"craziest shape of poop ever pooped?" raena asked, as it was her turn to ask a question.

yoongi rolled his eyes and shook his head of slightly damp hair while he pondered the question. "i can't believe i'm going to say this but the shape of a carrot."

raena booed.

yoongi shrugged.

"dude, every poop looks like a carrot. i once pooped a poop the shape of a star! i honestly think it's a sign. i'm going to be famous one day," raena teased.

"if you say so, i don't believe you."

"come on, have a little imagination! it's no fun if you don't."

"i'm bored," yoongi shrugged again suddenly. they had been walking to raena job at the go go restaurant for almost 30 minutes after the gym. he was rather surprised he had the courage to even express his boredom. but the quiet mood of the street with almost all the stores shut made him feel like he was alone with raena.

"sorry the night is going to crap. i promise everything will start to pick up when i get my phone back and my wallet," raena said optimistically. she anticipated the text from her new friend sunghoon and a blush creeped on her cheeks. thankfully yoongi couldn't see but he did catch the absentminded smile she had.

he raised a brow. "what's with the smile?"

raena caught his eyes and then quickly looked away. "umm nothing."

yoongi wasn't sure whether to ask her further. but he had a feeling it had to do about a certain someone. maybe her boss who's restaurant they were walking to. was she excited to see him or something? hoping to catch him still at the restaurant even if they were already closed? still, he didn't understand the appeal for kim seokjin.

annoyed, he decided to change the subject. "so what exactly do you have in mind that requires your phone and wallet? or are we here to see your boss?" he instantly regretted his words. it was so petty and he was so not. thankfully, she didn't think of it as petty at all.

"oh my gosh," she gasped. "i forgot about seokjin. and i was giggling and smiling at--" she stops herself. "i mean i forgot that he would be here." she had forgotten about her crush on seokjin and her plan to be more serious with him and mature and the last time she had spoken to him hours earlier, she had made up a crazy lie that there was a murderer and thief in the restaurant to run away. guess that plan is out the window, she internally groaned. how am i going to face him, looking like this! especially after being smitten with a new guy at the gym. my life is becoming a drama. is sunghoon the second male lead? wait, then who is yoongi.

said yoongi interrupted her thoughts with a stop in his tracks. up ahead he saw seokjin about to close the restaurant.

"oh! he's right there!" raena gasps. she immediately covers her embarrassing shirt. "yoongs, he can't see me like this. it will prove everything i've been trying to undo all along."

yoongi looked at her confused, "are you talking about your plan to impress him with your 'seriousnes'?"

"yes! i already messed it up at work when i rolled out of the restaurant to find you. and now i look embarrassing and my hair is messed up from all those burpees i did," she shakes her head pouting, "why do i have to be so fit?" she manages to joke.

yoongi scoffs with a smile on his face.

"yoongs you look good, maybe go ask him if he can keep it open and say you lost something and then i will sneak in and get my stuff," she tells him with a beaming smile and hopeful eyes. she notices the matching backet hat still on his head even after he had changed at the gym.

"me?" yoongi asked in disbelief, his smile disappearing.

though the both of them were unsure of what to do, they were slowly inching towards the direction of the restaurant hoping in their minds that seokjin wouldn't close the restaurant before they would have to speak.

"yes you! please! i'm terrified of him seeing me like this. i'm not in my element and my game is off."

yoongi had the urge to ask, "what game?" but decided against it.

"raena, he probably can't even see the shirt it's dark out and i'm sure he likes you better than he likes me," he tried reasoning.

"yoongles please! i'll do anything on top of being the loser of karaoke, i will do another thing that you want! i promise!" she pleaded, rubbing her hands together desperately. she intensely locked her eyes with him as the offer sounded tempting to him.

he absolutely did not want to do this. there was probably nothing in the world that can make him do this other than taehyung and the little boys but it made him feel guilty seeing her nervous in front of her crush. he didn't approve of the guy but time was ticking and she was desperate.

"you owe me," he whispers, and then with a deep breathe, he regretfully jogs towards seokjin.

seokjin raises his head at yoongi coming his way as he's fishing his pockets for his keys. he furrows his brows. "what are you doing here?"

"i um..." yoongi feels at a loss for words. he feels his heart beating faster than normal and multiple ideas for lies appear in his brain. "um."

"i don't have time for this. i already have to deal with raena being an inadequate worker and the biggest pain on my side, i certaintly can't have her boyfriend being added to that. what do you want?" seokjin rolls his eyes.

yoongi rolls his eyes in return as he feels himself getting back to his groove. this guy was annoying, "i already told you. i'm not her boyfriend. i'm here because i left my wallet here and i need it."

seokjin shrugs and glanced at the little heart on yoongi's bucket hat, "we're closed."

