Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~4100
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Jungkook only just makes it through the front door of his family home when Siri attacks him with a hug.
“You’re baaack!” She goes onto her tippytoes, wrapping her arms around his neck and kisses him softly on the lips. “Missed you.”
Jungkook practically swoons at the sight of those blue eyes of hers sparkling up at him. Butterflies go off within him too, and for a moment he forgets what happened earlier today in his office with his father-in-law, happy to be greeted by the love of his life in such a sweet way. It’s something he’s missed and dreamed of for two and a half years.
When she’s on him, Jungkook immediately pulls Siri’s closer, burying his face into her hair, and he holds her a little tighter than usual, taking in her lovely strawberry-pound cake scent, as well as just her warmth.
Siri giggles in his hold, feeling him squeeze her. "Missed me that much, ae?"
A little ache hits Jungkook’s chest because she has no idea just how much he’s missed her, or how much he will continue to miss her, even when she’s right here with him.
“Always,” he murmurs softly into her hair.
Across the foyer, Jungkook’s parents are watching them with a fond smile. Neither of them say anything about the fact that their son is hugging and kissing a woman who is not his current wife. It doesn’t matter anyway when they both know what Jungkook has with Jennie isn’t real. Plus, after everything their son has been through, everyone in this house knows where Jungkook's heart truly belongs, and seeing the two together again brings them comfort.
However, when Siri and Jungkook pull away from their hug, she senses something is off with him. His smile doesn’t quite reach his eyes, and there’s not as many stars shining back at her compared to when he left her in his bed this morning.
Siri moves her hands from around his shoulders to cup his face, and her eyebrows pinch together slightly with concern. “Kookie, what’s wrong? You don’t look okay.”
Shit, he thinks. Two and a half years apart and she still knows me so well, (but he actually loves that).
"I'm okay,” he tries to smile, “just had a rough day at the office, that's all."
Wasn’t the total truth, but it wasn’t a total lie either since Jungkook did have a rough day. Woobin’s disgusting, smirking mug, as well as his many chilling words still haunted his mind.
“We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?”
“Go against me and divorce my daughter, and who knows what kind of accident might come your precious Siri's way.”
What made Jungkook feel worse was when his mother and Siri told him something that happened in the afternoon while they were out shopping.
“There was this really strange motorcyclist today,” Siri said casually. “We were at a traffic light and they stopped right beside my window and just… stared at me—well, it looked like they were staring at me. Couldn’t really tell with the dark visor over their face.”
Haneul tuts playfully, “Ohh, they probably recognised you, my dear. Likely wondered if you’re the same Serena who’s meant to have disappeared. You are a very beautiful girl, you know. It's not hard to remember your pretty face,” she says warmly with a smile.
Siri blushed at the time and shrugged, “Maybe. Was still a little weird though. He kinda gave me the creeps.”
Jungkook had gotten chills and a bad feeling after hearing that. It was only that morning Woobin had threatened Siri’s safety, and suddenly a random person stopped to stare at her at traffic lights? It wasn’t a coincidence, Jungkook was sure of it.
His suspicions were confirmed later during dinner when Woobin had sent him a text that said, ‘A friend of mine saw your precious Serena today. She looked rather pretty in that pink cardigan. Apparently your mother looked happy to have her back, too.’
Jungkook’s anxiety went through the roof from the text, especially since Siri was still wearing the pink cardigan.
During the rest of dinner, Jungkook was so plagued by Woobin’s threats that he didn’t even get jealous when he saw Taehyung laughing with Siri. He didn’t get uncomfortable or react when he heard Tae call her ‘darl,’ and he didn’t think much when he noticed Tae was looking at Siri like she held the sun and the moon. Jungkook would agree she did hold them anyway, but regardless, he just ignored the boxy-smiling turd, and focused on his love instead.
Every few minutes (or more like seconds), his doe eyes would land on Siri, and every time they did, Jungkook’s chest ached. She's alive and here, yes, and she's sitting right beside him, touching him affectionately here and there, but looking at her made him feel like he was already losing her thanks to those damn awful threats lingering in his head.
Didn’t help that every time Siri caught him staring, she’d smile at him with those loving blue eyes and it only made his heart ache more because he doesn’t want to stop seeing that look on her face.
Siri could still tell something was wrong, though. Throughout the evening, whenever Jungkook wasn’t looking at her, his eyes appeared to be distant and lost. Then whenever he did look at her, there was something like longing and yearning behind his eyes, almost like he’s saying goodbye, which didn’t make any sense to Siri because she’s right here with him.
After dinner was done, Jungkook felt restless. He needed to talk to someone about what happened earlier today, and right now, he felt his father was that person. While he’s been angry with him for the last few months, Jungkook knows his father has always had good intentions.
Before heading to bed, Jungkook tells Siri he just needs to talk business with his father, and that he’d be up in his room soon. He kisses her on the forehead then leaves to find his dad.
Siri couldn’t shake the uneasiness she’s had since Jungkook came home, and so after a minute, she decides to quietly follow him. The Jeon family mansion was huge, but this place had always been like a second home to her, and Siri knew where Jungkook’s father liked to have his private meetings.
It’s downstairs at one end of the house where she notices the light on inside Seokho's study, just like she knew it would be. When she reaches the door, Siri presses her ear near it to eavesdrop. She knows it’s wrong, but she didn’t care. Something wasn’t right with Jungkook and she hoped he was going to talk to his father about it.
Turns out she’s right.
“What’s wrong, son?” Siri hears Seokho say. “Why the secret meeting?”
She hears Jungkook sigh loudly, and she could easily imagine he was sitting in the chair opposite his father with his head in his hands, elbows on his knees.
"I was thinking of divorcing Jennie,” Jungkook explains. “You know… since Siri is back and all. I told her last night that I was going to talk to you, Woobin and Jennie about it, but I think Jennie heard our conversation and she must’ve told her dad about my plan. He came storming into my office this morning before I even had the chance to arrange a meeting, and now I can't go ahead with a divorce anymore."
Siri’s stomach twists. Why can’t he? He sounded so certain about doing it last night… How can we be together properly then?
As if they were on the same wavelength, Seokho basically asks the question for her.
“Well the merger is already done, and the company name changes next week. I don’t see why you couldn’t quietly divorce Jennie since the business has been secured?”
"Woobin threatened me,” Jungkook answers.
Siri frowns at that, as does Seokho, although she couldn’t see it.
"He threatened you??” She hears the father ask with alarm in his tone. “What do you mean?”
"He said if I go against him and divorce Jennie, who knows what kind of ‘accident’ might come Siri’s way.”
The older man's heart drops, as does Siri’s behind the door.
"What??" Seokho asks with stern clarification.
Jungkook explains further, “He said to me, ‘We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?’ He was basically implying that he caused the plane accident—except going off the smug look on his face he gave me, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an accident. I think he planned for Siri and her parents to die on that plane, and I’m certain he did it so we could join our companies.”
Seokho feels blood drain out of him, just like Siri feels the same thing happening to her too. She even has to cover her mouth to silence the gasp she lets out.
"WHAT?!" Seokho blurts out as rage overcomes him. "All this time it wasn’t an accident?! It was HIM?!"
Siri couldn’t see it, but the father’s eyes widened in horror with his next thoughts.
“No wonder he insisted on handling the cause of the explosion while we focused on the search parties! He was covering his tracks!” Siri then hears a fist slamming onto the desk that makes her jump at the sound. "Goddammit! I can’t believe this! He murdered Jack and Rose, and he tried to murder our Siri too?!”
Tears brim said woman’s eyes, and her heart races at all this new information. She couldn’t believe it that she and her parents weren’t in an actual accident, but a murder plot.
“We have to do something!” she hears Seokho say. “I won’t let him get away with this! Woobin belongs in prison!”
Siri’s heart swells at Seokho’s conviction. She adores the fact that Jungkook’s father (and mother) love her this much.
The water in her eyes eventually falls as she continues to listen.
"But how can we get him?" Jungkook asks his dad. “We don't have any proof. We don't even know where to start."
Seokho didn’t know the answer just yet, and so he ends up closing his eyes as regret washes over him. "Oohh, this is all my fault. I brought that snake into our lives."
“No, it’s my fault,” Jungkook insists. Siri could hear the shakiness in his tone, and she just knows he’s tearing up. “According to Woobin, he said this all happened because I chose the wrong princess when I was a kid. I chose Siri instead of Jennie. None of this would’ve happened otherwise…”
Siri was astounded. All these years, ever since she was little, she had always felt something was off with Woobin. He was never warm or soft with her or her father, but now it all makes sense why.
Her heart sinks and more tears fall at what Jungkook just said too. She hates that he keeps blaming himself for everything bad that’s happened, and just like her, Seokho can’t accept that either.
He stands up from his chair, walks around his desk, and places his hands on his son’s shoulders to shake him gently. “Son, listen to me. This is not your fault. You were just a child and didn’t know what you were really doing.”
Seokho sighs, “it’s me. I’m to blame for all of this because I was the one who asked you to choose, and I’m so terribly sorry. I’m the one who failed to see what kind of man Woobin really was. You loved who you loved, and I wholeheartedly believe you chose the right princess. I refuse to let you blame yourself for that."
Siri hears Jungkook sniffling, probably wiping his teary eyes too. "Appa… there’s another thing… Did you know there was an heir clause in my marriage contract with Jennie?"
His father lets go of him and stands up straight with a very dumbfounded look. "What?? What heir clause??"
"The one that says I must produce an heir within two years of the marriage."
Siri feels her heart drop again, but this time it feels worse, as if she was on the FearFall ride.
Meanwhile, Seokho's eyes nearly pop out of his head upon hearing this. "WHAT?! That was never part of the deal!" He waves his hands around. "I would've never asked you to marry her if it was in the contract! This marriage was supposed to be for business! Not so that bastard could get himself a grandchild!"
Jungkook responds miserably, still very much hating this particular stipulation. "Yeah, well… Woobin expects it. Told me not to forget about it. I don’t even remember seeing it in the contract, and I even asked Jin-hyung about it today after Woobin left, but he said he doesn't remember seeing that clause either."
Seokho's face darkens because he could just tell it was all planned. "Because it wasn't there. Woobin altered it. Must've amended the contract after we had already reviewed it. Or he probably forged signatures, or manipulated the documents somehow."
Jungkook sighs. "It doesn't matter anymore. The contract is legal, and if I don't fulfil it… The Jeon side keeps twenty percent, while the Kim side gets eighty. We'll practically lose the company."
"WHAT?!" Seokho explodes again. "He can't do this! He can't steal everything of ours! That son of a bitch!”
The father then looks at his son with determination, “I swear, Jungkook-ah, I’ll figure something out. I’m so sorry this has happened, but I’ll fix this.”
Jungkook just smiles sadly. "How?"
“I’ll hire a private investigator. Get them to look into everything to do with Woobin.”
“That could take months though,” Jungkook says solemnly. "And what if he finds out? What matters to me most is Siri, and if we go against him, he’ll probably send someone after her and cause another ‘accident’ — Shit, he had someone following her today. That motorcyclist Siri and Eomma were talking about? It was one of Woobin’s men. He sent me a text at dinner saying his ‘friend’ saw them. Said Siri looked rather pretty in her pink cardigan, so he’s already got people watching her. And who knows… What if he went for Eomma too? Or even you? He’s already murdered two people we cared about, what's stopping him from doing it again?"
Outside the study, Siri covers her mouth with her hand as tears stream down her face. She couldn’t take hearing any more, so she leaves before her crying could give away that she was listening, hurrying back to Jungkook's bedroom while she desperately tries to keep herself together.
She understands now why all evening Jungkook had been looking at her like a man who thinks he’s about to lose the love of his life all over again. It’s because he really could lose her again.
God, there’s much info to take in. The plane accident was not actually an accident. Her parents were actually murdered. She was close to being killed too, plus Woobin has people watching her?? And hearing that Jungkook must produce an heir with someone who isn’t her? Siri’s devastated about that.
She doesn’t know why, but hearing about that marriage clause feels worse than hearing about the threats or that she was part of a murder plot. Maybe it’s because the thought of him sleeping with Jennie just sickens her to her core? Maybe because it means she truly won’t be able to be with Jungkook properly ever again? If Siri’s honest though, both of these thoughts kinda wreck her more than the idea of being murdered.
When she gets into Jungkook’s bedroom, Siri goes straight for the shower in his ensuite. She just needs to think about things and needs a place to cry without it being so obvious.
When she’s under the hot water, she thinks about how she knows Jungkook would never choose Jennie. Jennie would never be his priority, and if anything, he'd likely try to have both worlds. Publicly, he would be the husband everyone sees beside Jennie, the new Mrs Jeon, the woman carrying his child. And behind closed doors, he would continue seeing her (Siri), coming home to her at the end of the day to hold her, be with her, and love her and only her.
But that would make Siri a secret. A mistress. And she doesn't want to live her life like that.
Siri cries harder under the shower, her tears mixing in with the rain of hot water. The more she thinks about it, the more she feels like she shouldn't even be here. Her role in the company is gone. Her apartment with Jungkook is gone. She's already been declared dead to the public. Her place by Jungkook’s side is gone, and she thinks that maybe she needs to stay gone. Her life is already in danger, too!
To the world, Jennie is thee Mrs Jeon now, and if Jungkook must have a baby with her… Siri thinks she needs to leave, otherwise he will never be a good husband to Jennie.
Gosh, her heart really hurts with those thoughts. Feels like someone has placed a heavy hot weight on her chest and she just can’t get it off. Even turning the shower to a slightly colder temperature doesn’t help cool down the ache.
Leaning back against the wet tiles with her eyes closed, and arms wrapped around herself to try comfort herself, Siri starts thinking that maybe she should go back with Taehyung and continue her life there with him, Jisoo and Rosé.
Yes, she knows she has her friends and ex-in-laws here who have missed her, but she has everyone’s phone numbers now, and she knows they’re all able to afford to come see her wherever she is.
Siri also knows she could never love Tae the way she loves Jungkook—heck, no man in the world could ever come close to her Kookie—but she knows she could be happy with Taehyung… eventually… He’s peace. He’s simplicity. Being with him would include a life without threats, scandal or grief, and a place where nobody would see her as ‘the dead wife.’
Siri can just exist in Taehyung’s world without any worries—although Jungkook would always be in the back of her mind 24/7. But at least she’d be able to drink coffee and have brunches with Jisoo and Rosé without people staring at her strangely. At least she’d be able to go out without having to look over her shoulder. She’d be safer.
So… Maybe that's where she belongs now?
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The next day while Jungkook is at work…
“Hey, Tae?”
Said man looks up from his phone and smiles lazily at Siri. She approaches the long swinging lounge chair he’s sitting on that overlooks the nicely manicured lawn of the Jeon family mansion. “Whatssup, darl?”
“Have you decided when you’ll go back home?” she asks as she sits next to him on his left.
“Uh, yeah. I have. Was just talking to Jisoo a minute ago and I’m gonna leave tomorrow.”
“Oh…” Siri’s eyes widen slightly, and she tries to hide the sudden disappointment that comes to her. Tomorrow?
“That’s so soon,” she murmurs softly as she lowers her eyes. Part of her also feels a little bit panicky as she thought she’d have a bit more time… Time to say good bye…
Taehyung notices her expression and gives her a small, apologetic smile. “Bruno had to stick around coz of bad seas, but he said tomorrow should be all good to leave. And I uh…”
He licks his lips in that way he does. “Well it looks like things are going well between you and your husb—I-I mean Jungkook and his family. Just doesn't really seem like you need me around anymore.”
Siri nods in understanding, although her chest pinches with guilt. After reconnecting with Jungkook in their tree-castle the night she came back, she could see how things must look from Tae's perspective. Between her waking up in Jungkook's bedroom instead of the guest room, chatting with Jungkook's mother like they've always been close, and with all of her friends being so happy to have her back and wanting to pick up where they left off, it probably did look like she was fitting back into her old world easily.
But after what she heard last night, things are different now.
Siri nods slowly, "I can see why you'd think that, but um… Tae… I think I wanna go back with you."
“What??” His eyes widen and his heart begins to race because of course he'd love that.
However, he doesn’t understand… "I don't get it. Why would you wanna come back with me? Isn't this place and Jungkook your home?"
Siri lowers her gaze again, her eyes going to her left hand where her engagement and wedding ring sits. A sad smile curls onto her lips as she thinks, Yeah. He is my home…
That's what hurts the most for her though, because she's choosing to leave her home.
Siri blinks repeatedly to stop the tears she could feel prickling behind her eyes, and then she takes a deep breath in before looking back at Taehyung because she wants to explain everything she heard last night. She trusts him and believes she can tell him anything since he saved her life, he spent the last couple of years by her side, and he has become one of her best friends (and an almost lover).
She tells Tae everything she overheard Jungkook telling his father last night. About the threats against her safety, how her plane accident wasn't really an accident, that Woobin had planned it, and he intended for her to die with her parents. Taehyung just stares at her with wide eyes, appearing gobsmacked as she keeps explaining.
Then Siri tells him about the heir clause in Jungkook’s marriage contract, and how he’ll need to produce a child with Jennie within two years. At that, Taehyung is actually horrified and feels sorry for Jungkook. First he loses his wife in an ‘accident’ and spent years searching for her with no success, then he was practically forced into a marriage he didn’t want, and now he has to basically give up the love of his life to make a family with a woman he doesn’t even love. The poor rich guy can’t seem to catch a break.
At the end of explaining everything, Siri sighs and slumps her shoulders, dropping her eyes to her hands again as she feels disheartened. "So that's why I think I should go back with you.”
Taehyung's eyebrows furrow as he reaches for her right hand to comfort her. "Darl…"
Siri shakes her head before looking back up at him with watery eyes. "Me being back here has caused major problems, TaeTae. As much as I wanna stay… and as much as I wanna be with Jungkook again…"
She glances down at her rings once more where it feels like a boa constrictor has wrapped around her chest.
"If I’m gone, Woobin can't use me against him anymore. If I'm gone, I’m not a target and nobody else gets hurt."
Taehyung gently brushes his thumb over Siri’s knuckles. "Darl,” he says softly, “if coming back with me is something you want, then I'd love to have you. I just want you to be sure though.”
Siri nods as she’s already spent hours crying and thinking it over. She had lied awake last night in Jungkook’s arms while he slept, thinking about the possibilities if she stayed, and she didn’t like their outcomes.
She could stay and let Jungkook continue loving her in secret while remaining married to Jennie publicly, but she knows she can't (and she doesn’t want to) live as a mistress for the rest of her life.
She could stay and fight Woobin alongside Jungkook, but that only paints a target on her back and gives Woobin exactly what he wants: leverage over Jungkook.
She could stay and hope Jungkook somehow finds a way out of the marriage contract, but there are no guarantees, and in the meantime, he'd still be expected to have a child with Jennie.
Every path hurts, but there’s an obvious option that would solve everything… She could leave.
Siri could remove herself from the situation, keep herself safe, stop Woobin from using her against Jungkook, and allow Jungkook the chance to gain feelings for Jennie so he can be a good husband to her. It really is the best option.
So, Siri looks at Taehyung and gives him a small, sad smile. “I’m sure. Leaving is what's best for everyone. And it's definitely the safest thing for me to do.”
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A/N: Sorry about all this angst and drama! There's still more of that coming, but! There's only 5 more chapters till this fic is finished! 20 chapters in total, so we're not too far in seeing their happy ending! 😇
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~4100
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Jungkook only just makes it through the front door of his family home when Siri attacks him with a hug.
“You’re baaack!” She goes onto her tippytoes, wrapping her arms around his neck and kisses him softly on the lips. “Missed you.”
Jungkook practically swoons at the sight of those blue eyes of hers sparkling up at him. Butterflies go off within him too, and for a moment he forgets what happened earlier today in his office with his father-in-law, happy to be greeted by the love of his life in such a sweet way. It’s something he’s missed and dreamed of for two and a half years.
When she’s on him, Jungkook immediately pulls Siri’s closer, burying his face into her hair, and he holds her a little tighter than usual, taking in her lovely strawberry-pound cake scent, as well as just her warmth.
Siri giggles in his hold, feeling him squeeze her. "Missed me that much, ae?"
A little ache hits Jungkook’s chest because she has no idea just how much he’s missed her, or how much he will continue to miss her, even when she’s right here with him.
“Always,” he murmurs softly into her hair.
Across the foyer, Jungkook’s parents are watching them with a fond smile. Neither of them say anything about the fact that their son is hugging and kissing a woman who is not his current wife. It doesn’t matter anyway when they both know what Jungkook has with Jennie isn’t real. Plus, after everything their son has been through, everyone in this house knows where Jungkook's heart truly belongs, and seeing the two together again brings them comfort.
However, when Siri and Jungkook pull away from their hug, she senses something is off with him. His smile doesn’t quite reach his eyes, and there’s not as many stars shining back at her compared to when he left her in his bed this morning.
Siri moves her hands from around his shoulders to cup his face, and her eyebrows pinch together slightly with concern. “Kookie, what’s wrong? You don’t look okay.”
Shit, he thinks. Two and a half years apart and she still knows me so well, (but he actually loves that).
"I'm okay,” he tries to smile, “just had a rough day at the office, that's all."
Wasn’t the total truth, but it wasn’t a total lie either since Jungkook did have a rough day. Woobin’s disgusting, smirking mug, as well as his many chilling words still haunted his mind.
“We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?”
“Go against me and divorce my daughter, and who knows what kind of accident might come your precious Siri's way.”
What made Jungkook feel worse was when his mother and Siri told him something that happened in the afternoon while they were out shopping.
“There was this really strange motorcyclist today,” Siri said casually. “We were at a traffic light and they stopped right beside my window and just… stared at me—well, it looked like they were staring at me. Couldn’t really tell with the dark visor over their face.”
Haneul tuts playfully, “Ohh, they probably recognised you, my dear. Likely wondered if you’re the same Serena who’s meant to have disappeared. You are a very beautiful girl, you know. It's not hard to remember your pretty face,” she says warmly with a smile.
Siri blushed at the time and shrugged, “Maybe. Was still a little weird though. He kinda gave me the creeps.”
Jungkook had gotten chills and a bad feeling after hearing that. It was only that morning Woobin had threatened Siri’s safety, and suddenly a random person stopped to stare at her at traffic lights? It wasn’t a coincidence, Jungkook was sure of it.
His suspicions were confirmed later during dinner when Woobin had sent him a text that said, ‘A friend of mine saw your precious Serena today. She looked rather pretty in that pink cardigan. Apparently your mother looked happy to have her back, too.’
Jungkook’s anxiety went through the roof from the text, especially since Siri was still wearing the pink cardigan.
During the rest of dinner, Jungkook was so plagued by Woobin’s threats that he didn’t even get jealous when he saw Taehyung laughing with Siri. He didn’t get uncomfortable or react when he heard Tae call her ‘darl,’ and he didn’t think much when he noticed Tae was looking at Siri like she held the sun and the moon. Jungkook would agree she did hold them anyway, but regardless, he just ignored the boxy-smiling turd, and focused on his love instead.
Every few minutes (or more like seconds), his doe eyes would land on Siri, and every time they did, Jungkook’s chest ached. She's alive and here, yes, and she's sitting right beside him, touching him affectionately here and there, but looking at her made him feel like he was already losing her thanks to those damn awful threats lingering in his head.
Didn’t help that every time Siri caught him staring, she’d smile at him with those loving blue eyes and it only made his heart ache more because he doesn’t want to stop seeing that look on her face.
Siri could still tell something was wrong, though. Throughout the evening, whenever Jungkook wasn’t looking at her, his eyes appeared to be distant and lost. Then whenever he did look at her, there was something like longing and yearning behind his eyes, almost like he’s saying goodbye, which didn’t make any sense to Siri because she’s right here with him.
After dinner was done, Jungkook felt restless. He needed to talk to someone about what happened earlier today, and right now, he felt his father was that person. While he’s been angry with him for the last few months, Jungkook knows his father has always had good intentions.
Before heading to bed, Jungkook tells Siri he just needs to talk business with his father, and that he’d be up in his room soon. He kisses her on the forehead then leaves to find his dad.
Siri couldn’t shake the uneasiness she’s had since Jungkook came home, and so after a minute, she decides to quietly follow him. The Jeon family mansion was huge, but this place had always been like a second home to her, and Siri knew where Jungkook’s father liked to have his private meetings.
It’s downstairs at one end of the house where she notices the light on inside Seokho's study, just like she knew it would be. When she reaches the door, Siri presses her ear near it to eavesdrop. She knows it’s wrong, but she didn’t care. Something wasn’t right with Jungkook and she hoped he was going to talk to his father about it.
Turns out she’s right.
“What’s wrong, son?” Siri hears Seokho say. “Why the secret meeting?”
She hears Jungkook sigh loudly, and she could easily imagine he was sitting in the chair opposite his father with his head in his hands, elbows on his knees.
"I was thinking of divorcing Jennie,” Jungkook explains. “You know… since Siri is back and all. I told her last night that I was going to talk to you, Woobin and Jennie about it, but I think Jennie heard our conversation and she must’ve told her dad about my plan. He came storming into my office this morning before I even had the chance to arrange a meeting, and now I can't go ahead with a divorce anymore."
Siri’s stomach twists. Why can’t he? He sounded so certain about doing it last night… How can we be together properly then?
As if they were on the same wavelength, Seokho basically asks the question for her.
“Well the merger is already done, and the company name changes next week. I don’t see why you couldn’t quietly divorce Jennie since the business has been secured?”
"Woobin threatened me,” Jungkook answers.
Siri frowns at that, as does Seokho, although she couldn’t see it.
"He threatened you??” She hears the father ask with alarm in his tone. “What do you mean?”
"He said if I go against him and divorce Jennie, who knows what kind of ‘accident’ might come Siri’s way.”
The older man's heart drops, as does Siri’s behind the door.
"What??" Seokho asks with stern clarification.
Jungkook explains further, “He said to me, ‘We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?’ He was basically implying that he caused the plane accident—except going off the smug look on his face he gave me, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an accident. I think he planned for Siri and her parents to die on that plane, and I’m certain he did it so we could join our companies.”
Seokho feels blood drain out of him, just like Siri feels the same thing happening to her too. She even has to cover her mouth to silence the gasp she lets out.
"WHAT?!" Seokho blurts out as rage overcomes him. "All this time it wasn’t an accident?! It was HIM?!"
Siri couldn’t see it, but the father’s eyes widened in horror with his next thoughts.
“No wonder he insisted on handling the cause of the explosion while we focused on the search parties! He was covering his tracks!” Siri then hears a fist slamming onto the desk that makes her jump at the sound. "Goddammit! I can’t believe this! He murdered Jack and Rose, and he tried to murder our Siri too?!”
Tears brim said woman’s eyes, and her heart races at all this new information. She couldn’t believe it that she and her parents weren’t in an actual accident, but a murder plot.
“We have to do something!” she hears Seokho say. “I won’t let him get away with this! Woobin belongs in prison!”
Siri’s heart swells at Seokho’s conviction. She adores the fact that Jungkook’s father (and mother) love her this much.
The water in her eyes eventually falls as she continues to listen.
"But how can we get him?" Jungkook asks his dad. “We don't have any proof. We don't even know where to start."
Seokho didn’t know the answer just yet, and so he ends up closing his eyes as regret washes over him. "Oohh, this is all my fault. I brought that snake into our lives."
“No, it’s my fault,” Jungkook insists. Siri could hear the shakiness in his tone, and she just knows he’s tearing up. “According to Woobin, he said this all happened because I chose the wrong princess when I was a kid. I chose Siri instead of Jennie. None of this would’ve happened otherwise…”
Siri was astounded. All these years, ever since she was little, she had always felt something was off with Woobin. He was never warm or soft with her or her father, but now it all makes sense why.
Her heart sinks and more tears fall at what Jungkook just said too. She hates that he keeps blaming himself for everything bad that’s happened, and just like her, Seokho can’t accept that either.
He stands up from his chair, walks around his desk, and places his hands on his son’s shoulders to shake him gently. “Son, listen to me. This is not your fault. You were just a child and didn’t know what you were really doing.”
Seokho sighs, “it’s me. I’m to blame for all of this because I was the one who asked you to choose, and I’m so terribly sorry. I’m the one who failed to see what kind of man Woobin really was. You loved who you loved, and I wholeheartedly believe you chose the right princess. I refuse to let you blame yourself for that."
Siri hears Jungkook sniffling, probably wiping his teary eyes too. "Appa… there’s another thing… Did you know there was an heir clause in my marriage contract with Jennie?"
His father lets go of him and stands up straight with a very dumbfounded look. "What?? What heir clause??"
"The one that says I must produce an heir within two years of the marriage."
Siri feels her heart drop again, but this time it feels worse, as if she was on the FearFall ride.
Meanwhile, Seokho's eyes nearly pop out of his head upon hearing this. "WHAT?! That was never part of the deal!" He waves his hands around. "I would've never asked you to marry her if it was in the contract! This marriage was supposed to be for business! Not so that bastard could get himself a grandchild!"
Jungkook responds miserably, still very much hating this particular stipulation. "Yeah, well… Woobin expects it. Told me not to forget about it. I don’t even remember seeing it in the contract, and I even asked Jin-hyung about it today after Woobin left, but he said he doesn't remember seeing that clause either."
Seokho's face darkens because he could just tell it was all planned. "Because it wasn't there. Woobin altered it. Must've amended the contract after we had already reviewed it. Or he probably forged signatures, or manipulated the documents somehow."
Jungkook sighs. "It doesn't matter anymore. The contract is legal, and if I don't fulfil it… The Jeon side keeps twenty percent, while the Kim side gets eighty. We'll practically lose the company."
"WHAT?!" Seokho explodes again. "He can't do this! He can't steal everything of ours! That son of a bitch!”
The father then looks at his son with determination, “I swear, Jungkook-ah, I’ll figure something out. I’m so sorry this has happened, but I’ll fix this.”
Jungkook just smiles sadly. "How?"
“I’ll hire a private investigator. Get them to look into everything to do with Woobin.”
“That could take months though,” Jungkook says solemnly. "And what if he finds out? What matters to me most is Siri, and if we go against him, he’ll probably send someone after her and cause another ‘accident’ — Shit, he had someone following her today. That motorcyclist Siri and Eomma were talking about? It was one of Woobin’s men. He sent me a text at dinner saying his ‘friend’ saw them. Said Siri looked rather pretty in her pink cardigan, so he’s already got people watching her. And who knows… What if he went for Eomma too? Or even you? He’s already murdered two people we cared about, what's stopping him from doing it again?"
Outside the study, Siri covers her mouth with her hand as tears stream down her face. She couldn’t take hearing any more, so she leaves before her crying could give away that she was listening, hurrying back to Jungkook's bedroom while she desperately tries to keep herself together.
She understands now why all evening Jungkook had been looking at her like a man who thinks he’s about to lose the love of his life all over again. It’s because he really could lose her again.
God, there’s much info to take in. The plane accident was not actually an accident. Her parents were actually murdered. She was close to being killed too, plus Woobin has people watching her?? And hearing that Jungkook must produce an heir with someone who isn’t her? Siri’s devastated about that.
She doesn’t know why, but hearing about that marriage clause feels worse than hearing about the threats or that she was part of a murder plot. Maybe it’s because the thought of him sleeping with Jennie just sickens her to her core? Maybe because it means she truly won’t be able to be with Jungkook properly ever again? If Siri’s honest though, both of these thoughts kinda wreck her more than the idea of being murdered.
When she gets into Jungkook’s bedroom, Siri goes straight for the shower in his ensuite. She just needs to think about things and needs a place to cry without it being so obvious.
When she’s under the hot water, she thinks about how she knows Jungkook would never choose Jennie. Jennie would never be his priority, and if anything, he'd likely try to have both worlds. Publicly, he would be the husband everyone sees beside Jennie, the new Mrs Jeon, the woman carrying his child. And behind closed doors, he would continue seeing her (Siri), coming home to her at the end of the day to hold her, be with her, and love her and only her.
But that would make Siri a secret. A mistress. And she doesn't want to live her life like that.
Siri cries harder under the shower, her tears mixing in with the rain of hot water. The more she thinks about it, the more she feels like she shouldn't even be here. Her role in the company is gone. Her apartment with Jungkook is gone. She's already been declared dead to the public. Her place by Jungkook’s side is gone, and she thinks that maybe she needs to stay gone. Her life is already in danger, too!
To the world, Jennie is thee Mrs Jeon now, and if Jungkook must have a baby with her… Siri thinks she needs to leave, otherwise he will never be a good husband to Jennie.
Gosh, her heart really hurts with those thoughts. Feels like someone has placed a heavy hot weight on her chest and she just can’t get it off. Even turning the shower to a slightly colder temperature doesn’t help cool down the ache.
Leaning back against the wet tiles with her eyes closed, and arms wrapped around herself to try comfort herself, Siri starts thinking that maybe she should go back with Taehyung and continue her life there with him, Jisoo and Rosé.
Yes, she knows she has her friends and ex-in-laws here who have missed her, but she has everyone’s phone numbers now, and she knows they’re all able to afford to come see her wherever she is.
Siri also knows she could never love Tae the way she loves Jungkook—heck, no man in the world could ever come close to her Kookie—but she knows she could be happy with Taehyung… eventually… He’s peace. He’s simplicity. Being with him would include a life without threats, scandal or grief, and a place where nobody would see her as ‘the dead wife.’
Siri can just exist in Taehyung’s world without any worries—although Jungkook would always be in the back of her mind 24/7. But at least she’d be able to drink coffee and have brunches with Jisoo and Rosé without people staring at her strangely. At least she’d be able to go out without having to look over her shoulder. She’d be safer.
So… Maybe that's where she belongs now?
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The next day while Jungkook is at work…
“Hey, Tae?”
Said man looks up from his phone and smiles lazily at Siri. She approaches the long swinging lounge chair he’s sitting on that overlooks the nicely manicured lawn of the Jeon family mansion. “Whatssup, darl?”
“Have you decided when you’ll go back home?” she asks as she sits next to him on his left.
“Uh, yeah. I have. Was just talking to Jisoo a minute ago and I’m gonna leave tomorrow.”
“Oh…” Siri’s eyes widen slightly, and she tries to hide the sudden disappointment that comes to her. Tomorrow?
“That’s so soon,” she murmurs softly as she lowers her eyes. Part of her also feels a little bit panicky as she thought she’d have a bit more time… Time to say good bye…
Taehyung notices her expression and gives her a small, apologetic smile. “Bruno had to stick around coz of bad seas, but he said tomorrow should be all good to leave. And I uh…”
He licks his lips in that way he does. “Well it looks like things are going well between you and your husb—I-I mean Jungkook and his family. Just doesn't really seem like you need me around anymore.”
Siri nods in understanding, although her chest pinches with guilt. After reconnecting with Jungkook in their tree-castle the night she came back, she could see how things must look from Tae's perspective. Between her waking up in Jungkook's bedroom instead of the guest room, chatting with Jungkook's mother like they've always been close, and with all of her friends being so happy to have her back and wanting to pick up where they left off, it probably did look like she was fitting back into her old world easily.
But after what she heard last night, things are different now.
Siri nods slowly, "I can see why you'd think that, but um… Tae… I think I wanna go back with you."
“What??” His eyes widen and his heart begins to race because of course he'd love that.
However, he doesn’t understand… "I don't get it. Why would you wanna come back with me? Isn't this place and Jungkook your home?"
Siri lowers her gaze again, her eyes going to her left hand where her engagement and wedding ring sits. A sad smile curls onto her lips as she thinks, Yeah. He is my home…
That's what hurts the most for her though, because she's choosing to leave her home.
Siri blinks repeatedly to stop the tears she could feel prickling behind her eyes, and then she takes a deep breath in before looking back at Taehyung because she wants to explain everything she heard last night. She trusts him and believes she can tell him anything since he saved her life, he spent the last couple of years by her side, and he has become one of her best friends (and an almost lover).
She tells Tae everything she overheard Jungkook telling his father last night. About the threats against her safety, how her plane accident wasn't really an accident, that Woobin had planned it, and he intended for her to die with her parents. Taehyung just stares at her with wide eyes, appearing gobsmacked as she keeps explaining.
Then Siri tells him about the heir clause in Jungkook’s marriage contract, and how he’ll need to produce a child with Jennie within two years. At that, Taehyung is actually horrified and feels sorry for Jungkook. First he loses his wife in an ‘accident’ and spent years searching for her with no success, then he was practically forced into a marriage he didn’t want, and now he has to basically give up the love of his life to make a family with a woman he doesn’t even love. The poor rich guy can’t seem to catch a break.
At the end of explaining everything, Siri sighs and slumps her shoulders, dropping her eyes to her hands again as she feels disheartened. "So that's why I think I should go back with you.”
Taehyung's eyebrows furrow as he reaches for her right hand to comfort her. "Darl…"
Siri shakes her head before looking back up at him with watery eyes. "Me being back here has caused major problems, TaeTae. As much as I wanna stay… and as much as I wanna be with Jungkook again…"
She glances down at her rings once more where it feels like a boa constrictor has wrapped around her chest.
"If I’m gone, Woobin can't use me against him anymore. If I'm gone, I’m not a target and nobody else gets hurt."
Taehyung gently brushes his thumb over Siri’s knuckles. "Darl,” he says softly, “if coming back with me is something you want, then I'd love to have you. I just want you to be sure though.”
