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the two friend groups had decided to get a celebratory dinner together, courtesy of jake’s(jay’s) wallet.

unable to help himself, sunoo plops the meat he’d been grilling for himself onto riki’s plate earning a shy smile from the younger. in his peripheral he can see hanni smirking at him. he makes a mental note to bring up the embarrassing interaction she had with her crush earlier that night later.

sunoos plots for revenge on hanni get interrupted as jay abruptly stands up from his seat at the table. he looks at sunoo softly yet theres a tense smile gracing his lips, “sun, a word?”

he confusedly nods at the olders words, sending an unsure glance at jungwon who just shrugs.

sunoo wordlessly follows the older outside the restaurant, the cold february air nipping at his skin. jay seems to take notice of sunoos teeth clattering as he wraps his thick coat around sunoo, “you never dress warmly.” the older says teasingly making sunoo break out into a smile.

the two stand in silence for a few seconds, both of them taking in the view of the sunset in the sky.

“i’m sorry.” jay sighs.

confused, sunoo looks to the older with a pout, “for?”

jays eyes flickers with guilt, “for what i said earlier over text. i think i was just..” he takes a deep breath as he turns to sunoo, “i was jealous.”

sunoo blinks. he just blinks. he blinks as jays face turns a bright crimson and he blinks as an awkward silence stretch’s on between them.

jay raises his hand in protest as sunoo opens his mouth to speak. “let me finish first,” he pleads. sunoo nods, the olders sheepish expression is starting to make him nervous.

sunoo watches as jay rocks bath and fourth on his feet anxiously, feeling bad for the older he places a reassuring hand onto his shoulder. jay smiles softly, “i’m jealous of riki, wait no, i was jealous of riki,” the older looks down at his feet, the tips of his ears turning pink.

“i was jealous of how much he was getting to see you. i thought i was gonna lose you.” sunoo tries not to frown at the shakiness in jays voice, “i went from seeing you almost everyday to almost never, and i was—i was scared i was losing one of my best friends. which now that i say it, it sounds kinda stupid to be jealous over something like that but i just,” jay inhales deeply, his usual soft eyes are now filled with sadness. “i really care about you, about both of you. and i’m really really happy for you both, seriously you two are very cute together, but i miss you—i miss us. i miss hanging out.”

sunoo pulls jay into a bone crushing hug the second he gets his words out, “you’d never lose me as a friend jay. though, i do agree it is a little silly to be jealous over that,” jay laughs loudly at sunoo’s words making relief flood through his veins.

“we should hang out soon, yeah? i can’t blame you for missing me so much, i am pretty great.” sunoo giggles as jay lightly shoves him with a roll of his eyes, “whatever, thanks for listening sun. let’s go back inside before they eat everything.” the two chatter mindlessly with soft smiles gracing both their faces as they walk back to the table.

sunoo ignores the questioning look hanni sends him to yank jungwon by his hoodie, “move it yang.” jungwon stands from his spot next to riki with no reluctance, immediately moving to invade jake’s space as he sits next to him.

“hey ki.” sunoo says softly. he feels his chest tighten painfully when riki just gives him a curt nod, barely acknowledging his presence. annoyed, sunoo pinches riki’s side. he hears riki let out a groan as he squirms in attempt to get away from sunoo’s prying fingers.

sunoo stares intently at the right side of riki's face as the younger chats with heeseung, they’re bonding over some video game sunoo never cared about till now, till he knew riki liked it.

the two talk for what seems like forever until heeseung lets out a yelp of pain making everyone’s conversations halt to a pause. sunoo snickers as heeseung sends him a confused glare, “why’d you kick me?” heeseung asks, his face scrunched up in pain.

sunoo just shrugs, a sweet smile on his face as he sends another kick to heeseungs shin. in the midst of the chaos of sunghoon trying to preform cpr on heeseung as if he’s dying and chanyoungs loud belts of laughter that’ll surely get them kicked out, sunoo manages to drag riki away from the table.

the cold air again nips at sunoo’s skin as he drags riki’s outside.

sunoo feels as if his entire body had been dunked in ice water when he feels riki try and pull his hand out of his grip, jays once warm jacket doing little to nothing to keep the ice that flows through his veins away. sunoo abruptly stops walking causing riki’s larger frame to crash into his own. he turns around and watches as the younger quickly jumps away from him, muttering out a soft "sorry." under his breath.

sunoos upset. he truly thought he could never be upset at the younger boy, even when riki ignored him he wasn’t upset at him. but now, watching as riki puts distance between the two of them when he’d usually shove his way into sunoos space, sunoo can’t help but feel distraught.

“what’s going on ki? why won’t you talk to me?” sunoo asks, shoving lightly at riki’s shoulder when the younger won’t move his eyes away from the ground, first he refuses to talk to him now he’s even refusing to look at him. sadness fills sunoo’s heart when riki tenses at his touch. sunoo opens his mouth to ask what’s wrong when riki’s dark eyes finally look into his concerned ones.

sunoos heart soars when he sees the blush on riki’s cheeks. “what’s going on ki?”

riki purses his lips in thought before reaching forward to wordlessly wrap his lanky arms around sunoo. sunoo smiles as the younger buries his face into his neck, “congrats.” riki says.

confused sunoo pushes riki away. sunoo stares at riki’s face quizzically, trying to wrack his brain for what riki could possibly be congratulating him for. “wh—? i’m—,” he starts, sunoo feels as if his words are getting stuck in his throat.

