A couple of weeks wafted like a scent in the air, You were basking on the couch while lolling located near the glass pane in the library filled with a vast amount of books, containing a seconds course which one has to make its way through the stairs.

The slight rays of sun embraced your visage with an amber tincture as your whole engrossment was on the book you were holding onto with its spine resting on your index finger and your thumb on the displaying page you were reading.

"Love" The first word you read on the pristine page. The sudden muse caught your mind, immediately capturing Jungook's visage after reading that word. It was a bit erratic. What is the relationship between the word, Love and Jungkook?

They stood opposite each other just a thin wall separating them in your heart. The words rushed into your brain when he came into your bedroom that night.

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You heard the door of the bedroom open as you clutched your eyes shut, "I won't talk to him. I won't show him that I have been awake this late at night just for him." He approached you ambling towards you as he peered onto your sleeping face with a mild smile appearing on his face.

He blinked gazing at you as you felt the mattress sinking, he sat on the periphery of the bed, "I am sorry." He whispered in a low voice, "I went out after our row but it was important."

You heard him go silent but he broke it, "I can't let you drown in my miserable past which is affecting my present and trying to ruin our future. I know that you being with me is much more dangerous for you and I... I will try my best to shield you from them." He unbuttoned the button of his suit jacket, taking it off slowly as you gulped a lump in your throat, trying to listen further, not getting caught.

You perceived him taking a sigh, "I missed you." He let it out, knowing you couldn't hear him. He bit down on his lower lip, sucking in his teeth. Hanging the coat over his left arm and resting it over his thigh, he added, "I say, you came back to Seoul. My heart fluttered watching you after so long...."

Again pausing for a few seconds, reminiscing the movement when you ran into his embrace, "But Neil, I wasn't expecting him. Introducing him as your boyfriend, I was all adequate, I saw how happy you were with him but the unsettled feeling in my heart didn't let me sit back down."

"He wasn't the one whom I was expecting. He wasn't the one for you." He completed, inhaling deeply. "How can someone enjoy when their beloved one is hurt or scared? Switching off the lights of your room wasn't a thing to laugh at. It was a wildly absurd thing one would do to their loved ones."

He shifted a little on the mattress, "I know you still don't believe me that he was the one behind Mr. Lee's death. I won't object to your decision of taking his side. The one who you have loved but I can't help myself, hold myself back when someone tries to hurt my beloved ones."

His voice setting off, low but still, he spoke, "Mr. Lee left us, You to me but... I... I don't have you." His voice fainted at his last sentence while you held back your tears behind your shut eyes, they were trying to let them out of there but you still held them back in their place. The clutch over the duvet stiffened.

"Over the past years, I have been hindering my feelings for you but, in the end, you love someone else with all your heart. He didn't deserve your love, he doesn't deserve you. Even when he is the one wrong and is gone, you still love him with all your heart and soul."

Licking his dry lips he declared, "But my heart you would be the only one who would conquer it all the way around, I won't cast around someone similar or even like you."

He breathed out, "If it wasn't for Mr. Lee, I wouldn't have forced you to be my spouse." He gazed at your visage and then your palm lying over the mattress. He stretched his hand to capture your hand, gingerly. You let your hand free, "I... love you, Carrot." He brought it to light, The feeling he has been hiding from you for so long.

Your heartbeat accelerated after the second of his confession, "He loves me?" "I couldn't let this feeling set aside all these years, I... I just couldn't." You could feel and sense the pain in his voice. A tear eyes your eyes absorbing in the cushion while you tossed around the bed so he won't get to know that you were awake, listening to his divulge secret.

He let go of your hand as you did so, Not to disturb your sleep. Curling up in a ball in the duvet, you pulled it up to your face as he raised his feet, caressing your head with his left hand, skimming his slender fingers through your tresses.

"Rest time for blossoms." He whispered before making his way out of your room.

Hearing the door shut, You broke down in your duvet, clutching it even more tightly. The sound of your bawling muffling into the duvet. The sentence which affected you the most was that he loved you and the veracity in his voice couldn't be questioned by anyone, not even by your heart.

