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‘Click’ – A studio’s door labeled ‘Suga’ is softly closed.
Jimin cannot remember how many time has he silently repeat this secret action – covering sleeping Yoongi with a blanket.
Everyday, after the practicing, Jimin often sneakily look in Yoongi’s studio. The studio is right next to practice room, so it is quite easy for Jimin to do so. More than just several times, Jimin has seen Yoongi sits nodding by the desk while the computer screen is already switched to screen saver mode. Sometimes, Yoongi leans back with his head tilting to one side, his lips splitting a bit and his breathing sound echoing steadily. On the other times, Yoongi nods over his music sheets on the desk, and his soft hair falls all over the face. Everytime seeing Yoongi like that, Jimin would sigh, step into the room, get his blanket in a drawer which is rarely opened, and cover Yoongi with it. He has never dared to raise the room’s temperature because the air-conditioner’s sound would wake Yoongi up.
It sounds weird, doesn’t it? Waking Yoongi up is supposed to be a better option which allows him to return to the dorm and sleep properly. What a pity, though Jimin really wants to, he would not dare to.
He is the last member joining the BTS project. He is aware clearly that the other members would feel uncomfortable and maybe unfair, especially when they are about to debut only one year after his participation. He worked very hard, not only in dancing and singing but also in getting closer to the members who had been there before him.
Namjoon is a destructive leader who is sometimes ruthless but quite sensitive indeed. Watching people come and leave, Kim leader is left with no refusing emotion towards any newbie. Therefore, Kim leader usually gives Jimin advices and helps him to get closer to people.
Jin is a gentle guy. He loves eating, like Jimin, or maybe more than how Jimin does. He is not very good at dancing, so he always secretly admires Jimin and other good dancers. He came in right before Jimin, which allows him to be immesely sympathetic with Jimin.
Jimin is rather comfortable with Taehyung simply because they are school mates. After a serious fight in the park near their company, they surprisingly become much closer. Now they are like neighbor friends growing up together.
Jimin often follows Hoseok to ask for private dancing tutorial, and Jimin will listen to Hosek’s talks in exchange. Hoseok finally gives up on keeping distance with Jimin – a boy with two cute chubby cheeks. These two are now close for real and they form up a freakish naughty gang with Taehyung.
Jungkook is a nice kid towards his hyungs, except to Jimin. Kookie is quite mean to him indeed. Actually, it was nothing serious; it was just him teasing Jimin about Jimin’s height and seventh ranked outlook. With his own low self-esteem, he hardly ignores the wounded feelings, but he is sure Jungkook honestly respects him. They simply practice together, hang out together and play game together. As long as you can play game with Jungkook, you are his friend, and Jimin surely is from now on.
There is only Yoongi left… Yoongi is very polite to Jimin. He always comments on strengths and shortcomings of Jimin straightaway, helps him with this and that. However, he inevitably feels the invisible wall built up between them. He can totally ignore it and try to be polite to Yoongi in response, yet he then would not be himself anymore.
Just like that, he is afraid that waking Yoongi up would annoy hyung. What if Yoongi will continue working after waking up instead of sleeping, things would be worse then. He always leaves the studio with a sigh after covering Yoongi with a blanket and turning off the light.
This is just an example. If you ask, I will tell. There are billions of little things that Jimin has secretly done for the group in general and to the genious Min Suga in particular.
He listens to each one’s story, buys water to the whole group, always says optimistic words, and practices nonstop so that members can stop worrying about him…
He is very complying, if Min Yoongi says something, he will never say different, though he would try if it were Jin or Namjoon instead. Knowing that Min Yoongi has some issue with bone ache or something, Jimin asks the coach not to make Yoongi practice too hard as a favor. He also takes note of ways to strenghthen oneself. Seeing Yoongi staying up so late, he asks Namjoon to talk Yoongi out.
Park Jimin is a naive boy like that.
A person like that, standing in a group of people, will be liked but hardly respected to the right extent.
A person like that, if he is placed beside you, will you keep him and never let him go?
If you bring this question up to Yoongi, he will properly scold you because the sensitive Min Yoongi has already known Jimin’s furtive action since the second or third times, and because before Jimin stops his action, Min Yoongi has fell for it already.
His answer is “Must keep!” for sure.
This time, like usual, waiting Jimin to leave the studio, Yoongi drags the blanket off his back, takes a deep breath of the blanket smell which is the mixture smell of Jimin’s washing powder and the wooden drawer. A smile slowly spreads on his face. His heart feels so warm that it seems to be completely spoiled.
Returning to the dorm, Yoongi silently walks to the balcony where they use to dry their clothes. Please do not take this wrong, no one is going to dry clothes this late at night. He lifts up the heavy bag of washing powder and put a tiny piece of paper under it. Then, he returns to his room, prepare to sleep with a big smile.
