Stay With Us

Jimin’s POV

Maranda didn’t seem to remember most of last night. Which was a good thing. I got carried away on the dancefloor and I couldn’t help but touch her when I helped with her dress. I walked into the kitchen seeing everyone else in there. I sat down laying my head back.

“So what happened with you two last night?” V asked me.

“We just danced.” I said looking over at him.

“Did anyone hit on her? She was pretty drunk.”

“No. She was with me the whole time.”

“Good I didn’t see where you guys went.” Good he didn’t see us then. “Suga went to find you guys at one point for us right before the DJ said last call. He couldn’t find you either.”

“Yeah. I couldn’t find you guys.” He said looking at me with a disapproving look. He knew something.

We all sat in silence for the rest of the morning. One by one everyone went back to bed. It was down to just me and Suga. I stood up from my seat. “I guess I’m gonna go back to bed too.”

“Sit down.” He said in an authoritative voice.

He knew. I did as instructed.

“What the hell were you thinking last night? What would you have done if V caught you guys out there? You of all people should know how much he cares about her. And for him to find his best friend with his hands all over the girl he considers a sister.”

“I know. I wasn’t thinking.” I say putting my head down.

“What all have you two done? And don’t you dare try and lie to me.”

I breathe in sharply. “Well nothing happened when I took her to see Seoul. I did buy her dinner but that was because I knew V would have bought it if he was there. But when we first left and were waiting at the bus stop she had told me about this time she was in Busan and had left her bunny at my parent’s café. We didn’t know each other and I don’t think V even remembers it. Well I still had the bunny. It was in the trunk in my room so I put it in a bag then put the bag on her bed while she wasn’t in there. We danced together at the studio for a few hours. She thanked me for her bunny. Went to the cafeteria to eat. She yelled at me for trying to pay for her again and ended up she paid for both of us. I brought her home. Called the choreographers. By the time I was off the phone and went to tell her she was asleep. She was snuggled in bed with the bunny with her head phones in.”

“What happened after we got back from the club?” He asked knowing I left out something.

“V and I took her to her room. After V left I said good night and turned to leave too. But she stopped me asking to unzip her dress for her.” I paused looking up at him. “And I did.”

“Jimin.” He says breathing out. “You know I don’t like having to act like a dad.” He said looking over at me. “How do you actually feel about her?”

“She is awesome. I can’t stop thinking about her and when I’m with her I lose track of time. I really do have feelings for her. And I think she is starting to too.”

“What do you mean? What did she do?”

“When she was asleep and had her head phones in. She was listening to my song on repeat. And last night after the dress. She turned around stepping into me. I wanted to kiss her so bad but I left and went to my room.”

“If you think anything is going to happen you need to talk to V.”

“Are you going to say anything to him?”

“No. But you need to.”

“I don’t think she remembers dancing last night or the dress incident. I’m just going to keep my distance.”

“Alright. But don’t do anything stupid.” He says standing up and going to bed.

I decide to go back to bed too.

Maranda’s POV

I woke up the next morning no longer feeling hung over. I went into the practice room the guys had in their dorm and started dancing. I needed to get ready for tomorrow. I was in there for a few hours till I heard a knock on the wall by the door. I turn to see Tae standing there watching
me.

“Hey.” I say turning off the music. “What’s up?”

“Let’s go grab lunch. We haven’t actually done anything together since you got here.”

“Ok! I’m gonna go shower.” I say gathering my stuff.

I get dressed then meet Tae in the living room. “Ready?” He asked seeing me walk in.

“Yep! Where are we going?” I ask as we walk out the door.

“There’s a really good Chinese place down the street.” He says pointing. I follow him to the restaurant. “So how do you like living here?”

“I love it Tae. I really do owe you guys for letting me stay with you.”

“No you don’t we love having you. I don’t think I have seen Suga stay up passed 11:00 without being forced ever!” We both laugh. We get seated by a window. The host took our drink order before leaving.

We are both looking over the menu when Tae speaks up again. “I’m sorry I haven’t been around much the last few days. I feel really shitty about that.”

“You had to work it’s no big deal.”

“Has Jimin done well at keeping you company?”

I feel butterflies in my stomach from the mention of his name. I was glad the menu was covering my face cause I could tell I was blushing too. “Yes he has been really good to me.”

“I figured. Jimin is a really good guy. He always thinks of other people.”

The waiter comes back with our drinks and takes our food order. We start talking about our family and catching each other up on different things that have been happening. Once we finish lunch and paid we went back to the dorm.

We were hanging out in my room when I noticed Tae had fallen asleep in my bed. I didn’t want to bother him so I went to the practice room again grabbing my IPod as I walked out. I hear music is playing in there already and open the door to see Jimin practicing. I stood there watching him. When the song was over he turned around seeing me standing there watching him.

