#bta fluff

You scrolled through your phone, tears stinging your eyes. Your brain was screaming at you to stop but for some reason you ignored it.

“I don’t think she needs that cake, she looks like she’s had enough”

“Is he blind? Hobi you could do so much better!”

“As if that pig has stolen our Jhope, back off!!”

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You were already extremely self-conscious and you were very hesitant when your boyfriend, the one and only Jhope from BTS, wanted to post an “official” picture on the group’s twitter. The members already knew, Suga even had suspicions before you two were together, but it took a lot of begging from Hobi to finally break the news to the public. He wanted to be able to hold your hand in public, to not have to sneak around to see you, to take you on fancy dates outside of his dorms.

You wanted all of this too, but something was stopping you. That something being a strong fear of being judged, especially by the other fans. You always felt like you were not as pretty or as skinny as other girls, and you are not originally from Korea so your accent and pronunciation was funny. To make things worse, Jhope had been coming back much later from practise, making you think he didn’t want to spend time with you anymore.

Unfortunately, that fear became a reality. For some reason, you felt mad at Jhope for posting the photo, but you also felt responsible for ruining his reputation. The worst part was that you were in the dorms waiting for Jhope and the boys to come back from practise, which would be any minute now.

You stumbled over to the kitchen to grab some water, when suddenly, you felt a pair arms snake around your waste. You turned to face him with puffy eyes and a red nose, it was clear to him that you had been crying.

He held you in a tight embrace and placed your head in the crook of his neck.

“Shh, (Y/N), don’t cry. Tell me everything”

Tears started to form in his eyes, which made you feel guilty for causing all of this.

“It’s all my fault! Leave me alone!”

You ran away from him and into the bathroom, locking yourself in.

You wanted to tell him so bad, you always told Hobi everything that bothered you But, you know that he really wanted to be public and you didn’t want to ruin his happiness.

“I know it’s about the tweet, (Y/N). Please come out. I’m sorry for posting it. I was going to delete it before you saw the comments, but seeing you look so happy in that picture I got caught up in my emotions and I couldn’t help myself. I want to be able to show everyone that you are mine because quite frankly I have no idea how that happened. I’ve always been known as “the ugly one” of the group. I’m surprised that you don’t like the other members more than me. I’m not funny like Jin, I’m not as sweet as Jimin, I’m not as smart as Namjoon, I’m…”

Before he could continue, you burst through the door and wrapped yourself tightly around Jhope. You never knew that he felt this way, and it made you feel nice to know that someone else understood how you felt.

“Hobi, you know that I love you for you. Who always makes me smile when I’ve had a really bad day? Who always comes home from practise with those chocolates I love, and always tells me I look perfect when I try to refuse due to a diet?”

He looked up into your eyes and couldn’t stop smiling.

“And, who stayed up all night to help me with my exams, even in the middle of preparing for a comeback?”

He started to tear up again listening to your kind words. He ran his hands through your hair and stops at the back of your neck, gently pulling you into a soft kiss.

“Ooh! I almost forgot!”

He ran into the hallway and grabs a parcel with green wrapping paper (of course it was green). You open it to reveal an expensive black dress that you have been wanting for ages. Jhope had his eye on it ever since you tried it on in front of him, but he couldn’t buy it for you because he lost his wallet.

“I’ve been working at the coffee shop down the road to pay the rent until my wallet is found, but I had to buy it. I saw how this dress made you feel good and I want you to be reminded of that feeling during times like this. How you felt in that dress is how I feel every time I look at you. I love you so much, (Y/N)”

“I love you too, Hobi.”

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“Irene Cho. She’s the daughter of my dad’s business partner of Haneul Group.” he explained as he grabbed her hand. Chaerin chose to ignore the fact that this was probably the first time she had held a boy’s hand that she wasn’t related to.

“Irene? That’s not a Korean name… She looks Korean to me.” Chaerin pointed out, but Jungkook just shook his head.

“Her mother grew up in Europe or something and she was named after her.” they were approaching a group of guys, one of them being the guy she saw before. She gave him a nervous smile, to which he sighed and just looked at Jungkook disapprovingly.

“Hey guys, I want you to meet my date, Chaerin.” Jungkook announced, getting the attention of all the guys in the group.

“Mwoh?!” one of them yelled, sounding seriously surprised, “You scored someone on your own??? Since when?”

“Yeah, when did you meet her?” another one asked, “I remember you were single literally two days ago.”

“Yah, I just asked her if she would like to go on a date with me, and the date went well.” Jungkook defended.

“So you brought her to this really boring company party right after?” one of them raised an eyebrow as Jungkook looked down.

“I brought her because I wanted to tell you guys, but tonight didn’t necessarily go as planned…” he lied, but it sounded convincing.

“If I’m just now seeing her, you must have lost her in America or something before now.”

