Kim Seokjin x reader | Enemy to Lovers!au, smut, fluff, rom-com | 18,5k words
Summary | You hate to admit it, but making bad decisions and being reckless seems to be your forte. From saying yes to a last-minute meeting to ignoring your father's warn...
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Once you had gotten into his truck, you made Seokjin agree to turn his truck around and drive back to where your car had been stuck in. Seokjin had helped you step down the bank, carefully this time and without slipping down the slippery slope, then joined you as you examined your car.
You had asked him if he could pull the car out of the ditch, only to have him shaking his head, regretfully telling you that he wasn't all prepared with the proper tools to do it when he was only planning to make a quick drive out of town and back and was not expecting to find you stranded in the area. The only option is to get your things out of the vehicle and get to town before midnight to decide how to go about it.
While Seokjin goes to the trunk to retrieve your bags and suitcase, you look down on the small car and wince at the sight of it. A huge dent is visible on its side where you felt it hit against the edge of the ditch and the way its tires are slanted sideways in awkward positions is not entirely a beautiful picture to look at.
You had relied too much on your new car when you decided to go on this trip, believing that it would never fail you. As a matter of fact, it didn't. It was more that you had failed your car more than it did to you when you were being reckless about the road.
Seokjin follows your gaze just as he hoists a suitcase out of your baggage trunk, looking down on the tires and mutters, "You weren't using the right tires."
You can only sigh when you know that he is right and you are too tired to defend yourself. "I have been too busy right before the holidays, and I couldn't find the time to take it to the auto shop," you tell him, furrowing your brows a little. "I wasn't planning to drive home on it either until I had no other choice but to do it at the very last minute."
He only stares at you and you bite your tongue. Squaring your shoulders, you wait for him to make a sarcastic comment to taunt you. Unexpectedly, Seokjin only nods. Maybe he had caught the distress in your eyes or see it on your face, because he only smiles knowingly and says, "It'll be alright. We'll just cover it up with something for now and lock up the doors. I'll have my friend pull it out first thing in the morning. He has a tow truck which would be better to do the job than my truck and some old rusty chains would."
Surprised to have his response, you can only return his gaze and absentmindedly murmur, "Okay."
Both of you work systematically as you move your things from the car into his truck. Then you watch Seokjin placing some fallen branches and street markers to keep your car out of sight before hopping back on the truck to continue the journey. As you are soon back on the road, you slowly feel the cold coming back and tug at your coat to tighten it around you. You look down on the heater and notice it running, but say nothing even though you doubt that the thing is working properly in this old truck of his.
"You shouldn't have worn something so thin in this cold." Seokjin's voice suddenly comes to steal your attention away from his dashboard and you find him glancing down on your body when you look at him.
