You wake up the next morning feeling a little sore between your legs. You stretch your arms up and let out a soft yawn as you smile to yourself.

Last night was fun for you. You finished the photoshoot for the lip balm, you got laid, you can finally relax now that the formula is finalized.

Everything is calm.

You get out of bed and put your slippers on before making your way down the stairs.

Once you get down the stairs, you hear Seokjin and Jimin having a serious conversation.

"Jimin, you've got to be kidding me right now." You hear. This causes you to furrow your eyebrows, as you listen.

"I'm not kidding, Seokjin. I don't know how it happened, but it happened." He responds. You lean against the wall as you listen, crossing your arms over your chest as you immediately think of Yoongi.

What's going on?

You continue to listen.

"Y/N is going to fucking kill you, Jimin." Now your heart stops. What could Jimin have done now?

The way Seokjin is cussing at him makes you freeze in place. He's never cussed at Jimin like that. He only cusses when you're pleasing him during sex. He rarely cusses.

How serious is this?

You feel your heart speeding up as you listen.

"I know, I know, but it's not our fault, I swear!" Jimin defends.

Our?

As in multiple people?

As in Jimin and Yoongi?

Your heart drops to your stomach as you think about this.

"How are we going to tell her?"

That does it.

You immediately open the kitchen doors and step into the kitchen. The two look over at you with wide eyes and shock apparent in their faces.

"Tell me what?" you immediately ask. Jimin visibly gulps and Seokjin's eyes go wide. Seokjin opens his mouth in an attempt to speak.

"Y/N-" Someone immediately rings the doorbell right when Seokjin is about to tell you what's going on. "You should get the door."

"That can wait." You immediately say, not interested in who's at the door.

"I'll get the door." Jimin immediately volunteers. He immediately starts taking steps towards the double kitchen doors. This causes you to grow suspicious as you narrow your eyes at the man. You immediately block the path to the double kitchen doors by placing your hands on both sides of the doorframe.

"No, Jimin. Tell me what's going on."

Jimin pauses mid-step and stares up at you. His eyes are filled with tears and guilt as he stares over at you.

"Jimin..." you say. "Why are you about to cry. What's going on? Is your family okay? Are you okay? What's going on?"

He sadly smiles at your words before nodding his head.

"My family and I are fine." He states. This causes you to let out a momentary sigh of relief before you turn to Seokjin.

"Jin, are you okay? Is your family okay?" he nods. You sigh once more in relief before speaking again. "Is this about work then?" they both nod their heads.

The person at the door rings the doorbell again.

"Y/N-" Seokjin tries to reason.

"No, Jin." You say before meeting his eyes. "Just tell me what's going on, please. I promise I can handle it."

Seokjin sighs before nodding his head.

"Just say it. Rip it off like a band aid." He states to himself before looking you straight in the eye. "The photoshoot was leaked."

You widen your eyes, stomach growing nauseous as you immediately grip onto the doorframe more tightly. Your knuckles are turning white as you grip onto it. You lean against the doorframe and feel the migraine starting to form.

"Y/N, it's something that can easily be fixed. We can just pick a new campaign photo; we can figure out a way to-" Jimin starts.

"How did it leak?" you question. "Do we know who leaked it?" Seokjin shakes his head while looking over at you. You sigh and place your hand over your forehead.

"I promise you we'll take care of it." Jimin says. "we still have the song that no one's heard at least." He states.

You look up at Jimin and nod your head.

"Okay." You calmly say before gesturing towards the door. "Can one of you check who's at the door, please?" you question before resting your head on the doorframe as you take multiple deep breaths to relax.

Jimin nods before making his way towards the kitchen double doors. You move to the side and allow him to step out of the double doors to make his way towards the front door.

You're left standing in the kitchen, stomach empty, yet feeling as though you ate some bad sushi. The stress goes straight to your stomach. Now, half of you doesn't want to eat while the other half wants to eat the most unhealthy, filling breakfast in the world.

Seokjin walks over to you and carefully places his hand on your back as he starts to soothingly rub his hand up and down your back.

"Baby, it'll be okay. Don't stress too much, okay?" he states. "We were going to post the photos on our social media tomorrow anyway. Everything leaking one day early isn't too bad." He states. You nod your head and let out a soft sigh. He leans down and presses his lips against your temple while comforting you.

"Guys, I can't believe that this got leaked." You hear a new voice in the house. This causes the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up as you hear the voice.

Yoongi.

You were trying to be polite by not blowing up at Jimin, but now that Yoongi is here, it gets harder for you to keep your composure.

Your head lifts and you look up at Yoongi who's looking at you with sympathy in his eyes.

You, however, being as stressed and overwhelmed as you are with this situation, don't feel that the sympathy in his eyes is real. You think he's faking it to pretend that he didn't leak it.

"Yeah..." you merely say. He steps further into the kitchen and you eye him as he continues to walk. "How do you guys think it got leaked?" you question, trying to be subtle about accusing Yoongi.

"That Eric guy was a little suspicious when he was looking at the picture before he showed it to the director." Seokjin starts speaking.

You look over at him and tilt your head to the side.

"Was he?" you question. Seokjin nods his head.

"And when we asked him about it, he was being weird, remember?" he questions. You nod your head as you think about it after a few seconds.

If Yoongi had stayed quiet, you just might have went along with it.

However, he decided to open his mouth.

"Well, whoever it was, they're an asshole." Your head snaps in his direction.

"You do realize that's bullshit coming from you." You state. Jimin's head snaps in your direction.

"Pardon?" Yoongi asks politely with eyebrows lifted. Seokjin makes eye contact with you and gives you a warning look.

