After all the commotion about that trader of a friend pushing me down, I receive nice words and other things from people who love me. "Oh my gosh Jennie, that girl should have never done that to you for no reason." A girl tells me. We're in the bus, Taehyung is fixing a small wrap around my elbow. Okay, that was way too far. Why did I purposefully scrape my elbow? Gosh, that's going to be so hard to moisturize. "I know, just let it be guys. It was no big deal, okay? People like that get what they deserve." I explain. "Does that feel better?" He asks.

"Yes, thank you." I smile. He leaned forward and kisses my lips, I hear many screeches. I smile and wrap an arm around his neck, kissing him more. I hear many whispers about Taehyung and I. He pulls away for me and I smile as I look at his face. "Oh my gosh, Jennie. Jungkook and Lalisa kissed on their bus in front of everyone not too long ago." I hear Areum. I turn and look at her as she's sitting behind me. "What?" I ask her.

"Jungkook and Lalisa kissed on their bus in front of everyone." She repeats herself. "I don't believe you." I rebuttal. "Look." She says. She clicks a couple things on her phone then shows it to me, an image I never thought I'd see is before my eyes. My childhood best friend, my innocent Kookie, locking lips with that dog. I barely realize that she didn't even give me back my damn tent. Her phone beeps, "You got a notification." I tell her. "Oh my gosh!" She shrieks. I stare at her, why is she acting so weird!?

"Look, here's a video from this group chat someone added me in." Areum smiles as she clicks on the video. She shrieks as she watches it like she's some type of fan girl. "Jungkook-ah doesn't care about everyone watching them." One of her hand smacks her cheek, I stare at her in confusion, my eyebrows knitting. She's acting so retarded. "Why are you so happy about that?" I ask. "Look for yourself." She says. "You said you'd show me and you didn't." I roll my eyes. "Oh right!" She won't stop smiling.

She shows me her phone again. The video plays and my jaw clinches. In the video, they're extremely close to each other. The dumb blonde is touching his face, she seems to tell him something. He replies before he presses his lips against hers again. Many screeches are heard in the video, I roll my eyes. I then get a glimpse of the name of the group chat.

Lizkook enthusiasts

I let out a laugh, "Really? You're one of those people who ships them?" I ask, pushing her phone away from me. Now for the first time since I've seen her today, she looks mad. "Why are you so mad?" She asks. "I'm not mad, it's just annoying that everyone is talking about them.", "And not about you?" She asks. I stare at her, pissed as hell. "How come all of a sudden you're so rude to me?" I ask her. "What happened to our friendship?" She stares at me.

"You really changed Jennie.." she shakes her head slowly, she's judging me. I know she is. "I have not changed, I'm myself." I spit, "Oh please Jennie, I know that ever since Jungkook started getting close to Lalisa you've been nothing but sour." She tells me, catching a couple of people's attention. Now this, I don't want to be the center of attention. "Say what ever you want, I know who I am and what I want.", "Oh really? Cause it doesn't seem like it." Areum crosses her arms over her chest.

I just turn around, leaning back in my chair. I almost let her get to me, she doesn't know anything. I slowly turn and realize Taehyung is looking at me, with a certain expression on his face that I can't quite put my finger on. He doesn't think I- does he? I'd never.

**

I listen to both Jennie and Areum talk about Jungkook and Lalisa. I tilt my head and look at her as she has the conversation with Areum. Why is she so mad? I'm done ignoring this anymore. The fact that Jennie gets so offensive and pissed about Jungkook and Lalisa is getting on my last nerve. We've been together for almost five months now, and the fact that she can't tell me straight up how she's feeling, is really exhausting.

Jennie ends the conversation and I continue to stare at her. She's jealous, I see that now. It's very clear to me. I see the way that she reacts when people talk about Lalisa, the only girl that Jungkook hangs out with. She hates that people ship them together, and it stirs me the wrong way to know that she made up a whole rumor just to get people to hate Lalisa. She finally looks at me, she looks confused even. "Taehyung don't start." She says looking away from me. "Don't start what, Jennie?" I ask.

