She fell to the ground.Her heart was threatening to come out of her chest. She closed her eyes, trying to catch her breath.

"It hurts... I-I can't" she cried. She was now hyperventilating.

"Ow- calm down... calm down. Oh god! I'm having an anxiety attack." She couldn't believe the fact that she was talking to herself.

"I-I can't take it... it h-hurts."

She cried harder, her chest growing tighter. She buried her head into her knees. She wanted to disappear. She wanted her tears to fill up the alleyway and drown her. She wanted to live her life being invisible.

All he did was confess his feelings? So why did she take this so seriously?

Before she thought that the whole world would accept her and Jaemin's relationship. She thought that they would think they where the cutest couple in the world. People would be making cute edits on Instagram and the world would continue spinning.

But the second he told her he liked her, she realized all the consequences. Mostly her managers. There would be no way that they could be together, and still be apart of NCT.

She continued to cry into her knees, ignoring the footsteps that stopped by her.

He sat down next to her and sighed. He wrapped his hand around her causing her to flinch and look up.

"I can't breath. I-it hurts." She cried. He caresses her back and walked her through her breathing.

Eventually she calmed down. She wiped away her tears and fixed her hair.

"Thanks, Hyunjin Oppa" She said. He smiled and looked back at the ground.

"What happened after I ran away?" She asked.

"Nothing much. Jaemin ran off talking about how it was all his fault. Mark Hyung went to go look for him. I offered to go look for you and everyone else is still there."

"But why did you run off?"

"I don't know. I just couldn't take it I guess?" She did know but she didn't know how to answer.

"And What Jaemin said about us flirting-"

"I was just getting to know you, Hyejin. I didn't have any intentions of flirting." He said. She smiled and nodded. There was an awkward silence between them, until He decided to speak up.

"Your friend told me about your other members. Apparently, Jaemin's not the only one who feels that was about you" He said. She looked up at him and sighed.

"That's part of the reason I ran away. I don't know how I can tell them!" She said.

"Tell them what?"

"That Jaemin said he's in love with me?"

"Well, you only have to tell one member because Mark was there. And why does it matter, it's not like you picked Jaemin?" He looked at her and waited for an answer. She hesitated.

"Oh. So you do pick Jaemin?" She just shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm not ready" Hyunjin furrowed his eyebrows.

"Ready for what?"

"My mom says I'm not ready for a relationship"

"Yeah your mom says that but what about you? Do you think your ready?" She couldn't answer. They just sat their and listened to the busy streets.

"My whole life, I've been told to stay away from boys, that I can't trust them. But I live with basically an army of men. But it's different. There my family. But when it comes to a relationship, I've been told it's not a real relationship till your older!"

"Your worried that its not real. Your worried that Jaemin is like all the other stereotypes, right?" He asked her. She slowly put her head down.

"He is a sweet guy. And wouldn't hurt an ant. But there are somethings you don't know about guys. He might hate the relationship when I think where doing fine and just leave me. I'm scared of being left alone. Scared of being heart broken." She was still crying and couldn't stop the tears from falling.

"Well, I've never been in a relationship before, but I do know it's all about trying. I'm really not the person you should be asking for relationship advice" they both laughed. He stood up and grabbed her hand. She pulled him closer and wrapped her arms around his torso.

"I'm scared"

"You won't know the outcome if you don't try?"

They both walked to the benches. All the members turned around but Jeno was the first to jump from his seat and hug her.

"Hyejinnie! Are you ok?" You could tell in his voice he was worried. Hyejin just cried into his shoulder.

"Hey. What's wrong? Why are you crying?" He asked, cupping her face.

"I'm about to do something that I might regret," she sighed. Jeno frowned. He was about to ask what she meant but was interrupted by a voice coming from behind him.

"Hyejin?" They turned to see Jaemin and Mark. Mark was looking at Hyejin. He smiled at her and nodded his head. It was as if he was giving her permission to let go of him and be with Jaemin. Jaemin's eyes were glued to the ground.

"How about we all go on one more ride before we leave?" Some members murmured in agreement.

"How about the Ferris wheel?" Haechan recommended. He looked at Hyejin and winked. Wiping her tears, she laughed a little bit.

After waiting in line for a while, It was finally there turn.

"Um J-Jaemin, is it ok if I ride with you?" She asked. The poor girl was a nervous wreck. He nodded and the entered the Ferris wheel together. They both stared at the ground. As they where about to go up, Hyejin looked at the ground where Jeno was signaling her to talk to him. She nodded and faced Jaemin.

His eyes showed no emotion. The smile that was plastered on his face had disappeared. Defeat and sadness was shown from how far his shoulders were hunched.

"You entered that door, the day you came back. And I couldn't believe it was you. I remember being so excited that you where back that I basically injured myself, I still have a scar from." The corners of his mouth lifted, but he refused to look up at her.

"That was when I figured out that I looked at you differently. Wait no that doesn't sound right..." he laughed a bit and finally looked up at her. She smiled.

