~ 2. 13 ~
Leaning against the big comfortable chair you stared at your locked fingers as you sighed for the fourth time. Your therapist sat next to you as she took down notes of the things that you said for the past couple of minutes.
"Ok Y/n, I can see that you have gotten a lot better than the last visit. But can you tell me why are you sighing so much today? Is something else bothering you?" She asked clicking the top of her pen.
"Actually.. There is a change in the dreams I see. Lately I don't get scared because the dreams I have now are beautiful. I don't think they are dreams.. I think they are my memories." You say hesitantly fidgeting with your fingers.
"That's a good thing Y/n. It's highly possible that they are your memories coming to you as your dreams. I'm aware that a part of your brain has started responding so it could be an effect of that." She explains a little.
"Yeah could be. But the problem is.. the man without the face.. Well I can finally see him." You say getting more nervous because you had another series of dreams last night including that dancing moment. And what shocked you was you saw yourself with Jimin. He appeared in your dreams as memories again.
"That's great progress Y/n. But why do you seem uncomfortable with it?"
"Well the thing is.. It's not Jungkook. It's another guy I work with. We just met and started to work together few months back. And I don't know why I kept dreaming of him as the faceless guy. I doesn't make sense. I just met him and now he is in my dreams." You say finally getting it out of your chest.
Your therapist clicked her pen and started scribbling again while nodding her head. Then she looked up at you with a gentle smile.
"The thing is Y/n, these things can happen. You have lost good couple of years from your life. And during that time people change their attitude and behavior change. So the Jungkook you know must have changed too. So it's highly possible that in your memories you are finding it hard to match Jungkook's personality or behavior to this faceless man. Therefore, your mind is trying to fit a face that would match the man in your dreams. You must be finding similarities in your co worker and the guy in your dreams. That's why this is happening." She broke it down for you to understand.
This time you sighed in relief as you understood the whole situation. It's true that you find so many similarities between Jimin and the guy in your dreams.. like how they call you princess, the song, the touch, the voice and many more. Knowing that it's just your mind playing tricks, you could just relax now without giving it much thought.
After few more minutes of talking and healing you bid your goodbyes to your therapist and stepped out of the office. Smiling you skipped towards June who was staring at a magazine while waiting for you.
"I'm done." You announce in a chipper voice making her jump a little. You couldn't help but snort at her reaction.
"Geez. What are you? Ninja? I didn't even here you coming." she complained.
"You would have if you weren't so engrossed in whatever you were reading." You poke your tongue at her when she made a face at you. And then both of you broke into giggles feeling silly.
"Gosh.. what happened in there? You are being weirdly cheerful." June says eyeing you.
" Why.. is that bad?"
"No it's not. I like it." June says honestly.
"The therapist said I have improved a lot and at this rate there is a high chance of my memory coming back sooner than expected. She said that my doc can confirm it for sure after this upcoming MRI." You say feeling happy.
"Wow that's great Y/n. Oh my god I hope it does." June hugged you feeling happy about the update.
"Ok now let's get going. Thanks a lot for coming with me June. I owe you one." You say wrapping your hand around your friend's arm.
"Actually you do.. and I know how you can repay me." She smirks wiggling her brows. You squinted your eyes at her not liking the way she just smirked.
"Okk... I have a bad feeling already." You eyed her suspiciously.
"It's nothing that you can't handle. In fact you are the perfect person for it." She picks up the magazine she was reading and flips through the pages till she finds the one she had been looking for.
"Look.. There is a photo exhibit for florists to promote there business. So I need a model to apply and take pictures and I want you to be my model." June finishes off as your eyes popped.
"What? Me? No way.. June you need someone beautiful for it.. I'll help you find a proper candidate and also with the other stuff." You say offering to help in other ways.
"Y/n!!! Are you kidding me. No one is perfect like you. You are way too beautiful and I want no one else but you. All you have to do is sit your pretty ass on a chair and show your gorgeous face. You are doing this for me without any buts. Now lets go."
