Rosé is sick of her short-term dating life and wants to find a man who can be loyal to her and her only. She does not want to play around with love anymore after seeing her best friends found their own true love. She wants to be in love like them an...
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After a day of working hard, Rosé finally found the information she needed. His home address. The one he currently lives at.
"Found you.", she smiled as she looked at the address.
She has decided to do anything she can to make amends with him. Call her desperate but she just wanted to be his friend again. Besides, she has given him what he asked in exchange for letting her win the challenge nine years ago. For her, they should be able to be friends again since she did not owe him anything.
"Now, let's go here.", she opened the online shop website. "And here.", she went to the cart. "And fill this blank box.", she typed the address and click 'Pay' to make the purchase. "Done.", she smiled as she felt good at what she was doing.
"Hopefully this works.", she prayed under her breath.
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Jimin came home with another frown on his face as he looked at what was left at the front door. He always came home earlier than Jungkook who often stayed late at the office. He knew that the pot of cactus was left for Jungkook from his regular secret admirer since a week ago.
With a sigh, Jimin carried it inside and put it on the round dining table behind the sofa at their living room. The table was now looking nothing like a dining table anymore because of the countless flowers put on it. Jimin wondered who could have been the persistent person that is trying to win his emotionless best friend's heart.
"No name at all. Does Jungkook even know this person?", he questioned before he heard the sound of the front door being opened. "Oh, hey, Kook! You're back early today.", he said to the younger man.
"The leader left early so I can leave early too.", Jungkook replied without looking at him.
Jimin brought the pot of cactus with him and sat next to Jungkook on the sofa. Jungkook looked at him with a smile.
"Who gave you that spiny plant, hyung?", he asked as he took off his necktie.
"This? It's yours. From your secret admirer.", Jimin pointed to the dining table full of flower vases.
Jungkook looked at the cactus and sighed.
"Just throw it away, hyung.", he said as he got up from the sofa.
"Throw it away? That's not how you treat your secret admirer, dude.", Jimin put the pot to the dining table back. "Why would you throw these beautiful flowers and plants? They're making our plain living room colourful and their smell...is so natural and fresh. Our house has this fresh scent thanks to your admirer, Kook.", he added as Jungkook looked at him from the door of his bedroom.
"Well, then. As usual, hyung. If you want to take care of them, please just do it. I don't mind.", Jungkook said before he went inside his bedroom, ignoring Jimin who was fixing the flower vases on the dining table.
Locked in his bedroom, he took his phone out and searched for the cactus' symbolism like he did with all the flowers before. He went from one website to another just to find out all about the possible meanings behind a cactus as a gift to someone. Everything was fine until he came across this one website about Japanese secret language of flowers.
The excerpt read as; in the tradition of Hanakotoba, the Japanese secret language of flowers, gifting a flowering cactus clearly symbolize lust and sexual attraction towards someone.
"Sh-", he almost cursed at it. "What is she thinking?", he thought as the meaning to the flowers she previously sent was all about asking for an apology.
Yellow roses, pink lilies, white orchids, white tulips, blue hyacinths and pink carnations were the flowers that she sent to the apartment last week. Luckily Jimin who always picked them up into the house did not ask him who the sender was or even knew the meanings of the flowers. If he was smarter to check the meanings out, Jungkook might be in trouble of answering the question of who broke his heart until that person repeatedly sent those flowers to him.
Being able to avoid bumping to Rosé since last week was a relief to Jungkook. He did not want to meet her again. He thanked Soohyuk in his heart for making him busy all week that he always went home after everyone has left. However, he did not know that Rosé is not one to give up easily.
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Rosé was on her way home that evening when she saw Jungkook just got out of work and was cycling home at the roadside. When the traffic light turned green, she sped up to catch up with him and rolled the window down when she finally drove just beside him.
"Hi, Jungkook.", she greeted him but he did not look at her at all.
His speed was slow and it gave Rosé the chance to wave at him, trying to get his attention.
"Jonathan!", she shouted as she waved at him.
Thanks to his slow pace of cycling his bicycle, she was able to drive slowly on the road following him. He still did not realized of her appearance because he had his earbuds on. He only noticed her when they stopped at a junction.
"Hi.", he could see her mouth saying that to him but he kept quiet and looked away.
When the green light showed up, he cycled in a faster speed trying to get away from being followed. However, his action was not a good thing because Rosé chose to drive faster too. They met another traffic light but this one will make Rosé have to wait longer than him as he was going for another direction that will be green first.
He was glad for it but that feeling disappeared when he heard a car honk behind him. He saw Rosé's car being hit by an incoming car from the other direction. The scene of the two cars worried him so he got down from his bicycle and ran towards Rosé's Kia K9 to check on her condition.
"Chaeyoung, hey! Can you hear me?!", his hand went inside the half rolled down window to open the door of her seat.
He saw blood dripping down her forehead and her eyes were closing. He quickly shook her shoulders to keep her eyes open and stay awake. He did not care of the crowd that was forming around her car.
"Chaeyoung?", he kept shaking her as he checked if she is hurt anywhere else than her forehead.
"What's wrong with the driver?! Doesn't he know how to drive?!", the voice of the man whose car hit the front side of Rosé's car approached his ears.
He turned around and pushed the man back from seeing Rosé. The man clearly did not know it was a woman driving the car as he could not see clearly through the tinted windows.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry on behalf of her.", he said to the man as he tried his best not to let anyone see Rosé who they might recognise since she is the heir of ParkTech, the leading technology company in the country.
Thankfully her car windows were tinted quite dark so it was helpful for him.
"If you're sorry, can you pay for my car's damage? It's literally his fault!", the man seemed fine from his tone of anger but his car does need to get repaired.
"Yeah, okay. I will.", Jungkook told the man before he felt someone touching his back.
