Jessica’s POV

“Bye Jess!” Jay oppa gave me a quick hug and a wink before pulling his cap down and running off.

I rolled my eyes at his arrogance, thinking that he was gonna get caught by his fangirls. We’d just got out of the café after eating some lunch together. I decided to visit the shops for Dara’s cookies… I cocked my head when I saw all the different choices…

‘Is it right to buy the cookies?’

I shook my head and went to the cooking section. I took some flour, a few eggs, some chocolates and…what else do you need?

“Annyeong!”

“AH!” I jumped and turned around, knowing who it was already! “Kim Jaejoong! You really need to stop doing that!!”

“Hehe.. sorry, Jung Sooyeon!” He smiled innocently as I rolled my eyes and looked for the decorations

“So..what are you doing here?” He followed me

“I want to make cookies…” I thoughtfully compared two of the ones that caught my eyes

“Huh? I thought it was your fri-”

My eyes widened “What? So I’m not allowed to make cookies just because I don’t need to apologise?” I asked, trying to be as cold as possible

“A…anni…” He looked a bit taken aback “Actually, I was about to make cookies too! Telling you about it made me want to eat them!”

“Hey, can you teach me?” I asked, without thinking

“Huh?” He looked back

“Uh…I don’t know how to cook…” I touched the back of my neck, embarrassed

“Sure! Let’s cook them at the school kitchen, okay?” He smiled as I nodded

 

“So first, you crack the egg…” I watched Jaejoong breaking the egg skilfully with one hand and nodded

“You do it…” He gave me one as I nervously hit it with a fork

“Ah-ha-ha-ha!” He started laughing his trademark laugh after the egg cracked…a bit too much, all the shells went into the bowl along with the egg! I pouted.

“This is too hard…” I mumbled as Jaejoong coughed, trying to press his laughter

“That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone do that! Even my brother can do better!!” With that he started laughing again!

I looked down, feeling ashamed…even boys can cook better than me…

I can’t even do something as simple as this to save a friendship…

I’m a failure…

 

 

 

 

Jaejoong’s POV

I was still laughing when I saw Jessica’s sad expression!

I suddenly felt guilt wash over me as I knew that I’d made her this way.

I mentally smacked myself for ever being the reason for her sadness!

“Uh…don’t worry! You can still learn!”

“I can?!” She looked up with hope in her eyes

“Yep! Now all you have to do is follow me!”

Step by step, I taught her everything she needed to know about when cooking cookies…

I was surprised to find that she was actually a really good learner!

You only needed to demonstrate once, then explain it and she’ll get it!

“And there we have our cookies!” I proudly stated as she clapped, happily

“Waahh~~ Jaejoong, it looks so delicious already!!” She bit her bottom lip in excitement as I chuckled

“Now, all we have to do is bake them!” I carefully put them in the oven as Jessica nodded

“Mm~~ I can’t wait to try one!” She rubbed he tummy as I shook my head again “But…”

“But what?” I looked up curiously at what she was gonna say

“But…what are we gonna do with these?” She held u the spare flour as I grinned, an evil idea popping into my mind

“Don’t you know what we do with them?” I walked up to her

“We… put them in the cupboard?” She asked

“No…we do this!” I put my hand in the pack and then rubbed them on her cheeks as her jaw dropped open

“Oh-ho-ho! You did not just do that, Kim Jaejoong!”

“I think I did, Jung Sooyeon!”

“Well, I can do it too!”

Before I could process what she said in my head, I felt her rub something on my face!

Oh no, she didn’t!

I grinned determinedly as she squealed and ran away.

“Stop right there, Jung Sooyeon!” I ran after her as she squealed some more

I finally caught her as her way got blocked by the work island!

“Ha! Ha!” I laughed evilly, rubbing my hands togeth- Wait a minute, where’s the flour?! I internally groaned and slapped my forehead, failing to remember that I did have traces of flour from earlier!

Jessica burst out laughing as I pouted.

“Jung Sooyeon, Did you just laugh at the great Kim Jaejoong?” I shook my head at her as if I was a teacher and she, the student, had done something wrong

“I think I did, Kim Jaejoong!” She giggled as my jaw dropped, realising that she just used my own words against me!

“You’re gonna get it, Jung Sooyeon!” I smirked and ran for her, she screamed and tried to run, but then remembered that she was trapped there!

I grabbed her by the waist and spun her around, as she screamed and flapped her arms about. We both started laughing but I still didn’t let go…well, that was until…

“Uh…sorry…” Someone said from the door, it was Jessica’s friend…

“Dara! It’s nothing! We weren’t doing anything! Don’t take this the wrong way! Uh…I don’t know him!” She suddenly pointed at me

I felt a pang of hurt in my heart.

Why would she-?!

I sighed.

Now I know, Kwon Jiyong.

 

 

 

Jessica’s POV

I really didn’t want Dara to get the wrong idea and ruin Jaejoong’s chance! So I made up any excuses I could find…but one of them seemed to hurt Jaejoong a little…I sighed, guiltily.

Dara said that she was gonna be in our room and left. We stayed silent after that, the oven finally beeped and we both went towards it.

“Thank you for helping me cook these…I’m really grateful and, uh…sorry about that…I just didn’t want to ruin your chances...” I quickly apologised and left, taking my cookies with me

 

 

 

Jaejoong’s POV

Ruin my chances?

What the hell is she talking about?!

“AISH!!” I kicked one of the cupboards, frustrated 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica’s POV

I knocked on our door before going in.

“Sica!” She giggled

“What?” I looked around

“Sorry, I didn’t get a chance to laugh at you earlier! You know, since your boyfriend was there!” She wiggled her eyebrows as I vigorously shook my head

“A-anni!! It was nothing like that!! Uh…I’m gonna take a shower…”

 

“Dara…” I called, while drying my hair

“Mm?” She didn’t look up from her book

“I…made this for you…” I handed her the box of chocolate-chip cookies

“Waa~~ Sica, you really made this?”

“Uh-huh! Jaejoong helped me!” I smiled

“But…you hardly cook anything at all…” She took a bite and smiled “OMG! This si goodd!!”

“Dara…I wanted to say sorry…you know…for avoiding you, earlier…I was just going through…some sort of depression…” I explained as she suddenly gave me a hug

“It’s okay…as long as you don’t do this again…” She smiled “I did make a new friend through this, though!”

“Really?!” I looked at her, surprised as she normally finds it hard to get along with guys

“Yep! His name is Kwon Jiyong!”

“Peanut butter?!” I raised an eyebrow