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| 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮. |

"Is he up there? He hasn't been kidnapped, right?"

Hoseok, who was sitting on the dining table, asked Yoongi, who had just come downstairs.

"Yeah, he's sleeping in his room. . ." Yoongi muttered distractedly, "with Yuri."

Hoseok happened to be drinking orange juice at the moment, and, upon hearing the older, immediately spat it all out, coughing violently.

"Sleeping with Yuri? Oh my God, do you think they're fu—"

"No, they were just cuddling when I went up," Yoongi said, scrunching his eyebrows, "but, I wouldn't really be surprised if they do turn out to be a thing."

Hoseok thought he heard a bitter edge to Yoongi's tone.

"I wouldn't be so sure about it, though," Hoseok said, recalling the incident he had accidentally seen a couple nights ago.

"Yeah? What makes you say that?" Yoongi sat down on the table, opposite to Hoseok, grabbing a tangerine and peeling it.

"The other night, when Tae got injured, I saw Yuri come out of the medical room crying. I was of course worried, so I went inside the room to check on Tae, and found him looking really pissed. When I enquired about it, he just brushed it off. I think they had a serious fall-out," Hoseok ended solemnly.

"Really?" Yoongi popped a tangerine segment in his mouth. "Why were they cuddling now, then?"

"How am I supposed to know? I just relayed what I saw. It really looked very serious," Hoseok said, using tissues to clean the mess he had made.

"Well, they were alone last night, without anyone around them. Maybe something happened and they made up." Yoongi smiled a little.

"Oh gosh, Tae has really grown up, hasn't he?" Hoseok sounded like a parent who was watching his child grow up very quickly. 

"Very nicely, I must add. We're extremely good hyungs," Yoongi added proudly.

"I think Mr. Kim would be happy to see Taehyung growing up like this. I wonder what he would've said if he were here."

"Mr. Kim? I'm gonna assume you're not talking about Tae's father."

"No, dummy, I'm talking about the man who gave Taehyung's responsibility to us. From what I could make out, he's a Kim, like Taehyung."

"I think he was Taehyung's cousin or someone. He took very good care of him before we came into the scene."

Hoseok hummed in agreement. "I don't know why he couldn't show us his face, though."

"Use some sense, Hobi, he must've been a part of an extremely strong Mafia too, and had to maintain secrecy."

"Probably," Hoseok said, jumping in his seat when the front door suddenly opened loudly. Swiftly, both men turned towards the direction of the sound, grabbing whatever they could lay their hands on, to use as weapons.

Hoseok ended up using the heavy tissue box as a shield. Yoongi held out his remaining tangerine segments in front of him, fully ready to squeeze the citrus juice into the invaders eyes if he had to.

When Yoongi heard a soft curse, he got up, prowling towards the source of the noise, gesturing Hoseok to stay quiet. He slowly moved in the shadows, until he found the invader.

Reflexes kicking in, Yoongi immediately rushed forward and pushed the invader into the wall, hands held above their head.

A feminine scream echoed in his ears, causing him to snap away, and realise that the invader was none other than Mina.

"You," Yoongi breathed out, distaste coating his voice and face features.

"Mina!"

Hoseok came into sight, a long pole in his hand, which he dropped upon seeing their position. Yoongi realised this, and quickly let her go, taking three steps backwards.

Mina let out the breath she didn't know she was holding in.

She had definitely not expected to run into them, especially not like this, with Yoongi. Still standing against the wall he had slammed her against, she tried to calm her furiously beating heart.

"Well, that was uncalled for," she tried joking, but faltered when she saw Yoongi's scowl deepen.

"Don't sneak around like that. Shady behaviour like that attracts suspicion," Yoongi said blankly, but Hoseok felt that his words had other intentions too.

"I thought everyone would be sleeping right now, and didn't wanna disturb anyone. Hence why I was 'sneaking around'," Mina explained.

"It's almost noon," Yoongi deadpanned.

"Well," she started defensively, "you're the one who sleeps until lunchtime, unless woken up earlier. Don't get mad at me for trying to be considerate."

"Considerate, my āss," Yoongi scoffed.

Hoseok didn't know how to react to the drama taking place in front of him, so he resorted to coughing a little to catch Mina's attention. "Have you eaten anything, Mina?"

Mina turned to look at Hoseok, the anger on her face subsiding a little at his concern. She smiled, and nodded. "Yeah, I had some food before coming here."

"Okay, that's good. I'll, uh, get going. Need to shower before leaving for work." With that, Hoseok heaved a sigh of relief as he left the two alone, away from the suffocating tension.

After a good ten seconds, Mina broke the silence. "Well, I'll get going too, now, see ya."

Yoongi raised his eyebrows, before saying, "Oh, no, no, not so fast, darling."

