| 31st Chapter (yes, I’m still alive)

"So what presents did you get?", Jun asked, to start the conversation.

"Well the boys got me this amazing portrait of this specific artist, and I am in love. I will put it right over my bed! They baked me a cake too.

Well, actually they hired someone to bake a cake in the last minute. Some dude called Lee Yong bok, I think. He was quite nice. And good to talk to. Not, that I would tell my whole life story to a stranger but he was really kind and just a good listener so we happened to have a good small-talk."

"That sounds nice. I'm glad you had a good time so far", she replied and smiled.

"Well, yes. Except that, it has been a mess. Taehyung and Jungkook are dating now."

"Oh? I mean- they have always been close to each other right?"

"Yes of course, but we are all close with each other! They had kept it a secret for- what? Weeks? Even months? I don't even know. If they would have just told me! We had to get Taehyung a fake girlfriend for the press, because Taehyung was caught kissing someone in public, who was Jungkook by the way, and we had to cover it up somehow, with telling everyone, it was his girlfriend, Yong."

"I saw that in the newspaper, yeah."

"But guess what. Yong is a very mean woman behind her mask and put Tae in some new mess which we have to get him out of, AGAIN. When they were meant to break up in public, she 'changed the script' and loudly said that he proposed to her. He still has to give an official statement to the press."

"Wow that is really-"

"I know right? And he just doesn't learn! The management and me are having our hands full, trying to get him out if the trouble and he doesn't even thank me! He had been very disrespectful too, he even said my name, without the formalities. I told him to not sit next to Jungkook, I don't know why, but he just felt the need to talk back to me and just told me, that no, he would not follow my rules because it wasn't my business! Can you believe that? This boy..", Namjoon sighed.

"That sounds like a mess, indeed."

"Yes", Namjoon said.

"But you cannot forget that they are still kids somewhere. Young adults, who want to have free spirits."

"They're like teenagers", Namjoon mumbled.

"Taehyung just doesn't understand the risk that's behind his relationship with Jungkook."

"You can't forbid them to date, Joonie."

Namjoon felt warm around his heart, as she called him that nickname.

"If they want to date people, that is fine with me.. but each other? That just complicates everything", he continued.

"Enough about me and the drama. How are you? What have you been doing lately?", he asked.

"I got fired at my job", she laughed.

"What's so funny about that?"

"It was such a crappy job and I am so glad that I didn't have to quit myself and go through the fights with my boss."

"Oh well, okay. So what are you going to do now?"

"I have this new place in mind, I even had a job interview a week ago, and I have another one tomorrow morning. But I don't know if I should take it."

"That sounds awesome! I'm so happy for you! Where is it?"

"At bighit companies.."

"Shut up. Wow! As what would you work there?"

"I don't know where I would be positioned. Maybe Makeup artist or costume designer or something similar."

Namjoon smiled widely.

"But I wasn't sure to take it. Because, I don't want you to think that I'm running after you or something. Or if I would be getting too close to you and you maybe wouldn't want that. It's just that it's really not bad money and from the information and description I already got, it would be a nice fit for me."

"Don't think about me! If that's what you want, then do it! Don't cancel that chance because of me. Even if I wouldn't be okay with you working there, I don't have any say in what you should or shouldn't do with your life! Do what makes you happy."

"Thank you. Hey, I was wondering.. do you maybe want to come back to my apartment? I can cook us dinner?"

"Yes! I would really like that! There's just a little small condition.. if it's not too much work, do you think you could maybe cook something low-fat? Because I'm on kind of on diet right now-"

"Absolutely! I can do that."

At Jun's apartment

"Hey can I use your toilet real quick?", Namjoon asked after arriving.

"Of course, it's right down the hall."

"Thanks."

Namjoon noticed how he's never been here before. He liked how she had designed her apartment. It very aesthetic, that for sure. But is also had this.. this vibe, this smell to it.

It was also more chaotic then he thought it would be. Her clothes were on the bathroom floor, her toothbrush openly laying somewhere in the sink. It reminded him of Jimin.

Normal people would probably find it rather disgusting, but not him. Actually this whole atmosphere reminded him too much of home.

As he came back into the kitchen, he found her sitting at the table, cutting vegetables.

"Hey", he said.

Jun looked up and brushed her hair out of her face. Her eyes wrinkled when she gave him a friendly smile.

"Hi", she replied and went back to her work.

"Can I please just say, that I LOVE your apartment?"

"Thanks", she chuckled lightly.

"I hope you don't mind my clothes everywhere."

"Not at all, actually. A little bit of chaos bring something to life. Not that your apartment is chaotic, I just mean-"

"I know what you mean", she said and looked at him. For a split second, he saw something else in her eyes but couldn't identify it.

"Um- you know it goes quicker if you do it like this", he said after a short while of watching her cutting zucchini and stood behind her to take the knife. His hand slid over hers as he showed her another technique.

"Oh, that is a lot better. Thanks", she smiled.

"No problem", he smiled back.

"Oh, I feel so rude! Would you like to drink something?"

She jumped up and checked her fridge.

"A beer? Apple juice? Water?"

As he didn't answer after half a second, she continued "or.." and left the room, just to come back with a bottle of wine.

"..we try this one?"

"Wine?"

"Why not?"

"I mean.. I guess", he laughed and watched her fill two glasses.

"Cheers", they said and drank.

Two hours and one bottle of wine later, they were telling each other stories from their childhood and laughed about them afterwards.

Dinner was already over and they sat down on her big bed afterwards . It had tasted surprisingly good for the ingredients, Jun had found in her kitchen. Three Zucchinis, a small pot of fried rice, onions, tomatoes and a sauce in a small bottle, to which they didn't find a name because the etiquette was gone.

