Higher Than Love - Jungkook x Reader (BTS Fanfiction)

Chapter 22: Mission: Avoid

My first classes of the day had been great. Even if everyone's pity was a little choking, I had been good so far. That was until I entered the art class. Before, I had never really paid any attention to who was in my classes, but now, I felt baffled and was even caught in a surprise of who was in my class.

When I entered class, there weren't that many students there yet. I took a seat near the window and rested my backpack on the floor. I was about to plug in my earbuds when I felt a slight tap on my shoulder. With a frown, I turned around hoping it wasn't another autograph or selfie request from a freshman.
But when I completely turned around, it wasn't a freshman.

In a way, he looked very different. It took a few moments for my eyes to adjust to his facial features. The beating of my heart through my ears made me apprehensive. I thought the whole class would be able to hear it due to the loud thud.

"T-Taehyung?"
Like if it was an automatic reflex, his genuine smile, that I had missed so much, appeared.

"Hey, y/n!"

I didn't try to hide my stunned expression. Things with Taehyung, well, they were complicated. First of all, the last time I had been around Taehyung I had almost been rapped. Second of all, Jungkook was now my boyfriend, and if he saw Taehyung anywhere near me, he wouldn't sit back nicely. Jungkook could have beaten him to death in the mountains if I hadn't interfered. Even just thinking about the whole incident, which felt like decades ago, made me feel chilly.

"Y/n," he grabbed both of my hands in his and looked deep into my eyes," you have no idea how much I worried!"

Almost rudely, I immediately snatched my hands away from his and gave him a stare. The look on Taehyung's face almost made me regret it. His eyes clouded with confusion and his bright smile dropped to a straight, dull line.

There was an awkward pause between us both. Thank God the art teacher walked through the door to interrupt it.

Like in all my previous classes, the teacher introduced me to the class. Although it was clearly the end of the year, all my teachers had made it seem as if it was the beginning. However, my art teacher seemed to understand me better than all of the previous teachers I had had so far. He saw through my eyes that this was completely unnecessary since I had had class with all of the students surrounding me.

After he finished wrapping up my intro, he moved on to our week's project.

"Alright, class. This week's assessment is going to be a research assessment."

The entire class plastered faces of different degrees of boredom. Some even made a groan of boredom.

"Alright. Settle down. I know this is an art class, but one thing you should know that in college it's not all about drawing, blending, and painting. You also learn about art's culture and evolution."
Our teacher's explanation made the students even more bored.

"Now, you will be researching a very famous piece. That is the Mona Lisa. And let me clear this up now, there is to be no partner or group work. This is completely individual. There is a reason for that. The reason is that in the end, you will have to draw the Mona Lisa yourself, and the best replication will win a grand prize."

This project seemed exciting and stressful at the same time. I was so glad he had brought up the partner rule. Somehow, I had a feeling Taehyung would have wanted for us to be paired.

The bell rang. I immediately tried to make it out of the room before Taehyung caught up to me, but that was clearly impossible since his seat was right behind mine.

Before I even made it out of the doorway, I saw him take the empty spot beside me in the hallway.

"Why in such a hurry, y/n? It's only lunch." Taehyung said with a light chuckle.
I tried to force a giggle, but nothing came out.

"What's wrong, y/n? Cat got your tongue?" He said once again snickering lightly.

Although I wanted to join him so badly, my body didn't let me. Jungkook's assured voice and the chit chat that I had had with Jimin came back every time my mouth muscles wanted to respond to him.

When I turned away from him ashamed, my far away sensor spotted someone down the hall. My spine tensed and my breath hitched.
Jungkook was making his way down the hall. And Taehyung was right beside me.

My body instantly entered full panic mode. If Jungkook was to spot Taehyung anywhere near me, I was pretty darn confident I wasn't going to be able to stop him this time around.

With my petrified scream in the center of my throat, I turned to look at Taehyung and forced the words to come out of my mouth.

"T-Taehyung, I think I left something in class. I'm going to go back and get it. See you later!" I said in the nicest way possible. And as I turned around, I felt his befuddled eyes staring at my back as I dashed down the hall.

After I had managed to get as far away from him as possible, I noticed someone coming out of the class. It was none other than Park Jimin himself. When he noticed me, his eyebrows lifted with surprise and his mouth gaped excitedly.

"Oh goodness! Y/n!"

