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JIMIN POV

My first kiss with a boy because
I too had been a boy, had been when I was barely seventeen.

My high school crush asked
me to dance at homecoming.

It was everything my teenage self had dreamt of until the kiss.

Or really after the kiss.

We'd danced, he was feeling it
as much as I was, at least his body was and then we kissed.

It wasn't long and tongues
barely came out but at the
time, it rocked my world.

And as we broke apart, the dance over, he mumbled in
my ear, "I have a boyfriend."

He walked away and never
spoke to me again.

My friends all said he lied and didn't have a boyfriend, I just needed to up my game and
I never knew for sure.

But the insecurity that built
from that experience...it was back with a vengeance.

Jungkook kissed me in the
bar, not caring that Paul could walk in on us.

He wasn't there but he could show up at any time.

Not holding back.

Not acting like it was anything less than amazing, I thought
that maybe...just maybe he meant it.

Two weeks, four days and
twelve hours later I finally
saw the truth.

He didn't mean it or if he did, maybe my teen friends had
been right.

Maybe I needed to up my
game.

Maybe I didn't kiss well
enough or maybe it was my stupid human DNA or maybe
it was...I had no idea what it
was but it was something
and it sucked.

It sucked so badly.

I stirred the pot of mac and cheese I was whipping up.

I preferred it backed in the
oven but Dalsu being Dalsu preferred the blue box.

This was my compromise.

Homemade but not baked.

It was pretty good and economical.

"What smells so delicious?"

Jungkook came out wearing
low-cut pajama pants and no shirt.

Was he trying to kill me?

"I was making lunch for Dal."

"I figure it will still be warm if
I put it in the new thermos
you picked up for him."

It had been such a sweet gesture.

Somehow Jungkook had found
a lunch thermos with a guitar
on it and surprised dal with it
the first time he was able to
shift on my command.

Apparently that was a big deal.

Given I wasn't a wolf, I didn't quite understand all that but
the pride beaming from him
as he stood there in human
form said it all.

"He'll like that."

He stood closer, leaning over
my shoulder, I assumed to
look in the pot.

"Did you want me to make
you one, too?"

I turned the heat off and
put the cover on the pot.

"Okay."

He stepped back and started
to dig in the cupboard and withdrew a thermos, which
he quickly filled with hot
water and set on the
counter next to Dalsu's.

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