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softforimjaebum · 7 years ago

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moon like you | oneshot.

Im Jaebum x OFC

Word Count: 7.6k

Genre: Fluff (seriously, it’s so fluffy and cliched and cheesy)

Author’s Note: I feel like I went overboard with this, but this oneshot was basically written in the week Jaebum was in the jungle and my heart was extra soft for him. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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This is the last place Jaebum wanted to be in.

Yes, he had said sex dance when he wanted to say sexy dance. But in his defence, he was really tired, running on 2 hours of sleep. And he had apologised profusely for slip up. But his company was not having any of it. They mandated English lessons for him once again, and he hated it.

He knew it wasn’t just his tiredness that had caused it though. In reality it was a combination of that, and the fact that he never felt confident to speak these English words. Or just the language in general. He had taken lessons, just as everyone else had, when they were rookies. But as soon as he could speak the absolute minimum english that could get him through concerts and ordering food in other countries, he had quit learning.

Working on his English meant also working on his self-confidence, and he hated doing that. But that wasn’t the main reason he hated sitting here. It was because of her. She were going to be teaching him. Everyone called her Ren.

And Jaebum had the biggest crush on Ren. She was a small girl with a round, full face and scattered tattoos on her honey-like skin. He had always wanted to know the meaning behind them, Jackson had once mentioned how all of them had their own little stories, and he wanted to hear them from her but whenever she was around, Jaebum was a mumbling mess. He had learned early on to keep his mouth shut in front of her. She made him so nervous that he felt like a 14 year old trying to talk to his first crush.

Now he was being asked-no, forced-to make a fool of himself in front of her. It was not as if her very presence didn’t make him a nervous mess, but now he would be speaking English in front of her. This was the reason he had never taken English lessons again.

Thinking back, Jaebum still remembered the first time he saw Ren in his English lessons. She had been sitting in a corner, quiet and unmoving, focused on the person teaching them. When she looked down to scribble down her notes, her long black hair cascaded down covering her face from his gaze. He still remembered her real name, but she seemed to dislike it, so he never told anyone, neither the ones who wondered it out loud in front of him nor the ones who directly asked him.

He couldn’t pay attention that whole class. God knows what he had missed out on that day, he couldn't have asked the rest of the boys for help because they would want to know why he hadn’t payed attention and he didn’t want to tell anyone else that just Ren’s presence had done that to him.

Soon after their basic English lessons were over, they found that Mr. Hyun had retired and that she would be taking over for him. Everyone had taken lessons from her, including the new trainees, the existing idols, everyone except for Jaebum. She had an excellent reputation for being really fun to learn with. Youngjae had taken extra lessons with her before he had gone to New York. Jackson was friends with her, even Jinyoung had gushed about her. It made everything all that much worse for Jaebum, because they could all experience this amazing girl and he sat in the sidelines, and it was all his own doings.

Jaebum was drawn out of his thoughts when Ren entered the room followed by a girl who didn’t look all that much younger than her. Ren always smelled of lavender, and he could never understand how a girl whose nickname meant lotus smelled so much like a whole different flower. She looked a lot different now than she had when he first saw her. Her long black hair was now cut into a short inverted bob. He missed seeing her long hair, not that he didn’t find her equally adorable in this hair. She dressed a lot different too. When she had first started working with the company, she always wore full sleeves, covering her tattoos from prying eyes, but as time had passed she had learnt to not care.

He greeted the both of them; Ren was casual in her response, the other girl was visibly nervous.

“She will be here just for today, she’s going to be helping me out with these lessons soon so she wanted to see how its all done. I hope you don’t mind” Ren said to him.

Jaebum shook his head no, his words failing him. He knew he could’ve spoken in Korean but his throat was dry. Suddenly he couldn’t language anymore. He grabbed the water bottle in front of him, trying to help his dry throat as she got set up.

“So, sex dance huh?” she teased, smiling at him as she sat down in the chair across the table from him.

“Ah… you heard” Jaebum said. He could feel his cheeks burning at her words.

You idiot, of course she heard, everyone in the company heard about it.

Ren could tell he was flustered, so she let out a small laugh and waved her hand in dismissal. “Don’t worry about it so much, Jaebum. I can’t begin to tell you the sort of slip-ups I have when I speak in Korean. Besides, you sounded so tired that day, I’m sure that didn’t help”

“Still embarrassing” he confessed.

She smiled at him, “It’s okay, it was kinda cute”

Her phone rang, and she excused herself from him, turning around to pick up the phone. Jaebum sat there, wide-eyed, had Ren just called him cute? His heart was beating in his chest so loudly he was surprised no one else in the room heard it.

No, no, she must’ve meant that his fumbling was cute.

But even still, Jaebum could feel himself getting more and more flustered.

“Well, you know the rules. We’ll try speaking in english as much as possible. If there is a word that you aren't sure how to say, you can ask me and I’ll help you out” you said when you turned back around to face him after attending the call.

“Yes” Jaebum spoke out, his voice shaky.

Get yourself together, get yourself together; he kept chanting it to himself in his head. It wasn’t helping.

Half an hour into the lesson, a overly cheerful Jackson burst into the room, telling them about how his niece had recognised him over FaceTime. Jaebum was less than enthusiastic about this, but Ren found it extremely adorable. Everyone in the company knew that Jackson was putty in his niece’s little palms. She giggled at Jackson, asking him to tell her more, and Jaebum found himself automatically smiling. He could swear her laugh was the cutest thing he had ever heard.

