"Holy fuck he's hot." Vera lets out a breath like she's been holding it in.

"You have that one right," Willow agrees.

"If only all four of your tires happened to pop instead of just one." Gabrielle daydreams the event. "Four tires, four times we get to see Jungkook fixing it."

"How do you not like him?" Vera questions me, bewildered.

"He's just not my kind of guy." I shrug, "I want someone with more maturity than a nine-year-old on a sugar high and he doesn't have it."

"So you're telling me that just a few minutes ago when he was jacking up the car and taking the tire off, placing the new one on, then putting everything away when he was done... Wasn't super hot?"

I have to think for a good second on that. I can't just deny that he was kinda hot. Meh, I guess I can. "Nope." I tell them and Gabrielle looks at me like I'm insane.

In no time, we arrive at the restaurant and we park next to Jungkook's car. At the same time, we collectively get out and the girls swoon over him again before we go inside with him leading the way.

"I'll see you ladies later." He smiles at them before parting ways and that feeling in my stomach from earlier comes back more than ever.

I watch him walk down the aisle of booths and I shake myself out of staring, why am I acting so weird today?

I take a look around for a moment and notice that it's very warm-toned in the restaurant. The color on the wall pairs perfectly with the red seats and dark wooden trim.

The floor matches the trim and on the ceiling a few simple but soft lights hang over the tables. It's beautiful in here and the smell of the undoubtedly delicious food intrigues me just as much as the designs around us.

"Good morning." A woman says with a bright smile. "Welcome, are you ready to take a seat?"

"Of course." Vera smiles back at her and she takes us to a table with four seats.

"Here are a few menus, I'll be back in a few minutes to take your orders." She hands us the menus and leaves cheerfully.

We graze through the options of food and I find a small meal that looks absolutely stunning, paired with my favorite; hot cocoa with little marshmallows on top. I know it's not really a "breakfast" drink, but it's my favorite so I don't care what time of day I'm supposed to consume it.

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It takes a short time for our food to arrive after we order and we're all excited when we see the waitress coming over with a large tray holding our meals.

"Here you go," She beams and places my food down in front of me, "and a hot cocoa." She places the mug down as well.

"Thank you." I grin and lick my lips while seeing the steam floating off of my cocoa and fluffy pancakes.

She leaves again and promises to come back later if we need anything. And that's when I notice another customer only two booths in front of ours and across the aisle.

Jungkook with a few of his friends are chatting and eating away at their food, definitely enjoying their time here. I see him perfectly, and I know he can see me just as well so I look away in hopes that he doesn't notice where our placements are.

"Wow, this is really good!" Vera exclaims and stuffs her mouth with food. "They did a really good job."

"They really did." I agree and take another bite.

We all eat for a few short minutes, but then Gabrielle asks me, "Why are you in a group with Jungkook for your history thing?"

"Well, I was going to ask Seokjin to be my partner but then Jungkook stalled me until everyone else had a partner and I was stuck with him." I explain to them.

"I wish he would do that to me." She rests her jaw in her palm. "I want his attention, you know?"

"Well he sure seemed to enjoy you earlier." I say with a little attitude. I didn't mean to have any attitude, it just came out involuntarily.

"Yeah," She smiles and I'm glad she didn't hear the hint of sass in my tone. "He's so great."

There's that feeling again. I don't even understand why it's here or where it's coming from, but I attempt to suppress it as much as I can.

I glance over to Jungkook and we make eye-contact for a split second before I look away, hoping that he didn't notice it as much as I did.

Not even ten seconds later, I find myself looking over to him again. This time, his face isn't the first thing I look at. His muscular thighs showing the bare skin through the holes in his ripped jeans, then his belt, his shirt that hangs loosely with a jacket overtop of it. His fingers drum on the side of his drink and even though I can't hear it because it's too loud in the restaurant, I can pretend.

Lastly I meet his face and our eyes connect. Unfortunately, he's crossing his eyes and sticking his tongue out.

I hold back a laugh and he smiles after seeing my reaction, returning his attention back to his friends.

"So is that presentation difficult? I have a thing to do in Anatomy that has to do with putting together an entire person. I have to model it after my partner and my art teacher says I get bonus for making a similar model for her class." Willow tells me.

"It's not difficult, just time consuming. And working with Jungkook doesn't help. We have to cite everything and make sure it's all in this weird format and blah, blah, blah." I ramble. "But we have the minimum done already, we're just going to do more slides because I know how our professor works; He'll definitely take points off for minimum effort."

"True." Vera nods and eats some of her waffle. "My chemistry professor is the same way. He says to only to read from page 100 to 150 and to do all the questions throughout those. But then we'll have a quiz over pages in the 180s or 200s." She rolls her eyes, "I wish I was back in highschool sometimes."

