You're Different

Yoongi’s POV

I was going through everything in my closet trying to figure something out to wear. I didn’t think it should be too flashy like I sometimes wear. I finally decided on a white button down, black tie, and slacks. Just in case it got cold out I grabbed a black jacket then going over to the mirror to fix my hair.

Jin then walks into our bedroom. “Ready for tonight?” He asks sitting on the end of his bed.

“Yeah. Just gonna go to a Korean BBQ place then take her to Big Hit to show her my studio.” I say putting on eye liner.

“Sounds like a good plan. How far does she live?”

“Far.” I say laughing. “Pyeongchang-dong district.” I say huffing. “She isn’t going to want to do it again. Her life is already so upscale.” I turn around falling on my back onto Jin’s bed next to him.

“Hey! You’re going to mess up your hair and clothes get up.” He says standing to pull me off the bed. “Don’t take this the wrong way. But she works as a waitress at a small café. I don’t think she cares when it comes to riches.” He says reassuringly. “Now come on. Go have a good time.” He then pushes me out of our room.

I grab my keys heading out the door. The drive felt like a lifetime. It was only thirty minutes but it felt like thirty days. I realized I still had five minutes till I was supposed to pick her up so I waited in the car going through everything that was planned tonight. I checked my wallet again for the hundredth time, checked my hair, and redid my tie.

I get out of the car walking up to the house. Come on Yoongi. You don’t get nervous. You’ve got this.

I rang the doorbell waiting for her to answer. I was not expecting who did answer the door. It was Daesung from Big Bang. I took a step back surprised. He seemed just as shocked as I was. I glanced at the house number making sure it was the right one.

“Um.” I say nervously. “Does Maranda live here? I was picking her up for a date.”

“Yeah she is on her way down.” He says still staring at me shocked.

So this is her brother. No wonder she didn’t want me to know. At first that is. Why would she go through all of that and then have him answer the door?

She then walks around Daesung smiling at me. “Ready?” She asked

“Yeah.” I say nervously.

I start to lead her to the car as she says bye to Daesung.

Maranda’s POV

Yoongi opened the car door for me to get in carefully shutting it. “So how do you feel about Korean BBQ?” He asks getting in the driver’s seat.

“I love it!” I say excitedly. I started questioning if he was going to say anything or not about Dae answering the door but it seemed like he wasn’t.

“You look really nice tonight.” He said trying to break the silence as he drove to the restaurant.

“Thank you. So do you.” I said smiling.

We get to the restaurant and he comes over opening my door for me. We were seated as soon as we walked into the door. That I was used to by now. He pulled my chair out for me as I sat down before going to his. The waitress took our drink order before leaving. We both decided on Soju.

He picked up the menu looking at the meat options. “Do you want marinade or plain beef?”

“Marinade for sure!” I say picking up mine. “And their pork belly is really good here.”

“You come here often?” He asked sounding nervous.

“A few times. This is one of my brother’s favorite places.” I say glancing up at him.

He gets almost a worried look on his face. “Do you want to go somewhere else then? I didn’t realize I picked something you came to a lot.”

“No! Really, I love this place too.” I say smiling at him reassuringly.

The waitress comes back with our drinks and the side items putting them around our table. Yoongi ordered the marinade beef and pork belly for us while I poured his drink. He reached over grabbing my bottle then poured mine for me.

“So how long have you lived in Seoul?” He asked putting down my bottle.

“About four years. I moved here after I graduated high school.”

“Do you like it or do you miss home?”

“I like it. It’s a little busy sometimes but I wanted to have more of an adventure.”

When the waitress came back over she asked if we wanted her to cook the meat for us. He objected saying he was more than capable of doing it. She put in the pan for the beef before leaving.

“How is your work going?” I asked him as he started putting the meat on the pan.

“Good. Been working on a few new tracks. That’s what I was doing at the coffee shop the other day. My manager thought it would help getting out of my studio.” He says laughing.

“Did it?” I asked taking a sip of my Soju.

“A little. I got a few different ideas but nothing for what I was supposed to work on.”
We both laughed at that. We continued talking about his work through dinner. He seemed to like that I understood how it all went. We didn’t have to ask the waitress to switch our pans for us which was nice. As soon as she saw we were finished with the beef she brought over the one for the pork.

Yoongi was really good at cooking it. Dae just usually had the waitress do it for us. It wasn’t because he was bad or anything, he would just forget about it. The waitress brought us our check after we finished. I thought for sure I was going to explode from all the food. Yoongi paid the bill as we left.