When Jackson left, she were still smiling.

“He’s something special isn’t he?” she said turning back to Jaebum.

He couldn’t deny it, Jackson was a pretty special guy. Jaebum truly considered people who didn’t know Jackson as well as he did to be missing out in life. Jackson wasn’t just the person who could cheer him up on a gloomy day, but also someone he could trust with his life. And that was a difficult trait to find in people in his field of work. But in that moment, Jaebum’s heart sunk. What if she had feelings for Jackson?

He could very well not expect her to feel anything for him, because Jaebum hadn’t ever given her anything to like about him, but Jackson? He was such good friends with her, she knew so much more about him than she did about Jaebum. It worried him.

“He really is” Jaebum said, despite his feelings. He couldn’t refuse the truth now, could he?

In the half an hour that followed, she was the one doing more of the speaking than him and boy, was he glad. She told him they would go over whatever grammar he had previously done, basic verbs and such, initially and then they could move into the more complicated parts.

“Listen, I think it would be a really good idea for you to actually talk a little more in English. You’re obviously not entirely comfortable with it and the best way to get comfortable is to speak, despite what you may feel” Ren said once their lesson was officially over.

“I could try speaking English…to Mark?” he suggested.

“If you can get Mark to actually hold a conversation, then of course. If not, you know where to find me, even if it isn’t duration your lessons” Ren suggested back.

He couldn’t believe his ears for a second. Had Ren suggested they hang out outside of their lesson timings?

She is only trying to help, stop letting your mind run wild.

“Okay, thank you” Jaebum fumbled with his words again, thanking his lucky stars he didn’t say anything stupid this time.

Three weeks, and a handful of lessons later, Jaebum’s english had improved drastically, much to his own surprise. He hadn’t expected to get this comfortable with a language that always put him in an awkward place. The only problem, at this point, was that Jaebum itched to know more Ren.

He wanted to get to know how she got the scar on the inside of her wrist and the stories behind her tattoos. He wanted to know how she liked her coffee and what she did on weekends. He wanted to know what scared her and what she thought the meaning of life was. But he couldn’t think of anything to say to her. Even if he took her up on the offer of practising more English with her, its not as if he could just stroll up to her and ask her these deep, existential questions.

He decided to ask Ren if she wanted to get coffee with him anyway. He couldn’t keep acting like a teenager.

He found her sitting in her cozy office on the 1st floor, sipping on what Jaebum could only guess to be tea. Ren’s love for tea was known across the company office, and Jackson always brought home tea that Ren gave him, knowing his obsession with such things. But her love for coffee was equally well known. There was a running joke that Ren needed her caffeine more than she needed her oxygen.

Knocking on the door, he drew her away from the laptop in front of her. She looked up at him, her face lighting up when she saw him in the doorway.

“Jaebum” she smiled. “Hi”

He loved how his name rolled off her tongue, just hearing her call out to him made his heart flutter.

“Hi” Jaebum said, smiling shyly.

“Come, take a seat” she pointed to the one if front of her desk.

“I couldn’t get Mark to hold a conversation today” Jaebum said, knowing it was a lie. He hadn’t event tried talking to Mark today, but he wasn’t sure how else to begin their conversation.

Ren laughed, and Jaebum could feel his nervousness melt away. He’d made her laugh. His stomach erupted with butterflies at that thought.

“How have you been making him talk to you otherwise?” Ren questioned, curious about Jaebum’s secret.

“Its usually one word answers but at least I can speak in English” Jaebum confessed sheepishly, and Ren smiled at him.

“So you finally took up my offer huh? As a last resort?”

She was teasing him, it was so evident in her voice. Jaebum shook his head at her, still smiling.

“Do you want to get coffee with me?” he asked abruptly, slightly nervous wondering about her response.

“I’d love to…” she trailed off. “But I really need to finish up this report”

Jaebum felt his heart sink just a little, but he knew her work was important.

“Oh…okay. Then, I will see you tomorrow for the lesson?” he said, moving to get out of the chair he was sitting in without waiting for her reply.

“I didn’t say no, Jaebum. But how about you give me half an hour to finish this up, and then we can get coffee?” Ren suggested, and Jaebum’s eyes lit up at her response.

Ren could see it happening, how his demeanour changed from being a little defeated to his entire body lighting up. It was adorable to her. But then again, most of what Im Jaebum ever did, Ren found extremely cute. To say that she hadn't been harbouring a little crush on him ever since she had joined the company would be a lie. But he never came for any lessons, which made it awkward for her to talk to him.

She couldn’t just walk up to him and chat with him now could she? But here he was. Asking her out for coffee, her heart beating fast.

“Okay, I’ll wait at the coffee place nearby?”

“Okay”

Jaebum spent a while in the company office, going around to see how some of the trainees were doing, then made his way out of the office as discreetly as he could. He walked to the coffee place, a couple of fans following him, clicking photos and he was glad that the coffee shop had a strict policy about the privacy of those who came to drink coffee there since a lot of JYP idols and employees went there daily for their coffees.

He waited patiently, taking a seat in one of the discreet corners. Minutes passed, and Jaebum grew just a little nervous. She would be here any second, and he still didn’t know what he would talk about.

A couple of minutes later, a wild Ren was standing in the doorway of the coffee shop, looking around for Jaebum. When he saw her looking, he waived a hand at her, and Ren was quick to walk to him.

“I’m so sorry” she said. “I really had to finish that report and it look a little longer than I expected”

Jaebum hadn’t really noticed the time, he’d been too worried to notice that Ren was late.

