Barriers - Taehyung || Complete

Ch. 11

I couldn't stop thinking about what happened between me and Taehyung. It was so wrong yet so right. But what was it more of? More wrong? Or more right? After gathering my composure I ran into Amy into the hallway as she was coming out of the bathroom. 

"Hey, save me a seat in the conference room. I just got a message from Bang PD he wants to meet with me real quick." Amy said. 

"Sure thing." I smiled and walked over to the conference room myself. A few rooms down from the conference room was Namjoon's studio and I heard to door open. I looked over to see the guys walking out one by one. I was afraid to face Taehyung right now so I rushed into the conference room to take my seat and placed my notebook on the seat next to me to save for Amy. All of the other seats were free for all though. Please, don't let a member sit next to me. I don't need another one of them trying to risk my job right now. 

Shortly after, the members made their way into the conference room. I saw Taehyung walk in and I immediately looked away feeling flushed. I kept my head down and on my notes so I could focus on it. Although I read the same line, Gather pictures maybe about twenty times. My hands were underneath the table and folded when I saw a big muscly hand was put over mine. I kept calm and slowly looked to my right to see who was sitting next to me.

"Hi, Noona." Jungkook cheerfully smiled showing his cute bunny teeth. Even though we had a little incident this morning, I felt more comfortable with Jungkook. But not even in a comfortable sexual way, like a little brother way. I smiled at him and bowed my head. He kept his hand over mine hidden from everybody else and I didn't mind. I continued reading my notes, for real this time, and waited for Amy to come or any other executive to come in. I couldn't help myself but I slightly glanced up to look for Taehyung. He was on his phone playing a game with Jin and smiling. I felt relieved. We both don't want anyone to find out what happened so we have to act as normal as possible. I heard the door open and Jungkook took his hand away and put them on top of the table. I didn't flinch and kept my head down reading my notes. I did smirk a little. I was thankful for Taehyung and Jungkook so far. They were helping me keep our little secret. 

Amy walked in with Bang PD. I haven't met him personally yet, so Amy introduced us. I stood up and shook his hand smiling. He took his seat at the head of the table and I sat back down waiting for the rest of the executives to show up. 

"Can you add something to our itinerary?"

I nodded at Amy and got my pen ready.

"You and I have a meeting with Bang PD at 6PM, so pretty much an hour after this meeting is over. Let Jongin know you will be a little late today for him to take you him."

I wrote the new schedule in and closed my notebook. I wonder what he wants to talk about? Since everyone wasn't in the room yet, I took my phone out to message Jongin real quick.

Me: Hey Jongin, I'm sorry but I am staying a little later today. Do you mind waiting for me?

Jongin: No worries. Just let me know when you are done. How's the rest of the first day going since I saw you at lunch?

He was definitely not going to know what happened between me and Taehyung. I couldn't help but smile and bite my lip just thinking about it.

Me: It's going great! I just met Bang PD. THE Bang PD lol. He already wants a meeting with me later, that's why I'm going to be late.

Jongin: Oh wow! Only your first day and you already met the CEO. Hope the meeting goes well for you then :)

The rest of the executives filled up the rest of the chairs and we finally started the meeting.

Amy quietly translated to me what the meeting was about. They talked about the start of the tour, the cities, the stages, the outfits -- basic tour talk. I nodded my head for a good two hours so Amy knew I was listening. By the time 5PM hit, I think all of us were exhausted with the planning. The jet lag was finally hitting me and I needed another coffee. When the meeting was over, Amy said there was nothing else for me to do until the next meeting so I was free to wander around. I went down to the cafeteria to grab a coffee and I ran into Namjoon.

"Oh, hi oppa. Did you need something? I can get it for you."

"I'm good thank you, y/n." He smiled showing his dimple. "But since you're here, can I show you something in my studio? I need an opinion about one of our songs for our new album."

I chuckled. "You're asking me to listen to one of the songs off the new album that no one has heard yet? Hell yeah I'll give you an opinion!"

Namjoon laughed. "Okay cool, follow me."

On our way to the studio we were making some small talk. "So what's the new album called?"

"It's the last part of our Love Yourself series. It's called Love Yourself: Answer."

"Hmm. Her, Tear, and now Answer. Can I make a guess what the album will be about?" Namjoon nodded. "The first album was about loving someone else it pretty consumed every being of you, like DNA. The second album was about being heartbroken and feeling lost in your own world, like Fake Love. Is the third album somewhat of an acceptance and realizing that no matter what wrongs are done in this world, you will be okay?"

Namjoon stopped walking and looked at me. He closed his eyes, smiled, and clapped lightly. "Right on the dot." He raised his hand up to give me a high five. I hesitated for a second but who cares now, it's just a high five. "We're here. He got out his key and opened his studio door. He grabbed a swivel chair for me and put it next to his. He pat on the cushion motioning for me to sit down. He handed me some headphones and I put it over my head. "The song is pretty much done but I wanted to see if there is something I could add to it. It's called, I'm Fine. This is kind of one of the epitome of the whole album so I want it to be great."

"Alright, let's hear it." The song started out with a kind of synthetic long sound and Taehyung starts the song. Namjoon pulled up the English lyrics for me so I could follow along and understand what they're saying. I bobbed my head in tempo to the music. This was an amazing song. When the song ended I exaggerated and cheered for Namjoon. "That was amazing! The whole message about going through the tough times and coming out fine is an inspiring message,"

"Thank you! Do you think it's missing anything though?"

"Hmm." I put my headphones back on. "Play the beginning." He pushed play and I heard the long synthetic long sound again. I pursed my lips to think. "I feel like the beginning is missing something. But you know what this message of the song is completely opposite of? Save Me." I paused. "Are you able to pull up the very beginning of Save Me and raise the pitch a little and then insert that into this song."

Namjoon cut and paste the beginning the Save Me onto the song and changed the pitch like I asked. He unplugged the headphones so we could hear it at the same time. "I think you have a winner, oppa." 

"I think you're right." Namjoon smiled and hit save on his computer. "Thank you, I never thought of doing that. (A/N: Obviously this isn't how it happened lol RM is a writing/producer genius). I knew getting an opinion from a fan would open up another perspective.

I raised my eyebrows and smiled. "How did you know I was a fan?"

"We never introduced ourselves to you yesterday. You automatically knew who was who. That's a fan."

I raised both my hands up, "Guilty."

We laughed. The atmosphere felt light. I didn't feel nervous around him. I felt like I would be okay asking him this next question. "Since I helped you, can you help me answer this question?

"Sure"

"Do you think I'll ever get comfortable around here? I feel like with this whole restriction, although not so much on us since you can speak english, being an assistant to unnie and when I take over for her on her days off, I feel like I won't be able to connect with you guys on a personal level. Like I'll be here to show up and just do my job while everyone else gets to have a social interaction."

Namjoon wrapped hands around mine. "I know you'll be okay. Have hope."