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They stayed silent as food were taken into their mouths. Taehyung was eating as carefully as he could, trying to chew his food without chomping it loudly like he usually did. Nahee was trying to maintain her table ethics, did not dare to look up at the men in front of her. She only stole glances at Jungkook just to see if he gave her signs whether she had done something wrong. It wasn't her insecurity that made her like this but since the CEO was with them, she tried to maintain her modesty. So far, she didn't see any, so she was confident with her actions at that moment.
Jungkook, on the other hand, was eating like he usually do. He felt comfortable with Mr Bang, so he didn't mind of showing the way he ate. He took a small amount of every dishes they ordered. His rice bowl became full of food.
That surprised Nahee. He's quite a big eater even though he had a quite buff body. And the fact that he didn't care whether the dish was deeply fried or not, it almost making him looked like he wasn't a gym coach. Maybe, Nahee's thoughts about gym coaches weren't as what the real gym coaches actually were.
Mr Bang put down his spoon and chopsticks as he chewed his food. Taehyung became aware of what going to happened next when his eyes caught Mr Bang's movement. Once the food was mashed and swallowed, the CEO of BigHit CR calmly began to say, "how is your relationship going?"
As the CEO was not the first person who asked the same question, Nahee was a little bit annoyed. However, Jungkook appeared more relaxed than she was. It was likely to say that Jungkook was very used to get the question from the CEO. She began to believe that Mr Bang was asking to know if they had any problems and as an elder, he would give advices.
However, what Jungkook had in mind was wasn't like Nahee thought. He might appeared calm, though he was tired of getting the question as well. Yoongi and Aeri asked the same question before. But he didn't mind or get angry on having the CEO asking him. And Nahee was right, Mr Bang asked the question on every contract relationship he and others had.
Jungkook sighed, putting down his chopsticks on the table as he chewed his food. He hummed and then swallowed his food. "This is Nahee's first relationship. She has a problem with not getting used to get called with pet names."
Nahee was flustered when her name and the problem in their relationship were mentioned. "What?" Her eyes widened when she looked at Jungkook. She heard Mr Bang chuckled after that.
"You are shy, am I right?" Mr Bang asked.
Nahee's tensed shoulders relaxed. Maybe she shouldn't have been annoyed at the Mr Bang's question. He seemed the chillest person she ever met after Yoongi. Nahee thought for a moment, maybe she should exclude Yoongi from the chillest person impression. There's something in her mind that cancelled Yoongi being the chillest person.
Nahee let out a small and stuttering, "y-yeah..."
Mr Bang smiled at them and said, "you gotta go easy on her, Jungkook. Let her call you any pet names any time she wants."
"I've been thinking I should teach her some basic dating rules. We don't meet always. This trip makes us seeing each other the longest," Jungkook told.
With a fatherly tone, Mr Bang said, "the time of how long both of you seeing each other isn't supposed to be a problem on teaching a girl something useful. Nahee signed the contract for two years, right?"
Jungkook answered, "yeah."
"Don't rush. Nahee will have her semester holidays anytime. Then on that holidays, teach her as much as you can. Time is indeed limited, but when you're together, everything seems slow even though you feel it fast. Every lessons you teach her even without pointing what this or that is, she'll still know as she is with you. Let her have time. Understand, Jungkook?"
Jungkook became silent. He nodded his head later before taking a cup of water and drank. He started to feel bad for rushing almost everything. 'Nahee must've been feeling uncomfortable,' he thought.
The room became quiet again. Nahee and Taehyung (the slowest eaters of the day) were trying to finish their meal, while Mr Bang was checking mails on his phone. Jungkook was the only who did nothing but stared blankly at the table.
However, all of sudden, "But..."
Nahee, Mr Bang and Taehyung looked at Jungkook.
"What if," he halted, still staring on the table.
Me Bang pushed his spectacles and calmly said. "What if what?"
"What happens if... one day..." Jungkook halted again.
"Okay. What will happen one day?"
"What if one day we..." Jungkook halted again.
Frustrated, Taehyung muttered, "gosh, is his brain lagging?" Taehyung got up from his seat and smacked the younger's head. Jungkook yelped.
Mr Bang didn't scold him, he laughed at them as if they were his children, playing.
"Ah! Taehyung hyung, what the hell?!"
"Is your system okay now?"
"What f**king system are you talking about?"
Taehyung ignored him. "Uhm, Mr Bang, Thank you for food! I eat well!" He said with his boxy smile.
"Jungkook, your language," Nahee scolded softly. Jungkook rolled his eyes
Feeling annoyed at Taehyung, Jungkook got up from his seat and smacked the older's neck hard. Taehyung yelped as he held his neck. Baffled, the older got up from his seat and tried to smack Jungkook back, but he couldn't when Jungkook immediately held his wrists with a hand.
Taehyung tried hard to free his wrist but Jungkook's grip was so strong.
Mr Bang sighed, he then looked at Nahee. "I'm sorry on these children behalf."
Nahee awkwardly chuckled. "Uh... Yeah. I mean, it's fine."
The childish fight getting more disturbing when the table started to shake. That was when Mr Bang's yelled, "enough you two!"
