Temptation [ Min Yoongi | ENG ]

S I X T Y F O U R

I was sitting on the small sofa on my terrace, my legs stretched out so that my feet rested on the table in front of them.

Bram appeared through the door, barefoot and wearing only sweatpants and a T-shirt. It was an unusual and constantly hot month of May.

"Roosje" he called me as he sat next to me and handed me a beer. "We need to talk."

"Is it serious?" I asked after letting the smoke out of my lungs.

"Yes. It's about us." He started. "We have been going out for almost two months and I think it is important to confirm that we are on the same page."

"Right..."

"I want to be with you." He announced.

"So you wanna be my boyfriend?" I tried to confirm.

"Yes, but I need to clarify a few things for you." He spoke, taking me to heaven and bringing me back in a matter of seconds.

"Like what?"

"I want to be your boyfriend, but I'm not monogamous. So what I want to offer you is an open relationship."

"Sorry, I don't know if I understand." I said, clearly confused. "How do you officially date without being monogamous?"

"I like you. I fell in love with you, but I don't believe in the closed structure of monogamous dating, I think that dynamic puts people in traps." He explained it to me and I was in shock, he was in love with me, but he didn't want to be exclusively with me. "Have you ever been in an open relationship?"

"No."

"Do you consider yourself monogamous?"

"I never considered not being."

"Do you think you could try?"

"I don't know..." I replied, reflecting on his proposal. "Have all your relationships always been open?"

"No. When I was a teenager, I dated a girl in a closed relationship. And afterwards I already had other closed relationships, but not monogamous."

"Dating with more than two people?"

"Yes, I have been in three relationships with two other people at the same time."

"Three?" I asked, surprised. "I didn't think it was that common."

"It is not, but the possibilities are endless and incredible when we put aside some ties."

I kept thinking about what he told me.

"My proposal for an open relationship is just so that there is no guilt between us. But we would have to establish some clear limits, such as always speaking openly about our interest in other people, not hiding if we make out or hook up with others and not engaging with our exes." He offered me an explanation. "I'm really like you, Roos. And I want to officially date you. I propose that to you, but I also assure you that I won't be irresponsible with your feelings and that I'm not emotionally promiscuous."

His words touched a sore point for me. He was offering me something completely new, which I never considered. But he also offered it to me with a care that I never received and that seemed very attractive to me.