New Chapter - It Was You - 5
<> Jungkook x named reader
<> Kim Yuna was used to being overlooked in favour of her siblings, which is why she excelled at her job as a video game developer. When she meets Jeon Jungkook, it seems like they bond over the fact that they are living in their siblings shadows. But what can she do when he doesn’t recognize her from their one night stand? How can she let him know it was her?
Jungkook ran his hand through his hair for what seemed like the hundredth time that hour. Artists could be so indecisive, he thought to himself, as he tried to revise the floor plan yet again for one of the artists that they were going to showcase next month.
"You look so sexy when you're deep in thought." A voice came from the doorway.
He looked up and blinked, not expecting to be interrupted. His eyes grew wary. "Sora."
She straightened up from the doorway and came towards him. "I would have thought that you'd be happier to see me." She purred, going around the back of his chair. She ran a hand over his shoulder and came around and sat in the chair in front of him, crossing her legs.
"What do you want, Sora?" He sighed.
She pouted. "Is that how you greet an old friend?"
Sora's eyes sharpened for a moment before it was gone. "Of course." She said softly, coming back around. She gently nudged her chair and settled into his lap. He didn't push her away. "I had feelings for you." She let her voice hitch slightly. "I think that I might still." She dipped her head and nipped at his neck, finding a soft spot that she knew he liked sucked.
His hands remained on the arms of the chair he was in. He sighed and put his hands on her arms, firmly pushing her off his lap and guiding her towards the door. "I'm not interested anymore, Sora. I'm not going to fall for this again."
She got angry. "I know you still want me, Jungkook. We were great together. In bed, and out." She put her hands on his chest. "I realize that it wasn't Namjoon oppa that was the one for me. It was always you. I was just too dumb to realize it." She fisted her hands in his hair and crushed her mouth to his.
He put his hands in his pockets and fisted them.
"Ahem." Came from the doorway. Sora quickly let go and scooted behind Jungkook grabbing onto his arm. "I'm sorry to interrupt." Lucy said, not sounding very sorry at all. "But I have a few documents to go over with Mr. Jeon."
Sora turned to Jungkook, "I'll call you later, and we can continue our...talk." She said, picking up her purse.
Jungkook didn't move. "Don't call me anymore, Sora. We were done a long time ago and I'm not looking to pick things up again now."
Sora's demeanor changed right in front of him. "You're only rejecting me because your brothers have brought you into the fold, and now you think you're so great. They only want you because of your hyungs." She spat.
Jungkook looked at her sadly. "So did you."
Her eyes widened, and she stomped out of the room in her expensive heels.
Jungkook rubbed a hand over his face. He wasn't in love with her anymore, but the words still stung. He looked up at Lucy still at the door. "What do we need to go over?" He asked.
Lucy was watching the angry woman leave the building. "Nothing." She said with a smile. "I thought maybe you needed an excuse."
He chuckled. "Thank you, Lucy. I'm sorry that you have to run interference."
"Part of the job." She chuckled, and went back to her desk.
He sat down, unable to get Sora's words out of his head.
"You're a hit!" Jungkook yelled, so he could be heard over the din.
"Always a team effort." Yuna replied, as he swept her up in a big hug.
"I'm so pround of you." He said, putting his forehead against hers. She gazed at his lips, thinking that they looked like they wer moving closer.
"We did it!" Someone yelled nearby, and the two were crushed into a bearhug. The body quickly went away to give more hugs and Hobi came up to them. He tipped his glass.
Yuna nodded. She didn't noticed that Jungkook had interlaced his fingers with hers until she needed to pull away. SHe squeezed his fingers and pulled her hand away. He pulled her back in and gave her a peck on the lips. "Good luck."
She looked taken aback, and just smiled. She went to follow Hobi to the side of the stage, and Jungkook went to watch with Tae and the others.
A body came out of nowhere and knocked into Yuna. She went crashing to the floor.
Yuna pulled herself up and took off her glasses. They were twisted beyond repair. "Well, these are done."
"Yuna, are you okay?" Hobi asked again, touching her elbow. She squinted at him. "Can you direct me to the washroom? I have to put my contacts in , or I won't be able to see anything."
They quickly went to the restrooms, and Yuna was relieved that she always carried backups with her."
"How do I look?" She asked, coming out.
They made it to the stage just as their names were called.
Yuna was a confident speaker. Years of travelling with her sisters and attending events, and later the success of her first game meant that she had lots of practice.
But she stumbled when she found Kook in the crowd. He was watching her with an unreadable expression. She pushed down her feelings of unease and continued. She'd have to decipher it later.
Hobi and Yuna were stopped multiple times before they could get back to their group. Jungkook was off to the side, flirting with a bombshell in a red dress. She went up to him. "Kook?"
"Kook?" She said again, louder.
"Can't you see he's talking to me?" The woman asked her.
"It's okay." He said lazily. He handed her a keycard. "I'll see you in a little bit?"
The woman smiled and sauntered away.
"What was that about?" Yuna asked. "I thought we were..." She couldn't get the words out.
"Have sex? F***? I changed my mind." He took a drink. "How did it feel to make a fool of me?"
"It was you. That night after Jin-hyung's engagement party." He casually reached out and took her wrist. He ran his finger lightly over the cuff and unbuckled it. Her tattoo came into view. A long sword with the initials DR, all within a circle of fire. Dragon Rider. In reference to her first professional success. "You have no idea how many times I dreamed of your eyes, with the blue contacts, and this tattoo." He put the cuff back in her hand and let go. "And all this time you must have been laughing at me."
"Are you saying you don't remember that night?"
