I kept tossing and turning all night in my bed while I incessantly scrolled through my mundane feed on Instagram, unable to sleep due to what the principal said this morning replaying inside my head like a broken record.

"Jeon Jungkook, you're expelled from this school."

But I don't want him to leave.

I haven't even gotten the chance to holds hands with him in the halls, relish a nice lunch with him at the cafeteria, promenade in the park together after school, or do any of the quintessential high school couple things with Jungkook.

But while innumerable thoughts of my boyfriend infested my mind, his name surprisingly popped up on the screen of my iPhone followed by my obnoxious ringtone.

My heart skipped a beat from the fortuitous coincidence, and I hurriedly answered the call and positioned the phone on my ear.

"Hello?" I said in the quietest volume possible, considering my parents' room were directly adjacent to mine.

"Open your front door." Jungkook responded offhandedly, then hung up before I could even ask for more details.

Groaning silently at his burdensome demand, I forced myself to get up from my snug bed and tiptoed my way out of my room to the downstairs entrance.

The moment I hauled the door handle open, a cold, chilly breeze wafted into my residence and caused my entire body to shiver.

Jungkook stood there in the snowy weather clothed in a red and black Fila winter jacket, a gigantic, overjoyed smile exhibited across his face despite the wintry temperature outside.

"What're you doing here?" I whispered while hugging myself tightly, definitely astonished to find my boyfriend in front of my house at such a late time.

"I couldn't sleep, so I came to see the person who never fails to make me feel better." he shrugged both of his shoulders, as if this situation wasn't a strange occurrence at all.

"My god, you must be freezing." I worried as I noticed his cheeks, ears, and even the tip of his nose were bright vermillion like Rudolf the reindeer.

"Yeah I am, so get your ass over here already so we can go on a date." Jungkook encouraged casually as he jerked his head backward, inviting me to voluntarily freeze myself to death in the snowing environment.

"A-At two in the morning?!" I stuttered at his absurd proposal, wondering to myself whether my boyfriend had gone mad.

"Just a little stroll. Please?" he implored with an irresistible pout on his face, the enticing look in his stare making it even worse for my temptation.

"What if my parents find out I snuck out?! Are you crazy?!" I tried to focus on the possible negative outcome, especially because I've never done such thing in my lifetime.

"Don't worry, your mom loves me." he replied assuredly with his nose in the air, but I quickly let out a scoff and doubted him, "We'll see about that after she finds out you've kidnapped her daughter in the middle of the night."

"It's not considered kidnapping if you consent to it?" Jungkook continuously persuaded, now holding his hand out towards me for me to grasp.

"I don't really have a choice here do I." I giggled in surrender, tenderly placing my hand on top of his fluffy cotton glove.

"You know it." he grinned in contentment of successfully convincing me, then tugged me along to our spontaneous rendezvous.

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"So, did the principal change his mind?" I brought up this morning's predicament, hoping Jungkook would update me on what I missed after I was kicked out of the office.

"Nope." he answered nonchalantly, booting a portion of the granular snow on the ground in a random direction.

"Taehyung's such a douche." I grumbled as I rolled my eyes at the image of that vengeful monster in my mind.

"Yup." Jungkook nodded his head in agreement, just placidly listening to me rant as we gallivanted in a desolate area.

"Can't believe I ever dated that thing." I exhaled a sigh of disappointment at my horrible taste in men in the past, watching the smoke come out of my mouth and disappear into the cold air.

"Only if you would've kissed me back that night, you would've been mine ever since and you could've been the luckiest girl in the world." he said smugly as he enfolded me in his muscular arms, broaching the uncomfortable story of the day I rejected him.

"Still the same old cockiness." I pushed him away playfully, feeling like I was conversing with Mr. Narcissistic that I first met from when I visited my grandma.

"What? Did you think I'd change just because I'm your boyfriend now?" Jungkook said as he raised one of his bushy eyebrows, making me blush a bit at the realization that the arrogant dude I hated so much was now my partner.

"I actually... like you the way you are." I confessed with scorching cheeks, rushingly scurrying away from his side so I didn't have to see how he reacted to my cheesy compliment.

Gazing up at the indigo sky, the griefs and apprehensions that pestered my thoughts inadvertently poured into my words.

"It just sucks how I won't be able to laugh at your hideous sleeping face after school anymore."

A few seconds after I made my remark, I was suddenly hit by an icy but soft object that quickly disintegrated on the back of my head.

Acknowledging it as none other than a snowball, I angrily spun around to shoot daggers at the childish rascal.

"Stop frowning! You look ugly!" Jungkook shouted so I could hear him loud and clear, offending me greatly with his rude description.

"Excuse me?!" I said as I hastily knelt down and scooped up a pile of snow in my hand, creating a snowball for myself to get my revenge.

I got back up, turned around, and was so ready to hurl it at him, but Jungkook took me by surprise when I saw his face about an inch away from mine, his large hands now secured on my waist and his body extremely close to me.

I froze in place and my heartbeat increased its speed drastically from his unexpected act, my hand inevitably dropping the beautifully shaped snowball I made.

Lightly putting his forehead against mine, Jungkook stated, "I don't want you thinking about any of that negative shit that happened between you and your ex, about what he did to your beautiful face, or even about me getting expelled from school."

"I just want you to focus on us right now, and that'll make me the happiest guy on earth. Alright?" he advised, forming a loving and wholehearted grin.

Although his calming expression soothed my heart, I could still see a hint of angst obscured behind that bunny smile of his.

But even with his own mental and real-life burdens he had to deal with, he never dismissed my own well-being from his mind and always put it above his.

I really don't deserve such a selfless and benevolent boyfriend like him.

"How can I ever repay you for all that you've done for me?" I asked with a chest full of nothing but gratitude.

"I should start charging you shouldn't I?" Jungkook joked, instigating a nice laugh that we both shared.

"Still the same old meanness." I chuckled, continuing my list of qualities that haven't changed a single bit about him.

"Again, I'm still the same old Jeon Jungkook you met at grandma's house. The only difference is that now, I can do a certain something without having you run away from me." he said as a corner of his mouth cutely curled up.

"Which is?" I clarified, although I had an assumption of what it might be.

Wordlessly, Jungkook elevated his hand up to my face in a slow manner and caressed my bottom lip with his thumb, staring down at it as if he could devour it at any second.

Reading his mind clearly, I gradually began to lean in closer and closer, until our lips ultimately connected in the most tender and passionate way possible.

Our lips moved in synch and in perfect unison, and I couldn't help but wrap my arms around him as I became engrossed in this intoxicating kiss.

I wish time could just stop right now.

No Taehyung, no Yerim, no principal, and none of our sufferings to worry about.

I just yearn for this moment to last forever.

Because this was all I ever wanted.

Just me, this guy I'm absolutely in love with, and the noise of our nervous, momentous heartbeats outsounding the deafening chaos that inundated our thoughts.