Next Day

APoV

"That's the last of her clothes." Y/n huffs before placing the box of Jisoo's clothes down. Her and Jimin decided to clear all of her things out for Jin seeing as he wasn't fit to do so himself. He couldn't look at anything that reminded him of her without crying.

"So what's the story? Does Jin want us to throw all this out?" Jimin grunts whilst picking up a heavy box.

"No we're gonna place it all in the loft for him. One day he wants to show Nini all of it when she's old enough to understand. He doesn't want her to forget her own mother."

Nodding his head Jimin adjusts the heavy box in his grip but struggles.

"Need a hand?" Jungkook suddenly appears at the door frame.

"Not from you." Jimin grunts.

Sighing Jungkook takes the box from the male, piling another one on top like it's nothing difficult. "Tell that to your pit stains." He clicks his tongue before carrying the boxes out behind Y/n.

She sighs. "You could at least try not to piss him off."

"Oh but where would the fun be in that."

Rolling her eyes Y/n attempts to climb the ladder leading to the loft, but Jungkook suddenly puts a stop to that when he lifts to place her back on the floor. She turns to look at him for a moment, attempting to climb the ladder again until Jungkook does the same thing.

"Yah as much as I enjoy being lifted by you I'm tryna get a job done here."

"Well if you'd use your brain for one second, you'd realise it's easier if you head up to the loft and I pass the heavy boxes up to you."

Despite being annoyed by the males cocky grin, Y/n couldn't deny his plan made sense.

"Fine."

Raising a brow Jungkook looks at the girl confused. "You alright? Your mind seems scattered."

"I'm fine." She shrugs.

"Really? Because I saw you almost pour orange juice into your cereal this morning. And I'm pretty sure those are my boxer shorts you have on."

Looking down Y/n realises the mistake she made. Her brain had been a little scattered lately. What with helping Jin with the funeral, working more shifts at the club and keeping her pregnancy a secret she felt a little overwhelmed.

"They're comfy that's all." She shrugs before going to climb up the ladder. With a smile Jungkook shakes his head at the girl. He then goes to grab one of the boxes when Jimin suddenly beats him to it.

"I got it big guy. Why don't you let me take it from here."

"What makes you think I can't do it myself?" Jungkook says a little irritated.

"Well it's been almost 2 minutes and yet there's still boxes yet to go in the loft."

"That's because I was busy talking to Y/n. Believe it or not we actually do more then just fuck and fight."

"Yeah well all I see are the problems you cause for her—."

"You wanna watch what you say to me Park—."

"GUYS!" Y/n yells from the loft. "Seriously can the two of you just get a long for one fucking second!"

At her words both Jimin and Jungkook choose to put their argument on pause. Jimin roughly shoves the box back into Jungkooks hold before heading back to collect the others.

Sighing, Y/n runs her hands through her hair frustrated. All week those two had been at one another's throats and she couldn't understand why. She cared so much about each of them, so why couldn't they just get along?!

2 hours later

"Okay that's all the boxes packed away—." Jimin pauses half way in the kitchen when seeing Jungkook sitting at the table. "Where's Y/n?"

Before the boy even showed the effort to reply, the girl in mention enters the kitchen. She takes a seat at the head of the table and points to a chair. "Sit."

Despite being confused, the male does as he's told.

"We need a family meeting."

Letting out a laugh of sarcasm, Jungkook slumps back in his chair.

"Something funny?" Jimin asks.

"Yeah this. I mean come on. How is this a family?"

"Because it is." Y/n speaks in a serious tone, one that almost expresses anger snaps Jungkook out of his smirk. She exhales a breath, shocking both males when taking each of them by the hand. "As well as Jin. You two are the most important people in my life. I live with you. I care and have so much love for each of you. And that to me makes you my family."

"And if my family is to survive then we need to look out for one another, especially now that people know of our location."

"You mean Jungkooks location." Jimin says whilst glaring across at the boy, but for once, he doesn't bite back. His mind is too focused on
Y/n's words.

"She's right." He speaks, surprising both his fiancé and Jimin. "We've already lost one life. Let's not risk there being another—."

"So what? Now you're ready to play happy family's all of the sudden?" Jimin interrupts. "I don't buy it. Wanna know why? Because I don't and will never be able to trust you Jeon."

Suddenly the male flicks his eyes to look at Y/n. "I'll do whatever I can to protect you. But this isn't a family." He switches back to Jungkook.
"...this will never be a fucking family so long as he's here." He finishes before getting up to leave the kitchen.

Normally Jungkook would enjoy a situation that involves seeing Jimin leave a room. But not this time, not when he could tell his fiancé was slowly sinking deep into the depths of her own fears. He knew he couldn't be selfish and enjoy it this time.

"Jimin." He calls, waiting for the male to turn back round. "I know..that you don't think I'm a good person. But...I actually think that you are."

Clenching his jaw Jimin fights the urge to fire back with an insult like usual.

"You look out for the people you care about. I saw it when you kept Y/n company during my trial. The way you comforted her. Made her smile. I hated and admired you for it all at the same time."

"I know that it would break her heart if anything happened to you. So that's enough reason for me to wanna keep you safe."

"I'll look out for you from now on. For her."

Hearing those words brings Jimins mind to whirl for a minute. There were so many hateful words wanting to slip out from his mouth. So much hatred and anger. But that common interest in
Y/n's well being helped him to keep it all in.

