Beauty and the Mystery || Kim Taehyung ✓

9: Like Magic

"She is fine now," Taehyung's mother said getting out of the hospital room while looking at Changho.

"Are you sure, Dr. Kim? She was in a car crash. Everyone in the cars including my guards died. She doesn't have any pain? She was bleeding as well." Changho asked and Taehyung's mother shook her head.

"This is a miracle that she survived."

"It is indeed." Taehyung's mother said when 5 years old Taehyung came running to her mother.

"Mom, Jisoo ate Namjoon's chocolates and lied to Namjoon that I ate them! He is mad at me! I came here with the bodyguard uncle." Taehyung complained to his mother when Changho moved away to talk to his guards.

"Oh, lord! Wait here! Let me make a quick call to Namjoon." She said and walked away from there. Suddenly Taehyung felt something weird and turned to look at the closed door of the hospital room.

He curiously creaked open the door and walked in to see Ara lying there. Taehyung's eyes trailed over to her flat tummy and he slowly climbed on the chair beside her bed and stood on it. 

Something was calling him from inside Ara's tummy. He smiled and placed his hand on Ara's tummy when she hissed and opened her eyes to look at Taehyung.

"Hi there, baby!" Taehyung said and Ara furrowed her brows at her. "Baby?" She asked and Taehyung instantly shot his head at her. "The baby in there."

"But I don't have a baby," Ara protested but Taehyung pouted at her. "She is there. She is calling out to me. The blue light is protecting her." Taehyung explained and Ara passed him a questioning gaze.

"Who are you?" She asked and Taehyung smiled at her. "The blue light said that I am her mate. What is a mate?"

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After a short while, Y/n realized that the room was truly too dark for anyone to be paying attention to them, except for a quick glance from Taehyung's mom, who studied Taehyung for a long moment and then smiled warmly at Y/n before focusing on the movie.

Y/n stopped pretending to be able to hold her spine upright for more than five minutes and just let herself lean into Taehyung's torso. He didn't say anything but angled himself a little, just to help her fit more comfortably.

Somewhere halfway through the movie, she realized that she had been sliding down Taehyung's thigh. Or, to be fair, Taehyung realized and lifted her up, straightening her in a firm, quick pull that made her feel like she really didn't weigh anything.

Once Y/n was stable again, he didn't move his arm from where it was snaked around her waist. The movie had been happening for seventy minutes going on a century, so no one could blame Y/n if she sank into him a little bit more.

It was fine. It was more than fine, actually.
It was nice.

"Don't fall asleep, sweetheart," Taehyung murmured. She felt his lips move against the tendrils of hair above her temple. It should have been Y/n's cue to straighten, but she couldn't quite make herself.

"I won't sleep. Though you're so comfy."

His fingers tightened on her, maybe to wake her up, maybe to hold her closer. She was about to melt off the chair and start snoring. "It's normal to feel comfortable with your mate. You look like you're about to take a nap."

"It's just that I've watched 'The Beauty Inside'. I already know what the scenes are saying."
"Yeah, same. I have watched this movie many times." He sighed, and she felt his body move under hers.

"This is dull."
"Maybe you should do something. To liven this up."

Taehyung turned slightly to her. "Me?" She angled her head to speak in his ear. "I'm sure you can come up with something. Just stand up and make a mean observation with that tone of yours. Glare at the protagonist. Jisoo seems to enjoy the actor. It might devolve into an entertaining outbreak of fisticuffs."

His lips curved. "You are such a smart-ass." Y/n looked back to the movie, smiling.

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"What are you doing?" Uncle Bang asked Hyuka. "Y/n said that I must add chocolate syrup to my twisted doughnut today in the evening." 

"When did she say that?"

"Yesterday, when I gave her the twisted doughnut and unintentionally I touched her arm. She shut her eyes and said to me 'choco syrup on twisted doughnut tomorrow'. It was like she was having visions so I followed her. I don't know what will happen but I couldn't ignore her. It was like magic."

"These things don't exist, Hyuka! Stop believing in such things. Focus on selling!" Uncle Bang warned Hyuka.

"What are these?" They turned to see a rich lady at Hyuka's store. "Twisted doughnuts! Would you like to have one?"

"Umm. Aren't twisted doughnuts supposed to be coated with icing powder? Why do these have chocolate over them?"

"Madam, today I tried a new menu. Here, taste this!" Hyuka said to the lady before handing her his new chocolate-flavored doughnut.

The lady narrowed her eyes suspiciously at Hyuka before munching into the doughnut and her eyes widen. "OH MY GOD! What is this? Is this chocolate syrup?" 

"Yea, madam but I made it myself." "This is pure ecstasy. I have never tasted doughnuts so delicious in my life." Hyuka and Uncle Bang exchanged surprised looks when the lady took something out of her bag.

"I am a famous food critic. Here is my card. I have plenty of people working under me and I am looking for someone who can manage the sweet section of my restaurant. I would like you to be there." Hyuka took the card and his eyes widen.

"Chef Yeongja? The famous owner of the 5-star restaurant named Funstaurant?" Hyuka exclaimed and Yeongja nodded. "I would like you to supply these desserts at my restaurant. You can still have the shop here but you can expand your business internally."

"Oh my God! Thank you so much for the offer. I would love that. How did you even visit this market?" Hyuka exclaimed.

"My car broke down and currently they are fixing it. I got bored so I thought of strolling here. Suddenly these chocolate doughnuts caught my attention. I have never seen something like this so I was curious about the taste but you nailed it!"

"Thank you so much! Chef, I will make sure to give a call to you. I am glad that you liked the chocolate twisted doughnuts. Please visit us soon!" Hyuka said to Yeongja who was walking away.

"What just happened?"
"Y/n's magic happened!" Hyuka exclaimed and Uncle Bang scoffed. "Magic doesn't exist. It was just a coincidence."

"It is not! Y/n predicted my future as well. Yesterday when I touched her neck when I was inspecting her clothes she suddenly spoke about 'not turning the gas stove last night'. I was confused last night but relied on packaged food. Later when my mom came home and I said this. She inspected the gas and found out that the gas leaked from the cylinder. I didn't know that it leaked but if I had cooked yesterday then I would've fried myself like a chicken at home." Jessi said, suddenly standing beside them.

"She really is different," Hyuka said and Uncle Bang recalled something. "When I first met her. She was at my flower shop. She opened her glove to touch the flowers when I stopped her. She instantly pulled my hands to her and said something." 

"WHAT!?" Jessi and Hyuka screamed. Uncle Bang looked at them while thinking deeply. He sighed before saying.

"She said to take my flower truck to search for Taehyung one day. I don't know when but she said, someday I'll help them."