~~~ EXO Suho X Jane Jang - Do you have a moment ~~~

She was probably the only one panicking right now. No one but her, found the fact Junmyeon just greeted her for the first time in the life so openly, weird.

She must have been standing there like a statue for way too long, staring at the boy with a cooking apron, because that's what the other two finally noticed. Her brother turned his head around, his cheeks stuffed, making him look like hamster and Bora who was preoccupied giving Sehun disgusted stares, up until now, followed Sehun's lead and looked at Jihye.

"Why are you standing there like that, come and eat, we are late because of you lazybum!" Bora prompted her.

Jihye forced her lower extremities to move, walking slowly towards the table in the middle, trying her best not to look at the person, who didn't bother to divert his gaze away from her, since she entered the room.

She shivered uncomfortably, just wishing to get out of here right now.

"I'm not hungry really, we can go now Bora. We won't be late at least," she mumbled quickly, turning around on heel and escaping the room, feeling those eyes on her, until she ran around the corner, right out of the house through the front door, she saw him coming in last night. She shook her head furiously.

"Wait up. Flash. God, what is up with you being so eager to get going now? Slow down will you? The bus is leaving in ten minutes, we still have time!" Bora shouted at her, as she kept her killer pace on. Bora finally caught up with her, giving her suspecting looks. When she didn't react, Bora took her by an elbow, stopping her at once.

"What happened?" Jihye didn't have to really say anything and Bora could sense something was up with her. It was one of those things that happens between long term friends. It was alright, but annoying at the times, she just wanted shut down and don' t talk about anything. Like for example right now.

She shook her head, avoiding her friend's eyes.

Bora kept studying Jihye's face.

"Did you have bad dreams again?" Bora whispered. Jihye met her eyes, smiling sadly. This girl knew her so well, even though the reason for her being this flustered were partly the events of last night. The nightmares never stops bothering her. When Bora came to have a sleepover, it tended to get better, but not entirely. So, she just nodded her head to confirm Bora's concerns, seeing the pity already forming in her friend's eye.

"I have an idea, what if... perhaps after classes we went to your favourite place?" The spark in Bora's eye itself made her feel much better. Even though she didn't have that many friends, she could call herself rich with what she had.

"That... sounds like the best idea ever," she gave her small grin to convince her that she will be okay, as always. They needed to walk a few more yards down the road, so Bora hooked up on her arm, prompting them to walk again.

But before they could even make three steps, they heard car honking at them. They both snapped their heads around, to find car stopping by the curb right next to where they were standing now.

That was when she almost had a heart attack the second time since she woke up. She knew the car very well, because it was parking on the driveway of their house almost on daily basis. Above that she got to ride this car on few occasions, but only as an invisible, unimportant passenger.

She watched the window on the passenger side slide down, seeing the stupid face of her brother grinning at them and then another face more pleasing to look at, which was leaning forwards to look directly on her.

"Jump in," Junmyeon motioned his head, he was trying to tell them something, but she was too dumbfounded to be able to react. God, Jihye snap out of it at this instant, you act ridiculously! She yelled at herself in her mind, breaking the eye contact with the driver of the car.

"Why are you going so early? You always moan when we ask you to take us to school and now you even stop to collect us? Something's fishy about this," Bora voiced out her thoughts, narrowing her eyes. Jihye thought the same, but stayed quiet.

"You can walk, no one needs you here Boring Bora. Jun insisted that we have to go now, I didn't even finish my breakfast," Sehun could not go without dropping one insult for Bora and complaint in one sentence. Bora gave him death glare, ready to tear his head off, but Jihye managed to squeeze her hand in a calming manner, before her friend could proceed.

"We can take a bus, don't change your plans, because of us..." Jihye decided to take the matter in her hands, but she was not even allowed to finish the sentence as Junmyeon interrupted her.

"No need to flatter yourself, we are not changing plans because of you, we indeed need to be at school for a meeting with principal. So get in, we can' t be late," ouch... she felt that deep inside her stomach, the way he spoke quietly, the way he looked her right in the eye, telling her basically not to get ahead of herself. Why did she felt like kicking him in his perfectly formed ass? That was the fist time she ever had this urge, since she was crushing on him for years.

She should have just kept on walking, but before she knew it, she was sitting on the back seat, right behind him. Bora made herself comfortable next to her, making sure to kick Sehun's seat as much as she unnecessarily could.

Jihye was sitting all stiffened, staring out of the window, trying to ignore how uneasy she felt. At least more than usually.

