this time. Normally, Jake felt like his brain was buzzing constantly, like a hurricane that never stopped raging. But when that sweet Mary Jane filled his lungs, he felt more in control of himself. It felt almost as if he was underwater, weightless and drifting along with the current. For someone who swam desperately his whole life, he liked that he could just float.Â
And, because the universe apparently decided that weed was the answer to all of Jakeâs problems, he eventually wandered back into the kitchen and found you.
Minor problem: There was a man right next to you.
But Jake, floating about in a blissful daze, strolled right up to you without a second thought about interrupting your conversation.Â
â... fucked up how she curves, itâs usuallyâoh, what the hell?â You did a double-take when you saw Jake walk up beside you, noticing his red and glassy eyes almost instantly. Your attention was immediately pulled from the unmemorable man beside you, which was not good because this was a horrible time to stroke Jakeâs ego, and you grabbed onto the sleeve of his leather jacket. He took a step back to avoid your drink sloshing onto his clothes. âI thought you went home!â
Another minor (or maybe major) problem that Jake forgot about prior to his smoke break: Weed only made it easier for him to get turned on.
Thatâcoupled with standing so close to youâwas sure to be disastrous.
âHad to return this,â he answered, holding up your phone, which you snatched at record speed. You were going on about how forgetful you were before Jake asked, âWere you two busy? I can leave.â
âOh, uh, we were just talking,â you said, looking between Jake and the other dude (whose name still remained a mystery) a couple of times before clearing your throat. The guy, who earlier had a hopeful glint in his eyes, seemed to wilt a bit. In a more cheerful tone, you added, âHeâs an old classmate. We both had Robbins for O-chem.â
Robbins for O-chem. Sounded like a cheap excuse to talk you up, was what Jake thought. Last year he had physics with Kim Minji, but he wasnât cornering her in the living room to talk about the good old days of wave mechanics.
Jake gave you a smug look. âRobbins? What was that about the curve, then?â
âSomeone scored a hundred and screwed the rest of us up.â You scoffed. âAlways that one kid.â
âAh. That was me.â
âWhat?!â
âYeah, thatâs why I didnât show anyone my scoreâexcept Jay, but he said he felt sick looking at it.â
âI feel sick hearing about it. You shouldâve just kept that to yourself forever.â
That was the plan, actually, but Jake strangely felt the need to impress you in comparison to Background Character #1 and his unremarkable presence. Well, considering all he achieved was pissing you off, he supposed it wasnât going too well.
âThat was the plan.â Slightly miffed, he leaned back against the counter with his arms folded over his chest. âBut I earned that hundred. I didnât sleep for three whole days to study for that final.â
âOh, boo-hoo. I stayed up, tooâand got a sixty.âÂ
Jake simply shrugged. âYou passed the class, didnât you? Thatâs all that matters.â
âEasy for you to say! You got a perfect score!â
âI donât think thatââ
But you werenât backing down, cutting Jake off to ask, âWhatâd you put for the cyclobutene question?â
Jake scowled at you. He thought one or two drinks in your system would calm you down, the same way weed did for him, but you were pushier than ever.Â
By now, he also realized that Guy-whose-face-he-now-forgot was long gone. He probably realized that there was no hope in trying to hit on you after seeing how your full attention was captivated by Jake. He wasnât trying to boastâhe was just calling it like he saw it.Â
âSeriously? That was a whole year ago, Y/N.âÂ
He felt the weight of your incredulous stare. âBut you remember your answer, donât you?â
To be honest, he did.Â
âConrotatory ring opening under thermal conditions,â he answered after a minute of spacing off to remember what he put down (and ignore your blatant staring). âFour pi electrons.â
âWait, no, then it wouldnât follow the Woodward-Hoffman rules. 4n would be antiaromatic in the transition state, so it would be forced to be a disrotatory moââ
âNope, the 4n system makes it conrotatory. Disrotatory would misalign the orbitals. Dude, Iâm telling you, I remember it perfectly. I drew it out and everything.â
You opened and closed your mouth a few times, and Jake found great pleasure in watching you flounder for a response. Moreover, he was starting to imagine very dangerous things that involved his body pressed up against yoursâpreferably somewhere private, but he was almost tempted to pull you closer right now.
âBut⌠but then the cis productââ
âStays as is,â Jake finished for you. âI can even draw the diagram for you. Iâm sure thereâs a paper and pen somewhere.â
âUgh, donât bother. Iâm pissed off.â You shook your head, frustrated, and a lazy smile stretched across Jakeâs face. âWhy are you so smart whenâŚâÂ
It took him a moment to even notice that you stopped in the middle of your sentence, dragging the syllabus an octave deeper than usual. Jake thought that he finally pushed you to your limit, that you were going to stop talking to him altogether, but the reality was much, much worse.
You jabbed your elbow sharply into his side, hard enough to make him wince in pain.Â
âOkay, ow. Whatâsâ?â Then he looked down.
Oh.
Jakeâs lips parted, framing an apology that he couldnât bring himself to utter. He was caught somewhere between alarm and shame, hardly able to move as the cold reality sank in that you just saw his growing bulge.Â
It was dark enough so that only you were aware of it, but fuck, Jake couldnât even get himself out of this one.
He looked down at you to say somethingâanything that would save him from this horrible situation, reallyâbut there were no words to explain himself. Jake looked helplessly to the side for some escape route out of this situation, or perhaps even his Deus ex Machina: Beomgyu. Before he could open his mouth, you smoothly stepped in front of Jake, effectively cornering him in the kitchen and shielding him from onlookers.
Heroic, trulyâexcept your thigh was now pressing firmly against the tent in his pants.
His blood ran cold when he saw the twinkle in your eyes, as if you were getting a kick out of this. Meanwhile, Jake made a mental apology to Jay and Sunghoon, who were going to be very disappointed that Jake didnât take any steps toward forgetting all about you. It proved rather difficult when you were as intoxicating as the drugs in his system.Â
âI fucking knew it,â you whispered, triumph tugging your lips into a smirk. âYou were hard during class today, too, werenât you?â
This time, Jake was the one at a loss for words, flailing for any excuse that would defuse the tension, but he was already a lost cause. In less than twenty-four hours, Jake managed to expose his deepest, darkest secret to the one person who was never supposed to find out. All he could do now was accept slow, torturous suffering as the jaws of social suicide ripped into him.Â
âY/N, p-please, I canââ
You threw your head back to laugh, delighted. âWhat? Are you trying to apologize for a boner?â
He stammered, âNoâI mean, yesâbut⌠IâŚâ One more brush of your leg against his clothed cock had Jake holding onto your shoulders, trying to keep his lust at bay. âY/N, stop. Youâre Heeseungâs sister.â
âExcellent observation. Wouldnât have figured that one out.â
âI mean, thisââhe gestured between him and youââisnât gonna work out.â
You blinked. âWhy not?â
âW-what do you mean, why not? Heeseung and I have been friends for years. I canât just⌠I canât do that toââ
âOh, give it a rest. Why are you even bringing him up right now?â you asked in a snippy voice, waving his qualms off.Â
âBecauseââ
âAnyway, Iâve put together a little theory, and I think Iâm right.â
Jake raised his brows at that, slightly intrigued to what you couldâve possibly pieced together in the past twelve hours. If it had anything to do with why he was getting turned on, he was certain that you would be completely off the mark.
âYou get horny when we argue, donât you?â you asked.
Oh, so you were spot on. Fantastic.
He let out a desperate, wanting breath, trying to cover it up as a sound of misery. The kitchen was mostly cleared out since everyone gathered in the living room to play beer pong, but Jake lowered his voice to speak, anyway.Â
âPretty much. Nothing sexualâjust attracted to the mind, is all. Debates can be stimulating, you know?â
âNothing sexual about your dick getting hard?â
In a rather strangled voice, he answered, âNormal physiological reaction, really.â
He felt your hand smooth over his chest, your fingers splaying out before you dragged your hand lower and lower. He shivered as he felt your fingertips run across his abs, tracing each groove of muscle before your hand dipped to the front of his pants. Jake screwed his eyes shut when your palm pressed against his stiff, aching cock.
You simpered. âReally? So you donât need my help getting you off?â
He suppressed a growl at the back of his throat, opting to loop his fingers in your belt loops and pull you closer instead. âDonât.â
âHm?â
âNot here. Weâre in public.â
But your other hand was snaking around his neck, playing with the ends of his dark hair that fell to his nape. Jake could feel his body trembling as he restrained himself from holding you close and kissing you like his life depended on it.
I shouldnât, he told himself, forcing the words to burn into his skull (and still, they would not stick). I shouldnât, I shouldnât, I shouldnâtâ
But, fuck, the way you were looking at him. It was enough to drive a sane man to the brink of madness.
Well, Jake presumed he had always been a bit out of his mind when it came to you.
After an unsteady breath, Jake slid one hand up your waist, up your arm, and then across your shoulder to hold your neck. Your chest swelled before you leaned into his touch. Jake found his thumb straying from where his hand cradled your jaw. He traced the outline of your lips with careful precision, charting each curve and line in his course.
He kissed you once, light and fleetingâjust enough to taste you.Â
The sweet second of contact lost its grace soon after. He wet his lips, chasing what was left of your lipstick. With one more look into your eyes, all the nerves that gripped him seemed to melt away in a breath. Jake held your gaze before reaching up to hold the sides of your face and pulling you in for a searing kiss. It had been merely one tasteâone press of his lips against yoursâand jagged splinters of desperation tore into him, burying deep in his flesh.
Jake, with a heavy heart, wished he could formally apologize to everyone who was bearing witness to their sloppy makeout session. He simply couldnât help that you were both intoxicated, turned on, and extremely riled up from bickering. He shoved his tongue past your lips, messy and eager, sating a hunger that had him starved for longer than he thought.
It soon slipped Jakeâs mind entirely that he was making out with you in the kitchen. His cock throbbed in his jeans, pulsating each time your hips made contact with his. You were slowly rolling your hips over hisâsubtle enough to go undetected, but it was driving him wild. Honestly, though, if Jake truly wanted to stop you from moving against him that way, he wouldâve let go of your hip by now.Â
You were an insanely good kisser. Jake felt a small pang of jealousy upon recollecting all the times he witnessed you kissing someone before himâyour first boyfriend, your senior prom date, your college situationships. He never thought too deeply about how he felt in the moment, but it was like he had locked up all those messy feelings bordering on jealousy. They were all spilling out now, like a crack in the dam, threatening to make Jake feel something for you that he hadn't felt before.Â
He broke from the kiss to leave gentle pecks along your jawline and down your neck, each one leaving you sighing happily. âLetâs go upstairs, yeah?â he whispered against the shell of your ear, leaving a featherlight kiss in its wake. His drawl was stronger when he lowered his voice to a murmur, âDonât go shy on me now, sweetheart.â
âShy? Iâm not shy.â
âOh, yeah? Look me in the eyes, then.â
âShut⌠shut upâand follow behind me, unless you want everyone here seeing your diââ
âOkay, thatâs enough.â
You, being his knight in shining armor now, led the way upstairs, allowing for Jake to stand directly behind you and hide his boner. He kept his arms wrapped loosely around your waist, trying to focus on anything but the nape of your neck. Having his bulge pressed up against your body was making his senses go haywire.
(Alsoâand he wasnât quite brave enough to admit this to himself just yetâhe kind of wanted to lace his fingers with yours.)
Jake hastily wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He was sure he mustâve looked like an absolute douchebag walking around like that, considering the amount of lipstick he had just rubbed off.Â
The first empty room was theirs for the taking. Jake sported a wolfish grin as he closed the door to whoeverâs bedroom they locked themselves in. You, however, looked uncertain.
âIâd feel bad doing it on their bed,â you confessed.
Jake, who didnât realize he was going to encounter a moral dilemma amidst getting his dick wet, blinked slowly.
âThatâs true,â he agreed. Sure, yeah, he would probably kill his friends if any of them hooked up with someone in his bed. Jake made his way to you slowly; at first, you didnât budge, but then you let him walk you backward once he grabbed your hips. âI wouldnât feel as bad doing it against their wall, though.â
Your fingers tugged at the hem of his shirt, as if you were about to peel it right off him. âThen how about I suck you off first? Make up for all those debates?â
âReally?â he spluttered out, gawking at you as you turned him around so that his back was against the wall.
You hastily undid the buttons on his jeans, all the while maintaining eye contact with him. âYouâre too cute. Donât tell me you werenât waiting for this.â
His gaze darkened slightly.
He joined you immediately in getting rid of his pants. Jake couldnât help but let out a blissful sigh as he pulled his boxers down and his cock sprang up. Seeing you slide down to your knees to wrap your hands around his length nearly made his knees buckle under him. His hand moved to the back of your head, tangling his fingers through your hair.
Just like that, Jake Sim lost all willpower to keep himself away from Lee Heeseungâs sister.
