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Chapter 38 • Pt. 5, 2

"You can't just tell me that," she demanded, offended. "Let me pay," she told him slowly and frankly.

Jungkook sighed, annoyed. "Now you want to pay? Lisa, you never want to pay. In Dragon's you were so happy about having free drinks, why suddenly now it is a problem that you're here for free?" he spat at her, frustrated and just as upset as she was.

Lisa scoffed. "A free drink is not the same as a stay in a guest house for three nights Jungkook, are you being serious?"

"Exactly, it's not the same, it's more money, so why now do you want to pay? Let it go, Lisa"

"Let's be clear," she started, putting her hands on her waist as she angrily approached. "One, If it's the time that I think you're talking about, I was saving money for a new lens and you know it, I told you. So anything free was making it easier for me. Two, the one paying for it were employees of the bar and they have a legal discount so it wasn't much of a loss for them and three, I want to pay because I am your girlfriend Jungkook, not a fucking dog"

"Oh, c'mon!" he exclaimed wearily. "Let it go! I'm not treating you as a dog and exactly because you're my girlfriend is why I'm paying for everything "

"Oof, please, don't come for that whole macho argument Jungkook, you're not like this"

"No, I am like this," he clarified. "I pay for trips, vacations, health, rent, It's my duty to-"

"Don't you dare to finish that," she interrupted him with one finger up. "I'm not a duty"

And she hated that he was seeing her as a duty, like weight on his shoulders, actually more weight since he was worried about his family and who knows what else before they came here. Lisa never liked to be a responsibility for someone or someone to worry about, and less when she could do something to help, like right now. But he was taking that for her and putting her in a position she didn't like it, it hurt her.

And he noticed after hearing her statement. His tense expression softened quickly because he had just screwed up.

"But fine, do whatever you want, I don't want to be more a duty for you"

She turned to continue fixing her bag and threw the money inside it, hurt but also very angry with him. It was not fair.

She felt him approach and stand next to her, and she waited to see what he was going to do next.

"What?" she asked, lifting her head and glaring at him.

Jungkook swallowed and looked at her sadly, regretting everything he said. "You' re not a duty, not like that," he told her softly and took her hand so that she rose from the floor and was in front of him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that"

Lisa nodded, still hesitating because his actions said otherwise. It hadn't even crossed her mind that he was looking at her like this until he said it and now she felt so bad.

He put a finger under her chin and made her look at him. "I'm serious, Lisa. I'm sorry"

"Then let me pay"

He sighed and she saw the battle in his eyes. Like he were struggling to not strangle her for being so stubborn but well, she couldn't get his point so she was going to keep standing up for hers.

"Jungkook, I'm a grown girl, I can pay for my things," she told him logically, reasonably. "And we're in a relationship, it's a thing of two. It wasn't a problem before so why now?"

Jungkook pinched the bridge of his nose and turned around, ruffling his hair back. "You don't understand"

"Then explain it to me!"