Unkind Fate: Jaebum

Chapter 16: Honest

"Ey, looking for JB?" I was startled when Jackson suddenly appeared beside me and nudge my shoulder. 

"U-uh, no. Just passing by." He just caught me sneaking on their practice room and yet, I still lied. But knowing Jackson, there's no way he'll believe me. 

I see his eyes judging me and before I could guess what he was planning to do, he already opened the door and pushed me in.

Everyone's here, sitting on the floor. They all looked at me but everyone's giving me a different expression. Jinyoung's giving me a shock expression like 'hey, you're not supposed to be here'. Mark's face is blank. Youngjae's eyes is telling me, 'as long as it's Hara noona, there's no problem'. Yugyeom's giving me a it's -good-to-see-you-again-expression. And before I could read Bambam's expression he already stood up and screamed "I miss you Hara noona!" He was about to give me a hug but Jackson stopped him.

"But obviously, she only misses one person here and not you." Jackson said to Bambam.

I looked at Jb and he avoided my stare. Ever since my birthday, we no longer see each other nor talked. The last convo we had is when I thanked him for his gift and apologize for my sudden change of mood that night. He only said it's okay. And I didn't heard anything from him since then. I just knew their phones were confiscated the day after that.

"And do you think, it's you?" Bambam rebutted.

Jackson looked at Jb and then to me.
"Why not?" and he laughed, trying to be considerate. Maybe he realized we're not on good terms and I was being uncomfortable already. He had a quick sense and I thank him for that.

"Let's start our practice now", Jb said and stood up.

And with that, I knew everyone already know that me and Jb had some issue.

"Sorry Hara I couldn't send you back" Jackson said. "Thanks for visiting us, I hope we could hang out soon. I miss having lunch with you and Jiwon."

I smiled. Jackson is so sweet. I miss them too. Ever since their debut date was finalized, they have been in an extreme practice and tight schedule. We no longer hang out like we used to. If Jb didn't make way to see me, I wouldn't have seen him since then. I'm glad he was able to make time for me before like using his short break to visit me. But I guess, they are much busier now that even their weekends are occupied with practices and studio recording.

"Goodluck to you guys, I wish you all the best. Fighting!"

And I leave the room.

After knowing the truth from Ri-ah's letter, I felt guilty for Jb. And the reason why I became cold to him that night is because I want to avoid him. Because the more I see him, the more I'm getting guilty. That was my initial plan, to place some distance between us. But Jb did it before me. Actually, he was doing me a favor. But why am I like this? Seeing him being distant with me hurts me. Is this what Jb's feel when I tried to avoid him? Did I hurt him? I was too naive to realized it now.

"Anything wrong?" Jiwon asked. I noticed they already started eating.
"Nothing", I said while splitting my chop sticks in two.

"Got7 will start filming their mv tomorrow. And we're part of it", Lisa said, excitement filled her eyes.

"Really? Super lucky!" Jiwon said.

"If only we're ranked up to level 3, they might also include us in the mv", Minji sounds disappointed.

"I thought it doesn't matter if we'll rank up or not as long as we'll not be eliminated?" Jiwon asked.

Minji was caught off guard which makes the group laugh. Well, except for me as my mind is preoccupied by Jb.