You reached home in a much more tired condition than usual as it showed from your posture that was leaning against the closed door of your small apartment which you had just entered.

Your feet felt so heavy to take you barely some steps further inside and your arms felt weak, loosely hanging from your sides before you let your body crawl down slowly and soon just lay on the floor.

You stood there without even blinking for a while as if time had stopped for you and your soul had left your body in that frozen condition, however, your breathing was present even if faint and your thoughts hadn't been affected at all by your physical exhaustion.

Everything you lived today, was swirling in your mind, in an attempt to understand what was it that you should do now. Mrs.Yoon was obviously playing some games on that actor and you really never had imagined her to be this kind of person.

You disliked cheating all together but since you saw that the camera that the unknown man took from the room was in her possession, you couldn't help but find her actions even more wrong, because it looked like she wasn't only cheating on mister Yoon but she was also manipulating Jimin as well.

Why else would she need footage of her with him but to blackmail him after all? Publishing wouldn't be in her benefits because it would obviously expose her too. And if your thoughts were right, that made her something more than just a cheater. It made her someone that would do anything for her own profit and such a person really contradicted any previous thoughts you ever had for her.

At the end of the day... You just can't really know anyone... People can be so unpredictable.

You murmured under your breath as some slight disappointment was hanging on your face then you forced your body to get up and enter your small living room space and more precisely, you went straight to your small desk where your laptop was waiting for you.

You turned it on and stretched your arms while waiting for it to open as it had gotten slower through the years of use, then you grabbed your notebook that rested at the side and opened it to a clear page, writing the date on it and the important highlights of the events of the day.

You always do that every time you were to discover a secret, since the early years of your life. This is the third notebook that you used for that purpose and thankfully you had yet to fill it all.

To your judgment this year had been moderately calm and you hadn't come across many issues that you shouldn't be aware of with exception today that it seemed like you happened to compensate for all the past months that had been relatively normal.

Today it was is if you really had opened some kind of bag full of information and everything had fallen on you so suddenly that had left you surprised and perplexed.

What were you supposed to do with this one?

It was obviously a great opportunity for you and if you were to be the one to write an article about it and expose one of the biggest actors of the country, surely you would get ahead in the field you so much desired to enter, however as most of the times, there was a thought that kept bagging you inside your head.

Was this the right thing to do?

You were often unsure of how to answer that question and many times it had to hold you back, leaving you in place but even though you were tired of the years that had passed and you hadn't reached your dream yet and even though every time that you remained on that stand by you just grew more eager for it, you couldn't help but still question yourself and think about the consequences your actions would bring to the life of the involved individuals.

Yes, you hated cheating and if you weren't aware that Mrs. Yoon was creating some type of trap against that actor, you wouldn't have hesitated so much to expose them, because they should have been aware of the dangers their actions held, to begin with, and in your eyes, they would deserve the trouble but now you kinda saw the actor as a victim rather than someone who did something wrong.

Just what kind of person is he?

You questioned yourself as your fingers roamed above the keyboard and wrote his name on the search engine where different information started popping up. From articles to series and movies, he had participated in, to YouTube compilations of him made by his fans. You went through them all till the morning light started taking over the sky, lighting up your living space and making you aware that you had overdone it.

Ah great. I need to sleep.

You thought to yourself as your eyes caught the time on your screen and you quickly left to your bedroom were you plopped on your bed in hopes of falling asleep immediately because you had only two hours left before you needed to wake up and leave for work again.

---time skip---

Jimin was rushing up and down his house as he had woken up later than usual, making the pace of his morning routine double its speed so he would reach on time at the car that will be waiting for him at the parking in exactly ten minutes from now.

"Oh well well, good morning to someone whom won't eat breakfast with me," Jin spoke to him as soon as he entered the living room and saw him going up and down, making Jimin halt for a second and give some attention to his presence which he hadn't even heard coming in.

" I am sorry. I can have some with me and eat it in the car if you wouldn't mind." He responded while eyeing the bags his cousin was carrying which he knew well that had food inside since Jin either comes with prepared breakfast at the mornings for both of them or gets earlier in his place and cooks it there.

" Since I woke up in a good mood, I will let you have it your way today. However, you better come with food at my place for dinner cause I am not cooking for your ass twice in a row while you don't even sit down to appreciate my efforts."

"I appreciate them, of course, I do. Your girlfriend is so lucky to have youuu. How great you are, how generous, how -"

"Oh stop it. You manipulative pieces of an actor. Just go." Jin disturbed his sentence as he knew that the praising was only a trap that probably will mean that he might leave him hanging for hours on end later in the evening.

