Beneath The Surface

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"What the hell is this jungkook, how can you make such mistake.. " Namjoon shouted at jungkook while throwing papers at air in front of all the employees who are looking at their boss with frightened eyes.

"Hy-hyung... I. Didn't.. " Jungkook stuttered, fear is evident in his voice.

"Stop making excuses jungkook I always considered you as a responsible man.. But after what you did my view has changed,I was very wrong to put my faith in you......I am too much disappointed in you... "

Jungkook looked down in shame.. He can also hear the employees murmuring, he felt inferior and humiliated.

"How on earth you missed one zero in the fixed bidding prize, do you have any slightest idea how humiliated I felt in front of other investors" Namjoon uttered venomously not caring about the other person how he is feeling even if he is his own brother.

"Answer me jungkook... !" Namjoon shouted in frustration.

Jungkook flinched at that.. "Hyung... I did checked it many times and the papers were perfectly fine.... I didn't know how did it happened? "

"Stop giving excuses... I gave you this responsibility because it would help you gain experience... But look what you did.... A bloody blunder...!!" Namjoon uttered gritting his teeth sending death glare at jungkook.

Jungkook looked down. He is trying his hard to remember any mistake but he knew himself that he did his best, even didn't slept for three nights to complete everything. He is going nuts thinking where did he lacked, how can he make such grave mistake.

"I am so disappointed in you jungkook.. " With a final sigh Namjoon left leaving dejected jungkook.

The only sentence he fear the most is. 'I am disappointed in you' and today he heard the word from the person he admire the most.. It broke his confidence as well as his self-esteem.

He stood there, amidst the sea of sympathetic gazes that seemed to weigh him down more heavily than any burden he had ever known. Jungkook, a man typically adept at blending into the background, now found himself painfully conspicuous, each pair of eyes a spotlight on his discomfort.

"Jungkook.... don't feel bad.. Ok... Everything will be fine, go to work now and do those with full concentration.. " Kai patted his shoulders and left from there.

Unable to meet their sympathetic gazes, Jungkook kept his eyes trained downward, the weight of his own shame bearing down upon him. In that moment, he wished the heavens for invisibility, to vanish from their sight and escape the spotlight of their pity.

His chest tightened as tears threatened to breach the facade of composure he had painfully maintained. But he refused to succumb to vulnerability at least in front of them.

With a desperate steps, he turned on his heels and fled to the sanctuary of the washroom, seeking solace in the solitude it promised.

He splashed water over his face more than five times but but the stubborn water is still running down from his eyes... He don't want that, he doesn't want to see himself like that. While looking at himself in the mirror he clenched the besin.

"Pathetic.. " He said to himself. He kept on glaring at his reflexion the swollen red tear stained eyes is the living example of how much of a incapable looser he is.

"A shame... "He ventured in a shaky voice feeling disgusted with himself.

After few minutes of self reflexion he braced himself and his mind. He can't slack off his office duties... He can't afford to disappoint his hyung anymore.