"You literally blackmailed me to do the same thing." You respond. "Give me one good reason why I should believe that you're not the one who did this." You immediately accuse.

Jimin's jaw clenches as he stares over at you.

"Um, because I'm dating your best friend." Yoongi immediately answers. "Y/N, I know this looks bad but I didn't do this. You saw me looking at the photos, I never even talked to the director or took any pictures of the photoshoot." He states.

You immediately narrow your eyes at him and open your mouth to say something before you're interrupted by Jimin.

"You know, Y/N, if I didn't know you as well as I do, I'd say that you're telling my boyfriend that he's guilty of this." Jimin states while crossing his arms.

"Jimin, you're so naïve." You immediately reply. "You really are telling me you don't think he has anything to do with this?" you say while pointing at Yoongi.

"Y/N, you need to calm down." Seokjin immediately says. You look over at him.

"No, Jin, I don't. I'm tired of being nice. I've been civil but clearly I shouldn't be considering the fact that he leaked this information."

"Y/N, I'm telling you, he didn't do it. I've been with him since the photoshoot and he hasn't done anything but make music in his studio with me." he states.

You merely roll your eyes, not wanting to listen.

Normally, you'd think before opening your mouth. However, you've been thinking too often lately and are fed up with the way you've been treated.

"You men are all the same. Making excuses for each other even though you know they did it."

If you were calm and thinking rationally, you would've definitely listened and known that they were right.

However, with how stressed you've been and how much Yoongi had messed up in your entire time knowing him, you choose not to believe them.

You watch as Seokjin's eyes widen at your words.

"What did you just say?"

"All of you men are the same. You all fuck over women who are in strong positions and then defend each other even though you're in the wrong. It's like a joke to all of you. None of you take women seriously. I fucking hate men." You immediately say. This causes Jimin and Seokjin to narrow their eyes at you.

"You know what, Y/N? You've officially done it." He states before immediately grabbing Yoongi's hand.

"Officially done what, Jimin?" you question before crossing your arms over your chest.

"I quit." He immediately states. "Y/N, you're always such a good boss but I'm getting sick of you judging my relationship lately." He immediately states.

You lift your eyebrows.

"You quit because this asshole," you state while pointing at Yoongi. "Leaked the photoshoot information and I'm calling him out on it?"

"You're fucking lucky I'm only quitting. I easily could remove you from my life entirely." Jimin states before grabbing Yoongi's hand. Yoongi opens his mouth to speak before Jimin drags him out of the kitchen. The two leave the room before exiting the home.

This leaves you and Jin in the kitchen together.

You take a deep breath before letting out a soft sigh.

"I can't believe Jimin-"

"Y/N, you know damn well that I am nothing like those men." Seokjin interrupts. You look up at him and widen your eyes.

"Jin, I was talking about Jimin and Yoongi, not-"

"You said all men, Y/N." he states. "In case you didn't realize, I am a man, so I'm included in that category."

"Jin, I really didn't-"

"Didn't what? Bother thinking before you speak?" he asks before shaking his head. "Y/N, I know you hate the powerful men who think they're better because they're male, but I'm not one of those guys."

"I know you're not." You state before reaching a hand out as you step closer to Seokjin. Seokjin takes a step back as you take a step forward.

"I've spent so long proving to you that I'm not one of those guys but the minute I agree with one of them about something, you grouped me with them." He states. "Y/N, I told you, you need to trust me here. I didn't agree with them because I saw how weird Eric was being." He continues. You nod your head as you listen to his words, now regretting ever making a scene.

You lost Jimin already.

And now, if you can't communicate properly with Jin, you could lose him too.

"Jin, when I was talking, I forgot you were here. I was talking about Jimin and Yoongi. Not you." You state. He stares at you for a few seconds while you nervously shift your weight between your two feet.

"Y/N, clearly there are some issues that you need to handle. Maybe we should take a break." He states.

The mere sentence causes your heart to pause in your chest.

You press your lips together and stare in his direction before quickly shaking your head.

"Jin, I don't have any issues that need to be handled." Jin stares at you for a few seconds before shaking his head.

"You do. Starting with your dad." He states before glancing down at the ground. "Until you handle all of that, we're on a break and I'm just your chef. Nothing more, nothing less."

You open your mouth to say something and step towards him but he dodges your attempt to come closer and walks out of the double kitchen doors.

This leaves you alone in the room as you feel your heart cracking inside of your chest.

You sigh before slapping your hand on your forehead as you face palm yourself. After doing this, you immediately pull your phone out and dial a phone number.

"Baekhyun, we have some damage control to do."

*****
George Floyd's murderer is now in jail. For my birthday, I wished for George Floyd's family to have a little bit of peace with that trial. I'm so relieved that scumbag is behind bars.

However, when one good thing happens, another bad always happens.

There was a 15-year old girl named Makiah Bryant called the cops because there was a group of people outside her home threatening to hurt her. She had a knife to defend herself against this group and (of course) the cop didn't listen to why she called the cops and assumed that she was the threat. This happened the same day that George Floyd's murderer was put into jail.

So, we've taken a step forward but one back as well with this.

Even though we have a lot of obstacles, we will get equal human rights. We will have a future where no one feels afraid to leave their homes. It'll take a while, yes, but we will.

Daunte's case is next. Time for his friends and family to have a little bit of peace as well.

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes. Reading all of your kind messages while also seeing George Floyd's murderer get put behind bars was the best present I could ask for.

I love all of you. Please take care of yourselves and stay safe because this world is fucking crazy sometimes.

Kim ❤️