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chapter twenty-four

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"Yura, wait!" Jeongguk shouts after the girl, who is currently running away from his house.

But Yura doesn't listen. She shakes her head in complete disappointment, and keeps on walking through the streets as an exasperated Jeongguk is chasing after her. "Let me explain!"

"Explain what?" she yells loudly, swiftly turning around and catching him off-guard; his eyes stretching widely. "As soon as I'm trying to get to know you, I find out so many things. And those things keep on confusing me about you and your actual personality!"

Yura screams, "Who are you?"

Words leave him. He stares into those bright brown eyes burning with anger, and his heart falls silent. "Answer me!" she roars.

But he can't will his lips to move. As if stuck underwater, everything is slow and warbled as she points a shaky finger in his face. "Do you have nothing to say? I have poured my insecurities out to you, now tell me what you're thinking!" Yura demands.

But Jeongguk's mind is blank and his eyes wide as he stares at her in horror. Her eyes desperately search his - waiting.

I have to say something! He searches his mind for something reasonable to say, but to his surprise, his heart answers for him, "I don't know, Yura."

Her face remains blank. "Fuck off," she mutters aside, turning back around - ready to walk out of this scene.

"No!" he blurts out. Jeongguk swiftly takes hold on her wrist, stopping her from leaving. He mumbles in a calmer tone, commitment dripping from his voice, "I'll explain."

Before she could respond, he takes his hand into hers and walks upon a calmer place to talk to.

After finding a small bench in a lonely scenery, Jeongguk and Yura sit down next to each other, a wide gap in between them.

Yura looks straight forward with her head held high, not sparing him a single glance as a silence creeps onto their skins.

Taking in a deep breath, he slowly begins to open up, allowing her to take a peak into his private life, "The people you saw today are my brothers. Not biologically, but emotionally."

"After all of kept on struggling with our lives, we decided to move together," continues Jeongguk, nodding his head a few times as he casts his gaze forward. "Then, it was only Namjoon, Taehyung, Seokjin, and me."

"And, um..." He trails off, not quite sure on how to form an eloquent sentence. "Taehyung called me right before he introduced you to that website. He told me to match up with you and all. So he kind of did all of this."

Also, he reveals, "I later on found out that you were the girl that got cheated on by Seokjin. We were already texting, so I didn't want it to get ruined by him."

"D-Does he know?" asks Yura, moving her head towards him just a bit. "About us?"

Nodding his head, he slowly answers, "Yeah..."

She doesn't know how to respond as her mind is filled with various thoughts and insecurities, so she simply exhales and leans back to let all of those new informations sink into her brain.

"That's it?" She breaks the silence, causing him to look at her with an ajar mouth. "Do you have any other things that you didn't tell me?"

Jeongguk gulps, averting her gaze and replying, "No."

Yura sighs in relief, sitting up straight and scooting closer to his warm form. "Great. Honestly, you could've just said all of that to me in the first place."

"Really?" he asks, raising his eyebrows in a questionary behavior.

"Yeah," responds Yura. She shrugs, before adding, "I despise liars, and the lies you told me were pretty much unnecessary. So you sinned for no reason at all."

"Well, it's not like I don't have any sins at all..." Jeongguk replies teasingly, licking his lips whilst he moves his head closer toward her, a fiery glint in his dark eyes as he looks down at her lips.

Yura's eyes are as blank as a piece of paper, not amused at all. With her two fingers, she takes his head in her hand and moves it forward, so that he won't continue on burning her with his stare. "Yeah, no."

He pouts at that, glancing at her again. "Why not?"

"You still lied to me," she says as a matter of fact. Shrugging, she stands up and begins walking to God-knows-where.

As she continuously walks away from him, Jeongguk groans and waddles behind her. "Technically, it's not a lie. I just hid it from you."

"Technically, you're a male, but I see no man," counters Yura.

He gasps dramatically, clutching his chest. "Hey, that's not true!"

As she keeps on ignoring his protests, he swiftly sighs to himself and does what he does best: manipulation.

With a click of his tongue, he places his hands on her hips and pushes her against a wall, gazing at her widely stretched eyes with his loosened eyelids.

There's a sudden change of aura in those dark eyes. Where was once confusion and cuteness, is now lust and desire.

Yura wonders. She wonders how he can switch off those emotions, as if he were a light.

Jeongguk leans down, his lips just lightly brushing past her cheek and landing on her ear, purring "Now, where do you think you're going?" His warm breathing keeps on fanning against her already heated face.

He's an enchanter, and she's his victim. It doesn't matter how much she tries to run away from him, she still gets casted by his spell.

"Um... you know, just stuff." There's only a small voice evident in the end, and she curses herself for that.

He chuckles deeply, and she could already feel herself getting even more aroused. Jeongguk continuously pushes himself closer to her, his lips now only sharing a small distance with hers.

Being completely hypnotized, she doesn't notice when his lips start grazing her neck - a gesture that sends her head spinning, and her heartbeat raising.

Him kissing Yura's neck is like turning the key to her engine. Once that's done, she's all his. Just the gentle movement of his warm breath in her ear and she has no resistance left at all.

"You know..." he slowly begins. His fingers lightly trace across her skin, hypnotizing her with not only his words, but also with his body. "I would've loved to continue, but I'm no man, so."

And with that, Jeongguk backs away completely, a proud smirk on his face as a desperate Yura stands in front of him; eyes pried open and lips ajar in shock.

"Dork," she mutters, crossing her arms.

"Loser," he counters, leaning further toward with his hands on his back, a soft smile on his face.

"Nerd," Yura continues, raising her eyebrows in a challenging way.

"Geek." His smile reaches his eyes now.

"Fool." Her eyebrows furrow naturally, looking down at his smiling lips.

He finishes smoothly, once and for all, "Mine."

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A/N
me @ jk stepping up his game

but also me @ yura about jk

ok first of all, hey guys lmao. i've been gone for a long ass time, and i'm honestly so sorry for neglecting this book and most importantly you guys.

i just had the biggest writer's block with this chapter, lyke, wtf. but i'll obviously continue on writing this book, this chapter was just hard as hell lol

the next chapters will be longer, with texting and some more drama. stay tuned!!