TAEHYUNG'S POV

"Oh, hey, dude." I greeted Jin after answering his call. I'm at the backstage at the moment and is practising for my duet performance with Irene tonight.

"You busy tomorrow?" He asked. I had a feeling that he will actually invite me to his birthday celebration for tomorrow. I hummed a no as an answer to his question. "That's great, then! You coming to my birthday celebration?"

"Yeah, sure. I would be glad to." I smiled as if I'm infront of my friend. "What gift do you want?"

"Dude, I need no present. You and your fiancé's presence is already enough." We both chuckled and I shook my head sideways slightly. I suddenly remembered this thought inside my head.

"Dude," I suddenly hesitated to tell him about my thought. He hummed a yes, probably waiting for my next statement. "What do you think about my plan of arranging a new proposal for Sana?" I said it quickly and bit my lower lip, doubting if he would agree with me or not.

"Are you serious, dude?"

"Uh-huh."

"That's amazing! So when do you plan it to happen?" I sighed and had a second thought. My savings aren't enough and if I want to marry her, I will have to earn money from my own work. "Having second thoughts on marrying her?"

"I'm actually certain that she'll be the one that I'll be marrying, but my savings aren't enough yet. Maybe it'll take a long time before I could really marry my girl." I let out a deep breath and leaned back on the wall. I played my guitar's strings as I wait for his reply.

"You know what, dude? Me and my wife is willing to help." My cheeks reddened because of embarrassment. I actually don't want to ask for help from them because if I ever ask for financial support, I won't be ever to pay them back. It'll take me a century before I can even pay them. "You can ask us a discount for the reception fee. We won't mind giving you a 70% discount."

"But it bothers me, really." I said truthfully. As much as possible, I don't want them to help me. I'll be glad if they would ever support me in marrying Sana, but I get shy all of a sudden whenever they start telling me about helping financially. If I can't support myself, how much more if I ever marry her?

"Let's talk about this tomorrow, alright? I'll gather our friends." I hummed a yes and then noticed Irene standing infront of me. She's pointing at her wrist watch, telling me that our performance will start soon, so I decided to say my good bye to Jin and hung up.

"Who was that?" She asked with a curious tone.

I stood up from my seat and carried my guitar with me. "Jin, my friend." I answered. "Do we have a big crowd?"

"Kind of? There's a lot of drunken guys outside." I just nodded and we went onstage and prepared ourselves. I smiled at them and tried strumming my guitar once, to check if it's in tune.

I greeted them as usual and introduced ourselves and then song that we're about to sing. I looked at Irene as I strummed the guitar and after that, she sang the first word.

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SANA'S POV

"Can you handle that?" I asked Momo to come with me because I wanted to watch and surprise Taehyung. And now, she's pretty nagging and mocking me as we watch my fiancé's performance with his girl best friend, I suppose. "I can feel someone's heart getting ripped." I faced her and then she smirked.

"You don't have to talk nonsense unless I tell you." I said in a low voice, but she just crossed her arms and shook her head sideways. "They already sang two songs, for Pete's sake. Aren't they done?" I know that I should really wait for them to finish, but I can't stand Taehyung's glances. They look like a couple and I don't like that thought.

"Chill out, girl. You can't fastforward time." She then massaged both of my shoulders and neared her lips to my ear. "If you don't wanna watch them, close your eyes, pabo." I elbowed her and that made her groan. It's not a really hard hit, yet she acted like she's about to die.

I looked at the stage once more to focus on Taehyung. He's introducing their last song--finally--while Irene's eyes are glued to him. Her eyes sparkled a little and there I knew that she has something going on for him.

"Hey, let's go to the backstage now." I told Momo. She nodded and lazily followed me towards the backstage. There was this big bouncer guarding the backstage. I pouted, thinking how will I get through him.

I felt like I was enlightened when I thought of this not-so-bright idea of mine, so I pulled Momo on the side and explained to her her little sacrifice.

"What?! Flirt with him?! Sana, I have a boyfriend! Do you want our relationship to get messy as heck?!" Her pitch raised, but I still tried convincing her. "I shouldn't have gone with you here." She said, a hint of sulkiness in her tone.

"I'll buy you three packs of jokbal later. Is that okay? Just do this once and if Hobi knew this, I'll explain it to him right away!" I raised my voice a little. I don't want to be heard by others, so I tried whispering in an angry tone.

"Are you holding onto your word, Ms. Minatozaki?" She raised a brow. I bet she needed more convincing offers, but I won't spend my fortune with kilograms of jokbal.

"Yes, I am! The song is pretty ending, so just go with the flow." I pushed her towards the bouncer. She did this "I-am-watching-you" look, so I just nodded and hid behind something, so I can sneak in.

Momo started talking to the bouncer who looked pretty uninterested. She started twirling her hair and touching his big biceps which is completely weird. I am cringing, really. I just waited for the moment where the bouncer is comoletely turned on with Momo. The bouncer smiled and told her a few things about himself, so that was the time I knew that I could sneak in. I did it in a flash, so that he wouldn't actually notice me and I guess it worked. I looked back at Momo and gave her a thumbs up, so she nodded a little and wrapped up her talk with the bouncer.

I reached the backstage and waited for Taehyung to finish. I know that he's assuming for me to come. I don't want to see him lonely if I won't go here. Sure, we had a little argument earlier, but that doesn't mean I should still sulk about that thing. We both matured through these past few years.

"Thank you!" He said using his microphone, so I stood straight and waited for him to come. I was expecting him to be off the stage first, but Irene appeared instead of him. She looked a little surprised, yet she smiled. Taehyung came after her and when our gazes met, he simply smiled and I rushed towards him to give him a warm and big hug.

"I thought you wouldn't come." I looked up to him and caressed his thin layer of stubbles. He's forgotten to shave again.

"It would mean the world to you if I do, right?" I grinned wider and then he nodded a little. We both giggled and he pulled me closer towards him. "Your singing was perfect, honey."

"I knew I wouldn't disappoint." He winked at me, so I chucklingly slapped his face gently. He pouted, probably asking for a kiss, so I gave him a quick peck. "Can we do the thing we had last night later?" His tone is pleading yet uncertain.

I knew I redenned because of what he asked. "Let me rest my abdomen, okay? We can't have that thing every night." I said. He nodded and I escaped from his hug. I didn't notice that Irene is still here with us. Maybe she saw all of that thing. That's a good thing because she'll knew that I got Taehyung fenced.

"Ah, I stayed here because I still have to hand this to you." Irene awkwardly gave Taehyung a long brown letter envelope. "That's your paycheck last November."

"That's great. Thanks, Irene." He walked towards her to give her a hug, but when my eyes met Irene's, she stepped back and scratched her hair. It left Taehyung a little bit confused. "What's the matter?"

"Just...not in a mood for hugs." She said, her eyes checking me from time to time. Maybe she sensed that I'll get jealous or what. That is what I call women's instincts. "Thank you for another great performance with you, Tae." He nodded and touched her arms. She shrugged it off unnoticingly and bid her good bye to the both of us.

Taehyung faced me with a pokerface, "What are you doing, honey?" He then raised a brow.

"What? I'm not doing anything!"

"Irene isn't awkward with me and I noticed that she keeps on looking at you."

"I didn't do anything, I swear. She just knew that she has to keep her distance now that she can see me and she's aware of our relationship already." He then sighed and shook his head sideways. He fixed his guitar and interlocked his fingers with mine. We both exited the backstage and headed home.

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