Siri nods as she’s already spent hours crying and thinking it over. She had lied awake last night in Jungkook’s arms while he slept, thinking about the possibilities if she stayed, and she didn’t like their outcomes.
She could stay and let Jungkook continue loving her in secret while remaining married to Jennie publicly, but she knows she can't (and she doesn’t want to) live as a mistress for the rest of her life.
She could stay and fight Woobin alongside Jungkook, but that only paints a target on her back and gives Woobin exactly what he wants: leverage over Jungkook.
She could stay and hope Jungkook somehow finds a way out of the marriage contract, but there are no guarantees, and in the meantime, he'd still be expected to have a child with Jennie.
Every path hurts, but there’s an obvious option that would solve everything… She could leave.
Siri could remove herself from the situation, keep herself safe, stop Woobin from using her against Jungkook, and allow Jungkook the chance to gain feelings for Jennie so he can be a good husband to her. It really is the best option.
So, Siri looks at Taehyung and gives him a small, sad smile. “I’m sure. Leaving is what's best for everyone. And it's definitely the safest thing for me to do.”
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A/N: Sorry about all this angst and drama! There's still more of that coming, but! There's only 5 more chapters till this fic is finished! 20 chapters in total, so we're not too far in seeing their happy ending! 😇
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: 2870
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Jungkook walks into his office with a pep in his steps this morning. Waking up to the love of his life all snuggled up against him might be the reason.
Or it could be that he finally got to kiss her, make love to her, and just be with her last night after two and a half years apart.
Maybe it was also how he had to help his love put her clothes back on while she was still half asleep, where he then happily carried her bridal-style back into his family home and placed her in his childhood bedroom so she could sleep some more.
Hearing her mumble cutely with pouty lips that she loves him too before he left for work could be another reason for his happiness. Could’ve also been the way she sleepily smiled back at him and held his hand a little longer, nuzzling into his palm to feel the warmth of his skin one more time before he had to leave.
It was everything, really. Anything and everything to do with Siri made Jungkook chipper and just… happy. Amazing how love can change a person.
That’s at least what Jimin, the receptionist (and slightly terrible assistant), thinks when he sees his CEO actually strolling in with a skip to his steps, all with a smile on his face too!
For the almost four months he’s been working here, Jimin has not once seen a smile on Mr Jeon’s face. He’s not once had Mr Jeon greet him with a good morning, and he’s not once seen Mr Jeon actually laugh.
None of those things happened until today—the day after some woman named Siri arrived and made all his three bosses cry.
Jungkook is a completely different man today because of her. He’s gone back to the man he used to be. He’s a man so super-duperly in love. He’s a man with a goal to make the right woman his wife again. He’s a man who is going to spend each day loving Siri to the fullest because who knows what hardship life may bring for them next.
Life is unpredictable, and things can go sideways in an instant. You could get stung by a bee one day from just walking through a park. You could get hit by a car just from crossing the road. You could crack a tooth on something silly like a freaking grain from multigrain bread, or even from eating a mince and cheese pie.
You could also have a raging bull charging toward you—or in Jungkook’s case, a raging father-in-law bursting through his office doors.
“Jeon Jungkook!” The enraged voice of Jennie’s father, Woobin, is loud and vicious as he pushes through the office doors, slamming them closed so hard it makes a loud bang.
Jungkook flinches and snaps his head up from the documents in front of him to find the older man’s eyes are set in a dark glare with his chest puffed out and his cheeks red with fury.
Unfortunately, the happiness Jungkook had all morning is now gone, and it looks like life is about to throw him another curveball.
“What is this complete and utter nonsense I’m hearing about you wanting to divorce my Jennie?!”
Jungkook’s heart drops and he frowns, wondering how the hell did Woobin know he was planning on doing that. He had only spoken about that subject with Siri last night when they were in their tree-castle, so absolutely nobody should know about that conversation.
“Mr Kim—” Jungkook starts to say as he stands up from his desk.
“Don’t ‘Mr Kim’ me you ungrateful little shit!” Woobin spits with venom as he points a finger at him.
"After everything I have done for you, your father, and your failing company, you plan on cutting ties with my daughter?! How dare you!”
Keeping his frown, Jungkook squints his eyes suspiciously, “Where did you even hear that? I haven’t spoken about it to anybody except Siri.”
Woobin gives a verrry tight-lipped smile, "A little birdie told me."
Jungkook's eyebrows furrow deeper with confusion. A little birdie? His heart sinks again as that means someone heard him. Someone was outside the tree-castle while Siri and I were in it. But who could it have been?
Jungkook takes a moment to think, but his thoughts didn’t really need to dig too deep. It must’ve been Jennie. She’s the only person that makes sense. She must not have left after I rejected her and told her to go home. She obviously went crying to her daddy so she doesn’t lose me and our stupid marriage.
“Was it Jennie?” Jungkook asks, feeling so sure and irritated that she did this. “She told you?”
“Doesn’t matter who told me,” Woobin mutters coldly. “What matters is you thinking you can just decide to divorce my daughter. This wasn’t part of the deal I made with your father. Do you realise what this’ll mean for the company?”
“Look, I appreciate everything you've done for my side of the company, but I’m not staying married to someone I don’t love.”
Woobin lets out a humourless chuckle. "You foolish boy. You think doing this won't have any consequences?”
Jungkook hardens his eyes hard on the older man, showing him he wasn’t backing down. “Oh I know there are consequences, but this doesn’t have to be difficult. You can still have your side of the company even if I divorce your daughter.”
“You really don't understand what would happen, do you?” Woobin sneers. “If you sever this marriage, the investment agreements disappear and the shares my company holds get pulled. The market will see instability on your end, which means investors will panic, projects will get frozen, and then you will be responsible for laying off the hundreds of employees you have here. Imagine how they’ll feel when they learn their jobs are disappearing all because their CEO decided to throw everything away for a woman.”
Jungkook grits his teeth and clenches his fists tight. Using the staff against him is a shitty move, and Woobin knows it.
Still determined to not back down, Jungkook steps around his desk, standing in front of his father-in-law by a couple metres as his eyes narrow at him.
“She’s not just some woman. Siri is the love of my life, and everyone knows she was my first wife. Everyone also knows that her father's legacy is still woven in this company, so don't stand there and act like I'm choosing some random woman over the staff. I’m going to divorce Jennie.”
The two men practically have a stare-off (or more like a glare-off), with neither of them conceding. However, after a few long seconds…
“Fine,” Woobin says plainly and casually, as if he had no issues with this at all.
If Jungkook wasn’t going to listen, then Woobin was going to make him listen. He’ll make Jungkook rethink every decision he makes from here on out, and he’s going to do that by using the one thing Jungkook loves most. Everybody has a weakness after all, and Jungkook’s one is so obvious.
The calmness in Woobin’s voice confuses Jungkook for a moment, and his golden intuition tells him that there’s something seriously wrong with the situation now.
“You want a divorce?” Woobin says condescendingly before a cold and calculating smile curves onto his lips. "Do that, and I destroy everything your family built. I'll make sure the Jeon family name will get dragged through the mud by every newspaper in this country.”
Jungkook frowns at that, disgusted that the older man would threaten his family. How could he threaten a family he’s been friends with for over twenty years?
“And… Well…” Woobin shrugs nonchalantly, “We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?”
“What??” Jungkook blurts out with confusion because, “Why would you mention her—” but he cuts himself off.
He had to stop mid-sentence because as soon as he notices the almost evil smirk curling onto Woobin’s face, Jungkook’s heart literally drops and a chill goes down his spine.
The way he said that… No… No, it can’t be… He can’t have…
Woobin watches with satisfaction as Jungkook’s confidence and defiance drains from his face, slowly dissolving into a look of bewilderment. It makes the older man feel powerful because he knows he’s just won this battle.
Deciding to be a total menacing prick just ‘cause he can, Woobin tilts his head to the side while still keeping his smirk. “Funny thing, accidents… They’re so unpredictable… And sometimes they can be rather convenient in removing obstacles out of the way…”
Jungkook pales in horror, staying completely still as he finally understands what the older man is implying. The plane Siri was on… It wasn't an accident…
“It wasn’t an accident, was it?” he says his thoughts aloud with disbelief. “You… you caused the plane to blow up. You… You murdered Jack and Rose! And Siri…” She was meant to die on that plane as well.
Dread fills Jungkook in every fibre of his being. In his veins, in his skin, in his stomach and heart. It makes all the hairs on his body stand up with alarm. He’s actually scared—no, he’s terrified—because what Woobin is insinuating now… We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we? It means Woobin would try to hurt Siri again if he doesn’t get his way.
Jungkook swallows thickly while his heart races a million miles per second. It actually feels like his heart is telling him to fucking run. Screw fight, he needs to fly! He needs to run, run, run, and keep Siri safe. Needs to protect her at all fucking costs!
“What are you talking about, Jungkook-ah?” Woobin says, feigning innocence in his tone but his face is grinning slyly. “I would never do such an outlandish thing like murdering my own friend and his family.”
Jungkook really couldn’t believe this. He’s known this man all his life as an unrelated uncle and now as his supposed father-in-law, and all this time… Woobin wanted to get rid of the Dawson’s so Jennie could marry me and our companies could merge…
Oooh, Woobin is loving this. He’s fucking reveling at the look of realisation and fear on Jungkook’s face. Wishes he could take a photo to remember it ‘cause he’s never felt so satisfied.
Yes, Woobin organised the murders of the Dawsons. All it took was some bribery and a greedy aircraft engineer to fill the private plane with the wrong petrol that would eventually lead to it malfunctioning.
What he didn’t know or anticipate, however, was what actually happened to Siri. After her father attached the parachute to her, she was knocked out instantly by the explosion, and while she was in the air, the shockwaves sent her flying far away. While she was unconscious, Siri ended up descending into a dense forest area where the parachute snagged high in the trees. The harness tore up and her body fell further through the branches, landing on a steep slope that caused her to roll down the wooded area.
The next day, when Taehyung went into the forest to chop up some firewood, he saw Siri’s tattered and bruised body. He looked around but couldn't figure out how the heck she got there. He couldn’t see any wreckage, however, if he had just walked further up the hill, he would’ve seen the parachute caught up in the tree.
Woobin’s plan had gone perfectly until little miss Serena showed up. She wasn’t meant to be alive. She wasn’t meant to be back here at all. She was meant to be in pieces, blown into smithereens, or at the bottom of the damn ocean.
But since she’s here and back in everyone’s lives again, and since Jungkook wasn’t listening, Woobin now had to resort to this: threatening Siri’s life in order to keep Jungkook in line.
“You see how things are now, don’t you Jungkook? Go against me and divorce my daughter, and who knows what kind of accident might come your precious Siri's way."
Jungkook feels his eyes prickling with tears as he just stands there speechless with fear. He didn’t know what to say anymore because what was there to say? He didn’t want to dig himself—or Siri—a hole.
“Oohh, if only you had chosen the right princess from the very beginning, then none of this would’ve happened,” Woobin says mockingly.
Jungkook feels his stomach twisting. He knows what the older man is talking about. All those years ago when his father told him to choose a princess to be his future wife, he had unknowingly planted the first seeds of bitterness and resentment into Woobin.
Delighted and content by the terror written all over Jungkook’s face, Woobin decides he’s made his point. Straightening up, he smooths out his suit jacket before giving his son-in-law a stern, no-nonsense gaze.
“If I were you,” he starts to say, “I’d think very carefully before you do something you’ll regret. Don’t fuck up and choose the wrong girl this time.”
Woobin turns and walks away, and just as he stops at the door to almost grab the handle, he remembers something. Something that’ll wreck Jungkook’s day (and life) even more.
The older man looks over his shoulder, “Oh, and Jungkook?” he says casually, pretending to stay friendly.
Said man’s watery doe eyes flick up to the man he absolutely hates more than anything.
“Don’t forget that there better be a Kim heir coming within the next two years.”
“What??” Jungkook furrows his brows with confusion again, but his heart is still racing with fear—a different kind of fear this time though.
An heir? As in… a child??
As in I’d have to have sex with Jennie??
Jungkook feels like he’s going to be sick. There’s absolutely no way he’s going to do that. Never ever. Nope. Fuck that.
Woobin is totally enjoying this. He smirks smugly, “Well you signed the marriage contract. It states that you agree to produce an heir within the first two years of marriage.”
Jungkook’s heart drops completely to the floor. No, not even that. It drops to the earth’s scorching core.
He doesn’t remember reading that in the contract, or being told that he’d have to produce an heir—mind you, he didn't really take the time to read all the marriage papers since he was still angry at his father (and at the world) that he had to marry Jennie at all.
Jungkook also thought Jin would’ve told him about any major clauses since he’s the lawyer who should’ve checked everything for him.
But Jungkook knows Jin isn’t really to blame here. It’s him. It’s aaallll him. Because he gave up and gave into pressure. Because he apparently—according to his father-in-law—chose the wrong girl when he was four fucking years old.
Once again, Woobin feels triumphant. Before he goes to turn the door handle, he says one last thing, just to add the final touch of malice.
“Do try to remember whose husband you are, Jungkook. Sleeping with women who aren't your wife is a rather shameful habit. Adultery is such an ugly thing, wouldn’t you agree?"
Jungkook says nothing. He just lowers his eyes to the floor and swallows thickly, feeling utterly disgusted—not only with Woobin, but with the cruel situation he’s in.
Woobin's words tell him one thing loud and clear. That he knows Jungkook and Siri have already slept together, and he knows the two of them would likely want to do it again. Worst of all, Woobin is reminding Jungkook that in the eyes of the law and the world, Siri is merely another woman, while Jennie is the wife he is expected to be faithful to.
Add in the expectation behind Woobin's words—that Jungkook should leave Siri, sleep with Jennie, and give her a child as her husband—it all makes Jungkook's stomach churn.
Woobin ends up leaving the office completely opposite to how he came in; less like an angry bull, and more like a laughing hyena.
Meanwhile, Jungkook remains rooted to his spot long after the older man leaves. Gone is that happiness he had. There’s none of it in sight now, or in his future.
He feels small, helpless, and terrified, like a little bunny. He’s trapped. Woobin has him trapped like a damn bunny in a cage. And just like a frightened bunny would be, Jungkook could only stand there and tremble, unable to escape, all while knowing that the one thing he loves most in this world is being used to keep him obedient.
Fuck. The universe hates me, he thinks bitterly as tears sting his eyes. It’s put him through so much heartache when he first lost Siri, and now there’s this.
But if there is one thing Jungkook knows for sure… It's that he can survive losing himself and being trapped under the thumb of his dreadful father-in-law, and he can survive being trapped in a loveless marriage, but he definitely won’t be able to survive losing Siri again.
With that thought, Jungkook knows the choice he has to make.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: 2870
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Jungkook walks into his office with a pep in his steps this morning. Waking up to the love of his life all snuggled up against him might be the reason.
Or it could be that he finally got to kiss her, make love to her, and just be with her last night after two and a half years apart.
Maybe it was also how he had to help his love put her clothes back on while she was still half asleep, where he then happily carried her bridal-style back into his family home and placed her in his childhood bedroom so she could sleep some more.
Hearing her mumble cutely with pouty lips that she loves him too before he left for work could be another reason for his happiness. Could’ve also been the way she sleepily smiled back at him and held his hand a little longer, nuzzling into his palm to feel the warmth of his skin one more time before he had to leave.
It was everything, really. Anything and everything to do with Siri made Jungkook chipper and just… happy. Amazing how love can change a person.
That’s at least what Jimin, the receptionist (and slightly terrible assistant), thinks when he sees his CEO actually strolling in with a skip to his steps, all with a smile on his face too!
For the almost four months he’s been working here, Jimin has not once seen a smile on Mr Jeon’s face. He’s not once had Mr Jeon greet him with a good morning, and he’s not once seen Mr Jeon actually laugh.
None of those things happened until today—the day after some woman named Siri arrived and made all his three bosses cry.
Jungkook is a completely different man today because of her. He’s gone back to the man he used to be. He’s a man so super-duperly in love. He’s a man with a goal to make the right woman his wife again. He’s a man who is going to spend each day loving Siri to the fullest because who knows what hardship life may bring for them next.
Life is unpredictable, and things can go sideways in an instant. You could get stung by a bee one day from just walking through a park. You could get hit by a car just from crossing the road. You could crack a tooth on something silly like a freaking grain from multigrain bread, or even from eating a mince and cheese pie.
You could also have a raging bull charging toward you—or in Jungkook’s case, a raging father-in-law bursting through his office doors.
“Jeon Jungkook!” The enraged voice of Jennie’s father, Woobin, is loud and vicious as he pushes through the office doors, slamming them closed so hard it makes a loud bang.
Jungkook flinches and snaps his head up from the documents in front of him to find the older man’s eyes are set in a dark glare with his chest puffed out and his cheeks red with fury.
Unfortunately, the happiness Jungkook had all morning is now gone, and it looks like life is about to throw him another curveball.
“What is this complete and utter nonsense I’m hearing about you wanting to divorce my Jennie?!”
Jungkook’s heart drops and he frowns, wondering how the hell did Woobin know he was planning on doing that. He had only spoken about that subject with Siri last night when they were in their tree-castle, so absolutely nobody should know about that conversation.
“Mr Kim—” Jungkook starts to say as he stands up from his desk.
“Don’t ‘Mr Kim’ me you ungrateful little shit!” Woobin spits with venom as he points a finger at him.
"After everything I have done for you, your father, and your failing company, you plan on cutting ties with my daughter?! How dare you!”
Keeping his frown, Jungkook squints his eyes suspiciously, “Where did you even hear that? I haven’t spoken about it to anybody except Siri.”
Woobin gives a verrry tight-lipped smile, "A little birdie told me."
Jungkook's eyebrows furrow deeper with confusion. A little birdie? His heart sinks again as that means someone heard him. Someone was outside the tree-castle while Siri and I were in it. But who could it have been?
Jungkook takes a moment to think, but his thoughts didn’t really need to dig too deep. It must’ve been Jennie. She’s the only person that makes sense. She must not have left after I rejected her and told her to go home. She obviously went crying to her daddy so she doesn’t lose me and our stupid marriage.
“Was it Jennie?” Jungkook asks, feeling so sure and irritated that she did this. “She told you?”
“Doesn’t matter who told me,” Woobin mutters coldly. “What matters is you thinking you can just decide to divorce my daughter. This wasn’t part of the deal I made with your father. Do you realise what this’ll mean for the company?”
“Look, I appreciate everything you've done for my side of the company, but I’m not staying married to someone I don’t love.”
Woobin lets out a humourless chuckle. "You foolish boy. You think doing this won't have any consequences?”
Jungkook hardens his eyes hard on the older man, showing him he wasn’t backing down. “Oh I know there are consequences, but this doesn’t have to be difficult. You can still have your side of the company even if I divorce your daughter.”
“You really don't understand what would happen, do you?” Woobin sneers. “If you sever this marriage, the investment agreements disappear and the shares my company holds get pulled. The market will see instability on your end, which means investors will panic, projects will get frozen, and then you will be responsible for laying off the hundreds of employees you have here. Imagine how they’ll feel when they learn their jobs are disappearing all because their CEO decided to throw everything away for a woman.”
Jungkook grits his teeth and clenches his fists tight. Using the staff against him is a shitty move, and Woobin knows it.
Still determined to not back down, Jungkook steps around his desk, standing in front of his father-in-law by a couple metres as his eyes narrow at him.
“She’s not just some woman. Siri is the love of my life, and everyone knows she was my first wife. Everyone also knows that her father's legacy is still woven in this company, so don't stand there and act like I'm choosing some random woman over the staff. I’m going to divorce Jennie.”
The two men practically have a stare-off (or more like a glare-off), with neither of them conceding. However, after a few long seconds…
“Fine,” Woobin says plainly and casually, as if he had no issues with this at all.
If Jungkook wasn’t going to listen, then Woobin was going to make him listen. He’ll make Jungkook rethink every decision he makes from here on out, and he’s going to do that by using the one thing Jungkook loves most. Everybody has a weakness after all, and Jungkook’s one is so obvious.
The calmness in Woobin’s voice confuses Jungkook for a moment, and his golden intuition tells him that there’s something seriously wrong with the situation now.
“You want a divorce?” Woobin says condescendingly before a cold and calculating smile curves onto his lips. "Do that, and I destroy everything your family built. I'll make sure the Jeon family name will get dragged through the mud by every newspaper in this country.”
Jungkook frowns at that, disgusted that the older man would threaten his family. How could he threaten a family he’s been friends with for over twenty years?
“And… Well…” Woobin shrugs nonchalantly, “We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we?”
“What??” Jungkook blurts out with confusion because, “Why would you mention her—” but he cuts himself off.
He had to stop mid-sentence because as soon as he notices the almost evil smirk curling onto Woobin’s face, Jungkook’s heart literally drops and a chill goes down his spine.
The way he said that… No… No, it can’t be… He can’t have…
Woobin watches with satisfaction as Jungkook’s confidence and defiance drains from his face, slowly dissolving into a look of bewilderment. It makes the older man feel powerful because he knows he’s just won this battle.
Deciding to be a total menacing prick just ‘cause he can, Woobin tilts his head to the side while still keeping his smirk. “Funny thing, accidents… They’re so unpredictable… And sometimes they can be rather convenient in removing obstacles out of the way…”
Jungkook pales in horror, staying completely still as he finally understands what the older man is implying. The plane Siri was on… It wasn't an accident…
“It wasn’t an accident, was it?” he says his thoughts aloud with disbelief. “You… you caused the plane to blow up. You… You murdered Jack and Rose! And Siri…” She was meant to die on that plane as well.
Dread fills Jungkook in every fibre of his being. In his veins, in his skin, in his stomach and heart. It makes all the hairs on his body stand up with alarm. He’s actually scared—no, he’s terrified—because what Woobin is insinuating now… We wouldn’t want another devastating incident to happen to our dear, sweet Serena, now would we? It means Woobin would try to hurt Siri again if he doesn’t get his way.
Jungkook swallows thickly while his heart races a million miles per second. It actually feels like his heart is telling him to fucking run. Screw fight, he needs to fly! He needs to run, run, run, and keep Siri safe. Needs to protect her at all fucking costs!
“What are you talking about, Jungkook-ah?” Woobin says, feigning innocence in his tone but his face is grinning slyly. “I would never do such an outlandish thing like murdering my own friend and his family.”
Jungkook really couldn’t believe this. He’s known this man all his life as an unrelated uncle and now as his supposed father-in-law, and all this time… Woobin wanted to get rid of the Dawson’s so Jennie could marry me and our companies could merge…
Oooh, Woobin is loving this. He’s fucking reveling at the look of realisation and fear on Jungkook’s face. Wishes he could take a photo to remember it ‘cause he’s never felt so satisfied.
Yes, Woobin organised the murders of the Dawsons. All it took was some bribery and a greedy aircraft engineer to fill the private plane with the wrong petrol that would eventually lead to it malfunctioning.
What he didn’t know or anticipate, however, was what actually happened to Siri. After her father attached the parachute to her, she was knocked out instantly by the explosion, and while she was in the air, the shockwaves sent her flying far away. While she was unconscious, Siri ended up descending into a dense forest area where the parachute snagged high in the trees. The harness tore up and her body fell further through the branches, landing on a steep slope that caused her to roll down the wooded area.
The next day, when Taehyung went into the forest to chop up some firewood, he saw Siri’s tattered and bruised body. He looked around but couldn't figure out how the heck she got there. He couldn’t see any wreckage, however, if he had just walked further up the hill, he would’ve seen the parachute caught up in the tree.
Woobin’s plan had gone perfectly until little miss Serena showed up. She wasn’t meant to be alive. She wasn’t meant to be back here at all. She was meant to be in pieces, blown into smithereens, or at the bottom of the damn ocean.
But since she’s here and back in everyone’s lives again, and since Jungkook wasn’t listening, Woobin now had to resort to this: threatening Siri’s life in order to keep Jungkook in line.
“You see how things are now, don’t you Jungkook? Go against me and divorce my daughter, and who knows what kind of accident might come your precious Siri's way."
Jungkook feels his eyes prickling with tears as he just stands there speechless with fear. He didn’t know what to say anymore because what was there to say? He didn’t want to dig himself—or Siri—a hole.
“Oohh, if only you had chosen the right princess from the very beginning, then none of this would’ve happened,” Woobin says mockingly.
Jungkook feels his stomach twisting. He knows what the older man is talking about. All those years ago when his father told him to choose a princess to be his future wife, he had unknowingly planted the first seeds of bitterness and resentment into Woobin.
Delighted and content by the terror written all over Jungkook’s face, Woobin decides he’s made his point. Straightening up, he smooths out his suit jacket before giving his son-in-law a stern, no-nonsense gaze.
“If I were you,” he starts to say, “I’d think very carefully before you do something you’ll regret. Don’t fuck up and choose the wrong girl this time.”
Woobin turns and walks away, and just as he stops at the door to almost grab the handle, he remembers something. Something that’ll wreck Jungkook’s day (and life) even more.
The older man looks over his shoulder, “Oh, and Jungkook?” he says casually, pretending to stay friendly.
Said man’s watery doe eyes flick up to the man he absolutely hates more than anything.
“Don’t forget that there better be a Kim heir coming within the next two years.”
“What??” Jungkook furrows his brows with confusion again, but his heart is still racing with fear—a different kind of fear this time though.
An heir? As in… a child??
As in I’d have to have sex with Jennie??
Jungkook feels like he’s going to be sick. There’s absolutely no way he’s going to do that. Never ever. Nope. Fuck that.
Woobin is totally enjoying this. He smirks smugly, “Well you signed the marriage contract. It states that you agree to produce an heir within the first two years of marriage.”
Jungkook’s heart drops completely to the floor. No, not even that. It drops to the earth’s scorching core.
He doesn’t remember reading that in the contract, or being told that he’d have to produce an heir—mind you, he didn't really take the time to read all the marriage papers since he was still angry at his father (and at the world) that he had to marry Jennie at all.
Jungkook also thought Jin would’ve told him about any major clauses since he’s the lawyer who should’ve checked everything for him.
But Jungkook knows Jin isn’t really to blame here. It’s him. It’s aaallll him. Because he gave up and gave into pressure. Because he apparently—according to his father-in-law—chose the wrong girl when he was four fucking years old.
Once again, Woobin feels triumphant. Before he goes to turn the door handle, he says one last thing, just to add the final touch of malice.
“Do try to remember whose husband you are, Jungkook. Sleeping with women who aren't your wife is a rather shameful habit. Adultery is such an ugly thing, wouldn’t you agree?"
Jungkook says nothing. He just lowers his eyes to the floor and swallows thickly, feeling utterly disgusted—not only with Woobin, but with the cruel situation he’s in.
Woobin's words tell him one thing loud and clear. That he knows Jungkook and Siri have already slept together, and he knows the two of them would likely want to do it again. Worst of all, Woobin is reminding Jungkook that in the eyes of the law and the world, Siri is merely another woman, while Jennie is the wife he is expected to be faithful to.
Add in the expectation behind Woobin's words—that Jungkook should leave Siri, sleep with Jennie, and give her a child as her husband—it all makes Jungkook's stomach churn.
Woobin ends up leaving the office completely opposite to how he came in; less like an angry bull, and more like a laughing hyena.
Meanwhile, Jungkook remains rooted to his spot long after the older man leaves. Gone is that happiness he had. There’s none of it in sight now, or in his future.
He feels small, helpless, and terrified, like a little bunny. He’s trapped. Woobin has him trapped like a damn bunny in a cage. And just like a frightened bunny would be, Jungkook could only stand there and tremble, unable to escape, all while knowing that the one thing he loves most in this world is being used to keep him obedient.
Fuck. The universe hates me, he thinks bitterly as tears sting his eyes. It’s put him through so much heartache when he first lost Siri, and now there’s this.
But if there is one thing Jungkook knows for sure… It's that he can survive losing himself and being trapped under the thumb of his dreadful father-in-law, and he can survive being trapped in a loveless marriage, but he definitely won’t be able to survive losing Siri again.
With that thought, Jungkook knows the choice he has to make.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~8400
>Chapter Warnings: some sweetness before more angst comes, smut; raw missionary
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Knock knock knock
Siri startles slightly at the sound, her gaze going from the roof window she had been looking through to admire the starry night sky, to the small gate-like door a few metres away from her.
She’s actually inside a wooden treehouse—or it's more like a tree-castle—that was built thanks to Jungkook’s father who had it professionally made for his son and her when they were little kids. It was their playhouse, their imaginary kingdom, and a place where they would have (not so) secret meetings throughout the years. It was their safe place.
At the moment, it's a little late into the evening, sometime after 10pm; the family meeting is over, dinner is over, friends have gone home with the promise of catching up very soon, and most of the people in the Jeon family mansion have gone to bed. This included Taehyung who is in one of the many guest bedrooms after Jungkook’s mother happily offered him a room.
Siri is sitting on a pile of pillows and blankets she brought from inside the mansion, and a lantern sits in the corner, being her source of light to see her surroundings.
She came to the tree-castle as she wanted to be somewhere where she didn’t feel so out of place. The guest bedroom Jungkook’s mother had offered her to stay in used to be her room from when she and Jungkook were younger, back when she basically lived at the Jeon family mansion for the better half of every week.
Back then, Siri and Jungkook would sneak into each other’s rooms after everyone fell asleep. Sometimes she'd cross the hall and crawl into his bed, other times he'd crawl into hers, and neither of them had a good excuse except for just wanting to be near each other and cuddle.
Now the bedroom didn’t really look or feel like her room anymore, but that’s because it is a guest bedroom now. The furniture has changed, and the stars and daisy decorations she stuck on the walls are gone, but Siri understood why.
After she and Jungkook had gotten married, they moved into their own apartment together. Of course after they married they would visit the Jeon family mansion occasionally, but they’d usually stay in Jungkook’s childhood bedroom if they needed a room to sleep in, therefore there was no need for that spare room to be ‘hers’ anymore.
However, tonight after Siri unpacked her bags and sat on the bed that technically used to be hers, she couldn’t help but feel exactly like what the room was meant for now… She felt like a guest rather than family, only because she’s been apart from everyone for so long.
But it seems someone has found her in the not-so-secret safe treehouse.
"Oh..." Siri says with slight surprise since she wasn’t expecting anyone to come here. "Uh... who is it?"
She hears someone clearing their throat before they speak.
"Oh beautiful princess," Jungkook’s voice comes from outside, "would you be so kind as to allow this poor lost prince entry into your magnificent kingdom? It’s terribly cold out here, and I fear I may perish before sunrise."
A laugh slips out from Siri as heat flushes into her cheeks and butterflies go off in her tummy. Hearing Jungkook talk like that takes her back to their much younger, playful days, and the fact he was doing it now, especially after the emotional day they had, it really warmed her heart.
Siri didn’t actually think Jungkook would still be here, though. Even though they had a moment earlier where they understood their love for each other was still there thanks to Jungkook showing his wedding ring on a necklace, Siri thought he had gone home with his current wife.
The last thing she heard before coming out to the tree-castle was Jennie asking her husband if he was going to go home with her, and Siri didn’t want to stick around to hear the answer because just hearing that Jungkook and Jennie have a home together crushed her heart.
Silly Siri, though. She should’ve stayed to hear how Jungkook turned Jennie down…
"Jennie,” he said her name with a sigh, looking exhausted from the day’s events and like he really just wanted some peace, and he knew he wouldn’t get that from her.
"What?"
"Please don't do this."
"Don't do what?" she looked at him innocently.
"Pretend that there’s anything between us. Don't act like we have a home together. That apartment isn't my home anymore, not since you got rid of Siri’s things behind my back. Plus, do you really think I'm gonna go anywhere now that she’s staying here?"
Jennie pouted, “I already said I was sorry for that, but I’m your wife now, and you’re meant to come home with—”
“No,” Jungkook cut in sternly. “Siri is my real wife. You are only my wife on paper and in the public eye. Behind closed doors, we’re nothing. You already know this, so why are you trying to make us sound like we’re something more when we’re not?”
Jennie looked down at her fidgety hands. "I just thought, maybe… eventually… you changed your mind about me…"
For the last four months (since a month before they got married), Jennie had been trying to get Jungkook to like her. She knew she had made a huge mistake in the beginning when she threw out Siri’s belongings after moving into Jungkook’s apartment, but at the time, Jennie just wanted to make the place feel like hers too, and it was hard to do that with Siri’s clothes and personal things still around.
However, after seeing the rage Jungkook went into when he found Siri’s things were gone—where he angrily pulled the new duvet off the bed and literally punched a hole into a wall—Jennie’s been trying to do better.
She’s been showing up during his lunch breaks, although it would be unannounced sometimes, much to Jungkook’s dismay. When he refused to eat with her, she would send some food up to his office. She kept suggesting couple-y things for them to do together to get closer to him, but he always said he was too busy.
She would always try to dress to impress him, even dressing in pastel colours to give herself a softer look rather than her usual bright red or hot pink colours. She’d send Jungkook texts daily, and she even moved herself into the spare bedroom of his (now their) apartment.
Except the damage of removing Siri’s things was done, and because Jungkook was so bitter and still fuming deep inside over it, he hardly ever went back ‘home’ anymore, choosing to stay with his parents at the Jeon mansion, or with one of his hyungs instead.
Over time, Jungkook did eventually stop refusing every invitation Jennie offered, and had agreed to some lunches and the odd dinner at their supposed home. Sometimes he would sit across from Jennie and listen, doing the bare minimum responses while she talked his ears off. Sometimes he would stay long enough to finish the meal and do the dishes for her. And at public events, Jungkook would, on the rare occasion, take Jennie’s hand first, and he would let her adjust his tie or brush his hair back in front of people.
Stupidly, as well as embarrassingly, because he didn’t say no all the time, Jennie started to have a little more hope. She thought maybe Jungkook was finally warming up to her. That he was finally moving on from Siri, and that maybe after all these years, he was going to finally choose her and she’d stop being in second place (or more like last place, if we’re gonna be honest).
"I thought we were getting closer…” Jennie added in a sad tone. “We’ve been eating together more and you let me hold your hand and stuff…”
Jungkook's expression softened as he felt a bit of pity for her. The thing is, he said yes to the occasional lunch and dinner to stop Jennie from pestering him, and he held her hand and let her touch him affectionately only in public so it would keep up appearances that they were a married couple.
"Jennie," he said gently, wanting to be a little kinder to her since he knew he had been a grumpy ass earlier on the couch—but that was mainly due to the fact that he felt Jennie had ruined his beautiful emotional reunion with Siri.
Sure, Jungkook had always disliked Jennie from the moment he saw her stomping on sandcastles, but ever since their marriage, and after seeing her try hard to get on his good side, he didn’t want to be a totally heartless bastard towards her. He did try to soften himself around her just to be nice and courteous, but of course, his heart would never fully melt for her, or be hers.
"Just because I eat with you and hold your hand sometimes doesn’t mean my feelings have changed. I’m sorry but… I do all that coz I have to. So people will believe we’re happily married."
Jungkook could actually see Jennie’s face drop, and while he felt bad for hurting her feelings, he also felt it was better to be honest with her. Unfortunately, the truth can hurt sometimes.
Upon hearing Jungkook’s honesty, Jennie realised that the progress she thought she was making with him never actually existed. Every lunch and dinner, every event, and every touch, she had convinced herself that they meant something, but clearly to him they were just obligations.
After that explanation, Jennie sees Jungkook look through the windows from the lounge to outside on the lawn where his eyes were clearly searching for something in the dark. She knew he was looking towards that treehouse. It was Jungkook’s and Siri’s ‘kingdom’ apparently, and Jennie was never invited inside it when they were younger.
She also knew what—or more like who—he was looking for.
It was Siri when they were children. It was Siri when they were teenagers. It was Siri when they were in uni. And even after everyone believed she was dead, it was still Siri.
"You can go home, Jennie,” Jungkook said to her softly while his eyes were locked onto a small glowing light he could see within his old wooden tree-castle. "But my home is Siri. Wherever she is, I’ll go.”
And so now here Jungkook is, outside in his parent’s yard near the big tree that had a wooden castle built around it. He’s climbed up the wooden ladder half way where he’s waiting for his princess to allow him entry.
He doesn’t know why he decided to roleplay as a prince at this age and after everything that happened today, but knowing Siri was in the tree-castle—in their safe place—it just brought back many memories, and Jungkook couldn’t help but feel that the little boy prince inside him wanted to come out and play. Just for a little bit.
But it also seems Siri wanted to play too.
"Well,” he hears her reply, putting on a posh accent, "I suppose I could be persuaded to show kindness."
Jungkook keeps his act up, gasping dramatically as he put his hand on his heart, even though he knew Siri couldn’t see him in the dark. "Your generosity knows no bounds, princess."
"But," she decides to say, "what gift does this lost prince bring me?"
"A gift??"
"Naturally. Surely a prince requesting entry into my kingdom comes bearing something of value."
"Hmm…” Siri could hear Jungkook thinking.
But he didn't really need to think too hard. There’s only one thing he wants to give her. One thing he’ll always give her.
He smiles to himself, only thinking of her as he says softly but confidently, "I give you my heart, princess."
The smile that was on Siri’s lips while they were roleplaying slowly fades because Jungkook’s words turned her to a puddle of adoration. Out of all the things he could’ve said, he went for the most meaningful object which spoke volumes of his love for her.
And actually, almost everything he’s done for her spoke volumes.