"Jihye what happened to your hand?" Bora snatched her arm towards her to look at the bandage closely. Alerting everyone in the car about the injury, she herself almost forgot about. Sehun almost broke his neck, when he looked over his shoulder to see it as well. Jihye retreated her hand back, she could feel dark eyes burning holes in her forehead through the rear mirror. Her heart picked up on speed as she clutched her injured hand.

"What happened sis, it wasn't there yesterday," Sehun always tried to act all cool, but he was concerned for her well-being. Without thinking she met those eyes that were gazing at her in the mirror. He was the cause of this wound, but she would never admit that. She wanted to forget what happened last night and she wanted Junmyeon to do the same. She still felt the embarrassment flooding her body again.

"I was just clumsy as always," she replied quickly, diverting her eyes away from the mirror. She needs to get hold of herself, but then she caught the sight of him smirking. He was mocking her. He was enjoying her discomfort. She couldn't help herself and glared him. That was second time, she felt different emotion than admire towards him.

She might not be confident in interacting with the likes of him, but she surely knew how to defend herself when she was mocked by someone. She would never sit quietly with her hands in the lap.

"Did you cut yourself?" Bora kept worrying about her.

"I broke a glass when I saw something shocking," it was her turn to be teasing him, she even managed to form little smirk herself, giving him challenging look, knowing he would return it. His eyebrows raised up.

"Shocking?" Sehun was confused, giving her curious look.

"I can't remember anymore," Jihye shrugged her shoulders, dropping the topic and not sparing anymore looks to the rear mirror.

"Agh, look forward, will you? I don't wanna see that ugly face of yours," Bora hissed at Sehun, who kept giving Jihye stares.

"Who cares about what you want or not, Bori..." Sehun was about to reply in full, Bora's foot bore into his seat, probably aiming for his kidneys as he let out muffled pained cry, Jihye guessed that Bora jabbed into the right spot.

"Just try and finish that sentence," she warned him sweetly. Sehun knew when was the right time to stop the poking into the bee's nest. He will get back at her eventually. These two were like mortal enemies, which was ironic, when they knew each other since we all were kids. But the same went for her and Junmyeon, they knew each other, but they didn't. It perhaps did not make any sense, but you could imagine why she was so jumpy by the sudden attention she received from him.

Only few hours went by and her normally peaceful invisible life was threatening to change. That needs to stop, she was happy the way the things were now.

The moment Junmyeon pulled his car on the school parking lot and stopped, she was already getting out, she quickly grabbed Bora, mumbled thanks to him and disappeared in the crowd of student flowing inside of the main building.

"Slow down horsie! You are rushing like Satan himself is chasing you!" Bora stopped her from furious tempo.

"Who is chasing who?" voice behind them almost jumped them up, as no one heard him coming.

"Baek...," Bora let out breathlessly, turning her head around to look at the boy, who has joined their company.

"No one, Bora is being dramatic," Jihye replied instead of Bora, who could always hardly find any words to say when it came to being around Baekhyun.

"I saw you speeding down the hallway, I almost didn't catch up with you two. Did you look forward today's classes? Or is it me that you couldn't wait to see?" Baekhyun teased them, giving them flirty eye. Jihye rolled her eyes and Bora... well she was nodding her head for some kind of reason.

"Don't be funny," Jihye pinched his full cheeks and then they all went to their first period. Jihye was diligent student, she was not the best of the class as she had to work hard to get what she wants. She spent most of her time studying and when she had some free time, she enjoyed doing her video edits. She was secretly geek and she was not ashamed of it.

"What do you want to eat for lunch, I will bring it," Baekhyun dropped down his backpack, by the outside lunch table they choose to occupy for a break, pretending to be a gentleman for a day.

"Just bring me some chips please," she waved hand, darting her eye into her laptop, working on one her new piece.

"I will have the same, thank you Baek," Bora mumbled breathlessly. Bora's crush on Baekhyun was always more sever than hers on Jun, mainly because Bora was not able to control her feelings and actions towards him. The fact he didn't turn a blind eye at her must have played some role in it too. Junmyeon was perfect, in every possible way. Good student, great in sports, art and music. He could do everything he wished for. She admired his talents and his confidence. And all this made him one of the most popular person in the school, she was not the only girl secretly sighing whenever she found herself in his dazzling presence. Jihye shook her head when her mind wondered the wrong direction.

"That's all you two are going to eat? Let me bring you a proper food, I will make sure you eat well," Baekhyun declared and went off to hunt for a food in the school cafeteria, while Bora sighed watching his disappearing back.

"You should either confess or hold your facial expressions on leash," Jihye commented, without taking her sight from the screen of laptop.

"None of the options provided is easily done," Bora moaned. They were friends with Bakehyun for a long time as well. He was, as well as Junmyeon close friend of Sehun. But Baekhyun being in the same class as the girls, he eventually got to hang out with them more often.

