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Ep. 18   Thanks Jay

"Haha schools over!"
"Let's go play some games!"

Jay gets up from his desk silently, swinging his backpack over his shoulder in a nonchalant fashion.

"See ya Jay!" Daniel suddenly pops up in front of him, surprising Jay a bit as he stumbles back on his chair.

You held out a hand, holding onto Jay's back for support as you helped him a bit from falling.

"Damn you scared me." You said as you did all that without thinking, you quickly let go as you stood next to Daniel.

Daniel only chuckles and waves goodbye to Jay. You didn't bother because you didn't know the guy, completely forgetting who he was as you followed Daniel.

Jay only stood at his desk, confused and watching the both of you.

His phone suddenly rings the moment you get to the door of the classroom, Daniel quickly taking out his phone as he smiles, "Hey it's my Mom!"

You stopped for him as you caught Jay's gaze at Daniel as you gave him a half lidded stare. You stuck your pinky in your ear before itching, 'Does this guy like him or something?'

"Oh hey Mom! Yeah I'm fine. Oh my birthday tomorrow? Yeah?"

Your body froze at the word birthday, jaw dropping a bit before you bit your bottom lip. Suddenly remembering that you forgot to get him a birthday gift.

'Fuckity fuck me, I need to stop by Lotte Mart (This is a common supermarket chain in Korea) to get him something' You thought, chewing the side of your cheeks anxiously. You don't even know if you have enough for yourself this month, your parents send barely enough for anything else other than rent... Maybe you can sell the random useless shit your sister sends you, like the t shirt your sister sent over that had a shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger printed on it.

"Daniel really looks like royalty..." A whisper caught you ear as you tuned into their conversation.
"But people say he and Y/N is poor, do you think it's true?"

You furrowed your eyebrows, annoyed as you glanced over at the whispering girls. Seeing they got caught, the two of them rushed out of the classroom with their hearts racing. You only itched your cheek, wondering what that was all about.

You then heard three boys gossiping in the corner, all of them sneering at Daniel who was just innocently chattering away with his mom.

"Tch. His undershirt has no brand name" You bit your bottom lip as you listened to yet another conversation across the room
"He has no watch"
"Poor begger"
"Cheap ass loser"

"I'll make sure Y/N knows who he really is, a poor begged with a pretty face to compensate."

"Fuck anger management." You muttered out loud before walking your way towards the three losers who were shit talking your neighbor.

They paused a bit, eyes shifting around as they tried to not be bothered by your intimidating appearance. Silence washed over them as you pulled up a chair to sit with their group, eyes glaring sharply at them as you rested your elbow on one of their desks.

Daniel stopped for a second, watching you from afar and wondering what you were doing as his mom continues talking away.

Most of the students had already left for the day, that included Zack and Mira. So it was only a hand full of people in the room, and they were all quiet and peeking over at the commotion.

Some even snickering as they knew that the trio of poser rich kids were caught.

"What's your names?" You said, a bit too friendly as you crossed your legs and leaned back on the chair.

"... U-Uh..." The two twin brothers stuttered out a bit as they looked at each other in bewilderment of the casual question.

"I-I'm Namsoo Lee!" The dork with the fade suddenly got a surge of confidence when he realized that maybe this was his chance. This was his chance to become popular, and get one of the most beautiful girls in school to be his!

He could basically imagine his life with you by his side and with Zack Lee and Daniel as his subordinates.

He smiled creepily as the twin looked at each other before smirking, thinking that you had gone to your senses and finally hang out with really men with real money.

"And we're the Hak brothers! Beom and Bom!" The two introduce themselves as you hummed.

"That so?" You said as you pulled out your hand to shake, "And mine's why en."

"Hehe, we know you're famous!" Namsoo grins as he takes your hand courteously as he felt sparks going off in his heart.

Daniel frowns as he watches you from far away, at this point his mom was asking him why he was so quiet and if he's okay. He doesn't notice as he was too focused in and why exactly you were taking to new people, let alone other guys.

You weren't the type to do that, never had he seen you walk up and talk to other people willingly. You'd always keep to yourself, and if you were to talk it was either to Mira or occasionally Zack because he'd always hang out Mira's desk.

You talk to people because they wanted to talk to you, never the other way around.

As Daniel stares at the odd situation, Jay was thinking similar thoughts. He had watched Daniel and you for a while, sometimes he doesn't even know he was staring at the both of you until he realizes. It was like his eyes would always drift to both of you subconsciously...

He wonders what you were doing as you smiled at them.

