<20 hours later>
The plane crashed onto the runway in the light of the morning sun, waking me up immediately. Morning? Oh of course, the time difference.
'Finally back home..' I thought to myself with a weird sense of comfort as the plane slowly drew to a stop, and the red seatbelt sign above me turned off.

'Let's go.' Jaehyun smiled at me, and I nodded, standing up. All of us walked out of the aeroplane, and out into the airport. Suddenly my phone pinged endless times, and checking it, I saw a string of messages from Tamsyn, a friend of mine I didn't talk to often but was kinda close with.

'Hey Xx'
'Shania told me you moved to Korea??'

I smiled to myself as I typed out a reply of 'yeah lmao'.

'Omg really?'
'Aw I was in Korea for a bit we should have met up 😭❤️'

'You were??'
'Are u still there?'

'No I literally came back today'
'I'm at Heathrow right now 😂'

'Lmao guess what'
'Same 😂'

'WHAT'
'WHERE ARE YOUUU'

'Well I'm near the security check'

'Lol same'
'Wait which flight did u take??'

'The British Airways one'
'From Korea to here'
'Idk the flight number tho'
'My bf does but I don't'

'Omg we took the same flight!'
'And ooo u went there with ur bf?'

'Well...'
'Not exactly'
'I kinda met him there..?'

'Sook!' I heard a familiar voice exclaim from behind me, and turning around, I discovered Tamsyn. She looked kinda different though, with her hair shorter, dip-dyed a dark shade of purple. I grinned at her, waving, and she came over to all of us. I don't think she immediately noticed the good looking Asian guys I was with, because I know for a fact that if she had, she would have probably died on the spot (yes, she was a hardcore kpop fan like me).

tamsyncollins  I will get u into NCT like I got u into BTS and kpop in general be prepared 😂💕)

'It's been ages since I saw u omg!' She exclaimed, and immediately after, her eyes moved to Yuta, who was standing right next to me at that point; Jaehyun had gone to enquire about something, and Yuta was honestly the person I felt the most comfortable with after Jaehyun, despite our awkward first meeting.

'Is this your boyfriend?' She asked, making both me and Yuta look at each other. I felt the heat rise to my cheeks as I laughed.

'Aniyooo.' Yuta laughed awkwardly, then glanced at a flustered and awkward me.

'Yeah, he's just a friend...' I added, but it felt really weird saying it. Almost as if for some reason, I was lying to her. And like I wanted to believe the lie myself. It was just...weird.

'Oh...sorry!' Tamsyn laughed, looking around. 'So who is your bf then?'

'I...um...well basically...' I started, thinking about how to go about this. I kinda saw Jaehyun as a half-boyfriend now, considering everything that had happened, but the fact was, maybe he didn't. He probably didn't.

'I don't actually have a proper boyfriend Tamsyn..' I finally concluded,  hanging my head in shame as everyone stared at me.

'You don't?' I heard from behind me. I turned around slowly and saw Jaehyun standing there with a small plastic bag which said 'H. Samuels'.

'Well...no, I already told you that.' I shrugged, my eyes starting to water in the heat of the situation. I had gone through many embarrassing situations, but I felt like this was the worst one yet; I honestly didn't know what to do this time and that really bothered me. The final decision I made was to walk away from Jaehyun and Tamsyn and the rest of NCT, tears starting to fall heavily down my cheek. But as I walked past him, I felt Jaehyun's hand close around my wrist, pulling me to a sudden stop. I was never one to cry easily, but this situation seemed to have some trigger point which left me weak and vulnerable.

'Sook.' I heard him say from behind me, and I really wanted to turn around, face him, but I couldn't. So I just stood there, the tears continuously rolling down my face as I imagined all of them just staring at the real person I was.

'You're really overthinking this.' A voice in my head said, but for some reason, I couldn't get over it.

'You don't have a boyfriend, I know that.' Jaehyun's voice said from behind me. 'But you know.. ages ago, when we were younger, I made a promise to you. And today, I want to start fulfilling that promise.'

'Oh, rea..really?' I felt my shaky voice, trying to hold back my tears. 'What was that then?'

'Sook. Turn around at least and face me.' His voice sounded almost harsh and disappointed.

Taking a deep breath in and rubbing my face to wipe away the tears, I turned around to see him right in front of me. Yet I couldn't bring the courage to look him in the eyes, and instead, I glanced at Tamsyn, who appeared as a slightly blurry figure because of the tears in my eyes. She was looking back at me, and I could imagine the pity in her eyes.

'Ae Sook.' Jaehyun said; I mumbled something quietly in reply, my gaze dropping to the floor again.

'Ya what is it?? Why are you suddenly so upset? I'm here trying to tell you something which I had hoped you would be really happy about, and now I don't even know if I should ask you out because you're honestly just confusing me!'

'Hm...' I mumbled at first, but then shock overcame me as I realised what he had just said. I looked up at him, my heart beating in my ears. 'Wait w-what?'

I was met with a small smile.

'Ya~ Ae Sook.' He started, holding my hands softly. 'When we were younger, I promised you that I'd be there for you forever. That I'd always look out for you and that I wouldn't let anyone hurt you. Considering you moved away, I wasn't really able to do that...'

Looking at him, I noticed how he subtly bit his lip and at that moment, his gaze dropped to the floor.

'And if you'll let me, I want to do everything I promised you, up until the very end of everything. Beyond that even. So...' At this point, he glanced at the H Samuels bag in his hand, and held it out to me. 'Will you accept this?'

I looked at the H Samuels bag for a while, and slowly extended my hand and took it, opening it to discover a small white box inside. I immediately looked back at Jaehyun.

'Open it.' He urged me, his eyes sparkling.

Slowly, I took out the white box, and opened it; there was a small ring inside it.

'H-huh??' I stuttered, looking up at him in shock. I couldn't really say anything else.