Fight for You | JJK

39

Your mind is going a thousand miles a minute, coming up with different other "matters" that need to be discussed involving you and Jungkook that aren't about your secret relationship.

But you see the way your father eyes you both with a stern look on his face and you know he's doing this on purpose - making you nervous until you crack.

"What is it, father?" You start, trying to look as unbothered as you possibly can in a situation like this. "Is something wrong?"

"I'll cut to the chase," he responds. "I've been alerted that you two are in a romantic relationship."

You visibly swallow hard and briefly glance at Jungkook who's staring at the wall behind you with a hard look on his face, as if internally processing the shock of being found out, something he'd been so worried about.

You try to figure out how it might've happened - you trust the people who know about you and Jungkook with your life and are sure they'd never put you in a situation like this.

You quickly trace your steps, knowing you didn't see each other the past week, until the night of the party flashes in your mind and you feel like crying at the thought that someone might've seen you and you're the reason why you could potentially lose everything.

"The par—"

"The orphanage," your father says, surprising you and Jungkook.

"That can't be," you mumble, thinking it's one of the last places you'll ever be found out.

"One of my people visited yesterday," he continues. "He was curious why the center staff were so anxious when he introduced himself as someone who's working for me - accompanying him everywhere, steering him away from certain rooms... It all seemed suspect and made him wonder what they could possibly be hiding when you had nothing but good things to say about them."

You're nibbling your lips and gripping your fingers out of dread, as you play the previous day in your mind and wonder why nothing had seemed off to you.

"But their records seemed clean and there was no funny business at first glance but he lurked around after he left the center, perhaps hoping he'd catch any of the staff and see what they're up to. And well, they were up to something, alright. Well, you were."

Your father retrieves an envelope from his drawer and shows several photos of you and Jungkook by your car from yesterday - going out of the orphanage together holding hands, giving each other hugs, sharing a kiss.

There's no way either of you could deny this, so you deflect, as something else has caught your attention.

"Why did you send one of your people there?" You question. "I gave a full profile, did my own vetting. I've been going to the orphanage for years; I know them so well already. Were you doubting the project and me?"

"I wasn't, but the directors were." Your father releases a deep breath.

"I got Sejin from management support to check out the orphanage so I have information to back you up if I need to but that's not the point here, ____." He hardens his glare. "The point is, you and my bodyguard have been romantically involved all this time. Behind my back. And I can't have that."

"I'm deeply sorry, Sir," Jungkook says with a guilty look in his eyes that somehow hurts more this time than before.

Is he sorry for being with you?

"I'm not," you argue, your tone harsher now.

"___," Jungkook says, eyeing you, as if telling you to keep it down.