chapter 3
Kim taehyung
"Are your claims about your track record holds true?" I read any random question only to realize it too late.
Kim taehyung
Too-fucking-late!
I regret asking him this question, just like I regret what I did to him three years ago.
One wrong statement in the police station and I sent him to jail. Accidentally.
It was not in my intention to take his name that day as my mind was badly preoccupied to save someone from prosecution and unknowingly my lips spelled his name to that infuriating cop in front of me.
But I never thought my one statement would cause such a havoc in his life, that he would lose everything and the curse will stamp a degrading black spot on his name forever. And no amount of money could buy that whitener which can clear it.
Like a horror movie, I watch his face getting hard like granite. He lifts his long finger and presses on the pause button of the recorder. Green light blinks to orange and my heart loses a beat.
Jeon Jungkook
"Are you fucking kidding with me, Mr.Kim?"
Jungkook inhales sharply and I watch the glint in his eyes turn dark, animalistically.
Adrenaline rushes through my bones as I hear my name in a threatening way, indicating I stepped into a danger zone.
Kim taehyung
"I-I-no. It's not my question-it's written here." Blood drains from my head and I panic breathlessly.
He presses the button and green light blinks again as he straightens his spine.
Jeon Jungkook
"I am not going to answer the baseless rumours my legal team deals with. That is not something I would waste my time on."
Jungkook says in a flat emotionless voice, but his eyes say otherwise.
His black eyes sharpen like a glass as he stares at me with an intensity that would slit through my skin in the most painful way.
Kim taehyung
"Yeah, sorry." I immediately shuffle through the pages, to look for a better question which will save my ass from his chainsaw cutting gaze.
Kim taehyung
"How much trust do you have that in the near future Artificial Intelligence is going to take over the world?"
I gulp nervously, avoiding the sweat building in between my chest.
Jungkook leans forward and my nose hits with an earthy woodsy scent mixed with some rich cologne. He taps his two long fingers on the glass table and says in a calmer tone,
Jeon Jungkook
"For an example, consider AI as Internet. Now back in 1995, there were not many people on Internet and they believed this online thing was going to be a fad."
The way his fingers make circles on the glass, something churns inside of my stomach. Everything about him is alluring and intimidating. Like a red danger sign that blinks of green light.
Jeon Jungkook
"And now the circs of humanity is, you can live without people, but not Internet. The system has infiltrated into your life like a necessity. I believe Al would be a necessity in the future. It has been already started. Our phones, watches, computers are now designed to program with AI and machine learning. It's like blood and veins, you can separate none from your system."
The way he described it in a collective manner, makes me want to go take a major in this AI shit.
"That's interesting." Every cell in my body is overly impressed and is applauding at his little tED-Talk.
Jeon Jungkook
"It is." His lips curve up arrogantly and he sits back like a boss that he is. "Many people lack to see it's a multi-billion dollar bonanza, but only with the use of correct technology.
" He smirks at the end, hinting why his company owns the market.
I find my spine slowly relaxing as I smile at him and read the next question.
Kim taehyung
"You are an alumnus of Washington University, Science and Innovation branch. Being an orpha-" The fuck?
Kim taehyung
"You are an orphan?"
My eyes snap at him with surprise written all over my face. As if I never really knew this man, he is like that huge iceberg in the Atlantic, and all I saw was the tip.
jungkook's jaw clenches as he stares me with his previous stone-cold gaze.
Jeon Jungkook
"Yes, Mr Kim. I was left in orphan at the age of two. It is available in public records."
His voice stern while his fingers curl up in a fist on his thigh.
Kim taehyung
Unknowingly I stepped on another 'shouldn't have touched' nerve. "I.. didn't know." My voice gets soften and I feel ten times more worse than ten minutes ago, before starting this interview.
But his expression remains stony as if all the emotions in him dried up long ago. And now what is left is a cold-calculative businessman whose only goal is to upgrade the world with technology.
