The Assistant

Chapter Three

6:00PM 10/20/2020 ~Seoul~ 

     As the large buildings of the city started coming into view, my heart started beating a little faster with anticipation and nerves. Although I wasn't afraid of meeting my idols, part of me was worried that they wouldn't like me or that I wouldn't do well as their assistant. I quickly shook those thoughts from my head and decided to check my phone one more time before it died. The top notification was from Twitter saying that I had a new follower and a new message. 
"Wonho must have found me on Twitter." I thought to myself and smiled. 

~~@Wonho_Official follows you on Twitter!~~
~~Wonho_Official sent you a message: Hey beautiful!~~ 
I couldn't help but smile widely at his message and scream internally at the thought of Wonho calling me beautiful, "If life is going to be this good here, I may never leave!"
 I felt the car slow down and turn so I looked  up at the huge building as we pulled into a massive parking garage. "Welcome home, Miss Lynn." Mr. Choi smiled through the rear view mirror. I didn't notice that Manager Sejin was holding my door open, so he made me jump when I turned around. 
"Oh crap! You scared me, Manager-nim." I giggled as I stepped out and bowed. 
"I'm sorry, Miss." He chuckled and bowed. We got my bags out of the trunk and I followed him to the elevator where he hit the Penthouse button.
"It's gonna take a few minutes to get to our floor, but do you want to send the boys a picture to tell them you are almost home?" he smiled and pulled his phone out of his pocket. I nodded happily and nestled myself under his arm as we took the picture. 
"How was your flight?" he asked as he sent the picture and placed his phone back in his pocket. 
"I fell asleep after take-off and woke up an hour or two before we landed, and I met someone!" I smiled. 
"Who?" he asked curiously.
"Wonho." 
"Formerly in Monsta X, Wonho?" I nodded as I blushed slightly. 
"He was so nice and stayed with me the whole time we were at the airport. He even bought me coffee while we waited on our luggage." I explained. 
"He is a very kind young man, the boys like him and I like him better than most artists. Though I must encourage you to try and stay private and not cause any scandals because the boss isn't very tolerant of such things." he warned kindly as he patted my back. 
"I'll be good, I promise." 
      The ding of the elevator stopping on the top floor made my heart beat faster as Sejin lead me out into a hallway. I could hear music playing and people singing in the room that he was heading for. 
"Oh, let me remind you while I'm thinking about it." He said as he stopped in front of the door, "This is the easiest way to get here but until I get you a key card, you will have to be with me or one of the boys to get in through this door." he explained. 
"Okay." 
As Sejin lead me into the front entrance of the house, we both took our shoes off before heading farther into the house. I could smell pizza and fresh rice cooking as we walked by the kitchen I noticed Jin standing over the stove cooking some meat. 
"Go say hi if you want to." Sejin whispered as he took the suitcase from my hand, "I'll take these to your room." 
I walked into the kitchen and knocked on the door frame so I didn't scare him and spoke softly, "Hello." 
He looked up and smiled, "You must know how jumpy I can be, right?" He asked as he wiped his hands with a towel. I nodded and blushed, "Yeah, I didn't want to scare you or make you hurt yourself." 
"Well come here and give me a hug! I've been waiting on you to get here, and by the way I don't mind if you call me 'oppa' since I know you're the same age as Jimin and Taehyung." 
"Oh thank you. I wasn't sure how to call you and I didn't want to be rude by just calling your name." I blushed again as I hugged him. He walked back over to tend to his food on the stove so I decided to try and be helpful. "Do you need any help, oppa?" 
"Um, could you hand me that plate that's in front of you?" he smiled as I handed it over, "Okay, now would you mind helping me take everything to the living room?" 
"Of course!"
"Great! Here are some oven mitts, and you can take this big bowl of meat for me. I'll get the rest of it." he said as I took the bowl and waited for him to lead the way to the living room.
   As we walked into the beautifully decorated living room where the other members were playing with the karaoke machine, their attention turned to us as Jin sat the food he was carrying on the table in the middle of the room and helped me set the big bowl that I was carrying down. 
 Namjoon walked over and smiled at me, "Hello, Miss Lynn. I'm so glad to finally meet you."
I smiled widely up at him as he opened his arms for a hug, "Oh, you have no idea." I said as I hugged him. "You guys can just call me Beth." I added as we parted from our hug. 
After a shy greeting from Jungkook and Tae, Jimin and J-Hope bounced over to me excitedly and hugged me between them. 
"Hug sandwich!" Jimin cheered as he pressed his cheek to mine, making me giggle. 
"We are so happy that you are finally here!" J-Hope said happily. 
"Me too!" I smiled as they let me go to give Yoongi his turn.
I smiled at him warmly, "Hello!" 
"Hello." He chuckled as his ears turned slightly pink. "I-I'm not much of a hugger but I'm really glad that you're here." He said, smiling his gummy smile as he looped his arm around my shoulders. 
