Once he is fully back from the coughing fit and can speak properly he turns to face you, "What are you doing here?" he asks absent-mindedly, forgetting for a split second that you are not supposed to speak to each other.

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

He has made a start by talking to you, and asked the perfect question for you to lead the conversation to where you want.

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

"I actually wanted to tell you something," you mumble under your breath, but not loud enough to Jimin to hear.

"Huh?" he asks raiding an eyebrow, but as he realizes that he is speaking to you, thing that is against the deal you've made, he turns around, hurries to put the bottle back in the fridge and then with a fast pace ignoring you completely heads towards the door to go to the living room.

However before he can come in, or, you can gather the courage to speak up louder and stop him from walking out Mark comes in.

"I heard someone coughing is everything alright?" He asks as he comes in closing the door after him.

You don't know whether to be thankful that Mark came in or not.

You feel like you've been saved from embarrassment and an awkward-for you- situation, but at the same time you know you will have to try again and it means coming to this position again.

Aaahh, Seriously, Mark-ssi, you have a bad timing!

"Yeah, It was me, I'm fine though," Jimin says looking at his Hyung.

"Ah, okay," Mark says breathing out but soon turns to look at you, while smiling,"Y/N-ssi, NamJoon is looking for you".

"Yeah, I'll be going" you smile and walk towards the door between the two boys. You get past them, open the door and go to the living room where you are needed.

Jimin's face is washed with relief after you leave, and he sighs.

"What's wrong?" Mark asks as he puts a hand on his dongseaeng's shoulder.

Jimin does not respond and only looks down on the floor, trying to think of something up to escape from this place, as he suddenly starts getting really nervous.

"You've been awfully quiet since me and the girls got here, why are you like this?" Mark asks him but Jimin does not respond, being too deep in his thoughts, "Is it because of Y/N?"

The moment Jimin hears this his head shots up and he looks at his Hyung with wide eyes, giving himself away one-hundred percent.

"Oh my! It is!!" Mark says shocked, as he clasps a hand to his mouth.

Jimin's mind is blank, be does not know how to react, he's not even sure if he is being quiet because of you or because of other factors.

"You know, you still haven't told me what is going on between you and her," Mark begins as he locks the kitchen door so that no one disturbs them as a long talk is about to happen, "Eunbi told me something like that you hate each other, but now she's pretending to be your girlfriend in front of Chae-Rin but you guys fought or something and made a deal to ignore eachother when you're with us," Mark pauses as he pushes Jimin to one on the chairs by the kitchen table, and sits him down.

Jimin's body shows no hesitation to walking to that chair and sitting down even though his mind is screaming at him to go away and not talk about you with Mark or anyone.

Why should I waste my time talking about her? She shouldn't be that important!

He thinks trying to convince himself but obviously that is not how he truly feels.

Mark sits in front of Jimin, wearing a wide smile on his face, "So, tell me what is going on, because I'm sure it's pretty big and I don't want to miss out on it,"

"Aaaaah," Jimin sighs burying his head in his arms, "Seriously!"

"Seriously what?" Mark says furowing his eyebrows, "I've been gone for more than six months, and now that I'm back you refuse to update me on the matters? Is this how you treat your Hyung?" he says putting on a fake hurt face expression on.

"Aiish, arraseo (Okay)" Jimin sighs and hangs his head, "You ask questions and I'll answer you,"

"Okay," Mark smiles, "Is what Eunbi told me true? That you hate each other but she pretends to be your girlfriend in front of others to keep Chae-Rin away?"

Jimin nods in agreement.

"Aah, interesting, how did you guys end up like that? I mean, if I were to hate someone I wouldn't pretend to be their boyfriend," Mark comments while resting his head on his hand.

"Weeeeellll, I had went with her to the drug store to get revenge for dying my hair red," he says making a sour face expression as he recalls the day he got out of the shower and when he checked himself in the mirror he had red dye all over his hair mixed with the natural dark brown color he had,

"Then Chae-Rin showed up out of nowhere and she asked whether Y/N was the girlfriend I had told her about," he pauses for a moment,

"And then not knowing what else to do, I agreed and dragged Y/N into this, than somehow we both ended up on agreeing to keeping this up, for the sake that ChaeRin leaves me alone".