Without giving you any space to protest she dragged you out singing to a random song out loud so that you won't interrupt her. She knows very well how to get you quiet because you just love it when she sings.
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Jimin had a huge smile plastered across his face ever since you came back to work after meeting your therapist. You looked bright and bubbly after a long time. So he couldn't help but annoy you more by tugging at your hair as usual while passing by. You would always get mad and frown at him at that. And when you frown, he would just pull a face making you chuckle or just wink making you blush.
"Guys gather up please." Mr. Bo clapped his hands together getting all of your attention. Once all of you gathered up, he informed that someone from the head office will be coming for inspections and asked you all to do your best as always. Giving nods you all scattered to work as usual.
You were a bit worried about Jimin. Even though he had gotten better at everything, there are times that he still messes up one or two drinks. However unlike you, he was not bothered or worried at all. He just kept sneaking glances at you whenever he could and annoy you here and there.
Soon an arrogant looking guy walked in claiming that he is from the head office. You expected a bit matured middle aged man but not this. This guy seemed to care less of what's going on. It has been an hour and he was doing nothing but texting sitting on a corner. You could see annoyance in everyone's face, specially Jimin's.
"Hey you." the guy voiced snapping his fingers together at you.
"Me?" Hana asked pointing a finger to herself.
"No not you. The other one.. get me an iced caramel mocha." He ordered.
A deep frown crossed Jimin's face when the supervisor guy ordered you around like that. Jimin already had plans on calling up his boss and giving a good feedback of his worker, but seems like that was not going to be enough.
He watched you prepare the drink and go to him with a smile to serve him nicely despite how rude he was being. Jimin had his eyes on you the whole time but he didn't fail to notice how that guy checked you out while licking his lip. Jimin's stare turned into a deep scary glare in an instance seeing it. He tried to keep his calm as he pretended to go through the receipts.
As you got closer to the supervisor guy, you noticed how he was eyeing you in an inappropriate way. He was making it too obvious and that made you uncomfortable. Hesitantly you picked up the drink from the tray and as you were going to place it taking another step forward, you knocked your foot on something and accidently spilled a little bit of mocha on his shirt sleeve.
"AH! You clumsy stupid girl. Look what you did." You flinched as he shouted at you.
"I'm so sorry sir. It's my mistake." You quickly bowed and apologized.
"Sorry?" He huffed sarcastically. "Do you even know how much this shirt cost. Your whole pay even won't cover it."
"I-I.. I'm sorry sir. I'll pay for the damage." You stutter and bow again, but this time you were taken aback when he suddenly grabbed your wrist.
Seeing this, Jimin's jaw clenched and his hand turned into a tight fist. He was getting angry and was about to loose it, but Lee quickly approached him.
"Sir, calm down. People will notice." Lee warned in a low voice only for Jimin to hear. They watched that guy grabbing you closer and telling something to you with a smirk. Looking shocked you immediately shoved that guy's hand away and hurriedly walked towards the rest room looking upset.
"That's it." Jimin said throwing away the receipt file harshly to the counter and turned to Lee. "Find out everything about that prick right now. I want to have a word with whoever is in charge of him." Jimin ordered and hurried after you.
Jimin was deeply worried thinking that you would be crying but to his surprise you were pacing the resting area mumbling something to yourself. He could see that you were disturbed by something and there was annoyance and hint of sadness written all over your face. Jimin's insides twisted in anger because you were all happy and bubbly earlier, but now you are like this because of that jerk.
"Hey.. are you ok? What happened? Did that jerk say anything to you." Jimin questioned holding you in place with his hands wrapped around your arms.
"No I'm not. I just want to sucker punch that perverted bastard who acts like a rich spoilt brat." You fumed making Jimin chuckle a little.
"Want me to do it for you?" He asks half jokingly and half serious.
"No... He is not even worth it."
" What did he say?" He asks out of curiosity.
