When She Looks At Me | BTS & BLACKPINK

Chapter 5: Dinner with Mom

Jungkook's POV:

She stood there glimmering like a rare pearl amidst the shingles at the seashore at the porch. Her dress was red as polished rubies enrapturing me at one glimpse.

Jennie.

I couldn't believe that I had gotten myself such a pretty girlfriend and now my mom was going to meet her. Well, my dad, he was out of town to make ends meet for a while and I missed him really badly.

I wished that he could come back soon and things could feel complete at home. But having Jennie by my side made things better and I was sure that Mom would like her too.

"Hey Jungkook! I'm sorry I came late," she said looking at me so innocently.
"That's alright. You being here only matters to me," I replied as I hugged her in my arms and brought her inside my home.
She entered my house which was pretty much a bungled mess of second-hand items and inexpensive furniture emulating the feel of ebony.

"Hello there, Jennie!" Mom said grinning at her so much that it kind of made me nervous.
"Hello ma'am," Jennie said quivering inconspicuously and she bowed down.
"Wow! I didn't know that you looked so pretty. No wonder he wants to marry you," Mom said, "look, he has written all these pages in his diary about you in a pink glitter pen. I'll just go to the kitchen for a second."

"Eomma!" I shrieked. No way! She promised to not talk about my diary to Jennie.
"Please don't read my diary," I pleaded with Jennie as she looked at me chuckling.
"You want to marry me?" she said looking at me into the eyes with a gaze more intoxicating than the most fatal poison.
"Nooo!!!"
"You don't want to?" she said sniggering.
"Yes but when we grow up," I replied crumbling in nervousness.
"Oh, you're such a baby," she said as she nudged me on the shoulder and ran towards the diary placed on the sofa table.
"Please don't read my diary," I said as she raced to the table and picked it up.
"Let me see what do you think about me?" she said as she whispered the words like halo brushing past in the springtime.

Dear Diary,
I feel really lucky today because I'm so grateful to have Jennie as my girlfriend. She's the best and I'm in love with her to such an inexplicable extent that I could drag myself to flames to just see her happy.
She has changed my life so much that I sometimes even question myself if I'm enough for her? I've even written a song for her while learning how to play the guitar but that's top secret and confidential. I'm too shy to show her the song I have recorded and I don't want to release it anywhere or even anytime later. I'm afraid that it's not good enough to describe her. Something I can never attain. Her degree of perfection.

-JK

"Awww..." she exclaimed, "you've written a song about me?"
"Yes," I said shrugging awkwardly putting my hand on my nape.
"Can I listen to it?" she asked blushing like a shining pink doll.
"Maybe later," I said beating around the bush.
"Come on!" she whined.
"Okay, after dinner," I said trying to procrastinate.
Suddenly, the magnetic field between our eyes when my mom popped in the middle.
"Dinner's ready!" Mom said echoing her voice with such an ear-splitting melody.

"Lower your voice, Eomma!" I whispered in Mom's ear.
"Sorry!" she said smiling at me.
"Ugh!" I muttered.
"Okay, have a seat, Jennie," Mom said.
Jennie nodded as she sat next to me and I could feel this palpable nervousness vibrating me within my bones.
"Oh my God! I love the japchae!" Jennie exclaimed as her lips stretched into a strawberry smile.
"I know right. Try the tteokbokki too," Mom said as I watched delight stir on her face lightened up by watching Jennie like her sumptuous feast.

She raised her eyebrows scrutinizing every little moment and light smile Jennie gave while eating all the stellar dishes.
The table was exceptionally crammed with lots of food as I devoured the spice sipping it like ambrosia.

"대박! The food is so ADDICTING!" Jennie said widening her eyes, "I've never tasted anything this mind-blowing before. Jungkook, you're lucky to have your Mom cook you such delectable dishes."
"Yeah," I agreed as I watched Mom smiling by her compliment.
"Thank you, dear. You can make yourself feel welcome for dinner anytime," Mom said.
"Oh, that's fine," she said.
"Why not? You're his girlfriend," Mom said articulating it a bit too much.

Jennie chuckled and nodded as we all just shared the meal at the table.
"So, what do you plan to do when you grow up?" Mom asked as Jennie paused while eating the japchae.

"I want to be a K-pop artist so I'm training at YG and in case, things don't work out, I would do my Mom's business," she said.
"Business? What kind of business?" Mom asked inquisitively and that was a sign of Mom approving her as my girlfriend.
"She owns a fashion line called 'Secrets and Roses' and there's a chain of stores across Korea," she said.
"진짜! I see. I've seen the brand everywhere. So, you're rich?" Mom asked.

"Don't act money-minded," I whispered in Mom's ear unhappy to make Jennie feel ostentatious.
"I mean how much rich?" Mom asked.
"I don't know, I mean," Jennie said hesitatingly.
"Come on, I won't mind you showing off. I just wanted to know how rich my daughter-in-law would be?" she said laughing.
"Eomma," I said firmly as I signalled her that "we need to talk" with my eyes.
But, guess what?
Mom ignored me as usual.
"14,00,000 won per month," Jennie said.
"Oh my God! So, are you the one who bought him that smartwatch and those expensive gifts he got?" Mom asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"I officially approve of you," Mom declared as we both awkwardly smiled and agreed.

"Thank you," I said just in a huge relief that my mom acted a bit more normally than I thought she would.
"Okay, mom. We both are going out," I said holding Jennie's hand. We were done with dinner so I didn't want my Mom to say anything more to her.
"Sure," Mom said giggling.
We both headed outside the vendetta and I took out a huge ladder.

"Climb up!" I said.
"Up?" Jennie asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Okay," she replied as she climbed up and I followed her.
It was a roof with a slightly furnished floor but there was no linoleum. It was a barren space but we made the most of it.
"I'm going to sing you the song I wrote for you," I said.
"Really? Come on, play it!" she said with her eyes fixed on me.
"This song's called "Don't leave me"," I said.

"When she looks at me, I feel the fireworks bursting in the gray sky,
Shining up so high!
When she looks at me, I feel so guilty for not being good enough for her
And she makes my senses go into a blur.
But still even if I make mistakes
Just don't let my stupid heart break
Because I'm too weak to see you go
And I'll be with you beyond time, more than you'll ever know.
So, just promise me that I'd get to see you smile every single day
And you'd be the one for me so please just stay."

I strummed the final note on my twelve-string guitar making my fingers hurt but it was worth it to see her smile. She clapped for me and even if she was the only one in the audience for me- that was enough.

"Awww...Come here, don't worry, I'll always be with you," Jennie said as kissed me. I kissed her back feeling her lips on mine. Ah! It felt so pretty. The whole moment and vibe was so lovely! I was in love with being in love with her.

"I love you," she said, "and you should consider releasing the song."
"I love you more," I said sealing the moment with another kiss until someone screamed interrupting the fragile moment.

"Sorry guys for interrupting! But Taehyung came here for some school project," Mom shouted at the top of her lungs.
Taehyung was standing there as he waved at me awkwardly and I was there up on the roof dumb-founded.
"When did you come?" I asked.
"Don't worry! I didn't see anything," he said as me and Jennie climbed down the ladder.

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