It was Saturday morning, Mina groaned groggily as she rolled over in her bed, reaching for her ringing phone on the bedside table.

"Hello?" Her voice was heavy with sleep.

"You lazy b-...you're still asleep?! It's pass 11!" Her best friend near shrieked.

Mina cringed, "I was asleep until someone decided now would be an excellent time to call."

"Well someone is phoning to let you know that she'll be there is 1/2 hour to pick up, so get your ass ready!"

"Whyyy?" She moaned, "I wanted to have a lazy day in!"

"Stop being such a nagging lazy ol' thing and get ready! I have a surprise for you!" Lujain tempted her.

"Fine...it better be good!" Cutting the call, Mina recalled last night, how Lujain had ditched her to go on a date with her boyfriend. Maybe her friend was trying to make up for that.

She also recalled the rest of the night before's occurrences, and her gut filled with butterflies. All the remnants of sleep left her as she leapt up for her iPad. Something in her chest swelled with joy; there was a new message notification from Jeongmin. Her hands shook as she clicked into it.

J: Good Morning!
You sleep well?

Those messages were received at 1:30 in the morning, and they followed by a few msgs at 3:00am

J: Now going work
later chat?

She couldn't contain the goofy smile that spread across her face, Jeongmin seemed really eager to chat to her. Relief was also another reason for her elation, she was terrified that perhaps he wouldn't be attracted to her or find her uninteresting, as she didn't exactly fit Korean beauty standards. Her emotions were so haphazard that she couldn't even think clearly to type a proper reply.

M: Sorry for the late reply.
Was asleep lol, and yes, I slept really well.
Hope I'm not disturbing you at work...
Let me know when you're free ;)

After sending her response, she hurriedly downloaded the dating app onto her phone; just in case he replied while she was out. Nerves shook through her entire body, this was a first for her, but she tried to compose her excited jitters.

With great effort, she crawled out of bed and dragged herself to the bathroom. After a quick shower, Mina was fully awake. She hurriedly got dressed, well once she decided on wearing a light blue shirt, open buttoned on top a white tank and a pair of faded denims. She rushed through her make-up, applying the basics of bb-cream, tinted lip balm, a hint of blush and a thin streak of eyeliner. Her hair, which she straightened the night before, got pulled back into a high ponytail.

Once she was satisfied with her appearance she headed downstairs. Her parents were in talking in hushed tones in the living room, upon hearing them Mina attempted to sneak pass. From experience, she knew the entire situation of her dad being home at this time and their whispered discussion only meant trouble.

"Mina! Where are you going?!" Her try at tiptoeing pass the living room entrance failed. She sighed, turning on her heel to look at her mother who had called out to her.

"Lujain called me, she said it was something important." She bounced on her feet, agitated to get out of her current situation.

"She can wait," her father was stern, "we have something much more important to talk to you about."

Mina's gut fell, what could it be? She silently prayed for Lujain to come soon and save her.

"We talked about it, and we feel it's time you meet someone. You are of marriageable age."

Her eyes went wide at her father's words. Meet someone! No no no! Not now! She wasn't ready to get married yet!

"Aunty Aamina has a very nice son, she's spoken about him before. I can talk to her and arrange a meeting for you two."

"What?! Who?!" She spluttered. Just then her phoned buzzed; Lujain was outside waiting for her.

"Lujain is here! We can discuss this later!" She ignored her parents' protests as she rushed out the door.

She breathed a heavy sigh of relief as she sat in the car.

Lujain looked at her, "What's chasing you?"

"My parents with a prospective suitor for marriage," she flung her arm across her face for dramatic effect.

"Oh no! Don't tell me they've started on that!" Lujain's face fell, "so what you gonna do about it?"

"Can't avoid it. But I'll tackle that devil when I get back home...for now, can we just forget about all that nonsense? And have just a fun girl's day out!"

"Sounds like plan!" Lujain grinned as she revved up her car's engine.

***

Having just finished rehearsing for their concert that evening, Jungkook grabbed a cup of Ramen noodles. Anxiety flittered in his gut; it wasn't from the fact that he was going to be performing a live concert is 2 hours, he was used to that so the nerves before performing had lessened significantly from when he just started 5 years ago. The anxiety was due to to something else, something that both excited him but filled him with dreadful guilt. He had messaged Mina ages ago, but he soon realized when he didn't get a response, that it was still early morning in Dubai when he had messaged.

He unlocked his phone, hoping with bated breath that she had sent him a reply. He couldn't see from his home screen because he had deactivated his notifications for the dating app, it was too risky with his members around.

Jungkook's heart did a flip when he saw that he had a message from Mina. Well from Mina and a few other girls. He frowned at the other messages, he was going to just ignore them. He had already screwed up once, he wasn't planning on chatting to another girl.

M: Sorry for the late reply.
Was asleep lol, and yes, I slept really well.
Hope I'm not disturbing you at work...
Let me know when you're free ;)

A smile spread across Jungkook's face when he read that. Mina seemed so cute and sweet. She was considerate about his work times and didn't want to bother him. Now he had to think of how to reply in English. His English had improved greatly, all that studying was paying off, but he still wasn't as good as he would like, especially when it came to speaking it.

J: You can't disturb
I only see phone when I'm free.
You did not give answer my question.
What video games you play?

He waited for a few seconds. But no response, well it wasn't like she was 24/7 on her cellphone. With a despondent sigh he put his phone down and continued to eat his noodles, they were already starting to go a bit soggy, so he hurriedly slurped them up.

After he finished eating, he checked his phone again, and much to his delight; there was a response!

M: No no, I really don't want to disturb you while you're working
But glad to know that you focus on work!
Oh yeah, sorry! ^-^'
Uhm, I play Overwatch, Fortnite and RPGs.

He grinned, she also played Overwatch and Fortnite!

J:  Really?!
I also play Overwatch and Fornite!
We can play together?

M: Uhh...I dunno...I suck at those games!

Jungkook had to look up what she meant.

J: No worry!
It will be fun play!

M: I dunno.....
I'm like really terrible!

J: You being modest!
Let's play soon
It will be very fun!!!

M: ....okay...
But promise you won't laugh at how bad I am!

J: I think there is no need to laugh
You are good, not bad!

"What are you smiling at like that?" Namjoon's voice shocked Jungkook.

Jungkook snapped his head up, "Oh Hyung! Agggh, Just Army jokes, hahaha," he hurriedly exited the app and switched to twitter.

Namjoon nodded, believing his lie. Jungkook again filled with guilt, he was lying to Namjoon now! How much longer and how far will he go with this deceit?

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Posting after ages! Sorry! This took me forever to write, and I didn't want to post another super short chapter.