"So that's how you should typically introduce yourself—" You grinned at them, and the moment you had Namsoo take your hand, you instantaneous slammed his hand against the wooden desk. Making him shriek as he slid down to his knees, the back of his hand turning red as he started to tear up, "—but I guess y'all don't know anything about giving good first impressions, huh?"

Your grin drops immediately as you could see students gaping and gasping at the scene, some even recording you.

So pushing back the chair and standing up, the twin brothers both yelped as they shrunk back. Both of them sweating bullets as you rolled your eyes at them before kicking one of them in the stomach mercilessly. While you quickly dispatched the other one by taking out the back of his knees and kicking his ankles.

The two both sobbing and crying out like babies, saying shit like "I'll Sue you!" or "My parents won't like this." as you exhaled out an annoyed sigh and leaving the three as whimpering and blubbering messes.

You looked back at Daniel's shocked face, his mouth on the floor as his eyes widened like saucers. He held his phone loosely in the palm of his hand as you could hear his mom asking 'hello' multiple times.

"Y/N? Why'd you?" Daniel marveled as his mouth was agape, hands falling to his side before quickly ending the call after saying a quick 'I'll call you later' to his mom.

"You can go home without me, I gotta run a errand" You addressed folding your arms behind your head with your usual dead look in your eyes.

"What? Why not? Do you not want to go home with me?" Daniel fumbled around with his words a bit, confused at the suddenness of the situation.

"Nah, I just gotta pick up something. You should go on without me." You answered back as you looked away from him.

Daniel felt his nerves bunch up, his eyes slowly falling to the floor as he opens his mouth, "C-Can I come with you?"

"Nah." You said absentmindedly, not knowing how deeply that rejection actually meant to Daniel. Great job Y/N, your mediocre social skills really pulled you outta that one huh?

The worst part is, you didn't know what you even did wrong. If you actually even did anything wrong honestly, because bad communication is the key to writing drama kids.

Daniel tightens his hold onto his backpack strap, his bangs covering his eyes.

"A-Alright... I'll see you at home... Y/N" Daniel barely let out without whimpering, his bottom lip was quivering, and his voice tried it's best to mask his sadness as he exits the room with a slow walk.

Everybody who was left in the class mutters among themselves, clearly gossiping about the two of you.

You yawned before leaning back on a random desk, the room was almost empty as you saw the three geeks from before had cleared their way outta class without you noticing. Barely anybody was left in the room as you were so deep thought, 'At this point I should just rob someone.'

You barely noticed a shadow looming from behind you, finally snapping outta your plans of robbing a local gas station. You spun around quickly, elbow swinging at their face as you stopped yourself mid action. It was a reflex, a bad one but had frozen, looking at who it was.

Blonde, Blind hair in the face man?!

'Why'd he had to sneak up on me like that?' You thought, he was somewhat dazed as he pushes down your elbow a bit. You finally regained your composure, looking at his face you pulled back your arm.

"My bad." You pulled up both hands from your pockets.

Jay scratched his cheek, he looked a bit nervous bout something before handing you a piece of paper. You looked down at a note before taking it and reading it over.

'Want to go buy Daniel a gift together?' It had said as an eyebrow rose in surprise, you looked at him before looking down at the note, you repeated this process a bit.

You pushed the note back against his chest, "Sorry man, I ain't got no cash right now. I was planning to um... borrow some money from that nice looking gas station down the street tonight."

The blondie shakes his head, smiling before pulling out his wallet and flipping through it.

And when you noticed that his wallet was thick as fuck and with many, and I mean MANY, credit cards and debit cards you wondered if this man just has them for a collection or some shit. Not to mention that his wallet was just lined with the logo for Louis Vuitt@n.

Your eyes basically bulged outta your skull as you were gaping like a fish outta water.

You paused before looking back up at him, smile widening before you swung your arm over his neck.

"Ayyyy, where we gonna go bruv." You smiled widely, holding his hand in a sort of handshake you made with your friends back in (country name). You saw a small blush tinting his face as you returned it with a smile back.

Honestly you ain't know this man that well, scratch that, you didn't even know his mf name or who he was. But who cares? He's bloody loaded!

The corner of his lip twitches up a bit as he gives your hand a firm squeeze before letting go and passing you. You followed behind him as you caught up to him quickly, walking by his side with a happy look on your face. You were practically bouncing as you walked besides him.

'Now all I have to do now is figure what to buy Daniel' You thought with a determined look on your face.

