Love Me Now?

Chapter 5

"Hey Jungkook! Where are you going?" Jungkook's dad shouted from the living room when he caught the sight of his son was clumsily running down the stair whilst struggling to put his jacket on.

His dad's question was left unanswered as Jungkook ignored him and ran out to the door. He grabbed his pair of Puma's shoes and rushed to the gate, almost tripping on his track for trying to wear it whilst running.

He then stopped for awhile, looking at the course in front of him. His forehead were furrowed, eyebrows crossed as he confused whether he should choose the right way or the left one.

By depending entirely on his luck, he took the right way and ran again whilst his eyes were wandering around, searching for Seulhi as his heart was beating so loud against his chest.

Steps followed by another, roaming around the familiar neighborhood with mind clouded with the thought of someone's body laying on the ground, not moving, body cover with blood, look so terrifyingly bad and what worst is, dead.

'No. She's not that stupid, right? '

The sound of his breathing, exhaling and inhaling rapidly could clearly be heard. He had been running around his neighborhood nonstop but the figure he desperately wanted to see was still nowhere in his sight.

Right when he reached the park, his step stopped abruptly. He finally found her, sitting alone on the bench while crying her tears out in between her knees,

...still alive.

A big sigh of relief came out of his mouth almost instantly. His chest moved up and down with rapid movement, his mouth slightly apart as he breath through both mouth and nose. He hid behind the enormous tree while leaning against it. He took in a deep breath again and gave his heart a few moments to beat in a normal pace back, since it has been beating so fast underneath his chest just now.

A few seconds later, he peeked over Seulhi who was still in his black plain shirt and he felt this uneasy feeling growing up inside him, the feeling that she might do something beyond crazy if no one was there to atleast comfort her. Because even though they were like 10 metres apart, he could tell that she was still traumatised and definitely thought that he'd took her virginity.

Jungkook sighed and continued to look after her. She was still there, crying so badly while her arms were hugging her knees.

"Jungkook hyung!" Jungkook was startled when out of a blue, someone spanked his butt from behind. He turned behind and saw Jaemi, Jimin's 4 years old brother was grinning annoyingly at him after seeing the way Jungkook responded to his surprises.

"Jung-" Jaemi was interrupted when Jungkook suddenly cupped his mouth.

"Shh, be quiet." Jungkook told Jaemi and he obediently nodded his small head. With that, Jungkook then slowly released Jaemi's mouth.

"What are you doing here?" Jaemi asked, almost unhearable but Jungkook still managed to read the little boy's lips.

Jungkook took a glance over Seulhi for a moment and looked back at Jaemi something popped into his mind.

"Jaemi ah, can you help me?"

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While on the bench, Seulhi kept on crying while her mouth not even once stopped cursing and throwing all the dirtiest words to Jungkook. She hugged herself tighter and cried again, feeling so disgusted with her body since she could feel her lips and neck were sore, and that didn't help her to calm her down as she took it as a proof that everything was really over. Jungkook had taken her first.

'I hate him! I hate him! HE'S A MONSTER!'

She kept cursing and cursing until suddenly, she heard a soft thud near her, the sound of something colliding with her bench and it somehow escorted her back to the world.

She quickly wiped the tears that were wetting her red cheeks and faced the one who was standing right in front of her, smiling so innocently with a ball securely held in between his small palms.

"Hi, noona!" The boy said excitedly; so very opposite with her mood at the moment. Seulhi, who had just stopped crying, instantly bowed her head down and wiped the remaining tears in her eyes.

"Noona, why are you crying?" That boy asked Seulhi. Seulhi faced him and was about to come out with a lie when he fast enough to change the topic by pulling out something from his bloated pocket. "Noona! Do you like sweets? I have a lot of it!" He told cutely and held out the hill of sweets on his palms. "I have strawberry, lemon, mango and what is this? Ras..raspbe..berry, blueberry and this is my favourite, vanilla. Wait, I also have apple and.....and.." he paused as he rummaged throughout the sweets.

"Noona wants one? My brother said, sweets can make people smile."

Seulhi's face by itself turned into a small smile by seeing this stranger kid's behaviour, talking much and never stop. To answer his question, Seulhi nodded her head despite not in the mood to eat one. He grinned, placing all the sweets on the bench beside Seulhi and rummaged through it before giving Seulhi a vanilla sweet.

With a smile on her face, she took it from him and held it in between her finger. "My brother's right. Sweets really can make people smile."

Seulhi slightly giggled and simply shook her head at this little boy in front of her. "What's your name?"

"Kookie."

He simply stated. He then reached out for one of his sweets and opened the wrapper before placing it in his mouth. "Noona, look at this!" With that, he flashed her a cute, most widen toothy smile he could pull off and showed it to Seulhi. The way this boy's eyes almost disappear made Seulhi to smile along, so cute for her to handle and It was also when she realised that he has a pair of eye smile.

She couldn't help herself but to chuckle by seeing him.

"Kookie. How old are you actually?"

"4!" Seulhi chuckled and shook her head again before slowly stroking his hair. Little did they knew, it did work to make Seulhi forget about what had happened between her and Jungkook.

"Where's your daddy and mummy? Are you here alone?"

The boy nodded his head. "My house is just around here. That one." He pointed his small finger to the house right opposite the park and Seulhi just nodded as a respond.

"Okay then noona, I guess I'll be going now. My mom will be mad at me if I'm out for so long. Bye." He waved a goodbye and was about to run back to his house when he suddenly stopped and picked up all the sweets on the bench. He took Seulhi's hand with him and gave 4 sweets to her.

"Remember what kookie said, sweets can make people smile. Stop being sad and eat this. Okay?"

With that, he ran to his house, leaving Seulhi alone at the park with 4 sweets in her hand.

'How can a cute little boy like him behave like a man?'

However, a smile crept upon her face as it worked though, she felt slightly better after what kookie had told her. She stared at the sweets in her palm and gazed back to the kid in front of her who was running back into his house.

'Thank you, kookie.'