The Nearness Of You

23

Jinnie

It's been two weeks since Seungri and I had been dating. Dating. My lips lifts into a grin. The word isn't new to me. I know how it is, what it is. I see couples go out on dates but I don't quite understand the worth or importance of it nor what it feels like when you're actually in such situation. Not until I experienced it myself, and of course, with the man I love. Now I understand what people meant of having butterflies in the stomach. The ones I have in mine are swirling in delight everytime I'm with him. It's quite an experience, really. Something I could get used to as long as it's going to be with him. The thought made me joggle like a sixteen year old girl having a crush on a certain boy.

It's five in the afternoon and I'm still in the studio. I am about to play the piano when all of a sudden my phone rang on top of my table and I dashed for it, answering it in a haste. "Seungri?" I answered sounding all too excited and didn't even bothered to check if he was really the one who called and not someone else. I just answered it. I bit my lip containing the anticipation.

"Hey there my sweet angel." Seungri tells me sonorously. I can also imagine him smiling as he spoke and I held my chest. Oh my heart! I can hear it beat so loud! My thoughts and actions are making me blush. Thank heavens he cannot see me.

I cleared my throat. "Hey mister." I answer him grinning. "You gonna pick me up?" What I've said made me squirm. Really, Jinnie? That's a little presumptuous of you to assume. "Err, I'm just kidding. Ha. Ha. Ha. You don't have to.. You know.. It was just.. a joke.." I laugh, a little bit awkward.

I hear Seungri laugh on the other line. "Of course I'll pick you up. Not that I have to, but because I want to."

I bit my thumb and smile. What he said almost made me jounce.

"Hi, Jinn unnie!" Someone shouted over the background. It was a girl's voice. "I miss you!" I instantly identified it as Yukii's.

"Does hyung give you a hard time?" A male voice joked on the other line, clearly Yoongi's. "Ow!" I hear him squeal. "Hyung just hit me, noona!" He cried.

I hear Seungri warn him in a whisper and Yukii giggled. They must've been eavesdropping and trying to pester him. I let out a laugh.

"Stop it, Seungri." I tell him. "Put it on speaker, I want to greet them too."

"Aish. Yoongi is such a pain in the ass. Wait a second." Seungri answered then hit a button. "There."

"Hi, Yoongi! Yukii! How are you guys?" I greeted them.

"Jinn unnie! When will we see you again?!" Yukii asks me perkily over the phone.

"Yah, noona! We should get together again sometime!" Yoongi chimed in.

"I would love to!" I tell them smilingly. "Just tell me when."

"This weekend! Let's have a group date!" Yukii suggested.

"A group date it is." I agreed.

I hear someone grunt exasperatedly on the other line. "A group date again?" Seungri complained.

"Yah! Hyung why are you so selfish of Jinn noona huh?!" Yoongi exclaimed. "Ow! You hit me again!"

"Geuman haseyo! Aish Yoongi-ah!" Seungri warned him but I only heard Yoongi laugh at him as well as Yukii. I did the same.

The first time I met them, Yukii and Yoongi, they treated me warmly and we became at ease with each other in an instant. They're good people and, same as Seungri, very nice to me. Being with them was fun and I get to know more stuff about him, most especially the funny ones. I'm glad to be friends with them now.