"What if Jungkook- I mean Hoseok doesn't wake up?" Jieun eyes flicker eyeing Jungkooks sleeping figure.
"Did Heejin not wake up when you switched bodies with her?" Jungkook asks still not being able to gasp his body infront of him.
"She didn't.." her face rigid and filled with tension she leaves the room.Jungkook follows her worried.
"Jungkook your body can't stay here like this... you're an idol."
"I will call Jimin and Taehyung and get their help." He held into her shoulder trying to comfort her.
"Will they believe you though?" Her eyes soften.
She starts to worry about Hoseok who might never wake up, or Jungkook's carrier that might be effected.
"They hopefully will." Jungkook fights himself back the urge to wrap his hands around her, while she fought back her tears.
——
Jungkook tried grabbing his phone, he moved down the zipper of his pockets. His hand slipped when the pockets moved away. Realizing Hoseok just moved he looked back at him, his eyes were flinching.
"Jieun." He calls her eyes widened while her mouth slowly parted.
Hoseok now completely shifted his position turning in bed. Lee Jieun slowly approaches them, holding onto Jungkook away.
"Whats wrong?" Jungkook stares down at her hands holding him back.
"If he wakes up, he will have a heart attack seeing his body infront of him like that." She whispered pushing him out of the room.
"Oh yeah." He awkwardly stays put peeking through the door.
"Hoseok wake up." She hesitates to touch him eyeing Jungkook's features in front of her.
Hoseok groans in pain due to the pounding in his head and how nauseous he feels. He shifts in bed, eyes still screwed shut trying to suppress the headache.
Sitting up, he reaches out for the cup of water he left last night on his side. Though he doesn't find it. Vision still unclear, he rubs his eyes.
Did I drink that much? He asks himself.
Leaning his head back against the headboard, his vision starts to clear as his eyes are met with the cream colored ceiling. Looking to his other side, he finds the bed empty.
Wait didn't I fall sleep on the left side?
As Hoseok shakes his head to make some sense of what is happening, he sees dark hair ruffling from the corner of his eye.
Looking up straight at the dressing mirror placed exactly in the middle of the room as the queen sized bed, Hoseok is startled at the reflection staring back at him.
Hurriedly getting up from the bed, he moves to the mirror and is now clearly met with the reflection of the guy they brought home yesterday.
"AHHHHH!!" He screams as the pale skin turns red.
Jieun and Jungkook who have been witnessing the entire scene, flinch back as he screamed.
Noticing the movement by the corner of his eye, Hoseok whimpers at the sight before him when he turned to the pairs of anxious eyes in the bedroom.
"You-" Hoseok's incoherent word is cut when he collapses on the floor right after.
Jieun rushes to kneel by his side, shifting his head on her lap all concerned.
"Get me some water quick." She hastes Jungkook who stood worried and confused at the incident.
She sprinkled the cold water over his face hoping he will regain consciousness. Seconds later, Jungkook's body shakes in awakening.
"Hoseok, are you ok?" Jieun frets as she holds Jungkook's familiar hair away from his face.
"Oh Jieun I think I had a nightmare. I changed int-" Hoseok cuts his sentences short when he lifts his arm to hold her shoulder and is horrified by the tattoos over his arm extending to his knuckles.
Jungkook moves forward to align his vision with Hoseok lying in Jieun's lap and trying his best to hold in the urge to pull his body off of her. It's not him in my body, he thinks.
"Can someone explain to me what is happening here?" He screeches.
—-
"You guys do realize none of the things you just said make the slightest sense." Hoseok who is now more confused than ever sits on the bed facing both of them as they tower him.
"Well if you have another sensible reasoning for this, please enlighten us." Jungkook sasses.
"Jungkook!" Jieun hits him and glares at him for talking like that.
"So you're saying, Jungkook," he points at the real Jungkook's chest which is technically him right now, "somehow made a wish in his drunken state on the bridge last night. And somehow wakes up in my own body thus switching us all up. And you also happened to go through the same experience 2 years ago in that same bridge?" He turns to me.
Jieun and Jungkook both nod thinking Hoseok has finally understood the situation but are disappointed when they hear him laughing with tears rolling down his cheeks.
They both sigh in exasperation. Jungkook who too is trying to make peace with the sudden change faces Jieun with Hoseok's eyes that are asking what do we do now?
"How about I explain to him again but alone this time?" She pleads.
Jungkook's response isn't even heard as she pushes him out of the room. Jungkook now getting more mad that they're in that room together and alone, with his body.
As she descends back to Jungkook's body that laid on the bed, hands harshly rubbing at his face.
"Jung- Hoseok..." She gently speaks this time and spends another 15 minutes slowly explaining and actually he got the gist of it all.
Finding how funny it also is, they start laughing tirelessly, thus grabbing Jungkook's attention from the other side of the room.
"What's funny?" He asks storming into the room.
Jieun sobers up to explain to him when they are interrupted by the ringing of a phone.