Jungkook ignored that statement as he turned to Chaerin, “Chaerin, these are my friends. You’ve already met Namjoon… so the others are Hoseok, Yoongi, Jimin, Taehyung, and Seokjin. I don’t expect you to remember their names after tonight, though.”

Chaerin watched as he pointed to each of them, knowing she wouldn’t remember their names in a few seconds. Jungkook was giving her a little too much credit when he said that she would remember them for longer than that.

“I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before…” Seokjin mumbled, but Chaerin heard it perfectly clear, “Why would I have seen you before?”

Chaerin looked to Jungkook for a second, but he didn’t acknowledge her, “Uh, I’m not sure… I don’t recognize you.”

It was then that she remembered that first day that she talked to Jungkook. She had seen all of them, but she hadn’t remembered what any of them looked like except for Jungkook and one other person. Seokjin was actually a regular as the coffee shop, but she didn’t know his name until now. She just knew that he enjoyed coffee with extra sugar and extra cream, and he would always leave a five dollar tip.

She didn’t say anything about recognizing him, though. She just stayed silent as he continued thinking about it.

“I think we’re gonna head out,” Jungkook spoke up, “I wasn’t planning on being here this late, but I’m heading out now”

Chaerin smiled to all of them as they all said goodbye, and Jungkook led her out of the building and to the car.

“Okay, that night was bad…” he started talking before she could, “I didn’t ever make this clear, but I wasn’t planning on introducing you until a different party. I was hoping that this party was different than it was, so I’m sorry tonight ended up the way it did.”

Chaerin felt drained, so she found herself not saying anything. Jungkook took this as a negative sign.

“Look, I’m really sorry, Chaerin. I mean it. I did not do my job right in telling you what was going on… I’ll be better about it next time. I’ll even pay you more for tonight.”

Charin sighed and looked out the window of the car as it started to move. “I just… I’m wondering if I’m crazy enough to stick with this. What if we get found out? Your friends seemed pretty suspicious of me…”

“They only were because they hadn’t seen you all night…” he mumbled, “I wasn’t going to introduce you guys tonight! That was supposed to be for a different party....”

Chaerin just stayed silent. She wasn’t up to talking about more parties since she was starting to think about backing out. The bright sides aren’t looking so bright in comparison to the dark sides at this point.

Plus, Jungkook doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing. His plans seem poor and hardly thought out…

“If this is going to continue, you’re going to have to explain things better,” she found herself speaking before thinking, “And I’m not going to love on you unless I have to. You’re going to have to make the first move every time, because I sure won’t be doing it unless I have to.”

Jungkook nodded, “Yes, okay. I’ll explain more tomorrow for lunch…?”

Chaerin sighed and leaned away from Jungkook. She wasn’t sure that she wanted to see him again so soon, but found her head nodding anyway.

***

The drive home was silent, but it wasn’t too awkward. It wasn’t that long of a drive, anyway, since the driver was only taking them to the building that Jungkook had instructed her to meet him at. Once they arrived there, Jungkook apologized again and repeated their plans for tomorrow.

“So tomorrow at 12 I’ll be there,” he nodded and Chaerin just agreed with one small nod. She seemed done with Jungkook, but he was trying to keep her a little longer. “I promise I’ll be better about telling you the plan. I really will.”

“Yeah, I got it,” she mumbled in a tired fashion as she moved to her car. She unlocked it and was getting inside when she felt Jungkook’s hand grab her left wrist.

“...Thank you for doing this for me, Chaerin,” he sent an award winning smile her way, “I’m glad you’re not backing out on me. Thank you.”

Chaerin pushed back the blush she felt creeping up from his words and the look he gave her, “You’re welcome… but be careful. Just because I didn’t walk out on you today doesn’t mean I won’t at some other point.”

Jungkook nodded and his previous smile turned to a nervous one, “I know… thank you again.”

Chaerin just waved and moved out of his hold as she slid into the driver’s seat and turned on the ignition.

She started to back out and leave, and Jungkook just stood next to his car to send her off with a wave and a smile. Chaerin looked at him and smiled in return, raising her hand to wave back.

She felt like she had finally gotten away from chaos, only to come home to even more chaos. She walked in to see Kiseung sitting in their shared apartment (Nari and Hyomin didn’t seem to be home) with her fiance, Baekhyun.

Not only was it the two of them, but there was also another guy she had never seen before sitting with them. It only took a few seconds for Kiseung to notice that Chaerin was home, and she smiled and rushed over.

“Chaerin! You’re here!!” she said excitedly, only to slowly shift to a look of confusion, “...why are you in such expensive looking clothes?”

Chaerin stood there for a second, only to look down and remember she had forgotten about her outfit. This was certainly nothing like what was in her closet, and it was obviously more expensive than anything she could afford. “Uhhh… I told you I had plans I couldn’t get out of… I had to go to this party for… my boss…”

Kiseung raised her eyebrows, “What? Come on, Chae, don’t lie to me…”

“I’m not lying!” she defended, walking passed her, “Now excuse me while I go change… these heels are killing me.”

