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Kanye West drops surprise trailer for "Vultures The Movie" on Instagram
Kanye West Drops Trailer for “Vultures The Movie” on Instagram Kanye West, the multifaceted artist known for his groundbreaking music and fashion empire, is stunning fans everywhere. Shocking the world, by releasing a trailer for his upcoming film, Vultures The Movie. The trailer, which debuted on Instagram, is setting social media ablaze. Additionally, leaving fans and industry insiders eager…
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'Transformers: One' Shares New Single from Quavo and Ty Dolla $ign
'Transformers: One' Shares New Single from Quavo and Ty Dolla $ign @transformers @ParamountPics #TransformersOne
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not hip to the music of today’s generation. I’m a movie guy, not necessarily a music guy. But even an old square like me has heard of Quavo! So it’s really cool that he’s got a new track with Ty Dolla $ign for Transformers: One. (Dear lord I sound old). Continue reading ‘Transformers: One’ Shares New Single from Quavo and Ty Dolla $ign
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love jones
pairing: photographer!haechan x (f) reader
genre/warnings: smut, angst, strangers to lovers, hollywood!au, photographer!haechan, model!reader, unprotected sex (don’t be silly wr- [gets hit by a car])
summary: After breaking off your engagement to your fiance, you move to Los Angeles to pursue a modeling career. There in the fairytale land where stars go to shine you meet Haechan, an aspiring photographer with a penchant for mischief and flirtation.
word count: 12.4k (/25.5k)
a/n: inspired by love jones; the song by leon thomas featuring ty dolla $ign and the movie by theodore witcher. this is a repost of an old fic that i will be publishing in 2 installments; it is also the prequel to supermodel, which you do not have to read. installment two will be linked here when posted. as always, feedback is appreciated!
The air was different in California.
“The land of make-believe,” you sighed, holding the cold metal bar in your hands. This was your new home. Sine die.
Better than New York City, you muttered crankily to yourself. Everything there reminded you of him. Every street, every scent. You would rather not think of the asshole that cheated on you with another woman while you gave him everything. California, on the other hand, was a brand new slate. Free of assholes that showed other girls their penises while being months away from vowing forever to you. You had let out a massive sigh of relief when your doctor confirmed that you didn’t have any infections.
Still, you fondled the engagement band on your finger.
“I know you’re not out here thinking about he who shall not be named,” Chaewon chided in disapproval, hands on her hips.
You turned around. You hadn’t heard the door open. When she came beside you, you turned around again, facing the busy street just below of you.
“No. I’m not thinking about him,” you lied through your teeth. “I’m just brooding.”
“Same damn thing.”
You rolled your eyes.
Chaewon back-hugged you and wrapped her arms around your waist snugly, making you giggle. “I forbid you from thinking about that asshole any longer. The whole point of you coming here was to forget about him.”
“And the new opportunities,” you added.
“Exactly. He was holding you back. He wanted to be the man and bring home the bacon, and couldn’t stand the thought of you being a successful independent woman perfectly capable of taking care of her damn self,” Chaewon said without taking a single breath.
You mulled it over. That was a little too true. Your ex-boyfriend always talked about having kids and taking care of you and them, but you hated to think that your independence might’ve driven him away. “But you don’t just forget about the life and broken promises of the future you made,” you whispered sadly.
Chaewon let out a little sigh. She was sad for you. Her heart, too.
Then, she backed off and said, “You know what? We’re going to the club.”
You gawked and did a one-eighty. Full speed. “What?”
“You heard me. And put that ring up, girl. You’re not gonna get any dick if a man sees that on your finger. I don’t know why you haven’t given it back to him yet. Better yet, you should throw it off a mountain. We have plenty.”
“Oh, please,” you replied boredly. “I know these Los Angeles boys don’t give a damn. They would fuck the hole between the ring if their dicks were small enough.”
“Oh, don’t bring your Manhattan bullshit over here. The boys I know have decorum,” Chaewon replied matter-of-factly.
“I’m sure,” you deadpanned.
Chaewon cocked her head at you and planted her hands on her hips. “When you’re done being a drama queen, you need to go change into something risqué. I’ll be back in an hour to pick you up.”
“Yes, Mother,” you said coolly, in spite of not being even the least bit inclined to bump and grind at a club tonight.
“I’m serious. If that ring’s not off your finger by the time I get back, I’m kicking some ass.” Then, she went back inside. You shook your head. Los Angeles, you thought. What am I going to do with you?
The club was packed with people, which was to be expected given that it was a Friday night. You paid them no attention, sticking close to Chaewon like a toddler kept close to their mother’s bosom.
“And I told her, ‘but that doesn’t make any sense. Gladys Presley popped Elvis Presley out of her coochie eighty-six years ago. There’s no way you could be his mother.’”
The group laughed at Jeno.
Jaemin hurled back a shot of vodka and added, “Gladys Presley didn’t look happy in a single picture I’ve seen of her.”
“Shit. If my son was Elvis Presley, I wouldn’t exactly be exhilarated either,” Ryujin quipped.
Mark covered her mouth. “Lower your voice. You cannot say that too loud out here.”
Ryujin shoved him off. “Get your hands off me, freak,” she hissed, narrowing her eyes at him.
The group laughed again. Except for Mark.
And Haechan.
Winter casted a glance at Haechan. “What’s up with the sun man?”
Jaemin, who was to the left of Haechan, nudged him and asked, “What’s wrong, my man?”
Haechan didn’t even blink. He was too busy staring past the tables. Something had evidently caught his eye.
Jeno followed his gaze and snickered. He spotted you, sitting at the bar with Chaewon. “I know what’s got my boy’s attention.”
Everyone glanced where Jeno was looking. There you were, obliviously laughing and chattering with your best friend. You were wearing a flimsy black dress now in lieu of the dolphin shorts you’d worn while moving the last of your stuff inside your new condo.
“Damn, she’s bad,” Jaemin murmured under his breath.
Winter angrily hit him.
Jaemin immediately stammered, “I mean, you’re badder. She’s nothing compared to you. I’m just saying she’s a little cute. For someone like Haechan, maybe.”
The table erupted in laughter.
“Mm-hm,” Winter hummed doubtfully, crossing her arms.
“Come on, baby. You know I’ve only got eyes for you,” Jaemin said, giving Winter a smooch to the cheek. “Billions of girls in the world and I still choose you. You’re the only one I want.”
Mark deadpanned, “He’s so smooth.”
“He must get it from you,” Ryujin shot, voice dripping with sarcasm.
Mark shot her a glare.
Jeno draped an arm around Haechan’s shoulder. “Come on, man. You just gonna sit and stare at her or what? You gotta make a move.”
Ryujin quipped, “And what do you know about making moves?”
“August twelfth, two years ago.”
Ryujin narrowed her eyes at him. “Only losers who get little play remember the exact date they fucked somebody.”
“Well, that says a lot more about you than it does about me, doesn’t it? I could have been talking about anything,” Jeno quipped, smirking.
The boys, especially Mark, laughed. Winter fought a chuckle in female solidarity.
“I pieced it together,” Ryujin mumbled.
“It’s okay to admit you’re a little lonely, Ryujin. I mean, after Sunwoo fled to Chicago, I can only imagine it’s been a long minute since you’ve gotten any attention downstairs,” Mark crooned like potent venom.
There were a couple of ‘ooh’s from the boys.
“You guys are annoying,” Haechan finally said after having not spoken for the past few minutes. Which was unusual for someone like him. “I’m going to go get her number. Watch this.”
The table whooped and hollered, cheering him on. Meanwhile, he approached you stealthily, popping a stick of gum.
Haechan sat at the available seat to your left (because Chaewon was to your right) and greeted, “Hello, ladies.”
Chaewon took one glance at the handsome stranger to your left and had raging heart eyes. You, on the other hand, were wishing you would have ignored her and brought your ring to deter any unwanted visitors. The one thing he was good for, you grumbled to yourself. But if you were being honest with yourself, the stranger was pretty cute. Pretty brown eyes, like your ex-fiancé. Smooth skin. And he had the cutest, most kissable lips. If you hadn’t already written him off as bad news, you would have let yourself be interested.
“Hi, handsome,” Chaewon flirted, giggling like an idiot. You stiffened. You knew your way around men, but you weren’t in the mood.
Haechan smiled, but he was all eyes for you. Ironically, you were wishing he would disappear. He asked, “Can I have your name?”
“You haven’t done anything to deserve it,” you replied with complete disinterest.
“Hard to get. I fuck with it,” Haechan noted. “What do you want me to do?”
You pretended to be in thought. “You can start by removing yourself from my vicinity. Please and thank you.”
Chaewon winced and told him your name.
“Chae,” you groaned.
Haechan repeated after her. “A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.”
“Oh, could you be any more original?” you deadpanned. “By the way, I’m engaged.”
Haechan laughed. “You are definitely not engaged. I know that and I know nothing about you.”
You narrowed your eyes at him. “And how would you know that?”
“Because engaged people have engaged people vibes. You have painfully strong ‘I hate anything that has to do with love and romance’ vibes,” Haechan answered slickly, then leaned close to sing for only your ears, “And I don’t see an engagement ring on your finger.”
Chaewon was having a laugh at your expense. Meanwhile, this stranger pulled back and smirked at you, reading your thoughts. You wanted to be mad that he was right, but you kind of liked his voice in your ear.
“She’s single,” Chaewon added, as if it were necessary. “Maybe not ready to mingle though.”
You were fighting the most irritated groan at this point.
Haechan raised his hands and backed off, taking the mean scowl on your face as a firm ‘no’ and the rejection coolly. “That’s cool. Look, I’ll leave you ladies alone. Have a good night.”
“You, too,” Chaewon said, waving him goodbye as he stepped off the barstool.
When he was finally gone, you let out a breath of relief.
Chaewon gave you a look. “He’s so into you. I’m not even mad. You fumbled so bad. He’s fine as hell.”
“You’re forgetting that I didn’t ask to be dragged to this club in the first place. I don’t want to get dicked down by some dude whose name I don’t even know,” you grumbled, finishing what was left in your cup.
“I’m sure he would have given it to you if you asked,” she replied teasingly.
You rolled your eyes. “He can keep it to himself. I don’t want to fuck and forget.”
“Ugh, lame,” Chaewon groaned. “Fuck and forget is every young model’s motto.”
“Well, not mine,” you huffed, vexed. With a smidge of attitude.
Chaewon noticed your tone and frowned. “Okay, timeout. Babe, listen. I’m not trying to pressure you into doing anything you don’t wanna do. If you don’t wanna fuck around then don’t. I was just suggesting it might be nice to get to know somebody else. See where it goes.”
“I know,” you sighed, squeezing her hand. “Tonight’s just not a good night.”
Chaewon bobbed her head. “I understand. Take your time. You’ll know when you’re ready.”
You gave her a weak smile.
Meanwhile, Haechan was doing something adjacent to the walk of shame as he approached his clique’s table, empty-handed.
Jeno immediately taunted, “What a snag, man.”
“Shut the fuck up, Jeno,” Haechan hissed, throwing Jeno his middle finger.
Mark gave Haechan a compassionate look. “You get an ‘E’ for effort, dude.”
“L for loss,” Jeno murmured under his breath none too quietly.
“She looked like she wanted to kill you with her bare hands,” Jaemin retorted, holding Winter’s hand under the table.
Winter snickered. “And how would you know what that looks like?”
“Because I see Ryujin look at Mark like that everyday,” Jaemin quipped, earning a couple laughs around the table.
“Whatever,” Haechan said, feigning nonchalance. “You win some, you lose some.”
Jaemin braced his hand on Haechan’s shoulder. “This is just the trials and tribulations, buddy. You’ll get her next time.”
Haechan downed a shot of liquor. “We’ll see.”
When Tuesday morning arrived, you were up bright and early. You slipped on a minimalist outfit and got a taxi to the record store.
Ryujin was working the cash register when you walked inside. You didn’t recognize her, but she recognized you, smirking in amusement. “Good morning. Can I help you with anything?”
“Yeah, I’m looking for a Michael Jackson vinyl,” you replied, holding your purse.
“Vinyls are back that way,” Ryujin said, pointing her finger. “Good luck. He still sells fast.”
You thanked her and headed straight for the back shelves. Your record collection was a vinyl away from being finished after a number of years spent putting it together and you were desperately on the hunt for the finishing piece. Not a second later, Haechan meandered inside clad in denim jeans and black leather. He looked like nothing short of any parent’s worst nightmare.
Ryujin beckoned him over and whispered, “Aren’t you the king of good timing? Your girl’s in the back.”
Haechan furrowed his brows. “My…” Then, he faced the back of the store and saw you carefully sifting through records, trying your absolute hardest to find the one you were looking for. From the looks of it, however, your efforts were in vain.
Haechan glanced back at Ryujin in shock. “Shit. Should I shoot my shot?”
“I mean, the last time you shot your shot, you missed,” Ryujin replied, propping her pretty face up on the counter. “Like Michael Jordan against the Toronto Raptors in 2002 missed.”
“And he still won. So, watch it,” Haechan shot back.
Ryujin rolled her eyes. “Whatever. But don’t make me get the buff Johnny guy from next door to escort you out of the building. The cute one that’s pretty tall.”
“Everyone knows who Johnny is, Ryu,” Haechan muttered, making his way towards you. Again.
You didn’t even give Haechan the chance to speak when you noticed him. Your face scrunched up and you droned, “You again.”
Haechan lifted his hands. “You know, most people usually greet others with a ‘hey’ or a ‘good morning.’”
“Not in New York City.”
Haechan gave you a curious stare. “You’re from New York City?”
You grimaced. You didn’t mean to let that slip. “I’ve already said too much.”
“You’ve said just enough, girl,” Haechan replied with a smirk. “Whatchu looking for?”
“A Michael Jackson Thriller vinyl. It’s for my record collection,” you answered absentmindedly, ransacking the shelves for the record to no avail. Which was irritating. It’s like his most popular album, you grumbled to yourself.
That certainly got Haechan’s attention. “Oh,” he said, sticking his hands in his pockets. “I have a signed Thriller vinyl at my crib.”
You scoffed. “Please. As if.”
“I’m deadass,” Haechan insisted, but the untamed twinkle in his eyes made him hard to believe.
“Right,” you droned. “And I’m guessing this is the part where you invite me back to your crib and try to persuade me to hook up with you.”
“Hey, I’m not that type of guy. Scout’s honor,” Haechan said, though sensing your raging skepticism, he called out, “Look. Hey, Ryu! Don’t I have a signed Michael Jackson vinyl?”
“It’s like you won’t let us forget,” Ryujin shouted back, annoyed. Then, she leaned over the counter, noticing the reluctance all over your face. “Yeah, he’s got one. It’s legit. I’d tell you if this punk was bullshitting.”
For whatever reason, Ryujin’s words of confirmation finally pushed you to believe him. You badgered, “How in the hell did you get your hands on a signed Michael Jackson vinyl? He couldn’t have given it to you. You were how old when he died?”
“Legends never die, baby,” was Haechan’s witty reply.
You almost rolled your eyes, but settled for stubbornly folding your arms instead. “Okay. What do I have to do for it?”
“Go out on a date with me.”
That didn’t surprise you at all. Haechan had been trying to ask you out from the get-go. He was nothing if not persistent as ever. “A date,” you repeated with a smidge of boredom.
Haechan bobbed his head. “I mean, it doesn’t have to be a date-date. My friends and I are having this get-together tomorrow night. You should come. Ryujin has been bitching about how there’s an uneven boy-to-girl ratio.”
You arched a brow. “And you want me to even things out?”
“Well, with you we’d have four boys to three girls, but if you find me worthwhile you can start bringing your friend and then we’ll be as even as a figure eight.”
You mulled it over. One date wouldn’t be so bad, you contemplated. It wasn’t as if you would be alone with this boy. There would be five other people in the room with you. Not to mention Haechan truly didn’t seem that bad. And if you were being honest, under better circumstances, you probably would’ve already taken him to bed.
Besides, after spending most of your dating life with a cheating bastard, you definitely deserved to move on. Something fresh. If you decided that you didn’t like Haechan after this date, you could cut him off. Matter of fact, you could cut him off afterwards whether you liked him or not. Anything for the vinyl.
Haechan watched your lip tuck out in thought and thought it was the cutest thing ever. He could tell you were really mulling it over. The gears in your brain were spinning quicker than ever before.
“Fine,” you finally said after a while. “I’ll go on a date with you.”
In his head, Haechan was doing a very, very strange victory dance. But instead, he played it cool, and said, “Sweet.”
“Cool.”
Haechan pointed to the vinyls behind him with his thumb. “Can I play you something?”
You shrugged. “Sure.”
Haechan did a smooth one-eighty and grabbed a Michael Jackson Bad vinyl before popping it into the record player beside you. You watched him skillfully set the needle, as if he had done it a thousand times before. A song you knew very well started to play.
“I just can’t stop loving you,” you exhaled, noting the song name. You knew every word.
Haechan nodded and smiled at you. Then, he stretched out his hand. “May I have a dance?”
You giggled and took his hand in yours, putting your other behind his shoulder as he wrapped his around your waist. You wanted to be mad that you liked how his hands felt on your body. Ironically, you couldn’t remember the last time you had felt the touch of a man.
In little to no time, you were slow dancing in the back of a record store with a stranger. A very handsome stranger at that. You locked eyes and it was enough to make you hold your breath.
Neither of you took your eyes off of each other afterwards. You were just swaying to the rhythm, breathing in the sweet, titillating scent of him. Sharing the warmth of your bodies as they touched.
It was almost romantic. Then, a thought struck you. “I never got your name.”
“My friends call me Haechan,” he replied, flashing a smile. “But you can call me ‘baby.’”
“Haechan,” you said, tasting his name on your tongue. And ignoring his attempts at flirting.
Haechan’s face faltered for half a second, but he was quick to recover. “Because I like the way it rolls off your tongue, I’ll let it slide.”
You snickered.
That sound was music to his ears. “So,” Haechan started. “I’ll pick you up tomorrow night at seven. Sound good?”
“Sounds great,” you chirped. “I’ll give you my number.”
“I hope you like motorcycles,” Haechan replied with a chuckle.
“You drive a motorcycle?”
Haechan pointed to the entrance with his shoulder. “Parked right outside. She’s my baby.”
You stared over his shoulder and right through the glass window, spotting his motorcycle parked directly out front. It was a sleek, black motorbike that coupled perfectly with his mischievous attire.
Oh, boy.
For an entire hour, you carefully planned your date night outfit with Chaewon (who after loudly celebrating your secured date agreed to assist with the wardrobe assembling prep) over FaceTime.