His arms went around me and squeezed me like an empty tube of toothpaste.

"H-Hi." I managed to squeeze out.

Like always, his scent was soft and almost sweet in taste. He pulled back and smiled so wide I couldn't see his eyes.

"How are you? You don't know how worried I was! And then that boy Jungkook!"

"Aww Jimin. I'm doing good. Great, actually."
"That's so good to hear. How's he doing? Jungkook, I mean."

"Oh. He's doing good as well." I said looking over my shoulder to see if he had rounded the curve towards my class.
It was taking him a while...

"That's good. OH!" Jimin's screech nearly made me fall over.

"How dare you guys keep your relationship a secret from me? I mean, did you not think I was going to find out? I am the eyes and ears of this place."

Yeah, Jimin. That is exactly why.

"Just by looking at your tomato face I have proven it is true."

"Yeah, it's kind of been going on for a few weeks now."

Jimin's face dropped stunned.

"When? The cabins? The cave?"

"Eh. Somewhere between those two."

Jimin was about to say something else when his mouth shut close and his eyes looked over my head. A warm chest pressed against my back and a warm hand slipped into mine.

That was all Jimin needed to explode with excitement. He looked as if he had won the lottery. The glee on the surface of his eyes was indescribable.

"Well, I guess I'll talk to you later, y/n." He said while turning around and winking at Jungkook.

Jungkook scoffed and turned me to face him. I looked up and met his eyes. He was smiling.

"What did that annoy short stack want?"

"I HEARD YOU JEON JUNGKOOK!" A voice shouted down the hall. I laughed at Jimin's response.

"Well, he just wanted to know how we were doing."

"And...?"

"And what?"

Jungkook sighed with a grin and drew in his eyebrows while tucking in a strand of loose hair behind my ear.

"You don't expect me to agree that was all Park Jimin had to say to you. I've known him all my life. Believe me, he doesn't let one second of his life go on without him talking."

I giggled at his remark.

"Well, he did mention something about us hiding our relationship from him."

Jungkook rolled his eyes and smirked. Slowly, he pressed his forehead against mine and rocked us side to side.

"It's nobody's business anyway." He whispered.
His lips pressed against mine and just like that, I was bundled in what seemed to be the perfect moment.

There was nothing else but us holding onto each other in the middle of the hallway. No Taehyung. No strange stares. No bull.

Jungkook, impressively, pulled back a little before I anticipated and looked into my eyes. I stared back a little muddled.

"What?" I asked in a faint whisper.

"Do you want to come over? To my house, I mean." Jungkook asked. And even though he was good at hiding it, I could still see a little bit of hesitation.

I had never been to Jungkook's house. But if you knew him, or at least had seen him, you knew he was a wealthy single-child. Everything about him shouted luxury. Not to mention that his father had the latest model of a car.

"What's wrong?" He asked making me snap back to reality.
"Um, is your dad alright with me coming over?" I asked a little iffy.

"It's not like he has much of a say. He's not here."

"What? Where is he?"

"Business trip. I have the house for myself for the rest of the week." Jungkook said wiggling his eyebrows mischievously.

I smirked back.

"Alright. Count me in."

Finally, the last bell rang of the day. Jungkook had texted me to meet him at the student parking lot.

Although I was excited to go to Jungkook's house for the first time, I was also a little nervous. Going to your boyfriend's house can be seen as an invitation to a sex day. Well, most of the time. It's not that I didn't want to have sex with him. If anything, I missed him intimately. But I was just a little emotional? Just thinking about our previous Capades made me feel excited to afraid. The cave had affected me a lot, but Jungkook had been there to make the best of it with me. And just to let all those memories-good and bad-come back all at once made me feel overwhelmed.
All I hoped for was that at the time I arrived at the parking lot, I would have my emotions sorted.

As I entered the parking lot, I saw that Jungkook was leaning against a Tesla. I smiled at the sight of him. I was about to walk towards him when I turned to glance at the car besides Jungkook's. My eyes widened with fear.

Taehyung leaned against his car as well. As if they both had heard my silent gasp, they both looked up at me at the same exact time. Their actions were copy and paste. They both smiled and stripped their backs from their cars. Their legs took the same amount of steps towards me.
I felt my heart fleeting out of my chest. The world seemed to blur and fade in a spiral. I forced my vision to clear up, and when it did, Jungkook and Taehyung were staring at each other face to face.