You're my Sunshine, my only Sunshine

7.1 : Arm's Length

After work, Jisoo’s boyfriend Dr. Cheng was treating dinner. While having dinner, Jisoo constantly reminded her: “Lisa, do you know what ‘eating a meal paid by someone else’ mean?”

Lalisa did not know whether to laugh or cry: “Don’t worry, I’ll certainly buy everything for you, I’ll buy until my hands could not carry anything anymore. However, Jisoo …….” Lalisa leaned next to her ear and whispered: “Don’t you want to maintain your image of a lady?”

Oops! She forgot again! Jisoo reflexively straightened up her back and sat up straight. She also put away her debt collector ugly expression and put up a radian perfect smile. Lalisa saw that graceful Dr. Cheng’s eyes flashing with smile incessantly. He evidently had long discovered this and secretly laughed to himself.

She could not help but also smiled, finally, Jisoo said goodbye to the past.

After the meal, she went home alone. After she went up the bus, she found out she took the wrong one. This bus was bound for her former place of residence so she quickly got off at the next stop. She looked at her watch, which was not even seven o’clock yet so she was not in a hurry to go home.

She shopped for a long time in the supermarket before arriving home at nine after. She opened the door, and the house was absolutely empty.

She walked into the kitchen and took out each of the things in the bag. MSG, salad oil, salt, soy sauce …… there was practically nothing in the kitchen so what did Jungkook usually eat?

There were still some clothes in the bedroom, which have not been unpacked. When she opened the wardrobe, she saw Jungkook’s monotonous suits and shirts neatly hanging in there. He seemed to prefer grey color. Lalisa hung her clothes beside his, then looked at them foolishly and suddenly wanted to smile.

But she also felt heartache.

Jungkook ……

Jungkook.

She took off her shoes and lay on the bed. These two days, she had been sleeping in the guest room, but now she suddenly did not want to leave. An inexplicable emotion, something which she also could not explain herself overflowed in her heart. Perhaps, it was because of tomorrow.

Jungkook would be coming back tomorrow, on Friday.

In a daze, she fell asleep without even taking off the clothes. Unknowingly how much time had passed, half dreaming, half awake, she seemed to hear the sound of someone walking. She turned her body and woke up quite a while later to a pitch-dark room.

When she woke up again, it was already morning so she threw back the quilt to get up …… quilt? Lalisa stared blankly at it. Probably, it was cold at night so she covered herself.
She quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face. Her hair looked a bit long in the mirror and constantly covering the eyes so she had to find a time to have a haircut. She got ready her stuff to go out and when she opened the door, she was stunned.

Jungkook in a suit and tie was standing outside the door. He was holding his keys, like he was about to open the door.

Lalisa unbelievably stared at the man in front of her, “Jungkook?” Why was he here? Didn’t he say he would only be back at night?

“Ah.” Jungkook put away the keys, hastily answered briefly, then walked past her into the guest room.

A moment later, he came out with a stack of documents in his hand. When he saw her still standing foolishly at the door, he frowned.

“Aren’t you going to work?”

“Oh, I am going.”

Lalisa did not know why, but she felt a bit ill at ease. This was the first time she truly realized that their relationship was different, and it would stay that way in the future. Every morning, the first person she would see will be him ……

“I will send you to work.”

Lalisa followed him into the elevator. “No need la, I can go by myself.” The law firm and the magazine publisher are in different directions, one north and one south.

Jungkook pressed the button for the basement parking and said dismissively: “I am going to the court in X district, which is on the way.”

“Oh, that’s good.” So this was why he was giving her a lift.

In the car, Lalisa remembered to ask him: “You …… came back last night?” Otherwise, why did he leave his documents in the guest room?
“Yes.” Jungkook replied curtly, focusing his attention on the road.

Lalisa pursed her lips: “What time …… why didn’t you call me?”

“Eleven something,” he replied a little impatiently, paused, then said: “There was no need.”

Lalisa’s eyes looked slightly bleak so she turned her head to look out the car window. It was the rush hour to go to work, the traffic congestion was bad…… would their relationship always be at a standstill like this?

“Jungkook, if you are still in X district in the afternoon, can we have lunch together?”

Suddenly, Jungkook moved and turned his head. Lalisa was looking out the window and her voice was very soft so who was she talking to?

He turned back his line of vision and said in an indifferent voice: “I don’t think I will be around at noon.”

As a matter of fact, he was also not there in the morning.

“Jungkook?” Namjoon blinked a few times and widened his eyes to look at the person walking into the law firm. The trainee girl rubbed her eyes a few times, “Could it be that my eyes have a problem so I am seeing an illusion?”

“I think the problem is not just the eyes.” Jungkook glanced at him, then walked into his office.

That big man eagerly followed him from behind into his office and sat down. “When I was talking to you on the phone at seven something last night, you were still in Guangzhou so how come you are back now?”

“I was at the airport at that time.” Jungkook sat down, flipped open the documents and said.

“Have you finished the things you needed to do?”

“Almost.”

When he said almost, it meant there was no problem at all. Sometimes, Namjoon could not help but admired his junior because it was already very tight to settle the things in Guangzhou within a week, but he could actually complete them one day ahead. Really did not know how he managed to do it!
“Did you arrive home very late last night? Why were you so anxious since it is not too late for you to come back today.” Namjoon muttered, “If I do not know you are a bachelor like me, I would suspect that you are rushing back to accompany your wife.”

Suddenly, he stopped writing in the documents with the pen in his hand and left a large tear on the paper.

Jungkook raised his head from looking at the documents and bluntly ordered his expulsion: “Namjoon, if I remember correctly, you have to appear in court this morning.”

When Tzuyu saw Jungkook coming out from the meeting room, she immediately handed him the data: “Lawyer Jeon, I have already printed the information you want.”

“Also, this is C university’s centennial celebration invitation, which came together in the post with lawyer Min and lawyer Kim‘s ones. I helped to take yours over.”

“Thank you.” Jungkook nodded his head, took it and opened the exquisite invitation printed with the symbol of C university landmark. It was written 15 November as C university centennial celebration.

Tzuyu looked at the clock on the wall, which was five forty. “Lawyer Jeon, if there is nothing else, then I will get off work.”

“There is nothing more to do so you can leave now.”

“Then, I’ll leave first.” Tzuyu packed her things, then remembered, “Lawyer Jeon, your mobile phone rang many times just now.”