Euphoria - A Jeon Jungkook AU Fan Fic

Chapter 4

Every time JK is absent-mindedly tapping on the table, which happens quite often, his friend find it less and less adorable and more and more annoyed.

"Would you please stop that?" one of the studio execs protests and JK stops with a shy smile.

"Do I annoy you more now that we are not going out?"

"Maybe?" she says without wanting to look into his eyes.

JK chuckles before walking back into the recording booth. His voice-over work for the new movie needs to be done lately by the coming weekend. The studio is already running on a tight budget and there's only so much they can spare on an artsy project that is increasingly hard to promote.

The film revolves around the journey of a fisherman stranded on an island who refuses to get back home even once he finds a way to get off the small piece of land in the middle of the ocean. He spends a decade building a space for himself to survive and somehow it seems less of a hassle than daily life back on the mainland.

Of course most fans are just eager to watch a shirtless JK doing a whole lot of manual labor, or that's what the studio is using to lure in their prospective audiences.

JK is still not sure about the short 3 minute shirtless scene but gulps down his pride and gets the job done. Even he knows at some point his fans matter more than anything else and if it makes them happy then he will not hesitate to do it.

"I'm exhausted" says JK, rubbing the back of her neck as he sits down on the chair next to the sound tech.

"We can't call it a day yet. It's just a few more lines and then we can wrap up over the weekend."

"Including the changes and the pseudo promo voice over bits?"

"Yes! Including promo, TV spots, everything."

"Fine!" says JK before walking back into the booth. If only he was going in there to sing. He misses his friends from the music World. They seem to enjoy being inside a soundless box while he is feeling emotionally suffocated with all the grunts and moans they ask him to record.

...

"Hey" says JK and Joon replies "Hmmm?" with his beautiful shaped brows furrowed into a bow on his forehead.

"Why exactly are you smoking right now?"

"Because I am tired after all that work this afternoon?"

"Am I just work to you?"

Jook sighs and says "Don't make this harder that it already is.".

JK replies "I know I did that a while ago but I have no intention of making it hard for you anymore. Just drop that filtered tip menace and let's go out and eat something.".

Joon takes one last long drag of the cigarette before extinguishing and discarding in the ashtray near him. He shrugs into his shirt before they walk out of Joon's home office and drive off to a restaurant nearby.

The rest of the evening goes by quickly between random funny conversations about the shoot location and serious discussions about how he is supposed to maintain a whole new demeanor in public now.

"You really need to look like someone who had been through hell during the filming of this movie. People respond well. The focus group was very sympathetic and highly motivated to know more."

"I don't know. It seems fake."

"Kook, everything we do is fake. That's what acting really is."

JK is swirling the whiskey in his old fashioned glass as he processes the proposal of Acting for PR.