#jj project fluff

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Tomorrow, Today // Im Jaebum + Park Jinyoung

Pairing: Jaebum x Jinyoung

Genre: Fluff, Oneshot

Summary; {Based on JJProjects upcoming title-track and concept images}, Jaebum and Jinyoung escape to the country-side together; reflecting on their lives, and their feelings for each other.

No sooner had Jaebum revved the engine of his pick-up truck that had certainly seen better days, both he and Jinyoung could already feel the foreign sensation of freedom.

They knew they had to get away; to drive as far as they could from their hectic lives and escape to a place where they could be alone together. Far from the eyes of their peers and enemies alike; just the two of them, the way they always longed for it to be but could never show it properly. Even if it was just for a few hours, the two men could happily sink into the worn down seats of the truck – knowing that if only for a while, they could just be who they were, with each other.

Neither of them reached to turn on the radio. The rattling hum from the engine and the gentle ambience from the dark 4am roads seemed more than comforting. As Jaebum focused on the almost mountainous terrain of the roads – forever declining and inclining along their journey, Jinyoung found himself barely able to remove his stare from his lovers face as he sat in the passenger’s seat. The same face he had known for over five years – the only face he wanted to see day after day. The face that belonged to a man of few silent, mumbled words; but Jinyoung would have had him no other way than the person he was, and the person he had grown into.

“Jinyoung?” Jaebum’s hushed voice filled the silence, as gentle as rose petals falling to the ground.

“Hm?” Jinyoung blinked thrice, shaking himself from an almost hypnotic stare as he raised his eyebrows.

“You’re doing it again”

Both men chuckled, with Jinyoung knowing that Jaebum knew he had been staring at him for the longest time. Jinyoung lowered his eyes to his lap, feeling red-cheeked and rosy eared at being caught once again for admiring the one thing he loved so fiercely in the world.

“��I didn’t say you should stop” Jaebum teased, once again making Jinyoung grin like a Cheshire cat. “I like it when you stare at me” he added, flicking his eyes over to Jinyoung momentarily – so coy and delicate in his demeanour that only added to the list of reasons Jinyoung could never resist him.

“Really? Well, how come I never catch you staring at me?” Jinyoung tilted his head rather playfully, watching a smirk unfold on Jaebum’s face.

“Oh – I do stare. But it’s usually whenever you’re not aware. Like when you’re sleeping – or when you’re so engrossed in your work that you wouldn’t notice if I walked in with no clothes on and began dancing” Jaebum said as soberly as a judge – which just made it even more comical to Jinyoung at the mere thought of it alone.

“…you stare at me when I’m sleeping? You’re not some kind of freak are you?” Jinyoung reached over to tuck a stray piece of Jaebum’s shaggy hair behind his ear, doting on the many earrings that he frequently donned.

“If I am, I’m the kind of freak you like”

Once again, Jinyoung found himself smiling as if tomorrow didn’t exist – feeling as if a hoard of butterflies had been set free inside his stomach. “You always know what to say, you always know how to make me smile, even when we’re both feeling the burdens of our lives so intensely” he thought silently, to himself.

The rest of the journey was spent in silence. Even when they reached their destination of a small, remote lakeside; both men never uttered a word as Jaebum pulled up the handbrake and switched the engine off. Itching to stretch his legs, Jinyoung opened the truck door and let his lungs fill themselves with the natural air of the country-side. Intrigued, Jaebum watched him from behind the wheel of the truck, noticing how ethereal Jinyoung looked in his white shirt and blue jeans with the tall trees and lake in the backdrop that surrounded them both.

“What is it about you that keeps me here?” Jaebum wondered to himself as Jinyoung reached his arms up to stretch, allowing Jaebum a familiar view of the bottom of his stomach as his shirt rode up ever-so-slightly. Shortly after meeting Jinyoung all those years ago, Jaebum knew that a life without Jinyoung would be a life that wasn’t worth anything to him. And the fact that he still thought that meant more than a million words Jaebum could ever use to describe his true feelings.

Jaebum quickly hopped out of the driver’s seat, taking a moment to admire the serenity of the lake in front of him before pulling himself up and sitting down in the back-space of his beaten up pick-up truck. He sat with his back against the window, before looking down at his watch to see that the time now read 6:40am.

