"Jungkook, you're not going to school. I'm telling you right now." My mother tells me with a stern voice, I stare at her as I put on my coat. "Eomma, right now isn't the time to be missing class, finals are this week and then graduation is in another week.. I'm not missing out on any of this just because I'm injured." She looks at me with an angry expression. "And what is everyone going to think?" She asks. I quickly look into the mirror at my face, a bandage over the bridge of my nose, a cut down the middle of my bottom lip.

My eye is also purple now, there's also a cotton patch under my left eye, for the gash to heal. "Whatever they want to think Eomma, I can't let what people think determine whether I go to school or not. At the end of the day, whatever everyone else says to me or about me, isn't going to be the truth anyways." I tell her. "But Jungkook..." She whispers, I know she just wants me to stay home because of Taehyung. "I don't want him to hurt you." She tells me, I feel my bruised stomach drop. I knew it. "He won't Eomma, I know he won't. Like I told you before, he didn't know what he was doing. And I'm sure that he knows now that what he did was wrong." I explain to her.

For the most part, I don't know why I constantly defend people who hurt me. I just have a good heart that's all. "Jungkook, are you 100% sure that you want to go to school?" She asks me, I quickly nod. "Yes Eomma, Yes, I want to go. School is important to me." I say. She stares at me for a few seconds and then she lets out a breath and slowly looks at my uniform, "I know I can't stop you Jungkook, you know what's best. I trust you." She smiles to herself, not directly to me. I know it's because she doesn't really want me to go to school. She doesn't feel right about it but she's letting me go, because she trusts me.

"I'm okay Eomma." I tell her as I set my hand on her head. "Well, I'm not letting you walk to school." She says as she turns and walks out of my room. I the look at myself in the mirror, "Endure the pain Jungkook, you can do this." I nod. Though I know my body is in a lot of pain and it need time to recover, I need to go to school. I inhale as I turn in place and I start to walk, I grit my teeth together as everytime I take a step, it shakes my body. I lift my arm and bring it to my mouth. "Hey Siri, text Lalisa.", "Texting Lalisa💘... what would you like to say?" I set my hand on the rail of the stairs. "My mother is taking me to school, I'll see you there.", "Ready to send it?", "Yes.", "Message sent."

I set my phone in my pocket and I take my time getting down the stairs, then I feel my phone vibrating in my pocket and I stop in my spot. It's Lalisa, I instantly pick it up. "Good morning beautiful." I answer, "Jungkook.. I hope you're kidding." I stay quiet so she can explain herself cause I'm a little confused. "You're not going to school, I saw how you were yesterday. The doctor said for you to stay in bed for at least a week." I bite my tongue, "Lalisa, I'm fine.. school is really important. We only have a short amount of time left in school." She's silent. "Lalisa, please don't be mad about my decision." I whine.

"Jungkook, I really don't want you to be in pain because you can't walk. And because very time you breathe it hurts. I don't want people to talk about you like you're not there, or talk about you because you're there." She lets out a breath, "Jungkook, please think about yourself. You're not ready to come to school today, come to school tomorrow when you feel a little better." I smile and let out a breath, "You're very persuasive, but I want to see you." I hear her doing things as she gets ready to go to school. "You can see me after school, go to bed please. If you care about me a lot, then you'll listen to me." I throw my head black, "Lalisaaaaaa!" I scream and quickly stop cause my abs tighten way too much and I'm in a lot of pain.

"What are you doing to me?" I whisper. "Be careful Jungkook, don't hurt yourself more.", "I'll go to bed, and I better see your beautiful face in my room after school." I tell her. "Will do." She chuckles. "I love you." I tell her as I smile to myself. "I love you." She whispers and we end the call. "That girl, she works wonders I tell you." My mother says. "Eommaaaaa, you're not supposed to eavesdrop on my conversations." I whine. "Awe but Jungkookie, it's so cute that you call Lalisa beautiful when she is and tell her that you love her when I can see that you do." She cheers.

"Oh-Kay.. I'm going to bed now.", "Thank the Lord!" She says. I smile and turn slowly, "Eomma, expect Lalisa to come over after school.", "Okay, I shall go and pick her up then." She suggests. "I'll text her that.", "Okay, go rest please." I wave my hand slightly and walk back up the stairs that make my body ache. When I get up to my room I strip off my clothes and stay in my undershirt and boxers. I gently lay myself in my bed and I surprise myself as I knock out, falling asleep.

