Treacherous

Treacherous 53

"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas."
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BTS - Love Maze (piano ver.)

"So you have to leave for a week for this business trip?"

"Yes."

"Can we FaceTime?"

Lisa breathed out. Croaking out an "okay", she pulled the phone away from her ear. She answered the moment his call registered in.

"I'm leaving in three days," she uttered as she placed the phone down on the table. She started going through some random papers, making it look like she's busy.

Yes. Last three days.

"Where is this business trip you're going to?" Jungkook asked as he leaned against his swivel chair in his office, staring intently at her.

Lisa paused. But she was expecting him to ask that actually. She looked over to her phone again.

A small smile pulled on her lips as she shook her head.

"I'm not telling you," she said.

Jungkook pouted. "Why not?"

"You'd follow me. I can't have you do that," she uttered. He tilted his head.

"What makes you think I will?" He asked.

"Won't you?" Lisa asked back. "Every time I have somewhere to go, you've been asking to come or when it's the other way around, you want me to come with you."

Lisa scrunched her nose playfully without much thought about how it will affect him.

Jungkook couldn't help but smile. Cute.

"Does it have to be a week?" He groaned, placing his free arm over his eyes.

One week away? In his mind, that's too long.

"Yep," she affirmed. He groaned again and Lisa couldn't help but chuckle gently at the way he's acting. "Come on now. It's not that bad. You'll see me after a week."

Here's the thing, it's either she comforts him with a white lie or have him constantly bug her about this so-called business trip.

"Are you saying I won't get to call you during your trip?" He questioned as he swiftly removed his arm from covering his eyes to look at her. Lisa shrugged. Jungkook narrowed his eyes. "Don't torture me like this."

"Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I guess you can call me. However, if I can't answer, you can just assume that I'm in a meeting," she said yet her eyes didn't look directly at him.

"That's not assuring at all," Jungkook muttered as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Why not tell me where you're going? I won't follow you, I promise."

"Yeah, you can't outsmart me, Mr." Lisa chuckled out. "You'll be fine. Hang out with Taehyung Oppa while I'm gone. And then... before you know it... I'm home."

Before you know it, Mara's home.

"You know, I'm older than you too yet I never heard you call me that," Jungkook pointed out.