ι ℓσνє уσυ, мσηѕтєя | LK Adaptation

30

Somewhere in Australia.

In a dimly lit spacious room surrounded with computers working on their own, Jungkook was quietly staring at a large screen when his cellphone suddenly vibrated.

Jimin who was sitting right in front the door looking like a lazy security guard immediately awakened. He knew that nobody will ever call Jungkook’s personal phone at this moment. Even his own grandfather couldn’t. Therefore, he could only deduce that it’s no other than the wife.

He then instantly flew like wind as he quietly attempted eavesdropping behind Jungkook.

Jungkook on the other hand, watched his phone as it rungs for a while before he finally answered it.

"H-hello?"

As soon as Jungkook heard Lisa’s sweet voice, he looked as though he just heard a certain mystic sound, and he seemed to suddenly forgot that he needs to talk back.

"H-hello? J-Jungkook?" By the time she said her second ’hello’, the man seemed awakened, however, the moment he heard her called his name, for unknown reason, no word came out of his mouth.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

Hearing her third hello, Jungkook seemed to returned to his senses once again.

However, before he could open his mouth to answer her, the girl’s voice abruptly played again like a beautiful song. "Is this my husband, Jungkook?"

Her gentle voice calling him sweetly as ’my husband’, instantly stunned the man. He couldn’t speak and he seemes looking absolutely dumbfounded. Well, part of it was because the girl never addressed him like that before.

"Jungkook?"

The girl called his name for the third time, and Jungkook finally opened his mouthbut before any sound could came out from it, Lisa’s voice rang out again. "Thank you for letting me contact you."

Upon hearing her, Jungkook remained silent. He felt like he was a computer currently being attacked by super viruses one after another, not even giving him the chance to react. Although, the attack actually wasn’t really that fast, it was him who was strangely reacting quite late. He was like a supercomputer suddenly lagging slow due to some powerful virus attack.

A short silence went by and Jungkook somehow manage to revive himself quickly, however, for the fourth time, before his voice came out of his mouth, the girl on the other side of the phone talked again, and this time the attack seemed quite lethal.

"I miss you," she said and the call promptly ended.

That moment, silence enveloped the entire room and Jungkook remained in dazed. The last attack seemed to be strong enough to shut down the computer by force.

Jimin who was eavesdropping the whole time -although he never heard a thing- waved his hand in front of Jungkook’s face but the man remained motionless.

"My god Jungkook! What the hell happened? Wake up! The call already ended without you even saying a word back. Are you serious?" Jimin’s loud voice echoed in the whole room. And he looked as though he didn’t know whether to laugh or what. He was so curious on what the girl had told him for him to be dumbfounded to that extent.

Thankfully, the man seemed to finally awakened and he looked blankly at him.

"She called my name, three times," he said and Jimin’s forehead was quickly covered with deep lines for a moment, but he soon realized that it’s actually a big thing since surprisingly, lisa never called him by name apart from that one time when she was kidnapped.

"And?" Jimin continued asking.

"She called me ’my husband’,"

"H-huh?" Jimin was even more confused. So what? Was that a big deal?

"It’s the first time I heard her addressed me that."

"Oh... okay. And?"

"She thanked me,"

"And?"

"She said..." Jimin was like a little kid waiting for the new year’s final countdown as he waits for the continuation of Jungkook’s words.

"She said she missed me."

A short silence followed Jungkook’s statement before jimin could talk again. "That’s all?"

"Mm. That’s all. I felt like I was suddenly under attack."

"Pfft. Hahaha." Seriously?

Jimin rolled on the floor as he laughed with all his heart. He even smacked the floor as he laughs out loud like crazy while Jungkook just quietly raised his head and stared at the dim light above him. At that moment, a certain warm disturbance was brewing inside Jungkook’s chest, and a mysterious and unfathomably invisible fire blazed across his eyes.

Meanwhile, at Gray Mansion, lisa’s face was blazing red the moment she ended the call.

She did not know what to feel at that moment. Especially when the person at the other side of the phone did not talk at all. She couldn’t help but wonder what was going on. Is there something wrong? Is he busy?

Truth was that, since Lisa was having a hard time choosing which among the steps she should execute first, she decided executing all of them at once. Besides, she thought that an all-out attack would surely have a stronger impact. In addition, part of it was because she thought that it has been so long since she last did a mission, thus, although she did consider the possibility of failure, she did not chicken out and proceeded anyway.

’Step #07; use his name’

She was aware of the importance of this step and as Jennie said, in the art of seduction, this step belonged to the psychological tricks. However, for unknown reason, lisa realized she was strangely having a hard time using Jungkook’s name whenever she talks to him in person. Thus, she was glad to find out that it was actually easier for her to say his name on the phone. She thought she finally found a good way to practice addressing him his name.

’Step #13; appreciate his efforts,’

Jennie advised her never to underestimate the power of saying thanks for every little thing. Lisa has always been doing this step no matter who it is, however, strangely, she found it hard to express it towards Jungkook. Making this step a bit challenging but ended up quite heartwarming for her. She was glad she finally said thanks, not just for letting her call him, but because of many other things he did for her since the beginning. This step also convinced her that Jennie was right; there are things that really seemed easier to say through phone after all.

’Step #17; Let him know you’re thinking about him’

Although Jennie said nothing much about this step, she did tell her it means as it is. Therefore, lisa made it sure, that he will clearly get her message, that she has been thinking about him and she is missing him, although she did not realize that she somehow overdid this step a little.

’Step #06; Keep interaction short and sweet’

As her love guru’s advice, this step could be the application of the law of supply and demand. ’You have to keep the supply scarce so that the demand will grow even higher.’ Thus, Lisa did it in a way as if she’s some arresting breeze appearing out of nowhere that left him dazzled and speechless.

Somehow, Lisa executed the steps perfectly although the steps were carried out in such an amazingly fast pace.

And even though lisa was puzzled the whole time she called him and his lack of response left her wondering whether he was there listening or not, she somehow felt light hearted. As if her gloomy world instantly brightened the moment she said it all.

Lisa couldn’t explain why but she somehow felt that something good had happened and even though she received no reply, she still felt as though her all-out attack did work, giving her some sort of power to keep moving forward.