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21. Reunited

Nari's POV

I rise up once again in an extremely familiar room. Everything about this place does not only terrify me but exhausts me as well.

Like, why is it that I always end up at the hospital? Should I just live here or something?

I look around me, my eyes blinking slowly, and see a number of people looking down at me. Some confused, some happy.

"Yah! She's waking up!" One of them whisper-shouts at another.

"Y-Yoongi..?" I murmur out.

A sigh "Since when did you drop your honorifics?-"

"Hyung! At least be happy she's breathing!" A deep voice booms, making my ears ring in pain.

"Ah, would you guys shut it?" I softly scold at them.

I've recovered my ability to see again as I spy four men surrounding me, Yoongi, Jimin, Taehyung and...

And Jungkook.

I turn my head to the other side, not wanting to see Jungkook at the moment.

"Did she fall asleep again?" Taehyung's  voice laces with pure curiosity as he asks the older.

I look up to Yoongi as he is at my right, the other three at my left. Can I speak with Jungkook?  I mouth to him.

"U-Uh, why don't we go down stairs for a cup of coffee? Nari wants to have a bit of time for herself." He excuses with pleading eyes.

Jungkook jumps up from his seat. "Oh sure!-"

"Uhm, Kook.. why don't you stay? Look after my sis for me, will ya?" Yoongi perks up a brow, his teeth sinking into his bottom lip as he walks backwards towards the door.

"But you said she wanted some alone time-"

"Uh, you're not allowed for coffee." Yoongi quickly leaves us, or Jungkook, dumbfounded.

What a great strategy, brother.

"Yoongi hyung! I'm already about to turn 21!" He breaks out, a little too loud.

"Yo, Kook. Calm down.." Jimin chuckles lightly at the latter "Seems like our hyung just now just wanted you to talk to Nari."

Ha, I'm so smart. They think my brother wanted Jungkook to talk to me when I actually wanted to talk Jungkook since it was my choice to-

"Yeah, fix things out Jungkook-ah." Taehyung advices to the younger with a soft, deep voice which catches me off guard.

Damn, his voice is so deep I could just throw my whole body off a plane thats a million feet off the ground.

"You know how things were when I met you in the woods. Teary-faced, swollen eyes-"

"Okay! Okay... I'll-I'll solve things out." Jungkook's doe eyes meet up with mine for a second before they drop down to the marbled floor.

"Good. See ya." Jimin swings his arm over the taller guy next to him before leaving us.

Alone.

In a suite.

Which is in a hospital.

Again.

"God, its gonna be a long day huh, Jeon?" I speak out.

He turns himself right in front of me, cheeks  puffed and red "D-Dont call me with my surname!" He pouts like a five year-old.

"Ah why? It's cute!" I retort surprisingly with confidence.

I guess this is how our conversation begins... a silly nickname. An adorable one actually.

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"Then, here I am... in a hospital, with you." He ends his story of how he was in the woods after he saw me and Jaeseok kiss and how he ended up here with me.

"So you saw us and ran away?" I ask.

"Yep."

"While being unprepared?"

"Yep."

"And so you're now having a small fever from the rain?"

"Yep."

"Alright then."

"... yeeeepp." He pops the 'p'.

So that's why I couldn't contact him. His phone was dead.

"Do you like him? Jaeseok." The boy next to me asks out of the blue.

I stop playing with the dead ends of my hair "Nope. Ditched him." I turn away, a little embarrassed.

He sees my embarrassment.

"Hm, I've rejected a ton of girls... but is this you're first time? Rejecting a boy?"

"Eh, I guess so. I mean, I don't really get confessions and stuff like that, well sure I've had at least a boyfriend but I'm not that much of a dating person. Its actually been years since the last time I've been in a relationship."

And his face...

The expression on his face somehow falls like the blocks in the game of Jenga.

But I brush it off.

"Yeah dating. Love... its-its," his arms swing back to scratch the nape of his neck "Its hard."

I nod in agreement.

"But why do you reject the girls in our school? Some of the girls who fangirl over you are actually pretty decent. Like Eve, our classmate, I used to be close with her."

"But that's because I don't have the heart to do so."

"Pfft, why?"

The look in his eyes capture me, we look straight into each other's soul.

"Because there's already a someone who took it."

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Author's note

Long time no see folks! Here's a clean, nice, and clear chapter for y'all. Sorry i haven't been active... you know what happens: writer's block. The worst i know. But i hope you've all had a good Christmas and a happy new year to all! Lots of love from your author here! And thank you for 900 even though i wasnt updating!