ENCHANTED

25

"So..." Jungkook sat on the edge of your bed when you sat on his opposite side.

"A few things happened when you were out with the children"

"I see" He said shifting to sit more comfortably on the bed with his legs crossed.

"First thing is that I got a offer for a job here. Its a 9 to 5 so if the children are fine with being without me for a few hours after school I could take the job. It has quite the perks you know. Travel expenses, health care, housing, child care, etc. To be honest this sitting at home all day thing is kinda killing me. I love being with the kids but when nobody's there and I'm just working on a computer for hours on end it kills me. Going to an office also means I'll get a place to socialise, make friends."

"You should've told me that before"

"My plans of shifting back here had to be made so abruptly that I didn't really get much time."

"I could come home during lunch time and then go back. I could drop them at their extracurricular classes and go back to my office...." He plans out with his hand moving in the air when you interrupt him.

"And I pick them up on my way back home."

"It'll all fall into place perfectly" He smiled slightly.

"Yes it will" you say.

"But you know what will it make it even more perfect..."

"Yeah... I know..."

"So have you decided?" He said with his eyes shining like you hadn't seen them shine in the past few months.

"Yes but I have some conditions"

"Okay tell me..."

"First of all I know we're going to be very serious. We're two grown adults who have had their fair share of life and we're raising kids. So it has to be serious from the start." You tell him gravely tucking your hair behind your ear and looking at him in short glances while his eyes didn't move away from you.

"I'm all in for that. I don't have anyone else in my life and there's never going to be. It's just you that I can even think about..."

"And I want us to grow our relationship emotionally first before we do anything physical. I want to wait until we have strong feelings of love for each other."

"Sex is not even the last thought in my head. I had the same kind of thing in my head which you just said."

"If we marry in the future, I want to adopt a child. And that'll complete our family. I can't give you anything more than that and I'm not even going to try for it. If you can accept these things then only we should take this further."

"Well then how do we go further?" He looks at you with his eye smile, indicator of his true happiness. You felt so happy yourself to see him this happy.

"To be honest we're like a married couple already" you chuckle when he giggles to your answer. He calms himself before speaking what he has formulated in his mind.

"You don't have any idea how grateful I'm for you. It was only because of you that I could get out of my grief. Otherwise I would've been so alone. And God knows what would have happened to my kids. You came here and made my home still feel like a home. And for that I have so much respect for you. I want to love your for all the things that you are and all the things that you do. I don't care about what you can give me or not. I already have enough. And the possibility of bringing in another child in this sacred sanctuary that you preserved from getting destroyed... I know it'll be the best thing for all of us. Until you are here I know nobody will ever feel unloved here..." He says holding your hands when you get sentimental and tears form in your eyes but he wipes them away.

"It's not that I don't trust you... its just that you know... I felt so physically used in my marriage. The copious amounts of sex and then all the treatments and tests and therapies and what not... I went through. It makes my body feel so used now that I want to feel secured with a man before doing anything."

"I respect your choice. Okay? Its not easy to forget the past. The fact that I'm moving on doesn't means I've forgotten Dahyun right. Her story was short that's not my fault right? I can't stop living my life. To crave for company isn't a bad thing... she'll always live in my heart and memories but that doesn't mean I get stuck with that."

"I know it feels wrong sometimes Jungkook. Trust me I feel like that too. You and I we are two broken people but if we can help each other heal and provide that required companionship it's not wrong. Who cares if the world says otherwise? They don't have their own shit together and they want to come upon us. We both know what's right for us and nobody else has the right to tell us what to do."

"We'll defy all odds and make it through this..."

"Okay now its getting too much" you both break into a fit of laughter and lie down on the bed.

"To being partners through this tough voyage called life" Jungkook says crossing his fingers with yours holding your hand and you repeat his words. You put a small peck on his lips and smiled at him.