enjin secretly adores you
pairings. enjin x fem!reader
content. sfw
language. english
warnings. none
he’d poke you on the cheek while discussing plans for a mission. pinch you on your side where you’re ticklish. hide your things in places you can’t reach, just to get a reaction out of you.
it would get on your nerves, that’s for sure. and when that happened, all it took was one look for him to stop.
suddenly, his teases would turn into clumsy compliments.
he’d comment on your hair—how beautifully the new color suited you. then your clothes—how badass you look in them, as he likes to say. and if he was really trying, he’d sometimes call you ineffable.
it made you wonder how he even knew the word. “do you even know what that means?”
“sure.” he smirked, confidence and all. “indescribable.”
what enjin liked more, though, was spending time with you.
it wasn’t something you’d notice, but he’d purposely go on missions with you even on his day off. at the cafeteria, he’d intentionally match your pace—even when you ate painfully slow for his liking.
he adorned every single thing about you.
sometimes, it would scare him that his feelings for you would become too much. too much for his heart to handle, too much for you to accept.
but fuck—enjin just couldn’t help it.
you were the most wonderful thing in his world.
it was a shame he couldn’t tell you. not yet, at the very least. not now, when he needed to sort himself out.
“one day, i’ll tell her.” he kept telling himself as he waited for you by the car.
having overheard him, you asked, “tell who what?”
enjin jumped from his once relaxed frame. the poor guy stared at you, wide-eyed and completely at a loss for what to say.
he wondered how long you’d been standing there.
you wondered what stupid thing he’s done this time, fully convinced enjin was just figuring out a way to admit that he’d broken another vase of yours.
that i love you, enjin thought to himself.
then he broke a sheepish smile, “that i broke your vase… again.”
he settled for the lie. only when you rolled your eyes and pinched his ears was he able to breathe again.
enjin showered you with countless apologies as he laughed uncontrollably.
he decided then that loving you, quietly or not, wasn’t something he could escape.