Ch. 23 - Hands On

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I felt healed after my project with Yoongi. My heart was a little lighter. Honestly, I couldn't wait until he taught me how to play the song. I'd play it for my father. It was going to be a special memory between us forever.

Before I left, Yoongi informed me to meet Jin in the kitchen, so I head there now. I wondered what Jin had planned for me. I knew better than try to assume anything about these men. Yoongi taught that to me just now, I never would have believed we would write a song together.

Jin gifts me with the cutest big smile as I enter the kitchen. My heart responds instantaneously. "Hi Jin!" I sing to him, and he bows to me. "Your majesty!" I walk to him and await to hear about our plans.

"Are you ready to paint?" I tilt my head at him. "We're painting?" Jin smiled brightly and held up condiments, sauces and other miscellaneous things. "We will be painting using food!" I snicker at him. "That sounds fun!"

After handing me an apron, I watch as Jin prepares our painting surface. He coats one of the countertops with wax paper. Then he pulls two large canvases from behind the cabinet and lays them on the countertop. I tie my apron around my waist and can't wait to make a mess while painting with food.

"I've got mayonnaise for white; we can smash blueberries to make blue or purple, ketchup for red, mustard for yellow, soy sauce for brown...well you get it." He points to each thing and realizes he's talking too much.

"What about green?" I ask him curiously, glancing around at all the random kitchen condiments. He picks up a green plastic tube. "Wasabi!" I bust out laughing. He had everything figured out, it was the cutest thing. "We better wear gloves then." He nods and pulls out a box of plastic gloves.

Staring at my blank canvas, I'm not sure how I want to start.

I watch in horror as Jimin squirts chocolate syrup all over his white canvas and uses a knife to spread it around. I couldn't help but laugh. "What are you going to paint?" I watch him grin from the side and then he chuckles. "I'm going to paint a white alpaca." That threw me over the edge, I cackled like an idiot. "That's so random, Jin!" He grins.

That was a cute idea though, I wanted to paint an animal too. It would be simple. It's not like I was going to create a masterpiece. This was just for fun.

I grab the wasabi tube and squirt it along the bottom of my canvas and use a fork to smear it around and scrape it against the canvas to create texture. Jin watches me curiously. "You are making grass?" I nod to his question.

Jin takes a heaping glob from the mayonnaise jar and slaps it on the canvas. The splattering sound made me burst out into laughter. He slathers it around and it slowly forms the outline of an alpaca.

I go to work on my idea next. Grabbing the mustard, I drag along the nozzle and try to make a correct outline. Long legs, a tall neck, I was going to paint a giraffe. Jin immediately identifies my subject when he sees the long next. He gets excited and it's the cutest vision I've seen today.

"Do you like giraffes?" He asks me and I nod. "My baby room was filled with giraffes. So, I've always had a fondness for them." Jin gives me a sweet smile and goes back to spreading his mayonnaise around.

After the shabby, boxy body of the giraffe is finished, I grab the chocolate sauce and squirt small dots all over its body. Then squirt some on the tip of its nose.

"It's coming along greatly!" Jin professes as he glances over at my art, checking my progress. I look at his next. "Your alpaca needs some sunshine!" I pick up the mustard bottle and aim it at the top corner of his canvas. Jin swats my hand away. "I don't want sunshine!"

We begin to fight, he holds my arm up in the air, not letting me anywhere near his alpaca. I get weak from giggling and am not able to fight him anymore. "Take some sunshine!" I scream at him. I accidentally squeeze the mustard bottle and some jets out and goes flying, landing on his nose. Jin's mouth drops open and he looks utterly offended.

"Now you've done it!" My eyebrows shoot up and I realize I need to make a run for it. I jump off my stool and go running in any direction away from him. Jin grabs the mustard bottle and chases after me. "Royalty or not! You can't squirt mustard on me!" I laugh so hard; it makes it hard to keep up my pace.

The heel of my shoe slides against the tile and I fall hard on my butt, but I'm still cackling the entire time. Jin rushes over to me and helps me up. "Are you okay?" I just laugh harder at the concerned look on his face. Tears were rolling down my face. He helps me to my feet and looks down at me warmly.

"You're so beautiful when you laugh." I blush intensely from his words and from the power of his gaze. Jin parts his lips and leans in, closing his eyes. I panic and do the only thing I can think to do. I grab the mustard bottle from his hand and squirt a small dot on his nose.

"Why you!" He screams and I take off running again.

"Why you!" He screams and I take off running again

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