Chapter 12

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I wake up and yawn to find a sleeping man beside me. A small smile plays on my lips but I don't react to it.
"Jimin," I tap his shoulders gently. Dang, he is well built. His muscles are really toned.
"Jimin!" I say slightly louder, and he wakes up.
"Huh?" He grunts as he sits up. He rubs his eyes. "Why did I sleep with a shirt on?" He suddenly realizes I'm in the room. "What are you doing here?!" He covers his fully clothed body and I decide to tease him.
"You decided to punish me? Remember last night?" I ask, totally fooling him.

"Wait, you mean that wasn't a dream?" He jokes.

Let's just say the morning ends with a crash and a boom before lunch rolls around.

"Jungkook and Taehyung are joining us today, be nice," I pout. It's an order, so I have to follow it. My first impression and meeting with Jungkook wasn't very good. He's the one who got me here in the first place! Taehyung was the complete opposite! He is a complete gentleman with complete empathy for me. He's definitely my type. But I'm not looking for a man. Considering that I am a hostage and now (temporarily) legally belong to a man. Jimin is an in-between guy. I guess he is like a brother now? I don't know, he's one of the only people I've come in contact with in awhile.
"Can you please let me go out?" I ask pleadingly. I am desperate to get out of this house at this point.

"Yes," he answers. I perk up at this and raise my head from his desk. Desk? Oh yes, we are in his office. The walls are a dark green with gold patterns and there is an abundance of books and a computer on the desk as well as paperwork. He has a cute landline telephone. "I let you go out to the gardens," I sigh and shake my head.
"That's not what I meant! I meant outside as in outside of this whole house. The city,"

Jimin runs around me, grabbing papers from the other side of his desk and has a serious look on his face.
"We can go some other time. I'm a little busy right now, can you pass me that paper over there?" He asks me.

"What are you doing right now?"

"I'm sorting out paperwork for a...contract," I jump out of my seat and plop down on his swivel chair.

"In other words, you are taking their land?" I ask, while turning to him. His eyes are on the papers, avoiding me.

"Yes. I bought it, actually. We are planning to expand our base on our own homeland. Since North Korea surrendered awhile ago, we are now able to work on new operations there too." Jimin ruffles the papers in his hand and then picks up a specific one from the stack.
"When are you going to meet with the owner?" I ask.
"I'm not. The owner is speaking through Jungkook. He doesn't wanna see the buyer so he sent a message through his tribe leader," he tells me, and I nod.
"Ah, so Jungkook's leadership has reached North Korea?" I ask.

"Actually, his parents are more responsible because they are the ones who made the plan to defeat North Korea, so they got the credit. I'm buying Jungkook's land. We are still going to work together, so it's like I am just getting permission from the owner to quote on quote "rent" the land," he grabs the stamp and whistles. "Found it," he happily staples two papers together and acts like a child on Christmas.

"What if he didn't give you the land?" I ask.
"He has no choice. He has to," his face changes to a blank expression.
"Wait, so what about Namjoon?" I ask.
He looks up like I just asked a really dumb question.
"What about him?"
"Isn't he the decision make around? He is your leader, isn't he?" I ask. Jimin whips around and stares at me directly in the eyes. His eyes are burning into me. My skin is suddenly on fire. I feel a burning sensation, but there is nothing there.

"Listen here, I am THE leader of the water tribe, and I will make all the decisions related to this tribe. Namjoon just keeps things under control if we fight during a meeting but in regards to our tribes, Namjoon is useless,"

I gasp.
"How can you say that?! He's your leader," I stand up, ready to throw my fist up in protest.
"My Tribe, My rules. Kim Namjoon has nothing to do with this," he points at his eyes, and then mine with two fingers.
I sit down, not breaking eye contact and keeping a straight face. The doorbell rings.
"Thank goodness we are closer to the door here. I'm starving! Aren't you?" He asks me and talks as if nothing had happened just now.

He opens the door and Taehyung is the first one I see.
"Hi," we greet each other, and speak for a bit. Jungkook is a bit late, but he makes it. We start talking about our first meeting.

"It wasn't romantic at all," he starts off.
"He was a cocky grade A jerk and I was a scared little girl," I almost kick him under the table as I intervene and tell Jimin my part of the story.
"Really?" Taehyung asks and looks at Jungkook with a newfound amusement in his eyes.
"No....what really happened was that I was going on patrol and I suspected that lady to be holding those criminals. I just followed my instincts. And I'm pretty sure I was romantic....have you fallen for me yet, little flower?" Jungkook asks. I actually kick him under the table this time. "Ow," he clutches his leg.

"That's enough. So Tae, got any projects your working on?" He shakes his head.
"Maybe finding a wife would be a priority," I almost spit out my food. He must be 21? 23? I don't know, but I'm sure that he is wayyy to young to get married.
"Before you freak out, Y/n, let me explain how things work in Korea. It was the land of arranged marriages but now it is the land of early marriage. Our parents don't intervene, and we find somebody to marry," I raise my hand as Jimin explains. "What?"
"Um...can't you get married just because of love?" The three men start laughing.
"Silly girl, none of our parents loved each other. They got married just to have babies," I almost pass out in shock.
"Y/n!" Tae calls out.
"I'm fine. It's just, my parents got married because they loved each other. I just thought it was a socially acceptable rule. I'll get married to someone I love, for sure!" I explain.
"You can, but we can't. I do take a liking to this girl, shall I just ask her to marry me?" Tae tells Jimin.
"No! That's not how relationships work, you have to date!"
"What's that?" Jimin asks. I facepalm.
"Ugh, you guys are like animals. Do you really not know anything about relationships?" I ask. The three shake their heads. "Ok, let me teach you,"

"If a boy and girl are romantically interested, they 'date.' Of course on their first date, they decide if they really like each other. If the date goes well, they get into a relationship. In the relationship, they can do all sorts of things, kiss, hug, hold hands, and go shopping together, read a book together. They are the people who can depend on each other, when times get tough, they are like medicine who can take the pain away, for a short time. If the relationship lasts, you get married. If it doesn't....it's called breaking up. That is something I hope none of you experience, but it's a time when you break off relations with your boyfriend/girlfriend. It's when you can't be with them anymore. So Tae, if you wanna get married, date someone first,"

After we are done with lunch, Tae and Jungkook leave. Jimin got his land and is now happy.

"Hey y/n....wouldn't you say that we're dating right now?"

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