why (yoonmin)

chapter 9

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M.Y.
We arrived to the mall, thankfully without any tickets despite the speed we were going on the highway. Poor kids in the back holding their hands, scared as fuck. Probably thought today was the day they were going to breathe their last breath. I don't blame them, I'd never been in a car where Zico was the one driving and to his distaste it will probably ever be the last time.

Finding parking wasn't that hard either since it was during the week, we chose to park as close as possible and with every step I started to take as we entered the mall, the more I found out how bad my ass was hurting.

"Shame you can't carry me today." I looked over to Zico as we trailed behind the two, now eager, kids in the front of us. He looked at me, his perfect brown orbs looking me up and down, eye-fucking me as we were in public.

"What do you mean?"

I shrugged, " my ass is starting to feel abused now that I'm moving around." I gave a slight chuckle. He grabbed my hand in his intertwining our fingers.

"I'll be more gentle next time."
Jungkook and taehyung came to a stop in front of a little clothes store.

"This is where they said they would be."
"Text them and make sure."

I let go of Zico's hand and walked up to them. "What are you guys talking about ?"
They looked up at me with a bit of worry.
"Jin,Namjoon,and hoseok and Jimin hyung are here too.." A forced smile tugged at the ends of taehyung's mouth.
I threw my face into my hands. "Really, you guys couldn't tell me they would be here too before we left ?" I let my hands drag themselves down so I could look at them.
They looked like a ghost just walked in front of them.
"I'm sorry hyung, we just haven't seen you in a few days. We thought you were alone so we came over to ask if you wanted to come out with us all. We were going to tell you but you invited your friend to join us and we're didn't wanna make you feel uncomfortable or anything only inviting you." Jungkook lowered his head just as his phone rang. "They are coming out."

"It's ok, just next time tell me please.Come on, let's go have some fun for the day. " I let my hands come to rest by my side the two youngest started to walk towards the doorway to meet Namjoon who had bags in his hands already. He wore a bright smile, until his eyes landed on me or what I thought was me.

"Hey, didn't think I'd be seeing you here today?" I played off the surprise with a smile shoving my hands into my pockets. He smiled back finally. "I didn't think I'd be seeing you either. We haven't seen much of you since your birthday but I think I can see why. Who's this ?" He flicked his head to Zico who stood behind me looking around like a lost puppy. My smile was less forced at the sight.
"Uh, yeah. This is Zico." He looked up at the mention of his gang name and I motioned for him to come closer. "We've been together for 5, almost 6 years now." I lied. No one had to know the whole truth.

'Stop doing this to us.'

Zico smiled and held up his hand Ina peace sign "yo."
Namjoon gave a nod of his head just as the rest of everyone came out of the store. Again shocked but instead of asking me, Zico took the lead in introducing himself. I mentally thanked him. I didn't dare look at hoseok but I assumed his face had a less than happy look to it.

"Where is everyone off to next ?" I looked at Jin who was standing pretty close to Namjoon.

"Me and joon were thinking of going to a few shops alone real fast and then meet up with everyone at the food court in 40?" He looked really happy.
I nodded my head, "sounds like a plan to me. Gives me time to catch up to you all, bad wise." He nodded and with a wave he was off, as was everyone else.
Jimin and hoseok with taehyung and Jungkook, Namjoon with Jin, me with Zico.

'They are gonna separate from us now. They won't put up with everything like they used to do.'
No, they are my friends, they'd be by my side just like I'd be by theirs. Don't assume.
'How are we so sure?'
I'm not, but I just know.

"Where do you wanna go first?" I looked at Zico who intently watched everyone walk away not looking away to even answer me. He just shrugged.
Ouch. I forgot he was the intensely jealous type.
I looped his arm with mine and pulled him with me.
"Let's go see if we can find anything to support your kinky ass." I shrugged off his cold shoulder trying not to let it get to me. From the corner of my eye I saw him give a little smile as we walked in the opposite direction of everyone else.

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P.J.

Hurt, jealous,confused.
Just a few words to describe how I felt the moment after I had walked out of the clothing shop, eyes landing on yoongi and the stranger who was later announced as his boyfriend of 6 years. I wanted to cry but I was stronger than that, I knew better than to let petty things like this make me cry, even if that meant being harsh to others around me for a little bit.

Everyone has said that he was single, never had been in a relationship before, but in their defense, they looked pretty shocked at the news too.

Taehyung and jungkook looked uncomfortable the entire time. They knew something and i was gonna get in on it even if that meant causing a scene.

I took the opportunity to make s move with or without hoseok's help. There was a bathroom coming up, I grabbed the two boys by their collars of their shirts and dragged them in.
"So, you gonna fill us in on the news or just keep it to yourselves like the rest of us can't see the looks on your faces ?" I pressed them against the wall, hoseok must have gotten the memo as he took jungkook and held him.
The two boys looked at each other before taking a deep breath.

"You gotta promise not to tell Jin-hyung and namjoon-hyung."
I nodded my head in compliance, hobi making the same gesture.
"Zico is a very well known mob boss in a very rundown part of Korea. He's the leader of Block B." Taehyung took a moment before resuming in the explanation. My head was spinning, why would yoongi want to be with a mobster? And for such a long time. I let taehyung go and walked over to the sink for some leaning support.

"What else?" I needed all the information i could get without siting online resources. That was for last resort only if needed.

"That's all we know besides what yoongi had told us, been with him for 6 years, his name is Zico. But i don't think yoongi knows that I've heard of his boy toys mob. We should probably keep it that way if we like living, and like having yoongi around us." Taehyung looked at the ground deep into his own thoughts.

"So then, that brings my next question, how do you know so much 'bout this gang the rest of us haven't heard about before?"

"My brother. He was in the gang before he died. I'm not sure how he found them but he was in it for 2 years before getting shot in a raid. He used to tell me about how he wanted me to never get involved in such activity, he always told me how he made a terrible mistake and how he couldn't get out of the gang because the leader, Zico, believed death was the only way out of loyalty." His expression changed from that of fear and concern to hatred. " I'm thankful that my brothers death was fast and painless rather than slow and by the hands of Zico."

Hobi let jungkook go and joined me by the sink."how did youngi meet this guy then? How come he never told us about him until now? Why did he lie about not being in a relationship before?" Everyone was confused but at least we had some answers.

"Come on, let's just get this day over with. Hopefully we never have a run in with Zico after today." I ran a hand through my hair. What a fucking nice day.
"If anyone finds out anything for either, we report it to our little group here."
Everyone nodded In agreement.

We left the bathroom and continued to shop, trying the best we could to enjoy the rest of the day even though we still had many questions.

-update 1 of 10-