Behind the Mask

~Chapter 17~

(I swear, this photo is my book's Taekook relationship in a nutshell and that's sad)

"Oh, and before I forget, you will all be sharing rooms."

At that, we all turned our heads to Mrs. Kang, just to make sure she wasn't joking or anything, but her dead-serious face was enough of an answer for all of us.

We really were gonna do this, apparently.

"But I'm warning you, there shall be no funny business going on inside those rooms, got it?" She continued, staring us down with a pretty scary look on her face. "This is purely for the sake of the vlog. You will be filmed for one hour everyday, but you won't be announced beforehand, so that the interactions are genuine. Again, you must act decent at all times, understood? Also BLACKPINK, this is a huge opportunity for you, if ARMYs grow fond of you, you will have their support as well, which is a great dealbreaker for the future of your careers. So make them like you." She said, tapping her fingers against her desk with each word she said to make sure we all got the message loud and clear.
"Well, that's all for today, your roommates shall be assigned to you later on by your managers.
You are dismissed."

At that, we all stood up, still a little baffled at the news, but bowed to Mrs. Kang and went outside, where we could finally talk this out properly.

"So, how are we all feeling about this?" Namjoon asked, his leadership skills showing for the first time since we met him.

"I'm all in for it, the girls seem very nice to me", Hobi chimed in, smiling at us reassuringly.

"Yes, I think we are all ok with it too, right, girls?" I asked, looking at my band mates, who nodded approvingly.

"I think everything's gonna be fine as long as we keep things appropriate" Jisoo said, gazing at me suggestively.

"Hey, I'm not gonna do any 'funny business' in there, as the CEO said, plus what are the odds that I actually get Yoongi as my roommate? I just hope that-..." that I don't get paired up with Taehyung, I thought.

"Hope that what, noona?" Jungkook asked, a little confused at my sudden loss of words.

I smiled at him warmly, and answered "I just hope that I'll get along with whoever's gonna be my roommate as well as I get along with you, Kook".

He smiled happily at that, but I didn't miss the way Taehyung rolled his eyes in the corner of the room, obviously disturbed by my answer.

"What do you think about this, Taehyung?" I asked, since he hadn't shared his thoughts with us so far.

"Well, I'm okay with it as long as I don't have to put up with you everyday" he answered, glaring at me.

At that, Jin suddenly gasped and began scolding him, something like "that's not how I raised you, boy" escaping his lips.

Taehyung just huffed and walked away, clearly not in the mood for any further conversation with us. I looked at Jungkook, who seemed truly confused at his friend's sudden outburst, and he soon began to run after him, but not before he shot me a regretful look.

Once he was out of earshot, Jin began to excuse Taehyung's behaviour, admitting that he's been really moody lately, probably the last phase of his puberty finally kicking in or something.

I chuckled slightly at that and let Jin know I wasn't offended at all, since me and Taehyung had just met, and that I hoped he would warm up on me eventually. Jin just smiled a little, but I knew what we were both thinking.

Not gonna happen anytime soon.

I looked over to where Jungkook and Taehyung were talking, and I noticed that Taehyung had begun to yell at Jungkook, whose bottom lip was now trembling a little. Still, he didn't hesitate to shout back at that little brat while occasionally glancing in my direction, causing a few people to look over to them in confusion, not knowing what had gotten into the sweet, peaceful maknae who never raised his voice at anybody.