With the lights off inside the dance practice studio, it was midnight on December the 4th, Jin’s birthday. With Tae’s camera, he records everyone singing happy birthday. The lights come on, with Jimin revealing the candle lit birthday cake in front of Jin who comes in the room.

Blowing out the candles, J-Hope and the rest of the members start hitting on Jin while he tries to run away. Putting a finger in the cake, Jennie smears the icing right on Jin’s face. “Happy birthday, Jin!” She laughs

“Hyung, talk about your wishes.” Tae interviews him behind the camera.

“I was surprised when I came in.” Jin responds while being fed a piece a fruit by J-Hope.

“I’ll take that.” Jennie swipes the icing coated strawberry out of Tae’s hands in the video and bites into it with delight.

“Ah she stole my strawberry! Bad Jennie! Bad!” He tries to hit her but she runs away, giggling.
“The members are the best.” Jin says with a big smile.

After celebrating Jin’s birthday in the practice room, Jennie and the rest of the members finish the birthday cake and take a group photo to post on their Twitter account.

Jennie sat on the floor, posting a birthday shout out to Jin on their shared Twitter account.

“Jennie I need you to do me a favor.” Namjoon’s voice was heard as she looks up to see him handing her his phone. “Take a couple photos of me for my daily outfit.”

“Are you kidding me? I wanted to check out what’s going on our Twitter account!”

“The tweets aren’t going anywhere! Now come on.”

“You’re such a fart!” She stands up, taking his camera as he grins victoriously.

“Make sure you take a lot, not just one picture while I pose.” He adds, standing against the wall.

“Namjoon, I know how to take pictures.” She shakes her head in amusement and snaps away

---

‘Show Champion’
Before their performance, Jennie and Namjoon sat at a table to eat lunch together, eating some beef.

Eyeballing the biggest piece of beef, Jen makes her way to grab it, but clashes with another set of chopsticks. Looking up, she stares at Namjoon. “That piece was mine.”

“I saw it first.”

“I touched it first.”

“And I will eat it first.” He grabs it with his chopsticks but she counters, making him drop the beef. Before they knew it, they began to wrestle each other with their chopsticks for the piece.

“It’s mine!”

“No, it’s mine!”

“Get another piece!”

“You get another piece!”

Hearing a crunch sound, Jen looks down to see one of her chopsticks snapped. Both looking at it in shock, they both set down their chopsticks. “Dude! Are you kidding?” She fumes in English.

“Sorry!” He exclaims in English.

“How do you break metal chopsticks!? That’s not possible!”

“I dunno what happened!”

“Are you-AND YOU ATE THE BEEF I WANTED!?” She yells as he covers his mouth to stop his upcoming laughs while chewing.

After their shenanigans, and meal, Jennie leans against the wall, texting her sisters while Jimin starts recording for a Bangtan Bomb. She could hear Justin Timberlake’s Sexyback from his phone as she glances up to see what his plan was.

“Point one, you need to shake your hips a bit shamelessly.” He points out, shaking his hips. “Now slowly smile a little. Like this, naturally.”

A snort was heard from Jennie as she looks back at her phone. She’ll never get tired of the guys’ goofiness.

Jimin starts dancing around V who had his arms crosses. Before he knew it, V began to shake his hips along with Jimin. “Ah just like that! A little bit more shamelessly.” Jimin encourages.
V starts dancing away, making Jimin giggle. “He’s embarrassed.” He says to the camera

“I can’t dance sexily.” V replies.

“Lie!” Jennie’s voice was heard, as Jimin turns his attention to her. When she lifted her head back up from her phone, she was shocked to see Jimin even got Jungkook into it, and V gets back into it. “Oh-my goodness.”

She stiffs a laugh and replies to another text from her sisters. Meanwhile,the three guys in the Maknae line begin to turn to attention to Jennie. Shaking their hips shamelessly, they move travel to where she was standing.

Jennie looks up and raises a brow as Jimin slowly smiles. “Oh no. No, no, no.” She tries to walk around but V blocks her way as the three of them dance in front of her. Throwing her head back, she laughs. “Oh my god, sthap~” She buries her face in her hands.