Jimin finishes and Mark nods in astonishment, "How come your relationship with her didn't go better? I mean... You'd have to spend quality time with her... Personally i think she's a nice person, even if I misunderstood her at the beginning,"

"I didn't open up to her, she didn't open up to me, that's how, and besides I don't think she's as nice as everyone thinks she is," Jimin says his voice get a bit harder.

"Hhmm," Mark begins, "Did you ever take the time to get to know her, or from the very beginning you did not like her?" he finishes asking a very accurate question.

"If I'd let my self get to know her then I'd be a fool like anybody else," Jimin states, obviously not having given this sentence much thought no matter the time long that it has lingered around his mind and beliefs.

"So you are calling your friends fools?" Mark asks, and Jimin's eyes shot up to look at him, shock written in them.

"Wh-what? No," he says blinking a few times as well.

"That's what it looks like," Mark says pursing his lips, "I mean, your friends trust this girl, Eunbi lives with her and NamJoon and Yoongi even trusted her to write a song for the competition,

Do you think your friends would not have realized if she where to be fake?

I mean, NamJoon was the first to ever tell you his bad feelings about ChaeRin, despite the fact that you did not listen.

You also must remember that ChaeRin did not get along with most of our friends, however look at how they trust Y/N," Mark says stating the obvious.

Jimin gives Mark a weird look, "Hyung," he tilts his head to the side, "You have just met her, how can you say she's trustworthy?"

"Woah! Hold on a second! I never said I trust her yet! I'm just stating the facts! Me and her had a small misunderstanding but we resolved it, and seeing that people whom I trust seem to enjoy her company and also trust her I'm going to give her a try! Usually this is how things go, Jimin-ah" Mark explains.

However, Jimin seems to have only noticed the 'Misunderstanding' between You and Mark.

What misunderstanding?

Did anything happen after I left their apartment?

"What type of misunderstanding, Hyung?" Jimin asks, fiercely looking at Mark, whose eyes go wide and he gets a little bit nervous,not giving Jimin the answer he desires.

"Hyung, what happened?" Jimin asks again.

"Weeeeeellll, we promised to forget this but...I wouldn't mind talking about it," Mark says as he slams his hands on the table.

Jimin's eyebrows raiders in interest.

What could that be that you and Mark promised to forget but Mark wants to talk about it?

"What is it? Come on get it out of your chest!" Jimin says eager to find out.

"Aaah, well I accused her of being a party animal and not being to handle alcohol well, and also walked into her while she was changing, twice," Mark blurts out and Jimin's eyes go wide in shock.

He definitely did not expect something like that.

"You walked in on her while she was changing?" Jimin asks once again, feeling the anger building up in him, without him even realizing.

"Yeah," Mark says and hangs his head.

"D-did you see anything you shouldn't have?" Jimin asks, forming a pout with his lips and folding his arms to his chest as he leans back on the chair.

Before Mark can answer Jimin's question, someone bangs on the door startling both of them,

"Yaaaaaaahhh!!" Jungkook's voice is heard from the other side of the door,
"What are you two doing in there? Jimin! Come out we need you for rehearsal!!"

Both Mark and Jimin stand up and open the door to Jungkook and Taehyung, who are smiling like evil masters,

"You two we know you love each other, however do your things once you are alone at the house, okay? Now come on, we need to practice!" Taehyung says and then grabs Jimin's hand, dragging him to the living room, before he or Mark can respond to the perverted boy.

And so the moment Jimin enters the living room your eyes land on his, as his eyes land on yours, as you unintentionally, or more like, subconsciously, searched each other in the room.

However, when both of you realize that you are caught by the other you look away minding your own business. And soon, Mark and Jungkook follow right away.

At some point you make eye contact with Mark and he gives you a warm smile, one that you of course return.

And guess what? Jimin notices this.

And of course, with the previous information he got, weird thoughts are going to go around his mind. Thoughts that make the fire inside him grow more.

"Okay, we all have recorded our backup voices now the one remaining is Jimin," NamJoon says and he points towards Jimin.

"Okay," Jimin nods, as he stands up, awaiting for the one who will accompany him, to do the recording of his voice and instruct him.

"Y/N, this one is yours," Yoongi says and your head perks up from your notes, your face in total shock as the tension on your body rises up, making you feel like exploding.

"What?" you ask quietly and steal a glance from Jimin, who also seems to be under total shock, and anger?

