Days Thereafter

The rest of the week we have a hard time keeping our hands off of each other. His hand is always on the small of my back or resting around my hips or just intertwined with mine. I like playing with his hair and giving him back rubs. We both know this is only going to last for a little while because of his new promotions for the album. The rest of the members to complain anymore after that one day. It still makes me blush a little just thinking about it. I don’t have to wear the sling anymore but I have to do a lot of stretches and be careful with my arm, and my leg. The bruising is still a little purple but more green and yellow.

When it’s time for bed we both just snuggle together and maybe talk if we have anything on our minds. It’s peaceful and it makes me feel safe. It feels like home.
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I wake up to find all of the boys gone. I let out a loud groan and stretch my arms and legs as far as they can go.

It’s too quiet. I miss hearing J-Hope’s laugh already, and the sound of Jin’s cooking.

I turn to look at Jimin’s side of the bed and see a note.

“Jagi! I hope you slept well! It’s time to shoot our new MV so don’t wait for us for dinner. I’m sorry you’re going to be alone all day, but I’ll call you at lunchtime, dinnertime and before bed! And don’t go anywhere! You’re still not well enough for that!”

I’m going to be alone all day? I groan but I understand. I get up and head into the kitchen.

Looks like I’m making my own breakfast this morning. I make pancakes and eat them faster than they existed, and then just sit on the sofa and stare out the window.

I really don’t have anything to do… At that moment I get a phone call.

“Yoboseyo?”

“What? I don’t know korean! Speak english!” I look down at my phone in confusion.

I don’t know this number…

“Can I ask who you are?” I question

“WOW! It’s only been like two months and you can’t recognize your bestfriends voice?! Shows how much you care about me!”

“Megan? This is you? When did you get a new number?”

“Yes it’s me! And Connor had to buy one for me since he broke my last one, which you would know if you bothered to call us anymore, anyways I need you to come get me!”

“Okay, now I’m confused, are you drunk? I’m in Korea -”

“Duh, I’m here too you idiot! I’m at the Incheon airport.” She cuts me off

I sit there stunned.

“You’re here?”

“YES! Now are you coming?”

“Yea! I’ll be there in about 45 minutes!” The thought of having my best friend here with me make me extremely happy. I hurry to dress and call a cab.
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We arrive and I see her standing by the curb waving her arms wildly.

It’s really her, my dork. Seeing her makes a great wave of homesickness wash over me. As soon as the cab stops I rip the door open and fly towards her. We collide with each other, our arms wrapped tight. We stay that way for a minute until I start to feel her body shaking.

“Are you crying?” I pull back and see tears running from behind her sunglasses

“I missed you a lot, of course I’m crying! Why aren’t you crying? Didn’t you miss me?” She makes a pouty face.

“Of course I missed you! You’re a part of me! How can I be a complete dork if my best friend isn’t here?” I laugh. She joins in for a bit, then looks serious and points at me.

“Where did you get that necklace?” My hand comes up and embraces the pearl that hangs from the delicate chain.

“It was a gift…” I mumble turning away. Holy Crap she caught on to that fast.

“It’s him! Isn’t it? That hot guy! Jimin! Did he give that to you? Are you guys dating? Did he get it in yet?” She starts barraging me with all these questions, and no time to answer, plus she was getting a too loud and people started to look over at us.

Yup, here it is, the embarrassment, and now I’m blushing. I mentally facepalm myself and put my hand on her arm.

“Oh my God! Megan! Stop! I will tell you everything when we get home.” That seems to make her happy.

She grabs her luggage and puts it into the trunk of the cab. The whole ride home I listen to her stories about the past two months. Its just mostly stories about her and Connor being all romantic. When we get back the apartment I help her lug her stuff to our floor.

We sit it by my stuff in the living room and plop onto the couches.

“Okay, spill.” She looks at me.

“Well, after that call- no, your call actually interrupted something that was about to happen.” I give her the death glare. She squeals and just keeps her attention focused on me.

“That didn’t end up happening but then he confessed that he liked me.” We both start squealing and going crazy.

“That’s great! Obviously you said you liked him and now you’re both dating, give me more details.”

I decide to tell her about my attack, she is my best friend and its nice being able to tell someone I’m familiar with. It’s easy to tell her about how scared I was and how much pain I was in. I stop when I notice that she’s crying.

“What’s wrong?”

“You should have told us when it happened! Why didn’t you say anything?”

“I didn't want you guys to worry. I’m sorry.” I really do feel sorry, I should have told my family as soon as everything happened. They don’t know really anything because I haven’t called in so long.

“You don’t call home anymore either. Do you plan on being here for a while?”

This is it. The question I've been avoiding myself. I let out a sigh and push my hair out of my face.

“I don’t know. I don’t know how long I’m staying. Despite the story I just told you, better things have happened. Jimin and I are in a committed relationship and everything’s getting really serious.” This sparks her interest even more.

“Oh! Well get on with the storytelling!” I tell her about how much closer we got in the hospital and that he asked me to move in. I told her about the restaurant date and the necklace and only a hinted at our night together. A hint was all she needed. She was squealing and jumping in her seat.

“MY BEST FRIEND IS NO LONGER A VIRGIN!” She crows

“SHUT UP BEFORE THE NEIGHBORS COMPLAIN!” We both laugh and just hang out for the rest of the day.

I take her to Hongdae for shopping and eating out. Since she knows about my injuries she makes sure to act like my mom, worrying about me and scolding me if she thinks I’m trying to do too much.

We stay out till it gets really dark. We go to one of the tent shops and order tteokbokki.

This is perfect. This is just what I needed.

We head home laughing and happier than we've been in a while. We walk through the door still chattering away.

“Yah! What did I tell you!” Jimin runs up and embraces me.

“I told you to stay here!” He looks at me then at Megan.

“Oh it’s you!” He clears his throat then extends his hand.

“Hi, my name is… Jimin, it’s bery nice to meet you.” I smile at his english, and just give him a tight hug.

Now there’s another person I love here with me.

Notes

Sorry this chapter is a bit slow! I'm working more on the plot!