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୨ৎ — cheerleader (pjs)

pairing. basketball player! park jongseong x fem! reader synopsis. jay’s favorite cheerleader isn’t at practice genre. hs au fluff wc. 2337 notes. ft. hyung line, natty, reader has a mom library.

whether they cared or not, everyone knew you had the biggest crush on park jongseong, or rather know as jay to most.

he was jongseong to you though, when he had started to go by jay in middle school you were the only person who still called him jongseong.

you were everything but slick about your feelings for the boy who sported the number ninety-nine on the basketball team.

the whole reason you tried out for cheerleading freshman year was him. but your crush on jongseong started way longer ago than that, all of the earliest memories you remember you were following him around everywhere. so in short, forever.

he had been your next-door neighbor ever since you were born. before you were born your parents were average neighbors, only talking during passing.

that quickly changed when your parents ended up at the hospital just days apart. when his parents were looking at him from the window in front of the hospital nursery so were yours. you were born a mere three days after jay and ever since then your parents had loved setting up playdates.

jay was your best friend, even if you weren’t exactly his. he still valued you as a friend but when you both started elementary school he had found his group within park sunghoon and sim jaeyun or rather known as jake. while you had your best friend natty.

for the majority of your school careers, you and he never ended up in the same class, but the fact his parents always drove you home as it was easier and more convenient kept you happy. having short conversations on the car ride home slowly became not enough for you, the change from middle school to high school prevented you from seeing jay even more.

in middle school, he had always told you how he wanted to make the basketball team in high school, and unsurprisingly he did. you knew once the season started, he was to stay after school for basketball practice while you sat in the car with his mother alone as she drove you home.

not that it was awkward, you loved giving mrs. park a debrief of your day but you couldn’t help but miss seeing jay after school. so natty decided she couldn’t take your mopping around and missing your daily talks with jongseong, so she signed you both up for the cheerleading team.

natty was a dancer, so the moves came easy to her. you on the other hand had no experience at all, but with natty’s help, you secured your spot on the team, pushing you one step closer to jay.

the cheer and basketball team practices happened simultaneously, allowing you to speak with him.

so now for as long as the basketball season was, not that you knew anything about the sport still, you had small conversations with jay every practice.

every time his back hit the wall and he sat on the bench so did you. greeting him, asking about his day, and talking his ear off until his coach yelled at him to get back on the court. like always he was your ride home, only now he had his car.

jay’s teammates labeled you his cheerleader girlfriend, and for some reason, he never had it in him to correct them. the only people on the team who saw you as his neighbor who’s been in love with him since they were in diapers were sunghoon and jake.

all the cheerleaders never took any advances at jay since they had concluded that he was off limits and yours.

though up until now jay hadn’t realized that when he tried to ask out one of the flyers and got bluntly rejected. no being let down slowly or nicely, but she had flat out said no, dropped her pompoms, and bolted towards the girls' locker room.

jay knew this girl as they were in the same psych class and he found her cute, or at least he had listened to what jake had thought about her and asked her out.

during their free in the library before that day’s practice sunghoon had decided to bring up how jay got rejected.

“i still can’t believe she dropped her pompoms!” sunghoon laughed, jay hitting him to remind him they were in a quiet space.

“i told you she would rather get with me instead,” jake added, looking up from his physics homework.

“i just don’t get it,” jay sighed, resting his head on his palm. “i’ve never been rejected like that.”

“you don’t think ____ had anything to do with it do you?” sunghoon suggested.

“i mean it’s suspicious,” jake pondered. “that girl follows you around like a fly, you need to get yourself some bug spray!”

“stop trying to make everything a metaphor jake-”

“i mean i’ve never asked any other girl out on the cheer team…” jay interrupted.

the three boys didn’t know that you stood behind their table behind the bookshelves where you couldn’t see them but could surely hear them.

you had been looking for the a book to read for the week and you had just so happened to be there when your name fell from sunghoon’s lips and into the air of their conversation. you could recognize jay’s voice anywhere. you didn’t mean to eavesdrop but hearing your name made your feet incapable of walking away.

“you have to admit she is why that girl rejected you,” sunghoon inserted, scribbling baseless numbers on his math homework. “she’s constantly around you and ruining your chances of getting a girlfriend.”

“you can’t possibly not be even slightly annoyed by her and her massive crush on you-”

that was the last thing you heard jake say before running off before you could hear jay’s answer. you texted natty that you suddenly didn’t feel good and would be getting a ride home from jay’s mom. you were glad she was always there when you needed a ride home since your parents were always busy at work.

you headed to the nurse's office, lying that you had a bad migraine. she looked you up and down and asked who she could call to pick you up and punched jay’s mom's number into her phone.

mrs. park arrived in record time and before you knew it you were fake sleeping in the passenger’s seat thinking about how the son of the woman driving you home thought you were an annoying fruit fly ruining his love life.

as much as you wanted to cry you waited until you got home to bury yourself under your covers for eternity.

after you had run away you failed to hear jay coming to your defense and is now faced with the problem that he can’t put his finger on why he hopes you keep sticking around him even after graduation.

being the punctual person you are you were always the first cheerleader at practice every day. even when you were sick you were there at three o’clock sharp, right when basketball practice started, and twenty minutes before the rest of the cheerleaders filtered in. you were always there to keep jay company as he laced up his shoes and warmed up. even when you were sick jay had to drag you out of the gym and drive you home when you nearly fainted.

but today was different. jay walked into the gym ready to be greeted by you with baby pink bows in your hair that matched your favorite practice skirt but was met with an empty gym.

