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Jake, being the ever so smart boy who's too kind for his own good, was a busy boy. Too caught up in student council duties as the vice president, and sometimes a tutor for some failing students, as well as being the captain of the school's soccer team. His schedule was busy to the fullest.
But he always makes sure to empty up his Fridays for after school walks with his crush. Which is fairly odd that he had the whole situation settled with how busy he usually is.
But park sunghoon, captain of their basketball team, and his ever so caring and tender crush; also finishes his practice the same time jake does, and their houses are at the same stop, and when jake noticed that, he approached sunghoon who was nothing but kind and a little shy. A real gentleman as everyone says.
And so, sunghoon is now used to wait for him at the school gate, usually leaning on the wall and playing mindlessly with his phone while waiting. And no matter how many weeks it happened now, which are three months, by the way, sunghoon will never fail on taking jake's breathe away.
"Hi," was all that left jake's plump lips, sounding slightly breathless but hoped that the younger would think it's just because he jogged his way to here, not because his ethereal looks, "hello there," came in the shape of the gentlest voice that was followed with a chuckle.
"I didn't make you wait, did I?" Sunghoon hummed and fixed jake's hair that was probably messed up by the air and met his glistening eyes, "you did not, I just like to arrive here early. Shall we go now?"
And jake's body couldn't comprehend so he just nodded, biting his lips and willing the blush away as best as he could.
The walk was comfortable as always, they talked a little bit about their week, their respective teams, how their dogs are, and by no time sunghoon was ruffling his hair again, smiling tenderly at him and saying his goodbye.
And as every week, jake watched him departs and walk away till he can't spot him anymore, chest tight with butterflies and unspoken love as he skipped his way back to his apartment.
And with someone with such a busy schedule, you can't imagine him having a secret identity, especially not the superhero that sometimes shows up in big troubles to fix everything regular humans can't.
Jake left his family in Australia and settled in Korea almost two years ago, not really wanting to show himself, nor his superhero side, he just wished for a normal life as a normal intelligent student, and to his credit, his intelligence isn't part of his powers.
But then, one day on his way home a car accident happened in front of a bus, and there was no way the bus avoids it without causing bigger damage, and he couldn't just let it happen.
With a sigh, he slowed down the time flow, wearing a mask in his face then dashed toward the crashed car, moving it out of way then went back to the bus to stop it too. He planted his feet on the ground and resumed the time, doing all he can to stop the bus in place.
Which thankfully worked. He quickly walked away but glanced back at the people to check if they're okay, just to see a boy looking out of the window with amazed expression on his face, meeting the eye of the superhero as in recognization.
And if jake slowed down the time again for one minute to look deeper into that stranger's eyes and face, then it's just him who knows so.
And so, not to risk him getting exposed because he was wearing his school uniform, he left the private school for rich students and transferred to the local school near his apartment. Which ironically enough, happened to be the same school the boy from the bus before goes to.
Who later jake learns his name is park sunghoon, the basketball team's captain. A way to be even more attractive.
Manipulating time, super strength, quick pace, and having an unbreakable skin were jake's superpowers, and he was thankful for them, dedicating them only for good use and just for others' well-goodness.
Yes sometimes he uses his super-speed to finish his essays quickly but that's a bonus.
And jake can say that he's fairly off the hook, their city is quite safe, the police usually do a great job and jake rarely needs to help.
But that was like, a week ago, before something; or actually someone who decided it's time to tag along with jake, who's also known as;
"Sky, I see you're finally here." A man, definitely not older than jake himself said, tone flirty and his unusual light blue eyes filled with mischief as he flew above him, his black clothes were covering him so well but his half-mask on his face shows his pretty lips and pale skin.
Jake sighed, "I don't know why you're here again but can you please stop annoying me? I already had a long week." He sighed behind his mask too, brown eyes directly holding eye contact, "aww, but isn't that what you said last week? Being a superhero and a high school student must be hard right?"
