Chapter 13

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Dinner was made and Jin sent Sun-Hee to get the rest of the boys to come in and eat. She thought she would find them in the living room but no one was there. She heard a little laughter coming from the end of the hall. She didn't really know where she was going because Jimin never gave her a tour. She paused at the end of the hall not sure if she should go invade their privacy, but Jin entrusted her to get the boys so she made her way down the hall. There was a bathroom door to the right for guests it seemed, then two more doors, one on the left and one on the right across from each other. There were voices coming from the right door and luckily it was opened so she didn't feel like she was being overly forward by walking in.

From the doorway she could see the four men were gathered around a computer, talking and giggling in hushed tones. She moved closer to see what they were watching. She came right up behind them and her jaw dropped at what she saw. They were watching a video of a circus, specifically a clown car. They seemed to be showing it to Tae who it seemed had missed out on it earlier. "Oh my gosh!" Sun-Hee put her hands on her cheeks.

The boys reacted as if she had just yelled at the top of her lungs. They all jumped up. Tae slammed the laptop closed. Namjoon looked nervous and started trying to explain. But Jimin just smiled. He came right over to Sun-Hee and put his hand on her shoulders. "Did you come down here to see all these devastatingly handsome men?" he teased. The other boys pushed him away and yelled his name. 

Sun-Hee turned to Namjoon, "Joonie, you ratted me out! How could you?!"

Namjoon turned a bit red. "They would not give me peace until I told them. You want me to have peace, right?" He gave her a bit of a tentative smile and a wink for good measure. 

"Oh alright, you're forgiven. Dinner is ready if you can all come eat." Sun-Hee kept talking as she led the way out the door and down the hall. "And you have to understand I was very tired last night and not really in my right mind. And COME. ON. You are not normal looking men, let's be honest. Can we just not bring this up ever again please?" By the time her stream of thought was done they were in the kitchen.

Hobi put his hand on her arm, "Does it help to know we think you are devastatingly beautiful too?"

Hobi was trying to help, but Sun-Hee was getting redder by the minute. She held her cheeks again. "New topic. I helped make the Korean Barbecue sauce and the rice and I got to turn the pork belly at just the right time so it didn't burn but it turned brown. I'm learning." It didn't sound like much when she said it out loud, but she had learned tonight. She even thought she could almost make some of the dishes on her own if she tried.

Tonight she sat between Tae and Yoongi and Jin sat across from her. One of the dishes tonight Sun-Hee was really excited about called Perilla Leaf Wraps. Apparently you take a leaf and put a piece of pork belly on it then you can add other things like a little rice or noodles and a little Ssamjang sauce. Then you roll it and eat it. Sun-Hee carefully took the ingredients and made a wrap. She was so excited that it turned out well she held it up with her chop sticks to show Jin. He opened his mouth. Sun-Hee's eyes widened, "Oh." She reached across the table and placed her wrap in Jin's open mouth. He smiled and crunched away at it. There was something intimate about feeding someone.

"The best wrap I've ever tasted." Jin winked at her. 

Sun-Hee immediately had baby birds all around. All of them wanted her to make wraps and feed them. After making several for each of them, even Yoongi, she said "Okay, I should at least get to try one of them."  Their response was to spend the next 10 minutes stuffing her with wraps. At one point she had three wraps on chop sticks held in front of her she started giggling at the absurdity of it. "Alright! Enough! I'm getting full. And thank you, everything was delicious."

Yoongi told Sun-Hee he had something to teach her. "If you ever need to eat your wraps super fast, you do this." He held a piece of pork in his chop stick and dipped it in sauce. With his other hand he held the leaf in front of his mouth. Then he took the chopsticks and pushed the leaf into his mouth quickly and started chewing. They all had a good laugh at it and several of the boys tried out his method.

"Hey, I have an idea." Everyone immediately got quiet so Sun-Hee could talk. "Joonie said you guys are back to work tomorrow and that you work long days. I was wondering if it would be okay if I made dinner for you. I don't know how to cook Korean food yet but I'm very good at Italian food. I took a class in college. I know how to make Lasagna, Alfredo, Chicken Parmesan, Bolognese, and Carbonara. So if any of those sound good I could cook it tomorrow and have it ready for you when you get home. You could come down to my apartment if you want. You could be my guests for dinner." 

Jimin smiled, "You want to cook for us?"

"Well, yeah, you know, it will give me something to do, and you've all given me such a nice day today. And wouldn't it be nice to come home to a home cooked meal already made for you?"

Namjoon nodded and smiled, "We would love for you to make food for us, but you know you don't have to, right? We probably won't get home until about seven tomorrow."

"It's settled. Come to my apartment tomorrow night for dinner whenever you get home!"

Hobi smiled bright, "That sounds amazing. We don't get home cooked meals very often unless we make them ourselves."

Tae cheered, "Dinner at Sun-Hee's house! And she is making Lajibolala!" The boys all laughed at that and Jimin blushed and shook his head at Tae. Sun-Hee had no idea what Tae said but laughed along with the others.

Sun-Hee excused herself to go to the restroom and on her way through the living room the front door opened and a man walked in dragging a suitcase. At first he was looking down but when he looked up and saw her he stopped, as if frozen.

