Jimin Gabriels Alexander Park had instantly wanted her, Reese Steinfield, the woman who was destined to be his half brother's romantic soulmate, a lover. Even beyond rational boundaries, he ought a battle to have her and to be with her. Taking risks? It was damn hard with temptation inching closer to his inner sentience. It felt as if he could spill everything out from his mouth and only a paper-thin barrier was blocking his mind. Keeping all the hidden emotions from escaping. All at once.

His growing feelings for her day by day.

Her existence. No doubt was too tempting in his sight and everything just happened in a flash.

The connection when he begun kissing her and the clear memory of their earlier kiss hardened his body in a gleam. He met her eyes, her nose and much more, her lips on their first meeting. Nothing had ever tasted better than her sweet and warm mouth. It was the best thing that he ever had in years.

He wanted more as her sweet-honey butter scent filled his nostrils like it was mixed with something else. Arousal, he thought.

"Jungkook?"

That name snapped all his senses back. A source of his only pain and sorrow. But he could never brought himself to curse nor hate, Jungkook Louis Matthew VII, his own half born-blood on either way.

No turning back. Too late now.

He already did crossed the lines. Like a land mine he failed to notice and just like the pure Snow White who took her first bite on the witch's poisoned apple, killing him deep inside. Much slower than he originally thought.

Let love play his sinful heart. No one was to blame.

A smirked formed on Jimin's lips when he pulled himself away from the young woman as she held back the gasp at the unfamiliar sight before her. "If you don't mind." His voice sounded husky but it was only getting worse when she locked her gaze into his. Those eyes that had been an eerie, pitch black moments ago were now like sparkling obsidian pearls filled with nothing but bewilderedness. He'd always thought of the line about a woman becoming more beautiful when she's at daze. Like a mystery eager to be told. Now he knew that there was more, so much more. If only she hadn't walked into his boundary. If only he hadn't returned into this place he once called home. "Looks like I'll have to teach you how to play spot the difference."

Reese didn't much understand his humor but she felt relief when the unbeknownst man turned his back. Her throat feeling suddenly went dry, dropping her eyes in total confusion. Who are you? She mentally questioned herself even though the answer was right before her eyes. He was like a lost man, a stranger aching to be found.

For a moment, she felt her heart clenched and it started to beat a little faster, giving her strange series of heartbeat.

"One more thing," The teenage man begun, his voice laced with a familiar tone, causing a cut in into her inner thoughts. But she did know one thing, that one simple truth brought a cliche twist to her happily ever after tale.

"You and I might have a bad fate together.

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The young man in his early twenties watched over her at the opposite side of the table as if he were descrying a beautiful movie scene, propping his arms on the top desk to support his head. He did enjoy the great view in-front of him. Not wanting to take a single blink, if possible.

He could even smell the sweetness of her hair that falls freely under her chest and thought, he might die of the pleasing ache it brought to his soul. A never ending cycle he witness every counting days. Seeing her fresh-faced features, holding her hand and kissing her as if it was the first time he fell in love with her. Like fifty first dates, no, a hundred or even more.

Jungkook had never once been so tired, down to the depth of his bones and never had he felt so alive. He always thought of the only source of his only lifeline could be summated up in a single word, Reese. No one else belonged to his peerless beating organ other than her.

It was a calm Wednesday afternoon when a hint of warmth pierced through her black- pearled eyes as the sunset rays settled around them, casting her face and body in perfect profile. The young teenage man even compared her whole existence close to a house of a real beauty. Exactly like her heart and down to her soul.

He loved her and will always love her 'til the ends of him.

"Reese." He called, desisting her from flipping another page. And finally breaking herself from being too enthrall of the book she spent reading for hours. "Reese," He called out again, wanting her full attention to him. Let alone, he felt undeniably stupid of holding a pint of jealousy over a non-breathing object from her hold.

