Maybe, just maybe, we will start again...

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Naked

Chapter 32

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She said too old for a pillow castle, but Jeon had resolutely disagreed.

Never too old. He had said and grabbed all the pillows he could find in his home, even if that meant he'd enter the not-so-big-but-untouched basement.
For this, he had also asked Seol to bring all the pillows she had and like a 'good noona', she did that- expecting they'd have a pillow fight, another childish act.

"Pillow fight?!" Jeon scrunched his nose, pulling a white sheet over the mount he had created. "What's the use of that?" He asked, grabbing tons of his favourite candies and other snacks and tossed them in his huge castle.

"I don't know, it just- it's always fun." She said, playing with her pen.

"And a pillow castle is childish..." He huffed out, "Really?"

"You can't deny that it's fun!" She took her ground, stood up and rested her hands over her hips.

"I didn't deny that." He did the air quotes thing, "But saying that a pillow castle is childish, you hurted my feelings, noona." He crossed his arms over his chest, huffed out some air and pouted out his soft pink lips.

Luscious...
What the heck?!
Seol shook her head once before glaring at him as equally as he was glaring at her.

A minute passed by and they both stood there, still glaring at each other but sneakily taking glances at each other.
Her eyes and her cheeks, his lips and his red nose.

Was he blushing?
Seol had known that Jeon sensed her gaze on his lips, she had also known that he could see her blushing too and before she had realised, she surrendered.

"Fine, pillow castles aren't childish. What are we going to do?" She spoke as she sauntered inside the castle he had built and he smiled before jumping in right after her.

"We will talk!"
Hugging was one thing, she presumed, and squeezing out the oxygen from her lungs was one total different thing. But she didn't mind, the boy's enthrallment didn't let her mind it, because he was just so happy and that somehow made her smile.

"Talk about what?" It came out as a whisper, coated with her silly smile and obvious giddiness but he didn't seem to notice that and hugged her even tighter.

"About you..." He said and a small dramatic gasp left her mouth.

"Oh my God! Really!" She exclaimed, chuckling and he laughed with her.

"You and I, if you wouldn't mind, Your Majesty." He started the play.

"Oh, I would never, Sirrah. If you'd let go of my waist." She played along.

"I would deny your command."

"Then I may send you to-"

She didn't realise his proximity, she didn't notice his eyes being fixed on her lips, she didn't read the want he stored in them but she could definitely see how he was trying not to ruin the moment, how he was holding himself back.

"Send me to?" He asked, his gaze shifting from her lips to her eyes, just a few rebellious movements away but he didn't dare. He wouldn't want to force her, and he would never.

"Send you to..." She trailed off, even if the guy had tried to stop his desires and think of her before himself, his hands hadn't stopped pulling her close to himself, to the proximity where she had unknowingly gasped while looking deep in his eyes, while being lost in them. She felt shy.

"To..." She started again only to quiet herself again and feel her heart thump inside. So fast, so eager, as if it couldn't stop anymore and it drove her crazy. A confusion rose up and she didn't know what to do or how to do anything anymore.

She just, she was just there, in his arms that wrapped around her, close to him where she could hear her own heartbeat mixing with his, where she felt the small thrust of air that made her lips land on his solemnly.

She pulled away, her eyes showed a kind of fear. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Jeon." She backed off, pushing away further in the temporary castle and making it fall, fall along with Jeon being pushed down her.

"Oh God! I'm so, so, so sorry. I ruined it. I ruined all of it. You built this and we were having so much fun and I just-"

"No, no, NO! It's fine, noona, calm down. Calm down." He said, pulling himself on his hands and hovering on top her, motioning her to breathe in and out. "Calm down." He whispered.

"I'm sorr-"

"You complete that and I may do something." He warned, faking a terrifying expression.

"Why? Jeon, I just- I'm sorry."

She hadn't felt the feeling of being pulled by someone in ages and definitely had not sat on someone's lap in a long time. But when he pushed back her hair gently and cupped her cheeks she found her eyes widening.

"Wha-"

"Told you not to say it again."

"Sorr-" Her eyes shut immediately.

They touched again and she breathed.
They touched again and he bloomed.
Their lips molded together slowly and pacifically and they moved together in mirth and merriment.

His smile, she felt it on her lips. The curiousity killed her and she opened her eyes to look at him. His eyes were closed too, and sweat had beaded off on the sides of his forehead and his nose booped with hers as he chuckled and pulled away from her.

"I love you, noona." He smiled and bent forward to bite her lip. But she hesitated and pulled back, leaving him a little disheartened but he smiled again and hugged her, which she returned.

"You're my first kiss, Seol." He mumbled.

And a tear escaped her eyes.

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"Jungkook?" A sweet sound that was embedded in his heart, that would never bother his ears, that would always calm him, that he'd always want to hear.

