savior complex - kth

002

I looked up with a smirk as Jungkook kicked me underneath the table at the local coffee shop 2 miles from our house. One of my hands was around a to-go coffee cup and the other was holding a book, one Jude recommended that I read before going off to NYU which he previously attended. Jungkook didn't even look my way as he continued to draw the lining of the book cases surrounding the walls.

I gently kicked his foot back and he looked up at me, a fake scold on his face. "Why would you do that?"

"My foot slipped." I said in defense to his joke and went back to reading. I lifted up the coffee cup and brought it to my lips, taking a big sip before trying to focus back on the book and not the fact that it was our last morning in my little world.

I got startled when I felt a hand slip behind my back, gripping the back of the chair I was in and then I recognized the voice as they spoke. "Tomorrow morning right?"

I turned around, closing my. book around my finger, to face my ex boyfriend Yoongi. Jungkook barely glanced up at him and went right back to putting some shadows around the shelves. "Yeah, early."

"Are you guys having a big party tonight to celebrate?" He was wearing all black like he almost always does but he was wearing a beanie to hide his hair. I knew he knew we'd be in here, stopping by to say his peace once again.

I nodded in response, turning back away from him and to the book I was reading. "We'll probably just have dinner on the beach or something."

"How do you think living together is really going to go over? What happens when you get sick of each other?"

I couldn't believe he was trying to bring up this stuff right now. "You know we won't." 

We had broken up after 2 years of being together, 2 years of him never coming to my dance recitals, 2 years of him constantly having something to say about Jungkook, 2 years of him telling us that going to NYU only because my brothers had was not me doing my own things. It was 2 years of lots of laughs, though, and lots of adventuring out. He was never afraid of anything, and I was the only person who knew almost everything about him. He told me the emotions he was feeling, but in the meantime invalided Jungkook's or mine. The last straw was when an argument with my brother Jasper turned physical and my family could only be upset with me that I was with someone who'd do that, though Jasper wasn't necessarily innocent in the whole thing. He tends to push people farther than they should go, and Yoongi was not one who should be pushed.

"I can't wait to come out and visit you. I used to go there all the time when I was younger." This caught Jungkook's attention, finally looking up at him, then towards me.

I only laughed at this, just peaking at Yoongi slightly. "You should come when Jasper comes."

This got a laugh out of Jungkook, as well as one from Yoongi. His humor never left no matter the situation. "Yeah, I'll talk to him about that."

"Good." I said hoping the conversation would end.

I should have known Yoongi had to have the last word because he smirked as he walked away, looking back at Jungkook. "Cool art by the way." This was inevitably a diss, because it always was, especially if I was in the drawing. Yoongi was a musical artist; he produced and wrote music, and he always invalided Jungkook's art by saying there's nothing original about drawing something real and he should be a little more creative. Jungkook never seemed to care though.

"I'm so excited to leave." Jungkook said once Youngi was at the counter ordering his drink. "The plane ride is going to suck."

"It's, what, like 6 hours?" I asked more rhetorically, already knowing that it was. He only nodded so I spoke again. "Think you can hold up that long?"

He nodded again then grabbed his backpack from beside him, pulling it onto his lap to begin packing up his stuff. I just slid my bookmark into my book and waited for him to stand up, grabbing a coffee for my mom and Jude before we left. I took one last look at Yoongi who was now seated at a table by himself, his headphones in with a blank expression on his face.

By the time we reached home we had come to the conclusion that Jungkook was going to come back more arrogant than now, we watched it happen to Jasper but he faded once he got back into our family routine. "What if you never come back to yourself? I can't lose you!"I said dramatically, tugging on his arm in despair. 

When we walked into my house I set the drinks on the table and started to walk upstairs, Jungkook trailing behind but I was stopped by Jude who looked extremely tired. "You all packed?"

"No, I'm about to do that. Coffee's downstairs." I nodded down the stairs and then continued up the stairs but Jude wasn't walking down. "And?"

"It's going to be weird without you." He said and I felt touched, he was the closest brother to me and I visited him a lot when he was away at NYU, maybe he'll do the same for me. "...Jungkook." He finished then grabbed his face and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

I didn't give him the satisfaction of laughing like Jungkook, I just rolled my eyes and kept walking until I reached my room. Jungkook sat down into my globe chair, one that surrounded you which he was almost too tall to fit into it, but he made sure to slouch down into it.He still hadn't taken his bookrack off, but I set my book down and plopped onto the floor. "Do you even own winter clothes?" He asked.

I giggled and then scooted myself across the floor to open my bottom drawer that had all of my sweaters, only missing the one I had put on today. "I have some stuff." 

"Do you want to go on a walk in the morning before we go to the airport?" 

Before I could give him an answer, Jasper opened my bedroom door and walked in with no warning. "I just wanted to come talk." I kept looking at him, waiting for him to talk just like he said he wanted. "Jungkook, there are some really hot girls in New York." I picked up one of the sweaters in my drawer, throwing it at Jasper and he stepped back but held onto the door handle. "But you-" He said to me, "Stay away from all the guys, they're just like me."