“Join us ennie!” Jimin offers. Deciding to walk around, Jimin blocks her way, continuing to dance in front of her with Jungkook and V. “No escape!”

“I didn’t ask for this!”

“Join us~” V continues to ask.

“I have no choice don’t I?” She chuckles lightly. “Ugh! Fine. Move aside, I’ll show you show it’s done” She starts body rolling to the beat.

“Wow~! Look at the hips! So sexy~ so shameless~” Jimin praises.

---

After the show, BTS and Jen head back to the dorm, while Jin makes a shopping list. “Jennie, do you mind going shopping for me?” He requests.

“Sure. Anything in particular?” She asks.

“Yes. Here’s the list.”

Bundling up in her jacket, she tries to zipper it up but it ends up getting stuck. “Hey, Namjoon, you mind fixing my zipper? I can’t get it?”

“Yeah, sure. It’s probably stuck with the fabric again.” He takes a look, trying to zip it up. He starts to struggle and ends up popping the zipper off the coat. “Uh…it broke.” He chuckles nervously

“Aw, seriously?” She says with annoyance and makes her way to her room.

“Sorry!”
“This is the second thing you broke today.”
“I’ll make it up to you~”

After getting another jacket, she grabs her bag and heads to the door. “Jennie, you heading out?” Jungkook asks, already in his coat.
“Yeah, Jin wants me to go shopping for some food.”
“Can I come with you?”
“Yeah, why not? Let’s go.”
“Don’t be out too late!” Jin warns. “it shouldn’t take so long to get everything on the list.”

“We won’t!”

---

Arriving at the supermarket, Jungkook pushes the cart while Jen tries to look through her pockets for the list. “Where is it…?” She murmurs. “Jungkook do you have the list?”

“No. You mean to tell me you forgot the list?” He starts laughing

“I thought you had it!”

“I thought you did!”

“Oh-my goodness…”

“Oh-my goodness.” He mocks, earning a smack on the arm.

Taking out her phone, she calls Jin. After a few rings, he picks up. “Uh…Jin can you take a picture of the list? We forgot it.”

“YOU forgot it.” Jungkook says in the background, earning another punch on the arm.

“Jennie! Be more responsible. I’ll send it to you.” Jin hangs up. After a few seconds, the picture of the list was sent.

“All right, let’s go. Looks like he need spices first.” She confirms and they walk around. “You know, these carts are much smaller than what i’m used to in America.”
“They’re bigger?” He asks with interest.

“Much bigger."

---

‘To BTS’
Once Jungkook and Jennie had left, the members were in the living room watching TV, lounging around until they came back with the food so Jin could start dinner.

Fresh out the shower, Namjoon stretches and makes his way to the couch. “What are we watching?” He sits down on the couch, only to hear a loud crack noise. Everyone looks up at Namjoon as they freeze.

“Don’t tell me…” Suga sighs. Namjoon stands up, making Hobi, Jimin and Tae scream in horror.

“AHHH WHAT DID YOU DO!?” Hobi screams, waving his arms around in panic.

“I-I didn’t mean it!” Namjoon stammers, trying to explain himself. “It’s probably fine!” He opens up the laptop and turns it on. Only to be welcomed with a very cracked screen while the guys look at it with fear.

“Ahh…Namjoon you’re going to die today. Yoongi, congratulations on being the new leader of BTS! Because after today, we’re going to have to plan Namjoon’s funeral.” Jimin whines, scared for him.

“Well…Jennie is gonna obliterate you when she finds out…” Yoongi declares in a blunt tone, chuckling to himself.

“Shit. Shit, don’t tell her! I got it handled!” Namjoon grabs the laptop and dashes out the door, making his way to a nearby Apple Store.

---

After 30 minutes, Jennie and Jungkook arrive back to the dorm with a bunch of bags.
“F-F-F-F-F-FIVE bags of snacks?” Jin’s voice gets high as he widens his eyes. “Wher-where are my ingredients and the food I put on the list?”

“Oh, it’s there.” Jen grins sheepishly.

“JENNIE! JUNGKOOK!” He starts lecturing them while Jimin laughs at them getting scolded.
After the lecture, Jennie walks around, trying to find her laptop. “Hey have you guys seen my laptop?? I can’t find it anywhere.”