“Jinyoung, come here” he called out, knowing that they had precious little time to spend together.

“You look pretty comfortable there” Jinyoung walked towards the truck, seeing Jaebum sitting there with a space between his thighs that was perfectly fit for only one person.

“I could try convincing you…or you could come and see for yourself~” Jaebum patted the bottom of his stomach – his voice being a mixture of playful and serious as Jinyoung rolled his eyes and chuckled to himself gingerly. Without a moment’s thought, Jinyoung threw his leg over the edge of the truck and climbed in beside Jaebum – nestling himself between the elder’s legs; being able to feel the warm, soft firmness of Jaebum’s chest as Jinyoung rested his back against it.

“Put your head back~” Jaebum whispered whilst he simultaneously snaked both his arms around Jinyoung’s mid-drift, enveloping him in an unperturbed, cosy embrace with the early morning sky above them both. Jinyoung let his head fall back into the crook of Jaebum’s neck – their eyes meeting and locking like a bulls-eye target.

“I…I’m glad we came here. I think…I think it’s what we both needed” Jinyoung spoke softly; placing a gentle grip around Jaebum’s wrist as he felt his lovers lips graze the tip of his ear. Jaebum offered a mumbling hum in response to Jinyoung’s words, feeling content and at ease – despite knowing that soon, they would both have to return to the madness of their usual, daily lives.

“We need to do this more often. Just you and I” Jaebum said as he pressed his cheek to Jinyoung’s forehead. When Jaebum looked back on his life, he often thought about the struggles that came with his youth – his adolescence to be precise; how arrogant and stubborn his 18 year old self was. Now being a matured 23 year old man with the world at his feet, he was glad he could reflect on these times with a smile upon his face as he held the most important thing to him in his arms. In many ways, Jinyoung felt the same, humbled by his own beginnings and hopeful for the future; wherever it took him, it didn’t matter. So long as Jaebum was by his side.

And with that, Jaebum’s lips found their way on top of Jinyoung’s – inviting him to the pillowy-softness of his kiss. Jinyoung closed his eyes as his mouth moulded against Jaebum’s, forever letting him set the pace as if it had always been written in stone. Jaebum could think of nothing else as the gentle sound of their kisses filled the air around them; his grip softening and tightening around Jinyoung’s body as he held on to him endlessly. Jinyoung let a soft mewl pass his lips every so often – sounds that Jaebum had found himself addicted to, listening to them as if they were his favourite song on repeat. The moment, as short as it was, was nothing less than the true definition of perfect. Just the two of them, away from the harsh reality that was their lives; but it was their moment, one of many private, secret moments they treasured so deeply in their hearts.

Breaking the kiss, Jaebum intertwined his fingers with Jinyoung’s as the two men relaxed once again – both of them looking up to the sky as the sun found it’s place just above the trees in the distance.

“When should we go back?” Jinyoung asked.

“…tomorrow? Today? Actually…let’s not think about that for now.” Jaebum looked down at Jinyoung once again, wanting to just enjoy the short time they had together.

Jinyoung let out a deep sigh – one filled with a certain kind of contentment and fullness that only Jaebum could ever provide him. “Tomorrow, today…it doesn’t matter. As long as I’m with you, everything else will fall into place.”

Jaebum smiled as he looked back up to the sky, feeling as if he could really take flight and soar to the heavens above with the amount of happiness he felt in that moment.

“You’re not going all cheesy on me now, are you – Park Jinyoung?” Jaebum teased as he pressed a single, chaste kiss to Jinyoung’s head.

Jinyoung chuckled, closing his eyes as he let himself sink further in to Jaebum’s chest behind him, “You act as if you hate cheesiness; but your façade doesn’t fool me in the slightest – Im Jaebum.”

Nothing could have stopped the smile that made its way on to Jaebum’s face as it did just then. “You know me better than I know myself. Maybe that’s what keeps me here. Because it’s why I love you.”

Even though they both knew that soon enough, they would have to get back on the road to return to the life they both loved and loathed for a range of different reasons – it didn’t bother either of them in the slightest. For as Jinyoung had mentioned, Jaebum shared the same feelings of not caring about anything else; as long as they had each other, everything would be just fine.

“Let’s stay here for as long as we can” Jinyoung whispered.

“Sounds like a good idea to me.” Jaebum replied.