RIVALS

34: Gone

Drip, drip.

I stirred awake in the middle of the night. What was that?

The tip of my fingers travelled through the darkness, stopped by what seems to be bare skin. It's Jungkook. As I sat up groggily beneath the sheets to move closer to his warm body, I noticed that he was still awake— and crying.

"Jungkook?...." I caressed his face slightly. "...Why are you crying?"

Jungkook seems startled at my question, but he answers it the same.

"Why? Because...." He hesitates a little, slowly tucking my hair behind my ear lovingly. "I am happy."

"It is when I'm holding you like this, that I realize how smitten I am for you."

At that moment, my heart filled with undescribable euphoria. It was his unspoken words of love that paralyses me; his sweetness that resembled a hurricane, his lips that b