One Rule! • JK x Reader•

45. Salt

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Jungkook was breaking the noodles into the pan of boiling water as you chopped up the vegetables, I mean how does he even make cooking look cool?

Suddenly you felt something tickle you arm and when you turned and looked over at him, Jungkook looked suspicious with a grin; "what?" He sniggered.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing" he pretends to be shocked.

You wait and then next time you catch him; you see him throw a pinch of salt at you, "Kook!!!" You scream giggly and grab some salt and throw it right back at him, it turns into a play fight of throwing salt and pepper at each other all over your kitchen with you girly screaming a few times when Jungkook throws a bigger handful at you.

It's fine until he grabs at you, until he grips your wrist and pulls you towards him; catching you in his hold as you get crushed against his chest.

And then you lock eyes, there are no words uttered, just a lock of eye contact and it feels like your body is in flames but then he tickles you and the eye contact is lost as you jerk away, "ahhh stop!!"

"Don't give me the cute 'stop it' look" he sniggers as he goes to tickle you again, causing you to squirm in his hold, but he trips on his own foot, causing you both to topple to the ground, he manages to land safely and you land on top of him, when you try to move you slip and fall closer to him, this time it's too obvious to ignore.

You're a whisper away from his face!

From his lips!

He's within such close proximity if you just leaned forward a centimetre you would be able to kiss him.

The thought of it spirals your mind but you can't move you feel frozen and he never looks away from your eye contact, it's the most intimate moment you've experienced with him but you don't want it to end even though you know it should.

When he breathes out you feel his warm breath hit your lips and you blink, but his eyes stay gazing at yours; reality suddenly hits and you snap back away from him a little and then you look away.

"Hey" he says quietly touching your wrist, his hand warm on your skin, causing a fire to surge through your veins.

You jump up and he lets go of your wrist while he starts to stand himself.

"Sorry, that's what you get for tickling me" you say with the best smile you can paint on to distract from the embarrassment you feel at the way he affects you.

Eventually the moment was forgotten; Jungkook going back to being playful and tender in his actions, once the meal was cooked, it was eaten rather quick, both of you not realising how hungry you were.

Or how late it was!

"Shit! It's 10pm already" you curse as you throw the plates into the sink for washing tomorrow.

"Can we watch a movie, not a horror, unless you want me to save you again" he laughs

"A movie?"

"Yeah or tv, just tv?"

He gives you those stupidly cute doe eyes again that you can never say no to.

"It's late Jungkook, don't you think maybe you should get back? I can..."

He cuts in stopping you from continuing your lecture; "hey you're trying to get rid of me again aren't you?"

You just stare at him, silently.

He shuffles closer to you until he's right next to you, leaning on the kitchen counter, "... if you need me to leave, I can, or if you want me to..."

This time you stop him talking; "no..." you look up at him softly, shyly, "... don't, don't leave... I, I don't want you to go" you whisper.

"It's okay, come on..." he puts his hand out for you to grab, when you do he tugs you lightly back towards your sofa, "... let's go choose something to watch"

You feel stupid for asking him to stay when he didn't really want to leave anyway, but with every breathe you take you hear your brain scream it's wrong; you should make him go home, you should push him away, you shouldn't want him to be in your apartment with you!

"Come here" he says softly once he's sat down on the sofa waiting for you to join him.

As you hover before you sit, he's watching you, "I won't bite" he laughs gently and you just smile at him, he's so easy to be around.

It shouldn't be like this.

"Kook..." you sigh.

"What? What's wrong tell me" his eyes are gazing into yours so intently it's hard to see anything other than him, as if no other things in your apartment exist.

You sit quietly next to him, not close but it's not a minute before he moves up and presses his thigh against yours so he's as close as he can get, turning and putting his hand gently on your wrist; "talk to me, please... why were you crying earlier, I don't want to see you upset, was it me? Was it because..."

"No... no Jungkook it's not you, it wasn't you..."

Well, not directly anyway, your brain adds mentally.

"So what is it? Do you want to talk about it now?"

His voice is so soft it makes your heart skip, "I... no, it's okay... I was just, I didn't feel well and Jungkook?"

He glances at you, "hum?"

"Can we just watch something and forget about it?" You ask him quietly hoping it'll distract him long enough to forget about your earlier crying fiasco.

"Come here" he reaches out and drags you into his side, into his embrace and wraps his whole body around you, his legs, his arms all tangled up around you making you feel safe; "let's find something to watch"

Eventually wrapped in his hold you relax and just enjoy the feeling of him totally surrounding you, his scent drowning your senses, his touch on your bare arm sending goosebumps and fire up your skin; he picked some sort of comedy to watch and it's on but you don't think it's really being watched.

Jungkook keeps trailing his fingertips up over the back of your shirt, tickling patterns onto it then running his fingers softly through your hair and scratching lightly on your scalp, you've not said much since the movie was put on but that's okay, you don't trust your own mouth anyway, it always blurts things out before your brain has switched on.

You should tell him to stop, he shouldn't be touching you like that; he shouldn't be tickling you and playing with your hair!

But you let him!

You let him because you want him to do it!

You want everything he is and everything he does!

You can feel your eyes fluttering with tiredness every so often, Jungkook's warmth wrapped around you not helping your sleepy state.

At some point you close your eyes, just a few seconds will help, it's okay for a minute while he stays watching the movie.