Ten years. For ten years you had been fighting yourself to overcome this agony. For ten years you had been trying to forget this man who sat in front of your eyes, coughing violently. How difficult and painful it was to squelch your heart, only you knew or your God did.

Cruel fate!

Every time you thought you finally succeeded in smudging away his memories, something happened which again scratched your scars and left you die in that agonizing pain. You suffered from that shit so much that you became used to it. Now the shock didn't even bother you, seeing him before your eyes and reading a thousand tales written on his pale face. It didn't take longer than a moment for you to paste a wide smile on your lips and back away the rising emotions which seemed to be squeezing blood from your heart.

"Oh, Heyy...Min Yoongi," You chirped, "what a surprise. Long time huh!" Advancing towards him, you passed him an ear to ear grin.

What an acting!

Yoongi got stiffened, couldn't even move an inch. His eyes fixed on the face his heart worshipped for years.

Gosh! You were changed. The short chubby body that he used to poke and make fun of once, was replaced by a tall, slim and trimmed one. Your silky black short hair was now reaching down to your butt. Your once confused pout was replaced by a confident smirk. The kind of smirk which could kill many men in a line.

He felt like his heart would break out of his ribs as you got closer to him and leaned to give him a welcoming hug. He put his trembling hands on the table for the support to stand up, and hardly managing a smile on lips, he could only stutter in reply...

"H-heyy!"

He snaked his trembling arms around your waist. Burying his face in the crook of your neck he inhaled your scent deeply like it was oxygen for him. How much he yearned for this embrace! He closed his eyes tightly to dive into the sensational moment and stayed like that for a few moments. You clearly felt his condition but didn't say anything about it.

"Nobody told me you're back," You said while detaching from him and looked at Namjoon for explanation. Namjoon, who stood there and watched the whole scene with a stiff body, blinked a few times and licked his lips nervously before saying...

"Ah actually he just arrived yesterday and I'm also just informed so I came here to see him."

You again looked at Yoongi's pale face who, not for once shifted his gaze from you. It was unintentional. There was nothing he could do. His eyes worshipped each and every feature of you unknowingly, your eyes, your nose, your lips, your trimmed jawline, your neck, your-

As his gaze fell on your deep V-neck, his breath hitched unknowingly. Seeing a tiny line carved by your breast made him feel something, and he knew what that something was.

Your brows hiked when you found him lost in you. You cleared your throat to make him come to senses.

"Ahm ahm, anyway, welcome back.." Your words dragged him out of his thoughts. He immediately looked away and blinked for a couple of times.

"Uhh yea- thanks..."
He hardly managed to form words.

"It's my pleasure to see you," You smiled at him and his breaths went incoherent. He tried to press the sudden feeling by pasting a smile on his lips, the smile on which you could sacrifice your world once.

Once!

"I- I hope we meet often.." He said.

"So do I, but sorry for now. We are in a bit hurry," You said with a slight smirk and turned to Namjoon, " Namjoon, we better get going now."

Namjoon just nodded quietly and you both exited the café, leaving Yoongi in the surprisal. He felt like his brain had stopped processing. He fell in the chair.

What just happened!

He thought it would be any dramatic scene of you two seeing each other again after that long, just like in the movies. He thought the everything would stop when he would see you, the air the people, the nature , everything. He thought he would cage you in his arms for never letting go again. He thought his heart would explode out of emotions. But nothing happened, absolutely nothing.

He looked out of the window. Snow was falling, first snow of the season. He still remembered how much you loved snowfalls. He still remembered every time you told him you love it when he's with you, how your face flashed red like a tomato.

How dumb he was! Dumb to his extreme. He never understood your small and simple confessions. He exhaled a grieved sigh, thinking about if the time was the same, if you were the same...if you still loved the snow, if you still loved Yoongi.

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"I still can't believe it. I thought Yoongi was gonna faint in your arms.."
Coming behind you, Namjoon snickered. You heard it clearly but didn't stop to look back at him. Instead, your pace on the stairs quickened.

"Why would he do that? We're just friends." You replied and he went totally quiet after that. Maybe he didn't expect this answer.

You said those words to Namjoon plainly, but deep inside how heavy your heart was_ you and only you knew.

But you had to do this. You had no choice. You couldn't destroy your world for him once again, the world which took you whole ten years to rebuild. Your scars, if not totally healed, at least they were faded much and you couldn't allow anyone to re-scratch them.

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Yoongi maybe was lucky nowadays. Maybe God was at his side, or at least he thought when he saw you out of the department store he just came to do some shopping for himself.

"Y/N!?"
His eyes shone like diamonds when he saw you.

As you turned around to see the owner of the voice, you found him carrying some bags with him.

"Oh hey! Wassup?" You passed a grin.

He came to you,
"Nothing much, just here for some shopping, how 'bout you?" He replied with a glad smile, pretty glad.

"Same here," You said and showed him the bags you held. He started walking along with you.

"Want some help?" He asked. You smiled at his question.

These courtesies!

"No, I got my own car. A little distant, but I'll manage." Shaking your head, you refused the offer with a soft grin. His expression fell a little but he didn't say anything, just kept walking slowly beside you silently.

"So," You broke the silence after a few seconds, "How's your life going? You got married?" This question was breathtaking for you, but you must ask him that for that was the matter which changed your everything.

His face changed colors, "No, I didn't." With his point to point reply, you turned your face to him in shock. Your feet stopped. He stopped and looked behind at you with a spot face.

"Why?"

"Because I didn't want to marry that girl." He replied, face expressionless and tone plain. Your brows furrowed.

"What was your Dad's reaction? And the girl?" You asked, and joined him in the walk again.

Well that's not what he expected you to ask him. If you'd ask him something else, like 'who did you want to marry?' He would definitely reply with your name.

Alas!

He took in a deep breath and replied,

"Dad didn't talk to me for weeks, but gradually everything came to normal routine. And the girl wanted my name, my status, my money, not me. So I rejected her."

At his explanation, you felt your heart ache. Despite knowing the pain deep down, you became stranger to the feeling. Just nodding at his words quietly, you kept going.

"But I'm happy," He broke the silence this time, "The decision I took then has proved right. Now I guess finally I found the I searched for." Happiness and delight evident in his voice. You looked at him and he looked at you. He opened his mouth,

"I- "

Before he could say anything else, a voice grabbed both of your attention towards it.

"Hey Jagi..!!"

Both you and Yoongi turned to the voice and Yoongi felt the same disliking sensation again as he saw the owner of the voice. The same shining eyes. The same bright smile. The same threatening alarm.

Your face at once brightened as you saw the person, and Yoongi felt that. You, throwing the shopping bags at the spot, rushed to the person and caged him in a tight hug.

"You're back!?" Your happiness on the peak. He wrapped his arms around your waist and dug his face in the crook of your neck. Before detaching, he kissed your shoulder blade and replied,

"Yep!"

You smiled and closed your eyes as he planted another soft kiss on your temple. You were going to say something when your glance again fell on Yoongi who watched the whole scene with burning eyes and heart.

"Oh yeah, " You said, "lemme introduce you to someone." You took him to Yoongi and they both saw each other in a strange way.

"Meet Yoongi, my old friend," You said and these words stabbed in his heart.

Old friend...

You continued, totally unaware of the storm raised in his heart....

"And Yoongi, meet Jungkook...my boyfriend..."

Yoongi felt like a bomb exploded over his head.

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to be continued....
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Why does it happen whenever you want to take a breath of peace, he comes to fill poison in your life?

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