"Taehyung," you whispered. "Just how long do you plan on sleeping for?" When you didn't get a response, you only sighed and took a step back. "I'm going to get going, okay?" Just before you took a step towards the door, you felt a hand lightly tugging at yours.
"You're leaving so early?"
When you looked back, you found him staring right up at you. "Why?" he pouted. "Spend some more time with me. Make me breakfast."
"My days as your nurse are over and done with."
"And what a shame that is." He giggled at the light slap to his chest. "Y'know, one day I'm gonna wake up to you holding that sexy body of yours." Expecting a hit to his face, Taehyung hurriedly covered his face and waited for the attack. But a few seconds of feeling not one thing, he widened up his fingers, only to find you blushing with a pouty look.
"Only in your dreams, punk."
"No, I can't settle for just my dreams." He wrapped his arms around your waist and pulled you back down on top of him. "I need the real deal." He put a hand to your back and gently started rubbing it. "Do you mind if we stay like this for a bit longer?" he asked, closing his eyes again.
"No, it's fine."
Monday morning was official, and Minji was walking through the school gates with her head down to the concrete. But just when she looked up, she spotted Jimin the same time. The upperclassmen walked towards the building with his phone in his hand and a nonchalant look on his face.
'It's now or never, Minji.' She put a little jog in her steps as she made her way over to him. "Hey, sunbae," she called for him. But as soon as he saw her, he turned right back around acting as if no one had called him at all. 'Oh, how mature.' When she got up to him, she took him by the arm and got in front of him. "I'm talking to you, y'know."
"Is there something you need?"
"We need to talk."
"I hope it's not anything that will keep me from minding my own business."
Minji rolled her eyes and started tugging Jimin towards the side of the school where nobody seemed to be. Once at the wall, she just kind of stood there. There wasn't exactly a plan for this whole apology speech out. All she knew was that she had to talk to him.
"Minji, do you have something to talk about or not? If not, I've got class."
"No, wait!" she took him by the sleeve to keep him in place. "I'm sorry. Really, really, really sorry. What I said to you the other day was really uncool and nobody, especially you, deserved to be treated like that."
"Is that so?" He swung around his bag and took out the textbook. "I forgot to give this to you. Take it."
"Wha--" Minji smacked the thick book out of his hand and let it fall to the ground. "I don't care about the stupid textbook right now, idiot! Listen to me. I'm trying to apologize!"
"Is that all you've got to say then?" he asked.
Minji couldn't help but fall silent to the serious and hard stare that he was giving her. There was that painful guilt again, hitting her once more. She then sighed and hung her head. "Yeah, that's all." She took a step over to bend down and pick up the book, but just as she was reaching for it, she felt a firm grip take hold of her forearm. The same time she looked up, was the same time she was brought back and yanked into a warm embrace.
"It doesn't feel nice when you're being brushed off, now does it?"
Minji's wide eyes lowered, as her hands slowly came up to clutch Jimin's jacket. "When you left, I felt really bad. I can be mean sometimes, but it really shocked me when you just got up and left like that."
"Well, you've acted this way in the past, but that was only because you didn't know me, yet."
"I'm sorry. I really am. If my stress becomes too unbearable for me, then I'll let you know."
"I don't wanna have to wait until it's too unbearable, but only if you promise," Jimin held up his pinky finger.
"I promise." Minji held up hers as well and locked it firmly with his, ending their problems with an earnest smile; but that earnest smile seemed to fade away with the intense stare that he was giving her.
"Um, Jimin sunbae...? Have I got something on my face?"
"No," he denied. "It's just that you're looking extra pretty this morning."
His words not only put a shock to her face, but put a flutter in her chest. "Wh--what's your problem, man? I'm not one of those stupid girls you used to take to bed."
He then smiled, "I know. I'll see you after classes, okay?" With a wave, Jimin went on his merry way and left Minji standing there in awe.
"What's his deal?" Minji could feel a light warmth creeping up on her cheeks. "Calling me cute and now pretty all of a sudden?" She tried to shake the blush off so that she could walk into class like normal.
Well, classes were over and done with and the whole gang, besides you, were sitting down inside the mess hall waiting for you to come down. In the meantime, the guys couldn't keep from asking about Saturday's events. Of course, they'd want to know what happened.
"So, how'd it go? Did your date go as perfectly as you said it would?" Hoseok asked.
Picking up on his words, Minji looked around in confusion. "Wait, you guys went on a date recently? When was this?"
"What do you mean 'when'?" Taehyung looked up at her. We had our date on Saturday. Did you forget already? I talked about it on Thursday when she came back."
'Oh, fuck.' Minji was so wrapped up in her stupid textbook, that she failed to miss something so important. 'What if she finds out?' she bit her lip. 'But...there's a slim chance that she would...so it should be fine, right?'
"You know, whenever this kid says that something is going to go well, it usually doesn't, right?" Jin's little joke definitely got the table laughing.
"It went well," he started. "We went to the aquarium, got some souvenirs. Then, we grabbed lunch and dessert. But after we left the parlor, that's when things got bad. These little kids ruined her outfit after passing through a mud puddle on their bikes."
Everyone's jaw dropped. "You're kidding," Jimin said.
