BARE SOULS

THE PAST HAD TO WALK SO THE PRESENT COULD RUN

*Finally RM walks in to BTS, while Jungkook followed him inside but goes to Yn's table*

Jk: *calm* Heyy! Mind if I sit here. *talks in his low voice trying not to wake Aria up*

Yn: *looks up at him, smiles and nods*

Jk: *sits beside her on the bench* *looks at her* You look sleepy too. *smiles*

Yn: *chuckles* Well Aria's bedtime stories always work on me.

Jk: *chuckles*

*BTS looking at them all curiosity from afar*

Jk: Yn?

Yn: Hmmm? *looks at him* *a little nervous*

Jk: I'm not good at telling stories at the moment but *pauses* do you mind if I sing  both of you to sleep everyday? *smiles warmly* *with a hint of nervousness in his eyes*

Yn: *holding back her sobs, her voice comes out as a whisper* *looks at Jk with love filled in her eyes* No. Not at all.

Jk: *smiles wiping her tears away* *pulls her into a hug* I'm sorry Yn, I should have reacted in a better way. *sighs* I guess there are going to be some major, major major changes in our lives. *chuckles*

Yn: Just remember you are not forced to with me just because of Aria. I'm not going to let her be close to you all of a sudden. If something goes wrong between us, Aria should not be the reason that you feel like you should stay with me.

Jk: *nods* What did I tell you hyung? *giggles* *looks over the BTS' table*

RM: Okay okay!

Yn: What?

Jk: I was telling the same to hyung earlier whatever you just said about our relationship and Aria, that you would say that to me.

Yn: *smiles* Well you have the power of seeing right through me! Don't you?

Jk: *chuckles* *pecks her forehead*

*Everyone was moved listening to what Jungkook just said. They never knew that he grew up so much. They a felt proud on how he handled the situation and his decision*

Yn: But how will this work Jungkook?

Jk: Hmmm?

Yn: I mean, you'll leave in a few days and I cannot travel so much to your place, taking Aria. And you'll be having a busy schedule as well.

Jk: *nods, pursing his lips* We'll figure it out okay?

Yn: *sighs* I-I don't know.

Jk: Hey, clam down. One day at a time remember?

Yn. *smiles* *nods*

*From the other table*

V: *coughs and looks away*

Yn and Jk: *giggle at them*

Yn: *gets up*

Jk: Where are you going?

Yn: I owe an explanation. Let's go, I'll tell it all to you.

Jk: *nods*

Yn: *sits between Jk and Dara* *sighs*

D: It's okay Yn. *assuring her*

Jimin: You don't have to force yourself to tell us Yn.

Yn: No. I'm fine, if I'm going to tell it then it'll ve to all of you.

Jin: Okay. Hwaiting Yn!

Yn: *chuckles* Ummm, so it was I guess three years ago, when I started working after my masters here in this city. I was not like this at all, I was a polar opposite of how I am right now. But always being the good daughter I did all the things that made my parents and people around me happy, so I never really had the chance to do what I wanted to do. I didn't care I thought I had my people and everything seemed well. That's when I was introduced to Mr.Black, as a part of an arranged marriage. Funny, how I had to call him that even after our marriage *chuckles*. But it isn't like we were forced into this, I didn't have any love interest back then and neither did he, so we just kind of hung out a few times and he didn't seem bad and it was mutual, so we just agreed to it. I was such a hopeless romantic kind off person and had many things that I wanted to do. Little did I know that he's not actually interested in the concept of marriage and just agreed to it because I seemed bearable. We got married, everyone around me was happy. Even I was telling myself that I'm happy, but slowly it started to sink in, how it was only me who puts an effort into this, he wouldn't deny if I ask him to take me out or be with me. He would just be present but nothing more than that. I kept on growing my affection towards him thinking that he is my husband and most of the arranged marriages are this way in their initial stages, but our initial stage lasted way too long I guess. Trust me there was not even skin ship between us. It started hurting me, I was too lonely for such a romantic person. After almost an year into the marriage, one day I was beyond happy that he hugged me. *tears forming* I thought finally he decided to show it back, little did I know that he was just drunk and frustrated and of course the sexual frustration. *scoffs* He was very distant after that night, I thought he might be feeling awkward because of how introverted he is. But that lasted for two months when one day I found out I was pregnant. He went on a business trip, I was eagerly waiting for him to comeback. I told him and he had a blank expression. I could see that he was all vexed up with his work. He didn't react he just walked past me. That's when I broke, I mean, how would it feel when no one cares. That was a very special moment to me. *starts crying as dara holds her hand* I told my parents and his parents they were beyond happy. But one day, after he has gone missing for about a week, the only thing I received from him are the divorce papers. I mean I was literally in shock, like what happened. I begged him to stay, I told him that my love is enough to run the family, he need not stress himself. And you know what's worse than this? My parents and people around me thought that I was not capable of 'captivating' my man. They thought that why would he want to divorce you after being together for a year? You also are going to have a baby. It broke me in many ways. The entire life I had been living pleasing them and till the last piece of my effort they kept saying that I was lacking? I couldn't take it anymore, For the first time I hoped that nobody cared about me and let me do whatever I wanted. I didn't want Aria to be tagged as a drunken mistake, like he told the other day. I moved out, I didn't want to argue with any of them, I had a house, from then Dara and Mike took care of me, although Mike doesn't know anything about this. Me and Dara we raised Aria together. Of course she spends her time with my parents but I don't. That's why I hate it when people start caring about me, because it always has something to do with their expectations while here we are thinking that they really do care about us. It all breaks you when you don't satisfy them, even for a single time. You have no clue even after hurting so much how many times I tried to convince Mr. Black, I was so in love with him. All he said was he cannot take up the responsibility, he had to concentrate on his business. 'Move on Yn. Sometimes that's all you had to do. It's not that difficult' These words still ring in my ears. How horrible it was to me whenever I was alone. 'You should have done better Yn. You don't know how to captivate your man' 'Stop working and concentrate on your family Yn' These things kept ringing in my ears for years. Why didn't they even try telling him any single piece of that? And the thing that I wouldn't be able to get out of my mind is this 'It was a mistake Yn, a drunken mistake' I couldn't take it. It's not like it's going to happen with just anybody. It hurt me that after all that support that I had given him, he didn't even think twice. *sighs* *pauses* That's why I opened this cafe to do all the things that I wanted to do my whole life. I kept dancing aside for my academics and career. Now I started doing it again. I wasn't a fit girl back then but was always into it. I built my life up, solely basing on what I want to do and not pleasing others. Read books a lot of them. I put my guard up high and built my happy place. Mt cold behavior is shield protecting me from all the people that I don't want to be around. And somehow that shield disappeared whenever I was around Jungkook. *smiles at him* I didn't realise it until recently.