Nahee got startled. Her eyes widened and her body stiffened. The boys immediately stopped and Jungkook glared at Taehyung before letting go Taehyung's wrists. Both of them sat down.
"I'm sorry," the men said in unison before glaring at each other.
Nahee stayed quiet for awhile. She then made a glance at Jungkook who was coincidentally checking on her too. The girl made signs subtly to tell him that he should have stayed still and not fight Taehyung back. Jungkook was only to pout and nodded once before reaching a glass of water on the table. Nahee copied him later.
The quietness broke as Mr Bang questioned Taehyung this time, "Taehyung, how about your relationships?"
"Which relationship do you want to know?"
"Well... Any two out of six?"
Nahee choked on her water and coughed.
"Looks like someone doesn't know that we can have more than one contract relationship," Taehyung said.
Jungkook hesitantly rubbing the woman's back to calm her down. Nahee was trying to reach her water again with shaky hands. Her boyfriend then helped her to drink as her hands were shaking due to the cough.
Once she was drinking and calmed down, she looked at Jungkook and then at Taehyung and Mr Bang. She then gulped her saliva and coughed a little.
"Are you okay, Nahee?" Mr Bang asked.
"Y-y-yes," Nahee replied.
"It looks like Nahee doesn't know about this," Mr Bang said as he looked at Jungkook.
Nahee's contracted boyfriend softly sighed. He looked at her and mumbled, "I'll explain to you later."
Nahee sat there quietly for awhile before diverting her gaze to other places.
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Mr Bang dismissed the gathering and let the clients with their boyfriends and girlfriends go anywhere they wanted in Jeju. However, Taehyung had to stay with him under his commands.
Nahee and Jungkook decided not to go anywhere far. They went to take a stroll around the hotel compound. It was quite a long silence ever since they left the dining area. Jungkook didn't know how to start the conversation. The biggest thing that he had in mind at that time was to explain to Nahee about having multiple contract relationship.
Usually, he was fine with having more than one contract but to think that he was with Nahee, he didn't think he would be okay with that anymore.
"Jungkook."
The said man looked at her.
"Uhm," Nahee looked at him this time as a tight smile created on her face. "Uh... Mind to explain about the... about the... multiple relationship?"
"Oh... Sure. What do you want to know?"
"Everything."
Jungkook licked his lips. "Well... Us, the boyfriends and girlfriends choices are allowed to have more than one client. So this means I might get chosen after you."
"But can you reject the client?"
"That..." Jungkook halted. He then shook his head. "We can't reject the client even if we wanted to. They come with money after all. To get us in a contract relationship for some reasons."
"Oh."
"You don't have to worry about that. You're my only client," Jungkook said. "For now."
Nahee looked at him and then ran her gaze to the ground. She let out a small "oh."
Silence. They reached at a ground full with pebbles. The cracking sounds of the stones and pebbles scratched against one another were the only noises that came in their eardrums.
"You're my extraordinary client, you know?"
Nahee was flustered. "Me?"
Jungkook nodded.
"How come?"
"Many reasons."
The girl chuckled, "tell me then."
"I never meet someone who is so blurr about relationship."
"Eyy! Liar. You could have met one."
"I'm being honest. Most of my clients used to hire me because they wanted their ex-boyfriends to get jealous. I think, I do well on making them jealous."
"So that is why you're a five-star boyfriend?"
Jungkook laughed, "maybe? I don't care how they think about me doing my job anyway. I always rely on the people at the company talking."
Nahee then smiled at him and giggled. "Never thought someone like you actually do well in this kind of thing without knowing the client's feedback."
Jungkook then smugly smiled and heightened his chest. "I'm gold," he said as he pat his own shoulder with a smug.
Nahee giggled again.
They reached at a garden. There are a few couples there, talking sweetly while some were talking selfies with a Polaroid camera that was borrowed from the company.
They chose to sit on a bench after that.
"Jungkook, now that we sit. I want us to talk about the multiple contract relationship."
"Sure."
"Is it possible if you discuss with Mr Bang soon, to exclude you from being on of the choices?"
"Uhm... I've never done that."
"Is it okay though?"
Jungkook kept quiet to think. "I can talk to Mr Bang if you want."
"Ohh...kay."
"Why the question? Is it because you hate sharing?"
"Not that."
"Then, what?"
Yes, then what? If it wasn't she hated sharing a contract boyfriend with other girls, then what? Why did this topic make her feel insecure?
"Nevermind. J-just keep yourself as the choices."
Jungkook raised an eyebrow playfully. "Are you sure, Kim Nahee?"
Nahee saw his reaction. "Uhm. Yeah."
Jungkook then cooly said, "okay." He then rested his back on the bench's back rest and crossed his arm. Smiling at Nahee for awhile (and got her smiled back), he then watched the other couples around.
On the other hand, Nahee was questioning herself. There were a lot of thoughts that roaming around her mind. She then later found out that she started to feel insecure although she shouldn't.
Her thoughts went away for a moment when Jungkook suddenly called, "Nahee."
"Uhm?"
"Be yourself."
Nahee almost didn't know what Jungkook was trying to tell her. But it could be about the nicknames fuss. But it didn't match to her logic...
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