**

• Lunch •

"Where's Jungkook?" Jimin asks, "I didn't see him at all today." Chaeyoung adds. "You know, it's not really my position to say." I look down at my food. "As his girlfriend?" Jimin asks. "Lice, you know that there are rumors going around.. right?" Chaeyoung asks. Of course I know, Taehyung didn't show up to school today either. Which makes matters worse. "Let them all talk, no one knows how to stay out of other people's business around here." I get irritated. "Lalisa, we're your best friends. You can't even tell us?" I shake my head.

"It's not my place to, I can't speak for him." I say. They look at each other. "Should we be concerned?" Chae asks, "Yeah, you don't look so good talking about him right now." I let out a breath, "Just.. I'm waiting for the end of the day to see him.", "Can we come? Is he okay?" I bite my lip, "He's at home, getting rest. He sort of just invited me." Jimin's eyebrows knit. "I bet that jerk did something to him, I bet the rumors are true." I stare at him. Let's see which lies are true.

-
Lies told today:

1.Jungkook beat up Taehyung and took Jennie for himself and dumped me

2.Jungkook and Taehyung beat up each other so bad that they're both in the hospital

3.Taehyung ran away and Jungkook ditched school to look for him and beat him up
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And I'm sure that there's more lies ready to be told, and all of them are about Taehyung getting beat up. Not the other way around, which I find very strange. "You can't possibly think any of those rumors are true." I roll my eyes as I move the food around on my plate. "Of course not, I'm trying to get you to spill the beans." He says, Chae then smacks his chest, "You're so dumb, just stop asking. She doesn't want to tell us what Jungkook has to say for himself. It would technically be spreading rumors about her own boyfriend." I nod in agreement, "Also, I wasn't actually there.. so, I can't say what happened." I explain. They nod and we end the conversation about Jungkook.

My phone beeps and I secretly take it out, of course, it's Jungkook.

-

Jungkookie💙-
Please don't think about me too much right now, I hope you're eating well.

Me-
It's kind of hard when everyone is talking about you dumping me for Jennie, and they're saying you're the one that beat up Taehyung

Jungkookie💙-
Ugh, that's so dumb. See, I should've came to school today, then no one would've thought that I beat up Taehyung.

Me-
No, everything will be cleared up tomorrow.. okay?

Jungkookie💙-
Fine. You're coming after right?

Me-
Yes, of course. You're mother will be in the front waiting?

Jungkookie💙-
Yes, she'll be early to pick you up. She praises you for being able to get me to stay home.

Me-
Haha, I feel special. Jimin and Chae are asking for you, they want to know what happened

Jungkookie💙-
Good, you better feel that way cause you are. And I think it's best if I just see them at school tomorrow, I really don't want to hear about rumors today.. I just want to relax with you when you get here and that's it.

Me-
Oh.. okay. I'll see you in like two hours

Jungkookie💙-
Okay, ily

Me-
Ily2

-

"Oh, she's texting Jungkook. Look at her face." I hear Jimin. I look up quickly wiping the smile off my face. "Ssssshhht!" I scold him. "Stop." Chae pinches his arm, "Ow, well damn.. I'm just today's punching bag.", "Aren't you a punching bag everyday?" I ask him and Chaeyoung laughs. "Ugh, Whatever." He eats his food, Chaeyoung just wraps her arms around his bicep and she presses her head against him, smiling at me.

I smile at her and eat my food.

**
•End Of School Day•

I walk out of school and head up to the car I know is Jungkook's mother's car. "Ah!! My beautiful sweet girl!" She exclaims, I chuckle and walk into the car and take the passenger seat. "Hello." I say as I put on my seatbelt and place my school things like my bag at my feet. "Honey, you told your parents you're going to be staying with Jungkook today?" She asks me. "Of course, I told them this morning and they said it was okay. They want him to be okay." I explain as she pulls out of the school parking lot.

"Oh, with you around he'll recover in no time." She tells me, making me blush. "Oh, that makes me happy to hear.", "Awe! Lalisa you don't understand how much my son loves you, I see it so much on his face when he talks to you." I feel my stomach drop. When we're finally in front of the house she turns to me, "They called me in at work but I'll be home for dinner and after dinner I'll take you home." I nod, "Sounds like a plan." I tell her. "Okay, I'll see you later, the door is unlocked. Please lock the door when you get inside." She tells me. "Okay." I get out of the car with my school supplies and she waves at me before she drives away.

