"I'm really interested in you, Kim Dae Eun."
These words echoed in my head.
It isn't the first time that I received a confession. I was quite popular with boys even during in middle and high school. But I never went out with anyone, ever.
All my high school life, I focused on my studies and ended up becoming a loner like I used to.
With my dad believing that the fortuitous growth of the family business begun when he started following the advice of a fortune teller, he was firm with his decision to marry me off to the son of the Jeon family and, weird enough, I assume that Mr. Jeon is eager just the same.
But they found out that Jungkook was going out with someone. Eventually, he confessed to his mother that he dated once, but that they already broke up. He assured them that it wouldn't happen again. Nevertheless, it disappointed his parents. So much that they stopped talking to each other.
I, on the other hand, felt betrayed. It's not like he promised me anything back then. But I was so keen on fulfilling my parent's wish, that I never gave myself a chance at a phase that almost all people my age go through. I thought I wasn't the only one sacrificing my chance at youthly quests. I thought, even without talking for a long, long time, we were in the same page together.
Still, I chose to fulfill my duty as the daughter of the head of the Kim family.
I haven't been in touch with Jungkook while I was in London. Even during the times I went back here to Korea to spend my vacation, he never came to see me. The short conversation I had with him on the morning after I was attacked was the very first time I talked to him since we last saw each other.
"Dae Eun-a!"
"Hmm?" I absentmindedly hum.
"Kim Dae Eun!"
"What?" I started, sitting up straight and look at Bo Gyo from across our dorm room.
"You've been staring at the ceiling for almost an hour now. Aren't you going to study?"
A month has gone by quickly. The last day of midterm exams is now on my immediate future.
"Ugh!" I groaned and laid back to bed. "I've stored enough knowledge for tomorrow's battle."
"Okay" was Bo Gyo's response.
I hadn't relayed to them what SeokJin sunbae told me. He didn't ask me out on a date. In fact, he said that he wasn't going to. Not for the time being. He said that he wanted to see for himself if he would actually begin to like me more if he gets to know me. It was as if he was experimenting his own feelings on me.
I didn't mind if that was the case though. Albeit it is really tempting to date a princely being such as Kim Seok Jin, I'm set on rejecting him once he asks me to date him. Which, mind you, he is perfectly aware of because I told him that I have no intention to go out with anyone. He then only said with a shrug, "You'll never know."
Bo Gyo pulled an all nighter and I joined her in studying at two in the morning. We went to bed an hour before the exam but forgot to set the alarm.
And now we are running late. Our footsteps echoing in the almost empty hallway.
"Come on! Quick!" I call out to Bo Gyo who was taking her time. Maybe because she hadn't had much sleep at all that's why her energy is low.
Luckily, we got inside just in time before the examiner entered the room.
Bo Gyo spotted Sun Shin at once and sits next to her. Almost all the seats were taken.
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Rekindle: Jk AU
General FictionArranged marriage is still a thing even to this day. It's not very rare, although it almost always happens between two important families. --- Kim Dae Eun was born in Seoul, Korea but grew up in London. Her parents summoned her back to her motherlan...