All the anxiety Siri felt earlier disappears. All the feelings of worry about what will happen next for her in life didn’t matter in this moment. What mattered is that she felt safe, warm and secure knowing she’d have Jungkook and his love, forever and always.
Jungkook then continues to say, “If I could cut it out and hand it to you on a golden platter, I would."
Siri's eyes fill with tears for the thousandth time today, but this time, a shaky laugh comes with them. Even though he just said something totally absurd, Siri could hear the sincerity in Jungkook’s voice and knows that if he could actually cut out his heart and give it to her, he would.
"I should warn you, though,” he adds. "The procedure would probably kill me."
Siri laughs through her tears. "Probably?"
"Well… almost certainly."
A chuckle leaves Siri as she sniffles and wipes her tears. She suddenly feels like she misses Jungkook, even though he’s right there.
She slips the blanket off her lap and goes to stand, except since she’s a lot bigger now, she has to walk bent forward slightly so she doesn’t hit her head on the ceiling. She grabs the lantern in the corner first before walking over to the little wooden latch to unlock it, and then she pulls open the small wooden gate.
With the help of the lantern light, she sees Jungkook is still in his work clothes with the shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and he’s holding onto the wooden ladder while looking up at her with a soft smile. She notices his doe eyes aren’t as red or swollen anymore, but it’s still easy to tell he had been crying earlier.
It makes her chest get a painful little pinch looking at him because she hates that he had cried so much today.
Smiling with glossy eyes, Siri places a hand over her chest to keep up her roleplaying, then she lowers her head in a graceful nod. "You may enter, handsome prince."
“Why thank you, kind princess.”
Jungkook's grin widens as Siri moves back to give him space to crawl in through the small hole. She goes to place the lantern in the corner again before she sits amongst the pillows and blankets, while he goes to pull up the gate and put the latch back on.
Now it’s just the two of them inside their fancy wooden palace, but Jungkook stays standing awkwardly near the gate with his upper body bent forward since he was too tall in here as well. He nibbles his lower lip as if he’s nervous, wanting to get closer to Siri but he seemed unsure if he should.
The sight of him like that where he looked like a hesitant bunny, turned Siri into mush. All she wanted to do was just bring Jungkook into her arms and squeeze all that nervousness out of him, cuteness-aggression style.
"Koo,” she says his nickname softly, making a flutter go through him as he’s missed that name so much.
And truthfully, he’s missed KooKoo, Kookie, KooKoo-kachoo, Bunny boy, and Muscle-piggy. Every nickname Siri has ever come up with, he’s missed them all.
Jungkook sees her patting the spot beside her amongst the pillows, and it makes butterflies go off in his stomach. A bright smile curls onto his lips as he makes his way over, and as he moves, Siri shifts herself so she’s sitting slightly up against the wall with a pillow behind her, and then she lifts the blanket and opens her arms, welcoming Jungkook into them.
He eagerly lays down next to her and goes right into her embrace. He positions himself so he’s slightly lower than her with his head tucked into the crook of her neck while his cheek is pressed against her chest, making him have pouty lips. He then tangles his legs with hers and wraps his arms around her a lot tighter than he’s ever held her before, basically clinging to her like a koala and being a big baby.
Once he’s comfortable and has Siri locked tightly in his arms, Jungkook takes a deep, relieved breath in, taking in her scent and her warmth as she hugs him back tightly. However, the scent of her is so familiar that it for some reason makes Jungkook’s chest ache and his eyes start to prickle with tears.
She just smelt so much like home, she felt like home, and he was just so happy to finally be in the arms of his home.
It’s a little funny though, ‘cause after Jungkook lost Siri, he had become a bit of a hardened, grouchy ass where he always had a frown or a look of sorrow on his face, and he was always curt or snapping at people he didn’t want to deal with—which was almost everyone. It’s what Jimin, the receptionist, had always seen of him at work.
But now with his love back, that anger and hardness Jungkook had is melting away. Siri is thawing the coldness that overtook his heart.
She’s bringing back the old, original Jungkook. The man who could be compassionate and sweet if he wanted to be. The man who would pout with boba eyes, and smile like a bunny. The man who was a clingy cry baby (evidently), and so hopelessly devoted and irrevocably in love with her.
Nuzzling into her neck, Jungkook mumbles, "Missed you so damn much."
Siri suddenly feels warm water dripping onto her chest, and she knew that he was crying again. It made her heart squeeze tight, just like her arms squeezed tightly around him too.
"Hey, I'm here now, okay?" she coos, carding her fingers through his hair. She also has some tears in her eyes now because it really does break her heart when the love of her life cries.
"You don't need to cry anymore."
“Can’t stop,” he croaks against her skin, squeezing her tight. “Being without you was just the worst time of my life. Don’t ever wanna lose you again.”
Siri sniffles and cradles Jungkook’s head against her harder, “Gosh, I’m so sorry for what you’ve had to go through, Kookie… ”
“S’not your fault. Was mine for letting you get on that plane.”
“Hey, no,” Siri says seriously as she pulls his head gently away from her neck so she could look him in the eyes. “There’s no way it was your fault, okay? Life just wanted to throw us a huge curveball, but at least we found our way back to each other. The universe tried, but it didn’t win.”
She smiles down at him and he nods before laying his head down in the curve of her neck again. For a while, neither of them say anything and just hold each other, taking comfort in each other’s warmth and embrace while the water in their eyes eventually dries up.
"I still feel like shit though,” Jungkook eventually murmurs with his lips all pouty from resting his cheek against her chest.
"For what?" Siri asks softly, still slipping her hand through his hair.
"For giving in… For marrying Jennie…”
Siri’s heart clenches for a split second at the last sentence, but she reminds herself it’s okay and that the reason they married made total sense.
“It’s okay. I get why you did it.”
"But part of me still feels like I betrayed you…"
Siri gets a painful pinch to her chest as she can hear how genuine the guilt is in Jungkook’s tone and how heavily this has been weighing on him.
He squishes his cheek against her more and slightly nuzzles into her as he says, "I hated it. Every second of it. Even though the wedding was rushed, I hated it.”
Siri snorts and rolls her eyes and says sarcastically, “Bet Jennie loved that it was rushed.”
“Yeah, she hated that.” Jungkook sniffles as he pulls his face away from Siri’s chest to look at her with a frown. “But she fucking milked what she could out of it. When it came to kissing the bride, she practically forced her tongue down my throat—and in front of the damn cameras too! There were freaking people from the media there!”
Siri’s heart drops at hearing he and Jennie have kissed. Although she knows she can’t really feel jealous about it since she’s done the same with Taehyung.
Jungkook notices the way Siri tenses for a second. His face turns serious and sincere for his next words, as if he knew she would be struggling with that info and might start overthinking things.
"I want you to know that I haven’t been with anyone since you. I’ve never kissed Jennie since that sham of a wedding, and I’ve never touched her intimately. We don’t share a room and I’m hardly ever at the apartment anymore, and we—well at least I—don’t act like a married couple unless people are watching. I just do it to keep up appearances.”
Relief courses through Siri at first, happy to know Jungkook has been faithful to her this whole time. Sadly, guilt hits her next because she wasn’t fully faithful to him—not that it was her fault though since she had no memory of him at the time.
Even though she knows Jungkook will hate this, Siri feels this is the time to be honest about Taehyung. This is their safe place, after all. They could always tell each other things in their wooden castle and know it would never leave these wooden walls.
Looking into Jungkook’s eyes, Siri gives a small smile. “Thank you for telling me that, Koo. That really means a lot to me.”
He notices there’s some hesitancy in her eyes for some reason. “But? What is it? You look like you wanna tell me something.”
“There is something I need to tell you… I just know you’re not gonna like it though.”
Jungkook feels his heart in his stomach, and he’s already dreading what she has to say, but he swallows thickly and nods to urge her to continue.
Siri inhales to prepare herself before she lets it out.
“So… When I lost my memories, there was a point when I thought I wasn’t going to get them back. Even though I knew I was married because I had my rings, I didn’t think I had a husband who cared since no one had come looking for me—or I thought he was dead. It had been over two years and I just… I didn’t know anything.”
Jungkook’s heart twists hearing this since he absolutely did care and had been looking for her. But he understands that with her memories gone, Siri had no other option but to think what she did since no one had come for her. It’s just hard for him knowing she felt that way, and he wishes he had done better to search for her.
“And because I couldn’t remember you and thought no one was coming for me,” Siri continues, “I thought maybe I should move on from whoever I married…”
Jungkook’s stomach churns this time to the point that he feels slightly sick. He has a sort of grimace about to appear on his face as he has a feeling he knows where this conversation is about to go.
“Since Taehyung was always there for me, I had developed feelings for him… and I… I wanted to be with him romantically…”
I knew it. Jungkook purses his lips and scrunches his eyes shut as he lets out a sound that was like a grumble and a whimper at the same time because he was both irritated and hurt. He had suspected there was something between Siri and Taehyung from the way the guy looked at her, but Jungkook was really hoping he was wrong.
Looks like he wasn’t wrong though…
When he opens his eyes again, Jungkook sees tears in Siri’s eyes, and he could tell she felt apologetic and guilty about it. But there was one thing he needed to know.
“Do you love him?” he asks in a small, almost fearful voice, since he was literally scared of the answer. He really didn’t like the thought of Siri loving another man, but he just had to know.
Siri swallows thickly, feeling like there was a heavy rock on her chest. A rock called guilt.
“I think I was starting to…” she admits.
Jungkook shuts his eyes tight again, turns his head away from her, and breathes in and out deeply through his nose to help himself process this. The fear and worries he had have basically been confirmed and he hates it.
It freaking hurts him knowing that while he spent two years searching for her, refusing to move on, there was a version of Siri who decided to let him go to choose someone else.
A tear slips from the corner of his closed eyes, and it makes Siri’s chest ache. That heavy rock of guilt feels like it’s trying to pass her ribcage and head towards her stomach.
“Koo–oo,” she says his nickname brokenly as she starts to cry too, cupping the side of his face to wipe his fallen tear and make him look at her, but Jungkook can’t seem to open his eyes just yet. “Please understand that I—”
“It’s okay,” he cuts her off while reaching for her hand to pull it closer to his lips. “You didn’t remember me and I get it. It sucks, but I get it.”
“I’m really sorry,” she says tearfully.
“Don’t be.”
Jungkook finally looks at Siri as he kisses her palm softly to reassure her because he knows she didn’t mean for it to happen. In her mind, she wasn't really anyone’s wife properly, and Taehyung was the person who had been there for her. He was the person helping her, protecting her, and supporting her. Jungkook understands all of that. It doesn't stop the jealousy or the hurt he feels, or the ugly knot that won’t go away in his chest, but he definitely understands.
"I could tell that there was something between you two.” He goes to wipe Siri’s tears away with his thumb and the back of his knuckles.
She furrows her brows, "You could?”
Jungkook nods. "The way you look at each other sometimes—but more so him… He looks at you like he's in love with you."
Siri goes quiet at that because… He isn't wrong…
Jungkook notices her silence, and he slowly nods at the realisation. “Ah. So he is in love with you.”
Siri winces slightly. “I’m sorry.”
Jungkook sniffles and wipes his own cheeks next, “Honestly, I can’t blame the guy. Who wouldn’t fall for you?”
Siri does a small smile, but now there was another question that was gnawing at Jungkook.
“Did you, uh… Did you guys sleep together?”
Siri immediately shakes her head, “No. We never slept together. Just went on some dates and kissed a few times.”
Jungkook feels his shoulders drop and as he closes his eyes again, he lets out a deep exhale of relief. Although, behind his eyelids, he hates the image he sees of Taehyung holding the love of his life and kissing her. He hates that someone else got moments with her that should’ve been his and only his.
But Jungkook knows he shouldn’t feel too upset since he basically did the same things with Jennie—although with her, there were absolutely no intimate feelings whatsoever. Still, it’s neither his nor Siri’s fault that things turned out the way they did.
However, now that Jungkook knows there’s history between Siri and Taehyung, and now that he knows the guy is in love with his true wife, he’s a lot more uncomfortable with them near each other.
"I’ll be honest,” Jungkook starts to admit, “I’m thankful the guy was there for you and took care of you, and I’m grateful he helped you come back to me, but I don't really like him now since he’s in love with you, and I don’t like the thought of you two alone anymore… I know that sounds awful and controlling and like I'm jealous, but that’s coz I am. You’ve always been mine, and I’ve always been yours. I know he means something to you, but it… it just doesn’t sit right with me now. I’m sorry."
Siri, once again, melts for Jungkook, admiring his honesty. She cups his handsome face, making him look into her eyes. "Kookie, the feelings I have for Tae are not as strong as the ones I have for you. I was starting to fall for him, but I've already fallen for you. What I felt for him was becoming something, but what I feel for you is already something. I love Tae in some way, yes, but with you I don't just love you. I'm in love with you."
"You really mean that?" Jungkook says with big puppy-dog doe eyes.
"Of course I mean it. You win by a mile. There’s no comparison."
"Promise?"
The question is so soft and vulnerable, it breaks Siri’s heart a little that Jungkook even needs this reassurance. She understands why though. She’d feel the same if their positions were swapped.
“I promise, Koo."
Similar to that moment when they were seven years old where Siri had felt insecure and jealous during the Jennie and tiara incident, Jungkook pouts as he lifts his left hand with his pinky finger pointed out. "Pinky promise?"
A light chuckle escapes from Siri. She hugs him tight with the arm that’s still around him, leans down to press a short and sweet kiss to his forehead, then she hooks her pinky around his.
"I pinky promise."
"God, I love you,” Jungkook suddenly says, nuzzling into Siri’s neck again, feeling all the insecure places of his heart be soothed by her certainty and presence. “Love you so fucking much.”
“I love you too, Kookie.”
Jungkook couldn’t hold himself in anymore and lifts his head to place his lips on hers. Siri doesn't resist and hugs him closer to her. It’s a long and deep kiss, tasting of their salty tears, but feels so full of soft love.
When they part their lips, they keep their eyes closed, press their foreheads together and lightly nudge each other’s nose, just wanting to revel in this closeness they’ve missed so much.
“Koo?” Siri eventually says as she lifts her forehead off his to look at him properly.
“Mm?”
"What happens now? With us? Since you're married to Jennie and all…"
Jungkook sighs softly, feeling worn out at even the mention of Jennie. “I’m not really sure what will happen from here, but I know that I don’t want to lose you again, and I want to be with you, not her. So… I think I’ll have a talk to my father and Woobin tomorrow to discuss divorcing her.”
Siri does a cringey face. “Ooo that conversation is not gonna go down too well. But… won’t it affect the company too?”
Jungkook chuckles, “Yeah… I can already see Woobin is probably gonna go off his nut at me, and Jennie will probably throw a fit, but honestly, I don't care. I’m gonna do it. I want this situation fixed. I don’t like the fact that I have to call her my wife. I only want to be tied and married to you.”
Siri’s heart melts once again as she gives him a smile, taking comfort in his resolve and dedication to her, feeling reassured that his love is truly and fully for her. She kisses him as she’s thankful for him, holding her lips there so he can feel how much he means to her.
Jungkook feels it, and the longer their lips are together, the more he melts too. The more he feels so relieved and so thankful himself that the love of his life is back and in his arms.
And the longer they kiss…
“Want you, babyyy,” Jungkook murmurs a whine against Siri’s lips while his hand feels up the side of her body, going up her thighs and over her curves, then back down and round to the curve of her ass where he squeezes it needily. “Want you so bad. Need to be inside you. Been way too long. Please? Please can I have you?”
Siri nudges her nose with his, giving him a cheeky grin. “You’re married to someone else though… Wouldn’t this be considered cheating? I wouldn’t want to be a homewrecker.”
Jungkook lets out a chuckle, shaking his head as if she just said the most ridiculous thing ever. “Oh, don’t even go there, baby. My marriage to her isn’t real—not where it counts anyway, so I wouldn’t consider this cheating.”
He moves his hand to cup Siri’s face, his thumbing brushing over her cheek. He looks deep into her blue eyes, giving her the most genuine soft smile. “Especially not when my heart, mind, body and soul have always belonged to you. The only vows I’ve ever meant are the ones I made to you. She’s the homewrecker. You are my real wife.”
Siri’s heart flutters as she gazes into those doe eyes that were all sparkly like a galaxy for her. “Wow, Kookie, you sure have a way with words. I honestly feel so lucky to have you.”
“Well it’s all true. Plus, I’m the lucky one to have you.”
Siri rolls her eyes playfully as her smile widens, while Jungkook’s loving doe eyes drop to her lips then back up to her eyes. It’s then that neither of them feel they need to say anything else, and so they both lean in to join their mouths. This time, their kissing was purposeful and deep, as well as desperate and needy. It was two years of longing and love pressed against each other’s lips.
As their tongues sweep and dance in one another’s mouths, Siri grips the front of Jungkook's shirt while his hand pulls her face even closer to deepen their kissing until their teeth just graze and she moans against his lips.
It didn’t take long for their clothes to come off, and when Siri lays back against the pillows, Jungkook lays between her legs while his hands are on her breasts and his lips are kissing along her jaw and down her neck.
“Fuck, I’ve missed these tits,” he mumbles over her skin as he kneads her bountiful flesh.
His mouth takes in her left nipple hungrily, sucking and swirling his tongue around it eagerly, making her arch her back into him with a gasp. The warmth from his wet tongue, the gentle scrape of his teeth, and the way he gives attention to the other breast so it isn’t left out, it was all pleasure Siri has missed receiving and Jungkook missed giving.
While his mouth is busy on her breasts, one of his hands slides down her body, caressing every inch of skin he could reach. When he finally reaches her folds, Jungkook could feel Siri’s slick arousal, and it turned him on more knowing how wet she already is.
He groans against her nipple before he pops off to say, “Seems like my baby is very horny. Never felt you so wet like this before.”
“Mmm, well the last dick I’ve had is yours, so ~gasps!~ mmm~” Siri moans when she feels Jungkook slip a finger into her, fingering her in the way he knows she likes where he vibrates his digit against her walls while his thumb rubs over her clit. It was just muscle memory for him.
While he’s toying with her pussy, the two gaze at each other with heavy lust-filled eyes, and Siri’s hand finds Jungkook’s length in return. Just like he was amused by how wet she was, she feels the same about how hard he is. She feels like she’s holding a warm, velvety metal rod, and she could feel quite a bit of precum leaking from his tip.
“Mm~ never felt you this hard before, Koo,” she mimics him with a small, cheeky grin, sliding her thumb over the head of his shaft, spreading his precum around.
His fingering in her slows down and he closes his eyes for a moment as he lets out a moan at her touch. “Well the last pussy I had was yours,” he copies her.
Jungkook then bites his bottom lip, and with his eyes still closed, he relishes the feeling of Siri’s hand stroking his length. God, it felt so, so fucking good—no, amazing—no! It was like freaking heaven to be touched like this and to have such intimacy again.
There have been quite a few nights over the last two and a half years where Jungkook has actually cried during and after masturbating to the thought of Siri because he just missed her and her touch so much. He’s missed being cuddled and held. He’s missed kissing and even just lying naked next to a warm body. He’s missed being intimate and loved in the physical aspects.
Of course there were a few times during work events (in between his searching for Siri), when women would approach Jungkook and try their luck flirting with him, but he always (and almost immediately and bluntly) would tell those women that he wasn’t interested. Even though he felt lonely most nights, he would tell those women that he’s still a married man, that he’s still searching for his wife, and that he hasn’t given up on her.
Most of the time women understood and apologised for trying, but there was the odd woman or two who would try to convince him that searching for his wife was pointless since she must be dead. At that, Jungkook would snap back at them to really think about what they’re saying. “If you had a husband, wouldn’t you want him to stay faithful and keep searching for you if you disappeared?”
That would generally shut the women up and have them walking away feeling all guilty with their tail between their legs.
Sure, Jungkook craved intimacy, but he just couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. The thought of even kissing someone else who wasn’t Siri felt gross and wrong to him. Jungkook already had that phase during his time at university where he was curious about being with other people, and he’s never had that curiosity come back ever since.
After his parents had that ‘moving on’ talk with him, Jungkook said he would try, but deep down, he knew he couldn’t, and wouldn’t, be with another woman intimately until he knew for certain that Siri was actually gone, which meant he had to have found her body.
Basically, even though he was married to Jennie, Jungkook would’ve stayed celibate for the rest of his life, or at least until Siri’s body was found. Would’ve been a sexless marriage for poor Jennie.
But luckily for Jungkook, he doesn’t have to be celibate anymore because the one person—the only person—his dick could get hard for, is finally back. She’s here, and she’s got a great grip on him, stroking him in that way he likes.
“Fuck, babyy~” he whines as he opens his eyes, giving Siri a pleading look. “I need to be inside you so badly. I can’t wait any longer.”
Just before she’s about to respond, Siri’s eyes drop to the necklace that’s dangling off Jungkook’s neck. She feels herself swooning seeing it on him because she just knows he wanted to keep a piece of her close to his heart, just like she did when she wore her rings on a necklace.
Looking back up to his doe eyes, Siri smiles softly, moving her free hand to hold his handsome face. “Then take me, Kookie. You know you can have me anytime, anywhere, and in any way you want.”
“Goddammit, I love you so much,” he says, removing his hand from her wet entrance. He then positions himself properly between her legs so the head of his cock is pressing against her needy pussy, and his arms cage around her head, seeming like a protective barrier from the world outside of their small, wooden palace.
Jungkook then presses himself against Siri’s body a little more, making her breasts squish against his chest where his gold wedding band rests right between their bodies. He just wants to be as close to her as he could get, wanting (and needing) to be able to feel her heart beating against him.
She wraps her calves around his perfectly taut ass, pulling him in so his length starts to push inside of her. They gaze into one another’s eyes while their breaths mingle as he keeps going in.
“I love you so much too,” Siri whispers to his lips just before he’s all the way to the hilt.
When he’s finally all the way in, a small whimper escapes from Siri due to the stretch and fullness she feels, while Jungkook buries his face into the crook of her neck, letting out deep breaths through his nose as the tightness around his cock was nothing but heavenly again. That’s the only word he could describe it as.
“Home,” he mumbles. “I’m finally home.”
Siri smiles at his sweet words and tightens her legs around him in response, slipping her hands under his arms to go round his back so she can hold him closer.
“I’m finally home too,” she says softly near his ear, turning her head slightly to rub her cheek against his hair in a tender cat-like nuzzle.
A warm rush of adoration blooms within Jungkook, and he tears up a little as he knows Siri means the same thing he does. They both feel like they’re home because being together like this—with their bodies as one, being wrapped in one another’s arms, feeling so close, having each other’s lips lingering on their skin, and getting lost in eyes that don’t ever look away—all of that is their true home.
When he starts to move, Jungkook does long, slow, deep strokes, pulling himself almost all the way out before he sinks back in, sliding between those warm, slick walls he loves so much. He takes his time, wanting to feel all of Siri’s ridges and the way her pussy tightens as soon as he thrusts back in. She also enjoys the feel of him filling her up and the way he goes back into her a little harder with each pump.
Heavy breathing, soft moans, and grunts of pleasure fill their tree-castle, as well as a few kisses in between, but as Jungkook gradually gets faster, Siri starts to feel an ache in her chest all of a sudden. It was so random, but the act of making love gets to her because what is one of the things sex is meant to be for?
Tears fill her eyes and her breath hitches in a way that had nothing to do with the rhythm of their bodies moving. Jungkook hears the sound and looks at her face properly. When he sees his love is crying, he slows to a stop, staying buried deep inside her.
“Hey, hey,” he says softly with concern. “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?” He moves his forearms slightly lower so he could cup Siri’s face and wipe at her tears as they come with his thumbs.
She tries to shake her head, but Jungkook pushes for details.
“Tell me, baby,” he says gently. “I’m right here for you.”
“I’m just… s-sorry,” Siri croaks out. “I’m sorry for losing our baby…”
Jungkook’s eyes widen for a split second, not expecting that, but then they soften and go sad as his heart gets an ache for her, feeling terrible that she feels guilty at all.
“Aw, baby…” He lowers his face carefully so his forehead is on hers. “It wasn’t your fault, alright? It was never your fault, and I’d never blame you for it.”
“But—”
“No, don’t. No buts. Don’t ever be sorry for anything that happened after the plane incident. Nothing is your fault. Nothing. Okay?”
Jungkook kisses the corner of Siri’s mouth, then lifts his head to kiss her forehead, then her closed eyelids, the bridge of her nose next, and then both of her tear-stained cheeks.
“Plus,” he adds, parting his face a few inches to look at her, “we can always make another baby, can’t we?”
Siri sniffles and opens her eyes to find Jungkook smiling down tenderly at her, looking a little hopeful after what he just said.
She guesses he isn’t wrong, they could make another baby. It’s still just sad that they lost their first one.
She pouts and nods anyway to his question because she would love to have another.
“Yeah?” Jungkook smiles wider before he turns a little cheeky and flirty to lighten Siri’s mood and make her feel better. “You know… We could make a baby right now… Would you like that?”
Siri’s pout curves into a small smile as she nods again.
“Yeah? You want me to put a baby into you, my baby?” He starts to slowly move his length inside her again.
“Yes,” she mumbles.
“Mmm~ want me to fill you up?” Jungkook grunts as his thrusts get a little deeper this time.
“Y-Yes,” Siri stutters, and then she lets out a whimpery mewl when she feels him push into her rather roughly just before he’s about to hit the end of her.
“Want my cock to—” he grunts again as he gets faster, but he keeps those rough bursts at the end, “feed your pussy with my cum?”
“Yes!” Siri says louder as she hangs her head back and shuts her eyes, enjoying the pleasure that keeps getting banged into her.
Her nails dig into Jungkook’s back and her legs wrap around him even tighter as she tries to hold onto him since he’s really fucking into her now, rolling his body and hips as if he was dancing on her, ensuring the base of his cock is grinding on her clit.
Heat builds in Siri’s core and her pussy keeps on clenching around his length. “Mm~ fuck—want your cum in me so bad, Koo. Please. Please fill me up. Give me a baby.”
He groans at the neediness in her tone and his dick throbs at her words. There’s nothing more he’d love to do than to make this woman the mother of his children. He wants so badly to have a family with her, and spoil her and their kids rotten.
Jungkook could feel Siri’s slick completely creaming and coating his cock, his pace quickens and his thrusts get harder and more urgent where the sound of wet skin slapping together fills their wooden castle.
“Nnngh~ I’m close,” she says raggedly.
“I know you are, baby. I’m gonna get you there.”
Jungkook’s mouth finds the spot just below Siri’s ear—the spot he knows is her sensitive, horny spot. It’s the spot that makes her whole body tingle and squirm, and her pussy throbs and leaks for more.
His lips press there and his tongue circles her skin before he sucks the spot, sending that tingly sensation through Siri’s body like a current. Like a light switch, her pussy is turned on to its max, and the fire in her core rages hot.
“Oh god—fuck… Yesss!” she cries out, her walls contract so hot and hard around Jungkook as her orgasm comes over her.
The feeling of her pussy contracting around his cock practically milks him, urging him to cum too. He drives himself faster and harder into his woman, slamming his length as deep as he can go each time.
Within seconds, Jungkook’s thrusts stutter where they’re sloppy and desperate, and then finally, that coil in his core snaps. He drops his face into the crook of Siri’s neck as he lets out a guttural groan, burying himself all the way into her as his cock pulses, emptying everything he’s got.
Siri could feel every throb his length did as it was so powerful. She felt like his cock could be flooding her pussy with his huge pent up load. She could then feel his hips jerking against her as if he still had more to give. It seemed like it was a release that seemed to go on and on.
Eventually, Jungkook finally feels his balls are empty, and he ends up dropping his weight onto Siri. She didn’t mind though as she wanted the weight of him on her. She wanted the proof of him—cum, sweat, and tears—on her.
She wanted the way he stayed plugged deep inside her, keeping his seeds in there, letting those little swimmers of his do their magic while they both tried to catch their breaths.
After some long minutes, Jungkook slides himself out and off of Siri where he holds her close to his naked body. They stay like that for some time, arms and legs tangled together under the blankets, softly kissing and nuzzling each other as they bask in their long overdue, after-sex blissful glow.
“I love you so much, baby,” Jungkook whispers to a sleepy Siri who’s falling asleep in his arms. “Gonna be your husband in every way again soon. I promise.”
He lightly kisses her forehead before he gently lays his head down, closing his eyes with a soft smile on his lips because he finally has the love of his life back.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the couple, before they made love, someone was listening outside in the dark of the night.
"What happens now? With us?” They heard Siri say. “Since you're married to Jennie and all…"
“I’m not really sure what will happen from here,” they heard Jungkook reply, “but I know that I don’t want to lose you again, and I want to be with you, not her. So… I think I’ll have a talk to my father and Woobin tomorrow to discuss divorcing her.”
Divorce. That was what caught the person’s ears the most. That was the word that made panic rise within them.
No. No, no, no. That cannot happen. A divorce will ruin things!
Without another glance toward the tree-castle, the person left with a bitter feeling in their chest. They left the couple who were about to make love completely unaware that tomorrow’s problems have already begun.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~8400
>Chapter Warnings: some sweetness before more angst comes, smut; raw missionary
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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Knock knock knock
Siri startles slightly at the sound, her gaze going from the roof window she had been looking through to admire the starry night sky, to the small gate-like door a few metres away from her.
She’s actually inside a wooden treehouse—or it's more like a tree-castle—that was built thanks to Jungkook’s father who had it professionally made for his son and her when they were little kids. It was their playhouse, their imaginary kingdom, and a place where they would have (not so) secret meetings throughout the years. It was their safe place.
At the moment, it's a little late into the evening, sometime after 10pm; the family meeting is over, dinner is over, friends have gone home with the promise of catching up very soon, and most of the people in the Jeon family mansion have gone to bed. This included Taehyung who is in one of the many guest bedrooms after Jungkook’s mother happily offered him a room.
Siri is sitting on a pile of pillows and blankets she brought from inside the mansion, and a lantern sits in the corner, being her source of light to see her surroundings.
She came to the tree-castle as she wanted to be somewhere where she didn’t feel so out of place. The guest bedroom Jungkook’s mother had offered her to stay in used to be her room from when she and Jungkook were younger, back when she basically lived at the Jeon family mansion for the better half of every week.
Back then, Siri and Jungkook would sneak into each other’s rooms after everyone fell asleep. Sometimes she'd cross the hall and crawl into his bed, other times he'd crawl into hers, and neither of them had a good excuse except for just wanting to be near each other and cuddle.
Now the bedroom didn’t really look or feel like her room anymore, but that’s because it is a guest bedroom now. The furniture has changed, and the stars and daisy decorations she stuck on the walls are gone, but Siri understood why.
After she and Jungkook had gotten married, they moved into their own apartment together. Of course after they married they would visit the Jeon family mansion occasionally, but they’d usually stay in Jungkook’s childhood bedroom if they needed a room to sleep in, therefore there was no need for that spare room to be ‘hers’ anymore.
However, tonight after Siri unpacked her bags and sat on the bed that technically used to be hers, she couldn’t help but feel exactly like what the room was meant for now… She felt like a guest rather than family, only because she’s been apart from everyone for so long.
But it seems someone has found her in the not-so-secret safe treehouse.
"Oh..." Siri says with slight surprise since she wasn’t expecting anyone to come here. "Uh... who is it?"
She hears someone clearing their throat before they speak.
"Oh beautiful princess," Jungkook’s voice comes from outside, "would you be so kind as to allow this poor lost prince entry into your magnificent kingdom? It’s terribly cold out here, and I fear I may perish before sunrise."
A laugh slips out from Siri as heat flushes into her cheeks and butterflies go off in her tummy. Hearing Jungkook talk like that takes her back to their much younger, playful days, and the fact he was doing it now, especially after the emotional day they had, it really warmed her heart.
Siri didn’t actually think Jungkook would still be here, though. Even though they had a moment earlier where they understood their love for each other was still there thanks to Jungkook showing his wedding ring on a necklace, Siri thought he had gone home with his current wife.
The last thing she heard before coming out to the tree-castle was Jennie asking her husband if he was going to go home with her, and Siri didn’t want to stick around to hear the answer because just hearing that Jungkook and Jennie have a home together crushed her heart.
Silly Siri, though. She should’ve stayed to hear how Jungkook turned Jennie down…
"Jennie,” he said her name with a sigh, looking exhausted from the day’s events and like he really just wanted some peace, and he knew he wouldn’t get that from her.
"What?"
"Please don't do this."
"Don't do what?" she looked at him innocently.
"Pretend that there’s anything between us. Don't act like we have a home together. That apartment isn't my home anymore, not since you got rid of Siri’s things behind my back. Plus, do you really think I'm gonna go anywhere now that she’s staying here?"
Jennie pouted, “I already said I was sorry for that, but I’m your wife now, and you’re meant to come home with—”
“No,” Jungkook cut in sternly. “Siri is my real wife. You are only my wife on paper and in the public eye. Behind closed doors, we’re nothing. You already know this, so why are you trying to make us sound like we’re something more when we’re not?”
Jennie looked down at her fidgety hands. "I just thought, maybe… eventually… you changed your mind about me…"
For the last four months (since a month before they got married), Jennie had been trying to get Jungkook to like her. She knew she had made a huge mistake in the beginning when she threw out Siri’s belongings after moving into Jungkook’s apartment, but at the time, Jennie just wanted to make the place feel like hers too, and it was hard to do that with Siri’s clothes and personal things still around.
However, after seeing the rage Jungkook went into when he found Siri’s things were gone—where he angrily pulled the new duvet off the bed and literally punched a hole into a wall—Jennie’s been trying to do better.
She’s been showing up during his lunch breaks, although it would be unannounced sometimes, much to Jungkook’s dismay. When he refused to eat with her, she would send some food up to his office. She kept suggesting couple-y things for them to do together to get closer to him, but he always said he was too busy.
She would always try to dress to impress him, even dressing in pastel colours to give herself a softer look rather than her usual bright red or hot pink colours. She’d send Jungkook texts daily, and she even moved herself into the spare bedroom of his (now their) apartment.
Except the damage of removing Siri’s things was done, and because Jungkook was so bitter and still fuming deep inside over it, he hardly ever went back ‘home’ anymore, choosing to stay with his parents at the Jeon mansion, or with one of his hyungs instead.
Over time, Jungkook did eventually stop refusing every invitation Jennie offered, and had agreed to some lunches and the odd dinner at their supposed home. Sometimes he would sit across from Jennie and listen, doing the bare minimum responses while she talked his ears off. Sometimes he would stay long enough to finish the meal and do the dishes for her. And at public events, Jungkook would, on the rare occasion, take Jennie’s hand first, and he would let her adjust his tie or brush his hair back in front of people.
Stupidly, as well as embarrassingly, because he didn’t say no all the time, Jennie started to have a little more hope. She thought maybe Jungkook was finally warming up to her. That he was finally moving on from Siri, and that maybe after all these years, he was going to finally choose her and she’d stop being in second place (or more like last place, if we’re gonna be honest).
"I thought we were getting closer…” Jennie added in a sad tone. “We’ve been eating together more and you let me hold your hand and stuff…”
Jungkook's expression softened as he felt a bit of pity for her. The thing is, he said yes to the occasional lunch and dinner to stop Jennie from pestering him, and he held her hand and let her touch him affectionately only in public so it would keep up appearances that they were a married couple.
"Jennie," he said gently, wanting to be a little kinder to her since he knew he had been a grumpy ass earlier on the couch—but that was mainly due to the fact that he felt Jennie had ruined his beautiful emotional reunion with Siri.
Sure, Jungkook had always disliked Jennie from the moment he saw her stomping on sandcastles, but ever since their marriage, and after seeing her try hard to get on his good side, he didn’t want to be a totally heartless bastard towards her. He did try to soften himself around her just to be nice and courteous, but of course, his heart would never fully melt for her, or be hers.
"Just because I eat with you and hold your hand sometimes doesn’t mean my feelings have changed. I’m sorry but… I do all that coz I have to. So people will believe we’re happily married."
Jungkook could actually see Jennie’s face drop, and while he felt bad for hurting her feelings, he also felt it was better to be honest with her. Unfortunately, the truth can hurt sometimes.
Upon hearing Jungkook’s honesty, Jennie realised that the progress she thought she was making with him never actually existed. Every lunch and dinner, every event, and every touch, she had convinced herself that they meant something, but clearly to him they were just obligations.
After that explanation, Jennie sees Jungkook look through the windows from the lounge to outside on the lawn where his eyes were clearly searching for something in the dark. She knew he was looking towards that treehouse. It was Jungkook’s and Siri’s ‘kingdom’ apparently, and Jennie was never invited inside it when they were younger.
She also knew what—or more like who—he was looking for.
It was Siri when they were children. It was Siri when they were teenagers. It was Siri when they were in uni. And even after everyone believed she was dead, it was still Siri.
"You can go home, Jennie,” Jungkook said to her softly while his eyes were locked onto a small glowing light he could see within his old wooden tree-castle. "But my home is Siri. Wherever she is, I’ll go.”
And so now here Jungkook is, outside in his parent’s yard near the big tree that had a wooden castle built around it. He’s climbed up the wooden ladder half way where he’s waiting for his princess to allow him entry.
He doesn’t know why he decided to roleplay as a prince at this age and after everything that happened today, but knowing Siri was in the tree-castle—in their safe place—it just brought back many memories, and Jungkook couldn’t help but feel that the little boy prince inside him wanted to come out and play. Just for a little bit.
