Chaeyoung watched her best friend, Lisa inspecting every side of her room sadly after she announced to all three girls when she would be leaving after her parents gave all the information to her.

"I can't believe you're really leaving. We promised to further our studies together, here," Lisa said after months of being silent about it. Lisa pouted and wrapped her long arms around Chaeyoung and hugged her tightly. "Who's going to fool around with me later?"

Chaeyoung put on her best effort to not shed a tear and it was difficult. "Stop it," she chuckled. "You fool around with Hoseok as much as you always do with me."

Lisa pouted and gave her a disapproving look. "How can you assume it's the same? With him, it's a different kind of fooling around," she said cheekily and Chaeyoung let out a gasp, pushing her friend with a dramatic face expression.

"Ew!"

Lisa laughed heartily but didn't stop just yet as she kept reminding Chaeyoung how between the two of them it was merely innocent while with Hoseok, it would be the total opposite and it would be more fun and exciting.

"Stop!" she laughed loudly and covered her ears with her hands.

Once the two of them calmed down, Jisoo asked, "So have you told Jungkook?"

"About to tell him now," she said, fumbling with her phone. She stared at the picture of her and Jungkook on the screen and felt such heaviness, probably a similar kind when she was about to tell her friends about her departure date. She wanted to wait for him to come home from visiting his family on his father's side but then she wasn't sure if he deserved to wait just to know that one thing.

She sent him a message, afraid that calling him would disturb whatever activity he was doing with his family members and she knew she wasn't supposed to expect him to reply straightaway, but then at every second that flew away and he still wasn't replying to her made her feel tightness in the pit of her stomach. The unpleasant feeling was ridiculous yet it was overwhelming.

It was almost 12 a.m. that she finally got a respond from him and it was a phone call.

"Hey..." he began and she could make out how exhausted he sounded.

"Are you okay?" she asked with concern.

"I'm fine," he replied and her heart calmed a bit when she heard that because it seemed as though he was smiling as he responded to her concern.

"Did you get my message?" she asked softly, fingers playing with the end of her hair.

He hummed. "Yeah, I did."

She expected more than that but it was understandable since he seemed to be tired and she thought that it was sweet enough that he even thought to give her a call. "When are you coming back?"

"Probably tomorrow. Miss me already?" she heard him chuckled.

"Haven't seen you for almost two weeks," she pouted as she rolled on her tummy and she thought of how it would be to not being able to see him for months. Two weeks without him already felt like her life was empty. She couldn't really imagine a longer period. With her eyes closed as she rested her chin onto her folded arm on the mattress, she whispered sadly into the phone, "I miss you so much."

When Jungkook was silent for long moments, she thought he'd fallen asleep but then a sad voice of his responded to her, "Two weeks and you're already missing me this much. How are you going to survive not seeing me for months or years?"

Her fingers curled around the bed sheet, lower lip trembling. She didn't have an answer to that, because she didn't think she could. She didn't think she could survive being away from her brother, her cousin, her best friends and her boyfriend. She'd always consider herself as independent, but when this situation came, she should reconsider labeling herself that.

Being taken away from her one and only sibling was probably her wish once upon a time when she was younger but even now when Jimin wouldn't miss an opportunity to annoy her, she didn't want to get away from him. And her best friends, they were literally her sisters. She wondered every day, would she be able to cope with a situation when her sisters weren't around for her to talk about things that she usually didn't talk about to the boys in her life?

Jeon Jungkook? Someone she considered as her soul mate was him, her first ever boyfriend. Was it even possible to be separated from him? He wasn't just simply a boyfriend. He was even more significant than that title. He was more than just a friend, more than just a neighbor, more than just a best friend and even when he was her boyfriend, he was still more than that. She couldn't find a word that would best describe his significance to her life.

To be separated from all the important people of her life was something that undoubtedly would break her down to the core.

"Babe?"

