because i remember | jjk

sixteen

"welcome!" soyeon said to the customer, bowing as he entered through the doorway.

the elderly man greeted her back, with a smile reaching up to his familiar hazel eyes.

"what can i get you, sir?" jaebum asked.

"i'm sorry, but i'm not here to order anything. is ms. jieun here, by any chance?" he asked, fixing his glasses that had a string that connected both ends.

jaebum was slightly taken aback by the old man's request. "y-yes she is, she's on break right now. but before i get her, may i ask what your relation is to her?"

"ah, i am her grandfather's friend. i used to watch over her when she was little." the man laughed.

jaebum smiled at the thought of little jieun. "i'll go get her for you right now."

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"why did you do this?"

jieun whisper shouted at the old man sitting across from her. the two were situated at the booth furthest away from the counter where their conversation couldn't be heard. she had found it strange that her grandfather's friend came to visit her, considering she had never met either of her grandfathers.

the man laughed. "because i have something important to tell you about jungkook!"

jieun's eyes widened. "tae, it's been over a year and you had never bothered to visit or even stay in contact with me, and now you think you can just suddenly reappear into my life transformed into an old man?"

"yes?"

jieun sighed. "you're impossible."

"but do you want to hear about jungkook or not?" tae whined.

jieun slouched back into her seat and frowned. "maybe."

"before that," he said. "have you been having weird dreams at night that could possibly have a connection to jungkook?"

jieun rose an eyebrow. "none that i can think of."

tae sighed. "jungkook has been having dreams of a girl getting farther and farther away from him, and it's giving him a hard time sleeping. so now he has resorted to practicing all day so he doesn't have to sleep." he looked her in the eye. "i'm 99.9% positive that the girl is you. somehow the deal you made with pd-nim had some flaws."

"w-wait, so he r-remembers me?" jieun stuttered, feeling over the moon with excitement.

"he doesn't remember you, but he's starting to remember certain aspects of you. but not... you. does that make sense?" tae laughed.

jieun smiled. "yes. yes, it does. that's better than not remembering anything at all." she held back the urge to cry. "thank you for telling me, tae. and thank you for going as far as to shapeshift into an old man to get here, too." jieun laughed. "and sorry for yelling at you earlier."

"anything for you, you young whippersnapper."