âI donât know if I can fit all of it in my mouth,â you told him, lips ghosting the tip of his cock.Â
âThatâs okay, baby.â He tightened his grip in your hair. âTake however much you can.â
You started with a gentle kiss to his tip, and it was enough to make Jake shudder. He watched you in wonderment, eyes glued to your mouth and how his cock disappeared past your lips. With one hand holding onto his hip for leverage, you ducked your head to lick from base to tip, running your tongue along a rather thick vein that wrapped around the side.Â
Jake was thankful for the pounding music below; although he prided himself on his self-control (prior to Y/Ngate), he was never good at being quiet in the throes of pleasure. Slowly, you sucked on the tip, earning a drawn-out moan from Jake that he hardly bothered muffling.Â
And then, you were hollowing your cheeks to take more of him in, and a flicker of intensity flashed in his eyes when he felt his cock hit the back of your mouth. Jake had to hold onto the nearby dresser for support, his knuckles going white. You gagged a little as his head brushed against your uvula, and then a few tears sprang in your eyes.
Jake watched them pool at your waterline, and he wiped at them with his thumb, cooing at you sympathetically.Â
âJust like that, baby,â he murmured, stifling a groan. He closed his eyes and tightened his grip on the back of your head to thrust into your mouthâcareful, experimental. âAhâfuck, your mouth feels so fucking good.â
Despite the unbelievably erotic image of you blowing him, Jake could also detect some smugness. As you bobbed your head, each motion driving Jake closer and closer to a release, you could pick up on the effect you were having on him.
His eyes, glazed over with lust, were threatening to roll back, but he was determined to keep them on you now. He couldnât get enough of watching how you were taking him in, how you were so quick to pleasure him.
Then, as Jake felt heat burning under his skin, he gently pulled back, holding your jaw securely to keep you from chasing his cock. You looked up at him with a frown, head cocked to the side.
âWhatâs wrong?â you asked as he wordlessly helped you back up to your feet.
Jake switched your positions, backing you into the wall again. He slid his hand under your thigh, pulling it up so that your leg wrapped around his hip.Â
âMy turn,â he said. âIâd rather be inside you when I cum.â
A needy little moan escaped your lips, and suddenly the both of you were a mess of hands, clawing and tearing to get each otherâs clothes off. You yanked at Jakeâs shirt, shoving it up and over his head, and he didnât let it go unnoticed that your gaze dropped to the lines of his chest. You didnât get much time to ogle, though, because Jake was quick to get rid of your clothes next, even snapping your bra off in one go. Your underwear, however, was pulled down with slow reverence. Jake had to take a minute to admire your breathtaking body in all its glory.
He never imagined this. All this overwhelming passion. Your body pressed flush against hisâno walls up between either of you.Â
Jake almost felt like all of this was dreamlike as his finger skimmed your folds, moving to rub your clit in a slow, languid motion. A shaky whine fell from your lips.Â
âYouâre already soaked, sweetheart,â he said. He slipped a finger inside you as you were opening your mouth, and your words died on your tongue. âYouâre just as filthy as me, arenât you?â
All he got in response was another petulant whine, like music to his ears. Jake added another finger, pumping it inside you while his thumb pressed against your clit. You squirmed in his hold, but Jake held you steady, keeping you pinned to the wall as he fingered your cunt.Â
âI thought about this so many times,â you gasped out, much to Jakeâs surprise. He raised a brow while speeding up his ministrations. This only made it harder for you to get your words out coherently, so it took you a while to add, âThought about you fucking me after those stupid arguments, just like this.â
Jake, a simple man, wasnât built to handle such words; he wouldâve come on the spot, untouched, if he wasnât so eager to bury his cock in you.
Jake guided his cock to your slit, and the two of you moaned simultaneously as he pushed inside you. The room went a little fuzzy for a momentâsomething high-pitched seemed to be ringing in his earsâand then Jakeâs hips met yours, drawing shuddering breaths and whimpers from you two.
Shit. He felt like he was on fire and your every moan was ice.Â
Caging you in his grip, he gave a shallow thrust, rousing a gasp from you. In turn, your leg curled tighter around his hip. Jake had to bury his face in your neck to suppress his groans, his hot breath fanning your skin as he littered kisses and bites along your supple skin. He just hoped your makeup could conceal the marks that were blooming along the tender column of your neck.
Another thrustâdeeper, this time. He seemed to hit a spot that sent stars glittering behind your eyelids, judging by the dazed look that clouded your expression.Â
âM-more,â you begged, your voice catching on the end of the sentence.Â
"More? You want more?"
Your response came out in a breath. "Please."
Your hand threaded into his hair, pulling him down for another kiss, like it was all you could hold onto. The position your leg was in was strained at this angle, but you didnât seem to care, clawing at Jakeâs back to keep him closer.Â
His tongue slipped into your mouth without hesitation, and he was pretty sure he was getting drunk off the liquor on your tongue. Slowly, like he was taking off the training wheels, Jakeâs hips started to move at a steady rhythmâshallow thrusts going deeper and deeper.Â
As Jake relentlessly thrusted into you, he left no place untouched, each stroke dragging inside you a little longer. It drew out the prettiest whines from you, so he couldnât help but tease you a little longer. His otherwise consistent rhythm, however, faltered as you clenched around him tightly.Â
âI-Iâm close,â you gasped out, pulling from the kiss to watch where his cock disappeared inside you.Â
âI've got you, sweetheart,â he replied gently, honey dripping from his words, and Jake held you tightly in his arms as he sped up his pace to bring you closer to your orgasm.Â
He was getting there, tooâreal close, actually. Jake felt like he was unravelling, his nerve endings alight, skin buzzing, and his breath trapped in his lungs. With a couple more thrusts, you shattered with his name on your lips, crying over the music. Jake had to cover your mouth with his hand to keep you quiet, but he couldnât deny that he was loving how responsive you were. He followed after you with a loud groan, making sure to pull out before his cum spilled all over his hands.
For a moment, neither of you spoke. Jake watched as your chest rose and fell for a couple of minutes. He tried to ground himselfâconvince himself that what just happened wasnât a dream.Â
For the rest of the night, neither of you addressed how the next kiss held something deeperâsomething that reached beyond lust. Jake was sure you felt it, too, lingering like a secret between your lips, but he wouldnât dare give that feeling a name just yet.
âJake would be the type to catch feelings after hooking up.â
Park Sunghoon was the one to make this outrageous statement, effectively snapping Jake out of whatever dreamy daze he was in. Ever since he had sex with you hours ago, Jake couldnât stop thinking about how you felt around him. He thought FaceTiming his friends would help clear his mind, but he was starting to believe that they were, in fact, the problem.
He didnât return home immediately. Jake had to pretend like he didnât just blow your back out when he went downstairs to talk to Kazuha and her very drunk roommates. One of them was so obviously flirting with Jake that you cornered him later to leave a prominent hickey on his collarbone. Then, after he sobered up enough to drive you home, you didnât seem to have your heart set on getting back; you requested that Jake stop at a parking lot on two separate occasions (during a fifteen minute drive) so that he could eat you out in the backseat.
After that, there was a lot more kissing on the way to your doorstep, a lot of heavy petting as he carried you to your room, and you graciously offered to ride him before he drove back home.
When Jake recounted all of this to Jay and Sunghoon, he left to get himself a midnight snack because they were laughing their heads off for a record-breaking amount of time. It started to feel like a humiliation ritual.
At the end of the call, Jay spouted some bullshit like, âHeeseung wonât even care, trust me.â
Jake refused to even consider that as a possibility, but he vowed to keep his distance from you to make sure last night wouldnât happen again. (It was important to note that he laughed right after because even he couldnât believe that.)
Despite the shame that bubbled in Jakeâs gut, he had to honor the commitment he made to Heeseung, even though it was a terrible idea to see you again. (No, itâs a wonderful idea! those feel-good neurotransmitters in his stupid, horny brain argued. Viagra in your future! Always prioritize sex! Get laid quick!) So, the next day, there he wasâat 5:00 p.m. sharpâparked outside of your house with a sinking feeling that you were going to greet him in a way that would make your older brother faint on the spot.
The sky was splotched with peach and lavender, like a watercolor painting that dried into soft, muted hues. There was a dreamy glow out on the horizon, but when Jake turned to see you walking out of his house, there was the sunâablaze with brilliant light.
Your eyes caught, and he felt suspended in time for a few seconds. Jakeâs stupid, pathetic heart pumped out blood a bit too quickly.
Something was off, though.
You were wearing cotton shorts and an oversized t-shirt with Snoopy printed on the frontâmore fitting for a sleepover than a charity event, no offense. Jake understood that plenty of people prioritized comfort in their outfit choices; although he was quite surprised that you, of all people, would fall in that category. He recalled that blink-182 concert where he had to take turns with Sunghoon to give you a piggyback ride back to the parking lot because you were so damn adamant on wearing your death trap high heels. Your ankles, of course, suffered the consequences.
But maybe this was a good thing. Maybe this meant that you felt comfortable around him⌠and whoever else was going to be at that charity event, he supposed.Â
Would it be so wrong to ask for clarification on the event, though? But what if he came across like he was prying too deeply into your personal life?
Noâhe would not dare make one comment about it.
So he didnât. Until he realized that he made a grave mistake.
âA Love Island watch party? Heeseung told me this was a charity event!â Jake exclaimed, utterly baffled.
âYeah, the winners get a hundred grand,â you replied casually, as if you hadnât been withholding crucial information that wouldâve changed Jakeâs mind about following you into the house. âVoting for your favorite couple is basically charity work, if you think about it.â
Jake groaned. This was a set-up, and he was not about to stay over at Danielleâs to watch Love Island, of all shows.Â
But then, you leaned over to press a chaste kiss to Jakeâs cheek. âIf you donât vote for Nicolandria, youâre dead to me, by the way,â you whispered. Although your choice of words werenât exactly tempting, Jake found himself unbuckling his seatbelt and following you into the house. The effect you had on him was absurd.
To his surprise, though, he was thoroughly entertained for the night. Sure, he was the only guy in a room full of girls that had enough Stanley cups to beat him to death, but Jake almost felt like he was in his element. When Kim Minji went on a five minute rant to explain why Nicolandria deserved to be the winning couple, Jake was so intrigued that he ended up agreeing to join their Love Island nights until the season ended.
(He later discovered that Love Island released a new episode five days a week, but that somehow didn't change his mind on attending.)
In a tangled mess of feelings and desire, Jake was now making plans to keep seeing you. He only hoped that he could muster up the courage to tell his friend everything before things got serious with you.
Heeseungâs return didnât change much, to be honest.
Jake was under the impression that heâd be far too paranoid to be messing around with you once your brother was back, but it seemed to be the exact opposite. He couldnât get enough of you these days. Although you two were keeping things under wraps for now, Jake found it hard to not reach for your hand and think about how it would be if he could keep you by his side for longer. Whenever he woke up in your bed, he wanted time to freeze so that he could hold you until the moon came out again.Â
Oh, and their seminars.
You ended up proposing a solution to Jakeâs problem. It wasnât anything very sophisticated, but as soon as class ended, youâd be dragging Jake somewhere private to ease the tension growing in his jeans.Â
Or, when he was really done for, Jake would be the one pulling you along.Â
âNo way,â you mouthed once as Jake grabbed your wrist right as soon as you walked out of the classroom. A smirk was creeping up your lips as you kept your eyes trained on him, effectively cracking through his impassive facade. Jakeâs eyes flitted away before you could see any color bloom on his face. âHorny already? And to think I was holding backâŚâ
Jake, who was too busy looking for the closest enclosed space that offered enough privacy, was walking so fast that you were nearly stumbling to keep up with him. He flung open the door to an empty lab. It seemed too risky to simply close the blinds when there was no lock on the door, but there was, however, an equipment room in the back. He pulled you over by the wrist, ushering you inside.Â
âYeah,â he finally replied, turning the lock on the handle, âI was holding back, too.â
And then he fucked you against the door with one hand bruising your waist and the other wrapped around your throat.Â
He truly didnât think this would be the course of his love life. Not that Jake was complaining, but he wished that being with you didnât involve the daunting feat of confronting Heeseung. Not only could the interaction go disastrously, but Jake was terrified that Heeseung would look at him differently for going after his sister. He didnât want to be the guy that Heeseung shouldâve watched out for.
Jake willed himself to break the news to Heeseung after spending a Friday night with you, curled up on your bed and catching up on the latest season of Love Island. Jake had to admit that he was too deeply invested in the contestantsâ storylines.Â
While he played with your hair, he heard you ask, âCan you ever see us dating? Like, officially going out?â
âYeah,â he murmured back. âThatâs the plan, isnât it?â
The first time you told Jake you wanted things to get serious, he outright told you no. However, his body betrayed him when he nodded enthusiastically along with his refusal, making you even more confused. Now, though, Jake was determined to get that conversation with Heeseung out of the way. Leading you on would break his heart more than not getting your brotherâs approval.
When Jake decided to fess up to Heeseung, though, he made sure Jay and Sunghoon were right with him. They knew how honest Jakeâs intentions wereâkind ofâand they would surely have his back when it came down to it.Â
Unfortunately, he forgot that Jay and Sunghoon were the two worst people for this sort of situation.
âThis is the worst boba consistency Iâve ever had,â Sunghoon complained, stabbing at the last of the boba pearls in his taro milk tea. âSorry, Heeseung, what were you saying? You made the basket or whatever.â
(âOh, Heeseung, I need to tell you something,â Jake mumbled as quietly as possible, although the wind successfully drowned him out.)
