A Reflection is Not Only What I Need: A Jikook AU Complete

Reflection: Jikook AU Chapter 9

Jungkook sighed as he shrugged off his backpack and put it on the bench next to the shoe rack just inside the door to the house. He toed off his shoes and slid on a pair of house slippers before he made a stop in his room and grabbed his phone charger to plug it into a spare outlet in the living room. Spending the night at Jimin-hyung's dorm, I wasn't able to charge my phone. I forgot to charge it when I stopped at my dorm room, so I have had to go most of the day without it. He powered his phone on after a few seconds of charging and waited for the lock screen to appear. He grinned, remembering the day that he had taken the selfie with Taehyung after playing in the trampoline world with some other mutual friends of theirs earlier in the year. That was a good day.

He swiped the screen and saw that he had several missed messages from Taehyung and a couple of missed calls from him as well. Jin had apparently tried to contact him too. He scrolled through the messages from his best friend, and could feel the worry getting more as he progressed through the one-sided conversation. His fingers hovered over the keyboard, not knowing what to say to his best friend. I need to let him know why I left so suddenly today, but that will be a touchy subject after he reacted so badly. He sounded so angry when he asked me if I was dating his brother and showed me the picture. What am I going to do when he does find out that I do have a crush on his brother? He sighed and ran his hand through his hair, and muttered, "I can't tell him."

"Can't tell who, what?"

Jungkook jumped in shock and looked over his shoulder to see a brown paper bag with legs. As the door was shut with a kick of a foot, he saw his brother shift the bag down so his face could be seen over the bag. "Hey, JK. A little help?"

Jungkook set his phone down and came over to relieve his brother of the grocery bag taking it to the kitchen so Jin could trade his street shoes for house shoes, put his bag down and put his camera case on its hook. "Hey, Jin. How were your classes?"

"Tedious. If I have to see another pink flower today, I may burn it, lighting be damned."

Jungkook chuckled as he started to take the food out of the bag and put it on the counter for sorting. The beginning photography was using local flora for the subject of their class assignment since the school had a plethora of flower bushes to brighten the atmosphere. "Ah, the Spring Day assignment. Tae told me about that one. He said that it is a yearly assignment, and he had to do it when he was in that class level too."

"Both classes today were my beginners. Even though they are mostly adult, they still act like little kids when they get the chance to fool around with their cameras. And they always ask the same damn questions. Do they not listen to each other or the answer I give? Thank God, tomorrow I have the intermediates. At least most of them will be avoiding the flowers and focusing on something more interesting. Don't get me wrong, flowers are pretty and they make for good pictures, especially to teach the effects of lighting and angle, but after 3 hours of them, all I see is pollen and gnats. The intermediate classes have greater freedom in their nature selection and usually use trees or wildlife and at least try to take a picture before asking me dumb questions. I swear the head of the department gave me these classes to teach just so he didn't have to deal with them because they are so damn annoying at times." Jin came into the kitchen, using the top of the doorway to stretch. "You did remember we were going to cook today."

"Yeah, sorry I missed your call. I just saw it a couple a minutes ago when I plugged my phone in. I forgot to charge it."

"Hm. Did Tae get a hold of you? He was trying earlier." Jin came into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to look at the meat he had in stock.

"No, and I haven't answered his either. I will later and tell him. My phone was on low battery since this morning. It died on me shortly before lunch, and I didn't have my charger with me. It was in my dorm and I never went back there. I remembered I was supposed to cook with you about an hour ago and just came straight here. I just walked in less than five minutes before you."