“Nah, haven’t seen it.” Yoongi replies while Namjoon arrives back to the dorm.

“H-hey Jennie, how are you? I brought you some pizza. Consider it me paying you back because I ate the beef.”

“Ooh, food, thank you!” She happily accepts. “Oh, have you seen my laptop? I can’t find it anywhere?”

“No not at all. Did you check your room?” Namjoon keeps a straight face as she walks to her room.

“So where’s the laptop?” Hobi questions while Namjoon sighs and sits down on the couch.

“It’s getting repaired, right now.”

“What happened?” Jungkook raises a brow.

“Hehehehe, Hyung sat on Ennie’s laptop and cracked the screen.” Jimin explains, making Jungkook laugh.

“You’re dead, Hyung!”

“Shut up, kid!” Namjoon hushes him.

“I don’t see it.” Jennie’s voice is heard as she sits with them on the couch.

“Aw, nice glasses! Where’d you get them?” Namjoon tries to distract her from thinking about the laptop. He couldn’t help but see a pair of fake glasses on her shirt.

“Oh I couldn’t resist buying a pair of fake glasses when we walked past a store.”

“Let me check them out.” He takes the glasses and examines them. But as soon as he tries to open them, he accidentally breaks them.

“Wow…” Yoongi shakes his head.

“DUDE! I just got these!” Jennie yells, shaking him. “Why do you keep breaking everything? What’s next?!”

“Aish, i’m sorry!” Namjoon pleads forgiveness.

---

The next morning, Jennie was in the kitchen, eating a bowl a cereal, when she watches Namjoon coming through the door with an apple bag. “…Why do you have an apple bag?” She questions, making him jump.

“O-oh! Jennie, you’re here. I thought you would be chilling in your room.”

“Is that my laptop in there?”

“U-uh no, I brought a new phone.”

“A new iPhone isn’t that wide. It’s a laptop, isn’t it?”

“Okay, yes, it’s a laptop. I brought myself a new laptop-”

“You broke my laptop, didn’t you?” She narrows her eyes.

“Why would you say that?” He laughs nervously.

“Because Jungkook told me.”

“Aish…that kid…he can never keep secrets.” He sighs. “L-Look Jennie, I’m sorry, I-I got it repaired!”

“You lied to me.” She stands up.

“I said I was sorry!” He starts running around the dorm, as she chases him around.

---

After beating up Namjoon with pillows, she forgives him and thanks him for going to the store to get her laptop repaired, laughing at how he complained about getting beaten up and then thanked.

Laying down in her room, Jen spent the rest of the day, playing on her phone and catching up with her family. As soon as she was done talking to her mom, she gets a facetime call from Tae. Answering it quickly, she replies, “Tae, I’m just in my room. You could have just visited me in my room, haha.”

“OKAY!” He yells and ends the call. Seconds later, he barges in and dives on the bed, making her shriek. She groans as soon as he lands on top of her.

“A warning would’ve been nice!” She pushes him off her, while he giggles.

“Let’s watch some anime!”
“Anime? I don’t really watch anime.”

“Well you will tonight! Let’s watch…Dragon Ball Z.”

“I heard of that. Okay, let’s watch it.” She opens up her brand new laptop and lets V go on the website. Watching with interest, she asks him questions like who was who, what was going on and who was his favorite character. He got her hooked and they planned to continue watching anime together when they had the time.

---

They managed to watch a bunch of episodes of Dragon Ball Z and before they knew it, it was night time. Tae decided to turn in for the night, going back to his room. Checking the time, it was past 12AM but she wasn’t sleepy at all, as she continued searching the web, finding random computer games. Feeling her phone buzz, she looks at it to see a text from Jungkook.

‘U Awake?’

Jennie texts back, ‘Yep! This better be good! :P’

‘I can’t sleep :(’

‘Me either. What do you want to do?’

‘Video games?’

‘We may wake up the other members’

Still in his casual clothes, Jungkook comes into her room, turning on her light. “You wanna walk around outside? I’m so bored here.” He suggests.