Not that it was a fancy date. Which was exactly why you were conflicted. You wanted to dress to impress, but you also didn’t want to seem like a try-hard. Like hell you were trying to impress Haechan, but you knew men like him perceived the slightest things as sexual advances.
You went for jeans and a crop top with a cute puffer jacket in the end, and called it a night. Just in case it got chilly, which was unpredictable in bitter Los Angeles evenings. Over the night and throughout your day, you caught yourself thinking about the handsome stranger that liked motorcycles.
The slow dancing in the record store. The eye contact. The warmth of his body beside yours and his perfect scent throttling you. And you found yourself smiling. When Chaewon asked you how the dance was after you confided in her about the little event at the back of the record store, you’d replied, “It was magical.”
You were standing on the fence. Haechan was cute and could be an excellent distraction from your mess of a love life. But you weren’t exactly ready to risk getting your heart broken again.
So, you decided you wouldn’t be getting your heart involved. Haechan was harmless fun.
But you were still counting down the hours until he arrived at your front door.
Haechan arrived punctually at your front door with two minutes left to spare. You grabbed your phone off the charger and dropped it in your purse before racing to open the front door. “Hi,” you said.
Haechan waved. “‘Sup, baby.”
“You’re on time,” you commented, maybe slightly surprised.
Haechan chuckled at that. Seemingly not offended. “Yeah, I am.” He cocked his head. “Should I have stood you up?”
A part of you somewhat expected him to and you would be lying if you said it hadn’t. Sue you for being cynical. After all, your last relationship had taught you to be a little more careful with your heart. Deciding you wouldn’t be answering that question, you gave him a quick scan and concluded that you liked what you saw. “You clean up nice.”
“Is that your way of saying I’m handsome?”
“It means you dress up well. Take the compliment before I retract it,” you replied, crossing your arms.
“You already said it. No take-backs,” Haechan teased, grinning all smug-like. “You look pretty. But you’re always gorgeous.”
His flirting was going to be the death of you. “You’ve seen me three times and not once without makeup.”
“Take the compliment before I retract it,” Haechan mocked, giving an impersonation of however your voice sounded in his head.
You gawked. “I do not sound like that!”
Haechan snickered and grabbed your hand, shutting the door behind you with his other. “Listen, baby,” he started. “While I would love to get on your nerves, we’re going to be late.”
Realizing he was right, you dropped it. For now. “Okay,” you sighed. “Well, let’s go.”
Haechan led you outside to where his motorcycle was parked, making small talk with you along the way to fill the silence in the air. You didn’t talk about anything special - most of it turned into him being endearingly aggravating - but you noted that you liked his voice.
When you got there, Haechan passed you a pretty pink helmet and told you, “I bought this for you. I hope you like pink. You gave me a pink girl vibe.”
“Because you’re just so good at knowing what vibes I give off,” you deadpanned, realizing this was the second time he had told you what vibes you gave him. And had been correct.
Haechan didn't do shit but smirk. “Well?”
You sighed. “I love pink,” you admitted, attempting to put it on.
Your confession made him grin even broader, but instead of teasing you, Haechan opted to help you put the helmet on correctly. “You a virgin?”
The use of that word made you shudder a little bit in surprise, but you quickly realized what he meant.
Your faltering didn’t go unnoticed by Haechan, no matter how brief. “I meant a motorcycle virgin,” he added.
“I know,” you replied, chuckling. “And yup. Nobody has ever taken me for a spin on a daredevil before.”
“I’m glad to have taken your motorcycle virginity,” replied Haechan, stepping back after clasping your helmet. “Ready, babe?”
Your voice wavered, “Sort of.”
Haechan mounted his bike and gestured for you to mimic him. When you were straddling the seat, he gently steered your hands around his waist. “Don’t be scared. You’ll be fine as long as you hold onto me really, really tight.”
You narrowed your eyes. “And you liking me touching you has nothing to do with it?”
“Those are the pros.”
“And what else are the pros?”
“On a motorcycle, we get to dodge all the traffic,” Haechan replied with a grin, securing his own helmet. “Now, like I said, hold on tight.”
You did as told, tightly clasping your arms around his waist and holding on for dear life when you felt the motorcycle jerk alive underneath your shared weight.
And it was exhilarating, flying past the city lights at the speed of light itself and watching splashes of color bleed into each other. You could feel the wind on your face and whip through your hair. You found yourself laughing as Haechan quite literally took you on the ride of your life.
He weaved in and out of lanes adroitly, avoiding stationary cars with a technique only years of training could upskill. Which was reassuring. You weren’t sitting on the back of the bike of a total amateur.
Hearing your noises of excitement made Haechan crack a broad smile. She likes it, he thought smugly. It was a step up from the night he met you and he would gladly take any tiny accomplishment. He couldn’t wait to see the look on the boys faces when he popped up with you in tow. No one believed him when he said he’d scored a date with you.
Well, of course Ryujin did, because she saw the whole thing go down. But she wouldn’t support him nor deny that he had snagged you. So it would be a huge surprise.
With some minutes of driving out of the way, you and Haechan finally dismounted his bike, arriving just shy of Jaemin’s house. You both caught your breath for a second, leaving your helmets behind. When you knocked on the door, a man you obviously had never seen before answered, a cup in hand. He saw you and his features instantly twisted with surprise. “Well, I’ll be damned,” he muttered under his breath.
“I told you so,” were the first words to leave Haechan’s mouth.
Jeno stepped aside, making room for you. And ignoring his friend. “Come on in, beautiful. The party’s just getting started.”
You weren’t wooed by the pet name, which made Haechan snicker as he walked inside the party, arm locked with yours.
The look of surprise on everyone’s faces did not go unnoticed by you and you quickly turned to Haechan, asking, “Did you not tell your friends I was coming?”
“Oh, he wouldn’t shut up about it. We just didn’t believe him,” Jaemin answered for your date, shock promptly fading into amusement. He held out his hand for you to shake. “I’m Jaemin. The host of this shitshow.”
You kindly shook hands with him and told him your name. “Nice to meet you.”
Haechan took over from there and pointed to his friends in the order that they appeared on the couch as he introduced, “Winter, Ryujin, Mark. And I guess the fuckward that opened the door for you is Jeno.”
Jeno lifted his middle finger. “Oh, fuck you, Haechan.”
“Love you too, man,” Haechan replied smugly, ushering you to the couch.
In little to no time, you were socializing with Haechan’s clique as if you’d been good friends for ages. None of them made you feel like an imposter, which you appreciated. Jaemin and his girlfriend Winter, who was sitting squarely on his lap, encouraged you to get comfortable. You felt right at home, laughing at their shenanigans. Many of which were Haechan’s, who was quite the shit-stirrer and troublemaker. You weren’t at all surprised. He screamed chaos.
His friends had a noteworthy amount of individuality and magnetism too. Jeno was everything you thought Haechan would be, but hilarious. Maybe even charming depending on who you asked. He liked taking turns hurling insults with Haechan. They were like brothers.
Jaemin and Winter were absolutely smitten with each other and were insufferable when apart, but grossly cute together. She was glued to his lap most of the time, but added a unique sense of humor to the conversation in between kisses.
Ryujin and Mark were mortal enemies and couldn’t go a half second without bickering and endless banter, but they were a killer Spades duo and gave you and Haechan a run for your money. Their similarities to an old married couple were reminiscent of your grandparents and you made a mental note to check on your grandmother later.
“Talking to yourself is not weird,” Mark whined some hours later.
Ryujin shot, “Maybe on whatever planet you come from.”
The pack (and you admittedly) let out a laugh at poor Mark’s expense.
Jaemin set down his drink and took a hit from the joint you had all started to pass around not too long ago. Everybody was at least a little buzzed by now except for Haechan, which surprised you. You didn’t expect him to be responsible. “Okay, okay. Chill. Every man deserves to give himself a good pep talk in the mirror.”
“Okay, so are we talking pep talks or having full-blown conversations with yourself?” asked Jeno.
Winter turned to Jaemin and asked, “You give yourself pep talks?”
Jaemin bobbed his head. “Sometimes,” he said. “Like when I asked you out. I gave myself a long speech of encouragement.”
Ryujin furrowed her brows. “Didn’t she say ‘no’ the first time you asked her out?”
Everybody laughed.
Haechan turned to you and explained, “Jaemin asked Winter out in our freshman year of college in the courtyard. He pulled out all the stops - flowers, chocolates, the whole nine. She rejected him and the whole campus talked about it for weeks.”
“I thought he was so weird!” Winter exclaimed.
“She thought Jaemin was weird. Jaemin talked to himself. I’m connecting the dots,” quipped Ryujin, passing the joint.
Mark hissed, “You didn’t connect shit.”
“I’m connecting them.”
Jeno pointed to you with his drink. “What about you? Do you talk to yourself?”
“Sometimes,” you admitted.
Mark leapt up and exclaimed, “Yes!”
“But only when I’m self-deprecating.”
“Oh,” Mark replied darkly. Ryujin had to tug him back down.
Haechan grabbed your hand and said sweetly, “Never talk to yourself.”
You rolled your eyes. He was such a flirt. Maybe you were starting to like it.
Some more colorful banter later, Haechan decided to connect his phone to Jaemin’s bluetooth speaker and everybody got up to bust a move to his wonderful music selection. He volunteered his hand and you took it gladly, in a world of your own as you each danced.
Haechan quickly became talented at making you laugh. He shimmied his hips in a very, very unattractive way and you almost snorted. “You know,” Haechan started a couple minutes later, your bodies much closer. “I can’t shake the feeling that you’re really familiar. Like I’ve seen you before.”
You shrugged. “Maybe. I do modeling.”
“Really?”
“Mm-hm,” you hummed. Your faces were dangerously close. One wrong move and your lips would be touching. “Mainly in New York, but I’ve decided to come here for a fresh start.”
Surprise was Haechan’s initial reaction, but he quickly responded, “That checks out. You are breathtaking, after all.”
You groaned. “It’s like you have some compulsion to flirt with me.”
“I do,” Haechan replied with a grin. “I’ll keel over and die if I don’t flirt with you.”
That checks out, you were tempted to mock, but instead you mimicked monotonously, “Must flirt. Will self-destruct if I don’t flirt.”
Haechan laughed loudly and you smiled at the sound of him. As the night carried on, you were finding less and less to dislike about him. He also only got even handsomer at this range. You could see every little detail on his pretty boy face.
Needless to say, Haechan was also hyper aware of the lack of distance between your faces and bodies. His eyes kept flitting to your plump lips and all he could think about was how kissable they were. “I think it’s really interesting that you’re a model,” he began.
You casted him a glance. “Why?”
“Because I’m a photographer.”
“Really?” you asked, somewhat shocked.
Haechan bobbed his head. “Mm-hm. My whole life kinda. It’s my passion.”
“Interesting,” you replied, though it wasn’t a lie. You were thinking over his admission. He was splurging your assumptions of him, dime by fucking dime. Haechan screamed spoiled rich kid at first glance and you’d doubted that he even had a job.
“Tell me something else about you,” Haechan said, locking eyes with you and doing his best to keep them there. You tested the limits of his self-control and he didn’t know whether he liked it or not.
“Like what?”
Haechan shrugged. “Anything.”
You thought long and hard about it. His weighty stare didn’t help in the slightest. After a minute you confessed, “I like cheesy movies.”
His eyes flickered with surprise. “Seriously?”
You smiled coyly and replied, “Yes. It’s a character flaw, I know.”
“Wow,” he said, shaking his head. “The model with an attitude that collects vinyls as a hobby likes cheesy movies. You amaze me, you know.”
You gasped. “I do not have an attitude!”
“You have lots of attitude, baby. Snark for days. And I love every minute of it,” flirted Haechan for the umpteenth time this night alone.
You were tempted to roll your eyes, but you kept them on his face, realizing again how good-looking he was. His lips were calling your name and you wondered if they were as soft as they looked. “Relax,” you said, feeling your hold on the reins slacken. You didn’t like it not one bit. “I’m only going out with you because I want that Michael vinyl.”
Haechan seemingly didn’t take offense to that and replied, “I know, but I thought that maybe if we went out on a date you would realize there’s actually a lot to like about me.”
You had already reached that conclusion on your own, feeling yourself become attracted to Haechan the longer you spent time with him, but your heart had intricate security and you were in no way inclined to let your guard down.
“Like what?”
Haechan didn’t waste a second on hesitation. “We have similar music tastes. We both like cheesy movies. I’m a photographer. You’re a model. I mean, come on. We go together like pancakes and syrup, baby.”
Him likening you both to pancakes and syrup made you snort. “Is that the best analogy you could come up with?” you asked.
“Cut me some slack,” Haechan groaned. “The last time I ate was ten this morning. I’m starving.”
You laughed.
He squeezed your hand affectionately and said, “Speaking of which, there’s a diner down the block that serves really good pancakes. I can vouch. Wanna go grab some?”
You pretended to mull it over and eventually replied, “I would like that.”
Haechan sported a victorious grin before disclosing to his clique that the two of you would be seeing yourselves out. Ryujin bid you goodnight and Winter pouted, asking when she would see you again. You and your date barely managed to escape the party, slipping outside into the cold after a solid five minutes.
The sky looked a little darker now, the city a little brighter. Time really did fly by when you were having fun. Among other things. “C’mon,” Haechan said, grabbing your hand. And you both held hands as he walked you to his parked bike.
The diner was bare, given the early hour as the clock transcended past midnight, but the food was delightful as promised. Only a pair of employees were working their shifts, but you and Haechan tried to keep it down as you talked over an early breakfast in the booth.
Which failed tremendously. Haechan was just so hilarious. Your laughter rang out through the breakfast joint in spite of how much you constantly reminded yourself to be quiet. You weren’t even paying attention to the pair of co-workers increasingly losing the will to live. You and Haechan talked about everything under the sun. The city and its shallow. Work and speeding vehicles. The best spots in the entire city. Your heart sped like how it did when you were speeding on his bike.
“Your friends are cool,” you told him after a while.
“But I’m cooler, right?” Haechan asked jokingly, earning a roll of your eyes.
You picked up your coffee and droned, “Very.”
Haechan laughed playfully but sobered a little to confess, “I’m glad I met them. It’s kill or be killed in this city. It’s hard to find people that don’t share the same three superficial personalities.”
“Oh?”
He bobbed his head. “Yeah. It’s brutal.”
“Tell me about them.”
“Shit, where do I even start?” Haechan said, chuckling a little, but soon finding the answer to his question. “Jaemin is a complete geek. Don’t be fooled by his looks. There’s a reason Winter turned him down the first time, but he’s a chill dude that doesn’t bother anybody. He’s studying to be an engineer.”
That surprised you and tempted you to laugh. “Really?”
“Yup. Ironically, he’s probably the most regular person out of all of us. He doesn’t like to draw attention to himself,” Haechan ranted, pausing to sip from his drink. “Winter is the complete opposite. She’s a model, like you. Been in Vogue. When she’s not feeling up Jaemin, she loves to tend to her garden.”
So that explained the abundance of flowers in their front yard. It was vibrant plant galore. They looked nurtured, obviously a lot of love was being put into taking care of them and keeping them healthy.
Haechan continued, “Ryujin is a unique blend of art kid and debate club survivor. She works part-time at the record store obviously, but she has big hopes for her paintings. She’s really talented.”
You were genuinely intrigued. “Wow. I would love to see her art.”
“That painting in Jaemin and Winter’s living room is hers. It was a housewarming gift when they moved in together,” Haechan told you like he was giving you the inside scoop. “Mark is a single pringle with way too much time on his hands, but he makes great music. He wants to be a famous rapper.”
“Mark and Ryujin aren’t boning?”
Haechan snickered loudly, shaking his head. “Nope. They’re like brother and sister. Ryujin has a boyfriend, but they’re dating long distance. He lives in Chicago or something like that.”
You made a face. “Commitment. That’s impressive. I respect it.”
“Yeah, same. I couldn’t handle it. I need too much stimulation for that shit,” Haechan said.
“Hypothetically, you wouldn’t be willing to make it work for me?”
Haechan thought over his answer, chewing over his words. “I would at least try,” he told you admittedly. “But I can’t say for sure I could make it work.”
You admired his bluntness. His ability to be straightforward was something you genuinely respected. You knew he wanted to impress you, but on top of all that and his acute need for humor, Haechan was incredibly honest. Unlike somebody you knew.
Curiously, you cocked your head, realizing you were missing somebody. “What about Jeno?” you asked.
“What about him?”
You cocked a brow. “You were telling me about your friends?”
Haechan made a face of remembrance. “Oh, right. Jeno is single, but Giacomo Casanova reincarnated. He could have been written by Shakespeare. Another aspiring model.”
Why aren’t you a model? You took one good goddamn look at Haechan and not very subtly licked your lips until they were dry. He was so breathtaking. You couldn’t believe he was the man behind the camera. “You’re kinda handsome, you know,” you admitted.
Haechan snickered. He hadn’t expected those words to come out of your mouth, but with how you were unabashedly checking him out, it was no secret you found him attractive. “Is that what you gathered from what I said?”
“No. I gathered that you’re fine enough to be a model and yet you are not. I think you even have the charisma,” you told him blatantly. “Why stand behind the camera?”
Haechan shrugged. Feigning nonchalance. “That’s just who I am,” he said.
“Do you like it?”
“I love it,” he replied with zero hesitation.
You shot him a smile. “Then, I guess that’s all that matters.”
Haechan nodded in agreement. He wouldn’t trade his job for the world. He liked being able to do his favorite hobby for a living. Not everybody had that luxury. You were the same way, but damn it you couldn’t take it off your mind how Haechan looked straight out of a magazine. You had seen hundreds of handsome men in your lifetime, far and up close, but he took the cake.
It was hard to believe Haechan was anything but a casanova himself, considering your first impression of him was that he was a player trying to get into your pants. Which was fair because he was, and he couldn’t deny that. But in spite of his good looks, magnetic personality and charisma, Haechan had some admirable personality traits.
You narrowed your eyes at him, accusing, and asked, “What do you think about debauchery?”
There you went with the random statements and questions again. Haechan snorted, leaned back in his seat, and replied silkily, “I am quite the debaucher.”
“You mean debauchee,” you corrected.
Haechan groaned, “Who gives a fuck? I love pussy.”
You snorted back a laugh. Again, honesty. Noted.
Haechan finished what was left of his pancakes in one final bite and chewed without any particular rush. “Listen, if you’re asking me this because you think I’m a player, you’ve got the wrong guy,” he said eventually.
Your mind was racing. You were plagued by doubts. “Do I?”
“You do.” Haechan dropped his fork, reaching for a napkin. Then, he added, “I fuck. I fool around. I’m not gonna lie and act like I’m a fucking prude. But when I’m tied down, I get tunnel vision.”