“where’s your girlfriend?” the basketball captain, heeseung, asked as he walked in behind jay.

“i don’t know,” jay unconsciously frowned.

he spent the whole warm-up portion of practice missing every shot he tried to make. out of the corner of his eye, he saw his teammates eyeing him. when the cheerleaders started to make their way into the gym at their respective sides, jay didn’t hesitate to go find natty and ask where you were.

“natty,” jay called out as he walked towards her and two girls she was talking to. as jay approached the two other girls she had been talking to scattered off to the bleachers.

“what’s up jay?” natty crossed her arms, looking him up and down.

“where’s ____?” he asked, holding his basketball by his side and catching his breath.

“she went home,” the long-haired girl answered. “she told me your mom gave her a ride.”

“is she ok?”

“said she felt sick after hearing something in the library,” natty spun on her heel and walked back to her friends.

jay felt his stomach drop, or maybe it was the basketball he dropped, but he walked out of the gym without a word. jake and sunghoon tried to call after him but he went straight to the locker room to retrieve his bag and go to his car.

he sped (drove within the speed limit like the good man he is) home. parking his car in his driveway and heading straight to next door to find out what was wrong with you today.

he rang the doorbell three times with no answer and fished out the spare key from the tree house in your backyard and let himself in. slipping his shoes off and taking the stairs up to your room.

when he gently opened the door he saw your messy head of hair peeking out from under your covers. the sound of the door opening caused you to sit up in bed and look at the door.

when jay saw your mascara-smudged eyes his eyes softened, setting his bag near the door and coming to sit on your bed.

“____?” jay reached for your hand, only for you to pull it away.

“you should be at practice,” you turned your head away from him.

“so should you,” jay tried to take your hand in his again, but this time you reluctantly let him as he was much stronger than you. “what’s wrong?”

“do you want me to leave you alone at school?” you finally faced jay, tears gathering on your lower lash line. “i will if you tell me to, i know i can be annoying and i’m sorry-”

“don’t apologize,” jay used his free hand to move some hair out of your face. “please don’t miss practice unless you’re actually sick, and let me know beforehand, i played so bad today and i didn’t even make it past warm-ups.”

you felt your face heat up at his words and turned away to hide your flustered expression. jay let out a laugh before softly cupping your face and turning your head towards him.

“don’t ever leave me alone,” he stared into your teary eyes. “i don’t think you heard me in the library but i love being around you.”

jay started to look blurry due to the tears filling your eyes as you let out a couple of sniffles, gripping his hand harder. jay pulled you towards his chest, stroking your head while you cried on him.

“sorry i got your shirt wet,” you said when you finally calmed down, now sitting in jay’s lap as he rested against your headboard.

“you have to stop apologizing for everything,”

“sorry-” you started but jay quickly covered your mouth to stop you from saying sorry yet again.

you looked up at him and rested your head on his shoulder blade. taking in the fact you were sitting in the lap of the boy you had spent almost your whole lifetime pining after. you both sat in silence for some time.

“what are you thinking about?” he asked, cradling the back of your head.

“nothing,” your voice muffled by his shirt. “what about you?”

“oh i’m just thinking about if you’d let me be your boyfriend…” jay felt you press your face further into his shoulder, feeling you smiling against the fabric of his shirt.

“you’re so corny!”

“and yet you’re going to say yes,”

“i’ll let you be my boyfriend if you let me be your girlfriend,” you lifted your head and gazed up at the boy in front of you.

“now you’re being cheesy,” he lightly tickled your sides.

“i’m just matching your energy-”

your door swung open, revealing your distressed mother still clad in her work attire.

“____ are you okay the nurse called me- oh hi jay!” your mom smiled at the boy on your bed.

“hi mrs. ____!” jay greeted her back. “her head still hurts a bit so i’m keeping an eye on her.”

“thank you so much jay! tell your mother thanks for driving my baby home!” she said as she closed the door.

“baby,” he copied your mom's nickname for you and squished your cheeks.

“shut up!”

“that’s no way to talk to your boyfriend!”

you buried your head into his neck and let your eyes droop. all that crying caught up to you and you now felt extremely drowsy.

jay’s white jersey was now stained with your tears mixed with mascara but that was the least important right now. the only important thing was listening to your soft snores and combing your hair with his hands.

“love you seong,” was the last thing you mumbled before completely falling asleep.

jay smiled and planted a kiss on your forehead.

he was glad that he would have his favorite cheerleader back tomorrow for practice.

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