"You have that look on your handsome face." She whispers, I bite my lip. We'll have to talk about this when we have our date, if we have our date. It's quiet for the rest of the ride to the school, and it lets me think a lot. The reasons Jennie could act this way is; she likes Jungkook or she still wants to be his friend but doesn't want Lalisa around at all. Maybe I'm just in denial.

We finally make it to the school and we are all loaded off the buses and free to go home. I'm able to meet up with Jennie as she waits for her mother. "Jennie." I start. "I don't want to have a fight, okay? What ever you're thinking is wrong." I let out a laugh, how rude of her. "Excuse me? You don't know what I'm thinking, Jennie. What I was thinking is that you care about your childhood friendship and you just hate Lalisa for some weird reason." I stand up for myself, she says nothing.

"I really don't want things to go off this way, we need to talk about this." She just stares forward. "My rides here." Is all she says before walking off to her mothers car, her mother smiles then it quickly goes away when she sees Jennie then me. I grin and wave at her, she shows me a small smile before Jennie gets in the car. They drive off and I stand there, waiting for.. I don't know what I'm waiting for. I pull out my phone and I barely see a text message from my mother.

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Eomma-
Taehyung, I have a late shift again. Ask your little girlfriend for a ride home, see you later.
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I clinch my phone tightly and I feel like I want to scream. My house is pretty far from the school, up in the hills because I'm rich. I plunge my hand into my pocket, grabbing my wallet. I can call an Uber, or ride the bus? No, there are weirdos on the bus.. but then again, there are weirdo Uber drivers. I take out my phone and use my Uber app to order a driver.

Dang it Jennie, why do you have to be so complicated? But I'm so damn crazy for you, that I continue running after you.

**

I walk up to my mothers car and get in as fast as I could. My mother looks at me after she smiles at Taehyung. "Let's go." I tell her and we take off. "Taehyung doesn't need a ride home?" She asks. I shrug and look out the window. "Jeeeeennie?" My mother sings my name, I slowly smile. "I missed you Eomma." I tell her finally looking at her. I give her a kiss on her cheek and she smiles wide as she drives home, which doesn't take long.

When we get to the house she turns off the car and faces me. "What happened with you and Taehyung?" She asks me. My smile goes away. "A misunderstanding." I answer. "If it's a misunderstanding, then you should just talk about it, not run away from him." I stare at her face, she then starts to remind me of the past.. before my mother was happy..

**
•Five Years Ago•

"Stop yelling at me when you know Jennie is listening." My mother says with a shaky voice. I stare at the door of my room as my parents fight down stairs in their room. "IM LEAVING! Do you really think I care if Jennie can hear? I don't, you can keep the house, I'm taking the dogs with me.", "Kai and Kuma are Jennie's dogs!" I hear my mother. "AAHAHAHA!!! So she bought them with her own money!? Okay!! Yeah right!" I can't take it anymore, getting out of my bed and creep out of my room, down the stairs and out of my house.

I instantly run over to Jungkook's house and run over to the side of the house where I grab a pebble and toss it at his window. I'm pretty sure he doesn't hear it so I throw another. This time I see his little coconut head pops out and I point in the direction of the park. He nods and he disappears. I turn and start to walk, not even waiting for him. I hear his footsteps and he's next to me, "What's wrong?" He asks.

"I'll tell you at the park.. I don't want to say it yet." I whisper. "Okay." He answers. We walk to the park and right when we sit down on our usual spot, I breakdown. And he pulls me into a hug.

**

I still remember how bright the sky was and how clear the air was. But even on a day like this, it all still seemed to pour. "Jennie." I snap out of it and stare at my mother. "Don't run away from what you want Jennie, cause I promise you, it will be the biggest regret you'll ever have." I then start to understand her. She's not talking about me at all. She's talking about herself, though my father mistreated her, she still loved him. She still wanted to be with him, and she wished that she would have expressed it all to him to keep him.

