Under The Cherry Blossoms | Jeon Jungkook

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"Mi-ne oh my goodness! Look at all that yummy food they prepared for us." Megumi loomed over her plate and looked at the food excitedly.

"It's just an omelette Megu, jeez." I said to her and looked at her as her expression changed from happy, to slightly irritated.

Reo sat down beside me and just stared at his phone, ignoring both of us.

"Excuse me, food is food. Now let's eat!" Megumi said and started eating her omelette eagerly.

I watched Megumi for a bit and decided to start eating my omelette too.

Right before I could get my first bite though, two people called out to me.

"Mi-ne!" "Jihara!"

Megumi and I turned around at the same time to look at the direction of the sounds. Reo's eyes left his phone screen and slowly moved toward the voices' source as well.

I only saw a single guy running towards me, out of breath, with a phone in his hand. Yet, I had heard two voices. Where did the other voice come from?

I heard someone run away and looked in the opposite direction to see Jungkook running away with his hood on his head.

I was about to run after him, but the guy that had run over to me with a phone in his hand had caught my attention. Wait... that's my phone, and how did this stranger know my surname?

"Jihara, do you remember me?" The guy said and looked at me with a shy, box-shaped smile.

That smile...only he could have that smile!

"T-taehyung...?" I said stuttered out and looked at him in shock.

"Yeah it's me, it has been a while haha." He said and scratched his neck awkwardly.

"You just disappeared, what happened to you?" I looked at him with melancholy.

"I'm sorry Mi-ne, but it wasn't my choice. My father's company was succeeding at the time and that's why we had to move out. It doesn't excuse the fact that I didn't contact you though." Taehyung said and looked at me seriously.

"Um... it's alright." I looked at the ground and clenched my fists.

"Hello?" Megumi suddenly said out of nowhere and looked at Taehyung and I expectingly. Reo kept eyeing Taehyung from top to bottom.

"Oh, this is Taehyung. He is a childhood friend of mine. Taehyung, these are my friends Megu and Reo." I said and made sure that they all got acquainted with each other.

Suddenly Taehyung laughed out of nowhere, causing him to receive weird looks from all of us.

"Haha, sorry. It's just that the Mi-ne I knew would've never had any 'friends'." Taehyung said and slightly glared in Megumi and Reo's direction.

Reo jumped up and was about to grab Taehyung by the collar, but Megumi pushed him back into his seat.

"Now now, can't we all get along? Also, I'd watch my words if I were you Taehyung. You might give off the wrong impression by accident." Megumi said with minimal venom in her voice and looked at Taehyung.

Taehyung was about to open his mouth to say something, but I interrupted him.

"A-ah yes, that's my phone right? Thank you, I didn't even realize that I had lost it." I said quickly, trying to change the subject and grabbed my phone from Taehyung's hands.

"Yes...I recognized you from your wallpaper. I can't believe that it has been 10 years." Taehyung said and smiled with nostalgia.

"Me neither...we should get going now Taehyung. Let's talk again later, alright?" I said and signaled for Megumi and Reo to go on ahead. They both nodded and left.

"Sure, see you soon my dear Mi-ne." Taehyung said, smiled at me warmly, and walked away with a wave.

I smiled back at him too, and waved slowly a "good-bye".

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"Taehyung, eh? Your ex-boyfriend or something?" Reo said and chewed a piece of gum obnoxiously.

"No no, just a childhood friend I had... actually my only childhood friend. Anyway, enough about him. Let's go skiing!" I said trying to change the subject one again and ran up the snowy hill with my skii-gear on.

Megumi and Reo glanced at each other, confused. They both followed me though after a few seconds of bewilderment though.

I reached the top of the hill and saw the rest of my class, all in their skii-gear, ready to start skiing in the cold snows of Oslo.

My eyes met with Jungkook's, and I shivered.

Why are you like this Mi-ne? All you have to do is ask him two questions and that's it, stop acting like a scared baby.

Anxiety can be such a killer...

I shook my head and tried to recompose myself. I could feel Jungkook's gaze on me, but I ignored it.

I'll talk to him later, right now... I'm here to do some skiing though.

I put on my skis, grabbed my skiing poles, and pushed myself down the hill at the same time as everyone else.

It felt amazing to have the wind blow against my face and to have my hair dancing in the wind.

I smiled widely as I sled down the hill. Once I looked back at my classmates though, I saw Megumi trip and fall.

A wave of worry washed over me and I started panicking.

"Mi-ne, in front of you!"

I heard someone yell from behind me and turned around to look in front of me, as I had forgotten, but it was too late.

The next thing that I saw was the cold snow-filled ground in front of me and I could feel my knees being scraped by the ice-y surface.

"Ouch..." I groaned before everything turned black, and the last thing that I could hear was my name being called by a voice too familiar.