In the next morning, Jimin wakes up earlier than usual, rushes to the balcony. Today is his turn to dry the clothes, and he knows that there will be a piece of letter waiting for him. Sometimes, he even found the clothes dried already. He is dying to know who persistently places pieces and pieces of sweet letter under the bag of washing powder when it is his turn, and even helped finishing the jobs several times. Unfortunately, everytime is the same. Though he has tried to stay up latest and wake up earliest, he is still unable to “grab” that mysterious person.
“Park Jiminie’s dancing is a little better now. Today, do your best too, Park Jiminie!”
The similar letters has encouraged you through those hard days. Everytime he receives the letter, he tries to guess the sender. He once guessed it is the manager hyung, but manager hyung’s writing is totally different, and he is too busy with their schedule already to do such cheesy thing. He also tried to compare this writing with the other members’ but there is no positive result. The writing is slightly different everytime, so he assumes that the writer tries to hide his or her identity by faking the writing.
“Maybe, he does not expect to be found…” – Jimin sigh, heavily sits down on a tiny chair beside the washer. Everything in the balcony looks small because of the narrow space. Jimin sitting there, in the middle of tiny things, makes such an adorable picture. Standing behind the curtain, Yoongi hangs a warm smile on his sleepy face while looking at the little kid holding his piece of letter.
“Ah, the sunshine is so nice today.” – Yoongi returns to the room to continue his sleep.
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Today, BTS have a MV shooting. Shooting MV is an interesting but very tiring job because both BTS and the staff have to work hard continuously for more than ten hours, or more than a day for some acting MV.
The members are conquering a table full of food after shooting for a while, excepting Jimin and Yoongi. Jimin is resting in a corner, eyes fixed on the food, while Yoongi is sitting on the opposite with closed eyes.
About minutes later, Jimin is trying not to think about the food when Yoongi slowly stands up and walks to the table.
Jimin intends to lie down and sleep in order to forget the starving. Before he can lay his head down on the couch, a low husky voice startles him: “Stop losing any more weight.” He opens his eyes and sees a piece of sandwiches facing him closely. Raising his eyes forty five degrees upward, a cold pale face of Yoongi appears, which makes him think that it is his own hallucination resulted from his hunger.
He dazedly grabs the sandwiches. Yoongi leaves before Jimin can let any word slip out of his wide opened mouth.
It was the best sandwiches he has ever had…
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In the studio, Yoongi yawns and stretches after completing the new beat that he finds acceptable. Without music, the studio is deadly quiet. He cranes his ears towards the practice room, reaching for the familiar sound of the rubber shoes stepping rhythmically on the wooden floor.
After listening for a while, he silently stands up and leaves the studio. It is four a.m now. Yoongi covers his body with layers of black clothes, and hides his face under a thick black scarf. He quickens his space to the convenient store near the company building. Stepping into the store, he can easily grab the right drink with his eyes closed because this seems to be his routine for a long while already.
Back to the practice room, the light is still on, and the music stirs the night’s silence. The fast beat of a dance song cannot excite Yoongi anyhow. Placing the cold drink in front of the practice room door, he knocks twice as usual and dashes away.
Jimin rockets to the door. Everytime he hears the knock, he tries to make it faster than the previous time, but he always misses it. There is only a bottle lying solitarily in the middle of the doorway. The cold from that bottle eases down Jimin’s heat. The cold water flowing outside the bottle cools down the hot sweat on his hand. He cannot define his feeling at the moment; he do not know whether his heart beats fast because of the contrast heat from his hand, or because of his heart shouting out what it wants.
Staying up this late with him can only be Yoongi, Jimin assumes. Still, he expects to confirm this by his own bare eyes because he does not want to fall in love with an unknown guy.
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Sopping in the continuously flowing wet, Jimin sits down in a corner of the practice room. Panting after the dance, his ribcage is throbbing under a thin white tee while his ears eavesdropping the loud conversation inside the studio. It is Yoongi helping Hoseok with his new song. Jimin can hear the laughing and talking of the two. Suddenly, a crazy thought pass over his mind: “If only I were Hoseok hyung…”
Scared by his own thought, he quickly grabs his towel hung over a chair, rushes out of the practice room and attracts curious looks from the other members. He ends up pausing at the elevator waiting area. He bends his knees and props his arms up on them while his mind spinned with self questioning. He is not a loveless child, so why does he desire someone’s affection? Since when has he wanted to be the destination of Yoongi’s graceful smile, in place of Taehyung? Since when has he dying for working with Yoongi as how Rap Mon and Hosek do, instead of sneakily helping Yoongi putting a blanket on and switching off the light? Since when has he expected more than just conversations about group’s work? Moreover, even now is he not sure if Yoongi is the one who has done all those little things for him.
