Euphoria

39: Sweeter than sweet

Jungkook popped the lollipop inside his mouth. Cheeks flushed from the kiss still. His fingers intertwined with Maya's. Maya was eating her all time favourite strawberry tanghulu.
The busy streets of Seoul lit with neon lights. The people around didn't care about the couple. The young hearts didn't care about others as well. All they knew were themselves.

"Just ignore them..."
Maya eyed the girls who apparently were talking abiut how "sexy" Jungkook looked. She rubbed his arms, trying to calm the flustered man. Jungkook tried his best not to look at the girls. His fingers tightened around Maya's. His pupils moving. Maya smiled,
"Just give me one second. Okay?"
Maya cracked her knuckles, approaching the bunch of girls drooling over Jungkook. Couldn't they see it? Jungkook was visibly uncomfortable. They were invading his personal space!
"What's wrong with you? Huh? Can't you see that you are making him uncomfortable! He's beautiful, that doesn't mean it gives you the right to stare at him and sexualise him. He just living out there, a normal life. Is that too much to ask for? Huh? Who gav eyou the permission to ogle at him, express how sexy he is and other vague thoughts with your friends? Now would you apologise to him and run away till you can or should we see how your mugshot looks?"
Maya crossed her arms. Her eyebrows arched up, jaw tightened. Jungkook stood there, admiring his woman.
The girls glared at Maya. Did she give a fuck? Nah. She scoffed,
"Yeah yeah look at me all you want. I don't care. I know I'm pretty, sexy, cute. But one look at my man, one more word that makes my man feel uncomfortable. You're dead. Got that?"
The girls snorked at Maya. As if they are going to puke. What? Why can't they take the obvious truth?
Maya smiled as she saw the girls leaving, with disgust plastered on their faces. As if they were nowhere closer to being a creep.
Her feet turned towards Jungkook, who was looking at Maya with awe. He had never seen her speak up to people apart from his dreams. He felt his eyes glow up, shoulders lift up. She saw as his lips parted into a very childish yet joyful smile.
"What did I ever do to find someone as awesome as you?"
Jungkook exclaimed. His palms over his beating heart. His eyes wide and innocent. His words dreamy.
Maya chuckled, he looked just out of a drama. Or a book. A fairytale. She strided towards him, trying to reflect his aura. Her lips pursed together, trying to hide a way to obvious smile. Her dimples showing half and half.
"Well maybe go crazy in love? Cause that's the only way my heart reached yours."
Everything was going so dreamy and flirty. Honestly, if the Seoulite's looked, they would've noticed the red-pink mist around them. The butterflies, the roses. The love. It wad going so perfect.
"Your shoelace..."
Jungkook's whispery words stopped. Getting on his knees, in a matter of seconds. His long fingers carefully looped the shoelace. Into a perfect bow. He looked up. His eyes meeting her's. He felt a warm emotion, which then pushed towards his lips into a wide smile. He continued, with same breathy tone,
"Were undone."

"Kookie?"
Maya poked his biceps with her long finger. Her eyes fixed on the beige banner of the coffee shop. If it only was the very thing they were looking for. Wouldn't she be the happiest?
"Yes Angel?"
Jungkook's smile slowly faded, as his eyes fell on the coffee shop. The wooden door with glasses. Tinted glasses. The white paint on the concrete walls simplified the elegant aura. Small pots of flowers hung up on the window.
"It is the coffee shop."

The same setting. The same tables. The same fragrance. Maya's eyes wandered from the counter where she serves in a dream towards the window in the right. Maya whispered, only so that Jungkook can hear,
"That's the table he always chose."
Jungkook whispered back, in the same manner, bending his knees a little bit,
"She was the reason he always chose that table."
Maya's eyes met his. She was her reflection in the dark orbs. She saw endless nights. Fearless oceans. A galaxy far far away.
He saw a sunrise, depending on how her eyes glowed. She saw mountains and forests and the unknown. He saw stories to be told on a warm and lazy day. Secrets that only deserve to be unfolded to a special someone at 3 am as a form of undressing the soul.
"He was the reason she chose to serve even though her job didn't ask her to become a waitress. Just for him she decided to rebel against her position and management."
"She was the reason he kept on sneaking out of his dorms. Rebelling against his staff, just to get a glimpse of her busily working, then as soon as his order was up, no matter how busy she was, she would just put up her best self and serve him."
Maya smiled, her gums showing as her dimples poked out. Her eyes forming an almost crescent. Her cheeks flushed with the brightest shade of crimson.
Jungkook pinched her cheeks, a bright smile on his lips as well,
"Let's sit down, Sunshine?"

The silver spoon slowly cut through the chocolate delicacy. Maya has always wanted to taste it. Jungkook sipped on his Americano. His eyes on the love of his life. Should he spoil it? That the cake tastes exactly like the chocolate cake she makes? Nah! The glow on her face. He doesn't wanna miss it.
Her face glowed up. Her eyes quickly moving towards the angellic man in front of her. Her eyebrows high. Disbelief in her eyes. He just chuckled, rubbing the chocolate off of her lips,
"Yes. It tastes exactly like the chocolate cake you make."
Maya smiled, lips pursed together, cheeks round from stuffing her face with chocolate cake. Jungkook finally got why he called her angel and sunshine. Cause she was an angel. She was the sunshine in his life.
"Here, this is the first time you'll have it apart from a dream sitting in this cafe. Besides, this is a treat for reading my mind."
Maya scooped up a decent amount on the silver spoon. Jungkook felt the taste of cold metal against his tongue, followed by the whimsically delicious taste of rich chocolate. Honestly, chocolate cakes have never tasted better.