Answer (Love Yourself Tour - Book 3)

Chapter 4

⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️
Sexual Content

Namjoon's POV:

I sighed. I missed Adeline. I feel like I hadn't seen her in forever even though it has only been four days. Four very long days if you asked me. I haven't seen her in person since our last show in New Jersey since me and the guys all had to fly out to LA for a couple interviews and performances before heading over to Brazil. This time Ken accompanied us instead of her. Ken was fine but he wasn't my Adeline.

Speaking of Ken. I felt kind of bad that my initial response to him was not exactly welcoming. Him offering to see Adeline to her room just really pissed me off. Made me dislike him when really, he had no idea that when he had offered to do so he was doing so in front of her boyfriend, so yeah, I felt bad which is why when the guys and I decided to go out to dinner tonight before we left for Brazil tomorrow, I invited him to join us.

We were in a Korean restaurant called Genwa*. Taehyung had remembered the place from when he and Adeline had eaten here last year after running into each other at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art*. It also helped that the place had private rooms too which is where we were all currently sitting. I was helping Yoongi to grill up some of the meat that we ordered as the guys laughed about something Ken said. I wasn't really paying attention due to my wallowing in my missing of Adeline. However, that was to be cut short when I heard someone yell, "Ya!".

I looked up at the grill in front of me to see that some of the meat was burning due to me not flipping it.

"Shit." I said in a panic starting to flip the meat hoping it was salvageable.

As soon as the last piece was flipped, I was relieved of the tongs by Seokjin who looked at me like I just ran over his RJ plushie as he shook his head muttering, "should have known better."

"If you knew better than why did you let me do it in the first place?" I inquired making it known I'd heard him.

"Trust me it won't happen again." He countered not really answering my question.

Everyone around the table laughed. Ken included. I sighed accepting that I was no longer allowed to touch the food except to eat it. I decided that because of that, now was the perfect time to get to know Ken.

"So, Ken, how are you liking the tour so far?" I asked.

"It's great. I've worked with some smaller artist before in Japan but nothing like this, so it took a bit getting used to, but I've enjoyed it. Especially meeting all the new people that I have so far. Also, the places."

"Glad you like it so far." I responded with a smile.

I meant it to. I didn't want anyone working with us to not enjoy working with us. Especially since our schedules tended to be a bit on the overwhelming side for someone not having done this type of tour before.

"What are your plans for your June break?" Taehyung asked across our side of the table.

"I'm actually going to be working with you guys."

"Really?" Jungkook asked next to Taehyung.

"Yeah, since both Ella and Adeline will be travelling back home, and I was just going to be hanging out doing nothing Youngchul asked if I wanted to work your Muster shows in Busan and Seoul along with Joowon and Shiwoo."

"Nice! Although, I feel bad that you won't get a break." Taehyung said.

"Eh, it's all good. I mean, I really would have done nothing but go around and take pictures since I'm not teaching right now. Plus, I haven't been to Busan in such a long time. Not since I moved here from Japan."