You're now finishing up your final project for your architecture class.

As you sketch on the large sheet of paper, you can't help but get tired despite the two coffees you had already chugged today. You let out a soft sigh and set the pencil down for a second. As you rest your elbow on the table, you then rest your head on the palm of your hand.

Before you know it, you feel yourself ready to fall asleep. This causes you to shake your head before you take out your phone, checking your bank balance to see if you could afford another coffee.

Next thing you know, you get a text.

Bad Date Bodyguard: You free in about an hour for a practice date? Jimin has a date with someone and wanted me to join so it could be a double date

You smile softly as you stare down at the text before sighing as you realize you can't go because of this project.

Y/N: I can't, I have a project due tomorrow... raincheck?

You go to lock your phone and set it down onto the table. It rings as you try to do this, which causes you to stare down at the caller ID.

Taehyung.

"Hello?" you answer without hesitation.

"Hey." You hear him say. "So, you can't put the project off?" he questions immediately.

"Unfortunately, no." you say before sighing. "Trust me, I wish I could... I've been working on this stupid thing for four hours now."

"Four hours?" he questions on the other side of the line. You hear the static from his end before he speaks again. "Have you eaten?" You smile as he asks this before shaking your head.

"No." You hear him mumble a small "aish" on the other side of the line.

"You can't work on an empty stomach, you'll get sick." He states. "Just come to dinner with us for the food at least... don't think of it as a study break but as a 'taking care of yourself' break." He states. You lean back in your seat, smiling widely as you let out a sound of hesitance.

"Um... I don't know." You state.

"Come on." You hear him dragging out, almost in a pleading tone. "You know you're hungry... doesn't some tteokbokki sound good?" Your stomach growls immediately as you hear the word.

"Hm... tteokbokki sounds so good..." you say, causing him to immediately start tempting you with more food.

"Or how about a nice, juicy steak?" he questions. "With some really good seasoning on top."

"Aw man." You say while reaching your hand up to cover your face with your hand, continuing to be tempted by him.

"Or how about some ramen?" he urges. "Some nice, warm noodles with a nice, tasty broth?" he questions.

"Taehyung, if you keep teasing me, your wallet is going to regret it." You state. He laughs a deep laugh on the other side of the line.

"You know you want it..." he says in a teasing voice.

"You win." You state before speaking again. "I'm at the university library, come pick me up and I'll join the three of you." You hear him laugh on the other side of the line.

"Alright, I'll see you soon." He says before hanging up. You smile down at your phone before rolling your eyes. You then look down at your project before looking around.

A lot of people have already left the library or have already fallen asleep while studying. Sighing, you lean forward in your seat and start rolling up the paper to put it in the small cylindrical container that you store your projects in. After you roll up the paper, you place the thin sheet into the cylinder container, closing it securely.

"Y/N?" you hear a voice, causing you to look up and see Lucas. You give him a quick wave before going back to packing your things up.

"Hey." You say as you stuff your study and architecture materials into your bag.

"Are you leaving?" he questions. "I was wondering if you could help me with my project." He states. You pause, stilling your movements. You take a second to think to yourself.

Is he really that dumb?

He always asks you for help but rarely talks to you about personal things.

He thinks you're a moron, doesn't he? Thinking he can use you for work all the time.

You blink before looking up at him and making eye contact.

"I already gave you most of my notes from this semester." You state. He lets out a nervous laugh before scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah but not recently though... I'm missing a month's worth of notes."

"What?" you question. "You've been in every lecture I've been to."

"Yeah, I just got distracted and-"

"I'm not your personal notetaker." You immediately state before going back to packing everything. "And just so you know, in the real world, no one will drop their own workload to help you." You start to get up from your seat.

"I was just asking... you don't have to be rude about it." He states.

"I do when that's all you ever talk to me about." You state. "The only other time we've ever had a conversation was when you invited me to the party and when you said you'd dump Yuqi to go to the party with me because you felt bad."

He grows quiet, looking around at the library.

Your little rant had woken up a few of the students who were peacefully sleeping at the library tables. A few of them are staring over at you and him.

You notice his eyes wandering around as he looks at these people before you roll your eyes.

"Here's a tip: next time, when you want someone to do your work for you, at least pretend to care about the person." You say sassily. "Or at least pay them." Standing up, you grab your materials and begin carrying them, starting to make your way out of the library.

"Y/N, wait." You hear him say.

However, you don't look back.

You hear his footsteps following behind you but you can't be bothered to stop or turn around to make eye contact.

"What's going on with you lately, Y/N?" he questions from behind you. "You never act like this."

"What do you mean?" you question, still not coming to a halt.

"You're never this rude to me." he states. "Is all of this because I said 'no' to the party?" you roll your eyes.

Yeah, he is an idiot.

No wonder he needs your help all the damn time.

"If you really think that that's what this is about, no wonder you need my help in school. You're so dense." You state. He eventually catches up to you after chasing you.

You look up at him and narrow your eyes at him.

"The only thing that's 'different'" you do finger quotes when you say the word 'different.' "About me is the fact that I'm not being a pushover and letting you use me for answers or notes anymore."

As you go to step past him, he places his hand on your arm to stop you and you flinch, immediately tugging your arm away from him.

