Next to You | YoonMin

Chapter 3

ーSix years laterー

"I think it's time for me to finally go home, guys." I sigh and sit down on the couch in the apartment which I share with my two best friends.

"Really? Are you sure?" Taehyung asks shocked.

"Yeah, I'm gonna continue dancing there though, don't worry."

"I knew this day would come, so we talked with Taehyung about this before. Jiminie, how about we all go back together?" Hoseok proposes giving me a wide smile.

"Really? You want to come with me to Korea?"

"Yeah, last year's trip with my family to Daegu really changed my perspective." Taehyung says nodding his head.

"And I don't want to stay here alone so I'll go with you guys. One of my friends, Jinyoung is at a dance company in Seoul and the CEO saw our videos and told me that he is waiting for my arrival. And yours too, Jimin." Hoseok says giving me a thumbs up.

"Oh my..." I whisper and put my hand over my heart.

"That's true, Chimchim. We'll take over South Korea!" Hoseok exclaims and jumps on me.

"What about you, Taehyungie?" I ask pushing Hoseok off of me.

"I'll audition to one of the idol companies there. I'm still thinking about my photography carrier though." He says looking down at his hands. Taehyung was pretty popular for his photos here in New York. But he got even more recognition and his covers that he uploads online. Me and Hoseok upload dance covers too and our owns, we have lots of followers which I feel grateful for.

"I already talked with Ryan so you don't have to worry about a thing." Ryan is our boss at New York Dance School. We have been teaching kids too so he is really fond of us.

"Wow, how long have you been planning this?" I say trying to take in all the information.

"For months now, we knew you'd like to go back to your home country. We wouldn't have let you go alone anyway." Taehyung says ruffling my hair.

"This is too much to take in. Thank you guys." I say giving them a hug.

"Don't mind, Chimchim."

"So, can we celebrate?" Hoseok says taking out a champagne from the fridge.

"Hell yeah." I say taking the champagne from his hands and opening it.

"Let's drink so we'll have a successful life in our new home." I say holding up my drink.

"And successful in love." Hoseok winks and I roll my eyes.

***

"Is there anyone waiting for us?" Taehyung asks taking his luggage.

"Yeah, my cousin has been living here for a while and she said we could crash at her place." I say looking around.

"Jimin!" I hear a voice coming from behind me. I look behind and see Hayoon waving at me.

"Hayoon!" I exclaim and give her a deep hug.

"Jiminie, you've became such a handsome man, where is my cutie Jimin?" She pouts pinching my cheeks.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Kim Taehyung." Taehyung interrupts bowing his head.

"Aww, you're so handsome too, is everybody in America so handsome?" She goes and pinches Taehyung's cheeks too.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Jung Hoseok." Hoseok says bowing his head.

"You really have handsome and kind friends, don't you Jiminie? Yoongi is even successful right now, the whole country is madly in love with him. Namjoon and Jungkookie too. Jungkook is really liked by women and of course, me!" Hayoon exclaims pointing at herself. Yoongi. It's been awhile since I've heard his name.

"I don't really talk with Yoongi anymore." I mumble, scratching my head.

"Really? Why? You looked so good together though..."

"You never told me you were in a relationship with him, Jimin." Taehyung says surprised.

"We were only best friends, gosh." I say trying to look somewhere else. I looked to my right only to see a big poster with Yoongi on it.

"Just great." I mumble to myself.

"He is good looking though, also he has a really cute face." Hoseok says eyeing the poster.

"Can we just go?" I ask walking faster.

"Are you embarrassed, Jiminie?" Taehyung asks hugging me from behind.

"No, why would I be?" I mumble biting the inside of my cheek. He was the one who stopped talking with me after all. I only saw him in pictures as he grow up, and later on only in music videos and photoshoots. After I moved away, he contacted me everyday, when I got a girlfriend he contacted me less but he still talked to me. Since he got famous I was only getting messages from him once in three months. Like that, I stopped talking with my best friend.

"Jiminie, what are you thinking about? We've arrived." My cousin says waving her tiny hands around my eyes.

"Seoul is so pretty, isn't it? Much better than New York!" Taehyung exclaims while swinging around and dancing in the rain that just started pouring.

"Yeah." I mumble and take a look at the building Hayoon stays in. It was a small building but each floor with immense apartments. 

"So, that's my apartment." My cousin says pointing at the middle floor.

"You know, the apartment at the top floor is still looking for its owner." Hayoon says with a wink. My cousin herself is pretty young only in her thirties.

"We'll think about it." Hoseok says winking back at her.

"I also have a surprise for you, Jimin." My cousin says opening her apartment's door.

"Honey, I'm home."

"Honey?" I ask looking around.

"Welcome home!" The unknown man exclaims kissing Hayoon's cheek.

"So which one is your cousin?" The man asks pointing at us. The man himself looked pretty young, his black hair was pushed back, his shoulders were broad and he just looked like he just got out of the shower.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Park Jimin. Hayoon's cousin." I bow my head and signal Hoseok and Taehyung to follow me.

"I'm Kim Taehyung, nice to meet you."

"I'm Jung Hoseok!"

"Oh nice to meet you guys, I'm Sunghoon but you can call me hyung."

"Thank you for letting us stay here."

"No biggie, so what are your plans?" He asks showing us the apartment.

"MBC entertainment actually wants to see us in three days so..."

"MBC entertainment?! That's amazing!" Sunghoon exclaims while clapping his hand.

"Thank you, I'm quite excited myself." I say smiling.