âCloseâthat would be basketball,â Heeseung replied. âBut, yeah, I made the winning goal. Whoever wants to ride my dick is going on a waitlist.â
(âSpeaking ofâŚâ)
âShit. Put me on the waitlist,â Sunghoon said. âPriority reservation, please.â
(âHeeseungâŚâ)
âIâll get to you eventually, Twenty-Six.âÂ
(âHeeseung?â)
Jay pounded a fist on the table. âJake has something to say!â After witnessing his friend moping about and mumbling for so long, it was only a matter of time before he snapped.Â
Heeseung looked alarmed for a moment before asking, âWhatâs up?â
Jake only had a few seconds to shoot Jay a death glare before he had to fix his face and explain, âRight, um⌠I kind of have to tell you something.â
âYeah?â
âItâs really not that bad if you think about it.â
âOkayâŚâ
âAnd, actually, it should be more reassuring that itâs me and notââ
Heeseung scratched the side of his head. âUh, Iâm still gonna need context.â
âIâm, uh⌠so, IâmâŚâ Jake sucked in a deep breath, trying to steady himself. âSo, Iâm kinda seeing Y/N.â
There it was. The truth was out and Jake could stop skirting around it. He knew it would be near impossible to keep hiding it because Jake discovered that he was becoming far more endeared by you with each coming day. Absolutely terrifying, really, considering that he was already endeared at an incomprehensible level.Â
Heeseungâs eyes went as wide as saucers. âYou and Y/N?âÂ
As if the whole thing couldnât get any more awkward, you walked right out of the boba shop that the four of them were just in. To be fair, Heeseung was the one that called you over because he put in a request for a breakfast wrap after stalking your location, but of course you had to come out right this minute.
âDamn,â you said, scrunching your nose up in distaste. âGarbage boba consistency.â
âRight!â Sunghoon exclaimed. Jake was starting to think that he shouldâve just met up with Heeseung on his own. âAll I taste is disappointment when I drink this.â
Jake was petrified as Heeseung, completely unfazed by your arrival, stared at Jake in utter disbelief. He couldnât peel his eyes away, even after you dropped his breakfast wrap onto the table in front of him. âWait, hold onâbefore anyone says anything elseâdid you just say that youâre seeing Y/N? Y/N, my sister?â He practically flung his arm to point at you. âHer?â
Jake swallowed thickly, but you casually answered for him, âYeah, he is.âÂ
The air around him thickened, pressing down on his chest like a weight. Jakeâs thoughts were spiraling by now, imagining countless scenarios of Heeseung dropping him as a friend and forever plagued by his betrayal. Jake knew his friend deeply, and he knew that when Heeseung was hurt, heâdâ
âNice,â Heeseung drawled, raising his fist so that you could fist-bump it. âAbout time, too.â
What?
âYouâre not mad?â Jake blurted out, floored by the response. Now this was a turn of events that he didnât prepare for in the countless scenes he practiced in his head.Â
âI asked you to drive her to Danielleâs for a reason, dude. She couldâve just taken an Uber.â
âWait⌠you were in on this?â
âI wouldnât say I was in on anything, but I knew she had a thing for you. I was just glad sheâs interested in you and not, like, Sunghoon.â
âHey,â Sunghoon piped up, sounding stung, but he seemed to recover quickly. âIâm saving myself for you, Heeseung.â
âTwenty-sixâremember that.â
âSee? I told you, you had nothing to worry about,â you said as you slid into the bench next to Jake, reaching over to squeeze his hands. âNow you can stop denying that itâs perfectly fine for us to date.â
âI guess I was a little in over my head.â Jake returned a sheepishâand frankly, lovesickâgrin, wrapping an arm around your waist and pressing a kiss to your temple. Now that Jake had you, despite his friends cringing before him, he didnât want to let you go.
He could probably also admit to himself that he had liked you all along.
That, he supposed, was what Jay meant about implausible deniability.
AUTHOR'S NOTE ⸠the jake brainrot really got to me this time đŹ thank you for reading this if you made it all the way here !! i'm so so grateful if you chose to give this fic a chance so i hope you enjoyed :') also contrary to how the summary sounds, jake is too babygirl for me to not make him a loverboy <33 i swear something about him just screams Yearning
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#fic: implausible deniability#in like 5?? days?? omg đĽšđĽš i'm so so honored#i hope you enjoy reading loser nerd jake as much as i loved writing him đđ
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psa you don't need to continuously generate fandom content, and moreover you should not be resorting to plagiarism to be putting fics out. and a SMAU word for word ? you can't write out any tweets and texts on your own ?? like this is just sad i have no words
omg tori !!!!! I just got to know something else as well wtf. She copied another author word for word recently, but this time from twitter, the author goes by @ Iategame
Original work:
https://x.com/iategame/status/1937460793370718595?s=46
Okwonyos copied ass work:
https://www.tumblr.com/okwonyo/787969072548741120/ragebait-downbadsunghoon-x-reader-%E1%B5%95-%E1%B5%95?source=share
The way this girl blatantly copies from cross fandoms and different platforms is crazy work. How can someone be so insensitive and unoriginal? Im pretty sure she's on enhablr just to push her bitchy ass it girl agenda... Ew đ¤˘
That coward girl literally turned her asks off so, im dropping this by your box so that you can be alrer of it! Along with the others, if someone can contact and report it to the original author, please do !!!
hello anon!! you are so freaking helpful, thank you so much for sharing this. i hope i bring light to this because this is fucking ridiculous.
she is too comfortable doing this shit and she has been since the beginning iâm sure, from what iâve gathered from friends and different members of the enhypen community and comments â this is not the first time. she thinks using an anime fandom will secure her not getting found out because she thinks people are stupid enough to not realise lol. sorry for my crude language here.
anyways, if you donât know, then look up what happened here and you will understand that there are no baseless accusations in stuff involving @/okwonyo.
#i would feel so ashamed of myself if i plagiarized from someone and saw they only accepted it because they didn't want to deal w conflict#and they found out from someone else too?? way later?? just ridiculous
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Alaska, British Columbia, west coast in general are on watch
Live info here:
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implausible deniability
â don't spin this on me. this is about you getting turned on by your best friend's sister, you freak. â
PAIRING ⸠jake sim x fem!reader
GENRES ⸠smut, crack, fluff, college au, brother's best friend au, academic rivals to lovers au
WARNINGS ⸠profanity, alcohol, weed, lots of banter, sexual tension, dry humping, dirty talk, teasing, unprotected sex, fingering, oral (m. receiving), semi public sex, jayhoon bullying jake
SUMMARY ⸠in which jake comes to the horrifying realization that he might have somewhat of a masochistic streak. case in point: he can't stop himself from getting turned on whenever you argue with him.
WORD COUNT ⸠12,652 words
PLAYLIST ⸠sweet lies by exo ⢠damn right by jennie, childish gambino, kali uchis ⢠red angel by s.e.s. ⢠thirsty by tinashe
AUTHORâS NOTE ⸠this was written on a whim because of that weverse live clip of jake nerding out lol hope u like it!!
JAKE SIM WAS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A MAJOR PREDICAMENT THAT PROBABLY WOULDNâT SURVIVE MOST FRIENDSHIPS.
To preface, when it came down to it, he respected Lee Heeseung a whole lot (although he would rather die than admit this out loud). There was something special about having a childhood friendâsomeone who was there for him at the awkward stages of puberty and lowest points of his lifeâand Jake wouldâve been a fool to ever take that for granted. For their tight-knit friendship to carry into university made their bond irreplaceable to Jake. He genuinely trusted that he and Heeseung would be friends even when they were old and cheating at bingo together in a retirement home.Â
That being said, the chances of that happening were looking bleak now that you, Heeseungâs younger sister, were constantly occupying a space in Jakeâs head that was strictly reserved for something more⌠impure.
It was strictly lust; however, that somehow made matters much worse because how could he possibly lust after his best friendâs sister? If it was some complicated emotion like love, then at least Jake could tuck his heart away and hide his feelings until the day he died.Â
Hiding a boner, thoughâthat was difficult.Â
Even more so because you were in the same Engineering & Society seminar as Jake, and since the course was structured for small group debates, the two of you were often at each otherâs throats in heated arguments. Of course, Jake tried to approach you as civilly as possible, so their professor believed the intense back-and-forth was simply a healthy dialogue, but neither of you would back down once it started.Â
The problem only made itself clear last month, despite how many excuses Jake made for himself to deny your involvement. It took him three more weeks to accept that his hard-ons were your doing and not simply a standing ovation out of respect for the debate (which was one of his worst possible reasons, to be honest).Â
And the cherry on top was that they always happened when you two were quarreling.
You two could be insults deep in what was supposed to be a casual discussion about greenwashing in product engineering, and Jake would, without fail, feel all the blood rush to his dick until it was uncomfortably stiff.
Unsexy thoughts, unsexy thoughts, unsexy thoughts, he kept chanting to himself, attempting to force an image in his head of Heeseung kicking his sorry ass. Unfortunately, it did very little to prove effective against the scarily overwhelming libido that tented his pants.Â
Jake was ashamed to admit that he was also mildly turned on by the idea of being caught, which made absolutely no sense because that was also his biggest fear.
So, to summarize, Jake now found himself horny in situations where:
he was pissed off
he was in the middle of a heated argument
he was potentially going to get beat up
It wasnât looking good for him, to say the least.
Now, there was a justifiable reason as to why Jake was under the assumption that Heeseung was going to punch the living daylights out of him. Although you were only a year younger than your brother, he was awfully protective of you because a little sister was all he ever wanted.Â
Back when they were middle schoolers, running over to each otherâs houses across the street to show each other their new comic books, Heeseung would always bring you around. Jake had nothing going on in his head but Spider-Man and legos back then, so he wasnât very pleased with you constantly trailing behind them like a lost puppy. Naturally, that led to you and Jake often bickering about your annoying, lingering presence.Â
The last time Jake ever complained about you hanging around them was when he blew up on you for following them to the corner store. That place was practically their sanctuary back then. The 99 cent AriZona iced tea was like uncut cocaine to him. The fact that you, a mere fifth grader, encroached on their safe haven was an insultâa disgrace! The reputation of the fine establishment simply didn't allow for puny elementary kids to come and go as they pleased (in Jakeâs head, at least).Â
âQuit following us, Y/N,â eleven-year-old Jake muttered back then, throwing you a glower over his shoulder. âDonât you have other friends to bother?â
âNot really.â
âYeah, I can tell, so stop trying to steal mine.âÂ
Although you were all pigtails and Barbie dolls back then, you were surprisingly sharp-tongued for an elementary schooler. âSure, Jake. You can have my brother and the rest of your imaginary friends.â
He wasnât even the type to get angry. In fact, Jake had glowing reviews about his personality; moms loved him, the guys always picked him first for sports teams, and he even caught the attention of some of the girls at school. It wasnât like him to get so riled up over something so small and petty, but he always happened to blow his top when it came to you.
It was rather unbecoming of him (considering Park Sunghoon later deemed him Mommyâs Little Misogynist for this one), but Jake was boiling with so much anger that he wound up chugging the rest of his iced tea in one go, crumpling up the aluminum into a disc, and throwing the empty can straight at your forehead. The force of his throw, normally reserved for intense sessions of Four Square on the playground, left behind an angry red mark that quickly brought you to tears.Â
Before Jake could even stutter out an apology, he was met with a blow to his gut that had him doubling over Heeseungâs fist. It was then that Jake realized that his friend did not take any disrespect toward his sister lightly.Â
This carried on into high school, too, where Jake got to witness Heeseung hunt down your first ever boyfriend for cheating on you. It was quite the scene, full of threats and rather creative insults, but Jake realized that he was only let off the hook because of his close friendship with Heeseung.Â
Over the years, he learned he could bicker with you all he wantedâHeeseung finally realized that you could stand up for yourselfâbut to lust after you so shamelessly was a death wish. It was the pinnacle of disrespect toward you. If your brother ever found out, Jake was a dead man.Â
That was why he was now fiercely determined to get through the rest of his seminar without having to cross his legs and hide the deplorable tension in his jeans.Â
Today, he prepared himself by starting his day off with a bowl of Corn Flakes, intended to curb sexual desires by John Harvey Kellogg himself. Then, he devoured a handful of graham crackers before class, which Jake wasn't quite sure would be useful as an anaphrodisiac, but it was worth a shot. Actually, he wasn't very confident with either of these options, but desperate times called for desperate measures.Â
The question they were tackling today was whether engineers were to be held accountable for how their inventions were used, such as facial recognition for surveillance or military drones. Thought-provoking, for sure. Jake made a mental note to discuss it with the professor at office hoursâanything he could do to suck up to the guy to compensate for his crass behavior during discussions.Â
âYou canât just start something potentially dangerous and walk away from the consequences,â you claimed, that challenging look in your eyes daring anyone to speak against you.Â
Usually, no one other than Jake dared to oppose you, so the silence that followed after was thick with anticipation, stuck in their throats like honey. Your gaze met Jakeâs for a split second, eyebrows lifting in mild surprise. He would usually be standing up by now, but he didnât feel the need to. To be quite honest, Jake agreed with your point this time, so there was no reason for him to come up with some half-baked counterargument for the sake of participating. Plus, it was far too risky to argue with you; he was already determinedly set on making it through this class without his blood rushing to rather inappropriate regions.
