Spotlight -JK FF

2. A Walk In The Park

Chapter 2-

He pulls his mask down to reveal his face in its entirety, even more perfect and smooth in person, it was almost like glass, so clear you could almost see yourself in it, "Well uh, yeah! That would be me.." He replies awkwardly as he scratches the back of his neck, I shake myself out of my trance and fix my loose strands of hair, tucking them behind my ears, then I turn around and click the latches of my guitar case shut, as I hoist the case over my shoulder and turn around to face him I say "Well, it's nice to meet you. You have a good day!" I smile brightly as he looks at me confused, probably as to why I'm not obsessively fangirling over him. Little did he know I was slowly dying on the inside, THE Jeon Jungkook was standing in front of my face, complimenting ME.

I try to walk past him but he steps in front of me and says "Wait, you know who I am, right?" I nod my head "Yeah I'm aware, you're Jeon Jungkook, one seventh of Korea's most widely known boy group, BTS. You're an idol, and a pretty great one at that. Now if you'll excuse me, it's almost 11pm and it's my turn to lock up tonight, but you have a great rest of your day now okay?" I hover him towards the door and close it shut, hearing the door lock as I turn the latch.

He's still staring at me just the same,  absolutely gobsmacked that I'm not having some sort of mental breakdown over his presence, I smile and continue about my day, locking up the till and closing down the shutters. By this stage I thought he'd left but as the shutters latched onto the pavement I saw him leant up against the wall, one foot on the ground the other placed on the brick wall, he had his hands tucked into his huge hoodies pockets and it looked as if he was waiting for someone.

As soon as he sees me start to walk the other way he follows quickly behind me and stops me, "I have a confession to make." I raise my eyebrow as I ask "you waited 15 minutes after closing time to give me a confession? Well go ahead." He clears his throat and then he says "this isn't the first time I've heard you sing. I came to that café by chance one day and I saw you sing, you're incredibly talented. I was too scared to approach you because I was afraid you'd freak out over me or something I don't know, but the point is you didn't, and that's intriguing to me. I wanna know more about you, so do you wanna maybe do something...with me?"

I honestly didn't know how to react, I sorta just froze in the spot, my eyes fixated on his. "I-I uh, maybe that's not the best idea, I mean come on be realistic, you and me are from two totally different planets. I'm just a normal girl and you're, well you're-" he cuts in "what if I just wanna be a normal guy? Even if that's just for one night. I just wanna be normal, please.. help me out?" I bite my lip unconsciously as I ponder over my options, but I mean, how bad could it be right? It wasn't as if i was gonna fall in love with him or anything, so what did I have to lose except for an evening with a guy voted the worlds sexiest man?

"You know what? I will. On one condition." He smiles brightly, revealing his bunny like grin "Sure! What is it?" I then ask questioningly "how many times did you come to the café? You said it was more than once, so, how many times have you heard me sing?" He then gets a little shy and looks down at the ground "Oh, I don't know, maybe like...five?" My eyes widen "FIVE TIMES?! How have I never seen you?!" He chuckles a little "I just keep myself well hidden, I'm used to it you know?"

A look of realisation spreads across my face "Oh yeah, makes sense..I mean, dispatch and all that. Must be hard." I don't think anyone's ever felt sorry for him over something as simple as paparazzi because he looked at me as if to say 'it's just the life I chose', I smiled reassuringly to let him know I was there for him and I said "let's get out of here. Where can we go?" He drew a breath and a small smile formed on his lips "I know a place. Come with me."

He took my hand and led me into the night. I don't know why but I just felt like I could trust him, I didn't know him personally but I mean who hasn't heard of the group he's a part of at this stage? I seen their interviews all over the news and their performances on award shows, so maybe I felt like I knew him in a way. The city was so beautiful at night, the lights decorated the streets like holographic glitter glistening a different colour each time you took a step. We ended up at a public park, it was almost midnight at this stage, we sat down on a park bench and admired the contrast of city vs nature, it was truly spectacular.

I took my case off my shoulder and balanced it against the bench, relaxing as I leant back to appreciate the view. All the time I could feel his eyes on me, I knew that if I met his gaze even once I'd get completely flustered and lose my trail of thought so I just focused on what was in front of me. Then he asked, "Do you mind if we sing? Like, together?" My head turned immediately to meet his eyes, he wanted to sing, with me? I cleared my throat and sat up, trying to play it cool, "Well sure! What song do you wanna sing?" He thinks for a second, then responds "Do you know Ending Scene?" I get a little nervous, i knew of it but I'd never sang it to anyone because the high notes were so daunting to me, but again, I wanted to impress him, so I said "Yeah sure."

After we sang, I was ever more impressed by his voice in person, it sounded even better than I thought it would, so soft and angelic, it was truly beautiful. I smiled at him as I looked back down at the ground, my heart rate quickening. Then he says "You never fail to amaze me, I thought I'd heard it all but, I haven't even heard half of what you have in you." My cheeks began to heat up at simply a compliment from him, it was in that moment that I decided to tell him my dream "Well, I actually want to be a singer.

That's why I came here in the first place but, it's been really hard. I'm not asking for sympathy or anything, I'm still working at it but, it may just take a little longer than I first planned." He looked at me and said "Any company that would turn you down has no idea what they're missing out on." He smiled at me and i shyly smiled back, thanking him. "You know, you're actually quite a spectacular person, I know we've only met today, and I wish we could spend more time than this together but, the thing is, the guys and I go on tour in a week, and I'm not really-" "supposed to date." I finish his sentence for him and he nods, "don't worry about it, I understand. I wish all the best, and nothing but health and happiness for you in your future." I stand up and grab my guitar as I start to make my way home for the night, he stands up and says "Wait!" I turn around faster than the speed of light and say "Yes?!"

He smiles at me "I have a proposition for you, one that I think you might be interested in."