“Something tells me you’re not tied down often,” you remarked, never taking your eyes off of him.
Haechan met your stare and shot back, “Something tells me you don’t like being tied down.”
He caught you there. You wanted to be upset, but you couldn’t. Not when he was so right about you already. “I don’t mind being in a relationship but… I don’t like it when men act as if a woman being in a relationship should deprive her of her individuality. I want to be independent.”
“Then, we’re the same in that regard,” he replied, grinning at you. “I would never try to control you or anything like that. You’re a grown ass woman and I’m a grown ass man. I just hate feeling stagnant and I need constant stimulation. Hypothetically, could you handle that?”
You pretended to mull it over. “Yeah.” You nodded your head. “I could.”
Haechan grinned wildly. He was liking where this was going. And he definitely wanted to see you again. Little did he know, you felt the exact same way.
Haechan checked his watch and frowned. “It’s late. I should take you back home.”
You quipped, “What kind of grown ass man has a curfew?”
Haechan snickered and started to tidy up his things.
You left the diner a couple minutes later, hopping back on Haechan’s sexy motorbike. He drove you through the city, besotted with how your arms felt wrapped so tightly around his waist as he sped through the night.
When he dropped you off at your doorstep, fingers laced through yours the entire trip there, something bittersweet came over you. You didn’t want the night to be over. Haechan had won you over in just one night alone.
“I guess this is goodbye,” you said when you’d reached your door.
“Goodbye for now,” Haechan corrected you, smirking. He could hear the sadness in your tone you tried to veil. “By the way, I’m free tomorrow. You can swing by my place to pick up the vinyl. I’ll text you my address.”
Confusion twisted your features for the briefest second before you remembered the reason you’d even agreed to go out on a date with him in the first place. You had forgotten all about your record collection. “Sounds great,” you chirped, reluctantly taking your keys from your purse. You were glad you would finally get your hands on the vinyl, though still crestfallen that he had to leave.
Haechan didn’t want to leave until he was certain you were safely inside your condo and he heard the door lock, but you surprised him when you unlocked your door and turned around to say, “I had a really great time tonight.”
He shoved his hands in his pockets. “I’m glad.”
You pointed inside your place with your thumb. “Do you… wanna come inside?”
It was no secret what that meant. You wanted to fool around with him, there was no doubt. “I shouldn’t,” Haechan said.
Not that he didn’t want to. But it was the first date and he didn’t want to seem like he was only after one thing.
The disappointment on your face was noticeable, but you forced a smile. “Right. You probably shouldn’t.”
Something told Haechan to bid you goodnight and leave it at that, but then he thought, Who the fuck am I kidding? And with all his self-restraint parked squarely beside his bike, he smashed his lips against yours.
Your first instinct was to be surprised, but then you kissed him back just as hard. Fuck, you had been resisting the urge the whole evening. It was so satisfying to finally know what his lips felt like pressed to yours like a mold. You lost your mind a little at how romantic his kisses were. They were hard, but slow. You met him halfway, feeling something shift in your body as the kiss steadily grew more and more heated. And you couldn’t fight the heat that wafted over you as his hands kneaded your hips.
Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. He’s a great kisser, you screamed internally. It drove you mad. It made you crazy with burning ache.
Naturally, Haechan ultimately ended up slipping past your doorway, locking it shut behind him and kissing you through the hallways. “Bedroom?” he asked between kisses.
You pointed, although you were losing your sense of direction as you became drunk with the taste of him. You panted, “Over there.”
Each of you were both half-naked by the time you charged through your bedroom door. You were reduced to your underwear, your clothes scattered across the hallway in your wake. Haechan pulled you towards your bed, collapsing over you as your lips synced messily.
His warmth made you moan, little noises escaping you at the meeting of your bodies, skin to skin. Then, his lips attached to your throat, sinking lower and lower until you could feel his breath at your abdomen. “Can I taste this wet fucking pussy?” Haechan growled while flitting his gaze to your eyes.
One look at him between your thighs and you were tightening around nothing. There was no reason that should have been as attractive as it was. Please, your body begged. “Are you any good?” you asked.
Haechan cocked a brow at you and chuckled, reaching for some pillows to hand over to you. “Get comfortable,” were his only words.
You tucked the pillows he passed you underneath your elbows obediently and lifted your hips. Haechan started to slip your panties off, pulling them right down your ankles before they were tossed into oblivion. All it took was a single glance at your bare cunt for Haechan to dive between your legs. He gripped your thighs, spreading them apart and holding them in place. Your thighs were plush and it was no doubt he liked the way they fit in his palms.
Haechan spent a moment wandering, just getting a feel for what made you tick. Not a bunch of time was wasted idly and he caught on quickly, reducing you to moans and squirming quicker than anybody before him. It was infuriating. His hold on your thighs tightened, keeping you rooted and still. You bit your lip, trying to smother the sound of your soft sounds in an endeavor to wipe the smug look off his wet lips, but to no avail.
Haechan was eating you out like he just couldn’t get enough of you. Which wasn’t far from the truth at all. Your moans were pornographic and made him crazy with a burning, all-consuming flavor of lust. You covered your mouth flat with your palm, tense when he sucked your clit, moaning, “Fuck,” into your own hand.
You were already unbelievably sensitive. Maybe because it had been a while since you’d had sex. I’m so busy, you thought. Work had taken priority in your life. In between being pursued by Haechan, you were also becoming high-demand in shoots. None of that changed the fact you’d been maybe subconsciously hoping that this would happen though. You even shaved in the shower just before throwing on your clothes.
Your whole body was unstill. You clenched your hands into fists, over and over again, before finally letting yourself run your fingers through his dark hair. His lips felt so good, tracing the skin around your thigh. He was disarming you. Slowly but surely. Or maybe not that slowly at all.
“Haechan, shit. Fuck,” you cursed, your tongue tied in knots. Nothing could articulate how he was making you feel, how the walls of ice around you were collapsing in on themselves.
Haechan merely groaned against your cunt with a mouthful of pussy and the noise was powerful enough to kill you. You were already seeing god.
Your back arched off the mattress, your hips driving into his face. You couldn’t get enough either. He was making you greedy and you didn’t even understand what for. All you knew was that you wanted him and the attraction was so fervent it was undeniable now. The boy between your thighs had a mutual thought. The room was a hundred degrees hotter than it had been before, but he didn’t care. He couldn’t feel the heat from the outside, too engrossed with how besotted and hot for you he was internally.
He was going to get you to climax even if it was the last thing he did, not that you were far from finishing. And when you thought things couldn’t possibly get any better, he stuffed a pair of fingers inside your pussy.
The bedroom was too hot to breathe in. You kept panting, kept crying out Haechan’s name, pulling at his locks of hair as you pleased. And he let you. Your body was so indecisive, arching into him but flexing away involuntarily, as if it couldn’t decide what it wanted.
“Don’t stop. Please,” you cried out.
Your body only knew him right now, on the verge of going numb because of how sensitive and swollen your clit was. Haechan did the opposite of slow down. He was undeterred and absolutely nothing would stop him from bringing you to climax while he went down on you like a madman. You could feel the heat gathering in your thigh, like it would consume you at any given moment.
It was practically over for you when he continued to finger your sweet spot, dragging his fingers in and out of your perfect cunt. You were a whirlwind of excitement, less and less able to keep still the longer he sucked and fucked, and touched on you. You could feel sweat on your back and chest. “I’m gonna cum,” you warned.
“Cum,” Haechan told you, voice a little deeper. “I want you to cum, baby.”
The pressure was building. And it kept coming. There were no peaks, no limits. Like steady rainfall in the forest.
You cried out his name one last time before your orgasm got the best of you, making you shudder and shake, and tangle your fingers deeper into his head of hair. The whole world stopped for a second. But Haechan kept tasting you through your climax, not stopping until it was over. You arched off the bed, too many sensations hitting you at once.
When the last of your high faded your back hit the mattress with a thud. You were completely out of breath, a couple of tears forming a shroud in your eyes while they gathered at your lashes. You were finally broken.
But with your permission, Haechan went down on you one final time after that. For safe measure. Haechan finally pulled back once you’d cum for a second time, meeting your stare, but the eye contact only lasted for a couple of seconds because you couldn’t take yours off of his slick lips. He licked your release nonchalantly and something primal took over you. You were feeling less and less like a woman. More like a beast.
Haechan, grinning to himself as he took notice of how defeated you looked, cocked his brow at you expectantly. “So?”
Ah. You had asked him if he was any good. “Mind numb,” you panted. “Can’t think.”
Haechan laughed. Feeling a little less lethargic than before, you clambered over to him, tugging at his boxers. You could see the print of his hard dick against it.
“Someone’s impatient,” Haechan teased.
“Someone’s not moving fast enough,” you shot back, pulling them down for him to step out of. You gawked, licking your lips at the sight. Fuck, he was huge. You should’ve known.
You glanced up at him with a little glimmer in your eyes, asking, “Can I suck you off?”
“You don’t have to.”
“I want to,” you replied, your lips dry from how much your tongue passed over them. He was just so fucking mouth-watering. You wanted a taste badly.
There was no way Haechan could tell you no when you looked at him with that sexy gleam in your eyes. Plus he wasn’t at all against feeling your mouth on his dick. “Alright,” he said, playing nonchalant.
Haechan moved to sit on your bed and you crept between his thighs, sitting on your knees. You spat in your hand and grabbed his dick, only pumping him in your fist for the meanwhile.
Then, you slowly transitioned into swirling your tongue around his dick, though not yet drawing him inside your mouth. You were toying with him, trying to see how much he could take, and Haechan realized very quickly that you were pushing his buttons. Which was strange. That was his thing. But he kinda liked it.
A high-pitched moan left him when you finally - fucking finally - started to take him past your lips, hollowing your cheeks, and he fisted your hair behind you. Giving you a full scan, Haechan realized how sexy you looked sucking him off, kneeled between his legs with that sexy ass stare in your eyes gazing up at him. You must have known it was his kryptonite.
And you did. Meeting his stare, you could read him just by looking at his handsome face. It was your time to be a smug little bitch. You wanted to break him, just like he had broken you. “Fuck, baby. Like that,” Haechan grunted, throwing his head back. Which meant you must have been doing something right.
You were feeling benevolent and took him deeper inside your mouth while wrapping your fist around whatever was still available. There were many sensations on his dick and it was doing something inexplicably unhinged to his brain.
One look at his face made you feel extremely accomplished. His features were tensed and his lips were parted. I’ll suck the soul outta that dick any day to see that face, you thought very amusedly to yourself, resisting a chuckle.
You pried yourself away for a while, still looking into his eyes, and taunted, “Too much for you, baby boy?”
“Never,” Haechan retorted, voice airy and light. Like he was on some fucking cloud.
You lifted a brow, amused, though in that case, decided it was time to up the stakes. You sucked him a little faster, taking him a little further until he hit the back of your throat. Very eager and deliberate.
Haechan was losing whatever was left of his goddamn mind. His thighs trembled, cock twitching inside your mouth. You were doing unspeakable things to him right now and he was absolutely obsessed. Your tongue touched the base of his dick and your free hand squeezed his bare thigh. God-fucking-damn, was all Haechan could think. Literally. His mind was numb, thanks to you. In a matter of minutes, his legs would probably be as well.
A couple of tears gathered in your eyes, but you willed yourself to power through. You couldn’t be finished until he was finished. You were way too resolved to make him unravel. At the sensation of your warm mouth, Haechan whimpered, “Fuck,” grabbing and using your hair.
His sounds were just so fucking hot. You wanted to record them so that you could put them on loop. Arousal seeped between your thighs, but you ignored it, just for his sake.
Some time had passed since your last blowjob. It was good to know that your mouth was still spectacular, if his sensitive movements and high-pitched moans were any indicator. You squeezed your thighs together. There was throbbing between your legs. Mutual chaos. Mutual destruction. The two of you were a very, very unlikely duo.
Haechan was warm to the touch everywhere you touched him, blood circulating through him swiftly like a Shanghai maglev. You traced your fingers up and down his thighs, giving them a little pinch, and were surprised to find he was incredibly pliant. You little freak, you thought teasingly. You jotted down a mental note to playfully scold him later, too concentrated on stringing him to climax.
The male before you looked a total of seconds away from malfunctioning altogether. You were making short work of him like no other girl and it was giving him much to think about.
Your nails found purchase in his thigh, dragging your nails down the flesh and leaving little red lines, just before you brought one of your hands to his cock again. You’d been pulling out all the stops to chase him closer to the finish. Every other thought on your mind vanished as you fixed all of your attention on making him cum. Haechan had the same thought, involuntarily bucking his hips as he tried to fuck your mouth.
You let him control the pace, let him do whatever he needed to finish. You moaned around his shaft again, sending vibrations that shook him. A little longer and he wouldn’t last.
“I’m coming. Shit, babe. Keep going…,” he mumbled, winding his fingers through your scalp again. His pace was erratic. It was all you could do not to choke, giving him permission to use you to get himself off. And it was too fucking hot. You were in disbelief.
Haechan tried to be careful, not wanting to trouble you, but you knew what you were doing and he couldn’t exactly control his impulses. His impulses controlled him. You sucked and swallowed, all good and pliant.
Seconds later, Haechan was orgasming, painting the back of your throat with cum. His thighs shook and you could physically feel his dick twitch inside your mouth as he released. He moaned your name loud enough to wake the neighbors.
You took as much of his load as you could fit inside your mouth, but as it turned out, Haechan came a lot. Some dripped from your chin and you wiped it with the back of your hand. When he let go of your hair, you pulled back, just watching your handiwork smugly. You mocked, “So?”
Haechan blinked, like it would clear the invisible haze. He was barely handling the stimulation. You were undoubtedly one of the best he’d ever had and he was officially sprung with you. “High fucking hell,” he groaned.
You giggled. That was answer enough.
For an uncertain amount of hours (nobody was counting), you and Haechan took turns finishing each other, even sixty-nining once or twice till you needed a break.
“Okay, timeout. I can’t feel my dick,” Haechan sighed after a while, surprising himself. Usually, he wore other people out. Not the other way around, but the two of you were in a competition to see who could exhaust the other first. Haechan realized then and there that you were matching his energy and it shocked the hell out of him, because that was a first. He was even more interested in you now.
You chortled and collapsed on the bed. You were also having some revelations, but you kept them to yourself. He hasn’t even asked to put his dick in me, you realized after a moment. He was definitely a pussy fiend, but he hadn’t even fucked you and it’d been ages.
That was a first.
You held your chin in your face while staring at him. “Are you busy tomorrow?”
Haechan looked high as hell and he hadn’t done a single drug in your presence. “Not as we speak,” he replied quietly. “Other than playing pool with Jaemin later and giving you that vinyl, I don’t exactly have plans.”
“You should still rest,” you told him assertively. “Do you wanna stay the night?”
“Yeah. Sure.”
You smiled, resisting a squeal to contain your excitement. You patted the spot beside you, gesturing for him to come over. Which he did. “Goodnight,” you whispered.
“Goodnight, beautiful,” Haechan said, blowing a kiss your way.
You rolled your eyes, but quickly devolved into giggles and tangled yourself in his arms.
Sleep came easy for you that night and had you not forgotten to turn off your alarm, you would have slept past noon. You could feel the sunlight on your face and flipped over, desperate to escape its brightness.
That was when the memories of last night slammed into you like an eighteen-wheeler. Haechan’s fingers tangled in your hair and his mouth between your legs. Sleep had sobered you, the inebriety of lust distant, save for the ache that lingered in your thigh. Your heart fluttered for a second, but it was gone the second you noticed the man you’d spent all night with had disappeared, his arms no longer thrown around your waist.
You started to worry then. There was no note on your nightstand. You immediately grabbed your phone from your bedside table, hopeful of finding some sort of message, but Haechan didn’t even have the courtesy to leave a text or voicemail. Bitterness seeped into your chest as you assumed the worst. He’s had his fun and now he’s done, you thought disdainfully. Why you expected him to be any different was beyond you.
You threw on your robe and slipped on your slippers before stomping downstairs, full of attitude in large quantities. Maybe it was for the better that you didn’t exactly let him hit. But you still felt stupid, because you would have. If he would have asked.
But he didn’t.
Thoughts of hunger broke your reverie when you smelled eggs from the kitchen, which was strange, because you were certain that nobody was there. You grabbed a vase off a nearby table and approached the kitchen with slow, cautious strides.
A part of you hoped it was only Haechan, but surely enough, you were taken aback when you got an amazing view of his back while he faced your stove.
Haechan is here - and he’s cooking?
You shook your head. This man was full of surprises.
Haechan was none the wiser, humming to himself, and didn’t even realize you were present until he turned around to grab something from the island. “Good morning,” he said sweetly. He pointed to the vase in your hands. “Thought I was a killer?”
“You scared the shit out of me,” you sighed, walking over to the island and sitting the vase down.
Haechan grinned. “Why - you didn’t think I was gonna still be here?”
You didn’t have to answer that question. And you wouldn’t be. You didn’t like that he saw through you so clearly, it made you feel transparent. Changing the topic, you asked, “What you cooking?”
“Omelets,” he replied nonchalantly, fixed to the stove again. “I know we technically had breakfast not too long ago, but I saw how much you liked omelets.”
Something fluttered in your chest. It was sweet, dare you say.
“That’s really thoughtful of you,” you whispered, getting comfortable at the island.
“I’m a thoughtful guy.”
“That you are.”
Comfortable silence enveloped you in its wholeness. For the first time since you met him, if it was worth noting. Neither of you liked the quiet very much - silence gave too much room for thinking - but you didn’t mind it right now.
Haechan slipped a steaming omelet from the pan to your plate masterfully, handing you a knife and fork. You opened your mouth to thank him, but he beat you, finally starting, “Speaking of thinking, I been, well, thinking. And I need you to not go ghost on me after this.”
Your eyes flickered, but you glanced at your plate to hide your surprise, cutting off a morsel. “Why would I do that?” you asked.
Haechan shrugged his shoulders, but ranted, “I just hate when you think shit tight with a girl, and then after you hook up, they don’t wanna keep in touch anymore.”
“Huh,” you mumbled. “Funny. I feel the same way.”
Haechan took the seat beside you. His eyes met yours, something sober in them. “I say all of this to say that I like where this is going and I want to see you again. But if you’re not on the same page, let me know right now.”
“I’m on the same page.”
He pressed, “Are you sure?”
“Yes, Haechan,” you replied, setting down your knife. “If I didn’t want to keep seeing you after this, I would tell you in no uncertain terms. I’m having fun.”
Haechan nodded. “Okay.”
“Okay,” you repeated. “This is really, really good, by the way. Where’d you learn to cook?”
