"Love Barrier" | Kim Mingyu

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Third Person's POV

"Why are you here?"  Jungkook asked the soulless person who is sitting by herself with a cup of coffee, day dreaming in her own little world. She too, unexpected to get approached by him.

"Then why are you here?" Nabi shoot back at him with a smiling face as she motioned him to sit down with her, only not to be rude, but surprisingly, he really is take the seat.

It was awkward as it's been a very long time since they shared the same table. They take a few seconds to admire the view of the rooftop which is almost every student's landscape during break. The school is fancy enough to have its own little outdoor pastry cafe at the top floor of the building. The whole place itself used to be a mini garden but they converted it into a cafe, that's why the area is filled with many type of flowers and plants.

Jungkook breaks the silence. "Isn't it pretty?" he's referring to a bunch of fully bloomed white roses that they both are attached to. "Someone i know love it very much so I start to like it too."

Nabi takes a sip on her bitter ice americano before responding, but seems like even coffee can't compare to the bitterness of how she feels deep in the stomach. "I'm not a white rose type of girl, Jungkook." She forced her smile. "But I never hate it as much as I do now."

Jungkook looks at her with a mix feeling. This is the first time after three years that they speak to each other more than three words, not to mention that they're in the same class. Most of the time they just smile when their eyes met, then walk passed because they never have any conflict to begin with, it's just a matter of which side you chose after that dramatically things happened in their friendship. And of course, she chose her boyfriend.

Nabi was his childhood girl best friend, his good listener, the soft spoken, the most understanding and the kindest among them all. But being too in love over her boyfriend makes it her greatest weakness. And that's also the reason why Jungkook is here today after all the crazy rumours about their triangle relationship or maybe rectangle if including himself.

"How's everything?" He paused a bit before he added. "Recently"

Nabi is not dumb. She gets it instantly that he doesn't simply ask about her well being or her life in general but he only wants to know how things going between her and Mingyu and maybe Jia including. The girl he likes, obviously.  "You sure you want to know?" She asked with her forcing smile, still.

He nodded.

"The looks I'm getting from people downstairs is killing every bit of me." She watches him watch her in that same sympathy eyes she's always scare of. "The one that you currently have on."

He raised one brow up in confusion but soon after realising the mirror of thought he's been holding on his face, he fix it so quickly like his life is depend on it. "I'm just worried about you." He shrugged, "and you know exactly what I'm talking about."

Of course, she knows and of course this is becoming everyone's hot topic for a reason. From calling her a victim for being cheated on, to calling her a clown for being too dense to realize what they did behind her back all along. Would it sounds like a joke if she tell them that she discovered it before they did? That she seen everything they absolutely knew nothing about? But even so it's emotionally choking Nabi to death to witness it with her own two eyes.

The paintings of her (holding a bouquet of white roses) that Mingyu keeps beside his bed, his favourite film camera that full of her candid pictures, their love letters that he placed on his study desk (the last letter was just a week ago) and the couple bracelets that he refused to take off even when he was suffering on his bed from the back injuries three days ago. Nabi saw it all and by the first glance she knew the girl on his painting was Jia. But all this thanks to Mingyu's sister who suggested her to check up on his condition that day because if it's not for her maybe she's still trying to make friend with the girl who plots to steal her lover. Mingyu doesn't know that she visited him when he was sleeping, at least not just yet.