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“Is the seat taken?”
Seokjin looked up to see a blonde haired boy wearing a black snapback. His bad boy appearance contrasting to the Seoul University library’s dull mood. “N-no...”
In no time, Jin moved several textbooks he recently borrowed to make some space for the blonde guy and his notebook. “Sorry it’s quite messy here”
“It’s okay. I just need to make a last minute research before submitting my report. That’s all,” the guy smiled, his two dimples didn’t come unnotice by Jin. “My name is Kim Namjoon, by the way”
“Kim Nam- oh!” Jin said, his mouth shaped ‘O’. That explained the other man’s appearance. Since the start of semester people had been talking about this new student. Apparently the guy had an IQ of a genius and was the top student throughout the country. But his inteligence alone weren’t that much of interest. No. It was Namjoon’s side-job as the well known underground rapper that made people talk.
“You’ve heard about me, huh?” Namjoon’s dimples deepened. “Hopefully it’s nothing bad”
“No,” Jin could already feel his ears reddened. An easy indication that he was indeed lying. He felt glad the other guy didn’t notice. But if he did, the blonde guy sure know how to make a poker face.
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“Is the seat taken?”
Jin looked around. Winter break has just started so library wasn’t as packed.
“I got no excuse other than I like to sit with you, that’s all.”
He looked away. Not wanting to let the other man know how much his casual remark affected him. For the past few months both of them somehow become a library mate. Either one would reserve seat for the other even though they didn’t exchange much words since both were busy with their own assignments.
“S-sure...”
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“You don’t have to walk me back, you know”
Namjoon shrugged. “I don’t know. Except in the library and the cafeteria, I’ve never actually hang out you hyung”
“But it’s already late. You should head home and get sone rest before your audition tomorrow. I don’t want be responsible if anything bad happens”
“You won’t. Your presence is enough to motivate me”
“Stop that!” His face reddened.
“What?”
“You’re always teasing me. I don’t like it!”
“Really? Your face told me otherwise” Namjoon chuckled before he stopped. His face then became serious. “Jin-hyung...”
“W-what?”
“It’s too early to ask but after we graduated and have a stable career, will you go out with me?”
“Huh?”
“We’re graduating in 6 months. You’re auditioning with that renowed modelling agency and I’m with BigHit. We both know we’ll get accepted so will you go out with me after we’ve made our name?”
“How would you know we’ll get accepted? Life doesn’t work like that you know”
“Then we’ll go with plan B?”
“You have a plan B?”
“As well as C and D”
“I- Nevermind,” Jin then smiled. The younger man’s confession didn’t come as much of a surprise. It’s been almost a year since they know each other and Namjoon never once hid his admiration towards him. Instead he was being honest the entire time. “Okay, we’ll go out but only after we succeeded.”
Namjoon winked at him. Already expected Jin to agreed. “Got it!”
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“Seokjin-ssi, you’ve been in the industry for quite awhile now and met a lot of people. So my question, do you have a celebrity crush?”
“Of course. In fact, he’s a famous rapper that goes by the name ‘RM’”
“RM? Of course it’s RM. Who wouldn’t love the young rapper. He recently made history when he won grammy award with a song in Korean!
Seokjin smiled, proud.
“I know that RM’s inspires people of all ages because of meaningful lyrics in his song. But what actually make you like him personally, Seokjin-ssi? Why not the world class actor like Song Joong-Ki?”
“Well for one, RM broke the stereotype of artists who rap. Instead of talking about money, fame or sex in his lyrics, he chose to educate his fans and casual listeners. Especially the song ‘uhgood’”
The interview continued with Jin discussing about his recent campaign with UNICEF “Love myself, love yourself” before the interview asked the last question, “With your on-going campaign and RM album, is there a possibility of you two collaborating in a project?”
“If there’s a given chance, I would love too”
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“RM-ssi, I’m sure your fans already bombarded you with questions but I gotta ask, what do you think about Kim Seokjin’s admission of having crush on you?”
Namjoon chuckled. “Flattered, of course. He’s the world’s renowed model so to think that he knows about me is shocking to be honest!”
“Would you date him then?”
“It’s a wishful thinking but sure. He seemed to be a great guy with wonderful personality”
“He is indeed. Recently he introduced non-profit campaign with UNICEF “Love muself, love youself”...”
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“Is the seat taken?”
Jin looked up to see a blonde haired boy wearing a snapback.His bad boy appearance contrasting to the 5-star restaurant’s dull mood.
“Depends,” Jin closed the menu and looked at him flirtiously. Something he had learnt 5 years in the industry. “Are you here as RM or Namjoon”
Namjoon smiled. “Does it matter? Towards the end of this dinner, our engagement news will be over every single social media platforms anyway”
“Oh?”
Namjoon pulled a small box and down on one knee causing few heads turned towards their direction. “Kim Seokjin, the love of my life. Will you marry me?”
-
“It’s been three days and we still break the internet, huh?” Seokjin said as he looked through twitter and see “NamJin” still trending.
“Well we did make quite a scene. Media kept calling BigHit non-stop despite our confirmation through our companys’ official statement” Namjoon said. “Don’t worry. There are more people supporting than going againsts us”
“I’m not worried about that. I’m just...it felt so surreal now that everyone knows about us. No longer having to sneak out in the middle the night to see you, no longer having to control my jealousy whenever I read articles of you ‘dating’ anyone...”
“You’re not the one who should be worried about that babe. Not when you’re surrounded by good looking men all year around”
“Joon-
“Don’t worry Jinnie,Namjoon said pulling Jin closer. “I can assure I am head over heels in love with you as I was back then”
“You got it bad, huh?”
Namjoon chuckled, “You have no idea”
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5 years ago
“Come on, hyung!”
“What am I supposed to say? ‘Hi, I’ve been admiring you since 3 months ago. Will you marry me?”
“Like that!” Jungkook nodded.
Jimin facepalmed. “Just make a small talk. Talk about the weather or something”
Namjoon looked at his long time crush then sighed. “Okay...let’s try your way”
With his notebook in one hand he slowly walked towards him. With a deep breath, he asked
“Is the seat taken?”