Still, the way you were looking at him, waiting for him to argue back with those sickeningly adorable eyes, had him rising to his feet, anyway. What a weak-willed man he was. Sunghoon would laugh right in his face.
âBut if someone misuses the technology, thatâs on them, not the people who created it,â he countered, surprisingly convincing for someone who didnât believe a word he was saying. âThe engineers canât control how their technology is used once itâs sold to whoever.â
âBut donât you see how technologyâs being used? You really think mass surveillance keeps improving because engineers are just super passionate about innovation? Itâs all about the money, isnât it?â He could hear the emotion rising in your voice; you were just an overly-passionate person when it came to these things, but you sucked in a breath to collect yourself. âIf they know the harm their inventions cause and keep going, they should be held accountable for what they make!â
This was honestly ridiculous. Jake fully agreed with you, yet here he was, scrambling to think of a rebuttal so that he could watch the irritation grow on your face.Â
âThen what about the ones built with good intentions? Should they be held responsible because their honest work was manipulated?â
âImpact over intent,â you replied with a firmness intended to shut him up. âHonest work only goes so far. Would you be okay with the vision for your product getting warped into something else entirely?â
âSo, you think if someone designed tracking features on a health app or some shit, they should be held responsible if that data gets sold or used by the government?â
âYes. Thatâs exactly what I think.â
Well, yeah, that checked out.Â
Jake raised a brow. âHow are they supposed to know? Most engineers are working on small parts of these big projects.â
âSeriously? Look at Boeing! All these sloppy engineering decisions resulted in those plane crashes.â There was a hint of venom in your tone and your eyes were sharp. Jake could tell you were getting to that level of frustration that he couldnât help but get excited over. âOver three hundred people died because of plain negligence. Whoâs to blame, then?â
âI just wanna ask where you think the line should be drawn,â he said. âIf we hold every single engineer accountable for how their work gets used, then no oneâs gonna build anything. You just end up driving them all into a corner.â
âAre you trying to be an engineer for the money, or are you in it for meaningful work?â
âUh⌠yeah, the meaningful work, of course.â And the six-figure starting salary. That was beside the point, though.Â
âThen shouldnât you be approaching what you create with some more tact? You canât just mindlessly build whatever without thinking beyond your creation.â
âAre we still talking about engineers here, or are you just coming for me now?â
âWell, if the shoe fits.â
âThe most Iâve done is code a calculator. I donât think the governmentâs interested.â
âIâm clearly not talking about that. Iâm talking aboutââ
âThis is a seminar, Y/N. Weâre supposed to be talking about society here.â
âAre you not part of society anymore, Jake? I sincerely apologize for assuming.â There was nothing sincere about your tone, though. âWhat? Youâve got nothing else to say?â
And, like clockwork, there was that telltale strain once again as Jake felt his chest grow hot. He reached behind him to grab the head of his chair and sit back down, slowly crossing one leg over the other. You frowned as you watched him concede, and Jake felt rather pathetic that everyone was under the impression that he surrendered. There was a chill in the roomâwhether it was from a draft or the tension from the conversation, he couldnât tell.Â
âI think Iâm done, but I agree with you, by the way,â he said, a sly grin spreading across his face. âJust wanted to participate.â
A few snickers rose from some of their classmates. You scoffed, partly out of amusement and partly out of exasperation, and slumped back in your seat with your arms crossed. The seething look on your face wasnât doing him any favors, nor did the Corn Flakes and graham crackers, apparently.
âOkay, good stuff, good stuff,â said Jay Park, Jakeâs longtime friend and current TA for the semester. âAnyone who isnât Y/N or Jake wanna give it a go? Hopefully without making the rest of us painfully uncomfortable.â
He unfortunately had to bear witness to every single one of the showdowns between you and Jake, but he always kept his mouth shut in front of Heeseung because, as Jay put it, the feud between the two was âtoo messy to escalate.â Jake was just glad he didnât have to resort to blackmail to shut Jay up.Â
It turned out that people were, in fact, willing to participate as long as you and Jake werenât involved. Jake got to sit back for the rest of class and grit his teeth, willing his hard-on to go away before they were all dismissed. What made that quite the feat was the fact that you kept watching him for the rest of class with calculating eyes, as if you were peering into his very soul.
By the time class ended, Jake felt relief flood his chest. He needed to get a mile away from you before your eye contact made his situation a whole lot worse. As he was zipping his backpack back up, Jake saw your perfectly manicured fingernail dragging across the grain of his desk through the corner of his eye.Â
You were standing right in front of him.Â
He looked up, alarmed. From behind you, Jay, who was about to approach him, was backing up slowly, shooting his friend a grimace and opting to duck out the door instead. As the last few people in the classroom were filing out, Jake realized he was now left alone with you.Â
Fuck.
Jake cleared his throat. âCan I help you?â
âYou can start by explaining why you keep going out of your way to get on my bad side,â you said. âIf you agreed with me that entire time, why were you purposely trying to piss me off?â
âWell, I wouldnât call it going out of my way,â he retorted. âClass participation is a requirement. All I did was stand up.â
âAnd refute every single point you believed in?â
He clicked his tongue. âWhat can I say? I do it for the love of the game.â
âUh-huh.â Completely unconvinced, you looked him up and down. Your demand was simple, yet downright mortifying: âUncross your legs.â
Jake froze.Â
âOdd request, donât you think?âÂ
Your gaze dropped for a split secondânot long enough for it to be obvious, but Jake caught it in time. âI donât think so. Weâve known each other since, like, forever. I think weâre at the point where I can make odd requests.â
He felt his mouth going dry. What were you even on about? Sure, Jake was probably close to you in a forced proximity sort of way, but that didnât mean you two were suddenly buddy-buddy. You two were close in the sense that Jake went to your high school graduation (as per Heeseungâs invite, of course) and drove you to your tennis practices whenever your brother was busyânot whatever this was.Â
But who was he kidding? Nothing about this conversation screamed buddy-buddy. You were clearly onto him, and all Jake could do was think of every sad movie heâd ever watched to get rid of the growing erection in his pants.Â
Jake swallowed thickly. âYou want me to uncross my legs,â he stated matter-of-factly, and you snorted.Â
âWhat, didnât hear it the first time?â
âCanât do that,â was all could say in responseâstrained, like something was lodged in his throat.
âYou canât⌠move your leg?â
âNopeâarthritis.â
âArthritis,â you repeated blankly.
âYeah. Runs in my family.â
You shook your head, seeing right through his attempt to steer the conversation back into calmer waters. âYouâre a terrible liar, Jake.â
âReally? I thought I was doing a pretty good job earlier.â
âMmhm. A real Oscar-winning performance for someone arguing against his own opinionâtruly,â you said. âAlso, youâre stalling.â
âHere,â he bit out, and slowlyâdeliberatelyâJake uncrossed his legs for you to see. The bulge in his pants had effectively gone down with much mental gymnastics, and you simply stared down at his groin with a frown settling on your lips. âHappy now, you pervert?â
All you did was look at him with a beady gaze, raising a perfectly arched brow before pulling your phone out of your bag. Jake could only return a look of absolute bewilderment as you flipped your hair over your shoulder and tapped away furiously, the glow from the screen illuminating your features just enough for you to look even more radiant.
âI see. So, uh⌠Heeseungâs gonna be out of town for his hockey tournament and I need a ride to Kazuhaâs place tonight. Sheâs throwing this huge party, and I was planning on pregaming before I head over, but Iâm not about to drunk drive, for obvious reasons.â You wouldnât even look up as you spoke, keeping your eyes trained on the text messages that seemed to be delivering in a flurry. Notification after notificationâJesus, would it kill you to turn your ringer off? âPick me up at eight?â
Jake blinked slowlyâa few more times, for good measure. He couldnât believe his ears. You just grilled him to a crisp, and now you were acting as if nothing happened? He was fighting his own blood from pumping to his dick, and you were just casually changing the topic?
Butâwhatever. As long as the attention wasnât on his crotch anymore, he could roll with this.Â
He scowled. âKazuhaâs? Hey, Iâm not your chauffeur.â
But you were already walking out the door. âYeah, yeah. So, eight?â
A retired sigh fell from his lips. âSureâfine, whatever. Iâll be there.â
In a happy world, Jakeâs schedule was packed with classes all day so that he wouldnât have to run into Heeseung right after that not-so-fun encounter with you.
In the real world, however, Jakeâs schedule was specifically structured so that he and Heeseung had the same breaks between classes. They planned this out well in advance so that they could meet up once they were done with class. Of course, this didn't always work out because of overlapping course times, but the two of them happened to luck out this semester (although it wasn't exactly working in Jakeâs favor right now). Just as he walked out of his classroom, his friend was making his way down the hallway to get to him.
âYo,â Heeseung greeted. He had his hockey stick slung over his shoulder; for weekend tournaments like these, Heeseung would usually leave campus early so that he could commute before nightfall. âI thought youâd be at our table already. Jay isnât with you?â
âI was hanging back for, uh⌠homework help,â he lied, hoping it came out smooth enough to convince his friend.
âCouldnât you just ask Jay?â
Well, he had a point there. Jake settled for saying, âNah. Fuck that guy.â
To his relief, Heeseung just laughed. âYeah, true. That fucker goes on for hours if you get him to start explaining something. I asked him one question about my calc homework the other night, and I swear the sun was coming up by the time he was done.â
âThatâs why you come to me first.â
âI tried. Your ass was knocked out, so all I had was Jay.â Then, Heeseung added, âBy the way, since Iâm gonna be out this weekend, I need you to do me a favor.â
âYeah?â
âY/N said she needed a ride to this⌠I donât knowâI guess Danielleâs sororityâs hosting something? A charity event or some shit like that. Anyway, I wonât be here, but she needs a ride. Are you free? Itâs Saturday evening.â
âIâm alreadyââ Jake stopped himself. Maybe he wasnât supposed to disclose the minor detail that he was also going to be driving you to Kazuhaâs party tonight. As hard as he racked his brain for an excuse, he couldnât think of anything productive heâd be doing the next day. âYeah, itâs no problem.â
âAppreciate it, man,â Heeseung said, thumping Jakeâs chest with the back of his hand.Â
Their chatter continued out of the science building, pushing open the doors to be hit with a gust of cold wind. Heeseung then stopped dead in his tracks, looking down at his phone before throwing his head back in exasperation.
âCoach wants us to meet in the gym before we leave,â he told Jake with a resigned shrug. âIâll see you on Monday, okay? Tell Sunghoon and Jay I said bye.â
The one thing Jake despised in the world was saying goodbye to people. He got far too emotional over a gesture that really wasnât that dramatic, and he hated how seriously he took them. Still, acting as if he was a normal person who knew how to act normally about such matters, he clapped his friend on the back and wished him good luck before watching him walk off.Â
Seriously, he felt like a military wife sending off his husband.
When Jake found the table that Sunghoon and Jay were sitting at, scarfing down their sandwiches at record speed. Jake dropped his bag on the ground and collapsed into the seat next to Sunghoon. He reached over to grab one of Jayâs curly fries, twirling it around in his finger before he nibbled on it.Â
âHeeseungâs gone,â he told them.
âOh. His tournament?â Jay took an obnoxiously loud sip from his drink. âYou phrased that like he died.â
âHe said bye.â
Sunghoon nodded wistfully. âHe will be missedâmostly âcause he always does the dishes. Now weâre responsible. Ugh.â
With his elbow on the table and chin sunk into his palm, Jake nodded along to Sunghoonâs words, still stuck in some strange sort of daze.
Sunghoon shot him a questioning look before turning to Jay. âOkay, I'll bite: Whatâs up with Sadness?â
âDunno.â Jay covered his mouth to finish chewing the rest of his bite. âHe and Y/N were getting into it during class today.â He looked up from his food to turn back to Jake. âWhat happened after she cornered you after class?â
âCornered?â Sunghoon asked with sudden intrigue.Â
To state his concerns as vaguely as possible, Jake groaned feebly into his hands and said, âIâm in deep shit, you guys.â
The two men were dumbfounded to hear Jake Sim, who had a shiny record of being a perfect son and perfect student all his life, make such a claim. (Well, perfect enough to make his parents proud; there were surely several imperfections that wouldnât earn Jake his Perfect Son badge if they were ever to find out. Exhibit A: whatever was happening to him because of you.) Not once had he gotten a detention or even a warning. Jake was a poster child all his life, which was why he felt especially embarrassed that he was acting so shamefully when it came to you.
âYou didnât make her cry, right?â Jay asked.