"Just something expected from jerks like him. Does he think women are so easy? And how dare he grab my hand. PERVERT!" You highlighted the last word and for a second he was reminded of their old times. He remembered how you used to call him a pervert too. His heart pained at the sudden memories but he stayed calm looking at you.
"Anyways I don't want to think about it. Can you just give me some time alone please." You ask finally looking up at Jimin. Your anger kind of softened when you saw his caring eyes.
"Ok. Let me know if you need anything." Jimin says and once you give a nod he walks out leaving you alone.
Jimin heads towards Mr. Bo's cabin straight away and Lee follows. Jimin was beyond angry for what happened and he was not going to let it slide. Mr. Bo quickly got up from his seat and offered Jimin his seat.
"Lee did you get the info?" He asks firmly turning into the boss mode.
"Yes Sir, His name is Tao and he is the son of Mr. Koh." Lee informs Jimin about that first.
"Koh as in the board member of the company?" Jimin ask to confirm.
"Yes sir."
"That's even better. Mr. Bo.. Please go and bring that guy here." Jimin smirks pulling his phone out to text someone in the meantime.
After few minutes with great arrogance Tao walked in chewing a gum in an ill mannered way. Jimin could see where his attitude is coming from. Guys like this who thinks that they can do whatever they want just because they have money are the worst types that Jimin hates.
"How dare a low life busboy like you sit on a managers chair in a café. Do you want to get fired? Get up right now." Tao charged at Jimin in annoyance and disgust written all over his face. Unbothered Jimin leaned back and looked up with an evil smirk on his lips.
"Mr. Tao, You shouldn't speak like that." Mr. Bo quickly approached Tao and tried to back him away getting all nervous. But Tao just shoved Mr. Bo away which made Jimin more angry but he remained calm.
"I think you should answer that first." Jimin simply stated when Tao's phone started ringing.
"Who the hell are you to tell me what to do." He said looking down at the screen. But his eyes quickly widened when he saw that it was his dad calling. Out of fear for his dad, he quickly answered the call.
Jimin watched Tao's face turning colors and soon he offered out his phone asking ' Who is Mr. Park' in a wavering voice. Lee snatched the phone from him and hand it over to Jimin.
"Yes Mr. Koh. This is Jimin." He speaks. All three men in the room just watched Jimin as he spoke about Tao's behavior and how disappointed he is for having such staff.
"So Mr. Koh, I'll give you two options. Either fire your son and ask him to apologize to girl that he harassed or you could just withdraw your shares and forget about being in the board member committee." Jimin states firmly.
Mr. Bo shifted one foot to another looking at Tao as Tao's face paled. Jimin nodded liking the decision Mr. Koh made and handed over the phone to Tao feeling satisfied. Once Tao was done talking to his dad, Jimin stood from the seat grabbing something from the drawer.
"Mr. Park, I'm so sorry about my behavior. Please don't do anything to my dad because of my mistakes." Tao bowed and apologized.
"You should've known better before disrespecting people.. specially women. Now go and apologize to Y/n. Make your apology sincere and stay still even if she punches you in the face. After that get the hell out of here immediately.. Got it?" Jimin's voice almost came out in a growl as he still wanted to punch Tao for messing with his woman.
"Y-Yes Sir." Toa stuttered seeing how intimidating Jimin could be if he wants.
"One more thing. Take this coffee samples to the head office and tell them I want them approved no matter what." Jimin threw a small coffee bag which Toa clumsily caught with both hands.
"I-I will Sir." He says taking a step back as Jimin and Lee was about to exit the cabin.
"Oh.. once you come out, ignore my presence and act like you don't know me. If I get to know any kind of rumors spreading. You can say goodbye to the life you are living thanks to your dad." Jimin gave him a glare with the last warning and walked out as if nothing happened.
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June was about to close down the shop to go home with you. Right then you walked in looking a bit down. She was surprised to see you like that and also worry crossed her face because just this morning you were looking so cheerful.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Nothing much.. just a jerk showed up to the café. I'll tell you on the way or else we will get caught in the rain." You say pouting.
