[edited with WordTune and ProAid Writing as of December 4th, 2021]

During the weekend, they spent eating their lunch together. Nahee fidgeted with the foods on her plate with the dull look on her face. Bored, she was brooding over something tiring.

To have a boyfriend...

"Nahee..." Mrs Kim carefully called. Nahee raised up her head to look at her mother. "You aren't eating."

Nahee sucked her bottom lips and nibbled it. She sighed. "I don't have the appetite..." she muttered as she put down the spoon.

"Don't tell us it's because of Jackson," Namjoon uttered as he stared at his sister.

"It's not because of him!" She glared at her brother, mad for making the sudden assumption. Her face tensed. But then she relaxed again. "Just... I don't feel like to eat."

Mrs Kim looked at his son to see his reaction to his sister sudden mood changes. Namjoon shrugged as he put down his spoon onto his plate and brought it to the sink.

"Okay..." Mrs Kim slowly got up from her seat, carrying the dishes with her. "I'll put these in the fridge. Just heat them when you're hungry, alright?" She said. Nahee nodded her head.

Namjoon and Mrs Kim left her alone at the dining table after putting the foods in the refrigerator, went to their own places after lunch. A door clicked, and she heard the television turned on in the living room. Nahee was sure that the one who was watching television in the living room was her mother, while the one who went to the room was her brother.

Nahee tightly shut her lips, exposing her dimples lightly, and sighed again. She got up from the table, bringing her plates to the sink to wash.

She took a sponge from a small container and dunk it in the dishwashing liquid. She then took a plate and started washing it with the sponge. While washing the dishes, she was deeply thinking about her mother's suggestion about coupling company.

But should she convince her mother that she gives up on finding a boyfriend instead? Or should she consider registering herself for the company? If she is to register, is the company trusted?

There was one thing which stuck in her mind, causing her to get a block of an idea. It would be a good idea to convince her mother to let her be single while she was still young, but seeing her mother's eagerness of wanting to see having a boyfriend was something she did not want to destroy. She is happy when her mother is happy.

She remembered how she and her brother had a hard time to help Mrs Kim to get over with late Mr Kim's death. She knew how deep their loves were that it took Mrs Kim a long time to move on. Her mother's sadness or disappointment was not a thing she wanted to see in her life. Being selfish was not on the list of her traits. She loves her mother...

The desperateness of her mother for wanting to see having a boyfriend seemed to have a reason (or reasons). What could it (or they) be?

Should she just go to the agency and try her luck? Or straight with her decision, giving up?

**********

They received a call from late Mr Kim's sister. Namjoon's and Nahee's aunt to make it clear in the family tree. Although Mr Kim had long gone, leaving the world but that did not stop Mrs Kim and Mr Kim's sister from continuing interacting with each other. The family invited the Kims to go for the family dinner gathering.

Nahee did not want to go because she did not want to bump into one of her cousins. That cousin had always been a fan of her dimples. He would poke and tried to bite her cheeks. She was in her twenties and the fact that her cousin treated her like a ten-year-old child drained her.

Mrs Kim was insisting on her to go with them.

"I'm going too, Nahee... So I'll help you," Namjoon said as he gave her an assuring smile.

Nahee did not know whether to trust Namjoon's words. She squinted her eyes and furrowed her eyebrows. Sometimes, Namjoon meant for his words or otherwise, so she doubted him.

"Fine..." Nahee piped, getting up from the sofa and get changed.

After changing her clothes into a proper one, she left the house with her brother and mother and got into Namjoon's car.

Namjoon started the car's engine, pushed the gear and speed up pedal. While Namjoon was turning the steering wheel to turn, Nahee, who sat at the back as a boss, spoke.

"Kim Namjoon, protect me later," Nahee instructed like a mafia boss.

"Roger, ma'am," Namjoon playfully replied. Their mother giggled at their behaviours, knowing that Nahee wanted to avoid one of her nephews.

**********

They arrived at Mr Kim's sister's house before the time ticked at 6 in the evening. Namjoon knocked on the bungalow door. When the door was opened, Mrs Jung, Mr Kim's sister, welcomed them.

They exchanged friendly hugs and greets and went inside the house. Before Nahee could even take off her footwear, someone...

"NAHEE-YAAA!!"

The cousin!

Nahee's eyes widened when she saw someone came to her with wide arms opened, wanting to engulf her in a hug. The cousin also has dimples but did not know why he found Nahee's dimples cuter and likely to fond of her dimples than himself.

Nahee ran to hide behind her brother, ran around him as the cousin tried to get her.

Jung. Ho. Seok
...also ran around to catch her, wanted to give her hug. Nahee did not want to be hug because she knew Hoseok would never let her breath in it, even just for a minute.

Namjoon was tumbling because of Nahee and Hoseok. He felt troubled. He could not control himself from standing straight. The noises from Nahee, Namjoon and Hoseok became their parents' attractions.

"Namjoon, you said you're going to protect me!"

"How am I going to protect you when Hoseok is this optimistic?!"

"Nahee-ya! Come to Hobi oppa!"

The parents laughed at seeing their children's actions.

**********

They finished their dinner, and now; they were having a conversation. Nahee did not want to meddle with the elders' talk. Namjoon was nowhere to be seen with Hoseok. So, not to be rude, Nahee excused herself to go outside to get some air on the verandah.

She stepped out of the house and approached a gazebo. She went there and sat on the bench as she admires the dark sky, supporting her chin with both of her palms.

