08 | Almost Is Never Enough

Zoey's POV:

I looked around the place for a bit when an older lady came up to me holding some menus in her hand.

"Hello! Welcome to 'Eomma's Kitchen'! Are you here by yourself today?" She asked me smiling brightly.

"Actually I am meeting up with someone today."

"Well, are you meeting with that handsome young man over there?" She said pointing at someone with a smile on her face.

I followed to where she was pointing, and there sat Jeon Jungkook. I smiled when I saw him. "Yes, he's the person I am meeting with."

"Are you two on a date?" She asked giving me a cheeky smile.

I shook my head. "Oh no, we are just talking about some business."

She nods but I had a feeling she didn't really believe me. "Well then right this way!" We walked on over to where he was sitting.

I thanked her and he stood up and held his hand out for me to shake. I grabbed his hand and shook it.

"It's good to see you again, have a seat." He said smiling gesturing for me to take a seat.

"It's good to see you again too." I smiled back and sat down. I took off my jacket and placed it on the chair next to mine.

"Sorry to ask you out for lunch so randomly." He said giving me a small smile.

"Ohh don't worry, It's fine really."

The kind lady from earlier came to give us our menus, she nodded to Jungkook and walked away.

I opened my menu and looked at the options, there were so many dishes to choose from.

I looked up at Jungkook to ask him what he was gonna order, but he was looking out the window instead of his menu. I wonder why he isn't looking at the menu.

"What are you gonna get?" I asked.

He turned his head to face me, "I'm gonna get meal set B. That one." He said pointing to the one on my menu.

I nodded my head. "Ooo it looks good, maybe I'll get one that too." I looked back up at him and smiled.

"What drink do you want?" He asked me.

"I'll have a coke."

"Okay," he held his hand up and said, "Excuse me, aunty, we're ready to order."

The lady from earlier came with a notepad in hand.

I watched as Jungkook ordered our food for us, "We'll have two meal set B and two cokes please."

The lady nodded, "The usual like always." She says ruffling Jungkook's hair.

He nodded and she went back to the kitchen.

I watched as she walked away and disappeared into the kitchen, then I returned my gaze to Jungkook. "Do you come here often?"

He nodded, "I used to come here a lot with the boys back when we were trainees. This place holds so many memories and has really good food." He said looking around and smiling at the memories that flashed through his head.

Makes sense why he didn't need to look at the menu, and why the owner knew him.

"I like this place, just walking into here made me feel like I was at home," I said also looking around. "Ohh right, what did you want to talk about?"

"Ohh umm, I was wondering if you wanted to do a song cover with me."

I was shocked, he wants to do a cover with me? "A song Cover? Like you want me to sing with you? Like a collab?"

He chuckled at my surprised expression and nodded. "Yes I want you to sing with me, but that's if you'd want to."

I was still in shock, I didn't know what to say. "Are you kidding me, of course I want to do a cover with you!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, it's not every day I get to sing with the famous Jeon Jungkook."

He smiled brightly at me, "Great, that makes me really happy!"

I smiled back at him. "What song do you have in mind?"

"Well I was thinking we could do a cover on 'Almost is Never Enough' by Ariana Grande. What do you think about that song?"

"I love that song, actually that's one of my favorite songs by Ariana Grande. We should do that one!"

"Okay, then it's settled then."

"I guess it is."

"I'll text my producers so they can start producing the audio for us." He took out his phone and typed away.

Just as we finished talking, a waiter came with our food.

It smelled amazing, and it looked really good too. "Wow, this looks really good."

"Yeah it is, this is one of my favorite things to get from here."

"Do you mind if I take a picture of our food? Don't worry I won't get you in it. I'll post this on Instagram." I say giving him a small smile.

"Ohh go ahead, it's fine with me." He arranged the food making it look pretty.

I grabbed my phone out of my purse and I stood up to take a picture of the food.

Due to my short height, I kinda struggled to get a good pic from up high.

So Jungkook stood up, grabbed the phone out of my hand, and said, "Here, let me help you." He took a few pics of the food making sure to get good angles.

I stood beside him and watched as he took the pictures for me. When he was done he handed me my phone.

I looked at him before looking at my phone. I opened my gallery and looked through the pictures. They were amazing, maybe even better than what I could've done.

I looked up at him, "These are really good, thanks for helping me." I smiled at him.

He smiled back, "No problem." He sat back down in his seat.

I also took my seat and looked through the pictures again, I was impressed.

I also asked him if he could take pictures of me, I also took pictures of him and we took pics with the two of us. I won't be posting the one with the two of us since I don't want ARMY'S to come for me.

We started eating our food, and it was delicious. I loved how it tasted. "Wow! This is so good!"

"That's why I brought you here. This is hands down one of my favorite restaurants!" He said taking another bite from his food.

We talked while we ate, just getting to know each other. We found out a lot of things about each other and turns out we're pretty similar.

