“What was that about, Chae?” Jungkook asked after pulling away from the kiss. “Why.. Why did you.. I mean, why did you do that?” Jungkook stuttered, his face was painted red.

“I—” Chaeyoung looked down on her toes, feeling embarrased.

“You know what?” Lisa cut off, standing up. “I shouldn’t be here.” And Lisa turned to walk away but Jungkook immediately took hold of her arms, stopping her. “What?!” Lisa yelled, facing him with a glare.

“Are you okay?” Jungkook asked worriedly.

“Why wouldn’t I be?” Lisa scoffed. “I mean, it’s not like I have anything to say to the both of you. So just continue on what you two were doing and i’ll be on my way—” Lisa continued to blabber until she felt his hand tighten on her wrist.

“Lisa, it’s not what you—” Jungkook started to say.

“Jeon Jungkook.” Chaeyoung stated, cutting him off.

Jungkook looked back towards Chaeyoung who looked like she was about to cry. Jungkook sighed and turned back to look at Lisa sadly. Jungkook was confuse to what was happening and he definitely didn’t know what to do.

“Are you sure you’re going to be okay going back alone, Lisa?” Jungkook asked. “I have to send Chaeyoung home, but if it’s okay with you we could—”

“I’m fine on my own.” Lisa stated sternly, tugging her arms free from his grip and started to walk away.

Jungkook could only sigh while watching Lisa walking away with Dalgom behind her heels. When he couldn’t see her shadows anymore, he finally decided to face Chaeyoung but he quickly regretted it when he saw her trembling and looking hurt. He immediately reached out to embrace her.

“What’s wrong, Chae?” jungkook whispered.

“Why? Why are you doing this to me, Jungkook?” Chaeyoung finally looked up to see his worried and confuse face. “You know that I like you! That I have feelings for you! But then, why?” Chaeyoung wailed, pushing him away from her.

“Chae.” Jungkook’s voice was broken. “I am so sorry. But you know that I don’t feel the same way, right?”

“But why is that? Is it because of that Isle girl?” Chaeyoung scoffed in disbelief.

“What?” Jungkook scowled. “What are you saying? No! Ofcourse not!” Jungkook denied.

“Then..” Chaeyoung’s face was suddenly painted with realization. “..It’s still her, isn’t it? Jisoo?”

Jungkook was silent and kept his head down, looking away from Chaeyoung. He couldn’t look at Chaeyoung properly knowing that the girl would only confirm her hunch about his feelings for Jisoo. Ever since they were young, Jungkook admired Jisoo for her beauty and innocence and what made him fell for her more was the fact that she was very kind towards anyone. But he has yet to confess his feelings for the girl, knowing that Taehyung has feelings for her too and he needed her more than he do.

“I can’t believe this!” Chaeyoung laughed. “After all those years, you still have feelings for her? And here I tought that you had given up already and i could finally had a chance for your heart.”

“Chae—” Jungkook started but Chaeyoung was already running away from him.

*****

Jisoo found her way towards the outskirts of town. She was now standing just a few meters away from the barrier that divides their kingdom from the gate which leads to the broken bridge that connects them from the Isle of the Lost. She thought hard before finally deciding to go in that place. She thought that it would help her to strengthen her resolve in helping the Isle kids.

“One day Jisoo, you will be able to see all these people unite and live harmoniously.” Jisoo said to herself and decided to finally head back into town but something inside her just felt different.

Jisoo looked back, her eyes were fixed on the transparent wall that divides the place she was standing from the gate that leads into the bridge. Without her knowing, she took a step forward, entering the barrier. She was walking straight ahead coming towards the gate but a hand caught her.

“Taehyung?” Jisoo looked back at the boy who’s panting hard.

“Where do you think you’re going, Kim Jisoo?” Taehyung exclaimed, pulling the girl back outside the barrier.

“What? What do you mean?” Jisoo then looked around and finally realized what happened. “Did i just—”

“You went inside the barrier, Jisoo.” Taehyung said. “You know how dangerous it is inside. What were you thinking? A few more steps and you could have reached the gate.” He continued to nag but then he stopped when he noticed the confuse and shock face that Jisoo was wearing. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I.. I didn’t know.” Jisoo deadpanned. “I didn’t know what I was doing until you pulled me back.”

Taehyung’s eyes widen in confusion and he couldn’t help but grimace by the sight of Jisoo looking confuse, frantic and worried. He immediately pulled Jisoo away from that place and brought them in the meadow where they would usually hang out when they were children.

“I swear Tae, I didn’t realize that I already entered the barrier.” Jisoo explained and started to panic. “They wouldn’t know about it, would they? I mean, Jin could get in trouble if I—”

“Calm down.” Taehyung exclaimed, trapping Jisoo’s face in his hands. “Look, maybe you just tripped on something and ended up inside the barrier. Don’t worry about it.” Taehyung added, pulling Jisoo’s head into his chest. “We’ll just tell Jin and the others about it. It’s no big deal so don’t stressed out, okay?”

“Okay.” Jisoo nodded but deep inside her, she knew that there’s something more about what happened to her.

*****

Seokjin was looking at his friends weirdly sitting around in the middle of his study. His eyes darted towards the awkward looking Jungkook and Chaeyoung. They were silently sitting across from each other and seemingly avoiding each others’ gaze. Then he eyed Jimin who was sitting silently on the other side of the room, just across him. He was busy looking and scanning through his phone and Seokjin thought that he was the only one who seemed to be acting normal. He stared at the unmoving Taehyung, who’s eyes were stuck on Jisoo the whole time while Jisoo was looking guilty and troubled.

Seokjin sighed. “So tell me why are you here, again? You know I’m kind of busy with all of these paper works.”

“Jin, I am so sorry about what happened earlier.” Jisoo started to say.

“Jisoo, you know that it wasn’t your fault. It was just an accident so stop blaming yourself.” Taehyung nagged.

“Still.” Jisoo reasoned. “Me crossing the barrier created quite an alarm in the Palace and Jin has to settle the commotion.” Jisoo added, looking down on her lap.

“Tae’s right, Jisoo. It wasn’t your fault.” Jungkook who was sitting beside her joined in, grabbing Jisoo’s hand for comfort. “And it’s the future king’s duty to calm his people when in times of trouble.”

“Hmm.” Chaeyoung scoffed, her eyes were glued on Jungkook’s hand clutching Jisoo’s and Jungkook immediately let go and looked away from her piercing looks.

“Guys, what do you think of this selfie? It’s quite okay, right? I’ll post this on my instagram.” Jimin broke the silence and Seokjin just rolled his eyesat him due t