Jake rolled his eyes, "look, whatever your name i-" and the boy smiled, teeth sharp and for a second jake was scared this the unbreakable skin of his wouldn't last much against the fangs of the other, "I don't really have any interest in my powers so I never made an official name for myself. How about you make me one?"
"Will you stop annoying me after that?"
"Of course. I'll be good, I promise."
Jake side-eyed him, knowing the boy won't suddenly give up on his little mischief, even when it's not really that harmful. Actually not at all, he just likes to flirt or talk to jake.
"You just want my attention, don't you?" And jake really hoped the question will embarrass the boy away but instead, he received an innocent shake of head, "not exactly, I want your love to be honest, but I think I'd love your attention too so give me it as well."
Jake stared at him, bewildered, how can someone be this honest and direct?
"Stop messing around, I have a patrol to do." He rarely uses this authoritative voice but he really wished it conveys how done he was with the situation, and as he jumped from the roof they're at to another one.
"Shim jaeyun, our school's sweetheart, where did your manners go?" Jake, too shocked that his identity was revealed, turned around, annoyed more than ever, "who are you?" And if it was one of jake's power then he might have fired laser out of his eyes.
"I'm who you want me to be," the boy in black said, each word with a different voice, apparently one of his powers, then he stood right before jake, making him lift his head as the other was taller, "but you are all that I want, sweetheart." He used the voice he was regularly using, the boyish and annoying voice jake grew to dislike quickly.
"What do you want so you let me do my job?"
"Give me a name? Let me tag along, I won't bother you much, I just want your company, and oh, let's go on dates too!" Jake gritted his teeth to contain his anger, calling all the senses in him to let him stay calm, "I'll call you ego, 'cause you're so annoying and full of yourself, also tag along or whatever just don't be on my way, and for the last one, sorry I already like someone."
The boy; now named ego, quickly smirked, "oh? Is it the president? Or the team goalkeeper? Or maybe, the basketball captain?" Ego changed his voice to sunghoon's as he said the last two words, quickly jumping away as jake raised his fist to hit him.
"Don't you dare to go close to him or use his voice ever again!" But ego only smiled; hanging upside down and his blue eyes looking so deeply into jake's, "heh, that's sad, you actually do like him, I have a strong competition then."
"You wish. You're nothing compared to him." Jake spat, finally angry and done with the man's shenanigans, "ohh?" hummed ego as he swiftly flew next to jake's ear, "let's see, sweetheart. Be a good boy for me and I will change that determined look of yours." He used sunghoon's voice again, but this time, he disappeared before the other do anything to him.
Leaving a very flustered, confused, and angry jake behind.
****
"Be a good boy for me, jake."
"Good boy,"
"That's right, just like that,"
"Sunghoon, I can't a-anymore... I'm gonna-"
Jake immediately shot up from his bed, chest heaving and heart beating so loudly in his ribs. When he realized the kind of dream he just had and the not so little problem he woke up with, he couldn't help but groan in annoyance.
"I can't believe I had a wet dream about the purest boy ever.." he mumbled to himself, bringing his knees up which accidentally made him moan, "How can I even look at him in the eye anymore.." he let himself whine for few seconds.
"It's all because that ego guy, dear god how to get rid of him.. he knows who I am, so he's somewhere around our school, and since he knows how sunghoon sounds like, that means he's someone close to him or in the basketball team."
With a sigh, he decided to leave the bed to start his morning routine, hoping that he won't cross paths with sunghoon today to avoid any kind of embarrassment.
*****
Apparently, whoever is up there wanted jake to suffer today, because not just he met sunghoon, but he did it three times.
First one happened right when he arrived. He was going through his papers on his clipboard, thankfully clipped on, and didn't see ahead of him so he tripped on something and almost lost balance if not the hand that grabbed his arm, "Woah there jake, are you okay?"
