It's the time of day where you would typically stay in your living room and relax while watching TV.

You have a movie playing with Jimin sitting to the left of you on the couch while Seokjin sits on the recliner. Seokjin is leaned back, the seat reclined, as he continuously dozes off every few minutes. He'll be ready to pass out but remembers that he isn't in his room and his eyes pop open again.

Jimin is on his phone, ignoring the two of you as he texts someone, smiling.

"Who are you texting, Jimin-ah?" Seokjin teases, now awake once he sees Jimin smiling eagerly at his phone. Jimin's eyes widen once Seokjin calls him out and his head snaps to Seokjin's direction.

"Just... someone." He states before quickly locking his phone and setting it down.

"So, you can keep secrets but want to know everyone else's business?" you butt into the conversation while holding the remote in your hand. You pause the movie before turning your head to glare at the man. Jimin bites onto his lower lip before shrugging his shoulders.

"That's not very fair, Jimin-ah." Seokjin teases.

"Please, we all know that I only keep secrets when necessary." He rolls his eyes.

"Oh? Is this secret 'necessary,' Jimin?" you question while quirking an eyebrow. He lets out a frustrated sigh before you shrug your shoulders. "If you want to be nosy with my business, then I'll be nosy with yours as well."

"I can't say who it is."

"And why not?"

"It would hurt you. If you want me to hurt you, then I can easily say who it is." He states while staring back at you, almost daring you to tell him to say who it is. You grow quiet, surprised by his statement before pursing your lips.

"You know what? Fine. Keep it a secret. The last thing I need is to be hurt." You state. Jimin grins victoriously before going back to looking at his phone as it beeps.

Seokjin eyes you and furrows his eyebrows in your direction as he silently questions you about who you think it is. You silently shrug your shoulders before pressing play on the remote, allowing the movie to start playing again.

"Besides... I know there is no 'Luke,' meaning you didn't even tell me the truth." He mumbles to himself. You glare at him.

"And how would you know that there is no Luke?"

"I checked around the office."

"Oh, you're going to assume that I'm dating someone I work with?" You state, mentally slapping yourself at the hypocrisy coming out of your mouth. I mean, you are seeing someone you work with, even though it isn't a serious relationship... yet.

"You have sort of a thing for that." He states before shrugging his shoulders.

"At least I have a thing. You haven't had one relationship while working with me, no matter how often I tried setting you up in the past." You state while crossing your arms.

"Every girl you set me up with had something off with her."

"You seemed to like Soojin pretty well." You argue.

"Yeah... until she started pushing me away from her when I tried giving her affection." He rolls his eyes.

"I'm just going to drop this because I know if I don't, this argument will continue in the office and that's the last thing we need right now." You say before sighing. "But one last thing: there's a reason I'm not telling you. If you won't tell me who that is to protect me, maybe you should think that I'm doing the same."

Jimin grows silent at your words and you look over at Seokjin before reaching for your phone.

Y/N: You said to answer you by tomorrow, but yes.

You hit send and glance over at Seokjin as his phone beeps. He sighs before undoing the recline on his chair, lifting himself back into a normal sitting position to reach for his phone on the coffee table. He reads your text and nods to himself.

Seokjin: We're not going to tell Jimin right?

Y/N: of course not. My sister will be in town this weekend. I'll just say she got here early and that I want to spend time with her.

Seokjin: sometimes I question how you're this good at lying.

Y/N: don't question it. Be thankful that it's not you that I'm lying to.

You set your phone down and continue watching the movie.

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You and Jimin are making your way towards Mr. Lee's office the next morning, still hardly speaking to one another.

Since the fight last night, you two have been both too prideful to apologize to one another. However, this has happened before and you two are very well aware of the fact that you'll end up making up by the end of the week after having time to cool off.

You let out a sigh as you put the car into park, grabbing your purse as Jimin opens his door. You follow suit and close the car door before locking the expensive Mercedes as you make your way towards the office building.

"Ah, good morning, Y/N and Jimin!" Mr. Lee greets the two of you as you step into his office. You give him a smile and Jimin nods his head, bowing slightly at the man as he enters the room behind you.

"Good morning." You respond before setting your purse on the side of your seat. You smooth out your skirt before sitting down slowly onto the chair as Jimin takes his seat in the chair next to yours.

"Can I offer either of you a water or coffee?"

"I'll have a coffee please." Jimin states. You merely shake your head and thank the man before he goes towards the coffee machine to get Jimin a cup.

Once he gets back, he pulls out some paperwork.

"So, it seems that Mr. Min has sent in another offer." He states. Right when you're about to roll your eyes and say that you don't want money, he shakes his head. "Not money. He's offered to comply and he has a suggestion for the blackmail."

