"You're overthinking again."

Jiyeon glances at Jungkook, who was sitting right across from her. The two of them had settled down at the convenience store late at night after a 15-hour photoshoot. While Jungkook was eating away at his cup noodles, Jiyeon stares out the window, chopsticks shoved in her mouth and noodles hanging out of it.

"Yah, are you not going to eat?" Jungkook asks, and she snaps out of her thoughts again.

"Sorry, it's just—nevermind, it's too complicated." She replies, and he grabs her hands. She's slightly startled at the sudden contact, but all he could do was stare intently into her eyes.

"Tell me. Is it about V? Are you guys dating? Is he pursuing you?" He shoots her down with questions and her eyes widen at every one of them.

"It's about V. We're not dating, and he's not pursuing me." She says softly and he frowns in disappointment. "I'm sorry?"

"Then what is it?" He questions her, "you've been acting so awkward and weird around him lately and he's been doing the same thing. There's obviously something going on between the two of you and I wanna know about it because I look stupid standing there acting like I do know what's going on—"

"Look at this," she pulls out her phone, showing him a picture of her and Taehyung a few years back in high school. "Does this man look familiar to you?"

She watches Jungkook stare at the picture for a few seconds until his eyes widen instantly. He looks up at her and it seems as if though all the words had been taken out of his mouth.

"V.. you guys went to the same high school together? You guys were best friends?! But—that doesn't—why is he so mean to—who knew he was going to be a model—I'm so confused."

"That's not V." She purses her lips into a line. "His name is Kim Taehyung."

"Are you sure they're not doppelgangers?" He questions her.

"I'm sure. The moles are all at the same places. But what bothers me is that—"

"I'm honestly very confused right now." He sighs.

"What bothers me is that my best friend, Kim Taehyung, the guy who has the same moles at the same places as V, who is the same age as V, who looks exactly like V, died three years ago."

She watches Jungkook's face grow pale. She wasn't sure if she was supposed to laugh at how scared he looked or how serious he looked. But all she could do was shrug her shoulders, sighing softly to herself.

"And the girl he was talking about earlier, Shin Mijoo," she began, "a girl with the exact same name was the reason why—"

"The reason why he died." Jungkook cuts her off and Jiyeon nods her head.

"Bingo."

"And so what you're trying to tell me right now," he says, "is that V could possibly be your best friend Kim Taehyung who died three years ago?"

"Exactly."

"Well, that's pretty fucked up."