Just A Number

I looked at him bewildered, “what?” He sucks his teeth rubbing the back of his neck, “I don’t know, you just make me feel something, texting you, getting to know you, it’s like…I’ve known you all my life.” He started fidgeting his fingers. I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel the same, as in getting to know him throughout the week. It was some sort of connection, the excitement of receiving a text from him, hearing one of his songs on the radio, even seeing him on TV, it made me feel happy. I don’t know my feelings, I just, still feel odd the thought of dating a famous person and someone younger than me. “Ah, well we should go!” He stood up from the table, “where to?” He smiled, “You’ll see.”

I sat in the passenger seat as Jungkook drove to our next destination. The night was surprisingly cool, the one where you didn’t have to wear your heavy jacket out. We pulled up to a sketchy building where only a light was shining on the door entrance, there was no sign or anything, just graffiti on the dirty brick walls. “Umm…where are we?” I asked nervously. “At one of my favorite spots,” he chuckles. Favorite spots? It looks like a spot where gang members hide and unload trucks of drugs if you ask me.

He parked his car in the empty lot and headed out to open the passenger door, “Come, let’s go.” He banged on the metal door smiling. There’s no way he could be a gang member, he’s so happy all the time. The door opened and a tall guy greeted Jungkook with a high five, “Hyung!” Jungkook yelled, the guy’s eyes caught me and he smiled with his dimples showing, “Hello, I’m Kim Namjoon, Jungkook’s best friend.” “Nice to meet you, I’m Kang Yuna,” I smiled back, “So this is the young lady Jungkook can’t stop talking about?” Jungkook slapped his shoulder trying to get him to shut up, “sorry, it’s just been a long time since little Jungkook lik--,” “Okay shall we go,” Jungkook interrupted him pulling me by the hand to go inside. As we walked further inside I saw the floors becoming Trampolines.

The floors were trampolines!! “Jung….Kook….? What…is this place?” My eyes were gazing everywhere, he held his arms up, “Surprise! We’re at Trampoline land!” he quickly took off his shoes and ran to bounce on the trampoline floors, still in his suit. “He spent his first big paycheck to buy this place,” Namjoon laughs standing next to me. “He…owns this place?” He nodded, “yep, he wanted to have a private place to hang out where no one would know where he’s at, as in, paparazzi’s and the media, so he saw this building on sale once, it was pretty run down and abandoned but he still bought it. It took maybe a year to fix it up like this,” “But, why trampolines?” He chuckled, “I don’t know, Jungkook is Jungkook but, he’s been coming here almost every day if he has time, him and our friends just chill here,” Oh, so he has other friends.

The metal door opened and 2 guys ran in screaming in excitement kicking their shoes off and jumping into the trampoline, one doing a front flip. One of them was Hoseok, Jungkook’s driver. “YU-NAAAA COME JOIN!” Jungkook yelled jumping up and down. He looked like a happy little kid, “Shall we?” Namjoon looked towards me, oh why the hell not? I unzipped my boots and ran in to join the others. We were jumping so high, doing flips, laughing uncontrollably and this was my first time…in a LONG time actually having…fun.


We all laid on the trampolines exhausted, sweating like pigs, we were nonstop jumping for almost an hour. “I guess that’s my work out for the week,” I laughed, Jungkook sat up looking at me, “Did you enjoy yourself?” he grinned, I nodded my head giggling. One of Jungkook’s friend’s that I just met name Jimin sat up, “This is like our little clubhouse,” “So you guys always come here to jump?” “Yeah and this is where we write our music, I help kookie here write,” Namjoon added, “Jumping helps me get inspiration,” Jungkook smirked. “That’s awesome guys, I wish I had a little hangout spot,” I giggled, they all paused and looked at each other, “What?” I eyed them, “You can be a part of our club if you date Jungkook,” Jimin snickered, Jungkook’s eyes boggled pushing Jimin down, “Sorry sorry,” he waved his hands, “well I guess that’s our queue to leave,” Hoseok laughed, and all 3 of them got up to go outside, leaving me and Jungkook alone. He was avoiding my look, his face still red with embarrassment, “Um, should I take you home?” he finally said still looking elsewhere.

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