The boyish smile was back on Haechan’s handsome face. “Everything I know I owe to my parents,” he said. “This particularly to my mother.”
You taunted, “Ah. You a Momma’s boy?”
Haechan chuckled. “Something like that, yeah.”
Almost endearing. You got a mental picture of a tiny Haechan peaking around the corner, watching his mother cook, and it brought a smile to your lips.
Both of you talked over breakfast. You got orange juice out of the fridge for you to drink and spent what was left of the morning chattering incessantly. You finally accepted that you liked Haechan. Maybe unconsciously, you’d been fighting it because of your ex.
As of now, you were playing tug-of-war with your heart. On the one hand, there was a part of you that lingered over him and it still felt forbidden to be interested in other men. But one swift reminder that he was interested in other girls while apparently being interested in you, and all the feelings you had for him dissolved into resentment.
Plus you weren’t exactly ready for another relationship, nor did you completely trust Haechan yet, but on the other hand, he made you forget all about the bastard that hurt you. And how it felt to be hurt.
Needless to say, you would be seeing him again. Haechan made you feel something you hadn’t felt in a long, long time.
You were sad when he had to leave, picking up his clothes that were scattered across your entire condo and redressing himself, but gladly kissed him goodbye. On the cheek. For various reasons.
Besides, you would be seeing him later on that day anyways. You both had things to take care of.
Chaewon was sporting the biggest smile you’d ever seen when you climbed into the back of the taxi with her. You expected a stern reprimanding, given that you hadn’t returned any of her calls or texts since last night, but somehow this was worse.
“Don’t even,” was the first thing you said when you entered the backseat.
Chaewon grinned mischievously, singing, “You’re glowing.”
“Yes. There’s this cool thing called a skin care routine. You may have heard of it,” you deadpanned.
Chaewon wriggled her eyebrows. “Does this skin care routine consist of Lee Haechan’s semen?”
You grimaced. “Gross.”
“You guys totally boned, didn’t you?” she asked. Though it was less of a question and more of a declaration. You hoped the driver was tuning both of you out.
“Jesus, Chae. Good morning to you, too,” you replied boredly.
“Good morning, bestie. Now did you or did not you bone Haechan?”
You just rolled your eyes. She was relentless. “Okay, fine,” you started, sighing out a little. “We hooked up.”
“I fucking knew it,” Chaewon exclaimed.
You added sharply, “But we didn’t have sex. It was strictly head.”
Chaewon gave you a look. “Girl, seriously? How was it?”
You pretended to think about it. Memories of last night plagued you. You couldn’t get the image of Haechan strumming you to climax out of your head. You admitted quietly, “He made me see a star or two. Maybe a galaxy. Maybe another universe.”
Chaewon clasped her hands together and made a squealing noise of excitement.
All you could do was shake your head. But you couldn’t deny that all of your doubts and hesitations about Haechan had been converted into an inexplicable will to see him again. You had an impulse to smile and faced the window so that she couldn’t see.
“You’re smiling,” Chaewon teased, watching your reflection.
“I’m not.”
Chaewon nudged you with her elbow. “Come on, girl. You deserve this. You deserve to be happy.”
“I am happy. And I don’t need a man to be happy,” you quickly replied.
Chaewon frowned. “You know that’s not what I meant. You’ve obviously been down in the dumps since you called off the engagement and I think it’s a good thing you’re letting yourself be a little more lax.”
You let out a disgruntled groan.
Chaewon slipped her fingers through yours and continued, “No one’s saying that you’ve gotta jump the broom. With how hard you’ve worked all these years, you deserve to play.”
“I know, and that’s all he is. We’re just playing around,” you assured her in spite of the fact that nobody questioned it in the first place. “We’re just kickin’ it.”
Chaewon squeezed your hand.
Meanwhile, Haechan was across town with a friend of his own.
“I’ve got a question for you, man,” Haechan started after a total of three minutes of silence.
Jaemin slung his head back and whined, “Oh, brother.”
He had seen it coming from a mile away. Haechan treated silence like the black plague and when he wasn’t chatting his friends ears off for every second of every minute, he was thinking. Of course, Jaemin knew his friend well enough, so it was no doubt he had a question.
Truth be told, Haechan hadn’t stopped thinking about you since he left your condo. The endless hours of chatter, you dancing in his arms, the sex. All of it was giving him a lot of shit to ponder.
“It’s been weighing on my mind for a while,” he continued, choosing his words carefully. “Do you think you’re with the someone you’re meant to be with?”
“You mean like my soulmate?”
Haechan gave him a nod, although Jaemin was too busy resting the cue between his fingers. “Yeah, like your other half or some shit like that. The one you’ll live for and die with.”
Sparing his friend a couple seconds worth of a glance, Jaemin paused his endeavors and mulled the question over. “You know, not everybody wants to be in love. But everybody wants to be loved,” he began. “People who get in relationships solely to feel loved don’t know what love is.”
“What’s that gotta do with my question?”
Jaemin shrugged his shoulders. “I wouldn’t trade the love Winter and I share with each other for the world, but what nobody tells you about love is that it has its fair share of ups and downs. There’s bad days and disagreements. Not everybody wants to deal with that.”
“That’s some profound shit, brother,” Haechan teased.
“Whatever, man. I’m just saying that the idea that love has no bounds is false. I’d give my life for Winter and I wanna marry her someday, but we’ve both got boundaries because love is mutual respect.”
Haechan’s mind was adrift again. He was thinking.
Jaemin connected the dots, blocking the corner pocket with his hand. “Now wait just a second. Don’t tell me this is about that girl.”
Haechan groaned, “What are you doing, man? Can I get my shot?”
“No, no, no. This is about that girl you brought over last night, isn’t it?” Jaemin asked.
Now, Haechan was officially caught. He heaved a breath, stood to his full height, and said, “You just don’t get it, man. We were talking for hours and she could actually keep up with my bullshit. Not only that, but she understood. Then, I get her in the sheets, and man.”
Jaemin snickered. “I’m guessing it was good?”
“Understatement of the year,” Haechan sighed loudly. “I mean, we didn’t even fuck. She volunteered to suck me off. She left me mind-blown, you hear me? Mind-blown. I can still feel my thighs shaking.”
Jaemin whistled. “Goddamn. So, you think she’s your soulmate?”
“Nah, man,” Haechan replied nonchalantly, setting his cue back on the table. “She’s impressive. That’s all. We’re just kickin’ it. You know I don’t do the whole love thing anymore.”
Jaemin could sniff bullshit from a mile away but shifted his hand. “Alright, man. But when those jones come down,” he started, blunt. “It’s a motherfucker.”
Haechan’s eyes flickered.
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He Canceled Hot Girl Summer 🔥
Summary: You had a one night stand right at the beginning of summer when you moved to England. It was supposed to be the start of your Hot Girl Summer: England Edition. Unfortunately, some stupidly hot, funny (your downfall really) guy with a dumb mohawk got you to bounce on his dick. Next thing you know, that Summer was canceled, and you've got a baby with blue eyes just like his dad.
CW: depictions of sex. Talks about abortions. MDNI.
Pairing: Johnny MacTavish x Black!reader.
This is a comedy with sprinkles of drama, but it is not a dark content fic.
When you get the chance, read my mutual @evergreenlake secret baby trope fic as we are writing the trope together. It features Price x Reader. Find it here
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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Or Nah (18+ minors dni!)
Dom!Ethan Landry x Sub!F!Reader
W/C - 1 K
Warnings - Alcohol and Drug usage, smut, p in v, choking kink, oral (m!receiving), bimbo!Reader, unsafe sex, pull out method, breeding kink
Or Nah by Ty Dolla $ign (feat. The Weeknd, Wiz Khalifa and Dj Mustard)
!!!! IS NOT A REAL STORY, DO NOT USE OR HAVE COCAINE UNLESS IT IS LEGAL TO DO SO WHERE YOU LIVE !!!!
Summary - You went to the club with your friend to unwind of the week, then you meet Ethan, the nerdy guy who sits in the back of your econ class, but he doesn't seem so nerdy when Alcohol is in his system....
➶✺。Are we fucking when we leave the club or nah?
➶✺。Can you lick the tip then throat the dick, or nah?
You were what most people would call a bimbo, a hot one, you loved going to clubs and finding any boy to go home with that night. But this night, you kind of just wanted to wind down, have a couple drinks, that was until you saw Ethan. "Ok, so your besties with Anika's sister?" Ethan asks you, taking a long sip of his drink afterwards. You nod and then sit down at his booth which he invited you too.
"Yep! I practically lived with them in highschool!" You exclaim, he then takes in all your features, just long enough for you to notice. "Why are you so different now? Like at the club, you usually are like so awkward in class." "The alcohol, it like gives me a confidence boost, I don't know." He smirks. "I also just happen to be a big ass flirt sometimes." He shrugs and you let out a loud laugh.
"I can't believe it." "Well, I've managed to get you here, haven't I?" You look at him in shock, he has, he flirted with you as soon as he saw you take a seat at the bar next to him. "So are you like into me or something?" "You sweet, dumb thing, of course I am." Ethan smirks, he then moves closer to you, his face somewhat inches away from yours.
"Guysss!" Tara hisses, making you and Ethan pull apart almost instantly. "I got coke!" She slurs. "Please don't yell that babe." Chad smiles at her. Chad and Tara sit down at the booth and smirk at you both. "You guys in?" Tara asks you.
"Fuck it! Why the hell not?" You smirk at them. Tara wraps her arms around you and smiles. "I love you, Y/n. have I ever told you that. Everyone is such a fucking downer sometimes." Tara slurs at you. "Ethan, are you in?" Chad asks Ethan. "No thanks, I'd rather not get arrested." He shrugs and you frown at him. "What?!" He says as he notices your frown, putting his hands up defenselessly as Tara joins your pouting look.
"Ok, why the fuck not?" He gives up as Tara starts doing the lines of the powder out of the bag. She rolls up a 1 dollar note and then puts it almost in her nose and sucks it up nicely. "Your turn!" She smiles at you, and you take the dollar from her. You do like two lines with everyone else before you leave to get another drink. You go back to see Ethan now by himself. "Eth." You slur at him. "Do you feel fucking amazing? Cause I feel fucking amazing."
You put yourself on his lap and he blushes slightly. You wrap your arms around his neck and smile at him. "I do feel pretty good." He smiles at you. "Do you want to go back to my place?" You ask him, he looks at you shocked. "To do what?" "To do this."
You press your lips against his and it feels like an instant euphoria. He tastes like strawberry and vodka, the combination of what he has been drinking all night, you loved the taste of him and as he pulled you onto his lap properly so your straddling him, your lips were back onto his. You wrapped your arms around his neck and he placed his hands on your waist.
His lips go down to your neck and then he picks you up like you weight as much as a feather and takes you to one of the club bathrooms and locks the door. "I don't think I can wait till we get to your house, Y/N."
"That's fine." You breathe out, pressing your lips quickly against his, he places you on the sink and goes in between your legs. His lips go to your neck and you're instantly trying to get his jacket off. You then press your lips back on his and then push him lightly off you to get on your knees. The whole situation feels rushed, but you love feeling the excitement shoot through your veins as you slowly undo his belt.
You pull out the belt and then place it on the floor as you slowly unbutton his pants, as you pull them down, his cock his strained against his boxers, already hard. "Hard for me already Baby?" You ask him, your words in a slur. He sucks in a breath as you come up to give him a kiss as you palm him through his boxers.
You then go back onto your knees and pull down his boxers, his cock springs out and is larger than you thought it would be. You kiss the tip and then he lets out a little groan. You then take him in your mouth and then he lets out a louder groan. He then takes a handful of your hair in his hand and supports your movements lightly forcing a bit of pressure on your head.
"Shit, Y/N." Ethan groans. "Your mouth is taking me so well baby..." You feel his cock twitch in your mouth and that's when you know he's close, so you quicken your movements and his grip on your hair tightens.
"Are you fine if I cum in your mouth?" He asks and you nod. It almost felt overwhelming when you felt his cock twitch almost uncontrollably and a salty taste fills your senses. You slowly glide your lips and mouth off his cock, he groans.
You spit it out into the sink, the taste slowly lingering but dissipating in your mouth. He grabs your thighs. “That was hot baby.” Ethan purrs. “You’d look so fucking sexy with pregnant my child.” He pulls your body closer to his. The space between him and you slowly shrinking in size. He pulls you up onto the sink with him. He kisses your neck. His touch and kisses makes a sense of butterflies flow through your stomach.
“Eth…we should stop…someone could walk in…” You say, your voice meek and quiet. He scoffs out a hearty laugh. “But do you want too?” He asks, his voice deep. You nod. “Then what’s the issue?”
“There…isn’t one then..” you say, you look at the door. He grabs your chin, he can read your expression instantly. “No need to be worried about people coming in. We’ll be quick.” He purrs into your ear. He slowly pulls your body onto his so you’re straddling him. As he does this, he pulls up your dress so it’s resting at your hips.
He slowly pulls your underwear to the side. He hums in appreciation. He positions you so your hovering over his hard cock. He lowers you so he slowly enters you. You gasp and he groans.
Someone knocks on the door. “Who’s there?” You ask. You hear a slur of a voice behind that door. “I need to pee.” Tara slurs. “Who ever is in there. Get out pleaseeee.”
you slowly crawl off his lap. You pull your dress and panties to the side. “Fuck you Tara.” Ethan grumbles.
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Yappin' about the features on Call Me If You Get Lost
SIR BAUDELAIRE - DJ Drama (And like, every other song he's on I guess)
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He is a VERY love it or hate it presence in Call Me if You Get Lost. I personally love him though because he's just such a great hypeman. His excitement is borderline infectious for someone like me that preferably doesn't want to be crashing out. I'm honestly not sure if I'd like the songs more without him or whatever, but it's a matter of liking what you're given I guess. I'm sure in the universe where he wasn't on his album it wouldn't do much to take away from how good the songs are. Also he's just lowkey funny. I like that in Sorry, Not Sorry, a pretty serious song, he just screams "I'M SORRY! I'M FUCKINNNN SORRY!!!!!
LEMONHEAD - 42 Dugg
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Solid feature. That's basically why I'm doing this. All of these features fit. I'm not gonna pretend like I have a lot to say about this one but like. It's just a damn good feature. Follows the vibe of the song perfectly and is a perfectly welcome addition.
WUSYANAME - Ty Dolla $ign, NBA YoungBoy
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Not much that can be said that hasn't been already said but this song's too good to care about that. YoungBoy's verse is the type of shit people would've expected Ty Dolla to have done on top of his beautiful singing in the background. But Y.B. provides his melodic flow to the song that I don't think he does often nor do I hear it done in rap often in general, but maybe I just need to expand my music tastes. I need to see if there's more R&B songs like this because DAMN
HOT WIND BLOWS - Lil Wayne
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I love Wayne's verse on this song because he takes control of the song from that point forward (The fact he starts off with "Excuse me, pardon me" hammers that in). How many features go "Take the drums out"? He's a force of nature in a song called Hot Wind Blows, and I think that's awesome.
RUNITUP - Teezo Touchdown
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Teezo doesn't even have, like, a VERSE. But his background presence is still very prominent throughout the song. Most talented adlib guy there is.
MANIFESTO - Domo Genesis
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Again, a overall solid feature. I honestly think he's the perfect feature to go with this kinda "dark" sounding song, fitting since he was also part of Odd Future with Tyler. I like the way he says "Ya dig?".
JUGGERNAUT - Lil Uzi Vert, Pharrell Williams
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Perfect fucking features. Lil Uzi Vert immediately goes in after Tyler already went hard on his verse and spits like fucking crazy. Then after the hype chorus, you have Pharrell ALSO going in, but it's far more surprising for me and a lot of others because like, the main thing we fucking heard even SING in was Happy. So to hear him spitting some serious bars was awesome.
STUNTMAN - Vince Staples
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He gets placed at the beginning of the song and basically gets shit hype and this song gets me SO pumped. I fucking love his flow on his track, it gets me head banging without even thinking about it.
WHARF TALK - A$AP Rocky
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On the complete opposite end, this is a pretty chill feature on a pretty chill song. Rocky's voice provides a nice contrast from Tyler's and he kinda has this "casual flow" in his verse that makes him naturally fit into the song.
BOYFRIEND, GIRLFRIEND - YG
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Very short but sweet. Like Vince in STUNTMAN, YG's verse sets the tone really well and gets you into the mood of the song. Also, "You should be my - BITCH" is as funny to me as "AW, YOU LOOK MALNOURISHED".
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Call Me If You Get Lost Album Review
I’m not gonna spend too much time here, but I just wanna say that I’m gonna go from Chromakopia to Bastard. I’m reviewing all of the albums backwards. Chromakopia is done, now is CMIYGL. So hopefully you can find this somewhat interesting.
1. SIR BAUDELAIRE (Feat. DJ Drama)
This isn’t Tyler’s best album opener/intro. But it introduces us the vibe and journey we will be embarking upon. Like we’re going to be with this Alter-Ego every where he goes. Plus, introducing us to the sort of narrator of the album, aka, DJ Drama. Drama is such an integral aspect of the album that if he was removed from the album, the album wouldn’t be the same. or as good as it is today and the day it came out. Anyway, cool transition into the next song. 9/10.
2. CORSO
OMG! Now THIS! Is how you hype up your listeners! To keep them engaged and want to keep going. I was immediately engaged when I heard it for the first time. The aggressive tone of the song, the lyrical content, DJ Drama, everything. I love this song so much. And it only gets better from here! 10/10.
3. LEMONHEAD (Feat. 42 Dugg)
Minecraft Rap Type Beat fr. But nah, why is this sample of a Minecraft Rap actually fire? Not my fav song on the album. But it’s still well made and it’s only 2 mins long anyway. So yeah. 9/10.
4. WASYANAME (Feat. NBA Youngboy & Ty Dolla $ign)
This is fire!!!! I love this so much! The beat and vocals are amazing! The lyrics match the vibe and meaning of the song so perfectly. There’s nothing wrong with this song. Nothing. The features as well are so unexpected but still fire and actually add to the song. So yeah… love this as much as Tyler loves this girl. 11/10.
5. LUMBERJACK
This goes soooo hard! The aggression in this song is addictive, and the lyrics are incredible and amazing. I just wish I had this whole album on vinyl. 10/10.
6. HOT WIND BLOWS (Feat. Lil Wayne)
One of Tyler’s best songs ever. From the instrumental, to DJ Drama, Tyler and Lil Wayne. This makes me feel like I’m in Geneva with them. I can’t stress enough how amazing and wonderful this song is. It’s… one of Tyler’s best songs. Top 15 for me for sure. 11/10.
