Gaze Detection | Jikook |

Chapter 26: Head In The Clouds

  "A failed experiment?" Jimin thought and raised a brow to the sound of the Android's voice repeating it in his head. There was no way Hoseok would say something about an android as sweet as Jungkook. Jimin couldn't pinpoint anything off about Jungkook enough to justify that comment, so he sat there and became curious. "You're not a failed experiment... In fact, I think you're way better than the other androids. You're fully functional and helpful... intelligent and very kind. Maybe Hoseok didn't mean it."

"I would like to agree with that, but he and I tend to go back and forth all the time. He would call me a flawed creation." Jungkook answered. "We're like an old married couple..."

"Aren't you two a couple?" Jimin asked teasingly as Jungkook tilted his head at the sight of Jimin and raised a brow.

"Please don't say that, he's more of a parental figure to me," Jungkook mentioned with a chuckle as Jimin began to laugh at the way Jungkook responded. "Ah, now I can't seem to get that idea out of my head, you actually managed to poison my database with that thought, haven't you?"

"Well I've read many books and watched many shows were the roommates fall in love with each other, so I just figured that-"

"Please stop, you'll give me a defect!"

"Alright, I'll stop!" Jimin continued to laugh as Jungkook did the same after their conversation managed to lighten up the mood. However, Jungkook did a great job covering up and changing the conversation they had before, Jimin almost lost grip of it until he returned to the idea once more.

"Okay... the two of you aren't so close... is he scared of you?"

"I don't think he is. There were many times he stood up to me, not a fear in his eyes when he would do so. He knows my differences, he knows my flaws, but he's not afraid. He just knows that I don't fit in and believes I'm just a failed experiment. At the end of the day, I don't know if I am so I hide. Introverted... and very concerned about going out to the public," the android confessed and kept his gaze locked onto the ground. "You... don't think of me that way though, that's why I feel like I have a purpose with you. You give me purpose..."

"I'm glad that I do," Jimin replied.

Seconds after he said that, the conversation grew short as Jungkook was lost in his own thoughts, thinking back at the time Jimin said that Seokjin was the creator of all androids yet, all he ever knew was that his creator was Hoseok himself. Jungkook tried not to think too much of it, yet his mind never stopped generating new thoughts after another. He became trapped and silent as he contemplated this while Jimin himself began to think of things as well.

"A flawed creation... Why does that sound familiar?" Jimin asked himself as the first thought that came to him was Namjoon and how he confessed the issue he had with a flawed android that harmed him before.

Of course, this was just a small thought that was kept in the back of his mind, but he just couldn't keep the idea of dwelling on it further. Jimin let out a sigh and shook his head. He didn't like the idea of connecting the two, surely that abomination was destroyed a while back since Jungkook was different. He just had to be.

"I hope you're not thinking about Hoseok and I..." Jungkook broke through the silence as Jimin continued to laugh. "I should have known."

"Ah, I'm not!" Jimin laughed and tried to die down his giggles. "I'm not thinking about it, I promise!"

"Good," Jungkook replied and continued to look at the ground, still pondering many things which didn't go unnoticed by Jimin.

"Are you... thinking? Is that even possible?" Jimin asked as Jungkook turned his head to point towards the human. "You look like you are..."