Too Late?
Jake enhypen x reader
childhood friends to lover
angst,fluff
After years of being the annoying childhood best friend baby sister even though you guys were only a year apart, you can say you've grown tremendously into your looks after middle school finally getting those braces off and finally growing into those big saggy shirts you wore, you were no longer the girl who hanged behind her older brothers and jake sim. Although you've had a horrible crush on the kid he seemed to be clueless to the little jokes you made, calling you his little sister and asking for girlfriend advice throughout High school. Its sophomore year and jake came over for dinner per usual stuffing his face with kimchi and a bulgogi rambling mouth wide open about soccer practice and his new found crush making everyone but you burst out laughing stuffing your face even more so he wouldn't notice the anger fueling through my body Afterwards .The room suddenly got quiet after our parents got done with dinner suddenly getting up to talk to jakes parents about the new cars they were gonna buy for juno your oldest brother who just graduated Highschool and your brother Eli who was the same age as jake and who had just gotten his new permit. Jake helped do the dishes with me and his eyes glimmered like usual, his cheek curving with his bright white teeth every time you mentioned how you would never drive the car with juno and Eli. " Eden can i talk to you please, I need help" he said of course without hesitation you wiped your hands very briefly before heading upstairs with him to your room while your brothers occupied the bathroom claiming to have eaten too many spicy kimichi. Upstairs jake sat at the end of your bed playing with the stuff rabbit he won at the brisbane fair when you were 6 claiming you needed it at the time, only 7 jake spent all his saving throwing basket shots so that you could have it "you still have this ragedy thing" he laughs " I bet you dont even wash it" You punched his shoulder "Do you wanna die how do you know i dont wash it " you say sticking out your tongue while grabbing it from his hand and putting it behind your back making him burst out laughing ," I wanna be a Idol" he mumbled through his lips still giggling you pause eyes widening "You wanna be a idol?" you said "yes I love music and I wanna make it big" he said grinning " You should, how would you become an Idol?" you say still in disbelief but smiling to show him you support him "I found a company that would train me and everything but my parenst dont wanna buy my plane ticket they just are hesitant and scared so ill never be able to pursue it, I just thought it would be nice to tell someone I trust" he says smiling happily but his eyes glossy with disapointment. Before you could walk over to hug him and comfort him His mom yelled for him " Jake your gonna be late for band practice tommorow morning lets go" she says "okay eomma im coming" he says hugging you hastily before running downstair and crashing into juno and Eli smacking their butts making them chase him out the house, There you stood only 16 during this time planning on how to get the ticket to korea..
The next morning you ran into your brothers room explaining to them about jakes dream and how the tickets were 800 dollars to korea and calculating how much money to make so that he could go to korea and have a month of money to survive until we convinced his parents to let him go. That day you got a job as a tutor being top of the class with a 4.0 GPA it was a quite easy job for me, Juno being 18 got a job at a gym his homebase of course checking people in and Eli got a job at Mcdonalds. We all agreed to keep this confidential from jake knowing him he would get mad and ruin all our plans, We all plane to work for a month to make enough and fly him out before December to get settled.
