Just as you are about to pull your hair in a pony tail, since this is the only way you can take care of the 'nest' without getting into too much trouble for it, you see that there is a red stain on the side of your sweater. 

"What?" your eyes go wide as your hands reach the stain on the fabric. 

"You need to be kidding me," you mumble as you try to scrub off the stain but nothing gets removed. 

Seriously, when did I even get the chance to stain this? I have only worn it twic-

Wait a second. 

Eunbi. 

And an image of Eunbi wearing the-now- stained sweater comes to your mind. 

You recall she had gone to an art seminar wearing it. 

Aarrghhh, I'm going to burn her alive. 

You think, as you forcefully pull the sweater upwards to undress yourself. 

Just as you toss the stained sweater on your bed your door opens again and in comes Mark, wearing black clothing, but with his hair dripping wet. 

You freeze on your spot; one hand extended over the bed, above the sweater, the other tangled in your hair. Your stomach muscles tense at the sight of Mark in the room and they make your faint abs visible. Their not too much for a girl, just enough to make you look healthy and appealing. 

"SOOORRRYYYYYY!!!!!" Mark yells as he covers his eyes and makes a 180° turn and tries to head outside, feeling utterly embarrassed. 

To add more to his misery though, since he can not see, he calculates his 180° turn wrong and when he walks straight ahead, instead of walking out, he walks straight to the door, banging on it. 

"Aaaah," he releases a whine in pain. 

"Ommo!" you cover your mouth with your hand in shock as you witness him hitting his head to the door. 

You walk towards him to help him get out, at first he jumps at your touch but,  then let's you guide him outside, not daring to put his hands away from his eyes. 

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to enter. I thought it was Eunbi's room," he explains as he exits, "I confuse your rooms, I should have knocked," 

"I-it's okay, don't worry," your say, not knowing how to continue, "A-and I should have locked the door," 

Once he is outside, you close the door, locking it this time, 

Twice in a day, 

He's barged into a room I am half naked, twice. 

How much awkward is the situation going to get? 

I don't want it to get any weirder... 

Aarrghhh, I haven't had a nice start with him... 

Dammit. 

You run your hand through your hair in frustration and sigh. You open your closet and search for a shirt that is decent and not stained. 

Finally, you find a simple gray shirt, but since it's thin you also wear a gray jacket along, for heat reasons. 

You pull your hair in the pony tail you were attempting earlier, and you're done. 

You unlock the door of your room and head out in the living room where Mark is sitting; watching some television. His hair is still wet as he probably hasn't been given the chance to dry them, so he's most likely waiting for Eunbi to finish whatever she's going so he can get a grasp of that blow dryer. 

Your first thought at seeing Mark? 

Turn around and run to the kitchen. 

However, you see Mark noticing you and you become aware that his whole body just tensed up ar your presence. 

Now, you don't like that;

The fact that he is not feeling comfortable around you. 

You need to fix this. 

But how? 

Without you even realizing, your legs take you the couch and force you to sit down, next to Mark but with a right amount of space between you. 

Mark doesn't dare do look at you, but you notice his Adam's apple going down and then up as he gulps in nervousness. 

Aaaah, it's now or never, 

If you don't act now and try to save the situation this might evolve like it did with Jimin. 

Your subconscious snarls and you find yourself wondering how the hell this situation can be compared with the situation you had going on with Jimin. 

Thinking that analyzing this is not important right now, you shale the thought off and begin speaking. 

"Mark-ssi?" You ask for his attention and he turns his head to look at you. 

"Yes?" he asks, and you can see clear embarrassment in his eyes. 

Here it goes, 

To be honest, you haven't thought of what you are going to say, it is all impromptu, but it feels like the best thing to do, since you feel like you don't have enough time to sit and come up with a plan to save the situation with Mark. 

"I... I think we made a bad start. I mean, your first impression of me was a party animal that gets knocked out in elevators, and then you walked in on me twice, in a day," you say pursing your lips, saying this is actually harder than you thought. 

The moment you mention the two times he walked in on you while changing, be averts his eyes to the wall across, his cheeks turn to a shade of pink. 

You clear your throat to force yourself to speak, "And I think it's pretty awkward around us, and I don't want it to be, since you're Eunbi's brother and she's something like my best friend, so we're going to be seeing each other a lot, and I think it'd be best if things weren't awkward," you stop yourself to take a breath and gather the courage to say the last sentence, "So how do you think, we forget about everything embarrassing that's happened till now, and start again?" you say and extend your hand for him to shake to seal the agreement. 

