Jisoo's head was buried on his chest. The door of disinfectant became even sharper, and she could clearly hear his heartbeats.
One thump after another, it was rhythmic and powerful.
His chest was also searing, as if about to burn her.
Jisoo flushed meekly, her own heart starting to race while her breaths became rapid.
This was her first time....hugging a man.
"Are you alright?"
The voice overhead was cold as ever.
Jisoo recovered them and promptly pushed him away, keeping her head lowered as she was afraid to look directly into his eyes.
She tugged at her own sleeves, and bite her lips to keep it together. "I-I'm fine...."
****
Ocean City.
Jungkook's headache was much better, and he returned to the hotel with Lisa after dinner.
There were gushing echoes from the bathroom as he took a shower.
Meanwhile, Lisa was packing up their luggage. They would be returning when Eunha's condition improves.
That was when Jungkook's phone rang.
Lisa glanced at his figure in bathroom, and thought that he would still take a while.
She waked over and picked it up, finding an unfamiliar number on the screen.
She answered it.
There was soft laughter from the other end. "Guess who, Jungkook?"
Lisa's eyes widened. For some reason, she actually did not have the courage to reply.
Still, the caller a woman was not annoyed by the silence, and instead said coquettishly, "Oh, you and your manners, Jungkook. You could go straight ahead and say you miss me! I'm back, so come fetch me at the airport tomorrow. It's been so long since I last see you, I've missed you so much.... Jungkook"
She spoke no naturally, so intimately!
Lisa's throat felt clogged and she promptly hung up while feeling very upset.
Countless questions appeared in her mind.
Who was she? Why did she speak as if she was very close to Jungkook?
Could there be something between them which she doesn't know?
Nonetheless, the bathroom door opened in the midst of her thoughts. She quickly put Jungkook's phone where she found it, and started to fold clothes while acting as if nothing happened.
Still, her ears sensitively detected the footsteps behind her getting ever closer.
She kept her calm and stood up after she was done tidying her luggage, but was taken into the man's arms.
His warmth ensnared her, hot as magma.
His voice was bright and cheerful like springtime. "I missed you".
That bath shouldn't lasted more then ten minutes, and he missed her already?
If it was before, Lisa would definitely be embarrassed.
Now, however, she had to re-evaluate things.
Could he be hiding something?
"What's on your Little mind?" Jungkook tugged at her while looking at her face.
"Nothing"
She flatly replied, shaking her head before pulling away and going to sit on the bed.
Sensing that she was behaving strangely, Jungkook sat beside her. However, she shifted aside casually when he was about to hug her again and did her best to keep her voice flat as she said, "Someone called you just now. I answered it"
"Okay. Who was it?"
"No idea. But it's a woman" Lisa struggled to smile at him. "She said she is coming back, and asked you to fetch her at the airport tomorrow"
Jungkook swiped his phone open and grinned when he saw the number on his log.
That grin was pricking to Lisa's eye. She felt as if her blood had gone cold, and her heart aching vaguely.
Huh, Men.
Then, as Jungkook hugged her and snuggled up for a kiss, Lisa promptly turned away and said very coldly, "I'm sleepy, off to bed"
With that, and while he looked on blankly, she slipped beneath the sheets and hide.
Jungkook's silence left her feeling even colder inside.
That woman must have a special relationship with him. Just look at how tender his grin was.
Huh. The ex had returned, so she is no longer important.
The more Lisa thought about it, the more upset and wronged she felt. She wanted nothing more to rush River Town, hide in a corner to bawl.
However, her rationality and dignity told her that it wouldn't do.
She must endure even if she didn't want to stay there. She must not let Jungkook get a clue.
She tossed around in considerable irritation.
Meanwhile, Jungkook simply sat beside her in bed, watching her and chuckled quietly, although there was a helpless tenderness in his eyes.
Pulling off the sheets, he lay down beside Lisa. Even as she kept her eyes closed and pretended to sleep, she could clearly feel a warm chest sticking on her back.
She tired to move away, but her whole body was abruptly pulled into his arms, with one hand worming around her neck and the other holding waist.
Flawless, tight, and snug!
Lisa could not sleep at all. Unable to bear it any longer, she shifted.
Jungkook snuggled up to her again in response.
That repeated several times until she was about to drop to the floor. Jungkook simply pressed her back into her arms then, and stroked her hair gently with one hand. "Good girl. Now sleep"
Sleep with your uncle!
She really wanted to blow out an expletive right then.
He had kept insisting he loved her to tenderly, and now he is not even offering an explanation when an ex calls him?
Wasn't he usually very afraid of making her angry?
Lisa felt if her heart was flipped upside-down, feeling so much grief that she could cry.
Truly, it would be better to believe pigs could fly than believing this man!
She kept calm, while doing her best to tell herself to sleep.
Sleep....Sleep....Sleep....Sleep.
****
Jisoo's heart was threatening to jump out of her throat. She kept her head down for the rest of the journey, afraid to look up and afraid to speak.
There was no telling how long had passed. It was only when the bus's onboard alert for the final stop sounded that Jisoo promptly looked up. "Last stop?!"
Oh no! She missed her stop!
"Silly" Jin teased.
Jisoo could not hold back a retort. "Pot calling the kettle black. But I am still a little smarter"
She felt her shoulder being pressed right then and froze.
Jin's palm was so warm she felt she was burning up.
"Take me home" Jin said as if it only made sense. "I can't see"
"Is your short-sightedness that serious?"
"It's just that I'm used to having my glasses. I feel uncomfortable with blurry vision"
"Oh...."
And so, Jisoo walked ahead, with Jin holding her shoulder to keep up.
She suddenly felt like a guide dog.
.... Arf-arf.
After walking for a long time, Jisoo felt her shoulder go numb: Jin had paused, squinting at a nearby door number before telling her, "We're here"
His hand moved even as he spoke.
Jisoo breathed a sigh of relief. However, she was so startled she could have bite off her own tongue when she looked up.
It was a white, extravagantly decorated four-floored mansion covered by several towering old trees, looking especially obvious as it stood beside the path laden with limestone.
Jisoo gasped sharply and felt a pain in her cheeks. Even how she looked at Jisoo changed instantly.
On the bus, she actually told him that he did not look rich.
Turns out he lived in a mansion....
Moreover, the mansion on this side of River Town were all extremely expensive, not to mention the nice quiet area like this meant it would at least be worth millions.
Jisoo exclaimed in awe inwardly.
Jin was really full of surprises no one would have known that he is a most eligible bachelor!