Now, his face expression definitely discourages you from doing anything with him.

It's clear rejection!

"You know on that kind of stuff, plus we did everyone else, we're tired," NamJoon says rubbing his eyes and then giving you a pouty look.

They know in what situation yo and Jimin are. They know that you are not talking to each other. They know very well.

What are they trying to do?

Have you talk to him?

Aaahh, seriously, this isn't a nice action from them.

They all know, you and Jimin are not comfortable with each other yet they push you against one another.

How is that friendship????

You think as the anger towards your friends starts boiling up.
You look around the people, asking them through eye contact, if they are willing to switch with you, but everyone gives you a negative response.

You sigh in despair as you sit and walk towards the mini studio walking past Jimin.

Well, on the bright side, you will have your chance to thank him.

Soon after you enter and sit on the computer to open up a new file for Jimin's backups, you hear the door open.

You don't bother to turn around as you know it's probably Jimin and it is too awkward.

"I'll stay here as well if you don't mind," you hear Mark's voice and it startles you.

You turn around and you see Mark taking a seat to the black leather couch and Jimin is standing there awkwardly, however you recieve an angry aura from him.

Choosing to ignore his aura you turn to Mark and approvingly nod, being a thousand times thankfull that you won't have to be alone with Jimin in this room.

However, you lose your chance of talking to him about the elevator event,

Ooh well, I'll do it another time when I get the chance.

Says the procrastinator in you.

Now, seeing that Jimin is not even looking at you, you are going to be the one who has to speak first so that you can start working.

"Stand in front of the mic," you instruct him, with a cold voice that even startles your own self.

You didn't mean to speak to him like that. It came out on its own, but why?

Jimin shoots you a glare and moves to stand where you told him to.

And so you manage to begin the recording of the backup voices in the song.

You have got to say, Jimin has a really soothing, beautiful and charming voice. You have heard him sing before, and you were always amazed, whether you hated him or not.

You were sure that the process would not take longer than half and hour, however it took way longer than that.

It's not the fact that Jimin sang it badly or that his voice did not reach the notes. It was only the fact that he could not transfer the correct feeling.

"This won't work," you sigh as you lean against the chair and closing your eyes in tiredness.

"Maybe it's because you are here," Jimin decides to speak, evidently directing the comment towards you.

It's the first time he talks to you since you came in the studio.

Every time you'd instruct him on something he'd simply not respond but comply to your instructions.

Your eyes shoot open and you give him an angry look, trying to keep your breathing calm.

He decides to speak to you, and this is what he says.

How perfect.

You know what? Forget thanking him. He's an asshole anyways.

"True," you mutter under your breath and stand up from your chair, walking past Jimin and then forcefully opening the door and walking out.

Jimin looks at you as you leave with wide eyes. Now he feels a disappointing feeling attack his stomach and he pouts his lip.

I shouldn't have said that, should I?

He wonders,

Wait, no, why shouldn't I have said it? It's not like I care about her feelings.

And it's true. If she weren't here I would've managed to transfer the correct feeling to the song.

He thinks, blaming your presence for his failure.

So, Park Jimin, Y/N can make you lose control of your feelings?

His subconscious throws at him and his eyes go wide and the twists of his own mind.

He wasn't expecting something like that from his own self.

What? Of course not!

He thinks and his train of thoughts gets cut off as NamJoon enters the studio and says that he'll continue the recording.

And like this have the next days been going, spending the entire day at the boy's house helping them with the songs, receiving glares from Jimin and giving some back, and from time to time a mean comment from him, not directly pointed towards you, but using metaphors and other such ways.

Of course, all this means that you did not get the chance to thank him, but it's not a true fact that you tried much to get that chance...

Now, during this time, you and Eunbi had been preparing a surprise party for Taehyung's birthday.

The party is going to the held on the 28th, despite that it's two days after, because on the 29th everyone will be going to their hometowns to spend time with their family.

Since a great amount of progress has has been made, all of them decided to stay more than just four days at home, so they extended the break to a week long.

"Y/N-aahhh we're readyyyyyyy!!!" you hear Eunbi's screech through the other side on the phone.

"Okay, don't worry Eunbi we'll be on our way soon, he's in the washroom now," You tell her.

Earlier today you suggest treating Taehyung a meal for his birthday, since you told him you didn't manage to buy him any present.

