FORBIDDEN LOVE || JIKOOK ✅

21 (M)

JIMIN POV

Jungkook and I walked back to the condo, the breeze cool on a cloudy, late summer day.

It had been a couple weeks since we started our new arrangement and I was almost getting used to the strange feeling of taking time off in the middle of the workday to catch a movie.

I would never get used to Jungkook, though.

He'd just dragged me to see Iron man, a movie I did not expect to enjoy watching again but totally fell in love with the second it started.

In the nearly empty theater, he and I were able to whisper to each other, laughing at our favorite lines and each other's bad jokes.

We were doing a great job keeping to the rules we'd laid out.

On my end, it wasn't really hard.

Sure, I wanted to touch his body every time I saw him but restraining myself meant that we got to have something much, much more exciting.

I wanted Jungkook to have the kind of independence he was looking for.

He'd asked me to promise him that I would help him break his pattern and keeping that promise meant a lot to me.

If I could pull it off and support him as he built the life he wanted it would mean I had treated him right and if I screwed it all up and he had his heart broken again, I didn't know how I would be able to forgive myself, let alone earn the forgiveness of my best friend or of Jungkook.

"I forgot to tell you." Jungkook said.

His hands were folded behind his back as we walked and he had a light spring in his step.

"I picked a school."

"Yeah?"

"They have a program that lets me study arts administration, like I wanted and there's space in the degree so I can take a bunch of photography classes, too."

"Photography, that's great."

He had an easy smile on his face any hesitation or lack of confidence gone and I took a deep satisfaction that I might have helped him get there.

He dragged his hand along the wall of a little restaurant as we rounded the corner to our street.

"I've always been interested in it and I've always taken a lot of photographs."

"I don't plan for it be my career but if I'm going back to school, I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and study an art."

"I think that's great." I said. "Can you start in the fall?"

"Part-time."

"I'll take some intro classes at night and stay working for you some days, so long as you'll have me."

He bumped his hip against mine as we approached the condo.

"I'll have you." I said, then bumped him back.

"There's one other thing." he added.

"I've been looking around and I think I'm going to move into a little studio apartment of my own I have the money and you and Guk have been so welcoming."

We paused in the front of the building and he turned his eyes to mine. "I think it's time."

My heart jumped. Something inside of me screamed no, that he shouldn't move away.

Living together felt so right.

I couldn't understand why he would want to change that.

Luckily, though, I grabbed hold of my senses before I blurted some thing disastrous out.