7. MASSA
If I had to describe the drop at the beginning in one word, it would be… transcending. The most underrated track of CMIYGL. That beat switch up is so satisfying and shocking at the same time from how sudden it is. The build up in Tyler’s voice from being somewhat calm, to being aggressive. The beat also evolving in a genius way that this song is also going through all of Tyler’s albums through the instrumental. It’s so genius that I love it even more. 11/10.
8. RUNITUP (feat. Teezo Touchdown)
If we didn’t have this song, we wouldn’t have gotten “Darling, I”. This song feels pretty different from the rest of the album. But it’s so much different from MASSA. But I love this song anyway. Teezo is as amazing as ever. But yeah… nothing else much to say. 9/10.
9. MANIFESTO (feat. Domo Genesis)
Domo!!! It’s so good hearing him on this album. He hadn’t been on a Tyler album since WOLF. But yeah, this is a very cool sounding song about Tyler’s controversial past. Basically, it’s Tyler confronting Cancel Culture. But yeah, same thing about RUNITUP, nothing much more else to say about this song. But it is the song before one Tyler’s best songs he has ever released. But not THE best. 9/10.
10. SWEET/ I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE (feat. Brent Faiyaz & Fana Hues)
SWEET: If this is what true love feels like, then I must be missing out… this is seriously so beautiful that I genuinely could use this song alone to make me smile at how beautiful it is. As beautiful as Boredom. My literal favourite song from Flower Boy, aka, the most beautiful song Tyler has ever made ever. But if this is as good as Boredom, how good would the second song on this track would be.
I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE: holy shit!!! A reggae Tyler track?!?! And it sounds so perfectly crafted?!?!!!!?? I’m in love with this song. But also, the way this song comes right after a song that sounds like true love is criminal. Both of these songs- no! This whole double track is perfect! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it whatsoever! 12/10. Top 10 Tyler song for me right here.
11. MOMMA TALK
Funny skit that also has a fire transition into the next song. Interlude/10.
12. RISE! (feat. DAISY WORLD)
Does this album ever miss?!?! I love this more than RUNITUP. I know I said that RUNITUP was underrated, but I do love this song more. DAISY WORLD is another phenomenal feature on this phenomenal album. She’s so perfect for this song. 10/10.
13. BLESSED
A very humble interlude. I love this. Interlude/10.
14. JUGGERNAUT (feat. Lil Uzi Vert & Pharrell Williams)
I remember my first time listening to this song and watching the video for it. I was so caught off guard by the beat drop. I absolutely love this song and probably one of the only songs that I will enjoy listening to Lil Uzi Vert. Also, Pharrell is so underrated on this song. Absolutely love this so much. 10/10.
15. WILSHIRE
The only thing that I really care for coming back to for is Tyler’s amazing storytelling on this song. But besides that, the beat is not that interesting and it repeats this same beat for the whole 8 and a half minutes. And the song never changes how it’s rapped except for little brakes and such. But yeah, probably the weakest song of the album. Though it’s still like a 5 or a 6. So yeah, 5.5/10.
16. SAFARI
This is also so underrated. It’s a great closing track for the whole album and the story of the album. Nothing much to say other than that this album has been one of the best album experiences I’ve ever experienced in my life. 10/10.
This album is full of consistent bangers that one meh song doesn’t ruin the other 13 bangers! This album is nearly perfect. But it’s WILSHIRE that’s holding this album back from being one of the best albums ever. But, it definitely has one of my favourite Tyler songs on this album. So I’m going to give this album… a 9.8/10.
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KELSEA BALLERINI WITH NOAH KAHAN - "COWBOYS CRY TOO"
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It's time to be a cowboy nooowwwww / and cowboys DO cry...
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Julian Axelrod: Noah Kahan's email inbox must look crazy these days. After securing a string of Stick Season features from his famous friends, I can imagine him slowly working through a stack of requests for verses like he's Ty Dolla $ign in 2016. Kelsea Ballerini is among the first to cash in on the Kahanaissance, and she's not fucking around: Nothing says "I, too, would like to sell out arenas in Vermont" like an earnest folk ballad about fragile masculinity and the complicated relationships between fathers and sons. Unsurprisingly, Noah rises to the challenge, and their voices come together beautifully. But coming off a year of promoting her most "personal" work yet, it's telling that Kelsea feels most comfortable fading into the background. [5]
Katherine St. Asaph: A surprisingly tender, nuanced lament on toxic masculinity. Both Ballerini and Kahan are credited; perhaps they're to thank for the empathy? [7]
Will Adams: A comment on the lyric video by one darrensawyer-ju9bn: "Thank you for bringing attention to the fact that men have emotions too." I genuinely cannot tell if this comment is facetious or sincere. My cynical, too-online brain wants to cast off "Cowboys Cry Too" as obvious and self-serving, but there's a little seed in there that truly believes Ballerini and Kahan pull it off. It helps that their take on toxic masculinity acknowledges the generational aspect ("I grew up wishing I could close off the way my dad did") and the woman's perspective ("when he's showing his skin... that's when he's toughest to me"). It's pretty, too, which also helps. [6]
Jonathan Bradley: “Cowboys Cry Too” would like to signpost changing expectations of masculinity, but it underestimates the terrain: country music since its inception has offered an arena in which men were permitted to be more emotional and more sentimental than they can outside the honky tonk. Cowboys are complex: as well as weepers, they are creatures mommas should not want their sons to grow up to become, but they’re also frequently secretly fond of each other. Noah Kahan is not a cowboy or a country artist, but his folk ballads offer something like a Vermont corollary to the genre’s implicit Southernness. Kahan can’t deliver a melody as expertly as Ballerini, who here attempts empathy but ends up sounding stunted (boys have feelings -- who knew?), but his first-person narrative of fathers and burning “too many miles trying to ride out the sadness” paints a more nuanced portrait. But there’s also the ghost of Reba McEntire; if cowboys cry, Brooks and Dunn told us cowgirls don’t, and using that song’s motifs puts into relief how emotionally austere this one is. There’s too much Yankee stoicism here and not enough tears. [6]
Taylor Alatorre: I'm okay with country music existing in this imaginary space where everyone's either a cowboy or cowgirl, regardless of their suburb or exurb of origin. But when used in a song title like this, and especially when paired with "I never knew," the effect is rather infantilizing, like your therapist giving you advice from a Pixar movie. However, Ballerini's decision to buck the Western imagery and reach all the way to Vermont for a duet partner was improbably the correct one. If Noah Kahan has any misgivings about being typecast as a weepy folk balladeer, he doesn't show them here, as he pins down the kitschy platitudes into a more concrete narrative about fatherhood and fears of abandonment. Notably, though, he doesn't make any reference to rural life in his lyrics, suggesting that he too might be quietly ashamed of working under this banner. A good illustration of a case where keeping one's feelings bottled up really is the best option. [6]
Nortey Dowuona: Alysa Vanderheym once co-wrote a song called "Talk You Out of It" for Florida Georgia Line. Hence why, when she got to be part of a good song, she went hard in the paint with the steel guitar. [9]
Ian Mathers: "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn Kelsea and Noah's overpriced-sounding milquetoast pop country song and turn its Jukebox score into the 4th of Shit [4]
Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Give me my "Dawns" back. [3]
Alfred Soto: The fusty tropes don't smother Kelsea Ballerini's lack of affect; she knows how to weigh her feelings by sticking to the script. Noah Kahan isn't there yet, but in a fictional world where a song about cowboys a-weepin' enters the Hot Country Airplay top five his pathos is a glass of fresh iced tea. [6]
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Quavo, Ty Dolla $ign and Are We Dreaming - "If I Fall"
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Kanye West seems to think that him hooking up with a Jewish woman absolves him on his antisemitic past -- at least that's what we can glean from this new song snippet that leaked.
There's a clip floating around online right now that appears to show a guy listening to Ye playing a track super loudly in the distance -- this as he continues to work on his new Ty Dolla $ign album out in the Middle East ... where this footage was recorded.
The video and audio were recorded by a content creator who goes by @mansorash on IG -- in a couple different recordings, you can hear a song that features Ye rapping ... "I just f***** a Jewish bitch," which comes right after something to the effect of "How can I be antisemitic?"
So, basically ... Ye's rhetorically asking in this new track of his -- how can I be antisemitic if I just banged this Jewish chick ... which is problematic, and doesn't wash anything away.
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love jones
pairing: photographer!haechan x (f) reader
genre/warnings: smut, angst, strangers to lovers, hollywood!au, photographer!haechan, model!reader, unprotected sex (don't be silly wr- [gets hit by a car])
summary: After breaking off your engagement to your fiance, you move to Los Angeles to pursue a modeling career. There in the fairytale land where stars go to shine you meet Haechan, an aspiring photographer with a penchant for mischief and flirtation.
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a/n: inspired by love jones; the song by leon thomas featuring ty dolla $ign and the movie by theodore witcher. this is the second/last installment of a repost; it is also the prequel to supermodel, which you do not have to read. installment one can be found here. as always, feedback is appreciated!
When you completed all of your errands, you had the taxi drop you off at Haechan’s place and bid Chaewon goodbye. According to your new beau, he should have been there waiting for you. Plus you saw his sleek, black motorbike parked out front. No doubt he was somewhere inside.
You took a couple of deep breaths before ringing his doorbell.
Haechan was quick to announce he was on the way, and the sound of his voice on the opposite end of the door tempted your lips into a smile. He opened it with hastiness, flashing his teeth when he saw you. “Hi, baby. Come on in.”
You matched his radiant smile and stepped inside, letting him lock the door behind you. Meanwhile, Haechan was subtly checking you out. You were dolled up, compared to this morning. How you were so beautiful at both your morning glory and when you dressed up was something he would never comprehend.
To say nothing of himself. You loved the image of his naked back that was permanently etched behind your eyelids, but your mouth also watered at the sight of him in his signature ripped jeans and leather jacket.
“This way,” Haechan said, shaking the thought of you out of his head.
You followed him upstairs, briefly scanning his place. Not a speck of dirt anywhere. Either he was very tidy or he was definitely trying to be impressive.
Within a couple of seconds, you were led through a doorway that was obviously the entrance to his bedroom. You took a little scan. He had posters for days, to say nothing of the vinyls mounted on his wall. There was a shelf full of photo albums just shy of his desk and you were curious to look through them.
“Not bad,” you told him after realizing you’d been silently gazing about.
“Thanks,” Haechan replied, removing one of his Michael Jackson vinyls from the wall with extreme caution.
You watched him retrieve it with a respectable amount of vigilance and hand it to you. Though you were way too glad to finally have it in your hands, you couldn’t shake the thought that something wasn’t right, even though you’d earned it fair and square.
You met his eyes. “Why are you giving me this?”
Haechan arched his brow, surprised, but whispered, “Because I told you I would give it to you if you went on a date with me and I’m a man of my word.”
You shook your head. That couldn’t be all. “Yeah, but there’s no way you wanted to go out with a girl you barely know so bad you were willing to trade a signed Michael Jackson vinyl. These don’t come a dime a dozen.”
Haechan didn’t miss a beat. “Neither do girls like you.”
Your heart was doing somersaults and you didn’t appreciate the effect he had on you. Too much too soon. You could think of approximately a million reasons why this was a terrible idea, but the good outweighed the bad somewhere.
A smile gracing your lips, you opted to reply, “Well, in that case, thank you, handsome.”
Handsome. That was a first. Usually, you’d just roll your eyes.
“Glad to be of service,” Haechan chirped.
With a chortle, you shifted your attention to his desk. There was a camera sitting there and you picked it up in favor of momentarily forgetting the signed vinyl you’d been gifted. Haechan watched you with curious eyes, wondering what in the hell you were doing.
Rather than linger on the thought, Haechan began to strike some silly poses that were guaranteed to send you into a fit of giggles. He was terribly good at making you laugh and it made you sick.
Then, a mischievous thought struck you. “Take off your clothes.”
Haechan was baffled. “What?”
“Take off your clothes.”
Haechan laughed incredulously. Then, he realized you were serious, watching him expectantly.
His hesitation made you roll your eyes. “I’ve already seen everything. You weren’t shy about showing off last night.”
That was true. You had literally sucked his dick and given him the most mind-numbing blowjob of his lifetime. More than once. So, he gave in, putting on his model face while he unzipped his leather jacket in no hurry. As if he was giving a strip tease.
While he was shredding the layers of his clothes, you were snapping photo after photo, heat stirring in your thighs the closer he came to nakedness. He was a little too sexy for your liking. It wasn’t good for your health.
Now in nothing but his boxers as he threw his tee over his head, Haechan decided you’d had your fun and called it quits. “Okay, that’s enough of the camera.”
You frowned, though set the camera down respectfully. “Why - you don’t trust me?”
For whatever reason, Haechan didn’t answer you verbally, instead opting to sit at his desk and gesturing for you to approach him with his fingers. Of course, you came to him obediently, straddling his lap as if he were a motorbike. With how bare he was, it wasn’t difficult to feel your warmth on his body and it drove Haechan absolutely mad. You had no business being this fine. Cute, too. You made his head spin.
“You are the most dazzling thing I’ve ever seen,” Haechan whispered darkly under his breath. “Shouldn’t I be taking pictures of you and not the other way around?”
Leaning into his ear, you purred, “You can take all the pictures you want of me.”
Your true intentions were too obvious and Haechan chuckled a little, because he knew exactly what you meant by that. Out of nowhere, he swallowed your lips in a heated kiss, hands flying to your blouse while you both made out. You could feel the room heating up with every second, degree by degree. Haechan was like fire to the touch, your palm flat on his naked chest. Your little pants were making his dick stiffen in his boxers and you could feel it calling your name.
Not a minute later, you were just as naked as Haechan, sitting on his desk with your legs thrown open and his head between your thighs. You grinded into his mouth, muscles flexing with want. Fuck, you were jonesing for him.
Haechan brought you to tears of climax over and over again for no other reason than him being downright smitten with you and it was maddening. You screamed more than once. Like you wanted the whole world to give him his flowers. Fuck, he could eat pussy. A little too good. I will never get used to this.
Months went by at the speed of light. The more you hung out with Haechan, the more you became smitten. A part of you thought this would be a one-and-done situation, but you and your new beau were joined at the hip and displayed no signs of wanting to be unjointed.
Every now and then, he would invite you to get-togethers with his clique too. Sometimes Chaewon would tag along, more than mingling with Mark. The eight of you combined were a vivid splash of personalities, but for the most part, you’d locked eyes on Haechan.
He started taking you on actual dates. You went to bury your feet in the sand at beaches or meander along boardwalks. You had informal photoshoots, mainly where you were his muse, or took pictures of the blazing city. You hooked up in between but never took the next step of penetration, like you were saving it for a special moment.
Haechan liked snapping photos of you on your dates and by now he was probably due for another photo album. There were so many memories being made that it made your head spin. Pictures of you painted in frosting. Of you embarrassedly walking back to your seat after not striking a single bowling pin. Every now and then you snuck an off-guard photo of Haechan when he wasn’t looking.
There was a knock at your door. You paused dead in your tracks, surprised, because you weren’t expecting anyone. Your brain immediately wondered if it was Haechan there to take you on an impromptu date, and, giddy with excitement, you sprung up to answer the door.
Your smile dropped when you saw who was there. “Jaehyun,” you greeted forbiddingly.
Jaehyun stood there holding a bouquet of your favorite flowers. “Hey, baby.”
Now your mood was officially spoiled and you were exasperated. “What the hell are you doing here?”
“Shh, baby. Listen, I just want to talk,” Jaehyun said, flashing a smile. “I just want to talk.”
“We have nothing to talk about together,” you hissed, shutting the door, but Jaehyun stopped it with his foot.
Jaehyun grabbed the doorknob and met your gaze with those honey brown eyes you’d fallen for once upon a time. And they served as the perfect distraction from his lips. No wonder you never noticed that his lips didn’t tell the truth. “Baby, please,” he said. “Give me five minutes.”
You gave him a look, crossing your arms. “Five minutes.”
“I swear.”
After a couple of seconds of mulling it over, you made what was regrettably the largest mistake of your life. You sighed and let him come inside.
Jaehyun grinned triumphantly and set the bouquet on your table, shutting the door behind himself. You had no idea how he found you and you were somewhat terrified of asking.
Before he could open his mouth, you pointed your fingers at him and declared, “Listen to me, if you’re trying to win me back, I’m insulted that you think I’m as easy as some fucking flowers.”
“I don’t think you’re easy, babe,” Jaehyun whispered in his velvety voice. “You’re hard and I love that about you.”
You rolled your eyes and barked irritably, “I’m hard and you couldn’t handle that, so you went and stuck your penis in some easy whore.”
When you stood and walked into the kitchen, Jaehyun followed behind you desperately. “Oh, c’mon. Look, baby, I know I fucked up and I’m sorry. It was a mistake. I just...”
Arms folded, you watched him expectantly, gesturing for him to continue.
“Shit. You know that I’m not good with words,” Jaehyun sighed, pulling something out of the inside of his suit. “Look.”
You narrowed your eyes. “And what is that?”
“It’s a boarding pass. I want you to come back to New York with me so that we can be together.”
“You had all of that and more, and you didn’t know what to do with it, Jaehyun.”
Jaehyun was persistent. “Well, I want it again.”
You shook your head, maddened. You couldn’t believe him. You snapped, “I don’t understand why you think you can just waltz on up in here trying to woo me with flowers and shit and whisk me away to New York. The world doesn’t revolve around you, Jaehyun - mine sure as hell doesn’t anymore. That’s your problem, you know. You think everything is about you!”
Your ex-fiancé groaned, “What - are you seeing somebody else? Did you find a job?”
“Your five minutes are up,” you snarled, glancing at your wrist.
“Well, I have to go anyway. I’m meeting my mother for lunch,” Jaehyun said, setting the boarding pass down on your table.
“Tell I her I said, ‘Hello.’”
Jaehyun nodded, fixed on you. You didn’t meet his stare, too busy feigning indifference, but you could feel him burning holes through your body. He tapped the counter. “Think about it.”
“Leave, Jaehyun.”
Your ex heaved a breath, then begrudgingly walked outside your front door.
On Saturday, Haechan came over to help you set up your album shelf because he’d sweetly volunteered a couple of days ago. Which was very kind of him. Truth be told, you knew nothing about putting pieces together and reading manuals made your poor brain hurt.
For about half an hour you both were hard at work, constructing and organizing while sparing time for kisses and giggles in between. When it was finally done, you couldn’t believe your eyes. The vinyls were arranged specifically in the order you wanted them to be without a single one missing.
A tear slipped down your cheek and you turned away from Haechan to hide yourself. Still, Haechan noticed immediately and swung his arms open for you. “Hey, come here.”
