how do i know if i love you?

23장

I sit down on the couch next to Eun. "Where were you last night?" She asks. I swear my heart stops for a moment.

"Oh, about that. I um been sleeping in the bathroom." I say. "You know the one no one uses."

I turn to see Jimin looking at me. It's like he knows I'm guilty, like he can tell. I smile at him and turn to the others sitting waiting for the manager to get here.

Yoongi walks in and takes a seat next to Jimin. Jimin looks at Yoongi weirdly.

"Hey." I say to Yoongi. He looks at me. "Did you have a good rest?" I ask and his ears go pink.

"Yeah, It was nice." He says looking away from me. 

Jimin looks at me then at Yoongi. I hear the door open and the manager comes in and stands in front of us.

"Today, we are going hiking!" He says excitedly. I wish that I would have gotten more rest last night.

We pack our basic bags with water bottles and snacks and get ourselves ready.

The manager explains more to us about what will be happening. Apparently it is a collab between the two groups, as if it isn't a collab aready, we share an apartment.

We get to the location and wait for more instructions from the managers.

"Guys, you will be split up into groups." The manager says before splitting us up into groups. 

I am in a group of three with Jimin and Jin. I look over at the other groups and then at mine.

"Guys what's our group name going to be called?" Jimin asks looking at us.

Before I could say anything Jin blurts "SeokJin." I look at him and then shake my head. Of course.

The goal it to find as many objects as possible and make our way to the end, the winner is the people that get the most amount of points from finding the objects.

We have found 1 object when Jin grabs the map and runs ahead of me and Jimin.

"Chaerin." Jimin starts looking at me while we walk. He turns the camera off. "I have a question to ask you." He says as he stops walking and faces me.

I feel my heart stop in my chest. It can't possible be about me and Yoongi. "Yes?"

"This morning, I noticed what Eun said, about you not sleeping in your room. I thought it was odd, but when Yoongi sat down beside me I noticed he smelt of a Cinnamon smell, you use cinnamon products." He starts, I feel my heart stop in my chest. "Then just before I noticed you smelt of Yoongi."

I stop moving. I know where this is going and I don't think I could possibly lie to him.

"So my question is," He starts, "Are you and Yoongi seeing each other? Please don't lie to me, I won't tell anyone, I promise."

I look up at him. "I um, yes?" I say looking at him, my heart racing in my chest. "Yes. Please don't tell anyone." I mumble.

"I won't." He says. "So that's were you have been going, you and Yoongi sleep together?"

"Yes." I say steading my heartbeat. "What made you think that we might be seeing each other?"

"On the plane, you guys were staring at each other like you guys just made out. Yesterday, when Yoongi held out his finger with the mashed avocado dip, you licked it off. When you were sick in the bathroom, Yoongi went to see if you were ok. And this morning, Yoongi's face when bright red when you said 'hey'." Jimin says. I look at him shocked.

I look to see if Jin was ahead of us. I look at Jimin. "Jin took the map.." I say looking in the direction that Jin went.

We start walking in the way that Jin went only to realise there are multiple ways that he could have gone. "Jin?!" I call out, there's no response.

"I'll go that way." Jimin says pointing in one of the ways to go.

"No, it's better to stick together." I say looking around. "It's better to stay together instead of us both getting lost and not being able to find each other."

"Smart." Jimin says, "Let's go this way."

We walk in one direction but somehow end up back were we started. I look at Jimin, a million thoughts running through my head.

Jimin reaches to grab his phone, but realises he doesn't have it. "Chaerin, do you have your phone on you?"

I shake my head, I destroyed my phone, it doesn't turn on anymore.

"Jin!" We call again. Still no response. "Let's go that way." I say pointing in a different direction.

We rush off in that direction and end up by a lake. I look at Jimin and he looks at me. I sit down on a rock.

"Well, I guess we are lost." Jimin says softly. I smile at him before breaking down into tears. "Shh, It's alright." He says comforting me.

"We're lost." I cry, tears flowing down my face. Jimin awkwardly hugs me. "What are we going to do?"

I sit there and stare out at the lake. I turn to face the area we came from only to realise that I can't tell were we came from. Jimin seems to realise this too.

I open my bad and grab out some of my snacks and give some to Jimin.

"So how long have you liked Yoongi for?" Jimin says. I look at him.

"I've always found him attractive. I think I started liking him when Namjoon and Hoseok trapped us in the closet at work." I say laughing half heartedly. "Do you like anyone?"

"I think I like Eun." He says. I look at him shocked. I place my hand on his shoulder.

"Eun really likes you." I say he looks up at me.

"Eun likes me?" He asks and I nod. He stands up and does a little dance. "Eun likes me!" He exclaims.

"Chaerin! Jimin!" I hear a voice yell out through the bushes.

"We're here!" We yell out. "Near the lake."

I see a figure emerge from the bush on the other side of the lake, it's Yoongi.

"Yoongi!" I yell out running towards the lake, he runs to the lake. I run through the lake and Yoongi does the same. We meet in the middle and I throw my arms around him that he almost falls over.

I start crying and he wipes my tears away. "I was so scared." I say holding onto him.

He sees Jimin standing there at the edge of the lake and goes to put me down.

I hold onto him tighter. "Jimin knows." I say kissing him. Yoongi wraps his arms around me tighter.

He carries me back to the edge of the lake next to Jimin. I look at Jimin, his eyes shocked, not really believing what just happened.

We sit down on the rock, I hold onto Yoongi and rest my head on him. Jimin just watches the lake trying to avoid looking at us.

"Let's go back to the others." Yoongi says. I let go of Yoongi and grab my stuff. The three of us make our way out of the bush.

We get to the look out and the others greet us and hug us. "Chae, you're wet." Jisu says hugging me. They look at me and Yoongi both wet.

"They crossed the lake to find a way to get to the other way without getting wet." Jimin says, smiling at us softly. I mentally thank him.

"Jimin, are you ok?" Eun asks Jimin. I look at Yoongi and smirk. 'They like each other' I mouth and he nods.

"You know, we told Yoongi not to run in by himself because he might get lost as well." Mihyeon says placing her hand on my shoulder.

"I don't think I'm ever going to go hiking again." I say and the others laugh.