regroup | jeon jungkook [part two]
summary: drifting away from your best friend is never an easy thing to deal with. its a good thing a very important project is forcing you both to regroup
➳ pairing: jungkook x reader (f)
➳ genre: college au, fluff, angst, smut (eventually)
➳ rating: 18+
➳ warnings: none! just a lot of fluff
➳ wc: 1.4k+
➳ author's notes: i hope you all enjoy part two! i'm sorry it took so long to get here. school and work have been kicking my ASS. but anyways! let me know what you think!
PROLOGUE | PART ONE | PART TWO
“Now who’s the late one, huh?” Jungkook raised his eyebrows as you plopped your bag down on the seat next to him. You rolled your eyes as he teased you, raising his eyebrows at your irritated expression.
“Don’t start Jeon.” You opened up your laptop in a hurry, cringing as you read the time. You were only ten minutes late but in your eyes, it was wasted time. You two still had nothing to show for since you got paired together and the due date was creeping closer and closer.
“I totally forgot that my building was doing a maintenance check today and so I had to stay there for hours while they checked doors and toilets and ugh…anyways.”
For a moment, it went quiet between you both. You looked up at the man sitting across from you as he scanned your face, brow furrowed.
Your own eyebrows knitted together “What? Do I have something on my face?” You pulled your phone out to check your reflection. Nothing seemed out of place.
“No no, I’m just….did you get to eat?” he said lowly.
You thought back to the manic morning, trying to wonder if you did eat that banana that was left on your side. Your tummy rumbled at the thought.
I guess that was your answer.
“Uh no, not yet but, I’ll just get something later.” You opened up your notes “We need to get a move on.”
Jungkook shook his head “No, absolutely not. You need to eat. It’s already 3:15. You must be starving.” The scrape of his chair echoed across the library. “Give me 2 seconds.”
Before you could protest, Jungkook sprinted towards the cafeteria. ‘What a procrastinator.’ You thought to yourself, sighing as you were left sitting at the empty table. After you quickly skimmed through your unfinished plan, outlining the key ideas of your project, you felt your mind drift to yesterday's weird fiasco in your room.
Jungkook seemed to change in your presence. Acted like nothing ever happened between you two. Acted like he never abandoned being your best friend.
But why?
Before you could think any deeper, the man himself had arrived back. He placed a muffin and a coffee cup in front of you.
“Oh, Jungkook thank you…but you know I don’t drink coffee so-” You began to say, inching the cup back towards him. He shushed you.
“Of course I know that dummy! Open the lid and smell it!” He took the liberty for you as he once again sent it back to you and opened the lid of your cup. Instantly the aroma of chai hit your senses.
The smell of cinnamon and creamy milk right away puts you at ease. This was your favourite drink and you’d pick it every time without fail.
And Jungkook had remembered. Not only that you didn’t drink coffee. But also that you’d only drink one other thing.
Your heart squeezed at the thought. “Thank you, Kook.” you beamed lightly.
He nodded, sweetly smirking. “No big deal. Now eat before you fade away!”
After taking a few bites of your muffin and drinking some more tea, you finally decided to get to it. Time is of the essence after all.
A couple of hours went by. Finally, both of you had achieved a hard outline of what your assessment was focusing on. The stress that was once looming over you was somewhat gone as you scrolled through both your (and now Jungkook’s) notes
“This is great! With this, it’ll make our lives so much easier when writing up the paper!”
The excited tone in your voice now echoed across the library. The time was 7 pm. Only a few students still worked silently at their desks, but it was nowhere near the mayhem it was earlier on.
You also hadn’t realised in the depths of your study that the sky outside had also gone dark. You sighed “Okay well, this seems like a good place to stop.”
“Oh thank god!” Jungkook groaned. You rolled your eyes as you packed up your stuff.
“Hey, don’t act like you weren’t enjoying it! You were really getting into it at the end.”
Jungkook laughed as he slid his jacket on “No, I was honestly just enjoying how focused your face gets.”
“What do you mean?”
He pointed to the gap between his eyebrows “Your eyebrows scrunch together right here, it's really cute.”
Your breath hitched again at the sudden compliment as you both walked out into the evening air.
“Haha very funny.” you stopped, waiting to say goodbye before you can make your way home. “Well, I better get going-”
“Woah woah, what are you doing?”
You paused “I’m…going home?”
Jungkook chuckled “You really think I’m gonna let you walk home by yourself? What kind of man do you think I am Y/n?”
“O-Oh Kook…I’m fine it’s just down the street-”
He shushed you once again, gently taking your hand and guiding you towards your dorm. The sudden touch of his skin against yours made your face heat up.
“You know, you shush me a lot.” You huffed as you walked alongside him, taking your hand out of his gentle grasp.
“Well, you talk a lot.”
“Did that hurt?” you broke the silence as you both quietly walked along the street
“Did what hurt?”
You pointed to his big sleeve tattoo. While you were working earlier, you found yourself entranced and constantly looking at art that covered his entire arm. He himself caught you a few times, smirking and telling you to “take a picture, it should last longer..!”
“Ah, I was wondering when you were finally gonna bring this up.” He smirked now once again.
You tutted “You know what? I’m sorry I asked, just forget about it.” You went to walk ahead in a strop, but he grabbed your arm and pulled you back
“Hey no, I’m kidding.” he chuckled “It hurt a little, but the more times I went to get it finished, the more it was bearable you know?”
“You had to go back more than once?”
He nodded “Of course? You think this took only one sitting? I’d be there for hours!”
“I don’t know! I’m not a tattoo expert!” you shrugged “What did your mom think of it?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well the last time I saw her, she was ADAMANT that tattoos were a no-go.” You laughed lightly at the memory
Jungkook laughed alongside you, hands in his pockets. “Ah that. Well, let’s just say she wasn't happy! And by ‘wasn’t happy’ I mean on the brink of fainting.”
You laughed harder “Oh my god! For real?”
“No joke, my dad was ready to catch her.”
You both burst into another fit of laughter as Jungkook kept adding more to the story.
“Wow, I miss your mom.” you sighed as you wiped a stray tear from your eye. “She’s great.”
“Yeah.” He chuckled “She misses you too.”
A wake of awkwardness swept over the two of you once again. You thanked the universe above that you were now coming up to your dorm.
“Well.” You started, stopping at the entrance “Next time you speak to her, tell her I miss her cooking.”
He looked down at his feet “Will do. And hey, next time you speak to your mom tell her I miss her baking.”
“Whenever you need her cookies, be sure to get in touch.” You partly joked. He nodded lightly, leaving the two of you to glance at just each other for a split second
Before the silence could make its way into the conversation again you quickly broke out pf your trance “Thank you for walking me home.”
He shrugged lightly “Ah no big deal, It’s the least I could do for standing you up yesterday.”
“Apology accepted.” You smiled
Jungkook lingered for a split second. “So…meet at the same time tomorrow?”
While your brain (and a little bit of your heart) was screaming at you to say yes, you had other priorities you had to attend to.
“Oh, I can’t tomorrow. I have Joon’s birthday dinner tomorrow. He couldn't celebrate it on his actual birthday because of exams so he’s throwing it now.”
At the sudden mention of Namjoon, Jungkook’s jaw ticked “Ah, gotcha.” he mumbled dryly.
Your brows furrowed “What’s up with you?”
“Uh, nothing. Thanks for today. Text me when you’re next free okay? At another dry response, he turned on his heels and walked away towards his own dorms, leaving you standing at your doorstep by yourself.
What just happened?
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