Its been 2 weeks after our get jake to korea plan started and we all had our fridays off after working repeatedly after school, its skateboard night, The only night we would go to the skateboard park right near the beach where we could skate and surf like we always did. Dressing yourself in high waisted shorts with a white halter top and converse with minimual makeup something casual, you head downsatirs just to see all the 3 stooges waiting for you laughing at jake story of some girl apparently not caring you quickly stomp your feet to let them know your coming downstairs "hello are you guys ready to go" you said" Us were we waiting for you and because your late your paying for ice cream" Juno says sticking out his tongue rolling your eyes before heading out jake grabs your arm "you brat you have a feather in your hair" he says laughing before gently brushing your hair out your face your breath hitched before you hastily cover it with a cough jake smiles before heading out the door with you following him behind."You guys been avoiding me How did you all manage to get a life at the same time?" jake says laughing while walking to the park " what are you the center of our universe" Eli says laughing while kicking jake butt "yea jake plus you know you wanted more time with Isabella" Juno says smiling winking towards jake, Jake faces gets red instantly you tune in silently kicking at your feet while walking slower to listen to the conversation a frown tugging at your lips. "she's different and plus she's super down to earth, we even like the same things" jake says smiling "and her hair smells like bubblegum" he says at this point your face is emotionless you laugh just hide your feelings but it made you think he'll never see me the way he sees her. although you and jake were so similar both soccer players, smart and had a love for similar activites you were only just a friend. Getting to the park you started changing into your surfer suit and grabbed a board before heading to the shore, "eden you surfing?" jake says before putting his helmet on juno and eli following him "yea I need to get one in, the waves our good today" you said smiling hiding the sadness you held in. After surfing you change and head to the skateboard rink just to see jake with isabella teaching her how to skate while holding her hips as she giggles, Your brothers cheering jake on hooting him on while you stood there, she is pretty her hair glows and her skin shines under the sunset. You turn your heads telling your brother your gonna grab ice cream taking out 20 dollars to buy 4 ice cream " can I have 2 nutty butter, 1 my moms a alien and 1 superman" knowing the order by heart superman being your favorite and jakes being my moms an alien, Grabbing the bag you jog over to find them just to see isabella laughing holding jakes hand talkig to your brothers while jake smiles at her, heart crushing once again "take a deep breath eden, you can do this" you say underneath your breath before heading over to the group. "hey I got everyones order" you say showing them the bag smiling your brothers of course grabbing the nutty butter bar quickly and running off to get napkins." jake here yours" you say before handing him a spoon "where mine?" isabella said still gripping jakes hand smiling towards your direction. "Im sorry I didnt know you wanted any usually it's just us" you said slight attitude in your tone " you can have mine" jake offered "I cant it has too much sugar my favorite is the superman" she pouts jake grabs your ice cream out the bag offering it to her, her smile getting bigger "thanks jake your so sweet" before they both sat down, jake not even turning towards you.
you quickly get teary eyed turning your feet so that they couldnt see your face" im going home" you said sternly "Eden stay with us" jake says smiling "yea your no fun" isabella stated pouting. you quickly run back home not even bothering looking back before you could reach home someone grabbed your arm, hoping it was jake you turned around just to be face with Juno pulling you into his arm "you scared me dont run off like that" he says worried you start to cry "oppa my ice cream she took my ice cream" you say crying it wasn't about ice cream it was jake, jake was my ice cream. Juno somewhat finally understanding everything piggy you backed home where you told him everything making him pinky promise to never tell a soul.
Its a month since the accident you and your brothers saved 2,000 dollars buying his ticket to leave in a week. Jake who still crushes over isabella soon apologized to you right after the incident but you no longer thinking of it after seeing him,fallen right back into his deep brown eyes that glimmer. Its Jake birthday and were celebrating at his house you and your brothers circled around him in his room while his eyes are close handing him a box "what is this?" he said looking up frowning his brows "just open this is a once in a lifetime gift" you said smiling he pulled the lid off opening his eyes softly and soon staring at you with disbelief "why did you guys do this" he said crying wiping his tears with his sleeve. In the boxed layed a plane ticket to korea, 1200 dollars and a bundles of letters, "our jake deserves this" you said crying "we worked all month in the heat, nights and rain" eli said smiling "but this is all because of eden she really thought of you every step" Juno said jake staring at you grabbing you into his lap squeezing you "you crazy brat what would i do without you" he said rubbing your head "i know i'm the best, you better make it big or i'm coming for you" you said rubbing his face with your thumb time stopping for a second while you both stare at each other a flickered of light flashing between us "okay weirdos hurry up we got to head downstairs your parents are wondering where were at " Eli said you got up and pulled jake by his hands to stand and wiping his tears. Heading downstairs just to be met by a similar face Isabella "Hi jakey happy birthday" she says pulling him in a hug while his hands are still wrapped with yours, slowly pulling away she sees it and smoothly intertwined her fingers with his replacing yours."i got you the best gift ever wanna see it?" she says smiling he quickly smiles "sure" he says smiling you staring intently at her she leans in and kisses him right on the lips. shocked you pulled his shoulder back to pull them apart she smiles " did you like?" he quickly blushed and pause "Isabella my family is here, why did you do that? were not even together?" he says underneath his breath loud enough for her to hear, everyone around who saw making smoochie sounds, eli whooping looking for a fist bump from jake. "I thought you liked me, you come downstairs and your over here holding hands with eden how do you expect me to act?" she says clearly irritated "she's just a friend" he says quickly looking at your face for a reaction. "she's just a friend" replaying through my head, you smiled like usual and slowly turned to walk towards your parents hoping he didnt see the way all your hopes break including your heart.
