When She Looks At Me | BTS & BLACKPINK

Chapter 9- HOOK OR CROOK?

Jennie's POV:

"What were you doing with Taehyung?" Lisa asked.

"What's going on with you and Taehyung?" Rosie posie and Jisoo asked in unison.

"Nothing," I retorted nonchalantly as I watched the flame of curiosity on their face wipe out into a poker face.

"Seriously?! Then, why did you two come together at the same time?" Lisa asked licking her lips suspiciously.

"Ugh, I was just finishing the chemistry project with him," I replied and I watched burst into a shrill series of ugly laughter.

"Chemistry with him!!!" they all teased me as I watched Taehyung from afar listening to our stupid conversation and the bell rung commencing the lecture.

Ugh! What's even going on? I thought to myself...

"Stop it!" I screamed at them as I watched him smile at me...

Taehyung's POV:

I smiled at her knowing that she won't even smile at me but wait, she did look at me...

I didn't really care about the chemistry project...all I wanted was to make her call me hers. 

But, Jungkook's presence was catastrophic for me...If he was there with her, there was no chance that she would even like me. Maybe, I had to think something bigger than just impressing her. They say that a genius is the one who gets his work done either by hook or crook. So, why don't I try to be the crook here disguised as the hero? I could diminish Jennie's feelings for Jungkook by showing how better I am. And the only way to do that was by making Jungkook look bad in front of her. I had to change her perception of hers about him. I had to improve my image of hers of me by making him look bad. I could do that because I'm V and I'm a bad boy!

Goodbye to our friendship, Jungkook! Because you have something I can't live without...

MY TRUE LOVE.

I'll get her by being the mastermind and all I had to do was flip the dominoes down on Jungkook's face and ruin this image of being a "perfect boyfriend". It was me who deserved her, to be honest. It was him who fell first but actually, it was me who fell harder. It was hard competition to be fighting against a guy like Jungkook but I was myself after all. I could do this...

I decided to somehow make Jennie upset with him by puling off a nasty trick on them. And what could I do? Aha, I have the perfect plan at the tip of my tongue ready to get spilled like a hot cup of delectable espresso...

Jungkook's POV:

I walked out of the school gate after Jennie had told me to take some rest since I was sick. There was no point to be at school when your eyes droop almost every second. I held my phone in my hand and trotted ahead on the cobblestones rusted with the dust of everyday. Even though I was pretty much better, I felt a surge of fatigue overwhelm me and all I could do was pace back and forth on the topsy-turvy path back home. I let my hands loose as I stretched my fingers feeling so sleepy. Ah! I just wanted a nap at this point...

I felt something drop out of my hands but I shrugged it off because I was sure that I wasn't holding anything. I shook my head trying to come out of the trance I had delved into a drunken demeanor. 

Wait a second...I thought to myself. Wasn't I just holding my phone? It was in my hands, right? Where had it disappeared? I frantically glanced around as I rummaged down the path. There was nothing on the road. I traced my path backwards with an unfathomable celerity. There was nothing but stones and stones and dust. The road was crammed with pebbles as I let my eyes scan the whole pavement. 

Where was my phone?

I had just dropped it and it just magically vanished in thin air? Or did somebody steal it? 

No way, nobody would want to be the owner of that pathetic, malfunctioning device. It was silver, the plain one which everyone would despise. I hated that phone but I desperately needed it. It had all of my pictures with Jennie and how could I text her without it? I needed that phone...It's exterior was rusty but the interior of its memory card had everything priceless to me. I had to find the phone. I rotated my eyes like a magnifying glass zooming into every crevice of the road and every single creak existing in the gray of nowhere until an intuition hit me like a dagger. I could hear an echo of an eerie voice vibrating inside me...Somebody stole your phone- the voice said and that's when I froze trying to ponder that who would want to be the owner of such a nondescript phone?

"Villains like to play the game just like the heroes...but the only thing they do is make their own rules because everything work by hook or crook? Villains just choose the second option and smirk and the heroes choose the first one and smile in the face of danger."

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Hi! I hope you guys still remember me and this book...I had some work and now I'm back! Hope you like this and do vote and comment because it makes me really glad to know you like my work! Also, happy birthday to Jungkook, our little bunny! -Anika Arora