I feel my palms sweating, ugh. I should've brought my perfume to spray on me before seeing him. I give my coat a sniff, "MMMMMMM." I whine. "HI LALISA!" I jump to the sound of Jennie's mother. "Hi!" I smile and wave at her, only to be greeted by Jennie's resting face. If you get my drift. "You're going to see Jungkookie?" She asks. "Yes." I say. "Oh, that's so great, say hi to him for me" I nod quickly, "I will." I tell her. Jennie just stares at me the whole time as I keep a conversation with her mother. "Bye Bye now." She waves at me. "Goodbye." I tell her and we part ways. I quietly walk into the house, trying not to make a sound.

I take off my shoes before I walk into the house, I close the door so it doesn't make a sound and I lock the door as instructed by his mother. I look up the stairs as I set my bag against the wall, my heart pounding in my ears. I let out a breath and slowly walk up the stairs, when I get to his room I see him sleeping. "I didn't hear you come it." He says, and I jump on surprise. I set my hand on my chest, before I chuckle. "That was the point." I smile as I walk up to him. I frown when I see his face, "Jungkook.." I whisper. "I'm okay." He grins. I slowly shake my head and sit down next to him.

"It'll heal in no time." He tells me. "I hope so.", "It will.. don't worry." He grins, "So..." he grabs my hand and intertwined our fingers. "Jennie's mother said hi." I finish what I'm saying. "Ah." He says before he kisses the back of my hand. I just smile, "That's nice.." He says. I stare at his face and I feel my eyes water. "No, baby, don't cry." I drop my head and let my hair cover my face. "I hate people, I hate Taehyung." I whisper. "No." He says. "Don't hate Taehyung." I look up at him, "How can I not? Look what he did to you." I tell him in an upset tone. "It's not good to hate people like Taehyung." He responds to me, my eyebrows knit.

"Please don't be someone I know you're not." He slightly sits up. "But Jungkook." I whine. "What he did, isn't his fault." I don't get his logic, but I won't argue with him anymore. I just nod, not saying anything more about my feelings about what Taehyung did to Jungkook. He just grins, and I don't get how he can grin about something that has to do with his pain. I weakly grin back at him so he doesn't think that something is wrong with me. I can't get myself to look at his beaten face for long. I just look down at his hand, watching his thumb gently rub the back of my hand.

"I'm happy to see you." He breaks the silence. "Me too." I grin and look back up at him, I know that he was trying to save my gaze. "I've been bored all day." He whines. I chuckle. "There isn't much I can do though." He chuckles at my words, "Just the fact that you're here makes me feel better." I blush, "Awe Jungkook.." I touch my face. "Are you hungry? Maybe I can make you something." He shakes his head, "It hurts to do anything." I instantly frown. "It's okay." I shake my head, "You keep saying everything is okay and it's okay and you're okay, but I know none of it is." He stares at me, "But it is." He says simply. "No." I look at him with a sad expression, "It's not." I tell him. "Stop trying to act like you're strong enough to take pain."

"I can be strong for you." I lean forward. "You don't have to stress out too much, you don't have to act like you can do it.. just to impress me." He nods, "I feel a little more relieved then." He confesses. I fix his hair part and gently caress his face, he stares at me. I just want to hug him so hard and fall asleep with him, all last night I couldn't sleep well because I was worried about him. "Come here." He whispers. I bring my feet up into the bed and set my head on his shoulder, not wanting to hurt him. Her wraps his arm around me and I feel myself become really tired.

I slowly close my eyes and set my hand on his chest, I can feel his heartbeat. I feel his lips on my head and I snuggle closer to him. He pulls the covers over me and I pull them higher, the smell of him is everywhere. His warmth brings me comfort and I'm able to fall asleep

**

• Next Day •

"Eomma, I'm fine." I whine again. "Jungkook, you can always just stay home until you're ready. Or until you're healed completely." I pick up my backpack slowly and pull it onto my back. "Eomma, I'm going." I tell her. "Ugh, Okay." She lets out a breath. "Fine." She gives in. "Eomma, I told you that I feel much better than I did yesterday. I'm going to be fine, and plus.. I probably missed a lot." I tell her. "Oh fine fine fine.. let me take you then." She tells me. She fixes my hair part and we walk out of the house.