"you have the keys and i'm the only one here. can't you just open the door and let me look inside?" yoongi asks, hating how unreasonable he sounded but he could practically feel the desperation of raena breathing on his neck though she was behind him somewhere hiding.

"i'm not letting you in there alone."

"then come with me for all i care and follow me. i just need my wallet. how else am i going to survive?" yoongi suggested.

"everyone uses their phones these days, at least stay up with the times," seokjin scoffs. he shakes his head and opens the doors, standing aside to let yoongi inside.

yoongi's heart races as he passes by seokjin and inside the restaurant he had entered hours before for the first time. it was eerie empty and dark but the smell of clean floors met him and he liked the scent.

he glances behind him to find seokjin following him inside and a crouching raena slowly sneaking towards the doors. his eyes widens and he hopes seokjin can't see them with the darkness.

"do you need the light?" he asks, crossing his arms.

yoongi shakes his head, "no, i think i left it in the bathroom, actually. can we go there first?"

seokjin rolls his eyes. for a "sophisticated man", he rolls his eyes like a teenager.

"follow me," he says and as the two leave the seating area of the restaurant, raena slowly enters the restaurant. she speed walks to the back where the kitchen is and enters another door to the locker room. she finds her locker and retrieves her phone and wallet, internally cheering at the success. she stuffs it in her black book bag she got from the thrift store.

heart racing, she quietly races back to the kitchen until she sees yoongi and seokjin's heads through the circle window. she ducks, hitting her head on a counter in the process. the blow to the head was heard and echoed across the restaurant.

cursing in her head, she hears them stop.

yoongi curses in his brain as he attempts to find a way to distract seokjin.

he scoffs, "don't tell me you have a rat problem here?" ugh, i hate this.

"me? a rat problem? yeah right. i take care of myself and this place unlike other people," seokjin scoffs even greater with anger laced in his voice.

nevermind. i don't hate this. he deserves it.

"i'm going to check that," seokjin says, walking towards the kitchen doors, "do not go anywhere else."

yoongi panics and says, "raena!"

raena resisted the urge to say, "present!", while holding her bleeding head.

seokjin turns back swiftly and furrows his brows. "what-"

"i mean, what is up with how you treat her? i'm pretty sure everything she does is for the good of someone else. why do you treat her like crap then?"

seokjin laughs with no amusement, "what side of the story are you getting here? she's annoying and a clumsy employee who distracts people."

"i think the only person she distracts is you."

raena used her free hand to cover her mouth. the tea!

yoongi was surprised at himself. but it was as if he knew what to say to tick him off. he knew there was some truth to what he was saying. whether it's because raena catches seokjin's eye or it's because he really annoys her, how seokjin chooses to respond will reveal itself.

the owner of the go-go restaurant laughs again. "no no. my eyes are only focused on this restaurant. raena is everything i am not, how dare you assume that i would let myself be distracted and concerned with anything she does or who she is. all i care about is my employees doing their job."

"why are you so irritated by her? if all you care about is your employees doing their job. she does her job just fine to me."

"not at all! i just told you she's clumsy."

"why haven't you fired her, then?"

raena's eyes widened. yoongi don't get me fired!

the question seemed to stump seokjin considering the tense silence that followed. he clenched his jaw not really understanding the question. or perhaps it's because he never considered it. he doesn't like her yet he hasn't made her leave his side. seokjin hated being confronted and instead shifted the hot seat to yoongi.

"why are you so concerned with me and raena?" seokjin replies back with his arms crossed against his body.

"because she's my friend."

yoongi answered immediately. he wasted no time and hesitate he did not.

raena bit her lip to stop herself from squealing as a blush made its way to her cheeks.

seokjin scoffed and rolled his eyes again. he was never familiar with raena's life outside of the restaurant and never interested, but this new friend of hers was making things much more interesting. he made a gesture to the bathroom as if to finish the conversation. "hurry up and check."

yoongi attempted to hide his sudden embarrassment at his declaration of friendship with a swift turn to the bathroom. sure he was confident in the moment and it seemed to shut the guy up but it was kinda nerve-wracking. at least I didn't stutter, he reminded himself.

now he needed a way to get raena out of the restaurant. he enters the bathroom, purposely putting his phone away secretly and turning of the flashlight.

"i need a flashlight, my phone died," he called out to seokjin. "can you...help me out here in the bathroom?" he loudly emphasizes cursing under his breathe. raena better get the hint.

raena perks up, slowly creeping towards the kitchen door. hopefully seokjin would just do what yoongi asked.