âNo!â he exclaimed. In fact, you almost made him cry. âI justâŚâ He sighed and straightened up, his voice taking on an edge of seriousness. âYou canât tell Heeseung.â
Jay raised a brow. âWhatâd you do, throw a book at her?â
Sunghoon let out a low whistle. âMommyâs Little Misogynist strikes again.â
âI got a boner, okay?â Jake blurted out, sick of their mindless assumptions, even though his confession was probably a one-way ticket to the deepest circle of Hell.Â
At first, there was silence. Then, a screamâan obnoxious, garbled sort of scream that Jake almost thought was a squawk. Sunghoon and Jay doubled over in laughter, dropping their sandwiches to swat at each other as they were unable to contain themselves. Jake sat there for a good two minutes, a deadpan expression on his face while he waited for them to calm down.Â
âA boner?â Sunghoon clarified, a Cheshire-like grin plastered across his face. âA stiffy? A hard-on? An erecâ?â
âOkay, Merriam-Webster, I donât need every single synonym,â Jake snapped. âBut, yes, Iâve been getting hard during class because of her, itâsââ
Jay spluttered out, âBeenâ!â And then they exploded into a fit of laughter again, collapsing into each other and wheezing from the absolute joy of their friendâs humiliation. With tears now spilling from his waterline, Jay rose up and pointed a finger at Sunghoon in utter glee. âMultiple times!â
âMultiple times!â Sunghoon cried back, pounding his fist on the table.
Jake was not amused in the slightest. âOkay, I feel like you guys are just overreacting now.â
It took Sunghoon and Jay quite a few minutes to pull themselves together after laughing hysterically for what felt like forever, so Jake took it upon himself to steal a couple more of Jayâs fries as revenge.Â
âItâs fine, dude, seriously,â Sunghoon placated, as if he hadnât been losing it moments earlier. He sucked in a deep breath to collect himself while Jayâs shoulders were still shaking.
âYou guys were just making fun of me!â
âDid we laugh? Yes. Do we think youâre kind of a freak? Also yes.â Sunghoon shrugged. âBut do we have your back? No.â
At that, Jay straightened up. âI think you messed that up.â
âI think so, too.â
âIâd assume we do have his back.â
âShould I change it toââ
âOkay! I get what youâre sayingâvery heartwarming, I think,â Jake interjected. âBut am I seriously in the wrong here? No matter how much Y/N pisses me off sometimes, Iâd never want to disrespect her. It feels weird, you know⌠getting hard over her, of all people. I mean, sheâs Heeseungâs sister!â
âSo you popped a boner over herâwho cares?â Sunghoon placated. Jake fought back the urge to roll his eyes; they clearly cared when they were cackling like hyenas. âIâve gotten hard in situations I probably shouldnât get hard in. It happens to the best of us. Itâs fine.â
âWhat kind of situations?â Jake questioned.
âDonât spin this on me. This is about you get turned on by your best friendâs sister, you freak.â
âBut you said it was fine!â
âThat was before you pissed me off. Now Iâve changed my mind: Heeseungâs gonna kick your nasty ass straight to Hell.â
Frustrated, Jake tugged a hand through his dark hair. âJay, do you have anything to contribute? Preferably anything that shuts Sunghoon up.â
âI knew this day would come.â Jay wiped the stray tears from under his eyes with his thumb. âSee, Jake, when a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, or a person and a perââ
âYes, Iâm aware of all the possibilities on the spectrum,â Jake interjected. âContinue.â
âWhen a man and a woman love each other very much, theyââ
âOh my God,â Jake cut in once again, digging the heels of his palms into the hollows of his eyes. âIâm a grown man. I donât need the sex talkâand Iâm not gonna have sex with her, either!â
âYouâre not?â
âNo!â
âYou donât think sheâs hot?â
âWellâI⌠I meanâthatâs no reasonââ
âYouâre not getting a boner over someone youâre not physically attracted to, thatâs for sure,â Jay said, clearly tired of his friend by now.
âIâm calling for plausible deniability,â Jake announced.
âImplausible. Vetoed.â
âWait,â Sunghoon chimed in before looking at Jay, âhow did you not notice?â
âNotice what?â
âHis boner, dude.â
âAre you crazy? I have better things to do than stare at Jakeâs dick all class,â Jay answered. Recollection seemed to hit him like a slap, his hand raising halfway to his mouth. âActually⌠now that I think about it, I did think it was weird that you sat back down before you finished your debate⌠and your legs were crossed for the rest of class!â
(âSo you did stare at Jakeâs dick all class,â Sunghoon said.)
Jake threw him a withering look. âYeah, I know. Thatâs probably why she caught me.â
Sunghoonâs jaw froze mid-bite, and without any respect to the onions that were falling off his bread, he dropped his sandwich and exclaimed, âShe caught you?â Jay, who was equally as shocked, seemed to also be struggling to hide how gleeful he was about the drama.Â
âWell, almost,â he corrected. âIt was more of a suspicion, but I didnât give inâand I called her a pervert! It feels good to win.â
âCool! Whatâd you win?â The unexpected voice nearly made Jake jump; thanks to years of working on a collected composure, though, chills ran up his spine instead. Sunghoon and Jay were both caught off guard, too, judging by their nearly imperceptible jolts that had them pulling their shoulders back.Â
He turned to see you with a hand on your hip, a curious smile on your lips. If his expression didnât give it away, surely knocking over Jayâs curly fries was a sure sign of Jakeâs nervousness.Â
âUh⌠League? League matchânothing importantâyeah, um⌠soâwhatâre youâwhatâre you doing here?â
Real smooth, Jake.
Jay, who looked as if the scene before him was physically painful to witness, valiantly chimed in to save Jakeâs skin, âAre you looking for Heeseung? He already left for his tournament.â
âNope,â you said, walking over to stand behind Jake so you could card your fingers through his hair. He remained frightfully still and tried not to think about your fingernails against his skin. Your sharp, manicured fingernails⌠dragging across hisâokay, his mind really needed to stop wandering. âI have a quiz next class, so I came here to ask for a calculator. I just need it for my next class.â
Jakeâs TI-83 was most definitely tucked away in his backpack, but he was reluctant to move with the way you were running your fingers through his hair. Albeit how he had to fight to keep his mind out of the gutter, Jake could also admit that this was rather⌠soothing. He could stay like this all afternoon and he wouldnât mind at all.
Sunghoon started, âOh, Iâve gotââ
âI got it,â Jake, with a deep edge of unease, spoke over his friend. Sunghoon didnât seem to look upset about being cut off, though; in fact, the senior was trying to hide a growing smirk that he had to cover with his hand. Jake dug into his backpack, sifting through each of the pockets haphazardly, before pulling out his graphing calculator and handing it to you. âYou can just give it back to me later.â
âOh, Iâm sure Iâll find an opportunity,â you replied before turning on your heel. âSee you guys later!â
After their goodbyes, the three boys lapsed into silence. Jake wondered if they were all thinking about that interaction with you and how strange it was. The three of them took high school graduation pictures with you, went over for Thanksgiving dinner at your house, and even awkwardly lingered about in Victoriaâs Secret while you were trying on brasâbut this? This change in behavior was something none of them wouldâve ever expected from you.
Sunghoon was the first to break the silence, saying, âThat was weird.â
âIndeed,â Jay agreed, perplexed.Â
âShe was all over you,â Sunghoon observed. âLike, Iâm almost convinced that Y/N was replaced with a horny clone last night.â
âJake, at this rate, you mightââ
âDonât say it,â Jake pleaded. âDonât say anything about me and her. I swear, I just need to get back on Tinder or something, and Iâll forget all about Y/Nâprobably.â
Jay gave his shoulder a weak punch. âYeah, I believe you, man.âÂ
He did not, however, sound like he believed in his friend at all.Â
Jake didnât quite fit the partying archetype.
Heeseung was a social butterfly, Jay and Sunghoon could get by as long as they could slip away to recharge from time to time, but Jake always looked for a way to get out of such events. Whether it was a project or a supposed family emergency, he played any card he couldâalthough it was usually a fruitless attempt. Plus, Jake was strictly herbal; he wasnât a big drinker like his friends were, especially when it came to his mortal enemy (Everclear).Â
So, now, while he was watching you stumble down your driveway to get into the passenger seat of his car, Jake was already trying to do the math in his head to calculate when heâd be back in the comfort of his room.Â
Tonight, you were dressed up a little more than usual. Your strappy black stilettos were dangerously high, and paired with the little black skirt that stopped halfway down your thighs, Jake found it difficult to pull his gaze away from you.Â
âHowâre you getting back home?â he asked as he pulled out of your driveway. Jake recalled several occasions where Heeseung had to do a U-turn to pick you up from Kazuhaâs, so he was quite familiar with the route. âUber?â
ââand he was trying to get with me, even though I know he has a girlfriend! Isnât that crazy? I literally have the same lab section as her, like, I could walk up to her and tell her everything. Are men just stupid? Like, I can literally ruin his relationshipâI mean, he pretty much did that on his ownâbut I could just expedite the process, you know? Ugh, and he wasn't even cuteâso mid, like, not my type at all,â the lilting voice through your phone kept rattling on.
You shot Jake an apologetic look before you kept trying to calm down Hanni Pham, who he often saw you with. Well, he supposed small talk was out of the question now, which Jake didnât mind one bit. Still, lowering the volume of Kendrick Lamarâs new album just to listen to Hanniâs incessant ranting for the rest of the ride was starting to drive Jake insane.Â
Finally, you made a quick excuse to Hanni before ending the call, and Jake waited a few more moments before he raised the volume again. He kept his eyes trained on the road, for if they wandered in your direction, Jake was sure he wouldnât get away with crossing his legs in this situation.
âYou didnât have to hang up,â he said.
âI didnât?â You gave him a knowing look. âYou kept looking over at me like you were in agony, so I thought Iâd put you out of your misery.â
A sheepish grin tugged at the corners of his lips. âThanks for that. Whoâs the guy she was talking about, anyway?â
âWow, so now you wanna hear more?â
He shrugged. âYou could at least repay me for the ride by entertaining me.â
âEntertaining you?â This time, you were grinning. Jake felt a bit nervous as you leaned over the center console. âIf you want entertainment, then come to Kazuhaâs with me.â
âReally?â Jake kept his tone light as he looked for street parking, and then he pulled over to the sidewalk to let you out. You had the door half-open, looking at him expectantly. âIâll pass, then. Have fun.â
You leveled him with a glower. âYouâre seriously not coming?â
âIâve got, uh, homework.â
âHomework? Itâs a Friday night, Jake. Just do it over the weekend.â
âJust get inside already, Y/N. Itâs cold.â
âFine,â you said, curt. There was little gratitude in your tone when you added, âThanks for the ride,â and flung the door shut, too.
Jake sat back with a sigh, hoping that the solitude would aid in unclouding his judgement. He couldnât just go to that party with you; things were weird between you two, and that was only putting it as simply as he could. But, on the other hand, maybe he shouldâve just gone. There was no harm in showing face for a while, and it wasn't like Kazuha was a complete stranger, either.Â
He let one opportunity fall right through his fingers; another presented itself right in front of Jake.
Your phone.
You left it on the seat before you left, whether it was intentional or not. The polaroid of you, Hanni, and Danielle showed through the back of its clear case, and Jake stared at your (admittedly charming) smile before he unbuckled his seatbelt in defeat.
One hour. That was all heâd give himself in there.Â
He was sure the duration of his decision-making process wouldnât keep him from catching up to you in time, but that wasnât the case at all. Jake couldnât spot you at all, not even after he did a lap around the first floor. You mustâve noticed your phone was missing by now, so where were you?Â
Cramped, narrow hallways. Blaring music. Flashing lights. Sweaty people packed together. The lingering stench of booze.
It was dreadful.
Jake had to take a break in the kitchen, leaning against the countertop where someoneâs bluetooth speaker was blowing out his eardrums. To his knowledge, Kazuha was renting next to an elderly couple with low tolerance for noise. How she could get away with throwing parties like these was beyond Jake.Â
âOh, shit,â a familiar voice called out. âYouâre here, too? Thank fuck.â
Jake turned to see Choi Beomgyu walking over to him, cradling a red solo cup. Perfect. Jake was dreading the very idea of being sober right now, and he knew Beomgyu would have the fix he needed. Last time he saw Beomgyu, the guy was canisters deep in whippets; it wouldâve been impossible to tell he was conscious if his hand didnât keep inching inside of Jakeâs bag of chips.
âI was supposed to sell Yeonjun some weed, but where the fuck is he?â Beomgyu went on to complain, setting his empty cup down and flicking it across the counter with little care. âWhenâd you get here? Just now?â
âYeah, have you seen Y/N?â Jake shouted over the music. Beomgyu gave him a little shake of the head, and a weary breath escaped Jakeâs lips. His eyebrows lifted as he then suggested, âSmoke break?â
âHell yeah.â
It just so happened that Jake was already breaking his one hour rule. At one minute past his self-mandated curfew, he was not in a state to be driving at all.Â
All thanks to Beomgyu, he was blazed out of his mind now, moving through the house with an air of indifference this time. Normally, Jake felt like his brain was buzzing constantly, like a hurricane that never stopped raging. But when that sweet Mary Jane filled his lungs, he felt more in control of himself. It felt almost as if he was underwater, weightless and drifting along with the current. For someone who swam desperately his whole life, he liked that he could just float.Â
And, because the universe apparently decided that weed was the answer to all of Jakeâs problems, he eventually wandered back into the kitchen and found you.
Minor problem: There was a man right next to you.