But I don't really understand her, why would she want to keep a man like my father? He didn't love her. And I'm sure in sometime, she stopped loving him too. It explains all the pain my mother went through for months on end, almost a year. It was my auntie, Jungkook's mother, who helped her find herself again. She made everything bearable, Jungkook was my friend.. but..

"I'm not letting Taehyung go Eomma, I just feel that he needs a second to breathe before we talk about it." I explain. She stares at me. "I really like that boy for you, you know." She answers me. I nod, "I know." I whisper. She grins. "We were supposed to take Taehyung, weren't we?" She asks me. "I don't know, he never told me anything." I shrug, grabbing my things. "Where's your tent?" She asks before getting out of the car. "Jungkook has it." I say, assuming if the blonde had it then, Jungkook now has it.

"Speaking of Jungkook, how are you two? Friends again? I miss that.. a lot." She confesses to me. I just shrug. "Mmm... okay then.. I'll stop bugging you." She says. We walk into the house and I go straight for the stairs to go to my room. "Jennie baby, you're not hungry?" She asks. "No." I answer. "O-Okay.." I hear her. I continue up the stairs to my room and quickly close my door, dropping all my bags on the ground. I go to my bed and sit at the edge of it, setting my hand on the cold sheets before looking up.

Jungkook's room is in the view from my window. Why do I miss him all of a sudden?

**

When I get home from a long drive, I drop my things next to the door and stuff my house keys into my pocket. I look around my huge house and I feel so alone. Why is it that I want Jennie so much, but she makes everything so confusing and over exaggerated? I just want to be with her right now, and the mention of Jungkook gets her all offensive.

I let out a breath and walk over to my fathers room, I remember the day that he got sick. I stand in the doorway of his room and stare at him as he sleeps.

**
•Nine Months Ago•
-Two Months before school started-

"Taehyung, come here please." I hear my mother, I walk into her office. "Yes, Eomma?" I answer. "I wanted to let you know that you'll be attending a regular school this year." I quickly nod, "Okay, that sounds like fun." I smile. "Please go and get your father for me, he's in his study." She grins. "Okay." I bow to her before running off to his study a couple hallways down. As I'm making my way over to my fathers study, I hear things crash and break onto the floor. I run as fast as I could into the room.

"APPA!!!" I scream in horror as I run over to him and fall on my knees. I then hear my mother running down the hall, "BEOMSEOK!" She screams. I'm surprised when he coughs up blood on me, I start to cry. Blood on my hands. "Taehyung, call the ambulance." My mother cries. I get up and look down at my hands, full of blood and they're shaking. "Taehyung! Call the ambulance!" She screams again trying to help my father up. I pull out my phone from my pocket, not caring if I get blood on it, I dial the number and call.

"119, What's your emergency?", "My father needs a ambulance, immediately.", "Please give me your address." The dispatcher tells me, I quickly say the address. "Okay, we are sending helping." The lady says. "Thank you." I say through sobs. The lady hangs up and I keep the phone pressed against my face as I continue to cry. "Are they coming!? Taehyung!", "Yes!" I yell back. I hear my mother crying, causing me to cry more.

A couple minutes later the ambulance arrives and the paramedics run into our house and take my father on a stretcher. I look down at my hands, the blood covering my skin. "Taehyung, let's go." My mother whimpers as she walks over to me, blood on her clothes. I look up at her with tears in my eyes. "Let's go Taehyung, now." She cries. I nod, getting up and we walk out of the house together. We head to the hospital, I stare out the window, my eyes dried out from tears.

When we finally make it to the hospital we run inside and ask where my father could be. "The doctor is checking him. He was choking on a lot of blood when he arrived. Please take a seat." The nurse tells us. My mother and I receive many stares from other people in the waiting room. They don't know our story, they don't know anything about us. We waited several hours, and I can feel my mother become restless. My skin started to itch a bit from the blood. "Kim Beomseok?" We shoot up, the doctor had a surgery mask on and gloves.

