Jungkook's POV

"I like you." I blurted out in the silence of the office.

Jaehwa looked at me in surprise on the other side of the office. "What was that?"

I flushed and ducked my head behind a computer screen again. What was I saying, how is that going to get her away from him?

It's not like I liked her!

In a blink of an eye, Jaehwa was suddenly behind me. I felt her presence and, in a wave of panic, fell over onto my side. I looked up at her from the ground, letting the embarrassment build up within me.

"You've been really weird lately Jungkook." She bent down and started to gather the papers I scattered on the floor. "Are you alright?"

I nodded frantically and tried to gather myself to stand up again. "I, I'm just."

She frowned and suddenly slipped her hand onto my forehead. My body froze upon contact, my eyes locked with hers which were only just inches away from mine.

"W-What are you doing?" I could feel the heat radiating off my face. I have never been this close to a girl, especially not someone like her.

"Are you sick?" She asked curiously and pressed her other hand on her own forehead. "You're burning up."

"S-Sick?" I knocked her hand off of my head and got up abruptly to my feet. "I'm not sick!"

She looked up at me, annoyed and still kneeled on the floor. "Why are you yelling?"

"I-" Not knowing what to say, I pressed the back of my hand to my nose and tried to shield my face from her.

Just how daring can she be? Doesn't she know what personal space is?

Before I could gather my thoughts, she stood up before me and shook her head at me. "Just so you know, I'm not trying to take Taehyung from you."

I blinked at her.

"I can tell how close you are, and I can also tell that you're trying to get between us." She sighed and turned around, facing her back to me. "It's annoying, so stop it."

Without another word, Jaehwa left the room and down the hall where we came from, leaving me alone in the dark office. I was still in a state of shock from her overstepping boundaries and my face was still burning bright red.

Had she known all this time?

I let out a loud groan of frustration and ruffled my hair in distress. Did I make a fool out of myself?

"Aish! So embarrassing!"

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Jaehwa's POV

I didn't go too far down the hall before a hand stopped me. I turned to stare into the pale face of Yoongi. Unknowingly, every thought I had in my head wiped clean and I was left feeling a rush of nerves that rose and gathered around my face.

"Oppa!" I yelled perhaps a bit loudly.

He beamed at me and took the stack of papers from my hand. "Are you going to see Hobeom?"

I nodded.

"Great, I was heading there myself."

I tried to grab the papers back. "I can carry that myself."

He took it out of my reach and maneuvered around me. "I got it, I can't let you carry it yourself."

Not able to make him budge, I followed after him as he headed down the stairs to the main office on the first floor.

The two of us walked in silence, listening to our footsteps echo through the staircase as we stepped down and down. I trailed after him, eyes locked on the floor and my mind a jumbled mess. Yoongi was helping me, he's right here, what do I say? I should say something, it's so awkward. God why is he carrying my stuff?

"Hey Jae," His voice was low and it sent a chill down my spine.

"Yes!" I shot my head up and almost missed a step if not for the railing.

"You know Taehyung has feelings for you right?"

I blinked at the back of his head. "W-what?"

Yoongi chuckled. "He's head over heels in love with you, and something tells me he won't be letting it go anytime soon."

So?

He turned around mid-step and looked up at me. "Why don't you accept his feelings?"

My heart felt like it had just been stepped on, cut and thrown down the stairs. A rush of tears swelled at the corners of my eyes but I held them back to the best of my abilities. Here was Yoongi, perfect, fine Yoongi, telling me to accept the feelings of another man?

"He's really not that bad, he's smart actually if you get past the," He paused. "The unique side."

"He's not allowed to date." I blurted out and instantly regretted it.

Yoongi looked at me funny for a brief moment. "Well yeah, but we can help with that can't we?"

That hurt even more. Sure, he didn't know the feelings I had for him, and yet.

"Who are you to tell me who to like?" I asked, holding my hands in fists beside me.

"Jae," He cooed softly.

"You don't know anything about me, so how can you say something like that?" I asked again, this time I was yelling. Tears were starting to swell in my eyes and I could feel them almost finding freedom down my cheeks.

Before the first of the tears fell, I pushed past him and grabbed the papers from his arms. Without another word, I stomped down the last of the stairs and left for the office on the first floor. All the way down, I didn't hear him come down, and I didn't want him to. I didn't want him to see me crying, I didn't want to seem weak in front of him.

And yet,

how can he be so cruel?

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Yoongi's POV

"Now you've done it." I banged my head on the wall for the fourth time in a row. "You've made a girl cry."

I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to erase any memories of the way Jaehwa looked as I suggested the issue with Taehyung.

That was obviously not the way to approach it.

I groaned and sinked onto the floor, holding my head between my arms. "Min Yoongi, you big idiot."

But that wasn't the only thing that was bothering me.

Just what was I trying to accomplish by asking her that question?

It wasn't like my character to be so forward about another member's problems, to care so much about another member's relationships.

I looked at my hands, one of which had a small paper cut on the tip of the forefinger and bit my lip. When was the last time I helped someone do errands? When was the last time I helped someone do anything?

Since debuting, all I knew was myself, but that didn't stop me from helping her, a mere worker.
Nothing was like my character when I talked with Jaehwa.

It was like she had the ability to change me.

Notes

Gunna finally get started with the plot.... this story was always kinda challenging to format... hoping their up coming comeback will pump a huge amount of inspiration into me

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enjoy~~