Taehyung stood waiting outside the terminal with his dark purple suitcase.
He checked his phone for the 9th time before sighing and leaning against the yellow pillar beside him.

His flight back home from New York had arrived 3 hours ago and his ride was nowhere in sight. His phone finally dinged and he fumbled to type the passcode.

Jimin 💦🍆: sry tae.. I tried to wake up ur mom but she is really sick. I'll be there in 6 minutes.

Taehyung inhaled deeply before texting his friend back.

Me: Ok,thanks Jimin.

Soon enough, a red car pulled up by Taehyung and Jimin stepped out.

"Hey." Jimin said with his hands stuffed in his pockets.

"How was New York?"

Taehyung hauled his suitcase into the trunk and nodded.

"Too many people." He said, scrunching his nose.

Jimin laughed and hopped back into the car.

Jimin kept his eye on Taehyung during the car ride. The dirty blonde was busy watching the trees pass buy to notice Jimin's concerned glances.

"Your mom misses you." Jimin finally said, eyes on the road.

Taehyung shifted uncomfortably. His relationship with his mom wasn't the greatest at the moment.

"Yeah, I know."

The car soon pulled up across the street from a café. Jimin cracked his knuckles and Taehyung made a face.

"What?"

Taehyung looked around.

"Why are we here?" He asked.

"Jungkook's s'posed to meet us there." Jimin pointed at the café.

The boys were in the car for 30 minutes before Taehyung unbuckled his seat belt. Jimin looked up from his phone at Taehyung.

"Let's just go get some coffee. I've been sitting forever." Taehyung said, opening the door and stretching his legs.

The door jingled annoyingly when Jimin and Taehyung entered the café which was strangely empty despite its massive standing on social media.

A blonde young woman was sitting on the counter, her earbuds were in so she didn't notice the two men enter the store. Taehyung eyed her  before walking up to the counter.

"Pretty sure that's a health violation." He said coolly.

The blonde looked up slowly at the tall man in front of her and took out her earbud.

"Huh?"

Taehyung rolled his eyes and gestured with his palm at the counter.

"Sitting on the counter is a health violation." He repeated.

"Who are you to tell me what is and isn't a health violation? And by the way, we're closed." She mockingly gestured to the sign.

Jimin giggled in his high pitched laugh.

"Don't you know who he is ???" Jimin said after catching his breath, still grinning.

The blonde stuck out her neck and shook her head stubbornly.

"He's Kim Taehyung? As in the best chef on the west coast? Do you seriously not know who he is?" Jimin rambled out.

" Okay so your Kim Taehyung" She said spacing out Taehyung's name dramatically. "I'm Jessica Berder."
She stretched her hand out to Taehyung.

Taehyung chortled and shook her hand.

"And I'm Jimin!"  Jimin chirped, extending his own hand.

"Wow it's a three way." Jessica said, looking down at their 3 person hand shake.

What in the world...

Taehyung turned painfully red and smiled tightly, wiping his hand on his pant leg.

"What you don't want to have a 3 way with me?" Jessica said, mockingly offended.

Jimin's mouth gaped slightly at the conversation.

The door jingled again.

"Um we're closed?" A female voice said from the entrance way.

"Carmelaaa! This guy doesn't want to have a 3 way with me!!!" Jessica whined.

"WHAT?!?"

Taehyung turned to the owner of the voice and his lips parted.

Damn..

Carmela walked up to the group of people.

"Jessica stop bothering custom-Oh my god... you Uh you're Kim Taehyung." She stuttered out unknowingly pointing at Taehyung.

"U-I- uh I'm so so sorry about my frie- my business partner here." The dark haired woman blushed and looked at Taehyung's shoes.

Jessica stared at her with disgust.

"She's not normally like this."

Taehyung chuckled.

Carmela breathed in deeply and faced the famous chef.

" I read your cookbook. It was fascinating." She said starting to walk towards the door, signaling for the group to follow her.

Carmela winced as she mentally kicked herself.

Who thinks cookbooks are fascinating?!?!??

Jessica locked the door as they slowly pushed everyone out.

Jimin was talking on the phone and walked a few paces towards a bench.

Taehyung and Carmela laughed at her description of his cookbook.

"Well it should be fascinating since it is best cookbook of the year." Taehyung said in her defense.

" I mean even Martha Stewart was fascinated"  he wiggled his eyebrows, causing Carmela to laugh.

Wow.She's got a nice laugh.

Taehyung bit his lip and grinned at the young woman.

"Taehyung! Jungkook's meeting us at home." Jimin called over at the dirty blonde.

Carmela's head shot up.

Jungkook?!

"Uh did he say Jungkook?" Carmela asked Taehyung, who was fumbling for his phone.

Now was his chance.

"Huh? Oh yeah.. Hey can I get your number? I uh really like your café, I think maybe we could talk about... business sometime? Over coffee?" He shoved his phone toward her.

Carmela gladly punched in her digits for the famous chef.

"You should bring Jungkook!" She chirped, which caused Taehyung to give her a weird look.

" I have something of his that I should probably give back to him."

Taehyung nodded slowly before saying goodbye and going off with Jimin.

"That girl was something else right?"
Jimin said absentmindedly during the drive to their shared apartment.

"Uh yah.."

How did she know Jungkook?

Were they involved?

Taehyung groaned and put his head against the window.

"Why did we go to a café for coffee and not get coffee." Taehyung asked himself.

Jimin made a noise.

"Maybe because they were closed??? God? Why did you send Taehyung down with no brain?"

Taehyung sunk into his chair and went back to watching the surroundings blur past.

His phone buzzed.

Carmela:Hey Taehyung :)

A/N: Sorry if this is boring. I'm not really good at writing. Finishing one story is on my post quarantine bucket list.