Hide & Seek ➤ Taekook/Vkook

Chapter 24

[Dedicating this chapter to legal_bestie. Thank you for the support you have been giving to this story. It truly means a lot. Borahae 💜]

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Jungkook didn't reach out to Lisa.

At least not properly, how she was expecting him to. She kept waiting since the very moment she noticed the 'delivered' turned into 'read' - for some reply to all the texts or maybe a phone call, heck, somewhere she was even hoping for him to knock on her door to make up, even though she knew it was a little too cinematic.

But in the end all she received was just a single text : I'm sorry...

No explanation, no promise of making it up to her. Just a simple apology, an apology that sounded...somewhat distant to her even if it wasn't exactly a sound. Maybe that was because it was just a text. It wasn't meant to convey the emotions behind the words. It wasn't capable of doing so.

She should've understood that, that it was all just in her head. Jungkook was really sorry but was probably too embarrassed to say something more. They would bring up the topic once they would meet and talk and everything would be okay.

Yet somehow, the more she stared at those two words on her screen, the more she felt like she could hear how dull and insincere the apology was. As if her last text didn't bother him. As if he wasn't even sorry.

She guessed that was so far the truth. After all, she saw them. She saw them with her own eyes. They looked like they were enjoying the time they were spending together. They were happy and why would Jungkook feel sorry for being happy? He shouldn't.

His ringing laughter was still echoing in her ears as she threw her phone beside herself on the couch and looked up at the ceiling, a hollowness emerging in her chest to think that Taehyung took up all his attention in such a way that Jungkook didn't remember to let her know that he was leaving before her, that she had to go home alone.

She wasn't jealous or angry. No. That would be extremely ridiculous coming from her, seeing that it was Taehyung with Jungkook, not some girl. And even if it was, Jungkook was an independent person and he could go, hang out with any-fucking-one. Just because she was his girlfriend, he wasn't obligated to give her all the details and neither did she want to keep tabs on him like she saw some of her friends do - act over-possessive and immature. No, she wasn't like that.

But was it unjustified for her to hurt? She wanted to explore the cafe with him, take in its beauty in each other's presence, not with other people. They were supposed to go there on a date. She herself proposed it. Was it wrong for her to hurt, thinking that Jungkook totally forgot about it?

Or, maybe he wasn't even listening to you when you asked him out - a voice inside her head randomly spoke up, making her heart sink a little toward her stomach - maybe it doesn't matter to him as much as it does to you. It was only you who wanted to be there with him on your first visit, he doesn't care about such things. He went there with Taehyung.

Lisa ran her palms down her face, trying to shove those irrational thoughts out of her head. She was overthinking. She knew it mattered to him like it did to her. She knew it did. Jungkook was the most understanding and caring and responsible partner she ever had. He always tried to keep up with her wishes, made sure to ask her if she liked things he would give her, if she was comfortable with him, if she was happy, if she wanted anything, if she...

God, Lisa could go on and on with the list, how Jungkook never ceased trying to be the perfect boyfriend to her ever since the day their parents almost forcefully sent them to their first date.