Temptation [ Min Yoongi | ENG ]

T H I R T Y T H R E E

I woke up in the middle of the night and heard the soft noise coming from his studio. I covered my head with the comforter to try to sleep again, but his absence in bed bothered me. I got up and walked over to him, stopping at the door to the room and watching how focused he was.

"Psst." I caught his attention and he turned to me, "are you too busy?"

"Hi, not exactly. It's just the deadline that is tight and I couldn't sleep, so I decided to take advantage of it."

"I missed you in bed..."

He turned back to the computer, pressed a few buttons and stood up, coming towards me. He stopped right in front of me and I felt his breath on my face. I closed my eyes in anticipation and then felt his nose brush mine, lightly, from side to side. Nothing about him touched me but the tip of his nose and the warmth of his lips so close to mine made me alert, despite the relaxing pattern of what he was doing. I felt comfortable and anxious at the same time and when he finally kissed me I could not prevent a moan from escaping my lips and traveling to his mouth, causing him to increase the intensity of our kiss.

>>>><<<<

I said goodbye to Yoongi with a kiss in front of his house and he headed for the garage where his car was.

Upon arriving at work I found Jaap in front of the studio. He pushed off the wall when he saw me and said good morning. I greeted him by paying more attention to the cigarette I wanted to light and he placed his hands around my cigarette, protecting it from the wind.

"You disappeared on Friday, are you okay?"

"Yes. I left with Yoongi."

"Ah yes. I thought about sending you a message over the weekend, but I don't have your number."

"Ah, alright. I'll give it to you later.You can go ahead, Jaap, I'll be out here for a while."

He smiled at me and went inside.

Some time later I finished my cigarette and took the same path he had taken. When I approached my workstation I realized that my chair was occupied by none other than Theo van der Beek. I took a deep breath to keep my nerves in check.

"Good Morning." The two men turned when they heard my voice. Jaap had an apprehensive look and Theo a look of pride in his eyes.

"Hi Roos, I'm glad you arrived. I would like to talk to you about your texts." He said getting up from my seat. "Would you accompany me to a quieter place? For us to talk?"

"I think this is the best place for us to talk about it, Theo." I kept eye contact and an unpleasant expression crossed his face. "So Jaap listens to whatever you have to say too and can help me if I need to change something in my way of work." His eyes went from me to my co-worker and back to me. His expression was serious.

"Of course. It's only that the fluidity of the text on the European Parliament of Friday's show was very bad and it was difficult for reading."

"I see. Do you have any suggestions that would make that text better?"

"Hm. I'm going to talk to Maria about it and I'll get back to you, okay?"

"Okay, you know where to find me." I allowed myself to smile and finally sit down.

I didn't look as he walked away. I preferred to turn on my computer and set up my things to keep my hands that were shaking slightly and my mind, that was trying to run, busy.

"Wow, Roos. You did well." I heard Jaap say, I gave him a quick look and went back to looking at the screen in front of me.

"No."

"No?"

"That's how it starts. He'll come back with that complaint a few times until he starts saying that I'm not following what was said to improve my work."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes." I turned to him and remained like that while continuing "if you don't mind, I wish you were always present in our conversations, could you be?"

"Sure, but aren't you going to talk to Maria about it?"

"Yes, I am, I just want to start my day here and then I'll look for her." I turned back to my computer and started working.

I found Maria outside the study block when I went to smoke. She was outside with a cigarette in her hand too and was not happy to know that Theo had already resumed his old habits.

I told her about my plan to have Jaap always around when approached by him.

"Jaap is a good guy. I think you can trust him. How's your mental health, Roos?"

"It could be better, but it is certainly better than it was the other time. When I heard I was going to come back here I talked to my psychologist and at this new beginning I am doing two sessions a week. That's all I can do." She smiled relieved at my words.

"Very well. I really hope things are different this time."

I had no answer, I wanted the same, but I bet she already knew that. I showed her a smile on the thin line that my lips formed and put out the remains of my cigarette between the floor and my foot.

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I looked out the PH window and saw Timo, Tulip and Yoongi sitting at our table. When I approached them, Yoongi got up to meet me and pulled me by the hand, leading me to the counter.

"Today we are celebrating!" He exclaimed with a smile that turned his eyes into two semi-circles lines squeezed by his cheeks.

"Oh yeah?!"

"Yes. Today, at the end of the afternoon I received the final acceptance of all the tracks I sent to the Korean producer."

"Ah! That's great, kitten!" I kissed him and he hugged me, keeping me in place.

We returned to our seats with our drinks and he shared the good news with everyone who came in.

Dirk, in turn, already arrived in a celebratory mood, since the good news Yoongi's was his too. Lotte spent most of the night trying to contain her boyfriend's spirits and before his way bothered me too much, I pulled Yoongi by the hand and took him to Sultan's.