But it also seems Siri wanted to play too.
"Well,” he hears her reply, putting on a posh accent, "I suppose I could be persuaded to show kindness."
Jungkook keeps his act up, gasping dramatically as he put his hand on his heart, even though he knew Siri couldn’t see him in the dark. "Your generosity knows no bounds, princess."
"But," she decides to say, "what gift does this lost prince bring me?"
"A gift??"
"Naturally. Surely a prince requesting entry into my kingdom comes bearing something of value."
"Hmm…” Siri could hear Jungkook thinking.
But he didn't really need to think too hard. There’s only one thing he wants to give her. One thing he’ll always give her.
He smiles to himself, only thinking of her as he says softly but confidently, "I give you my heart, princess."
The smile that was on Siri’s lips while they were roleplaying slowly fades because Jungkook’s words turned her to a puddle of adoration. Out of all the things he could’ve said, he went for the most meaningful object which spoke volumes of his love for her.
And actually, almost everything he’s done for her spoke volumes.
All the anxiety Siri felt earlier disappears. All the feelings of worry about what will happen next for her in life didn’t matter in this moment. What mattered is that she felt safe, warm and secure knowing she’d have Jungkook and his love, forever and always.
Jungkook then continues to say, “If I could cut it out and hand it to you on a golden platter, I would."
Siri's eyes fill with tears for the thousandth time today, but this time, a shaky laugh comes with them. Even though he just said something totally absurd, Siri could hear the sincerity in Jungkook’s voice and knows that if he could actually cut out his heart and give it to her, he would.
"I should warn you, though,” he adds. "The procedure would probably kill me."
Siri laughs through her tears. "Probably?"
"Well… almost certainly."
A chuckle leaves Siri as she sniffles and wipes her tears. She suddenly feels like she misses Jungkook, even though he’s right there.
She slips the blanket off her lap and goes to stand, except since she’s a lot bigger now, she has to walk bent forward slightly so she doesn’t hit her head on the ceiling. She grabs the lantern in the corner first before walking over to the little wooden latch to unlock it, and then she pulls open the small wooden gate.
With the help of the lantern light, she sees Jungkook is still in his work clothes with the shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and he’s holding onto the wooden ladder while looking up at her with a soft smile. She notices his doe eyes aren’t as red or swollen anymore, but it’s still easy to tell he had been crying earlier.
It makes her chest get a painful little pinch looking at him because she hates that he had cried so much today.
Smiling with glossy eyes, Siri places a hand over her chest to keep up her roleplaying, then she lowers her head in a graceful nod. "You may enter, handsome prince."
“Why thank you, kind princess.”
Jungkook's grin widens as Siri moves back to give him space to crawl in through the small hole. She goes to place the lantern in the corner again before she sits amongst the pillows and blankets, while he goes to pull up the gate and put the latch back on.
Now it’s just the two of them inside their fancy wooden palace, but Jungkook stays standing awkwardly near the gate with his upper body bent forward since he was too tall in here as well. He nibbles his lower lip as if he’s nervous, wanting to get closer to Siri but he seemed unsure if he should.
The sight of him like that where he looked like a hesitant bunny, turned Siri into mush. All she wanted to do was just bring Jungkook into her arms and squeeze all that nervousness out of him, cuteness-aggression style.
"Koo,” she says his nickname softly, making a flutter go through him as he’s missed that name so much.
And truthfully, he’s missed KooKoo, Kookie, KooKoo-kachoo, Bunny boy, and Muscle-piggy. Every nickname Siri has ever come up with, he’s missed them all.
Jungkook sees her patting the spot beside her amongst the pillows, and it makes butterflies go off in his stomach. A bright smile curls onto his lips as he makes his way over, and as he moves, Siri shifts herself so she’s sitting slightly up against the wall with a pillow behind her, and then she lifts the blanket and opens her arms, welcoming Jungkook into them.
He eagerly lays down next to her and goes right into her embrace. He positions himself so he’s slightly lower than her with his head tucked into the crook of her neck while his cheek is pressed against her chest, making him have pouty lips. He then tangles his legs with hers and wraps his arms around her a lot tighter than he’s ever held her before, basically clinging to her like a koala and being a big baby.
Once he’s comfortable and has Siri locked tightly in his arms, Jungkook takes a deep, relieved breath in, taking in her scent and her warmth as she hugs him back tightly. However, the scent of her is so familiar that it for some reason makes Jungkook’s chest ache and his eyes start to prickle with tears.
She just smelt so much like home, she felt like home, and he was just so happy to finally be in the arms of his home.
It’s a little funny though, ‘cause after Jungkook lost Siri, he had become a bit of a hardened, grouchy ass where he always had a frown or a look of sorrow on his face, and he was always curt or snapping at people he didn’t want to deal with—which was almost everyone. It’s what Jimin, the receptionist, had always seen of him at work.
But now with his love back, that anger and hardness Jungkook had is melting away. Siri is thawing the coldness that overtook his heart.
She’s bringing back the old, original Jungkook. The man who could be compassionate and sweet if he wanted to be. The man who would pout with boba eyes, and smile like a bunny. The man who was a clingy cry baby (evidently), and so hopelessly devoted and irrevocably in love with her.
Nuzzling into her neck, Jungkook mumbles, "Missed you so damn much."
Siri suddenly feels warm water dripping onto her chest, and she knew that he was crying again. It made her heart squeeze tight, just like her arms squeezed tightly around him too.
"Hey, I'm here now, okay?" she coos, carding her fingers through his hair. She also has some tears in her eyes now because it really does break her heart when the love of her life cries.
"You don't need to cry anymore."
“Can’t stop,” he croaks against her skin, squeezing her tight. “Being without you was just the worst time of my life. Don’t ever wanna lose you again.”
Siri sniffles and cradles Jungkook’s head against her harder, “Gosh, I’m so sorry for what you’ve had to go through, Kookie… ”
“S’not your fault. Was mine for letting you get on that plane.”
“Hey, no,” Siri says seriously as she pulls his head gently away from her neck so she could look him in the eyes. “There’s no way it was your fault, okay? Life just wanted to throw us a huge curveball, but at least we found our way back to each other. The universe tried, but it didn’t win.”
She smiles down at him and he nods before laying his head down in the curve of her neck again. For a while, neither of them say anything and just hold each other, taking comfort in each other’s warmth and embrace while the water in their eyes eventually dries up.
"I still feel like shit though,” Jungkook eventually murmurs with his lips all pouty from resting his cheek against her chest.
"For what?" Siri asks softly, still slipping her hand through his hair.
"For giving in… For marrying Jennie…”
Siri’s heart clenches for a split second at the last sentence, but she reminds herself it’s okay and that the reason they married made total sense.
“It’s okay. I get why you did it.”
"But part of me still feels like I betrayed you…"
Siri gets a painful pinch to her chest as she can hear how genuine the guilt is in Jungkook’s tone and how heavily this has been weighing on him.
He squishes his cheek against her more and slightly nuzzles into her as he says, "I hated it. Every second of it. Even though the wedding was rushed, I hated it.”
Siri snorts and rolls her eyes and says sarcastically, “Bet Jennie loved that it was rushed.”
“Yeah, she hated that.” Jungkook sniffles as he pulls his face away from Siri’s chest to look at her with a frown. “But she fucking milked what she could out of it. When it came to kissing the bride, she practically forced her tongue down my throat—and in front of the damn cameras too! There were freaking people from the media there!”
Siri’s heart drops at hearing he and Jennie have kissed. Although she knows she can’t really feel jealous about it since she’s done the same with Taehyung.
Jungkook notices the way Siri tenses for a second. His face turns serious and sincere for his next words, as if he knew she would be struggling with that info and might start overthinking things.
"I want you to know that I haven’t been with anyone since you. I’ve never kissed Jennie since that sham of a wedding, and I’ve never touched her intimately. We don’t share a room and I’m hardly ever at the apartment anymore, and we—well at least I—don’t act like a married couple unless people are watching. I just do it to keep up appearances.”
Relief courses through Siri at first, happy to know Jungkook has been faithful to her this whole time. Sadly, guilt hits her next because she wasn’t fully faithful to him—not that it was her fault though since she had no memory of him at the time.
Even though she knows Jungkook will hate this, Siri feels this is the time to be honest about Taehyung. This is their safe place, after all. They could always tell each other things in their wooden castle and know it would never leave these wooden walls.
Looking into Jungkook’s eyes, Siri gives a small smile. “Thank you for telling me that, Koo. That really means a lot to me.”
He notices there’s some hesitancy in her eyes for some reason. “But? What is it? You look like you wanna tell me something.”
“There is something I need to tell you… I just know you’re not gonna like it though.”
Jungkook feels his heart in his stomach, and he’s already dreading what she has to say, but he swallows thickly and nods to urge her to continue.
Siri inhales to prepare herself before she lets it out.
“So… When I lost my memories, there was a point when I thought I wasn’t going to get them back. Even though I knew I was married because I had my rings, I didn’t think I had a husband who cared since no one had come looking for me—or I thought he was dead. It had been over two years and I just… I didn’t know anything.”
Jungkook’s heart twists hearing this since he absolutely did care and had been looking for her. But he understands that with her memories gone, Siri had no other option but to think what she did since no one had come for her. It’s just hard for him knowing she felt that way, and he wishes he had done better to search for her.
“And because I couldn’t remember you and thought no one was coming for me,” Siri continues, “I thought maybe I should move on from whoever I married…”
Jungkook’s stomach churns this time to the point that he feels slightly sick. He has a sort of grimace about to appear on his face as he has a feeling he knows where this conversation is about to go.
“Since Taehyung was always there for me, I had developed feelings for him… and I… I wanted to be with him romantically…”
I knew it. Jungkook purses his lips and scrunches his eyes shut as he lets out a sound that was like a grumble and a whimper at the same time because he was both irritated and hurt. He had suspected there was something between Siri and Taehyung from the way the guy looked at her, but Jungkook was really hoping he was wrong.
Looks like he wasn’t wrong though…
When he opens his eyes again, Jungkook sees tears in Siri’s eyes, and he could tell she felt apologetic and guilty about it. But there was one thing he needed to know.
“Do you love him?” he asks in a small, almost fearful voice, since he was literally scared of the answer. He really didn’t like the thought of Siri loving another man, but he just had to know.
Siri swallows thickly, feeling like there was a heavy rock on her chest. A rock called guilt.
“I think I was starting to…” she admits.
Jungkook shuts his eyes tight again, turns his head away from her, and breathes in and out deeply through his nose to help himself process this. The fear and worries he had have basically been confirmed and he hates it.
It freaking hurts him knowing that while he spent two years searching for her, refusing to move on, there was a version of Siri who decided to let him go to choose someone else.
A tear slips from the corner of his closed eyes, and it makes Siri’s chest ache. That heavy rock of guilt feels like it’s trying to pass her ribcage and head towards her stomach.
“Koo–oo,” she says his nickname brokenly as she starts to cry too, cupping the side of his face to wipe his fallen tear and make him look at her, but Jungkook can’t seem to open his eyes just yet. “Please understand that I—”
“It’s okay,” he cuts her off while reaching for her hand to pull it closer to his lips. “You didn’t remember me and I get it. It sucks, but I get it.”
“I’m really sorry,” she says tearfully.
“Don’t be.”
Jungkook finally looks at Siri as he kisses her palm softly to reassure her because he knows she didn’t mean for it to happen. In her mind, she wasn't really anyone’s wife properly, and Taehyung was the person who had been there for her. He was the person helping her, protecting her, and supporting her. Jungkook understands all of that. It doesn't stop the jealousy or the hurt he feels, or the ugly knot that won’t go away in his chest, but he definitely understands.
"I could tell that there was something between you two.” He goes to wipe Siri’s tears away with his thumb and the back of his knuckles.
She furrows her brows, "You could?”
Jungkook nods. "The way you look at each other sometimes—but more so him… He looks at you like he's in love with you."
Siri goes quiet at that because… He isn't wrong…
Jungkook notices her silence, and he slowly nods at the realisation. “Ah. So he is in love with you.”
Siri winces slightly. “I’m sorry.”
Jungkook sniffles and wipes his own cheeks next, “Honestly, I can’t blame the guy. Who wouldn’t fall for you?”
Siri does a small smile, but now there was another question that was gnawing at Jungkook.
“Did you, uh… Did you guys sleep together?”
Siri immediately shakes her head, “No. We never slept together. Just went on some dates and kissed a few times.”
Jungkook feels his shoulders drop and as he closes his eyes again, he lets out a deep exhale of relief. Although, behind his eyelids, he hates the image he sees of Taehyung holding the love of his life and kissing her. He hates that someone else got moments with her that should’ve been his and only his.
But Jungkook knows he shouldn’t feel too upset since he basically did the same things with Jennie—although with her, there were absolutely no intimate feelings whatsoever. Still, it’s neither his nor Siri’s fault that things turned out the way they did.
However, now that Jungkook knows there’s history between Siri and Taehyung, and now that he knows the guy is in love with his true wife, he’s a lot more uncomfortable with them near each other.
"I’ll be honest,” Jungkook starts to admit, “I’m thankful the guy was there for you and took care of you, and I’m grateful he helped you come back to me, but I don't really like him now since he’s in love with you, and I don’t like the thought of you two alone anymore… I know that sounds awful and controlling and like I'm jealous, but that’s coz I am. You’ve always been mine, and I’ve always been yours. I know he means something to you, but it… it just doesn’t sit right with me now. I’m sorry."
Siri, once again, melts for Jungkook, admiring his honesty. She cups his handsome face, making him look into her eyes. "Kookie, the feelings I have for Tae are not as strong as the ones I have for you. I was starting to fall for him, but I've already fallen for you. What I felt for him was becoming something, but what I feel for you is already something. I love Tae in some way, yes, but with you I don't just love you. I'm in love with you."
"You really mean that?" Jungkook says with big puppy-dog doe eyes.
"Of course I mean it. You win by a mile. There’s no comparison."
"Promise?"
The question is so soft and vulnerable, it breaks Siri’s heart a little that Jungkook even needs this reassurance. She understands why though. She’d feel the same if their positions were swapped.
“I promise, Koo."
Similar to that moment when they were seven years old where Siri had felt insecure and jealous during the Jennie and tiara incident, Jungkook pouts as he lifts his left hand with his pinky finger pointed out. "Pinky promise?"
A light chuckle escapes from Siri. She hugs him tight with the arm that’s still around him, leans down to press a short and sweet kiss to his forehead, then she hooks her pinky around his.
"I pinky promise."
"God, I love you,” Jungkook suddenly says, nuzzling into Siri’s neck again, feeling all the insecure places of his heart be soothed by her certainty and presence. “Love you so fucking much.”
“I love you too, Kookie.”
Jungkook couldn’t hold himself in anymore and lifts his head to place his lips on hers. Siri doesn't resist and hugs him closer to her. It’s a long and deep kiss, tasting of their salty tears, but feels so full of soft love.
When they part their lips, they keep their eyes closed, press their foreheads together and lightly nudge each other’s nose, just wanting to revel in this closeness they’ve missed so much.
“Koo?” Siri eventually says as she lifts her forehead off his to look at him properly.
“Mm?”
"What happens now? With us? Since you're married to Jennie and all…"
Jungkook sighs softly, feeling worn out at even the mention of Jennie. “I’m not really sure what will happen from here, but I know that I don’t want to lose you again, and I want to be with you, not her. So… I think I’ll have a talk to my father and Woobin tomorrow to discuss divorcing her.”
Siri does a cringey face. “Ooo that conversation is not gonna go down too well. But… won’t it affect the company too?”
Jungkook chuckles, “Yeah… I can already see Woobin is probably gonna go off his nut at me, and Jennie will probably throw a fit, but honestly, I don't care. I’m gonna do it. I want this situation fixed. I don’t like the fact that I have to call her my wife. I only want to be tied and married to you.”
Siri’s heart melts once again as she gives him a smile, taking comfort in his resolve and dedication to her, feeling reassured that his love is truly and fully for her. She kisses him as she’s thankful for him, holding her lips there so he can feel how much he means to her.
Jungkook feels it, and the longer their lips are together, the more he melts too. The more he feels so relieved and so thankful himself that the love of his life is back and in his arms.
And the longer they kiss…
“Want you, babyyy,” Jungkook murmurs a whine against Siri’s lips while his hand feels up the side of her body, going up her thighs and over her curves, then back down and round to the curve of her ass where he squeezes it needily. “Want you so bad. Need to be inside you. Been way too long. Please? Please can I have you?”
Siri nudges her nose with his, giving him a cheeky grin. “You’re married to someone else though… Wouldn’t this be considered cheating? I wouldn’t want to be a homewrecker.”
Jungkook lets out a chuckle, shaking his head as if she just said the most ridiculous thing ever. “Oh, don’t even go there, baby. My marriage to her isn’t real—not where it counts anyway, so I wouldn’t consider this cheating.”
He moves his hand to cup Siri’s face, his thumbing brushing over her cheek. He looks deep into her blue eyes, giving her the most genuine soft smile. “Especially not when my heart, mind, body and soul have always belonged to you. The only vows I’ve ever meant are the ones I made to you. She’s the homewrecker. You are my real wife.”
Siri’s heart flutters as she gazes into those doe eyes that were all sparkly like a galaxy for her. “Wow, Kookie, you sure have a way with words. I honestly feel so lucky to have you.”
“Well it’s all true. Plus, I’m the lucky one to have you.”
Siri rolls her eyes playfully as her smile widens, while Jungkook’s loving doe eyes drop to her lips then back up to her eyes. It’s then that neither of them feel they need to say anything else, and so they both lean in to join their mouths. This time, their kissing was purposeful and deep, as well as desperate and needy. It was two years of longing and love pressed against each other’s lips.
As their tongues sweep and dance in one another’s mouths, Siri grips the front of Jungkook's shirt while his hand pulls her face even closer to deepen their kissing until their teeth just graze and she moans against his lips.
It didn’t take long for their clothes to come off, and when Siri lays back against the pillows, Jungkook lays between her legs while his hands are on her breasts and his lips are kissing along her jaw and down her neck.
“Fuck, I’ve missed these tits,” he mumbles over her skin as he kneads her bountiful flesh.
His mouth takes in her left nipple hungrily, sucking and swirling his tongue around it eagerly, making her arch her back into him with a gasp. The warmth from his wet tongue, the gentle scrape of his teeth, and the way he gives attention to the other breast so it isn’t left out, it was all pleasure Siri has missed receiving and Jungkook missed giving.
While his mouth is busy on her breasts, one of his hands slides down her body, caressing every inch of skin he could reach. When he finally reaches her folds, Jungkook could feel Siri’s slick arousal, and it turned him on more knowing how wet she already is.
He groans against her nipple before he pops off to say, “Seems like my baby is very horny. Never felt you so wet like this before.”
“Mmm, well the last dick I’ve had is yours, so ~gasps!~ mmm~” Siri moans when she feels Jungkook slip a finger into her, fingering her in the way he knows she likes where he vibrates his digit against her walls while his thumb rubs over her clit. It was just muscle memory for him.
While he’s toying with her pussy, the two gaze at each other with heavy lust-filled eyes, and Siri’s hand finds Jungkook’s length in return. Just like he was amused by how wet she was, she feels the same about how hard he is. She feels like she’s holding a warm, velvety metal rod, and she could feel quite a bit of precum leaking from his tip.
“Mm~ never felt you this hard before, Koo,” she mimics him with a small, cheeky grin, sliding her thumb over the head of his shaft, spreading his precum around.
His fingering in her slows down and he closes his eyes for a moment as he lets out a moan at her touch. “Well the last pussy I had was yours,” he copies her.
Jungkook then bites his bottom lip, and with his eyes still closed, he relishes the feeling of Siri’s hand stroking his length. God, it felt so, so fucking good—no, amazing—no! It was like freaking heaven to be touched like this and to have such intimacy again.
There have been quite a few nights over the last two and a half years where Jungkook has actually cried during and after masturbating to the thought of Siri because he just missed her and her touch so much. He’s missed being cuddled and held. He’s missed kissing and even just lying naked next to a warm body. He’s missed being intimate and loved in the physical aspects.
Of course there were a few times during work events (in between his searching for Siri), when women would approach Jungkook and try their luck flirting with him, but he always (and almost immediately and bluntly) would tell those women that he wasn’t interested. Even though he felt lonely most nights, he would tell those women that he’s still a married man, that he’s still searching for his wife, and that he hasn’t given up on her.
Most of the time women understood and apologised for trying, but there was the odd woman or two who would try to convince him that searching for his wife was pointless since she must be dead. At that, Jungkook would snap back at them to really think about what they’re saying. “If you had a husband, wouldn’t you want him to stay faithful and keep searching for you if you disappeared?”
That would generally shut the women up and have them walking away feeling all guilty with their tail between their legs.
Sure, Jungkook craved intimacy, but he just couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. The thought of even kissing someone else who wasn’t Siri felt gross and wrong to him. Jungkook already had that phase during his time at university where he was curious about being with other people, and he’s never had that curiosity come back ever since.
After his parents had that ‘moving on’ talk with him, Jungkook said he would try, but deep down, he knew he couldn’t, and wouldn’t, be with another woman intimately until he knew for certain that Siri was actually gone, which meant he had to have found her body.
Basically, even though he was married to Jennie, Jungkook would’ve stayed celibate for the rest of his life, or at least until Siri’s body was found. Would’ve been a sexless marriage for poor Jennie.
But luckily for Jungkook, he doesn’t have to be celibate anymore because the one person—the only person—his dick could get hard for, is finally back. She’s here, and she’s got a great grip on him, stroking him in that way he likes.
“Fuck, babyy~” he whines as he opens his eyes, giving Siri a pleading look. “I need to be inside you so badly. I can’t wait any longer.”
Just before she’s about to respond, Siri’s eyes drop to the necklace that’s dangling off Jungkook’s neck. She feels herself swooning seeing it on him because she just knows he wanted to keep a piece of her close to his heart, just like she did when she wore her rings on a necklace.
Looking back up to his doe eyes, Siri smiles softly, moving her free hand to hold his handsome face. “Then take me, Kookie. You know you can have me anytime, anywhere, and in any way you want.”
“Goddammit, I love you so much,” he says, removing his hand from her wet entrance. He then positions himself properly between her legs so the head of his cock is pressing against her needy pussy, and his arms cage around her head, seeming like a protective barrier from the world outside of their small, wooden palace.
Jungkook then presses himself against Siri’s body a little more, making her breasts squish against his chest where his gold wedding band rests right between their bodies. He just wants to be as close to her as he could get, wanting (and needing) to be able to feel her heart beating against him.
She wraps her calves around his perfectly taut ass, pulling him in so his length starts to push inside of her. They gaze into one another’s eyes while their breaths mingle as he keeps going in.
“I love you so much too,” Siri whispers to his lips just before he’s all the way to the hilt.
When he’s finally all the way in, a small whimper escapes from Siri due to the stretch and fullness she feels, while Jungkook buries his face into the crook of her neck, letting out deep breaths through his nose as the tightness around his cock was nothing but heavenly again. That’s the only word he could describe it as.
“Home,” he mumbles. “I’m finally home.”
Siri smiles at his sweet words and tightens her legs around him in response, slipping her hands under his arms to go round his back so she can hold him closer.
“I’m finally home too,” she says softly near his ear, turning her head slightly to rub her cheek against his hair in a tender cat-like nuzzle.
A warm rush of adoration blooms within Jungkook, and he tears up a little as he knows Siri means the same thing he does. They both feel like they’re home because being together like this—with their bodies as one, being wrapped in one another’s arms, feeling so close, having each other’s lips lingering on their skin, and getting lost in eyes that don’t ever look away—all of that is their true home.
When he starts to move, Jungkook does long, slow, deep strokes, pulling himself almost all the way out before he sinks back in, sliding between those warm, slick walls he loves so much. He takes his time, wanting to feel all of Siri’s ridges and the way her pussy tightens as soon as he thrusts back in. She also enjoys the feel of him filling her up and the way he goes back into her a little harder with each pump.
Heavy breathing, soft moans, and grunts of pleasure fill their tree-castle, as well as a few kisses in between, but as Jungkook gradually gets faster, Siri starts to feel an ache in her chest all of a sudden. It was so random, but the act of making love gets to her because what is one of the things sex is meant to be for?
Tears fill her eyes and her breath hitches in a way that had nothing to do with the rhythm of their bodies moving. Jungkook hears the sound and looks at her face properly. When he sees his love is crying, he slows to a stop, staying buried deep inside her.
“Hey, hey,” he says softly with concern. “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?” He moves his forearms slightly lower so he could cup Siri’s face and wipe at her tears as they come with his thumbs.
She tries to shake her head, but Jungkook pushes for details.
“Tell me, baby,” he says gently. “I’m right here for you.”
“I’m just… s-sorry,” Siri croaks out. “I’m sorry for losing our baby…”
Jungkook’s eyes widen for a split second, not expecting that, but then they soften and go sad as his heart gets an ache for her, feeling terrible that she feels guilty at all.
“Aw, baby…” He lowers his face carefully so his forehead is on hers. “It wasn’t your fault, alright? It was never your fault, and I’d never blame you for it.”
“But—”
“No, don’t. No buts. Don’t ever be sorry for anything that happened after the plane incident. Nothing is your fault. Nothing. Okay?”
Jungkook kisses the corner of Siri’s mouth, then lifts his head to kiss her forehead, then her closed eyelids, the bridge of her nose next, and then both of her tear-stained cheeks.
“Plus,” he adds, parting his face a few inches to look at her, “we can always make another baby, can’t we?”
Siri sniffles and opens her eyes to find Jungkook smiling down tenderly at her, looking a little hopeful after what he just said.
She guesses he isn’t wrong, they could make another baby. It’s still just sad that they lost their first one.
She pouts and nods anyway to his question because she would love to have another.
“Yeah?” Jungkook smiles wider before he turns a little cheeky and flirty to lighten Siri’s mood and make her feel better. “You know… We could make a baby right now… Would you like that?”
Siri’s pout curves into a small smile as she nods again.
“Yeah? You want me to put a baby into you, my baby?” He starts to slowly move his length inside her again.
“Yes,” she mumbles.
“Mmm~ want me to fill you up?” Jungkook grunts as his thrusts get a little deeper this time.
“Y-Yes,” Siri stutters, and then she lets out a whimpery mewl when she feels him push into her rather roughly just before he’s about to hit the end of her.
“Want my cock to—” he grunts again as he gets faster, but he keeps those rough bursts at the end, “feed your pussy with my cum?”
“Yes!” Siri says louder as she hangs her head back and shuts her eyes, enjoying the pleasure that keeps getting banged into her.
Her nails dig into Jungkook’s back and her legs wrap around him even tighter as she tries to hold onto him since he’s really fucking into her now, rolling his body and hips as if he was dancing on her, ensuring the base of his cock is grinding on her clit.
Heat builds in Siri’s core and her pussy keeps on clenching around his length. “Mm~ fuck—want your cum in me so bad, Koo. Please. Please fill me up. Give me a baby.”
He groans at the neediness in her tone and his dick throbs at her words. There’s nothing more he’d love to do than to make this woman the mother of his children. He wants so badly to have a family with her, and spoil her and their kids rotten.
Jungkook could feel Siri’s slick completely creaming and coating his cock, his pace quickens and his thrusts get harder and more urgent where the sound of wet skin slapping together fills their wooden castle.
“Nnngh~ I’m close,” she says raggedly.
“I know you are, baby. I’m gonna get you there.”
Jungkook’s mouth finds the spot just below Siri’s ear—the spot he knows is her sensitive, horny spot. It’s the spot that makes her whole body tingle and squirm, and her pussy throbs and leaks for more.
His lips press there and his tongue circles her skin before he sucks the spot, sending that tingly sensation through Siri’s body like a current. Like a light switch, her pussy is turned on to its max, and the fire in her core rages hot.
“Oh god—fuck… Yesss!” she cries out, her walls contract so hot and hard around Jungkook as her orgasm comes over her.
The feeling of her pussy contracting around his cock practically milks him, urging him to cum too. He drives himself faster and harder into his woman, slamming his length as deep as he can go each time.
Within seconds, Jungkook’s thrusts stutter where they’re sloppy and desperate, and then finally, that coil in his core snaps. He drops his face into the crook of Siri’s neck as he lets out a guttural groan, burying himself all the way into her as his cock pulses, emptying everything he’s got.
Siri could feel every throb his length did as it was so powerful. She felt like his cock could be flooding her pussy with his huge pent up load. She could then feel his hips jerking against her as if he still had more to give. It seemed like it was a release that seemed to go on and on.
Eventually, Jungkook finally feels his balls are empty, and he ends up dropping his weight onto Siri. She didn’t mind though as she wanted the weight of him on her. She wanted the proof of him—cum, sweat, and tears—on her.
She wanted the way he stayed plugged deep inside her, keeping his seeds in there, letting those little swimmers of his do their magic while they both tried to catch their breaths.
After some long minutes, Jungkook slides himself out and off of Siri where he holds her close to his naked body. They stay like that for some time, arms and legs tangled together under the blankets, softly kissing and nuzzling each other as they bask in their long overdue, after-sex blissful glow.
“I love you so much, baby,” Jungkook whispers to a sleepy Siri who’s falling asleep in his arms. “Gonna be your husband in every way again soon. I promise.”
He lightly kisses her forehead before he gently lays his head down, closing his eyes with a soft smile on his lips because he finally has the love of his life back.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the couple, before they made love, someone was listening outside in the dark of the night.
"What happens now? With us?” They heard Siri say. “Since you're married to Jennie and all…"
“I’m not really sure what will happen from here,” they heard Jungkook reply, “but I know that I don’t want to lose you again, and I want to be with you, not her. So… I think I’ll have a talk to my father and Woobin tomorrow to discuss divorcing her.”
Divorce. That was what caught the person’s ears the most. That was the word that made panic rise within them.
No. No, no, no. That cannot happen. A divorce will ruin things!
Without another glance toward the tree-castle, the person left with a bitter feeling in their chest. They left the couple who were about to make love completely unaware that tomorrow’s problems have already begun.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: <7400
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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I can’t believe this…
Jungkook remarried...
He actually married Jennie…
Out of all people, it had to be her? Why??
Sure, it hurts that he remarried at all, but I understand that I wasn’t around and he thought I was dead. But why the hell did it have to be her?
Sitting in the back seat of Jin’s car on the way to the Jeon family mansion, Siri sits next to Taehyung with her mind going crazy about the fact that her husband, her bestest friend, her first love, has married the one woman she’s always hated.
As soon as Siri realised Jungkook and Jennie were together, and before anyone could possibly make the moment worse, Jin told everyone to head to the Jeon family mansion since there were clearly a lot of things that needed to be explained from both Jungkook’s side and Siri’s side.
However, Siri didn’t want to be near Jungkook during the drive. Even though part of her heart yearned for him, and despite his guilty, teary puppy-dog doe eyes begging her to stay by his side, the betrayal she felt was too raw and fresh. Finding out he’s married to Jennie completely blindsided her, and Siri’s heart felt too bruised and overwhelmed to even look at Jungkook properly.
She needed space from him for now. Space to think, and space to stop herself from lashing out at him.
Except being left to think without Jungkook around to explain the situation was probably a bad idea, ‘cause now Siri was just coming up with ridiculous thoughts.
Did they get close after I disappeared? Did he gain feelings for her while I was gone?
What if he’s always had feelings for her this whole time, but because we were arranged to marry, he felt obligated to be with me?
Sure, he was relieved and happy to see me again, but does he love her more than he loves me?
When they were halfway through the drive, Siri was one thought away from convincing herself Jungkook and Jennie probably spent their evenings all cuddled up together while watching rom-com movies in silk pyjamas.
She scolds herself and regrets not googling for any new updates about Jungkook once she remembered everything. When they got married, it was all in the media, so his marriage to Jennie definitely would’ve been in the media too. But Siri’s mindset after her memories came back was that she knew Jungkook inside and out, and he wouldn’t ever marry Jennie, plus she saw articles that he’s been looking for her, so why would she need to search for more info? She didn’t think she needed to, and she just wanted to get back home. But oh boy was she wrong.
Taehyung, who kept glancing at Siri ever since they got into the car, knew she would be silently having a melt down, and going off the way she was staring blankly ahead while fiddling with her fingers, he could tell she was overthinking things, so he reached over and gently placed his hand over hers.
The touch makes her blink and snap out from her thoughts, making her turn to look at him.
“Stop overthinking,” he says gently as his thumb softly brushes against the back of her hand to try comfort her.
Siri gives him a tight-lipped smile. “Hard not to…”
Taehyung nods softly in understanding, “I get it. No one really wants to come home and find their partner with someone else.”
“Yeah… exactly…” She looks down at their joined hands where the warmth from his hand makes her feel somewhat supported. Siri is actually really glad Taehyung is here. She thinks she’d be worse off if he wasn’t.
“Will you stay with me for a few days?” she asks him softly. “I don’t really want to be alone right now.”
Taehyung squeezes her hand. “You won’t be alone. Even if you don’t have your husband right now, you still have your friends.”
Siri swallows thickly before she hesitantly glances towards the front seat where Jin is driving. She leans closer to Tae so she can whisper to him as she didn’t want Jin to hear. “I know I have them, but I think things are gonna be hard for me…”
Taehyung furrows his brows slightly in questioning, and Siri takes a moment to try figure out how to explain the strange emptiness sitting inside of her.
“Everyone here has lived for two and a half years without me, and even though I know they’re happy I’m back… I just… I dunno… I kinda feel like a stranger now?… Like I’ve come back and interrupted things I shouldn’t have?…”
Taehyung could hear the sadness in Siri’s voice and felt bad for her because he could understand what she was trying to say.
“And honestly…” Siri continues whispering. “I just feel safer with you right now.”
Taehyung gets a flutter of butterflies, and a little spark of hope within him gets a tiny bit bigger and brighter.
He tightens his hand around hers, looks right into her blue eyes, and whispers back, “I’ll stay for as long as you want me to.”
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Inside of Jungkook’s car, it’s painfully quiet. Hobi is beside him in the driver’s seat, occasionally glancing sideways at him with concern. Jungkook just looks completely shattered. His eyes are swollen and red from crying, his hair is a mess from repeatedly dragging his fingers through it, he keeps nibbling his bottom lip where it’s turning quite red, and his leg bounces restlessly with anxiety.
I can’t believe she’s alive and that she’s actually back, Jungkook thinks. It still just doesn’t feel real to him. After two years of searching, grieving, and slowly forcing himself to accept that he would never see Siri again, she suddenly stood right in front of him, smiling, hugging him, and crying with him.
It was everything Jungkook has dreamed of for the last couple of years. Every sleepless night, every desperate search, and every prayer he made always led to this moment of Siri being back home, where he could hold her again, hear her voice again, and just be with her again.
But this also felt like a nightmare to him.
The second Siri found out about him having a new wife, Jungkook could literally see the happiness drain from her face, and right now, he can't stop replaying it in his head. The hurt in her eyes, the confusion, and the disbelief…
God, I thought losing her was bad, but seeing that look of betrayal in her eyes… that was almost worse.
Jungkook didn’t blame Siri for such a reaction though, and he lets out a shaky breath as he drops his head into his hands, gripping at his hair in frustration as fresh tears fall down his cheeks once again.
“F-Fuck,” he chokes out. “What have I done?” His chest feels achingly tight as panic and guilt courses through him. “What the fuck am I gonna do?”
Hobi gives him a sympathetic look. He understands why Jungkook was stressing out and falling apart right now as the situation was unbelievably cruel.
“Don’t beat yourself up over this, Kookie. None of us knew something like this could happen.”
Jungkook sniffles while his pouty lips and chin trembles as he keeps his face buried in his hands to cry.
“We all thought…” Hobi sighs before shaking his head. “I mean… Siri being alive and actually coming back to us? That’s literally a miracle.”
“It is a miracle,” Jungkook agrees with a croaky voice. “And now I’m scared I’ve already lost her again.”
He removes his hands from his face to wipe his runny nose against his suit sleeve, not caring about making it dirty.
“I’m married to Jennie,” Jungkook says miserably. “Do you know how big of a betrayal that is to Siri?”
Hobi nods softly as he did know. Everyone in their family and friend group knows. And they all also know how Jungkook feels about his marriage to Jennie.
“Yeah, but we all know you only married her for the good of the company,” Hobi reminds him. “We know it’s not because you stopped loving Siri. Hopefully when she hears the full story, she’ll understand that.”
Jungkook squeezes his eyes shut while it feels like his heart is twisting and burning at the same time. He shakes his head again as more tears fall. “It doesn’t matter. I still betrayed her in some way, and Siri, she's… she’s gonna hate me for it.”
“You basically had no choice though, Kookie,” Hobi says softly.
Judging by the devastated look on Jungkook’s face, Jungkook clearly didn’t think that excuse makes him any less guilty.
And then another thought hits Jungkook that makes him queasy…
“Hyung…” he says weakly, his voice rough from crying so much already. “Sh-She didn’t have a child with her…”
Hobi’s face turns into sorrow. “Yeah… I noticed that too…”
Jungkook turns to his friend with his chin shaking and doe eyes filled with worry. “Do you think she lost our baby?”
Hobi bites his bottom lip. “I don’t know, Kook. I wouldn’t be surprised if that plane crash caused her to lose it, but let’s try to be optimistic. Maybe she had your baby and the little one is still wherever she was staying all this time?”