Chaeyoung wiped her eyes and tried to sniffle quietly. "You're tired. Get some rest. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Chaeng," Jungkook's voice soothingly called her name and she pressed the phone closer to her ear, desperate for his voice. He seemed to want to say something but the lingering silence told her that there was a hesitation. Eventually, he softly said, "Good night."

For hours on the next day, Chaeyoung kept her ears alert so as not to miss out the sound of car and whenever she heard it, she'd check through the window and although she wanted to run out of her house and jump into Jungkook's arms immediately, she knew it wouldn't be appropriate to do so when his parents and brother were there as well. She waited till every one of them except her boyfriend to get inside before she herself walked toward the front door of her house in long steps.

When she swung her door opened widely, she saw Jungkook getting ready to walk toward her house. Before he could, instantaneously she ran and saw Jungkook's smile widened when he looked at her. He stayed glued in front of his house and she ran faster, throwing her arms around him and sighed in relief when Jungkook wrapped his arms around her body as soon as they were in contact.

"You've become prettier," he commented when she pulled apart and she laughed in response, pecking his lips briefly.

"Silly," she laughed.

They walked hand in hand toward the park in the neighborhood, sat on the grass at a spot where there wouldn't be too many people around. When Chaeyoung leaned her head against his shoulder and let it rest there, Jungkook cleared his throat and begun to speak.

"I actually got something for you."

With a smile, Chaeyoung turned to look at him, this time, placing her chin on his shoulder. "What is it?"

Jungkook smiled while looking down briefly, his hand fished for something from inside his pocket and Chaeyoung's eyes widened when he opened his fist at her, revealing a silver ring necklace on his wide palm.

"Oh my gosh," she gasped and covered her mouth with a hand. Wordlessly, Jungkook gestured her to turn around and hold her hair before he put it on her. Chaeyoung looked down at the ring and she felt her heart was about to burst when she saw what was written on the outside and inside of it. His full name on the inside and his initials on the outside.

"It's something to remind you that you're mine," he smirked and Chaeyoung giggled in delight, her fingers couldn't stop twirling the ring. "And also, to warn off others that you're taken. Just in case, you know." He shrugged.

"You're such a romantic," she complimented him shyly and Jungkook chuckled, brushing the hairline of his as she witnessed him turning shy at it too.

His fingers slipped into his collar and he pulled out a similar looking ring necklace and showed to her, and Chaeyoung swore that it pulled the widest smile of the day from her when she saw her initials on the outside of the ring in between his thumb and index fingers.

As she leaned closer to look on the inside of it and saw her full name, she quickly went in for a hug that Jungkook lost his balance on his hand planted on the grass and he fell on his back with her on top of him. When he laughed, she felt the vibration of his chest against hers and Chaeyoung bit her lip to control her smile. Chaeyoung propped herself on her elbow, looking at him underneath her with loving eyes.

"Do you like it?" he asked softly, his palm resting on the small of her back.

Her eyes probably glimmered as she answered him, "I love it."

"Do me a favor, then."

"Anything."

"Don't take it off, okay? You have to wear it every single day and it must be on full display. Got it?" Jungkook told her with his bunny smile and Chaeyoung nodded eagerly, too content with the precious gift.

Chaeyoung linked her arm with his after she got off him and once again rested her head on his shoulder before saying, "Do me a favor, too."

"Anything," he replied and Chaeyoung smiled in content briefly when she felt him leaning the side of his head toward the top of her head.

"I want you to be at the airport later on the day I'm leaving."

She didn't hear him respond with words or sounds nor did she feel him responding with his head. It was just ridiculous to overthink about it and so she tried to shake it off in her head but the worry just wouldn't run off.

"Please?" she pleaded after lifting her head off his shoulder and looking at him with a sad frown.

Jungkook stared into her eyes for a good two seconds before he gave her a small smile and a nod. "I'll be there."

"Promise?"

"I promise."