Atiny Heart

41

In the afternoon, I was sitting in Hongjoong's studio listening to new songs he was working on when Jongho came in, sat down next to me and grinned expectantly.

"So?"

"So what?" I asked, irritated.

"Are they together?"

"Of course they are, delete the screenshots." I held my phone with the kissing picture in front of him and looked at him triumphantly.

He looked at it closely and furrowed his eyebrows skeptically.

"I won't delete it until I've seen them together live. The picture could also be a fake."

"What nonsense, why would they pretend? Because of our little bet? That would be absurd." I laughed.

"We'll see," he replied suspiciously and left again.

"Let me guess, they're not a couple and are only pretending because of your bet?" Hongjoong asked dryly.

"Yep." I replied resignedly and he started to laugh.

"How are you going to get out of this now?"

"I'll get them to keep pretending," I said with a shrug.

"And how are you going to do that?"

"I'll just ask them."

I took out my cell phone and texted Jungkook.

Chat Jungkook/I:

Me:

Hey

Help 😥

Jungkook:

Hey Y/N

Everything ok?

What can I do to help?

Me:

You still remember the reason for the kiss photo? The bet with Jongho?

The photo isn't enough for him. He won't believe me until he sees you. You have to keep pretending you're together

Jungkook:

😂😂

So I'm in, but you'll have to talk Tae into it

Me

Thanks Jungkook 😘

Jungkook:

What are you still doing today anyway?

Me:

Nothing more, I'm about to finish work

Jungkook:

Could I come over with Tae right away then? The others aren't here and we're a bit bored right now

Me:

Yeah sure, come on, I can sort it out with Taehyung right here.

Jungkook:

Alright, see you in a bit 😊

Me:

See you then

I put my phone away again and smiled at Hongjoong.

"I've already convinced one half of the couple."

"And who else do you have to convince now?"

"Taehyung... the two of them are coming over soon. Then I'll talk to him." I smiled wryly and hoped that he would go along with it.

Half an hour later, Willard knocked on the door and opened it.

"A Mr. Jeon and a Mr. Kim are at the gate, requesting admittance, miss."

"Let them in," I replied happily.

The butler left again and I jumped up to go towards the front door to greet them.

Jungkook came in the door first and pulled me into a hug, smiling.

"Hey, long time no see." I greeted him with a laugh.

Taehyung appeared behind him, grinning cheekily at me.

"Well, if you escape from my bed like that, I'll have to follow you to make sure everything's okay."

"Actually, that was my bed," Jungkook interjected.

I shook my head in bewilderment.

"Don't spread rumors around here. My boys have slightly protective tendencies and are guaranteed to take your fun the wrong way," I said with a laugh.

Hongjoong, who had followed me, raised his hands defensively.

"I'm not even sure I want to know what you're talking about."

He held out his hand in greeting.

"I'm Hongjoong, nice to meet you."

After they introduced themselves as well, I pulled them to my office to talk to them alone before the others saw them and would hog them.

"Tae, I need your help. Jongho doesn't want to delete the screenshots until he sees you two and then believes you're a couple. Could you play along a bit?" I looked at him pleadingly.

"I wasn't actually planning to put on a show like that because of a small bet. Sorry." He shook his head.

"Come on, it'll be fun." Jungkook tried to convince him.

"Oh please... otherwise it'll be really embarrassing for me." I looked at him with a pout.

"No."

Why did he have to be so stubborn? Then I would have to approach it differently.

"But you do know that I still have the picture and could just post it on Twitter." I grinned cheekily at him.

"You wouldn't do that because you remember the promise? You'd have to marry me then." he said casually.

"Well, firstly, you couldn't force me to and secondly, are you serious? You're threatening me with the fact that I HAVE to marry a really sexy guy? About 3 billion people on this planet would want to marry you and we can't even speculate about the number of aliens who might have intercepted our satellite signals. And you're threatening me with that as a punishment?" I giggled.

"What's next? Are you threatening to feed me cream pies? Or throw puppies at me?"

Jungkook and I burst out laughing and Taehyung stood pensively scratching his head.

"Well, I might not have thought that through... Alright, but only for a few days." he finally gave in.

Then he turned to me, brought his face close to mine and glared at me.

"But there are consequences for you, Princess."