In honesty, this was an entire lie. All of you just needed to keep Taehyung occupied so that they could prepare the house for the his birthday party.

"I'm hanging up, he's coming," you tell her and you hang up the phone.

"Aaah, who was it?" Taehyung asks as he sits down in, taking the chopsticks in his hands again prying for the meat in the plate.

"Eh, the gym owner, he told me he'll be closed for the next week," you say a white lie that Taehyung of course believes.

"Aaah, I'm so full, thank you, Noona,"Taehyung says as he rubs his belly.

You shouldn't have eaten that much Taehyung-ieee.

"Shall we go now?" You ask and give him a warm smile, "Come on, birthday boooyyyy!!"

After you pay, both of you get in Taehyung's car and seeing that Taehyung has drank a little, you don't risk letting him drive and therefore you get on the wheel.

"You know, Y/N," Taehyung begins, "You're the only one who remembered my birthday," he pouts,

"Nobody else remembered, not even Eunbi! At first I though everyone was preparing a surprise for me, but then you wished me happy birthday... And if you guys were to surprise me then you would've acted like you did not remember as well. So they truly forgot about me," Taehyung says and then begins his infamous fake crying.

You want to laugh your heart out at this, but you know it will only lead to giving away that there truly is a surprise for him. So, you keep your mouth shut.

Soon, both of you are standing in front of the front door, you have texted Eunbi that you are here and you can see that the house is dead silent and dark. Nearly scary looking.

"Do you have your keys?" you ask him and he starts searching his pockets.

"Yup," he says and fishes them out, as he finds the right key he puts it in the lock and unlocks the door.

He steps in, takes his shoes off and continues whining in the complete dark.

"I still can't believe they forgot that it's my birthday today," he says making a whining-puppy-sound as he talks.

You, yourself get in, slipping off your shoes and smirk.

"I mean, I've never forgotten their birthday! I always remember! Why do they do this to me??!" he asks continuing his whines, as he heads towards the kitchen.

"Hey! Taehyung-ah! Let's go to the living room! We can watch a cool movie until everyone comes and you can scold them as much as you like!" you say to him, and you see the light of the kitchen being turned on.

"Okay~" he sighs, "Let me get some chips then" he says and you hear cupboards opening and closing, few dramatic sighs, bags being ripped open.

Trying to keep your laughter to yourself you walk to the living room and try to see if everyone is there.

However since it is too fucking dark you cant see a thing. You walk to where you think is the couch but you trip and you fall on something that is on the couch.

"Oooof" You say as a you land on something that pokes your stomach and causes you great pain.

"Aaah," You hear a while of pain from under you.

"Sorry! Sorry!" you clumsily stand up and help the other person up as well.

"Y/N-aahhh!" your hear Taehyung call for you from the kitchen.

"Yeeess?"you ask as you try to find a place for you to stand.

"Do you want a soda?" Taehyung yells.

"Sure!" you yell back,

"Oww!!" you Whisper-shout in pain as you step on something like a plastic toy.

You raise your leg up to hold your foot with your hands however, you step on another hard similar to a plastic toy and you fall on the ground after losing balance.

You hear snicker coming not far away from you.

"Y/N! What the heck are you doing?" You hear Eunbi Whisper-shout at you.

"Who left freaking little toys on the ground? Stepping on those things is torture!!" You growl as you attempt to get up.

Out of the blue you hear Taehyung coming towards the living room,

"Y/N?" he asks,

"Yes?" you respond.

"Why are you in the dark?" he asks his voice giving away that he's getting worried.

"I don't know where the light switch is," you respond, as you am finally manage to stand up and still search for a place to stand at.

You walk to what you believe is the line everyone is standing at, but once again you step on something and lose balance ready to fall face-front, however a pair of strong arms catch you and prevent your collision with the floor.

"Oh, hold on I'll open them," Taehyung says.

You hurry to fix yourself and stand next to that person before Taehyung opens the lights.

Soon, the dark room is illuminated by the artificial light and the sound of a bowl falling to the ground is heard.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM TAEHYUNG!!!!" All of you scream and then start clapping as you take in Taehyung's shocked expression.

Eunbi is the first one to rush up to him and hug him.

As she attacks his lips you look away to give the couple some privacy.

In curiosity you turn to look at the one who prevented your encounter with the hard floor and you are shocked to see the profile of a red haired, Park Jimin.

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