"Of course I do." She said, frustrated. "When was I supposed to bring it up? When you showed up at work? Or at the tasting?"
"You knew I was looking for you!"
She felt defeated. "Did I? You only told me a short while ago. Besides, you didn't even recognize ME."
They both stood there, staring at each other.
Tae came up to them. "We're heading out."
"Me too." Jungkook said, his eyes still on Yuna. He nodded to Tae and headed to the elevator lobby, alone.
Yuna absently rubbed her wrist tattoo. It was close to midnight, and with everything handed over, she finally had some time to catch up on paperwork. Her eyes caught the Doraemon sitting on her shelf, not moving, since the sun wasn't out.
"Look what I got you!" Kook said excitedly. "It's a dancing Doraemon! He gets his power from the sun." He had put the little figuring on her desk, and sure enough, it started wiggly back and forth due to solar power. He giggled.
"I love it! But you didn't have to."
"I wanted to. You spend so much time in this cubicle, I thought that you could use a few knick knacks to make you smile during crunchtime...
She picked up a double-walled glass, the inside glass in the shape of a cat's paw, so it looked like a cat had stuck its paw into your drink.
"You love cats, and since Namjoon hyung was clumsy and broke one of your glasses at home, I got you a replacement."
Slowly, other memories started crowding in.
"Where do you want to eat tonight? I heard that there's a new mixology bar that's open, do you want to try it?" He asked.
"But you hate those kinds of places."
"Well," He rubbed the back of his neck. "I do. But if you like them, we can go."
She cocked her head. "I think you know me well enough by now to know if I like those kinds of places or not."
He smiled shyly. "Okay, it's that little food stand on the way back to your place for a movie it is."
Late night dinner and a movie.
He had fallen asleep on her couch again. She considered leaving him there, but he had complained about being achy the last time he slept on her couch.
"Come on, Kook. Let's get you into bed. Come on." She coaxed him, like she would an unsure puppy. He slowly made his way to her guest bedroom, and she was tucking him in when "You should stay with me."
She stilled at his words, but caught herself and continued to tuck him in. "I'll see you in the morning." She replied, brushing some hair out of his face. His hand caught her wrist, "Stay." He said, not opening his eyes.
"I'll just be down the hall."
Even events that they would attended together to beat boredom
"You don't have to come with me, it's just a small fundraiser that I started doing with Jin-hyung. There's going to be no media there." He said, tying his tie.
"All the more reason to keep you company." Yuna said, helping him straighten it."
He sounded like a teenager who was told he could stay out all night for the first time. "We can...you know, hang out, after the release party. You know, just the two of us. I mean, if you want to. I got us a suite."
She laughed. "We hang out all the time."
"Yes, but I thought that we'd do something special. You know, since you're going to be a hit and we should celebrate that."
She thought that they were friends. She didn't dare hope that he had developed feelings for her, but when he mentioned getting them a suite to celebrate just the two of them after the release party, she couldn't suppress the giddiness. He was the first person in a long time where she could be herself, where she could let her guard down. She didn't have to pretend to be interesting, or beautiful, or worldly. She could just be her.
And now that was gone. Stupid, stupid for getting attached. It never ended well. She should have kept him at arms length from the beginning. She stared out the window at nothing. Part of her did feel slightly guilty that she had not mentioned it to him when he confessed to her that he was looking for her, and she kept turning over every encounter after that, thinking maybe that had been an opening where she could have told him, but nothing came to mind. They didn't have a chance to be alone since that day, and she didn't think it appropriate to let him know in front of others, even Tae.
She reached for her phone. Maybe there was one last thing she could do for him to ease her guilt, and then she could move on.
Jungkook stepped into the apartment at 3am. He was surprised to see Namjoon up. "Why are you still up?"
Jungkook studied his brother. "You didn't have to do that."
"No, but you've been out every night since the release party." Namjoon poured himself a glass of water and waited, leaning against the counter. "You never go out that much."
Jungkook sighed and braced himself against the counter. "That girl that I've been obsessing over...It's Yuna."
Namjoon just raised an eyebrow.
Jungkook proceeded to tell his hyung about his revelation from the release party, and the details of their exchange afterwards.
Joon just listened and considered.
"I mean, she could have told me, right? We were working closely together and spending so much time in each other's company. She was probably laughing at me the entire time."
Namjoon looked up at that. "Do you really think so?"
"Why else would she not say anything except to make me look like a fool or use me to get to you?"
Namjoon shook his head. He knew that Jungkook had had a rough time of it growing up, but didn't realize that his brother still held onto some of those feelings.
"Sora also stopped by to see me at the gallery the other day."
Now some pieces were beginning to fall into place. "You shouldn't listen to what she says."
"I didn't exactly go looking for her."
"No, but her words effected you. And made you doubt Yuna."
The small thread of hope that he had been holding onto to validate his feelings were slipping away. He knew he was being unfair. He knew that he had let Sora mess with his head.
"The truth is you didn't recognize her, Kook. Maybe it was a blow to her ego too. And you said that you didn't mention this mystery girl you were looking for until recently. How in the world was she supposed to fess up at this point, so far into your friendship?" He started walking to his room and stopped when he got next to Jungkook. "Get some rest. Clear your head. Then you can think about how to fix this, if that's what you want to do."
Jungkook stood there alone in the dim lighting of the kitchen. Somewhere along the way, even though he had been looking for his one night stand, he had been slowly developing feelings for Yuna. He had denied it to his hyungs, and thought that saying it out loud would keep the feelings at bay, but he finally realized that he was an idiot for denying something right in front of him, while he chased a memory.
He rubbed his hands over his face. Joon was right, he need to get some rest and think about this more when he wasn't exhausted.