He turns to look at you, and then at your extended hand, he doesn't respond as he is going through what you just told him. However the process seems too long for you and also to ease up the tension a little bit you decide to crack a joke,

"I'm not a piranha, I'm not going to eat your hand," you smile at him, still feeling awkward as hell, and in fear of getting rejected but you manage to hide it through a confident facade. 

"Okay, I-I agree with that," he finally says and extends his arm to shake your hand as well. 

He gives you a small smile and all the anticipation and fear of rejection you felt escaped your body, making you relax in triumph. 

"Well then, nice to meet you Mark-ssi, I am L/N (last name) Y/N, roommate and good friend of Eunbi," you introduce yourself, symbolizing a new start. 

"Happy you meet you," Mark says and gives you an even bigger smile, as he too has relaxed now. Since the previous events embarrassing are 'forgotten', he needs no reason to avoid you or push you away. 

You don't seem like a bad person after all...and besides You must have some good traits since Eunbi trusts you that much. 

"What the fuck are you two doing?" You hear Eunbi's voice call from the entrance to the living room, to the two of you. 

You turn your head and your eyes face on Eunbi who is dressed in jeans and a pink hoodie and white converse high. 

"Nothing you should be concerned about," Mark sasses his younger sister and you flash her a grin. 

"You're weirdos," she comments and twirls around to go to her room again. 

"No! Wait!" Mark shots up from the couch and follows Eunbi, "I need the hair dryer!!!" he calls out but Eunbi has already closed the door and loud music is heard coming from it. 

"Aaah," he hangs his head, "That girls takes a hundred hours to get ready," 

"You can use my hair dryer if you want," you suggest and instantly his he looks up and his hopeful eyes meet yours. 

"Can I?" he asks 

"Yeah," your smile and sit up to go to your room and fetch him your blow dryer. 

Finally, after what felt like a thousand years, the brother and sister are finally ready. You all jump in Taehyung's car, (he didn't bother coming to get it, saying he was tired and would prefer you to bring it to him, since Eunbi can not) with you on the driver's seat since Mark doesn't know the road from the apartment to the boy's house and off you go. 

As get you get closer to your destination you start getting more and more nervous. The misunderstanding with Mark seems to be fixed right now, and all that remains is to thank Jimin for informing Eunbi and actually coming to help. 

However you are not feeling really confident about it; Jimin did try to hide the truth from you, using Mark and Eunbi, and you really whish to know the true reasons behind it. 

One scenario that can come to your mind it that;
He believes that you might become hopeful by this again and begin trying to befriend him, and so to prevent it from happening he hides the truth. 

Well, basically all the scenarios that can cross your mind are ones where they include him wanting to stay away from you. 

Of course these thoughts are discouraging, but nonetheless, you know the truth, and you must only act on the right thing, which is thanking him and appreciating what he did. 

Unfortunately, you can't pretend that you are not aware of it. 

And besides even if you tried to pretend you're unaware of the truth Eunbi or Mark would say something and it would only make your position worse. 

So, yeah, you're going to thank him. 

Aaah, seriously, Y/N, why are you making such a huge fuss? You're just going to think him for helping you, you're not going to ask his hand for freaking marriage!!!

Calm down! 

Your rational side mentally slaps you, and it's right, you shouldn't be worrying. It's not like you have your hopes ups or anything. 

You're sure you are going to receive a cold respond at showing your appreciation. 

You're not hoping for him to actually be kind. 

Right? 

Well, in honesty you really wish for things to go better after you do this, but you try not to let yourself believe because you've faced rejection so many times, you must have learned your lesson by now. 

Anyways, stopping this long train of thought, you park the car to the spot Taehyung usually parks it and the three of you get out. 

The door is opened by Hoseok, who first sees Mark standing there. 

At first his eyes turn wide in disbelief. 

He blinks a few times. 

"Hyung?" he asks unsure if his eyes are tricking him. 

"Yes, Hoseok," Mark responds with a smile. 

"Oh," Hoseok exclaims, "Oh!!" this time the 'oh' getting louder and each time he repeats it gets louder just as his movements become faster and soon he is jumping around, while hugging Mark and also yelling in the victim's ear with his distinctive scream. 

