just ➳ j. jungkook

十九

「just a scheme」

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jiyeon growled in frustration as she was sent to voicemail for the nth time. it had been two days since jungkook was last seen by jiyeon. she had called and texted him over a hundred times in the past two days, but he never answered nor replied.

"jeon jungkook!" she screamed angrily at her phone screen. "pick up the damn phone!"

jiyeon paced back and forth outside the restaurant that jungkook had promised to meet her at for a date. this was probably the tenth time in two weeks that jungkook had promised her a date and never even bothered to show up.

it was all areum's fault.

jiyeon absolutely loathed areum. areum was the reason why jungkook always cancelled dates. she was the reason why jungkook rarely smiled. but above all, areum was the reason why jungkook couldn't love her.

jiyeon knew she was only a rebound ー she was only someone to make areum jealous. but she pretended that jungkook actually loved her.

she pretended to be happy when jungkook gifted her with the things areum would have liked: red roses, green tea chocolates, a new totoro iphone case. jiyeon detested them all. she hated flowers, and she liked milk chocolate better. and hell, she didn't even own an iphone.

but did jungkook even notice? did he ever ask jiyeon what she liked? did he even care what jiyeon preferred?

the answer was no.

jungkook didn't care because he was too busy stuck in his own world pretending that jiyeon was areum.

but jiyeon still pretended that she loved all the gifts jungkook gave her because deep down, she knew that she was just areum's replacement. so she changed herself to be like areum.

maybe that if she was areum, jungkook would love her the way he loved areum.

but clearly that didn't work, seeing as now jiyeon sat alone on a bench, having been ditched yet again.

"oh hey jiyeon!" a familiar voice rang upon her ears.

jiyeon looked up only to see the eyes of the man that she loved so dearly. "j-jungkook! i thought you weren't going to come."

excitedly jiyeon jumped up into jungkook's arms. he pushed her off and looked away guiltily.

"yeah. that's the thing, jiyeon. i wanted to talk to you about something..." jungkook's voice trailed off.

"let's talk over breakfast then!" jiyeon dragged the unwilling jungkook into the diner.

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"taetae!" areum called in a sing-song voice as she walked through the door.

taehyung only smiled in response and pulled areum into a comforting hug. "i missed you."

areum giggled. "the nurse said you could be discharged today, so let's go and get some breakfast! i promised to meet jungkook at that small diner you love."

taehyung cringed as he heard jungkook's name.

"tae," areum whispered softly, reaching out to brush strands of hair away from his eyes. "jungkook is really sorry about what he did, and he wants to tell you in person during breakfast. he paid for all your medical bills and everything, tae. please just give him a chance."