The door opens and you and Jimin fall behind to the person's feet.

You look up and see ChaeRin hovering over the both you.

"Ooh!! Jiminieeee! You're here!!" she squirms in a cute, way as you and Jimin sit up.

"What do you want?" he asks, feeling the anger rising up once again.

"I just need to talk to you about something," she says giving him a shy look.

"About?" You ask, without warning entering the conversation.

"Non of your business," her eyes avert to yours and she gives you a smug look, "Now, come on Jimin, I want to apologize properly about what happened at the party," she says pouting her lips and looking up at Jimin.

And now you feel your stomach twist.

She wants to apologize to him and not you?

Or is it just an excuse to get him alone and 'attack' him again?

Yes, it's definitely an excuse. There's is not way ChaeRin would feel bad about that night.

Suddenly, you feel a something washing over you that you have never experienced with Jimin being the reason of that feeling.

You feel overprotective of him.

You've always been protective; to any one; even Jimin.

But not ever have you been overprotective.

Especially Jimin.

Now, what is this need to get him of her claws as fast as possible?

You look over at Jimin and you see that he is avoiding eye-contact with ChaeRin, who is awaiting for his response.

So, you decide to act out on your feelings;

"ChaeRin, I do not think this is the appropriate place for this. If you truly feel apologetic about that night then you won't mind chasing him around until you get the chance to talk to him," you say, with a smirk, skipping the part that she needs to apologize to you too because it most likely will cause an argument between you and the last thing you want is staying for any longer in front of that fake face.

"And... Didn't you say you were going to keep quiet and only talk with that friend of yours at the couch? I'm not sure if me and Jimin are your friends," you spit and place your hand in Jimin's, "Let's go to Taehyung, Jimin," You tell him and start walking towards Taehyung.

You still hold Jimin's hand as you walk, him following right behind you, but suddenly you feel a strong tug at your hand and it pulls you a few steps back.

You look behind you and you see that ChaeRin has stopped Jimin mid way and is whispering something in his ear.

"You won't always have her around, I'll be here chasing you until she goes away,"

Then she pulls back and more loudly tells him, "What are you? Her puppy to follow her around?"

And this crosses the line of Jimin's patience.

All the times he was called a puppy of Chae-Rin's come to his mind and it only angers him. The blood in his vains starts boiling. He so badly wishes to start yelling at her, to tell her how much he hates her, how much she hurt him, how much she doesn't deserve him, but he can't find the strength to to that. No matter the anger that is suffocating him, there is one tiny thing that just locks up everything.

Like there is a door keeping all he wants to tell her locked up and this door can only be opened with one key.

A key he has no idea where to find or even how it looks.

Well, if can't say anything that he feels at least he can say something to roast her. Something that can ease up the suffocation he's feelings. Something that can make him last until the discovers the key.

"At least I know she is not using me for my puppy-like looks,"he says clearly meaning that you are not using him like ChaeRin did.

He then squeezes your hand and continues walking with you.

"Good job," you tell him, meaning he did well standing up to Chae-Rin

"Thanks," he mumbles, as shudders go down his spine.

"Don't worry I got you," you tell him and you take him aback by this, he once again stops on his track.

You stop and turn to look back at him.

"What are you trying to do?" he asks, as anger consumes him once again.

He clearly needs a break, he's had too many moodswings today.

"What do you mean?" you ask him.

"You're confusing me too much, one day you tell me to make a deal and stop talking and now you are telling that 'you got me' meaning that I should count on you, seriously, what are your motives?" he asks, giving you a cruel look.

You sigh now coming to the realization that you as well might be hella confusing towards Jimin;

Like he mentioned earlier, and other times where you were simply kind to him and then within the next few hours you where giving him glares.

But still, this has nothing to do with the act.

You mean that he can count on you about getting him out of ChaeRin-trouble.

Nothing else, right?

Or do you want him to count on you on other situations as well?

You find yourself super confused at this, so you give him the surest answer, because you're not sure whether you want or not want him to count on you.

"I meant that you can count on me on the matter of getting Chae-Rin away... I'm not sure if I can tell you to count on me on other matters as well... We haven't even decided what we are going to do," you explain, both of you still holding each other's hand.

Jimin slowly licks his bottom lip and looks around the room, taking a small sniff as he rubs his nose with his index finger.

