Reflections // Min Yoongi ✓

Chapter 3 // Pathways

"Are you sure it's going to be okay?" You tap the pen on your hand above the piles of notes in front of you while you speak to your brother on the phone. You have been busy at the office all day long and right at the moment you are about to leave to pick up your son, your brother suddenly calls to offer his help, as if the universe had decided to help you even before you pleaded for them to.

"Yeah, I mean- That's the reason why I was calling anyway. I kind of promised to take him out this weekend but I might not make it, so I figured I can take him today and let you focus on work," he said from the other line. If only your mind haven't been so filled with the meeting that is about to happen, perhaps you wouldn't have missed out on how he sounded so flustered and hesitant as he spoke.

"Thank you, Mark. You are a blessing," you told him before cutting off the line and leaving your office to head out towards where the meeting is taking place, completely unsuspecting at what is about to happen next.

"So- I truly hope that this endorsement will help both parties, since the brand itself is expanding and we truly believe that the group can be the perfect representatives for the style that we are creating." The voice of your business partner seems so far away even when he is currently sitting right next to you. You just can't help to let your focus wander towards across the meeting table, right where the familiar face which you recognize as one of the corporate leaders where Yoongi and his group signed for, along with another familiar face sitting beside him - the face that brings your memory back into the night at Yoongi's apartment five years ago, the night that changed your life. You can only stare into her eyes while she looks back into yours with a nervous stare and continuously sending you pursed smiles which is only causing anger to build up inside you.

"....and of course, in the hand of our best designer right here, we can achieve a lot of greatness together. Isn't that right, Y/N?" Your partner continues on, speaking while placing his hands on your shoulder to grab your attention. Yet you answer him with a simple nod and then nothing else but silence, keeping your eyes to glare into the people in front of you before distracting yourself with your sketches in hand, wanting nothing more than just to walk out of there and away from the part of your past that you want nothing to do with.

"Jun, what the fuck?" It's finally one hour later, right after the dreadful meeting just ended. You are right at the doorway of your partner's office, pulling his arm to turn around and face you, just so you can vent out the anger that you have been keeping inside for the last hour. "Why the fuck didn't you tell me who these people are? You could've warned me, and-"

"And what, so you can have a chance to run away?"

"What- what are you talking about?" You are flustered at his question, not to mention the stare that he is giving you only causing you to squirm at where you stand, completely intimidated by his presence.

"You told me that you came to this city for a reason, that's why I promoted you to come with me. But all you have been doing for the last four months is to run and hide, and for what? What are you so afraid of?"

Your mind brings you back to four months ago, when you heard that Jun - your best friend from college, the man that you've gotten to know since the first day you stepped foot at your university and also the man that got you this job - had been assigned to be the head of branch. And you remember how you begged him to take you with him. "What's the point of you coming back here if all you are going to do is hide, Y/N?"

"What gives you the right to say anything about what decisions that I should make?" You scoffed, "Do you have any idea what I'm going through?"

"That's the point- I do know everything. I've seen everything for years." He is staring straight at you at this point, trying his best to speak to you as calm as possible. "Look, I didn't do this on purpose, alright? I saw a chance, and I took it. I'm doing what is best for the company, and if it can also open up a way for you to face your past, then why not?"