"Suggestion?" you roll your eyes. "As if I'm going to listen to something that slimeball would suggest."

"Just listen for once, Y/N." Jimin suddenly speaks up before letting out an annoyed sigh. "What's the suggestion?"

"Since he knows that him leaking the valuable information about your newest product will put him at risk of being fined or put in jail, he's decided to comply."

"And what makes you think I believe him?" you quirk an eyebrow. "I invested a lot of time and money into that product. If he leaks it, that's a lot of money going down the drain."

"He had a feeling you'd say that." He states before sighing as he reaches into his desk, pulling out a CD. He places it on the table before sliding it to you. "Since he knows you don't trust him, he's decided to provide you with a new contract."

"And what does this CD have to do with anything?"

"That's his newest mixtape that he's set to release around the same time your product launches." He states. You pick up the CD and arch an eyebrow as you see his handwriting written on the disk.

D-2.

"Odd name for a mixtape." You state before setting it down on the table. Jimin picks up the CD and takes a look at it before looking back at Mr. Lee.

"What's in the new contract?"

"He's added some... new conditions to it." He states before sliding a packet of papers in your direction. "As your lawyer, I've read through them. It's essentially the same conditions as the original except that you now have permission to leak his mixtape. However, that's only if he leaks your product first. Now you both have something to lose in this, not just you."

"Isn't this illegal?"

"Technically no. He's consented to it. However, it is a little... uncommon."

"By 'uncommon' I'm sure you mean 'not moral.'" You state. He lets out a soft laugh before shrugging his shoulders.

"In my opinion, Y/N, this is a rather good bargain considering your fear of losing the money you've invested into your product. Now that you have an opportunity to defend yourself if Mr. Min were to actually leak any information. This should prevent him from doing so."

"Based on this, it sounds like he's ready to give up this lawsuit and let you win, Y/N." Jimin chimes in. This causes you to grin before you look down at the CD.

"And you're positive that this CD contains the actual songs from his mixtape? Not the songs that didn't make the cut?" you ask.

"I had his record label, the backup vocalists, and a majority of the people who worked on this project with Mr. Min to confirm it."

"Unless they're lying to save his ass." You mumble.

"Y/N, I know you're not used to men actually sticking to their word, but he genuinely sounds uninterested in dealing with this lawsuit anymore." Jimin speaks again. "He probably knows that a court appearance would make him and his company look bad."

"All I want is for someone to take the information I've provided him about my product back. I'm not interested in a war of 'who's going to leak whose information first.'" You state while crossing your arms.

"I can contact him again and tell him about your concerns. Mr. Min really doesn't want this going to court, so I'm sure he'll give all of that information back."

"Check if he made copies too, please." Mr. Lee nods his head as he takes note of what you want him to do next.

After a few more minutes discussing legal terms with Mr. Lee, you and Jimin exit the building and walk towards your car.

"I don't know why you can't just accept that offer. It sounds genuine to me."

"Yeah, well Min Yoongi sounded genuine when he was saying a lot of things, but he clearly didn't mean any of those, now did he?" you counteract. Jimin merely shakes his head before going quiet again as he gets into the passenger side of the car.

You start driving as Jimin goes on his phone and starts texting someone. You glance over at him before sighing as you realize it's probably the person from last night.

You start thinking if maybe it's a potential partner he has or if he's in contact with one of your rival companies.

One last person that comes to mind is that it could be Min Yoongi.

What if Jimin thinks the man you're seeing is Min Yoongi because of you forgetting about the meeting the other day? What if he started contacting Yoongi to ask if you're having a romantic relationship with him?

No. It couldn't be. Why would Jimin go to Yoongi if he thought that?

He could go to Seokjin about that.

Unless they're discussing something else... but that can't be...

Right?

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TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED AGAIN. I'm so relieved. It's not fair that if there was a group of people protesting peacefully for BLM, they would've been shot but because it was white supremacists, they got away with it.

Speaking of, there has been a lot of arrests of these terrorists lately. I heard one of them is refusing to eat because he only eats organic food. If that doesn't display how privileged those people terrorizing the capital are, I don't know what does.

Ontario issued an emergency stay at home order. They also closed schools until February. I hope that this helps to minimize the spread in Canada.

I've been working some crazy hours this week so there's not much else that I'm aware of. If anyone wants to tell me any other important things that happened, I'd love to read and be aware of them.

I love all of you. Please take care of yourselves. Remember to eat, drink plenty of water, and take a few minutes of your day to do something that makes you happy (whether it's reading, drawing, dancing, etc.).

I love you

Kim ❤️