6. After Hours
Jungkook held the packaged meal in one hand as he left the cafeteria. Even though the hall was bustling with girls still, he didn't see Willa anywhere. The front of his outfit was sopping wet from the water that had been tossed his way, causing his washcloth boobs to look saggy. He tried to keep his body tucked off to the side as he made his way past the girls, which just made it looked like he was some sort of whipped puppy from the Holly interaction but he didn't care. By the time he made it upstairs and back to the dorm room, he moved to unlock it before trying to open it. Even with it unlocked, the door only opened slightly when Jungkook tried to push on it. It was as if Willa had barricaded it somehow from the inside.
"Willa, are you in there?" he asked; his fake voice echoing throughout the corridor. A gaggle of girls passed behind him, giggling at the fact that he was blocked from entering the room.
"You're not rooming in here," she replied. "I get my own room."
Jungkook let out a small sigh as he looked down at the packaged meal in his hand; a meal that was still warm and making him hungry all over again even though he had just eaten.
"Look, I'll talk to the secretary in the morning and see if a switch can be made," said Jungkook, "But for tonight can you please let me in?"
There was silence on the other side of the door for a moment before he heard a rustling. The door opened and he was face-to-face with the girl on the other side. Willa looked right at him for a moment before wordlessly stepping aside, dragging the desk chair behind her to put it back in front of the desk.
"Thank you," said Jungkook with a small bow of his head as he entered the room, shutting the door behind him.
He held out the plastic bin towards Willa when she turned back to face him, watching as she took it in her hands. He then moved to go over to where his duffel was, wanting to change out of the wet shirt he was in before he got caught. He began to rummage through the duffel for a change of clothes, quickly wrapping a new bra and washcloths in the shirt. When Jungkook turned back around, he saw that she was now sitting cross-legged in the center of her bed, staring at the misted contents in her hands.
"Are you okay?" Jungkook asked.
"I'm putting up with you for a night," said Willa in response. "Please make it painless for me."
'Wicked woman,' thought Jungkook, rolling his eyes as he moved towards the bathroom.
He shut the door before beginning to strip out of his shirt. As was to be expected, the washcloths had retained most of the water that had been thrown his way. He tried wringing them out in the sink the best he could before wrapping them and the soaked bra in the equally soaked shirt. He'd have to figure out a way to dry them out later. He then slipped the new bra on after stuffing the cups; the shirt sliding over his head after. As he made his way back out into the bedroom, he noticed that Willa had opened the container and was poking at the contents. She wasn't saying anything though, and Jungkook knew better than to say anything to her. He moved to his bed, digging out his cell phone to see that the group chat had new messages.
Jimin
Did they post Jungkook's bail yet?
Jungkook snorted. He saw Willa look over his way but didn't look back as he read the rest of the screen, moving to lay down on his back.
Hobi
I'm waiting for him to show up on the news.
Then we'll know for sure.
What do you think the breaking news headline will be?
Taehyung
Desperate Man. Desperate Measures
Jimin
Something Manly This Way Comes
Hobi
Husky Wo'man' arrested
Jungkook saw the dots still dancing at the bottom of the screen and moved to type a response before they could write anything more.
Jungkook
You all have it wrong.
The real headline will be
'Man murders his three best friends for being jerks'
Jimin
Hey Kookie!
You're alive!
Jungkook
Of course I am.
Hobi
Meet any cute babes yet?
Jungkook
Cute in appearance only
Lot of mean girls here
Taehyung
Again, I want the tea.
Jungkook
No
Taehyung
No fun.
Jungkook turned his phone off after that, having had his fill of his nutball friends for the day. He placed the cell phone on the head board of the bed before looking over in Willa's direction. He saw that she had only eaten half of the meal she'd been given; the rest of it lying on the surface of the desk. Willa was now lying on her side on her bed; her back to him as she faced the wall. She had earbuds in her ears; Jungkook able to hear the underlying rhythm of her song from where he was. Even though he wasn't tired yet, he decided that it would be best if he closed his eyes and tried to get some sleep.
- - -
Jungkook knew that he must have fallen to sleep because when he next opened his eyes, the room was darker than it had been before. Pushing himself up onto his elbows, he saw that Willa was still curled up in the same position. The stained glass window of the room reflected the moonlight outside into weird patterns on the floor; the red looking like spilled blood.
As Jungkook stayed where he was, he became more and more perturbed. Normally he was a sound sleeper and didn't get up unless something woke him. He forced himself to sit upright in bed, listening to the silence of the night. Just when he was about to blame his awakened state on being in a new environment, he heard a noise from the hallway.
Jungkook swung his feet out of the bed and grabbed his cell phone from where it rest on the headboard. Adjusting his bra to make sure he still looked like a girl, he moved towards the door and opened it a crack. The hallway was completely dark except for the intermittent glow of the emergency lights. Jungkook poked his head into the hallway and was just in time to see the tip of a ponytail disappear around the corner. Making sure to have his key to the room in his pocket, Jungkook slipped out into the hallway, shutting the door behind him.
He gently moved down the hallway in the direction the ponytail had disappeared. As he rounded the corner, he saw a blonde haired girl standing at an open window at the end of the hall; her body outlined by the shine of the moon. Jungkook involuntarily shivered as the cold air from outside rushed to greet him, watching as she climbed up onto the window ledge. She stayed in a crouched position on the ledge for a moment before moving to slip onto a tree branch directly outside the window. Jungkook wondered where the girl was going, giving her a minute before moving towards the open window to peek out into the night himself. The girl had clambered down the tree and he could just barely make out her shadowy figure at the base of the tree, laughing with another shadowy figure that was already there. Jungkook couldn't hide the smirk on his face as he brought his head back inside, wondering where those girls were sneaking off too after curfew had been imposed.
'Some security this place has,' thought Jungkook as he turned back around.
As he did, he saw a man standing there with his arms crossed. He had a flashlight pointed right at Jungkook as he said in an authoritative voice, "And what do you think you're doing exactly?"
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