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he opened the car door and plopped down into the driver's seat beside the girl.
"jeno! you did it!"
his head hit the headrest gently, inhaling and exhaling carefully. "i don't know, i still don't feel free."
he looked at her with uncertainty.
"i know exactly what you need!"
"you do?"
"yup, you need to finish your bucket list. like before, you said you didn't want to be an idol anymore. maybe you need to do that then."
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"jeno, you need to give us warning, you can't just turn up and try to terminate your contract."
"well, what do you want to do about it?"
the manager was at a loss. before, they could all blame his rebellious actions on heloise. but now they had seen she was a good person. and they had to accept that maybe jeno was coming to term with what he truly wanted.
"i have my letter of resignation here and everything. i will not be participating in any more activities as an idol or with nct dream."
some staff had gathered in the area to see what the commotion was. but none of them could stop him. he handed over the letter and his key to the dorm. and he left.
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"i can't believe i did that, heloise did i actually just do that? help, this must be a fever dream."
she laughed at him, putting her phone away to face him fully.
"angel, you're sure you did the right thing, right?"
"yeah, it's not that im uncertain, it's just that i can't believe i actually did it. i never thought it was possible."
heloise kissed him gently. but that wasn't enough to satisfy the idyllic pleasure bubbling in his stomach.
he pulled her over the gears to sit on his lap, leaving up to reattach their lips together. indulging in the way her lips against his felt so sweet, so right.
it was only soft. thoughtful presses and dabs and pecks - like dainty snowflakes hitting the ground. but as infatuation grew in their guts, so did the desire to have more, to be closer still.
his arms around her waist pulled her closer and her hands found their way to his hair and his chest. his hands drew underneath her shirt just a little, warm fingertips drawing circles on her lower back - falling between the hem of her shirt and the top of her jeans.
her body curled closer towards his, only wanting more. his tongue poked her bottom lip, only wanting to taste her but was sucked in completely as they intertwined. as if she was a trance, or a happy pill.
his lungs needed for him to pull away, but could he ruin this moment just for oxygen that was always going to exist? never.
a smile graced his lips as he realised. she was the reason. for his overflowing happiness and the shining bright spark within him. the serotonin boost and adrenaline rush, was all there as a cause to her.
she pulled away from him, staying close though. far enough so they could breathe, but close enough to continue kissing at any given moment.
"baby, you know, the nickname eternal star suits you."
"what makes you say that?"
both of them panted recklessly against each other, heloise burying her head into him momentarily.
but he held her cheeks, so that she could see the sincerity in his eyes as he said it. the sheer understanding, and love for her. so that she could see the celebration in his body as it finally registered who the long lost puzzle piece is.
"even when destruction is everywhere, you took me away from that. you freed me from the constraints of what i thought reality was. and you showed me a world where everything is brighter, and where im happier. in that old life, my heart was longing for something, i had desire, want, wish, hope, whatever you want to call it.
it's you, heloise, and its been you. you light up my life, since forever."
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WOOO BUT AT THE SAME TIME NOOOOO extricate is done you guysss
im actually really sad that this story is ending, i wasn't expecting to finish it on time if im honest. but i did, and that's crazy to me.
this story actually got quite a lot of reads as i was writing it, which really surprised me tbh. im still not that confident in my writing and i second guess myself a lot, but the support that i got on this book was really so much. tbh i ACTUALLY want to cry, REAL TEARS
im not good at communicating with ppl, acc im really bad at it, but with writing, i feel like through my characters and through my plots, im speaking to ppl. and this story felt and feels so real to me, like the meaning of it to me is basically tangible. i felt like i actually did smth, like i influenced smth, or at least gave someone smth to do for a little while.
im very grateful, thank you so much for reading this story of mine. i don't deserve this, im going to cry myself to sleep now, but only happy tears.
oki, bye now and thank you for stopping by at extricate
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(also, i have a proposal, i asked earlier, should this story end happily and not have a part two, or sad and have a part two, and i decided, WHY NOT BOTH? so i present to you: a cHoIcE
now you can choose to count this book as finished, remove it from your library and forget all about it * well probs not forget about it otherwise i'd be a little upset but yeah *
or you can continue on to the prologue of the part two, which i can guarantee will be a little sad but yeah, the choice is yours)