Exiting the theatre, Jungkook had rushed off to the washroom leaving me in the lobby.

While waiting for him, I paid another visit to the food court and bought us some more junk food. Then leaned against a pillar and waited for him.

It didn't take long, he joined me quite quickly for someone doing a bathroom rush.

"Is your place far from here?" I asked, pulling on his sleeve to keep him from stepping outside. Nope we weren't blocking the doorway so it was fine.

He looked back at me noncomprehendingly. "Ur- a bit, I guess." He didn't sound so sure. It was too late for me to remember he had a tight schedule and coming to the movies wasn't something he could leisurely do.

"Can we walk?" I proposed, shifting in my feet.

It felt strange to ask that near him. No, I wasn't simply trying to wring as much time with him as possible. The prospect of it didn't dawn on me until the words were out of my mouth. I just liked talking long walks at night.

The buzz of the night air, the smell of food wafting out of the restaurants we pass and the cool soothing night breeze. It was relaxing to walk out at night.

I could never do this because my tendency to wander off and get lost when I'm on my own. So I had to find someone willing to come with me. And everyone I knew had their own things to deal with to take long walls with me at late hours. Mostly because they had to wake early in the morning.

"Eun-Ha?" Jungkook's voice snapped me out of my wandering thoughts. My head snapped up in his direction and I hunched my shoulders in embarrassment at having been lost in my thoughts.

"Hehe, sorry. What did you say?" I asked, grinning to hide my embarrassment. My bright red cheeks were a different matter.

He smiled, shaking his head. "Nothing, let's go." He said looking very much amused.

I don't know why I keep getting surprised every time he took my hand. Also turning into a tomato every time he did.

Yet that is exactly what happened when he did.

I wasn't the only one blushing at his action. The difference was he could easily hide his face behind his mask, while everyone could see me blushing.

Not to mention my mind shutting down for the moment.

We walked for a while in silence. It wasn't awkward. No, it was more like very comfortable. Neither of us had anything to say to the other, and the noises around us filled the silence.

And then we came across a street vendor selling ice-cream.

I immediately stopped, which pulled Jungkook's arm and he too stopped. I grinned at him, pointing at the vendor.

"Do you want ice-cream?" He asked, laughing at my gesture. Still grinning I nodded my head. Scrunching his nose, he pinched my cheek with his free hand. "What flavour?"

"Surprise me." I said.

His eyebrows shot up, before he nodded his head. Letting go of my hand, he gently pressed on both my shoulders telling, 'stay right here and don't move.'

I nodded my head like a eager puppy. Anything for ice-cream. Who cared about the flavor, street vendors never sold my favourite flavour anyways.

I watched him walk over to the vendor and buy two vanilla cones. It's when he was heading back that he was stopped by two girls. I was too far away to make out conversation but it was pretty obvious what they wanted when they took out phones and posed for a selca.

One girl even asked for an autograph. I could tell - even from where I stood - how bad he felt when he had to say no because his hands were full. He looked so regretful, that I wanted to take the ice-cream from his hands just so he could sign.

I did not act on it - thank god. Just imagine what those girls would have thought seeing him out with a girl. Even if I didn't look picture perfect or was I dressed like we were on a date, it was inevitably where that meeting would have left.

He talked some more with the girls, before they nodded and he headed towards me.

Before he could stop, he met my gaze and I widened my eyes. The two girls were still looking at him - not following but taking pictures.

I'm not sure how he understood I got terrified, but his hand somewhat tightened on the cones - yep, he crushed one. That come he crushed fell down without balance, and he had to stop.

Without thinking I rushed to him.

It was stupid of me, but it never crossed my mind he did that on purpose.

"You okay?" I asked in a hushed voice when I reached him, digging for a tissue from my snack bag.

"Eun-Ha." Jungkook sounded slightly panic, but he was holding it at back, nodding his head in reply to my question. He still had on his mask so, what he said wouldn't be a problem.

