SPLIT (COMPLETED)

be like JK

The training ground is already empty but Jungkook decides to stay for a little while to train by himself. After the extra training, he goes to the shower room to wash up but he stops midway when he hears a chatter from the dressing room. He hides beside the vending machine near the dressing room to listen to the conversation in there.

"Jaehyun-ah, chill out. The coach is just giving advice to you. You shouldn't be so tensed about it.", he hears Doojoon talking to Jaehyun in there.

"Hyung, he's not just giving advice. He mocked me. Saying that I should be like JK, train like JK, learn from JK, everything is JK, I'm sick of it!", Jaehyun replies in anger as he closes his locker.

Doojoon chuckles as he looks at the younger man beside him.

"Maybe if you come for training on time, Coach Bang will not say things like that to you. You just have to be more responsible, Jae. You and Jungkook are at the same age. Of course, he will want you to be at the same level as him. Furthermore, you're a striker just like him. You're one of our main players. You should know how important your role is on the field.", Doojoon tells Jaehyun as he picks up his duffel bag ready to leave.

When he is about to go out of the dressing room, he sees a FILA duffel bag at the long chair near their locker.

"Oh, there's someone else still here.", he says as Jaehyun turns to look at what Doojoon is looking at.

"That's Jungkook's bag, right?", the elder asks.

Jaehyun looks at him before shifting to the duffel bag again.

"Whatever. I had enough of hearing his name. Bye, hyung.", Jaehyun waves his hand as he walks out first from the dressing room.

Doojoon shakes his head at the attitude of that 25 years old guy before he too, leaves the dressing room to go home.

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Jungkook turns the shower to let the waters flow at the highest speed onto his hair. He closes his eyes letting the shampoo on his hair flow down without hurting his eyes. As he lets himself get soaked in the water, his mind thinks of the conversation he heard earlier.

"He mocked me. Saying that I should be like JK, train like JK, learn from JK, everything is JK, I'm sick of it!"

"Whatever. I had enough of hearing his name."

Those words Jaehyun said plays on repeat in his mind like a broken radio. He punches the wall as he opens his eyes thinking about it. He never wants to be looked at by others that way. Especially from Jaehyun who has been his friend since they both knew each other from the football academy.

"You changed, Jaehyun.", he says as he recalls how determined Jaehyun was to be a professional footballer back then. "It's not my fault you became like this now.", he adds as he feels disappointed with Jaehyun.

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That night, he is called for a meeting with the club representatives at the club's training centre where the headquarters is located at. When he arrives, he meets Taehyung who is his agent first before they both go into the meeting room. Jungkook and Taehyung bow down to the people in there who are the highest level people that manage the Seoul FC football club that he plays for.

The owner of the club, Lee Jehoon comes with his daughter, Lee Jieun, sitting next to them along with the manager of the club, Ri Junghyuk, and two unknown people that could be from a different country.

Jungkook and Taehyung sit down when Jehoon tells them to before Junghyuk introduces the two unknown people to them, "On my left is Mr David Cole, he is a representative from Manchester and beside him is Mr Lars Abraham from German's club, Bayern Munich."

Both of them stand up and bow to Jungkook before they sit back to their chairs.

"Is this another transfer offer?", Jungkook directly asks before he is told what is the meeting for.

"Yes, Mr Jeon. One is from England and another one is from Germany.", Jehoon answers.

"It's a no.", Jungkook quickly says making Taehyung looks at him with wide eyes.

Both of the foreign men look at each other as they do not understand Korean language.

"I am sorry, sir. I just said no. I don't want to transfer. Please excuse me.", Jungkook says in English as he stands up and bows to everyone before he walks out of the meeting room.

"Jungkook! Yah, Jungkook-ah!", Taehyung shouts before he apologizes and leaves the room to chase Jungkook back.

Both of the representatives from different clubs turn to Jehoon and Junghyuk.

"Did he just decided to stay without hearing to our offers?", David asks the Korean men.

Jehoon lets out a little chuckle before nodding, "He...is a bit stubborn. But that's okay. You two can tell us about your offers. We will talk to him about it ourselves later on. Is that okay with you?"

David and Lars nod their head and ready to just start the meeting with the club's owner and manager only.

"Appa, I will wait for you in the car.", Jieun whispers to her father before standing up to leave the training centre.

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Taehyung stops Jungkook as he sees the young man walking towards his car.

"Yah, Jungkook! Can you please wait for a while?", he says as he pulls Jungkook's shirt from the back.

His hold on Jungkook's shirt makes the younger turns around with rage on his face. He does not want to fight with Taehyung because of this thing. He keeps quiet as they stare to each other's eyes before Taehyung speaks up.

"This is the third time you did this. Why can't you stay and listen first to their offers? Only then, you can say yes or no. You keep making rash decision..."

"It's not a rash decision, hyung. I don't want to transfer anywhere. I'm happy here. Why would I go to another country?", Jungkook cuts him off. "I told you which country I wanted to go to. So, get me a club from there to sign me up if you want me to transfer, hyung.", he adds as Taehyung lets his shirt go.

"Agent Kim...JK..is everything alright here?", Jieun comes out of nowhere greeting them at the car park.

Both of them bow slightly to the club owner's daughter before Taehyung says that everything is alright between them. Jieun looks at Jungkook's face and he slowly forms a smile not wanting her to think too much about him.

"Umm...since you guys are out here, are you guys free? Jungkook?", Jieun asks them as she looks at her watch briefly.

"Yeah, we're free.", Taehyung beats Jungkook to answer her first.

"Let's have dinner together. It's on me.", Jieun offers as she points to her car.

Taehyung claps his hands, "That would be great. Let's go, Jungkook."

Jieun is about to lead them to her car but Jungkook shakes his head. He politely says that he will just follow her car from behind before he leads her to her car first. Then, he walks to his car and sighs as he looks at Taehyung who is waiting at the passenger door for him.

"You know she asked me. Why you answered it, hyung?", Jungkook asks as they get inside his car.

"If I let you answer, you will say no. You always say no to her.", Taehyung answers before Jungkook starts to drive his car following the lead of Jieun's car.

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