"You are the best man! I am off. See you~" Jimin smiled widely at him as he approached and grabbed one of the bags Jin held onto and quickly left.

Once outside he composed his posture and headed calmly towards the elevator, not wanting to attract anyone's attention with his hurry and thankfully he didn't as even in the elevator he so happened to be alone, till he reached the underground parking and hurried his steps a bit, till he entered the comfortable space of his van.

"Good morning DongMin." He spoke to his manager who was at the driver's seat and DongMin greeted him back before he took off.

"Did you manage to get some proper rest? We have a long day ahead today." DongMin questioned him, simultaneously reminding him of his packed schedule.

"I will pull through, don't worry. Have you eaten?"

"Yes, you just go ahead. We need you energetic." DongMin responded, declining his offer of food as Jimin had opened the bag that filled the environment with the smell of food.

"Do we have a night scene today?" Jimin questioned before proceeding to take a bite from the breakfast that once again tasted delicious.

"Yes, we will start as soon as the night falls, however, we have other things throughout the day. You read my email, didn't you?" DongMin looked at him through the rearview mirror and Jimin nodded his head as at the moment he couldn't speak because his mouth was full.

" The only break you have is fifteen minutes around 2 where you can eat something to recharge. I will have everything ready, leave it to me." DongMin reassured him and Jimin gave him a small smile as he knew that he did his job pretty well and he never had any complaints about him.

He was about to take one more bite when his phone started buzzing in his pocket, making him wonder who could be calling him this early. His one hand was still holding onto the taper so the food won't get spilled while the other reached in his pocket and brought out his phone, where SunHee's ID was flashing on the screen, making him smile a bit, thinking that she probably wanted to wish him a good morning and a good day ahead. However he was in no position to answer at that moment as he didn't want his manager to grow suspicious, so he denied the call and proceeded to text her.

-Good Morning
Why are you up so early?
Were you dreaming of me?

He wrote and proceeded to take one more bite while he was waiting for her to respond.

  - I am sorry to bother you so early in the morning...

but we have to meet up today.

it's important.
 

She replied and he swallowed his food now a bit worried as she never talked this serious tone to him in the mornings.

  - Is something wrong?

   What does it have to do with?

He replied and proceeded to put the food aside as he felt that this needed his full attention. His eyes hovered over the dots as she was writing yet it felt like she was taking too long and while he waited, the wet tissue among his hands which was cleaning them, ended up being worn out after a bit without him even realizing it.

Five minutes had passed and she had left him on seen, making his worry grow more and grab his phone and text her again.

  - You are worrying me

  Please speak to me?

  Did I do something wrong?

His mind started overthinking at that point. Was she going to break up with him? And if yes, why? What had he done wrong this time? The thought only stressed him out because he had really tried to make this relationship work. Of course, he was not perfect but whatever his mistake was, if they were to discuss it, he would try his best to solve it.

  - I didn't want to talk about this through the phone

but since you are busy, I guess I have no other choice

someone saw us yesterday

Jimin's breath got caught up on his throat as soon as he read her last text and it felt like his mind got stuck for an instant along with the world around him.

  - He contacted me. He has footage of us and he is asking for money in exchange for his silence.

I didn't want to worry you at first. I wanted to solve it on my own, but...

the amount of money he is asking is something I can't afford.

He took his moment to process the situation he was in and his first instinct was to calm her down as he could imagine how stressed out she must be from all this.

  - Calm down, baby. It's gonna be okay.

  I will solve it. We can just announce that we are dating before he has the chance to expose us.

  I know it's not ideal for me but it's better if we say it ourselves than being exposed.

  If we give in to his blackmail, we can never be sure if he will stop or continue blackmailing us whenever he wants to.

He texted her some of his thoughts as lying, in general, wasn't his first instinct, and even though the fact that he was dating getting public wasn't the best thing for him at the moment, it was better than living in anxiety and trapping SunHee in it along. He had gone through it once so he knew and that feeling definitely wasn't something he wanted anyone to go through.

  - Jimin ...
  We can't do that
   I can't be your public girlfriend.

She replied and he questioned inside him, the reason she could, and his fingers proceeded to text her his wonder.

-Why?

  - There is something I haven't told you...

Jimin .. I am sorry but...

His heart started speeding up a bit at the anticipation of what she was trying to tell him and an uneasy feeling grew inside him as he was waiting for one more text from her.

  - I am married.

---To be continued...