"Ok. One minute. Let me grab my umbrella and close down the shop." June informs and go grab her things. After locking up, the two of you walked up to the bus stand, while you were sharing the story of what happened at the café. June was throwing curse words making you chuckle and it felt good to curse out loud with her. As you neared, Both of you suddenly halted in front of the bus stand seeing someone unexpected.
"Jimmy? What are you doing here?" You ask in a surprised tone.
"Oh hi there. I'm waiting for the bus." He replies waving at you both. June's eyes widens wondering what the hell the great Jimin doing here waiting for a bus.
"Oh what happened to the car?" You ask.
"There was some issue with it so Lee said he is taking the car to a garage to fix it. So I'll be taking the bus the next few days." Jimin smiles.
"Oh.. ok. Which bus are you taking?" You question him again.
"Uhh.. The.. same as yours. I'm going that way too." He says scratching the back of his head as he dodged answering the question, because he was not sure of which one you take exactly.
June smiled to herself shaking her head understanding what Jimin is up to. God Park Jimin.. how far are you going to go for Y/n? It's funny but also so sweet. June felt happy and also so blessed to see a his love for you.
"Look guys the bus is coming." June quickly announces saving Jimin's ass from more questions as she pointed at the bus.
"Yeah that's the one. Let's go." Jimin gives a small smile as he waited for you to get in first and then he followed behind you. But before you guys could go further June spoke.
"Listen guys I forgot something important. You guys go ahead.. I'll get late." June quickly says and steps back without getting in.
"What? wait.." Before you could even register what happened the doors closed and the bus started to move.
"Aish! that girl." You mumbled and then looked up realizing that Jimin was here with you.
"I guess it's just you and me then." You say.
"Yeah. I guess so." Jimin followed you through the bit crowded bus. He knew that June didn't get in on purpose. So he pulled out his phone to send a text to her.
Jimin - Thanks! Don't go home alone. Wait near your shop. I'll ask Lee to drop you.
June - Np. Just take her home safe.
Jimin - Will do. Give Lee a call. He will be following me anyways.
June - Ok! 😌
"What are you doing.. hold on or else you will fall." You kind of scolded Jimin as he almost lost balance while texting.
"Yeah you are right." Jimin realized his mistake and quickly tucked the phone in to hold the bar. He was finding the ride bit uncomfortable as its been more than twelve years since he last took a bus with his grandma back in Busan. Yet he is doing all of this for you, so that he knows you are safe. Knowing that you are alone now. he didn't want you going home alone at nights. And you refuse to go with them on a daily basis. So this was the only option Jimin could think of the be with you.
"So are you feeling better now?" He asks trying to make conversation.
"Yes. A little. I regret not punching him." You say smiling.
"I know. I was hoping that you would though." Jimin said in a joking manner even though he really wanted you to do that.
"Well.. I was taken aback when he suddenly apologized out of nowhere."
"Me too but I'm glad he did."
You both chatted and Jimin didn't fail to make you giggle as the time went by. Both of you didn't mind the crowd at all as both of you were lost in each other. You liked how Jimin was comfortable to talk to and how he always makes you forget about everything else. You could see that he truly enjoys your company as well. You felt like in his eyes that's it's only you who is there and the rest of the world had disappeared.
You liked everything about him by now, And even in this bus ride he didn't fail to flutter your heart as he held you time to time to make sure you don't fall. And also he covered you from bumpily passing passengers.
"Oh god. I'm about to get down and it's raining." You say making a face.
"Did you bring an umbrella today?" Jimin asks looking out at the rain.
"Yup. Well it's time for me to get down now. See you tomorrow." You say not really wanting to part ways so soon. You wished the ride was a bit longer. But then it was not.
Once Jimin gives a nod, you wave and walk towards the door to get down. You quickly get under the bus stand to get the umbrella out. But as you turned you were surprised to see Jimin getting down as well.