Reese hummed, lifting her chin up slightly to face him. The familiar sight she'd always fall for, every single day. His sweet, angelic and golden like features she love the most. Her only home. "Sorry." Was all she could muttered. "I made you wait. Again." She gave him her comforting smile and closed the book, gently placing it on the desk. "I didn't notice the time running."

Jungkook shook his head a few times, reassuring her that it wasn't a big deal. Then she smiled, her face full of warmth. "You can always take your time, baby." His patience was wide as the ocean with her beside him. "I don't fucking mind if it's you."

"Hey, lovebirds." Someone startled them from behind. That deep familiar sound was none other else, Val Valentine or also known as V. "Are my eyes getting blurry? Really? The great Jungkook Louis Matthew the VII is in the library grounds? You made a damn history man."

"Fuck you!" Jungkook retaliated, annoyed by the dumb blonde's deafening noise. "Get lost! And don't you state my full name again. Ever!"

"Dude, you're gross! No way I am gonna fuck you. And for the record? I don't suck dicks, your highness." V recoiled back in sarcasm and a faint smile formed on Reese' thinned lips. They're at it again, bickering like an old married couple. She too, enjoyed their strikingly bizarre kind of friendship. "Reese, if this old man isn't treating you well." He sneakily hung an arm over her shoulders and let out an ominous smirked. Oh, he better not. Not unless he never wanted his life back. "I am going to take you away by force."

"Hey! Get the hell off her!" The pale hazel-toned hair man of about the same age was about to smack the silly blonde boy but on the other hand, V was way too quick enough to scape himself away from her. "The next time you'll lay a finger on her." He warned and his tone came out as more of a vicious threat. "I am going to kill you myself, I swear."

"I'm scared, Jungkook. Damn fucking scared." V mocked and he was enjoying it, a little too much. Luckily, the man before him was his best friend and almost a brother-like one. If not, sure he'd be kissing his self goodbye to hell. "Well then, see you tomorrow in school, lovebirds."

•••••••

Reese rolled out of her bed at seven the next morning. Seven? Shoot! She suddenly became the most paranoid person in the planet with a thirty minutes chance to report in school. The petite young lady hurriedly took a shower, dried her hair in an instant and spanned a few minutes doing her make-up as light as possible.

With a heavy breathe, she was already dragging her feet onto the road and worst case scenario? She already did missed the school bus. Now, the only choice she had was to dash and probably would took her more than fifteen minutes to reach the campus grounds. Her boyfriend she has been with for two years was supposed to pick her up every morning but he called last night he wouldn't be able to since his brother who just came back from a foreign country will temporarily used his ride until he gets one for himself.

Passing quite a several structures, her peripheral vision landed across the streets which made her halt from moving a step further. There stood from a distance, a well physique figure of a man with quite an average height and a defining characteristic she have probably seen before. He has a pale looking skin close to a snow. His hair was dyed exactly as her set of black pair orbs. It was almost glossy and smooth, quite beaming under the ardent rays of the sun that framed his face to almost a perfection.

Quite the oddness, but her heart made a sudden galloped into her chest and only partly from a sudden surprise when the jet black haired man made a turn to his side. A familiar like features was revealed through her glimpse.

But when and where? She couldn't possibly remember.

Reese reluctantly followed him, forgetting the fact that she was late on her first class. She crossed the streets and tried to fought her way through the crowd, pushing and shoving to wherever it was necessary and get herself through. She never wanted to lose track of him.

Where am I going at a time like this?

She breathed in and out against the dampened moist air. The next she knew, a numbing drizzle of water had hit her skin. She groaned when the heavy downpour had followed her along the road, reaching the outskirts. Drenching her as if she were made out of sponge. She couldn't careless. She wanted to find out, at all driven cost. But she had lost tracks of him and was nowhere to be found.

Negative.

But the matter didn't stop her. She still, continued to wander around, acting like she knew where he was going. And all along, she was just as lost like a stray cat loitering on the streets.

She too, held mortal conscious mental reactions and was allowed to feel things. The lone wolf young woman was getting impatient of what the strange man just made her feel something she never wanted to feel and left her with a thousand unanswered questions. She trusted her instincts more than enough. She was alone but she wasn't hurting.