Finding a tissue I held it out for him.

"Eun-Ha, don't look, but they are still recording." Jungkook murmured to me dipping into a bow as if to say thankx. I know I froze so he quickly added, "act normal."

Blinking I nodded my head, but I still didn't know what to do.

He wiped his hand, he bit his lip in thought.

"Okay, pretend you are just helping me get clean and then continue walking. I'll follow you out." He suggested.

"What if you are followed." I whispered as if anyone could hear us. Well, if they were trying to, but anyone within heading distance was caught up in their own worlds. The two girls from before were somewhat far to hear us. However close enough to see.

Jungkook chewed on his lips before looking around. We were already talking for a long time, if we don't separate soon things might turn bad. So I looked around too.

"Ah, I'll walk around a bit and meet you there. Under that dead lamppost." I suggested, pointing in said direction.

"No, I'm not letting you walk alone." He said at once, not pausing to think it through. "I'd rather be spotted walking around with you than lose you Eun-Ha." He added more softly.

"Kookie, I'm so terrified right now that I promise I won't get lost. Because I can't think of anything else but not being seen with you. Please." I begged, trying to keep my expression happy so no one suspects us.

He stared at me for a while then dipped into another bow, before starting to walk.

I gulped, it took everything I had not to stare after him, but pretend everything was normal. I almost felt as if my movement were robotic as I walked over to the ice-cream vendor and bought myself and ice-cream.

I made sure those two girls weren't around before I started in the direction of the broken lamppost.

A lonely figure stood under the dark. Finally feeling slightly relieved, I cast a glance around to make sure we weren't being followed. Once certain, I ran over to him, stopping myself from crashing into him in the last minute.

Seeing me he breathed out a sigh of relief, and instantly latched on to my hand.

"Let's not do that again." He said, his hold somewhat tightening, but not painfully so.

I smiled at him nodding my head. Yep, I was struck speechless again by his action. Also, by the way he reacted you'd think I had gotten lost and found.

We ate our ice-cream as we walked in silence. Letting the sounds of the world wash around us again. It was really peaceful. I didn't even mind the silence - between us that is.

A moment later, Jungkook's phone pinged, I didn't think much of this and continued walking. Fishing out his phone, he continued walking, which was why I could - he still had our fingers entwined.

"Is their somewhere you want to go?" He asked me suddenly, pocketing his phone again. I looked up at him lazily, his question not properly registering as I had been distracted by the sound of their sing drifting from somewhere. There were too many shops to pinpoint an exact location.

"Is there somewhere else you want to go before we head home?" He asked again, an amused smirk lifting up one side of his lips.

I furrowed my eye in thought while he continued watching me in amusement.

Where is it that I want to go with Jungkook. Of this was Suga who had asked me, I,d already have listed a numerous amount of places. Yet somewhere to go with Jungkook... I couldn't think of one. I couldn't believe that I was about to miss this golden opportunity given to me on a platinum platter.

His phone pinged again and I looked at him worriedly. In the rush of enjoying his company I had totally forgotten who he is. It never occurred to me that he might have a schedule he should keep to. Or that he could be in a boat load of trouble for taking me out while he had a schedule to keep.

"Is everything okay?" I asked softly, tugging on the hand I held.

He looked up at me quickly, and smiled. "Yeah, just Hyung asking if lost you." He chuckled as he pocketed his phone again.

I didn't need to ask which Hyung. I didn't need to be a genius to know Suga was the one texting him.

Pursing my lips I nodded my head.

"Aren't you late?" I asked.

He looked at me with a big question mark over his head. Chuckling at the expression I elaborated.

"Don't you have practice to get to or something? You already spent two and a half hours with me."

Jungkook's eyebrows raised as he opened his mouth in understanding.

"No. I'm free the whole day today. Actually everyone is. It was supposed to be your graduation present, but everyone planned something else so they sent me to celebrate with you." He explained happily with a smile.

