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Jimin always thought that he was a normal boy, which he actually was. He had two parents that were proud of him and a younger brother that just annoyed him sometimes to no end. But only sometimes, since he's living with two friends in a flat in Seoul.
" Jimin-ie! "
Blinking in surprise, Park Jimin opened his eyes and found Taehyung's face right in front of his.
" Tae? ", asked Jimin, wonder clear in his voice. He could feel arms around him and he wondered who was holding him. He knows how Tae's hands feel like, or Jungkook's for that matter, so he knew that it neither of them.
" You fainted, are you alright? ", asked Tae, worry still clear in his voice.
Jimin blicked, not understanding quite right what was happening around him.
" Fainted? ", asked Jimin. He had never fainted before.
" Yes, fainted ", answered Tae, letting the stranger that had caught Jimin help his best friend stand. Jimin turned around. The man in front of him was handsome and a head higher than him, Jimin realized, though it wasn't a hard feat to be higher than him, with his height just reaching 173,6 cm.
" Thank you for helping Jimin ", said Tae and bowed and Jimin blinked again. His head was still mumbled and his vision blurry.
" Yeah, thank you ", said Jimin, bowing as well and losing his balance thanks to his heavy head. The man caught him again, letting out a small laugh.
" You really should take a break, Mr Park. My name is Kim Naam Joon, if you're wondering. "
He had a nice laugh, thought Jimin before letting Tae bring him to his bed, which was just a floor above their café.
" Tae? ", asked Jungkook surprised when he saw them, Jimin being handed to him bridal style.
" Jiminie has a high fever, he shouldn't have left his bed. Will you please look after him while I finish downstairs? "
" Of course! ", answered their youngest and immediately run to the kitchen, before stopping and running to Jimin's room and lying the man down in his bed.
" I'll be right back, Hyung! ", said Jungkook, turning around again and vanishing in the kitchen. Jimin just nodded, half in trance.
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Kim Nam Joon grinned happily when he left the café, his most trusted man and best friend on his side, Kim Seok Jin, Jin for short.
" What has you so happy? ", asked Min Yoongi (or Suga as everyone liked to call him) when he joined them.
" He fainted ", answered Jin instead when Namjoon was still grinning like an idiot.
" Who? ", asked Suga. His face didn't show any emotions, though Jin could see the curiosity in his eyes.
" His Love! "
Suga got a knowing look in his eyes before turning annoyed eyes to his friend and king: " Just because he fainted and you caught him before anyone else could doesn't mean a thing in the human world, you know that, don't you? "
" I'm a king, rules of the human world doesn't apply to me ", said the king before stepping in an alley and vanishing.
Suga just rolled his eyes, already having a bad feeling about what his king was planning.
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Jimin groaned. His fever had gone down and he felt better than before... The only problem was that he was too embarrassed to go down and get to work in their café again, especially after seeing the man, Kim Naam Joon, stepping into their building every morning and leaving two hours later. Every freaking day, like some sort of ritual.
" Jiminie, you can't hide here forever. You need to get to work eventually ", said Tae out of nowhere and Jimin jumped away from the window.
" Mr Kim is already gone for three hours and won't be coming back until tomorrow, so get your lazy ass down and help me! ", ordered Tae, throwing an apron into Jimin's face.
Jimin took the apron, defeated. He really couldn't hide forever and hadn't worked for three whole days, leaving his friend doing all the work without any help. Jungkook was in his last year of university and needed to focus on his studies and they haven't any workers except for themselves since the café was a rather small place.
" Jiminie! "
" Coming! "
Tae had inherited the café from his grandfather from his father's side, taking over the small business. Jimin had decided to help him out and here they were now, working together alongside each other every day except for days like New Year, Hoseok and other celebrated days.
Getting downstairs, Jimin was surprised to see that they had gained more customers than they had last week. Normally they would have 10+ persons at every hour but now they had a full house. Looking at Tae, Jimin saw the fake smile on his face, knowing that his best friend was worried about not having enough for their customers. Strangely, they always had enough and never too much, it was as if Tae could see into the future, always knowing how much coffee was needed or what kind of cake to bake or what fruits to take out of their fridge. But... His friend had never looked so worried about the ingredients, so maybe it was about something entirely different?
" Hello? I want to order! ", said a customer, hand raised.
" Coming! ", answered Jimin, taking a notepad and a pen with him to write the order of desk six down. Better be prepared than sorry, no need to give their customers drinks or food that they hadn't ordered.
Jimin was busy until the moment where they closed their café and he had never felt more grateful for the time to be running so fast. Running a café was always a hard job, bringing the ordered goods to their customers only to receive a glare from the said customer if he/she doesn't remember ordering a coke instead of tea or not wanting to pay for the salat they ordered because they haven't eaten it at all was tiring.
Back in their flat, Tae looked at him with concerned eyes.
" How are you feeling? "
" I'm fine. I won't catch another cold for the next time being, Jungkook had made sure of that ", answered Jimin, nearly rolling his eyes. It was always like this when he got a cold. Jungkook would look out for him, bring him strange drinks and he would be healthy within the very same day or the next day. He was never ill for more than a day or two, thanks to Jungkooks studying medicine.
" Jiminie, how about we let Hyung here work as well? Hoseok will be a huge help and I want for you to work only in the evening for the time being. I don't want for anything to happen to you in the coming future. "
Jimin knew that he should trust Tae's intuition since he had saved him many times from embarrassments and other things like being robbed from someone-
Ah, let's forgot that little incident.
" If you want me to work in the evenings than I will. I fully support your idea of adding Hyung, he had wanted to help us out since he came back from America ", smiled Jimin, trying to reassure his friend.
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Nothing bad happened for the following week and Jimin saw Jungkook learning in their café instead of his room, taking a corner up for himself. He didn't say anything though, clearly feeling the tension emitting from his two best friends and wondering what had happened to worsen their mood.
He didn't know that they were worried about him.