As the two of you strolled together silently you finally reached the part of the city you haven't seen before. The sky had turned dark as you watched as the light had still flooded the city. The shops were illuminating as you strolled around with blondie.

You turned to said blondie, as he was just walking silently next to you as you finally broke the ice and spoke first, despite your non existent people skills.

"So, uh, which shop you wanna go to first?" You asked, scratching the back of your head subconsciously, "I heard Cosco is having a sale on some items, maybe they have birthday cake... or something."

He only ignores your statement before he points at something in front of you. Your eyes followed what he was gesturing to you saw it was some high end stores you never heard of.

You furrowed your brows as you quickly made notice that the Blondie and you had warped the space-time continuum to somehow end up Cheongdam-dong area in Gangnam. A shopping area that was slam packed with a bunch of international luxury department stores and cosmetic shops.

Your eyes were basically getting blinded from all the lights that were shining from a few luxury cars that drove by on the street. But you got a glimpse of the building he was referring too, and besides the big names you recognized like Chanel, Dior, Gucci or Louis Vuitton, you saw some you didn't know of. Like these buildings called Moncler, MaxMara or JilSander.

Of course this loaded, born with a silver spoon of a man picked one of the ones you never heard of.

"Sir, I don't think I can even afford to breathe the air they got in there." You said with full honesty as Blondie casually walked inside the giant black, completely marbled building. He looks back at you, chuckles silently and gestures for you to follow him.

You did eventually, and when you did... oh boy did that rich ass fancy people air conditioning hit you. When those automatic doors opened, it was like you walked into a whole other climate as your hair flew in the cold breeze.

Jay watches your expressions, finding them quite amusing as he waits for you at the front entrance.

You staggered inside, as everything inside the store sparkled with debt inducing price tags. The mannequin in the corner, taunting you with clothes you could never even afford, and you knew that because when your eyes glazed over, what you thought was a simple white t shirt with a single pink stripe in the middle... You realized that mother fucker was more than half a grand!

You were basically floored at that point.

'Oh hell nah, we gotta go. I gotta go.' You thought as you slowly backed up. But eventually you hit something hard. Turning your head you saw Blonde Richie McRich looking down at you, his hair still down casting over his eyes like always.

Before you could try for your second escape you saw a sales associate coming up to the two of you as he holds an unusually stretched smile on his face, it was so unusually large that you were legitimately scared for his wrinkles well being.

"It's nice to see you again Mr. Hong, are you here perhaps to buy some of our new items we just had shipped out from Florence? As our VIP customer we'll be glad to prepare and show you all the new catalogue and assortments in the private room in the back." The guy rubbed his hands together before glancing at you, "Oh are you perhaps Mr. Hong's new girlfriend? You must be a foreign model by the looks of things, it's an honor to meet Mr. Hong's significant other."

"Mr. Hong?" You questioned, "Girlfriend?"

'Why does everybody in this place think I'm the girlfriend just because I'm with a guy?' You asked yourself, 'Do people here not become friends with the opposite sex?'

The sales associate laughs "You are too modest m'am, Mr. Hong here is one if not the most wealthiest bachelors in Seoul!"

"Wealthy?" Your questioned even more as Jay just passes him and goes to examine some clothes from the Men's section. "And he goes to my school? Shouldn't he be home schooled by the smartest tutors in France or some shit."

The Sales Associate coughs into his fist, probably surprised about what you said before grinning, "Well, Mr. Hong has a way he does things, but it doesn't deter from the fact he is indeed a genius."

If ass kisser had a place in our dictionary, he would definitely be mentioned in the description.

"I- You know what, I need to go." You say to the guy before speed walking up to Jay, you placed a hand on his shoulders.

He glances back at you as he flinched when you harshly whispered in his ear, "You didn't tell me anything about you being this loaded. Is that true?''

He nods, a light tint on his cheeks when he notices that your breath was fanning his ear.

He feels a bit hot under his collar as he adjusted it, you quickly let go at that point before you grinned from ear to ear.

"That's great! Now I don't have to get Daniel a shitty present!" You celebrate, before pausing "Wait... Do I have, to like, pay you back?"

He shakes his head.

You faked a sniff before swinging your arm over his beautiful shoulders, "Have I ever told you that you're my new best friend?"

He shakes his head again, but he does grin this time.

"Well you are now! I know you probably don't need it but if you're ever in trouble... hit me up." You smiled giving him a thumbs up, "I'll crush anybody you want, straight into the concrete. I'll have them shitting bricks for days!"

He only shakes his head, holding onto your shoulder as he pats it lightly. And for some reason, you caught what he said.