Even as he said it, Hobi knew it sounded unlikely, and he could tell Jungkook thought the same thing.
Jungkook slowly shakes his head, not convinced at all. “No… Siri would’ve never left our baby behind. Not if the whole point of her being here was to come back home to me…”
Hobi bites his bottom lip again, unable to argue because honestly… he didn’t really believe his own reassurance either. However, with Jungkook already falling apart, Hobi didn’t want to wreck what little hope Jungkook still had left.
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When both cars pull up outside the Jeon family mansion, the atmosphere between everyone is still tense.
The large estate—which was basically Siri’s second home growing up—looks exactly the same as she remembers it, but coming back to it now feels different because she never imagined returning like this; a dead woman walking, apparently.
As Jin parks beside the other vehicles already lining the driveway, Siri recognises one car to be Namjoon’s. There was also another sleeker and darker car next to it she didn’t recognise, but the licence plate said ‘Agust D’ and she figured it must be Yoongi’s since he was called that during high school.
Her heart does a little jump, excited she’s going to see her old friends again, as well as her in-laws, but when she steps out of Jin’s car, Jungkook is already standing by his vehicle looking at her, and her heart aches instantly.
He looks distraught. His eyes seem more swollen and red than earlier, his cheeks are currently damp, and his lips are in a tight line as if he’s trying to not make them tremble. He overall looked emotionally exhausted and like he had cried himself raw on the drive over.
The sight of him pinches Siri’s heart because despite the confusion and the betrayal, her first instinct is to comfort Jungkook. To comfort that little prince inside him she always sees when he’s this upset. She wants to walk over to him, hold his face, and kiss his tears away while telling him everything would be okay.
But looking at her eyes and her facial expression, Jungkook could see her uncertainty about him. He could see the hurt and the betrayal she couldn’t fully hide.
It absolutely guts him, and he feels like he’s about to break down again. His chin starts quivering and fresh tears gather in his eyes again just from looking at her.
God, he hates himself. Jungkook hates that after finally getting Siri back, he’s now the reason she’s looking at him so hurt and cautiously. But more than anything, he’s terrified he’s going to lose her again.
Hobi comes up beside him and places a comforting hand on his shoulder. “C’mon, Kook,” he murmurs gently.
Jungkook lowers his head, swallowing the thick lump in his throat before allowing his friend to guide him toward the mansion entrance.
Siri watches him go with a tight, awful feeling in her chest. Meanwhile, Jin and Taehyung are at the trunk of Jin’s car pulling out the suitcases.
The three of them enter the Jeon family mansion, and straight away Taehyung was in awe of the house—heck, even coming up the driveway he was already in awe as soon as he saw the big beautiful fountain in the front.
When they step further inside, voices come from deeper within the house.
“Jungkookie?” His mother, Haneul, could be heard. “Why have you been crying?”
Siri’s heart clenches at that tender motherly voice she’s missed so much.
Then came Jungkook’s father, Seokho’s voice, who was more firm but full of concern. “What happened, son? Why did Seokjin call a sudden family meeting here?”
As the three round the corner towards the large living area, they see Jungkook and his parent’s side profile as they stand near the entrance to the lounge. Hobi walks past them, heading for the dining table to give everyone the space he knows they’ll need.
Jungkook looks directly at his father with his eyes narrowed, blame and anger in his eyes. “This is all your fault,” he mutters bitterly.
Seokho frowns with confusion, caught off guard by the accusation, but Jungkook doesn't elaborate, choosing to brush past his parents to go to the couch where Namjoon and Yoongi sat nearby. They both occupied a lazyboy chair, both were curious as to why they were called here, and after seeing their maknae, they wondered why he looked so upset.
Jungkook drops heavily onto the couch, choosing to sit by the armrest. He looks completely drained while he takes off his suit jacket, chucking it onto the coffee table in front of him, and then he's loosening his tie, looking and feeling like he's totally done with the day.
Haneul turns toward her son with even more worry. “Jungkookah, what’s wr—”
But her words are cut off by Namjoon and Yoongi gasping. The two are the first to see Siri properly, and they both shoot up from their chairs so abruptly that they startle Jungkook’s mother.
“Holy fuck,” Yoongi blurts in disbelief.
“Holy shit,” Namjoon breathes out, staring at Siri like she was an anomaly.
Haneul and Seokho frown again in confusion at their reactions before they quickly turn around to see what they were staring at. The second their eyes land on Siri, Seokho’s eyes widen and his jaw drops open, while Haneul completely loses it.
“AAAHHHH!” the mother shrieks loudly with her hands up in shock before bursting into tears. “Oh my stars!” Haneul zooms straight towards Siri with her arms open and pulls her tightly against her chest as she sways their bodies. “Oh my dear, sweet girl, Serena! You’re here! You’re alive! Oh my lord, you’re alive! I can’t believe this!”
Haneul parts from the hug just to cup Siri’s face affectionately. “Ohhh, let me look at you!” She looks all over her face as if to make sure all the features she remembers are still there. “Ah! You’re still so beautiful! Still have your father’s blue eyes! Oh how I’ve missed you! Oh my word!” She pulls Siri in for another hug.
Siri lets out a teary laugh as she hugs her back. Jungkook’s mother has always been like her second mother, so it really warmed her heart that Haneul obviously still loves her very much.
“I’ve missed you too,” Siri cries softly.
As those two embrace again, Jin guides Taehyung towards the dining table along with Siri’s suitcase, and they settle into seats near Hoseok, mostly watching everything unfold from a respectful distance.
Jungkook does a small smile as he watches the scene of Siri and his mother. He’s happy to see his mother so happy, but then his eyes go to his father, who is still staring at Siri shocked, and Jungkook’s smile drops as that bitter, angry feeling creeps back into him again.
Seokho is frozen in place, but as he watches his wife fuss lovingly over their daughter-in-law, water starts brimming his eyes. He feels relief, disbelief, and gratitude that she’s back. Siri has always been family to him, and he did love her as if she was his own.
As he goes to look at his son to show he was delighted, Seokho sees the way Jungkook narrows his eyes and clenches his jaw at him before looking away. It makes the father’s heart drop and he now understands why his son looked so upset earlier, and why he said it was his father’s fault. Because it’s true.
Seokho was the one who convinced Jungkook to stop searching for Siri. It was Seokho who repeatedly pressured his son to accept reality and let her go. And worst of all… It was him who pushed Jungkook into marrying Jennie for the company’s sake.
The realisation makes guilt twist Seokho’s insides because Siri is back, and now all of the older man’s decisions no longer feel practical or reasonable. They feel... catastrophic, in a way.
Haneul, teary and overjoyed, brings Siri over to her husband where Seokho swallows down the heavy guilt stuck in his throat, and forces a smile onto his face.
“Hi, dad number two,” Siri says with a small smile.
The nickname makes Seokho’s composure crack, and a tear slips from the corner of his eye which he quickly wipes away.
He steps closer to Siri and hugs her as he says the nickname he has for her. “My little flower. It’s wonderful to have you back.”
Siri hugs him tightly in return, smiling tearfully against his shoulder. But while Seokho holds her, the guilt really eats at him. All he could think was, if only you had come back earlier… Just a little earlier…
Because it was only three months ago that Jungkook married Jennie.
If Seokho had just waited longer… if he hadn’t pressured his son so hard to finally move on for the company’s sake… if he just had more faith that Siri might still somehow return… then Jungkook wouldn’t be sitting silently across the room looking so crushed and angry to the point where it makes Seokho get a sinking feeling that he likely made the biggest mistake of his son’s life.
Once Seokho comes away from the hug, Namjoon and Yoongi are right there to greet Siri.
“Seriously can’t believe you’re actually here,” Namjoon says, dimples out on full display as he goes to hug her. “We’ve missed having you around.”
“I’ve missed being around. Sorry it took me so long.”
Siri then turns to Yoongi next where she could see his eyes were slightly glossy and wet. She gives him a pouty smile, knowing he’s trying to hold in his tears because he doesn’t like to cry. “Aww, Yoongi Boongi…”
He rolls his eyes and sniffles, “Can’t believe I actually miss hearing that.”
He then reaches for her and hugs her tight, and while in their hug, Yoongi whispers to her, "I'm really glad you're back."
"So am I."
"You have no idea how close we came to losing him too."
Siri's smile falters as she parts slightly from their hug. “What?”
Yoongi shakes his head, "Nothing. Forget I said that." His gaze flicks over to Jungkook for a moment though. “Just... since you're back, you're gonna be hearing some things you likely won’t like, but don't be too hard on Kook if you can help it.”
Namjoon hears that last sentence, and Siri knits her eyebrows together with confusion and concern as she looks at both men.
Namjoon lowers his voice this time, leaning closer to her to whisper, “Ever since you disappeared, he's been through hell and back, and then went back to hell again.”
Yoongi nods to confirm it, and he keeps his voice soft and quiet, only for Siri and Joon to hear. "We’ve never seen someone love another person the way Kook loves you.” He then squeezes her shoulder gently. "So please just... be gentle with him… for us?"
Siri’s heart sinks hearing Namjoon and Yoongi’s words, and she didn't know what to say. Was there even anything to say?
She glances over to Jungkook, and while he had all his friends and family here, he somehow looks… alone… broken… and clearly exhausted.
The slight sadness hidden behind Yoongi's and Namjoon’s eyes as well… Siri didn't know what happened while she was gone, but she could tell it must not have been good and that there was more to the story.
Looking back at Jungkook again, her heart ached for him. "Okay," she whispers softly.
Yoongi seems relieved to hear that, and so he pulls Siri into another hug and holds her tightly for a moment as if to silently thank her.
Suddenly, more voices could be heard coming closer through the hallway. Female voices.
“I wonder why we’re here?” Jessi's voice comes through the mansion. “Nobody tells me anything! All I got was a text from Jin saying, 'Get to the Jeon mansion as soon as you can.' Like excuse me?? I have a fuckin’ life?”
Hwasa could be heard laughing, “Well obviously it's something important and you sensed that, otherwise you wouldn’t have come.”
“Well yeah, of course I had a sense it was something important since Jin never texts me! But I just wanna know why it's important. He could’ve said a bit more in the text!”
A few people in the living room exchanged amused looks with Jin who happened to smile sheepishly with his ears going red.
The two women finally round the corner, still talking, still completely unaware... But then they see Siri.
Both women suddenly stop walking and let out loud gasps simultaneously. Their eyes also widen and they immediately grab each other's hand, looking like two girls in a horror movie who had just seen a ghost.
Siri feels her eyes watering again at the sight of her girlies, and she couldn’t help but smile widely at them.
For several long seconds, neither Hwasa or Jessi move, they just stare at Siri. While that’s happening, Jungkook's parents, Namjoon, and Yoongi cautiously walk backwards with grins on their faces as they could tell what was about to come.
Siri lets out a chuckle as she shakes her head. “Now what did I tell you about swearing in front of the in-laws, Jessi?”
Her talking makes both women actually flinch, and their eyes widen even more.
Hwasa and Jessi slowly turn to look at each other with their joined hands shaking. Neither of them need to say a word because their eyes said it all. She's back. Our Siri is back!
"AHHHHHH~!!" They scream out of pure happiness at each other first, bouncing on their toes while shaking each other’s hand. They then snap their heads back toward Siri and run straight for her while still screaming with delight.
Siri already has her arms open for them and both women launch themselves at her, engulfing her in a group hug as all three erupt into tears.
"Bitch, where the hell have you been?!" Jessi cries, squeezing Siri so tightly. "Do you know how much we missed you?!"
Siri laughs through her tears. "I'm sorry! I’m sorry! But also—language!"
"Oh my gaaahhd!" Hwasa squeals. "This is the best day ever! I can't believe this! I’m finally hearing Siri scold Jessi again!”
The three women giggle and cry, squeezing each other tighter, and the sight of the loud, emotional reunion makes smiles appear throughout the room.
Once the girls calm themselves down and are about to move themselves further into the lounge… SLAM! The front door suddenly shuts loudly from the entrance hallway.
Everyone’s attention snaps toward the sound, and a few long seconds later, Jennie and her father, Woobin, come round the corner.
The second the man sees Siri, he freezes and his eyes widen. “So it’s true...”
Siri gives him a tight lipped smile because even before her disappearance, she never particularly liked Jennie’s father. There was always something about him that unsettled her. He always looked at her strangely; he wasn't hateful or anything, it’s just that he never really warmed up to her. It was like there was some hidden irritation behind his politeness whenever he looked at her. But despite this, they always remained cordial.
“Well, welcome back,” Woobin says while giving her a small smile, and Siri politely replies with a “Thank you.”
Jennie doesn’t greet Siri since she’s technically already done that back at D&J Enterprises earlier. Back then, after the initial shock of seeing Siri alive, Jennie awkwardly cleared her throat and muttered, “Wow… Siri, hi. I’m surprised to see you.”
At the time, Siri could only reply with, “Yeah… I’m surprised to see you too.”
Then that was when Jin quickly suggested everyone continue the conversation at the Jeon family mansion instead.
And now here they all are, except the room is a lot less emotional and joyous, and a lot more tense since there's now Jungkook's first love and first wife, as well as his current wife in the room.
The situation was just… uncomfortable and unfortunate…
Sensing the tension, Jungkook’s mother quickly steps forward before things become more awkward.
“Well!” Haneul says brightly as she claps her hands. “I suppose this meeting is because you’re back, my dear Serena.” She smiles warmly at her and gestures for everyone to sit. “Come, come so we can all catch up properly. We’re all desperate to hear what happened to you.”
Those standing begin taking seats. Seokho goes to one of the lazyboy chairs, and Woobin takes the other, leaving Namjoon and Yoongi to head to the dining table, sitting with Jin, Hoseok, and a man they didn’t know but wondered why he was here.
Jennie casually (and quickly before anyone else could) walks over towards Jungkook on the couch. She’s his wife now so naturally she should sit next to him, she thinks.
Jungkook grits his teeth, clenches his hands, and his eyes narrow as he stares at the coffee table when he senses Jennie coming his way. It’s a long five-seater couch, so there was plenty of room for her to sit anywhere else (like the other end, far, far away from him), but no, she had to be next to him.
Jungkook doesn’t even look at Jennie when she sits down, and he actually tries to scoot himself closer toward the armrest, wanting to create as much distance between them as he could, even though there was hardly any space left for him to move.
The gesture wasn’t at all subtle and pretty much everyone saw it, including Siri and Jennie. And judging by the brief scowl that crossed Woobin's face, he saw it too.
Jennie pouts at Jungkook for doing that, but she then notices he looks like he had been very recently crying, which confuses her. She understood why he cried back at D&J Enterprises since Siri was supposed to be dead, but Jennie thought on the drive over Jungkook would've calmed down and come to his senses by now.
The fact that he didn't look any better and moved away from her like she was a bad smell made Jennie feel anxious (and a little hurt). She's always known her place as Jungkook's wife wasn't one he chose ‘cause he’s always been vocal about it, but now she wondered (and feared) what was going to happen now that Siri was back.
Haneul ends up sitting with Siri on the couch opposite Jungkook and Jennie, and Hwasa sits on Siri’s other side with Jessi next to her since there was still space.
Shit. Siri hates where she’s sitting since it means she can't help but look at Jungkook and Jennie, and seeing them together was something she seriously didn't want to see.
However, after seeing Jungkook's reaction the moment Jennie sat down, Siri felt some relief since it was clear he didn't want to be near her. It makes Siri start to think that maybe their marriage isn’t one out of love, and those thoughts she had of them being all lovey-dovey in silk pyjamas was probably ridiculous.
Once everyone is seated, all eyes are on the woman back from the dead!
Siri feels a little nervous, but Haneul gently squeezes her hand. “You don’t have to tell us everything today, sweetheart. Only whatever you’re comfortable with.”
Siri gives her a grateful smile as she shakes her head softly, “No, it’s okay. I’ve told Jin and Hobi some things already, and I’m fine telling you all too.” She then explains what happened on the plane, how her father helped her with a parachute before things blew up. She mentions she was in a coma for five months, and that when she woke up she had no memories whatsoever.
“Dayum, gurl. Nothing??” Jessi repeated.
“Yeah. Nothing. Not even my name. For pretty much all this time—up until a week ago when I finally did remember my name—I’ve been called Jane since I was a Jane Doe.”
While everyone processes the tragedy of Siri’s memory loss, Jungkook imagines her waking up scared and confused in a hospital bed without knowing who she was. Without knowing who he was.
Knowing now that the woman he loves more than anything lived as Jane Doe and not as Serena Jeon… A nameless woman with no one claiming her… He feels terrible for her.
While he spent years desperately searching for her, she had been somewhere out there believing she was nobody. She didn't know she had a husband who searched for her almost every day, and she didn't know how much she was loved by him, or their friends and family.
That thought breaks Jungkook a little more, making yet another tear slide down his cheek. God, she must’ve felt so lonely…
“And um…” Siri starts to say, her heart pounding hard as she waits for Jungkook to look at her ‘cause she wants his attention. When their teary eyes do lock on each other, she tells him sad news…
“The doctor told me I lost our baby because of the incident… I’m so sorry, Kookie.”
Jungkook's heart shatters.. After everything she's been through, Siri was apologising to him as if any of that had been her fault.
He quickly shakes his head and mumbles hoarsely, “No, don't apologise. It’s not your fault.”
Despite his words, the pain was written all over Jungkook’s face. His chin starts trembling and his lips quiver as he tries to hold himself together. He clenches jaw tight and he curls his hands into fists again, tilting his head back slightly as he squeezes his eyes shut to try stop more tears from falling.
It doesn't work, sadly. Tears fall down his cheeks anyway.
Jungkook was trying to endure the grief quietly. Trying to be strong. But knowing that the child he had already dreamed about and already loved was truly gone forever… it felt like someone was carving a hole straight through his chest.
Siri's eyes fill with more tears at the sight of him because this wasn't just her loss, it’s Jungkook’s too.
She wants nothing more than to go to him and wrap her arms around him, but she didn’t feel right doing that since Jennie and her father were right there.
Next to Siri though, Haneul is crying. "Oh, sweetheart, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine how difficult that must've been.”
Others begin offering their condolences as well. Even Jennie looked saddened by the news. "I'm sorry too," she said softly.
Siri glances toward her and gives a small appreciative nod. "Thank you."
After giving everyone a moment to process the sad news, Siri explains how she was found.
"Taehyung was the one who found me.” She looks towards him at the dining table with a small, fond smile. "He took me to the local hospital and basically saved my life.”
For the first time since arriving, everyone's attention turns towards the stranger sitting at the table. Taehyung starts feeling slightly uncomfortable becoming the centre of attention, but he smiles at people anyway, albeit a little awkwardly.
Jungkook could only clench his jaw and try to stay emotionless as he peers at Taehyung. He had to admit, the guy was freaking handsome, and while he was very thankful the man saved the love of his life, Jungkook couldn’t stop the bitter jealous feeling in his chest due to the things he saw earlier.
Back at the company when Jin suggested going to the Jeon family mansion (after Jennie turned up), Siri had gone straight to Taehyung who comforted her without hesitation. After years without her, it hurt Jungkook to see his love go to another man—a man he didn’t know at all—and seek comfort from him.
And then as she walked to the elevator to leave, Siri held Taehyung’s arm, sticking to him like glue as if he could protect her. Seeing that destroyed Jungkook even more.
Now here he is, watching the only person he’s ever loved talk about another man with such fondness, looking at the guy as if he was her knight.
“He stayed by my side almost everyday while I was recovering,” Siri tells everyone. “And then when I was discharged and had nowhere to go, Tae and his sister Jisoo took me in. They gave me a place to stay and treated me like family.”
Taehyung lowers his face and eyes slightly as his cheeks redden, looking embarrassed by all the attention.
"When I didn't know who I was, they gave me somewhere I belonged."
At that, Tae lifts his eyes back up and locks them onto Siri’s again, smiling at her like he always did back at home.
Jungkook didn’t like that look on Taehyung’s face.
It wasn't just kindness or friendship behind those eyes. Taehyung wasn’t just looking at Siri, he was gazing at her. There was so much adoration in his eyes that it made Jungkook’s stomach twist with dread (and get more jealous).
Is there something between them? he starts to think.
Was there something between them before Siri remembered everything?
Going off by how close they seemed, and by the way Siri looked back at Taehyung with affection and adoration too, Jungkook wasn’t sure if really wanted to know the answer, but he had a bad feeling either way.
“Yaahh, Taehyung-ah,” Jin suddenly says with a big grin, patting him on the back. “You saved our Siri. Thanks are in order.”
“Yeah, man,” Namjoon agrees with a dimpled smile. “We gotta thank you and owe you for that.”
Taehyung's ears and cheeks turn even more red as he lets out a sheepish laugh, “Ah~ I'm sure anyone would've done the same thing.”
“But it was you,” Jungkook's mother adds, smiling warmly at Tae. “The angels put you in her path and you saved her. I think we can all agree that we're indebted to you for bringing our Serena back to us.”
He smiles back shyly, “It’s really no problem.”
“Regardless,” Jungkook begrudgingly decides to speak up after hearing his mother’s praise. He’s choosing to swallow his pride because he truly is grateful to Taehyung. “We'll never forget what you did for her."
The two men stare at one another for a moment, and the funny thing is, they don’t know that they’re jealous of each other.
“Thank you,” Jungkook says, leaving it at that, and Taehyung gives him a nod with a small smile.
But then surprisingly… “Yes!” Woobin chimes in with a grin that doesn't reach his eyes. “We're all very thankful you brought her back."
The words and tone sound nice enough, but there's the faintest hint of sarcasm that only Taehyung catches because when he glances at the older man, he gets a tight feeling in his chest and his heart slightly drops. Woobin’s smile stays firmly in place, but his eyes aren’t all that pleased.
Taehyung knows it’s because Woobin’s daughter is married to Jungkook now, but obviously with Siri being back, this means trouble for them.
“Well, I’m glad to have helped,” Tae says casually, putting on a smile as he looks around at everyone else.
"So um..." Siri begins to say shyly. “That's me and Tae… What have I missed since I've been gone? I uh…” Unable to avoid it, her eyes flick toward Jungkook and Jennie and a dull ache fills her chest. "I already know about them."
Siri couldn't bring herself to say their names together, and everyone understood why. It obviously didn't feel right to her since she’s the one who is meant to be with Jungkook.
“Besides that,” she puts on a brighter tone, trying to be optimistic, “what else did I miss?"
Jungkook’s father, Seokho, glances at his sad, broken son for the hundredth time in under an hour, and he feels immense guilt for what he’s done. Wanting to try and make it up to Jungkook, Seokho feels he should be the one to explain since he was the one who created this terribly awkward situation.
So, he clears his throat, then says, "I think I should explain."
All eyes are on Seokho, except Jungkook’s. He just stares ahead instead, watching Siri twist her engagement and wedding rings around her ring finger on her lap. He’s waiting in anticipation as he’s been wanting this conversation to explain what happened because he can't bear the thought of Siri believing he moved on.
In that moment though, Jungkook feels a small bit of comfort seeing her still wearing her rings.
But then his eyes drop to his own hand. To the ring he wishes wasn't there. The ring that makes him feel all kinds of negative emotions with absolutely no love tied to it.
Jungkook aches to wear the matching daisy-chain wedding ring, but he's stuck wearing this damn bland and boring white gold ring Jennie slid onto his finger. A cheap ring for a cheap marriage, he thinks to himself bitterly.
But was it really that cheap if it’s costing him the most precious thing he's ever loved?
"For two years we searched for you, Siri,” Seokho starts to explain. “We searched everywhere we could think of, followed every lead… but as time went on, our hopes of finding you began to fade, and… I'm so sorry, my flower,” he says with guilt and sincerity. "I should have had more faith. Instead, I became one of the people telling Jungkook he needed to stop searching and let you go."
Siri’s heart pinches at that admission, but she swallows thickly and nods slowly as she recognises how hope can die, especially considering her circumstances.
"D&J Enterprises also wasn't doing well at the time," Seokho continues. "The constant searching took a toll on the company, and we suffered some losses. So, about four months ago, even though we had no physical body, we held a funeral for you, and after that, you were publicly declared deceased.”
Siri’s stomach twists after hearing that. So the world definitely thinks I’m dead now…
"Your assets and shares transferred to your next of kin, which, as your husband at the time, means they went to Jungkook. However, since D&J’s was already jointly owned by the two of you, from a business standpoint, it didn't change much. Since the company was in a difficult position, and as I was the only remaining chairman, I came up with something that could stabilise things quickly."
Seokho’s gaze drifts to his son, and Siri’s eyes follow. They both notice the slight scowl of displeasure and anger sitting behind Jungkook’s red-rimmed doe eyes, and Siri deduces that Jungkook did not like whatever happened. It also makes the regret on Seokho’s face become even more pronounced, but he continues to explain…
"I convinced Jungkook that we needed to merge with another major company. Woobin's was the most practical option, and the merger would benefit both businesses and immediately strengthen D&J's position. But it could only happen if Jungkook and Jennie got married… So they did. It took some time for the paperwork and transfers of things, but the company will actually be changing names soon to JK Enterprises.”
Siri nods slowly once again, taking everything in. Although, it didn’t take her long to understand the situation now. She realises that this is what Yoongi meant by not going too hard on Jungkook and to be gentle with him. Because this was just a business decision. It was only a marriage of convenience. Jungkook hadn’t replaced her or really betrayed her, he was just trying to save their company.
Knowing this now eases some of Siri’s heartache—but don’t get her wrong! She still hates that it had to be Jennie, and it still hurts that Jungkook’s married to her, but at least this was easier to hear than what Siri had imagined. It’s better than her picturing the love of her life falling in love with someone else.
Siri looks at Jungkook again and his doe eyes are already on her. Waiting… Begging… Pleading for her to understand that none of this happened because he stopped loving her.
And luckily for him, she does understand.
In that small window of silence, Siri gives him a soft smile as she lifts her left hand and places it over her chest, curling her fingers inwards so her engagement and wedding rings are right beside her heart.
Jungkook understood what she was trying to say. It's okay. You still have my heart.
The relief that floods through him is so overwhelming, he could just cry. So he does.
Jungkook cries quietly though, trying to not let too many tears fall so as to not get too much attention, and he gives a soft smile back to Siri, feeling so much better that she knows he didn't mean to betray her.
To show her some semblance of his love, Jungkook quickly wipes a tear away with the back of his hand, then he subtly and casually reaches for the collar of his dress shirt, looking as if he was going to fiddle with a button or scratch his chest, except… his fingers actually reach behind his shirt to pull something out.
Siri sees a shimmer of something thin and silvery that was obviously a necklace chain, but then her eyes focus on the small, gold object Jungkook was holding between his fingers. He lets her see it for only a moment before tucking it back underneath his shirt, letting it rest against his chest again.
Siri's heart skips a delightful beat as she realises it was his matching wedding ring that she gave him.
Jungkook has been keeping it on a necklace because he couldn’t fully let her go, and he had to keep the ring close to him somehow. If he couldn't have it on his finger where it was supposed to be, then the next best thing was to have it near his heart.
Seeing Jungkook’s wedding band on a necklace makes Siri’s smile curve up a little more. She also feels warm and comforted in a way, since she had done the exact same thing back when she had no memory of him, and that was because she couldn't fully let him go either.
Without anyone knowing it, in those few long seconds after hearing Jungkook’s father explain everything, Siri and Jungkook sit opposite each other, smiling at one another over the one fact that they absolutely knew for sure… They couldn’t, and wouldn’t, let each other go.
Well... almost everyone didn't know… Almost everyone didn't see the ring Jungkook had around his neck.
But Woobin saw it, and he didn't like that one bit.
He also didn’t like that look of love and understanding on Siri and Jungkook’s faces. It means things won’t bode well for his precious daughter Jennie and his company.
Oh, no, no, no. This will not do. I will not let her change the way things are now.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: <7400
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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I can’t believe this…
Jungkook remarried...
He actually married Jennie…
Out of all people, it had to be her? Why??
Sure, it hurts that he remarried at all, but I understand that I wasn’t around and he thought I was dead. But why the hell did it have to be her?
Sitting in the back seat of Jin’s car on the way to the Jeon family mansion, Siri sits next to Taehyung with her mind going crazy about the fact that her husband, her bestest friend, her first love, has married the one woman she’s always hated.
As soon as Siri realised Jungkook and Jennie were together, and before anyone could possibly make the moment worse, Jin told everyone to head to the Jeon family mansion since there were clearly a lot of things that needed to be explained from both Jungkook’s side and Siri’s side.
However, Siri didn’t want to be near Jungkook during the drive. Even though part of her heart yearned for him, and despite his guilty, teary puppy-dog doe eyes begging her to stay by his side, the betrayal she felt was too raw and fresh. Finding out he’s married to Jennie completely blindsided her, and Siri’s heart felt too bruised and overwhelmed to even look at Jungkook properly.
She needed space from him for now. Space to think, and space to stop herself from lashing out at him.
Except being left to think without Jungkook around to explain the situation was probably a bad idea, ‘cause now Siri was just coming up with ridiculous thoughts.
Did they get close after I disappeared? Did he gain feelings for her while I was gone?
What if he’s always had feelings for her this whole time, but because we were arranged to marry, he felt obligated to be with me?
Sure, he was relieved and happy to see me again, but does he love her more than he loves me?
When they were halfway through the drive, Siri was one thought away from convincing herself Jungkook and Jennie probably spent their evenings all cuddled up together while watching rom-com movies in silk pyjamas.
She scolds herself and regrets not googling for any new updates about Jungkook once she remembered everything. When they got married, it was all in the media, so his marriage to Jennie definitely would’ve been in the media too. But Siri’s mindset after her memories came back was that she knew Jungkook inside and out, and he wouldn’t ever marry Jennie, plus she saw articles that he’s been looking for her, so why would she need to search for more info? She didn’t think she needed to, and she just wanted to get back home. But oh boy was she wrong.
Taehyung, who kept glancing at Siri ever since they got into the car, knew she would be silently having a melt down, and going off the way she was staring blankly ahead while fiddling with her fingers, he could tell she was overthinking things, so he reached over and gently placed his hand over hers.
The touch makes her blink and snap out from her thoughts, making her turn to look at him.
“Stop overthinking,” he says gently as his thumb softly brushes against the back of her hand to try comfort her.
Siri gives him a tight-lipped smile. “Hard not to…”
Taehyung nods softly in understanding, “I get it. No one really wants to come home and find their partner with someone else.”
“Yeah… exactly…” She looks down at their joined hands where the warmth from his hand makes her feel somewhat supported. Siri is actually really glad Taehyung is here. She thinks she’d be worse off if he wasn’t.
“Will you stay with me for a few days?” she asks him softly. “I don’t really want to be alone right now.”
Taehyung squeezes her hand. “You won’t be alone. Even if you don’t have your husband right now, you still have your friends.”
Siri swallows thickly before she hesitantly glances towards the front seat where Jin is driving. She leans closer to Tae so she can whisper to him as she didn’t want Jin to hear. “I know I have them, but I think things are gonna be hard for me…”
Taehyung furrows his brows slightly in questioning, and Siri takes a moment to try figure out how to explain the strange emptiness sitting inside of her.
“Everyone here has lived for two and a half years without me, and even though I know they’re happy I’m back… I just… I dunno… I kinda feel like a stranger now?… Like I’ve come back and interrupted things I shouldn’t have?…”
Taehyung could hear the sadness in Siri’s voice and felt bad for her because he could understand what she was trying to say.
“And honestly…” Siri continues whispering. “I just feel safer with you right now.”
Taehyung gets a flutter of butterflies, and a little spark of hope within him gets a tiny bit bigger and brighter.
He tightens his hand around hers, looks right into her blue eyes, and whispers back, “I’ll stay for as long as you want me to.”
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Inside of Jungkook’s car, it’s painfully quiet. Hobi is beside him in the driver’s seat, occasionally glancing sideways at him with concern. Jungkook just looks completely shattered. His eyes are swollen and red from crying, his hair is a mess from repeatedly dragging his fingers through it, he keeps nibbling his bottom lip where it’s turning quite red, and his leg bounces restlessly with anxiety.
I can’t believe she’s alive and that she’s actually back, Jungkook thinks. It still just doesn’t feel real to him. After two years of searching, grieving, and slowly forcing himself to accept that he would never see Siri again, she suddenly stood right in front of him, smiling, hugging him, and crying with him.
It was everything Jungkook has dreamed of for the last couple of years. Every sleepless night, every desperate search, and every prayer he made always led to this moment of Siri being back home, where he could hold her again, hear her voice again, and just be with her again.
But this also felt like a nightmare to him.
The second Siri found out about him having a new wife, Jungkook could literally see the happiness drain from her face, and right now, he can't stop replaying it in his head. The hurt in her eyes, the confusion, and the disbelief…
God, I thought losing her was bad, but seeing that look of betrayal in her eyes… that was almost worse.
Jungkook didn’t blame Siri for such a reaction though, and he lets out a shaky breath as he drops his head into his hands, gripping at his hair in frustration as fresh tears fall down his cheeks once again.
“F-Fuck,” he chokes out. “What have I done?” His chest feels achingly tight as panic and guilt courses through him. “What the fuck am I gonna do?”
Hobi gives him a sympathetic look. He understands why Jungkook was stressing out and falling apart right now as the situation was unbelievably cruel.
“Don’t beat yourself up over this, Kookie. None of us knew something like this could happen.”
Jungkook sniffles while his pouty lips and chin trembles as he keeps his face buried in his hands to cry.
“We all thought…” Hobi sighs before shaking his head. “I mean… Siri being alive and actually coming back to us? That’s literally a miracle.”
“It is a miracle,” Jungkook agrees with a croaky voice. “And now I’m scared I’ve already lost her again.”
He removes his hands from his face to wipe his runny nose against his suit sleeve, not caring about making it dirty.
“I’m married to Jennie,” Jungkook says miserably. “Do you know how big of a betrayal that is to Siri?”
Hobi nods softly as he did know. Everyone in their family and friend group knows. And they all also know how Jungkook feels about his marriage to Jennie.
“Yeah, but we all know you only married her for the good of the company,” Hobi reminds him. “We know it’s not because you stopped loving Siri. Hopefully when she hears the full story, she’ll understand that.”
Jungkook squeezes his eyes shut while it feels like his heart is twisting and burning at the same time. He shakes his head again as more tears fall. “It doesn’t matter. I still betrayed her in some way, and Siri, she's… she’s gonna hate me for it.”
“You basically had no choice though, Kookie,” Hobi says softly.
Judging by the devastated look on Jungkook’s face, Jungkook clearly didn’t think that excuse makes him any less guilty.
And then another thought hits Jungkook that makes him queasy…
“Hyung…” he says weakly, his voice rough from crying so much already. “Sh-She didn’t have a child with her…”
Hobi’s face turns into sorrow. “Yeah… I noticed that too…”
Jungkook turns to his friend with his chin shaking and doe eyes filled with worry. “Do you think she lost our baby?”
Hobi bites his bottom lip. “I don’t know, Kook. I wouldn’t be surprised if that plane crash caused her to lose it, but let’s try to be optimistic. Maybe she had your baby and the little one is still wherever she was staying all this time?”
Even as he said it, Hobi knew it sounded unlikely, and he could tell Jungkook thought the same thing.
Jungkook slowly shakes his head, not convinced at all. “No… Siri would’ve never left our baby behind. Not if the whole point of her being here was to come back home to me…”
Hobi bites his bottom lip again, unable to argue because honestly… he didn’t really believe his own reassurance either. However, with Jungkook already falling apart, Hobi didn’t want to wreck what little hope Jungkook still had left.
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When both cars pull up outside the Jeon family mansion, the atmosphere between everyone is still tense.
The large estate—which was basically Siri’s second home growing up—looks exactly the same as she remembers it, but coming back to it now feels different because she never imagined returning like this; a dead woman walking, apparently.
As Jin parks beside the other vehicles already lining the driveway, Siri recognises one car to be Namjoon’s. There was also another sleeker and darker car next to it she didn’t recognise, but the licence plate said ‘Agust D’ and she figured it must be Yoongi’s since he was called that during high school.
Her heart does a little jump, excited she’s going to see her old friends again, as well as her in-laws, but when she steps out of Jin’s car, Jungkook is already standing by his vehicle looking at her, and her heart aches instantly.
He looks distraught. His eyes seem more swollen and red than earlier, his cheeks are currently damp, and his lips are in a tight line as if he’s trying to not make them tremble. He overall looked emotionally exhausted and like he had cried himself raw on the drive over.
The sight of him pinches Siri’s heart because despite the confusion and the betrayal, her first instinct is to comfort Jungkook. To comfort that little prince inside him she always sees when he’s this upset. She wants to walk over to him, hold his face, and kiss his tears away while telling him everything would be okay.
But looking at her eyes and her facial expression, Jungkook could see her uncertainty about him. He could see the hurt and the betrayal she couldn’t fully hide.
It absolutely guts him, and he feels like he’s about to break down again. His chin starts quivering and fresh tears gather in his eyes again just from looking at her.
God, he hates himself. Jungkook hates that after finally getting Siri back, he’s now the reason she’s looking at him so hurt and cautiously. But more than anything, he’s terrified he’s going to lose her again.
Hobi comes up beside him and places a comforting hand on his shoulder. “C’mon, Kook,” he murmurs gently.
Jungkook lowers his head, swallowing the thick lump in his throat before allowing his friend to guide him toward the mansion entrance.