"could you be any more irresponsible?" seokjin asks rhetorically, almost stomping his way to the bathroom flashlight.

in a quick movement, yoongi fished out his wallet from his other pocket and chucked it under the farthest stall.

raena stands up slowly and peeks through the circle window. believing she was free to go, she slowly pushes the doors quietly and speed walks to the exit of the go go restaurant. once out she loudly imitates the call of a bird, hoping to catch yoongi's attention.

yoongi rushed to the last stall in darkness searching through the floor while seokjin followed lazily behind.

"it would go much faster if i could actually see," yoongi announced.

seokjin shines his flashlight towards him in annoyance.

"thank you," yoongi says nonchalantly and snatched his wallet. "got it. bye."

"um, excuse me—"

he zooms past seokjin and to the exit leaving the boss dumbfounded. meanwhile raena was still making bird calls outside. yoongi burst through the exit to find her waving her arms like a bird randomly.

"what are you doing? go go," he says in a rushed whisper and grabs her hand. the two start running as far as they can hoping all seokjin would see was a blur. thankfully they weren't too far from the corner to make a sharp turn. exhausted from their sprint, the two threw themselves onto the ground in front of a close shop, leaning against its windows, raena's bookbag making a loud thud.

yoongi tried not show his exhaustion.

"i hope you got what you needed," he panted.

"thanks yoongles, and thanks for defending me," raena huffed.

"whatever."

raena managed a laugh.

"i don't run. another thing you've managed to make me do that i never do. lets not do this again," yoongi shakes his head.

"oh yeah remember the first time you chased me?" raena laughed again. she threw her head back exposing the cut she got from her bump to the counter in the kitchen.

yoongi's brows furrowed with concern. "hey, you okay?" he turned his tired body towards her while she reached instinctively for her head.

"yeah it's just a cut," she shrugged. " bumped my head in the kitchen. that conversation you and seokjin had is the most progress i've had in months! interesting isn't it that he claims im such a bad employee but he doesn't fire me. maybe i'm rubbing off on him." raena winks.

yoongi rolls his eyes, "whatever you say." raena laughs to herself. he eyes the cut on her head warily. "we have to clean that," he says.

"sure, in a minute," she says still panting. "let me calm down first."

yoongi nods then searched through raena's bookbag for a small towel he kept from the gym. he takes it out and avoids raena's eyes on him as she tries to breathe normally.

hesitantly and awkwardly, he lifts his hand to pat the towel to her head. raena finds herself holding her breathe. the closeness of her new friend was comforting yet scary. he wasn't one for closeness but she appreciated his attempt to care for her. but it wasn't just his act friendship that made him take her breathe away, or the fact that they had just ran, but he looked really good while doing it. and he smelled good too.

yoongi had no clue the thoughts going through raena's head but was preoccupied on every other thing but her to avoid how awkward he felt. little did he know their thoughts were very much aligned.

finally his eyes wondered to hers. his breathing became just as irregular as hers. he was at a lost for words. she looked crazy with her matted hair, askewed bucket hat, hairy pot-bellied shirt, sprawled against the store window. this was his new friend.

it made him want to smile, laugh with glee in a way he didn't think was possible. what was beginning to bubble up inside him that he never felt so strongly before? he didn't know. it wasn't the same when he became friends with tae. maybe because she was a girl and she was...she was kinda cute even looking as crazy as she did. ugh, he didn't like that word, "cute". but it seemed to be the only way to describe her. but it didn't mean anything. it was okay. admitting it didn't change anything. he just understood that he had a pretty friend, a pretty cool, annoying, friend.

dang raena, admit it, yoongi is handsome. there's no sunghoon around to confuse your mind. but! you can't ever tell yoongi that you think that. think of what it would do to his ego! act natural! you can't let him know he has charm!

raena allows herself to breathe with this new revelation and it brings yoongi back to the moment.

"um, this should help stop the bleeding for now. it doesn't look like much," he says avoiding her eyes again. he settles back into his spot on the floor while raena takes over his hand on the towel.

"thanks," raena says quietly as though his act of kindness didn't effect her. hopefully i didn't stare at him too long?

yoongi internally groans. did i just make things awkward? it's not like i actually told her she was pretty, i just thought it. all i did was help her bleeding...and stare at her a little. you idiot. well, technically she stared first.

"what are we doing next again?" yoongi asked nonchalantly, feigning as thought nothing happened.

raena gets up, remembering their entire night of fun. energized again she picks up her bookbag.

"to the convenience store! i need a bandaid!"

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