Playing With Bullets

Chapter 2: The Alien

"Kim Tae-hyung? From BTS?"

"Uh... Hi.", He laughed nervously.

There was an awkward silence between us. My eyes uneasily studied the floor before glancing back up at him. I hesitantly lifted my index finger towards my face.

"So, do you recognize me?", I asked hopefully.

The recognition of a big name like V would mean the world to me.

"Yeah, I recognized you by your screams a little bit ago."

My smile hardened. I seriously wanted to punch myself in the face right now.

"Well uh," I started, "I guess I should get home now."

V nodded, "Me too."

I moved to get my phone, but it wasn't on the laptop table.

"Um, hey, did you see a phone around here?", I asked suspiciously, narrowing my eyes at him.

His lips pursed and his eyebrows popped up in exaggerated surprise. The picture of culpability.

"Uh, phone? You mean this phone?", He hesitantly speculated.

Out of his pocket came my shining silver iPhone. I bit my lip to keep from saying something I would regret.

"You were going to take my phone?", I demanded with furrowed brows.

Confusion rolled off me in waves. He waved his hands infront of him wildly in denial.

"Aniya! I wasn't stealing it I was just looking through it cuz' it seemed interesting.", He mumbled.

I snatched the phone from his hand and pulled it to my chest. He hung his head in guilt to see me so angry with him.

"Why!?"

"I was just curious...", He mumbled again.

I felt like I was scolding a kid. He seemed so sincere in his apology though, it was hard to scold him. Especially when he looked at me so pitifully.

"What did you see?", I sighed, but I already knew.

I had him as my background still. I had a million photos of him. V knew everything.

"I saw my hyung, Namjoon. I didn't know you were the girl he was dating. Didn't you two break up though?" He cocked his head to the side as he spoke, studying my expression.

My arms crossed. I could feel my cheeks heating up. This was so embarrassing. Rap Monster's dongsae had just seen everything. I couldn't even maintain eye contact with V anymore.

"Yeah, a couple months ago."

"Oh. Sorry."

There was an awkward tension hanging in the air. I needed to escape it. I brushed past V for the door, not even giving him a goodbye. I was too tired for this.

"Hey wait up.", V said, following me out.

I turned the lights off of each of the rooms we left. He followed after me wordlessly.

"Isn't it a little strange to look through strangers photos?"

"You're not a stranger, you're Kim Jisoo! I see you on stage all the time. You're my favorite in Blackpink. "

I smiled a little bit at that. It was nice to know I was at least noticable. Some of the other members like Jennie and Lisa were usually more popular than I was.

"Well, next to Rosé."

My smile fell again.

We reached the backdoor of the building. I closed it behind us on our way out. Then I turned to V. I smiled politely and stuck out my hand for him to shake.