Translation: "Dim Sum is delicious, get your plate of Dim Sum now!"

Actually, that was probably not what he said, but you rolled with it anyways.

"Sure buddy, whatever you say." You smirked back confidently as Jay only sighs.

That night Jay and you picked out almost an entire five racks of clothes, picking out only the most stylish clothing you both can get your hands on.

And by stylish, you just tried your best to pick out the most normal pieces as possible. Because you don't know if Daniel would like a dark purple blazer with authentic (and humanely harvested) peacock feathers lining the shoulder pads.

You hummed to yourself as you looked through a bunch of fancy ass clothing, not even noticing Jay had disappeared for a while.

After a couple of minutes he came up behind you, tapped your shoulder before pointing to the cash register.

"Yeah I think we got enough clothing" You said, staring at the pile. The register guy looked overwhelmed as he was forced to call in backup.

You stood next to Jay silently as they packed everything in duffel bags.

Let me repeat, they packed everything in designer duffel bags.

As a freebie.

...

Nice.

"Would you two need any help to carry them?" The manager asks, he was slightly sweating because you overheard that he was actually out of town not too long ago. But was immediately called back because one of the H Company Family Heirs were at his store, "We have a couple men who can deliver them directly to—"

"Nah, I got it." You said, easily lifting all the duffel bags on your toned shoulders.

This completely surprised the employees and the manager, they had their mouth hanging wide open as you stacked about six or so duffle bags per shoulder and hand. At this point it was starting to become more of a balancing act rather than a weight lifting contest.

Jay was also stunned, almost star struck for a moment before he quickly takes some off you shoulder despite your protest.

"Hey I got it!"
"!"

***

Everybody who was walking pass the two of you looked at you both like you were a traveling circus act. With you both carrying designer bags like stacked books, it was hard not too.

"So are we going to bring these to your house?" You asked, he nods before pointing at a large ass building just down the street, probably in the center of the city. Your mouth hung open as you closed it when you caught yourself, "You know what, I'm not ever gonna act surprise anymore"

He than plucks the duffel bags out your hands as he carries a shit load of items on his own. You were getting annoyed at how he was doing that as you smacked the back of his head. This made him pause, but barely hurt (hopefully) as you grabbed back the large sized bags.

"Fuck nah, I'm gonna help." You said as you took back the items.

He shakes his head, chuckling as you noticed you reached the building.

And the moment you and him did, you saw attendants rushing out, red carpet and everything as they bowed their heads.

"We hope you had a pleasant day at school, we can also take all your bags to your room sir." Both of them say as five or so attendees picked up and loaded the duffel bags onto a large trolley.

You watched this all with your eyebrows knitted together, promising you wouldn't act surprised but this was a sight.

So the Mr. Hong in question only stands straight, he had his hands in his pockets as he looked back at you.

You only itched the side of your hip before realizing this was the part where you thank him and hope he won't change his mind about the 'He'll pay for everything' bit.

"Well uh... Thanks for letting me help you shop for Daniel. I know you said not to pay you back but—" You took off your sport's jacket and threw it to him, he catches it with one hand in midair. "It's a brand name item, it's a bit old but it has to be worth something. Plus I think there's a packet of gum in there and maybe some crumbled up money I was gonna use to Daniel. This is really all I have at the moment. So uh, thanks for everything."

He only stared at you through his blonde hair, which blocks half of his face. He was looking at you dumbfounded as you gave him a crooked smile.

"See y'a at school—" You waved before uttering one last thing.

"—Jay."

"..." He watches you walk away from a distance, your jacket hanging on his arm as a gentle breeze blew past his hair.

He pulls your jacket up to his eyes before Jay buries his face into your jacket. His ears totally turning a crimson hue.

***
{Next Day; After school}

Daniel walks home alone, he was a bit stressed today since you didn't show up to school at all. He noticed since yesterday that you might be slowly drifting away from him, as if you had completely lost interest for him.

For the last few days you barely talked to him, even through he made sure that you heard him speak about his birthday.

He actually wanted to ask you out to eat with him with the little money he got from his part time job. He wanted to laugh with you while eating a proper dinner, possibly talk about deep secrets you both would never share to anybody but each other.

As the candle light flickers, he would be completely enamored by how your (hair color) hair that would perfectly (coil, curl, flow, cascade) down your shoulder and back. And how the color of your dress shirt would perfectly compliment your gorgeous skin tone. And especially how the corners of your lips tugged up after you said a pun, as if you were hearing the joke the first time for yourself.