The light above his head is suddenly turned off. It must have been a staff not knowing his existence in the waiting area. Darkness covers the little boy, embraces his panicking body.
Yoongi gets out of the studio with Hoseok and finds Jimin absent from the practice. He raises his cold voice asking Namjoon and gets a brief feedback: “Don’t know.” Jin is little nicer, giving extra information: “I don’t know what happens to him, I saw him running out of the room like fifteen minutes ago.” Everyone is panting after the dance, laying down on the floor and now willing to give any further reply.
Without a word, Yoongi grabs Jimin’s drink, slowly leave the practice room. He strolls around the office with his eyes scanning every corner. His tense cold face is trying to hide a nerve messing up his mind. The company is deadly quiet, even his footsteps echos clearly. A drop of sweat rolls down on his forehead despite the cool air spreading around.
Heading to the dark waiting area, he suddenly spots a person leaning on the wall opposite that exit door with a flickering lightboard above. Now that he can feel relieved. Not making any step further, he pauses at the boundary between the dark and the bright zone. He bends down to roll the drink toward Jimin and steps backward to hide behind the wall where Jimin cannot see him.
_Who…who is it? – Jimin picks up the bottle and stutters.
_Jimin ah… - Yoongi sighs.
_Yoongi hyung? – Jimin startles. He also feels little shy because of what he has thought about before being found by Yoongi.
_You… - Yoongi speaks with halt, his low tone clearly echos in the quiet space – Was there anything wrong?
_Why are you here? – Jimin thinks for a while and decides to avoid answering Yoongi’s question.
_Is there any problem with your practice? Or did you get hurt? – For the first time, Jimin finds Yoongi’s voice so soft, like a cool stream of water flowing through his sultry attitude.
A few minute later.
_Yoongi hyung… Am… Am I that bad?
_What are you talking about? – Yoongi is completely confused now.
_I don’t sing well. My dancing is not any better. I am the last one to join the project, but I get to debut so soon. Don’t you feel unfair? Don’t you hate me? – Jimin asks when his body tenses and the heart rending feeling is sqeezing his rib cage.
After another few minutes, he cannot hear any reply but a slight sigh. Suddenly, a hand gently ruffles his wet hair. Yoongi sits down beside him, with his hand still lying on Jimin’s head. He immediately turns his head to look at Yoongi. His eyes glare unconsciously when his mouth is opened because of surprise.
_Silly. – Yoongi smiles. The flickering light from the lightboard is only enough for Jimin to see Yoongi’s side face.
“Please be brighter even for just a little. I know he is smiling…” – Jimin thinks.
_Without you, how should Bangtan do? – Yoongi drops his hand down and grasps Jimin’s gripping hand which is numbed on the floor.
Jimin’s hand lets loose, hesitately grab Yoongi’s hand back.
“I didn’t know his hand is this soft…” – Jimin sneakily smile, dropping down his heavy feeling.
Yoongi picks up the towel in front of Jimin and gently wipe off the sweat on Jimin’s face. The hand holding Jimin’s hand suddenly lets go and moves toward Jimin’s neck. The cold fingertips caressing Jimin’s neck makes him tremble.
_Thank you for trying so hard. Park Jiminie jjang. (Park Jiminie is the best) – Yoongi whisper to his ears.
Jimin startles. That person usually calls him Park Jiminie. The one who writes letter to him usually calls him Park Jiminie. Sometimes, he even replies: “You are only good at calling me Park Jiminie instead of showing up.” It is “Park Jiminie” all the time… It is him…
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Few months later, thing happens as how it always does, but it seems to be slightly different. Ah no, it is more likely Yoongi’s difference which makes everyone suspect. Are you asking me how different Yoongi is?
Mama Jin: It was a pinky day several months ago when we were having an outdoor fan meeting. Yoongi suddenly admited that he was not really close to Jimin but from now on, he would. He even asked for a hug with Jimin. I found it fishy somehow so I stretched out my lovely pinky fan blocking between them. I did well, right? Now they are even fishier, but it is grown up things, so I will not tell you guys.
Monster – the leader: I will make it short. I accidentally got to know about how idols are paired by fans. What do you call it? “Ship”? Now I just want to be YoonMin shippers’ president.
BTS’s hope: Oh annyeong, I am Hobi Hobi. Suga hyung? Recently, Suga hyung has a considerably bias towards Jimin. Jimin is crazily happy and keeps saying that Suga is the best. Mocking them? You say that I am mocking them? No no no. I supports them all the time, in my special way that you can never understand. I guess I gotta go, hope hope hope…
4D V: Suga hyung and Jimin is very cute! It was me who helped them!
Muscle pig Jeon JungKook: No comment. Do you want to play game with me?
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