Sira had welcomed Nari into their apartment with a smile and had cooked for her something quick after she has claimed that she had yet to have had dinner. And after that, she had made sure to prepare the guest room for her and had wished her a good sleep, once she had excused herself to sleep, leaving her washing the dishes as Taehyung stood by the kitchen's door, as silent as he was from the moment Nari had joined them inside his apartment.

"You don't agree with what I did, now do you?" Sira finally managed to ask him about what she had understood from the first moment that other woman had stepped inside and had introduced herself to her.

"We share this place and you do have the right to keep a guest over...it's that I don't understand why her? You know- What she said earlier about her being one of my one night stands was... not a joke." Taehyung hesitated to speak of that truth for it filled him with fear that his past doing would come and hurt the feelings of his current girlfriend somehow. 

"I know it was not a joke. Your awkward behaviour was more than enough to justify her statement." She looked over her shoulder at him as she spoke then grabbed the last plate she had and placed it under the running water to rinse it clean.

"If you knew then why you allowed her to stay! Sira, she is not a good person, she has been making trouble for me and-"

"If that is so then why am I finding out about that just now?" Her question froze his thoughts for he instantly became aware that the fact that he had not mentioned this to her, would come to backfire.

"Look Tae. I behaved well because that is what kind of person I am and that has nothing to do with what kind of person she is. It's only one night and she came to our door with nowhere to go. I would do as much for anyone. However, if I am to be honest, I AM bothered but the person I am bothered with is not her." Sira placed away from the last dish and grabbed the small towel near the sink, patting her hands dry as she admitted her real feelings.

"Babe, I swear nothing is going on. I am not in contact with her or anything. It's been years since I last saw her and you know how I used to be. It was only a one-night stand and I never even liked her." Taehyung walked up to her and took hold of her shoulders, turning her around to face him, for the more he kept facing her back, the more scared he was getting.

He looked at her with a pleading gaze, for he sure felt desperate to be believed but Sira's face remained pretty serious, unlike earlier when Nari was around that she was pretty cheerful.

 "You are not getting it, aren't you?"She replied as she brought her hands and pushed away his that were still holding her shoulders.

"I don't care about your past. I accepted you once with it and I will never judge you for it. I don't care with how many you have slept or how many you have loved, for as long as you are with me and love me and only me right now. But I do care about the gap we have Tae. And if you keep hiding things from me, that gap will start growing instead of narrowing. Can't you see? How these small things could possibly drive us apart? Can't you understand how it makes me feel when I find out that once again I have been left out of something that as you mentioned, has been bothering you? Am I not good enough yet for you to share your troubles with me?!" Sira's tone of voice started getting higher and higher as she spoke, her poker face breaking slowly, to show a mixture of anger and sadness, that left Taehyung speechless before her glassy eyes.

"I know...I know I have a long way to go still...just like with Y/N, I know you are from the people that keep to themselves and I may not be the person that can solve everything but I wish someone would realize how it makes me feel when you all tend to leave me out of things...Will I ever be someone good enough for you to willingly share your burdens with me Tae? Tell me honestly. Do I even have a chance or am I hoping in vain? Better let me know now so I come to terms with it." Her words felt like slices in his chest for he could tell that she had been hurt by his behaviour and this was only a small drop in her already filled cup.

All this time that they had been together, it was always her that run after him and made sure he wouldn't go through things alone. It was always her, that waited outside his door, whenever he felt so down that he wanted to isolate himself. And he sure had been thankful of her for that but he had never really thought of how it would feel to be waiting for someone to open up to you and let you help them. He had never thought how it felt worrying if the person you care about is okay or not nor he knew how the taste of guilt was and the anguish of the fact that no matter how much she was to try, she could not break down their walls and reach them.