He sighs dreamily before snapping out of it, Daniel slaps his cheeks as he scolds himself.

'No bad Daniel!' He muttered to himself 'Why would she even go out with somebody like me?! She knows my true self is fat and ugly, why would she even love me!?'

He takes a deep sigh, dragging his feet towards his home as he lifts his head.

In the distance, the sun was setting so he could only see two dark silhouettes in waiting for him at his home. Daniel walks closer, his eyes widens as he saw Jay and you standing there, you had your arms crossed and back against the wall as Jay stood next to you.

"Ah... Y/N? Jay?" He questions as he picks up the speed a bit, excited to see you as he grips onto his backpack straps tighter.

"Where have you been Y/N?" He immediately asks when he reaches you, you only smirked before handing him a duffel bag with a note attached on the outside.

Daniel was dumbfounded for a moment before he realized what the note had read.

happy cake day

And with that, his anxiety was replaced with relief. Daniel felt like butterflies had exploded inside of him as he starts to tear up a bit.

"Danny boy? You good?" You leaned near him, wondering why in the hell did he just burst out in tears for.

"Ah!" He squeaks before wiping his tears away with his sleeve, "T-Thats embarrassing, I'm sorry Y/N, I spoiled the surprise didn't I?"

Daniel forces out a chuckle as you itched your head, completely lost.

"I mean, you didn't... That's Jay's gift to you by the way." You pointed out as Daniel flushes.

"O-Of course, it was from Jay..." Daniel smiles, a bit less brightly this time as you nodded.

"Yep, that's what I said birthday boy." You nodded.

Daniel unzips the bag, seeing it stuffed and full of clothes. His eyes blushes a bit as he sits on the ground, pulling out a shirt as his eyes shined with childlike glee.

"You're giving me all this? And it's all clothes?!" Daniel spoke in shock as he looks through the bag and back to Jay.

He nods happily, grinning as Jay pulls out another duffel bag he was hiding behind him.

"Jay I really can't accept this, it's way too much!" Daniel tries to decline politely, his hands up as Jay gives him a stare.

"Huh? You're saying you're just throwing it all away? It doesn't fit anymore? It's cheap stuff?" Daniel asks as he somehow immediately decided Jaynese.

'How the fuck...?' You thought to yourself as you watch Jay use some sort of psychic power to tell Daniel all this stuff without talking.

"Right, I'll definitely wear these then!" Daniel smiles graciously as he hugs them to his chest.

"Oh right! Ugh you'd giving this to me, I have to get you something! When is your birthday Jay?" Daniel smiles up at Jay to see nobody there.

"He left" You spoke jabbing your thumb behind you, he looks behind you as he saw more duffel bags laying on the ground, that magically appeared.

"!?" He expressed shock as he stood up immensely, "He-he bought too much stuff! Is this a normal birthday gift?"

'Normal for him probably' You thought quickly before giving a pat on the shoulder to Daniel, "Happy Birthday kiddo." You gave him your best smile.

"..." He only stares at you for a second, a blush crossing his face as he looks back down, scratching the back of his head. A wide grin egging onto his features as he wished he could've taken a photo of you at that exact moment.

"Y-y-yeah thank you," Daniel suddenly began to speak nervously "So, uhm, where did you go today? Skipping school and all that..."

"I told you, I went to Jay's early in the morning to help him sort out all the clothes (that we bought at that high end place yesterday)" You state simply, "I helped him put all of his "cheap" clothes into other bags."

"So... you went over his house." Daniel states in an unfamiliar cold tone, this takes you back a bit as you wondered why the shift in his voice was so prevalent.

It was like he was another person for a second.

"Yeah?" You spoke cautiously, wondering exactly why you were being a bit more cautious than usual.

"..." Daniel looks at the duffel bag before shaking his head, "Nah it's nothing, can you please help me get these bags into my house through?"

"Yeah, of course."

You and Daniel began plucking up the bags one by one and throwing it into his house before Daniel finally notices something.

"Hey there's a... pink bag over there" Daniel points out as both of you saw a hidden bag underneath all that rubble.

"What?" You questioned out loud, you didn't remember packing anything into a pink bag, only some blue or yellow colored ones.

"It... It says your name on it" He looks at the tag.

"Let me see that" You said, picking up the bag. It was true, your name was plastered onto the tag. You unzipped the luggage as you saw a few items inside.

You began to pull out something that feels like wool as some of the items started to spill out, you pulled up a similar jacket to your old one, however it was the latest design that featured wool lining, perfect for winter or fall months. You also saw some shoes fallen on the ground, new ones that boggled your mind.