      As we all gathered together in the living room to talk, Jin insisted that we move to comfortable spaces so that we could eat and hang out. Namjoon turned on a random playlist for background noise as we talked. 
"How was your flight?" J-Hope asked.
"It was good! I made a friend." I smiled. 
"Who was it?" Jimin asked. 
"Wonho." 
"You mean-?" he flexed his muscles to demonstrate how big Wonho's muscles are and I giggled as I tried to hide my scarlet cheeks. 
"Oooh she's blushing!" Tae and Jimin tease. I stuck my tongue out at them and then took a bite of pizza. 
"Cute." Namjoon chuckled. 
Jin and Yoongi moved to sit next to him on the couch so they could observe the others. 
"What are you thinking, Joon?" Yoongi asked. 
"I think she is perfect for us. Look at how quickly Jungkook and TaeTae warmed up to her." He smiled softly
"Yeah, they have never warmed up to women that quickly." Jin agreed. 
"It's almost like she has been with us forever.. she just has a comforting aura about her." Yoongi said as he observed his new friend. 
"Do you think she will be okay with the arrangement we want?" Jin wondered. 
"Let's give her a little time to adjust before we ask that of her..." Namjoon started, "If we can all control ourselves.." 
"She's not really my type because I generally like thin women but she's so beautiful.... look at those curves." Yoongi mumbled as he bit his lip. 
        I looked over at the three sitting on the couch observing us and decided to go talk with them. "Boys, I'm gonna go talk with them now okay?" they nodded and continued talking with each other. 
I walked over and sat on the couch next to Namjoon who put his arm around my shoulder. 
"What are you three talking about?" I teased. 
"How much prettier you are that Jin-hyung." Yoongi winked at me and I giggled. 
"Hey!" Jin protested, pinching Yoongi's side as he laughed. 
"It's okay oppa, no one is prettier than our World-Wide Handsome." I comforted. 
Jin chuckled and winked at me, "That's my girl." 
      "So, what all are we doing tonight? Other than eating, obviously." I asked. 
"What ever you want to do, babe. This night is all about you." Namjoon said as he twirled one of my curls in his fingers. 
"We don't have to do anything special... I am more than happy just being here in the same room as all of you...." 
"You mean you aren't going to give us a private concert?" Jimin asked teasingly as he and the others sat down in front of us. 
"Yeah! You promised to sing to me, Noona." Jungkook pouted. 
"Alright. Someone has to show me how to work it though." I said as I got up from the couch.
"I will Noona!" Jungkook hopped up and followed me to the karaoke machine, "What song do you want to sing?" 
"Wherever You Are by Han Dong Geun." I answered confidently. 
"That's a big song... are you sure?" He grinned and I winked at him. 
"I'm sure, Kook." 
"Alright, here you go. Good luck!" He said as he sat the controls down and went back to his seat.
"Oh, I know this song! It's from Hwarang OST!" Tae cheered. 
"I was hoping you would recognize it. It's one of my favorite songs." I giggled as I hit play. 
I was determined to nail this song if I did nothing else because I was NOT going to make a fool of myself in front of them. So I closed my eyes, mustered all of my courage and sang my ass off, and the nerves didn't come out until the song was over. When I opened my eyes I was too afraid to look at them so I covered my face and quickly took my seat back on the couch. Their silence was almost unbearable so I peeked at them through my fingers and they were all just staring at me with smiles on their faces. "What..?" I mumbled as I moved my hands from my face. 
"What do you mean 'what?' that was amazing!" Yoongi said, resting his hand on my thigh comfortingly. 
"You have an incredible voice, Noona!" Jungkook said clapping happily. 
"I have never met a woman with a voice like yours. You did great, sweetie." Namjoon said wrapping his arm back around my shoulder. 
"Noona, I took a video while you were singing... can I send it to my Hwarang hyungs?" Tae asked cutely. 
"Tae, I'm only two weeks older than you, you don't have to call me noona. But sure I don't mind." I giggled. 
"Yay! Thank you! They are going to love you!" He cheered as he typed away on his phone. 
"Seriously though, if you weren't already hired as our personal assistant I would personally take you to PD-nim right now and sign your contract as an idol. That's how good you sing." Yoongi said taking my hand in his. The other members smiled and nodded, "Noona, it could be something to think about." Jungkook added. 
"Thank you, so much. Now I'm getting emotional... but that really really means everything to me." I said squeezing his hand softly as I tried not to start crying but I failed. The sudden realization that my idols that I believed in with all of my heart were saying that they like my singing, and that they believed in me hit me like a ton of bricks, which caused all of my built up emotions to come pouring out of my eyes and I started sobbing. Mostly happy tears, of course but I was just so grateful to be in the same room as them that I had to try and hide everything that I wanted to say and do because I didn't want to look like a crazy fan. Yoongi quickly moved to sit on my other side so I was now sat between he and Namjoon. 
"Honey, why are you crying?" he asked.
"Because I'm just so grateful to be here with you guys." I squeaked. Yoongi kissed the side of my head and pulled me into his chest rubbing my back while Jungkook held my hand and played with my fingers.