Beautifully Flawed

10. Meeting Point

There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.

Jimin

“I have a favour to ask,” Yoongi’s voice came through immediately I picked the phone.

“What, no hellos, no how are you doing?” I asked feigning hurt.

“Hi Jimin… how are you? I have a favour to ask?” he said in quick succession.

I laughed as I placed the keys in the bowl and shrugged off my jacket. I had just gotten home from work after a tiring day.

“Hi Grumpy… I am fine and what do you need?” I replied. I walked into the kitchen and got myself a cold glass of water.

"I need you to host the party we had talked about on Saturday,” he said. It was more of a statement than a request really. I could tell that he was nervous.

I loved to play host. My house was perfect for it and many occasions, friends opted to meet at mine’s for some down time.

"Wait? What?” I asked surprised. “I thought you already had a plan in place. Yoongi, this is huge! I am not sure I can handle such a big responsibility!" I answered.

"I know it’s huge and short notice but hear me out,” he all but begged. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose but listened nonetheless. “You won’t have to worry about the food or anything, I will hire a catering company to handle the food part. I will handle the before and after clean up too if it is needed. See, we agreed on doing something cozy and you are the first person I thought off who can pull this off. You have a knack for organizing cozy kind of romantic evenings,” he passed for a minute or two to let that sink in.

“I am trying to forge a lifelong business partnership so I need it to be top notch. Plus your house would be perfect for such an event. Your backyard is perfect for this now that its summer. And you already have everything that would be needed to put everything together. Jimin-ah.... I really want to make an impression, help your buddy out... mmnhh?" he whined.

“I don’t know Yoongi, this is just too much,” I said in pretence. Who was I kidding, I was excited and held myself from squealing in excitement. It had been a while since I had played host. “Let me think about it,” I pretended to consider it.

"Jimin baby... please..." he continued to whine and wanted to butter me up. “I will do anything if you do this for me,” he said.

“Anything?” I asked.

“Anything. Just name it!” he confirmed. I would hold him to that.

“Okay,” I agreed. "I am gonna do it so stop whining,” I told him.

“I love you and I owe you big time. I will let him know.”

"Okay. Let's talk details later so that I can plan for it well. Okay?"

“Okay’” he said and hung up.

I suggested that we have lunch the next day near my office to discuss the finer details of the Saturday dinner and wished him a great night.
I was ecstatic that Yoongi thought me worthy to organize such an important event for him. I had already decided to do this for him the moment he asked. Putting together something like this would be a piece of cake. I wasn't going to disappoint. Never have, wasn't going to start now.