"Care to explain?" you say through greeted teeth, expecting an explanation to the earlier scene. 

"Being angry with wiped cream on your face doesn't really make you look scary" Jimin says, his awkward self now replaced by the cheeky and playful one. 

"Are you fucking serious?" You widen your eyes in disbelief, "What the frack was that? Why did you tell your ex that I am your current relationship? Because last time I checked you and I were at a non friendly war that included pranks! And how the duck did you give birth to the wiped cream? Where was it all this time?" you shoot the questions that had been roaming around in your head for the past five minutes, "Also, Why-"  you nearly ask him why he inched closer to kiss you earlier but stop yourself because you know it will turn into something awkward and you've had enough awkward already. 

"Why what?" Jimin asks interested in what you planned on saying, one corner of his mouth rising up a little bit. 

You face turns into a poker face. He's amused! How can he be freaking amused when no longer than two minutes ago he was an awkward mess, "Nothing. But just so you know, I'm not going to let you use me to get your ex jealous, okay? If you like playing games with each other, leave everyone else outside of those games."

"Who said I planned on making her jealous? I want nothing to do with her!" He gets in his defense mode, furrowing his eyebrows. 

"Jealousy was written all over her face!" You exclaim waving your hands in front of your face frantically, you stay silent for a second and realize that people in the store are starting to give you guys weird looks, "And what other reason would you need a fake girlfriend for?" you say on a calmer tone this time to attract less attention. 

"Because-" Jimin starts but stops himself when he realizes that if he says this he'll share a big part of himself with you, thing that cannot happen considering that this action will most likely get you more closer to him, and he'll also expose himself to you. No, no, he cannot do that, "Aah, it's non of your business, it won't happen again. And besides I didn't see you disagreeing with me, either. You could have easily claimed I was lying and made a fool out of me" he spits back angrily and you find yourself thinking. 

Yes, indeed, you could have denied the whole thing, embarrassing him in front of everyone and most importantly Chae-Rin who he seems to want to get away from instead of making her just jealous. And you would also instantly get it back at him for smacking your face with cream in the middle of a store, but...how could you do it? He was feeling so awkward and nervous back then even you could feel how tensed up he was, you didn't consider it fair to make him feel worse and probably cause him more problems. He seemed so different at that state,  he wasn't the cheeky, mean or the hostile person you are used to seeing. He was sweet, caring towards you, you even found his awkwardness utterly cute, but all that when Chae-Rin was with you, why does he have to be the exact opposite when he's alone with you? Like... Was that an act just to not be hostile towards her? Or all the times you've seen him he'd been putting up an act? 

What is your true self Park Jimin? 

If you want this to get clear and hopefully over, then you either stop having any type of contact with him or you get to know him, and maybe, if that is ever possible, become friends. 

The first one is not possible considering that you you have mutual friends and wherever you go he's going to be there. So, getting closer to him it is then. 

You just gotta be careful not to open up to him that much in case he proves to be a real jerk.

"Are you actually daydreaming of me being your boyfriend?" He asks flicking your forehead. 

You snap away from your thoughts, and shake your head a little, "You wish,"  you push his chest back, "let's go to the cashier" you say deciding to drop the subject, though it's not the best thing to do, not replying at his earlier words, because leaving an unanswered question can open up a few scenarios such as that you actually wanted to help him, but oh well, since you came to the conclusion that you'll try to get closer to him, it's really okay. 

You turn around to take a bottle of blue hair dye in a shampoo form and head to the cashier but a hand loosely grabs your arm and turns you around,
"Wait," says Jimin as your eyes land on him. 

Once your body has turned back and you are facing him once again, you furrow your eyebrows at his actions. 
"You have some cream on your face..." he motions with his fingers on his left cheek. 

You raise you hand to your left cheek and try to get any cream off it, but you miserably fail, "Is it gone?"  you ask nonchalantly. 

"Aaah, nope" he says and comes closer to you, "Let me" he pushes your hand away and he brings his hand near your face lightly touches it with his finger while he slowly he takes all the cream off. 

​​​​You, slightly taken aback by his actions, find your self looking at his face; his head is slightly tilted to the side, making the one side of his red hair perfectly sit on his eyebrow, while the other simply hangs in the air. His eyes are focused on the job he's doing and after he's done, his eyes flick to look in yours, as he brings his finger in his mouth to eat the the wiped cream that was on your face, at first you don't break eye contact, but you ruin the moment as another sneeze decides to make an appearance.

"AAACHUUU" 

Man... Thay was loud. 

