"Ugh! It hurts so bad." You stretched out your arms while groaning at the soreness of your whole body from head to toe.

All day you did nothing but cleaned up the whole damn house from corner to corner under the supervision of Mother who didn't left your sight for once.

After cleaning Junwoo's own Playroom, Mother called you downstairs and listed you all the work that you had to do today starting from vacuuming the living room and the complete floor.

For the lunch and dinner, you whole heartedly thanked Yuna who guided you to make a proper meal for the family.

You did noticed that the taste of your food was not much liked by Mother and others too but it was eatable enough.

It was this one person, Park Jimin who didn't even tasted the food and just gagged at the smell. He specially told Yuna to make his food separately right in front of your face.

He really had to do that to you.

"It must hurt a lot right?"
You gazed towards the entrance of kitchen where Yuna was standing with a smile.

Nodding your head, you removed the apron from your body and hanged it on the hanger near the large sized fridge before turning off the lights and walked out along with Yuna towards the living area.

"Didn't you slept? It's past.....one?"
A long sigh escaped from your lips seeing the clock on the wall.

You didn't didn't realized how long it took you to clean all the utensils and kitchen.

"I was waiting for you in case you needed me to help you out in anything." She flashed a warm smile before going towards the white huge gate checking if it's properly locked.

The way Yuna wants to make sure you are doing fine was heartmelting but yet you didn't wanted to trust her.

And this hurted you really bad. She looks genuinely sweet and loving but you always feel she is doing all this on the order of Mother to keep a close eye on you.

"Should I massage your shoulders? It would be a relief otherwise your whole body will ache badly tomorrow." Yuna placed her hand on your shoulder but you denied.

"No thanks. I really want to sleep now. Goodnight."

You passed a quick smile and walked upstairs towards your room simultaneously hearing Yuna behind you probably going to her room as well.

You held the knob of the door and glanced towards Yuna who waved a little before entering her room which was on the opposite wall near the staircase.

Shaking your head in tiredness, you finally opened the door meeting with complete pitch darkness making you confuse.

'Did he put on the curtains too?' You thought while closing the door behind and placed your hand on the wall for support as you carefully moved towards the supposed couch.

'Where is the table-'

'HIT!'

"Ouch!"
You muttered lowly and sinked your teeth on lower lip at the pain on your knee which was throbbing badly.
It got hit by the edge of the bed.

Suddenly, the table light got turned on as you looked in front to find Jungkook sitting up on the bed and gazing you with furrowed eyebrows.

"Can you not make noise?"

He was pissed off for disturbing his sleep but you ignored him and quickly sat down on the couch inspecting your bruised knee, hissing in pain.

Jungkook rolled his eyes and turned back off the lights before laying down leaving you again in dark with no pillow and blanket since it was chilling cold because of AC.

Sighing lowly, you just decided to rest down on couch and folded your arms tightly to have some body heat.

As you closed your eyes, all the body ache finally kicked in making you very uncomfortable but thankfully your tiredness took over the pain and you slept off in no time.

Out of nowhere, there was a small buzzing echoing in the whole room that instantly woke up Jungkook who quickly got out of his bed and eyed the balcony from where the sound was come.

Fortunately, you were in very deep slumber to hear the sound.

Jungkook cursed under his breath and made his way towards the large door glass before removing the curtains letting the bright moonlight enter his room.

His eyes spotted a keypad phone laying on one of the two chairs surrounding the small table with ashtray on it.

It was Jimin's.
He must have forgotten it when the two were having a conversation alone right after dinner.

Jungkook rolled his eyes in disbelief at the elder's carelessness.

"Who the heck is this now?" He muttered in frustration when the phone dinged again and opened the door before quickly picking it up.

His eyebrows furrowed when he saw the message notification.

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[Code Red failed.]
-Today, 1:53 am

['Love' went far away]
-Today, 1:53 am

['It' has been injured though.]
-Today, 1:54 am

[What's next?]
-Today, 1:54 am

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"Fuck!" Jungkook cursed under his breath with his eye pupils slowly dilating in anger as he quickly replied back.

