"Are you sure this is what he meant?" Jin questioned Jungkook once more about his words, because no matter how he thought about it, this made no sense.

What person would spend 5 years behind bars, and the first thing they would want to see would be people dressed in inflatable costumes? 

"Jimin clearly said get inflatables; what else could he possibly mean if not this." Jungkook got out of the room in his inflatable Mario costume, which made it hard for him to walk properly and made his head look rather small on his shoulders.

"Just what kind of tastes does this old friend of his have? She sounds weird." Jin pulled up his inflatable bra as it kept falling from his shoulder, for he was put on an inflatable costume of a mermaid and the top half was separate from the bottom, making it difficult to stay in place. Good thing he wasn't naked underneath.

"Weird or not, you agreed to be here, so stop whining." Jungkook shoved him slightly with his hand that also looked smaller because of the inflated body proportion, and Jin held his hands up, trying to protect his mermaid boobs.

"Pervert. Why would you hit there?" Jin gave him a side eye, and Jungkook started laughing for a moment before he straight out cupped the inflatable boob and just looked at his older with a smile.

"You ain't paying me enough for this." Jin slapped his hand away, and the two started laughing together, finding their situation hilarious, until they noticed Namjoon's figure standing by the glassy door that gets you to the back garden of the house.

"I am sure I will regret asking, but what the heck is this?" He walked in, already looking at them as if they were out of their minds.

" Jimin wanted to throw a party for Luetta, as you know, so I called Jin over too, so it won't look like an empty place. A Party needs many people. I tried inviting people who knew her, but no one wanted to come."

"Hold up, hold up. You will hold the party here." Namjoon opened his eyes wide as he looked at his half-brother, hoping that this was some tasteless joke of his. Especially after what happened at the breakfast table and the known history, there ain't no way he was stupid enough to think he could bring that woman to their estate and expect all this to go just fine.

"You know Jimin's place is small. And I had time to fix it since they had to go by the police station and get the paperwork for probation shortened. They will be putting her ankle monitor on, and they will be coming over. I already told them I have everything ready." Jungkook explained casually as if the only problem he had was time, observing Namjoon's face that twisted in anger.

"And before I catch any fades, I want to remind you that I don't know her and I got paid to be here." Jin chimed in, seeing that pause in the atmosphere as the perfect opportunity to clean himself from whatever storm was about to start, for he could see it clealry that Namjoon wasn't pleased.

"Are you trying to make this worse than it already is?" Namjoon stepped closer and loomed above Jungkook's head while he looked at him in his round inflatable costume, seemingly clueless.

"I don't see where the problem is. Sania left with Shanzay; she won't even know Luetta was here. You won't tell her. I won't tell her." He pointed with his tiny fingers from himself to himself while talking, finding his thinking perfectly reasonable, while namjoon just let a sigh escape his lips and threw his eyes towards the ceiling.

"I don't know what the hell you were thinking, but that woman is not celebrating anything in my estate, so both of you get out now." He ordered them as his index finger showed the door, and Jin didn't even argue but grabbed his phone and started heading towards the door that gets you out to the garden.

"You both are seriously so egoistic," Jungkook murmured under his breath as he passed by Namjoon, following Jin, grabbing a bag with other party stuff he had bought on his way out.

He and Jin ended up standing in their inflatables outside of the iron gates of the big estate of the Kims, waiting for Jimin's car to show up, and thankfully it didn't take long for it to do so, the vehicle halting by their side with an echo of laughter already beaming outside the window, for both Jimin and Luetta seemed to be finding their appearences, hilarious.

"What the heck is this?" Jimin stepped out of the car and asked, still laughing and leaning against his car for support, as Jin's inflatable mermaid tail and the bra were taking him out.

"What do you mean, the heck is this? You said she likes inflatables?!" Jungkook snapped back at him, annoyed slightly that he was laughing that much.

" I meant balloons, inflatable balloons, Jungkook." Jimin clarified as he threw himself at Jungkook's round inflatable body, still laughing.

