What Love? // p.jm ✔️

// Chapter 29 \\

As I was walking to Seoyeon's apartment, I accidentally bumped into someone.

"Sorry, sorry!" I frantically apologized as I briefly turned around to face them. They had a mask adorned on their face, since the smog was so bad today. In that moment I realized I forgot to bring mine with me and quickly covered the lower half of my face with my scarf.

"It's fine, miss." The man dismissed. I could've sworn I heard that voice from somewhere before, and those eyes...

I shook the suspicion off. It couldn't be. Jimin disappeared completely from my life and that's the end of it, I reassured myself as I continued up the unfamiliar yet somewhat memorized path.

I arrived at a well-built, decent looking apartment complex. I stepped inside and headed for the staircase, climbing up to the 4th floor and then proceeding to look for my sister's apartment number, 467. Once I found it, I entered her code, closing the door behind me. I gazed about the premises, being that it's my first visit here. Light found its way through the cracks of the shade-covered windows, giving the room a bit of a glow, though it was mostly dark. Seoyeon was never a neat kind of person by nature, but I could tell she was trying and managed to keep her apartment tidy. I'm so, so proud of my baby sister. It was then I heard a door to my left opening, breaking me from my observations and causing me to turn my head in that direction, revealing a wet-haired and toweled Seoyeon.

// Jimin POV \\

That was...Ara I just bumped into. I recognize that frantic, anxious voice from a mile away. My heart panged with heartache as flashbacks of our short time together invaded my mind whilst I walked to the YG Dance Studio for our daily dance practice. After Nayeon permanently scarred me, Ara and her remaining family members, she forced me to quit my job as head of editing. In Nayeon's eyes, she always "wanted me to be a well-known k-idol, not some boring director or whatever." If I could refuse, I would. If I could defy her demands, I would and spend my entire life with the woman I truly adore, Ara. Of course that's nearly impossible, with her persistence and power Nayeon will always be a step ahead of me. My bodyguards, my lifelong best friends, I've no idea what's become of them even. I have not the slightest fraction of resources I had before. Everything I've built has been stripped away from me, and I'm set to be a lifelong "love" slave to Nayeon.

Will I ever have any freedom and happiness again?

// Back to Ara (M/C) POV \\

"Controversies and rumors are actually very common within the Korean music industry. You have to be extremely careful of what comes out of your mouth when you're presented on variety shows and such. Talking in general you can never have a foul mouth. Be careful of where you go, what you wear, everything. Every aspect of your life is surrounded by the media. What company you're signed to depends on how you're treated sadly. Luckily and not so luckily for you, my big sister, you're apart of the "Big 3," since you're with YG. YG tends to be...biased towards certain members and, quite frankly, he's pretty shit at promoting his groups. Girl groups specifically get the worst of him. JYP can be kind of creepy, I have nothing else to say about him other than that. SM is very picky on looks. Looks surround SM and if you had signed with them they most likely would've wanted you to get plastic surgery for something." Seoyeon thoroughly explained, emphasizing the last word she spoke.

Fear ran through my veins; I could only have high hopes that our group would be treated like humans and not servants. There's a very little chance of that, now I know - all trainees are treated like soldiers. As long as the companies are making money out of their groups, that's all that matters to them.

"However if you mind your business,  if you're one of the quiet members, if you're obedient and hard-working, you'll be fine. You have all of those traits anyway, Ara." Seoyeon said, throwing me a comforting smile, to which I returned. She then pulled me into a tight hug, warming my heart to the max. I was glad I at least had Seoyeon here, and glad that I went to her to get some insight on what to expect from the k-industry.

(A/N: How do you think YG will treat Ara and her group members? Will Jimin encounter Ara at some point in the story now? 🤔 As always, thank you for reading this fucking shitty ff and for sticking with me. I appreciate and love every single one of you more than you know, my little lovelies. More to come!~ ❤❤)