I walk up to the car and we leave to the school, "Jungkookie, I really hate to have you walk home, but they called me in.", "It's okay Eomma, the quicker I can get back to my old routine, the better.", "But I don't-", "Eomma, you worry too much." I tell her. She stares forward and grips the steering wheel, "It's hard not to, when you go to that school with that boy.", "Eomma, please." I mumble. "What Jungkook?" She looks at me. "You need to stop talking about Taehyung like he's a monster." Her face wrinkles and she looks so angry. "JUNGKOOK!" She exclaims. "What Eomma?" I say calmly. "You need to stop defending him!" She yells. "He needs defending." I tell her.

She stares at me, she looks infuriated. "I don't want to argue with you Jungkook." She says through gritted teeth. "Then don't.", She raises an eyebrow. "You're talking back to me?" She looks surprised. "I don't mean to Eomma, but I just choose not to talk about this right now." I say. She pulls up to the front of the school and looks forward, not looking at me. I lock my jaw before I get out of the car and close the door, before she simply drives away. Well, she's mad. I turn and already see other students looking at me and whispering, ugh. I look down at my shoes before I look up and let out a breath, "Jungkook." I hear an annoying voice and I feel comfort.

"Hey Jimin." I grin. He stops before me as he stares at me, I let out a breath. He's just like everyone else, he then looks pissed. "He did this to you, didn't he?" He says angrily through gritted teeth. I let out a breath and walk past him. "You're limping gosh damn it." He says as I'm next to him. "Well, it's either I come to school with a limp or not come to school at all and continue to make myself look bad." I explain to him. "I swear, when I see him I'm going to-", "You're going to do nothing." I tell him right away. "What?" He asks, "Do you need to be medicated? I don't understand you." He says.

"It wasn't his fault, Jennie messed him up in the brain.", "Wow, so what? You're going to defend him.", "You know what Jimin, you sound like every other person around me. I just really need you to trust me." I stare at him. His face softens and he slowly nods, "He was just.. he wasn't in the right mind. You know what love does to people." I explain. "Well.. I do have to say one thing.." he starts and I wait for him to continue what he's saying. "You look real beat." I let out a breath, "Yeah, I know." I start to walk to the school. "Do you need me to like.. hold your backpack?" He asks. "You're not my boyfriend, the hell." I spit.

He rolls his eyes, "I didn't mean it like that obviously, damn. It looks like it's too heavy for you.", "I'm fine." I tell him. "You say that and-", "And I'm telling the truth, I don't get why everyone looks so down on me." I tell him. "I'm just worried that you're carrying yourself out more than you should." I shake my head. "I'm perfectly fine, people should be worrying about Taehyung too. He needs help." I explain as I walk up to my locker and Jimin follows. I continue to get a lot of stares from other students, the school day hasn't even started completely and I'm already hating this attention.

**

"What you need is therapy, not to stay home." My mother tells me. "Okay, Whatever." I say as I grab my school bag and call a Uber. "I'm setting you up with my friend who-", "I said okay." I tell her as I walk out of the house with nothing to eat and my hair still everywhere. I walk down the long driveway until I see the Uber and get right inside. The driver doesn't say anything to me, and it's a silent ride to school. I look down at my hands that have the knuckles bandaged. Ugh, I can already suspect that people are talking. I don't have friends, but I can already guess that Jungkook didn't go to school.

I mean, he was in the Hospital for crying out loud. I put him there, I'm a horrible person. I stare out the window until the school comes into view and when the car stops, I instantly get out. I wish I had waited a few minutes or just didn't come to school at all. People's eyes eating away at my skin, breaking my bones and I feel my body go cold like a dead person. I might as well be dead though, no one would care. Well, I'm guessing Jungkook showed up already and they all saw what I did to him. Perfect. I hide my hands in my pockets and walk into school with my head down.

"Oh my gosh, did you see Jungkook?" I hear, I lock my jaw and continue walking. "Well, we know HE was the one who did the beating." I hear another person. Breathe in through the nose and out slowly from the mouth Taehyung, you got this. It's okay. Just ignore everyone, "Wow, he looks completely fine with coming to school." I hear someone as they pass by me. I bite my lip as I finally make it to my locker and I take out the books I need. "Oh my gosh, look at his hands." I slam my locker so hard it might cause the other lockers to unlock, I turn to everyone in the hall.

