A/N POV:

[One year ago]

"Ninety-seven... ninety-eight... ninety-nine... one hundred."

Jimin put down the dumbbells and took a deep breath in.

"Whoo! I'll be a size plus soon", he cheered and glanced at his friend, who was staring at this smartphone.

"Hey, Taehyung" Jimin knit his brows. "You're going to train today or what?"

Taehyung didn't answer and instead just kept scrolling through his phone.

"Hey!" Jimin stomped to stand in front of his friend. "Earth to Taehyung! I'm talking to you!"

Hastily, he grabbed the phone from Taehyung's hands which seemingly made him wake up from a trance.

"Give me back my phone", he growled. "I'm not in a mood for training right now."

Jimin tilted his head and examined his friend's face.

"Be careful, Chim-Chim. Even though you trained really hard today, I can still knock you down easily." Taehyung snapped and Jimin frowned.

"Something's up with you, Tae. You seem really tense lately. Maybe you need a... distraction. It seems it has been a long time since you have been... distracted." Jimin grinned cunningly and winked. "What about...". He circled the company's fitness with his eyes and finally his gaze fell onto on a beautiful long-haired blonde with a nicely shaped booty and boobs. She was wearing tight white leggings through which you could see her black thong, and a black sports bra.

Licking his lips, Jimin glanced at Taehyung. The latter just made a disgusted face as though he had tasted something sour.

"Too cheap," he said.

"Oh, come on! She's a new trainee, super hot," Jimin sighed, but Taehyung didn't seem interested at all. "You're so picky. Okay, that one?"

He pointed at a well-built girl doing push ups in one of the corners of the gym.

"What, you want me to go on a date with Miss Bodybuilder 2018? No way." Taehyung responded sulkily and went back to checking his phone. Jimin sighed hopelessly and was ready to just give up and let his friend not get laid ever again in his life, when the gym door opened and a light-brown haired girl came in.

She had a fragile and slender figure, but it was still evident she had been working out. A couple of hair strands had broken free from her messy bun. Under the daylight her hair looked as if it was a golden waterfall Her body was nicely shaped, she had a tiny waist and long, model-like legs. Her skin seemed soft and sun-kissed, like she had been on a vacation recently. She moved so gracefully, that every man in the gym couldn't help but look at her. Some of them were openly staring, including Taehyung and Jimin. She passed right through everyone, as if she hadn't even noticed them.

"Okay, if you're not giving this a try, I am." Jimin said with a sly smile, not being able to move his eyes away from the girl. Taehyung glanced at him with a spark in his eyes, like he was somehow up for a challenge, but this spark quickly faded away.

"Go ahead", he scoffed. "For all I care, she's the kind of one-stand material that is your type."

"You're being mean, bro", Jimin pouted. "You don't even know the girl. I hear she's new, a member of the staff. I heard that she was pretty, but I wasn't picturing her to be that gorgeous. I think this is her first day. Should we welcome her?" he licked his lips. The gym was only for BigHit employees and was private, so he might have been right.

Taehyung looked away from the new girl that was doing deep lounges right in front of him. Usually, he didn't even pay attention to this type of girls. He was no Jimin. He couldn't even kiss a girl without emotional attachment. On the contrary, his friend rarely missed a chance at getting some. Slutty, trashy, cheap – he didn't care as long as they had boobs and were gone by the morning.

It wasn't that Taehyung lacked moves or didn't meet attractive girls – it was quite the opposite. The company was flooded with gorgeous trainees and employees. It was just that he knew how easily those girls would drop in his feet when he would open his mouth. It wouldn't have to be even something that smart – all he had to tell them was that they were hot and they were good to go.

But that day something rankled his brain and he raised his head to look at the beautiful girl. Well, she was pleasant on the eyes. And something in the way she didn't pay attention to the guys eyeing her like a prey caught his attention.

Taehyung shook his head. He was being a victim of his own imagination again. He was sure she was as trashy as those other ones. There was no way that she wouldn't be. He stood up and walked towards the door.

"Hey, you going home?", Jimin called out after him.

"Yeah, I'm tired. I'm going to take a shower and lie down.", Taehyung replied.

"Okay!", Jimin said cheerfully. "See you at the club tonight?"

Scurrying off to the exit, Taehyung didn't answer.

***

The phone on the bed couldn't stop buzzing.

Hoseok:

"Heeey, bro, you coming to the club or what? It's crazy in here!"

Namjoon:

"TURN DOWN FOR WHATTT? *voice message*"

Yoongi:

"Tae, come in here quickly!! Jin and Jungkook are doing tequila shots..."

Jimin:

"Aish, come down from your steel tower already, Prince Arrogant. It's full with beautiful girls in here and they're asking for you ;)"

Taehyung sighed and swept all the messages away. He was so sick of those clubs, where all they did was drink and hit on (or in his case, be hit on by) random girls. He couldn't even stand the idea of letting a stranger touch his body, let alone have sex with someone the same night he had met them. His friends could call him old-fashioned, but he didn't care at all. Even if it made him lonely...

The phone buzzed again. A message from Jin and a photo from Jimin.

Jin:

"Okayy, rfom nw on I'mm not drnkgning tquila anymore..."

Taehyung couldn't help but smile at the thought of Jin being super hangover tomorrow morning and swearing off every alcoholic beverage in the world.

He opened the chat with Jimin to see a picture of a long-legged girl with light brown, almost golden hair, sitting on a stool by a bar, holding a cocktail glass. She was wearing an elegant short black dress and black high heels with a pointed tip and was smiling to another girl next to her. Taehyung's heart skipped a beat.

It was the girl from the gym.

He couldn't decide whether she looked better in gym clothes or in that cocktail dress.

Truth be told, he would be all over her even if she was dressed in a garbage bag.

He sighed and quickly typed.

Taehyung:

"?"

Jimin:

"Oh, you didn't respond earlier, but now you reply in 0.5 seconds? Douche. ;)"

Taehyung:

"You think you can lure me out to the club with a photo of some random girl? Amateur."

Jimin:

"I'm not luring you out anywhere. I'm just showing you what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow. ;)"

Unwittingly, Taehyung clenched his jaw. The knuckles on his hands became white as he clutched his fists.

Well, then fucking be it. If Jimin wanted to have his way with a girl, goddammit, he couldn't care less.

But this girl... Taehyung zoomed in the photo on her smile. It was so pure, so child-like, in contrast to her curvy feminine body. There was something so mesmerizing about her that captivated him.

Jimin:

"Then I guess I have your blessing, huh?"

Jimin:

"She looks so innocent, but I bet she's a beast in the sheets. I'm going in ;)"

That was it. Taehyung opened his wardrobe and put on the first shirt that he saw and a pair of dark jeans. As he grabbed his coat and car keys he typed as fast as he could:

Taehyung:

"I'm on my way."