"When decided to go home, we had to go back to the parlor because she forgot her plush toy back at the parlor. But it was already gone when we got there. Then when left and stood outside waiting on an empty cab for 2 damn hours.
"That really sucks," Hoseok crossed his arms. "Then what?" he motioned with his chin to continue.
"Eventually, it started to pour down on us. I was so pissed at the point, but despite everything, she still told me how much she liked spending time with me." He didn't realize it himself, but everyone else could see the bashful smile spread across his face.
"Look at this guy, blushing like this is his first ever crush," Jimin was grinning as he nudged Hoseok in the arm.
"Shut up," he flipped them off. Just then, Taehyung glanced down at his phone to check the time. "I'll be back in a bit." Knowing what time you were supposed to come out, he wanted to be the first thing you saw when you walked out of that boring class of yours, just so that you could walk down together. "Jungkook-ssi," Taehyung called for him as he stood up as he tucked his phone away in his pocket. Seeing as how Jungkook was looking his way, he continued on. "I'm going to go pick Jiyeong up from class. You wanna tag along?"
"What're you asking me for?"
"You're her overprotective friend, I just thought you might want to get in between us again," his words only got a pair of finely sharp daggers in return.
"Uh, is there some tension going on between you two that we don't know about?" Namjoon asked.
"I don't know," Taehyung shrugged. "But if there is Jungkookie probably knows about it. Make sure that you tell me all about it later, too." And with that, he left everyone else to go and retrieve you, as promised. But as soon as he left, trouble brewed in.
"We've got trouble," Yoongi mumbled to the rest. When they followed his eyes, they soon found out what he meant. "It's a good thing Taehyung just left."
"What brought you here?" It wasn't only Namjoon, but everyone else was giving Kyunghee glares as well. There's just no way that she could be forgiven for what she had done to their friend.
"Relax, I just came to see if you guys heard the news?"
"'The news'?" Yoongi eyed the rest before getting back to her again.
Kyunghee glanced over at her troubled cousin, "about Minji's crush."
When those words fell from her lips, Minji felt her heart bungee jump into her stomach. Her head snapped in her cousin's direction with a look of near devastation on her face. 'She can't be serious right now.' Her heart was running rapid in her chest as she got looks of confusion from her peers. "What nonsense are you talking about?" you could hear the nervousness deep in her voice as she spoke against the allegations.
"Minji's crush?" Before looking at her, the boys glanced over at Jimin, who looked wore nothing but discomfort on his face.
"Oh, you didn't hear? That's surprising since all of you are friends now. The person Minji likes is J--"
Kyunghee was unable to finish her sentence since the loud slam of Minji's hand to the table but her off. The sound echoed out throughout the mess hall, attracting some attention in the process. As she stood above them, Minji's eyes rolled over everyone's faces once again. Once she saw Jungkook's face, she nearly had a heart attack right there and then, but once they locked with Kyunghee's, they were menacing.
"Come with me." Was all Minji said before stepping away from her seat and leaving to stand by the doors leading outside.
Kyunghee just smirked at the baffled faces among her. Then, with the flip of her silky dark locks, she turned and left the table. When she made it out those double doors, Minji started barking at the spiteful beauty. "Are you fucking crazy? I've done what you've asked me to do, so what the fuck was that?" she had to find out if what she was thinking was true.
"I'm the one who should be asking that, Minji-ah."
"Explain yourself."
"I never received a text from you saying that Taehyung and your bitch friend were going on a date Saturday."
'How does she know?' Minji started to panic. "What?"
"Don't fuck with me Minji. You think I'm stupid? I'll go back to that table right now and expose everything I have on you."
"I didn't know they went on a date!" she exclaimed out of fright.
"You expect me to believe that bullshit? How could you not know?"
"Whether they talked about it not, these past few days I've had my nose in textbooks. I've barely been paying attention to anything lately."
"Well, I suggest that you get your nose out the fucking textbook and start paying attention to your surroundings again, because if this happens again, I won't be so nice and forgiving." With nothing else to say, Kyunghee walked right away from her anxious cousin.
"I've really made a deal with the damned devil," she groaned.
"Did she say 'J'?" Hoseok looked around for confirmation.
"I think so," Namjoon spoke up. "Personally, I haven't seen Minji hang around anybody else, so maybe it's one of us."
"One of us?" Jin looked taken aback.
"Meaning it could be you, hyung, Jungkook or even Jiminie." It was at that moment that everyone slowly turned towards Jimin. He didn't have such a good look on his face. All smiles from earlier were put away to face this situation.
"Hyung," Jungkook started, "you and Minji have been getting close lately, right? It's obvious that you're the one that she's interested in. She even agreed to let you take her out on Saturday."
"You took her out? Really?"
"Yeah..." he answered. Though, he was still unable to shake the indifferent feeling he had.
"Come on, you've got to have more confidence in yourself," Jungkook gave him a pat on the back to try and comfort him. "There's no way she'd be interested in either of us."
"Jungkookie's right, y'know," Yoongi stepped in. "Not even the slightest bit. Just keep doing what you've been doing and you'll be fine."
"Mm," was all Jimin could answer with.