Siri watches him go with a tight, awful feeling in her chest. Meanwhile, Jin and Taehyung are at the trunk of Jin’s car pulling out the suitcases.
The three of them enter the Jeon family mansion, and straight away Taehyung was in awe of the house—heck, even coming up the driveway he was already in awe as soon as he saw the big beautiful fountain in the front.
When they step further inside, voices come from deeper within the house.
“Jungkookie?” His mother, Haneul, could be heard. “Why have you been crying?”
Siri’s heart clenches at that tender motherly voice she’s missed so much.
Then came Jungkook’s father, Seokho’s voice, who was more firm but full of concern. “What happened, son? Why did Seokjin call a sudden family meeting here?”
As the three round the corner towards the large living area, they see Jungkook and his parent’s side profile as they stand near the entrance to the lounge. Hobi walks past them, heading for the dining table to give everyone the space he knows they’ll need.
Jungkook looks directly at his father with his eyes narrowed, blame and anger in his eyes. “This is all your fault,” he mutters bitterly.
Seokho frowns with confusion, caught off guard by the accusation, but Jungkook doesn't elaborate, choosing to brush past his parents to go to the couch where Namjoon and Yoongi sat nearby. They both occupied a lazyboy chair, both were curious as to why they were called here, and after seeing their maknae, they wondered why he looked so upset.
Jungkook drops heavily onto the couch, choosing to sit by the armrest. He looks completely drained while he takes off his suit jacket, chucking it onto the coffee table in front of him, and then he's loosening his tie, looking and feeling like he's totally done with the day.
Haneul turns toward her son with even more worry. “Jungkookah, what’s wr—”
But her words are cut off by Namjoon and Yoongi gasping. The two are the first to see Siri properly, and they both shoot up from their chairs so abruptly that they startle Jungkook’s mother.
“Holy fuck,” Yoongi blurts in disbelief.
“Holy shit,” Namjoon breathes out, staring at Siri like she was an anomaly.
Haneul and Seokho frown again in confusion at their reactions before they quickly turn around to see what they were staring at. The second their eyes land on Siri, Seokho’s eyes widen and his jaw drops open, while Haneul completely loses it.
“AAAHHHH!” the mother shrieks loudly with her hands up in shock before bursting into tears. “Oh my stars!” Haneul zooms straight towards Siri with her arms open and pulls her tightly against her chest as she sways their bodies. “Oh my dear, sweet girl, Serena! You’re here! You’re alive! Oh my lord, you’re alive! I can’t believe this!”
Haneul parts from the hug just to cup Siri’s face affectionately. “Ohhh, let me look at you!” She looks all over her face as if to make sure all the features she remembers are still there. “Ah! You’re still so beautiful! Still have your father’s blue eyes! Oh how I’ve missed you! Oh my word!” She pulls Siri in for another hug.
Siri lets out a teary laugh as she hugs her back. Jungkook’s mother has always been like her second mother, so it really warmed her heart that Haneul obviously still loves her very much.
“I’ve missed you too,” Siri cries softly.
As those two embrace again, Jin guides Taehyung towards the dining table along with Siri’s suitcase, and they settle into seats near Hoseok, mostly watching everything unfold from a respectful distance.
Jungkook does a small smile as he watches the scene of Siri and his mother. He’s happy to see his mother so happy, but then his eyes go to his father, who is still staring at Siri shocked, and Jungkook’s smile drops as that bitter, angry feeling creeps back into him again.
Seokho is frozen in place, but as he watches his wife fuss lovingly over their daughter-in-law, water starts brimming his eyes. He feels relief, disbelief, and gratitude that she’s back. Siri has always been family to him, and he did love her as if she was his own.
As he goes to look at his son to show he was delighted, Seokho sees the way Jungkook narrows his eyes and clenches his jaw at him before looking away. It makes the father’s heart drop and he now understands why his son looked so upset earlier, and why he said it was his father’s fault. Because it’s true.
Seokho was the one who convinced Jungkook to stop searching for Siri. It was Seokho who repeatedly pressured his son to accept reality and let her go. And worst of all… It was him who pushed Jungkook into marrying Jennie for the company’s sake.
The realisation makes guilt twist Seokho’s insides because Siri is back, and now all of the older man’s decisions no longer feel practical or reasonable. They feel... catastrophic, in a way.
Haneul, teary and overjoyed, brings Siri over to her husband where Seokho swallows down the heavy guilt stuck in his throat, and forces a smile onto his face.
“Hi, dad number two,” Siri says with a small smile.
The nickname makes Seokho’s composure crack, and a tear slips from the corner of his eye which he quickly wipes away.
He steps closer to Siri and hugs her as he says the nickname he has for her. “My little flower. It’s wonderful to have you back.”
Siri hugs him tightly in return, smiling tearfully against his shoulder. But while Seokho holds her, the guilt really eats at him. All he could think was, if only you had come back earlier… Just a little earlier…
Because it was only three months ago that Jungkook married Jennie.
If Seokho had just waited longer… if he hadn’t pressured his son so hard to finally move on for the company’s sake… if he just had more faith that Siri might still somehow return… then Jungkook wouldn’t be sitting silently across the room looking so crushed and angry to the point where it makes Seokho get a sinking feeling that he likely made the biggest mistake of his son’s life.
Once Seokho comes away from the hug, Namjoon and Yoongi are right there to greet Siri.
“Seriously can’t believe you’re actually here,” Namjoon says, dimples out on full display as he goes to hug her. “We’ve missed having you around.”
“I’ve missed being around. Sorry it took me so long.”
Siri then turns to Yoongi next where she could see his eyes were slightly glossy and wet. She gives him a pouty smile, knowing he’s trying to hold in his tears because he doesn’t like to cry. “Aww, Yoongi Boongi…”
He rolls his eyes and sniffles, “Can’t believe I actually miss hearing that.”
He then reaches for her and hugs her tight, and while in their hug, Yoongi whispers to her, "I'm really glad you're back."
"So am I."
"You have no idea how close we came to losing him too."
Siri's smile falters as she parts slightly from their hug. “What?”
Yoongi shakes his head, "Nothing. Forget I said that." His gaze flicks over to Jungkook for a moment though. “Just... since you're back, you're gonna be hearing some things you likely won’t like, but don't be too hard on Kook if you can help it.”
Namjoon hears that last sentence, and Siri knits her eyebrows together with confusion and concern as she looks at both men.
Namjoon lowers his voice this time, leaning closer to her to whisper, “Ever since you disappeared, he's been through hell and back, and then went back to hell again.”
Yoongi nods to confirm it, and he keeps his voice soft and quiet, only for Siri and Joon to hear. "We’ve never seen someone love another person the way Kook loves you.” He then squeezes her shoulder gently. "So please just... be gentle with him… for us?"
Siri’s heart sinks hearing Namjoon and Yoongi’s words, and she didn't know what to say. Was there even anything to say?
She glances over to Jungkook, and while he had all his friends and family here, he somehow looks… alone… broken… and clearly exhausted.
The slight sadness hidden behind Yoongi's and Namjoon’s eyes as well… Siri didn't know what happened while she was gone, but she could tell it must not have been good and that there was more to the story.
Looking back at Jungkook again, her heart ached for him. "Okay," she whispers softly.
Yoongi seems relieved to hear that, and so he pulls Siri into another hug and holds her tightly for a moment as if to silently thank her.
Suddenly, more voices could be heard coming closer through the hallway. Female voices.
“I wonder why we’re here?” Jessi's voice comes through the mansion. “Nobody tells me anything! All I got was a text from Jin saying, 'Get to the Jeon mansion as soon as you can.' Like excuse me?? I have a fuckin’ life?”
Hwasa could be heard laughing, “Well obviously it's something important and you sensed that, otherwise you wouldn’t have come.”
“Well yeah, of course I had a sense it was something important since Jin never texts me! But I just wanna know why it's important. He could’ve said a bit more in the text!”
A few people in the living room exchanged amused looks with Jin who happened to smile sheepishly with his ears going red.
The two women finally round the corner, still talking, still completely unaware... But then they see Siri.
Both women suddenly stop walking and let out loud gasps simultaneously. Their eyes also widen and they immediately grab each other's hand, looking like two girls in a horror movie who had just seen a ghost.
Siri feels her eyes watering again at the sight of her girlies, and she couldn’t help but smile widely at them.
For several long seconds, neither Hwasa or Jessi move, they just stare at Siri. While that’s happening, Jungkook's parents, Namjoon, and Yoongi cautiously walk backwards with grins on their faces as they could tell what was about to come.
Siri lets out a chuckle as she shakes her head. “Now what did I tell you about swearing in front of the in-laws, Jessi?”
Her talking makes both women actually flinch, and their eyes widen even more.
Hwasa and Jessi slowly turn to look at each other with their joined hands shaking. Neither of them need to say a word because their eyes said it all. She's back. Our Siri is back!
"AHHHHHH~!!" They scream out of pure happiness at each other first, bouncing on their toes while shaking each other’s hand. They then snap their heads back toward Siri and run straight for her while still screaming with delight.
Siri already has her arms open for them and both women launch themselves at her, engulfing her in a group hug as all three erupt into tears.
"Bitch, where the hell have you been?!" Jessi cries, squeezing Siri so tightly. "Do you know how much we missed you?!"
Siri laughs through her tears. "I'm sorry! I’m sorry! But also—language!"
"Oh my gaaahhd!" Hwasa squeals. "This is the best day ever! I can't believe this! I’m finally hearing Siri scold Jessi again!”
The three women giggle and cry, squeezing each other tighter, and the sight of the loud, emotional reunion makes smiles appear throughout the room.
Once the girls calm themselves down and are about to move themselves further into the lounge… SLAM! The front door suddenly shuts loudly from the entrance hallway.
Everyone’s attention snaps toward the sound, and a few long seconds later, Jennie and her father, Woobin, come round the corner.
The second the man sees Siri, he freezes and his eyes widen. “So it’s true...”
Siri gives him a tight lipped smile because even before her disappearance, she never particularly liked Jennie’s father. There was always something about him that unsettled her. He always looked at her strangely; he wasn't hateful or anything, it’s just that he never really warmed up to her. It was like there was some hidden irritation behind his politeness whenever he looked at her. But despite this, they always remained cordial.
“Well, welcome back,” Woobin says while giving her a small smile, and Siri politely replies with a “Thank you.”
Jennie doesn’t greet Siri since she’s technically already done that back at D&J Enterprises earlier. Back then, after the initial shock of seeing Siri alive, Jennie awkwardly cleared her throat and muttered, “Wow… Siri, hi. I’m surprised to see you.”
At the time, Siri could only reply with, “Yeah… I’m surprised to see you too.”
Then that was when Jin quickly suggested everyone continue the conversation at the Jeon family mansion instead.
And now here they all are, except the room is a lot less emotional and joyous, and a lot more tense since there's now Jungkook's first love and first wife, as well as his current wife in the room.
The situation was just… uncomfortable and unfortunate…
Sensing the tension, Jungkook’s mother quickly steps forward before things become more awkward.
“Well!” Haneul says brightly as she claps her hands. “I suppose this meeting is because you’re back, my dear Serena.” She smiles warmly at her and gestures for everyone to sit. “Come, come so we can all catch up properly. We’re all desperate to hear what happened to you.”
Those standing begin taking seats. Seokho goes to one of the lazyboy chairs, and Woobin takes the other, leaving Namjoon and Yoongi to head to the dining table, sitting with Jin, Hoseok, and a man they didn’t know but wondered why he was here.
Jennie casually (and quickly before anyone else could) walks over towards Jungkook on the couch. She’s his wife now so naturally she should sit next to him, she thinks.
Jungkook grits his teeth, clenches his hands, and his eyes narrow as he stares at the coffee table when he senses Jennie coming his way. It’s a long five-seater couch, so there was plenty of room for her to sit anywhere else (like the other end, far, far away from him), but no, she had to be next to him.
Jungkook doesn’t even look at Jennie when she sits down, and he actually tries to scoot himself closer toward the armrest, wanting to create as much distance between them as he could, even though there was hardly any space left for him to move.
The gesture wasn’t at all subtle and pretty much everyone saw it, including Siri and Jennie. And judging by the brief scowl that crossed Woobin's face, he saw it too.
Jennie pouts at Jungkook for doing that, but she then notices he looks like he had been very recently crying, which confuses her. She understood why he cried back at D&J Enterprises since Siri was supposed to be dead, but Jennie thought on the drive over Jungkook would've calmed down and come to his senses by now.
The fact that he didn't look any better and moved away from her like she was a bad smell made Jennie feel anxious (and a little hurt). She's always known her place as Jungkook's wife wasn't one he chose ‘cause he’s always been vocal about it, but now she wondered (and feared) what was going to happen now that Siri was back.
Haneul ends up sitting with Siri on the couch opposite Jungkook and Jennie, and Hwasa sits on Siri’s other side with Jessi next to her since there was still space.
Shit. Siri hates where she’s sitting since it means she can't help but look at Jungkook and Jennie, and seeing them together was something she seriously didn't want to see.
However, after seeing Jungkook's reaction the moment Jennie sat down, Siri felt some relief since it was clear he didn't want to be near her. It makes Siri start to think that maybe their marriage isn’t one out of love, and those thoughts she had of them being all lovey-dovey in silk pyjamas was probably ridiculous.
Once everyone is seated, all eyes are on the woman back from the dead!
Siri feels a little nervous, but Haneul gently squeezes her hand. “You don’t have to tell us everything today, sweetheart. Only whatever you’re comfortable with.”
Siri gives her a grateful smile as she shakes her head softly, “No, it’s okay. I’ve told Jin and Hobi some things already, and I’m fine telling you all too.” She then explains what happened on the plane, how her father helped her with a parachute before things blew up. She mentions she was in a coma for five months, and that when she woke up she had no memories whatsoever.
“Dayum, gurl. Nothing??” Jessi repeated.
“Yeah. Nothing. Not even my name. For pretty much all this time—up until a week ago when I finally did remember my name—I’ve been called Jane since I was a Jane Doe.”
While everyone processes the tragedy of Siri’s memory loss, Jungkook imagines her waking up scared and confused in a hospital bed without knowing who she was. Without knowing who he was.
Knowing now that the woman he loves more than anything lived as Jane Doe and not as Serena Jeon… A nameless woman with no one claiming her… He feels terrible for her.
While he spent years desperately searching for her, she had been somewhere out there believing she was nobody. She didn't know she had a husband who searched for her almost every day, and she didn't know how much she was loved by him, or their friends and family.
That thought breaks Jungkook a little more, making yet another tear slide down his cheek. God, she must’ve felt so lonely…
“And um…” Siri starts to say, her heart pounding hard as she waits for Jungkook to look at her ‘cause she wants his attention. When their teary eyes do lock on each other, she tells him sad news…
“The doctor told me I lost our baby because of the incident… I’m so sorry, Kookie.”
Jungkook's heart shatters.. After everything she's been through, Siri was apologising to him as if any of that had been her fault.
He quickly shakes his head and mumbles hoarsely, “No, don't apologise. It’s not your fault.”
Despite his words, the pain was written all over Jungkook’s face. His chin starts trembling and his lips quiver as he tries to hold himself together. He clenches jaw tight and he curls his hands into fists again, tilting his head back slightly as he squeezes his eyes shut to try stop more tears from falling.
It doesn't work, sadly. Tears fall down his cheeks anyway.
Jungkook was trying to endure the grief quietly. Trying to be strong. But knowing that the child he had already dreamed about and already loved was truly gone forever… it felt like someone was carving a hole straight through his chest.
Siri's eyes fill with more tears at the sight of him because this wasn't just her loss, it’s Jungkook’s too.
She wants nothing more than to go to him and wrap her arms around him, but she didn’t feel right doing that since Jennie and her father were right there.
Next to Siri though, Haneul is crying. "Oh, sweetheart, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine how difficult that must've been.”
Others begin offering their condolences as well. Even Jennie looked saddened by the news. "I'm sorry too," she said softly.
Siri glances toward her and gives a small appreciative nod. "Thank you."
After giving everyone a moment to process the sad news, Siri explains how she was found.
"Taehyung was the one who found me.” She looks towards him at the dining table with a small, fond smile. "He took me to the local hospital and basically saved my life.”
For the first time since arriving, everyone's attention turns towards the stranger sitting at the table. Taehyung starts feeling slightly uncomfortable becoming the centre of attention, but he smiles at people anyway, albeit a little awkwardly.
Jungkook could only clench his jaw and try to stay emotionless as he peers at Taehyung. He had to admit, the guy was freaking handsome, and while he was very thankful the man saved the love of his life, Jungkook couldn’t stop the bitter jealous feeling in his chest due to the things he saw earlier.
Back at the company when Jin suggested going to the Jeon family mansion (after Jennie turned up), Siri had gone straight to Taehyung who comforted her without hesitation. After years without her, it hurt Jungkook to see his love go to another man—a man he didn’t know at all—and seek comfort from him.
And then as she walked to the elevator to leave, Siri held Taehyung’s arm, sticking to him like glue as if he could protect her. Seeing that destroyed Jungkook even more.
Now here he is, watching the only person he’s ever loved talk about another man with such fondness, looking at the guy as if he was her knight.
“He stayed by my side almost everyday while I was recovering,” Siri tells everyone. “And then when I was discharged and had nowhere to go, Tae and his sister Jisoo took me in. They gave me a place to stay and treated me like family.”
Taehyung lowers his face and eyes slightly as his cheeks redden, looking embarrassed by all the attention.
"When I didn't know who I was, they gave me somewhere I belonged."
At that, Tae lifts his eyes back up and locks them onto Siri’s again, smiling at her like he always did back at home.
Jungkook didn’t like that look on Taehyung’s face.
It wasn't just kindness or friendship behind those eyes. Taehyung wasn’t just looking at Siri, he was gazing at her. There was so much adoration in his eyes that it made Jungkook’s stomach twist with dread (and get more jealous).
Is there something between them? he starts to think.
Was there something between them before Siri remembered everything?
Going off by how close they seemed, and by the way Siri looked back at Taehyung with affection and adoration too, Jungkook wasn’t sure if really wanted to know the answer, but he had a bad feeling either way.
“Yaahh, Taehyung-ah,” Jin suddenly says with a big grin, patting him on the back. “You saved our Siri. Thanks are in order.”
“Yeah, man,” Namjoon agrees with a dimpled smile. “We gotta thank you and owe you for that.”
Taehyung's ears and cheeks turn even more red as he lets out a sheepish laugh, “Ah~ I'm sure anyone would've done the same thing.”
“But it was you,” Jungkook's mother adds, smiling warmly at Tae. “The angels put you in her path and you saved her. I think we can all agree that we're indebted to you for bringing our Serena back to us.”
He smiles back shyly, “It’s really no problem.”
“Regardless,” Jungkook begrudgingly decides to speak up after hearing his mother’s praise. He’s choosing to swallow his pride because he truly is grateful to Taehyung. “We'll never forget what you did for her."
The two men stare at one another for a moment, and the funny thing is, they don’t know that they’re jealous of each other.
“Thank you,” Jungkook says, leaving it at that, and Taehyung gives him a nod with a small smile.
But then surprisingly… “Yes!” Woobin chimes in with a grin that doesn't reach his eyes. “We're all very thankful you brought her back."
The words and tone sound nice enough, but there's the faintest hint of sarcasm that only Taehyung catches because when he glances at the older man, he gets a tight feeling in his chest and his heart slightly drops. Woobin’s smile stays firmly in place, but his eyes aren’t all that pleased.
Taehyung knows it’s because Woobin’s daughter is married to Jungkook now, but obviously with Siri being back, this means trouble for them.
“Well, I’m glad to have helped,” Tae says casually, putting on a smile as he looks around at everyone else.
"So um..." Siri begins to say shyly. “That's me and Tae… What have I missed since I've been gone? I uh…” Unable to avoid it, her eyes flick toward Jungkook and Jennie and a dull ache fills her chest. "I already know about them."
Siri couldn't bring herself to say their names together, and everyone understood why. It obviously didn't feel right to her since she’s the one who is meant to be with Jungkook.
“Besides that,” she puts on a brighter tone, trying to be optimistic, “what else did I miss?"
Jungkook’s father, Seokho, glances at his sad, broken son for the hundredth time in under an hour, and he feels immense guilt for what he’s done. Wanting to try and make it up to Jungkook, Seokho feels he should be the one to explain since he was the one who created this terribly awkward situation.
So, he clears his throat, then says, "I think I should explain."
All eyes are on Seokho, except Jungkook’s. He just stares ahead instead, watching Siri twist her engagement and wedding rings around her ring finger on her lap. He’s waiting in anticipation as he’s been wanting this conversation to explain what happened because he can't bear the thought of Siri believing he moved on.
In that moment though, Jungkook feels a small bit of comfort seeing her still wearing her rings.
But then his eyes drop to his own hand. To the ring he wishes wasn't there. The ring that makes him feel all kinds of negative emotions with absolutely no love tied to it.
Jungkook aches to wear the matching daisy-chain wedding ring, but he's stuck wearing this damn bland and boring white gold ring Jennie slid onto his finger. A cheap ring for a cheap marriage, he thinks to himself bitterly.
But was it really that cheap if it’s costing him the most precious thing he's ever loved?
"For two years we searched for you, Siri,” Seokho starts to explain. “We searched everywhere we could think of, followed every lead… but as time went on, our hopes of finding you began to fade, and… I'm so sorry, my flower,” he says with guilt and sincerity. "I should have had more faith. Instead, I became one of the people telling Jungkook he needed to stop searching and let you go."
Siri’s heart pinches at that admission, but she swallows thickly and nods slowly as she recognises how hope can die, especially considering her circumstances.
"D&J Enterprises also wasn't doing well at the time," Seokho continues. "The constant searching took a toll on the company, and we suffered some losses. So, about four months ago, even though we had no physical body, we held a funeral for you, and after that, you were publicly declared deceased.”
Siri’s stomach twists after hearing that. So the world definitely thinks I’m dead now…
"Your assets and shares transferred to your next of kin, which, as your husband at the time, means they went to Jungkook. However, since D&J’s was already jointly owned by the two of you, from a business standpoint, it didn't change much. Since the company was in a difficult position, and as I was the only remaining chairman, I came up with something that could stabilise things quickly."
Seokho’s gaze drifts to his son, and Siri’s eyes follow. They both notice the slight scowl of displeasure and anger sitting behind Jungkook’s red-rimmed doe eyes, and Siri deduces that Jungkook did not like whatever happened. It also makes the regret on Seokho’s face become even more pronounced, but he continues to explain…
"I convinced Jungkook that we needed to merge with another major company. Woobin's was the most practical option, and the merger would benefit both businesses and immediately strengthen D&J's position. But it could only happen if Jungkook and Jennie got married… So they did. It took some time for the paperwork and transfers of things, but the company will actually be changing names soon to JK Enterprises.”
Siri nods slowly once again, taking everything in. Although, it didn’t take her long to understand the situation now. She realises that this is what Yoongi meant by not going too hard on Jungkook and to be gentle with him. Because this was just a business decision. It was only a marriage of convenience. Jungkook hadn’t replaced her or really betrayed her, he was just trying to save their company.
Knowing this now eases some of Siri’s heartache—but don’t get her wrong! She still hates that it had to be Jennie, and it still hurts that Jungkook’s married to her, but at least this was easier to hear than what Siri had imagined. It’s better than her picturing the love of her life falling in love with someone else.
Siri looks at Jungkook again and his doe eyes are already on her. Waiting… Begging… Pleading for her to understand that none of this happened because he stopped loving her.
And luckily for him, she does understand.
In that small window of silence, Siri gives him a soft smile as she lifts her left hand and places it over her chest, curling her fingers inwards so her engagement and wedding rings are right beside her heart.
Jungkook understood what she was trying to say. It's okay. You still have my heart.
The relief that floods through him is so overwhelming, he could just cry. So he does.
Jungkook cries quietly though, trying to not let too many tears fall so as to not get too much attention, and he gives a soft smile back to Siri, feeling so much better that she knows he didn't mean to betray her.
To show her some semblance of his love, Jungkook quickly wipes a tear away with the back of his hand, then he subtly and casually reaches for the collar of his dress shirt, looking as if he was going to fiddle with a button or scratch his chest, except… his fingers actually reach behind his shirt to pull something out.
Siri sees a shimmer of something thin and silvery that was obviously a necklace chain, but then her eyes focus on the small, gold object Jungkook was holding between his fingers. He lets her see it for only a moment before tucking it back underneath his shirt, letting it rest against his chest again.
Siri's heart skips a delightful beat as she realises it was his matching wedding ring that she gave him.
Jungkook has been keeping it on a necklace because he couldn’t fully let her go, and he had to keep the ring close to him somehow. If he couldn't have it on his finger where it was supposed to be, then the next best thing was to have it near his heart.
Seeing Jungkook’s wedding band on a necklace makes Siri’s smile curve up a little more. She also feels warm and comforted in a way, since she had done the exact same thing back when she had no memory of him, and that was because she couldn't fully let him go either.
Without anyone knowing it, in those few long seconds after hearing Jungkook’s father explain everything, Siri and Jungkook sit opposite each other, smiling at one another over the one fact that they absolutely knew for sure… They couldn’t, and wouldn’t, let each other go.
Well... almost everyone didn't know… Almost everyone didn't see the ring Jungkook had around his neck.
But Woobin saw it, and he didn't like that one bit.
He also didn’t like that look of love and understanding on Siri and Jungkook’s faces. It means things won’t bode well for his precious daughter Jennie and his company.
Oh, no, no, no. This will not do. I will not let her change the way things are now.
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Well, I see another sweetie anon asked the question I wanted to ask. And your answer gave me anxiety 🥺 Can you be, like, THE best author EVER, and publish the next chapter, like... now?
I'm sorry... I didn't mean to say that (I did). I'll wait as long as you need (because i have to). I'm very patient (NOT)!
Much love 😘😘😘
xoxoxo
Aw you’re so sweet! Made me chuckle 🤭
I’m half way thru the next chapter, so hopefully it won’t be too far away 😇
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~5450
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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The day after Siri is her true self and remembers everything, talks and plans are made to help get her back home, much to the dismay of Taehyung, Jisoo, and Rosé.
Flying is ruled out since Siri doesn’t have a passport, and even if she did… the thought of being in a plane makes her stomach churn. Being back in the air, trapped in that confined space with nothing but sky and ocean beneath her… She can’t do it. She doesn’t think she’ll want to fly for a while, or maybe even never.
Another suggestion is made thanks to Rosé. She suggests her boyfriend, Bruno, to help as he's a fisherman and has a boat—a proper one too, not just something small for short trips. He works out at sea, knows the routes, and knows how to navigate safely. If anyone can get Siri where she needs to go without drawing attention or requiring paperwork, it’ll be him.
“I’m coming with you,” Taehyung tells Siri.
She looks at him from across the dining table with furrowed brows of uncertainty. “Tae… you don’t have to do that, plus you have the farm to take care of.”
He shakes his head, “Jisoo can manage the farming staff, and the guys already know what they’re doing anyway. And besides, I’m the one who found you. I was there since the beginning of you being here, and I wanna be there at the end, too. Plus, I need to know you’ll get there safely. Wanna make sure no one kidnaps you or anything like that on the way there.”
Siri’s heart melts, and she giggles at Tae’s last line since he was obviously trying to make light of the sad situation. She also understands Taehyung’s need to ensure she gets home safely. If roles were reversed, she would want to do the same for him.
What Siri didn’t know though, was that in the back of Taehyung’s mind, there was another reason he wanted to go with her… He wants to see her husband in person and see the man he’s losing her to.
It takes a couple days for Bruno to organise his boat and map out the route he’ll take, but when the day comes and all is ready to go, Siri isn’t ready—not for this part, anyway. She knows she needs to go home, but nothing could prepare her for the pain she feels when it’s time to say goodbye to Jisoo and Rosé.
To Siri, the feeling is similar to when she broke up with Jungkook all those years ago, which was one of the worst feelings she’s ever felt in her life. Her chest just feels heavy and achy at the same time, and her stomach literally feels like it’s twisting.
Jisoo stands in front of Siri with her arms wrapped tightly around her. “I’m going to miss you,” she murmurs into her shoulder.
Siri squeezes her tighter as her eyes sting and prickle with tears. “I’m going to miss you too.”
Rosé is next to them, and she doesn’t even try to hide her tears as she wraps her arms around Siri as well. “This sucks, babes,” she mumbles.
Siri lets out a small, tearful chuckle, hugging her back just as tightly. “Yeah, it does. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be. You just better text us when you get there, okay? Like straight away. I don’t care what time it is.”
“I will,” Siri promises tearily as she tries to smile.
“Good.” Rosé nods, sniffling a little as she smiles back.
There’s a moment where the three of them look at one another softly, then Siri reaches out and takes both of their hands, squeezing them gently. “Thank you, you two, for everything. For taking care of me and being my besties when I didn’t know who I was.”
“No need to thank us,” Jisoo replies, squeezing her hand back. “Just make sure to call us sometimes. Don’t disappear on us.”
Siri nods quickly. “For sure I’ll call. And I’ll come visit you guys again. I won’t disappear, I promise.”
The three girls do a group hug for the final time, and when Siri is finally on the boat, waving goodbye to Jisoo and Rosé as it sails away, she tells herself she’s going to keep the promise she made to them. She won’t disappear from anyone who matters to her ever again.
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It takes four days for Bruno’s boat to get Siri back home. Each day they were getting closer, anxiety and nervousness coursed through both Siri and Taehyung’s veins.
When they finally arrive at the docks, the first thing Siri does is message Jisoo and Rosé, telling them they arrived safely, and then she orders an Uber. Beside her, Taehyung stands quietly and looks around at all the people moving about, feeling a little out of place.
Siri catches him looking around and smiles. “Pretty different from home, huh?”
Taehyung glances at her with a small nervous smile. “Yeah.”
She chuckles and bumps his shoulder. “Don’t worry. The city life and suburbs aren’t too scary.”
He huffs out a small laugh, but his eyes wander back to everything around him.
Not long later, the Uber arrives and the first place Siri tells the driver to go to… “D&J Enterprises, please.”
It’s just after lunchtime, and if she’s right… Jungkook should be at work.
After about 35 minutes of driving, the Uber pulls up infront of the towering glass building, and that’s when Siri and Taehyung’s nerves go haywire again. Siri is more so excited to see her friends and Jungkook again. Even just thinking his name makes her feel giddy.
Next to her however, Taehyung’s feelings are much more complicated. Part of him is genuinely curious to meet the man Siri loves, but he’s also dreading their meeting.
Staring up at the building, Tae could already feel the difference between him and Siri’s husband. The building in front of them was enormous and sleek, and there were people in expensive suits moving confidently in and out through the entrance. It looked like a powerful place, and it made Taehyung feel self-conscious and small.
Before they even set sail to bring Siri back home, Tae had done his own research. He remembered reading that Jungkook’s fixation with finding Siri had caused damage to their company, and that profits and stocks had suffered because he refused to stop searching for her.
Tae didn’t want to admit it, but he was impressed (and a little jealous) that the guy poured that amount of effort into searching for Siri. It really showed how much Jungkook loved her.
But clearly, her husband’s efforts hadn’t been enough to truly destroy their company since it was still strong enough to own a place like this, and it was still filled with staff and security, and it obviously still had some form of wealth that Taehyung couldn’t even begin to relate to.
And yet here he is… Just a farm boy from a small town…
How the heck was he supposed to compete with someone like that? Someone rich, powerful, successful, and worst of all, someone Siri had loved basically her entire life?
Taehyung’s thoughts had to be put on the back burner for now unfortunately, because it was time for him and Siri to go inside.
When they get out of the Uber, Taehyung looks around again at the people rushing past on the busy sidewalk where it made him feel more nervous than before.
"Siri… Stay close to me, please.”
Her expression softens on him as she goes, "Aww, are you worried you might get lost?"
Taehyung glances around once more before looking back at her with a nervous smile. "Yeah. Something like that."
"You'll be fine," Siri laughs. She then loops her arm through his and wraps her hand around his bicep. "There. Now we won’t lose each other."
The tension in Taehyung's shoulders eases slightly and he gives a small nod. "Thanks."
The two walk, rolling their suitcases into the building together, and as soon as the glass doors slide open, cool air rushes over them. Inside, the ground floor is spacious but bustling with people everywhere. Some people carried coffees and laptops, while others chatted amongst themselves as they headed toward what looked like a large cafeteria connected to one side of the lobby.
As Siri moves forward, knowing exactly where to go to find the elevators, she and Taehyung get a few odd and curious looks since they were rolling suitcases behind them. No one seemed to recognise Siri though—or if anyone did, they didn’t think it could actually be thee Serena Jeon since she’s supposed to be dead.
When they reach the elevators and step inside, Siri presses the button for the second-to-last floor level.
Taehyung notices, and he raises an eyebrow at her. “Not the top floor?”
She shakes her head slightly with a small smile. “No, you need access to get up there, and I don’t have my key card anymore. We’ll have to go through my friends Jin or Hobi first.”
It takes some time for the elevator to reach the second-to-last floor level, but it eventually gets there. When the ding sounds and the doors open, Siri notices straight away how the reception area looks exactly the same, although right at the front desk, there’s a new face she didn’t recognise.
The blondish-cottoncandy-like male receptionist is on a phone call as Siri and Taehyung walk in. He has one hand on the phone headset, pushing the earpiece into his ear while his other hand quickly writes down notes.
The receptionist already knows that a woman and a man are walking towards him since he heard the elevator ding and he very briefly glanced its way when the door opened, so he’s hastily trying to finish the phone call.
“Okay,” the receptionist says to whoever he’s speaking to, “yep, got it—actually no wait! Repeat that for me one more time… Mhm… Mhmm… And is that Steven with a V or a PH?... Ahh, okay, cool cool.”
Both Siri and Taehyung glance at one another with confused grins, thinking how weirdly unprofessional the receptionist’s tone is.
“And you said a dozen?” the receptionist continues his phone call. “Wait, a dozen means twelve, right?... Oh, good I got something right for once!”
Siri and Taehyung both curl their lips inwards to stop from laughing. To them, the receptionist sounded sort of… dumb?…
“Okay, I’ll let Mr Kim Seokjin know,” the receptionist says into the headset, nodding to himself as if the other person can see him. “Alright. Thank you, byyye!”
The man presses a button to end the call, looks at Siri and Tae’s way with a big eye smile, and starts to stand as he says, “Welcome to D an—hnnngh!” he yelps just as he’s abruptly yanked back down into his seat by the headset still hooked over his ear.
Siri and Taehyung couldn’t help but giggle as they watch the guy quickly reach up and fumble with the headset, tugging it off with a reddening flustered expression while saying, “Ow—shit—okay—hold on—”
He manages to place the headset on the desk, then he smooths his nice grey suit jacket as he stands up straight, clears his throat, and then he smiles widely as if the last few seconds never happened. He was totally smooth like buttah.
“Good afternoon!” he greets cheerily. “My name is Jimin, welcome to D&J Enterprises!”
Siri chuckles again, feeling slight secondhand embarrassment for the guy. She had a sense he must be freshly new with the company because surely nobody who has worked in the building for long enough would forget that the headset could literally be cordless and disconnected before standing up.
“Good afternoon,” she replies with an amused smile. She glances down at the receptionist’s name tag and sees Jimin also has ‘assistant’ on it too. “Have you just started working here, Jimin?”
“Nope! Just over four months now!” he answers proudly.
Both Siri and Taehyung’s eyebrows shoot up at that. The guy has been here for four months already? That means this wasn’t his first-day nerves or a rough first week on the job… It means the guy is really just a ditz and a klutz…
And the fact he looked genuinely proud of himself?? That was the part that really made Siri and Tae speechless. Siri even has a small thought wondering why Hobi would’ve kept this guy working here since he’s the head of human resources.
“So!” Jimin slips back into job mode. “How can I help you two? Do you have an appointment with anyone here?”
“Uh, no,” Siri says gently. “But can you tell Jin and Hobi that Siri is here?”
Jimin stills for a split second as he was surprised this woman knew his bosses nicknames. Most people who came through this floor referred to them properly as Mr Kim Seokjin or Mr Jung Hoseok. Nobody casually called them Jin and Hobi. And Jimin only knew ‘Hobi’ was Mr Jung’s nickname because he’s heard Mr Kim and Mr Jeon call him that.
Jimin figures the woman must be close to his bosses, so he quickly says, “One moment please,” then takes the phone to his ear and presses one of their direct lines.
Straight away the line clicks through, and the first thing Jimin hears is a deep sigh.
“Jimin," Jin says to him, already sounding tired and a little done. "Please don’t tell me you need me to come out there and show you how to scan paperwork into the computer again.”
The receptionist lets out a small, sheepish chuckle, glancing briefly at Siri and the man next to her.
“Uh no, sir,” he says quickly. “I’ve got that one down now… Mostly…”
Jin sighs again on the other end. “So what is it then?”
“Well, sir… A woman is here, and she asked me to tell you that Siri is here.”
There’s silence for a long second, and Jimin wonders if the line got cut. “Uhh… Sir?”
“…W-What did you just say?” Jin finally says, sounding shocked and confused.
“A woman named Siri is—”
But before Jimin could continue his sentence, a door behind his desk opens, and out comes Mr Jung with his eyes on a bunch of forms in his hands.
