5 A VISION OR JUST A DREAM?

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I'm in a bakery.

The air is alight with a warm fragrance of chocolate and cinnamon and spices, notes of vanilla floating through. Wide windows let in radiant sunlight that caresses each curve, edge and dip in the simple room.

Honey-golden wood floors and rustic, light tables fill the space with airiness and openness.

A long glass bar showcases freshly basked muffins, cinnamon rolls and a tray of chocolate chip cookies.

I inhale deeply through my nose, reveling in the ambiance.

A cheerful voice pulls my attention to the doorway to the kitchen.

In it stands a man in a soft, creamy sweater, whose smile makes a calm, peaceful feeling settle in my chest.

"Hi, Namjoon!" you breathe, staring at the tray of sweet rolls he's cradling to his chest.

His dimples make an appearance as he motions back to the doorway through which he came.

"We've been waiting for you" Namjoon says sweetly."Jin made your favourite brownies. Everyone's in the back."

I nod and namjoon whisks the tray off to the counter in order to put the sweet rolls inside.

Meanwhile,I wander through the door into the back, peeking my head around the frame.

Within is an elegant man in an apron, stirring a bowl of dough with a wooden spoon in the midst of a homey kitchen. He's splattered with flour, his rosebud lips pursed in a slight smile.

Behind him at a round table sit two more men, chattering with each and other and with the cooks.

They're all dressed in shades of white and cream and eggshell, the slightest glow gracing their skin to the point that I have to almost squint when you look at them.

The way the two at the table speak to each other reminds me of a pair of close siblings.

"Jin" I murmur absently "Jimin, Jungkook".

The three look up from their playful banter, each gifting you with a bright smile.

"Y/N!!!!" Jimin cheers. He pops up from the table and embraces you for a moment, then motions back to the table "You're here! Look, these are for you and your..." he trails off, shooting a sly grin at jungkook and wiggling his eyebrows "...your man."

your man? my man?

My peering gaze of confusion doesn't register with the men as they all laughing at Jimin's statement.

Jungkook passes off a pkate of thick, chocolate-studded brownies in my hands.

"Peanut-butter chocolate chip" chirps Jin "These are you favourite. Eat them all or I'll stuff them down your throat."

okayyyyyyyy

I break off an edge of one and pop into my mouth, gasping at the vivid tumult of flavours that cascades across the surface of my tongue. My shocked expression promts another round of laughter from the men in the kitchen.

"That face gets me every time," Jungkook giggles "You always look the same when you eat Jin's brownies."

Always? Something about this whole situation is off, but i can't put a finger on why....,

The kitchen door swings open to admit a sweet baby face with the nose lifted into the air, like a hunting dog on point.

"Brownies?" Yoongi questions eagerly. "I smelled brownies." and when he smiles, i have to blink in suprise to make sure that adorbaly gummy grin is real.

"Those aren't for you!" says the oldest "Get out, you Vermin!"

Yoongi groans and persistently tries to reach around his elder, his long, pale fingers grasping for the plate in my hand.

"I'll die without them," groans the man dramatically "Y/N, do you want me to die?"

"Hoseok!!" Jin yells as he simultaneously runs interference. He's swatting yoongi's hands with weak blows, mainly using his tall body as a sheild between the smaller man and the plate.

Like a knight prepared to slay a dragon, the lean hoseok comes roaring into the kitchen at his friend's call.

"protect" jin shouts, pointing at you and tge brownies.

Hoseok performs a tiny military salute and then takes the brownies in his hand, throwing me over his shoulder in one smooth movement.

I let out a tiny oof! when all of the air is forced out of my lungs at the impact.

"I needed to find you anyways" Hoseok says his voice jumping up and down in pitch as he runs.

Once I make it out of the door and into the front gate, his footsteps slow down."He ssked me to come and find you.:

He?

"This feels so weird." you mumble to yourself. It's not normal.

This isn't not normal.

Why am i letting these men lug me around wherever they want?

My mind is foggy and vague. How did i get here again?

Hoseok carries me through another staff door, into a small room that's equipped with a table, refrigerator and a microwave. It looks like a break room of some sort.

