To be your ONLY option (Namkook)

Letters & Calls

2010

Promises broken, hearts shattered, hopes crushed. Time moving like a turtle. The birthdays, the Christmas, the New Year's Eve, the Seollal, the Chuseok, all went like every other usual day in his life. There was no spark, no excitement. The only thing that kept pushed him to wake up every morning and wait, was those never ending parcels from the person he doesn't know yet, but depends on the most.

Sometimes, there will be letters with details of daily life in Daejoon, sometimes bunches of white lilies freshly plucked from the sender's little terrace garden, although the freshness of the flowers is questionable due to the delivery time; sometimes a cute box of chocolates, sometimes homemade cookies or brownies. The funniest part of the letters was the never ending complaints against Yoongi who is spending more time with his now boyfriend Seokjin and apparently avoiding his best friend.

Jungkook loves all the attention he gets from Namjoon, but still he is deeply saddened by the fact that they have never been able to meet for more than a year now. Namjoon couldn't keep his promise to visit him in Busan, the reasons are unknown though, but he would never fail to send the weekly parcels for the younger. He would call Jungkook in his grandmother's landline number, but not everything can be expressed over few minutes of phone call. Namjoon would write everything about school, Yoongi, Sana, Min-soo to his Kook.

As of Jungkook's parents, Seong is now living with her son and Ha-rin in Busan. Him-chan had a transfer in Seoul. They are still separated in their married life, but still stay in touch. The house they bought in Daejoon is just deserted and locked.

It's the first weekend of December, 2010 and Jungkook is waiting in the living room of his grandmother's house for the call of his favourite person. The telephone will ring exactly at 7 o'clock in the evening. It was 6:59 now. Suddenly the phone rang when the clock struck 7.

"Namjoon hyung!" He is pretty sure no one will be calling at this time except the said person.
"Kook! How are you?" It's their daily routine to share the details of their daily life.
"I'm good hyung. How are you? Did you have your meals on time?" Namjoon's habit of forgetting to take his meals started since the beginning of high school as he would be too focused on academics.

"Yes Kook, I did. Did you?"
"You know me hyung, I cannot breath without eating like a baby elephant." Namjoon wanted to bang his head against the nearby wall as it is too much for him to handle the younger's adorable words and antics.
"Hyung, you know Hobi and me are going to the excursion next week."

Namjoon would always get a feeling of jealousy hearing this name. Hoseok aka Hobi was Jungkook's only friend in school, they met each other when they were assigned in the same group for computer practical class. He was a kind and sweet boy as Jungkook had described, still the elder felt in-secured as Hoseok was of Jungkook's age and they were spending considerable amount of time at school.

"Where are you going?"
"It's a Busan Museum of Art. We will be starting out at 9 in the morning from school. Our homeroom teacher said we will have a detail tour of the museum and many workshops will be arranged in the ground next to the museum after that." Jungkook kept blabbering giving out every little detail while Namjoon was cooking up something in his head.

"Kook, it's on Wednesday?"
"Yes hyung."
"Okay, enjoy. Will call you tomorrow. Bye."

Namjoon disconnected the call abruptly leaving Jungkook a little disappointed, but he shrugged it off and headed towards his room to complete his homework. Nowadays, Seong tutors him but still she is not considered as good as his previous tutor by Jungkook.

Namjoon called Yoongi immediately after disconnecting call with Jungkook. After two rings, his best friend picked up.

"What's wrong with you?" Yoongi yelled.
"Why are you shouting?"
"Joon it's Saturday!"
"So what?" Saying this Namjoon instantly regretted calling his best friend now as he was aware of the weekend special dates Yoongi would take out Seokjin on. And he could hear some heavy breathing from the other end of the call.