"You are...?" The doctor starts. "I'm his wife and his is our son." My mother says. The doctor nods, "Your husband is extremely lucky that he came the time that he did." He says. "What was wrong with him?" My mother asks concerned. "Your husband had a case of Pulmonary embolism." He tells us. "In other words, your husband had a blood clot in one of the arteries in his lung." He explains. I honestly have no words, could this have killed my father? Probably.

"May we see him?" My mother asks. The doctor then leads us to his room.

**

I'd never forget the emotions I was feeling that day, walking in the hospital halls was terrifying. My father was healthy for a few days before he got sick, and he's been in bed ever since.

"Oh, my son.. you're home." I hear him. I run over to him. "How was the trip, did you use the-" I pull the condom out from my wallet. He chuckles. "Good, I was hoping you wouldn't do it." He smiles and grabs my hands, his skin is cold and rough. "Appa, you're freezing. Let me put on the heater." He let's go of my hands and I walk over to put on the heater, walking back and sitting on the side of the bed. "You didn't tell me about the trip." He starts.

"It was fun." I grin. "Oh son, haha.. I was absent most of your life about your feelings due to work. And now that I see you everyday, I know that you're lying." My face drops. "Your little girlfriend? I still have to meet that doll anyways, I've only seen pictures." He smiles. "Yeah, just a little mix up with her childhood friend." I tell him. "Oooooh, don't tell me it's a guy." I lift my eyebrows before dropping them quickly, "Taehyung, don't let that get in the middle of you and your girlfriend. Your feelings mean way more." He says.

I shrug, "It's not even about him in particular, it's about her." I say. "Ooooh no... she likes him." I bite my lip, I'm in denial. "I hope not." I whisper. "Son, I'm sure you're ten times as handsome as him." I chuckle. "You like her right?" He asks. "No Appa.. I'm in love with her." I correct him. "Oh? My son is in love, now I really need to meet this girl." He smiles. "Yes, you do, Appa." I smile to myself to the thought of her.

"She's so beautiful.. she's like looking at a rare flower." I explain. "It's so beautiful if takes your breath away.." I add in a whisper. "Wow son, that's amazing." My father says, there's then a knock on the door. I lift my head and look out to the hall from my fathers bed. "Who could that be?" My father asks. I raise an eyebrow. "I don't know." I answer him. "Why don't you go see?" I slowly stand up and walk out into the hall, I walk up to the door.

Would she really come and see me? I open the door, "Do you mind putting like.. a really good review on my Uber account?" I stare at the person in front of me. "I thought you left already." I look at him confused. "But You didn't write a review." He says. "Y-Yeah.. what ever.. I'll write you a review." I say. "Thanks." He smiles and runs down my long driveway. My eyes follow him then fall on a girl in the distance.

She's beautiful, I stare at her as she rides her bike down the side walk. She meets my gaze and smiles. I tuck my hands into my pockets and walk down the brick steps from my door. She rides her bike into the drive way and stops it in front of the garage. I watch her get off the cute bike beach cruiser she rode here and she walks up to me. "I don't like fighting." I slightly tilt my head and look down at her. "I just want to be with you.." I whisper.

She walks up to me, her brown hair flowing in the wind. "I'm sorry." She says. I take one of my hands out of my pocket and touch her face. I then smile and grab her hand. "I want you to meet someone really special." I tell her, she nods. "Okay." She says. I walk into the house, I hear her gasp as she looks around the house. I walk into my fathers room. "Taehyung, who-" he looks at me then sees Jennie. He instantly smiles, "So this is the girl." He says. I nod and pull Jennie to the side of his bed.

They instantly hit it off and it makes me happy, I hope that the small fight we had, is over. It's past us now.

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