"Are you getting down from here too?" You ask with eyes widening a bit. A tiny smile tugged your lips seeing him in front of you.
"Well... I thought of walking you home." He says simply and shrugs his shoulder.
"Jimmy I'm fine. You don't have to do that." You say feeling happy that he offered to walk you home but you didn't want to trouble him in this rain.
"Y/n.. It's dark and it's raining. It could be dangerous and I don't want you to be walking the roads alone." Jimin's concerns reached his eyes and you could clearly see them.
"It's ok. I'm used to this. I've been walking the same roads before at this time."
"Well.. before I was not there. But I'm here now. And I'm not letting you walk alone and risk your safety." Jimin talks back fluttering your heart. " Also I don't have an umbrella.. so I thought while going back I can just borrow yours after dropping you." Jimin pointed out making it impossible for you to argue.
"Fine then. Lets go." You say shaking your head smiling to yourself. A little did you know, Jimin was doing a victory dance in his head while smiling behind you.
"Here give that to me." Jimin took the umbrella from you and held it out for you and him both. You didn't go to protest as you knew it was going to be pointless. There was no winning with this guy.
The walk from bus stand to your house was short. It only takes like fifteen minutes so you slowed down your pace and decided to walk slower than normal since you are sharing the umbrella. First few minutes of the walk was quiet but then the rain started poring down harder.
"Are you cold?" Jimin asked his shoulder brushing yours. You didn't even realize that you were cold till you felt Jimin's warmth in that contact.
"A little but that's ok." You smile looking up at him and just like the day before your heart skipped a beat seeing him this close under the street lights. But then you noticed that his shoulder was getting hit by the rain as he was only covering you fully.
"Jimmy your shoulder is getting wet. Here hold it like this." You say pushing away the umbrella a little to his side. But then he looked at your side and he was not happy with water grazing you.
"That's fine. You will catch a cold." He said pushing it back towards you.
"You will get a cold too. besides you have to head back again." You argue. Soon both of you started bickering.
"Ok there is only one way that this will work out." Jimin says sighing.
"Which way?" You ask in a challenging tone ready to push back the umbrella towards him.
"Hope you don't sucker punch me on the face." He jokes a little.
"Why would I even do that?" You snorted as you were not expecting that.
"Because I'll have to hold you." Smiling he shifts the umbrella into his left hand and pull you closer to him, wrapping his arm around your shoulder. Your cheeks turned pink and your heart fluttered as his warmth embraced you. His intoxicating smell whelmed you and you couldn't help but snuggle closer to him.
"Better?" He asks holding your shoulder firmly, pressing you closer to him so that you would feel less cold. Jimin's heart skipped a beat when you snuggled closer. He didn't expect that but he could see that you are getting more comfortable with him. You hummed in response and got quiet for a second. The beautiful sound of raindrops, the soothing coldness of the breeze, your flowery scent and the warmth he is feeling with you in his arms was pure bliss to Jimin.
"So.. rainy days or sunny days?" You ask out of nowhere to break the silence and distract him as you were scared that your loudly thumping heart would be heard.
"Suddenly?" Jimin asks as a slow smile creeps his lips.
"Just answer." You demand wanting to make conversation.
"Ok.. definitely rainy days now." He answers honestly because the rain brought you close to him countless times.
"Why?" You ask getting curious because most guys hate the rain. Specially Jungkook. He would always complain and curse and be moody. Whereas you just love it.
"Well I think there is always something about the rain that's so magical. There is a serenity, a sense of peace that offers to resonate with your soul. And also the rain has become a song of treasured memories that will remind me of love and hope. So yeah.. I love the rain better." Jimin's answer did flips in your heart. He always leaves you speechless with his thoughts. You really like how he thinks and see things, you feel very connected to him.
"That was something unexpected but I like how you see it." You say being honest.
"Hmm. What about you?" He asks back.
