Hate you, Love you

1

"Jungkook, I've been wanting to tell you this for some time… quite a long time, actually. The day you entered the classroom, I didn’t know you had entered my heart too. I took some time to realize, but… I love you. Always have, since your sophomore year. I can't believe it's been three years already. Will you… will you be my boyfriend, Jungkook?"

Jungkook stood there frozen, staring at the guy kneeling in front of him with a bouquet of his favorite flower, oleander.

"I… I… can't, hyung," he whispered, wiping the smile from the elder's face. Jungkook's eyes filled with tears as he turned and ran away.

Mingyu hastily stood up, wanting to reach out to Jungkook, but his friends stopped him, urging him to give Jungkook some space and time. Meanwhile, Jungkook wasn’t feeling any better. He had been giving signals, flirting with Mingyu for a long time. Had Mingyu asked him out just a day ago, Jungkook would have happily agreed. But he couldn’t now—not with a marriage being fixed in just a week.

With nowhere else to go, he crashed at his only best friend's dorm.

"AHH-" and he ended up screaming his lungs out seeing his bestfriend making out right on the couch.

"What the- Jungkook" Yugyeom stood straight annoyed but sent out his yet another one night stand out seeing his bestfriend's state.

"Kook, what happened! Oh my god, whom should I kill, my baby!" He softened when kook hugged him all while sniffling, his nose and ears terribly red. Yugyeom made kook comfortable on his bed and went out to reheat some leftover pizza. And finally they settled on his bed snuggled in comforter, different pizza slices, soft drinks and chips spread on bed.

"What happened kook?" He asked Jungkook. Yugyeom can be the most humorous guy you can come across but he is the most overprotective too, especially with Jungkook knowing his past and Lisa, his cousin who is bestfriend since diaper days.

"Three things gyeomie.. one, I'm returning to Korea and I think it's almost forever. Two, Mingyu proposed me and three, I'm getting married." Kook said, his voice, almost inaudible and childlike.

"Yo- WHAT?!!" Yugyeom practically yelled, loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear.
"Don't shout," Jungkook hissed.
"Details. Now. Bitch."

...

"Wait, wait… I don't get it. Taehyung can take over your dad's company without marrying you too, right?" Yugyeom asked, still trying to make sense of it.

"That's the catch, Gyeomie. There's Jaebum uncle, who is senior and eligible. But Dad doesn't want to give it to him. He says Uncle is too aggressive. So, to make the directors agree, he decided to make Tae his son-in-law. A good reason to give him the company, isn't it?"

"You could have just said no."

"I know. But this is the first time appa has asked me for something. Besides, it’s just a contractual marriage for three years. I’ll be free after that."Yugyeom hummed, finding it somewhat valid.

"Oh, then you could've said this to Mingyu hyung too right?

"No.. I don't want to make him wait for three years. He deserves better. And also what if he gets jealous and becomes toxic? Long distance relationships never work well. I know that for sure." Jungkook said.

"But at last you're marrying your ex who didn't work with long distance, huh?"

"Gyeomiee.. you're not helping~" Jungkook whined.

And finally after that night, he was able to get himself togather. He never thought Mingyu liked him back. Sure, everyone kept saying that he would and the collage practically shipped them. He is the only one whom Jungkook felt himself loving after Taehyung. Mingyu was his safe place. He knows everything about Jungkook and understands him better that Jungkook himself. But he can't seem to say no to his father who asked him for something in the twenty three years of existence. He can never forget how hesitant his father was while asking him to marry Taehyung. No one knows his relationship with Taehyung other than Yugyeom, Aunt Lee and Mingyu.

Speaking of which, he doesn't even know how he's going to keep Mingyu away from his mind. He let out a deep sigh thinking how emotionally difficult things were going to be for him.

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Notes: so here my 1st chp done at 9.05 pm. Gonna write nxt. Hope you'll enjoy this one ☺️💜