"Hi Tzuyu. Yeah, it's me Jungkook. Am I calling at a bad time?" He sounded uncertain.

"No, not really... I was just about to finish drawing a map..."

"You draw maps? That's so cool! Uh... You're probably wondering how I got your number." At Tzuyu's silence, he continued, "Your mom gave it to me during dinner. I didn't ask her for it- I swear!"

"Oh..." Tzuyu's eyes twitched after hearing that. She'll get back at her mom later.

"Maybe it was a bad idea to call so soon." His voice gave an indication that he was hurt and disappointed which Tzuyu's didn't fail to pick up. "I'll just go to bed then-"

"No - Wait Jungkook !" Tzuyu's shouted cutting him off. She was actually happy to be speaking with him so soon after thinking about it. "We can talk now."

"Really?" He seemed to be perking up.

"Yeah."

"Okay!" There was a long pause.

"Jungkook? Are you still there?" Tzuyu's asked, wondering if they had somehow lost connection.

"Yeah."

"What did you want to talk about?"

"Anything's fine really. Uh... oh yeah! You didn't really get to tell me about yourself- actually I didn't get to finish..."

As Jungkook rambled on, Tzuyu's blushed. Looking back, he really never got to finish introducing himself for he went on about calling her cute and unexpectedly declared that he wanted to make her happy.

"Tzuyu's..." Jungkook's tone of voice changed from carefree to serious. "I just wanted to make sure that you're serious about this marriage - our marriage. What I mean is that from what I heard, marriage is a big deal. I'm not really the type fit to be a marriage partner.

"I'm sometimes immature and dense to a whole lot of things. I'm not that smart and I don't really have any tangible goals in life. I was wondering if a person like you would honestly be satisfied with a guy like me..."

Tzuyu's blinked. Needless to say, she was dumbfounded. In her eyes, Jungkook seemed so confident, prideful and so sure of himself, so why was he telling her this? She knew her worth and apparently he had an idea.

Then again, they were involved in an arranged marriage and the fact that Jungkook was ensuring that she didn't want to think twice about what they're getting themselves into, showed that he cared a whole lot for her. It was heart touching and Tzuyu looked down to the side and smiled to herself.

"Jungkook, don't be an idiot. You swore to learn how to love me, right? Listen... it's okay to have doubts. Even I had doubts but after meeting and seeing who you were for myself, I believe that I want to go on this journey with you. Y-You're sweet, funny, a little silly, straightforward and I think that that's what attracted me to you... Checking up on me about our marriage made me very happy. Thank you. In my heart, I know that I want to marry you and about getting to know each other, we will in due time... after we're married."

There was an approximate 5 second pause.

'Shishishi' Jungkook laughed. "Thanks Tzuyu. I'm so relieved! I really, really like you."

"Huh?"

"I like you," Jungkook said again. "I like your spirit, you're not a coward. I like it when you smile. I like how you were able to blow away all my worries away about our situation; you're really easy to talk to. You smell nice... I like that too-"

"Wait Jungkook," Tzuyu said, stopping him. She was rendered speechless after Jungkook said that he liked her but grew pleasantly embarrassed hearing him list the things he liked about her. Guys in the past only praised her body.

Jungkook saw her as a person not some object and she wondered how someone could be so sweet and genuine at the same time. Tzuyu felt timid all of a sudden. She definitely needed to change the topic. Jungkook was just too sweet.

"You said that your favourite food is meat, right? Well, mine's oranges."

"Really? Oranges are awesome. They're the same colour as your hair. I like your hair a lot, Tzuyu."

'Oh great.' Jungkook unfortunately didn't get the message.

"Jungkook, though you saying all that makes me happy... let's please talk about something else."

"Okay... This one time I had this awesome dream! I woke up on a meat island and-"

Tzuyu burst out laughing. Jungkook paused, decided to laugh along with her and continued his story. They ended up talking about a series of weird dreams that they'd had until Jungkook's dad called for him.

"Sorry Tzuyu. The old man's calling me so I have to go. If it's okay with you, I'd like to call you again..."

"Of course, Jungkook. Good night... and Jungkook?

"Yeah?"

"I really like you too."

Jungkook blinked and laughed, 'Shishishi' "Goodnight, Tzuyu."

When Jungkook was no longer on the other line, Tzuyu had a content look written all over her face. She giggled to herself when she remembered his silly story about becoming the Pork King. She glanced at her bedside clock and was shocked to find that it was way past midnight. How long they talked, she had no idea but she enjoyed every second of it.