Just Roommates

12.

"How do you know??" Asked Anna sightly surprised.

Looking around, there are three pairs of eyes, eagerly watching for her answer.

"It's just a hunch. And my hunches are rarely wrong." She says with a awkward smiles leaning herself down on the couch beside jimin. "I think your friend should consider giving this guy a chance. What's the harm of going out on one date with him? Just one date." Jennie says eyes both of the men to agree with her as they both nodded.

"Maybe you're right...jimin, jungkook, what do you think?" Anna asked them expecting a positive answer.

"I think he's probably low-key trying to hit on your friend. But I'm mostly a tinder-type guy so I don't really know." Jimin says leaning his head on the back of the couch getting out of the conversation.

"Yeah, I think there's 50-50 chance that this guy is probably crushing on your friend. Just give him a chance." Jungkook say agreeing with both of them.

"Right, I gotta run and tell this to my friend. Thanks a lot, guys." Anna wasted no time and makes a dash for the door.

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Huh! Tomorrow I'm spending my time with man jisoo said me to meet him. So, he can give me job. It will be good right?! I don't know man..!

Jennie ponder this as she unlock the door to her apartment and let herself in. The state of her living room stops her in her track. Wooden boards and other furniture parts, along with screws, dowel pins, a mallet, and a wrench are strewn on the floor. In the midst of it all, Jungkook hunched over a booklet he's intently studying.

"Jungkook?" She says as she place her bag on the table.

"Oh, hi. How long have you been standing there? I didn't hear you come in." He says getting up.

"Long enough, what's happening? This place looks like it has been hit by a tsunami." She laughed so did he.

"Yeah, I'm assembling a drawer unit. I was fooled into thinking that it'd be walk in the park. It's harder than it looks. Namjoon and jimin promised to help but they're MIA." He said looking at the stuff and grabbing on some fixing them.

"Do you need a hand? I've done my share of assembling these during my college years, and I remember enjoying it." She says.

"So you're a pro- great! Can you grab a hold of the bottom of this?"

Jungkook is keenling on the floor, holding several parts of what would be one of the chests, if assembled properly. In order to hold the base of the drawer unit in place, she press it down using both her knees, putting her entire body's weight on it, while attempting to hold the sides upright.

"Alright. Now maintain that position while I bolt the units together, okay?"

"Make it quick. These boards are quite heavy."

After about a minute, her hands and keens starts to get numb. To counter the sensation, she move into a squatting position for better blood circulation..which causes her to tumble over backwards and end up flat on her back.

Jungkook, in his hasty attempt to help her, trips over something and falls right on top of her who is lying on the floor. He catches himself with his hands on the either side of her head to support his weight. Otherwise, she'd have been crushed by his body.

As the initial shock of the fall wears off, she begin to be acutely aware of the fact that her body is mere inches away from his.

Okay, why is he not moving?

His eyes, unblinking, hold her prisoner. She can feel her breath mixing together with his, creating a warmth that elevates her pulse rate.

She clear her throat, which comes out louder and sounding sterner that she intended it to be.

But jungkook keeps on staring into her eyes as if he is possessed by some unknown force's that keep him rooted in that position.

Seconds later, the front door is flung open, and from behind it appears Jimin.

"Hello, anybody home." Jimin says but when he look in his front his eyes widened. "Err.. am I interrupting something here?" He say looking away.

The two of them were still piled on top of each other on the floor. Her face grew hot as she realise what this may look like to jimin..

She shove jungkook's chest with as much as force she can gather. He takes the cue and shoots ho to his feet. After straightening himself, jungkook then helps pull her back up to hee feet.

"Thank you." She says as she steal a quick glance at jungkook. She'd swear that she catch him giving her a cheeky wink.

"Oh look, you guys have stared assembling the drawers. I thought we'd do it together." Says jimin as he walk to jungkook.

"You promise to be here about an hour ago, jimin. So I got a head start on it while waiting for you." Jungkook says

The door sawing open again. This time, it's jisoo. Jennie wonder what's the use of keeping the door closed during the day because there's a never ending stream of the visitor to her apartment.

"Hi everyone! Oh wow, what happened here? It looks like the hulk just loose and wrecked everything in his path." She say as she came inside looking at the stuff.

"All these will be turners into a drawer unit. Eventually. You'll see the end result very soon." Jungkook says.

" okay, I'd rather not get involved. Jennie let's choose the outfit for Tommie, shall we? Ooh, I can already taste the salty air and feel the sea breeze on my face!" Jisoo says.

"Oh, right. I alimony forget about that."

" where are you guys going?" Jungkook ask out of nowhere.

For some reason. I don't feel like telling jungkook that I'm going to be on a yacht tomorrow with a guy that jisoo's boyfriend is trying to set me up with..

"Jisoo invited me to speak the weekend on a yacht that her boyfriend just bought." Jennie told him.

" it's gonna be fun! Plus, you'll have Jisu-" jisoo was saying something but got cut by Jennie.

"There'll only be the three of us so I guess I'll be spending most of the time wrinkling on my tan."

Jisoo looks at her quizzically. Jennie tilt her head to the side, a sign for her to drop the subject. Jisoo instantly gets it, although she's dumbfounded as to why Jennie wanted to lie about it.