He quickly apologized and looked up, eyes widening at the sight of worried sunghoon and how close he was, memories of this morning rushed back to his brain, and his face immediately burnt with red.
He quickly stood straight and cleared his throat, "y-yes. I mean, I'm sorry for that, I wasn't looking ahead of me.." and if sunghoon noticed he was avoiding eye contact then he didn't say anything. He cast him a last glance, catching somehow red ears but he didn't think much of it as he excused himself to leave.
Second time was during their music class. Generally, they don't have any classes together but music, which happens once a week, and jake usually anticipate this class just to spend every single minute of it looking at the boy or hearing his voice or playing violin for him.
But not today, especially not when they're seatmates and he can't help his thoughts to wander back to the previous events between the two, it makes him feel guiltier that sunghoon is actually trying to write down some lyrics for their monthly handout.
"Jake?" He immediately looked at the boy innocently, "yes?" And he saw sunghoon smile helplessly, "you weren't listening at all, were you?" And if jake wasn't embarrassed enough, he flushed pink for who knows how many times today, "I'm sorry, just didn't sleep well yesterday."
Sunghoon nodded, hand naturally ruffling the soft hair with a smile, "it's okay, I was only talking about the topic of the lyrics, don't worry your pretty head with it, I'll finish it myself." Only if jake's face can go redder than it is already.
"You're blushing," sunghoon remarked, his eyes on the paper in his hands.
"Shut up," jake whined and kicked his leg underneath their seat, as he covered his face with his hands.
Last thing he heard before the teacher talks again was the faint sound of sunghoon's chuckle.
And the third time was when he left the student council room, a heavy bag on his back and a big sigh leaving his lips when he saw the boy leaning on the wall, apparently waiting for someone.
"Sunghoon?" He questioned, feet habitually leading him to stand close to the taller man, "is there anything wrong?" But sunghoon only shrugged his shoulders, "basket practice canceled so I figured out we can walk home together maybe?"
Jake's heart skipped a beat and nodded quickly, a genuine smile decorating his breathtaking face. So the two started their way together.
He was relieved that he can finally spend comfortable time with the younger, without his concerns or anything to annoy him, just him and his crush, talking about anything and nothing on their way home.
"Oh, that's right. I meant to tell you that today but I forgot, next week I'll be extremely busy because of the upcoming art festival we'll hold, I'm really sorry but we might not be able to walk home together next Friday.." he mumbled sadly, sunghoon looking down at him then gently took his hand in his.
Jake immediately looked up to him, to see the younger looking ahead, cheek slightly pink, "it's okay, I'd rather wait for you." And jake looked down shyly, chest warm and mind content as he holds sunghoon's hand back gently.
*****
The following week was indeed extremely tiring to jake, with powers or without, he was tired, so many meetings to hold and so many papers to revise. Let alone the creepy feeling that there's someone following him every time he leaves school to go home. This leads him to investigate it at night, which also means ego will tag along.
"Sky, why don't you nap on my lap for a little bit? I'll protect you if anything happens." Said ego one day as he saw how tired jake was.
Jake who was stretching and looking down the path of his school where he usually spots the shadows, looked back at ego. The boy had a genuine concern in his blue eyes, and jake was beyond tired, he, unfortunately, can't stop time or slow it when he sleeps so had to accept the offer.
"Just for half an hour." He mumbled and ego flew to him and gracefully sat down, patting his lap which jake laid his head on and closed his eyes, "Don't try anything funny while I'm asleep, I'll kick your ass if you did." He mumbled drowsily.
Ego smiled and nodded, "I'll be good," was what he always says but jake decided to believe it this time and sleep.
Ego turns his attention from the peaceful sleeping face of jake to something moving within the shadows, he looked back at his own shadow and without words, the shadow moved to investigate, as whatever it sees and hears ego can see and hear too.
But he didn't get much, unfortunately, all he heard was some curses and someone running away. Whoever was the one spying on them then he knows who's jake as well as the powers of ego himself.