“I didn’t realise you were late” he simply said, his mind already finding it hard to concentrate on the english he was speaking.

“Really? I’m like 15 minutes late. I’m so sorry” she said, wondering how he hadn’t noticed. Or maybe it was just her, she had a tendency to be punctual and being late didn’t come naturally to her. So it was odd when people didn't notice.

“You don’t have to apologise” Jaebum said.

“I hate being late though, so I’ll treat you to coffee today”

“Ah, no you don’t have to-”

“I do, or I will drive myself crazy for being late” she told him. It was the truth. She knew she was late, and therefore felt a need to compensate for it somehow.

After they ordered their coffee, and Ren paid for it, they were back to their table, waiting for their order.

“You’re…really difficult on yourself” Jaebum said, unsure of his vocabulary. “Is that the right phrase?” he questioned.

“Uh, its a little more natural to say you’re really hard on yourself…but difficult isn’t bad either” she said. “And yes…I’ve been told that a lot”

Ren started talking about this one pudgy cat that she saw sitting outside her apartment in the morning, and just like that, all anxiety disappeared from within Jaebum. He talked to her about his own cats, releasing soon that she was as enthusiastic about pets as he was.

“You know, I’ve loved pets since I was a little girl, but I was never allowed to have any growing up” Ren confessed, her demeanour changing suddenly. She wasn’t looking at him anymore, choosing to instead look down at her hands tracing the rim of her cup.

“Why?” Jaebum asked, unable to help himself. He didn’t want to push her, but his curiosity got the best of him.

She looked up at him, seeing his eyes wide with slightly shock and curiosity, and flashed him a small smile.

“Ah…my mother wasn’t a pet person. I grew up surrounded by puppies in my grandma’s house but, then I grew up, and we moved away. But we would go back often, so it was okay. And then I grew up even more, and going back to our hometown became rarer. But no matter what, my mother just refused to let me get a pet of my own”

Jaebum nodded, understanding. Ren told him about how it felt unfair to her as a child, but as she grew older she could see why. Not much unlike Jaebum, she grew up in a city that wasn’t where her extended family lived, with only her mom and dad. She was a single child like him. And while it got lonely sometimes, having a pet wasn’t an option while living in apartments. His own situation hadn’t been too different, and he’d told her as such.

“Well, you can share my cats if you like” Jaebum said, not really thinking about his words. But as soon as they left his mouth, he cursed himself. How could he have been so forward, so reckless?

But he was surprised to find Ren smiling at him.

“Don’t mind if I take you up on that offer”

And that is how Ren had ended up in his dorm room a couple of weeks later, on a fairly slow day at the office. Jaebum felt special, she hadn’t even come to their dorms with Jackson in all these years even when they were such good friends. But she came with him, albeit for his cats.

Nora had automatically taken a liking to her, much like Jaebum remembered having done. Jaebum looked her from his bed, sitting on the floor with Nora in her lap, while he cuddled with Kunta. There was no one else but them at the dorm, the boys had all gone out for lunch after their practice ended. Jaebum could imagine his future so easily, spending lazy afternoons with her like this. He knew he was letting his thoughts run wild, but it felt so natural to him.

Ren suddenly looked at him, catching him staring her; making heart eyes at her, if he was being honest.

She smiled, “What?”

He shook his head, “Nothing. You uh..want to get some lunch?”

“I am hungry but I don’t wanna leave the cats”

Jaebum laughed, “You really are needy for pets aren’t you?”

She stuck her tongue out at him, and he reached for his phone to order takeout.

That is how their friendship blossomed; with cat memes and constant takeout orders. Ren’s apartment had become a second home to Jaebum, he would find himself automatically walking towards her apartment whenever things got too much handle or when he had a particularly difficult time finding a place to sit and write lyrics. She gave him the passcode to her apartment, and many evenings Ren would return to her apartment with the food already going and Jaebum sitting on the kitchen counter surrounded by scattered papers.

Jaebum’s dorm became a safe space for Ren too; she would show up on his doorstep in her pyjamas, hair a mess and face swollen from crying in the wee hours when she was too anxious or too sad to sleep. Jaebum would let her in, no questions asked. She would work, or cuddle with the cats, and Jaebum would go to sleep besides her. Some nights she would sleep over in what used to Jackson’s room if sleep ever came, otherwise she would sit up in his room until daybreak.

Ren loved reading him poetry that she found in the vague corners of the internet and old book stores and Jaebum loved cooking for her, even going as far as learning to cook new things so she didn’t get bored of the same food.

His feelings for her only increased the deeper their friendship became, but he was too afraid of losing her to even try to tell her about how he felt. She wasn’t like the oxygen Jaebum needed to survive; because he could survive just fine without her. She was like coffee; she made waking up every morning facing life a much easier task. Ren helped him let loose, to let go of the strings he had been holding onto so tightly that he was hurting himself without realising.

This morning, Ren was still in bed. She had the day off, but she had had a bad night so as usual she’d shown up on his doorstep. Jaebum made coffee, wondering if he should actually wake her up before heading out to the studio. He had a day off in a long time, but he had been working on more songs for his solo work in any free time he got and today would be the same.

He made them both breakfast, keeping hers in the fridge before sitting down to eat his own. When he was done, he quickly changed out of his shorts and put on some comfortable clothes. He decided he would at least let her know that he was off to work before leaving.