He looked so content saying that, that I couldn't tell if he was forced into doing this without his consent or not. It had sounded like he didn't want to be here, but he looked so happy that he was.

"So, where else shall we go?" He asked eagerly, looking nowhere but at me. "Their must be something you wanted to do as soon as you got your freedom from school."

"Take a looooooong walk in the park after midnight, eat so much ice-cream that I'd hate it in the morning and stay out as late as possible." I rattled off without pausing to think whom I was telling this to.

"I supposed the park we passed wasn't the one you had in mind." Jungkook said, looking over my shoulder the way we had come.

Giggling, I shook my head.

I had thankfully, kept one part of my wish to myself. I wanted to get myself a high on sugar.

"Do you have a park in mind?" He asked turning his gaze back to me.

"I couldn't possibly keep you up all night Jungko-" his narrowed eyes made me trail off before I could finish. "Sorry. Habit." I mumbled feeling my cheeks flaming. Nope, onetime was more than enough, I wasn't going to torture myself by calling him Kookie again.

My BP or heart wouldn't be able to take it. Standing this close to him was already causing all sorts of havoc in me without adding his nickname in the mix. At least I could forget about everything else happening after - somewhat - getting used to being this close to him all night.

"Anyway, I'm not keeping you up all night. You have work tomorrow." I protested, avoiding telling his name. Determined I looked up and met his gaze bravely.

He pouted when I avoided saying his name, but my last sentence had him laughing. He ruffled my hair before turning around and starting to walk again.

"I still want to stay with you." He murmured to the ground. His murmur was so soft I wasn't sure I heard him right. I bit my lip, wondering if I should ask him to repeat himself, or pretend I didn't hear anything.

"Doesn't matter, let's go." He said more louder, looking over his shoulder with mischief.

Without giving me time to answer he started to run, dragging me behind him. I had no option but to follow. His hold on my hand was on point - I couldn't slip away - and if I didn't follow I'd be flat on my face.

A few minutes later he came to stop in a somewhat dark place. I was too busy doubling over to catch my breath to make note of where we were.

"Will this do?" He asked looking at me excitedly. He was just short of bouncing on his feet, but any more and he'd start bouncing.

Straightening up, I finally looked where we were at his urging to find we were indeed in a park.

I couldn't help the burst of laughter that escaped my lips seeing it.

Of all places, he had brought me to a children's park.

I didn't have the heart to disagree with him, seeing how excited he was. So I nodded my head silently, I raced over to the swing set and claimed the one on the right for myself. He walked over to me at a much leisurely pace.

Not waiting to for him to join me, I kicked the ground and swung myself higher. Except all my hair blew into my face which made me splutter and slid to a stop. I brushed my hair away and pulled it up higher, only I didn't have a hair tie to tie it back.

That's when Jungkook extended his hand towards me. I looked down to see he was actually holding out a hair-tie for me. Grinning at him in thankx I accepted it without protest. Tieing my hair into a bun, I tucked it into my cap.

With that taken care of, I started swinging again.

We ended up swinging for a long time, but neither of us wanted to leave so just ran around the park doing to crazy things until Jungkook got a call from Suga.

By then it was already past ten.

I have no idea where the time flew - we'd been out since 4 (because that was time the movie started).

They talked for a while before he turned to me with a pout.

"They want us back." He said looking around the park like he didn't want to leave. I bit my own lip. I didn't want to leave yet either. This was the most fun I'd had in a while. Spending so much time alone with Jungkook was a bonus that I didn't expect.

"Can we do this some other time?" He asked, his voice soft and filled with doubt. He leaned closer to me when he asked this, his breath tickled my ear.

His question took me by surprise and I turned to face him sharply. What I hadn't expected was for him to be as close as he was. My sudden shift in direction planted my lips on his cheek, missing his lip by a millimetre.