Its the day, jakes day the day. After packing and convincing his parents to let him go follow his dream he wore his hoodie you gifted on his 16th birthday and carried 2 suitcases and a his box you gifted him for his 17th birthday."we're gonna miss you please call us okay" your mom said kissing his cheek he smiled " were gonna miss you tell us all about the hot girls your gonna meet save some numbers for me" eli said laughing "jake Dont forget about us you know were only a number away" Juno said making jake teary eyed he slowly kept looking at the entrance waiting for your figure to walk through " I don't know if she's coming she said she was busy" your mom stated frowning while rubbing his head jake blinked slowly hoping you'd come before walking to gate. "gate 15 to korea now boarding" the intercom stated jake slowly looking down then looking at the door realizing you werent coming said his goodbyes to his parents and slowly walked to his gate tears flowing harder realizing he broke you. Before he handed his ticket in he heard jingle bells but not just any bells your bracelet that had bells on it jingle turning his body there you were swinging your arm "We love you jake dont forget about me" you said in your teddy bear pjs smiling he quickly ran out of line and hugged you "Im gonna miss you most you brat" he said before handing you a letter. then quickly running inside the plane.
8:50am before Jake leaves: you contemplating going realizing he would never feel the same about you and that you were always gonna be seen as "just friends" you took a week apart from him after his birthday not answering his texts and telling him whenever he came over you had tests to study for "Eden im leaving in 4 days spend time with me please im gonna miss you" he pleaded while setting up game night "i cant midterms are coming up and i need to be number 1" you pouted hoping he would believe your lie " did i do something wrong" you've been acting weird since my birthday, is it isabella?" "i broke it off with her she started going on a rampage about how you liked me and she wanted me to pick between you two" he said "of course i chose you" he said smiling. Your heart pinged beating faster and faster but you knew deep down he defended you because you were his childhood friend not because he liked you "jake Thanks you for that but i really cant im so sorry..." you said holding his hand while smiling slowly stepping away from him and heading upstairs leaving him confused as ever the Eden that followed him everywhere, the eden that was at every becking call, the eden who alway comforted him win or loses after every game no longer did. You werent gonna send him off you were gonna be strong and try to get over the boy you loved oh so very much, "Eden are you gonna say bye to jack?" your mom said "yea you should go you woont see him anymore after this" Eli chimed in while putting his shoes on "I cant im really busy and i have alot of stuff to do" you said "eden he cares about you and even if he cant return your feelings he will search for you in every crowd looking for you, dont regret not coming" juno said before walking out the door. you stood there dumbfounded contemplating what to do suddenly a photo stood out, you and jake on roller skates hugging eachother face squeezed so close together while holding up pizzia at the age of 4, "end it off strong eden" you said to yourself rushing out the house in pjs and rainboots catching the next uber to the airport.
part2 coming soon maybe first post ever enjoy please be nice ;p