Ren was curled up on the bed, and Jaebum found three equally sleepy cats scattered around the room along with her.

“So this is where they went when I woke them up in the morning” he whispered to himself.

He smiled at the sight before him. He could fit into this scene so well. Jaebum could see it in his head; Ren sleeping curled up around him, his cats lazing around their bed and their bedroom.

Their bedroom.

The very thought made butterflies erupt in Jaebum’s stomach. He shook his head, ridding himself of these wishful thinkings before he made his way to Ren. He shook her shoulders lightly, before calling out to her.

Ren whined at the interruption in her slumber, but Jaebum was persistent.

“Hey, Ren, I'm leaving for the studio okay?”

Ren nodded her head, but Jaebum didn’t really believe she heard (or understood) what he was saying.

“Ren” he shook her shoulders again. “I’m leaving for the studio and your breakfast is in the fridge”

“Okay” Ren responded, her voice laced with sleep.

Yeah, she definitely didn’t understand a word he’d said…not that he was mad. He could get used to a sleepy whiney Ren.

Ren woke up later that morning to something furry tickling her face. She opened her eyes to Kunta’s butt curled up right in her face. She laughed, this is exactly how she wanted to wake up; to a cat curled up next to her head. Dragging herself out of the bed, and made her way out. She found a note near the coffee pot, Jaebum knew her too well, which informed her that Jaebum had gone out to the studio and that there was breakfast kept in the fridge.

She ate the breakfast Jaebum had made for her in silence, going through all the notifications on her phone one by one. Just as she was done washing her dishes, she heard the door beep open. Thinking it was Jaebum, she didn’t pay much attention to it.

“You become friends with Jaebum, and suddenly I don’t even get a welcome hug anymore?”

That raspy, needy voice was too familiar to Ren. She turned around to find a pouty Jackson, his arms crossed to feign offence.

“Oh you dramatic little bitch, come here”

Jackson laughed, opening his arms and walking to Ren to hug her.

“How have you been my little gold fish?” Jackson asked.

Ren huffed in response, she hated his nickname for her but she also knew he would never stop calling her that.

“I’ve been good. I had a bad night, so I ran over here”

“You know…there used to be a time when you’d run to me” Jackson said, the teasing evident in his voice. “But I guess now that Ren has her Jaebum….I’m useless”

“My god, do you ever tire of being so dramatic?” Ren sassed. “Besides, Ren doesn’t have her Jaebum. We just…ended up becoming friends. You know how it is”

“Uh huh”

Jackson was still using that tone, and knowing Jackson, he wasn’t letting it go.

For the past month, his teasing had just increased. And Ren wondered if he actually knew about her crush on Jaebum. Thankfully though, he never did it around Jaebum. She was afraid of Jaebum’s reaction to Jackson’s teasing if she were to be honest. And when she was so afraid of that, she couldn't even begin to think about telling him her feelings.

“So, what brings you here?” She asked Jackson, trying to change the topic.

“I see what you’re doing there Ren, but I’ll let it pass” he said, smiling at her. “I am just picking up some of Youngjae’s stuff. He invited me over to his place today, and I thought I’d help him out by picking up a box or two”

Youngjae had very recently moved out, but he had done it in between their promotions so a lot of his stuff was still in boxes in what used to be his room. His bed was still there, along with some essential clothing items, just in case he ever slept over at the dorm. Jackson’s room was the same, in fact, Ren quite often borrowed Jackson’s t-shirts. Fun fact; she never really gave them back.

“What are you planning to do today?” Jackson asked her.

“Well..I was thinking I’ll visit Jaebum’s studio? He left in the morning after making me breakfast, so I was thinking I’ll take some lunch there for him”

“Made you breakfast huh?” Jackson wiggled his eyebrows at her, making Ren laugh.

“Stop it, don’t start again!”

Jackson left half an hour later, having caught up with Ren and whined about the lack of organic green tea at the dorm now that he had moved on. She had rolled her eyes at him, handing him a cup of coffee that Jaebum had brewed in the morning, telling him one cup of coffee wasn’t going to pollute his organic system.

Ren pondered for a while; should she leave and go to her apartment just for a shower or should she just borrow (actually borrow, and return later) one of Jaebum’s shirts and shower at the dorm? God knows if she borrowed any more shirts from Jackson’s pile they would run out and Jackson would murder her when he found no t-shirts to wear when he slept over at the dorm.

She decided on the later, going back to her place at this hour would mean she would only reach Jaebum’s studio after lunch.

Jaebum had been busy, realising upon listening to a particular song he had made a couple of weeks ago that he no longer liked how it had turned on, and decided to scarp that version all together and work on it again.

He hadn’t realised how much time had passed, and he almost didn’t notice his phone vibrating on the table next to him. It was from the reception, telling him that there was someone here to meet him.

Jaebum was confused. No one was supposed to visit him today, if it was any of the people he worked with, they’d have walked right in. For a moment he was worried if it was one of the boys or if they had gotten into trouble.

He made his way out to the reception area, walking in quick strides as he reached the reception desk. The lady pointed behind him when he asked who it was that was here to meet him.

Jaebum was taken by surprise as he saw Ren sitting on one of the waiting sofas, looking into her phone.

“Ren?” he said out loud as he walked to where she was sitting, making her look up at him.

Ren beamed at Jaebum when she saw him approaching her, getting up to give him a quick hug.

“I thought I’d swing by with some lunch” she said, holding up the takeout bag she had in her hand.

“Good thinking” Jaebum said, leading her inside.

