Without You

Chapter 3

I stayed quiet sitting as he kept eating his food. I wasn't hungry, and since I'm already paying for him, I'm not ordering to pay more for myself.

I looked around the place and just watched other people eat. I watched the couples, the families, and the loners eat.

For the past two years in school, I've been very quiet and I have no friends because I make it hard for people to talk to me. Even when I was in groups or with a partner for a project, I stayed quiet, but I did the work and my partner/group did the work as well. But not with Jungkook. He annoys me so much that I have to say something. He makes me want to talk just to insult him. I don't talk to people because I hate talking to people, Jungkook is one reason why.

"You're not eating?" I hear him say. I look over at him and he was eating his tteokbokki. I stayed quiet and continued looking around the place.

"Are you mad at me or something?" He says a few seconds later. I look back at him and roll my eyes. I'm not going to continue talking because of him.

He finished his food, including the large bowl of bimbimbap, and I went to the cashier to pay for it. I took out my wallet and realized that I only had brought 15,000 won with me. I sighed in relief when I saw that the price was 13,000. It was just enough to pay for it.

As soon as I pulled out the 15,000 won and handed it to the cashier, my wallet was empty. I looked at it and sighed. I should get a job, or have the guts to ask my secretly-hiding-that-they-have-a-lot-of-money parents for more money.

The cashier handed me my 2,000 won as change and I bowed at her. I walked out with Jungkook fumbling into his back pocket behind me.

I turned around and saw that he was holding 25,000 won in his hand. I just raised an eyebrow at him. He looked at me and then stood up more straight, I'm guessing to hold his bad boy I'm-so-tough image. I rolled my eyes and before I turned around, he told me something.

"Here." He said, handing the money to me. I looked at him and just stayed looking at him, confused at what he's doing.

"Take it. I swear you make me feel bad. First you run out of paper for your sketchbook and now you wasted like 98% of your money to pay for my food. Just take it." He says, waving the won in my face. I scoffed and just turned around, continuing to walk back towards my home and leave him there.

As I was walking, I hear footsteps coming closer to me. Before I turned around to tell Jungkook to go home, he grabs my hand and turns me to face him. He opens my hands in front of him and places the won in it, closing my hand to hold the won after. He rolls his eyes and walks away.

I stare at him walking away and look down at my hands, seeing that now he has placed 30,000 won in my hand. How much money does this kid have?

***

I was just lying down on my bed, staring at the ceiling. My father went to a motel again and it's barely 5pm. He was already done with my mother.

I got off of my bed and picked up my pajamas to change. As I was taking off my jeans, the won Jungkook gave me earlier fell down. I totally forgot about it. I went and picked it up, placing it on top of my dresser. I just looked at it and scoffed to myself, not believing that Jungkook secretly has a soft side.