Hate? Anger? Agony?

It wasn't the exact words of her unresolved feelings. Although she didn't want to feel anything especially if that was the concern. Was it really him? Or Reese was just seeing things?

"Why are you doing this to me?" She mouthed silently. Her pointed question even sent a chill down to her spine. "It is you, isn't it?"

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"Reese!" The tousled-copper haired teenage man called out her name as he promptly rushed himself into her desk. He was worried sick. "Where were you yesterday? I was calling you a thousand times and..."

"Will you calm down for a sec?" The young woman interrupted, cutting him off mid-sentence. "It's me who should be asking you the same thing. Where were you yesterday?"

Well damn, that actually came out wrong.

"What are you talking about, Reese?" He asked and his confused expression made her discern of the situation he wasn't completely aware of. "Look," He begun. "I even skipped the whole afternoon class and asked the dumb blonde to give me a ride since I still don't have my car." Jungkook sighed as his face fell in frustration. "I came to check up on you but you were gone missing in your apartment."

What?

"B-but I," Reese pressed her lips into a thin line and furrowed her brows. Focusing on his stare. She knew he wasn't lying. But what was all that yesterday? She knew her eyes couldn't tell her lies and believed in what she saw that day. It was confusing her heart. But she had to remain collected. She had to save her only beating life force, her heart.

Then, a sudden pain had brought her down. Tch... instead of floating under the dizzy spell, Reese focused on the fabric of his shirt. She couldn't move. She couldn't breath. Seconds felt like minutes and minutes were like days. Still, she tried her mind to be functional.

She watched Jungkook’s worried expression as his faint voice echoed through her ears. "Reese, are you okay?"

She didn't answer and stood firmly with her remained strength, gripping at the near desk for support. What is wrong with my body? "I just need someー"

"Reese!" The astonished copper-haired man called out to her and attempted for another. “Hey, Reese?” He caught her waist in time before her whole physique could even collapse fully on the concrete floor. And the next, he felt her cheeks with the back of his hand as he held her closer to him, supporting her weight. Her body was now seething with an anusual increase of temperature. "Shit, you're burning."

Jungkook carried her with his hand, supporting her back and the other to her legs. Damn, shit... he continued to curse mentally. His heart was in fluttering panic, drifting his way to the infirmary. He almost stumbled in his haste yet he adjured his legs to keep going, pleading Reese to hang on.

And as the hazelnut-brown head rushed through the silent corridors, V caught a glance of him, passing quite some several rooms including his. Reese? What happened? He moved out from his seat, not bothering of the ongoing boring lectures. The professor even called his attention yet still, he chose to ignore the old man's incessant rants and warnings. He couldn't careless irregardless of the consequences ahead.

Detention.

He looked at them at a far distance. His chest fall heavily with worried expression. He wanted to move away from his spot and chase after them but... what for? She already got Jungkook on her side. He wasn't needed. He knows. God even knows. V, why aren't you giving up? You looked so much like a jamless person, a fool. He mentally noted to himself as he half-laughed at his own insensitivity.

"I'm a love loser."

•••••••

Her head was pounding. She couldn't even tell which was which. A dream? She had the difficulty opening her eyes as if it was glued together, permanently.

The wavy-haired teen felt something cold was pressed against her forehead and it was enough to make her eyes to flutter open. There her boyfriend was, and what she hadn’t seen coming was the feeling she would had when he met his dark-grayish orbs. She felt completely awestruck the way those pair of spheres held her stare. She wanted to pretend she didn't see it but her own heart was betraying her. She was drowning and suddenly forgotten how to breath.

What the hell is wrong with you, Reese?

Still, his eyes studied her carefully and felt herself bracing back from his comfort and security that his presence brought. "Thank goodness you're awake." A smile flashed on his face but she could still sense glumness in his eyes. "I was worried sick."