Once inside, Jaebum noticed something that almost made his heart explode right out of his chest. Ren was wearing something awfully similar.

“Are you wearing my t-shirt?” Jaebum wondered out loud, stunned in the smack middle of his studio, as Ren laid out the food on the table at the back of the room.

As soon as the words left his mouth Jaebum cursed himself mentally. Who says shit like this!?

Ren turned around to face him, “Yes, actually. I hope you don’t mind. I took a shower at your dorm, making a trip back home would take way too long”

Jaebum’s mind went straight to that image; the one of Ren in the shower he used every day. Blame it on his overactive imagination but he could almost imagine her inside the translucent shower door they had.

“Jaebum? You don’t mind me borrowing your shirt, right?” Ren looked worried. Jaebum had been staring off into space, and suddenly Ren wasn’t so sure it was the right choice to not borrow another one of Jackson’s shirts.

“Uh, no, of course not, Ren. Why would you even need to ask me that?” Jaebum said, shaking the mental imagines out of brain and starting to help Ren with the food. “Besides, I’ve seen you borrowing Jackson’s shirts all the time, its good you borrowed mine this time”

Ren’s heart was in her throat; what did he mean that by that? Why was he glad she borrowed his shirt instead of Jackson’s? Should she even be thinking about his words in the current situation?

“Wait, I’ll get us some soda” Jaebum suddenly said, releasing that they didn’t have any in the room.

“Okay” Ren forced herself to say with an equally forced smile.

Jaebum walked out of the room as quick as he could without making it look obvious. That was way too close, he couldn’t believe that he had let that slip out of his mouth. He walked to one of the vending machines nearby, trying to calm himself down and figure out a way to find out if he had said too much.

However, to his surprise, when he walked back in, Ren was already stuffing her face. She looked…normal. She didn’t look like she was in a shock or that his words had had any effect on her at all.

“Sorry I started without you, I was really hungry” Ren said, her voice coming out muffled from all the food in her mouth.

“Its fine” he said, laughing at her quietly. Ren was adorable, and sometimes he wished she would stop being so adorable for just a second so he could get a hold of his heart.

He let out a breath of relief as he sat down next to her, keeping one can of the soda in front of her and another in front of him.

“How did you get that scar on your face?” Ren asked him out of the blue, taking him by surprise.

He smiled, remembering the awfully stupid memory of that scar.

“I got it when I was really little, I was 5 years old at the time I think, and I used to play with this 7 year old boy who had bought a bicycle. And he wanted me to sit behind him while he took a round of the park we used to play in. I was so scared, but I was too afraid of saying no to my cool older friend” he paused to laugh at himself, finding Ren mirroring his smile. “So I got on. And he didn’t even fully start peddling before I managed to move and make us both fall off the cycle”

He touched the faint scar of his cheek, “And that, is the story of how a scaredy cat got a scar that refuses to fade away”

“Wow, you really have a weaker heart than Jackson, don’t you?”

Jaebum huffed at this. He had a stronger heart than Jackson’s; perhaps just a little bit stronger but stronger nonetheless. Ren laughed at his reaction, but didn’t press further. Teasing him about this could wait for another time.

Once they finished eating, Ren offered to clean up the table while Jaebum threw the empty takeout boxes in the dustin bins outside. When Jaebum came back, he put on some music, and both of them jumped onto the couch; happy, bloated and melting onto the couch. Neither of them spoke for a while, both busy with their phones and just relaxing.

Silence was a big part of their friendship, as was personal space. As much as both of them liked being in each other’s presence, neither of them were the type to be all up in the other’s face. Jaebum liked that silences with her weren't uncomfortable.

Jaebum’s phone vibrated when Ren sent him yet another cat video, this time of a small kitten disturbing a dog. She’d written “you @ me” beneath it. She hadn’t even looked at him when she’d sent it, which was also a regular part of them hanging out together. Ren liked that she could just enjoy his company without having to physically speak up.

Ren looked at the three little dots appearing on her screen as Jaebum typed; he let out a small laugh as he hit send.

You only wish you were as big as that dog

Jaebum loved teasing Ren about how small she was, and Ren hated his guts for it.

In response to his text, Ren scoffed as she sent him a picture of his own face, one of the many reaction memes he had provided his fans with.

After a while, Jaebum suddenly spoke up.

“Hey Ren, I had these lyrics I wrote. But uh, they’re in english. Do you mind looking them over for me once?” Jaebum asked, his heart beating fast in his chest.

He wasn’t one to have a big ego about asking for help. But this was Ren. And it was a song that he’d written with her in mind. His worry was not about her realising it was about her (or at least he hoped she wouldn’t) but more so about what he had written. According to Jaebum, getting judged on your writing skills in a foreign language by a girl you liked was the worst thing ever.

“Of course not, gimme” Ren said, straight up a little.

Jaebum moved towards his mixing console, where a stack of paper was neatly kept together with a couple of notebooks Ren knew he wrote in. He looked through them until he found the one he was looking for, before making his way back to the couch and handing the sheet to Ren.

He was tense and he was sure Ren could see it in his body, but how could he not be? This felt worse than JYP listening to his compositions.

Ren read through the lyrics, looking up at Jaebum mid-way through when she found a little error.

“There’s a grammar error here, do you want me to fix it?” she asked him.

He nodded, moving to hand her a pen that kept in his bag.

“And Jaebum, stop looking so worried. It’s looks like I’m your teacher grading your essay” Ren said, trying to make light of the situation. But Jaebum didn’t budge, he gave her a tight smile but that was it.

