🌸🐚Dandelions🐚🌸

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‘You know what’s the worse than being acquainted with a famous person?’ Was Raya Mitchell thinking ‘Being acquainted with two. Believe when I tell you. It’s a nightmare’

She was aggressively taping in her phone
[ WHERE the f ARE YOU?]

The response was : ✓✓ seen at 6:36

Her older cousin, her favorite cousin, her only cousin, Harry, was making her wait for him, in the roofed parking lot of their favorite coffee shop while pouring rain flooded the cobblestone streets.The coffee shop that they liked to visit was an old one. The establishment was built since WW2 and its younger costumers were them and people aged 40y/o and up. It was a perfect spot if you wanted to avoid being recognized. And the coffee was actually excellent.

It was a miracle she was wearing a long beige trenchcoat ontop her pain jeans and plain white shirt when Harry called her. Otherwise  she would be freezing.

But the cold wasn't her biggest problem. The problem was that Harry was a worldwide famous star…and she was not. And that didn’t meant she was excused from paparazzi harassment or his crazy fans obsessed with him. Raya was overlooked, yes. But still she faced all the downsides of worldwide popularity by her cousin's extension.

She had to be presentable 24/7 otherwise someone else reckgnized her as Harry's cousin and struck a picture that later  would be used to ridiculed her in the next instagram post. 😭

[ YOU ARE 27 HARRY, I’M ALMOST 22, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEEDS, YOU’RE BIG ENOUGH, NEXT TIME YOU’LL PAY WHAT YOU OWE ME]
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✓✓ seen at 6:42

Her cousin was also terrible allergic. Which meant he was always near a car ride to the death. Raya had lost count of all the different times his cousin had eaten something that would put him into an anaphylactic shock, and she was the one that had to quickly get his allergies kit. Harry had never paid attention to the things he put in his mouth. And that had brought him trouble of all sorts, and by extension to Raya.

[ HARRY MITCHELL STYLES, STOP LEAVING ME ON SEEN]
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✓✓ seen at 6:49

Raya wasn’t patient. And one of these days she was going to strangulate him if his allergies didn’t got to him first.

“He is still late as always him?”
This obvious statement came out Jungkook’s lips. He was the second famous person she was acquainted with. She also wanted to play rough with him too, but not in the same angry context that she felt towards her cousin…and that in itself was another nightmare.

She have been indeed waiting for half an hour when  she saw Jungkook arrived. Like an angel encapsulated in black. He had decided to wear a black designer hoodie some gorgeous black Puma's and exercise pants. He looked like he put on the first thing the found in his closet and still he presented himself like a Runway Model.

“One of these days, Kookie, is going to be me the reason Harry visits the emergency room of the nearest hospital and not the last chocolate bar he ate” Raya said while ogling him.

“Oh, I want to witness that” he said while laughing and handling her a frappe.  He himself was chugging an americano. He was here laughing because on his words 'I had a feeling Harry had set you up in another long wait and I though you may need some company'

His laugh was as addictive as coffee. She could swim in the warm of that laugh just as the rain flooded the cobblestones at her feet. Kookie’s laugh was the weirdest laugh she had ever heard, never the same twice, always changing but still filled with the same familiarity that made her feel safe.

But she was younger. Younger than him. It wasn’t a big age difference. But still it felt like the freaking Grand Canyon. That and the fact that Jungkook was her cousins protégé. Somehow Raya felt that mixing personal feelings with familial relationships wasn’t the right thing to do.

“What is he up to these days anyway?” Raya asked, a very sad way in which she hoped her mental attention changed from Jungkook gorgeous eyes and lips, into a much important business at hand: the whereabouts of her very much famous and allergic cousin.

Jungkook took to steps further to herself. They were both standing under the roof like two birds that were chilly due the rain.

“I honestly don’t know. He has been skipping band practice, every record label reunion, and scheduled interviews” Jungkook was really unaware at how his close proximity made Raya feel. But even so, she didn’t move.