"I know," She uttered. Her voice sounded hoarse and weak. Even her mouth was dry. "And I'm sorry."

"You don't have to." He smiled, assuringly. "I'll take you home. You need to rest."

"What about school?"

"Don't worry. Everything was taken care of." He held her clammy hand tightly to his, ceasing the shakiness from her body. "I'll get you medicine when we get home."

"Thank you."

"Anything for you, baby." His forehead landed gently on hers. Their noses brushed for just a moment. "I was told by the school nurse we can leave once you're awake. I've got all I needed to take care of you." He whispered against her breath as his mouth inched closer to her lips.

"You might catch my fever." She smiled and her eyes fluttered shut when she felt his hot breath grazing over her neck.

"I wouldn't mind sharing it with you." The eager young man’s lips finally met hers but pulled away before he could enjoy it too much. "Let's get sick together." He then returned his mouth into hers, devouring her once again. Her lips were soft yet his kiss was urgent and filled with need. She tasted good. Too damn good for him.

Reese broke off their heated make out session when she felt her breath wobble. "Sorry, I need to breath."

"Why are you saying sorry when you don't have to?" Jungkook chuckled at her remark, amused. "Don't make it too obvious when you know I can't control my hunger over you." He teased. "Let's wait a little longer. My half brother will come to pick us up." He sat beside her on the bed and his palm met her forehead. "You're fever isn't going down. I'll take you to the hospital after this."

"No need. I’m completely fine, Jungkook." She protested, noting to herself that she's perfectly fine. "It's just a fever. I’ll get better in no time."

"What if it will get worse?"

"It won't. I promise you, okay? Just you and some rest are all I need. Nothing more.” She knew that she had to say something. It wasn't until she tasted the saltiness on her lips. She didn't realized tears were escaping on her eyes. "S-sorry for not telling you what happened yesterday." She exclaimed. "I'm sorry for worrying you, too much."

Sorry, I doubted you.

"Ssh, it's alright." Jungkook calmed her dejected emotions down. "We have each other, okay? I'm always on your side." He pulled her into an embrace and held her as if letting go was never an option.

I love you, only you.

•••••••

Jungkook’s brother had arrived and in no time, he found his arena red Lamborghini Urus parked in-front of the main gates of the school.

"Get some sleep, baby." Jungkook whispered as he moved at the opposite end-side of the car's door, allowing Reese’ head to rest on his lap.

Before the petite young woman close her eyes and pray for a dreamless sleep. Her gaze had landed through the driver's seat and to the person who was supposed to be the said brother. But rather, he looked familiar with those describable features running through her head. Glassed skin as pale as the wintery snow and almost close to translucent. Even the brood physique figure of his brother were almost a lot like Jungkook’s. Though the only difference was the hair color. A jet black you can compare close to an eerie silent night.

"Sure your girl is fragile, huh?” The other breathing specimen on the driver’s seat begun with the exact manner of expression as Jungkook’s. “What happened?”

Reese felt strange, hearing his voice. It was lulling her, encouraging her to sleep and she did.

"Just shut the hell up and drive us home." Jungkook demanded, looking at the side window, cynicism poison in his voice.

"Home? Hers?"

"No." Jungkook answered shortly, irritation sounded in his tone. From his expression it was clear that both weren’t in good brotherly terms. "Our house."

"Damn brother," The raven head mocked the younger brother and never did once he faltered his focus out on the road. "You sure know how to make a move. What's her name?"

"None of your concern." Jungkook scoffed, ignoring the damn question. "I don't need to introduce what is mine to you. You don't have to know her and neither will she." He retaliated. "Stay away from her. Don't ever come near her." He warned, imposing the person he's talking to was a real threat, his only brother. "You know the consequences, Jimin."

Oh?

"You hated me that much, don't you?" Jimin noted, eyeing his half brother's reflection on the rear-view mirror. His lips widened into a smirk, amused of his half brother’s possessiveness to the girl in held tightly in his arms. "Or were you afraid, I might stole her?"

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