"Or you can stop crushing on him, that's a way out of it as well," she advised, knowing that it is only easily said but very hardly done. She was having the same issue for years, yet she is still stuck in the same miserable place.

"Will you come up with more useless ideas or are you done?" Bora gave her dry look, which has changed the moment she saw Baek coming back. God, this girl is incredible.

"Here, have some lunch," Baek landed one large pizza with pepperones and extra cheese on the table, himself already chewing on one triangle. She took one piece to satisfy her grumbling stomach, when she noticed Junmyeon and Sehun walking on the path in the direction of the cafeteria. She only saw them with peripheral view, determined to not look at them directly.

"Clumsy, what's up with your hand this time?" Baekhyun asked, his eyes glued on her bandage.

"You are saying it like I come with new injury every day," she pouted her mouth, being offended, because this was not even her fault, but she can' t say that. It is even more pathetic that the sight of her brother's best friend being kissed by a girl made her drop that damned glass on the floor.

"Okay. Sorry didn't mean to touch a sensitive spot, but for real, what happened?" Baekhyun was one of those people, who would be pestering person until he gets a juicy response.

"Don't bother she just broke a glass and decided to pick it up with her bare hands," Bora explained for her.

"Well that's just stupid," Baek stated sipping from his straw, his favourite ice americano and she threw a piece of cabbage from her side dish at him.

The rest of the day Baekhyun kept on making fun of her, but in the end of the day he took her hand, unwrapped the cotton dressing and told her to let it breath for a while. He cared for her and for Bora, even though he was carefree and silly most of the time, he still had this side to him. She was not surprised Bora gave into his charms. Baekhyun didn't even have an idea he had this affect on people around him.

"Bora, I think I better head off to home today, I know we wanted to go to our place, but let's do it on the weekend, I have tons of stuff I need to finish for school," Jihye felt sorry towards Bora, but she looked quite okay, probably because the change of plans benefited her.

"Let's go have some icecream Bora then and drop off the partypooper at home," Baekhyun suggested on the way from the school. She didn't bother to glare at him, she just made sure to step on his foot, when he got too close to her. He groaned in pain, limping between her and Bora like a small puppy.

They shared a ride by bus, then she left the two of them continue to the town centre and got off the bus, walking the rest home.

She met Sehun in the door frame of the main entrance.

"Tell parents I have a study group," he yelled at her.

"Hey dork, I'm not covering up your love escapades!" she yelled back at him, but he only flashed bright smile at her, before jumping on his bike, giving her a wink and driving away. She sighed and went inside. She found a note from her parents, they will be late. It didn't matter, if Sehun spends his whole nights away or her. They barely saw their parents, thanks to their busy working hours.

She made her self some dinner, after getting changed to comfy home clothes, she sat down on the floor in the living room. She put some music on, while spreading her text books on the small table, ready to do some serious studying.

That was when she heard the door bell ring, thinking that it might be those two she left to their business, she just went to the door in her oversized jumper, flannel shorts and fluffy socks. Without even checking who it is, she opened the door, almost choking on her own spit, when she saw someone she would never guessed would be standing there.

"J.. Jun?" here she was again, turning into a hot mess, when seeing this guy.

"Hey, Jihye," he smiled. He smiled at her, directly at her.

For a split of second she thought she must have fallen asleep while studying and this was just a dream, but then her nose was hit by a scent of his cologne. No, her imagination was not that good to be able to make this up.

"Sehun is not here," she let out shakily. Junmyeon never came to their house, unless meeting up with Sehun.

"I know, I came to see you,"

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Eyyyyyy my sweet honeybunches 🍩💜

okay stop me😳
I'm earlier than I promised hah, I thought I'd give you one more chapter this week just cuz why not👀😁

anywayzzzzz, your queen of cliffhangers is back, with full power and ready to make you all hate me with burning passion🔥🙌

I did not make that up, I earned that titul last year when I was writing Baek's story, it was fun 😈

Okay, so we got some Sehun X Bora interaction hah, hope you will like these two, cuz they will be killing each other most of the time, that's for sure⚰️😁

But to back to our main couple hah, anyone guessing why Junnie came to see Jihye??

ohhh, I just now realised those two names start with same letters hah, coincidence? 🤔

yeah it is actually😁

one thing I want to say is, that I thank to all who came here rushing straight away from YT, after watching the trailer, cuz that really makes me all fuzzy inside hah. Irina worked hard on that video and the way we cooperated on all this made me very happy and having you all here, appreciating her and my work is the best feeling ever!!!

so until the next time...

love ya