Soon, NamJoon and Jungkook come out to see why they're hyper friend is screaming and their eyes turn all bright in happiness as they see Mark. 

"Little Rooster!!!" NamJoon says and a smile finds it's way on this lips. 

Your face twists into a confused expression, and Mark's turns into an annoyed one as he is being called by his nickname. 

"Your still haven't forgotten that?" he asks as Hoseok decides to let go of Mark so he can greet the other two. 

"Of course not," Jungkook answers with his bunny smile. 

After greeting each other the boys finally decide to let you in. 

For the next hour all attention was on Mark as the seven boys hadn't seen him in a while and they needed their catching-up time with him. 

But thanks to Eunbi, who reminded everyone that they actually have to practice in order to succeed at winning that contest, you are sitting on the couch next to Mark as the other's are handing out the solos. 

"Aren't you in the group?" Mark asks you suddenly. 

"No, I'm not," you answer truthfully, but before you can continue saying anything else Mark teasingly speaks,

"Why? Are you not a good singer or rapper?" he gives a playful smirk and you lightly punch his arm, feeling happy that the awkwardness between the two of you is gone. 

"No, I am talented, and for your information I wrote one of those songs," you respond with a chuckle, "I just don't feel like taking part, besides a ninth member would be too much," 

"Pah-lease,"  he responds in English, "Haven't you seen Kpop groups? Nine members is considered normal," 

"True..." You trail off and then continue in Korean, "but still I didn't feel like joining, besides I wasn't asked to".

You see Mark nodding from the corner of your eye and you don't continue speaking, however, you feel like someone is stabbing you with their gaze. Your eyes search around the room to see what that glance is from and you lock eyes with Jimin. 

Your body becomes all tensed up again. Jimin had been so quiet you didn't even notice his presence here. 

The moment your eyes landed on his, he averted them and looked on the paper in front off him, a cold expression drawn on his face. He is irritated about something. 

Three hours pass and by now you and Mark have joined in helping with understanding the chords and the melody of the first song; 'War of Hormone'. 

Eunbi doesn't have many parts in it as it is a song written from a boy's point of view and only, she's mostly doing backup vocals but she'll definitely have more attention in the choreography. 

And so, in these three hours you haven't talked to Jimin, he hasn't tried to talk to you. Just like it was agreed on the deal. 

But the deal did not include not looking at each other. 

You keep stealing glances from him whenever you get the chance to trying to master up the courage and find a moment to talk to him but he never seems to be alone. 

He too, whenever you are focused on something and there's no chance of you looking at him, steals glances from you wondering whether you have found out or not. 

He's not trusting Eunbi that much, since she was really negative on the whole not telling you the complete truth, he managed to convince her but still he's not sure. 

Maybe he's secretly hoping that Eunbi did not keep her mouth closed and actually told you what got down so, knowing the truth you will have to respond to his actions, correct? 

Well you haven't showed such sign until now. 

He's feeling really irritated right now, 

He's not sure why, the idea that you are the reason he is pissed makes it up to his mind, however, he pushes it away as soon as it comes.

Feeling suffocated by the loud sounds and the screeching of SOPE, Hoseok and Yoongi, who magically decided to form a duet and sing their hearts outs to take a break from practice, he gets up and heads to the kitchen to drink some water. 

As you notice that no one else is following him, you think that this is your chance. 

Your mind blocks however, making you feel like acting like a coward is better than facing this right now. 

However your body takes control and you sit up from your your position and you walk towards to the kitchen. 

Once you walk in you see Jimin; his back facing you as be pours himself a cup of water. 

You stare at the back of his head and your heart decides to start running fast. 

Yeah you know what?

I'll thank him another day. 

You think and as you get control of your legs again, you turn around ready to start walking to the living room. 

But the sound of coughing stops you and your turn around;

You see Jimin coughing his heart out, you can now see the side of his face and it has turned red, he keeps coughing and coughing. 

He probably choked on water. 

You rush to him and start hitting his back, while you instruct him to look up. 

He does as you as you say and soon the coughing fit stops. 

His face is still red, nearly the same shade as his hair messy hair, but hell he still looks handsome. 

Once he is fully back and can speak properly he turns to face you, "What are you doing here?" 

"uum..." You begin, contemplating whether you should tell him or not. 

Come on, Y/N this is the perfect moment. 

"I actually wanted to tell you something,"

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