author's pov
tzuyu froze as the words escape his mouth. her whole world comes to a stop, and all of a sudden, she couldn't breathe.
jungkook holds his gaze, it was filled with deep intent and longing. intense, but subtle.
she gawks at him and remembers the food that was in her mouth, she had forgotten to breathe and now she was choking.
everyone on the table turned to look, jungkook passes tzuyu her water bottle but she refuses to take a sip. instead, she stands up from her seat, turning to leave. she was flustered and she had to gather her composure in the washroom.
jungkook watches her disappearing figure. he turns to the group and smacks his head on the table.
nononononononononono, did I do it wrong?? was it too sincere??? or was it too lighthearted??? noniONONOUNOUSohAJDLSHHGLKHDLAKHDL WHAT DID I DO
he closes his eyes as he cursed to himself, "ahh, you couldn't resist any longer eh?" hoseok teases him as he brushes his elbow to his.
the girls were confused but as they were slowly filled in with what went down, they all collectively gasp.
"yOU DID NOT."
"yOU'RE TRYING TO STEAL MY TZUYU FROM ME..?????!??!?"
"aw I ship it,"
"you mEAN YOU DIDN'T INFORM ME FIRST??" nayeon slams her hands on the table, bewildered,
"I'm asking to court her.." jungkook finally looks up from the floor, explaining further. confusion and unease consumed him, he didn't know if he did the right thing or not, if he conveyed his feelings well or not. but what he knew for sure was that he wasn't going to give up that easily. he let himself be vulnerable at this time when the girl he liked wasn't in the same room as he was in right now.
"Besides, you're not my mom," he adds, sticking a tongue out at her, nayeon rolls her eyes in response but she removes her attention from him to the girls who were now gaping at each other.
, "court??" jihyo mouths, "who does that these days..." jeongyeon scoffs,
"our generation right now...our romantic era.. kinda sucks ass," chaeyoung mumbles referring to how little to no boys actually make an effort nowadays in making a relationship happen. how deep meaningful talks had been replaced by short texts, how some current relationships have lost its sentimental value.. how everything nowadays was just for fun
"well, we're different, us boys will definitely treat the girl we end up with, just right," namjoon starts, "our miss right, eh?" the boys all agreed, they wanted to draw a line between them and the boys who are only out and about for hookups.
mina and jimin had nothing to worry about since they both are lovingly all over each other.
as the group conversed among themselves, jungkook contemplated how he would react the moment tzuyu returns.
"if you pull anything weird jeon.." sana towers above him who swung an imaginary bat,
"face the wrath of twice," nayeon finished as they all glower, they break from their character when they see tzuyu return, the group whispered good lucks and cheered for him silently.
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tzuyu's pov
"no, I mean.. I'm falling in love with you."
I look at myself in the mirror. my cheeks were flushed and warm. the scene repeats itself in my head, and I couldn't help but feel tense all over again.
I cupped my face and closed my eyes.
JAKFAJLHFLEHIAEDJFOQUWPDOJFALSJDWAJFPOFHWALKJAFPAHFOAIHFQLWFHLAHF
breathe tzuyu. breathe.
it's not like I wanted him to like me in the first place....
no letter or confession from the boys in Taiwan has ever made my heart beat like this..
there was a zoo in my stomach, and that feeling lingering in my chest. my feelings were all a blur, but I couldn't deny that I felt thrilled and glad that jeon jungkook likes me. or is falling in love with me.
I wasn't about to yield to my feelings just yet.
I'll play the role I once played the time we met by the ice cream parlor.
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author's pov
"do your best," tzuyu says with a straight face. clearly not showing what she truly felt at the moment.
jungkook gazed at her for a while, not getting what she meant. she raised her brows and he snaps out of the state of confusion he was in.
"ah!" his eyes widen, standing up from his seat, relief flushes away the worries he had, his heart pounded with excitement.
the rest were quietly observing, seeing a kdrama-like scene unfold before them. seokjin smirk at the two, this could make a good fanfiction scene. he thought as he types on his phone.
yes!! yes! jungkook celebrated in his head, he then faces tzuyu who was now seated.