Kim taehyung
"Being an orphan, how did you achieve that level of big-budget education?"
I ask him, chucking away my bag of guilty feelings. I just want this interview to be over so I can disappear from his life. Fast and furiously.
Jeon Jungkook
"Scholarship and part-time jobs covered my expenses." He says in a flat tone.
Images of his part-time job flash in my head, which mostly contained brutal punches and bone shattering blows.
People chanting his name, betting on him while he knocks the hell and blood of his opponents in illegal underground fights.
Suddenly, I feel glad that we met in a professional setting.
Kim taehyung
"What was your first job?"
Jeon Jungkook
"I worked at a dog bakery." He replies dryly and I almost gasp out loud. He used to bake dogs? Well, he does look like someone who like cats.
Kim taehyung
"Do you plan to produce your own product, other than providing services to tech giants?" I read to him fast.
Jeon Jungkook
"I haven't thought of that long." And he replies faster
We both want to be done with this interview.
Kim taehyung
"Which is the turning point day of your life that you owe your success to-"
Suddenly the recorder on the glass table makes little beeping sound while its green light flicker like heartbeats.
I tap the gadget like giving it chest compression, but it breathes its last beep and dies in my palm.
The green light turn black and no further sound comes from the gone voice recorder.
It's dead. Dead like Dodo.
I swallow hard and slowly lift my not-so-long eyelashes at him. Jungkook stares down at me with a blank expression. As if his features are fighting a battle to not frown or roll his eyes, he stares at me with a deadpan face.
I bite my lip nervously and blink innocently at him. Dakota takes a deep sigh and pulls out a pen from his chest's pocket. I shyly take the black steel pen
The pen feels pleasantly warm in between my fingers, and I know it is the warmth of his body. Something moves inside my belly like worms as my mind display images of his hard body underneath those piles of clothes. His eight pack abs.
My eyes look up at him in shock as he spells the date of that awful night of college's annual fest event, when I met him for the last time. When he warned me to never come in front of his eyes, ever. And now here I am, sitting on his leather couch, in his vast cabin, and taking his interview.
Jeon Jungkook
"Three years ago, I met with an accident that night when I was driving back to my place. A bit angrily."
He pauses and fixes his black stare at me.
Jeon Jungkook
"I broke my arm and three ribs, and I was hospitalized for two weeks under critical care. During that time of my life, many things were going inside my head. But the one on repeat was, if somehow I would haveknown, even seconds before that a car out of now here is gonna crash into mine. I would have saved my few bones."
I could feel the world slowing down around me, colours fading and replacing with melancholy as I look at his impassive gaze that holds mine like steel.
Jeon Jungkook
"Since then I have been working on augmented reality, integrating it with autopilot and radar, to track the activities on the road in a 360 degree angle to avert such disasters in the future. Which I sold it to Tesla and build my company with that money in 2021."
It was only too late for me to figure out that he was answering to my previous question. I swallow my saliva and it took a great effort to gulp it down my clogged throat.
Jeon Jungkook
"So I owe my success to that one blue moon night of my life." And I know he is not talking about the accident.
I open a fresh page in the notebook, black ink flows through the pen like blood oozes from a fresh cut and I write his answer with the same feeling.
But I know, no amount of my sorry will fix his broken past. Ever.
I look up and see him going through notifications on his apple watch. Frown decorate his forehead but that didn't decrease his elegance. He looks equally handsome as he looks heartless.
Someone who won't rest until he owns the world.
Kim taehyung
"Mr. Jungkook, are you busy?" I ask him in a hope to end this meeting.
Jeon Jungkook
"No." He instantly answers, giving me this full predatory attention. As if this interview will bring him a billion dollar deal he has been waiting for.
Jeon Jungkook
"Jeon Jungkook, a high achiever, millionaire in his 20s and a hot shot bachelor who got girls drooling for him.." I almost cringe reading out to him.
Jeon Jungkook
"Is your heart surrendering to settle down?" I look up at the end.
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