Mafia Fanboy || Jeon Jungkook ✓

7: Take Care

I stumbled on my place and felt Ari tightening her grip on my hand to keep me in place. My friends were screaming beside me but I couldn't hear them clearly. She looked at me in concern while I looked at her in shock. 

"What happened, Jungkook?" She asked but my brain was not working well to answer her right now.

I don't even know how I will go to the mission later. I took a deep breath and placed my tattooed hand over hers and smiled at her softly. 

"Nothing. I think I just had a cardiac arrest with a mini fracture on my left kidney and my brain just did a backflip. Nothing much. So what were we talking about?" I said and she giggled beside me while the Editor and the color artists gasped.

"Pomme is laughing!" the Editor exclaimed while looking at Ari in shock. "Pomme is so beautiful while smiling." Mino clung to Chi-won who swooned over her. 

I cleared my throat and passed them a cold look and they looked at me before straightening up and pursing their lips.

"Will you really go to the camp?" The Editor asked and Ari looked at me. I nodded at her and she nodded back.

"When is it tho?" I asked and the Editor cheered at her final answer and then came to hug me, shoving Ari away from me.

"Thank you so much, Jungkook!" He said while burying his face into my chest and shaking my body.

He pulled back and looked at me while I looked at him with a scrunched nose and disgusted expression. 

"I will arrange everything. It is in 5 days. I will send a car to pick you up-"
"No need, I have plenty of them. I can drive there. I don't want you to take another hassle of arranging a driver." Ari said and turned to walk towards the exit of the building. 

But before leaving she turned to look at me. "Jungkook, contact me if that watch doesn't fit you." She said before walking out.

We saw her keeping the plastic bag on the handle of her electric kick scooter. She took the helmet and wore it over her head and fixed the camera strap on her shoulder before standing on her kick scooter and riding away without even sparing a glance at us.

The Editor sighed deeply and looked at me. "She is cute, right?" He asked and I frowned at him. "Huh?" 

"I have been her Editor since her debut. She debuted at the age of 15 and her works were so good that she immediately gained popularity among artists and readers. Since she was young, people spoiled her a lot with compliments and appreciation. But some of them hated her early success as well. She is the nuclear bomb of hate comments. She receives the most hate comments but she is just a kind soul. She is the reason why I am still able to feed my family."

"Do you know her real name?" I asked and he shook his head. "I don't know it and I don't mind staying unknown to it either. I had read her works on her Stargram account when she was 14. I saw how genius she was at staging scenes so I scouted her while I was a contract intern at Neon Webtoon. She used to send me her episodes through emails and I used to upload them. That time she used to color scenes herself.

Gradually, she gained success, and since her works brought many readers to our site, my company hired me as a permanent Editor. She might still not be aware of this but I am now the Chief Editor at Neon Webtoon and no more a normal Editor but I still stayed as her Editor. I let go of all my other artists but I couldn't leave her." 

"Why is that?" Namjoon asked him. "She is lonely." He replied shortly and continued. "One day she contacted me saying she wants to buy an apartment under her name with all the money she saved up from the money we paid her since her debut. I helped her with that. She stays alone and has no friends because she has social anxiety. She even has panic attacks, and several diseases but after all of that, she never fails to meet her deadlines.

I don't know if she likes making webtoons or not but she is really passionate about this. I am glad that she is doing what she likes but she needs to do other things she likes as well. She is a workaholic kind of person. She hasn't even attended a single team dinner with the three of us. There is no personal life for her, everything is work." He said and looked at me.

"You are not her husband, right?" He asked and I was caught off guard. "Not yet. I mean I like her and I admire her," I said but got cut off by this man. 

"She is more like a daughter to me than just a simple webtoon writer. This is the first time I have seen her so cheerful and happy. I just hope that you can take care of her." He said and I blinked several times before nodding. "Yes, I will."

He smiled at me and handed me his phone. I looked up at him with a questioning gaze. "I need to get your details, CEO Jeon, to fill in the details for the stay." He said and I entered my number on his phone.

"It will be three days camp and Pomme knows the place. Or I'll remind her later once again. She will take you probably. I will still contact you for your ID and kinds of stuff for the hotel formalities so don't get annoyed," He said and I shook my head at him.

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"It has been three days since we started the mission," Namjoon said while wiping his gun. "We are attacking his base tonight. I don't care if this would cost me my life," I announced and I heard the rest of the members sigh.

"Alright, I will arrange the ammo," Jimin said and looked at me. "We stick to plan and attack the base. Make sure we have zero to no casualties. We do this as cleanly as possible. Let's go!" I said and walked out of the room.

I walked to the car and sat in the back seat while the driver started driving. Not going to lie and pretend to be strong but I am a bit nervous. 

People might think that Mafia leaders are powerful and are afraid of nothing but we are also afraid. We are afraid to lose to someone from our team. Afraid to lose our power and become useless.  

My thoughts were interrupted by a notification on my phone. I took out my phone and unlocked it only to smile more. I clicked on the notification that reads:

“🌟Neon Webtoon: Gangster High- New Episode - Never not fear...”

I opened it and started reading. This episode slowly washed away my nervousness and made my mind drift away from panic.

I scrolled through the episode and reached the end. I sighed deeply and went to the comment section to drop in a comment.

samuraijjk97: "I was going for a tough exam and was feeling nervous. This episode removed the thoughts of my nervousness and fear to lose. Thank you, Pomme :) We love you <3"

I smiled once again and locked my phone. I looked outside the window and recalled the dialogue that I really liked in today's episode. I mumbled it slowly.

"Don't let your fears rule your life. If you do, you'll be daunted by more and more things to the point that you can't do anything."