"I will probably be cooped up here for some time okay"

He nodded, "Not like you ever shy away from it but just know that you can order me around, I consent to it."

She ruffled his hair in response and moved to her study desk.

"I will be going down for some time, will you be okay?" he asked.

She hummed in the affirmative, busy with her laptop already. Jungkook kissed her head before walking out.

When he reached the ground floor, Taehyung was already seated on a bench near a tree. He walked over and sat beside him.

"Was I too harsh?" he asked as soon as Jungkook was in earshot.

"Yeah well, you managed to make her cry, like really hard." The younger replied.

Taehyung flinched hearing the response. "I couldn't help it okay, I was losing it. I am losing it. She worries me more than the world."

"Hyung..." Jungkook said in a low voice, "I am scared. I am so so scared. I tried my best to not show it in front of her but I am such a huge fuck up. I am so sorry."

Taehyung noticed that Jungkook was biting hard on his lower lip to keep himself from crying. He held his hand and squeezed it.

"Why did we have to fall for the same person?" he wondered aloud.

"And why did this person have to be such a risky ass dumb bitch?"

"And why are we both so madly in love with this risky ass dumb but precious bitch?"

"Sike, at least my love is not unrequited."

V smacked Jungkook on the head, "As if I couldn't have tried to shoot my shot despite you. At least be grateful that I peacefully let it go."

"Did you move on?"

"Would you have moved on?"

Jungkook shook his head 'no', "You know, I was doing just about all right without her, you all were with me and we were doing well. But then she came into my life and it was like I had never lived before. Being with her makes me the happiest humanly possible. Just having to imagine my life without her makes me not want to live."

"Dramatic" Taehyung laughed, "but same. I have made peace with the fact that I cannot have her as my partner but just having her close by is good enough. It at least gives me a reason to wake up in the morning."

"Come on now, I feel bad."

"To have stolen Y/N from me?"

"To see what a sore loser you are." Jungkook nonchalantly replied, receiving another smack on his head.

"But for real, this girl came into our lives out of nowhere and now we cannot imagine it without her."

"Will everything be okay?" Jungkook sighed.

Taehyung held him close, resting his head against Jungkook's, "I believe in her."

"Me too."

.

"Hey" Jungkook called out, peeking into Y/N's room.

She closed her eyes shut to relieve the fatigue from being on the laptop for too long and turned her chair around to look at him. "Hey", Y/N replied.

"Want me to make you coffee? Or ramyeon? You know what, I can even make you spaghetti, just ask for it. I feel pretty useless lying around while you're here working your ass off."

"C'mere", she said calling him into an embrace.

The boy smiled and hopped over to her, hugging her tight. He lifted her from the chair and sat there himself, adjusting the girl on his lap.

"Yes ma'am, what do you demand of me?"

"Can you just kiss me?"

Jungkook did not waste a second. He placed his palm flat against the small of her back and pushed her body against his. His mouth enveloped hers in desperation. Neither of the two had realized just how badly they needed it. Y/N let herself flow in his embrace, her body complied with his needs, and she felt his hands all over the right places, reassuring and warm. His tongue played slowly with her, probing the inside of her mouth, teasing her and pulling away. His warm mouth did all things right to her and she wanted to beg for more only if she could stop for a breath.

Her fingers pulled at his fluffy hair earning moans from him.

Jungkook held her in place with one hand on her waist and the other on the side of her neck. His hand trailed up and wrapped her hair around, jerking her head back. He left a peppered kiss on her jaw, moving down to her neck and further down to the collarbone where he had earlier marked a hickey.

"Oh my god, Jungkook!" Y/N moaned, as her head fell forward on his shoulder.

He hugged her tight as her face rested in the crook of his neck, breathing heavily.

"Can I tell you something?" she asked.

"Hm?"

"I am scared. I would never have been if you were not involved. Just the thought of losing you makes me feel sick. I love you and I don't know how to describe it but it feels like I will die if you aren't with me. And...I am worried that you might get mad at me and start disliking me like V and Oppa did because I am what I am."