*****
"Stop pacing around the room, you'll tear the damn carpet." Jay sighed from his place on sunghoon's bed, watching the boy pace back and forth for the past ten minutes.
"You don't get it jay, he's in danger and I can't do anything about it, I have no idea what I'm facing and he knows about my powers and who jake is! I'm doing my best to always accompany him but what if I'm making it too obvious?" It was Sunghoon's turn to sigh.
"Then just confess to him that ego and sunghoon are the same person and there's some unknown power trying to kill y'all." The boy shrugged, using his own powers to lift his boyfriend who was asleep on the other side of the bed, and lay his head on his lap.
"You know it's not that easy. You know what? Never mind, I'll just go to see him now. I need some positive energy." He snatched his hoodie and his phone and wallet from his table then grabbed the doorknob, "forgot your suit, lover boy?" Jay asked.
"Piss off, I'll meet him like this." He said and left.
****
"Riki, I swear to god if you called one more time I will-" jake picked up his phone, annoyed as his younger friend was pulling a prank on him and calling multiple times on row, but quickly stopped when he heard a chuckle, checking the caller ID he blushed with embarrassment.
"H-hello sunghoon.." he said in a small voice, "Hello, sweetheart. I'm sorry, were you expecting another person to call?" He teased lightly and jake whined, "please don't. Riki is bored so he decided that calling me ten times in the same minute will entertain him."
Another chuckle, "sounds entertaining enough." And another whine.
"Hey, I'm at your front door. Wanna grab some ice cream?"
Jake's breath hitched and quickly walked to the window to see that sunghoon in fact is there, "I'll be down in a minute!" He immediately hanged up and spend half of the promised minute squealing around in happiness then used the other half to fix his hair and wearing an oversized hoodie then left.
He reached the boy in no time, seeing as sunghoon pushed himself off the wall as he loves to see every time. Small steps took him to stand before the taller, eyes glistening under the streetlights.
"Hi," he whispered and sunghoon felt a bang of love takes over him, he smiled gently, dimples showing lightly, as he held the boy's slightly smaller ones. "Hello there."
And no one showed a sigh to wanting to move or break the eye contact, somehow content in the semi-dark entrance of the building jake lives in.
"We have ice cream to catch, dummy," Jake said first, cheeks dusty with pretty pink.
Sunghoon breathed out for what seemed like he hasn't in few minutes, letting out a breathy laugh, intertwining their fingers and moving, "let's go then."
And he's there for clearing his mind, for spending time with the purest person he knows and his long time crush, and when his mind is actually getting clearer, jake's not.
He can hear his thoughts racing and screaming here and there, how happy he is because he's with sunghoon, how warm he feels now, the work that he left can be damned but not really and he felt bad immediately after thinking about it.
Jake's mind was always endearing, so many innocent thoughts cross it, how he likes to help, how his whole mind shuts down when they meet and nothing remains but sunghoon's name, sometimes how he overthink about riki's grades too.
But sometimes, only sometimes, he has not really pure thoughts. Like that one morning jake was trying not to think about a wet dream he had about sunghoon, or when he stares too long on sunghoon lips and starts fantasizing about kissing him.
It's the hardest to pretend that he didn't hear anything when this happens.
But he loves the immediate silence when he suddenly calls his name. "Can we go there?" Jake pulled his arm gently to the right and pointed at a big ice cream shop, "of course."
And when sunghoon agreed to get in, he didn't realize that they'll get attacked there. In fact, he was so busy caressing jake's hand and looking at him fondly as he messily ate his ice cream when he noticed a speeding shadow towards them.
He was barely on time, as he abruptly stood up and dragged jake out of his seat and wrapped him in his arms then turned around, giving the door his back and protecting jake as he made a shield big enough to cover the whole wall from the shattering glass.
His eyes turned light blue immediately which helps him look better and for longer distances. Sunghoon tried to look for the criminal, eyes finally meeting with pitch black ones, a body covered with blackness.
