My Marriage is Just a Business Deal(Completed)

Chapter 5- Now what?

So our couple is on different continents...will they find each other? Please vote and send me your comments!

Jungkook's POV

The days go by quickly...but the nights are long. After 3 or 4 days of sleeping by myself...I decided to call Hyerin. I couldn't decide if I was okay with her going, if I was mad or I was hurt. I couldn't help thinking about our brief but perfect honeymoon and how we bonded and made sweet passionate love. That was...6 months ago! Since then work has been so crazy, positive...but crazy.

I look at my watch and calculate the time difference. I am 17 hours ahead of her...so 10:00am is...5:00pm there. I quickly think about what to say then tap on her name in my phone...ring...ring...ring...ring...ring...voicemail. Crap. I haltingly leave a message.

"Hyerin, hello! I...I was just wondering how you are and how Taehyung and Jennie are. Call me when you can...okay...goodbye." Idiot how cringy was that?

Hyerin's POV

I was cutting up a chicken for our dinner when I realized my phone was ringing...Aaah! My hands are all yucky and by the time I got them rinsed off and dried enough to pick up my phone...it went to voicemail.

When I saw that it was Jungkook I was at first excited, then nervous. I waited a few seconds...and a voicemail popped up.

After listening to it and...it was pretty generic, no 'i miss you', certainly no 'I love you'...he has never told me that he loves me. Am I going to call him back...yeah...after dinner. Another passive aggressive jab but...I am hurting.

I am looking at my phone for inspiration about what to say and how to say it...I won't be bitchy...but I will tell him...what? That I am lonely...miserable? What?

It rings once...twice...three times...then he picks up...

"Hello. This is Mr. Jeon's personal assistant Park Jimin, how can I help you?" Really? He could see that it was you...right. You don't know how Jungkook has you listed in his phone, you figured it just said 'Hyerin'.

You reply, "Hello Jimin, this is Mrs. Jeon, may I speak to my husband please?"

"I am sorry Mrs. Jeon, but he went to dinner...with a client... and forgot his phone. Can I take a message for him?" Crud. You sigh and answer,

"Please just tell him that I called. Thank you Jimin and goodbye." You hung up frustrated.

He didn't call back that day. The next day, Jennie and I went to Santa Barbara for the day, I impulsively sent him a cute and kinda sexy photo that she took of me. I want him to think about me...miss me at least a little. Nothing.

I am looking at a couple Korean gossip websites and see two photos of Jungkook at different events, one is a posed shot like they frequently do. The caption asks where I am is a slightly salacious way, as if there might be trouble in our marriage. The other one is a crowd shot and I see him in it talking to two women...I can't tell who they are, it looks innocent but I am still hurting.

Is there someone else? I feel dead inside.

I finally see his name come up on my phone after almost a week of me being here. I have a hard time keeping tears from coming as I answer.

"Hello." I say.

"Hyerin-ah finally!" My mood soars at his tone.

"Hi Jungkook-ah, how are you?" I say trying to keep my voice even.

"I...I am wondering how you are...since you left Korea without telling me!" He says challenging me.

"I told Jimin I was going...that is the standard way we communicate...isn't it?" Ooh burn. He stammers not knowing what to say and there is silence while he regroups.

He says, "I...you never mentioned wanting to go to LA that's all. I was surprised, of course you are allowed to go see your brother anytime you want. What made you decide to go now?"

Here goes..."I missed them Jungkook...and I...I have been...lonely." I leave it out there.

"Lonely? Why are you lonely?" He had the nerve to say.

I keep my cool and refrain from ripping into him and say, "Jungkook...you rarely come home from work before 10:00pm and are gone by 7:30 in the morning...I cannot remember when we had a meal together or even really talked. We live separate lives...and I am lonely. I came where I am wanted and valued." Boom

"Hyerin...dammit!...You know how hard I work!" He replied.

"I assume you are working...yes I know you work hard. It still doesn't help me...I better go, I have people waiting for me. I will text you when I am coming home. Goodbye husband." I said.

"Hyer-" I hung up the phone. I was shaking. Jennie who had been sitting and listening pulled me tight and said,

"Good job! Just enough guilt and blame and bitchiness!"

Jungkook's POV

What just happened? I am stunned and I...know she is telling the truth. But am sad that it has come to this. I sleep on it, I toss and turn and end up on her side of the bed in the morning hugging her pillow, sad that it doesn't smell like her.

The next day I end up having dinner with Soekjin hyung, and after a few beers, he asks about Hyerin. I stutter and I tell him about her being in LA and what she said on the phone.

 He looked at me sadly and said, "I wondered if everything was okay with you two, last week or whenever we were at that charity function, Jisoo(his wife) noticed that Hyerin was very quiet and that she had lost weight." I stared at him stunned.

He continued, "Jungkook...you have to change some of your habits now that you are married! She isn't just another 'luxury car' that you bought that will sit contentedly in the garage until you decide to drive it! She is your wife, she is supposed to be your highest priority and...your greatest joy! Trust me." He stopped and looked hard at me.

"You have been very successful and I know that you busted your butt to get where you are...but what good is all you have earned if you can't rest a little and enjoy it with those you love? Delegate...you should be able to be home for dinner most nights...geez!" I looked at him like he sprouted two heads, but he just shook his head at me and finished with,

"You will lose her. She is young, beautiful and rich in her own right. She will leave you...and find someone else. Don't think there aren't guys looking at her and sizing you up." I stared into space.

"She is yours now, be a husband to her...open up a little to her...I swear you won't regret it!" He finished with.

*Poor Hyerin...poor Jungkook. Maybe the Wattpad fairy will help them! Please vote and comment!