EUPHORIA ¦ PARK JIMIN

Chapter 3

Yoongi had lead her to a boutique shop nearby. He spoke with the sales lady who dragged Ha Eun to the fitting room. Within exactly 15 minutes, Ha Eun came out wearing a black plain dress and a white blazer paired with her white heels.

'Better,' Yoongi smiled and stood up from the couch. 'Go now. Time's running,'

'Kamsahabnida, sajang - nim, kamsahabnida,' She smiled brightly and rushed to the counter whilst struggling on her shoes but Yoongi had beat her to it and pulled out his wallet from his pockets.

As he held out his credit card to the lady at the counter, Ha Eun stared, not knowing what to do.

'Don't even think of protesting or paying me back. Ppali ga!' Yoongi said before she could blurt out a word.

She smiled and ran out of the shop then to back to the company. Yoongi was her lifesaver and as she had less than 2 minutes left, she chased after the closing elevator and fortunately made it in. She impatiently fiddled with her fingers and watched the elevator floor change from the display screen. When it came to her designated floor, she ran out before anyone with her who was going to the same floor. She pushed through the glass door of the main entrance and without knocking, she barged inside Jimin's office.

'You're 15 seconds late,' he said and closed his laptop.

'But not a minute late from your time allocation,' She answered, panting slightly.

He looked at her, examined her from top to bottom again then sighed. Atleast she looks decent than just now. He thought and picked up his coat and a tablet.

'Let's go. We have somewhere to be,' He said then handed her the tablet.

While she trailed behind him she browsed through the tablet, looking at Jimin's schedule for today and the activities he had for today. Throughout the time Jimin was blabbering about things that she had to know and do as his secretary, she memorised all his schedule and when they reached the elevator, Jimin handed her one of the latest model mobile phones. As she looked at it, she knew it was alot more expensive than her house rent. It was probably her three months salary. She had two gadgets in hand that she had to cautiously take care of unless she didn't want to eat for the whole year.

'That's a company phone that my former secretary used,' He said as he took it and tucked it safely inside the pockets of her coat then nodded before looking back at the tablet.

The elevators opened as they arrived at the basement. Jimin yanked out his keys and pushed the buttons to unlock his car. Ha Eun, trying hard to not look amused of how amazing and dazzling his car was, gulped instead. 

'Get in,' Jimin said.

As they drove off the basement car park, she studied the necessary information she had to know and tried to put them all inside her head. The journey was quiet, while she was too concentrated on studying, Jimin focused in the road. They halted in front of another tall building. They passed through the glass sensored doors and went inside the glass elevators that view the scene of the city. Holding on the tablet tightly, when the elevators opened, Ha Eun trailed close behind Jimin and they accessed a spacious room where a few notable people sat.

Ha Eun recognised them from her last minute study of the people she had to know from the tablet. They all greeted one another and Ha Eun thought that these men looked too young to be running an enormous company. She plastered a small smile and when Jimin sat down on the swivel chair, she took her seat behind him where her fellow secretaries of the men with them sat. Shortly after, when everyone arrived, the meeting began. During the time that Jimin tried to fully participate in the meeting he feared that Ha Eun may be as clueless as his former secretary who did nothing durig meetings; not even take down notes.

He looked over his shoulders and spotted her attentively paying attention. By the time the meeting ended, Jimin was prevented from leaving for a few minutes because of some catching up he did with his friends. Ha Eun awkwardly sat by her seat, and revising her notes of the recent meeting from time to time.

'New secretary again?' One of Jimin's friend's asked. From tne corner of Ha Eun's eyes  she identified the man to be Kim Namjoon.

'Yeah,' She heard Jimin say.

'She looks... hot,' Another said.

She perked her head and spotted the person who had claimed such vulgar comment; Jeon Jungkook who smiled brightly at her and waved. She grinned back and bowed. Perverts. She grimaced. Jimin who was also looking gestured her to stand up. When she stopped near his area, she bowed again to all of his friends with a smile.

'You must be Jimin's new secretary,' The tall man which she knew was Kim Seok Jin. 'What's your name?'

'My name is Kim Ha Eun. Nice to meet you, Mr Kim,' She introduced herself then bowed again.

'You know me?' Seok Jin asked, sounding surprised.

'She doesn't. She just knew you from the list of the people she has to know,' Jimin answered.

That was a relief. She didn't exactly know how to answer his question anyway. Right after, she backed away and stood behind Jimin, hiding from the terrifying gaze of a familiar man. She began to have goosebumps and her hands shook--her whole system did. Her heart raced and her throat ran dry.

'Alright. We'll see ya tonight,' Jimin said before he announced to his friends that he had to leave.

As he began walking, Ha Eun closely walked behind him. She felt terrified as he could feel his gaze boring right through her. If only she could hold unto Jimin with the fear that the same thing may happen again. Arriving at the parking lot, Jimin halted immediately causing Ha Eun to bump on his back.

'Mianahmnida, huijang-nim ,' She quickly apologised and bowed.

Her fear was obvious, Jimin noticed. It was written on her face and she looked pale. 'Presence of mind, will ya?'

She said no word and bowed again.

'Tell me you took down notes from the meeting,' He added.

'N-ne, huijang-nim,' She gulped nervously, still unable to get over from the the recent events.

'Let me see,' He requested coldly.

She handed him the tablet then while reading through it, he went his way towards his car followed by Ha Eun behind him, looking back if he was there.