“You’re a really talented lyricists, Jaebum. And an equally talented composer and a musician in general. Have a little more faith in yourself. And this” Ren said, pointing down at the lyrics “This is really good so far”

“Really?” Jaebum asked, his voice small and quiet, as if he didn’t fully believe her.

“Yes, really. Cross my heart and hope to die” Ren said.

“What does that mean?”

Jaebum was confused at the peculiar sentence Ren had said. This wasn’t in his lessons.

Ren laughed at his confused face, it was one of the most adorable things she’d ever seen him do.

“It’s an expression. Like a way to say that if I’m lying about something and then I’ll die”

“That’s a horrible expression” Jaebum said, shaking his head, his lips pouting ever so slightly.

“My god, stop, you look like a pouty baby, let me concentrate on reading” Ren said, unable to stop herself.

“Well, that wasn’t in the lessons!” Jaebum defended, causing Ren to laugh harder.

Jaebum shrugged in response, and Ren got back to reading.

Ren corrected whatever little grammar wasn’t right, letting his words stay unchanged as much as she could. If she felt like a word was out of place, she would ask him to explain to her what he wanted to say in korean, and suggest a better word for it. If it worked with the flow, it worked; otherwise they let it stay the same.

It was late in the evening when Ren headed back home, and Jaebum had renewed inspiration to finish the song he had been working on before Ren had visited him.

Ren was in the cab, already on her way home, when Jackson called her.

“Squirtle boy! What’s up?”

“Are you finally home from meeting your one true love?” Jackson asked, his voice had the same teasing tone as it did in the morning.

Ren huffed loud enough for Jackson to hear it before replying, “I’m on my way back home, why?”

“Nothing special, I just wanted to hang out. We haven’t done that in so long”

“I’ll be home in half an hour, you wanna come over?” she asked, unsuspecting.

“I’ll be there in like an hour with some dinner”

“Even better”

With that Jackson had hung up. Ren had taken the time to take another shower, and getting into a comfortable pair of pyjamas. And as promised, Jackson had showed up a little over an hour with dinner.

“If you had picked up a healthy meal, I would have kicked you out” Ren said as she saw the pizza.

Jackson giggled at her, “You love me too much to do that goldfish”

Half an hour later, for the second time in the day, Ren sat bloated on a couch.

“Jackson I don't think I can ever move from here”

“Me neither. I think I’ll grow old here, I won’t even get to see my grandkids grow up”

“You won’t have any grandkids dummy”

“Who says I won’t?” Jackson turned his head slightly towards her, wiggling her eyebrows at her.

Ren kicked his thighs lightly, “Yuck”

“Ah, of course, I’m in the yuck category now that you’re so in love with Jaebum”

“Ugh, shut up. I’m not in love with him” Ren defended herself.

“You shut up” Jackson said, straightening up on the couch, and for a moment Ren thought she had actually offended him. “Everyone in the entire world knows that you two like each other, except for the two of you”

Now it was Ren’s turn to straighten up, and turn to sit facing him.

“That is crazy talk, Jackson-” she begun, but was quickly cut off by Jackson.

“No, it is not. Jaebum hyung likes you, he has liked you since you first showed up to take notes during our english lessons” Jackson said.

Ren sat stunned, unable to let his words sink in.

“And my god, does that man think he is so good at hiding his feelings for you. He is, in fact, terrible at hiding it. He practically drools whenever you are around, it’s painful to watch”

Ren still said nothing, and Jackson continued on.

“And you, my dear Ren, are the only one he actually fools. The one person who he should not be able to fool, he does. Come on, tell me you have at least sometimes noticed how different he is around you”

“I-I just never thought that it could be because of this…wait why are you telling me this?”

“Because clearly the two of you will not do jackshit about your feelings and the rest of us are tired of seeing you two pining over each other”

“Jackson?”

“Yes?”

“Has he really liked me that long?”

“Yes! My god, Ren, you should’ve seen him trying to act like he wasn’t one hundred percent clueless about what we were taught in that lesson”

In the months that followed that night, Ren tried her best to slyly drop hints at Jaebum. But as it turns out, Jaebum was just as thick as her when it came to reading such subtleties.

She didn’t exactly know what to do in this situation. When Jackson had left, she had told herself that she would drop these hints at him, and if he did want to act on his feelings then he would. But when he didn’t, there was a small part of Ren that wondered if he even wanted to act on his feelings for her or not. Moreover, she was in a limbo. She hadn’t thought of what she would do if he didn’t realise.

It was a Sunday afternoon when she was over at the dorms, mostly to cuddle with his cats. Kunta was with Ren, Nora was mid-nap while Odd was next to Jaebum. Ren was talking about this anime that she had recently seen, and how she couldn’t get it out of her head.

Jaebum had been with her initially, but the more she talked, the more he got lost in her. She was wearing a red hoodie that she had borrowed from Jaebum and never really given back. She looked so adorable that Jaebum could’ve melted right there.

Anyone who knew Ren knew that she had a liking for darker colours. Anyone who knew Jaebum would say the same. But Ren had chosen to wear that bright red hoodie, her body was lost in it, and all she made him want to do was cuddle her.

Suddenly Ren stopped talking, noticing the lack of response and questions from Jaebum, and looked right at him.

Jaebum felt like he was having a deja vu, only he knew something very similar had happened almost a year ago. He had been caught making heart-eyes at her again.