Noona...

Noona's here. She's here!

He would never confuse her voice, he could never. So he immediately ran out of his closet, to find his bed occupied by someone.

His mother.

"Mom?" He asked, confused and exasperated. "But-"

"Were you expecting someone?" She asked, giving him an odd look for all the running and heavy breathing he had done.

"I wasn't, but-"

"Get ready, Jungkook, your cousins are coming tomorrow and I want you to completely participate in whatever they do. No more sitting in your room all alone. Get up, move on and get some fresh air. Will you lock yourself in your room forever?"

She looked at him with a challenge in her eyes but he didn't want to take it. He looked away rolling his eyes at the usual motivation he'd get every morning or night.

If I could, I would. He thought.

"No, mom. I just... Need a little more time." He said rather, looking at her with a pleading magic in his eyes and she sighed, shaking her head sideways and got up.

"Days, Jungkook, it has already been days. I don't like you like this. But whatever you want." She smiled softly, patting his head and moving out of the room.

"Thanks..." He smiled back at her, closing the door as she moved away.

"Surprise?"

He shouted, no, screamed like a dying goat and jumped back five big leaps and clambered over his bed, pulled out his hands for a combat and spoke stay away in a clear voice.

"If that's what you wish." The person standing in front if him shrugged and grabbed the knob of the door, she had been hiding behind all the time, twisting it and pulling the door.

And it finally dawned on him. It was her. Not a stranger or Jimin as he had expected. It was actually her, she was there, right there. She was in front of him and moving out of his room because he had idiotically called out for her to stay away. And the door was closing now, she was out of the room and just a few steps and a door away but he couldn't move. He was frozen.

"I'm leaving then."

NO!

He shouted but it didn't come out and he panicked when he heard the heels moving away.

He quickly scrambled out of his bed and leaped forward the same way he had leaped backwards and almost broke the mahogany door because it smashed so hard with the wall. But he cared the least.

"NOONA!" He shouted behind her and ran as fast as he could only to find her sitting with Hae in the living. But his mind hadn't worked as fast as his eyes saw and he slid into the chauffeur who was carrying some commodities inside.

"Oh my God! Sorry!" He screeched, grabbing all the things at once and dropping them again and again until the chauffeur asked him to let it be and leave it for him. He bowed once again and turned around to look at a laughing-like-a-maniac Hae and an amused Inaya.

"Jungkook..." She said and everything just stopped. The movements stopped, he didn't hear the laughter anymore, the bustling sound of the leaves stopped, the birds didn't chirp anymore. His world stopped and his heart couldn't beat anymore.

She stopped. For him.

Tears struggled to leave his eyes but he battled them away. He shook his head once before he walked over to sit near her. His hand moved forward and she quietly took it, smiling at him and giving him a nod.

"Um... I wouldn't like to disturb you guys so I'm leaving." Hae excused herself, running away while giggling but not before winking at his brother.

He glared at her, gave her a gagging look and then turned back to her.

"I'm sorry." He spoke, genuinely and a little calmly than maybe ever.

"I've heard that a lot, Jeon. This one was the most sincere I've had yet." She smiled, ruffling his hair and he purred. "I'm sorry, too."

"Why?" His eyes gawked at her and stayed there, his mind expected her to say something he wouldn't like and probably even hate but he had prepared himself.

"I guess I was too harsh and I'll still be. I'm not here to come back to you, Jungkook, because maybe I cannot-"

"Trust me completely," He spoke for her and she nodded, "yet." He completed.

She chuckled, looking away and then back at him. "Maybe, yeah."

Silence grew and the words died. But the happiness that had raged through his guts didn't fade. Maybe, just maybe, he was being served right and her decision was right. He wouldn't expect her to come back to him too but he believed he could learn from his mistakes and grow up. He smiled at that.

"So?" She broke the silence.

"So...?" He asked back.

"You don't want to explain... Something to me?" Her eyes widened beautifully, according to him, and her lips moved as perfectly as they could.

Wait- What did she say? Explanation? Explanation!

"Oh yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" He huffed some air, calming himself before moving to sit infront of her, on the ground.

"My lady may like to grab some tissues because this story is emotional." He started the play, trying to return back to the days they had just started.

"Sirrah, you may go on and I would suit myself however I please." She played along.

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A/n

Ayo!

Took some time there. But i guess i get lazier and lazier as the story is nearing it's end. Whateverrrrr~

Hope you guys are doing fine and eating well and drinking a huge amount of water (Why you may ask? For good skin, for good kidney, for good nephron, for good Malphigian capsule, for good PCT and Loop of Henle and DCT and i may continue but I'll just shut up-) and eventually giving yourself some quality time.

Be the best of you!