At the table sits another man.

His black eyes are trained down on a sheet of paper, fingers clasped lightly around a mechanical pencil.

His full lower lip is trapped by his white teeth, nibbling as he concentrates.

When Hoseok lets you down on the floor, your feet thunking to the floor, the man looks up.

And when his gaze clashes with mine, all of the breath is knocked out my chest, like someome just sucker pumched me in the lungs.

"Taehyung" you breathe.

He tilts his head, watching you with haunting doe eyes the color of the deepest space, the darkest storm.

"Hey, princess!" he says

His voice tumbles through my chest like a bolt of thunder, the name sending waves of warmth screaming through me. Without my consent, my body drops into the chair across the table from him.

Hoseok sets the brownies on the table and slips out the door, leaving me and Taehyung alone.

said ebony-haired man drops his pencil and stretches his arms over his head, yawning.

"Mm, you brought me brownies!" he groans reaching for the plate. He takes one and chomps a big bite out of it, chewing happily all the while as I work to process what's going on?

parallel universe?

new life?

did i die in car crash?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

"here'' mumbles Taehyung through a mouthful of peanut butter chocolate chip crumbs "have some. I know Jin hyung made them for you."

Gingerly, you take a brownie and nibble on it.

"what's going on?" I ask.

Taehyung's brow furrow in question "what do you mean? and why are you sitting all the way over there? "

He leans over and hooks his long finger under my chair, dragging me to him with a scrapping noise across the floor.

When my chair is pressed to his, Taehyung grins in satisfaction and lays his arm across the back.

"That's better"

uhh....

Staring at him as if he's a rabid alien, I slowly shake my head.

What the heck? The two of us just recently met!

Even as i stare at him, Taehyung's eyes soften indescribably while he gazes at me. I take another bite of brownie to hide my blush and fix my gaze on the table.

"Hey," says the beautiful man beside me, his finger hooks under my chin and directs my eyes to him.

For a moment the two of us simply watch, traving the curves and the lines of other's face with delicate intensity.

Then Taehyung leans forward in his chair and envelopes my bottom lip with his.

Holy crap!

I don't know how to react as he gently licks at my lip, feeling the moist warmth feeliing of his mouth tongue against me.

He draws back long enough to sigh "you had chocolate on your mouth" before he leans in for a deeper kiss..

I can't do anything but clutch the strength of his shoulders, letting him guide me through the small pecks. One of his hand cups my jaw, the other trailing down to rest at the small of my back, pressing my body toward him.

Taehyung's kissing me!

TAEHYUNG..!!

The guy everyone wants....the famous korean idol! the person i just met yesterday?

He pulls back and licks his lips slowly, smirking at my dazed expression.

"yeah, Jin hyung's brownies are my fav," he says silkily "-but nothing can taste better than my princess!"

"Holy heck!" I jump push in a jumble of words to create a breathy response "What kind of drugs did you put in your coffee this morning?!!!"

He laughs and pecks me on the fleshy part of my cheek before withdrawing back into his space. He picks up his pencil. "What are you talking about?

"What am i-what am i talking about?" I'm crazed, theatrical, numb with disbelief "Since when are we on kissing terms? since when are we on any terms at all? we just met each other!!"

A frown bends Taehyung's lips into an upside down U.

"yeah, we met each other" he says slowly " but that was like 2 years ago. We've been together for a long time now, princess. Are you alright?"

Two years.

I sit back in my chair, stumped. Is this a vison? Some kind of jacked up hallucination?

Taehyung lifts up my left hand from the table, cradling up in his bigger hand like a precious treasure.

His lips grace your knuckles, and his teeth nip at the tip of one of your fingers.

Then Kim Taehyung sighs and says "I love you Y/N!"

And that's when I jerk awake!

my head pounds and i lay limply in the backseat of the car, thoughts racing over every single event that just happened inside the most beautiful nightmare I've ever had!

Taehyung? and me? together?

like heck that'll ever happen.

I squint my eyes open and find that the car had stopped near a bakery and the driver was out to purchase some stuff from there!

well, that's where the bakery part of my dream must've come from.

Was that really just a dream?

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