Today, Jimin was able to pick me up after school, and he rushed home. I would almost say he was driving faster than Tae was the other day.

As we entered the house, all the boys was in the living room, pacing around almost biting their nails off. Except for one.

"They're here." Taehyung said, Jungkook laughing at the careless tone in his voice.

"Finally!" Yoongi pulled his hair.

"Took you long enough!" Jin spoke and Namjoon nodded.

"What do you mean, we're home 5 minutes sooner than usual!" Jimin said.

"Guys chill, you're all stressing too much." I laughed off the tension.

Namjoon's phone screen lit up in the dark room with all lights off, making everyone's eyes land on it.

"They're here! Hide!" The leader said.

Jimin pulled me by the arm and we got behind the couch, hiding.

A faint sound of a voice complaining outside the door was heard as the only thing, "We're done for the day aren't we?" The handle was pushed down, "Why are you still recording?"

The door creaked open, letting sunlight in the dark room, "Why's all the lights off?"

"Happy birthday to you..." We all jumped up and sang as Hoseok switched on the lights.

His lips curled up into a big bright smile and his eyes disappeared.

"Waaa, you're too- waaa." He said, flabbergasted.

Jin, who was holding the cake put it all up in Hoseok's face, "Blow."

Hoseok blowed out the candles and grabbed a strawberry from the cake.

"Waaa, thank you guys~" He smiled and gave us all hugs.

"Hyung, get dressed. We're going out." Taehyung clapped his older brother on the shoulder, the older's mouth turning into an o.

"We're going out?" He questioned.

"Ya! It's your 25th birthday Jhope! What do you mean 'we're going out'? Of course we're going out!!" Jin almost scolded, but I could sense they were used to Jin's attitude.

"Half fifty. Half old." I smiled, sticking out my tongue at him.

"Ya! Be nice to your elders." Hoseok nudged me, "And don't you have school tomorrow?"

"It's Friday." I perked my brow at him.

These dudes had no sense of time.

"Oh yeah, right." He laughed.

"To the salon!" Jin bursted out, his index finger in the air pointing to wherever he was going.

We laughed at him, and all went our separate ways to get dressed.

A few days had passed by since the Jungkook nightmare. It seemed as if it was a single performance fortunately.

I had also started to think about heading home again. The boys had been so generous and welcoming... at least six of them... and I didn't want to burden them anymore. Even though I was pretty good at minding my own business and it was a big house, I felt like I took up a lot of space.

I just didn't know what to do or what to say to my mom. Should I tell her I'm sorry? Did I really need to talk to her? Should I just sneak in?

She had only called me the first night I was gone, when I had went to Soomin and the day after.

Five days without texts nor calls from her. Was she even worried?

Honestly I would've loved living with the boys permanently, but I figured I should get my life together and deep down, I didn't want to loose my mom, even though I was still a bit mad on the outside.

I was in the bathroom, putting on mascara as the last touch before I was ready. Unintentionally I made a weird grimace, concentrating on doing my bottom lashes without messing up.

I didn't usually do my make up and hair like I did that day, but I wanted to try something different. I had a feeling we were going to a posh restaurant as it was a birthday celebration.

The door next to me creaked and Jimin's chuckle was heard. I ignored him and kept applying the mascara.

His figure appeared in the mirror behind me and not soon after a pair of cold hands landed on my hips sending chills through my body.

Always so cold

He brushed my slightly curled hair to the side, gently kissing my neck.

I put the mascara brush into its container and looked up from the sink and into the mirror again, our eyes meeting for the first time since he entered. I smiled at him.

He smiled back, "Trying something new hm?"

"Mhmm, you like it?" I fluttered my lashes.

"You look great no matter what, Princess." He placed a kiss on my cheek.

I smiled and leant into him, my back resting against his chest and his hands still resting on my hips.

"Can you put some on me?"

I widened my eyes at him, almost about to jabber about how long it took me to do my makeup, but he took the word, "The mascara only." He laughed.

"Sure." I laughed and moved from the sink, making space for him. He got up on it, pulling me between his legs.

I grabbed the mascara again, putting it on his already ridiculously long lashes, making them even longer and darker. They were longer than mine.

Life's unfair!

As I finished I kissed his cheek, "We gotta go." I smiled.

He didn't answer, we both just stopped, staring at each other with stupid smiles on our faces.

"Haru? Is Jimin in there?" Hoseok's voice sounded from outside the bathroom.

I ripped my eyes from Jimin's and faced the door, "We'll be there in a minute." I yelled back.

"The other's are waiting." I told Jimin and walked towards the door.

"They can wait." Jimin said, his eyes now hungrily scanning me up and down, "You know.. navy blue is my favourite colour." He said.

I know Jimin. That's why I chose this, duh

"You can wait Mr Park." I giggled and grabbed his hand, pulling him down from the sink, "Let's go."

The evening went by pretty fast. It was a lot of fun celebrating Hoseok's birthday. It wasn't even that fancy of a restaurant and it made me feel more like I actually fit in.

I didn't drink much that evening after noticing most of the others already drunk before the food arrived. Someone had to be the responsible one. That's ironic, considering my mom's words about me not being responsible at all.

But as I said, the evening went by pretty fast and before I knew it, we were home again.

I got Jimin in bed, his drunk ass wanting me to cuddle him but he stank worse than worse. I got him to close his eyes and not soon after he was already sleeping.

I changed into some cozy clothes, and headed out of the room and into the kitchen to make myself some tea.

It was not like the boys, going to sleep this early. It was only 1 am and yet all of them had succumbed to alcohol. All except one. For I was startled by a deep voice behind me.

"I've never seen your hair like that."

I turned around, a hand on my heart to show that I was startled. My eyes met Jungkook's figure, stepping out from the dark.

"Okay." I said plainly and turned back around to start the kettle.

I heard his footsteps get closer. Painfully close, and I turned around to stop him from whatever he was doing.

He was still a bit far from me, "New makeup look too." He said.

"Well I'm not the only one here trying new things." I said, referring to his new piercing hugging tightly around his lower lip.

He moved his hand to the piercing, touching it.

"When did you get it?" I curiously questioned, but got no answer.

"You like it." He stated, licking the metal ring.

A smirk made its way to his lips as he stepped closer to me.

"Who ever said that?" I spoke confidently, though my eyes flickered between his eyes and his piercing.

He let out a complacent chuckle, "Your eyes do little one."

I was just about to tell him not to call me that when he got ahead of me.

"I saw the way you were staring at it the other day. You were nowhere near able to keep your eyes off my lips." He said, followed by a complacent chuckle.

I scoffed, "Is that so."

"It is so."

His eyes drilled into mine, making everything around me fade away. Those dark eyes. They'd be dangerous to get lost in. For a moment I even thought I actually had gotten drunk, the sudden dizzy feeling taking over my body.

"You're not gonna get that?" He looked over at the kettle that had stopped whistling a few seconds earlier.

"Oh- um yes I am.." I kind of stuttered.

He woke me just before I got lost thank god.

I turned around to finish my cup of tea and as I turned back, I was alone in the kitchen again.

au.n.
I just want to inform you that there's 26 chapters in total, excluding the "00: Welcome back" chapter.
Just FYI so you wouldn't get surprised suddenly like last time lmao.

Btw I have school tomorrow at 8 and I'm literally sitting here 1 am editing and posting it💀 Wattpad > school