"CAN'T YOU MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR POINTLESS GOSSIPING MAKES PEOPLE GO CRAZY!? STOP! JUST STOP!!" I yell at the top of my lungs. Dead silence, that's what has happened at this moment. Everyone stares at me with shocked eyes, many girls terrified of me. Yeah, I probably look insane with my unkempt hair and the bandages around my knuckles. Not to forget the bloodshot eyes because of the sleepless nights I've had since the incident. Two whole nights I haven't slept correctly, all because... "Jennie.." I whisper, I've barely noticed that she's one of the girls who's looking at me terrified.

I look around at the still very shocked students, and my eyes set on Jungkook and his friends. Oh gosh, I didn't think that he had looked that bad. I inhale and look at him, with a sad expression. I stuff my hands back into my pockets, "I'm sorry." I mouth without words to him before I turn and walk to my class as the halls stay quiet. I make it to my class ten minutes before the bell rings and when it does, everyone goes to their class. Still very silent, everyone giving me looks and I just ignore them. I've said what I had to and if they didn't like it, tuff. In the distance I see Jennie and she waits far away from the door for Mr Seokjin. I stare at her as she talks to her friends.

My eyebrows knit and I just lean back into the wall. I hate my life.

**

"How did those rumors even start? I want to talk to whoever started them." I tell my friend. "I don't know, I heard it from someone who heard it from someone else." They tell me. I let out a breath, "I hate that this is happening to the both of them.", "And you're in the middle Jennie, it's all about you too. Supposedly they were fighting about you." I shake my head, "None of this was my fault." They stare at me. "I-", "CAN'T YOU MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR POINTLESS GOSSIPING MAKES PEOPLE GO CRAZY!? STOP! JUST STOP!!" I jump to the sound of Taehyung's voice.

I set my hand on my chest as I look in the direction of him. Everyone is dead silent, he looks at me and I slowly look away from him. When he looks away I secretly look back at him, he looks at Jungkook and mouths something. I also stare at Jungkook, he doesn't look good at all. Taehyung then walks down the hall and everyone stays quiet until the bell rings, that's the only sound that is in the atmosphere for a second. Well, Taehyung really told them. I mean.. us?? The whole school. I wait far away from the door where I know he's going to be waiting. "So you didn't do anything? They just got mad at each other and Taehyung beat up Jungkook for no reason?" They ask me.

"Look, I make mistakes." I say. "So you did do something then." One of the friends says. "Yeah, cause if you didn't, none of this would've happened. You did something with Jungkook that made Taehyung mad and caused him to beat him up." It's that obvious. "I'd just rather not talk about it.", "Yeah, but you have background information that can clear everything up." I stare at them. "Is it the background information you both want or the gossiping?" I ask as I shake my head and walk past them and I head into the now opened classroom. "Good morning my shining star." I smile, "Good Morning Mr Seokjin." I tell him.

I sit far away from Taehyung and make sure I'm out of his sights, I don't need him looking at me. At all. I just hope that all this drama falls over by the time it's graduation, drama at graduation would never end well. Maybe another fight will break out, and it seems like for the rest of the day, what Taehyung had yelled in the hall stopped people from talking about the rumors actually. It was basically stopped in a day, so the next day at school not a single person said a word about Jungkook or Taehyung.

**

• After school •

"Don't worry, I'm sure you're going to get accepted. They'd be dumb if they didn't." I tell her. "But you too, if you don't go then I'm not going." She tells me. I shake my head and hold her hand, "If you get accepted, you still have to go. Don't pull yourself back for me, I want you to be the best ever, even if it's without me." I tell her. "Well, my mother told me that a letter came for me and I really don't know what to think.", "A letter from the college." She nods quickly.

"Then it's for sure an acceptance letter." I tell her. "No, I bet it's not.", "Don't think like that." I tell her. "Wait, you'll be there when I open it right?" She asks me. "Of course." As we approach her house her hand grips mine, "It's okay." I reassure her. "I'm going to cry if it's not an acceptance letter.", "But you'll cry if it is." I smile. We walk up to her porch and she bites her lip really hard and jumps side to side. "Jungkoooook." She whines. "Let's go, that letter is waiting." I smile.

She let's out a breath and takes the house key out of her school bag. She unlocks the door and we walk into her house, she stares at the stack of envelopes on the kitchen table. "Jungkook, how about you read it for me." I slowly nod in response. I walk over to the envelopes and look for the one that says "Lalisa Manoban" on it and the name of the college we both applied to. She stands in front of me and I sit down to catch my breath. I turn it around and dig my finger under a little opening from the envelopes lip, I tear it open neatly. I use my thumb and pointer finger to take out the paper.

