Arya The outfit is and will always be a priority. I'm dressed in a light blue shirt style crop top with matching plazo. I went heavy on the make up and curled my hair. Red lipstick with red nails. A small gold chain with an even smaller heart shaped pendant. The cute black Eiffel Tower earrings doesn't go with the outfit but I am unable to remove them. Now that they have got Kim Taehyung touch, they have become special. They're mostly hidden behind my hair anyway. I don't have many choices in the purse department, couldn't pack many. So I just select a small white one. Final touch is white heels. I look at the clock. It took me two hours. Perfect. As calculated. I take a mirror selfie and post it as story on my Instagram. I am currently staying with RV in his rented two bedroom apartment. At first I thought about staying at hotel because I didn't want to impose. But when I told him that, he flat out refused to let me live anywhere else. In the past Bhai had always wanted his space. Mostly I wouldn't even touch his things without his permission. He'd go ballistic and start shouting on me, if say I took his pen or tore a page from his book. I smile thinking about those days though I hated him back then, the pain we went through together made us more stronger and more understanding. I barely remember the bad blood between us, I mostly relive the fond memories we have as family. As a whole family. We're just a broken duo now. Most of the people would just put us in a category of "they are lucky". But barely anyone knows the amount of struggle we have put in our respective careers and personal life to grow and succeed. I get out of the room towards living area to find him sitting on the couch. I frown. He's wearing a simple navy T-shirt which says "Eww, People" and black jeans. "Don't you own any shirts and trousers. Why are you dressed so simple?", I ask him. He looks at me. Chuckles. "Sorry sis can't be your level of diva. You don't want competition, right?" I throw a pillow at him. This idiot. "Are you ready? Or would you like to put on a layer of mascara? More blush? Lip gloss?" I have a younger brother who is pro at sarcasm. I throw another pillow at him. "Let's go. I'm ready." Before I change my mind and rethink my outfit. Which will eventually lead to change of make up, hair, shoes, purse. I don't have another two hours and It's 6:30 already. We reach a few minutes past 7:00 pm. Aarav pulls into an impressive building complex. We get past the security. He parks the car in guest space and we get out of the car. "Wow, this place looks good." "Of course, he's paid a lot of money for this place. Especially because his wife thinks that this would be a nice place for raising a family when they are not thinking about starting a family for next 2-3 years. Both are busy with their work." "Looks like you know them very well." "Sejin hyung has always been nice to me. Wait till you meet Eun-ah noona (elder sister), you will definitely like her. You guys are very similar." "So you have never once called me didi (elder sister in Hindi) but she's your noona? I'm feeling the love brother." He simply laughs. Then his smiles dims a bit, "Our parents never taught me call you didi, I've always called you by your name Arya. But here the people take age very seriously, I've learned their way not to end up offending anyone." We reach the elevator. "Let's not talk about anything depressing. I'm meeting my dream men again. Let's be positive." The elevator arrives. "Have you forgiven them?", he asks me as we enter the elevator. It takes me a minute to answer. "Honestly, no. I haven't. No matter how many times I try. I think a lot about the good times we had as family. But when it comes down to forgiveness, I'm just incapable of that." He puts his arm around me and smiles sadly. "They say forgiveness is divine." "Then they should have put a step by step tutorial about doing it" My brother just laughs. The ding announces that we've reached the floor. We get out and bhai knocks on the door to our left that says, "Mr and Mrs Kim" The door opens to a beautiful woman, who is 30 years old according to my brother but if I had met her on street, I'd say she is 18 and not a day older! Daebak! She looks pretty in green sleeveless shift dress. Although her appearance is elegant, it's not over the top. Oops! Now I think I'm overdressed. Before I can worry about it, she bows once and invites me in with usual Korean cheerful greetings. We remove the shoes outside and enter wearing guest slippers. "I hope your ride here was well" "Yes it was an easy way here. You have a beautiful house", I say while scanning the place. "Ahh.. Gamsahabnida! Thanks!" I hand over the food basket that I insisted on buying for them. Aarav told me not to because he was a regular dinner companion but I didn't want to come empty handed. "Omo! Oh no! You really didn't need to do this. RV you should have told your sister not to be so formal" "Yeah right, let me find a woman who actually listens and then I'll tell her" I glare at my brother. "Kenchana. It's okay. RV by this time you should know that you are never going to find that woman who will listen to you. Look at me!" Sejin says as he comes out to greet us. It was Eun-ah's time to glare at her husband. Men. Enough said. "You look very pretty bdw. I really don't think I should call you unni(older sister). You look at least 10 years younger than me!" She answers with a smile, "you have a way with words Arya. Thanks for the compliment and please call me unni." We get seated in the living area. It's a large room with floor to ceiling windows on one side. I can see the Seoul night sky. We get seated on the couch and immediately fall into easy conversation. We talk about our work. She informs me that she's a Software developer and works at a company with good benefits. It's your usual 9-5 job schedule. But she likes her work. And from what Sejin says she's good at it. I tell her about my work and the experience of South Korea so far. I've been to the Bighit building, a few restaurants and a museum. Tomorrow I'm going to sit down and plan my entire month so that I have a schedule to go with. I always do that on the first day of my trip or mostly before the trip. But I was distracted this time. By seven gorgeous human beings.
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Especially distracted by one of them.
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A knock on the door breaks our flow of conversation as Eun-ah gets up to open the door. "Suga and JK are working on something so they won't come, JHope is busy and RM had some family thing to attend. I'm not sure about V. So it might be Jin or Jimin", Sejin informs us. Not sure about V? Wae? Why? But he said he'd come. I wanted to see him again. I was hoping this was more than coincidence. But if he doesn't comes today then I'll just consider the two times I saw him as a blessing and move on. I keep telling myself not to think too much about him when honestly I keep expecting more. Pathetic. I hear a few muffling voices. And then steps coming towards the living area. Sejin is definitely saying something but my complete attention is on the entrance. This is like a moment when you flip the coin and when it's in air you realise which side you want and how badly you want it. The coin keeps flipping in my mind as it comes down. Heads- he's here. Tails- You're a loser who will never see him again. The coin is still flipping. I can hear the sound. Finally someone enters. It's Seokjin followed by Jimin. My heart is in tune with the coin, it's fucking flipping too. The coin stops flipping. It's heads. And Kim Taehyung walks in. I watch him with hope in my eyes and heart on my sleeve. May be. Just may be, it's not coincidence anymore.