"I need some air," he says and lets your hand out of his.

The moment he does this action you can feel the absence of his warmth hitting you like a huge invisible wave.

You see him turning around and walking to the hallway, wearing his shoes and getting out, without even wearing his coat.

You stand there, frozen in your place while looking at the empty spot, facing a war of feelings;

Feelings that support you following after Jimin and asking him what is wrong.

And feelings claiming that you have already done enough, the you are simply friends, that you don't need to show this much care about him. That the probably might reject it.

You haven't even talked about what is going to happen from now on, how can you determine things and go up there acting like his friend?

"Do you want to be his friend?" you hear a voice ask and you break free from your trace.

"Huh?" you ask as your eyes land on Taehyung.

"Do you want to be Jimin's friend?" he asks once again, aware that you didn't hear him the first time.

You give him a confused look wondering how he's asking you such weird thing when this questing should feel totally irrelevant for him.

"You spoke your thoughts, Y/N, I know you're wondering whether you should go chase after him or not," Taehyung tells you, giving you a poker face.

Your eyes go wide believing that someone else must have heard.

Your mind instantly goes to ChaeRin and fear takes over you.

"No, one heard anything. You just started blurting out everything after I asked you if you're okay," Taehyung explains and you relax as he places both his hands on your shoulders and squeezes you a little bit, "So, do you want to be his friend?"

You look at him, opening your mouth to answer but nothing comes out, "I... I don't know... I mean, yes, but," you stop for a moment, "But I'm scared that I might seem desperate and that he'll just reject me again and make fun of me and you know that I don't enjoy these types of things," you explain yourself thinking that you indeed find Jimin as a really interesting person, that you'd want to hang out with, however, your fears still hold you back.

"So, do you want to or not?" Taehyung asks you again, ignoring your small rant,

"Yes, or, No?"

"Yes?" you ask, still not sure because of your fears.

"Then go talk to him, I know he may seem frustrated with you, but I think this is the perfect moment for you to talk about things and come clear with some things," Taehyung explains and starts pushing you towards the door.

At first you try to avoid the situation, however Taehyung leaves you no room, threatening you that he will post the picture of you wearing that pink onesie.

"I dare you! Do it!" you respond not really caring about the non-existing reputation that will be ruined.

Among your friends you are known to be crazy, outsiders, however, don't know much about you. Just that you are an excellent student and willing to give help to anyone. Now, Taehyung threatening to make a fool of you to everyone, but is not a big deal for you, because you don't give much thought to what everyone thinks about you.

The people to care about know who and how you are; which is enough. You can't fix and keep control of everyone's opinion about you.

"Aaaiiishhh!! Just go!" Taehyung hisses and by now you have worn your shoes and been given two coats to hold.

Taehyung pushes you outside and before you can do anything he locks the door.

"Aaah, great," you sigh, holding the coats tighter in your arms.

You turn around and you see Jimin sitting on the door step with his head buried in his arms.

You notice that he is only wearing the black turtle-neck sweater.

He must be extremely cold... They weather forecast said it would snow tonight...

Is he insane going out without a coat? Does he wanna get sick right before going to his hometown?

You look down on the coats and you see that you are holding your own and another bigger and heavier, bordeaux one.

It must be Jimin's,

You think, and purse your lips.

You take a few steps closer to him, let your own coat face down and place his coat over his shoulders.  After a few seconds he lifts his head up and he notices you, wearing your own coat and then seating down on the step next to him.

"It's cold you shouldn't have come outside like that," you say, looking straight ahead, not finding it necessary to look at him.

Jimin heaves a sigh.

"Why are you here?" he asks turning his head to look straight ahead too.

"Taehyung forced me to come out," you begin, and Jimin sighs,

Of course someone forced her, why would she come on her own?

He thinks as he recalls a few minutes ago when he thought for a split second that I'd be nice if you followed him outside, before slapping himself, realizing that you'd have no reason to follow after him. It's not like you are entitled to comfort him. Even if he happens to enjoy the times you comfort him.

"I could have easily escaped and stayed inside but I think I have to tell you something," you say.

Finally, you have had enough with yourself. You need to come out clear.

You need to explain what is going on, why you are cold and then you are hot. Why you are being nice to him, as he asked you that night when he was drunk.