I set the empty envelope on the table, I feel my palms sweating. I'm praying so hard that Lalisa got accepted. I want her to go to that college. Please, I'm crossing all my toes, I'm crossing my heart and my mind. Literally everything. Please let Lalisa get accepted. I slowly unfold the paper.

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Dear Lalisa Manoban,

Congratulations on your admission to the University of California Los Angeles! For nearly 200 years, UCLA has proudly welcomed new Colonials, and we are excited for you to be part of this great tradition. As a member of the Class of 2017, you will join a dynamic student community in a place of endless opportunities. UCLA offers an unparalleled setting for the next chapter of your life.

It is such a pleasure to have an academically talented and dedicated student like yourself, attend our university. The opportunity to spend your college years in a vibrant city surrounded by exceptional people provides the foundation for an extraordinary life.
The University UCLA family welcomes you, and I personally look forward to greeting you on campus.

We welcome you to the home of the Bruins
Shelby L. Manchus
Director of Admissions
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I look up and smile. "Lalisa, you got accepted." I tell her. She covers her face with her hands, "Please don't lie to me Jungkook." She whimpers. "Yes! Look!" I stand up and she continues to cover her face. I wrap my arm around her, I hear her crying. "Lalisa, baby, look." I show her. "Congratulations on your admission. You did it, you got accepted." She takes one hand off her face and looks at it. "Oh Jungkook, I'm so happy." She whimpers as she hugs me. "I'm so happy too." I tell her.

"Now we have to go see if you got accepted." She looks up at me. "Okay, let's go then." I set her acceptance letter on the table and I lead her outside of the house. We walk over to my house, and my heart is pounding like crazy. Please, please let me get accepted. I already have my key on my hand and I'm ready to walk into the house and read that letter.

When we get in front of my house, I don't care how much it hurts, I run up to the door. "Jungkook!" I hear Lalisa. "I have to read that letter." I open the door quickly, and as expected the mail is on the floor on the front mat. I instantly see the nail of the college, I drop my bag and pick up the envelope, tearing it open. I stare at the letter..

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Thank you for your application for admission to University of California Los Angeles. Members of the Admissions Committee have carefully reviewed your application and we regret to inform you that the university cannot offer you a place in the 2017 freshman class. This decision is not a dismissal of your academic ability or promise, but a reflection of the keen competition among the applicants for the limited space in our freshman class.

-

I clench my jaw and stare at the paper, I feel anger in my chest and I hate myself for being so stupid. "Jungkook." I hear behind me, I turn to her, trying so hard not to cry. "I didn't." I say simply. "No! That has to be a lie!" She exclaims. "Lalisa! Look." I show her the letter, she looks at it confused. "But you're not... HeonWoo Yun." I stare at her, "What?" I look at the letter.

-
Dear HeonWoo Yun,

Thank you for your application for admission to University of California Los Angeles. Members of the Admissions Committee have carefully reviewed your application and we regret to inform you that the university cannot offer you a place in the 2017 freshman class. This decision is not a dismissal of your academic ability or promise, but a reflection of the keen competition among the applicants for the limited space in our freshman class.

-

This isn't even my letter. I let out a breath of relief though I feel bad for whoever his HeonWoo is, I accidentally opened his denial letter. I look around on the floor for my letter, "Here." I hear Lalisa and I turn to her. "Jungkook Jeon." She shows me that it's mine. "Open it." I tell her. She opens it and I wait impatiently, I'm hoping for a smile from her or happy tears. Anything, she's like a damn statue.

Finally, she smiles. She shows me the letter.

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Dear Jungkook Jeon,

Congratulations on your admission to the University of California Los Angeles!

-

That's all I have to read to smile and feel relieved but also excited. "We did it." She tells me. "We're going to California together." I smile. I pull her into a hug and she hugs me back gently, "This is so perfect." I whisper to her. "Our next step together." I add. She looks up at me, "I knew you were going to get accepted." I tell her. I smile and I caress her face, "Until the end, I'm here with you." I tell her before I press my lips against hers.

This is a huge sign that we have to be together, fate would've separated us. But it didn't, and I'm so happy that we get to experience the rest of this journey together. Use together, always.

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