But Jake, floating about in a blissful daze, strolled right up to you without a second thought about interrupting your conversation.Â
â... fucked up how she curves, itâs usuallyâoh, what the hell?â You did a double-take when you saw Jake walk up beside you, noticing his red and glassy eyes almost instantly. Your attention was immediately pulled from the unmemorable man beside you, which was not good because this was a horrible time to stroke Jakeâs ego, and you grabbed onto the sleeve of his leather jacket. He took a step back to avoid your drink sloshing onto his clothes. âI thought you went home!â
Another minor (or maybe major) problem that Jake forgot about prior to his smoke break: Weed only made it easier for him to get turned on.
Thatâcoupled with standing so close to youâwas sure to be disastrous.
âHad to return this,â he answered, holding up your phone, which you snatched at record speed. You were going on about how forgetful you were before Jake asked, âWere you two busy? I can leave.â
âOh, uh, we were just talking,â you said, looking between Jake and the other dude (whose name still remained a mystery) a couple of times before clearing your throat. The guy, who earlier had a hopeful glint in his eyes, seemed to wilt a bit. In a more cheerful tone, you added, âHeâs an old classmate. We both had Robbins for O-chem.â
Robbins for O-chem. Sounded like a cheap excuse to talk you up, was what Jake thought. Last year he had physics with Kim Minji, but he wasnât cornering her in the living room to talk about the good old days of wave mechanics.
Jake gave you a smug look. âRobbins? What was that about the curve, then?â
âSomeone scored a hundred and screwed the rest of us up.â You scoffed. âAlways that one kid.â
âAh. That was me.â
âWhat?!â
âYeah, thatâs why I didnât show anyone my scoreâexcept Jay, but he said he felt sick looking at it.â
âI feel sick hearing about it. You shouldâve just kept that to yourself forever.â
That was the plan, actually, but Jake strangely felt the need to impress you in comparison to Background Character #1 and his unremarkable presence. Well, considering all he achieved was pissing you off, he supposed it wasnât going too well.
âThat was the plan.â Slightly miffed, he leaned back against the counter with his arms folded over his chest. âBut I earned that hundred. I didnât sleep for three whole days to study for that final.â
âOh, boo-hoo. I stayed up, tooâand got a sixty.âÂ
Jake simply shrugged. âYou passed the class, didnât you? Thatâs all that matters.â
âEasy for you to say! You got a perfect score!â
âI donât think thatââ
But you werenât backing down, cutting Jake off to ask, âWhatâd you put for the cyclobutene question?â
Jake scowled at you. He thought one or two drinks in your system would calm you down, the same way weed did for him, but you were pushier than ever.Â
By now, he also realized that Guy-whose-face-he-now-forgot was long gone. He probably realized that there was no hope in trying to hit on you after seeing how your full attention was captivated by Jake. He wasnât trying to boastâhe was just calling it like he saw it.Â
âSeriously? That was a whole year ago, Y/N.âÂ
He felt the weight of your incredulous stare. âBut you remember your answer, donât you?â
To be honest, he did.Â
âConrotatory ring opening under thermal conditions,â he answered after a minute of spacing off to remember what he put down (and ignore your blatant staring). âFour pi electrons.â
âWait, no, then it wouldnât follow the Woodward-Hoffman rules. 4n would be antiaromatic in the transition state, so it would be forced to be a disrotatory moââ
âNope, the 4n system makes it conrotatory. Disrotatory would misalign the orbitals. Dude, Iâm telling you, I remember it perfectly. I drew it out and everything.â
You opened and closed your mouth a few times, and Jake found great pleasure in watching you flounder for a response. Moreover, he was starting to imagine very dangerous things that involved his body pressed up against yoursâpreferably somewhere private, but he was almost tempted to pull you closer right now.
âBut⌠but then the cis productââ
âStays as is,â Jake finished for you. âI can even draw the diagram for you. Iâm sure thereâs a paper and pen somewhere.â
âUgh, donât bother. Iâm pissed off.â You shook your head, frustrated, and a lazy smile stretched across Jakeâs face. âWhy are you so smart whenâŚâÂ
It took him a moment to even notice that you stopped in the middle of your sentence, dragging the syllabus an octave deeper than usual. Jake thought that he finally pushed you to your limit, that you were going to stop talking to him altogether, but the reality was much, much worse.
You jabbed your elbow sharply into his side, hard enough to make him wince in pain.Â
âOkay, ow. Whatâsâ?â Then he looked down.
Oh.
Jakeâs lips parted, framing an apology that he couldnât bring himself to utter. He was caught somewhere between alarm and shame, hardly able to move as the cold reality sank in that you just saw his growing bulge.Â
It was dark enough so that only you were aware of it, but fuck, Jake couldnât even get himself out of this one.
He looked down at you to say somethingâanything that would save him from this horrible situation, reallyâbut there were no words to explain himself. Jake looked helplessly to the side for some escape route out of this situation, or perhaps even his Deus ex Machina: Beomgyu. Before he could open his mouth, you smoothly stepped in front of Jake, effectively cornering him in the kitchen and shielding him from onlookers.
Heroic, trulyâexcept your thigh was now pressing firmly against the tent in his pants.
His blood ran cold when he saw the twinkle in your eyes, as if you were getting a kick out of this. Meanwhile, Jake made a mental apology to Jay and Sunghoon, who were going to be very disappointed that Jake didnât take any steps toward forgetting all about you. It proved rather difficult when you were as intoxicating as the drugs in his system.Â
âI fucking knew it,â you whispered, triumph tugging your lips into a smirk. âYou were hard during class today, too, werenât you?â
This time, Jake was the one at a loss for words, flailing for any excuse that would defuse the tension, but he was already a lost cause. In less than twenty-four hours, Jake managed to expose his deepest, darkest secret to the one person who was never supposed to find out. All he could do now was accept slow, torturous suffering as the jaws of social suicide ripped into him.Â
âY/N, p-please, I canââ
You threw your head back to laugh, delighted. âWhat? Are you trying to apologize for a boner?â
He stammered, âNoâI mean, yesâbut⌠IâŚâ One more brush of your leg against his clothed cock had Jake holding onto your shoulders, trying to keep his lust at bay. âY/N, stop. Youâre Heeseungâs sister.â
âExcellent observation. Wouldnât have figured that one out.â
âI mean, thisââhe gestured between him and youââisnât gonna work out.â
You blinked. âWhy not?â
âW-what do you mean, why not? Heeseung and I have been friends for years. I canât just⌠I canât do that toââ
âOh, give it a rest. Why are you even bringing him up right now?â you asked in a snippy voice, waving his qualms off.Â
âBecauseââ
âAnyway, Iâve put together a little theory, and I think Iâm right.â
Jake raised his brows at that, slightly intrigued to what you couldâve possibly pieced together in the past twelve hours. If it had anything to do with why he was getting turned on, he was certain that you would be completely off the mark.
âYou get horny when we argue, donât you?â you asked.
Oh, so you were spot on. Fantastic.
He let out a desperate, wanting breath, trying to cover it up as a sound of misery. The kitchen was mostly cleared out since everyone gathered in the living room to play beer pong, but Jake lowered his voice to speak, anyway.Â
âPretty much. Nothing sexualâjust attracted to the mind, is all. Debates can be stimulating, you know?â
âNothing sexual about your dick getting hard?â
In a rather strangled voice, he answered, âNormal physiological reaction, really.â
He felt your hand smooth over his chest, your fingers splaying out before you dragged your hand lower and lower. He shivered as he felt your fingertips run across his abs, tracing each groove of muscle before your hand dipped to the front of his pants. Jake screwed his eyes shut when your palm pressed against his stiff, aching cock.
You simpered. âReally? So you donât need my help getting you off?â
He suppressed a growl at the back of his throat, opting to loop his fingers in your belt loops and pull you closer instead. âDonât.â
âHm?â
âNot here. Weâre in public.â
But your other hand was snaking around his neck, playing with the ends of his dark hair that fell to his nape. Jake could feel his body trembling as he restrained himself from holding you close and kissing you like his life depended on it.
I shouldnât, he told himself, forcing the words to burn into his skull (and still, they would not stick). I shouldnât, I shouldnât, I shouldnâtâ
But, fuck, the way you were looking at him. It was enough to drive a sane man to the brink of madness.
Well, Jake presumed he had always been a bit out of his mind when it came to you.
After an unsteady breath, Jake slid one hand up your waist, up your arm, and then across your shoulder to hold your neck. Your chest swelled before you leaned into his touch. Jake found his thumb straying from where his hand cradled your jaw. He traced the outline of your lips with careful precision, charting each curve and line in his course.
He kissed you once, light and fleetingâjust enough to taste you.Â
The sweet second of contact lost its grace soon after. He wet his lips, chasing what was left of your lipstick. With one more look into your eyes, all the nerves that gripped him seemed to melt away in a breath. Jake held your gaze before reaching up to hold the sides of your face and pulling you in for a searing kiss. It had been merely one tasteâone press of his lips against yoursâand jagged splinters of desperation tore into him, burying deep in his flesh.
Jake, with a heavy heart, wished he could formally apologize to everyone who was bearing witness to their sloppy makeout session. He simply couldnât help that you were both intoxicated, turned on, and extremely riled up from bickering. He shoved his tongue past your lips, messy and eager, sating a hunger that had him starved for longer than he thought.
It soon slipped Jakeâs mind entirely that he was making out with you in the kitchen. His cock throbbed in his jeans, pulsating each time your hips made contact with his. You were slowly rolling your hips over hisâsubtle enough to go undetected, but it was driving him wild. Honestly, though, if Jake truly wanted to stop you from moving against him that way, he wouldâve let go of your hip by now.Â
You were an insanely good kisser. Jake felt a small pang of jealousy upon recollecting all the times he witnessed you kissing someone before himâyour first boyfriend, your senior prom date, your college situationships. He never thought too deeply about how he felt in the moment, but it was like he had locked up all those messy feelings bordering on jealousy. They were all spilling out now, like a crack in the dam, threatening to make Jake feel something for you that he hadn't felt before.Â
He broke from the kiss to leave gentle pecks along your jawline and down your neck, each one leaving you sighing happily. âLetâs go upstairs, yeah?â he whispered against the shell of your ear, leaving a featherlight kiss in its wake. His drawl was stronger when he lowered his voice to a murmur, âDonât go shy on me now, sweetheart.â
âShy? Iâm not shy.â
âOh, yeah? Look me in the eyes, then.â
âShut⌠shut upâand follow behind me, unless you want everyone here seeing your diââ
âOkay, thatâs enough.â
You, being his knight in shining armor now, led the way upstairs, allowing for Jake to stand directly behind you and hide his boner. He kept his arms wrapped loosely around your waist, trying to focus on anything but the nape of your neck. Having his bulge pressed up against your body was making his senses go haywire.
(Alsoâand he wasnât quite brave enough to admit this to himself just yetâhe kind of wanted to lace his fingers with yours.)
Jake hastily wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He was sure he mustâve looked like an absolute douchebag walking around like that, considering the amount of lipstick he had just rubbed off.Â
The first empty room was theirs for the taking. Jake sported a wolfish grin as he closed the door to whoeverâs bedroom they locked themselves in. You, however, looked uncertain.
âIâd feel bad doing it on their bed,â you confessed.
Jake, who didnât realize he was going to encounter a moral dilemma amidst getting his dick wet, blinked slowly.
âThatâs true,â he agreed. Sure, yeah, he would probably kill his friends if any of them hooked up with someone in his bed. Jake made his way to you slowly; at first, you didnât budge, but then you let him walk you backward once he grabbed your hips. âI wouldnât feel as bad doing it against their wall, though.â
Your fingers tugged at the hem of his shirt, as if you were about to peel it right off him. âThen how about I suck you off first? Make up for all those debates?â
âReally?â he spluttered out, gawking at you as you turned him around so that his back was against the wall.
You hastily undid the buttons on his jeans, all the while maintaining eye contact with him. âYouâre too cute. Donât tell me you werenât waiting for this.â
His gaze darkened slightly.
He joined you immediately in getting rid of his pants. Jake couldnât help but let out a blissful sigh as he pulled his boxers down and his cock sprang up. Seeing you slide down to your knees to wrap your hands around his length nearly made his knees buckle under him. His hand moved to the back of your head, tangling his fingers through your hair.
Just like that, Jake Sim lost all willpower to keep himself away from Lee Heeseungâs sister.
âI donât know if I can fit all of it in my mouth,â you told him, lips ghosting the tip of his cock.Â
âThatâs okay, baby.â He tightened his grip in your hair. âTake however much you can.â
You started with a gentle kiss to his tip, and it was enough to make Jake shudder. He watched you in wonderment, eyes glued to your mouth and how his cock disappeared past your lips. With one hand holding onto his hip for leverage, you ducked your head to lick from base to tip, running your tongue along a rather thick vein that wrapped around the side.Â
Jake was thankful for the pounding music below; although he prided himself on his self-control (prior to Y/Ngate), he was never good at being quiet in the throes of pleasure. Slowly, you sucked on the tip, earning a drawn-out moan from Jake that he hardly bothered muffling.Â
And then, you were hollowing your cheeks to take more of him in, and a flicker of intensity flashed in his eyes when he felt his cock hit the back of your mouth. Jake had to hold onto the nearby dresser for support, his knuckles going white. You gagged a little as his head brushed against your uvula, and then a few tears sprang in your eyes.
