Mafia Fanboy || Jeon Jungkook ✓

12: Appreciation

"Are you alright, Kookie?" The little girl cares for me for the fifth time while we are munching on the subway wrap that I saved from Chi-won and Mino earlier. "Why do you keep asking that, baby?"

"It's just that when I work, I am too obsessed with it that I don't focus on other things. So I didn't see if you were doing alright over here without me." She says blankly and I smile at her before nodding. "I am fine. Look I even stole two wraps for us."

Suddenly a girl approached our table and stood beside Ari. "Pomme, I am a huge fan of yours. Could you please give me an autograph?" She asked and Ari nodded before taking the comic book and signing on it. "What is your name?"

"Ma Yuna," she said and I silently continued eating and saw the girl peeking at me. I avoided her stare while I heard Ari asking her a question. "Is that your pen name?"

"I don't have a pen name yet. I don't know if I am going to be a webtoon artist as yet." Yuna said and Ari looked up at her before asking her softly. "Why do you think like that?"

I looked up at Yuna and saw her playing with her finger, diffident of her dreams. "I am not good enough as yet. I have realized it even more after coming here and watching others over here. Now I am wondering if I should just continue it as a hobby." She said in a low voice.

Ari looked at her with a straight face but then smiled at her warmly. "Have a seat here for a minute." She said and Yuna hesitantly sat on the chair next to Ari.

"That is not your call. There is only one thing you need to decide, Yuna. What is your goal? Do you want to become a webtoon artist or not?" Ari said while smiling widely at her while Yuna looked at her with a questioning gaze.

"Instead of asking the question to yourself, 'Can I do this?' You should be asking, 'Do I really want to do this?' That is what your question should be." Ari said with an encouraging voice.

"So Miss. Yuna," Ari said and she looked up at her, "Do you want to be a webtoon artist?" Yuna grinned and nodded vigorously. "I want to, Pomme. I really want to." She said and I smiled at their interaction.

Ari chuckled and took the marker before writing something more on the comic. "Be brave!" She said while writing it in the comic book. Ari smiled and looked up at her before closing the book and returning it back to Yuna along with the pen.

But before Yuna could grab it Ari pulled it back. Yuna looked at her and Ari smiled before fisting her hand and smiling at her. "You can do it. I am rooting for you, Ma Yuna!" 

Yuna smiled and nodded. "I can do it!" Ari returned her comic and she stood up before bowing at her and then me and walking away. 

"I love you, Pomme," I said and she choked on the orange juice. I quickly stood up and walked across the table to sit beside her and patted her back to stop her from coughing. "Why suddenly?"

"Are you alright?" I asked her and she nodded while calming down. "Why did you suddenly confess?"

"Why can't I? Pomme is so amazing and so inspiring. I am just appreciating her as a fanboy myself. You always used to motivate me through your work these past years. I saw you do that just now and I recalled that I never said a thank you to you for  helping me get through my tough times earlier so I said what I should have long ago."

"You talk a lot," she said irritatingly and I giggled before eating the rest of the wrap. "It was fun, though. I met a lot of people who told me that I was their role model. Everyone wants to be like me so I realized that I should be happier." She said.

That was my intention all along. To make you meet the people out here and make you feel how special you are to all of us.

"That is a great idea, Pomme," I said with a genuine smile and she wiped her mouth, after finishing the food. "I am glad to come here even if it was for a day. Thank you for convincing me, Jungkook."

"Don't mention it, Miss Pomme," I said while bowing at her and she chuckled. I smiled at her and continued eating my food.

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"So we are going back tomorrow in the morning?" I asked while plopping on the bed and saw Ari drawing on her iPad while wearing her glasses.

"Ari?" I called out but she was busy using her Apple pen while sitting on the table in the hall. "Wifey!!!" I screamed and she glared at me.

Shit!

"What?" She yelled but I smiled. "You respond to me when I call you my wife? You are so romantic, Ari." I said and she rolled her eyes and continued drawing.

"I just responded because you screamed," She said blankly and I chuckled while opening my arms for her. "Ari, your boyfriend wants some hugs, please. He was so tired while volunteering today. Please show some love to him?"

"Sleep!" She said and I sat up on the edge of the bed, wearing my sweatpants and a comfy t-shirt. While Ari was wearing a white cardigan with cream shorts.

"You sleep with me, baby!" I said and she looked at me and sighed before shaking her head. She stood up from the table with her iPad while swiping through it and then locking it. 

She took off her glasses and lazily approached me. I pointed at her cardigan. "You take that off?" I asked and she raised her eyebrow at me. "Aren't you being too greedy?"

"I am horny for you. Take it off. You'll feel comfortable too." I said and she slowly unbuttoned her cardigan leaving her in her cropped white tank top while I gulped.

"Fuck, I am trying to keep it in my pants but you make it hard for me, baby," I said eyeing her chest and she scoffed before sitting on the bed. "Calm down, Jeon."

I slowly took off my shirt leaving my upper body naked and she stared at me with an amused expression. "Why did you take it off?"

"Because I always sleep shirtless. Now let's just sleep." I said while hugging her and falling back on the bed with her. 

Ari's small figure squirmed in my grip and she was hitting my arms softly. I chuckled at her attempts and pulled slightly to see her red face. 

"You are annoying. First, you made me leave my work and now you are suffocating me to death."

"You are so cute and addicting that I can't resist," I said while smiling. She placed her arm over my inked arm and I wrapped my leg around her figure and she groaned even more.

"Jungkook! I hate you!" She screamed and I laughed, loving to annoy her and enjoy these soft moments with her. "Yet you are hugging me. Wow, you should really hate me enough to hug me that warmly."

"Sleep!" She yelled. I pecked her head and made her bury her head into my neck before drifting off to sleep.

I'm going to have such a good sleep tonight.

"Good night, my Ari."