You crept into his arms without a second thought, letting him cradle you there. Though you wanted to chide yourself for tearing up in front of him, his arms felt like a safe place. Where you belonged.
“Thank you,” you whispered to him, drying your eyes with the back of your hand.
“What for? This is all you, baby. It takes a lot of commitment to do something like this. I respect the hell out of your dedication.”
You chuckled and slipped away, sitting at your bed, but pat the spot beside you. Haechan took the invite and crashed at your side, lowering his head into your lap and staring into your eyes. You threaded your fingers through his hair, just meeting his stare and matching his affection.
Then, Haechan asked the dreaded question, “What made you want to start a record collection anyways?”
That made you stiffen. Haechan instantly noticed something was off and parted his lips to apologize, but you were quicker. “I didn’t start it. It was my grandfather’s.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah. Leukemia.”
“Shit. My bad,” Haechan apologized.
You brushed him off, though there were a lot of emotions stirring inside your chest as you spoke. “It’s fine. It was years ago. He had a whole list of vinyls he specifically wanted. I’m just finishing what he started.”
In spite of your attempts to be nonchalant, Haechan could tell you were heavily affected by your grandfather’s passing. “That’s really sweet,” he told you sincerely. “I know he’s really proud of you.”
I hope so, you thought to yourself, wistful. “Yeah. Enough about me, though. What’s the deal with you and motorcycles?”
Haechan started laughing, probably at good memories, because you knew the feeling. It was your only option when it came to outweighing all the negative feelings. “My mom is a photographer and my dad is a reformed biker. She always got these cool shots of him on his bike. Growing up peeking at them through the garage door, I think it was just kinda natural I developed a passion for both.”
“Sounds like a happy family.” No envy was present in your tone, just genuine curiosity.
Haechan bobbed his head, then leapt up to grab his photo album and crossed his legs. “These are a couple of the shots my mom took of my dad.”
You watched him flip the pages, photos of him as a boy flickering past until he stopped at the pictures of his dad on his motorbike taken by Mrs. Lee. Many of them were taken in different settings, but the most eye-catching of them all was the one of his dad in the city, helmet catching in the neon lights.
It was like you were instantly enamored. The shots were beautiful. His mother had a great eye and you could clearly see who he got it from.
“Wow. These are one of a kind,” you gasped.
Haechan bobbed his head. “Yeah. You should meet them. I think they’d like you.”
Your heart started beating so fast you nearly had a heart attack. “You sure don’t waste any time.”
“I mean, not right this second,” he added, realizing he was moving at a quick speed. “I was just suggesting it for some time in the future.”
Meet his parents, huh? That meant he must’ve really planned on sticking around.
Rather than reply, you acknowledged his response with a pat and grabbed his photobook, carefully dropping it on your desk. You reached for his shoulders and straddled him, brushing your lips against his ears before asking, “How many hearts have you broken?”
“One,” Haechan replied, planting one hand at your waist and steering the other to your ass.
“Honesty.” That surprised you a little. Though Haechan had been nothing but honest with you.
Haechan shook his head. He was tempted to kiss you, but he would settle for feeling your warmth on his lap. For now, at least. “It wasn’t like that,” he said. “I broke her heart, she broke mine. We’re even.”
You weren’t jealous, but your curiosity got the best of you. “Do you still talk?”
Haechan immediately snorted. As if. “Nope.”
“Hm.” You were looking at his dumb handsome face, wanting to kiss him, but wanting to be stronger.
You had Haechan’s undivided attention, because he was studying you, hands rubbing you up and down. Your breath picked up in speed the longer he continued and he fought a stupid smile. “Have you ever been bad for someone and they were bad for you?”
With a frown, you gave him a nod. That hit a little too close to home. “Mutually bad? Yeah. Been there. Done that.”
Haechan was sobering, getting a little vulnerable with you for once. “It’s true, what they say. Two wrongs don’t make a right. That’s why it didn’t work out. Both trying to make something right while both being wrong as hell. We took turns being at fault.”
“Sounds toxic,” you replied with a grimace.
“You don’t know the half of it,” he said, snickering. “What about you - bad history?”
You shifted a little. It was a reminder that you had spoken nothing of Jaehyun to Haechan. Why would you anyways? He was history. Thanks to all those months with Haechan, you’d forgotten all about Jaehyun until he randomly entered your life again. Never in a million years did you once imagine you’d go so long without your ex-fiancé back then, but Haechan made you forget.
The feeling of Haechan’s body warmth gave you a little push. Playing nonchalant, you replied totally deadpan, “Oh, you know. Nothing crazy. He was sweet in the beginning and talked about getting married and having kids. Then, we started arguing, but he would always make up for it and I would forget. Then I found him balls deep in another girl.”
Haechan winced. “Damn.” He pointed over to your desk. “That ring from your mystery lover?”
You quickly frowned. For whatever reason, Jaehyun never demanded it back, and you didn’t know what to do with it. Though Chaewon had been very adamant you throw it off a mountain never to be seen again. You cloaked your melancholy with humor, “Nothing gets past you.”
“So, you were engaged.”
“Not when you hit on me,” you said, knowing immediately what he was referring to. That night at the bar. You almost laughed. Oh, how the tables turn. “So I guess you were right about my vibes.”
Haechan chuckled, but he was a little in his head now. Your engagement had to be recent, he realized. It made a lot of sense.
Temporarily discarding those thoughts, Haechan reached for his camera with his hand coiled around your waist, making you furrow your brows at him. “What are you doing now?”
He pointed it at you. “For the photobook. One more before it’s full.”
“Should I pose?”
“Just be sexy.”
You scoffed, “I’m always sexy.”
“Exactly, baby,” Haechan replied, back hitting the mattress while your legs were still draped over either side of him.
When Haechan pointed his camera at you, you smiled for the picture. It printed out the polaroid immediately, which Haechan took and handed to you for approval. You looked it over and beamed with acceptance. Your smile was different there. Not one of those forced model smiles. It was like you were smiling at Haechan rather than the camera.
“Your photo album is complete,” you announced, leaning over to kiss his neck.
Haechan quickly tossed everything to the side in favor of clasping your hips in his hands again, because it felt natural to hold them. Your breath tickled his neck, not to mention your lips on his throat.
He grinned wildly and whispered, “Thanks for being the finishing piece.”
You giggled and finally kissed his lips, having exhausted all of your self-restraint. Haechan kissed you back just as feverishly, as if you’d both been waiting for each other to snap but didn’t want to forfeit.
First it was just harmless kissing and touching, until your bodies became restless. Haechan tested the waters, so to speak, nimble fingers unbuttoning your blouse until it fell. He made short work of your bra, unclasping it and tossing it aside.
You were exposed to him, though he’d already seen everything you had to offer. Many, many times. But there was something different about the way he looked into your eyes and how your heart raced when his fingers brushed against you.
Haechan kneaded your breasts, resulting in you having to suck in your breath. Your soft sounds made his dick twitch in his pants. He could feel that the air was thicker too, the two of you suffocating beneath the weight of your own desire.
You’d had enough of being teased by him and pulled his lips back onto yours by his collar, throwing his shirt above his head all the while. All you wanted to do was kiss and taste him. And maybe fuck him.
Scratch that. You definitely wanted to fuck him and your body wanted him even more. “Haechan,” you grumbled, clawing at his jeans. “Take it off.”
There would be no need to tell him twice. Haechan gently steered you off of his lap and sat up to remove his jeans, leaving him in his boxers, but you were quick to take care of that situation. You didn’t waste any time freeing his hard cock from his boxers, much to his amusement.
“I want you,” you told him, finding his eyes with a fixed stare. “Inside.”
Well, that left no room for misunderstanding. Haechan’s brain shut down at the thought of being inside of you, though he played it cool. “How do you want me?”
Bringing your hand under your skirt, you tugged your panties past your ankles and threw your legs open, smiling coyly. “Come and get me.”
Haechan growled, “Woman, you drive me crazy.”
You giggled, but the noise faded out when Haechan crawled over you, kissing you again. Neither of you could stand to be apart from each other for three seconds. All you wanted was to feel him so deep inside you that he could never leave.
Haechan realized something and pulled back with a groan. “I don’t have a condom.”
You arched a brow, stifling a laugh. It was very unlike him. You’d seen the inside of Haechan’s wallet more than once and he kept a condom, though he hadn’t brought it with him. Probably because he wasn’t expecting to need anything. “I have an IUD,” you said.
The realization on Haechan’s face was laughable. “You mean?”
“Yes.”
“Fuck, you really want me to…”
“Yes, Haechan,” you repeated with a groan. “I’m not about to beg you to cum inside me.”
“Maybe you should,” Haechan suggested, the grin back on his plush lips.
You rolled your eyes. Then, a thought struck you, and you half-joked, “You’re not a bastard that’s stuck your dick inside half the girls in the city, right?”
“If you wanted to know my body count, all you had to do was ask,” Haechan retorted.
“You haven’t asked about my body count.”
Haechan kissed the corner of your lips and told you frankly, “Baby, I couldn’t give less of a damn what your body count is.”
Well, that was good to know. There were a couple of guys you’d been with that would freak out if they knew you’d hooked up with more than a couple of boys.
“Unless you’re a serial killer,” Haechan added lightheartedly.
You were caught off guard and snickered, corners of your lips upturned. No matter the time, Haechan could be counted on to make you laugh. “I’m not a serial killer.”
“Good.”
You peered up at him and joked, “Promise not to give me chlamydia?”
Haechan snorted. “You’d be the first girl I’ve hit raw.”
You believed him, but it surprised you when Haechan held out his pinky. You rolled your eyes, prompting a laugh out of him, but intertwined your pinky with his. It was kinda cute.
The mood completely shifted from that moment on. His dick lined up at your entrance, the tip teasing your hole. All you wanted was to feel every inch of him buried inside of you. He was slow and steady, taking his time to fill you, inch by fucking inch.
Some noises left each of you when you’d swallowed his length whole and he slinked down against your velvet walls. His hands left your waist in favor of your hands and he slipped his fingers through yours affectionately, squeezing them as he wondered why you hadn’t done this sooner.
The same thought was heavy on your mind, though you had no regrets. Neither did Haechan. For whatever reason, it felt a billion times more special now compared to if you would have hooked up earlier.
It felt like you were making love.
“Haechan,” you cried out, all the heat in your body gathering at your core. It felt like he was stretching you open.
“I’m right here, baby. I’m not going anywhere. I promise,” Haechan sighed, eyes fluttering closed. “Shit, baby. You’re so damn perfect.”
Haechan was so deep that you could feel him in the pit of your stomach, keeping the butterflies that had made a home out of your gut company. You felt at ease with your hand in his and his warmth enveloping you from head to toe.
It was over when Haechan started to set that steady, comfortable pace. It wasn’t too slow, but he thankfully wasn’t jack-hammering you either. The rhythm was just right. He glanced down at you, a weight on his eyelids, and asked sweetly, “Is this okay?”
“It’s perfect,” you whispered, lips twitching into a smile. You grabbed his face and smashed your lips against his, desperate to feel him everywhere. You could taste yourself on his tongue and inexplicably, it made you feel a different breed of insatiable.
Haechan kissed you back even harder in between grunts and curses, typically followed by your name more often than they were not. You were making him dizzy. You were making him entirely dependent on you, as if there was no him without you in his arms.
Sweat stuck to your skin, little beads of moisture dripping down your back and breasts in numbers. Your whole body was alive, craving him like no other. Your thighs tensed, heat spasming in your palms. Your hips moved to their own accord, trying to match Haechan’s thrusts because you wanted to feel the euphoria to the max. All the pleasure turned you into a madwoman.
Haechan pulled back, the heat of you reworking the wires in his brain, and asked, “Do you mind if I take pictures of you?”
The question did a little more than catch you off-guard, though the more you mulled it over, the more your thighs tightened with want and arousal. You were entertained by the idea, that was for sure. It was like nothing you had over done before, in spite of the fact that you modeled for a living. Maybe it was the heat getting to your head, but you were inclined to agree.
“You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” Haechan said, noticing your hesitation.
You shook your head, grinning at him with tiny little stars in your eyes. “I want to.”
Haechan’s lips twisted into a beaming smile of their own and he plucked the camera from wherever he had tossed it to, pointing at you once more. Rather than getting a shot of your face, he was snapping photos of your heaving chest.
Then, it was your stomach, the print of his dick visible against your tummy. Followed by your neck and collarbone, decorated by the necklace he’d gotten you a couple of weeks in advance.
“You’re so beautiful,” Haechan hissed, lowering his head to kiss your breasts. You sighed softly at the feeling, content.
Your breath caught in your throat when he handed you back the polaroids for self-approval, pussy tightening around his stiff dick. Which he couldn’t help but notice and grinned slyly.
You tapped his forearm and asked, “Can I see the camera?”
“Sure,” Haechan said, handing it to you.
You knew maybe a thing or two about how to work a camera, courtesy of your industry, and navigated to the self-timer without any need for his assistance. Then, you sat it down, and pulled his lips onto yours by his hair again.
As if he hadn’t already known, that single-handedly confirmed that you were the one.
You were getting closer by the minute. All of the kissing, touching and sucking (and photo-snapping) was making short work of the both of you. Haechan had internally worried about busting too quick when you permitted him to go bareback, but you weren’t far behind.
All of it was making you mad with lust. The heat and the sounds and the pressure. Your whole body was overloaded, writhing with pleasure.
Haechan was whispering sweet praises in your ear partially to get you off just in case, because he was going to unravel any moment now. His finger thumbed your clit, and with just a look at your face tense with bliss, he was getting closer.
“I’m gonna… Haechan, fuck,” you moaned, barely coherent. It was hard to speak with him strumming you to climax, and the weight of him on top of you. It was game over.
You’d come to notice the signs of Haechan’s impending orgasm and they were all staring you down right now, so when he let out that final, high-pitched moan of your name preceded by a string of curses, it wasn’t even somewhat shocking when you felt his fingers find yours and tighten around them again, his release painting your walls.
That was all it took to break you, his hot cum spilling inside the tightness of your cunt. It was a wordless orgasm, but an intense one, looking into his eyes with all the pleasure and wanting in the world as you shuddered with climax.
For a long minute, the two of you just took a while to gather your bearings. Then, you took one look at each other, and burst into a fit of giggles. Your heart was taut with something bittersweet.
A couple of hours (and rounds) later, Haechan was still at your house. You both took a long, hot shower together with the excuse of saving water and walked back inside your room.
You sat on your chair while Haechan took the bed, just staring at each other for a minute. “I’ve really been having a good time these past couple of months.”
“Glad to be of service,” Haechan chirped, a bottle of beer in hand.
You chuckled.
Haechan could feel a shift in the air and it was somewhat unnerving. He asked, “Why do I get the feeling that there’s about to be a really strong but here?”
Your laughter turned nervous. Which was noticed. After a while, Haechan started to pick up even the slightest of changes with you. That was what he did. “I’m, um, going to NYC next week for a little bit.”
And there it was. “Oh, yeah?” Haechan hummed, nonchalant. “For how long?”
“Just a couple of weeks, I think. I don’t know. Probably just a couple of weeks, if not less,” you said, avoiding eye contact.
“Well, what’s going on in New York?”
“I’m just…,” you trailed off, fighting the nerves in your gut. “I’m just poking around, you know? Looking for some gigs. And I also have some… unfinished business to take care of.”
Your response was vague as ever, which told Haechan everything that he needed to know. “Your ex.”
You frowned. Haechan was many, many things, but he wasn’t an idiot. There was no way that you could play him for a fool. “Haechan, the only reason I’m telling you this is because I really care about you, and I’m not trying to hurt you.”
There was a moment spent in silence as Haechan processed your words. “Well, I appreciate your honesty,” he said after a moment. “But aren’t we just kickin’ it?”
Your eyes flickered. “So, you’re not mad?”
“Pfft. Hell no,” Haechan said, feigning indifference very skillfully. “I’m not your man. I don’t have a ring on your finger or anything like that. Go on to New York and do whatever you gotta do. I mean, we’re just friends, right?”
“Right,” you mumbled, but there was something dark lingering in your chest. “Well, I’d like for you to meet me at the airport next week, if you want. Kiss me goodbye maybe.”
Haechan chuckled lightly. “Is it goodbye or see you later?”
“See you later,” you replied sheepishly. “I’ll call you when I’m back.”
“I’ll stay by my phone.”
You smiled thinly.
Then, the night came for you to fly to New York.
“Because if he knew what he was doing, what the hell am I doing in the picture then?”
Jaemin nodded. “Riddle me that.”
Haechan continued, “Why am I hitting it?”
Jaemin acknowledged Haechan with a raise of his drink.
Lifting his own drink, Haechan scoffed. He’d been in out of his head and was realizing that he might have been a fool for you. He was conflicted. First of all, you’d started acting a little distant a couple of weeks before when up until then, things had been sailing smoothly.
He figured you were stressed from work and didn’t press you about anything, until the other night revealed your true feelings. You were going back to the man who’d disrespected you and your relationship and he couldn’t understand why.
But it wasn’t for him to understand, so he was going to pretend as if he didn’t care about you. If you wanted to run off to New York City and get fucked over by a dickhead again, that was your decision. Why the fuck should I care? He grumbled to himself.
On the one hand, he’d made countless memories with you all in the span of two months and thoughts of a future with you were like a whirlwind in his mind. He thought you felt the same, but on the other hand, he realized he was nothing but a pit-stop along the way. Like he was in the backseat of the joy ride and none of it mattered because it was harmless fun.
“Let me tell you the real deal,” Haechan began, settling down his drink. “The real deal is I don’t think she can handle it.”
Jaemin chuckled.
Haechan threw his head back. “Jaem, I put it on her. Boom.”
“And now she’s gone.”
“Now she’s fucking gone.”
“I feel you, man,” Jaemin said, dispatching messages from his girlfriend before turning his phone screen-side down. “But wait a minute. I thought you two were just… you know, um… kickin’ it.”
“That’s not the point, Jaemin,” Haechan groaned, running his fingers through his hair.
“So, what’s the point, my friend?”
Haechan bristled. “I’ll tell you the point. Have you been listening? I’m gonna tell you the point. Matter of fact, I’m gonna feed you the point. The point is…”
Jaemin cocked his head, glancing at Haechan expectantly with a wry smile on his face.
“Man, fuck this, that’s the point,” Haechan barked irritably. “I’m gonna find me a fine ass woman and we’re gonna have some fine ass sex on this fine ass night.”
Jaemin retorted, “You’re gonna wake up with a fine ass hangover and get a fine ass ass-whooping.”
“Whatever, man. You should get laid, too. Tell Winter I said what’s up,” was all Haechan said before marching over to the bar.
