Jungkook's pov ~

I had absolutely no interest in hosting Inkigayo. But my company had still pushed me to apply for it, " to appear more friendly with other idols" apparently. I don't know what they were talking about, me and my group had plenty of friends in the idol business. At least friends who counted. I had no intention of making fake friends for the sake of public image.

Hopefully my purposefully awful audition as an MC made them realise I was not cut out for this.

I was looking forward to get to the dorms and practice for the new song cover I was currently working on.

I stepped inside the ancient looking elevator on the eighth floor. Someone was already inside. I automatically did the customary respectful bow. Hopefully they wouldn't try to start a conversation, after spending my morning on a wasted endeavour,I wasn't in the mood to talk.
The person had already pressed the button for the ground floor.

I took out my phone in order to check the time.

2% battery remaining. Oh no...

A strange clicking noise caught my attention. Suddenly the elevator jolted loudly and came to a screeching stop.

"Aaaaaghhhhh", the person beside me shrieked.

"Calm down", I said, noticing for the first time that the person was a girl.

I squinted. The girl was in casual clothes, her blonde hair free around her shoulders. She had a cute round face and big brown eyes.

I had seen her somewhere before. Then it clicked, she was a member of BlackPink, though for the life of me I couldn't recall her name.

"We need to get out of here" she said as she pressed the open button several times.

My inner musings disturbed, I looked around the elevator. There was no phone, no cameras as far as I could tell but the emergency button caught my attention.

We both reached for it at the same time, our fingers touching. She quickly pulled her hand back.

I pressed the button. " This can't be happening. This day just went into the gutter" I muttered under my breath.

Heavy breathing caught my attention. I looked at the girl.

"Are you okay?", I asked, slightly irritated.
Hyperventilating never helped anything.

"Yeah. Just not a fan of closed spaces."

Why did she take the elevator then?

10 minutes passed as we waited silently for someone to come help us.
15 minutes...
20...

"I don't think anyone's coming", she whispered. Her voice was quite pleasant when she was not shrieking.

"Me neither. But we can't just wait and twiddle our thumbs here. Come on, help me open the doors."

I tried to grip the edges of the doors in the middle and pulled with all my might.

She wasn't helping me, just gawking at me with wide eyes.

"What are you looking at? Grab the other side and pull." I commanded.

She just gulped.

Fucking weak people.

I resumed my efforts to open the door.
Suddenly pretty hands with equally pretty manicured nails grabbed the other side.

I smirked. "Not afraid to break your fancy nails anymore?"

"I wasn't scared about that. Haven't you seen any movies. What if it's just wall on the other side or worse, a drop?" She scowled at me, her cute face scrunched up.

"Are you seriously comparing real life to movies right now? Besides we'll never know until we open these doors, so stop talking and pull."

I knew she wanted to argue but held her tongue.

Smart girl.

"Okay, on the count of three. One, two..."

The elevator gave another jolt and suddenly the lights went out.

"Aaaaahghhgh", she shrieked again.

"Calm down" I sighed.

Just when the situation couldn't get any worse.

"Are you okay? You didn't actually break a nail, did you?"

"No. I'm fine", there was a tremor in her voice.

"It's gonna be alright."

"Someone should know by now that one of the elevators in the building isn't working. Besides other people might be waiting to use it and they might complain.", she said with optimism.

"I doubt that anybody frequently uses the elevators on this side of the building. It's a huge building complex and there are other better elevators. I didn't know what I was thinking using this one."

" Then how is everything going to be alright?", she shrieked again.

I put my hands over my ears."Calm down, you're going to make me deaf."

"How can I calm down? I can't see my hands in front of my face and we're enclosed in a coffin sized box. Oh no, what if it free falls?"

"That never actually happens in real life", I sighed.

She gasped "Your phone, use your phone. Call someone."

Fuck. I felt stupid.

"Right."

I quickly took out my phone. 1% battery remaining...

I had to be quick.

I called my manager. It rang once, twice...

"Hello, Jungkook."

I inhaled to speak and suddenly the phone switched off.

Nononononono

"My phone's dead. Use yours"

"I forgot to bring mine."

"What?! Who the hell forgets their phone?"

"Well, I didn't know I was going to get stuck in an elevator. Besides I was getting late for practice...." , she trailed off.

"Great."

I heard a soft thump.

"Did you just sit on the floor?"

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?"

"Oh no, not at all. Why don't you lay down and have a nap while you're at it?"

"What is your problem? If you have any idea about how to get us out of here, I'm all ears."

"Well, why don't you use your brain for an idea instead."

She gasped but fell silent.

"What? No argument?", I asked as I stepped back from the door.

My foot caught on something and I went down like a sack of potatoes.

She was giggling.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?", I growled angrily.

She fell silent again. I thought I had intimidated her but then...

"No actually I didn't. But I wish I had."

Her sweet scent wafted over me as I sat up. Fresh water mixed with lavender, it was intoxicating. I closed my eyes.

Fuck, she smells good.

"Of all the people to get stuck in an elevator with..." , I muttered.

"I heard that."

"Good."

I felt a hand on my bicep.
She squealed as she pulled her hand back.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were so close."

"Yeah right. You made me trip over you and now you want to feel me up. Are you sure you didn't orchestrate this whole thing to have me close to you?", I was angry and I blurted out whatever came to my mind. I knew she was innocent but her distracting presence was irritating me.

I was sure this time I had reduced her to tears...
"The ego on you! Who do you think you are?"

I smirked."I'm sure you know who I am."

"Unfortunately yeah. But after today I wish I didn't, Jungkook Sunbaenim.", she made my name sound like a curse.

"Well, I'm sorry but you have me at a disadvantage because I have no clue who you are." I said in a saccharine sweet voice, still sitting on the floor with her.

She took my insult in stride.

"That's good actually. I don't want you to know who I am."

By now my back was soaked with sweat because of the cramped space and a bead of sweat rolled down my temple. I reached my hand upto wipe it, but my elbow accidentally hit something instead.

"Oww", she voiced out.

Fuck.

"I'm sorry ", I straightened, blindly reaching my hand out.

"Was that on purpose now?", she asked in a hurt voice.

"You know that wasn't. I would never purposefully hit a girl. Did I hit your head?"

"Yeah."

My hand touched her head and I smoothed out her hair.

Suddenly the lights came back on and the elevator buzzed to life, descending once again.

I didn't know how we had gotten so close in the dark but my face was just inches away from hers, my eyes looking into her deep brown ones. I couldn't look away. She had really big, beautiful eyes.

I didn't know what was happening but I realised that we were getting closer. I didn't know how to stop.

Ding...

The elevator sounded and we broke apart, surprised.

We quickly stood up as the doors opened.

My manager and another man stood outside.
"Jungkook! Are you okay? I've been worried sick since you called?" , my middle aged manager asked as I stepped outside.

"I'm fine. Just seriously pissed and about to file one hell of a complaint to SBS", I muttered.

I looked around but the BlackPink girl and the other man had already left.

And then I realised, I still didn't know her name...

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I'm going to try and update daily.

Thanks for reading.
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