章 7: So what?

"Bae. Ji. Hyun!!!" Kim Taehyung had no idea that the image he had built with his brothers broke into fragments. He held his left arm with teary-eyes as he scolded "You actually bit me!!"

"So what!?" Jihyun was massaging her cheeks. She felt satisfied from taking a bite of the popular idol V. "You dared me to!"

"..." 'That doesn't mean you actually do it!' This little woman is really challenging his patience again and again!

He glanced at the teeth mark buried on his skin. It was so red and aching. "It's bleeding!" He lied. "This will get bruised for sure!"

She pouted at his exaggerating words. Though she thinks that he deserved it, thinking that he still needs to perform tomorrow with a complex dance and singing… Bae Jihyun couldn't help but feel bad.

"Wait here." She sighed.

"Where are you going!?" He held her wrist back making him groan him pain for using his sore arm. "Are you leaving me again?"

Bae Jihyun stared at those pair of eyes that were filled with anxiousness. Her heart melted as she rubs his head gently. "I'll be back, okay?"

With a tilt of her heard, soft expression and flushed cheeks, Bae Jihyun is really alluring to his eyes especially her sweet voice that seems to sing his favorite love song.

"O-oh." Kim Taehyung went blank. He got dumbfounded from her gaze which made her easily walk off the room.

And so, the first thing Bae Jihyun saw as she opens the door was—well, not saw but heard was a huge thump and an "Ouch!"

She looked at Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook who were rubbing their face. It didn't need much IQ to figure out that the three of them had stuck their ears against the door to stalk.

'Oh no, my dazzling image of BTS is ripping apart!'

"I-I need to practice my vocals!" Park Jimin excused himself.

Jung Hoseok also ran away with "I need to come up with new choreography for Boy with Luv!!!"

While the maknae…. the maknae…. he was standing there foolishly as if his soul flew into Mars.

'Wait—did J-Hope just spoiled the title of their next song!?'

Bae Jihyun held a palm to her forehead, feeling exhausted. She turned into the oldest member who was calmly cooking dinner for his members. "Do you have an ice pack?"

'Ice!?!?! What do you need a cube of ice for!? Are you going to rub it in his skin for stimul'—Let's just cut off the two certain men's thoughts who were hiding in the next room pretending to be busy. It's not suitable for children.

Before Bae Jihyun could step in the room with the freezing bag in her hand, the leader of the BTS reminded her "You only have half an hour left."

She blinked her eyes and pursed her lips at this. Though she hated how she got kidnapped, Jihyun can't deny that she likes to talk to Taehyung and that she had missed the man like how he does to her.

Unfortunately…

"I'm sorry," Jihyun apologized to Taehyung as she presses the cold ice pack on his sore arm. Her words say one thing but her actions meant different as she used strength on his hands which made the man winced.

'This devil!!!' He frowned but he was still pampering as he stares at her. Even though they always argue, in the end, one of them will soften their hearts and spoil the other more than ever.

He scowled as he went deep in thoughts. Before he could stop himself, he finally probed her something he has been curious of. "Do you bite your boyfriend when you argue too? That's abuse, you know?"

Without thinking much of it, the naive Jihyun confessed: "I don't have a boyfriend!" Her face was flushed. "Besides, you deserved it."

The last words didn't really get in through the man's mind as he thought 'Oh, so she doesn't have one.' Taehyung couldn't help but smile foolishly, his lips curving to his ears like a clown.

'What's wrong with this guy?' Bae Jihyun scowled as she looked at his silly expression. She's having the urge to smack him again, what should she do?

"I need to go soon." Before the man could complain, she continued "It's almost 10 already. If I stay any further, Dad probably would not let me out of my room anymore."

When he heard that, Kim Taehyung pouted. He didn't want to NOT see her anymore so he had no choice but to comply. Even though he did think of cuffing her hands and legs, it was only a thought and nothing else. He was not a man who will restrain his woman's freedom (let's just ignore the fact that he kidnapped her…. *cough*). Besides, he is still an idol at the end of it.

"Promise me you'll contact me."

Jihyun rolled her eyes. "Either way, you'll be too busy to reply."

He chuckled at this "Are you throwing a tantrum?" With a pat of her long and silky hair, he added "Fine. I'll contact you then you spoiled brat. Wait for it, okay?"

Did he just call me a brat!? "No!" Bae Jihyun pressed the ice pack on his own cheek instead of his bitten arm which made him shiver and run away. "Who will wait for someone like you!?"

She was arguing like using but the man's face before her suddenly darkened as if his inverted scale was stab by her words. With a low hum like a clap of thunder, he hummed "Oh~?"

Bae Jihyun gulped while Kim Taehyung stared at her with piercing eyes as if he's going to devour her if she moves a single inch.

"You won't even wait for me for a few hours?" He laughed, not at her or the ridiculous remark but more at himself for being a fool.

'A fool who waited for her for 10 years.' The man couldn't continue his words. He just stood up as the pack dangle on his hand. It seems as if he couldn't feel the freezing ice any longer nor the soreness of his arm as emotions overwhelmed his whole body.

"Let's go," he said, sighing. "I'll get our manager to drive you back."

The back facing towards Bae Jihyung looked so lonely and disappointed. "..." Bae Jihyun silently watched his figure walk away from her, words stuck on her throat.

She wanted to chase after him, pull his arm back as he did to her, and embrace the man to her arms, but she couldn't. She wanted to scream 'Wait, don't go! Please stay with me! I don't...' but Bae Jihyun pressed her lips as her fists tightened until her nails dug deep into her skin...

'You can't Jihyun,' she closed her eyes to stop the tears threatening to come out.

'You don't deserve him….'

'Not like this.'