Sira had gone through that feeling twice, once with Y/n -when she had isolated herself for three months after the break up with Jimin and had opened her door only to attend exams and graduation- and once with him after the loss of Mr Park. In both cases, she had not blamed them for closing a cold door on her face for she understood them and cared for them more than her feelings. She just wanted to help them both, but they had rejected her love in many ways, hurting her and making her insecure along the way. Yet she had spoken of nothing so far, for she understood and was not mad at any of them and Taehyung had eventually let her in and she had done her best to be there for him. After that, she had really thought that maybe he will change regarding this topic. Maybe after that, he was gonna be more inclusive with her, yet tonight that hope of hers had shattered abruptly enough to make her lose her composure and will to understand him.

"Don't say that. Don't even think of that. You are the person I trust the most. I am sorry. I am really sorry. I wasn't thinking clearly. Even if it was not a big deal, I should have told you. I am sorry, I didn't think of your perspective and how this could make you feel. I will take the blame...just please, please don't doubt me nor your place in my heart ever again." He cupped her cheeks and stared at her eyes, with a pleading gaze, for this was the first time in their relationship that he realized how much his closure could affect her emotions.

"I am not trying to put blame on you Tae nor I am trying to pressure you to tell me things and include me more. I am not asking anything because I want you to do it because you feel like it and not because you feel obligated. It's okay, I will try more. It's okay." She tried to gift him a smile that made her face look more broken for it contrasted her teary eyes, and tore his heart in two, for seeing her sad somehow felt worse than when he himself was sad.

"No baby. We will try together. I am sorry. I love you. I really love you and that's why we will fix everything that creates that gap between us, together." He brought her in his tight embrace and held her as if she was about to disappear in thin air, hoping to feel her arms wrap around him soon, but instead, she pulled out of his embrace and faced him, leaving him in absolute devastation, trapped in the claws of fear of losing her.

"Sira...please don't-" His pleading was cut off by her lips that crashed against his, her hands had grabbed on the collar of his shirt and pulled him in for a kiss that even though unexpected, felt like a ray of sunlight that broke through his fog of terror.

"I am not giving up on you but I hope you know after tonight, that I too have limits. If you ever feel like you have fallen out of love with me, please don't cheat on me. I will let you free without a second of hesitation if that means that you are gonna be happier without me." She pulled away and looked him in the eyes, letting him know indirectly that despite the fact that she trusted that nothing was going on with Nari if he ever was to cheat on her, that action would become the end of their love story.

"I give you my word. I will always be honest with you. I promise you. I really don't want to hurt you." He reassured her meaning every word and she smiled at him before she patted his chest lightly.

"I am looking forward to seeing how that promise goes." She pecked his cheek and walked away, making Taehyung turn around and observe her go until she halted her feet and turned around to look at him.

"Will you come to sleep with me in our bedroom or are you gonna go to the guest room with your one night stand?"

"Babe, don't even joke about that." He replied with a pout as he rushed to her, making her laugh a bit at the way he wrapped her in a back hug and pushed her to walk towards their room.

---time skip---

Jimin was sound asleep with you in his arms at the moment that his phone started going off and brought him out of his slumber abruptly.

He hurried to get hold of the device and turn the sound off, scared of the sound waking you up and thankfully he managed to do so, as he looked at you and saw you still sleep soundly.

"Carefully he pulled his arm away - which you were using as your pillow- and carefully stepped out of bed, rushing out of the room with light steps, as the call on his screen was still going.

"Yes." He placed his phone at the side of his ear, as soon as he closed his bedroom's door and the male voice on the line proceeded to apologize for calling him at the crack of dawn.

"It's okay. It doesn't matter. Tell me what dirt have you found on Mr Jung so far." Jimin walked down the corridor towards the living room as he spoke and the trustworthy detective that has worked for him for years now, fell silent briefly, making Jimin realize that whatever was that he had found was something he could not share through the phone.

"Tell me the address, I will be there in no time." He told him and the man proceeded to give him the instructions and hanged up the call, letting Jimin in a hurry and in curiosity of what could he possibly have found that was dangerous enough to require sharing it face to face. However that fact also made him happy for whatever was that he had gotten his hands at, was sure to secure him the upper hand on the clash between him and Mr Jung.

"That old man is about to learn what consequences it has, going against the Park family."

---To be continued...