He got another drink and sat there for a while, completely in his thoughts. Most of them about you, obviously. No matter what, he couldn’t get you out of his head. He’d obviously fallen hard in spite of whatever bullshit he fed his friends, because you were all he could think about.
Distractions, distractions, I need a fucking distraction, Haechan hissed to himself. Then, he turned around, and briefly made eye contact with a woman who’d been fucking him with her eyes.
If you wanted to play, Haechan was down for the game. And he had plenty.
All the while, you were across town. Walking around the airport, you were nothing short of antsy. For good reason.
Are you coming?
Sent two hours ago. There was no telling if Haechan had seen the message, considering his read receipts were off. Maybe he was just ignoring you. That could have been it. He told you he’d let you know if he could make it tonight or not, but the last time you heard from him was the night you’d dropped the news.
An instagram notification popped on your phone and you accidentally clicked it, being taken to Jaemin’s story. And you frowned when you saw a picture of him and the boys - all of them - out drinking.
Then, your flight was called, and rather than wallow in all of the bad feelings, you sucked it up and got on that plane.
Days passed. Nothing from Haechan. All coming back to New York did was remind you why you left in the first place. First of all, Jaehyun was adamant that you didn’t pursue any of the gigs you’d come there for. Something about him being a provider and some other bullshit you weren’t exactly keen on hearing.
When you instead ventured around the city, meeting up with some old friends and the like, it only made things worse. You walked by all the places Jaehyun used to visit with you once upon a time, before each of your worlds clashed and you realized it wouldn’t work.
Maybe a couple of months ago, it would have made you sad. Now, you just wanted to get the fuck out of here. You felt like you were wallowing in memories you had no intention of ever bringing up again. This just wasn’t your home anymore.
Sharing a bed with your ex-fiancé at night didn’t help, because all you did was dream of zipping through Los Angeles at night on the back of Haechan’s motorbike. You imagined speed and restlessness. You could feel the wind whipping through your hair and his hands on your waist.
“I’m home,” you grumbled one day, kicking off your shoes at the front door.
Nothing. Much to your surprise, Jaehyun didn’t say a word. Almost like he wasn’t even there. Which was strange, because his car was parked out front and according to his schedule, he should have been back by now.
You were getting flashbacks. Being home earlier than expected, slipping inside the house unheard like a thief in the night. He had the audacity to have you sleep in the same bed he’d probably fucked countless other girls in.
Fighting off the thought, you heard a noise in the kitchen and followed the sound. Jaehyun was looking through the cabinet, seemingly not noticing your presence until you tapped on the counter and greeted, “Hey.”
“Hey,” Jaehyun repeated, then pointed to the cabinet. “Where are my Frosted Flakes?”
“Oh, I finished the box this morning.”
Jaehyun groaned, “Oh, you couldn’t just eat the damn Cinnamon Toast Crunch?”
“Oh, brother.” You rolled your eyes, setting your purse down on the counter.
Jaehyun was bristling. “Look, I’m sorry I had a bad day today.”
“Well, I had a bad day, too,” you retorted, taking off your coat.
“So, you wanna tell me about it?”
“No,” you hissed, hanging your coat on the coat rack in the living room.
“Baby,” Jaehyun called out behind you, following you to the couch. “I hate to see you, you know…”
“Wasting my time,” you interrupted.
Jaehyun gave you a little nudge, fixing you a stare. “You know that’s not what I meant. All I’m saying is that I can provide for the both of us. I don’t want you to deal with…”
“Getting a job?”
“Rejection,” Jaehyun hissed. “And stop finishing my sentences.”
You laughed humorlessly, turning away, and blew out a sigh. “I don’t even know why I’m here.”
“What?”
You raised your voice, “I don’t even know why I’m here.”
“No, I heard you,” Jaehyun said, clearly upset now. Again. “After all these years together, you don’t know why you’re here?”
Now, you were getting irritated. Because this was how it always went. You looked him in the eyes again and exclaimed, “No, I don’t, Jaehyun. And you wanna know why? Because even after all these years together, we still don’t know how to make this work, and it never fucking will.”
Jaehyun couldn’t believe the words that were coming out of your mouth. Rather than try to hash things out with you, he stood up and said, “I’m going out for some fucking Frosted Flakes. You’ve lost it.”
Then, he left. Like he always did.
You heaved a breath, irritated. All these years, he said. All those years wasted. All those years that you could have spent on something worthwhile and yet he’d stolen time from you. You just couldn’t put up with this bullshit anymore.
That night, you slipped your engagement ring on his pinky finger and crept outside of the bedroom to dial a number.
“Hey, I know it’s late, but can I stay the night? I need to book a flight.”
As soon as the next day, you were back. Again in the Los Angeles air, you felt like you could breathe again. That suffocating feeling that you got after Jaehyun popped up in your life out of nowhere completely dissipated. It felt more like those two months of relentless happiness you’d felt prior to his unannounced appearance.
Months of happiness thanks to Haechan. Something about the thought of him made butterflies flitter about in your belly, but an acute pain spread throughout your chest like wildfire. You hadn’t called him like you said you would. And you didn’t really know why.
You just couldn’t stop thinking about that night and how he wasn’t there. You didn’t see his message until after you got off the plane, a thoughtless response. Couldn’t get out of plans. Sorry. Ttyl.
You faced reality and accepted that it wasn’t that he couldn’t be there. He just didn’t want to be.
And then the unthinkable happened. Sitting in the corner of the cafe sketching, you glanced up when you heard the jingle of the bells announcing that somebody had walked in. You didn’t notice whoever walked inside, your eyes fixed out the window you’d accidentally brought your attention towards.
All you could feel was a burning when you saw Haechan holding hands with some girl that was leaning against him, hanging on his every word. You didn’t even realize you were on the verge of breaking your pen until a friend you’d been there to meet tapped your shoulder, cocking you a worried look.
It was a full-blown war.
Not many days later, you were in the park, snapping pictures of the scenery. If Haechan wasn’t there to take you out on dates, you would take your damn self. Like hell you needed him to do anything.
Then, you heard somebody call out your name, and spun around. “Oh, hey, Jeno.”
Jeno dug his hands into his sweatpants pockets, shooting you a grin. “Whatcha doing?”
“These are flowers. This is a camera. I’m photographing the flowers,” you deadpanned, obviously not in the best mood. Then again, that was just your usual bitchy attitude.
“Ah.” Jeno crept closer, eyes giving you a quick scan. Not too close, but not too distant. “You like savoring the beautiful things in life?”
You snorted. “Yeah. Yeah, I guess you could say that.”
When you least expected the action, Jeno gently took the camera out of your hands, earning a half baffled and half curious glance from your part. You hid your face when he pointed the camera at you.
Your voice was muffled. “Jeno, what are you doing?”
“Savoring the beautiful things in life,” Jeno replied smoothly, just giving you that angelic smile of his as he continued to snap photos of you.
Jeno pulled your hands away from your face and brushed a stray hair out of the way, looking at you with the gentlest touch but the least subtle eyes. “You are incredibly gorgeous,” he purred in the deepest tone.
Though you were tempted to roll your eyes, you had a moment of realization. There was a flash of rage that shot through your body like lightning. All you could see was those memories of Haechan’s endless flirtation playing back in your mind and it made you bristle.
Rather than beat him, you joined Jeno, lashes fluttering. “You think so?”
“My eyes never deceive me,” Jeno said, looking you up and down with obvious want.
“What about Haechan?”
Jeno seemed almost irritated at the mention of his friend’s name, gently pulling you just a bit closer to him. “He might have found you, but where I’m from, we play for keeps.”
You met his bold stare. “And you wanna keep me?”
“To say the least.”
You snickered.
“Do you like steak?”
“I love steak.”
“That’s perfect, because I know a place. Five stars,” Jeno whispered huskily. “I’d like to take you out to dinner Friday night. What do you say?”
You pretended to mull it over, when in reality you’d been thinking about it for the past five minutes at length. Jeno had never been subtle with his flirty quips from the day he met you, in spite of the fact that you were Haechan’s date. Apparently there was no brotherly code.
That, or he had absolutely zero regard for whatever it was.
You chirped, “It’s a date.”
Even more days passed. Nothing from you. Haechan figured you were still in New York searching for work and whatnot, and, knowing how passionate you were about your job, didn’t dare disturb you.
Though he would be lying if he said he didn’t miss you.
“She’s back,” Jaemin said, sitting down at the table.
Haechan furrowed his brows, asking, “Who?”
“Your girl, man,” Jaemin replied. “She’s back in town and she’s been going out with Jeno.”
Mark winced from across the table. “Damn.”
Haechan’s voice was low, almost like a mumble, “She didn’t tell me she was back.”
Jaemin patted him on the back. “I just thought you deserved to know, man.”
“You move too fast, dickhead. You probably scared the poor girl away,” Ryujin shot without looking away from her phone, playing a heated round of cup pong with Mark via iMessage games.
“She’s kinda right,” Jaemin agreed. “Slow and steady wins the race.”
Haechan took a much needed shot of liquor and grumbled, “Oh, shut the fuck up, Jaem. The whole reason Winter rejected your ass was because you were doing too much too fast.”
“And I revised my plan and made her mine. Isn’t that right, baby?” Jaemin asked, gaze flitting over to Winter.
Winter giggled, leaning into his touch. “Right, baby.”
“You two make me sick.”
Winter quipped, “Jealous much?”
“Never in a million years.” Haechan grimaced. “I’m not drunk enough to put up with this right now.”
Ryujin exclaimed out of nowhere, “You limp dick bastard!”
Mark was in the midst of a fit of giggles, laughing his ass off. “It’s one thing to suck at cup pong in real life, but you suck online, too?”
“I’m this close to deporting you back to Canada,” Ryujin hissed.
Everybody froze when Jeno walked up to the table, taking a seat in front of Haechan. The whole spot was quiet. “What’s up, Haechan?” he asked.
Haechan cocked his head. “What’s up, J? You been doing anything lately?”
“Fuck, yeah, man. I been doing a whole lot,” Jeno replied offhandedly.
“Oh, yeah?” Haechan questioned. “Like what?”
Jeno shrugged, acting nonchalant. “Oh, you know. I’ve been out in the sun and shit. Getting things wet. Wallowing in the heat. Got a new boat.”
Winter grimaced.
“Really?”
“Really,” Jeno repeated, locking eyes with Haechan. “See, I’ve been riding the wave lately.”
Haechan set his jaw, but played it cool. “That so?”
“You bet it is. Just been… cruising.”
“I think I test drove that model,” Haechan said with a little nod, picking up his glass. “Took it for a spin and all.”
Jeno narrowed his eyes. “Yeah?”
“Yeah. A couple of times.”
The tension at the table was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Jaemin and Winter got up to dismiss themselves with the excuse of wanting to be alone, while Mark and Ryujin sat there quietly, exchanging thoughts telepathically. Then, Jeno’s phone started to beep countless times.
“I tell you, I hate when this happens,” Jeno sighed, taking out his phone and grinning slyly when he looked at the screen. “You know?”
Haechan quipped, “Mom keeps texting you, huh?”
“Not this time,” Jeno retorted. “This is one of my boating buddies.”
“Mm,” Haechan hummed, bristling at the thought. His whole body was cloaked in heat, a bite to his next words. “Well, I hope you don’t get thrown overboard. You’ve never been good at staying anchored.”
Jeno retaliated darkly, “You’d know a lot about that, wouldn’t you, Hyuck?”
Haechan lifted his shoulders. “Nah, you know me. I’m the captain. I invite the passengers on-board and I dismiss them. You tend to step on unfamiliar territory and get walked off the plank.”
Mark and Ryujin exchanged identical glances. What the fuck are they talking about?
“But it’s okay. You can’t help it,” Haechan added, setting down his drink and rising to his feet. “Yo, Mark, Ryu, I’ll get with you guys another time. Later.”
Jeno chuckled.
Ryujin cocked him a glance. “Aren’t you a little too old to be fighting over some babe?”
“Never, Ryu,” Jeno replied, laughing a little. “Plus, I can’t help it if I’m the chosen one.”
“Chosen one, my fucking ass.”
Mark shook his head in disapproval. “You know you’re foul, right?”
Jeno groaned. “Foul for what, man?”
“Dude, come on. That girl shouldn’t even be anywhere on your radar. It’s like you were waiting for Haechan to slip up,” Mark replied with obvious disdain.
“Whatever, man,” Jeno scoffed. “She chose me, alright? Take that up with god.”
Mark and Ryujin exchanged looks.
A few dates with Jeno to forget the gaping hole Haechan had left in your heart ultimately came back with a bite. Jeno was sweet and all but you couldn’t feel a connection with him, something Haechan had made you feel within moments of your first date together. But you were still bitter.
With that in mind, you kept up the act, all the while wondering if it was torture for him as much as it was for you.
It wasn’t that you didn’t like Jeno. The dinners gave a nice first impression and he had an interesting personality. But no matter how much there was to like about Jeno’s indulgences and mesmerizing looks, he wasn’t Haechan.
After a couple of weeks of dating, Jeno invited you to a party on a whim without much specifics and you spent the rest of your Thursday afternoon choosing an outfit. Maybe you wanted to look extra cute in case you made a special appearance in somebody’s Insta story and Haechan happened to see.
It never crossed your mind that he might’ve physically been there.
You locked arms with Jeno as you stepped into the party, allowing him to guide you throughout the house, weaving in and out of crowds of people.
“‘Sup, guys,” Jeno greeted his clique when you both walked up to them.
You counted four faces and every single last one fell at the sight of you, their incessant chatter instantly ceasing. The lack of Haechan was very noticeable, but at the time, you were more concerned with how apparent it was that absolutely none of them knew you’d been invited.
Clearing your throat in humiliation, you asked, “Um, where’s your bathroom?”
“Upstairs to the left,” Ryujin answered, but her face had yet to shift from that grim look.
You thanked her and excused yourself, quickly fleeing up the steps and wishing some kind of chasm would open between them, swallowing you whole.
Jeno glanced at Mark. “What up, Minhyung?”
Mark shook his head in disapproval. “Like I said. Foul.”
“Man, come the fuck on. Give me a break,” Jeno grumbled, irritated. This conversation was exhausting and it didn’t help the more it was had.
Jaemin was wearing a reproachful frown, chastising, “That’s some fucked up shit, man. And you know what you’re doing is fucked up.”
“Pfft. Whatever.”
Jaemin narrowed his eyes and stood up straight. “Whatever?”
“Don’t,” Winter said swiftly, putting her hands on Jaemin’s chest.
Ryujin crossed her arms, wearing the most withering scowl known to mankind. Her eyes cut at Jeno. “I’m disappointed in you.”
In that same second, Haechan stumbled from around the corner with a victorious smile that fell instantly once he caught a sight of Jeno.
Mark scratched his head. Awkward, he mouthed to Ryujin.
She blew out a breath.
Jeno scanned Haechan, smirking at him. “Yo, Donghyuck.”
Haechan mumbled a greeting, glancing away from Jeno.
As if this whole ordeal didn’t already make you want to chew glass, it went from worse to worst the second you skipped down those stairs and stood next to Jeno, making eye contact with Haechan whose brows furrowed in shock. Your heart raced. This was without a doubt the most embarrassing moment of your life.
You tapped Jeno on the arm. “You and me. Outside. Right now.” You brushed past him without waiting, immediately heading for the door. You couldn’t bear to be there for another second. Not like this.
Jeno eventually came outside the front door, calling out your name behind you as you ran down the stairs.
“Take me home now,” you demanded, pointing to his car parked right out front.
Jeno caught up to you, having the audacity to pretend to be confused, and asked, “Come on. What’s wrong?”
You gave him an incredulous look. Like you couldn’t believe he had the nerve to play dumb. “You just made a fucking fool out of me and I don’t like that shit. If you and Haechan wanna have a dick measuring contest, I want no parts.”
“Baby, I’m sorry,” Jeno apologized, reaching out to console you.
You snatched your arm away from him. “Don’t touch me. Just grab your keys and take me home.”
Jeno switched on a dime, hissing, “Like you didn’t think for one damn second that he was going to be here.”
You snapped, “No, because you gave me all of two seconds in advance to prepare and didn't have the decency to give me details!”
“And that’s my fucking problem how?”
“Jeno,” you snarled, taking a deep breath. He was really testing the last of your patience. “Are you gonna take me home or what?”
Jeno scoffed, “Hell the fuck no.”
“Un-fucking-believable,” you said, turning on your heels and stomping down the sidewalk. You were disappointed, but not surprised.
“Walk!” Jeno exclaimed, turning around and heading back inside the house.
Haechan glanced around when Jeno walked back over without you, baffled. “Where is she?”
Jeno exhaled a breath, stuffing a hand inside his pockets. “I don’t know,” he lied.
Jaemin gave Jeno the utmost repulsive look. “You just left the woman outside? Don’t you know what kind of freaks walk around at night?”
Haechan didn’t bother to interrogate Jeno in spite of his questionably stupid actions, because even after all the weird shit going on between you two lately, he still had the decency to want to make sure you got home safe. He grabbed his coat and made a break for the door.
Winter and Jaemin were shooting Jeno matching scowls. She grabbed her boyfriend’s hand and pulled him away wordlessly. Meanwhile, Ryujin had her arms folded snugly across her chest, clearly not pleased either.
Jeno glanced down at her and barked, “What? You got something to say to me, Ryujin?”
“I don’t have a damn thing to say to you,” Ryujin hissed, following behind the couple.
Which left Mark and Jeno. “You’re an asshole, dude,” Mark said.
“Fuck you, man.”
Ryujin came back to grab Mark, leaving again this time with him in tow.
All the while, Haechan was chasing you down the sidewalk, jogging to catch up to you. It was chilly outside, and he saw you wrap your arms around yourself to shield your bare skin from the nipping cold.
Haechan called out your name. You could hear his footsteps just behind you. “Slow down.”
“I’m not in the mood to chat, Haechan,” you said, not glancing back. You couldn’t look into his eyes again. It nearly killed you the first time.
“If you slow down, I can call you an Uber or something,” Haechan insisted.
All of your emotions hit you tenfold in that moment and you whipped around, exclaiming, “What do you want?”
“First of all, calm down. I know and you know that you don’t wanna be outside this late in this cold ass weather stomping down the street like somebody stole your fucking bike,” Haechan said even louder than you.
You scoffed, tightening your arms around your body.
“Look,” he started, leaving a good distance between your bodies. “All I wanna do is get you home safely. No extra shit. I’ll call you an Uber and then it’ll be over.”
You couldn’t exactly argue with that. For fuck’s sake, Jeno - who had been your ride - left you in the cold to die and you didn’t know your way around this area of town. With that in mind, you begrudgingly agreed.
