𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟒𝟎

"Bang PD's on a meeting right now," the secretary explains, "he has a thirty minute break before a reunion. You can use this free time if you please, I'll let him know you're here."

"Thanks, Eunji." Namjoon bows.

He goes to the cafeteria and makes himself the first cup of coffee. He left in a rush this morning and if it hadn't been for Yoongi he would've forgotten to put on his shoes.

"Long time no see."  a female voice says behind him.

Dora.

Namjoon clenches his jaw, the last person he needed to see today. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, trying to relax all the muscles in his face. He has to keep it cool.

"Good morning." he politely greets, not waisting his energy to turn his head towards her.

Dora giggles and takes his words as an invitation to sit with him. She sits on the armchair next to Namjoon's. "Dummy, it's almost noon—oh, sorry. I shouldn't speak so comfortable to you, what we had ended years ago and it's been a while since the last time we talked, hasn't it?"

Namjoon takes another sip, trying to avoid any kind of small conversation with her—if she gives him another reason to hate her, he kills her.

"Why are you not in the office?"

"I need to do something important." he replies coldly.

"Oh, I see." she takes a noisy sip, raising her little finger the way she did years ago.

Namjoon wishes Bang PD's meeting could finish earlier so he could have an excuse to run away.

"How's Seokjin doing?" Dora blurs out a few minutes later.

Namjoon lowers his cup and glares at her, his dragon eyes studying her for a few seconds. As if you cared. "I think I made myself clear the last time we talk. What I've with Seokjin is just business, we belong to the same team."

"That's it?"

"Dora," Namjoon pronounces her name reluctantly. "Stop it. Let him alone, why do you care so much? What do you want now?" Is she completely sure she had the crush on me instead of him?

Dora blinks, the corners of her lips curled upwards. "You know what I want, Namjoon. But," she clears her throat with a pitched sound, which makes Namjoon bite his tongue. "Why do you care if I ask? I thought all you had was business."

Namjoon massages his temple with his free hand. "Look, if you want to know something about Seokjin go and ask him. Or you could just let him alone. It's been almost seven years since you both ended your university years, shouldn't you move on?"

"Like, what you had with Seokjin," she shakes her head with her eyes closed, ignoring what Namjoon said, "would have never worked. You didn't belong to each other, you'll never belong to each other. Oh, Namjoon, you and Seokjin are still so different. It doesn't matter he has gotten himself involved in our kind of business, Seokjin wasn't made for this world and you knew it, Namjoon. Actually," she giggles, "he can quit, don't you think? Like, I don't want to be the one who says it but he's not that good at his job. You see, I found out when I worked with him in the Hawaii case."

Namjoon tightens his hand around the cup, wishing he could cut off his ears to stop listening to her nonsense and irritable pitchy voice. That's it, for a moment he swears he's going to kill her. It takes him all of his self-control to keep his facial expression as neutral as possible. I can't risk it. Jin already went through so much because of her, I can't let the story repeat again.

Dora puts a lock of her black hair behind her ear when Namjoon stays silent, staring at the wall in front of him.

He takes another sip.