*****

We finished our food and we ordered some coffee and desserts, we're gonna have dessert while talking more about the collab.

I took a bite from my tiramisu, it was nice and creamy. This may even be one of my new favorite desserts.

"Should we only record audio or should we make it an actual video?" He said taking a bite from his cake.

"We could do audio, it's easier and we can just make it a lyric video."

"Yeah, we could."

"Are we gonna post it on BTS's YouTube channel or mine?" I took a sip from my caramel macchiato, my fave.

"We could do both."

"You mean like, post the same video on both channels?" I said a little confused.

"No, I mean we could make two covers one for your channel one for BTS's channel."

I nodded my head thinking about it. "We could, but what else could we sing?"

"Hmmm, I don't know. We'll have to think of one."

I leaned back in my seat and thought. "How about 'Best Part' by Daniel Ceasar?"

He looked at me and smiled. "That's a good song, we could totally do that one."

"Then let's do it."

"I guess we will, do you wanna start practicing today? We might even be able to record a bit today." He said looking at the time on his watch.

"Aren't you busy? Don't you have anything  scheduled for today?"

"Ohh no it's my day off today." I frowned at him. "Why what's wrong?" He says looking concerned.

"It's your day off yet here you are working still. You should take the rest of today off."

He smiles and says, "No no, it's fine. I can take a rest another day, plus I have nothing to do anyway so I'll probably just keep working."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure."

"Okay then why not, where are we gonna record?"

"At my recording studio at the HYBE Ent. building."

"Mkay."

"I'll text my producers so they can also start on the song."

We finished our dessert, grabbed our stuff, and went to go pay. We got to the counter and I took out my credit card to pay.

Jungkook also took his out and inserts it into the card reader, he pushed mine away so he could pay.

I looked up at him and frowned, "I wanted to pay. We could've split the bill."

He looked at me and chuckled, "No, I'm paying today since I was the one who asked you out for lunch."

I shook my head furiously and crossed my arms. "No, I could've paid half or something. I'm treating you next time then."

He laughed at me, "Okay fine, but that's if we go out to eat again next time." He finished paying and we started to walk out.

"You betcha there's a next time."

"I'd love that! So let's take my car there?"

"Mhmm, I guess we could. It wouldn't be very practical to go separately."

"True." He opened the door to the restaurant and held it open for me to walk through. "Ladies first."

I smiled at him and thanked him. As soon as I walked out it was instantly freezing.

I wrapped my arms around my body as I shivered. I looked up at the sky and there was no sun in sight.

As I was busy looking at the sky, Jungkook spun me around to face him.

He took off his scarf and wrapped it around my neck, he also took out two extra hot packs and put them in each one of my hands. "You need to dress warmer when you go out, or you catch a cold." He fixed the scarf around my neck.

I adjusted the scarf a little and shoved my hands into my pockets, I felt a little warmer. "I will definitely dress warmer next time." I giggled and smiled at him. "Thank you for these." I pointed to the scarf and the hot packs.

He nodded his head and smiled, "No probs. Let's go?"

I nodded my head and followed him as we started walking to his car.

I was walking beside him when something white and cold hit the tip of my nose. I looked up at the sky and it was snowing. I love snow! "Ohh- it's snowing! It's my first time seeing snowfall in Korea." I spun around in the falling snow.

He laughed, "It's your first snowfall here in Korea?"

I nodded and caught snow in my hands. It started to snow even harder. I giggled as I spun around. He was walking behind me while I was running around in the snow.

We made it to his car and he opened the door for me. Before getting in I dusted off the snow on my head and on my jacket. I sat down and he closed the door and jogged over to his side. I put on my seatbelt as he got in.

"Gosh, it's cold out there!" He said putting on his seatbelt.

"Yeah it is, well what do you expect, it's winter so of course, it's cold."

We started driving to the building and we talked along the way.

"How far is the building from here?" I ask looking at him.

Without taking his eyes off the road he says, "About 20 mins or so. It's not that far from here."

"Ohh okay." We talked about random things as we drove.

*****

We were talking for a bit when we arrived at a really big building. I've seen big buildings before, but I was impressed at how big it was. He's lucky he works in such an amazing place.

"Have you never seen a big building before?" He said looking at me.

I looked at him, "I have but this place looks amazing, I can believe you work here." I finish looking out at the building again.

"I still can believe it too, now come on let's get inside." He took off his seatbelt and got out of the car.

I did the same and closed the door behind me. It was still snowing but a little harder this time. I followed Jungkook to the entrance of the building.

We made our way past security and we headed for the elevators. The interior of the building was nice, it was a modern minimalistic style.

We walked to the elevator and he clicked the button to go up and the doors immediately opened. He stepped in first putting his hand in front of the door so it won't close. I walked in and stood beside him, we were headed up to the 8th floor.

"Jungkook?" I looked up at him.

"Yeah?" He said looking down at me.

"What's your favorite thing about being a Kpop idol?"

