Bound to Love You

10: Old Friend

Seeing each other again, memories of the time when Joy still considered her a friend and vice versa surfaced from. Irene's mind. The girl she thought would never do anything to hurt her in a million of years. Now she was with Irene's ex, clinging to his arm like there's no tomorrow.

Irene forced a smile on her face as she spoke, "Hi Joy. How are you?"

"Great. Especially since Taehyung is taking really good care of me," she replied quickly and tightened her hold on Taehyung's arm, moving her body closer to him. Then her gaze fell on her other former friends beside Irene. "What? You're not even gonna greet me now?"

"Hi snake!" an annoyed Yeri spoke. Jungkook laughed at the maknae's boldness.

"Yeri, don't." stated Irene.

"What? She wanted us to greet her, that's how I greet snakes like her," Yeri replied.

Joy felt her anger rising. She tugged Taehyung's arm, asking for him to defend her. He looked at her and then back to the other girls.

"If you insult her once again, I'll make sure you get kicked out of the set!" Taehyung threatened, earning a shocked face from the girls.

"Hyung, don't be like that..." interrupted Jungkook but he was soon cut off by Irene.

"Taehyung, I know we have our differences but don't you yell at her. She's just a kid. You should act like an adult and handle this properly, without raising your voice. Stop being a Jerk." Irene defended Yeri.

"We're not together anymore, you can't tell me what to do," Taehyung replied, annoyed that this is how their first conversation since the break up will go.

"Yeah, we're not... And this is the first time I felt glad we broke up," retorted Irene as she gestured for the girls to follow her as they head to their tent, leaving Taehyung, Joy, and his friends, speechless.

Soon after they walked away, Jungkook followed them.

"Hey! Where are you going?" yelled Jimin as he followed behind Jungkook.

"I need to talk to Yeri." replied Jungkook.

"What?! Why?" questioned Jimin.

"Because... I miss her." Jungkook said as a sweet smile formed on his lips.

"Wait. Hold up. You mean, you like this girl? The same guy who changed girlfriends like he changes his clothes is now going after a girl he only met once?" Jimin stated.

"It's not like that. I just like talking to her." repied Jungkook.

"Talking?? Not F*cking??? Woah, you've changed man. You've become 100 percent whipped!" teased Jimin as he laughed out loud. Jungkook just rolled his eyes at him.

They reach the girls' tent in no time. Hearing low chatters, they knew the girls were inside.

"Hello?" Jungkook called, standing outside the girls' tent.

One of the girls appeared at the entrance. She had long black hair with bangs and cat-like eyes.

"What do you want?" she said coldly.

"Can I please talk to Yeri," said Jungkook, eagerly waiting for Yeri to come out.

"Why?" Seulgi asked.

"I just want to make sure she's okay?" Jungkook replied.

Seulgi didn't say anything and just quickly went back inside the tent. Soon after a petite girl with long black hair came out.

"Yeri... Can I talk to you in private?" Jungkook asked.

"Sure" Yeri replied as Jungkook led her somewhere quiet.

"Hyung, wait for me here. I'll come back soon." Jungkook looked back at Jimin, almost forgetting he was there.

"Okay," Jimin replied.

Soon after, the cat-eyed girl came out with Irene.

"Oh Jimin, you're here?" asked Irene.

"I'm waiting for Jungkook to finish talking to Yeri." said Jimin.

"Oh okay. Now that you're here, would you mind helping Seulgi get some food and water for us?" asked Irene.

"Sure, no problem." Jimin answered as he smiled at the girls.

"I would have helped her myself but I really need to run my lines," said Irene.

"It's really no big deal," Jimin assured her.

Irene knew Jimin's kind nature ever since she started dating Taehyung. Even when they broke up, Jimin still checked up on her and made sure she was okay.

"Thank you Jimin." said Irene, smiling back at Jimin.

Irene went back inside the tent as Jimin followed Seulgi to the food station.

"You're too obvious you know," started Seulgi.

"What??" Jimin questioned, shocked by her first sentence.

"You like her right? You like Irene Unnie." said Seulgi.

"What are you talking about?" Jimin replied, fake chuckling and feigning ignorance.

"Don't worry. I won't tell her." Seulgi assured him. "She's blind for this kind of stuff anyway."

Jimin stayed quiet as he put his hands on his pocket.

"If you ask me, you're much better than that jerk Taehyung," Seulgi suddenly stated.

"Hey, I believe he has his reasons for doing what he did to Irene Noona. Give him the benefit of the doubt." Jimin shot back.

"Sure, he has 'reasons' but did he have to date Joy right after he broke up with Irene Unnie?" Seulgi retorted.

Both stayed silent until they reached the food station.

"Joy was an old friend of ours. We practically knew each other since diapers which is why we didn't expect her to hurt Irene Unnie like that, same with Taehyung, we thought they loved each other so much." started Seulgi again. Sadness evident on her face as tears threatened to fall. Jimin then grabbed Seulgi's arm and hugged her.

"Everything will be fine. They'll get past this." assured Jimin.

"I hate that you're his friend and good guy at the same time," said Seulgi as her tears finally fall.