Secrets | KOOKV ✔️

Forty

Flashback
⚠️ Mentions of sensitive topics (the author is in no way promoting any of the scenes included in this chapter)

"Are you okay, son?"

The question was hanging for a long while before Jungkook found his voice to respond.

"Yeah.. I need to go, it's almost time for my shift." Jungkook uttered as another long silence followed.

"Don't forget to always take care of yourself. I love you."

His mother's soft voice almost brought him to tears. In difficult times, her tenderness gave him strength.

"Love you too, mom."

At the drop of the call, Jungkook could only sigh as he went back inside the café where he began taking orders for the customers.

His days were filled with nothing but work to keep him busy and stop himself from thinking about anything else.

"Here's your Caramel Macchiato."

There was a long pause before the customer forced a smile, all the while not taking the drink he offered.

"Uhm... I ordered Matcha Oreo."

She was smiling awkwardly before Jungkook finally realized his mistake— his fifth time for the day.

"Sorry. I'll make you one quick."

Before he could start making one, his coworker, Jungwon, took charge.

"Let me handle this, hyung."

Jungkook forced a smile, appreciating the younger's help.

"It's okay. I'll do this." He insisted, but Jungwon tenderly pat his shoulder.

"You're clearly out of it, hyung. Go rest for a bit."

He saw him smile, telling him it's going to be all right which made him nod.

"Thank you."

Jungkook stepped out of the café for a while to breathe some fresh air. It was suffocating, everything was.

As he fished out a cigarette and began smoking, the anxiety and stress he had been feeling for the past month flashed before his eyes.

It had been like that ever since Taehyung left him.

No proper sleep. No rest.

It's like Jungkook didn't know when to stop until he got numb.

Even waiting for him to come back became tiring, but he couldn't stop.

He couldn't stop himself from loving him even though he left without a single word and took it upon himself to give him back to his 'family'.

However, Jungkook chose not to return to that hell hole in the hopes of having Taehyung back.

He chose to wait, regardless of how vague the chances were.

Funny how thinking about Taehyung cleared his head. He took another puff before returning inside the café and took over the counter.

"Thanks, Jungwon."

A soft smile appeared on the younger's lips before handing him the register.

"Call me when you need assistance, hyung."

The young man has such a kind heart which matches his refreshingly beautiful face.

"I will, thanks."

As Jungkook went back to his work, he tried his best to remain focus, something he should've been used to do by now.