"Don't touch me." you warn him, voice coming out harsh. He takes his hand back before holding his hands up defensively.

He opens his mouth to say something when you two hear the roaring engine that you've grown so comfortable hearing.

You look to the parking lot and see the motorcycle pulling up to the sidewalk. Smiling softly, you see Taehyung taking his helmet off before running his fingers through his hair.

Today, he's dressed in black dress pants, a white dress shirt, and a black tie. The black tie has the Gucci logo all over it.

Feeling someone staring at him, he looks to the side, seeing you standing there.

He adjusts his tie while smiling his boxy smile over at you. You smile widely as you see him, waving. He then looks to your side, seeing Lucas. His smile slowly drops.

You watch his expression as he tilts his head to the side while staring over at Lucas. After a few seconds, you see that he realizes who he is when he smirks. He then parks his motorcycle getting off of it before walking over to you.

"Hey, baby." He states while looking over at you.

"Hi." You shyly say as you realize what he's doing. He then steps closer to you before pulling you into a hug. While hugging you, he rests his chin on the top of your head.

As he's hugging you, he gives Lucas an intimidating stare. You don't see this because you're inhaling his cologne and facing the other way.

"I'm Taehyung." He says while pulling away from the hug. He holds his hand out to shake Lucas's.

"Lucas." He says while shaking his hand. Taehyung nods his head before looking back at you. He sees that you're holding all of your architecture equipment.

Without hesitation, he takes the heaviest looking item from you and instead holds it himself.

"Do we need to stop by your dorm so you can drop all of this stuff off before we go to dinner, baby?" he questions. You nod your head while looking up at him.

"Yes, and I have to get changed. We're not late for the double date, are we?" you question. He shakes his head.

"Jimin and his date can wait." He says while grinning down at you. He then rests his hand on your lower back, slightly pushing you forward to signal that you two should walk away from Lucas. You comply and follow his gesture as he then looks back at Lucas. "It was nice meeting you, man."

"You too..." you hear the confusion and insecurity in his voice as he says this.

Once you're a safe distance away from him, you let out a soft laugh.

"Oh, you're good." You state. Taehyung lets out a soft laugh, shaking his head.

"Wasn't fully sure that was Lucas but I figured even if it wasn't, it would be good practice for the party." you grin and nod as he says this.

"Remind me to buy you dessert for saving me back there." You say as you two enter the dorm building. He lets out a soft laugh.

"Don't worry about it. Just consider it part of my 'bad date bodyguard' job." You smile and roll your eyes before the two of you enter the elevator.

Once you're at your door with Taehyung, you unlock the door. As you step into your room, you glance back and notice that Taehyung didn't enter your room.

Peeking your head out of your door, you see that he's leaning up against the wall next to your door. You furrow your eyebrows.

"What are you doing?" his head snaps in your direction as you say this. He glances around before shrugging.

"Waiting for you." You laugh.

"You know you're more than welcome to wait in my room, right?" he glances up at the ceiling before shrugging his shoulders.

"Okay." He says before grinning and stepping into your dorm room. You close the door behind the two of you.

"Please ignore the mess. I'll try to get ready quickly." You state. He nods his head.

"You don't have to rush." He says before he points towards your desk. "Is it alright if I sit at your desk and watch TV?" you nod as you start going through your closet, grabbing a change of clothes to wear.

"Yeah, that's fine." You say before you step towards the bathroom. As you do, you hear the TV now quietly playing in the background. Glancing back, you see Taehyung staring intently at the TV, leaning back on your chair.

He feels you staring at him before looking over at you.

"What?" He asks. You shrug.

"Nothing... you just look really good right now, like a super model." You smile before stepping into the bathroom, closing and locking the door behind you. Taehyung smiles, shaking his head as you say this.

"You're delusional." He says slightly louder so you can hear him through the bathroom door.

"No, I'm not!" you respond back through the bathroom door. This causes him to laugh once more before he shakes his head, looking back at the TV.

"Cute..." he mumbles to himself.

*****
Stream Hobi's new song "on the street" with J-Cole!!!

With this being the last project he releases before he enlists with Jin, I'm hoping he gets a lot of streams so he can see how much we appreciate his art and his lyricism. I want him to enlist while being proud of himself, because he's mentioned J-Cole is one of his inspirations and favorite artists. I want him to know how proud we are that he was able to do a collaboration with someone whose music meant a lot to Hobi.

I hope all of you are healthy, happy, and having good lives right now. I know I've been bad at my weekly news updates, but lately life has just gotten busy where I don't have time to check the news as often. I'm going to try to get better at doing those again because I know a lot of my readers appreciate when I try to keep them up-to-date on the news. So, hopefully next week's chapter will have some updates with what's happening in the world.

I love all of you and really hope you're all taking care of yourselves both physically and mentally. I know with Hobi enlisting soon, it's definitely going to be harder to stay happy. We'll never get used to each enlistment announcement, and I know that it has a very sad feeling every time we see one, even though we are proud of them for doing it. I'm hoping that these next years go by fast and that we get enough content from each member before they leave so that it doesn't feel like they're gone.

Regardless, I hope everyone is okay right now. If anyone is having a hard time right now, just know that BTS is so proud of you and it will get better. I'm also so proud of you for continuing to try your best.

I purple all of you always.
Kim 💜