“Hey, Jimin-ah, I need you to photocopy thee–eese—AHHHHH!!” Hoseok screams as he throws the papers in the air from being completely shocked.
He freezes in his spot with his eyes wide and his hand clutching his panic-heaving chest, all while the papers he threw fly around him before they land scattered all over the floor.
Siri giggles at Hoseok’s reaction, but all he could do was blink repeatedly and stare at her with disbelief with his jaw dropped.
“Hey, Hobi,” she says softly with a warm smile. “Missed me?”
“J-JIN-HYUUUNG!!!” Hobi shouts suddenly with his voice cracking a little. “COME QUICK! LIKE RIGHT NEOW NOW!”
Hoseok’s eyes start to brim with tears as he gulps. He doesn’t know if it’s just the amount of caffeine he’s had today, or maybe it was the new vape he tried out earlier causing him to hallucinate his dead best friend, but he’s well and truly freaking the fuck out right now.
Jimin nearly drops the phone since the shout startled him, but on the other end, Mr Kim has already hung up after hearing Jimin say the name ‘Siri’ for the second time.
Fast and urgent footsteps could be heard coming down the hall, and rounding the corner comes Jin.
He stops dead in his tracks as soon as he sees the woman standing by the reception desk, and his face pales as if he’s just seen a ghost, because to him, she’s meant to be.
Silence takes over the entire reception area where Jimin slowly and carefully lowers the phone while his eyes dart between his two spooked out bosses and the woman standing between them. Taehyung just feels like he’s watching a movie, finding everyone’s reaction weird and interesting.
Hoseok doesn’t move. Jin doesn’t move. Neither of them even seems to breathe. They just stare with awe and disbelief because this woman shouldn’t be here. She’s meant to be dead… Isn’t she?
“Y-You see what I see, right, hyung?” Hoseok finally says.
“Yeah… I think so,” Jin nods slowly, his eyes never leaving the familiar looking brunette with blue eyes. He takes careful steps forward, slowly moving closer to her as if moving too fast might scare her away.
Siri fully turns her body to face Jin, chuckling at his reaction as well. “Hey, Jinnie. Did ya miss me too?”
His breath hitches and tears well within seconds at the sound of her voice. A voice he’s missed for two and a half years.
“S-Siri?” he murmurs softly with his heart pounding so hard. “It’s actually you?”
She nods and her smile widens. “Yep, it’s me. In the flesh!”
Jin takes a shaky breath in before he takes the fastest steps he’s ever done to pull Siri into a tight embrace. The second he feels her warmth against him, tears slip down his cheeks.
“Siri…” he breathes out.
Hoseok doesn’t hesitate after that. He rushes forward, wrapping his arms behind Siri, clinging to her like a squirrel would cling to an acorn. “I can’t believe you’re back,” he chokes out.
Siri laughs softly through her own happy tears, trying to hug them both. “Yeah, I’m back. And I’m here to stay this time.”
The two men pull back from the hug to look at her and those blue eyes they’ve missed, but they each keep their hands on Siri in some way, holding her hands and shoulders, as if touching her is proof she’s actually here and alive.
“Where the hell have you been?” Jin asks her with a sniffle. “We all thought you died from the plane crash.”
Siri smiles apologetically to both of them. “I was in a coma for a few months after the incident, and when I woke up I didn’t have any memories.”
“Are you for real??” Hobi says with disbelief. “Like, no memories at all?”
“Yep, none. Couldn’t even remember my own name or how old I was. Literally nothing.”
“Damn, that’s…” Hobi tries to find the right words, but really there was only one way to describe it. “That’s really shit luck.”
“Yeah, I know,” Siri nods. “It was only a week ago that I fully remembered everything, and as soon as that happened, I had to find my way back home. Back to here, to you guys, and to Jungkook. And here I am finally.”
Jin and Hoseok melt from hearing that Siri tried to come home as soon as she got her memories back, but both their chests get a pinch at hearing the golden maknae’s name and seeing how Siri looked at them with sparkly hopeful eyes.
“Kookie’s here, right?” she asks them. “I wanna go up and see him.”
Jin and Hobi exchange a quick glance, and with apologetic eyes, Jin says, “Kook is here, but Siri… There’s something you need to kn—”
Ding! The elevator goes off, catching everyone’s attention.
As soon as the doors open, a tall, dark haired, doe-eyed brooding man dressed formally in a silvery grey suit and tie comes out with his eyes right on the reception desk since that’s why he came here.
The man, who’s had a constant frown on his face for the last few months, heads straight towards the receptionist, and starts to say, “Hey Jimin, don’t let J—”
But the man completely freezes up and can't finish the rest of his sentence because of what he sees to the side in front of him. Or more like who he sees.
His dark doe eyes take in his two hyungs standing close to a woman who looks scarily similar to the love of his life.
What the fuck… That’s… No… That’s not… It can’t be her…
As his brain tries to process the scene, his heart is already jumping erratically to the point it wants to break out of his chest and settle in the woman’s chest. It wants to be with its other half, but his body is still frozen in place since this just doesn’t make any sense to him.
Siri, too excited to contain herself at finally seeing her husband again, smiles widely with tears in her eyes as she runs straight for him with her arms out.
“Kookieee!” she cries out with delight, practically jumping into him where she hugs him tight and nuzzles into his chest, already trying to take in his scent and cologne since she’s missed him so much.
Jungkook stands there with his heart pounding a million beats per second, looking down at the brunette’s head all stunned, scared, confused, and in complete disbelief. His hands hover over her back, unsure if he should be reciprocating the hug because his brain still hasn’t processed everything.
But hearing her call him ‘Kookie’ and with her looking and sounding exactly like his wife and bestest friend, Jungkook starts to think…
Siri?
This is her?... She’s actually here?... She’s alive… And she’s holding me right now?...
His heart drums so hard he could hear it in his ears, and his eyes go wide at the thought that this could really be her. To help him be sure, Jungkook looks to Jin and Hobi to see if this is real. His hyungs smile awkwardly and nod at him, telling him that yes, this is real. It’s really her.
“I’ve missed you so much, Kookie,” Siri mumbles into his chest while her arms tighten around him. “I’m so sorry it took me so long to come back to you, but I’m here now. I’m back, and I won’t ever leave you again, I swear!”
Jungkook’s breath is suddenly taken away and his eyes instantly water. Hearing her call him Kookie again, feeling her nuzzle into him the way she used to, and feeling her warmth against his body after spending two and a half years believing he may never hold her again… it sends a rush of emotions through Jungkook that his knees nearly give out, and he didn’t know whether to break apart or burst out with joy.
“Siri…” he murmurs her name, as if saying it aloud will help him accept that this is real and is actually happening.
When she hears her name, Siri looks up at Jungkook with a sweet, teary smile while resting her chin on his chest cutely, wanting to have no space between them. Her red rimmed blue eyes sparkle like a crystal blue lake, so happy to see him. “It’s me, Kookie. I’m here.”
That gets to him, those eyes of hers. Jungkook has spent the last couple of years searching for those eyes in photographs and in every stranger he comes across. He’s seen them in his dreams so many times, but now those blue eyes are right here, looking directly at him, filled with the same love they’ve always held for him.
Jungkook’s heart practically leaps and bangs hard against his chest, begging and fighting to be in the depths of her.
So he lets his heart take control.
Jungkook envelops Siri without another thought, and smashes his lips with hers, kissing her so hard and deeply as hot tears fall fast down his cheeks.
Feeling her warm, soft lips against his, it made Jungkook think, oh my god, this is actually happening! She’s really here!
Siri melts into him and kisses him back with the same fervour. God she’s missed his lips. She doesn’t want to stop this at all. She wants to kiss Jungkook as much as she can to make up for all the time they lost, and she knows he would feel the same.
But then Jungkook suddenly lets out a broken sob against her mouth, and it breaks Siri’s heart hearing that shattering sound come from him.
“You’re actually here,” he croaks through his tears, dropping his face into the crook of her neck, hugging her so tight as if he physically couldn’t handle even an inch of distance between them anymore. “You’re really, truly here.”
Jungkook wasn’t just in disbelief. He feels a relief so intense, it’s like a weight has been lifted off him. But stronger than the disbelief and relief, is love.
Jungkook feels a love so overwhelming and all-consuming that not even time, distance, or loss has managed to weaken it. Even after two and a half years apart, and even after believing Siri would be gone forever, his heart still belongs entirely to her.
His best friend. His wife. The only woman he’s ever loved. And she’s finally back in his arms.
The range of emotions swirling within Jungkook were just too big for him to contain, and he completely breaks down, crying harder than he has done in years as everything he buried inside himself comes pouring out. The pain of losing Siri. The endless frustration of never being able to find her. The exhaustion that comes from carrying the anger, the guilt, the grief, and the hopelessness he tried so hard to suppress every single day. It all unravelled through his tears and sobs.
Siri just holds him, understanding why he’s crying this way, and it makes her cry more too because she just can’t imagine how deep Jungkook’s pain goes. She feels guilty and hates herself for unintentionally causing him this much hurt.
“Shh, shh, it’s alright. I’m here, Koo, I’m here,” she coos at him as her hands rub gently over his back.
To those watching, the moment feels bittersweet.
While Jimin thinks the scene in front of him is lovely, he’s also majorly confused with why the CEO kissed this woman and is now bawling like a baby. Never in his life did he ever think he’d see the grumpy CEO cry like this. And to add to that, Jimin’s also a little sour because he now has a bunch of paperwork on the floor to pick up thanks to Mr Jung’s jump scare.
Taehyung, while he didn’t want to lose Siri, he feels appeased to know that the man he’s losing her to clearly loves her more than anything going by his emotional crying.
And Jin and Hoseok… They love that their two maknaes are reunited, and of course they love the fact that Siri is back, however… they know that her being back is going to cause some serious problems…
When it seems Jungkook’s crying has settled down a bit, he pulls away from Siri’s neck and their hug to cup her face, his thumbs caressing her wet cheeks as he pouts and his lower lip quivers. “I thought I lost you. Thought I’d never see you again.”
Siri places her hands on his wrists tenderly, giving him a soft, sad smile. “You could never lose me. I’m super sorry I took so long.”
Jungkook shakes his head and tearily smiles, “Doesn’t matter now. You’re here, and—”
“Uh sorry, but Mr Jeon, sir?” Jimin cuts him off as politely as he can.
Everyone looks at the receptionist where they see him standing at his desk looking very apologetic about interrupting.
“Jimin,” Jin says firmly while frowning at him, “can’t this wait? You can obviously see this is a very important moment for them.”
Jimin scratches the side of neck awkwardly, “Well yeah, but a notification came up on the computer and I thought Mr Jeon would want to know about this straight away…”
Jungkook clears his throat and sniffles, but he doesn’t move from his position with Siri. “What is it, Jimin?”
The receptionist glances at Siri uneasily before he looks at Jungkook again with even more unease. “Well uh… Your wife just arrived and is making her way up…”
Four hearts drop instantly hearing that, but one drops especially low. So low, he wants the ground to swallow him up and make him disappear.
Siri furrows her brows and looks at Jungkook with nothing but total confusion. “Your wife?... But I am your wife…”
Jungkook gulps and is speechless for a moment because he had forgotten about this one very important detail. He was just so stunned and overwhelmed with seeing Siri again that he forgot the reason why he came down to talk to Jimin in the first place… To tell him to not let his wife up to his floor level as he didn’t want to deal with her again.
Jungkook’s heart rate spikes and guilt swirls within him when Siri pulls his hands away from her face, turning his left one over to find a certain band on his ring finger. He starts to tear up all over again because he knows she’s not going to like what she sees.
And he’s right. The look on Siri’s face when she finds it’s not their matching gold daisy-chain band on his finger, but a plain white gold band instead, it absolutely guts Jungkook. He feels like someone has slashed open his stomach and chest and just ripped all his insides out.
“Y-you remarried…” Siri says that as a statement, not as a question, because this ring is definitely not their ring. It’s not the one she put on his finger. Someone else put this ring on his finger.
At that realisation, Siri snaps her hands and herself away from Jungkook, taking a step back to look at him like he was a stranger she didn’t want to get close to.
Jungkook’s heart drops again, as do his tears.
“N-No—wait—baby,” he stammers as he reaches for her again, his hands desperately trying to grasp for hers as he’s not ready and not willing to let her go. “J-Just let me explain, please!”
Siri’s chest hurts so bad, it feels like someone had placed a piping hot iron ball right on her chest, making it hard for her to breathe. She’s torn with how she wants Jungkook to hold her again, but she also feels like she needs to get away from him because he’s not hers anymore.
She shakes her head in denial as new tears start to fall again, but then everyone hears a Ding!
All heads turn to the elevator, and this time, a woman in red with dark long hair steps out. Siri's eyes widen instantly since she knows who it is.
“Jennie?” Siri murmurs the name lowly, feeling so puzzled. Why is she here? She has no reason to be since she doesn’t even work with us.
“Oh, Jungkookie!” Jennie chirps, only being able to see his backside while having a partial view of a brunette near him. “You’re already here for me!”
Siri furrows her eyebrows as her confusion deepens. Why would she say something like that? Why would Jungkook be here for her?
“Uh, hel-looo?” Jennie says sassily when Jungkook doesn’t turn to look at her, clearly too focused on the woman standing in front of him—which Jennie did not like at all as she thinks his focus should be on her.
With a frowny pout, Jennie stomps closer to Jungkook, wanting to get a look at the woman who has his attention, but when she sees who it is, she freezes up as a gasp leaves her lips, and her eyes double in size.
“Oh my god,” is all she could say, because she was stunned for the same reason everyone else was when they first saw the brunette.
With her blue eyes flicking between the man she loves and the woman she’s always hated, Siri’s mind clicks things into place. Thanks to Jimin’s words, “Your wife just arrived and is making her way up…” and now with Jennie here for Jungkook… The confusion drains away from Siri, just like it feels like her blood has drained out of her, leaving her feeling pale and empty. All that happiness she felt a moment ago is gone; there’s none left inside of her.
Her teary, stunned gaze lands back on Jungkook, and all she sees are his tearful doe eyes full of guilt with a thousand apologies behind them.
That’s when her heart collapses, and the only thing pumping into Siri’s veins is betrayal.
She couldn’t understand why Jungkook would do this, especially when he knows how she feels about Jennie.
Siri suddenly wishes she hadn’t come back. She feels that being here is a mistake now. She shouldn’t have come back because coming back to this—to the betrayal of all betrayals… it’s a punch to the gut. It’s a slap in the face. It’s a stab in the back and heart.
She never imagined something like this could happen. She never imagined Jungkook could do this to her.
Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~5450
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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The day after Siri is her true self and remembers everything, talks and plans are made to help get her back home, much to the dismay of Taehyung, Jisoo, and Rosé.
Flying is ruled out since Siri doesn’t have a passport, and even if she did… the thought of being in a plane makes her stomach churn. Being back in the air, trapped in that confined space with nothing but sky and ocean beneath her… She can’t do it. She doesn’t think she’ll want to fly for a while, or maybe even never.
Another suggestion is made thanks to Rosé. She suggests her boyfriend, Bruno, to help as he's a fisherman and has a boat—a proper one too, not just something small for short trips. He works out at sea, knows the routes, and knows how to navigate safely. If anyone can get Siri where she needs to go without drawing attention or requiring paperwork, it’ll be him.
“I’m coming with you,” Taehyung tells Siri.
She looks at him from across the dining table with furrowed brows of uncertainty. “Tae… you don’t have to do that, plus you have the farm to take care of.”
He shakes his head, “Jisoo can manage the farming staff, and the guys already know what they’re doing anyway. And besides, I’m the one who found you. I was there since the beginning of you being here, and I wanna be there at the end, too. Plus, I need to know you’ll get there safely. Wanna make sure no one kidnaps you or anything like that on the way there.”
Siri’s heart melts, and she giggles at Tae’s last line since he was obviously trying to make light of the sad situation. She also understands Taehyung’s need to ensure she gets home safely. If roles were reversed, she would want to do the same for him.
What Siri didn’t know though, was that in the back of Taehyung’s mind, there was another reason he wanted to go with her… He wants to see her husband in person and see the man he’s losing her to.
It takes a couple days for Bruno to organise his boat and map out the route he’ll take, but when the day comes and all is ready to go, Siri isn’t ready—not for this part, anyway. She knows she needs to go home, but nothing could prepare her for the pain she feels when it’s time to say goodbye to Jisoo and Rosé.
To Siri, the feeling is similar to when she broke up with Jungkook all those years ago, which was one of the worst feelings she’s ever felt in her life. Her chest just feels heavy and achy at the same time, and her stomach literally feels like it’s twisting.
Jisoo stands in front of Siri with her arms wrapped tightly around her. “I’m going to miss you,” she murmurs into her shoulder.
Siri squeezes her tighter as her eyes sting and prickle with tears. “I’m going to miss you too.”
Rosé is next to them, and she doesn’t even try to hide her tears as she wraps her arms around Siri as well. “This sucks, babes,” she mumbles.
Siri lets out a small, tearful chuckle, hugging her back just as tightly. “Yeah, it does. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be. You just better text us when you get there, okay? Like straight away. I don’t care what time it is.”
“I will,” Siri promises tearily as she tries to smile.
“Good.” Rosé nods, sniffling a little as she smiles back.
There’s a moment where the three of them look at one another softly, then Siri reaches out and takes both of their hands, squeezing them gently. “Thank you, you two, for everything. For taking care of me and being my besties when I didn’t know who I was.”
“No need to thank us,” Jisoo replies, squeezing her hand back. “Just make sure to call us sometimes. Don’t disappear on us.”
Siri nods quickly. “For sure I’ll call. And I’ll come visit you guys again. I won’t disappear, I promise.”
The three girls do a group hug for the final time, and when Siri is finally on the boat, waving goodbye to Jisoo and Rosé as it sails away, she tells herself she’s going to keep the promise she made to them. She won’t disappear from anyone who matters to her ever again.
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It takes four days for Bruno’s boat to get Siri back home. Each day they were getting closer, anxiety and nervousness coursed through both Siri and Taehyung’s veins.
When they finally arrive at the docks, the first thing Siri does is message Jisoo and Rosé, telling them they arrived safely, and then she orders an Uber. Beside her, Taehyung stands quietly and looks around at all the people moving about, feeling a little out of place.
Siri catches him looking around and smiles. “Pretty different from home, huh?”
Taehyung glances at her with a small nervous smile. “Yeah.”
She chuckles and bumps his shoulder. “Don’t worry. The city life and suburbs aren’t too scary.”
He huffs out a small laugh, but his eyes wander back to everything around him.
Not long later, the Uber arrives and the first place Siri tells the driver to go to… “D&J Enterprises, please.”
It’s just after lunchtime, and if she’s right… Jungkook should be at work.
After about 35 minutes of driving, the Uber pulls up infront of the towering glass building, and that’s when Siri and Taehyung’s nerves go haywire again. Siri is more so excited to see her friends and Jungkook again. Even just thinking his name makes her feel giddy.
Next to her however, Taehyung’s feelings are much more complicated. Part of him is genuinely curious to meet the man Siri loves, but he’s also dreading their meeting.
Staring up at the building, Tae could already feel the difference between him and Siri’s husband. The building in front of them was enormous and sleek, and there were people in expensive suits moving confidently in and out through the entrance. It looked like a powerful place, and it made Taehyung feel self-conscious and small.
Before they even set sail to bring Siri back home, Tae had done his own research. He remembered reading that Jungkook’s fixation with finding Siri had caused damage to their company, and that profits and stocks had suffered because he refused to stop searching for her.
Tae didn’t want to admit it, but he was impressed (and a little jealous) that the guy poured that amount of effort into searching for Siri. It really showed how much Jungkook loved her.
But clearly, her husband’s efforts hadn’t been enough to truly destroy their company since it was still strong enough to own a place like this, and it was still filled with staff and security, and it obviously still had some form of wealth that Taehyung couldn’t even begin to relate to.
And yet here he is… Just a farm boy from a small town…
How the heck was he supposed to compete with someone like that? Someone rich, powerful, successful, and worst of all, someone Siri had loved basically her entire life?
Taehyung’s thoughts had to be put on the back burner for now unfortunately, because it was time for him and Siri to go inside.
When they get out of the Uber, Taehyung looks around again at the people rushing past on the busy sidewalk where it made him feel more nervous than before.
"Siri… Stay close to me, please.”
Her expression softens on him as she goes, "Aww, are you worried you might get lost?"
Taehyung glances around once more before looking back at her with a nervous smile. "Yeah. Something like that."
"You'll be fine," Siri laughs. She then loops her arm through his and wraps her hand around his bicep. "There. Now we won’t lose each other."
The tension in Taehyung's shoulders eases slightly and he gives a small nod. "Thanks."
The two walk, rolling their suitcases into the building together, and as soon as the glass doors slide open, cool air rushes over them. Inside, the ground floor is spacious but bustling with people everywhere. Some people carried coffees and laptops, while others chatted amongst themselves as they headed toward what looked like a large cafeteria connected to one side of the lobby.
As Siri moves forward, knowing exactly where to go to find the elevators, she and Taehyung get a few odd and curious looks since they were rolling suitcases behind them. No one seemed to recognise Siri though—or if anyone did, they didn’t think it could actually be thee Serena Jeon since she’s supposed to be dead.
When they reach the elevators and step inside, Siri presses the button for the second-to-last floor level.
Taehyung notices, and he raises an eyebrow at her. “Not the top floor?”
She shakes her head slightly with a small smile. “No, you need access to get up there, and I don’t have my key card anymore. We’ll have to go through my friends Jin or Hobi first.”
It takes some time for the elevator to reach the second-to-last floor level, but it eventually gets there. When the ding sounds and the doors open, Siri notices straight away how the reception area looks exactly the same, although right at the front desk, there’s a new face she didn’t recognise.
The blondish-cottoncandy-like male receptionist is on a phone call as Siri and Taehyung walk in. He has one hand on the phone headset, pushing the earpiece into his ear while his other hand quickly writes down notes.
The receptionist already knows that a woman and a man are walking towards him since he heard the elevator ding and he very briefly glanced its way when the door opened, so he’s hastily trying to finish the phone call.
“Okay,” the receptionist says to whoever he’s speaking to, “yep, got it—actually no wait! Repeat that for me one more time… Mhm… Mhmm… And is that Steven with a V or a PH?... Ahh, okay, cool cool.”
Both Siri and Taehyung glance at one another with confused grins, thinking how weirdly unprofessional the receptionist’s tone is.
“And you said a dozen?” the receptionist continues his phone call. “Wait, a dozen means twelve, right?... Oh, good I got something right for once!”
Siri and Taehyung both curl their lips inwards to stop from laughing. To them, the receptionist sounded sort of… dumb?…
“Okay, I’ll let Mr Kim Seokjin know,” the receptionist says into the headset, nodding to himself as if the other person can see him. “Alright. Thank you, byyye!”
The man presses a button to end the call, looks at Siri and Tae’s way with a big eye smile, and starts to stand as he says, “Welcome to D an—hnnngh!” he yelps just as he’s abruptly yanked back down into his seat by the headset still hooked over his ear.
Siri and Taehyung couldn’t help but giggle as they watch the guy quickly reach up and fumble with the headset, tugging it off with a reddening flustered expression while saying, “Ow—shit—okay—hold on—”
He manages to place the headset on the desk, then he smooths his nice grey suit jacket as he stands up straight, clears his throat, and then he smiles widely as if the last few seconds never happened. He was totally smooth like buttah.
“Good afternoon!” he greets cheerily. “My name is Jimin, welcome to D&J Enterprises!”
Siri chuckles again, feeling slight secondhand embarrassment for the guy. She had a sense he must be freshly new with the company because surely nobody who has worked in the building for long enough would forget that the headset could literally be cordless and disconnected before standing up.
“Good afternoon,” she replies with an amused smile. She glances down at the receptionist’s name tag and sees Jimin also has ‘assistant’ on it too. “Have you just started working here, Jimin?”
“Nope! Just over four months now!” he answers proudly.
Both Siri and Taehyung’s eyebrows shoot up at that. The guy has been here for four months already? That means this wasn’t his first-day nerves or a rough first week on the job… It means the guy is really just a ditz and a klutz…
And the fact he looked genuinely proud of himself?? That was the part that really made Siri and Tae speechless. Siri even has a small thought wondering why Hobi would’ve kept this guy working here since he’s the head of human resources.
“So!” Jimin slips back into job mode. “How can I help you two? Do you have an appointment with anyone here?”
“Uh, no,” Siri says gently. “But can you tell Jin and Hobi that Siri is here?”
Jimin stills for a split second as he was surprised this woman knew his bosses nicknames. Most people who came through this floor referred to them properly as Mr Kim Seokjin or Mr Jung Hoseok. Nobody casually called them Jin and Hobi. And Jimin only knew ‘Hobi’ was Mr Jung’s nickname because he’s heard Mr Kim and Mr Jeon call him that.
Jimin figures the woman must be close to his bosses, so he quickly says, “One moment please,” then takes the phone to his ear and presses one of their direct lines.
Straight away the line clicks through, and the first thing Jimin hears is a deep sigh.
“Jimin," Jin says to him, already sounding tired and a little done. "Please don’t tell me you need me to come out there and show you how to scan paperwork into the computer again.”
The receptionist lets out a small, sheepish chuckle, glancing briefly at Siri and the man next to her.
“Uh no, sir,” he says quickly. “I’ve got that one down now… Mostly…”
Jin sighs again on the other end. “So what is it then?”
“Well, sir… A woman is here, and she asked me to tell you that Siri is here.”
There’s silence for a long second, and Jimin wonders if the line got cut. “Uhh… Sir?”
“…W-What did you just say?” Jin finally says, sounding shocked and confused.
“A woman named Siri is—”
But before Jimin could continue his sentence, a door behind his desk opens, and out comes Mr Jung with his eyes on a bunch of forms in his hands.
“Hey, Jimin-ah, I need you to photocopy thee–eese—AHHHHH!!” Hoseok screams as he throws the papers in the air from being completely shocked.
He freezes in his spot with his eyes wide and his hand clutching his panic-heaving chest, all while the papers he threw fly around him before they land scattered all over the floor.
Siri giggles at Hoseok’s reaction, but all he could do was blink repeatedly and stare at her with disbelief with his jaw dropped.
“Hey, Hobi,” she says softly with a warm smile. “Missed me?”
“J-JIN-HYUUUNG!!!” Hobi shouts suddenly with his voice cracking a little. “COME QUICK! LIKE RIGHT NEOW NOW!”
Hoseok’s eyes start to brim with tears as he gulps. He doesn’t know if it’s just the amount of caffeine he’s had today, or maybe it was the new vape he tried out earlier causing him to hallucinate his dead best friend, but he’s well and truly freaking the fuck out right now.
Jimin nearly drops the phone since the shout startled him, but on the other end, Mr Kim has already hung up after hearing Jimin say the name ‘Siri’ for the second time.
Fast and urgent footsteps could be heard coming down the hall, and rounding the corner comes Jin.
He stops dead in his tracks as soon as he sees the woman standing by the reception desk, and his face pales as if he’s just seen a ghost, because to him, she’s meant to be.
Silence takes over the entire reception area where Jimin slowly and carefully lowers the phone while his eyes dart between his two spooked out bosses and the woman standing between them. Taehyung just feels like he’s watching a movie, finding everyone’s reaction weird and interesting.
Hoseok doesn’t move. Jin doesn’t move. Neither of them even seems to breathe. They just stare with awe and disbelief because this woman shouldn’t be here. She’s meant to be dead… Isn’t she?
“Y-You see what I see, right, hyung?” Hoseok finally says.
“Yeah… I think so,” Jin nods slowly, his eyes never leaving the familiar looking brunette with blue eyes. He takes careful steps forward, slowly moving closer to her as if moving too fast might scare her away.
Siri fully turns her body to face Jin, chuckling at his reaction as well. “Hey, Jinnie. Did ya miss me too?”
His breath hitches and tears well within seconds at the sound of her voice. A voice he’s missed for two and a half years.
“S-Siri?” he murmurs softly with his heart pounding so hard. “It’s actually you?”
She nods and her smile widens. “Yep, it’s me. In the flesh!”
Jin takes a shaky breath in before he takes the fastest steps he’s ever done to pull Siri into a tight embrace. The second he feels her warmth against him, tears slip down his cheeks.
“Siri…” he breathes out.
Hoseok doesn’t hesitate after that. He rushes forward, wrapping his arms behind Siri, clinging to her like a squirrel would cling to an acorn. “I can’t believe you’re back,” he chokes out.
Siri laughs softly through her own happy tears, trying to hug them both. “Yeah, I’m back. And I’m here to stay this time.”
The two men pull back from the hug to look at her and those blue eyes they’ve missed, but they each keep their hands on Siri in some way, holding her hands and shoulders, as if touching her is proof she’s actually here and alive.
“Where the hell have you been?” Jin asks her with a sniffle. “We all thought you died from the plane crash.”
Siri smiles apologetically to both of them. “I was in a coma for a few months after the incident, and when I woke up I didn’t have any memories.”
“Are you for real??” Hobi says with disbelief. “Like, no memories at all?”
“Yep, none. Couldn’t even remember my own name or how old I was. Literally nothing.”
“Damn, that’s…” Hobi tries to find the right words, but really there was only one way to describe it. “That’s really shit luck.”
“Yeah, I know,” Siri nods. “It was only a week ago that I fully remembered everything, and as soon as that happened, I had to find my way back home. Back to here, to you guys, and to Jungkook. And here I am finally.”
Jin and Hoseok melt from hearing that Siri tried to come home as soon as she got her memories back, but both their chests get a pinch at hearing the golden maknae’s name and seeing how Siri looked at them with sparkly hopeful eyes.
“Kookie’s here, right?” she asks them. “I wanna go up and see him.”
Jin and Hobi exchange a quick glance, and with apologetic eyes, Jin says, “Kook is here, but Siri… There’s something you need to kn—”
Ding! The elevator goes off, catching everyone’s attention.
As soon as the doors open, a tall, dark haired, doe-eyed brooding man dressed formally in a silvery grey suit and tie comes out with his eyes right on the reception desk since that’s why he came here.
The man, who’s had a constant frown on his face for the last few months, heads straight towards the receptionist, and starts to say, “Hey Jimin, don’t let J—”
But the man completely freezes up and can't finish the rest of his sentence because of what he sees to the side in front of him. Or more like who he sees.
His dark doe eyes take in his two hyungs standing close to a woman who looks scarily similar to the love of his life.
What the fuck… That’s… No… That’s not… It can’t be her…
As his brain tries to process the scene, his heart is already jumping erratically to the point it wants to break out of his chest and settle in the woman’s chest. It wants to be with its other half, but his body is still frozen in place since this just doesn’t make any sense to him.
Siri, too excited to contain herself at finally seeing her husband again, smiles widely with tears in her eyes as she runs straight for him with her arms out.
“Kookieee!” she cries out with delight, practically jumping into him where she hugs him tight and nuzzles into his chest, already trying to take in his scent and cologne since she’s missed him so much.
Jungkook stands there with his heart pounding a million beats per second, looking down at the brunette’s head all stunned, scared, confused, and in complete disbelief. His hands hover over her back, unsure if he should be reciprocating the hug because his brain still hasn’t processed everything.
But hearing her call him ‘Kookie’ and with her looking and sounding exactly like his wife and bestest friend, Jungkook starts to think…
Siri?
This is her?... She’s actually here?... She’s alive… And she’s holding me right now?...
His heart drums so hard he could hear it in his ears, and his eyes go wide at the thought that this could really be her. To help him be sure, Jungkook looks to Jin and Hobi to see if this is real. His hyungs smile awkwardly and nod at him, telling him that yes, this is real. It’s really her.
“I’ve missed you so much, Kookie,” Siri mumbles into his chest while her arms tighten around him. “I’m so sorry it took me so long to come back to you, but I’m here now. I’m back, and I won’t ever leave you again, I swear!”
Jungkook’s breath is suddenly taken away and his eyes instantly water. Hearing her call him Kookie again, feeling her nuzzle into him the way she used to, and feeling her warmth against his body after spending two and a half years believing he may never hold her again… it sends a rush of emotions through Jungkook that his knees nearly give out, and he didn’t know whether to break apart or burst out with joy.
“Siri…” he murmurs her name, as if saying it aloud will help him accept that this is real and is actually happening.
When she hears her name, Siri looks up at Jungkook with a sweet, teary smile while resting her chin on his chest cutely, wanting to have no space between them. Her red rimmed blue eyes sparkle like a crystal blue lake, so happy to see him. “It’s me, Kookie. I’m here.”
That gets to him, those eyes of hers. Jungkook has spent the last couple of years searching for those eyes in photographs and in every stranger he comes across. He’s seen them in his dreams so many times, but now those blue eyes are right here, looking directly at him, filled with the same love they’ve always held for him.
Jungkook’s heart practically leaps and bangs hard against his chest, begging and fighting to be in the depths of her.
So he lets his heart take control.
Jungkook envelops Siri without another thought, and smashes his lips with hers, kissing her so hard and deeply as hot tears fall fast down his cheeks.
Feeling her warm, soft lips against his, it made Jungkook think, oh my god, this is actually happening! She’s really here!
Siri melts into him and kisses him back with the same fervour. God she’s missed his lips. She doesn’t want to stop this at all. She wants to kiss Jungkook as much as she can to make up for all the time they lost, and she knows he would feel the same.
But then Jungkook suddenly lets out a broken sob against her mouth, and it breaks Siri’s heart hearing that shattering sound come from him.
“You’re actually here,” he croaks through his tears, dropping his face into the crook of her neck, hugging her so tight as if he physically couldn’t handle even an inch of distance between them anymore. “You’re really, truly here.”
Jungkook wasn’t just in disbelief. He feels a relief so intense, it’s like a weight has been lifted off him. But stronger than the disbelief and relief, is love.
Jungkook feels a love so overwhelming and all-consuming that not even time, distance, or loss has managed to weaken it. Even after two and a half years apart, and even after believing Siri would be gone forever, his heart still belongs entirely to her.
His best friend. His wife. The only woman he’s ever loved. And she’s finally back in his arms.
The range of emotions swirling within Jungkook were just too big for him to contain, and he completely breaks down, crying harder than he has done in years as everything he buried inside himself comes pouring out. The pain of losing Siri. The endless frustration of never being able to find her. The exhaustion that comes from carrying the anger, the guilt, the grief, and the hopelessness he tried so hard to suppress every single day. It all unravelled through his tears and sobs.
Siri just holds him, understanding why he’s crying this way, and it makes her cry more too because she just can’t imagine how deep Jungkook’s pain goes. She feels guilty and hates herself for unintentionally causing him this much hurt.
“Shh, shh, it’s alright. I’m here, Koo, I’m here,” she coos at him as her hands rub gently over his back.
To those watching, the moment feels bittersweet.
While Jimin thinks the scene in front of him is lovely, he’s also majorly confused with why the CEO kissed this woman and is now bawling like a baby. Never in his life did he ever think he’d see the grumpy CEO cry like this. And to add to that, Jimin’s also a little sour because he now has a bunch of paperwork on the floor to pick up thanks to Mr Jung’s jump scare.
Taehyung, while he didn’t want to lose Siri, he feels appeased to know that the man he’s losing her to clearly loves her more than anything going by his emotional crying.
And Jin and Hoseok… They love that their two maknaes are reunited, and of course they love the fact that Siri is back, however… they know that her being back is going to cause some serious problems…
When it seems Jungkook’s crying has settled down a bit, he pulls away from Siri’s neck and their hug to cup her face, his thumbs caressing her wet cheeks as he pouts and his lower lip quivers. “I thought I lost you. Thought I’d never see you again.”
Siri places her hands on his wrists tenderly, giving him a soft, sad smile. “You could never lose me. I’m super sorry I took so long.”
Jungkook shakes his head and tearily smiles, “Doesn’t matter now. You’re here, and—”
“Uh sorry, but Mr Jeon, sir?” Jimin cuts him off as politely as he can.
Everyone looks at the receptionist where they see him standing at his desk looking very apologetic about interrupting.
“Jimin,” Jin says firmly while frowning at him, “can’t this wait? You can obviously see this is a very important moment for them.”
Jimin scratches the side of neck awkwardly, “Well yeah, but a notification came up on the computer and I thought Mr Jeon would want to know about this straight away…”
Jungkook clears his throat and sniffles, but he doesn’t move from his position with Siri. “What is it, Jimin?”
The receptionist glances at Siri uneasily before he looks at Jungkook again with even more unease. “Well uh… Your wife just arrived and is making her way up…”
Four hearts drop instantly hearing that, but one drops especially low. So low, he wants the ground to swallow him up and make him disappear.
Siri furrows her brows and looks at Jungkook with nothing but total confusion. “Your wife?... But I am your wife…”
Jungkook gulps and is speechless for a moment because he had forgotten about this one very important detail. He was just so stunned and overwhelmed with seeing Siri again that he forgot the reason why he came down to talk to Jimin in the first place… To tell him to not let his wife up to his floor level as he didn’t want to deal with her again.
Jungkook’s heart rate spikes and guilt swirls within him when Siri pulls his hands away from her face, turning his left one over to find a certain band on his ring finger. He starts to tear up all over again because he knows she’s not going to like what she sees.
And he’s right. The look on Siri’s face when she finds it’s not their matching gold daisy-chain band on his finger, but a plain white gold band instead, it absolutely guts Jungkook. He feels like someone has slashed open his stomach and chest and just ripped all his insides out.
