Seven Deadly Men 🔞

3. Tear

As Celine gets into her car, she takes a deep breath. She inhales and exhales slowly, trying to calm herself down. She doesn't think she can bring herself to start driving yet. There's so much adrenaline pumping through her veins that she feels like she could run a marathon. Her chest is so weighed down that it feels like there's a plethora of dumbbells stacked on top of her that she just can't lift off. She feels hot tears starting to come up, but she can't cry yet, so all she does is laugh and laugh some more. It turns maniacal until she finally does start to form tears from laughing so hard. Those tears turn into sobs until she looks over to see that Jimin is sitting quietly next to her.

His whole demeanor has changed. He's looking down at the floorboard of her car and quietly whispers, "I'm so sorry. I didn't want to make you cry. I promise I will never hurt you." Something in his tone and the way he made himself look so small next to her makes her believe him. She turns in her seat to face him.

Celine looks over at Jimin and gives him a soft smile. "It's okay. It was all just so overwhelming. You know I'm a fan of yours, right? You could have just asked me to come back stage, and I would have been thrilled."

He looks even more defeated. "I didn't think you'd want to or that you would be too scared and we needed to talk to you. I could feel your energy pulling me from stage. You saw me look at you, didn't you?"

Celine slowly nods. "I thought I was just imagining it. That's such a delusional thing to think." She's sure tons of other women- and men- have thought that they were looking at them through the crowd and she didn't want to be like that. There were so many other people around her.

"Why?" Jimin looks up at her with his deep pools of blue, "we let you see a part of us we show no one. Do you see my eyes? This is their real color." So not the deep brown that seems so natural and not a deep chasm of black like Yoongi's that nearly scared her into submission.

"The other guys, too? And do they always move inside like that?"

He chuckles. "They do. Taehyung was right, my dear, you do have beautiful eyes. Taehyung may want them for himself, but I think they suit you much better. I could get lost in your eyes forever." His intense stare holds her eyes and she can't look away even though she feels her cheeks heat up at the look he's giving her.

Celine blushes, forgetting how scared she was earlier. Jimin's presence is somehow comforting even though he was the cause of her panic. His personality seems so soft and sweet that she just wants to reach over and hold him.

"Would Taehyung really take me eyes? That seems so morbid."

"No, he's just envious of everything. He's extremely handsome but always looking for ways he could improve in others. I'm sorry he scared you."

"He didn't scare me," Celine lies, "I was just concerned if we met again."

Jimin shrugs like this is the most natural conversation in the world. "Besides, none of us would ever allow that. Namjoon would be furious. He probably wouldn't be allowed back into the group. Yoongi has taken a quick liking to you, too, if you didn't notice. That's not always the case with him. Of course, I have too, gorgeous." He reaches over and lifts her chin so that her face meets his. He whispers quietly, "Don't ever forget that I would never hurt you. I'll never let any of the other members hurt you either." He moves in closer to her so that they're cheek to cheek, "you're already very important to me." Before she can react, he takes her left earlobe into his mouth and sucks down hard before pulling back and leaving a kiss on her cheek. Harmless enough, Celine is already turned on, but she doesn't know how to react. They just met Jimin and the others they seem a little... well, dangerous. Like a piece of delicious chocolate cake that you want to devour immediately but you know if you do you'll gain at least five pounds that you'll never be able to shake off unless you worked really hard at it. She had a feeling that the rest of these men would be the same way. Jimin was pulling her to him a little too quickly.