SPLIT (COMPLETED)

thank you for always

Jungkook reaches home to a quiet environment after his physiotherapy session that day. He has been doing the physiotherapy since three weeks ago to get back his fitness to play football again. He is hoping that he can get back on the field earlier than expected to help his teammates to maintain their title this season.

When he looks around at the big living room, he puts down his crutches next to the sofa before seeing their cats coming out from the cat house.

"Hey, Louis...where's Chaeyoung? Do you know where she is?", he asks as the cats coming towards him.

Louis jumps to his laps while Lily continues walking somewhere else.

"Lily, where are you going to?", Jungkook asks as he watches the direction Lily is walking to. "Oh, are you telling me my beautiful girl is in there?", he follows Lily while carrying Louis in his arms.

Lily meows in response as if it understands Jungkook. When they reached the door, he slowly opens it and sees the computer monitor is opened. He gets surprised with Lily's cleverness before he walks in to see what Chaeyoung is doing at the gaming chair with the monitor displaying screen saver mode.

When he sees her head on the table, he slowly puts Louis down and takes the mouse to turn off the computer before waking her up.

"Chae? Hey...wake up. Your neck will get hurt if you sleep like this, my dear.", he taps her shoulder slowly. "Chaeyoung..", he says until he sees her moving her head and opening her eyes. "Hey..", he greets her with a smile on his face.

"Jungkook...why am I here?", Chaeyoung replies as she looks around the game room. She does not remember going there today.

"It must be Rosie, she played until she fell asleep?", Jungkook guesses from the way Chaeyoung is unaware of being there before he got home.

Chaeyoung tries to remember the last thing she did that day before she ended up in the game room at that hour.

"I think you're right. I can recall designing something and then, I watched some videos. That's all, I don't remember what happened next.", she tells him as she stands up from the gaming chair and looks at the time on her smart watch.

Jungkook sees her eyes go wide so he asks why she seems to be surprised of something.

"It's almost 11. Did you just get home at this hour?", she asks him as she looks at him from top to bottom. He still wears the same clothes from when he left that morning. He has no excuse or lie to make with that obvious proof. "Wait...where's your crutches?", she adds as she does not see them with him.

He responds with a smile and shaking his head.

"You shake your head, why?", Chaeyoung keeps asking him. "Where is it? Whoa! Kookie, put me down..", she gets startled when Jungkook suddenly carries her in his arms and starts to walk out of the room.

"Relax, Chae. You're not heavy, I can bring you to the bedroom at least.", he says as he slowly walks until they get inside the bedroom.

When he lays her down on the bed, he freezes when she traps his neck with her arms.

"Is your leg okay?", she asks him without letting his neck free.

"Are you worried?", he asks her back.

She nods her head before repeating her question to him. However, he does not answer it but he kisses her lips instead.

"Kookie, I'm serious right here!", Chaeyoung hits his shoulder stopping him to go further with his naughty intention.

Because of that, he backs away from her and goes to the other side to lie down beside her.

"My leg is getting better. The crutches are outside near the sofa. Any more question, my dear?", he says as he pulls her into his arms.

"Is it true?", Chaeyoung sounds like she is not convinced with his answer so she asks again for reassurance.

Jungkook giggles at her before he nods twice in response. "I'm not lying. Hoseok hyung told me that today. He also said that I probably can play again next week. I just need to keep going to the physio until he declare me fit to play again.", he explains as he hugs her tighter.

"Kookie, let me go. You're stinky.", she whines as she tries to push him away from her.

"Oh, am I?", he asks while sniffing his own shirt that he has been wearing for more than 8 hours that day.

"Jungkook, go take a shower. You'll make the whole room stinks like you if you don't shower now.", Chaeyoung says as she distances herself from him. "And if you don't shower now, I won't sleep here with you. I'll sleep in the guest room.", she warns him as she gets up and takes her pillow with her.

Jungkook is shocked a bit with her warning so he finally obeys her to have a shower first before sleep.

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In the middle of the night, Chaeyoung suddenly wakes up with a dry throat so she goes to the kitchen to have a drink. When she walks back to the bedroom, she sees the crutches that Jungkook has been using for six weeks because of his ligament injury. She takes them and puts them inside the bedroom on Jungkook's bedside in case he still needs to use it.

Then, she gets back on the bed and slowly lies down watching Jungkook beside her. When she looks at his sleeping face, she smiles as she sees his lips formed a smile in a sudden. Because of that, she waits quietly to see if he is actually awake or he is still in deep sleep.

Seeing that he does not make any sudden move anymore, she slowly touch his face with her finger to test his awareness. Her finger traces his face from the cheek to the chin and finally stops at his lips. Her touch on his lips makes him squirming in his sleep.

It surprises Chaeyoung as she thought she will get caught by him if he is awake because of her. She pretends to sleep but seeing Jungkook having his eyes still closed, she opens her eyes again to admire his sleeping face. She has never seen his face while sleeping with such an admiration before.

So, she takes this chance that she has to remember every inch of his handsome face. She does not say a word out loud but she says a lot in her mind. She compliments the face beside her quietly in her heart until she realized something.

"You had a long day today. You must be tired, right?", she whispers as she pulls his head burying it on her chest. He does not aware of it which shows that he is indeed tired and in deep sleep. She takes that opportunity to give him a long and warm kiss on his forehead.

"Thank you for always making time for me despite your busy schedule.", she says in her heart during that kiss on his forehead. "I love you.", she adds before she moves back a little to continue watching his face until she falls asleep again.

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Eighty fifth chapter ✔