"Why didn't you tell me?" Taehyung whispered, against your ear. You could feel shivers running down your spine. You could feel your heartbeat accelerating at its highest before you took a deep breath feeling his breath tickling down your shoulder and neck.

Taehyug had his eyes fixated on the pantry under his nose while he inhaled your blossom cologne. His chest skimmed with your back before he propped his sturdy chest at your back, "Tell me..." He muttered with his sonorous tone making your heart flip.

You gulped down a lump in your throat before you clamped onto your lower lip within your teeth. With a swift turn, you twirled around to face him but he didn't move an inch from his place. You looked straight into his orbs with your heart hammering inside your ribcage.

Taehyung gazed down into your hazel orbs while his hand was propped up at the pantry panel, holding it firmly.

You were caged in between. His dark-cocoa orbs were making you feel petite and fragile and his hunky physique was just cherry on top.

You were mesmerized by the enchanting beauty of his iris while he was wiggling his orbs from your orbs and between your rosy lips, "I am gonna taste them very soon." He thought, gazing back into your orbs as you licked onto your lower lip.

Tracing his Adam's apple bobbed once as he gulped down, making you trace his honey skin as you parted your lips before looking up into his orbs.

Blinking once and twice you summoned all your courage before answering his question.

"Yes, I didn't tell you because I didn't want to." You declared without stammering even for a second while all this while you both were staring into each other's orbs. Your eyes were bewitching him as if you had put a spell on him. He couldn't take his orbs away from you.

"Why are you so f*cking gorgeous? I... I am unable to take my eyes off you. I would be a sinner if I did that. You are doing things to me like none did before and I am afraid... No! I am afraid. It can't be. I am not afraid of anything. I am just worried about that.... That I won't be able to look into these enchanting orbs after our contract ends..."

You scrutinized Taehyung's orbs which had a hint of dismal as he gazed down into your orbs and all you could do was decipher the expressions he was trying to reflect but couldn't understand, "Why isn't he retorting me? Like he always does?" You thought.

Crumpling your eyebrows at him, "Did you get your answer?" You asked, raising one of your eyebrows at him as he wiggled his globes within yours as he blinked before completing his thoughts, "That won't do. I would strive to make you stay near me... with me..."

Taehyung licked his lower lip as he took a glance at his pinkish lips before gazing back into his orbs before he said, "No, I didn't get my answer. You don't know how to lie, especially to me. I can tell by just looking into your eyes."

Taehyung leaned in as you swiftly leaned back, bending your head back along with your back. The back of your head was about to collide with the panel of the pantry when he promptly elongated his other palm behind your head before your head could collide with the panel.

The back of his hand collided with the panel and you could feel his palm behind your head.

Without breaking eye contact with him, you looked at him with your wide eyes and lips parted, "Careful there." Taehyung whispered with a sense of serenity in his octave's deep voice.

Your heart skipped a beat hearing him making you gulp down through your burning throat while his orbs shimmered with the sunlight penetrated through the glazed window of the kitchen, embedded inside the wall adjacent to us.

"I won't be there to save you every time." He declared as you blinked before you wiggled between his orbs which had veracity within them as the papers of convenience gushed through your head on which you both have inked your signatures.

"You won't be there every time, I get hurt. But every time I get hurt, it will make me think of you. But why is it hurting thinking about my departure from you? I don't want to live with you after a year. I should be happy." You thought.

"Y/n!" You came out of your reverie when you heard Yeji's voice as she entered the kitchen. Your eyes widened within a jiff as you looked at the position you and Taehyung were in, "Unnie!"

Yeji took a glance at you both before she instantly turned around while stammering, "Oh! I.. I am sorry- I didn't-" Taehyung traced your astonished expression before you nudged him with your palms to retreat him from you but he didn't flinch.

You threw a glare at him while you tried to peer behind his shoulder as you said, "No, Unnie- Move!" You whisper-yelled the last part at Taehyung as a simper approached his lips, "Say Please." You tried pushing him but he didn't move an inch.

Meanwhile, Aeri came trotting toward the kitchen as Seokjin was on the call with someone. You again peered behind his shoulder when you saw Yeji walking out of the kitchen.

You looked back at Taehyung before muttering, "Please. Move." You gritted your teeth.

Aeri approached Yeji and she said, "Baby, Uncle is busy." Turning a deaf ear to her mother, Aeri dodged Yeji before running toward the kitchen.

Taehyung poked his inner lip with the tip of his tongue before he removed his hand from behind your head and panel.

