23. Too Late

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"And that's the thing about time. We cannot get it back."

"Thank you for meeting me here, Faye!" Jungkook exclaimed cheerfully, standing up when he saw me approach his table

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"Thank you for meeting me here, Faye!" Jungkook exclaimed cheerfully, standing up when he saw me approach his table. Almost immediately, he shot forward to give me a suffocating bear hug.

"Oh, uh- okay," I patted his back. "Forgot you were a hugger."

Jungkook's large grin didn't leave his face as both of us took our seats. He seemed genuinely happy to see me and I felt my heart swell at this. I definitely didn't deserve this kind of warm treatment so I started wondering what was wrong with him to address a creature like me with such kindness.

"So, you said you wanted to talk." I started, eager to get this over with and go back home to brood over losing my wings.

"That is correct," he chirped, toying with a pen as he skillfully rotated it around his finger. He then started rummaging through the stuff in his backpack and pulled out a small notebook. "I have some questions for you."

"What questions?" I asked, now a little bit more curious. Looks like I'm gonna be interviewed.

"Well, nothing really has been making sense to me since I found out you were..." he gestured at me awkwardly. "Who you are. I spent a lot of time reflecting over it."

"Right." I mumbled, examining his face carefully. For a mortal Jungkook was handling this stuff pretty well. Most humans ran to the nearest bridge and threw themselves in the river because they couldn't handle it.

But there was no fear in those deep doe eyes now.

"And I'm just really curious," he went on. "About a bunch of stuff. I mean, you're this millions of years old celestial being..."

"Are you calling me old?" I narrowed my eyes on him.

"No, no!" he shook his head rapidly. "I just mean, you have this vast knowledge and outlook on life. You've seen so much. You can probably answer every single question humanity could ever ask. You've been around since the dawn of time."

"That is true," I crossed my legs and put one arm over the backrest of my chair. "So what it is that you wanna know?"

"Firstly," Jungkook glanced down at his notes. "This is unrelated, but does Taehyung know what you are?"

I gave a dry swallow and clenched my jaw.

"No actually, he doesn't."

"Are you planning on telling him?" Jungkook interrogated further. Once he took notice of the menacing look I was giving him, he caved. "I mean it's not that I think you're planning to do something particularly bad to him. I'm just curious."

"As a matter of fact I tried to tell him, but he didn't believe me." I admitted.

"Oh," he puffed his cheeks. "Well, the guy is a genius doctor, but he can be a little slow when it comes to certain things. Cool."

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