Jungkook listened to her in patience and drew in a sharp breath at the last statement.

He held her face in his hands and made her look into his eyes, "I am not here just for the kisses and jokes Y/N, I am here for the best moments and the worst. I am here to help and get shit on, I am here for everything in between. I don't just love your pretty eyes or the way you laugh, I also love the fact that you are the only one who can make my heart ache to the point of tearing it apart and I gladly consent to every bit of it. I love the strength in your tears and I love being there for you when the same tears threaten to fall. I love not just a part of you but so much more. I fall in love with you all over again every time you smile when you see Yeri acting like you and when I see frown lines on your forehead when you are reading a particularly interesting book and when you are shy about me kissing you in public and when you are bold enough to pin me against the wall in a closet. I love all of you and beyond, Y/N and I am not fucking leaving you. Ever."

She kissed him and touched her forehead against his, "And I thought I was the writer here."

"Well, I am the lover here." He bantered.

"Bitch say that in the bedroom and you're not going to be able to walk."

Jungkook adopted a look of shock, "What have you planned for me, monster?"

She laughed heartily, "Nothing less of what you've planned. God, I love you so much. And I like saying it so much."

"Go on, keep saying that, no one is going to stop you." He offered.

Y/N kissed him, saying countless I love yous between the countless kisses.

.

Yoongi was shut in his studio, going through audio files to calm himself down and focus on anything other than Y/N. He hated to have said all the things to her, he couldn't help thinking that he made her feel worse when she opened up to them under such pressure. He just wanted her to be safe, she was as precious to him as though it were his own kid.

His phone rang interrupting his thoughts.

Call from 🧠🎼💅🏼

He smiled at the emojis she had saved on his phone for her contact.

It might be awkward for him to talk to her after what had happened but he picked up the call before it could get cut.

Before he could answer, the girl spoke, "Before you say anything, I love you. Yes, now speak."

He laughed, "You do know that you can't just say that to solve everything, right."

"I can though", he could imagine her pouting. "You didn't say it back."

"Why are you pressurizing me now?"

"Oh okay..." her voice went down a few octaves.

Drawing in a long breath to manage the overwhelming love that he felt towards her, Yoongi gave in, "I love you. Okay?"

"Not yet. What are you giving me on my birthday?" And not waiting for his answer, she went ahead, "If you've nothing planned, can you do something for me?"

Knowing fully well that he couldn't say no to her, he sighed, "Go ahead but I am not making any promises."

She evilly laughed also knowing that he could never say no to her, "Come to Japan with me. We board tomorrow morning and will be back at night."

"Huh? What?" She was too fast and volatile to keep up with.

"I bought some time. We made an agreement with the media houses. They won't release the news until after my birthday. We promised to give them the details if they stay in this solidarity agreement. Even if one of them tries to leak the news, all of them would lose out on everything crucial."

"But what if some employees decide to leak it? That is a very common and strong possibility."

"Oppa, seriously? We sent the mail to the managing directors only as a confidential document. They would need our clearance to open it every time they try. I am pretty sure that none of the MDs would have been dumb enough to share the confidentiality so casually."

His jaw hung open at her execution for the nth time. She would have successfully dragged Son Myung Ju had it not been for the minor inconvenience of her idol boyfriend accidentally helping the perpetrator. She now had to make sure that both the company and herself remain safe and that the whole plan succeeds in making Son stand for a trial.

"Right. I will get the plane booked. Hold on", he put her call on hold and emailed the management of their chartered planes. He got a schedule and relayed it to her, "So, 6 in the morning tomorrow for boarding and we return by 11 in the night. Works?"

"Perfect." She chimed, "Oppa..."

"Hm?" Yoongi replied, closing the tabs on his screen.

"I love you. You were not wrong to think that you have a right over me. You are the one who made sure that I never freeze to death or get myself killed of dehydration. I love you so much."

He smiled, his heart filling with warmth, "How could I let you freeze to death or die by dehydration. Quite un-heroic."

"Yasss purrr!"

"Has Genz adopted a new language now? We always spoke in such-"

"Okay, so tomorrow at 6. See you!"