Jake watched them pool at your waterline, and he wiped at them with his thumb, cooing at you sympathetically.Â
âJust like that, baby,â he murmured, stifling a groan. He closed his eyes and tightened his grip on the back of your head to thrust into your mouthâcareful, experimental. âAhâfuck, your mouth feels so fucking good.â
Despite the unbelievably erotic image of you blowing him, Jake could also detect some smugness. As you bobbed your head, each motion driving Jake closer and closer to a release, you could pick up on the effect you were having on him.
His eyes, glazed over with lust, were threatening to roll back, but he was determined to keep them on you now. He couldnât get enough of watching how you were taking him in, how you were so quick to pleasure him.
Then, as Jake felt heat burning under his skin, he gently pulled back, holding your jaw securely to keep you from chasing his cock. You looked up at him with a frown, head cocked to the side.
âWhatâs wrong?â you asked as he wordlessly helped you back up to your feet.
Jake switched your positions, backing you into the wall again. He slid his hand under your thigh, pulling it up so that your leg wrapped around his hip.Â
âMy turn,â he said. âIâd rather be inside you when I cum.â
A needy little moan escaped your lips, and suddenly the both of you were a mess of hands, clawing and tearing to get each otherâs clothes off. You yanked at Jakeâs shirt, shoving it up and over his head, and he didnât let it go unnoticed that your gaze dropped to the lines of his chest. You didnât get much time to ogle, though, because Jake was quick to get rid of your clothes next, even snapping your bra off in one go. Your underwear, however, was pulled down with slow reverence. Jake had to take a minute to admire your breathtaking body in all its glory.
He never imagined this. All this overwhelming passion. Your body pressed flush against hisâno walls up between either of you.Â
Jake almost felt like all of this was dreamlike as his finger skimmed your folds, moving to rub your clit in a slow, languid motion. A shaky whine fell from your lips.Â
âYouâre already soaked, sweetheart,â he said. He slipped a finger inside you as you were opening your mouth, and your words died on your tongue. âYouâre just as filthy as me, arenât you?â
All he got in response was another petulant whine, like music to his ears. Jake added another finger, pumping it inside you while his thumb pressed against your clit. You squirmed in his hold, but Jake held you steady, keeping you pinned to the wall as he fingered your cunt.Â
âI thought about this so many times,â you gasped out, much to Jakeâs surprise. He raised a brow while speeding up his ministrations. This only made it harder for you to get your words out coherently, so it took you a while to add, âThought about you fucking me after those stupid arguments, just like this.â
Jake, a simple man, wasnât built to handle such words; he wouldâve come on the spot, untouched, if he wasnât so eager to bury his cock in you.
Jake guided his cock to your slit, and the two of you moaned simultaneously as he pushed inside you. The room went a little fuzzy for a momentâsomething high-pitched seemed to be ringing in his earsâand then Jakeâs hips met yours, drawing shuddering breaths and whimpers from you two.
Shit. He felt like he was on fire and your every moan was ice.Â
Caging you in his grip, he gave a shallow thrust, rousing a gasp from you. In turn, your leg curled tighter around his hip. Jake had to bury his face in your neck to suppress his groans, his hot breath fanning your skin as he littered kisses and bites along your supple skin. He just hoped your makeup could conceal the marks that were blooming along the tender column of your neck.
Another thrustâdeeper, this time. He seemed to hit a spot that sent stars glittering behind your eyelids, judging by the dazed look that clouded your expression.Â
âM-more,â you begged, your voice catching on the end of the sentence.Â
"More? You want more?"
Your response came out in a breath. "Please."
Your hand threaded into his hair, pulling him down for another kiss, like it was all you could hold onto. The position your leg was in was strained at this angle, but you didnât seem to care, clawing at Jakeâs back to keep him closer.Â
His tongue slipped into your mouth without hesitation, and he was pretty sure he was getting drunk off the liquor on your tongue. Slowly, like he was taking off the training wheels, Jakeâs hips started to move at a steady rhythmâshallow thrusts going deeper and deeper.Â
As Jake relentlessly thrusted into you, he left no place untouched, each stroke dragging inside you a little longer. It drew out the prettiest whines from you, so he couldnât help but tease you a little longer. His otherwise consistent rhythm, however, faltered as you clenched around him tightly.Â
âI-Iâm close,â you gasped out, pulling from the kiss to watch where his cock disappeared inside you.Â
âI've got you, sweetheart,â he replied gently, honey dripping from his words, and Jake held you tightly in his arms as he sped up his pace to bring you closer to your orgasm.Â
He was getting there, tooâreal close, actually. Jake felt like he was unravelling, his nerve endings alight, skin buzzing, and his breath trapped in his lungs. With a couple more thrusts, you shattered with his name on your lips, crying over the music. Jake had to cover your mouth with his hand to keep you quiet, but he couldnât deny that he was loving how responsive you were. He followed after you with a loud groan, making sure to pull out before his cum spilled all over his hands.
For a moment, neither of you spoke. Jake watched as your chest rose and fell for a couple of minutes. He tried to ground himselfâconvince himself that what just happened wasnât a dream.Â
For the rest of the night, neither of you addressed how the next kiss held something deeperâsomething that reached beyond lust. Jake was sure you felt it, too, lingering like a secret between your lips, but he wouldnât dare give that feeling a name just yet.
âJake would be the type to catch feelings after hooking up.â
Park Sunghoon was the one to make this outrageous statement, effectively snapping Jake out of whatever dreamy daze he was in. Ever since he had sex with you hours ago, Jake couldnât stop thinking about how you felt around him. He thought FaceTiming his friends would help clear his mind, but he was starting to believe that they were, in fact, the problem.
He didnât return home immediately. Jake had to pretend like he didnât just blow your back out when he went downstairs to talk to Kazuha and her very drunk roommates. One of them was so obviously flirting with Jake that you cornered him later to leave a prominent hickey on his collarbone. Then, after he sobered up enough to drive you home, you didnât seem to have your heart set on getting back; you requested that Jake stop at a parking lot on two separate occasions (during a fifteen minute drive) so that he could eat you out in the backseat.
After that, there was a lot more kissing on the way to your doorstep, a lot of heavy petting as he carried you to your room, and you graciously offered to ride him before he drove back home.
When Jake recounted all of this to Jay and Sunghoon, he left to get himself a midnight snack because they were laughing their heads off for a record-breaking amount of time. It started to feel like a humiliation ritual.
At the end of the call, Jay spouted some bullshit like, âHeeseung wonât even care, trust me.â
Jake refused to even consider that as a possibility, but he vowed to keep his distance from you to make sure last night wouldnât happen again. (It was important to note that he laughed right after because even he couldnât believe that.)
Despite the shame that bubbled in Jakeâs gut, he had to honor the commitment he made to Heeseung, even though it was a terrible idea to see you again. (No, itâs a wonderful idea! those feel-good neurotransmitters in his stupid, horny brain argued. Viagra in your future! Always prioritize sex! Get laid quick!) So, the next day, there he wasâat 5:00 p.m. sharpâparked outside of your house with a sinking feeling that you were going to greet him in a way that would make your older brother faint on the spot.
The sky was splotched with peach and lavender, like a watercolor painting that dried into soft, muted hues. There was a dreamy glow out on the horizon, but when Jake turned to see you walking out of his house, there was the sunâablaze with brilliant light.
Your eyes caught, and he felt suspended in time for a few seconds. Jakeâs stupid, pathetic heart pumped out blood a bit too quickly.
Something was off, though.
You were wearing cotton shorts and an oversized t-shirt with Snoopy printed on the frontâmore fitting for a sleepover than a charity event, no offense. Jake understood that plenty of people prioritized comfort in their outfit choices; although he was quite surprised that you, of all people, would fall in that category. He recalled that blink-182 concert where he had to take turns with Sunghoon to give you a piggyback ride back to the parking lot because you were so damn adamant on wearing your death trap high heels. Your ankles, of course, suffered the consequences.
But maybe this was a good thing. Maybe this meant that you felt comfortable around him⌠and whoever else was going to be at that charity event, he supposed.Â
Would it be so wrong to ask for clarification on the event, though? But what if he came across like he was prying too deeply into your personal life?
Noâhe would not dare make one comment about it.
So he didnât. Until he realized that he made a grave mistake.
âA Love Island watch party? Heeseung told me this was a charity event!â Jake exclaimed, utterly baffled.
âYeah, the winners get a hundred grand,â you replied casually, as if you hadnât been withholding crucial information that wouldâve changed Jakeâs mind about following you into the house. âVoting for your favorite couple is basically charity work, if you think about it.â
Jake groaned. This was a set-up, and he was not about to stay over at Danielleâs to watch Love Island, of all shows.Â
But then, you leaned over to press a chaste kiss to Jakeâs cheek. âIf you donât vote for Nicolandria, youâre dead to me, by the way,â you whispered. Although your choice of words werenât exactly tempting, Jake found himself unbuckling his seatbelt and following you into the house. The effect you had on him was absurd.
To his surprise, though, he was thoroughly entertained for the night. Sure, he was the only guy in a room full of girls that had enough Stanley cups to beat him to death, but Jake almost felt like he was in his element. When Kim Minji went on a five minute rant to explain why Nicolandria deserved to be the winning couple, Jake was so intrigued that he ended up agreeing to join their Love Island nights until the season ended.
(He later discovered that Love Island released a new episode five days a week, but that somehow didn't change his mind on attending.)
In a tangled mess of feelings and desire, Jake was now making plans to keep seeing you. He only hoped that he could muster up the courage to tell his friend everything before things got serious with you.
Heeseungâs return didnât change much, to be honest.
Jake was under the impression that heâd be far too paranoid to be messing around with you once your brother was back, but it seemed to be the exact opposite. He couldnât get enough of you these days. Although you two were keeping things under wraps for now, Jake found it hard to not reach for your hand and think about how it would be if he could keep you by his side for longer. Whenever he woke up in your bed, he wanted time to freeze so that he could hold you until the moon came out again.Â
Oh, and their seminars.
You ended up proposing a solution to Jakeâs problem. It wasnât anything very sophisticated, but as soon as class ended, youâd be dragging Jake somewhere private to ease the tension growing in his jeans.Â
Or, when he was really done for, Jake would be the one pulling you along.Â
âNo way,â you mouthed once as Jake grabbed your wrist right as soon as you walked out of the classroom. A smirk was creeping up your lips as you kept your eyes trained on him, effectively cracking through his impassive facade. Jakeâs eyes flitted away before you could see any color bloom on his face. âHorny already? And to think I was holding backâŚâ
Jake, who was too busy looking for the closest enclosed space that offered enough privacy, was walking so fast that you were nearly stumbling to keep up with him. He flung open the door to an empty lab. It seemed too risky to simply close the blinds when there was no lock on the door, but there was, however, an equipment room in the back. He pulled you over by the wrist, ushering you inside.Â
âYeah,â he finally replied, turning the lock on the handle, âI was holding back, too.â
And then he fucked you against the door with one hand bruising your waist and the other wrapped around your throat.Â
He truly didnât think this would be the course of his love life. Not that Jake was complaining, but he wished that being with you didnât involve the daunting feat of confronting Heeseung. Not only could the interaction go disastrously, but Jake was terrified that Heeseung would look at him differently for going after his sister. He didnât want to be the guy that Heeseung shouldâve watched out for.
Jake willed himself to break the news to Heeseung after spending a Friday night with you, curled up on your bed and catching up on the latest season of Love Island. Jake had to admit that he was too deeply invested in the contestantsâ storylines.Â
While he played with your hair, he heard you ask, âCan you ever see us dating? Like, officially going out?â
âYeah,â he murmured back. âThatâs the plan, isnât it?â
The first time you told Jake you wanted things to get serious, he outright told you no. However, his body betrayed him when he nodded enthusiastically along with his refusal, making you even more confused. Now, though, Jake was determined to get that conversation with Heeseung out of the way. Leading you on would break his heart more than not getting your brotherâs approval.
When Jake decided to fess up to Heeseung, though, he made sure Jay and Sunghoon were right with him. They knew how honest Jakeâs intentions wereâkind ofâand they would surely have his back when it came down to it.Â
Unfortunately, he forgot that Jay and Sunghoon were the two worst people for this sort of situation.
âThis is the worst boba consistency Iâve ever had,â Sunghoon complained, stabbing at the last of the boba pearls in his taro milk tea. âSorry, Heeseung, what were you saying? You made the basket or whatever.â
(âOh, Heeseung, I need to tell you something,â Jake mumbled as quietly as possible, although the wind successfully drowned him out.)