"Like what? That you want to stop with the act because you want to start dating someone?" he says clearly referring to you wanting to date Mark since you have come awfully close for Jimin's likings.

However, after you hear his sarcastic question you find yourself asking if the fever is already messing with him.

"Didn't I tell you no longer than ten minutes ago that you can count on me about that?" you ask getting quite irritated that he doesn't listen to what you're saying.

Jimin opens his mouth to say something but you stop him before he manages to let any vowel escape his lips;

"Just shut up and let me talk, because you might say something that could make me change my mind and not say a thing and then we'll get fussed all-over again," you say meaning that if you change your mind about speaking you will again start acting hot and cold around him and you no longer want that, as it obviously is doing no good to either of you.

Jimin closes his mouth and keeps looking at you, awaiting for you to continue.

"Don't look at me either, I feel weird," you exclaim and Jimin finds himself, unintentionally, snorting a laugh.

But he continues looking at you, so you just place your hand on his cheek and turn his face around, away from you.

"Okay, there," you take a deep breath and turn to look straight ahead as well. Face to face confrontations haven't been much your kind of thing,

"Before you said that... I'm confusing you... You asked what my motives are," you gulp feeling a little nervous and too many sentences that could be said come fly like rockets across your mind and you don't know which is the more fitting one,

"I don't have any bad motives. It's just that I'm confused as well, because you've been giving me the cold shoulder for quite some time and I don't know the reasons behind that, I just know that I wanted to become your friend because I think you are an interesting person, from what I've seen, but all the times I tried I was pushed away,"

You start rubbing your thighs as you slowly drift to a trace, while looking ahead, even though Jimin has turned his face to look at you long ago.

"To get to the point...what I'm trying to say is that, I'd be nice if we stopped being mean to each other and actually try to work things out. It would be less awkward when we act like a couple in front of others and it would make it easier for the others as well. Don't think they didn't call us mood-screwers whenever we fought,"

You bit your lip, suddenly a negative feeling that you've exposed yourself too much, believing that he will soon start laughing at your honest words. However you continue speaking, trying to make things a bit more neutral, to not boost his ego much.

"Now, I don't know if you want to become friends with me. If you don't than that's fine, don't think I'll be hurt, you haven't grown on me that much, but if you do than that's good, I hope we can have a nice time," you say and then shake your head escaping the trace you had entered.

"But let's not fight anymore and try to hurt each other for silly reasons," you say and push your lips outwards making it look like you're making a duck-face.

Jimin says nothing, but simply stares at you. Taking in all the words you just told him, going over them one by one and being rather taken aback that you really wanted to be his friend all this time when he thought you only wanted to user him and he just pushed you away causing you to act in a negative manner as well.

You await for him to say something; like the reason he has disliked you for, all this time. Or something indicating whether he wants to be your friend or not.

However, only silence comes from him and you receive it as silent judging.

You realize that you have just made a fool of yourself. Thoughts such like that he is laughing his ass off in his mind, and that he thinks you must be the dumbest person on earth, come across your mind.

You shouldn't be thinking that way but the insecurities are to strong to do otherwise.

Not being able to handle this, you sit up, "I'm gonna go for a walk and save my self from any more embarrasment," You state and then mentally slap yourself for saying the second part of the sentence.

However, you can not take it back as it has been said and Jimin has obviously heard it.

So you just shove your hands in your pockets and start walking away, with no specific destination.

You just need to away from the source of the awkwardness and embarrasment you are feeling.

Jimin simply watches you walk away and he can't seem to control his feelings.

"Aaaiiishhh," he hisses and messes his hair with his hands and he looks down.

After a few seconds he looks up, pieces of red hair sticking out to every direction as he looks at your figure that slowly dissappears in the dark.

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Hiii!!! Author here!!

Finally, I managed to publish all the chapters that have been posted on another site as well :D

From now on I'll write Author Notes as well :D

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On the story:

About Time someone took a step closer to the other xD

I mean... It took 50+ chapters... But to me it was worth the wait...

DONT worry though, we still have a long way to go...
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Eeeh, I'm gonna go now... I'm kinda Tired xD

Hope Y'all enjoyed the chapter and I'll try to update as soon as possible

Lots of love!!