He looked forward and thought about it. "Well for me it's probably doing concerts. Even though it's tiring, it's also very rewarding." He ended it looking at me again.

"How so?"

"Well, getting to hear the screams of Army's and seeing all the lights from the army bombs, it makes me feel proud to be where I am with such amazing fans."

I smiled up at him, "I've always wondered what it would feel like to perform on a big stage in front of a bunch of people cheering for you." I looked down and frowned a little.

"You will someday, you are amazing and have great talent. You deserve to be able to perform in front of millions of people."

I shook my head and looked up at him. "I don't think I'm good enough for that."

Before he could reply the doors slid open and a few people stood there waiting. We got out and the people went into the elevator.

We walked slowly, "What do you mean you aren't good enough for it?"

I looked down, "Ohh it's nothing really." I looked back up at him and smiled.

He looked at me as if he was studying my facial expressions. He gave me a reassuring smile and we continued walking.

I didn't think I was good enough to perform on a big stage in front of thousands of people. It kinda scared me, yet it's exciting at the same time.

We made it to the door of his studio and he opened it. His studio was simple, with black walls with pictures on them, there was a desk with a bunch of computers and other things for recording, there was also a recording room to the left.

I walked in and looked around, he closed the door and he went to sit by the desk. He took the other chair and slid it closer to the desk, "Have a seat." He gestured to the chair.

I walked over and sat down, I took off the scarf and my jacket and set them down on the couch behind me. The chair was a little too high that my feet weren't even touching the ground.

He started typing away on his computer. "Ok so my producer sent me the sound audio for both songs, so we could start practicing."

"Okay, what song should we start with?"

"Let's start with 'Best Part' since it's more chill and easier."

"Okay, I'll just start doing some warm-ups."

He nodded and went back to his computer, I started doing some vocal warm-ups.

Warms-ups weren't so hard since I was pretty used to doing them before singing. He also did a few warm-ups before we started.

"Could you look up the lyrics since I am not so sure I know it all?"

"Sure." He looked up the lyrics on Google and put it on one of the monitors.

I tried scooching my chair over so I could see better, but it was kinda hard. Jungkook noticed me struggling and he pulled my chair close to his for me. "Thanks." I smiled at him.

"No problem, now should we start?" He says giving me a warm smile.

I nodded my head and he clicked play on the audio. The relaxing sound of the guitar playing was nice.

I started singing my part, and he started harmonizing on some parts.

Jimin's POV:

I was in my studio trying to come up with song lyrics. I was bored and had nothing to do, and when I'm bored I usually go to my studio and try to write a song.

I had a good idea for a song and I wanted to try it on guitar. Problem is, I didn't have my guitar in my studio. I looked everywhere for it but it was nowhere to be seen.

I sat down in my chair and slumped down. "What do I do now?" I spun my chair around and closed my eyes.

I suddenly got an idea, I sat up in my chair. "I'll borrow Kookies guitar, he won't mind. I'll just put it back after."

I couldn't borrow anyone else since they usually lock their studio and they weren't here. Jungkook only sometimes locks his studio, he shouldn't be back yet either.

I got up and opened my door, and I walked over to Kookie's studio and twisted the knob. Lucky for me it wasn't locked. I slowly opened the door but then I heard music. I didn't hear it from the outside since our studios are soundproof.

I poked my head in and I saw two people sitting there and they were singing together. From their voices I recognized Jungkook's, I wasn't sure who was the other one but I'm guessing it's Zoey since he said they were gonna do a cover together.

I opened the door a bit more and walked in and closed it. I leaned up against the wall and listened to them sing.

Zoey had a beautiful angelic voice, I loved hearing it. Honestly, I wouldn't get tired of hearing her sing.

Jungkook harmonized with her as she sang and their voices fitted well with each other. They sounded fantastic, they are definitely made to sing with each other.

I stood there and listened to them as they sang. They finished the song and I started clapping my hands, they both turned around started. "Wow! You guys are amazing." I have them a thumbs up and sat down on the couch.

"Yahh! Hyung, when did you get here? You nearly gave us a heart attack!" Jungkook said dramatically clutching his heart, while Zoey just looked at me wide-eyed.

I laughed at their expressions. "Sorry I didn't mean to. I was gonna borrow your guitar but then I heard you two singing so I came in."

Zoey chuckled, "It's fine, anyways did you like our performance?" She smiled brightly at me.

I nodded, "You two are amazing! I knew you two would sound good with each other."

"You think so?" Jungkook said smiling.

"Yeah of course you do. Now can I borrow your guitar? I'm gonna write a song." I got up and walked to his guitar.

"Yeah sure, just make sure to bring it back."

"Will do, now I'll be going. I won't disturb you two anymore. Thanks for this." I held up the guitar and headed for the door.

I nodded my head to the two of them and opened the door. "Good luck you two!" I yelled closing the door behind me.

"Those two are cute," I say to myself as I walk back to my studio.

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Authors Note:

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