Safekeeping (Jumin x Reader)

24: End

You and Jumin had fallen into patterns now. After more than a year of living together, you were happy with this.

Get up, kiss, get dressed, use bathroom, eat breakfast. If it was a day where you both worked, then you both went to work, called each other at lunch, came home, bathed together, made and ate dinner, relaxed, became intimate, go to sleep. If only one of you was at work, then it was a little bit modified. And today was one of the rare days where neither of you had to go to work.

"I've booked us a lunch at that Italian place you like with the gelato. Perhaps today I can figure out the mystery of a life time."

"Which is?" You asked him, pleased at the plans your boyfriend had made.

"Your favorite ice cream flavor."

You laughed, a very pleasant sound to Jumin's ears.

"You'll be okay. One day I'll tell you." You responded as you stood up. "Shall we get ready now?"

Jumin smiled. This was going to be a very special lunch indeed. He had a very important question to ask you. He joined you in getting ready for the fancy lunch and soon enough you were both sitting down and ordering.

"Vegetable lasagna please." You ordered politely.

"I'll have the spinach ravioli in aioli, thank you." Jumin ordered authoritatively.

The waiter nodded as he recorded the order mentally and walked away.

"Alright, I simply cannot wait until the dessert for this." Jumin was so nervous, he thought perhaps you could even seen him sweating through his jacket. "YN, it has been more than a year since I first laid eyes on you. Even then, I thought you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. And today, I know that as a fact. But you are not only that. You are also a beautiful person. Caring, understanding and yes, even sometimes just a little bit difficult. I have fallen so deeply in love with you that I don't believe I can live without you any longer. I want you to be my partner in all senses of the word." He stood up only to kneel back down and remove the secret little box from his pocket. "YN. Please. Do me the honor of becoming my wife."

Immediately you stood up and collapsed onto Jumin.

"Yes." You were lifted up by him and spun around. You couldn't help but plant kisses on his face so that it was covered in lipstick. Despite it being against the norm to display affection publicly in South Korea, you couldn't help it. Never had anything ever felt so right. You didn't know if you'd be able to keep the fog of depression away for the rest of your life, or even away for the next few days, but knowing that Jumin wanted to be next to you for the rest of you life made the thought just a little bit easier.

"I don't even know if I can sit down to eat, Jumin." You were shaking as you finally released your now-fiance.

"Well you'll have to suffer through and then we can have celebratory gelato. Which reminds me, which flavor of ice cream is your favorite? I feel like I should be privy to such knowledge with my new role."

"It's plain mint. No chocolate chips."

And that's how Jumin knew, for sure, that he would have to keep you near. For more than just safekeeping.