"Are you okay?" he asked, running a hand through his messy hair and trying to make it fall straight on his forehead again.
Lisa didn't know how to answer that question. Was she okay? Was she not? She wondered is being okay was a relative concept.
If you feel bad on the inside but the people around you feel worse than you, than won't your own negative feelings lose value?
"I have an important interview tomorrow. I need to get out of here." Lisa told Jung-kook. Jung-kook sighed. He couldn't believe he was running behind V's actions and trying to make them right.
Also...this is Lisa we are talking about.
Jung-kook nodded towards the ice cream, "Is that finished? Should I bring you more?"
"I'm not some charity case, Jung-kook. I don't want food. I want to get out," Lisa told him, trying to figure out why Jung-kook was doing this.
Jung-kook nodded, looking around, "Okay, okay just wait. I'll bring you food first, then I'll figure out how to get you out." And he walked away.
Lisa looked at him go. He's acting weird, she thought. She just said she didn't want food....but right then Lisa realized what he was doing.
Jung-kook was angry at Lisa. He did have hate. And treating Lisa like a charity case gave Jung-kook a sense of superiority over her. Only because...
he himself felt inferior compared to her.
Lisa bit her lip. She had thought as soon as she forgot the past, it wouldn't trouble anymore. But past isn't just a memory inside your head. No, it's more than that. It's a live thing, which doesn't fade. Even if you forget it, it builds up like a snowball inside others whose lives are connected with yours, and they appear again in the future.
Jung-kook returned soon with a few sandwiches in hand, enough for a night if he couldn't get Lisa out in time. He stretched them through the fence and Lisa got up to take it nevertheless. She was hungry.
Jung-kook smiled. "I'll get V to understand."
"You don't have to. It's my fault. I don't how to apologize. I really have changed," Lisa tried reasoning. "Stop being scared of me, you boys! I'm just a harmless girl! Stop treating me this way!" was what she actually wanted to say.
He nodded, "Eat well," and walked away, hands in his pockets, trying to devise a plan on how to steal the key from Tae-hyung.
On his way back to the house, Lisa's face replayed in his mind. Her smile when she got the ice cream. Her sad eyes just now...and Jung-kook strangely found himself believing her...if he didn't have his mask on, you could even see him unconsciously smile.
The seven were leaving for Seoul tomorrow and everyone was packing up their stuff after the one-week stay. Jung kook crawled over to the room which he shared with V and flopped on the bed.
"What are you doing?" Jung kook asked casually.
V grabbed a towel from the stand and stepped towards the washroom, "Going to take a shower. Where did you run off to?"
Jung-kook shrugged, "I realized I forgot to buy ice cream, so I went to the store. The last Mint Chocolate Chip was sold out so...I came back."
He didn't tell Tae-hyung that he was the one who bought that last Mint Chocolate Chip, of course. V just nodded and stepped inside the washroom and took off his clothes inside before pulling the curtain separating two halves of the washroom close.
Jung-kook slowly opened the unlocked door and stepped in to wash his hands. His eyes fell on V's jeans hanging on the towel bar on the wall. An outline of a key visible inside the black pocket.
Jung-kook lifted his hands slightly to reach for it before he jumped as the curtain rings scraped across the bar V's eyes stared at him from the other side of the curtain.
"What are you doing?" he asked suspiciously.
"Uh..nothing. Just...washing my hands after coming from outside. I don't want to get an infection or something," Jung-kook managed to say.
"Get out."
"Okay," Jeon Jung-kook squeaked and stepped closer to the door. He waited for V to close the curtain so that he could at least try to get the key. He looked back at the bath tub. V was still staring at him.
Jung-kook sighed and stepped out of the bathroom and closed the door. He waited for two seconds and heard the curtain rings scraped against the steel rod. Jung-kook decided to try again and proceeded to turn the door knob but a click sounded form inside.
V had just locked the door.
Jung-kook snarled, "Aishhhh seriously...." and fell on the bed disappointed before he started packing, playing an old song on his blue tooth speaker to clear his head.
The afternoon turned into twilight and twilight dipped into late evening as the sun set into the sea.
It was while they were watching TV together.
"Yah, Jung-kook," Jin called out, switching the channel, "Did you do the final laundry?"
Jung-kook. He was in charge of the group's entire laundry since the beginning of time and with all things that went on today, it had slipped off his mind.
He slumped from the sofa and went to collect all the clothes littered around the house. He took Jimin's from his bed and it still smelled nice. Suga's however were the opposite. Jung-kook almost gagged.
He put everything in the washing machine and went to collect his and V's clothes. Before he stepped out of the room, he realized he had forgotten to check the washroom for clothes.
He back tracked back in and swung open the door.
And saw the shirt and jeans Tae-hyung had worn today morning.
"Sweet victory," Jung-kook grinned and grabbed the two clothes from the bar.
Once he set the washing machine in whirling motion and put in the right amount of powder he stepped down into the hall and announced that he was going to buy sodas for everyone.
"Don't forget it this time!" Jimin yelled, remembering how he had forgotten the ice cream.
Jung-kook started to run once he stepped out of the gate. The night air flying through his air and the golden lights of the lamp posts flying past him as he headed for the factory, key in his pocket.
Lisa looked up at him as he stopped and fumbled for the key before unlocking the fence hastily. Lisa's ears felt blessed when she heard the creak of the gate open and saw a way out. She stuffed the sandwich wrappers and the empty ice cream boxes in the cover and stepped out to the other side.
"Thank you, Jeon Jung-kook," Lisa said gratefully.
"Nah, it's just Jung-kook for you," he almost said but he caught himself and chided himself. Instead he simply nodded, "Is the interview venue near?"
She sadly shook her head, "No, it's all the way in Seoul."
"Oh..."Jung-kook replied. He could drop her all the way to Seoul along with them tomorrow but...he suspected that would cause more than an ugly scene. "I'll drop you to the bus station then. That's near."
She didn't smile. "I don't have any money on me to take my bus. I left the only bag I had in the park you took me to."
"What?" he asked and sighed. "We'll go find it then, come on!"
The park was just two minutes away and it was small, so you could see the entire area from one point. And there was a swing, there was a see saw, a twisting slide, a straight slide, a trampoline....but not bag.
"Oh man," Jung-kook sighed, "I'm so sorry, Lisa"
"Don't be," she sighed and walked in the direction of the bus station anyway. Jung-kook stopped her by standing in front of her, "Wait," he looked down at his pockets and fished out some money and handed it to her, "Here, take this."
Lisa stared at the money in Jung-kook's hands. Wow. Look at her. A beggar. Shots of embarrassment filled her and threatened to suffocate.
She shook her head, "No, it's okay Jung-kook, I can't accept this,"
Jung-kook held her hand and placed the money on her cold palm. "Take it,"
Finding no way out, Lisa took it regretfully and walked past him, thick tears of embarrassment flowing down her cheeks and disappearing into the wind.