The heroine turned her head.
“…What do you mean?”
Taehyung leaned against the wall and muttered quietly.
“We… saw it once when we were young.”
“To be exact, we were together. All day.”
[10 years ago, a volunteer center shelter]
Taehyung is in the 5th grade of elementary school.
Community service that I was forced to do at my parents' direction.
He looked at the clock all day long with a face that said he was dying of annoyance.
Then, a girl came up to me and spoke to me.
“Are you bored?”
"…what."
“Because it looks boring when you’re alone.”
The child laughed and talked a lot.
And, we eat together, draw pictures,
In the end, we looked at the shape of the clouds together.
His name is—
“Kim Yeo-ju.”
“…That kid was you back then.”
At Taehyung's words, Yeoju swallowed her breath.
“…I remember.
An awkward smiling face.
“Even the expression on your face when you were squinting because of the sunlight.”
taehyung:
“Your face is different when you smile and when you’re alone.”
“…Is it still like that now?”
“It’s more complicated now.”
[Same time – end of the playground]
Jungkook continued to monitor Yeoju's community posts.
If you search for the female protagonist's name,
Keywords like ‘transfer student rumor’ and ‘protective facility’ were still circulating.
He clenched his fist.
And then, he set out to find the heroine.
She was sitting at the end of the library hallway.
A figure hugging her knees and closing her eyes.
“Kim Yeo-ju.”
Jungkook called quietly.
The heroine raised her head.
"…why."
Jungkook took a deep breath and spoke clearly.
“Just… listen for exactly 5 seconds and then decide.”
“…?”
“I think I like you.”
“…What?”
“It’s true.
It wasn't just that I felt like I 'wanted to protect'—
“I just can’t stand it because I care about you.”
The heroine looked at him with a surprised face.
Jungkook silently placed something in Yeoju's hand.
It was a small pendant.
Inside, the initials ‘Jeon Jungkook’ were engraved.
“I made it when I was young,
“I just think it’s right for you to have it now.”
[Teacher's office, late afternoon]
Seokjin was looking through the dean's documents.
Information about Yeoju's reasons for transferring and protective facilities,
And I'm even checking Uncle Taehyung's name again.
At that moment, a message arrived on Seokjin's phone.
📩 FROM: Hyejin
Kim Yeo-ju's past incident, if you don't sort it out
I'm really going to upload it.
Am I ready to cross the line?
Seokjin: “…This is crazy. Seriously.”
📍 BTS Official Bulletin Board
[🚨Notice] We plan to launch an investigation into the indiscriminate rumors surrounding Kim Yeo-ju.
(Complete blocking of posts / Checking user records for malicious comments)
Although the post was blocked,
Someone has already spread the capture,
Someone else was creating a new account and spreading it.
At the center of it all—Hyejin.
She muttered as she looked in the mirror and applied lip gloss.
“They’re all cute.
“It’s exciting to be protected.”
At that moment, someone heard those words.
“Shouldn’t you keep your mouth shut?”
It was Seokjin.
“I was just going to let you pass.”
“But now… it’s really disgusting.”
Hyejin looked back and said.
“…Did you start liking her too?”
Seokjin didn't answer.
I just turned around.
[The Lady's Room - Evening]
The heroine looked at the necklace quietly.
The pendant that Jungkook gave me.
And the memories that come to mind.
“That day, when I was crying
Someone held my hand without saying a word.”
“Was it Jeongguk… or…”
She closed her eyes quietly.
Continued in the next episode >>>>>>>