Both of us froze and stared at each other for a beat. Our fingertips brushing against each other as we grasped the bar beneath us to maintain balance - we were sitting on top of the monkey bars.

We both pulled away at the same time, turning away with blazing cheeks. The chirping of crickets was the only sound that enveloped us.

My heart beat fast against the ribcage. I was controlling my breathing with difficulty, and I simply could not look at him. What I'd been trying to tell him a mystery to me. I kicked the air nervously, not sure what to do with myself.

It was an accident. Neither of us had planned to kiss the other.

What made me feel the most guilty was that I had enjoyed that kiss. Sure, maybe it wasn't even a proper kiss, rather just touching my lips with his. But his lips were so smooth and soft and they felt really nice against mine.

My wandering thoughts caused my blush to deepen, so I quickly shook my head, pursing my lips. I need to stop thinking about this before I embarrass myself even further. Wringing my hand, I took a deep breath. Building courage to say something that would defuse this tensed silence.

The shrill sound of 'war of hormones' blaring from his pocket almost made me topple right off the monkey bars. Grasping the edge tightly, I looked at him. It never occurred to me that it was my phone ringing and not his.

Not until he dishes it out of his jacket and held it out to me with a sheepish smile. "Yoongi Hyung asked me to hang on to it, until we got out of the theatre. I forgot to give it to you after." He said awkwardly holding it out to me.

I lifted my lips in what I hoped was a smile as I carefully slipped the phone from his hand. This time making sure our hands didn't touch.

One kiss was enough, my heart hadn't calmed down from that yet. Nor my cheeks cooled down. No need to make them worse.

Answering, I pressed the phone to my ear.

"Kookie! Where are you two?" Suga demanded before I could say anything. It was disconcerting how he could know I answer the phone even before I say anything.

"We're still in the park." I replied, not bothering to correct him. He'll know it was me anyway.

"Where's Jungkook!?"

"Here."

"Why are you answering his phone?"

"Oppa... you rang to my phone."

"What, oh right. His phone is switched off. Ask him to switch it on before he gets scolded. Also, come home. Do you two even know what time it is?"

"Hmmm... maybe after ten. And we're about to head back, so calm down."

"Good, hurry up then."

And with that the line cut. Chuckling at the fact that he never tells before cutting the line, I locked my phone.

Then the silence settled in again when I looked at Jungkook and I found he was already looking at me. Breath catching in my throat, I forgot what I was supposed to tell him. I sucked in my upper lip, my eyes dropping back to my lap.

"Did Hyung ask us to come back?" He asked. His voice was soft, and he sounded like he was trying to sound normal. Because he cleared his throat before he started to talk.

I nodded my head, something dawning on me when he said Hyung.

He swung his legs, about to jump off. I quickly grabbed his sleeve, stopping him short. Freezing, his eyes darted to where my fingers fisted his sleeve, before they trailed up to my eyes. He didn't have to ask, the question was written in his eyes.

"This never happened." I told, staring with all my courage straight into his eyes.

His brows furrowed, and he looked at me as if asking what I was talking about. My shoulders instantly touched my ears and my cheeks turned even more redder than it already was. I think I vaguely motioned to our lips, but I didn't have the guts to tell 'kiss', so I dropped my gaze.

"I don't want Suga Oppa and you to fight." I murmured to my lap. By this point I didn't care if he understood me or not, I'm not mentioning this again.

I could feel his gaze boring into my head, so kept my head down. A moment passed and then another before Jungkook swung himself down from the monkey bars. The sudden action startled me into looking at him.

He stepped closer so his eyes were on level with my knee.

"If you don't want me to get scolded let's go." He said holding a hand out for me.

I didn't need to ask he meant for me to jump down like he had. I looked at the ground and I seemed a farther way down than it had been climbing up. I gulped. No way was I jumping down from here and landing safely on my feet. I didn't need to be scared of height to not want to jump.