To be honest, it had been a while that Namjoon had this much fun. The evening was amazing and he wanted to make it last for as long as he could.

Then suddenly, he remembered something, that brought him back to reality.

"Ugh, I still have to write this speech", he mentioned.

"What speech? Maybe I can help."

"Hitman Bang told me, I'd have to write speech for after a small performance. In about a month, we are going to perform one or two songs somewhere to earn some money and to donate it to a charity."

"That is really awesome!"

"Thanks. And since i'm the leader, I should also hold a short speech. To thank army, thank the industry for making all of this possible but also to advertise some people to donate money as well."

"Did you already start?"

"Yeah, but just a few words, I couldn't concentrate then."

"Show me."

He pulled out his phone, opened the document and handed it to her.

"Mhm, oh this sounds nice, that's definitely a good start", she said, as she started reading.

"For a few words, you wrote quite a lot", she mumbled and scrolled down.

"I wanted to be satisfied."

"Can I add some things? I'll write them in cursive if you want."

"Sure, don't hold back."

She started typing, stopped, starting typing, stopped, waited a minute and started again.

"Your way of writing is really good, I hope you know that."

"Thank you", he chuckled lightly and his eyes lit up for a moment.

She leaned back against the wall and lifted her knees up to her chest.

She nudged on her bottom lip and continued typing.

"Why are you typing so much?! You're kind of freaking me out." He crawled next to her, to take a look but she quickly turned around, so he couldn't see.

"Hey! That's my phone!"

She laughed and jumped up from the bed

He was trying to get to her, by reaching for the phone but failed because she took a big step to the left.

"Let me see!", he whined and wanted to grab her under the arms but she knowingly moved, just in time and ran out of the room, into the kitchen, around the table and back into the bedroom with Namjoon right behind her.

Finally he grabbed a hold of her, when she climbed over the bed and pushed her down, to get her wrists in one hand and his other one free.

Taking his phone back, he read what she wrote and got off of her in the meantime.

"Hm, interesting", he said, "this is good."

"Thanks", she replied, fixing her hair after sitting up.

"I'm going to use this for sure. Thank you!"

"Glad I could help."

"Oh you did! This makes it so much easier, wow."

Jun smiled to herself after receiving all those compliments.

"You could maybe write a book someday, is what I think", she said instead.

"A book?"

"Yes. I really enjoy reading your texts, they're really good. I just wanted to say, you could become a songwriter but I think you already noticed that yourself", she chuckled.

"Haha yeah. Thanks for the advice though."

She kept silent for a few minutes before she said "hey, I've got an idea."

"Oh no, what is it?"

"I'm really in the mood to watch titanic now."

"You're not serious are you?"

"Dead serious." She got up and walked to the living room, where she turned the TV on and put the DVD in the player.

"Since I don't have anything better to do..", he said and flopped onto the couch, next to her.

Thirty minutes later:

"Gosh, why does he have to be so good-looking?!", she asked for the 23rd time.

"Why does Rose have to be so hot?", Namjoon replied.

"What?"

"What?"

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"I would do everything for him", she sighed.

Namjoon rolled his eyes.

"Did you know, that there is a spider named after him?"

"Excuse me?"

"Spintharus leonardodicaprioi."

"You're joking."

"Look it up", he answered and she pulled out her phone and did.

"How do you even know that?"

"Read it somewhere."

She shook her head in disbelief and smirked.

"There's also a bug, called grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi-"

"I got it, thanks", she chuckled.

"Just wanted to mention that."

"Are you jealous or something?"

"Why'd you think that?", he looked at her.

She shrugged her shoulders.

"I just find it unnecessary to simp over someone like that. He's not even that good looking-"

"Oh, but you know that there's a spider named after him??"

"I told you, I've read about that! It's not my fault the internet has that kind of information!"

"Pff", Jun made. "Shut up now, I wanna hear what he says."

Namjoon pouted.

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"Why would he do that?", she cried. "Why didn't he just get on the door?! He would have fit SO easily!"

Namjoon sighed. "Because the movie would be less famous if he hadn't died."

"You can't just say that!"

"I'm getting more wine", she said after a little while.

"We should stop drinking now, Jun. We've emptied two bottles."

"Fine, I will drink some water", she said, got up from the couch and stumbled through the room.

"Just sit down, I'll get some for you", Namjoon said and helped her get back onto the couch.

Walking back from the kitchen with a water bottle in his right and a glass in his left hand, he hummed a song.

"There's nothing holding me back.. hmmm there's nothing holding me back- oh- oh my god- Jun, please put your clothes back on!"

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Wassup ✌️😬

What should I even say? I say the same thing every time. I'm sorry for not uploading chapters. Guess I'm that person now. Weeks of no sign and then suddenly I'm back again. It's been a month and a half I think, when I last updated, ehe- whoops 👉👈

I'm so sorry >.<

My life is a lot for me to handle at the moment and I just can't get myself to write. Everything just exhausts me and mostly when I try writing, I don't like it and delete it again.

Anyway, for those wondering why there's a whole chapter (and more to come) of Namjoon and his situation.. simply because I think all members of BTS deserve to have their own situations and own chapters in this story, even tho this is a Taekook story. They're all part of BTS and should all be mentioned, is what I think.

I'll try to include all members and all of them to have their own side stories kinda, if you know what I mean.

Enough of this now, I'll continue writing cuz finally Namjoon and Jun motivate me enough. And also my feeling of guilt, ha funny :D

Thank you for your patience 🙏🙏💗