She stared at the sky while imagining some handsome boys she had met or saw to have a romantic and sweet relationship.

Oh lord, let's exclude Seungri and Jackson from her imagination. Remembering them was only spoiling her imagination. Maybe the actors she saw on TV? Lee Jongsuk? Lee Soohyuk? Yeo Jingoo?

She imagined any of the actors she has seen on television. Her head tilted to the side, deep into the imaginations.

Jung Hoseok noticed his cousin was sitting at the gazebo alone, dreamily giggled at something. Hoseok scrunched his face, seeing Nahee in that state, wondering what the girl was thinking.

He approached the gazebo as Nahee still dreaming. He entered the gazebo and watched her. Nahee seemed to have to lose her mind. It was creepy for him to see Nahee was smiling alone.

"Yah..." He called in a low tone, but Nahee seemed really deep in his imagination (imaJINATION)...

"Yah!" Hoseok called again, startling Nahee from her day-dreamland. Nahee shot her eyes towards Hoseok and then groaned as she put down her arms to rest on the table.

"What's with you?" Hoseok asked.

"What's with me?" Nahee furrowed her eyebrows, asking him back.

"You're smiling like someone out of his mind..."

"I am out of my mind." Nahee sighed and shook her head, emphasizing a word.

Even though Hoseok may be playful, clingy and loved to annoy her, like how her brother annoyed her, Hoseok was also like a loyal brother who asked the younger sibling for his concern. Not to say Namjoon never did the same thing Hoseok did to Nahee, but seeing Nahee could be stubborn sometimes, Namjoon sometimes would give until Nahee opened up her matters by herself to him and Mrs Kim.

"What's up?" Hoseok asked.

Nahee pursed her lips, exposing her dimples lightly.

"My mother..." Nahee muttered. Hoseok's eyebrows knitted this time.

"What's with auntie?"

"She wants me to have a boyfriend, argh!" Nahee grunted as she covered her face in her palms. Stresses piling up again.

"So, no wonder you looked like already losing your mind just now," Hoseok chuckled after that when he remembered Nahee was daydreaming in the gazebo. Nahee sadly nodded her head.

For a while, there was a silence until Hoseok spoke again.

"Hey, have you heard about the contract coupling company?"

Nahee raised up her head to look at her cousin. She nodded her head again.

"How about you try your luck? That company..." Hoseok softly smiled before he continued. "...is quite good."

Nahee scrunched her eyebrows when seeing her cousin's reaction in confessing how good the agency was. Curious, she was thinking if Hoseok ever went there.

"You went there before?" Nahee ask out of blue. Hoseok smiled and left her question unreplied. Nahee's instincts were telling her that Hoseok had gone there for sure.

And she sensed the smile was telling her something. True happiness, but sorrow. And because of that, she became confused if the company was good like how Hoseok had mentioned, or bad like how the smile that Hoseok showed was actually not entirely a happy one. It was more like he was yearning for someone.

"Are you recommending me to go there?" Nahee asked again.

Hoseok shrugged as pouted his bottom lips. It frustrated Nahee at how her cousin answered her question only by actions. The older cousin chuckled when seeing the expression of Nahee as if she wanted to kill him.

"Well, it's up to you. If your mother desperately wants you to have a boyfriend, then I recommend you to go there," Hoseok advised. "But I'm reminding you. If they asked how long you want the contract relationship to last, make sure it is a short period. Choosing the longer one hurts," he continued, seriously giving the younger advice and tips.

Curious and her head full of questions to why choosing the longer period hurt.

"Why? How does it hurt?" Nahee asked.

It only was Hoseok able to smile at her and looked up at the dark sky.

"Just do as I say, Nahee-ya," he softly uttered.

"And if I don't?"

Hoseok looked at her. He softly sighed, "if you don't, you'll feel how painful actual love actually is. Especially when you have to let it go and you can't get the person back since the person's tied for being the permanent worker there."

Hearing at Hoseok's comment, she furrowed her eyebrows. She had gone through how she lost a man whom she loved back then when she was young. Her father. She loved her father. But the man left the world, no more here.

Of course, it was painful that she had to let go of her father, to let him rest in peace in heaven. But she accepted the reality and moved on, eventually. She later helped her brother with her mother, who had a harder time to cope with the loss. It was painful to see the loved one's leave.

Will the pain that Hoseok mentioned be as painful as that? Or painful than that one?

She stared at her cousin for a while and then she looked up at the plain, dark sky with him.

**********

Nahee was mulling over Hoseok's words. Her arm rested on the line of the car's door, watching everything that passed by as the car drove by Namjoon.

She could not find some boys for choices anymore. She could not even ask her friends for help again, or else they will recommend some random guy that would end up talking about economics theory or made her come back home with a bird-nest hairstyle.

She could not ask Namjoon for help either. Busy, Namjoon always said he is busy. Well, okay... She knew her brother was busy as a composer and a songwriter, busy to compose and write songs for singers.

Not even her mother...
Mrs Kim would recommend Nahee, a weird-looking lad with huge braces, big rounded spectacles. Split hairstyle and high waist pant, shirt tucked in... That's a horrifying image for her...

No other options were other than to go to that agency in order to fulfil her mother's request.

"BigHit Relationship Agency!"

Namjoon's and Mrs Kim's shoulders suddenly jumped because of the sudden shout Nahee made.

With an index finger stood, she looked at her reflection in the back rear-view mirror. Mrs Kim and Namjoon looked at each other for a while before making a glance strangely looked at Nahee.

"I'm ready!"