It was silent for a good while after Haechan called you an Uber. Neither of you said a word to each other, and you both stubbornly made sure that was extra space between your bodies while you waited. His leather jacket now being draped over your shoulders didn’t bother you in the slightest.
Well, maybe that was a lie. You were bristling with sudden longing. Obviously, it smelled exactly like him. You were breathing him in even though he was what felt like worlds away from you.
Haechan tried to resist his temper, but the dam ultimately broke and he snapped, “What the hell are you doing going out with Jeno? First you take flight to New York to see some dude, and then you’re fucking on one of my boys?”
The mention of New York and Jeno only fueled your flames and you shot back, “All you had to do was tell me that you were seeing somebody.”
“What are you talking about? I’m not seeing no one.”
“I saw you with her outside the fucking cafe next to the record store.”
“I’m always by the fucking record store,” Haechan exclaimed, throwing up his hands. “What are you talking about?”
You rolled your eyes. You had enough of men playing dumb with you for one night. Thankfully, the Uber pulled up just in time, and you sneered just as you got in the backseat, “You know what the hell I’m talking about.”
Haechan watched you get driven off, puzzled. Like you were speaking an entirely different language. And then it hit him. “Ryujin’s friend. Shit. God-fucking-dammit.”
He took out his phone and opened your text messages. Fuck, he hadn’t texted you in forever and a half. At least text me when you get back home so I know you’re safe.
Haechan shoved his phone into his pockets, doubting you would reply. Imagine his surprise when his phone buzzed only a couple of moments later. Okay.
Sure, it was one word, but he would take it. One was better than nothing. Right now, he had to think of a way to salvage this relationship.
The first thing you did when you were safely back inside your condo was text Haechan that you were back home safe and block Jeno’s number. Then, you took off all your makeup and prepared to take a long, scalding shower. You didn’t even realize Haechan hadn’t asked for his jacket back until you went to undress yourself.
Many thoughts were weighing on your mind as the hot water hit your skin. You felt like an idiot. For going to see Jaehyun, for entertaining Jeno’s fuckboy tendencies. But worst of all, for wishing your feelings for Haechan would go down the drain.
You had finally come to terms with the fact that your heart wanted Haechan, even if it took a long time to accept and even if you were in denial that you couldn’t have him. You worried that you had already fucked things up too much. And you worried that you never had a chance to begin with.
There was very little room for misunderstanding in the fact that you were easily replaceable. It was borderline offensive how quick Haechan was to pop out with a new chick while you were away. Like all of those months together meant nothing to him. Your biggest fear was that they were only special to you.
You cried yourself to sleep that night. You’d lost the game. Again. Maybe you were just bad at love. You figured you would probably do everyone and yourself a huge favor if you stopped involving your heart and focused on your career like you always wanted.
So, you decided that that was what you were going to do.
Neither you or Haechan spoke to each for weeks. Sitting on your bed, you wondered if he was thinking about you and what went wrong. If he was as fucked up and heartbroken as you were. Maybe you did it to yourself. Something told you not to fool around with Haechan too much, after all, but you still kept him close because you were human and you wanted to be loved.
All you knew was that you couldn’t stay here, sitting in ruins over a boy you couldn’t have. When Jaehyun cheated on you, you felt dirty and lacked the strength to rouse out of bed in the mornings. You couldn’t let yourself steep to that point of misery over something you couldn’t even call a break-up.
You glanced at your phone. Should you have called him? Maybe you should have at least texted him, since you didn’t do either when you came back from New York.
Almost worlds away from you, Haechan was sitting by his phone with the same thoughts wearing him thin. You were wearing him thin. He wanted to call you, but if you thought you were stubborn, Haechan gave you a run for your money.
You said you’d let him know when you were back and Haechan waited and waited. You never called. Not one fucking time. So why should he have called you?
Because you love her, hissed the voice in his head that made Haechan roll his eyes in annoyance. He was past denying the truth, but he was terrified of confronting it. Loving you made his blood chill with fear. It wasn’t a question of whether or not you loved him back. It was if you loved him enough to make it work.
His emotions were all over the place. First of all, he was spiteful and wanted to hate you. He was angry. For fuck’s sake, you went out with Jeno for what - to make him jealous?
But on the other hand, all those memories you’d made with each other weren’t simple to forget. Every time Haechan closed his eyes, he saw you. Your gorgeous smile and twinkling eyes. He could taste your chapstick on his tongue and feel your warmth in his arms, as if you were some lingering ghost that was haunting him in spirit. He could hear your laughter ringing in his ears as he told you a stupid joke solely to make you laugh.
Jesus fucking Christ. Haechan had been in love, but never like this. Your love was mind-numbing. No girl had ever made him feel this many emotions all at once. You made him want to scream and shout, but you made him want to smile. You made a void ache in his chest.
Haechan’s phone started to ring. He scolded himself for immediately hoping that it was you finally calling him like you should have weeks ago, but was disappointed when he saw it was Chaewon. But his curiosity got the best of him and he brought the phone to his ear, answering, “Hello?”
“Hey, Haechan,” Chaewon greeted somewhat somberly.
Haechan could immediately tell that something was off. He could hear it in her tone. “What’s up, Chaewon?”
“It’s about your girl,” Chaewon said, sullen. She was obviously very worried. “She’s going away for a few months. She got a deal out of state and they’re flying her out.”
Haechan set his jaw. You were leaving - again. And he had to find out about your whereabouts through somebody else. Again. “Oh. Good for her, I guess,” he replied indifferently.
Chaewon snapped, “Don’t give me that nonchalant bullshit, Haechan. You know and I know that you both care about each other. Now, listen. She’s my best friend and the love of my life, but I understand that she hasn’t been making the best decisions lately.”
Haechan interjected, “So what? I should go clean up her mess? I’m not her man and I’m damn sure not her fucking daddy, Chaewon.”
“Don’t start getting an attitude with me,” Chaewon hissed. “If you’d let me finish, I was going to say that her flight leaves today at four. I just thought you deserved to know that. It’s not your job to finish what she started, but if you still want to, you know where to find her.”
Haechan heaved a breath.
Chaewon added, “It’s up to you. I think you two could set things straight if you communicated with each other for once. But if you don’t want that, then forget I said anything. I just thought with how adamant you were on pursuing her that you would be the last person to give up on her. Maybe I was wrong.”
Haechan sighed. Again. His head was throbbing. “I’ll think about it,” he finally exhaled after a moment or two.
“Okay. Bye, Haechan.”
Haechan spent all of three hours debating whether or not he should have come to see you. He was still bitter over the lack of communication, but after a moment of pondering in silence, realized that was why you two were in this predicament in the first place.
If he would have been honest about how he felt about you going to New York, maybe none of this would have happened. Maybe you would’ve never left. Never entertained Jeno. You would’ve stayed in his arms where you rightfully belonged.
After all this time, he realized something. His open arms would still be waiting for you when you were ready to come back to them. Fear corrupted Haechan when he had a thought. The fear of you never coming back. What if you went away for months and met a different guy that you liked? What if you never came back?
He wasn’t ready to lose you, he quickly realized. He wasn’t ready to give you away either. The first thing he thought when you told him about your ex was that that guy was a dumbass for kicking you to the curb.
And if Haechan thought he was stubborn, his heart was going to put both of you to shame.
Haechan grabbed his keys and burst out the front door like lightning, immediately mounting his bike. Even the damn bike reminded him of you as he probably broke the law with how quickly he was speeding. On a motorcycle, we get to dodge all the traffic.
He looked everywhere for you. Every corner he turned, there were people living their day-to-day lives, giving the guy running through the airport like he was playing Subway Surfers a brief, baffled look. Haechan didn’t care. He didn’t give a flying fuck who thought what about him, unabashedly in love with you. He would shout it out in front of all of these strangers if that was what it took.
Finally, he saw you, closing in on your terminal. He shouted your name loud enough to disturb some people and earn a couple of disdainful glances from onlookers.
You turned around, recognizing that voice before you saw his face.
Your heart raced when you saw Haechan jogging over to you and for a moment you were pleased to see him, but then you remembered how ruined you were because of him. You pretended not to care and sneered, “If you’re here to get your jacket back, you’re out of luck. I already checked in and I don’t have my luggage.”
“Damn that jacket,” Haechan hissed, his blood pumping a billion times per second. Only half it was because of how fast he ran. “I can’t let you leave like this. Not when we have so much unfinished business to work through.”
You barked, “Me and you are nothing. We have nothing.”
“Really?” Haechan asked, staring at you in disbelief. “All those months together meant nothing to you?”
Those words reminded you of that night at Jaehyun’s place, as well as the fact that Haechan couldn’t have cared about you, which only made you bristle. You lied through your teeth, “Nothing.”
Haechan switched on a diming, changing tactics, and hissed, “Bull-fucking-shit. I spent so many nights waiting for you to call. You never did. I could have got at least a fucking text or something. But you know what I got instead? Nothing. A whole lotta nothing! I had to find out from somebody else that you’re back and then you go out with Jeno.”
All you could do was give him an ugly scowl. How dare he march up in here to shout in your face? Like you were the villain. “I waited for you to show up. You never did! You said you were busy, but you were at the fucking club. Don’t even lie because I saw Jaemin’s story.”
Fuck, you saw that? “So, I go out and have a couple of drinks and you decide you want to fuck Jeno?”
“Are you fucking serious right now?” you seethed. “All I wanted was for you to kiss me goodbye, but you stood me up so that you could drink and get laid. I saw you outside the cafe with the girl. That’s why I didn’t call you.”
Haechan softened in realization, understanding that he had fucked up more than he thought. Still, he kept riling you up. It was the only way you both would get answers.
“You went off to New York to fuck your ex,” Haechan reminded. “I don’t see why it’s a big deal that I got laid too.”
You exclaimed, “I didn’t want to go to New York!”
“Then, why the fuck did you?”
You ran your fingers through your hair. He was just so good at getting under your skin. You confessed morosely, “Because when I had sex with you, it felt like we were making love. I was in denial about loving you, because I didn’t want to take the risk of getting my heart broken again.”
Haechan wasn’t sure what he was expecting you to say, but it wasn’t that. He was positively stunned to silence.
“Jaehyun asked me a couple of weeks before that to come to New York. And I wasn’t going to, but I was conflicted. And you acted like you didn’t care, so,” you explained yourself rapidly. “I went there to see if I still loved him, but all I harbored when I got there was resentment.”
God, I am a fucking idiot, Haechan hissed to himself. He swore he wasn’t going to fuck this one up.
“Then, I started going out with Jeno, thinking I could get back at you while also proving to myself that I wasn’t in love,” you whispered. “But he wasn’t you. That was when I knew you’ve ruined me.”
“You’ve ruined me too,” Haechan said softly, approaching you a little further. “She’s not you. I want you to know that. I only hooked up with her because I was upset and I wanted to distract myself from you.”
You were silent. His words weren’t exactly comforting, but you were both finally being honest with each other. And yourselves.
Haechan grabbed your hand in his, locking eyes with yours. “I fucked up. I should’ve been here the first time, but I wasn’t.”
Your eyes watered and no matter how hard you blinked, you couldn’t battle the tears. “Why didn’t you tell me how you felt about me going to New York? It would have mattered.”
“Because I didn’t want to seem like I was trying to control you,” Haechan replied, a well of regret and self-loathing. “I was trying to respect your decision.”
You chortled through your tears. “A gentleman to your core.”
Haechan shook his head, frowning. “In retrospect, there are so many things I could have done better. Maybe I was moving too fast for you, baby, and I’m sorry. I get a little overzealous.”
“Trust me, Haechan. You’re just the right amount of zealous.”
Haechan snickered. Leave it to you to make him laugh even during a moment like this.
Now that you both had cleared the air, you felt like there was a weight off your chest. You could understand each other and rationalize the other’s actions. You should have just talked a long time ago.
“I didn’t fuck Jeno,” you blurted. “Or my ex.”
Haechan hung his head. “I’m sorry for accusing you of that. And for not being honest about my feelings.”
“I forgive you,” you spoke softly. “I’m sorry for not calling you and for going out with your friend.”
“He’s not my friend,” Haechan said like he was repulsed. “You helped me see that, so I forgive you.”
Your lips broke into a grin when he wiped a tear from your eyes.
Haechan’s expression suddenly turned sober and he declared, “I wanna start over.”
“Haechan…,” you started.
He shushed you. “I’m not the easiest person to get to know but half of it is because nobody ever gives me a chance. People look at me and see what they want to see. They think they’ve got me all figured out.”
That was true. You knew it, because you had been one of those people. You got your heart broken by a fuckboy once and Haechan made it way too easy to assume he was the same.
“Even if I broke your heart, I wanna put it back together again,” Haechan continued. “Will you let me do that?”
God, your whole being was consumed by. The love you had for this boy was all-consuming. You just wanted to be with him for the rest of your life. “Yes. You already know I will.”
Haechan smiled triumphantly. All he knew was you. If he couldn’t have you, he didn’t know what he would do with himself.
“But I’m literally leaving for three months,” you reminded him, a frown on your face.
The reminder jolted Haechan back into reality, but he knew better than to ask you to stay. He knew you loved your work and he wouldn’t dare come between that bond. “You remember what I told you on our first date? About dating long distance?”
Your frown got bigger. “Yeah. That you didn’t know if you could make it work for me, but you would at least try.”
“I changed my mind,” Haechan told you, looking at you with all the love in the universe. “I don’t give a fuck what I have to do to make it work. I don’t care how hard I have to try. I love you and I’m willing to sacrifice everything for us.”
All you could do was stare into his eyes. Those three words made your head spin. He loved you. “Really?”
Haechan bobbed his head. “I’ll call you every day. I’ll text you good morning when I wake up and goodnight before I go to bed. But you have to meet me halfway.”
“I’ll meet you in the middle,” you said in a heartbeat. “I’ll text you every time I think about you. We can watch stupid romcoms then talk about them over the phone. I’ll call you and tell you how my days are going.”
“I want to hear all of it. The good days and the bad ones too. I wanna be there for you,” Haechan whispered tenderly.
“You can do all of that.”
“You promise?”
You nodded. “It’s gonna take some effort, but… I know we can make us work. You just have to accept that I need space sometimes and I don’t always make sense.”
Haechan snorted. Like he didn’t already know that. “No offense, but I think we just had a crash course on that, baby.”
You rolled your eyes, but you couldn’t fight it anymore and smashed your lips against his, bringing him in for a kiss. They called for passengers to board. Haechan’s hands were quick to grab your waist, holding you tight like he didn’t want to let you get on that plane. But he once heard that if you love someone, you’ll let them go. So, that was what he was going to do.
When you pulled back, Haechan said, “Promise when you get back we’re gonna watch a really cheesy movie together and dance to MJ.”
You chuckled, slipping your fingers through his and squeezing. “I’ll save the date.”
Haechan smiled, letting out a breath. “Bye, baby.”
“See you later,” you whispered, almost like you didn’t want to go. But you knew you would regret not getting on that plane. “I mean it this time.”
Haechan snorted. Finally, after exchanging one last kiss, he let you go.
He watched you slip away. There was a familiar feeling taut around his heart, but he toughed it out. You’re gone again, but that’s okay. Because this time, I know you’ll come back.
“I’ll wait for you,” Haechan whispered to himself, turning away once you were out of his sight.
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SiR's newest album HEAVY is pushing the boundaries of R&B in all the right ways (QT)
Today I was on a long shift at work. I had finally made it to my lunch, and I popped in the car and opened Spotify to see what was new. HEAVY by SiR pops up, a familiar name that previously got me through hard times. I immediately press play, experiencing an immersive episode of music that I hadn't expected.
The lyrics spoke doubtful thoughts I discern vividly, finding the perfect elements to pair with SiR's soulful voice. Combining aspects of guitar, bass, samples, and beats, SiR resounds his timbre into a fresh track. There were minimal skips and minimal misses with the features in the album. With surprise accompaniment from Anderson .Paak, Ab-Soul, and even Ty Dolla $ign, this track did not let me down with the combination of emotions merging into this sophisticated project. The pure, raw feeling felt through the speakers spoke directly to me, reminding me of my first time listening to Lahai by Sampha (see below for review!)
Going from what resembles a male SZA project in HEAVY to a shocking southern country folk song in SIX WHOLE DAYS, this album kept me on my toes for what came next. NO EVIL had genuinely one of the hardest beats I've heard this year, the bass absolutely shredding. IM NOT PERFECT was a dazy ode to admitting his troubles, which resonated deeply with me. KARMA was what sounded similar to JID's flow, bleeding the lyrics "It's a little late to save the old me, oh." SATISFACTION has a satisfying guitar riff over some of those lyrics that attracted me to SiR in the first place.
The album has its ups and downs, encompassing what a week frequently feels like for me. All the while, I forgot that the core genre was R&B. SiR's implementation of relaxing rock band, samples/beats, and even trumpets here and there, all combined to push what we consider R&B. This was a fresh album that left me content, reminding me of how I felt after Let's Start Here from Lil Yachty last year. Definitely recommend!
#SiR#new music#r&b/soul#contemporary music#guitar#contemporary r&b#anderson .paak#ty dolla $ign#music#quick thoughts#quick write#first impressions#fusion music#heavy
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Jhené Aiko — Chilombo (Deluxe) (2020)
Runtime: 1hr 32min (29 tracks)
Singles: “Triggered (Freestyle)”, “None of Your Concern”, “Pussy Fairy (OTW)”, “Happiness Over Everything (H.O.E.)”, “B.S.”
Favorite Track: “B.S.”
Notable Sample(s): “Summer 2020” samples Kool & The Gang - “Summer Madness”.
Features: Big Sean, H.E.R., Future, Miguel, Ab-Soul, Dr. Chill, Micahfonecheck, Nas, John Legend, Ty Dolla $ign, Kehlani, Mika J, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa.
Notes: Jhené Aiko’s voice remains smooth and soothing regardless of her subject matter. The calm energy of the album is unaffected by (and at times juxtaposed with) the vulgarity of the lyrics. I would consider myself a fan, and enjoyed this album. However, Chilombo is not Aiko’s best album- there is less diversity in sound, some of the features feel unnecessary, and it felt slightly bloated, due to the first reason. While it’s a good album, it’s not a good album to just sit and listen to. There’s not enough in the music to focus on, and it just ends up in the background of something else. This doesn’t change the fact that I liked the album, along with her previous ones.
Would I Recommend?
I would recommend this album for someone who wants to just chill, or use it as background music. I would, however, recommend her album Trip over it.
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Spell Out Your URL Using Song Titles! tagged by: @echoestm tagging: anyone who still remembers audio cassettes
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