Your heart couldn't choose between the two Neil, whom Jungkook thinks has killed your father, and Jungkook, who killed Neil because he killed your father, Moreover, he loves you, Not just as a friend but as a partner.

Tears slowly halted as you looked ahead of yourself with his words looping in your head, "He loves me? Why?" You were befuddled. He had always cared for you and still is doing. Being in your thoughts, you couldn't make it when the slumber took over your brain.

A couple of days wafted in the air, the relationship between you and Jungkook wasn't awkward or it wasn't as if you were ignoring him but just trying your best to maintain distance which was difficult all of a sudden.

You don't know why it was happening but yes, you couldn't hold yourself from looking at him and gazing at his features whenever he was busy doing some work.

Waiting for him has become a routine and habit for you. Yesterday, you slept on the couch deposited in the lounge as Jungkook sauntered inside the mansion with Namjoon on his side. His eyes traced your figure who was sleeping in a cramped position which he scrutinized, "Carrot.." He whispered.

Making his way up to you, he gazed at your closed eyes watching you in a deep slumber, a mild smile making its way onto his face as he swiftly yet slowly slipped his wounded hand which was the least vital for me against you.

Namjoon held his hand out to stop him, but before he could Jungkook hefted you in his arms with his other hand under your thighs.

Scrunching his nose a little because of his mangled shoulder which was slowly getting recuperated over these days and you were one of the reasons for that.

You helped him with replacing the pristine bandage every day. Being in his arms and feeling the warmth around as the cologne reached your nostrils made you snuggle closer to his neck while your hand trailed over his coat to hold up to his lapel before he started walking upstairs.

He placed your form over the mattress of your bed, tucking you in the bed just like a toddler making sure you were covered as he gazed at your visage for a wholly satisfactory minute before looking away finding himself staring at you as he gulped down a lump in his throat.

He stooped down to reach your level to steal a kiss, he knew it wasn't a good idea but still he placed a soft and light peck over your forehead as he elongated his hand to caress your cheek for a while before he made his way out of your room making sure that the amber lamp was gleaming.

Actually and currently you were sitting over a chaise lounge chair thinking how you got up on your bed when you clearly slept on the couch yesterday.

You squint your eyes in the air, Did he tuck me in the bed? It isn't possible for Mrs. Lucy? Namjoon Oppa won't do this! At the end, the one who is left is him-

Your trail of thoughts was interrupted by some footsteps which just strode inside the manor, "Oppa.." You murmured to yourself before your body jerked up on his own will to see Jungkook's appearance because it's been yesterday's morning since you haven't seen him. He went early this morning and you didn't get to meet him.

There was a feeling lingering in your heart since then and now you couldn't be able to hold yourself back. You have to see him.

You stood up, taking a glimpse at the pool ahead yourself before turning around, and just as you did your eyes met his. He was already watching you from the lounge.

Not knowing how to react upon seeing him you bit your lower lip before you turned around to watch the pool taking a step closer as he made his way up to you.

What if he asked why I haven't slept yet? Because I was waiting for him. Aish! No, I also have something to ask him and he has to answer it for sure.

You heard him approaching your figure as you swiftly turned around only to find him just inches away from you, tripping on your left leg over the boundary of the pool you plunged while Jungkook tried to hold you when he lost his balance himself and you both made your way inside the pool which was deep.

The water touched both of your bodies while your grip around his collar loosened as you started flapping your hand in the deep gauge of water while trying to stay calm but only you could do is try and the chilly water wasn't helping either.

You felt a sturdy arm grabbing onto your stomach and pulling you up the water and just as you felt the air reaching your nose, you took deep breaths and suspired deeply while coughing all along as you felt him rubbing your back and you held him from the lapel of the coat, afraid you would drown again in the pool.

You wrapped your arms around his neck in an instant, clutching onto him tightly as he stiffened his hand around your stomach before opening your eyes as you heard him say, "Are you okay?"