"I meant. That this was the first time I saw you as something different other than an older brother. Every time we where together I couldn't stop blushing! And it was you." She paused and looked at him in the eyes.

"I've always had this crazy fantasy that we would be together and the world would be ok with it. But as soon as you said you where in love with me, I just thought about everything my mom told me" she paused for a little bit. Her heart was pounding out of her chest.

"Boys are difficult, they only want to brake your heart, blah blah..." She imitated her mother's voice, causing Jaemin to let a chuckle.

"She scared me for a long time. I was scared to date anyone. I still am now, but I want to be ready, but I don't think I am-" she continued to ramble, causing Jaemin to become confused.

"Wait wait wait. W-what are you trying to say?" He laughed a bit. She paused and took a deep breath.

"I-I" she sighed.

"Thinking about you just makes me get my energy up. Sometimes I want to just scream your name from the roof. I would do so much for- ugh...enough with the stupid speech. I'm better at doing than saying." She took a deep breath and pulled Jaemin close. She grabbed his collar.

Now or never, Park Hyejin she thought to herself. She brought her face close to his. She could feel his hot breath on her lips, making her want to kiss him more and more. She finally connected her tender lips onto his. Jaemin smiled into the kiss, grabbing her face.

The kiss was short but it felt like the world had stopped. It felt like the earth had stop spinning for a few seconds. Every noise in the city and the screaming from the rides where tuned out. The only thing that mattered was her lips on his.

"Im in love with you Na Jaemin." She said. He smiled and the looked into each other's eyes.

"I've been in love with you ever since you entered that door after your recovery. And I hope I'll be in love with you for a long time. But I need you to promise me something. I need you to promise me that you won't break me. You won't be with me and then leave me. I don't-" he interrupted her by laying his lips softly onto hers for a quick peck.

"I am not leaving you anytime soon," he smiled.

"Im gonna have to find a girlfriend nickname for you. Baby would be weird, but babe makes you sound older and like mature" she just laughed.

"I like any nickname," she said shyly. They just looked at each other. He was leaning in for another kiss until they where interrupted.

"Ok I get that it's a cute, wonderful moment and all, but can you please get a room?!" Haechan said, from a cart above them. She smiled and pulled away from Jaemin.

They got off the ride to see everyone standing there, waiting for them to get off the ride. Jaemin stepped out and helped Hyejin out.

"Thank you, Nana"

"Your welcome, Hyejinnie." She giggles and held onto his arm. They were all smiling at the two and giving them looks.

"Oh, well. I thought Haechan had said everything but I'm wrong because you guys look like your waiting for your two favorite characters in a movie to get together," Hyejin continued to ramble. Everyone looked at her in confusion, expecting her to stop talking eventually. But she kept talking.

"What she means is," he interrupted her. He intertwined his hand with hers. He looked back at them.

"We're together." They both smiled, waiting for each others reaction. Everyone smiled and cheered, having a mixture of emotions.

The members of stray kids came to congratulate Hyejin and Jaemin , giving her hugs and him high fives.

"Dude, take care of our biggest fan, who've apparently we've accidentally adopted" Felix said while looking at Bang Chan.

"Hey it's not my fault she is adorable. And for real, don't break her hear or I'll break your legs," he said in the most happiest way. Jaemin just laughed, confused and scared of what Chan said. They said their goodbyes and left. Now Dream was alone.

"Father Louis William Suva Adams the Third, thank you for answering my prayers!" Renjun muttered under his breath but loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Suga Oppa?" "Your prayers?" Jaemin and Hyejin asked at the same time.

"I knew from that day that you couldn't stop complaining about her stupid shorts that you loved her. And I was waiting for you to stop being a chicken and ask her out. And finally, not the way I wanted it to happen, but finally, it happened." Everyone laughed at Renjun.

Jeno came over to her and put his arm around her as they walked to their vans.

"Wow, so that happened!" He said. She laughed and nodded in agreement.

"Not something I thought would happen today."

"I'm happy for you and I didn't want to bring this up, but what are you gonna do about Mark and Lucas?" He asked, causing her to slump her shoulders.

"I almost forgot about them, oh no! I mean Mark already knows, but Lucas! He's gonna be so confused and hurt and - and" Jeno grabbed her shoulders and made her face him.

"You'll be fine! If he really loves you he'll understand!" He said, causing her to sigh. Jaemin came up to them.

"Ok I'm gonna go talk over there and let you people do happy couple stuff." Jeno walked off to follow Haechan.

"So, how are you doing?" He asked.

"Good, but no one knows yet. I mean like our managers, and the rest of the members. And I plan on telling our members tomorrow, and the managers.... I don't know" she sighed. She was worried of what would happen.

"Don't worry, the managers aren't as bad as Taeyong Hyung, when you think about it." She almost broke her lungs by laughing at what he said.

"Taeyong is going to freak out. But that's what mothers do right?" She said. She gasped, suddenly remembering something.

Her mother...

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