"Not ours." Hoseok states knowing that's not Jieun or his ringtone.
Jungkook huffing moves to to the bedside table and picks up the phone. His eyes almost bulge out when he sees the number.
"Taeh-" Jungkook then pulls the phone away from his ear when we hear a muffled scream from the phone.
After a minute or two of Taehyung screaming on the phone scolding Jungkook for not calling them all night, Jungkook lets out a heavy sigh and speaks.
"I am ok don't worry."
"Who's this?" Taehyung stops for a second.
"Ah shit!" Finally dawning on Jungkook that it's not his voice, he hangs up the phone.
The room gets filled with groans of despair as Jungkook decides to text them both in their chat room instead.
JK: I'm so sorry guys but I am fine. I'm on my way back.
V: Did you just hang up on me?!
JM: Dude we have a meeting at 10!
"We have to go Taehyung and Jimin and explain this and also because we have a meeting in three hours." Jungkook says as he eyes the bedside clock.
"Yeah I guess this was bound to happen. Let me get changed then." Jieun stands up and leaves the guys in the room.
"I beg of you please treat my body as a temple, it's all I have. And don't do anything to my face plus always smile. I am not this gloomy. Raise the sides of your mouth, let me see if you can pull my smile." Hoseok stands up to his body and pinches his cheeks to show the host living in his body how he smiles.
—-
"Lee Jieun!" Jimin screeches as he runs to Jieun who just walked in to their studio.
"Jimin!" She runs to him with arms wide opened.
After a warm reunion and pleasantries Taehyung speaks up. "Did he come to you?" He nods his head at Hoseok whom he still thinks is Jungkook.
"Hoseok and I actually found him on the bridge last night. He was wasted too. Does he drink this often?" Jieun suddenly asks from worry.
They guys don't meet Jieun's gaze knowing the reason Jungkook drinks himself almost every night to despair.
"This is not the time right now. Tae, Jimin something happened last night." Jungkook starts but the guys just stare dumbfounded at Lee Jieun's manager startled by the fact he's addressing them this casually.
"Hoseok and I exchanged bodies after I made a wish in the bridge last night." Jungkook explains slowly.
Silence elapses in the room but seconds later, it's filled with the cackles of Jimin and Taehyung. Seeing they expected this reaction, the other three just sat with a blank face.
—-
"Whats your favorite video game?" Jimin shoots a question in the midst of his laugh with a pointed look.
Jieun amazed by his duality gasps slightly.
"Overwatch." Jungkook answers plastering a serious look on Hoseok's face.
"Do you like mint chocolate ice cream?"
"Yes very much!" Hoseok's eyes light up a bit despite the situation they're in at the mention of his favorite ice cream.
"What would you have been instead of an idol?" Taehyung asks this time.
"A professional video gamer!" Jungkook answers exasperated hoping they'd believe him by now.
Taehyung and Jimin look at each other and back at Hoseok and Jungkook and back at themselves.
"So how did this happen again?"
Jimin and Taehyung are left agape at this information but Jieun and the guys are completely glad this is not taking them long to comprehend.
—-
"Are you sure you are gonna be ok? I think I have to stay and at least teach him what to do!" Hoseok whines as he is bidding Jieun bye.
"Well this Jungkook has to stay here too because he has got much to do, don't you think?" Jieun tries to clarify to him.
"Lee Jieun, I am serious. I don't trust him around you. You haven't lived with anyone other than me and it is pretty obvious you guys had a history together which you haven't told me." Hoseok whispers as he moves closer to Jieun.
Jieun cowers back finding it nostalgic; Jungkook's body inching this close to her revives memories she's been trying to bury for the last 2 years.
Hoseok remembering how things have changed apologizes and steps back.
As for Jungkook, he couldn't withstand the interaction going between Jieun and her manger, so he storms towards them.
"Go get changed because you're leaving for the meeting." Jungkook speaks coldly as both the men glare at each other.
Jieun is saved from the atmosphere when Jimin calls her.
"When are you free? We need to catch up!" Jimin hugs Jieun tenderly as it's been a year since their last meeting at JinHit.
—-
Jungkook explained to them that Hoseok will manage because he will get flashbacks and his body will just adopt him to do as before.
They leave the studio in silence but thoughts running wild. Lee Jieun is scared. She's scared because she knows she can't be left with Jungkook alone and she doesn't know how long this will last. She doesn't trust her body to resist the tension that started building up since Jungkook slept over at her apartment.
As for Jungkook. He is torn. Torn from acting on his heart's impulse to just grab Lee Jieun in his arms and just hold her tightly and apologize for what he did that night. And torn from the fact he has to hold himself back because it is not his body.
While for Hoseok, he is worried and anxious. He doesn't want to leave Jieun with Jungkook. He is afraid of what will happen when they are reminded of their past. But he can't also deny the anxiety of not screwing up Jungkook's career. He is a manager after all and Jungkook is an idol who's career lies on his body and vocals. Everything needs to be perfect.