You immediately picked them up, mouth dropping as what you held in your hands were Jordan 1 Retro High Diors. In other words, these were the Dior collar with Nike on their most beloved type of shoes.

Aka... these were at least 7k - 30k.

You closed your eyes, before wiping the dirt off your freshest kicks.

"Y/N?" Daniel crouches down next to you.

"I will never wear these or dirty them with my filthy hands, I'm buying them a case." You stated, hugging them with your sleeve.

But something also fell on the ground, you finally spotted it, a single packet of newly wrapped gum on the floor.

You picked it up, carefully keeping your new shoes in a firm hold as you read the post it note that was stuck onto it.

A grin spreading on your lips as you read it.

Thank you

Daniel watches this happen, a darkness looming over his eyes as his fists tightens. 'What exactly happened between you two?'

"Daniel" He was snapped back to reality when he heard you call him name.

"Y-Yeah?" He asks.

"I have some cake I bought, let's eat it together, alright?"

You looked at him with genuine happiness, and with that look on your face Daniel couldn't help but to put on his best smile too.

So he takes a deep breath as he forced the corner of his mouth to point upwards, "Of course, Y/N"

***
{Tomorrow morning; School}

"Let's screw with the newbie today"
"Let me ask about his cheap clothing"
"Lol"
"Haha. Okay" Sweats the new dork before thinking 'You mean bastards'.

"Ooh!"
"Danny~"
"Y/N!"

They're here!

Y/N L/N and Daniel Park

But something... Is quite different!

"Hey" Daniel greets as you walked next to him quietly

It's the b@lmain! That's a seasonal item! The V... V@lentino camp rock stud sneakers?!

G#venchy Rottweiler backpack?! And H@bolt watch!! All together they're worth over a grand!

The girls also bit their thumbs as they glare up and down at your outfit today.

She's wearing the black Lor@ Pian@ Traveller Jacket! That must've costed her at least twenty grand!

And her shoes!

...

Wait she's wearing her regular adidas slides.

(You just couldn't get your new kicks dirty no matter what)

But look at Y/N's socks! They're G@cci - Lamé GG socks! Those are two hundred dollars for a pair!

"Aren't they hotter than usual?
"Look at Daniel's smile, he's glistening today!"
"Y/N looks so cool and sleek, she's looking damn hot today"
"I love their jackets!"
"So they're not poor after all"

"You guys, where did you buy those clothes? They look great!" Zoey smiles sweetly at the two of you while eyeing mainly Daniel.

"Thanks I got some cheap clothes!" Daniel said as you kind of chocked on your spit a bit.

'This fool' You thought silently to yourself.

"Daniel, Y/N you two must be rich!"
"You two are so amazing"

"Oh Daniel! Where'd you buy this vintage wallet at?" Somebody asks, pointing at Daniel's beaten up black wallet.

"Oh this thing? There's no brand" Daniel smiles as he pulls out his wallet, he hugs it to his chest.

"Really it's nice"

"Yeah, last year my mom gave it to me" Daniel states matter of factly, he recalls the sweet memory as everybody around him basically worshipped Daniel for that.

"Daniel is so frugal"
"He uses things forever"
"He's so cool"

"Oh hey Y/N, where'd you get that ring you're wearing? The gem looks so big and pretty!" Somebody asks you.

"Oh what? This?" You showed off your hand "It's a ring pop, I brought it over from (country name) but forgot about it" You sucked on the candy.

Daniel quickly spots Jay at the back of the room, silently sitting there as always as he rests his head on his hand.

Daniel tried very hard to forget everything that happened yesterday as he smiles as much as he could at Jay and tries to wave at him "Oh hey Jay. Yesterday—"

Jay ignores Daniel as Daniel takes notice of this and sits down on his chair with a sigh. You on the other hand was just casually licking you ring pop like it was nothing.

Jay smiles to himself.

***
{Yesterday; Night}

He lays on top of a bunch of papers, notes scribbled on them as many were crumbled up in wads.

'Happy birthday Daniel!'
'Hi Daniel I'm-'
'Hey let's be friends I'm Jay'
'Thank you for helping me Y/N'
'Let's talk from now on-'
'Y/N you're great girl'
'Y/N I think you're-'

As he lays on the papers, thinking about what to write as a certain jacket was sitting loosely on his bed. Perfectly folded as a small black box fit to hold a wedding ring was filled with a half gone gum packet and three- one dollar bills hidden inside.