"Same here." He replies, standing still for a few seconds longer before leaving.

Hearing Y/n's breath shudder Jungkook turns his attention to her immediately, his heart aching when he sees tears rolling down her face. Sliding his chair closer, he pulls her head against his chest. With his hand he strokes her hair. She grips onto his hoody, sniffling a few times before just breaking down.

"I need this family to survive Jungkook. We're all each other has right now."

"And so we will." The male replies.

"Do you promise?"

"I swear to you."

"Then I believe you." She responds, now sitting up straight in her seat. There was something still off though, Jungkook could sense it.

"What else is bothering you?"

"Nothing." She forces a quick smile before dabbing her eyes dry.

He sighs before squeezing her thigh and getting up. "I'm gonna go workout."

"Okay. I'll get started on dinner." The girl replies, but she doesn't get up. Realising this, Jungkook stops by the door frame and turns back to look at her. "Come upstairs with me instead."

"What? Why?"

"Because I don't want you being on your own right now."

"Aww Kooks I'm fine—."

"Fine isn't good enough I'm afraid. Come on." He shrugs his chin. With a light smile Y/n stands up ready to walk out the kitchen. But Jungkook had other plans. With one sweep, he lifts her into his arms before carrying her bridal style towards the stairs. "Might as well get practicing for the big day." He says, making Y/n giggle. She wipes away the last of her tears using the sleeve of her hoodie. Well. Jungkooks hoodie.

"Maybe I'll try workout with you." She suggests, and Jungkook can't help but laugh at his girlfriends words. "Oi what's funny?"

"Babe the last time you tried to do a sit up you acted as if you'd broken a rib."

"It wasn't just one sit up it was 5!"

"5 are the equivalent of 1 to me."

"Yeah but I'm pretty sure you came out of the womb with abs Jeon."

"I was a skinny kid. You saw yourself."

"Whatever just put me down." The girl tuts before landing back on her feet. The two enter the bedroom, Jungkook with a grin on his face as he watches Y/n leap to sit on the bed. So much for a workout he thought to himself.

Y/n watches as the boy begins to do push-ups. She always had the urge to sit on his back for some reason. Just looked fun to her :)

"Kooks."

"Mm?"

"I was thinking. Jimin likes to work out too."

"..right?"

"He goes to a gym near by. Why don't you see if he'll take you with him—."

"I'm good."

"But don't you think it will be a good chance for you guys to bond??"

"No more like a good chance for me to drop a weight on his foot."

"Kookssssss."

"No Y/n."

"Pleaseeeeee."

"No. The dude has the IQ of a squirrel. At least you and Jin can keep up a conversation."

"Erm, intelligence has nothing to do with friendship."

"You're only saying that because you agree I'm smarter than him."

"Kooks—."

"Forget it." The boy grunts whilst completing his 20th push-up. "There is no way I'm going to a gym with that air head—."

Next day

APoV

"Do you need a locker?" Jimin looks back at Jungkook who simply shakes his head. "Alright. Let's go then." He sighs before walking out of the locker rooms.

Walking ahead Jimin goes straight to the treadmills ready to start on his cardio. Jungkook stands there hesitant for a moment. He'd never been in a gym before, and this one was huge, he had no clue where to start first.

So he decided to base his decision on physique. Near the yoga mats were mostly women trying to get rid of their pre pregnancy fat. The bikes were mostly occupied by skinny old men sweating through their T-shirts. But then he saw the weights section.

Walking over he takes a seat on one of the benches. Thanks to his boredom when locked in his cell, the boys only form of entertainment was working out so he'd managed to gain some muscle already, hence why he decided to start with a fairly heavy weight.

"Are these spare?" He asks one man about a set of dumbbells.

"Not for you you sick fuck." The man replies before snatching the weights and moving away. Earlier before, Jungkook had noticed the odd filthy look from individuals on his way in, people recognised him from the news and clearly disagreed with him being free of his sentence.

Getting up the boy heads over to the pull up bar, about to grab on when another male beats him to it. "Move along wackadoodlw this one's occupied."

Biting his tongue Jungkook holds in his anger before moving away. He was hurt yes, but mainly angry. No one knew his story. No one knew that he was the victim in all of this. And because of that they shunned him.

Giving up on weights the male decides to join Jimin near the treadmills. However when he steps on the machine, the people on either side of him suddenly step off and move away.

Looking to his side Jimin sees the boy trying to mask his embarrassment. Even he felt a little sorry for Jungkook. It was almost like a scene from middle school where one kid is picked on by the other kids for being different.

As much as he wanted to enjoy the situation of Jungkook being humiliated, he couldn't. Sighing to himself, the male steps across to join at his side. "This button starts it." He says before pressing the button on Jungkooks treadmill. "And you can use the arrows to select higher levels and speed. I normally start off at 5 and work my way up."

"Thanks."

Nodding his head Jimin starts his own treadmill up. But he still felt a need to say something else to the boy. "Don't worry about those guys. They're normally pricks anyway so i wouldn't take it personally."

"It's fine. That area stunk of armpit sweat anyway."

At his words Jimin grins. "Yeah it does get pretty bad."

It goes quiet for a moment, awkward slightly which Jimin senses. It was clearly gonna take some time for them both to warm to one another, but this was already a start in the right direction.