âCloseâthat would be basketball,â Heeseung replied. âBut, yeah, I made the winning goal. Whoever wants to ride my dick is going on a waitlist.â
(âSpeaking ofâŚâ)
âShit. Put me on the waitlist,â Sunghoon said. âPriority reservation, please.â
(âHeeseungâŚâ)
âIâll get to you eventually, Twenty-Six.âÂ
(âHeeseung?â)
Jay pounded a fist on the table. âJake has something to say!â After witnessing his friend moping about and mumbling for so long, it was only a matter of time before he snapped.Â
Heeseung looked alarmed for a moment before asking, âWhatâs up?â
Jake only had a few seconds to shoot Jay a death glare before he had to fix his face and explain, âRight, um⌠I kind of have to tell you something.â
âYeah?â
âItâs really not that bad if you think about it.â
âOkayâŚâ
âAnd, actually, it should be more reassuring that itâs me and notââ
Heeseung scratched the side of his head. âUh, Iâm still gonna need context.â
âIâm, uh⌠so, IâmâŚâ Jake sucked in a deep breath, trying to steady himself. âSo, Iâm kinda seeing Y/N.â
There it was. The truth was out and Jake could stop skirting around it. He knew it would be near impossible to keep hiding it because Jake discovered that he was becoming far more endeared by you with each coming day. Absolutely terrifying, really, considering that he was already endeared at an incomprehensible level.Â
Heeseungâs eyes went as wide as saucers. âYou and Y/N?âÂ
As if the whole thing couldnât get any more awkward, you walked right out of the boba shop that the four of them were just in. To be fair, Heeseung was the one that called you over because he put in a request for a breakfast wrap after stalking your location, but of course you had to come out right this minute.
âDamn,â you said, scrunching your nose up in distaste. âGarbage boba consistency.â
âRight!â Sunghoon exclaimed. Jake was starting to think that he shouldâve just met up with Heeseung on his own. âAll I taste is disappointment when I drink this.â
Jake was petrified as Heeseung, completely unfazed by your arrival, stared at Jake in utter disbelief. He couldnât peel his eyes away, even after you dropped his breakfast wrap onto the table in front of him. âWait, hold onâbefore anyone says anything elseâdid you just say that youâre seeing Y/N? Y/N, my sister?â He practically flung his arm to point at you. âHer?â
Jake swallowed thickly, but you casually answered for him, âYeah, he is.âÂ
The air around him thickened, pressing down on his chest like a weight. Jakeâs thoughts were spiraling by now, imagining countless scenarios of Heeseung dropping him as a friend and forever plagued by his betrayal. Jake knew his friend deeply, and he knew that when Heeseung was hurt, heâdâ
âNice,â Heeseung drawled, raising his fist so that you could fist-bump it. âAbout time, too.â
What?
âYouâre not mad?â Jake blurted out, floored by the response. Now this was a turn of events that he didnât prepare for in the countless scenes he practiced in his head.Â
âI asked you to drive her to Danielleâs for a reason, dude. She couldâve just taken an Uber.â
âWait⌠you were in on this?â
âI wouldnât say I was in on anything, but I knew she had a thing for you. I was just glad sheâs interested in you and not, like, Sunghoon.â
âHey,â Sunghoon piped up, sounding stung, but he seemed to recover quickly. âIâm saving myself for you, Heeseung.â
âTwenty-sixâremember that.â
âSee? I told you, you had nothing to worry about,â you said as you slid into the bench next to Jake, reaching over to squeeze his hands. âNow you can stop denying that itâs perfectly fine for us to date.â
âI guess I was a little in over my head.â Jake returned a sheepishâand frankly, lovesickâgrin, wrapping an arm around your waist and pressing a kiss to your temple. Now that Jake had you, despite his friends cringing before him, he didnât want to let you go.
He could probably also admit to himself that he had liked you all along.
That, he supposed, was what Jay meant about implausible deniability.
AUTHOR'S NOTE ⸠the jake brainrot really got to me this time đŹ thank you for reading this if you made it all the way here !! i'm so so grateful if you chose to give this fic a chance so i hope you enjoyed :') also contrary to how the summary sounds, jake is too babygirl for me to not make him a loverboy <33 i swear something about him just screams Yearning
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hello, members of kpop/enhypen community! my name is tori and I am the owner of the jjk-centered blog @kenntoria. please read this if you care about content theft and plagiarism!!
after thinking long and hard about this(not that long, okay) i have decided that bringing attention to this situation was the right thing to do. now, let me start by saying that i mention in my pinned post that my works are not to be plagiarized, but I guess it wasnât clear enough which brings us all here:
not even a week ago, on july 23, i received an ask from anon asking if i own a certain blog since there is a fic very similar to mine and anon also linked the post. same anon then sent another ask with another link to a different post of the same writer. the blog is named @okwonyo !
iâll link the fics here(had to unblock the author to do that): âconfessionâ and âdreamerâ.
and the works that they were âinspired byâ are: âflirtingâ and âshaving nanamiâ.
now, the posts were uploaded on july 21 and jul 10, notably later than my works, and if it werenât for anon i wouldnât even have known about anything, because i donât lurk around the enhypen tag. if you want to, you can read works and connect the dots, but i am gonna present the similarities and explain why i, and many others, think itâs blatant plagiarism rather than inspiration(red is marking her work and blue is marking mine), you can read the whole thing too if youâd like ofc, i highlighted everything that would guide to see the problem, but please read everything.


this is from âdreamerâ and âshaving nanamiâ fics. you can see that there is similar pacing, and some of the sentences are structured the same way, using the same words, minimal changes applied. and yeah, you can say that the writer added the âdreaming about marrying youâ thing to her work but it doesnât change the fact that this whole thing was basically ripped off. then, letâs get to the âconfessionâ fic that has like a sequence of sentences taken from my fic, despite the plot being a little different in her fic, but the whole ânot noticing the flirting thingâ was taken from me. i wouldnât really call that inspiration if you just take the sentences and literally put them in your fic. would you? :)

(mind you, this is my first time dealing with things like this, which is not an excuse, bur rather an explanation as to why i handled this situation poorly at first.)
now, with these out of the way, letâs discuss what i talked about with the owner of the @/okwonyo, or âjiahâ. i sent an ask since i didnât follow her and couldnât message her, and we had a civil conversation about these works. iâm sorry i donât have screenshots but itâs because the chat is no longer available to me(she blocked me from her sideblog which she used for chat with me @okwonyos).
she did apologise and offered to link the fics(or even take them down!) but i, admittedly, was a bit distracted with in real life issues and dismissed by saying that she could just tag me, which of course was my fault. when i said that i thought she would say âinspired by bla bla blaâ but she just literally tagged me in the end of posts(mind you, there were 4 posts and she tagged me only in these 2 hah) and when i noticed and decided to ask her to take the posts down like she offered in the beginning because it would just be easier and would make me comfortable enough. she insisted that she likes those works a lot and me, being the pushover i am, relented and thought âwell alright at least her readers will stay happyâ and allowed her to link my stuff in her post, although she again mentioned me only at the end when i asked her to do it in the beginning of the post. i didnât really care that her notes were in the end, not really.
come to find our, there were another 2 fics, that i didnât know about until she mentioned me.
oblivious and promises, which are âinspiredâ again by my fics: oblivious reader and beauty marks.
was she gonna mention these if i hadnât texted her again a while later about her poor credit giving style? i donât think so, buddy. anyways, i read the fics briefly and was baffled by the similarities i saw. granted, i will mention that the âobliviousâ fic by her resembles an âinspirationâ a lot more than other fics since there are added elements like the characters being childhood friends and confession scene and all that â but still, there is whole beginning of the fic that she basically reworded from mine(was it necessary to even use the message with emoji thingâŚ):


for the âpromisesâ fic⌠bruh, the pacing, the whole dialogue, the similarities, literally whatever happens between the reader and that male character are taken from my fic and reworded and posted as original before i dmâed the author. which pisses me off, because if she had mentioned me from the beginning and if i considered it plagiarism it just would have been a lot more telling about this authorâs intentions â they wouldnât have been able to act nonchalantly, you know what i mean?
now, eventually, i sent the author some texts about how just taking paragraphs and changing them a little doesnât look much like an inspiration and asked to take the posts down(if i remember correctly) and she went defence mode and me? i was too tired with my irl issues to attempt anything more after a string of messages pointing out that she didnât âcopy and pasteâ and she added her own details and plots to the fic. so i went with something like okay whatever i hope you learn from your mistake and bye and she happily replied âfeel free to block meâ which irked me.
it irked me to the point that after blocking her i didnât feel relief or like a âwinnerâ but more like i played right into her hand, which should have been the signs that this was not the right way to end things.
now, jiah, did you think it was over? i did think iâd just be mulling over this for a while and hoping other people donât steal my stuff, but see itâs not me who noticed it, i was unaware â it was other people, several people, who noticed you just taking writing as your own and ignoring being âinspiredâ by me until you were reminded that yes, you did it wrong. and you have to understand what you did was wrong and accept it.
and you had to be the one to address it to your readers because me, i did address it and i asked my readers and followers to not even say anything to you and not go into your inbox â but something tells me you would have just ignored them and turned off anon asks.
you may ask: tori, why are you posting this almost a week later? well, iâm not gonna lie i have been thinking about this whole situation a lot and how i didnât do it right and didnât feel satisfied. and thanks to my beautiful readers and anons who felt injustice and confirmed my thoughts i have been finally pushed to act on this.
look, i have nothing to gain from this⌠i donât need like the undying love of enhypen fans or to turn anyone against her, but jiah, gotta respect me, no? do i really need your credits after you posted your post like 10 days ago and was going to act like nothing happened until confronted? i really donât lol, i just want to have peace and i want every anon and every person who sent me an ask about it and showed me immense support to be relieved that kpop community knows whatâs going on.
and iâm bringing awareness to this because i am sure that plagiarism here is really common and i have been lucky to be struck by it only for the first time.
now, do what you will with all of this info.
thank you for reading this and have a good rest of your day!!
#oh brother đŤŠ#must we keep reiterating Hey Plagiarism Is Bad (????)#and sneaky as hell to plagiarize cross fandom damn#this is reading like she was confident she would away with it so i'm glad you spoke up op#'feel free to block me' is an insane thing to say to the person you plagiarized from
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instead of just playing minecraft, imagine if diamond league!enha got teleported to minecraft, jumanji stylez (peaceful edition T^T)
STOPP THIS IS SO CUTE LMFAOOO i actually much prefer imagining everything playing out like this đ sunghoon at the end killed me a little why'd i shed a tear
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hiii iâm so glad ur back!! lowkey been waiting for ur return for so long i love your aus and fics so much đđ anyways can i be added to all your taglistsâŚ
OMG IM SO SORRY I DIDNT SEE THIS BEFORE I POSTED đđ i will for sure add you to my perm tag list now though 𫡠but omg you waited for ME đĽšđđ stop that's so sweet i'm so honored :')) but thank you sm & im really happy to hear that you enjoy my fics !! <3 i hope you're having a wonderful day/night đŤś
#đ : love notes#wonemy#this also being the ask that made me realize i forgot to tag my perm tag list
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Hello everyone,
It's been a whole year since I first made this art for my dear friend, Mohammed Ayesh @/blackeagleplog , who is still suffering from the same dangers since the very start of this genocide. These days, I still talk to him daily via WhatsApp and he remains steadfast & positive in the face of all his troubles.
I cannot understate how deserving he is of help.
For a long time, he has put aside promoting his own campaign in favour of helping others:
Vetting campaigns on the ground to assure everyone of legitimacy
Creating the Ihyaa Society @ihyaasociety which provides a space for students to continue their education online despite the genocide
It is very important that he himself is supported, given how much he has done for others. Please consider donating to him today. Any amount, no matter how small, will help him.
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for ask game 1 and 4 !!!
hihi anon !! omg tysm for sending an ask 𼚠and i hope you're having a wonderful rest of your day/night ! đˇ
you can find my answer to #1 here đ¤
4. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
this one's kind of funny because once i put a bunch of aus into a wheel to decide what i wanted to write next and it landed on college au like 3 times đ i'd like to write something inspired by greek mythology someday though!! also i've always been so interested in hindu mythology and thought it would be cool to incorporate that into a fic
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hi alice hruuuu đĽâď¸ number 9 for the ask gameee đ
omg hello hello !! 𤲠i've been doing good omg i have a busy week ahead but i'm excited :') how about you ?? and thank you for sending in an ask queen đ
9. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!
omg a chance for me to geek out :p but so i watched mickey 17 and it spoke to me in ways that had me opening up a google doc so,, there's a wolf inside me that wants to write about the psychological descent of a man as he grapples with the morality of using his own clones as test subjects in the name of science. and there's another wolf inside me that wants to write jake getting freaky with his clone 𤤠i'm sorry to say the latter did not win (got my demons out with implausible deniability) but i'm anticipating this fic to be a very fun psychological horror with a lot of doofenshmirtz ass villainry from jay and intern sunoo not being paid enough for this
also this video of jake did not help and only made me crazier
#đ : love notes#keucka#ask games#fic: the scientific findings of a madman#checking himself out Like that is crazyyyy
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1, 6, and 19 for the ask game!
hihi anon ! hope your day/night's been going well & thank you for sending me an ask love !! đ
1. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!
literally my jay smau !! it takes me so long because aside from making time to work on it, i have to go back and cross verify so much information LOL and because there's a lot that's better conveyed through writing instead of texts, i have to lock in for the chapters đ
6. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?
probably my spiderman!jake fic! though i'd write venom hoon instead of a spiderjake focused story again. "the misfortunes and misconceptions of lee heeseung" would also be a good one because i feel like the side characters stand out enough to get their own stories
19. give a hint/teaser about something you're writing without any context or explanation! tease us haha

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