Finally. Jungkooks birthday was coming.
The two of you had been the best friends since high-school and even though you didn`t have a lot of time to spend together, you tried to hang out whenever possible. You two had a long history and had gone through all your personal ups and downs together. When your ex left you for another girl, Jungkook was there for you through the whole pain. When your beloved grandma passed away, he was the one who soothed the pain.
Even though people often thought of him as a rather rough person, he was always sweet and caring around you. Still, a relationship was nothing that you two had ever even considered. There were times when you teased each other though. Like that one time when you baked cupcakes with him and he deliberately spilled some whipped cream over your face, just to slowly wipe it off and lick his thumb afterwards. Moments like these always turned you into a stuttering, blushing mess and that was the reason why he loved them. You didn’t know how to exactly describe your relationship with him. It was personal and cute but there was definetely some kind of weird tension between you. But neither of you ever tried to do more, or even adressed it even though sometimes you wish you did. Jungkook would hook up with countless girls indeed, but as far as you knew he'd not had a single serious relationship. You had figured that he just wasn't the type of boy for a relationship.
You were planning a birthday party at your parents’ house, who were out of town for a month because of work. They had a huge garden with a fish pond, a big pool and a grill.
You texted your best friend Belle to ask her if she could help you with the preparations.
‘Hey Belle, would you mind helping me out to prepare for Jungkook`s birthday party? It would be next Saturday evening.’
You sat on your bed, sipping a tea, when a buzzing sound escaped your phone.
‘Sure. How many people will be there?’
‘Jungkook`s friends basically.’
You started by texting his friends, asking them if they would come and all of them were down. You also invited some of your high-school friends. Then you ordered a birthday cake at the bakery, organized food and bought boxes of stuff to drink.
Now you only had to persuade Jungkook to come and spend Saturday evening at your parents’ house. What if he would think that you wanted to do something there?
‘Jungkook, since it’s your bday on Saturday, I thought we could hang around at my parents’ house.’
Not five minutes later and you’d already received a reply.
The emoji did irritate you, but it was Jungkook and your mind was already planning the party.
You put your favourite lip-gloss on, smoothed the last non-existent wrinkles out of your dress and you were ready to go. Namjoons car was pulling up the driveway and shortly after Namjoon and Jimin got out of the car. They were the last ones to arrive out of everyone you had invited to come. ‘Hey guys’. You hugged them and Jimin handed you the birthday cake that they had picked up at the backery. ‘Please hide in the living room, Jungkook will arrive in the next few minutes’. They followed your order and went to the other guests into the living room. It was quiet and dark in the house when the doorbell rang.
You opened the door for a smiling Jungkook and gave him a tight hug. ‘Happy birthday’, you whispered into his ear. You lead him into the dark living room and turned the lights on. ‘Surpriiiseee!!’, everyone screamed and began to sing ‘Happy birthday’.
Jungkook looked very flustered. He indeed didn’t expect this. The music was very loud and the lights along with the full moon illuminated the whole garden. Some people were swimming in the pool, others were hanging around the chill area chatting and making out. In the middle of all this Jungkook took your hands and swirled you around. Your hair flew as well as your dress. Your best friend was an amazing dancer and knew exactly how to move his body. You both smiled. There was a small moment, where you thought you saw an anticipation in his eyes, a dark admiring glance, before you turned around another time.
The guests ate from the buffet and bottles of wine and beer were emptied. Finally, it was time for the cake and Jungkook happily blew out the candles before coming over to you and hugging you tightly. You laughed as he slightly lifted you off the ground in the process and whispered into your ear, his hot breath hitting your skin ‘I love you so much for organising this’. For some reason, these words made your heart skip a beat and you quickly retraced out of his embrace, worried that he might notice your cheeks rouging. ‘I’ll go get a jacket, it’s starting to get kind of chilly’, with an apologetic smile you turned away from your friends and went inside the dark house.
After splashing cold water into your face to cool down your burning cheeks you looked at yourself in the mirror, slightly slapping your cheeks. ‘Ok Y/N get yourself together, he was just thanking you for planning this party. Nothing to freak out about.’ Shooting your reflection an encouraging smile you left the bathroom and went back to your friends.
You all were sitting at the bonfire, laughing, grilling marshmallows and talking about your past memories together. Namjoon had just finished his story on how he went to a park and some pigeons attacked him, because he was eating his sandwich, when you suddenly lifted your head off of Jin’s shoulder and looked around surprised. ‘Wait, where did Jungkook go?’, Jin looked at you with a knowing smile. ‘I saw him walking inside to get another bottle of beer. Go and look for him.’ He gave you an encouraging smile before he turned back around to listen to Hoseok who had just started to tell a funny story on how drunk Jimin had jumped into the pool at his last birthday party, trying to save a mermaid that he’d allegedly seen.
Jin was a good friend of yours and he knew about your feelings for Jungkook. He had also definetely sensed the tension between you and the bunny boy, it was quite impossible not to. Jin also knew what you didn't. He'd seen those fond looks that Jungkook gave you when you weren’t looking. The secret glances when he thought nobody was watching. And also, the angry stares that he gave other boys when they were able to make you laugh. Jin sensed that there had to be more between you two. How you both behaved with each other, wasn’t like normal friends would.
You walked past the kitchen, down the corridor. The bathroom was just around the corner and when you were about to turn, you heard some noises. ‘No, we’re not together’, quiet whispering. You were sure that it was Jungkook`s voice, you knew it better than anyone elses. ‘But I know that Y/N has feelings for you’, at this very moment it hit you. Belle. Then Jungkooks voice again, playful with a little hint of annoyance ‘It`s my birthday. I just want to have fun’. You stood there, afraid of what would happen next. No. You needed to get away. Why did you feel a stinging pain in your heart all of the sudden? You weren`t together with Jungkook. He could do whatever he wanted and he certainly did. You were used to this. But why with Belle, though? She was one of your closest friends, how could she betray you like that?
With slighlty wobbling knees you walked into the kitchen, to the fridge. Luckily there was still a lot of beer. You took one of the bottles and drank it in almost one go. It didnt help the stinging pain to go away though. If anything it only worsened it. You poured yourself a tequila shot and took another beer, when Jin came into the kitchen. He took the beer out of your hands. ‘Slow down Y/N, you’re already drunk’. ‘No, I`m not.’, you wanted to take the beer out of Jin`s hands, but he turned away. ‘You know what? I’m bringing you home, it`s already 1 AM.’, he said. ‘No, Jin this is what we’re not going to do, the party’s just started.’, it was hard for you to talk properly. ‘And besides, this is MY house.’, but without you even noticing, he escorted you to his car. After driving for some minutes, you had already fallen asleep.
When you woke up, your head was pounding. You tried to ease the throbbing pain by massaging your forehead and slowly opened your eyes. The bright light made you blink rapidly and only then you remembered the things, that had happened the evening before and you could feel the slight stinging pain in your heart creep back in.
Sooooo... hope you like how this turned out :) -Seagull 1&2