"Sunghoon? What's going on?" Jake finally spoke, looking over the boy's shoulder and scanning the scene, sighing and pulled away from the younger's embrace, catching the glistening blue eyes of his crush but decided to not question it yet, "I can fight it, just let me out of the force field,"
"No," he whispered, eyes roaming everywhere, "I have a better idea, sky. I can go invisible, and I can share my power with you, I'll hold you and we'll attack together. The surprise element is to our side and we're two against him. Got it?" And jake couldn't say no to that.
Sunghoon smirked, "oh I'll make you regret ruining my ice cream date!" He said and his whole image changed; hand grabbing jake and both went invisible as the shield disappeared. Both of the boys attacking at the same time.
Sunghoon who changed his image before to a little kid only let go when jake was so close to the attacker's face, hitting him with an insanely powerful punch. He took advantage of his size to go under the man's cloak, he had black clothes covering him so well, and sunghoon didn't waste a second. He immediately used his lighting powers to shock him badly and burn his clothes.
"Sunghoon!" Jake screamed as he saw the lightning and fire in the man's body, running to them, just to see sunghoon in his regular body again, just his eyes are still blue, the man passed out next to him.
"Jak..e. Hey, hey it's okay, it's over now." Sunghoon tried to say but jake immediately threw himself on him. Body shaking with his little sobs.
Sunghoon, so worried that something might happen when he's busy comforting jake, immediately asked jay by telepathy to come and solve the situation while he hugged the boy and flew away.
They stayed quiet for several minutes. Jake's no longer crying, but still holding on sunghoon's clothes for dear life, face planted in the taller's chest.
"Sweetheart," the younger started, "shut up," Jake whined, leading sunghoon to chuckle, hand going up from jake's waist to his chin so he can see his face. Which was wet and flushed, angry pout decorates it.
"There there, Why the pout now, my sky?" He asked gently, eyes now soft brown and full of love. "You were ego all the time. I can't believe I couldn't even recognize that! You had powers! Knows about mine! Knows there's someone who wanna attacks us too and shielded me with your own body!! You know how scared and worried I was?" Jake scolded, eyes watering again and the idea that sunghoon might get hurt for him.
"Hey hey baby," he cooed softly, the name rolling out of his tongue naturally, "I'm really sorry for lying to you, I seriously just wanted your company, and to be fair, I knew about your powers before I knew who you are because time powers don't work on me. I fell in love with you when you saved my bus, and I heard your thoughts about me and it was really cute."
Jake blushed dark red, realizing that sunghoon most likely heard so many embarrassing things about him, in music class, in their small dates, and how embarrassingly in love he is.
He whined, shy and annoyed at the same time, "that's so embarrassing."
Sunghoon chuckled, "it's so cute. I'm sorry for listening to your thoughts, they're just so loud, no matter how much I block them out. But to be honest, it's just so endearing to hear you and your thoughts about me. It makes me feel so loved. You're so amazing."
Jake pouted again. Giving the spoiled kid behavior sunghoon loves a lot, "we're not even together yet," he mumbled, "we're not cause I liked the way you call me your crush, but I can't wait anymore, I think hearing you say I'm your boyfriend is much better than just a crush. Or what do you say?"
Jake met sunghoon's soft eyes, loud brain going quiet again, he looked around at any sight of a joke or intention to lie, but he didn't find any. Instead, he was met with the gentlest and most honest gaze that worked for melting down any insecurity or worry jake has.
"You already know that I like you so much. Please be my boyfriend." He finally said, and sunghoon smiled at him, "gladly, sweetheart." Securing a hand around jakes waist and spinning a little in the sky, earning a giggle from the older, who now was holding to sunghoon's neck.
Their eyes met, shy yet excited smiles on their lips and sunghoon found himself kissing the boy's forehead then intertwining their fingers, "let's go home."