"Right?" Gabrielle sighs, "It was so much easier."

While they talk about school, I look back to Jungkook and our gazes meet again. This time he winks at me with an arrogant smirk and I only smile down at my plate.

I take another bite of my food and pretend to pay attention to the girls' conversation for a minute before stealing another glance at him.

He makes his fingers into a 'V' shape and sticks his tongue through it. I hold back a laugh and instead let out a muffled giggle, which intrigues the girls. "What's so funny about that?"

"What?" I immediately stop laughing and look at them.

"I just said I'm probably going to fail my exams." Vera scowls.

"Oh, uh," I look down awkwardly, "I just remembered something, that's all. I'm sure you'll do great on your final exams."

She smiles, "As long as me failing isn't that humorous." Aaaaand right back to talking with the others.

I feel my phone vibrate and take it out to see the notification. It's a text, so I open it right away.

Jungkook: Ooooooh looks like someone got in trouble with her friends, embarrassed?

I look up at him with a glare but he's not paying attention because he's talking to his other friend.

Me: Ha ha, very funny

He sees it and answers back right after,

Jungkook: It was

In a strange way I feel more relieved while texting him. The urge to smack everyone from earlier has left me completely and now I'm actually enjoying my time.

Me: It didn't embarrass me that much, Jeon

Jungkook: Is that a challenge?

Me: To make me embarrass myself?

Jungkook: It can't be that hard, you're already half way there just by being you. He looks up at me with a boyish smirk. I return the expression and take a sip of my drink, now feeling mighty confident in myself.

Me: Okay, try. there's no way you can get me to laugh while they're talking again

He pays attention to his friends for a split second before typing away on his phone.
Jungkook: Have I mentioned how hot you are today?

I almost choke on my hot cocoa but I regain myself, biting the inside of my cheek to stop from smiling.

Me: That's such a you thing to say. And might I say you're not doing too bad yourself. I look at him again and his smirk widens slightly before he's typing again.

Jungkook: I feel like I need to flirt harder for this to work

My lips turn into a smile at the phrase "flirt harder" and I nearly lose it right there.

Jungkook: What color are your panties

I bite my lip and hold my breath to stop myself from bursting out laughing, but I decide to mess with him. Two can play at this flirting game.

Me: I'm not wearing any ;)

I see the expression on his face change from playful to something much darker. He gulps and doesn't spare a glance at me at all before putting his phone down and placing his hands on his lap, fingers tapping on his thighs.

Got 'em. I congratulate myself and smile. I know I lied, but c'mon, his expression is priceless!

The girls and I finish our breakfast and leave the money plus a tip before getting up.

"Their food is delicious." I say again even though we've already established that a hundred times.

"We should come here more often." Willow suggests and we all agree enthusiastically.

"Excuse us," A guy says from behind us and we collectively move over to allow them through the aisle. It's Jungkook's friend followed by three other guys including Jungkook himself, who is now sporting his signature smirk.

Momentarily, Jungkook leans over to me and places his hand gently on my lower back, sending chills throughout my entire body at the simple touch. "See you in class tomorrow." He whispers so close to my ear that I can feel how warm his breath is.

"I, o-okay." I trip over my tongue as he pulls away and his hand falls before he follows his friends out of the restaurant.

"Bye Jungkook!" Vera waves and beams at him as he leaves. "Duuuude, I need him to do that to me."

"Do what?" I ask and lift my brow.

Gabrielle places her palm on my back and leans in, "This." She says seductively, exaggerating his tone and actions.

I roll my eyes with a wide smile when she steps back and we leave the restaurant.

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"Just say it."

"No."

"Why not? I do this every night. Just say it so we can both go to sleep."

"I'm not saying goodnight to you, Jungkook."

"You said it last night, and the night before that, and the night before that, and the-"

"I get it." I cut him off. "Why are you so adamant about me saying goodnight?"

"Why do you keep stalling when you know exactly what I'm going to do?" He pushes his own argument.

I sigh, "I just don't care to say it."

"It's been ten minutes, will you just say it so I can hang up."

"Exactly; It has been ten minutes." I confirm. "Take a hint, dude."

"You know I'll drop the phone as soon as you say it."

I groan in annoyance and let a drawn out sigh escape my lips, ".....Goodnight."

"Goodnight." He repeats after me and hangs up, silence on the line afterwards.

I keep the phone next to my ear anyway as if he's still on the line. But before I let my heart get away from my head, I turn my phone off and go to sleep.

However, after today, I'm having a little bit of difficulty getting to sleep.

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Would you say goodnight to him the first time or argue for ten minutes?

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