"can I walk you home?" he asks, he got awfully close to her face and he scoots away after realizing so, this earned a couple of silent squeals from the friend who were watching.
tzuyu agrees as she manages to keep her calm. "it's going to rain when I walk you home, just so you know," jungkook had a shy smile on, he fidgets in his seat as he waited eagerly for her reply
"and?"
"don't worry I have an umbrella,"
"I have an umbrella though,"
"then I'll hide your umbrella so we can share one," jungkook asserts cheekily, tzuyu mentally curses to herself while she looks away, can he stop being cute
jungkook: 1, tzuyu: 0
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it was indeed a rainy afternoon. the boys and the girls had sprinted away fast, leaving the two.
jungkook waits with an umbrella open in between them, tzuyu rummages in her bag for hers, but it was nowhere to be found
jungkook did hide her umbrella.
"what are you waiting for you cock head???" she snaps at him and he begins to walk. their shoulders brushing against each other, no distance between them. the umbrella over their heads shielding them from the droplets of rain. the warmth that the two had created was felt more than the cold breeze of the rainy weather.
the walk wasn't awkward at all. there were a few moments where it was silent, yet it was comfortable and relieving. there were other moments where they splashed puddles of water and chased each other in the rain.
it was a normal day of teasing for the both. the two remained the same, only jungkook's intentions were different. every move he made, he hoped it could swoon tzuyu.
after entering the gate, and dropping her off to the very front steps of her house, tzuyu thanked him.
"save your thank yous for tomorrow and the other day and the day following that and the weeks to come." jungkook starts,
"I'll be dropping you off since you refuse your driver's offers."
tzuyu had been caught off guard again, since when was jungkook this smooth and frank?
before she could open her mouth to protest, he gives her a quick smile as he leaves
she smiles to herself as she opens the door to her house, that revealed something surprising.
it was the girls who had invited themselves in, grinning at her widely while they waited on the couch with toweled hair. they must have sprinted all the way to her house & beat her to coming home first.
"spill the deets!"
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jungkook enters the apartment door with a beep of the code. he hummed to himself as he inhales the sweet aroma of the bouquet of flowers he bought on the way home and planned to give to tzuyu tomorrow.
"oh jungkook! you're home," taehyung says, his eyes trail down to the flowers he was holding, he wiggles his eyebrows, "I see, I see."
"you should hide it, it looks appetizing seokjin might accidentally eat it-," yoongi blatantly says from the side, seokjin yelled after hearing what he had muttered.
"jungkookie! why's your left shoulder wet? change quickly, you don't want to get sick," jimin says taking notice of the drenched side of his body. he was too worried that tzuyu might get rained on so he made sure to cover her.
"ahh I instinctively did it. I didn't want to get her wet."
"gET hER wET-?"namjoon chuckles from the kitchen,
"oh shut up,"
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bonus:
a few hours after tzuyu has gone home
beNgtWoICe
issanagay?:
winterbear:
gayeon: soulmates confirmed..
chewy:
ggukee:
horsesook: SEE THEY EVEN MESSAGED AT THE SAME TIME
chewy & ggukee has left the chat.
gayeon: you smell something..
pinkprincess: yea we smell your old ass from here
gayeon:
pinkprincess:
nojamsbro: who uSES THEMSELVES AS MEMES????
jiminiehheartpenguin: who says we can't
minariheartmochi:
destructiongod: they used.. each other..
issanagay: it's okay I'll use hoseok
issanagay: this is so me
horsesook: WHY AM I BUILT LIKE A HORSE
pinklamborghini: because you are one stupeed
rawr: why are y'all like this
chewy: I swear the girls are with me right now, and they're still texting
horsesook: they're with you???
godjihyo: ye we're having an unplanned sleepover party hehe
winterbear: so are the boys~
tofudubu: ...
destructiongod: ...
issanagay: no shET you LIvE TOgETHEr
winterbear: well we'll sleep together tonight
yoongiyoongiyOONGIIII:
horsesook:
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