"See, I told you it didn't sound right." Jin hit Jungkook by the side of his arm with his one hand, and with the other, he was holding his inflatable bra in place, and Luetta was on her knees on the floor, literally shedding tears while laughing without a sound. 

"Jeez, I didn't know life outside of prison would be this fun." She managed to say after a few minutes passed and she collected herself enough to stand on her feet.

"Welcome back to freedom." Jungkook extended his hand at her once she was standing, and the proportion of how small it seemed because of the costume made her laugh again while shaking his hand.

"I am glad to see my best friend replaced me with equally worthy people in humor." She complimented them, and Jungkook smiled, finding her words somehow nice, for he too believed that Jin, himself, and Jimin were a pretty funny trio." It's nice to meet you. I am Luetta Lee."

She went ahead to introduce herself properly and shake Jin's hand too, and the two exchanged some pleasantries while Jimin pulled himself together.

"You have seen Jungkook before. He is Sania's brother." He reminded her, and Luetta threw her gaze at Jungkook's face once more, studying his features this time around.

"Oh my, right, you have changed so much, though. I certainly don't remember you being this big." She joked while shaping the round form of Jungkook's inflatable Mario costume in the air, and Jungkook took a step back and posed cutely, making them all burst out laughing again.

"Jimin, you shouldn't be laughing this much cause I got one for you too." Jungkook pulled out a dinosaur costume from the bag he was with him, and shoved it into Jimin's chest.

"Are you kidding me? Just what kind of random costumes are these?" Jimin questioned him, as Jungkook also pulled out the pump to inflate the costume after he was to put it on.

"You said inflatables, and I thought you meant costumes, and these are the only ones I could find on such short notice, so wear it and shut up," Jungkook ordered him, as he wasn't planning to be the only one looking like a walking balloon and have him laughing his ass off at every chance.

"What about me? I want one too." Luetta's eyes lit up at the thought, and only that maybe she too could wear one, and Jungkook smiled at her as he pulled a shark costume from his bag, making her jump up and down in excitement.

"See, this is how one shows appreciation when someone buys them something, with excitement, not complaints." Jungkook threw a side eye at Jimin, and he just shook his head at him while smiling.

---Change of set---

The knock at the door made him look up from the papers that were occupying him, only to witness his coworker enter the room, holding some more files.

"Seriously? Is no one else working today but me?" He complained as he left the pen slip from his hold and roll around the desk.

"They are, but these are for your case." Oumi placed the files in the corner of her team leader's desk and retrieved the top two files for herself before making her way to her seat.

Her desk was also filled with paperwork, and the office was full of noise; for as always, the police station was brimming with people coming and going.

"Be sure to keep a close eye on the ones that are on probation. Whoever is assigned to you is your responsibility to check on them and know their whereabouts at all times." Yoongi reminded her as he noticed the files she took were probation paperwork.

"Ah, this is the first time I am assigned as a probation officer to someone. I am nervous."Oumi admitted, for even though she had met earlier with the woman she would be looking over while on probation, she couldn't help but feel anxious about how she would manage to keep everything according to the protocol.

When someone is released on probation from prison, they aren't entirely free. They get an officer assigned to them to look after them, and the criminal is obligated to reply to the officer's calls at all times and report their whereabouts to them. Even though the police places an ankle monitor that is not removable on the foot of the criminal who is on probation and that allows them to track the individual wherever they go, the police still need to keep a close look at such people who are released on conditions. And there's a strict protocol to be followed.

"You will be fine, as long as the offender is a bit cooperative; they make your life easier," Yoongi reassured her, for he was way more experienced at such things and knew that most criminals were thanlful to be free so for the whatever remaining time they had to serve in their sentence, they would behave properiely as long as that keeps them serving their sensence out of jail.

"I am hoping so too. Miss Lee seemed really nice, so I guess I was lucky with that." Oumi uttered her thoughts out loud, making Yoongi look at her with raised eyebrows.