Ren saw him looking at her and for once she could pin-point it. He looked lost in her. And she couldn’t stop her words.

“So, when are you going to finally ask me out?” she asked, hoping and praying to whichever god existed in the universe that she hadn’t been too forward.

Jaebum was shocked, to say the least. He was being called out on his feelings, and it wasn’t in a negative way. At least it didn’t sound negative to him.

“I..uh…-”

“I mean, I’ve been pretty forward with the hint dropping” Ren rambled, her nerves getting the best of her. “And you obviously feel the same way, or at least I hope you do and Jackson didn’t actually lie to me about that”

“Wait, Jackson told you? And what hint dropping?” Jaebum was surprised, suddenly he didn’t feel nervous or anxious, because Ren was right there and she liked him. If he wasn't so giddy about that realisation, he would’ve wanted to kill Jackson.

“I made you coffee for almost a year in the office….I even gave you my favourite mug!” Ren defended. “And let’s not forget, I brought you food during practice. So many times!”

“I always thought that was for Jackson though!”

“I was hanging out with you every free hour I ever got and you thought it was for Jackson?” Ren questioned.

“That was not a hint enough, Ren”

“Its more of a hint than you ever dropped” Ren huffed at him. “If it wasn’t for Jackson telling me, I wouldn’t even have found out”

“Okay, fair enough”

Ren kept looking at him, eyes narrowed. She couldn’t believe he still wouldn’t ask her out.

“I swear Im Jaebum if I have to ask you to ask me out one more time I will make Nora, Odd and Kunta disown you and go on a date with them and Bambam instead”

Jaebum laughed, eyes squeezing shut, his teeth visible. He could’ve kissed her in that moment, the way she was almost pouting at him. Seeing him laugh like that melted her heart, only if just a little.

“Yah I am not kidding”

Jaebum got up from his bed, Odd having long lost interest in Jaebum once he had stopped petting him.

“Do you want to go on a date with me?” Jaebum asked, sitting down besides her on the floor, still shy about actually asking her out.

Ren rolled her eyes at him.

“And why would I do that?” she asked.

“I did what you asked, and now you’re asking me that?” Jaebum said, shaking his head.

“Yes. I want you to say it”

“Say what?”

“You know what, Im Jaebum”

“I like you, will you go out with me?” Jaebum said, leaning in for a quick kiss to her cheek, making Ren smile.

Just as she was about to reply, they were disturbed by a loud noise.

“EEEWWWWW!” Bambam and Yugyeom exclaimed in union from the doorway of Jaebum’s bedroom.

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5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 19, 21, and 25 for your dnd ocs, Alyona, and the android apocalypse characters. have fun.

OC QUESTIONS | Accepting’

5. Are there any story arcs you would like this character to explore?

Alyona

Meh idkk???

Kita

Please let this asshole realise that it’s okay to let other people take care of you.

Isidore

???

Michaela

I want Michaela to have like a badass warrior woman moment man.

Calvael

I’m not sure. I’d like for him to let go of his mother’smemory sometime, and live for himself.

Chal

Please give Chal a redemption arc in which he realises that,wow, he’s been kind of a bad person. Wow.

Ghilli

Ahh idk. I really loved that she died and came back as aghoul, and I’d love to see what she learns from that, tbh.

Mort

Ehh, no clue yet.

Ren

Well she’s getting into a pretty cool arc now, having todeal with the loss of her love interest and actually grasping for a goal so shecan live on, so yeah, I’m excited about that.

Serafima

Noooo clue yet.

Rorik

I want to corrupt my little wolf boy so bad. Give this boy afiendish warlock pact or something, fuck him up.

Aer

Idk.

Eiridi

idem

Aiki

????? Honestly I’d love for em to realise humans aren’t toobad but. They kind of are.

Wyatt

At some point I want him to get over Traesyc and put itbehind him but rn? Let him grieve let him suffer.

6. What would your character like (or have liked) to do with their life?

Alyona

Kick ass.

Kita

Go… outside….

Isidore

KICK ASS GO TO SPACE REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE.

Michaela

Find a solution to the android problem, save a lot of people.

Calvael

Live in his nice house on top of a hill and tend to hisgarden. Please. Leave him alone.

Chal

Chal is pretty content where he is now. He has centuries infront of him if he plays his cards right, and he’s intent on making the most ofit.

Ghilli

Ghilli is here to make the world a better place, and take noshit from anyone. A simple life.

Mort

Preferably live out of spite.

Ren

God, that’s a hell of a good question. She doesn’t reallyknow herself, at this point. She doesn’t really have a clear goal or a path setout in front of her.

Serafima

Just let this child explore the world at her own pace,please.

Rorik

LET THIS BOY BE HAPPY!!! I want him to be nice andcomfortable with Morana and explore the world and figure everything out.

Aer

??? idk. Be free as the wind.

Eiridi

She wants to find a new flock at some point, but right now she just wants revenge for the death of her old one.

Aiki

???? sorry lmao

Wyatt

God he’d love to just. Stick with his sis. Go onsilly adventures. Have fun, and not worry so much.

7. Who is your character’s best friend?

Alyona

??? no clue.

Kita

Issy and Michaela. Not that they’d admit it.

Isidore

Kita and Michaela.

Michaela

Kita and Isidore, obviously.

Calvael

Definitely not himself lmao, but??? He doesn’t really. Haveone.

Chal

Temperance and the Conman.

Ghilli

??? who knows. Maybe Ealda at this point.

Mort

???

