Unsung Melodies | ♡ Completed ♡

Chapter Thirty Nine

"You must be kidding me Kookie."

"I am perfectly serious and I don't drink so that you cannot say that I am drunk."

"I mean, like ... whoaaaa..."

"I love you Kristene."

"Don't get me wrong ... I am really ... really honoured to have been the girl you love but..."

"What is holding you back? ... Could it be true that Min Yoongi and you are ..."

"No, it isn't like that. NO!"

"Then what could it be?"

"I don't wanna rush things. There are already 10 months to the Advanced Levels and I don't think I can cope with everything."

"I can wait, but I need a word from you. Now.. may be... before this gets even more complicated?"

"Now?"

"Yes, right now. If you decline my offer, we can still be friends because it was not since a long time I started liking you. It was just that day when we met at the library."

It was time to analyse. Whatever I had to do, had to be done immediately. Jungkook was not bad. He was nice, warm and loving and all that I wanted from a boyfriend was in him. Yet, I just didn't feel any inclination towards him as I felt towards Yoongi. When Yoongi was around, I felt my joints tighten. It was not that I hated him, but he made my heart beat really faster in a way that none had ever done. When I was with Jungkook, I was well... normal?

"Kookie, why do you like me? Have you seen my flaws?"

"I like you because, I just do. I have no reasons to dish out. Usually I never would have ventured asking anyone out without my feelings being reasoned, yet I just don't know why I like you, but I know that I love you."

He was really good as a boyfriend.

"Why do you think that I would like you?"

"That is a tricky one. You are smart as Namjoon said. Well, I don't lack anything. I can take care of you and love you till the day I die."

"I get a feeling that this is a contract."

"I can protect you Kristene. I am able to do things when necessary. I am stable. My future is secured unlike... Yoongi's."

"I do get that. Yet I need to ask my mom first."

"I phoned her yesterday."

"You ... what?"

"I got permission to ask you out. She said that she had no objections whatsoever to me or my family. I should also note that she said that she'd talk with you. She checked on all my family details and character."

How could my mom do this to me?

But no, Kookie. None can force me to love someone I don't have feelings for.

I'd rather die a spinster than being in a relationship for convenience like that.

"Since you need an answer now that it is an urgent concern of yours, it is with utmost humbleness and gratitude that I have to say that I cannot accept you."

Jungkook's jaw dropped.

"Are you rejecting me?"

"Yes. I have to."

"But why? Can I know?"

"Because with no civility at all, you dared to ask my mom first on a matter that I have primary discretion on."

"I was just following the procedure, Kristene."

"Yet, you could have asked me first. I anyway would have told this to mom."

"I am sorry."

"Don't be. It was not your fault Kookie. May be that I cannot love you because I just cannot do so, due to some vague reason."

"Could that vague reason have roots to Min Yoongi?" Jungkook asked turning his face away from me.

"Yes, some of it has roots there."

"Think about my proposal well. Your mom will speak to you tonight. But I appreciate your opinion on this. No relationship works well if the efforts are from only one side."

Jungkook patted my shoulder and left me speechless.

Why did he make mom a pawn in the game?

Why did he want to control my choices?

Jungkook was well off than Yoongi. I knew that. But did only comfort and wealth matter in love?

My phone beeped with a notification.

Mom: Give me a call around 10 p.m. We have something to talk about.

Did we really have anything to negotiate? I would have obeyed her anyway.

But not this time. I needed to take my stand.

I checked my wristwatch and it read the time as 9. 55 p.m. I had five more minutes to get my facts straight. Yet I didn't know for whom I was doing this. Was it for Yoongi? Did I like him enough to go against mom?

No.

This was for myself.

Yes. It was for myself.

Because at times, it was the princess who saved herself.