Building My Life | (TaeKook)

Chapter: 22

JUNGKOOK

I was checking a file my sister gave me when someone called me. I picked up my phone without looking at the ID, but when his voice echoed through my ears, it directly reached my heart.

More than a month. It's been more than a month since we last spoke. In that moment, I felt a wave of emotions that I wanted to cry.

I never cried that much in my life as that day when I proposed to him and he rejected me. I felt my whole world crumbling. I had thought that he liked me back but was afraid to take a further step, so I initiated it.

When he stopped talking to me or refused to answer any of my calls and messages, I regretted it so hard confessing my love. But what could've I done? I was so enchanted by him, and each day, my feelings for him grew bigger.

Even after the rejection, my feelings stayed at their place. My love for him didn't fade. My sister tried to stop me from thinking about him by letting me emerge into work. Nonetheless, whenever I had free time, my mind would think about him.

I didn't know if he was taking care of himself, eating healthy food, or if he was working hard till he was exhausted. I didn't know if his mother or any of the Min family were bothering him. I talked to Jimin hyung, but the only thing he said was that Taehyung was getting help from a therapist.

How bad was Taehyung's life? I want to know everything about him. I did get to know from Jimin hyung that his mother didn't like him, but how bad was his situation? I wanted to be there for him, and I still want to.

I can't express my level of happiness when he said he wanted to meet me. But there's a lingering sadness in my stomach, too. What if he decides that it will be our last meeting? How am I supposed to react?

He has no idea how much I love him. I'm not talking about only physical attraction, but I've loved his humble nature, and altruist personality for a long time now. He doesn't remember me, but I remember him very well.

I pray my fear doesn't come true.

"Jungkook, what are you doing?" My sister comes in my room. "Where are you going?"

I look at the mirror while applying eye shadow. I choose smokey eyes as I think it makes me more attractive.

"Taehyung's," I reply, murmuring.

"You guys are together?" I watch her on the mirror sitting on my bed.

"No. Not yet."

"So it's a date to make things official?"

"I don't know. He said..." I pause to concentrate on my makeup. "To meet him."

"Why does he want to meet him after rejecting you so harshly, dude?"

"Well... if I go there tonight, I might get your answer."

"Why are you wearing so much makeup if it's not a date?"

I turn my head behind. "So I can catch his eyes and take his breath away." I smirk, then look at the mirror to apply lip gloss.

"Hey, if he hurts you again, I'm gonna beat his ass," she laughs.

"Don't say that," I sulk. "He won't be hurting me."