He whispered, "Of course, K-" "Kitty!" Taehyung's sentence was interrupted by another voice echoing inside the kitchen making your eyes enlarged.

Taehyung looked at you with befuddlement and stunned as he raised one of his brows. He twirled around almost instantly before a simper covered his lips.

You closed your eyes shut, "Aeri, wait-" Yeji said as Aeri came trotting inside the kitchen while you could feel the warmth covering your cheeks and face.

You took a glance at Yeji and Aeri while your cheeks were flushing pink as you turned around instantly before clenching your eyes shut, feeling abashed by what just Yeji witnessed.

"This is so embarrassing. Oh god, Dig me a pit so that I can bury myself in it." You thought, shaking your head left and right, lightly.

Yeji trotted inside the kitchen but before she could take hold of Aeri, she came running to Taehyung before he picked her up in his sturdy arms.

"Did you call your aunt Kitty?" Taehyung whispered asking Aeri as she nodded with her doe eyes while Yeji walked towards you as she smiled at Aeri.

Taehyung blinked once, raising one of his eyebrows as Aeri said, "I gave her a nickname just like you, Taetae." Aeri explained.

You probed for the Barley tea which was deposited on the shelf down in the pantry before you turned around as a light squeal left your mouth when you discerned the sudden presence of Yeji in front of you. Taehyung and Aeri looked at you and Yeji.

One of your hands reached over your chest as your heart was hammering at an uncertain pace, "You scared me. I am sorry. I didn't see you coming." You said looking at Yeji while Taehyung looked at you with a mild smile on his face, "I didn't expect my niece to be this smart."

"It's okay. Calm down." Yeji said as she placed her right hand on your left shoulder as you looked at Taehyung, more than throwing a glare at him as he winked at you before mouthing, "Kitty!" You squinted, your eyes at him which Yeji acknowledged before you looked back at her.

You heard her giggle and asked, "Is everything fine?" You smiled at her, mildly before nodding, "Yeah." "Just your brother-in-law is giving me a hard time." You curled up your lips while Taehyung made his way out of the kitchen thinking, "She is a blushing mess."

"I came to help you." Yeji said as she took the packet of barley tea from your hand, "Oh no, it's fine. I will make it. Don't trouble yourself." You said as she shook her head, "It's fine."

touched the tip of his finger onto Aeri's nose making her scrunch her nose before he let out a fit of giggles, "That's my girl. You are just like me." Taehyung announced without a single doubt when he discerned Seokjin who was looking at the vista of the glass panes.

His back was facing Taehyung as Seokjin had his phone propped against his ear and was talking with someone before Taehyung made his way toward the couch.

Placing Aeri on the black couch, he took a seat beside her. Seokjin hung up on the call as he turned around.

Taehyung and Aeri came into his sight as Seokjin cleared his throat, taking a glance at Taehyung who was sitting with his elbow propped on his thighs and fingers intertwined together.

Seokjin took a seat adjacent to the couch Taehyung was sitting on.

"Should I talk to him?" Seokjin thought as Taehyung fetched his phone from his pocket before scrolling with the pad of his thumb over the bright screen.

Aeri was wobbling his legs back and forth, sitting on the couch while propping her elbow on his thighs and resting her chin onto her fists.

Taking a glance at Seokjin and then back at Taehyung, Aeri furrowed his eyebrows as she pouted, "Why aren't you both talking to each other?" Aeri pointed out, gaining Taehyung's attention as Seokjin looked at her.

"It's not like that, baby. We were about to talk." Seokjin made an excuse as Taehyung raised his right eyebrow and he swiftly turned his head toward Seokjin, chucking his phone somewhere on the couch, "Oh, Yes. We were." Taehyung declared making Aeri nod.

Aeri made an 'o' shaped mouth before she raised her feet and jumped off the couch, "Okay. You both talk. I am gonna play games on Taetae uncle's phone." She said as she was quick to get a hold of Taehyung's phone which was deposited at the end of the couch.

Taehyung looked at Aeri as he blinked once, "She is really my niece!" Taehyung declared as he watched Aeri trotting toward the kitchen area.

Taehyung let out a chuckle with his lips curved upwards when he heard another chuckle leaving Seokjin's mouth.

Taehyung twitched his head to take a glance at Seokjin as Taehyung pressed his lips together before Seokjin pointed out, "Y/n has taught you how to smile." Taehyung licked his lips before leaning back on the couch and glancing back at his brother, "She did."