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[One Job, N. One fucking Job!]
-Today, 1:59 am

[Look for 'Love' and knock it off ASAP.]
-Today, 2:01 am

[Code Red continues.]
-Today, 2:05 am

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Jungkook rubbed his forehead and quickly entered back inside, closing the door behind him and putting on the curtains back.

Knowing how important and serious this issue is, he didn't think twice and reached out to the door before exiting his room and eyeing another door in front of Taehyung's room which belonged to his other brother.

He needs to know this right freaking now.

****

'Would you ever live a new day without messing things up?'

You sighed internally and clutched your gown shuddering at the burning eyes Mother was looking at you with.

"Tell me. Were you sleeping separately since your Bounding Night? And I need honest answers Jeon Y/n."

Mother asked sternly.

And in no way you were gonna lie to her. You are not ready for another punishment and another disaster.

"Y-Yes, Mother."
You squeezed your eyes shut and cursing yourself out internally for calling her 'Mother'.

"Oh Jesus Christ. I can't believe this!"
Mother gasped in horror and slumped down on the bed looking you with utter disappointment.

When she was about to speak again, Yuna came and knocked on the opened door with her head down.

"Jungkook is here, Mother."
As she finished, she stepped aside letting a confused Jungkook inside who bowed at Mother and instantly looked at your small figure sitting on the couch in irritation and rage thinking that you did something wrong.

"What happened Mother? What did she do again?" You eyed Jungkook who was looking at you like a predator almost ready to pounce at you.

You were done at that moment.
If Mother ordered him to punish you, You are literally DEAD.

"Not only her, you too Jeon Jungkook."
The man looked at Mother in surprise being called out by his full name since it has never happened before.

"Me? What did I do, Mother?"
He asked in complete confusion.

"Oh really! You don't know what mistake you have done. A big freaking mistake!"
Mother finally raised her voice at him breathing loudly in frustration.

"Why weren't you two sleeping together on one bed? Neither you had sex with your wife on the marriage night nor you are sleeping together on one bed! What the hell you are doing? Your timeline has already been messed up and now you yourself are disrespecting the tradition! Be a responsible man for your wife, Jungkook. She is new to this so she'll be like this but you should act like a mature man.
Be the man like your father!"

There was a pin drop silence in the room making you afraid to even breath. Yuna was already out of your sight not wanting to be disrespectful and listen to personal issues between a couple.

"Your father was the great example of how a man should be like amongst everyone. You are lucky to be his son and learn his values yet here you are being immature and impertinent."

"Learn from Taehyung and Jimin. I prefer you should start taking classes from them since you are still behaving like an unvalued child."

"And you!"
You flinched on your place and gazed up on her sharp voice as she pointed her finger towards you.

"Start behaving like a responsible wife or I'll be the one to give you punishment since your husband isn't going in a right track."
She side-eyed Jungkook while saying the last words and finally stood up still glaring at your way.

"Now, quickly freshen up and make breakfast for the family. Your lazy self has made a lot of problems already."

With that last saying, she finally walked out of the room as you breathed out loudly in relief of not getting punished by Mother.

Standing up on your legs, you ignored the man still standing like a statue in the middle of room and was about to pass by him but he suddenly grabbed your arm and pushed you back on the couch, hovering above your figure catching you off gaurd.

"It was you who told her, right? It was your fucking plan wasn't it?"

Your eyes widened in fear when he leaned close to your face with pure fire burning in his dark eyes. Now that you were seeing, his whole face was filled with nothing but anger. His jaw was clenched tightly almost preventing himself to rip you into peices right there and there.

"Fucking answer me you goddamm-!"

"I didn't do anything. I was sleeping and Mother unexpectedly came inside the room to wake me up along with Yuna!"
You quickly spoke with your heart racing badly in fear of getting hurt by him.

"Why would she come in our room to wake your lazy ass up?"
He gritted his teeth not believing a single word you were saying.

"How would I know that?"
You muttered while looking away to other side as it was getting hard to breath when he was literally an inch away from your face.

Jungkook groaned loudly and tightly gripped your cheeks with one hand which you tried to remove but he pressed them more.

"I don't fucking know what trick or bullshits you are doing but if you caused any problem, I swear I'll be your worst nightmare Y/n."

Your stomach turned upside down at his words as he moved back away and stormed out of the room shutting the door loudly.