“congrats for what?” he lands on eventually. the confusion sunoo feels only grows as riki makes a gesture with his hand towards the restaurant’s entrance. “congrats on y’know…you and jay?”

“me and jay?” sunoo is so fucking lost right now.

“yeah, you two look good together. very cute.” riki smiles at him but it doesn’t reach his eyes.

a painstakingly awkward silence falls over them as sunoo stares at riki. his hands fiddle with the bottom of jays jacket when the realization of riki’s words hit him like a slap in the face. there’s no fucking way.

“riki,” sunoo reaches out slowly, taking riki’s hand into his again. “i like you.”

sunoo represses a giggle as riki’s jaw drops open. this time, sunoo can’t help the laugh that bubbles up in his throat as riki’s fingers flex in his hand, a subtle pink blush rising up onto his neck.

“you? me? what?” riki says breathlessly, as if all the air had been sucked out of his lungs. sunoo feels slightly bad as he finds the distress on the youngers face painfully cute.

sunoo is smiling so large that his cheeks hurt, “i like you, riki. i really really like you.”

his amusement is quickly washed away as riki’s eyes well up with tears. “you like me.” riki says quietly as he chokes out a sob.

to say sunoo is baffled is an understatement. in all his 21 years of living, he’s never had someone cry because he confessed to them. “i— yes? i do.” sunoo says, concern laced in his voice.

riki lets out a loud squeak, and sunoo is suddenly pulled into another hug. “oh my god.” he hears riki say as the youngers arms tighten around him, “holy shit, holy fucking shit. i never thought this day would come, it’s so much better than in my dreams.”

sunoo belts out a laugh at riki's words, “yeah? you dreamin’ of me?” he says, unable to stop himself from teasing him. not even phased by the teasing, riki nods his head and grips sunoo even tighter, his long fingers digging into sunoo’s(jay’s) jacket, as if he’s making sure sunoo’s really there.

“i like you too. i like you so much it’s insane.” riki says softly.

sunoo laughs, “yeah i kinda gathered that much.” riki releases a wet laugh at that, his hands moving from sunoo’s back to his side to pinch him.

slowly, sunoo wiggles out of the youngers bone crushing grip to look at his face. sunoo’s heart beating hard in his chest as he takes in the youngers appearance. riki’s eyelashes are thick with crystal tears and his pretty pink lips are pursed into a cute pout.

he looks so pretty and so sunoo’s.

he giggles softly, reaching up to wipe the youngers tears, “cmon, i wanna go eat a celebratory dinner with my super cute boyfriend now.” riki’s eyes bulge out of his head as sunoo places a gentle kiss to his cheek. sunoo refrains from laughing at the youngers dazed expression and take the opportunity to press another kiss onto his nose, “seriously come on, i’m fucking starving.”

warmth fills sunoo as he walks into the restaurant with riki trailing behind. he gives riki’s larger hand a squeeze as he leads them to their table, his heart stuttering in his chest as he hears riki's not so quiet whispers behind him, "im his boyfriend, we’re boyfriends. what the fuck?”

sunoo once again ignore the questioning look he gets from hanni as he sits down in his seat, riki lagging behind him.

seemingly snapped out of his daze, riki starts eating again. sunoo watches fondly as the younger keeps refilling both of their plates with meat.

sunoos heart beats loudly in his ears as riki leans into his side, laughing at something sunghoon had said. jungwon raises an eyebrow at sunoo when the two make eye contact, earning a shrug and a wink from him. jungwons dimple makes an appearance as he cutely smiles at sunoo, raising his hands to make a heart.

his hand stays in riki’s— in his boyfriend’s for the entire duration of the dinner. and if anyone notices how sunoo had draped a possessive arm around riki’s waist, and the continuous times riki leaned into sunoo’s embrace during dinner, no one commented on it. just like how no one commented on how jake went home with jungwon because he forgot something in the youngers apartment. (everyone knew that was a lie, just like how they knew it was a lie when riki said he and sunoo totally didn’t make out in the bathroom even though their swollen lips gave them away immediately.)

SUMMARY: riki has seen many things as sunoo's neighbor. he's seen him late for school rushing out the door, he's seen him help his mother bring in groceries, and he's even seen him get dropped off by friends. what riki hasnt seen is sunoo asking him to be his fake boyfriend.

HEYYY 👅👅 thank you guys so much for reading boy next door!! seriously it means a lot :(, i genuinely never thought that this smau would get traction outside of my twt circle LMAOO 😭 but im so so fucking happy that it did! cuz i’m emotionally attached to this smau i definitely will be posting some extras because im not ready to let go of these sillies yet 💔💔💔 so look forward to that!!! hehehe love u guys 😊💗💞👅

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