Ren

Yknow. Barty. Probably.

Serafima

???

Rorik

Morana and Traxae, definitely.

Aer

???

Eiridi

???

Aiki

???

Wyatt

His twin, Scytta. They’ve been best friends since birth.

11. What crime is this character most likely to be convicted of?

Alyona

Murder. Definitely murder.

Kita

Punching someone they shouldn’t have punched.

Isidore

Breaking in.

Michaela

Hacking into her superior’s computer.

Calvael

Trespassing or something minor like that.

Chal

… Slavery. But they’ll have to catch him first. So probablysomething smaller, like, say, influencing a rich person to hand over theirmoney.

Ghilli

Something dumb she did to protect someone else.

Mort

Literally anything. They don’t have great morals.

Ren

mURDER??????

Serafima

Breaking a rule she wasn’t aware existed.

Rorik

Theft, poaching, something like that.

Aer

They’re a wild little gnome living outside of civilisation.Laws are not a thing they’re aware of.

Eiridi

Literally same as above.

Aiki

Breaking eir programming, probably.

Wyatt

…. Ykno. Murder.

14. What is this character’s relationship with religion or the church?

Alyona

Oh no. No, fuck the Overseers. Nope.

Kita

They don’t particularly give a fuck, to put it bluntly.

Isidore

He was raised by a catholic family, but doesn’t really care about any God anymore.

Michaela

No time for religion in a post-apocalyptic wasteland man.

Calvael

Calvael is not religious, though I could see him becomingreligious later on. He’s the type for silent prayer.

Chal

Gods are for losers, just don’t mess with them.

Ghilli

Ghilli is devoted to the creator of dwarves, Moradin.

Mort

The gods have forsaken them. I mean, that’s what they think.

Ren

Ren is a very loyal follower of Zehir, and recently became acleric of him.

Serafima

Ser worships Kord with great enthusiasm.

Rorik

Rorik is not the most pious, but he always sends smallprayers and sometimes offerings to Avandra.

Aer

Aer is not all about gods, but they do recognise theirexistence.

Eiridi

Eiridi has little knowledge of gods, and does not worshipone.

Aiki

Fuck gods.

Wyatt

He’s not very devoted, but does wear a little symbol of hisdeity around his neck. He’s pretty sceptical about gods in general, and doesnot believe they are as benevolent as people make them out to be. He’d ratherplace his trust in things he can see and experience.

21. Do you ship your character with any other characters? (This includes characters from other universes and canons)

Alyona

??? Nope.

Kita

Isidore and Kita would make a good couple if they could stop arguing for like 5 minutes.

Isidore

See above. Doesn’t stop him from flirting with everyone.

Michaela

Michaela had a tiny crush on Kita when she was younger, but she got over it.

Calvael

Not anything concrete, but @celticrune and i Have discussedsome things abt Calvael and Whisper and it was cute.

Chal

Boy oh boy yeah. Chal and @celticrune’s Temperance were mostlikely a thing back in the days and I still ship it HARD. Also, Chal and @kima-ladyofvord‘s the Conman, its great its wonderful 10/10 would ship.

Ghilli

GHILLI AND @celticrune’s TANWEN WOULD BE THE CUTESTGIRLFRIENDS AND I NEED IT.

Mort

N o p e

Ren

I don’t… wanna talk about it….. (but Syardis-debacle aside,Ren and @dunno-audino’s Lynnae would be the best, most dangerous couple ever and itsgr8)

Serafima

Not at the moment.

Rorik

Boy yeah. Rorik and @celticrune’s Morana is like. The OTP.

Aer

Not atm.

Eiridi

Idem.

Aiki

N OPE.

Wyatt

Hahahahaha. Traesyc. :c but apparently him and @celticrune’sKeiji also work very well together so there’s that.

25. What does this character mean to you?

just gonna only do my dnd chars here cuz the rest is all a lil. meh. havent writtene nough abt them yet.

Calvael

Calvael was my first DnD character, but since I didn’t getto play him much, not a lot yet. He’s great anyway.

Chal

SO MUCH U DON’T EVEN KNO. He’s hands down my favourite, justbecause he’s this little, snarky piece of shit, he’s wonderful to write andheadcanon about and just??? I love him????

Ghilli

Ghilli I unfortunately have not played a lot yet, but she isvery fun to play, so there is that. She’s also the perfect mix of adorable anddangerous that I love.

Mort

Tbh not much yet lmao.

Ren

Ren is like. So great. She’s very little like me, but she’smy perfect outlet for my aggression and anger. Also, I love caster classes andshe was my first real caster class I played. She’s amazing and I love her.

Serafima

I haven’t played Ser yet, but she already means a lot tome??? She’s letting me prove that, heck yeah, neurodivergent characters cankick ass like any other! Disabilities don’t have to hinder your progress! Iwanna be like her!!

Rorik

Rorik is my little child. My son. I love him so so much. He’sthe one that really got me into DnD, I’ve been through so much with him, it’shard to describe just how much I care about him.

Aer

Not a lot yet? Though honestly any nonbinary character meansa lot to me just cuz. Well.

Eiridi

Not a lot, but she’s fun to play.

Aiki

Not much.

Wyatt

So much please protect this child from me I hurt him so muchbut he’s!!!! so good!!! To hurt!!!!

#ocs #aiki #alyona #aer #eiridi #ghilli #mort #isidore #michaela #rorik #ren #kita #serafima #calvael #chal #wyatt #jazzhands #celticrune

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