Liking the idea, she gets out of bed and grabs her jacket. “Yeah! Let’s go.”

“Make sure to keep quiet so we won’t wake up the hyungs.” He whispers. “Here, wear my beanie.” He places the beanie on her head, patting it and adjusting it before he nods in approval. “Make sure your ears are warm.”

“What about you?”

“I have another.” He smiles and puts one on. “Let’s go.” They both quietly leave her room.

Jungkook rolls across the living room like a ninja, looking both ways to see if the coast was clear while Jen laughs silently at his goofiness. Opening the front door for her, they manage to sneak out successfully.
“So, what do you want to do?” She asks as they walk together, enjoying the night.
“Actually, can we get some ice cream?” He offers.

“We can get ice cream this late at night?”

“Yeah!”

“All right, Iead the way.”

“Great. Come on. I know a place.” He takes her to a near by shop.

“I actually like eating ice cream in the cold weather. I’ll never get tired of it.”
“Me too.”

---

Once they get ice cream cups, they walk around before sitting on a park bench, watching the stars.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you something.” Jungkook speaks up after eating a spoonful of his vanilla ice cream.

“What’s up?”

“Do you…miss home?”

“I would be lying if I said I didn’t.”

“You really miss your family, huh?”

She nods. “I always try to contact them, whenever I can. But being with you guys…it helps a lot because you all are my family, too.” She says in a genuine voice.

Grinning, Jungkook nudges her. “You’re our family, too. And I’ll take a scoop of that, thank you very much.” He manages to take a spoonful of her chocolate ice cream.

“Hey! Mine!” She nudges him back while he eat the spoonful. He laughs at her and continues to dig into his own ice cream. “I really love it, here. Thanks for taking me out, tonight. I’ve been so engrossed with our performances, I haven’t been paying attention to how nice our surroundings are.”

“I’ll make sure to show you around more when we have free time.” He promises.

“Looking forward to it.”

After they finish their ice cream, they continue to look at the stars at night, in a comfortable silence.

“Ah, before I forget again…I keep forgetting to give you this.” He stands up and searches in his pocket, taking out two black rings. “I was going to give it to you on your birthday, but they weren’t ready yet, when I went to get them. They’re friendship rings. I wanted us to have them.” He happily presents them to her.

Surprised and looking at it in awe, she stands up and takes the one he gives her which had his name engraved in it. ‘Jungkook’s Best Friend’ while he had her name engraved on his ring, saying ‘Jennie’s Best Friend’

“I hope it’s not too cheesy.” He lets out a short laugh.

“Are you giving me this so Jimin and Tae can stop claiming me as their best friend?” She narrows her eyes playfully.

“Maybe…” He looks around.

Laughing, she puts the ring on her right index finger. “Wow. I love it. Thanks, Kookie. Really. You’re so nice to me.”

“Well you’re always nice to me. The reason I wanted to give this to you is…well, I just really appreciate you always being there for me. I love goofing around with you and playing video games with you. And as you know, I’m always shy, but I’m always comfortable around you. You make me feel at ease and happy. Jennie, I cherish you and our friendship. And I hope you feel the same about me being your best friend.”

“Kookie, why are you trying to make me cry, right now? Get over here.” She wraps her arms around his neck, squeezing him tightly. One thing she would never get tired of was hugging him because his hugs were always so warm. “Of course I feel the same. I cherish you, too, you dork.” She lets out a laugh.

“Glad to hear.”

---

Once they quietly arrive back to the dorm, they see Jin sitting on the couch, watching TV, clearly waiting for the both of them. “And where have you kids been?”

“I swear he has father senses. How did you even know we were gone!?” Jennie exclaims.

“Mama Jin always knows.” He smiles. “Go to bed! I was planning on making Korean Beef tonight. No beef for you two.”

“Aish…really?” Jungkook sighs.

“Oh come on!” Jennie whines.

Despite their protests, they head off to bed. Jennie gets under her covers and sends Jungkook a quick text.

‘Sorry that we got caught :(’

‘Don’t worry about it. Hanging out with you was worth it. :)’

‘It really was tho! :D’

‘Good night Jennie :D’

‘’Night Kookie! :D’

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