To All The Boys You've Loved Before 💌 Enhypen x Reader [ On-Hold ]

Chapter Sixty + Unedited

The hot spring is in the middle of nowhere, tucked behind the woods looking like it was manmade or were built to look like the ones in Japan. On your way there, you see some of your schoolmates with wet hair and covered already in their bathing robes, on their way back before the curfew.

Curfew is at eleven, and it's already ten forty five. There's not much time left, making you afraid if Jay might have already left with the rest. You don't want to lose this chance, this rare courage in your side, so you quicken your footsteps and that's when you spot him, alone in the side of the hot spring, his head tipped back with his eyes closed. At least, he's still wearing a black shirt and not what you expected from the stories about this place.

For a moment, you regarded him in silence until you feel it was safe to speak, "Well, are you still mad at me, Park Jay?"

Instantly, his eyes open and he looks over at his shoulder nervously, "Y/N! What are you doing out here?"

"I came to see you, of course", you say, and your breath comes out ragged. As you start taking off your shoes and socks, your hands were shaking, not because you were cold from the breeze. You were nervous.

Only then did he noticed it. Jay regarded you closely for a minute seemingly like he couldn't say a word, "Uhmn.. What are you doing?"

"I need to talk to you", you answered like a reflex, as you remove your jacket and set it down next to his bag at the ground.

With the steam rising out of the water, you dip your feet in and sit at the edge of the hotspring. It's hotter than any bathroom water, but it feels nice. Your heart is racing out of control now and it's difficult to look him in the eyes, feeling like you've never been so scared in your life.

Regardless of the silence he gave you, you knew that he's just waiting for you to say it. "The thing I said earlier.. I knew it was too sudden and maybe it caught you off guard. But well, I like you"

It comes out so fumbly and uncertain, and you wish you could start over and say it smoothly and confidently. You try it again, louder. "I think it's you now, Jay - the one I'm choosing above all"

"It's me?", he repeated, the way he said it made it obvious that he didn't get it. He simply couldn't understand why would you be choosing him now after all what had happened.

"Well", you started slowly, feeling him watching you with eyes that were so gentle you almost couldn't keep looking at him, "you're the person I think most deserving to be happy"

His pupils are dilated now that he's looking at you so hard. Park Jay is staring at you like he'd never seen you before. "I don't know what to reply to that. Sorry"