- feel like you still wanna be mine
- summary:
- jaemin got drafted fifteenth overall by the toronto maple leafs, grinning so wildly that it almost cracked his face in two as the general manager shook his hand, slipping that ugly blue and white jersey over his perfect head. cameras flashed, the dark blue contrasted terribly with his mess of pink hair, and that had been that. jaemin was officially out of reach, out of chenle’s life forever.
- eight thousand kilometers away, chenle had watched on a tiny phone screen in the privacy of his room, burrowed into one of jaemin’s old sweatshirts—stolen on one of their late night adventures—and cried.
- or, chenle is perfectly fine (read: so unbelievably not fine at all) playing college hockey two years after kissing jaemin on the night that jaemin left him for the nhl. of course jaemin has to come back and throw a sexy ass wrench into all of his life plans (read: again, no plans at all, he’s kind of a mess).
- word count: 65,199
- chapters: 1/1
- two-part trust fall
- summary:
- "so which one is it? which half of the old married couple?" chenle asks, shoving a huge piece of pancake into his mouth.
- "which one is what?" jaemin says, and sips his coffee.
- "which one are you in love with?" chenle says, and upon seeing the face jaemin instinctively makes, dumps more salt on the wound. "don't give me that look. i know when the person i'm hooking up with is thinking of someone else. it's gotta be one of them. so, mark or renjun?"
- "neither," jaemin finally says, though five years ago the answer would have been different. this coffee is too cold—sharply so—for 8am. "jeno. jisung's... boyfriend."
- chenle's eyebrows raise together with another forkful of pancake. "huh," he says. "not so predictable, then."
- word count: 65,000
- chapters: 1/1
- a dilemma in thirds
- summary: to manage the pain of an unrequited crush on a week-long ski trip, chenle enlists the help of jaemin for a fake, almost-but-not-quite relationship, since they're the only two in the group with no risk of the feelings becoming real. it's a stupid idea, but jaemin has always had issues saying no --especially to chenle.
- word count: 41,543
- chapters: 1/1
jan 15 2024 ∞
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