“That looks really good.” I say walking in to set my stuff down.

He gets a nervous look on his face. “Thanks. I’ll leave you alone to practice.” He says gathering his stuff.

“No! Stay. I could use your help. You know these dances better than anybody.” He looks over at me trying to decide what to do. I could tell he was being reminded of something. “Are you ok?” I ask worried now.

“Yeah I’m fine.” He says pushing his hair back.

“If you don’t want to stay you don’t have to.” I say plugging in my IPod.

I hear him mumbling something but couldn’t make out what it was. Did I do something wrong? Was it the dress? I go back over everything in my head. I then hear him put his things back down and walk over picking a song.

We danced for about three hours and we were both getting tired. “One more. Then we can call it a day.” I say out of breath.

“What song do you want?” He asks going over to my IPod.

“Just put it on shuffle and we’ll do whatever it is.” I hear Beautiful start to play and thanked God that it was a slow song. During the last turn in the song I lost my footing and ending up falling into Jimins arms. We both stood frozen looking at each other.

I could feel the butterflies in my stomach again as we both started to blush. I snaked my arms around his neck when I felt his hands move to my sides. He looked down at my lips mentally arguing with himself. I continued to look at him waiting for him to decide to kiss me.

I started to say something when I felt his lips crash against mine. I pulled myself into him more running my fingers in his sweat soaked hair. He finally broke the kiss realizing what he had just done.

He let go of me picking up his stuff and heading for the door. “Jimin wait.” I say grabbing his arm. “I wanted you to.”

“Maranda we can’t do this.” He says turning to face me. “V is my best friend. I can’t do this to him.”

“I know. But I want to be with you. I haven’t felt this way about someone in a long time. He will understand.”

“And if he doesn’t?”

“Then we make him understand. Jimin please don’t walk away from this. From me.”

He reaches over tucking a piece of hair behind my ear. Then pulls me into another slow kiss.

“Don’t say anything yet.” I tell him after. “It needs to come from me. And I want to feel him out first.”

“Ok. I won’t say anything. But you should know. Suga saw us dancing the other night at the club and the way we were dancing he figured it out.”

“I know about how we were dancing.” I admit to him. “And I remember you unzipping my dress. I didn’t want to say anything so it didn’t seem weird between us.” I then remember where I had left Tae. “He is in my room asleep. I better go before he wakes up to come look for me.” I say walking over to grab my IPod. “I’ll see you at dinner?” I ask him smiling up at him.

“Yeah. I’ll see you there.” He bends down kissing my forehead.

I walk in my room seeing Tae still asleep on my bed. I go over and pinch his nose waking him up.

“What?” He asks rolling over. “You stink.”

“I was in the practice room.” I say flopping onto my bed. “Tae. Would you tell Dad if I met someone while I was here?”

“What!?!” He asks turning to face me. “What are you talking about you met someone?”

I give him the ‘calm down Satan’ look. “No. What I’m asking is if I did. Would you tell Dad and send me back home? I’m trying to start my life over here and I want to make sure you aren’t going to freak out if something big like that happens. And I know dad said if I do anything stupid you are to send me back.”

“Well Maranda, you just got here. I don’t want you to let some mythical guy get in the way of your career. You’re smarter than that.” He then got off the bed to leave the room. “Dinner is going to be done soon. Go take a shower.”

I take that as a yes. I’m sending you home because you are being stupid. I go take my shower then getting dressed before going to eat with everyone. I sat down between Tae and Jimin. I see the look Suga is giving me. Jimin must have told him what happened. He didn’t seem mad. Just unapprovingly. We all had casual conversation. Anytime I passed anything to Jimin or he would give me something we would touch the other persons hand.

We all went to bed after dinner. After an hour I text Jimin to see if he was still awake.

Jimin’s POV

I see my phone light up and reach over to see what it was. Message from Maranda.

“Are you awake?”

“Yeah. Can’t stop thinking about you. :-)”

“Lol.” “I tried talking to Tae. I’m worried he is going to send me back home. He thinks it is stupid for me to let a ‘mythical guy’ get in the way of my career.”

I think for a moment before messaging back. “So are we not going to do this?”

“No! We are. I want to still be with you. We just shouldn’t tell him yet.”

“I don’t like keeping this from him.”

“I don’t either :-( but I don’t want him to send me away.”

She was right. He would pack her up and have her on a plane before anyone would find out she was gone.

“Did you fall asleep?” She texts me because of how long I was taking.

“No. You’re right. We shouldn’t tell him yet.”

“I’m going to try to get some sleep. Don’t forget me tomorrow! It’s my first day! Goodnight.”

“Goodnight Jagiya. I won’t forget you.” I set my phone back down then rolling over to go to sleep.

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