He grabbed Mina, who was trying to escape, and pulled her back towards him. He then slammed her against the wall for the second time within a span of five minutes.

Mina closed her eyes, knowing what was coming for her.

"Now, I'm gonna ask you one time, nicely; where did you go?"

Mina stayed silent, her eyes still closed, but she did flinch when she felt Yoongi push himself closer to her, bringing his mouth near her ear.

"I asked," he growled into her ear, causing shivers to go down her spine, "where did you go?"

"Out. For personal purposes I see no reason for you to know," Mina finally spoke, opening her eyes, to look at the wall on the other side of the hall.

Yoongi's unique fragrance, a mix of his soap, tangerines, and body scent, entered Mina's nose. She absolutely loved the smell.

It gave her a feeling of being safe, and reassurance that when Yoongi was around, nothing could harm her.

Right now, however, she felt exposed. She couldn't fall into his trance, she had to remain focused. She had a role to play, and she would do it without any errors.

'Yoongi cannot know anything yet.'

"I'm not a fool, okay? You think I haven't been noticing you sneaking out every night, and coming back in the morning, and even leaving the house during the day? Was all that also for 'personal purposes'?" Yoongi asked mockingly.

Mina stayed silent, still refusing to look at Yoongi.

He clearly noticed this, because, the next moment, he brought up his hand towards Mina's face, who immediately flinched, assuming that he was going to slap her.

Yoongi, however, kept hovering his hand in front of her face.

With excruciatingly slow movements, Yoongi touched her face gently, moving her face till her eyes met his. Anger was present in his brown orbs, but it was mixed with sadness and helplessness.

Mina couldn't understand why Yoongi was being so gentle, when less than two minutes ago he was pouncing on her with aggression.

How was she supposed to know that Yoongi still cared?

How could she know that Yoongi still cried himself to sleep, with her scarf wrapped around him, just because he couldn't fall asleep without a fragment of her with him?

How would she know that Yoongi would rather kill himself than intentionally hurt or cause any harm to the love of his life?

How could Mina know that Yoongi still loved her, despite her breaking his heart in a thousand different ways?

Mina didn't know all that, but she couldn't help but feel guilty when she saw the sadness in his eyes. She opened her mouth to say something, but immediately closed it.

Yoongi steeled himself, trying to make up for his moment of weakness. The look in his eyes shifted; it was only anger now.

"If you have been going where I think you've been going, it's not gonna end well for you," he said, mustering as much ferocity as he could.

In a moment of anger, Mina burst out, "So what if I did? What are you gonna do about it, huh?"

Yoongi glared into her brown irises which were beautifully specked with caramel-coloured spots.

As much as he loved her, Yoongi couldn't just stand by, and not do anything to stop Mina from destroying his life.

He had given up on trying to convince her to stop it, because she seemed adamant that she couldn't destroy her life by stopping.

"Right now, nothing. Next time, if I catch you sneaking out once again, I'll have no choice but to take action. Till now, I haven't told anyone anything, thinking that you would get some sense into your head and realise how foolish you are being. But, I've had it. I'm not gonna stay quiet anymore. Rethink your decisions, it's still not too late," Yoongi said stoically, moving backwards.

With each word that came out of Yoongi's mouth, Mina's anger grew more and more.

"You do not control my life! You cannot tell me what to do, and what not to do, so stop interfering in my life!" Mina shouted angrily.

"This aspect of your life involves me too. So, I believe that I do have a say in this. Don't make me regret everything that happened between us," he said calmly, before walking out of sight.

Mina stared after Yoongi, his calm demeanour, and his words, angering her beyond belief. She let out a guttural roar, before falling on the floor, crying.

She kept crying there, hitting herself, wondering what she had ever done to deserve all this stress and misery.

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A / N

well!
I love how this chapter turned out hshshs

so much happened here sjsjs who do y'all think Mr. Kim is? (hint, it's a BTS member lmfao, now choose between NamJin)

We finally got Yoongi action in the story, woohoo, and oop Yoongi and Mina👀
I hope that scene was emotional

I felt as if this was a needed chapter, because till now, all the focus has been on Tae and Yuri, so now, here's focus on the side characters aka Yoongi, Hobi, and Mina

ps, this Mina isn't from Twice, but y'all can imagine her like that if you want to haha

the next update will not be published next week, but the week after. It's a very long chapter, so I hope you guys can wait for one extra week. The reason I'm doing this, is because Ramadan is starting soon, and I won't be able to write more chapters, so I wanna take my time publishing the prewritten ones. I hope y'all understand <3

(but, again, I'm super indecisive, so I may change my mind ksksk)

Vote comment and spam if y'all want to know what exactly happened between Mina and Yoongi

Ciao~

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