You laid back on couch for few minutes still frozen of what just happened but soon break out through the shock when there was a soft knock on the door.

"Y/n."

Before you could mutter a word, the door opened revealing Taehyung who moved his hazel eyes towards your figure in worriedness.

"Are you okay? Did Jungkook hurted you? Did Mother punished you?"
He quickly came beside you and as soon as you looked into his eyes, tears automatically filled up your eyes and in no time they were already flowing down like a river.

"Hey, it's okay."
Taehyung sat down on the couch and gently pressed your shoulder in comfort. But you shook your head and wiped out the tears, not wanting to cry in front of him.

"I'm fine."
You tried to stand up wanting to quickly freshen up to male breakfast but he held your hand, pulling your body forward making you sit beside him.

"You are not at all fine." He softly whispered and placed his thumb on your wet cheeks as more tears came out. His warm voice was making you weak and more mentally emotional.

"Taehyung....please." You lowly muttered and removed your hands from his cold ones feeling the warm aura slowly vanishing away from your surrounding.

"Things haven't ended yet, Y/n. Remember this."

Your mind went numb when he leaned near you tucking a strand of hair behind your ear before showing a hopeful smile.

"Then when will they end?"
You unknowingly asked getting lost in his mesmerizing eyes as he slightly chuckled and held your left hand before placing them on his chest, whispering huskily near your ear.

"Till your heart gives up."

****

"Shit! My back." You moaned in pain when tried to bend down to pick up the black dragon plush toy that fell down while you were dusting Junwoo's bed.

Huffing loudly, already tired as hell from pain and household work you kneeled down to pick up the toy but your eyes caught a glimpse of something shining under the bed covered by a brown cloth.

Leaning forward under the bed, you pulled out the cloth revealing a silver coated box decorated with many pearls and a small heart carved on above.

"Hm? Why did he hide it under bed?"
You whispered and opened the box since it didn't had any lock and found a heart shaped locket whose one side of chain was broken.

You carefully placed the locket on your palm and glanced at the heart releasing it had two sections.

"Hey! Give that back!"
Suddenly, you were pushed form behind making you instantly fall down hitting your elbow to the corner of the side table as the locket fell out from your hand.

"J-Junwoo?"
You surprising looked at the kid who was literally glaring you with rage in his eyes as he clutched the locket tightly in his hand close to his chest.

"Didn't your parents taught you not to see someone's belonging?!"
He further yelled sending you in shock at his harsh words.

"What-"

"You are so mannerless! You don't deserve Jungkookie Uncle!!"

With this he didn't wasted a second and rushed out of his room before you could even mutter a single word.
Well, even if he stayed you wouldn't have said anything as you were still in shock of what that little kid said.

"Geez! Why is he running- Oh God! Y/n are you okay?"

Yuna gasped as soon as her eyes laid on your figure and quickly went towards you, helping you to stand on your foot.

"Oh no. Did Junwoo caused this?"
She worriedly asked while eyeing the scraped elbow from where blood was oozing out.

"Um No. I tripped myself."
You instantly shook your head and chuckled nervously while covering your bleeding elbow and sitting on the bed.

"Don't lie. I just saw Junwoo running in the hallway angrily."
Yuna controverted with serious gaze and sat beside you before sighing.

"Tell me Y/n, what just happened?"

You didn't wanted to tell her but still ended up narrating the whole incident because you knew there must be a reason why he behaved like that and was so aggressive towards you.

This surely has to do with that locket and maybe Yuna knows anything regarding that locket.

"I'm sorry on behalf of him. He just......I'm really sorry. You absolutely didn't deserved to get hurt because of that." She comforted you.

"You know why he reacted like that? It's that locket right? What's with it? Why it triggered him?"

The overwhelming questions that you quickly bombarded on her hoping to get answers from her went in waste as she only shook her head with a small smile.

"I am sorry but I'm not obliged to tell you about it. It's really not my place. "

She got up from the bed and strolled towards the door, showing her back to you before whispering something that was clearly audible to your ears.

"But, one thing I can tell you that locket is really precious to him.....maybe even more than his life."

With that she left the room leaving you pondering about her last few words.

~To Be Continued

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