“So since we were talking about it quite a bit tonight.” He starts. “Do you want to come see my studio? I mean I’m sure it’s nothing compared to others but you might like it.” He says nervously.

“I would love to.” I say smiling at him as he opens the car door for me.

He took me up to the fourth floor of the building. He then paused for a moment before opening the door. “Sorry if it is a little messy.” He says scratching the back of his head then opening the door for me.

It wasn’t very messy. There were scratches all over the hardwood floor from his chair wheels.
The trash can had a lot of empty take out boxes in it. There was a couch off to one side with a throw blanket and small pillow. “It’s nice.” I tell him turning around smiling at him.

“Thanks.” He says walking in. “I spend too much time in here.” He says laughing. “I usually end up sleeping in here quite a bit. At first I just used the floor but I finally broke down and got the couch.”

I walk over to his desk looking everything over.

“Want to hear something?” He asks pulling out the chair for me.

“Yeah!” I say excitedly. That was always one of my favorite things about TOP and GD. I got to listen to what they were making.

He logs into the computer then hands me a pair of headphones. I put them on waiting. He goes through a few files to get to the track he was looking for. “This is what I was supposed to be working on. I’m just stuck for some reason.” He says before playing it.

I listened to it in full then took off the headphones. “I like it but what if you put the bass loops here instead?” I ask him taking the mouse moving them. I hand him the headphones to listen as I get out of the chair for him to sit down. I wait for him to sit then pressed play.

“I like it. What do you think about adding key board here?” He plugs in another pair of headphones then pulls me down onto his lap. I take the headphones from him putting them on. I watched as he intently moved the sounds for the track around until they were perfect. He had such a serious expression on his face as he stared at the computer screen. I leaned my head on his shoulder unintentionally breaking his concentration.

“Sorry.” He said taking off his headphones. I set mine down next to his. “I was taking you on a date and managed to end up working instead.” He says sounding disappointed in himself.

“Don’t be. I had a lot of fun tonight.” I said turning to look at him again. “You love what you do I understand that.”

“I just really like you and I didn’t want to fuck up tonight.” He says apologetically.

“Yoongi, I get it. You didn’t fuck up by any means.” I say slightly laughing. “This was fun.” I say pointing at the computer. “I wish I had more dates like this because I really got to know you without either of us saying very much. People can just say words but they can’t fake their passions.”

“I just don’t want you to think I would be too busy for you.” He says laughing. “I really did just turn our date into work.”

I start to think for a moment. “Ok how about this. Because I know how hectic schedules can be. When you have to work, I bring take out and sit on the couch as a date. And then when you have free time we find something you would consider as a date to do.” I suggest.

He puts his hand on my leg looking at me almost surprised. “You really want to go out again?” He asks matching the look on his face.

I couldn’t help but laugh. “Of course I do. You’re different.” He moves his hand off my leg to behind my neck pulling me in to a soft kiss.

We then realize it was already 2:00 AM. He takes me home walking me to the door. “So I’ll text you tomorrow. Maybe we can set up another date?” He asks me once we are outside my door.

“Ok.” I say smiling at him. He then leans down kissing me a little deeper than before. “Good night.” I say as we start to break away.

“Good night.” He then turns around going back to his car.

I turn around going into the house seeing all of Big Bang in my living room.

Yoongi’s POV

I get back to the dorm seeing everyone was already in bed. I go to mine and Jin’s room trying to be quiet thinking he was asleep. Turns out he was still up on his phone.

“How did it go?” He asks setting it down.

“Good.” I say smiling. I get undressed to go to bed throwing my clothes into the hamper.

“Good? That’s all I get out of you?” He says laughing.

“She said she wanted to go out again.” I say flopping down on my bed. “I thought for sure I fucked up at one point. When we got to my studio I was showing her a new track I was working on and ended up actually working on it.” I say huffing.

“Well it couldn’t have been that bad right? She said she wanted to go out with you again.”

“Oh no it was bad. I completely forgot what was going on. She didn’t seem to be fazed by it. She said she enjoyed watching me.” I then turn looking at him remembering picking her up. “So I think Daesung was just as surprised to see me as I was to see him.”

He then gets a shocked look on his face. “He was there?”

“He answered the door!” I say laughing. “I thought I had the wrong house. I think she outed herself to see how I reacted the rest of the night. Can’t say I blame her for that.”

“How did you react?”

“I was normal. I didn’t bring him up or anything. Honestly I forgot about it until now.”

“Why was he shocked? Did she not tell him?”

“I don’t know. She may not have or he didn’t know who was picking her up.”

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