The Game of Life (BTS: Rap Monster)

Three

This is the first time I've seen Namjoon actually upset. Before it was usually just him trying to be cute and play around, but this time it's real. I allow him to come inside and sit on the couch. As he walks through the doorway he takes his time to look around a bit and his face starts to lose the sad puppy dog look. His eyes look as if he's taking time to carefully examine my living room area, slowly moving from one item to the next. He walks over to my bookshelf and looks over my medical books. Now this is getting annoying.

I'm just about to ask him what he wants when he turns from the bookshelf and says, "Well I guess not everyone can have a lot of money." So he wasn't looking at the books. He was only looking at my cheap bookshelf.

"What do you want?" At first I felt sorry for him. I guess it was like watching a penguin find out it can't fly. Now I feel stupid for thinking he was capable of actual emotions.

He plops down on my couch and hunches over with his elbows on his knees and his fingers intertwined. He plays around with his fingers for a few seconds until I ask him what he wants again. The last time I saw this stance was when my mom told me my dad died. 

He lets out a huge sigh and looks up at me, "I need you to be my girlfriend." Not exactly what I expected, but a bit similar to the death thing.

"No," Of course not, "I thought this was something important, but you're just playing around again." Can't there just be one moment when he's serious about something? He's worse than my mom. I bet if she were alive they'd make great friends. Both of them don't have a serious bone in their body. My mom always said I was like my dad.

"I'm being serious," His face looks serious, but his question sounds otherwise,"Can't you just hear why I asked you?" Okay he's doing the sad face again. I guess it wouldn't hurt to hear him out. I tell him okay and he starts to give me an explanation,"Okay so my mom stopped by a couple days ago and my apartment is kinda a mess and she started to get upset because she hates that kind of stuff and then she asked me what I do and I guess I gave her the wrong answer and then-," I'm curious if he told her what he actually does all day so I ask him what he said, "You know, hang out with friends, make CD's, that kind of stuff," Wow he told her the truth, "So then she asked why not do something productive and get a job and a girlfriend and stuff like that. So I told her I'm trying at the whole job thing and that I already have a girlfriend."

This honestly just seems like a story about 'A Day in the Life of Kim Namjoon', "What does this have to do with me?"

"Well she started asking me about my 'girlfriend' and I told her the stuff she wanted to hear and now she wants to meet my, ahem, girlfriend." He looks at me when he says that last world. Now I feel like dropping to my knees on the ground and putting my head down on the floor.

"Why would I help you with your little scheme. Pay for your own mistakes." I march over to him and lift him from the couch and start shooing him out of the apartment.

"Wait, come on, please, " He turns around when we get close to the door, "I'll pay you." Pay me? How could he possibly think that I would be that low to- I unconsciously glance at the bills on the kitchen counter. Well, I mean, it won't hurt to make a little extra money. I mean it's honest work, right?

I think a little harder for a minute and then with my head down I say, "How much?"

He starts to smile, "Yes! Thank you, thank you," I don't even know how many bows he does before he says, " Ten dollars an hour."

Okay this is my chance to do some manipulation, "Fifteen, " He looks surprised and says no so I quickly say, "Hey, you're taking out time from my schedule to work your little scheme on your mom. And I need to learn, too. What's your mom going to say when she finds out I know nothing about you? So, you're also taking out time for practice."