BEHIND THE SCENES

chapter 142: start of a new chapter

<OST: Sleepless Night - Crush ft. Punch>

"Everyone's gone now, shouldn't you go too?"

"Why?" Jennie sat down on Yoongi's couch after Jimin left a while ago, but not before giving Yoongi several warnings. "Just let me stay a while longer."

"I wonder who was the one saying we shouldn't visit each other's house from now on-" Yoongi rolled his eyes as he took a seat at the dining table, away from Jennie. "Look what she's doing barely a few days later."

Jennie pretended not to hear him. "Let's watch some TV, oppa."

"I don't want to-" Yoongi yawned. "I'm tired, I'm gonna go to bed soon. And you should too, so you should go home now."

"I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight-" Jennie smiled. "I'm way too excited."

Yoongi finally smiled as he looked up at Jennie. "Are you really that excited?"

"Mm, you have no idea!" Jennie beamed as she skipped over to the dining table and took her seat opposite Yoongi. "I'm so excited that we're doing this together, oppa. Seriously."

"Me too-" Yoongi admitted with a small chuckle. "It's even more unbelievable that I did something so spontaneous - it's not something that I would have done so easily in the past. I guess... it's just another item added to the list of things I need to thank you for."

"Ya-" Jennie smiled shyly. "You're making me blush, don't say that."

"I..." Yoongi hesitated for a while as he glanced down the hallway, leading to the mysterious room at the end of the aisle. "Actually... since you're still here, I wanna show you something."

"Me...?" Jennie raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Suddenly...?"

"Mm-" Yoongi nodded as he got to his feet and headed towards the corridor, gesturing for Jennie to follow. "I have been wanting to show it to you for a while now... and I guess, after what happened today with establishing BTS Entertainment, I feel like... today's the right time."

Jennie didn't know what else to say as she followed quietly after Yoongi down the aisle, stopping only when they reached outside the door at the end of the corridor. It was only then that Jennie realised what Yoongi was about to show her.

"Do you remember what happened between us months ago...?" Yoongi said quietly as he gestured towards the door casually. "You opened this door... and I was so mad I yelled at you."

"Mm, I remember-" Jennie nodded. "I really shouldn't have pried back then."

"Not really, actually-" Yoongi swallowed as his eyes gazed at the floor. "I guess it was kind of like a Pandora's box to me... my past was all hidden inside this room, after all. Before you came, I never really ever entered this room - I just kept it as like a storeroom, for the things of my past I was too afraid of digging up but yet also couldn't bear to get rid of. But slowly, there was one day not too long ago after confiding in you, I realised that it somehow wasn't as scary anymore. I went into the room and saw the things that reminded me of the past... and my heart didn't ache the same way it did any longer. That's when I realised that I was slowly but surely getting over it... because of you. And now, I want to share my past with you completely."

"You do?" Jennie pouted. "Are you really sure?"

"Why?" Yoongi pursed his lips nervously. "You don't wanna see it? If you don't want to, it's fine too-"

"What? No-" Jennie grabbed onto Yoongi by his arm before he could turn to leave. "No, I want to see it - trust me, I really do. But I just wanted to make sure that you wanted to show it to me, not because you think I want to see it... and you feel like you have to show it to me."