Secret Lover | Kim Taehyung

Gucci

Taehyung moved inside the duvet streching his arms to feel the body next to him only to find the bed empty. He opened his eyes slightly to look around, in the same sleepy state he checked for the time, he sighed. It was 5 in morning.

Waking up after an hour Taehyung made his way to the gym, after the routine workout he greeted Mary in the kitchen and reading news on his tablet he finished the breakfast.

After washing up and wearing a new pair of sweats with plain white t-shirt he entered the study room to start working. Today he was going to work from home having the same reason as to why Ari was not at home today.

Seoul sales day, the only day of the year where the city of Seoul is crowded with everyone outside from dusk till dawn. It has one similarity with the Black Friday of US that is huge discount offers on everything but there's no history or meaning behind it.

Every year people from different cities of South Korea visit Seoul for this day and there's long queues and traffic everywhere on the streets. Every single shop has to held discount offers some even as much as fifty percent off.

The seven friends, wait not friends they like to call themselves as colleagues were also waiting outside the Seoul mall from early morning to get their hand on the products just like everybody else. Ari, her friends and the Kim's were standing in the long queue and waiting for the gates to open.

Taehyung's rich and Ari knows it too. Yet whenever her boyfriend tells her to not go at the sales zoo and instead he'll buy her everything she wants, he gets declined.

He knew she won't agree to him and instead of forcing her or arguing about it he just slides in the black card to Ari's purse a night before so that she can use it freely which she never does. To say it doesn't bother him is not true, he loves to take care of her and her needs but also respect the fact that she appreciates it but is in no need of his money right at the moment. She says whenever she is in need of money she'll ask him directly without any hesitation and that's enough for Taehyung.

"Isn't she supposed to be rich?" Jiwon asked Ari eyeing Jennie who was on her phone unbothered even after standing with pencil heels for hours.

"Ugh,this is so boring!" Jimin grumbled under his breath but enough for his colleagues to listen.

"Why are acting like this? What's your problem? Even Soobin is not whining like you." Jiwon asked with a roll of her eyes. Soobin was just looking with his puppy eyes.

"Because like you I don't enjoy shopping." Jimin huffed.

"Than why did you even show up?" Jiwon asked tired of him muttering how much he hates shopping and would prefer sleeping extra hours right now.

"Duh, you forced me to. You threatened me with my secrecy if I won't accompany you." Jimin said with narrow eyes darted towards her almost glaring.

"Bitch you were crying last week how you want the Chanel perfume, what happened?" Jiwon asked.

"I meant I want someone to gift me a Chanel perfume for my birthday, I didn't think I had to buy it myself."

"Huh who were you even expecting to gift you such a costly thing, I don't even have enough to pay my rent."

"Maybe you should just accept my proposal of sharing the apartment."

At that Jiwon gave him a 'Are you kidding me?' look.
They continued to bicker for quite sometime and others were just enjoying the drama.

"Let's make a deal." It was jimin who said that, a sly smile playing on his lips. When he got everyone's attention he continued, "The one who will get the least items will have to give an expensive treat today."

Everyone agreed to it as they all were confident to pick up as much as they can. After a while the gates got opened and people came swarming in like the soldiers in a loose battle, the sofa coming out of a bottle after vigorous shaking and they all look like ants from above crawling their way in.

Ari got all the things she needed and made her way further, from the bunch of pushing people she reached the Gucci store. Her gaze fell on the different collection and got ready to fight for them. After taking a what she needed only one thing left the Gucci Jordaan leather loafer but when she reached for it, someone else picked it up.

"Excuse me I saw it first."
"I had my hands on it before, and I'm not judging at all I know nowadays people wear opposite gender clothes and everything but honey it's not your size." The guy said smirking. He was handsome way too handsome.

"Oh actually it's for my boyfriend and you can choose any other." Ari said
"Come on, you and I both know this one is the latest and the only one in sale from the limited collection."

Watching the little argument between Ari and some other guy, Jennie easily got the situation and decided to help her out. She introduced herself to the handsome guy who easily got indulged into the conversation and Ari snatched the shoes from his grip and rushed to pay for the it.

After the whole commotion ended, they counted the list of items they bought and to their shock Ari was the one who lost. Everyone was sure that Jimin will loose when they agreed to the deal as the boy kept whining about how he don't likes to shop but looking at the situation right now it seems that he was carrying a lot many bags for someone who hates shopping.

Everyone was shocked when Ari decided to give them a treat at one of the most expensive restaurant of Seoul. 'Edo' a Japanese restaurant located in the central city which have their own private dinning rooms called 'Koshitsu' along with peaceful ambience.

The manager there greeted her as if they already know each other which is absolutely right. Ari often comes to eat sushi at this place with Tae as they have the best sashimi. When Ari asked for her usual Koshitsu he replied,
"My apologises madam but Mr.Kim is already in there. If I may assist you to some other room."

Ari was surprised hearing her boyfriend was at the same place.
"Oh of course we can-." She was interrupted when one of the employee came to her, bowed and the next words he spoke surprised everyone present.
"Madam, Mr.Kim have requested yours and the other guest presence to accompany him for a dinner."

To say it was awkward is an understatement. When everyone got seated after bowing to their boss who was holding a small smile on his face, no one spoke about anything and the room was dead silent.
"When I heard that people from my company are here, I thought let's have an office dinner why not,right?" Tae decided to break the silence and everyone agreed to it immediately.

It was Jennie who actually got the courage to reply, "Thankyou Mr.Kim we appreciate it."

After giving her a nod everyone continued eating in peace. But it was not for long as Soobin asked an innocent question,
"Who do you think came first, egg or chicken?" And that was all it took for Jimin to start a debate proving his point even though Jiwon mentioned how it's already proved that egg came first.

The atmosphere changed completely when everyone kept conversing as if they are not in presence of their boss. Taehyung looked at how Jimin and Jiwon argued with cute glares in their eyes, huffing on getting irritated, the giggle of Shin Hari resonating in the room, Jennie also having a small smile on her face looking at the teammates, Sung Kung minding her own business as usual and the person who was the reason of the havoc was slurping the noodles.

Taehyung and Ari kept on stealing glances at each other from sideways, feeling happy at how normal everything is. Tae went as far as placing his hand on her thigh when no one paid attention unaware of a pair of eyes looking at them, actually at a particular someone.