A mysterious transfer student who captures everyone's hearts and an identity that only he seems to know, Jungkook is a new student at Bangtan High who's popularity climbs to the near top the moment he walks in.
Jimin is part of a long time ulzzang...
Those were the memories I had wanted to forget...and I did forget them until now.
I turned towards Jungkook as we sat side by side in the empty hallway.
His hand dropped from my shoulder and he looked me in the eye.
"What I said at the cherry blossom festival...all of it was sincere," he said. "I was going to confess to you that day. Ever since we started getting close to each other, I kept seeing you in a different light. You weren't just my friend...You were everything to me."
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"But my hopes were crushed by your words," he continued, eyes containing the same hurt as before. "I was just a friend to you but I wanted us to be something more."
He...wasn't joking at that time?
"But I began to understand that you didn't see me in that way and when my heart realized that, I started to drift away from you. Whenever I saw you, there was an urge inside of me to hold your hand or hug you but in my mind, I knew that you didn't feel the same way. Because I knew this, I deliberately tried to ignore my own feelings...by distancing us. I didn't want to make you repulsed by me and I thought that was the best solution at the time," Jungkook said in a small voice, his voice shaky.
"Wait-just stop for a moment," I said, flabbergasted. "You can't expect me to believe all this when you acted as if I were scum along with the people who hurt me. You lied to me in order to stay away and hang out with other people. You ignored me every time I had the hope that you would talk to me again. You said... that I wasn't worth enough to even beat up."
His eyes grew wide.
"How...How do you know about that?" he whispered.
A sob formed in my throat and I found it hard to talk while choked up.
"Because I searched for you everyday. I searched for the one person I wanted to trust so badly and become my friend again stupidly. I was an idiot for believing that. For believing you."
Tears ran down the hills of my cheeks.
"I never meant for you to get hurt, Jimin. That was something I never wanted to do," he said, clenching his fists together. "But what else could I have said to those people? They wouldn't stop if I just told them to so I told them in a way they would understand. It pained me everyday to see you hurt but what more could I do? You already hated me."
I shook my head and closed my eyes for a moment, trying to regain my composure.
"I never hated you," I whispered. "I could never bring myself to hate you because I always believed you would change back...But I was wrong and that moment never came...In the end, I was the one that changed. You're still you. Popular, handsome...and tearing my life apart."
"Jimin, I know that I screwed up," he said with glossy eyes. "And I know that I can't go back into the past to resolve anything but I don't want to hinder anything between us anymore. In the past, I always yielded to what I thought was right for you but I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not going to assume things and ponder over what I think you are feeling. I'm going to confront you..."
He leaned in towards my face, our lips inches apart.
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