Secret Coach (A BTS Fanfic)

Chapter 13: Arcade

You walk into a large room filled with a variety of gaming machines, but the space is empty of people. However, you spot Namjoon walking from the back, and he calls out your name excitedly while raising his hands up. The rest of the members follow behind him, Taehyung practically jogging to get to the entrance where you and Hoseok currently stand.

"Hobi," Taehyung puts his arm around the man standing next to you. "And Y/N," he raises his hand in a greeting, and you wave back, shy. You can't believe you're currently in an empty arcade with the seven members of BTS. You notice one of the managers that you met in the office the first day standing nearby, and he nods at you as you notice him. 

"Ooh, this is Sejin," Namjoon walks toward the manager to introduce him. "He is our friend and a manager," you smile at him, and he pats Namjoon on the back while saying something in Korean. Namjoon laughs, but then goes to remind the other boys that they want to practice their English, so only to talk in English to everyone tonight.e

"So are you ready to play games?" Jungkook asks, walking closer to you a little bit. He has an excited look in his eyes, and you can't help but blush. The boys excitedly cheer and seperate to find an arcade game to play, and you don't know where to go. 

"Y/N!" Taehyung motions you over to a car racing game, and pats the seat down next to him. "You drive good?" he asks as he begins to select a course.

"I'm not the best," you admit, searching for a car to drive on the screen.

"It is okay. I go easy," Taehyung smirks as he looks over at you as the race is about to begin. When the green light indicates the start of the race, Taehyung's car speeds immediately ahead of the other cars, and you struggle a little to figure out how to work the driving mechanism. After a few moments, you speed up and end up in second place behind him.  Taehyung concetrates on his screen, but when you gasp as you nearly hit a barrel lying in the road, he gets distracted. This second of him losing focus allows you to get ahead of him, and you exclaim in shock as you notice you're currently in first place. Taehyung looks over at you for a brief second with wide eyes.

 "How.....?" you laugh, a little villaniously, as you reach the finish line and put your arms up in victory. "Ok, no more go easy on you," Taehyung smirks as he begins to look for another course to race.

"Wait!" Jimin stands behind you and pulls at your game chair a little. "I want to play," You get up to allow Jimin to take a turn, but he smirks playfully and grabs you by the hand to pull you away. Tae stands up to accuse him of stealing you, but just frowns and pleads for you to come back and play again later. You giggle and tell him you can have a rematch later as Jimin playfully pulls you towards a different arcade game. 

You end up playing skeeball alongside Namjoon and Jin, shoot baskets with Yoongi, a dance rythm game with Jimin and Hoseok, and a shooter game with Jungkook. You wipe your brow, as the air conditioning is not on in the arcade, and Jungkook hands you a napkin.

"Oh, Y/N," Namjoon finds you walking around, searching for another game to play by yourself. "If you are hungry, there's food in the back." You thank him for the offer, and he tries to help you find a fun arcade game. You eye a claw game with a variety of plushies in it, and Namjoon notices where your gaze is focusing on. He walks up to the claw machine and puts in a token, the claw moving towards the mass of plush figures. 

"Which one?" He asks, looking over his shoulder, hand on the joystick, ready to grab any plushie that you request. You shake your head.

"It doesn't matter," you look away. You've never had anyone try to get you a plushie from one of these machines before. Namjoon takes a moment to look at the plushies in the machine before moving the claw towards a cute stuffed cat plushie. The claw lowers and grabs on to the cat's ear, but it loses the grip. Namjoon sighs and puts another token in almost immediately. You try to insist he doesn't need to try to get one, you can use your own tokens, but he ignores you, concentration on his face as he tries again. The claw manages to grip the plushie better, and he retrieves the cat from the drop box to give to you. You thank him, and he looks down at the floor for a moment with a smile before making eye contact.