"I like the rain too. I have always considered the rain as a healing blanket. The richness of it always makes me feel safe and gives me comfort assuring that everything will be alright. And It helps me let go and just relax." You look up at Jimin and when your eyes met, you realized that his soft smile on his lips, the shine in his eyes and his warmth is same like the rain.
"That's nice.. but I hope that you will find someone who would give you all of that day and night.. rain or no rain through out your whole life. So that you don't have to wait for rain to come to assure you of these things." Jimin's sincerity softened you. But the little did he know, you already found that person seconds ago and now staring at him with an unknown strange feeling in the heart.
"I hope so too.. ok next." You say wanting to change the topic and looked around to ask something.
"Trees or flowers?"
"Flowers.." He says and you make an impressed face because it's another thing that you didn't expect.
"Ok any specific reason?" You ask again out of curiosity.
"They remind me of someone. Specially the red roses." Jimin says looking at you deeply but you didn't give much thought to it as his answer kind of tugged your heart. You didn't want to pry but then your heart was not allowing you to stay quiet. Unable to hold it back you ask in a low steady voice not showing much emotions.
"Girlfriend?"
You bit your lip and look ahead unable to look at Jimin. He noticed your nervous expression so he chose to give the answer you were seeking for. And it's not like you were ever his girlfriend and nor could he be honest and tell that it's you.
"No.. just someone really special." His answer eased your heart in an unexplainable manner. But you didn't have time to ponder on it as Jimin interrupted your thoughts.
"Do you like Red roses?" Jimin asks to see if you still liked them or if that changed.
"I like many flowers but when it comes to red roses, I love them but not just the rose petals but the whole flower. I love them not because of the simple romantic meaning that people talk about so lightly, but because of how deep it is."
"What do you mean by that?" Jimin asks curiously as it's the first time he is hearing something like this from you.
"People tend to forget that Roses have thorns because they are being cut out and present only for its beauty. Every beauty in this world comes with a burden, so does a rose. No one would know the truth and the burden held by a rose as it's never valued as whole. From what I see.. anyone can love a rose but it takes a great heart to accept the thorns. If u really want to own a rose as a whole, you need to bear the pain of it's thorns because it's a part of it. When you are offering a rose to your loved one.. I believe that he or she should know that love is that pain and pleasure reside just side by side. You cannot have one without the other. You should learn to accept both to love truly and completely."
Because of your answer Jimin was seeing you in a different kind of light tonight. He could see that your thoughts have grown deeper and that you have matured a lot in a beautiful way.
"That is indeed deep. I'll make sure to keep that in mind."
"You should.. And I guess that's it for today." You say when the house finally comes to the view.
"Yup.. I guess it is." Jimin says hesitantly letting go of you as you both reached the door step. The cold immediately replaced the warmth you both were feeling seconds ago and Jimin notice you shiver a bit.
"It's cold. Go inside and warm up." His caring low voice made you smile.
"Thank you for walking me home. Please send me a text when you get back"
"Sure. now go inside so that I can leave." Jimin makes a cute face making you chuckle.
"Ok Ok I'm going.. Good night Jimmy." You say with a heavy heart not really wanting him to go. You have started to grown attach to him and also have started to care for him deeply. You realized how he was there for you and how he always take care of you but you never actually thanked him properly. So on instinct without thinking much you raised yourself up and quickly pecked his cheek.
"Thanks again.. for everything." The blush that reached your cheeks along with a radically beating heart, made Jimin's smile wider as shades of pink touched his cheek to the unexpected kiss.
His heart was thumping louder than yours and now he was hesitant to leave. All he wants to do is just kiss you back and cuddle you while staying by your side. But he knows that's not possible. Besides he needs to hurry and leave or you would really catch a cold. So looking at you one last time for the day with a lot of love, he smiled seeing your beautiful face. Ignoring the twist in his heart, he took a step back.
"Good night.. Princess."
He watched you smile and shyly go inside and close the door. I love you Y/n. He whispered in his head and smiling to himself he turned to leave.
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