“Y-you remarried…” Siri says that as a statement, not as a question, because this ring is definitely not their ring. It’s not the one she put on his finger. Someone else put this ring on his finger.
At that realisation, Siri snaps her hands and herself away from Jungkook, taking a step back to look at him like he was a stranger she didn’t want to get close to.
Jungkook’s heart drops again, as do his tears.
“N-No—wait—baby,” he stammers as he reaches for her again, his hands desperately trying to grasp for hers as he’s not ready and not willing to let her go. “J-Just let me explain, please!”
Siri’s chest hurts so bad, it feels like someone had placed a piping hot iron ball right on her chest, making it hard for her to breathe. She’s torn with how she wants Jungkook to hold her again, but she also feels like she needs to get away from him because he’s not hers anymore.
She shakes her head in denial as new tears start to fall again, but then everyone hears a Ding!
All heads turn to the elevator, and this time, a woman in red with dark long hair steps out. Siri's eyes widen instantly since she knows who it is.
“Jennie?” Siri murmurs the name lowly, feeling so puzzled. Why is she here? She has no reason to be since she doesn’t even work with us.
“Oh, Jungkookie!” Jennie chirps, only being able to see his backside while having a partial view of a brunette near him. “You’re already here for me!”
Siri furrows her eyebrows as her confusion deepens. Why would she say something like that? Why would Jungkook be here for her?
“Uh, hel-looo?” Jennie says sassily when Jungkook doesn’t turn to look at her, clearly too focused on the woman standing in front of him—which Jennie did not like at all as she thinks his focus should be on her.
With a frowny pout, Jennie stomps closer to Jungkook, wanting to get a look at the woman who has his attention, but when she sees who it is, she freezes up as a gasp leaves her lips, and her eyes double in size.
“Oh my god,” is all she could say, because she was stunned for the same reason everyone else was when they first saw the brunette.
With her blue eyes flicking between the man she loves and the woman she’s always hated, Siri’s mind clicks things into place. Thanks to Jimin’s words, “Your wife just arrived and is making her way up…” and now with Jennie here for Jungkook… The confusion drains away from Siri, just like it feels like her blood has drained out of her, leaving her feeling pale and empty. All that happiness she felt a moment ago is gone; there’s none left inside of her.
Her teary, stunned gaze lands back on Jungkook, and all she sees are his tearful doe eyes full of guilt with a thousand apologies behind them.
That’s when her heart collapses, and the only thing pumping into Siri’s veins is betrayal.
She couldn’t understand why Jungkook would do this, especially when he knows how she feels about Jennie.
Siri suddenly wishes she hadn’t come back. She feels that being here is a mistake now. She shouldn’t have come back because coming back to this—to the betrayal of all betrayals… it’s a punch to the gut. It’s a slap in the face. It’s a stab in the back and heart.
She never imagined something like this could happen. She never imagined Jungkook could do this to her.
What an awfully shitty thing to come home to.
“You married Jennie?”
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Description: Jungkook and Siri didn’t care that they were arranged to marry. They’ve only ever wanted eachother ever since they became bestfriends when they were 4 years old. Unfortunately, one sudden tragedy tears apart the life they were meant to share together.
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>Pairing: childhood bf JJK x OC named Siri
>Genre: childhood friends to lovers, arranged marriage au, angst, fluff
>Wordcount: ~7450
More series warnings can be found in the Only You Masterlist
>> Notes: Not set in Korea. OC is named Siri/Serena/Serenity in ALL my stories - she is a brunette with blue eyes.
DON'T copy my storyline or take any part of my work please
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It’s strange how the universe works. For two years, Jane Doe, the unidentified brunette with blue eyes, couldn’t remember a single thing about herself.
That is until one day, she slowly starts to remember things.
After that kiss with Taehyung, he asked her out on a date for a week later. Because he’s a simple farm boy, he planned something nice and simple, just a dinner at one of the restaurants in the small town.
The date was lovely and Taehyung was every bit the gentleman Jane Doe knew him to be. He shyly handed her a single rose from his family’s garden, but it made her think he was adorable. He opened the passenger door for her before they drove off, and he even pulled her chair out for her at the restaurant and paid for dinner.
Once dinner was done, the couple didn’t want their date to end, so they walked through the small town, heading to a park that has a little pond nearby while they held hands under the starry night sky.
As they walk, Taehyung notices a small ball of fluff bouncing in front of them.
“Oh hey, look! A bunny!” he says, pointing to the rabbit as it hops towards the bushes.
Jane’s face softens as she says, “Aww, it’s so cute.” But then she feels her heart pound harder for two beats before a small jolt hits the side of her head near her temple, and it makes her go lightheaded.
Squeezing Taehyung’s hand to stop them both walking, Jane closes her eyes tight to try shake the dizziness away, but doing so makes images flash in her mind where it plays like a movie.
She sees herself sitting on a man’s lap where her hands are cupping his face, but she couldn’t see all of him clearly as it’s too blurry.
She hears herself giggling while squishing his cheeks together, making his lips pucker like a fish while she playfully says to him, "My sweet bunny boy, my bambi, my muscly-pig, my silly K—"
But then that moment is suddenly replaced by another.
This time, Jane sees herself lying beneath the same man, and she only knew it was him because she could see his mouth and noticed there was a cute choco-chip looking mole under his lower lip like in the first flashback. The rest of the man’s face is blurry again, but Jane notices how close they are. Intimately close.
He’s on top of her, and she hears herself say, “You crazy bunny boy…” and he replies to her with a soft smile on his lips as he says, “Crazy for you.”
The flashes are then gone, just like that.
“Janey?” Taehyung calls her name softly with concern, noticing she was scrunching up her eyes as if she had a headache. “You okay?”
She opens her eyes, blinking a couple of times as she comes back to the present. She looks at Tae a little startled and slightly dazed.
“What’s wrong?” he asks with more worry.
“I uh… I think I just remembered some things from my past…”
Tae’s eyes widens and his heart drops, although he tries not to show how that made him uneasy. “Wow, really? What was it?”
It’s not that Taehyung didn’t want Jane to get her memories back because he knew she deserved them and he knew it mattered to her, but he couldn’t ignore what those memories might bring. If Jane starts remembering her husband, Taehyung feels like she won’t want to be with him anymore.
Jane hesitates to answer because the flashbacks she saw were sort of intimate, and she didn’t want Tae to feel jealous or uncomfortable (too late!). But then again, she, Tae, Jisoo and Rosé knew something like this could happen, and they know she has a husband.
“It was flashes of two moments,” she finally answers. “And I think they were moments with my husband, but when we were younger…”
Shit. Taehyung’s heart sinks again hearing husband, however he keeps his expression neutral and nods as if it didn’t affect him.
“Okay… What did you see?”
Jane swallows thickly. “I couldn’t see his face fully coz he was all blurry…”
Thank fuck for that. Taehyung feels a little bit better after hearing that. Just a little.
“But I could hear his voice,” she continues, “and I remember—” Jane wavers to say more as she feels almost embarrassed, but she carries on anyway. “I remember his lips… and the scenes that came to me were of me calling him bunny boy. I guess seeing that rabbit just before and hearing you say the word ‘bunny’ triggered those memories to come back.”
Taehyung nods slowly, taking in her words. He didn’t particularly like it, and in that moment, instead of thinking how cute that rabbit was, he thinks it’s a little shit. He finds himself irrationally irritated by the animal as the thought crosses his mind that none of this would’ve happened if he hadn’t pointed it out.
But what could he do? What’s done is done, and now Jane has some of her memories back.
Wanting to be supportive in the hopes of keeping her heart on him, Taehyung forces himself to push past the unease and focus on Jane instead.
“That’s good though, right?” he says casually. “That something is coming back?”
“Yeah, I guess so… It’s just kinda random it happened now… after so long…”
Jane’s thoughts go back to those flashbacks, thinking about how she sounded so affectionate to the man in her memory, and when she thinks of how the man said he was crazy for her, it makes her heart skip a beat and warms her cheeks.
It was strange to her that something she couldn’t fully remember could still make her feel like that.
Jane then suddenly feels Taehyung’s hand tighten gently around hers, and the sensation pulls her back to him. She looks at him where he’s giving her a smile that’s soft and reassuring, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes. The sight of him makes guilt hit her chest. She feels bad for Tae because she knows he would be worrying about what those memories would do to her feelings for him.
But to her, those memories are only very small glimpses into her past, and they aren’t enough to change how she feels for Taehyung. Sure, the flashbacks made her heart skip and warmed her cheeks for a moment, but those feelings passed just as quickly as they came.
What didn’t pass was this and him. Kim Taehyung and how he’s made her feel over the last two years.
To reassure him, Jane squeezes his hand back a little more firmly before she moves closer to him and gently leans her head against his shoulder. “This doesn’t change anything, Tae. I still want to be with you.”
There was no hesitation in her voice and no uncertainty in her eyes, and it makes Taehyung relax a little more. However, deep within him, he wasn’t one-hundred percent relaxed because there will always be some worry that more of Jane’s memories could come back.
He tells himself to be grateful though, because at least for now, she’s still here and she’s still choosing him.
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Over the next two weeks, things go well for Jane Doe and Taehyung. They’re practically a couple but just haven’t put a label on it, and while they’ve kissed and made-out plenty of times, they haven’t done anything more than that.
Taehyung’s been holding back because he’s too aware that Jane had not long ago decided to let go of her past, and he didn’t want to rush her. Plus, ever since she got those ‘bunny’ memories back, he just wants to take things slow to ensure she really wants him.
Jane never questioned why Tae held back as she had an inkling why, and actually, she appreciated him more for taking things slow with her.
However, Taehyung will end up regretting doing that because Jane had more memories come back to her.
It’s a Saturday when the couple come home from a lunch date, and as they enter the Kim family home, there’s a sweet smell in the air.
“Oh, you guys are back!” Jisoo calls out from the kitchen. “Great!”
Jane and Taehyung spot her behind the kitchen counter with flour lightly dusted across her hands and the counter was covered in baking mess.
Jisoo smiles at them brightly as she places a tray of cookies on the bench. “I need you both to try the cookies I just baked and tell me what you think.”
The couple have eager smiles on their faces as they walk toward the kitchen, but when Jane lifts her hand to grab a cookie, she stops just before touching it.
Just like the first time, Jane’s heart pounds hard for a couple beats, and she feels a small jolt at her temples, making her feel lightheaded again to the point that she sways to the side, but thankfully Taehyung is there to catch her.
As she closes her eyes to steady herself, a flashback comes to Jane.
She sees herself as a child, maybe around four years old. She’s in a white dress sitting on some grass in what feels like a bright, open space. Her hair is tied into cute little pigtails, swaying slightly as she tilts her head at the little boy standing in front of her. He had big doe eyes and a shy expression.
“...Kook… Can you cook?” her little self asks him.
He shakes his head. “No…”
“Then do you taste like cookies?”
“No… but my Eomma says I smell like cookies sometimes after we bake some.”
“Noice! I love cookies!” she smiles at him and he smiles back.
The scene then quickly changes to something that looked like it happened on the same day. Jane notices how her mini-me is dressed the same as before, but this time, she sees herself placing a daisy chain crown onto the little boy’s head as she says, “Here! Dis for you for helping me.”
She then sees herself clapping her hands together while proudly saying, “Aww, you look so pwetty, Kookie!”
“Fank you,” the boy says while blushing.
Suddenly, another scene follows straight after, but it’s different from the two just before.
This time, Jane’s mini-me is in what looked to be a classroom. She’s on the floor with tears in her eyes, looking all sad and pouty until she sees him—that same little boy with doe eyes. He’s crawling across the room like a little ninja, and the moment he reaches her, Jane’s little self wraps her arms around him tightly.
“Kookie! I missed you!” she says to him. “I don’t like dis place already. Don’t like being away from you.”
“Me too,” he says, hugging her back just as tightly.
When they pull away, he holds something out to her. “Here. I got dis for you to make you happy.”
Jane’s heart skips with delight, just like her younger self does when she sees what it is he was handing to her. A CookieTime cookie which Jane could feel was, and still is, her favourite type of cookie.
“Wow! You’re my hero!” her mini-me says to the boy. “Fank you, Kookie.”
She’s then opening the packet quickly where she takes one bite before holding it out to the boy so he could have some too.
The memory fades after that, slipping away till Jane opens her eyes to find Taehyung and Jisoo looking at her with worry, but she’s not really focused on them still.
“Janey?” Jisoo says as she furrows her eyebrows with concern.
Jane blinks a few times while her chest starts to feel tight and achy, and her eyes start to sting. Still in a slight daze from the flashback, her hand moves to the chain around her neck, pulling her engagement and wedding rings forward because that’s where she keeps them now. She didn’t want them on her ring finger anymore since she was trying to move on from the man who gave her them, but she still wanted to keep them close.
As Jane thinks about what she saw, tears brim her eyes as her fingers go to the wedding ring specifically. She just knows that the little boy in those memories was her husband, and it was all because of the daisy chain crown she saw her younger self place on his head. Now the engraving on her gold wedding band makes sense.
When Jane didn’t really respond to Jisoo, Taehyung glances at his sister quickly, biting his bottom lip nervously because he’s seen Jane be like this before. It also didn’t help that she grabbed her rings and is holding onto them for dear life. He sensed it was a memory related to her husband that came back to her, and obviously he didn’t like that.
Tae looks back at Jane as he asks, “Did… Did you get some of your memories back again?”
Hearing his voice snaps Jane out of her daze, and she nods to answer—which in turn, makes both Jisoo and Taehyung’s heart drop.
“I was really young,” Jane starts to explain while still holding her wedding band. “Maybe four? And there was a boy about the same age as me… He had these sweet, big doe eyes, and he was really shy… And I think—no, I’m sure, that he became my husband.”
Taehyung and Jisoo glance at each other again at that.
“I called him Kookie…” Jane looks down at the gold ring, her thumb tracing over the daisy chain engraving. “Kookie with a K… I think.”
The siblings exchange another glance at each other where the expressions on both their faces are filled with disbelief and worry. It was only two weeks ago that a rabbit triggered Jane’s memories, and now it’s happening again with cookies, of all things?
Clearly the memories aren’t staying buried anymore. They’re coming faster than what the siblings would like, and each memory seems to be more detailed and more emotional as they come.
Jane looks up due to the silence, and her heart sinks when she sees Taehyung and Jisoo’s expressions. She sees how neither of them look fully relieved or happy about what she just said, even though it’s a good thing she’s getting more of her memories back.
But Jane understands them. If she keeps remembering things, she might not want to stay here with them anymore and be part of their family—which Jane does feel they are to her. They’re her new family.
But what happens if—or when—she remembers everything?
Feeling a little lost and overwhelmed, Jane apologises to Jisoo and Taehyung, leaving them for a moment to sit on the back porch of the Kim family house so she can breathe and have some time to think.
She fiddles with her wedding ring on her necklace as she sits there, thinking about how weird it is that she’s gotten back some of her memories in only two weeks.
For two years there was nothing. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t remember anything about herself, but now it’s like the universe has decided it’s time that she does remember.
Kookie.
The nickname still feels distant to Jane, but going off her memories, she now realises that her husband has been in her life for much longer than she thought. They weren’t just highschool sweethearts or university sweethearts like she assumed, they were childhood sweethearts. He’s been in her life for about twenty years. That's the majority of her life, and that fact changes everything.
Jane sighs softly as her chest feels a little heavy. Her memories didn’t start coming back until she told herself she was going to choose Taehyung. Now it feels like something in her is pushing back against that choice. It’s like her heart didn’t like the thought of letting go of her past, and it wanted to finally start reminding her of who she is and where she belongs.
With Kookie.
Jane’s fingers tighten slightly around her wedding ring while her heart aches. She’s starting to remember her husband and her past, and she’s not sure how she feels about it because part of her really wants to be with Taehyung.
That’s what makes things so complicated now, because her feelings for Tae are still there.
Jane closes her eyes and sighs again, feeling quite conflicted. How is she supposed to choose between something she’s only just starting to remember, and something she’s actively feeling?
How is she supposed to understand a love that spans years when she can’t even remember all of it?
And how is she supposed to walk away from someone who’s right here, who cares for her right now, and who makes her feel so loved?
She doesn’t want to choose.
A sense of frustration builds in Jane as she leans back slightly with her gaze lifting to the blue sky above her. Part of her wants to keep choosing Taehyung. She wants to stay here, in this life she’s been building with him, Jisoo, and Rosé, where things feel calm and carefree.
But another part of her keeps pulling her back towards someone else. To someone who was there first.
Suddenly, the wooden porch creaks softly behind her, and Taehyung is there, lowering himself to sit beside Jane on the steps. For a while, neither of them say anything as they look out at the farm.
Eventually, Taehyung lets out a sigh. “I get the feeling that more of your memories might come back,” he says solemnly, feeling disheartened by this.
Jane’s fingers tighten again around her rings, and she doesn’t disagree because she feels it too.
“I’ll be honest,” Tae continues, “I’m worried about what that means… For you. And for me… For us…”
Jane swallows thickly as tears brim her eyes from the honesty in his voice.
“I don’t know what it’ll mean,” she admits softly, looking down at her rings. “I’m just really confused now, Tae…”
He looks at her, feeling his heart ache because he can see she’s stuck.
“I have been falling for you,” Jane tells him. “And part of me still wants to be with you…”
Taehyung habitually licks his lips and nods, knowing there’s another part of her she needs to express.
“But the other part…” Jane sniffles, wiping at the corner of her eye as she could feel a tear about to fall. “The other part of me wants to wait and see what my memories will bring… Part of me doesn’t want to let my husband go just yet…”
Taehyung exhales with his heart feeling heavy. “Yeah… I figured that might be the case.”
“I’m really sorry,” Jane murmurs as a tear does end up falling.
Tae shakes his head and reaches for her hand while the other wipes away at her tear. “Hey, you don’t need to apologise. Getting your memories back isn’t something you can control.”
“I know, but—”
“But nothing,” he interrupts softly. His eyes are warm on her, but there is some sadness behind them too. “You’re trying to figure out your life, and we knew something like this could happen.”
Jane squeezes his hand and pouts as more tears slip from her eyes. “I still feel bad though…”
Taehyung keeps wiping at her tears. “Don’t. We’ll just take each day as it comes, okay?”
Jane nods and hugs him to try make him and herself feel a little bit better about the situation. However, she knows he’s not really happy about this, but neither is she since she doesn’t know what to do, and she doesn’t know which feeling she’s meant to follow.
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The next time Jane gets another memory is two weeks later.
She’s out with Jisoo and Rosé for their girly brunch catch-up, and at one point, she excuses herself to go to the bathroom. As she makes her way through the café, weaving between tables, something catches her eye.
A baby in a carriage.
The stroller is parked beside a table, and the baby inside is lying on its back with its feet kicked up into the air, and on their cute little feetsies… are tiny white knitted booties.
Jane slows down as her gaze lingers on the booties, and that’s when she feels lightheaded as a memory comes back to her.
She’s standing next to a man who’s seated at a dining table. She sees a blurry profile of him opening a box, and then she hears herself say, “Happy birthday, my Kookie!”
The man lets out a shaky laugh as he lifts what’s inside—a pair of little white knitted baby booties.
Jane still can’t see all of him again, just his eyes this time that are all big and doe-like, and they were glistening with tears. “This for real?” she hears him say to her. “My baby’s having a baby?”
Jane feels her own lips curve and her heart swells at such an affectionate sentence.
“Our baby,” she corrects him gently. “I’m having our baby.”
The memory is then gone and Jane is snapped back to reality. She gasps softly as her hand flies to the wall to steady herself. Her other hand comes up to her head as her heart starts racing.
That memory… It felt recent. Recent as in it was something that happened close to the time when she had the accident, and she only figured that because the doctor told her she was pregnant when she was brought to the town hospital. It makes her heart ache because it means that she and her husband were in a good, loving place before she had her accident.
Jane presses her lips together to stop them from quivering, and she practically runs into the women’s bathroom. The moment she’s alone, she grips the edge of the sink and stares at her reflection, seeing her blue eyes look wide and shaken.
“It’s okay,” she murmurs to herself. “You’re okay.”
But her chest still hurts. Her gaze drops to her hand that reaches for the necklace resting against her collarbone so she could feel her rings.
Our baby.
Jane’s throat tightens with a thick lump and her eyes start prickling. She turns the tap on quickly and splashes her face a couple times, and as she looks at her wet reflection again, she tells herself, don’t cry. Not here and not right now.
She inhales slowly, forcing the ache in her chest to go away, then she reaches for a paper towel and gently dries her face. Afterwards, she goes to the toilet, does her tinkly business, and washes her hands, going through the motions until she can breathe properly, and her expression and heart is steadier.
Once she looks at herself again, Jane’s more composed. She plans to hide this memory from Rosé and Jisoo (and Taehyung) because she knows that they wouldn't exactly be thrilled to hear about it, especially when this memory involves her husband again.
Jane knows Jisoo wants her and Taehyung to be together, so telling Jisoo would just make her worry more that it won’t happen, and Jane didn’t want that for her friend. She didn’t want more worries in the house and she didn’t want to cause drama.
She ends up leaving the bathroom looking extra perky, and she tries to forget about the memory… At least until she’s alone.
However, later that night, when Jane is finally alone in bed… She lies there, staring up at the ceiling as she thinks about the baby memory. It doesn’t take long for her eyes to sting and get watery once again, and the ache she pushed down earlier comes back in, but it feels a lot more painful than before.
She sniffles as tears slowly slip from the corner of her eyes, sliding into her hair, while her hand lifts to her necklace again where her fingers hold onto those rings. Then, a soft sob slips out, and Jane ends up turning onto her side, curling into a ball.
“I’m s-sorry…” she whispers brokenly, apologising to both her baby and her husband. She feels absolutely terrible she lost their little one, especially when he seemed so excited about it.
Jane squeezes her eyes shut as guilt twists painfully inside her, making another sob come out.
Her husband, the man she still can’t fully remember… She knows now, without a doubt, that she loved him more than anything. That they were happy and they were building a family together.
But it was all taken away from them—actually no, it was taken away from him. She and their baby were taken away from him.
Jane’s breathing turns uneven as her grip on the rings tightens even more. “I don’t even remember you…” she croaks out.
That fact makes her hurt even more, because he will remember her. He’s the one who lost her.
She hates that she still can’t remember all of his face. Sure, she saw the face of the little boy, but it’s hard to picture what he could look like as a man. All Jane can remember is his voice, his black hair, his lips, and his doe eyes. It totally frustrates and guts her that she can’t remember anything else.
She buries her face into the pillow, trying to muffle the sound of her crying as she lets herself feel the grief, the guilt, and the loss all over again.
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Over the next two weeks, Taehyung, Jisoo and Rosé can feel a change in Jane Doe. She still smiles, but it doesn’t quite reach her eyes the same way anymore, and she doesn't seem as present as she used to be, often looking away in thought.
They all could only assume that she got more of her memories back, but she just hadn't told them—and they weren't wrong to think that.
To try and pull her back to them, Jisoo comes up with an idea of doing a potluck dinner, where they’ll then play some board games in their living room. It was meant to be something easy and fun. Just four of them, plus one more. Rosé’s new boyfriend, Bruno, was invited too.
Things go well and Jane is actually present and having a good time, but then there’s a moment before starting a new game where Rosé talks about how she loves her new iphone.
“Ughhh, I love this new phooone!” she says while holding it, using her face to unlock it. “Like, I didn’t think I’d care this much, but it’s actually amazing.”
Taehyung rolls his eyes with a grin, “Dude, it’s just a phone.”
“It’s not just a phone!” Rosé replies, feigning offence. “It’s a smart phone. It’s way better than that other brand I had. This thing can literally answer you like a person.”
The thing is, everyone in the house doesn’t have any Apple products. They’ve all got other brands. Even Jane, who was given a phone from Taehyung after moving into his home, didn’t have an iphone but a Samsung.
Bruno chuckles. “All smart phones can basically answer you like a person, babe,” he says to his girlfriend.
“Yeah, but this one’s cooler! Watch this,” Rosé says proudly as she holds her phone up.
“Hey Siri—”
Schoooong! A jolt hits Jane’s head again, and even with her eyes open this time, she sees this memory play out clearly.
She’s small again, sitting on grass and wearing that white dress with her hair in pigtails. She’s making that daisy chain crown she remembers, and the little boy with the doe eyes is standing in front of her.
The memory seems to be a continuation from a previous one. She’s smiling at the Kookie boy as she says, “Noice! I love cookies!”
He smiles softly at her, and then he asks, “What’s your name?”
Jane feels her heart beating hard in that moment. She’s been wanting to know her real name ever since she woke up from her coma.
“Sereeena!” her younger self answers cheerfully. “But my mummy and daddy call me Siri, so you can call me that too if you want.”
Jane gasps, and the memory is gone, but she doesn’t stay quiet about it this time. Her hand flies to her chest as she looks around at everyone with her eyes wide and tears already filling them.
“Oh my gosh, guys!” she says with excitement. “I just got another memory back!”
Three hearts drop as everyone turns to her.
Taehyung straightens up beside her, trying to hide the worry on his face. “Janey—what—”
“Siri!” she blurts out, almost laughing through her tears. “My name is Siri—well, it’s actually Serena, but apparently my nickname is Siri! Can you guys believe it?!”
Jisoo’s face lights up because this isn’t such bad news. “Wahh, this is so great!”
Rosé lowers her phone with her mouth ajar from shock. “Holy crap! You remembered that just from me talking to my phone?! Ahh! This phone just got so much better!”
Taehyung stares at Jane—no, Siri—for a moment as he takes in this new news. He supposes it’s better than hearing something to do with her husband.
A smile curls onto his lips as he places his hand on hers and says, “I’m really happy for you, darl. This is very good news.”
Warmth and butterflies go off in Siri’s chest, and she squeezes his hand to say thanks.
Rosé gets up from her seat, rushing over to Siri to pull her into a tight hug. “This is so huge, babes! You finally have your name back!”
Jisoo joins in right after, wrapping her arms around both of them, and the girls all jump together happily.
Siri laughs as happy tears slips down her cheeks. She feels so good that everyone is happy for her regarding this. She also feels like this is the first step to actually finding out more about herself and her past because now she has an actual name she can search for. Might not be her full name, but at least it’s better than no name.
The two men chuckle at the girls, and Bruno even makes a comment that Serena is a beautiful name.
Taehyung nods in agreement before he looks back at the joyful girls—although he’s really only looking at one of them… The one with the blue eyes who makes his heart feel all warm and light, but she also makes it feel heavy and sink sometimes… especially lately…
Jisoo lets out a chuckle as she pulls from the hug. “Wow. This is going to take us some time to get used to calling you Serena or Siri.”
Siri huffs out a small laugh as she wipes the tears away from her eyes. “Yeah,” she murmurs with a smile. “It’s definitely gonna take me some time to get used to it as well.”
“We need to celebrate!” Rosé says enthusiastically. “Jane Doe is no mooore!”
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Finally remembering her name brought so much joy to Siri. She couldn’t believe it took two years for it to happen, but now that she’s got her name, it’s time for her to utilise it.
After the game night and celebrating, Siri lies awake in bed, searching on her phone for any articles containing the name ‘Serena’ since that’s all she’s got to go on.
‘Serena missing within the last two years’ is what she types in, and voila! There are actual search results this time!
‘Dawson family gone in plane accident.’
‘Could Serena be the only survivor?’
'Serena Jeon’s body still missing.’
Siri’s heart races at the amount of results there are. She clicks on the first article she sees, and the first thing to pop up is a family photo. It’s as clear as day that it’s her in it, standing between her mother and father.
The article introduces her as the daughter of a prominent business mogul, Jack Dawson, and his wife, Rose Dawson.
Siri’s heart jumps and she feels goosebumps at reading the name Rose Dawson. She’s seen that name before somewhere, a long time ago. She closes her eyes to think back on where she saw that name, and after some time, she remembers.
She was in the physio rehab facility, learning how to walk again. She heard something on the TV that was on the wall, and that woman’s face and name appeared on the screen. Siri remembers thinking that the woman looked pretty and kind, but she also remembers that the news was about Rose’s body being found in a fisherman’s net.
Siri’s heart sinks to the pit of her stomach when she realises that the woman had been her mother.
“No…” she whispers as her hand rises to her mouth as tears immediately fill her eyes.
She keeps on scrolling, her heart pounding hard as she reads the rest of the article, hoping—no, needing—to be wrong that her parents are gone.
Please, please don't have both of them be dead...
But her hope dies when she continues reading. Her father’s body had been found months before her mother’s.
A broken sob escapes from Siri’s lips. She may not remember them, but the grief is there. Her father and mother are both gone. Both taken from her life while she didn’t even know who she was.
Siri takes some minutes to cry it out, and after she calms herself down, she keeps reading even though her chest aches and her eyes are heavy. She needed to know more, so she takes in every detail she can find about the incident and the search efforts.
She notices one name that keeps appearing… Jeon Jungkook.
Her heart stutters and she gets goosebumps again because she could figure out easily that the man must be her husband. He has ‘Kook’ in his name, therefore… He must be my Kookie.
It also helped that a few articles named her as Serena Jeon rather than Dawson. Clearly she took the last name of this man.
When Siri clicks on a different article, a photo loads up of her husband and she stares at him intently. She takes in his face and his features, recognising those doe eyes and his lips from the memories that came back to her.
She continues reading, learning about how he’s been searching for her ever since the plane accident, how he never stopped looking, and how he put in almost everything into finding her. There are even mentions of financial losses and of their company taking hits because his focus never wavered from his search for her.
Tears gather in Siri’s eyes again as she’s stunned by what she reads.
“He’s been looking for me all this time… and he didn’t stop…”
Siri cries again with overwhelming relief as she clutches the rings on her necklace. Her heart just feels so much warmth knowing now that her husband had been trying to look for her.
But alongside that relief comes guilt and frustration. Guilt because she feels terrible for the fact that he hasn’t been able to find her, and her losing her memories definitely didn’t help that. She’s also frustrated because she can read about Jungkook and understand what he’s tried doing for her, and yet she still can’t fully remember him.
“God, I wish I could remember you…” she murmurs as she zooms in on her husband’s face.
Now that I can fully see you… damn, you’re so handsome… I was so lucky to have you…
Eventually, exhaustion takes over Siri due to the emotional weight of everything she learned. She tells herself she’ll do more research tomorrow, but for now, she wants to sleep with the comfort of knowing her husband had kept looking for her.
However, when she sleeps, her mind continues working. It works so hard giving her dreams where everything comes back to her. Everything.
Siri fully sees how she and Jungkook met as children. She remembers their games, pretending to be a prince and princess, and how he gave her a tiara for her seventh birthday. She remembers their best friends, Jin, Yoongi, Hobi and Namjoon, as well as her girlies, Jessi and Hwasa, and she even remembers her enemy, Jennie.
Siri sees all her firsts with Jungkook in her dream. Their first kiss, their dates, their sexual experiences, and even the small breakup they had that lasted less than a day.
She sees Jungkook’s proposal, and the way he looked so in love with her on her 21st birthday. She remembers saying yes, and where their wedding happened in New Zealand. And then she fully remembers telling Jungkook she was pregnant on his 24th birthday.
Every moment comes back to Siri. Every feeling. Every piece of her life.
Her dreams even showed her what happened when her father’s private plane malfunctioned.
There was a shudder beneath her feet just before warning alarms went off. Smoke came through from somewhere, and as the plane started to shake, the pilot yelled there was something wrong. It all happened so fast, Siri and her parents panicked, but her father managed to put a safety parachute on her. She tried to tell him to save her mother, but her father didn’t listen. Then at some point, she sees and hears a loud fiery bang that must’ve knocked her out and blew her away.
When Siri wakes up in the morning, back to her present, her room comes into focus slowly, and her mind is completely clear.
She’s back. The real Siri is back.
Now that she remembers everything though, her heart feels a painful burn as tears fill her eyes once again. Thinking back on it now, Siri thinks that maybe her father knew he and her mother wouldn’t make it, and he chose to save her first so she and her baby could live.
But unfortunately, only she lived…
Siri brings a hand to her chest, clutching the rings on her necklace as there’s only one person on her mind now.
Jeon Jungkook. Her husband. The man she loves. The man who has been searching for her all this time.
I almost let you go, Kookie—no, I did let you go! I… I can’t believe I wanted to move on… God, I’m so sorry!
Siri hastily takes the necklace off and slides her engagement and wedding rings back onto her finger, back to where they belong. She then looks at her hand, her heart feeling a little calmer now that she has part of Jungkook back.
Never again. Won’t let you go ever again, Koo.
Suddenly, Siri hears voices drifting from downstairs, and she remembers where she is. Her heart sinks and guilt fills her chest as her thoughts go to Taehyung.
She still cares about him, and yeah, she was falling for him, but now that she remembers everything, Siri knows where her heart truly lies, and she knows who she loves the most.
Her heart then pounds a little faster as another thought comes to her… She needs to go home. Back to Jungkook, and back to her true life.
As much as it’ll hurt to leave Taehyung, Jisoo and Rosé, Siri can’t stay here pretending that this is her life. She just can’t do that when she knows the man she loves most in this world is missing her.
As she sits in bed, Siri is dreading the conversation she needs to have with the siblings downstairs. She knows Tae and Jisoo will both be devastated to hear she has all of her memories back, but unfortunately for them, her priority is now on the life she had before she met them. Siri’s priority now is to find a way back home, back to the man who’s had her heart since she was four years old. She needs to go back to Jungkook.
Getting out of bed with her chest filled with anxiousness, Siri slips her feet into her slippers, then she heads downstairs in her PJ’s. When she reaches the kitchen, she finds Taehyung sitting at the kitchen bench with a bowl of Coco Pops in front of him, while Jisoo stands by the fridge, pulling out a carton of eggs.
Jisoo notices her first and she smiles brightly, “Well good morning, Miss Serena.”
Siri’s lips curve into a small, polite smile, but it doesn’t reach her eyes. “Morning,” she replies, walking closer as her stomach twists into knots.
“Morning, darl,” Taehyung says with a soft smile, and as Siri gets closer to him, he reaches for her hand and gently pulls her towards him where he then brings her hand to his lips and he kisses the back of it. As always, he’s a gentleman with her.
The gesture sends butterflies through Siri. She loves that he’s so sweet with her, but sadly, it all feels wrong now.
In that split second of a moment, her chest aches at the memories of her kissing Tae because she feels like she cheated on Jungkook, even though that wasn’t really the case since she couldn’t remember him at the time.
Taehyung notices Siri’s blush, but he also notices how her smile drops faintly. His brows knit slightly while he’s still holding her hand. “Everything okay?”
Her hands tighten around his before she intertwines their fingers. She wants to hold his hand for comfort. Part of it is for her, and part of it is for him, because she knows what she’s about to say is going to hurt.
Siri swallows thickly as her gaze flicks to Jisoo before settling back on Taehyung. Her heart pounds hard as she inhales then exhales.
“I um… I got my memories back last night… All of them…”
The kitchen goes so quiet, you could hear a pin drop if it happened.
Jisoo is frozen where she stands, while Taehyung’s face drops, and the spoon in his other hand lowers slowly back into the cereal bowl. They both go pale and are speechless as they try to process Siri’s words.
“… A-All of them?” Jisoo eventually repeats hesitantly. It almost sounded like she was scared of the words, which in a way, she was. Jane/Siri felt like a sister to her, and Jisoo felt like she was about to lose a family member.
Siri nods as her hands grip tighter to Taehyung’s hand. “Yeah…” she says softly. “I remember everything… who I am, where I’m from… who my family is… and who my husband is…”
It’s deafeningly quiet again, and it feels totally suffocating.
Siri looks at Taehyung, and god, the sight of him… It breaks her heart. He looks so defeated.
Tears well in her eyes as she steps closer to him, bringing his hand up to hold it close to her chest. “Tae, I’m so sorry.”
He looks at her, but his gaze drops instantly when he notices something sparkling on her left hand… Her engagement and wedding rings are there.
Knowing she put them back on makes Tae’s heart sink even more, and tears brim his eyes. He now knows he’s got no chance with Siri anymore.
Despite this, he tries to force a small smile, even though it’s a shaky one. “It’s okay. Really. I’m happy for you.”
Siri shakes her head, making her tears fall. “No,” she says as she squeezes his hand tighter while stepping closer to him. “It’s not okay. I know this is breaking your heart… and yours too, Jisoo…” Siri glances towards her dear friend, “I’m so, so sorry this has happened.”
Jisoo sniffles as her own eyes go glossy when everything sinks in. She sets the eggs down on the counter and walks around until she reaches Siri and hugs her from the side.
“It’s not your fault.” Jisoo exhales shakily and hugs her tighter. “We knew this could happen anyway.”
Taehyung sniffles next, quickly wiping away a tear as he stands up from his chair to wrap his arms around both girls, but mostly around Siri. She turns into him, and her composure breaks as she buries her face into his chest. She just felt absolutely terrible because she really does care for these two people.
Tae just holds Siri close with his chin resting lightly against her head while another tear manages to slip down his cheek. His eyes then meet his sister’s over Siri’s shoulder, and he sees she’s crying too.
In that moment, the siblings share a look; Jisoo gives a sad smile with a shrug, basically saying, Well… It’s happened.
Taehyung nods lightly as if he understood his sister, his eyes saying to her. Yeah… There’s nothing we can do now…