Just One Day

Bae Jihyun felt suffocated. Her cheeks were flushed as the man's strong and rushed heartbeat travels into her ears. No matter how she pushes him away, he only pulls her back even closer and tighter to his embrace.

"Let me go."

"No." Kim Taehyung refused to do so. "If I let you go, you'll run away."

'I mean, that's true but!' "I can't run anyway." She surrendered. "Please, Tae. I really can't breathe."

Jihyun didn't lie, she is indeed starting to feel dizzy.

"Besides, why are you covered with mud!?" The smell was overwhelming her nose! "You're making my shirt dirty too ah!"

Kim Taehyung lowered his head and saw her cheeks squished into his chest. He felt satisfaction but he did notice her heavy breaths and sweating forehead. "Oh." He let her go, albeit reluctantly.

His eyes went further down and saw Bae Jihyun's bleeding knee. "What happened?" He frowned as he squatted on the floor and grabbed her calf with his cold fingers.

"Aa-wait!" Jihyun flinched at his intimate actions and almost lost her balance once again.

Kim Taehyung looked up and smiled. "Behave, little devil."

"..." 'I'm not little nor am I a devil!'

"So?" He asked once again.

Bae Jihyun's fingers played with each other before she confessed. "I tripped on Halmeoni."

'My grandma?' Kim Taehyung went blank for a moment before understanding what she meant. He burst out laughing at the thought. "You're so clumsy!"

He stood up, looking at her eyes gently as he grabs a handkerchief from his pocket to rub the dirt off her face. Such actions remind him of their childhood days.

"You never change, Jihyun."

Taehyung said that but appearance-wise, he almost could not recognize her. Bae Jihyun's whole aura has now become more enchanting and seductive in contrast to the mischievous and innocent she had in the past.

The little devil has grown up into a mature woman but she still looks small and devilish. Her short dark hair has now reached her back, swaying like waves in the ocean as the wind caresses their pale skin. They were tanned back then because of living under the open and blazing sun so looking at the snowy-white color on the woman in his arms, Kim Taehyung felt that it was strange.... in a good way.

"..." It's somehow making him feel hot even though it's almost winter already.

Bae Jihyun didn't know his troubles. She just wore a bitter smile as she tilts her head to meet his level. "You too." But 'oh,' she paused before reaching out to his eye-catching blue hair. "Except for your hair. It keeps changing every time I see… hm?" Her voice trailed off as she finally felt something was wrong.

Taehyung already lowered his head to accommodate her height. There was a smirk on his face as his thought was written all over his face 'So you were keeping an eye on me all these years!'

And thus, the fingers that were gently caressing the man's hair went flying to smack him on the shoulder.

"Aa—wae!?"

"Nothing." Bae Jihyun glared at the fist that was acting before thinking once again. "Your smile was just annoying."

"How rude. Don't you know how many women fall in love with my smile?" As if on cue, Taehyung showed his full teeth. He was shining brightly as if he wasn't desperate on clinging to her figure a while ago like a man who finally found his oasis in the parching desert.

Of course, he was handsome. Very much so. She can't deny that but she wasn't gonna feed his ego.

"Min Yoongi-oppa is much cooler than you!"

At her words, the thunder strikes Kim Taehyung's body. "Yoongi-hyung?" He mumbled to himself as storm seem to rumble around him.

Jihyun didn't notice though. She held her head as she recalled the backpack that was left in the car. "I need to go."

"Wait—" Kim Taehyung held her back once again. He firmly took her wrist as fear flashed in his eyes. "Can't you stay with me for just one day?"

""A day?"" Bae Jihyun was not the only one who was shocked.

Without two of them knowing, four enchanting men were already standing beside a van and were watching them for who-knows-how-long.

Park Jimin was covering Jung Hoseok's face to stop the latter from making any noise. Of course, his other hand was holding his own lips to shut himself up. Jeon Jungkook had this… indescribable meme expression. He was staring ridiculously at the two, going back and forth every second like a broken recorder. Kim Seokjin didn't feel calm either, but instead of shock, there was happiness brightening his eyes.

On the other hand, Min Yoongi was leaning on the van. He was wearing an amused smile as he watched them. He even raised his eyebrows at Bae Jihyun which made the woman red to her ears. If not for Taehyung suddenly interrupting to stand between them, she would've already erupted like a volcano.

'This- this is too much stimulation for my heart!! It's BTS! AAHHH BTS is only a few steps away from me!!!!!'

While their two managers were making sure no one has seen what happened, the overbearing leader of the group, Kim Namjoon, stood there like a soldier with his hands crossed.

"Hyung—" Taehyung panicked but he still didn't let go of the woman in his arms.

"Taehyung-a." The older man called back, though he looked fierce, his voice was coaxing like a Mother to a child. "We don't have the luxury to have a whole day off with our busy schedule."

Taehyung lowered his head, his hold on Jihyun loosening its grip. "I know."

Taking that as a signal, Bae Jihyun pulled her hand back. Despite the puppy eyes appealing to her, she decisively turned her back to walk away.

"But—" Namjoon suddenly continued. "We do have a couple of hours."

"Aa-?" Bae Jihyun trembled. Just as she raised her legs to dash away from this predator, she was once again caught by the arm.

'This is the third time already! The third time! Have you had enough already!?'

"Thanks, Hyung!"

Kim Namjoon scrutinized the woman his beloved member was holding for the longest time before finally smiling at Kim Taehyung who was almost jumping in joy. "How about you two get in the van?" He asked. "This is not the right place to reminisce."

"O~kay!" The man grinned, pulling Bae Jihyun's small figure with him.

"Wait—do I not have a say in this!?" She almost screamed for sexual harassment. "This is kidnapping, you know!"

"If that's what it takes!" Kim Taehyung turned his head to smirk at her.

"Then kidnapping it is."

"..." Bae Jihyun's face darkened in anger.

"Kim. Tae. Hyung."

"O?"

"You let go of me this instant!!!!!"

In the peaceful and quiet parking lot, a certain black van's door shut closed with a bang like a gun shooting Bae Jihyun's hope into tiny pieces until it dissipated into ashes.