"Yaaaaaahhhh" Jimin exclaims in disgust, well... You did sneeze on his face, what are you expecting him to do? 

"Uuhh, Sorry?" you say once you recover from the impact the sneeze left you, but the moment you see his face you want to burst out laughing but you try to keep yourself from doing it, knowing that you wouldn't like it when someone sneezed at your face.

 "Are you serious?"  he asks as he brings his hands to run then on his face, supposedly to get rid of all the germs that 'jumped' on him. 

"I can't control my sneezes, okay? You got too close to my face" You defend yourself. 

"You're going to buy me ice cream, for this" he says dead serious. 

"It's December!" you say looking at him with wide eyes, not believing what he's saying. 

"And I got a sudden need for ice cream," he purses his lips, "And you're buying it" 

Before you can utter your responds, one of the workers comes, "I'm sorry but if you're not going to buy anything I'll have to tell you to leave, you're disturbing the costumers" she informs you with a calm yet strict voice. 

"Ooh, uh, we're very sorry, I'll buy this hair dye, so... Yeah..." You apologize to the worker and awkwardly smile. 

"Very well then, let me take it to the cashier" She asks and extends her hand for you to give the bottle. 

You hand it over to her and after she bows, she turns around and heads to the cashier. 

"Let's go," you say and follow the girl to the cashier. 

The girl hands the bottle to the cashier, who now happens to be a very good looking man, and she leaves after she gives the two of you a smile. 

"Quite the mess you've created today," Says the cashier and you look up at him with a questioning look, "Earlier your other male friend knocked down an entire aisle and now you wiped cream prank. What do my co-workers do to deserve this?"  he says with a cheeky yet charming smile.

"Uuhh, s-sorry?" You stutter not being exactly sure how to respond, he doesn't seem like he is actually pointing out the mess you've created today at this shop, but is aiming for something else that makes you feel kind of uncomfortable. 

"if you're feeling that bad... Maybe you'd go on a date with me to make it up?" He says with a mischievous smile.

Your eyes widen in realization, and you feel insulted by this. However, before you can spit out your smart-ass response to burn that son of a gun, Jimin takes action;

​​​​​"I'm sorry, but you're kinda late, I beat you to asking her out few months ago, and she agreed" Jimin says, giving a not so friendly look to the cashier, as he protectively puts an arm around your shoulders once again. 

Aaaand, that deja vulnerable feeling comes back for a mere second but fades away as your eyes land on the cashier whose eye's widen in realization,

"Ooh.. Sorry, man, I didn't know, I wouldn't have done it otherwise" he says in defense. 

"Oh I'm sure you did" Jimin mumbles his eyes still dark, "Pay up, Jagi" he tells you putting emphasis on 'Jagi' 

At this word, you find yourself being extremely flustered. Is it the fact that you just called 'Jagi'  for the first time and it feels super cool, or is it because of the way Jimin said it also referring to you. 

You shake your head, and give the cashier your contact-less credit card as you don't have any cash on you to give him. 

He awkwardly takes it from you, avoiding making skin contact with you, courtesy of Jimin's glare. The cashier does what needs to be done and hands you back your card, and then your purchase in a white plastic bag. 

"Let's go" Jimin says, his arm still around you, as he starts walking towards the exit, taking you along. 

"Oh my goodness!!!" you hear a shriek coming from behind you. 

You and Jimin turn your heads to see what the fuss is all about, and you see the same woman you met with Eun-bi, in the toilets of a cafe, who actually thought you and your friend are in a romantic relationship, just a few feet away from you, with an angry expression on her face pointing at you. 

​​​​​​"Are you cheating on your girlfriend? How could you? She's such a nice girl!!! Why? A-and with a man?? Shame on you! Complete shame on you!" she spits and once again angrily rushes out of the storeznot giving you the chance to explain yourself or even respond. 

Why do all the insane stuff have to happen to me? Seriously. Why? 

"What?" You manage to squeak out. 

"Did she just say you have a girlfriend?" Jimin asks, he too stunned, "Do you have a girlfriend?"  he asks untangling himself from you and turning to look at you with confused eyes. 

"No, I don't have a girlfriend. I'm straight, " you turn to look at him in a serious manner. 

​​​​​​"Then why-?" he asks giving you an even more confused face as he points with towards the door the woman just left from. 

You feel your headache coming back and even stronger. Damn, you had completely forgotten about it, "Gaaah, let's just go and I'll explain"  you grab his forearm and drag him out of the store. 

You've already stayed enough in there, plus you were starting to gain an audience, thing that to you feels like invasion of privacy. 

​​​​Maaan, today is really an unusual day... 
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