"Miss who?" Oumi got taken aback by his question, and thinking she had made a mistake on the name of the criminal she had gotten assigned to, she grabbed the file she had before her and read the full name out loud.

"Luetta Lee."

---time skip---

Jimin's apartment had indeed proven too small to fit them all, so they had ended up drinking at the parking lot behind his building. His car was on, and music was playing from it, and empty bottles of beer had now filled the seats.

Luette seemed to have gotten accustomed quickly to the two new people, and they seemed to have forgotten all about her presence and become as comfortable as they were when the three of them were together. 

Certainly, it was hard to mind as they were fun when comfortable and even more fun when they all had downed so much alcohol that they couldn't stand properly on their feet while dancing.

"Shake it, shake it!"  Jin was encouraging as Jimin was moving his dinosaur tail around, beer at hand and a huge smile on his face that made her feel like they had travelled back in time, to those stupid old days when they would sneak outside to drink alcohol.

"Guys, look, I can shake it too," Jungkook yelled right before he turned around, but he had no tail, so the only thing that could be seen was his pair of round Mario pants moving in circles, like a fat headlight.

His actions brought more laughter, even from passerby people that were walking to their own cars and kept stealing glances at them, like they were some crazy people losing it in the middle of the day.

"That lady right there looks like she wants to join us," Jin commented suddenly as she noticed a woman standing at a distance, glaring at them.

"Yuhuuu, we are friendly; you can come over if you want." He invited her harmlessly, for he couldn't see from that distance who she was, but as another woman appeared in sight, seemingly trying to hold back the first woman from approaching, Jin looked back at the rest of the guys and drew their attention.

"She has bad friends; they are trying to take her away." Jimin turned to look in the direction Jin was referring to, but once he saw who that woman at a distance was, he froze in place.

"Shit"

"Shit," Jungkook uttered right after him as he too took notice of his sister, looking like she was about to come take their heads off at any moment.

"Hold up...that's your girlfriend, Jimin. "Jin finally put two and two together as he observed Sania walking fast towards them and Shanzay following behind her, trying to stop her.

"I guess staying near your apartment wasn't a good idea after all." Jungkook looked at Jimin with wide eyes while his gaze already was screaming save me.

"She looks rather angry...should I be fearing for my boobs?" Jin held the inflatable bra as he stepped behind Jimin, for he had grown fond of them and didn't want anyone to pop them.

Luetta, however, in her shark-inflated costume, stepped before him, a smile on her face as if she was getting ready to greet an old friend and not someone she knew that hated her far too much.

When Sania saw her before her, however, it was like a bull seeing red, and she just sprinted towards her, making Jimin rush to her and engulf her in his inflated dinosaur outfit.

"Let go of me!" Sania demanded as she tried to pry Jimin away from her, but that stupid inflatable thing was getting in the way, and no matter how she pushed him or hit him, he couldn't feel it.

"Baby, please, you are better than this." He tried to pursue her while Shanzay placed herself in front of Sania's view, trying to calm down her best friend.

"He is right, Sania. You can't step that low and resort to violence."

"She has resorted to violence before; she hits me all the time." Jungkook popped his head behind Shanzay's shoulder, not helping the situation, which made Luetta crack up.

"Jungkook, shut up!" Shanzay snapped at him as she threw a glance at him over her shoulder, and Sania kept yelling while trying to push Jimin away.

"Whatever you do, just don't hit the fish," Jin uttered over the mess, and Luetta turned to look at him, thinking she was referring to her since she was a shark, but as their gazes met, he somehow understood the misunderstanding and pointed towards his mermaid tail to clarify that he meant himself. That made her laugh more somehow, and she looked at Sania, who was seething mad, with a smile.

"Ah, life outside of prison is certainly so much more fun." Luetta's words sounded taunting in Sania's ears as her smile turned a bit sinister in her view, as if she was mocking her over something.

The same gaze she had had at the end of her trial, too. 

That two-faced snake that Jimin is still blind to.

---To be continued...