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This guy lives in a studio apartment with minimal decor, furniture, barely has any groceries in the fridge but owns a top model full black range rover velar and expensive clothing. I guess people in his profession need to change their hideouts several times. Maybe that's why he lives like that. It really seems more like a hideout than a house.
Buckling the seatbelt across yourself, you lean on the seat and sigh. Just a second later, you hear Jungkook turn on the ignition. Listening to the car roar, you close your eyes.
You are going home.
Ugh.
For some unknown reason, you weirdly feel discomfort leaving this place. You just spent a countable number of hours here. They were full of physical pain, fights with Jungkook, fear and what not but still it felt like you were at a better place than your house. You felt relieved from that sick environment in your house.
Saturday hasn't even started and Sunday is yet to come. Yeonhan is going on a two day field trip this weekend which means you will be alone with your parents in your house, locked in your room. Just the thought of it is suffocating.
You open your eyes and leave out a silent sigh, looking out of the window, at the silent and serene environment. You push the button on the car door and let the window slide down, resulting in cold air crashing into your face, making you feel relaxed. The street lights, the passing white traffic lanes in the middle of the road, the night sky, lone streets and no vehicles at the signals hit differently and oddly calms down everything going on in your head automatically. It's like nature giving you a break from your life at this time of the day. Just living that moment itself is healing.
"You can drop me off at the signal ahead. I'll walk from there" you say quietly not looking at him but the road in front and grab your backpack.
Jungkook, who was sitting beside you in the driver's seat with his elbow resting on the car door by the window, his same hand was in his hair and another on the steering wheel, eyes on the road and mind was lost somewhere else. Just like you.
Not listening to you, he takes the left turn on the main street, leaving the signal you were talking about way ahead. Noticing him not listening to you, you look at him but just then you notice another thing. He took the turn which takes you to your home.
"You of course know where I live, don't you?" you look at him in disbelief and also disgusted.
Replying to you wasn't something he was planning to do anytime soon. He just sits there ignoring your words with an annoyed expression on.
"You must know my building, the floor I live on, the apartment number, everything, right?" "You are seriously unbelievable" you talk to him in an aggressive tone.
He responds in the same way as earlier.
"Stop the car"
He still ignores and starts getting agitated.
"I said stop the car, Jungkook!" You grab onto his clothing by his arm.
"What is your problem?" He suddenly snaps at you making you jump and screeches the brakes of his car.
"My problem? You kicked me out of your house because I invaded your privacy but now I discover that you already know everything about me and that too god knows from how long. This is not fair and acceptable at all" groaning at him, you open the car door and get down immediately holding your bag.
"Y/N-"
"Give me my phone" you stretch your hand towards him with your eyebrows shooting up and gaze sharpening towards him.
He just clenches his jaw and shoots a threatening look at you. "Get in the car, Y/N" you could sense him controlling his anger.
"I am not going anywhere with you just give me my phone"
"There are no buses at this time-"
"I'll take a cab" you cut him off.
"It's not safe" his agitation increases more and more.
"And travelling with a murderer and a person who shot me is?" You taunt him in the worst way possible, making him lose his temper.
Hearing that, it makes him press his eyes close and pinch the bridge of his nose. Just then, two jeeps filled with drunk teenagers and men who were hooting, playing loud music and holding the beer bottles pass by you. It catches both of your attention.
"Still want to go home by yourself which is still far away?" Jungkook taunts.
You breathe in fear and think for a second before replying to him. "It's my lookout. Why does a person like you even care about it? I thought you were done with returning the unknown favour. Leave me alone in my condition now"
Not being ready to leave you alone, he looks behind from where those guys took the turn, thinks for a few seconds and then looks back at you.
"I'm sorry" "I was being a hypocrite" he says calmly, soon stealing eyes from you by looking ahead at the windshield.
What?
Sorry?
Did Jeon Jungkook just apologize?
"Sorry?" You ask unbelievably.
"You heard it. Now get in. It's getting late" he again starts speaking in a dominating way.
Being shook and taken aback by Jungkook's unexpected behavior, you stare at him with disbelief followed by confusion. Noticing you taking time to get in the car, he looks at you and matches his eyes with you.
"Get in, Y/N"
Looking at him up and down for a second, you then let go of your anger and get inside the car.
"I am not going home. Not until this weekend is over. Just leave me at the library. It's open 24 hours. I'll go to my friend's house later in the morning" you speak slowly and quietly looking down at the bag on your lap.
"You are not staying outside at night. I'll take you back to my place and then you can go wherever you want in the morning" he says strictly and looks in the rear view mirror to take a U turn.
"I don't understand you, Jungkook. One time you kick me out of your house and treat me so harshly and another time you suddenly go beyond your nature and apologize to me just to not let me wander alone at night. You despise me so much but at the same time you……." You couldn't complete the sentence not wanting to say something that might be not true.
He does not care about you.
Or does he? But why?
You stick your gaze on him waiting for him to respond.
"You won't understand. You do not have to" he replies, avoiding looking at you and spins the steering wheel, getting back on the way to his place.
"You being like this confuses the hell out of me. I never hated anyone, Jungkook. I just cannot , it's not in my nature but then I finally met you and started hating you like anything but then you suddenly go act like this and make me think that there might actually be a good person inside you and it ends up changing my feelings towards you-"
"That is why you should never have any kind of feelings towards me. Not even of hatred. Feelings can't be trusted. They don't even take a second to change into the damn opposite ones. I kill people and I tried to kill you too. I am not the kind of person to waste your feelings on. After tomorrow, just forget about me. Now all you need to do is take care of your wound until it's healed, get back to your normal life and be the person you are. Live the life you deserve to live. This is not where you belong. You shouldn't have been there that night, Y/N. You shouldn't have been there" he all of a sudden bangs his hand on the steering wheel after repeating his words, being mad and frustrated at the same time.
"And what about you? I know you haven't been like this all your life. You were a person with family. What happened to that version of Jungkook? Why do you live apart from your family and that too doing inhuman stuff like this? You had your normal, why did you give that up?" You ask out of curiosity and unfelt concern.
After you bombard him with those questions, silence takes over. With the passing seconds, you watch him shift into immense rage making him suck his lower inner lip in and his jaw starts trembling out of the growing anger but what was more worrying was the tears gathering in his eyes. He was furious but the emotions in his eyes did not match the expressions on his face.
Did you just step on his weakest nerve?
Right in the next second, he hits the floor and the car's speed accelerates in an unhealthy amount.
"Jungkook slow down" you shift inside your seat in fear after watching him drive past the red light.
"Jungkook" you turn towards him and hold his jacket.
"Jungkook!" You suddenly shout, noticing another car enter your path in front of you out of nowhere. Thinking you were going to crash into it badly, you squeeze your eyes close and hold onto Jungkook tightly by his jacket near his waist.
Your scream makes Jungkook snap out of his thoughts and immediately shift into another lane of the same road, saving the crash which was about to happen in a second. That sudden jerk and delay in the crash makes you open your eyes. Finding yourself safe, you finally let go of the breath you were holding onto and sit there shaking, shivering in your seat.
"Y/N, hold on tight. We are being chased"