Jungkook was tired from his trip, walking in and finding a beautiful girl in his living room was the last thing he expected. As soon as his eyes met hers, he felt his heart leap in his chest. Beautiful didn't barely describe the depths of her loveliness. He had an overwhelming urge to walk over and kiss her. He knew it was a primitive part of his brain reacting because all he could think of was that she was for him. He wanted her to be his. She was so clearly meant for him. Their eyes stayed locked together for way longer than was appropriate for strangers but somehow she didn't feel like a stranger to him, she felt like another part of him, a part he had been missing. 

He knew in his head it was inappropriate, but he just decided to go kiss her, it was too overwhelming to fight it. Just before he took his step forward she shook her head slightly as if trying to clear out the fuzziness and said, "Oh, hi, I'm Sun-Hee Anderson." He couldn't yet formulate words, he was still too overwhelmed by the feelings he had for her. She had a lovely voice. Because of the pause she added, "You must be Jungkook, it is really nice to meet you." She gave him a small smile and he thought it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. His heart leaped again.

At that moment Tae walked out of the kitchen, "Jungkookie!! You met my girlfriend!" And he hugged Sun-Hee from behind. There was nothing Taehyung could have done or said that would have hurt Jungkook more in this moment. Jungkook frowned and shook his head a bit. A giant pain started in his chest. She couldn't be Tae's girlfriend because Jungkook knew she was meant for him. 

Sun-Hee pushed Tae off and said, "Get off me, you are crushing me. I was meeting Jungkook."

Jungkook dropped his suitcase and forced his legs to move him toward the kitchen. It felt wrong to walk away from her. It was like a rubber band was attached to them both and being stretched too far.

Sun-Hee went the opposite way to the bathroom. She was trying to calm down her heart and her breathing. What just happened?!? She had looked at Jungkook's eyes and felt her heart throb. It was like having a magnet in her chest that was pulling her towards him. She had wanted to climb in his arms, but she was so mesmerized by his beautiful doe eyes she couldn't move. He was so gorgeous that he practically glowed. All the other boys seems slightly dimmer now than they did before. Not because they were less, but because she had discovered more. She could have looked into Jungkook's eyes forever, darn Tae for interrupting. She hadn't even heard Jungkook's voice yet but she knew it would be amazing. Everything about him would be amazing. She finished in the bathroom quickly so she could go back to see Jungkook again.

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She wasn't for him, she wasn't for him. How dare Tae bring this girl to their apartment to tempt him? Jungkook and Tae entered the kitchen. Tae sat back down at the table but Jungkook remained standing. All the hyungs greeted Jungkook and welcomed him home. But Jungkook focused on Tae, "What the hell is she still doing here?" The pain in his chest was throbbing, egging his anger on.

"She came to dinner tonight." Tae defended.

"Hoseok texted me yesterday and told me I was lucky to not be here so I didn't have to meet her, and now I come home to find she is still here?" He was hurting and lashing out at Tae felt right.

Everyone looked at Hobi, but he defended himself, "That was before I knew her."

Tae tried again with Jungkook, "You will like Sun-Hee when you get to know her, she is very nice!"

That was it. Get to know her? He knew he couldn't get to know her without wanting her for himself. Was he becoming as bad as Tae, easily falling for a pretty face? "Tae! You have the worst taste in women of anyone I've ever known. Anyone with eyes can tell that girl is as bitchy and vacuous as she is beautiful! When will you learn to either get better taste in women or stop bringing them home to torture us?" 

Jungkook noticed all the boy's jaws dropped and their eyes became wide. He thought this was an overreaction given that they had all said similar things to Tae over the last few months. But then he noticed they weren't looking at him, they were looking over his shoulder. Jungkook looked behind him and Sun-Hee was standing just inside the kitchen doorway with a shocked look on her face, she had clearly heard what he was saying. Damn, here come the water-works. She would cry and probably want Tae to buy her a car or something to make it better. He hated it so much when women cried. He started to form an apology on his tongue, but before it could leave his mouth he was interrupted. 

"Who the HELL do you think you are to judge me?!? You have heard me say literally five words to you and you think you know what I'm like?!? Vacuous?!? The only vacuous one in this room is the one standing in front of me. There is no better way you could have shown your ignorance than by so severely judging a person that you don't know. You had no right!" Sun-Hee's cheeks were flushed with anger and she was pointing right at Jungkook.

All the boys would have placed bets that Jungkook would apologize now. He was by far the most respectful of them all. Because he was the youngest, he was always overly concerned about being extremely respectful to strangers. So Jungkook's next words stunned them all.

"I had no right?! Who the hell am I? This is my house, I live here damn it! Don't come in to my house and insult me. Of all the disrespect! Tae, you need to get a muzzle for your girlfriend!" And he walked out of the kitchen, grabbed his suitcase from the entryway and walked to his room.

All the boys sat stunned by what just happened. What had just happened? How? Why? They looked around at each other for answers but none came. 

Sun-Hee brought her hand up and held it across her forehead. "I'm so sorry, I should go."

But Jimin objected, "No! You can't let Jungkook's rudeness ruin our night. We were going to watch a movie!"

Jin, as the oldest, often had to take care of the others. He got up and went to Sun-Hee, he put his hands on her shoulders. "I'm sorry that happened, Jungkook must be tired because he doesn't usually act that way. Actually, he never acts that way. We'd still like you to stay if you can." Then to the boys, "I'll go check on Jungkook, Yoongi fix him a plate. The rest of you need to clean up."



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