Temptation [ Min Yoongi | ENG ]

E I G H T Y O N E

Somehow, no matter how much time we made to spend with our friends, it never seems like enough time.

Evi arrived with a sleepy Maud behind her at 10 am, carrying the ingredients for the sweet pie and the roasted meat she offered to prepare.

Yoongi had woken up even earlier to start cooking what he had planned. Traditional holiday foods from South Korea. He was preparing Maeun Dwaeji Galbijjim, which he said were pork ribs with vegetables, roasted slowly under pressure. It would take about 6 hours to get ready.

A few hours later, with the meat roasting and the pie freezing in the fridge, he asked me for help in preparing Kimchi dumplings that look like Gyoza. Everything he prepared was spicy, but it went perfectly well with beer.

We had a late Christmas lunch, as we had agreed on, even though everyone arrived around noon. The feeling that time was not enough was shared by us all.

It was there that Timo and Tulip finally gave us their wedding invitations. They had been making so much mystery on the subject for so long that I was sure they would be the type of couple who are engaged forever, but no. The wedding would be a destination wedding in Curaçao on the second weekend of May. Grietje would be the bridesmaid and Timo's brother the best man, the ceremony wouldn't be big, but we were all summoned to attend.

It was almost two in the morning when I closed the door behind Lotte who was dragging Dirk, who didn't want to leave.

"Psit..." I called softly. "Come and lie in bed." Yoongi opened his eyes slowly and absorbed his surroundings. He followed me around the house, up the stairs, with just one eye barely open.

"I need to take a bath." He told me, undressing in the middle of the room.

"Take it tomorrow."

"No. The day was very long. Come with me."

"Bath? Now?" I said reluctantly, pulling the comforter off the bed.

"Come, I fill the bathtub."

"Bathtub at two in the morning, Yoongi?"

"Come..." His eyes were now wide, like a cat begging for affection. I followed him to the bathroom.

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"I'm going to cut my hair today, okay?" I spoke while eating the popcorn we prepared for a lazy lunch.

"Today? Is there a salon open on the twenty-seventh of December? "

"I don't know, there must be... but my hairdresser comes to me at home." I shrugged my shoulders.

"Ah okay. Will she come here? " He asked me after swallowing the huge amount of popcorn he had put in his mouth.

"No, she'll meet me at my apartment. In the late afternoon. "

"Okay... Do you already know what you're going to do?"

"No... For now I just know that I'm going to cut it... maybe I'll change the color, I need her help to bleach it, because I already have more than 5 fingers of root."

"I haven't seen so much of its natural color in years." He pointed out.

"Yes, me too."

"Whatever you do, it will suit you anyway." He spoke and leaned towards me, asking me for a kiss as a reward for the compliment.

We finished eating and I helped him with the dishes. He smoked a cigarette with me in front of his house and watched me while I rode away on my bike.

We agreed to let things go unhurriedly between us, but these past two weeks with him had been extremely intense, even though we didn't pick up from where we left off.

The more I thought about it, the more I found it impossible for us to do that, pick up from where we left off. We spent fifteen months apart and in that time we became different people than we were when we were together the first time. Not because we became different people, but because that is the effect of time. We had experiences that made us change some thoughts, see certain things in a new perspective and throw away some beliefs.

Sometimes I felt that we needed to go through what we went through. I would never want to go through all of that again, but I started to think that we still needed to find out a few things about ourselves while being apart, before we were together for good.

Maybe this thinking was a trick of my mind to accept what I went through away from him, but I really learned from Jaap and especially from Bram look for and to demand what I really wanted in a relationship. What I wanted from Yoongi.