"Can't I just climb down the way we climbed?" I asked, eyeing the ladder with renewed interest. It looked much safer than jumping.

"Eun-Ha-ya. Jump. I promise to catch you. You won't have a single scratch on your body." He told he, the hand he had been holding out now placed on my knee. It was a gesture of reassurance and meant nothing more.

I looked down again before meeting his gaze. He had a soft smile on his lips and looked at me expectantly but reassuringly. I don't know how else to explain the way he looked at me.

"I still think -" I started to say, but my sentence was cut off.

Because the next thing I knew his arms wrapped around my waist and he hauled me off.

I know I screamed. At the time it didn't really matter that I probably made him deaf by screaming so loud. I clutched on to his shoulder and squeezed my eyes shut.

My body slammed against his and then everything stopped.

"Perfectly safe." Jungkook whispered, his breath fanning across my face.

Heart still racing with the scare he had given, I slowly opened my eyes. First thing I noticed was that he was leaning his forehead against mine - or maybe it was the other way around. I was staring right into his eyes.

Next I noticed two things at the same time.

The first was that I wasn't simply clutching his shoulders. My arms were wrapped tightly around his neck.

The second was that my legs were wrapped around his waist. I hadn't even noticed I had done it when he pulled me off from top of the monkey bars.

This both things combined, pressed my body against his.

My heart was already racing, but my cheeks coloured in embarrassment the moment I noticed the second two facts.

I instantly dropped my legs from around his waist, but he still had me lifted up - yeah, he hadn't exactly dropped me to the floor, so he was technically holding me up - I kept my arms wrapped around him.

It was time I accepted that being around him was a source of embarrassment. Today I had been nothing but red for as long as I was with him.

Taking a deep breath, I nodded my head afraid to say anything in case I embarrassed myself further.

He smiled, before carefully lowering me until my feet touched the floor. I expected he'd let go of me once I was on my feet. But he surprised me yet again by continuing to hold me. Our height difference forced him to bend to keep our foreheads pressed against each other.

"Thank you for today Eun-Ha." He whispered. His eyes were closed as he said this.

"Why?" I breathed. I had slid off my hand from around him thinking he'd let go of me too, so now my hands rested on the crook of his elbow. When I asked 'why', my fingers unconsciously tightened their hold on his jacket sleeves.

"For everything. I had fun." He told. His eyelids fluttered open, and when he stared directly at me my mouth went dry. My fingers fisted tighter as words - including what he just said - fled my mind. Leaving me blank.

I could only nod my head dumbly, too awestruck by the boy in front of me. My heart was beating irregularly, something he surely could feel considering how close we were pressed against the other.

A moment later he let go of me, pulling away as if nothing happened.

"We should go." He stated, looking around the park with sudden awkwardness. Still dumbstruck - I couldn't get my head around what had happened - I just nodded my head.

It never occurred to me how awkward the situation had suddenly turned, too lost trying figure out what exactly just happened.

It was confusing as hell.

Looking anywhere but at me, he took my hand again. I didn't have to turn any more red - I already was red - so their wasn't much reaction from me when he did. Again his action didn't really register in my mind - which was still stuck a few minutes behind time.

When I followed him this time, not only did I not know where we were going, I paid attention to nothing whatsoever

A/N~

4k+ words, hope this makes up for being 15 chapters late with jk fluff (was it? I feel like I could've done better, but um not good at writing fluff). Also plot is finally going to pick up as I have built most characters relationships, so I'm excited. But updates might be slow due to the plot picking up. I'm not good with writing emotional stuff, which i need to perfect at least a little so I apologise if updates are a bit late from here.

So we had a kind of date, what was your favourite part of their evening? What did you think was lacking?

As always constructive criticism is welcome, and do point out any typos please [this chap is unedited as I'm updating from the phone and it's impossibly hard to type].

I also apologise to have kept you waiting. My tab is still very much broken, so no idea when I'll get the chance to update again.

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