8.

| 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞. |

Yuri and Taehyung walked into the first store they saw.

The interior of the store was posh, and had many regal looking dresses hanging from the racks. A really pretty, blood-red dress caught Yuri's eyes. She moved closer to examine it.

Upon further inspection, it wasn't that great; the material of the sleeve was really rough, and it didn't look that pretty up close.

When she saw the price tag, however, she immediately dropped the sleeve, all possible thoughts of buying it flying out of the window.

Yuri walked away from there, clearly shocked. The dress was as costly as her entire wardrobe back home, if not more.

Other clothes in the store were similar, the prices out of the world, and definitely not worth the money.

She even saw a piece of clothing, supposedly a tube-top, which was costlier than the most expensive outfit she owned.

Best-seller, read the tag attached to it.

Yuri didn't understand why people even bought it, because it was literally the smallest thing she had seen here. Did people even wear it?!

She could just cut out an old tee shirt she owned and make that tube-top, for absolutely no cost.

How could people call torn pieces of cloth like that as fashion?!

Yuri walked towards Taehyung, who said, "This place isn't nice, let's go."

"That's what I was about to say. The prices are out of the world," Yuri muttered, walking out of the store.

Taehyung stopped walking and scoffed. "You're worried about the prices? Seriously?! I can literally buy this entire mall with a snap of my fingers."

Yuri rolled her eyes at Taehyung's vainly ego.

"What? It's true. Anyways, I was talking about the quality of the clothes. It's literally shit. I can stitch clothes better than that. And you know that I know nothing about sewing."

Taehyung's heart weirdly swelled at the small laugh Yuri gave.

Lately, Taehyung was finding every little thing Yuri did adorable. He didn't know if that was particularly a good, or bad thing.

All he knew was that he loved this feeling.

This feeling of spending time with Yuri which wasn't related to anything medical. Just spending time together, lighthearted laughs all around.

And he wanted it to last forever.

This 'forever' lasted for only about a minute, after which Yuri walked towards another store.

Taehyung sighed. At least he's getting to spend time with her.

Before Yuri could walk inside, she felt herself being pulled over to another shop. One look at the type of clothes hanging on the racks, and she knew that couldn't afford even the brooch the shop had to offer.

"Why would you bring me here, Taehyung? I won't be able to even buy a simple tie from here," Yuri hissed at Taehyung, looking around at the clothes, feeling incredibly intimidated.

She began to squirm slightly under the penetrating scrutiny of the workers who were more well-dressed than Yuri herself.

Gucci, read the large sign on the wall.

"Gucci?! Are you serious Taehyung? Do you want me to embarrass myself?!" Yuri whisper-shouted at Taehyung angrily.

"You deserve nothing less. If you wanna buy any clothes, you're buying them from here," Taehyung declared.

"I can't afford it, you idiot!" At this point, Yuri was sure that Taehyung purposely wanted to embarrass her.

"But I can. Now, go. Get whatever you wanna." Taehyung winked playfully.

"But—"

"I said go." Taehyung pushed Yuri further inside the store.

Yuri was left flabbergasted, staring at Taehyung's back, who was inspecting a leather pouch.

She didn't have the heart to buy anything from here, especially since Taehyung was paying for it. But when she saw an absolutely stunning black outfit, she just couldn't help herself and rushed towards it.

The dress was a sleeveless, strapless one, the velvety black material seeming to be skin fitting. It was very simple, with minimalist embroidery on it.

But that only made it more attractive.

As if in a trance, Yuri picked it up, and ran her fingers all over the super soft dress. She dared to glance at the price tag, but immediately looked away, regretting it slightly.

She began imagining how she would look, wearing the dress, absolutely rocking it. Unintentionally, she began smiling slightly at the image formed in her head.

Yuri jumped slightly when she heard Taehyung say, "Go, and try it on. It looks good."

She turned to look at Taehyung, who gestured towards the dressing rooms. Yuri nodded excitedly, her eyes shining, which slightly amused him.

Yuri walked inside the dressing rooms, definitely sure that she wasn't buying it. A little try won't harm anyone, right?

She would also get to make her fantasy of wearing the dress a reality.

It was a win-win situation, according to Yuri.

When she looked at herself in the mirror after trying on the dress, her jaw dropped.

She looked so beautiful in the dress, that she herself was shocked.

The dress, which ended a bit above her knees, complimented her slim figure, hugging her slight curves in the most perfect way possible.

Her collarbones, a part of her body she was most confident about, was on full display, which delighted Yuri.

She just couldn't help but take a few pictures of herself in that gorgeous dress.

Taehyung, on the other side of the wall, was looking at different leather pouches, trying to choose one for his favourite gun.

Before he could choose one, a black leather coat a few racks away caught his eyes.

Taehyung mindlessly walked towards it, a single thought running through his mind, 'Yuri would love this.'

His hands reached out to touch the coat, but suddenly, a gunshot echoed in the store.

A few screams from the workers were heard, and the rack which had all the pouches Taehyung was previously looking at, fell down with a crash.

He widened his eyes and turned back to see that a bullet had knocked it over.

Taehyung's gut told him to bend over, and he did. A second later he felt the whoosh of a bullet flying above him.

Taehyung cursed loudly, and took shelter behind the racks, knowing full well who had done this.

They had been ambushed.

x x x

A / N

again, shorter chapter, but yeyyyy FINALLY some action jsjsjs
(This chapter was prewritten, and ready to be published like two months ago jsjsjs here y'all go :"))

the clothes incident is totally real, which is how I got the idea for it 🤡
it's sad that people now consider torn pieces of cloth as fashion sheesh

idk if gucci actually has a dress like that, or any of the clothing that I've mentioned, but it's a fictional story so let's pretend that it does :D

oh no they were ambushed! What's gonna happen next?!
(Pls I sound so dramatic rn lmfao)

The story shall finally begin to become interesting, and start showing it's true colours ksksks I'm so excitedddd

Vote, spam and comment, because I will get motivation to snatch y'all's wigs that way ;)

Ciao~

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