Even though she knew Jungkook for six years ago and they weren’t exactly strangers, she had seen him grow professionally as well as physically and vice versa. And that meant something she couldn’t quite explain.

“Well, he is usually late on those things, right?”

Even though Harry didn’t paid that much attention to either Raya or Jungkook these days, she felt she wouldn’t dare cross that threshold—of her making a move on Kookie— without her cousin’s blessing. Not even mentally. She had to try and not cross it. Conceal and don’t feel.

“Umm not so much, my humble theory is that he is seeing someone”

“¡No way! Us Mitchell Styles are not the type that dates” laughed Raya absentmindedly while she too another slow sip of her frappe.

“You’re not?” asked Jungkook while he wiped a little bit of whipped cream that stucked itself in Raya’s nose tip.🤭

“Umm” DON’T GO RED DON’T BLUSH, why did she insert herself in this particular topic? Was she trying to out herself? “I amm not-I mean we are not, the dating… don’t come easy to us hehehe”

“Really?” Jungkook’s tone was cocky, as if he was in on a secret everyone else knew except her while he cleaned her nose as if that action was a normal occurrence “I wouldn’t call the last couple of months…or years for that matter as ‘the not dating type’ tbh”

“Oh well, I mean yeah I guess Olivia was the longest relationship Harry has had. If we don’t count Louise ….”

“I wasn’t talking about Harry” said Jungkook and Raya’s heart took a tumble. Was in fact her infatuation in him obvious enough?

Seeing that she was too stunned to speak Jungkook proceeded anyway. “My twin brothers, the department store guy, that girl from college, this theater company actor, this other pretty singer the girl with the gorgeous blonde hair…. That’s six people I think you’ve potentially dated Raya”

🤡🤯👀👀👀

“You were keeping tabs?” the rain poured stronger, the street noises were even more fumbled, and her cellphone started to vibrate. But nothing else matter, except the fact that her blood had reached her ears and Jungkook was keeping her score.

“I wouldn’t call them tabs, but I sure as hell could see how enthusiastic you were about them. You do date”

“Why I feel you’re judging me?”

“I’m not”

“¡I never dated your twin brothers! You have six older brothers; the twins were the only ones that actually invited me to your family mountain retreat…”

“a beautiful place for a romantic trio”
Now Raya was feeling a lil bit offended

“¡ I ASKED YOU IF YOU WERE ALRIGHT WITH THAT! And you said yes, you were glad that Jimin and Tae had made another friend…”

“I was glad, is just it was pretty obvious the heart eyes that went flying the entire trip”

“But I never dated them”

“that’s how you remember it”

“Oh, c’mon Jungkook” They were fighting, and she wasn’t even sure about what “The other guys you mention same history…”

“Different history”

“Okay fine, they aren’t like the twins. Nobody is. But it never went anywhere. I found them attractive, yes, I tried to get to know them but either they ghosted me, or I grew out of the infatuation, and I ghosted them. Point is I HAVE NEVER HAD a long-lasting fling or love or whatever you called it”

“that’s how you remember it” repeated Jungkook

“Wtf is that statement Jungkook?”  he was starting to make her angry just as her cousin did.

“You have had long lasting relationships before, in fact you have one”

“What kind of cryptic line is that?”

Jungkook laughed as if the answer to whatever he was trying to get to her was written on plain sight “I can see Harry’s car”

“That doesn’t answer my question, what kind of cryptic line is that? I ain’t no liar. I can’t date as most people do. You know this better than anyone” 

“PRECISELY” Jungkook smiled as playfully as he could while she stole her frappe and greeted Harry that was parking his car waiting for them to hop on 

“You know” said Raya when she was in the back of her cousin’s car while Jungkook was riding shotgun and retrieving back her stolen frappe “You guys are insufferable. REALLY. Insufferable. I don’t know why I’ve been keeping up with you for so long”

“Because you love us” replied her cousin
“And we love you” concluded Jungkook while Harry started the car “there’s nothing more to it”

He was right. Who was she kidding? She was in love with Jungkook as simple, as that.