"I know that you hated him. But, can you please at least make sure get home safely?" Junkyu asked.
"I didn't hate him," Jaehyuk said.
"You dislike him. Yeah," Junkyu added.
"And why are you being worried about him?" Jaehyuk asked.
The party ended and it's already passed midnight. Some of their friends already went home.
"You saw him yourself, right? He's drunk," Junkyu said.
"And why don't you make walk him home yourself?" Jaehyuk said.
"I want to. But I live at the opposite side. And I need to take Junghwan home as well. He's even more drunk than Asahi," Junkyu said.
"So. You don't have to worry about him," Jaehyuk said.
"Jaehyuk-ah~"
"Alright. Alright. I know. Even though I looked like this, I know what I should do," Jaehyuk said. "His parents will be upset if anything happened to him when I was around and didn't do anything. My parents will be mad as well,"
"I know I can trust you, Jaehyuk," Junkyu said. "And I feel like you can stop hating on him for no reason already,"
"I didn't hate him," Jaehyuk said.
"Yeah. You just dislike him," Junkyu said. "I can see he's quite down whenever he's around you,"
"How did you see him down? He didn't even change his facial expression at all," Jaehyuk said.
"I just know, Jaehyuk-ah," Junkyu said. "Because I care about him,"
"You what?" Jaehyuk can't believe what he just heard.
"It's getting late. Go home safely," Junkyu said.
"Eo," Jaehyuk nodded.
"And make sure Asahi went home safely as well," Junkyu added.
"Alright," Jaehyuk said.
The restaurant they're having the party at is Hyunsuk's older brother's restaurant. That's why they can stay there even past midnight.
The other kids except for Hyunsuk, Jaehyuk and Asahi already went home because the live quite far from the neighborhood the restaurant is at.
"I just need to help my hyung to clean this first. Do you need me to help you?" Hyunsuk asked.
"No. I can manage it," Jaehyuk said.
He walked toward Asahi who's spacing out at his seat.
"Let's go home, Asahi," Jaehyuk said.
Asahi looked at Jaehyuk before stand up and walked following Jaehyuk's steps. Their houses are not that far from where the restaurant is at. So they just need to walk home.
It's not the first time Jaehyuk has been watching over drunken Asahi. Asahi didn't act much when he drunk. He just spaced out and do nothing other than keep drinking.
Asahi will just followed any demand made by other if they added his name after the demand. Yes. He will do anything.
But still, he's not really that conscious.
Jaehyuk looked at his back for a few times as they walked home. To make sure that Asahi still following him.
Jaehyuk is not that cruel to just ignore the drunken person no mater how much he doesn't like that person. The problem is, the only person that Jaehyuk dislike is Asahi. And Asahi is almost like his family because of how close their families are.
"We're here, Asahi," Jaehyuk said.
He ring the bell. But there's no one opened the door.
"Where's your parents?" Jaehyuk asked.
"Holiday," Asahi answered shortly.
"Did you bring your keycard?" Jaehyuk asked.
"No," Asahi said. Jaehyuk sighed.
"Enter you passcode, Asahi," Jaehyuk ordered. Asahi walked toward the pin on his house's door.
"I can't see," Asahi said after standing there for quite a long time without doing anything.
"I'll help you. What's the passcode?" Jaehyuk asked.
"123698," Asahi answered. Jaehyuk entered the passcode and opened the door.
"Here. Go in, Asahi," Jaehyuk said.
Asahi walked into his house but then just stand there. Jaehyuk sighed. He know that Asahi will just stand there after he left.
Jaehyuk walked in and pulled Asahi to his bedroom.
"Sleep," he said after making sure that Asahi already lying down on his bed.
"You shouldn't taking care of me," Asahi said.
"I don't want to as well," Jaehyuk said. "But I don't want to upset your parents,"
"If you want to join the design team, just tell me. I'll drop out right away," Asahi suddenly said before Jaehyuk able to walked out from his bedroom.
Jaehyuk stop walking and turned at him.
"Why?"
"I know you won't join it because you hated me, right? You don't want to see my face. At all," Asahi said.
"I didn't hate you," Jaehyuk said. "I just dislike you,"
"There's a thin line differentiate hate and dislike," Asahi said.
"True," Jaehyuk sighed. "But I don't really interested in joining that team,"
"I'm sorry for existing," Asahi said.
It somehow make Jaehyuk felt guilty.
"Don't be. It's my own problem. You didn't do anything wrong," Jaehyuk said. "Just ignore me. I'm childish. That's all,"
"I'm sorry for appearing in front of you," Asahi added.
"I said it's not your fault," Jaehyuk sighed.
"I'll try to not appearing in front of you as much as I could," Asahi said.
"Stop," Jaehyuk said, frustrated. "Just sleep,"
"I'm sorry," Asahi apologized.
"Stop apologizing. You make me a bad guy here," Jaehyuk said.
"I just want to be friend with you," Asahi said.
Hiss words make Jaehyuk quite surprised. He didn't expect that Asahi will say something like that.
For more than 10 years knowing Asahi, he doesn't seems like interested in Jaehyuk at all.
"Try not to enter the next art competition that will be held. I might consider it," Jaehyuk said.
He just said that but he pretty sure that Asahi won't even remember about it at all. He's drunk.
"I'm going home," Jaehyuk said.
Asahi didn't say anything. Jaehyuk didn't even check on that guy and walked toward his house after making sure that he close Asahi's door.
Jaehyuk close his bedroom door. He chuckled remembering Asahi's words.
"Yeah right. He wanna be my friend,"
Jaehyuk didn't believe any of Asahi's words just now. He believe that Asahi didn't even know what he's talking about and definitely will forgot everything the next day.
He took out his phone. There's a message from Junkyu asking if he already make sure Asahi went home safely or not.
Jaehyuk just replied that Asahi is home safe and sound.
Jaehyuk still thinking about Junkyu's words. He cared about Asahi? He didn't know that his best friend interested in Asahi.
"What the hell is attractive about him?"
But then, he remembered Asahi's face when he's staring at him during the game. Yes. He's attractive. It's hard for Jaehyuk to denied that.
Jaehyuk touched his lips. He still can feel the softness of Asahi's lips on his lips.
He bit his lower lips before pressing it into a thin line. Why did he thinking about that right now?