She managed to get away, but literally the second she finished changing, Kiseung burst into her room. “So! Who’s ready for movie night?!”

Chaerin blinked a few times before actually opened her mouth, “...What?”

Kiseung’s look of excitement immediately turned to one of annoyance, “I texted you about this hours ago! God, I thought since you didn’t object that you would be all for it.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t even look at my phone,” Chaerin shook her head, starting to look through her purse for her phone. She was starting to feel a little panicked when she didn’t see it anywhere. “...Oh my God I left it there.”

Kiseung was once again confused, “Your phone? Where? Chanyeol can drive you~.”

“Chan-who?” Chaerin looked up at her friend, knowing where this was probably going, “Kiseung, is that…”

“Yep!” she smiled, “I thought you were up for movie night, so I invited him for a double date!”

Chaerin groaned, “Kiseung! I never agreed to a double date! I don’t want to go on this date… you should tell this Chan-person to leave. I have to go get my phone from J-...the party. I’ll be back soon.”

“Uhm,” Kiseung put her arm in front of Chaerin as she tried to pass through the door, “For one, you’re still in your pajamas.”

Chaerin looked down and sighed, turning around to find something simple to wear to head over there.

“Second, I’m not letting you go alone. I’m coming with you.”

“Absolutely not.” Chaerin said as she changed her pants. Kiseung just ignored her.

“I’m getting ready, and if you leave without me then you’ll have to stay for movie night,” Kiseung called back as she headed to her room.

“You can’t make me,” Chaerin called after her in annoyance.

“Oh, you know I can!” she yelled in reply. She sounded legitimately annoyed, which scared Chaerin a little bit. She loved her friend, but they got in fights like this all the time… Kiseung never really got too annoyed at her, but when she was, it could get really scary.

She had just finished getting ready and she could hear Kiseung rushing out of her room as well. She was currently in the living room saying something to Baekhyun, and Chaerin was regretting having to leave and head to Jungkook’s house. What was she going to do then? She had already lied to her friend…

She walked out of the room and into the living room to meet an impatient Kiseung.

“We’re leaving,” Kiseung smiled, “We’ll be back in a few minutes?”

Chaerin nodded and sighed. Her fate was sealed. It was either go on this double date, or have Kiseung actually go with her to see not only her “boyfriend”, but how incredibly rich he was.

Maybe she should just go on the double date…

“Uh, let me just go alone,” Chaerin turned to Kiseung, “I’ll be back soon to watch the movie…”

Kiseung’s eyes lit up and a smile spread across her face, “Great! I’ll get everything set up for when you come back!”

Chaerin just smiled nervously and walked out of the apartment as fast as she could. Did she make the right choice? It seemed like the right choice…

It only took about ten minutes to get to Jungkook’s place as she pulled into the driveway. The driveway had a gate near the end of it, which was closed since it was fairly late. What was she supposed to do…?

She pulled up to the gate and rolled down her window, seeing a half asleep watch guard sitting at the window. His eyes opened a little to see her, to which made him shoot up. He looked at her a little closer, and then down at his desk.

“Your name?” he asked. Chaerin held her breath and hoped she wouldn’t get in trouble for this.

“Kim Chaerin,” she answered. The guard nodded and then pulled out a sheet of paper.

“I have orders from Mr. Jeon to let you through. Behave yourself.”

The gate then opened and Chaerin gave a little head bow and a thank you to the guard. She was so glad that Jungkook had done that for her, other wise she was afraid she would have been in huge trouble…

The only issue now was figuring out how she was going to get her phone back. Of course, ringing the doorbell was an option, not one that she wanted to go for, but the best one available. She walked up to the door after parking her car toward the front door. It took her a second to find the doorbell, and without thinking on it too much, she pushed the button.

It only took a few seconds for the door to be opened as she smiled nervously to the woman who answered. “I’m here for my phone… Jeon Jungkook should have it either with him or in his driver’s car…”

The woman just watched her, “What’s your name, hun?”

“Kim Chaerin,” she tried to give a friendly smile, but the lack of expression on the woman’s face made it weak.

“Come in,” she responded without anything else to say. Chaerin walked in the door and was absolutely amazed at what greeted her on the inside. There was a spiral staircase in the middle of the open space full of nice modern looking furniture. It was decorated so nicely and pleasing to look at to say the least.

She tried to keep her mouth shut as she took in the sight, hardly believing that she was standing in such a place. If she was crazy over money, she probably would have offered to be Jungkook’s fiance if he didn’t find anyone else, but she was more modest than that. She wouldn’t throw love away for all the money in the world.

“I’ll have to call him to tell you where he is, so I’ll be just a moment,” the woman informed, moving away to a phone that looked like a smartphone, yet sat in a doc like a landline. She hadn’t seen anything like it.

“Master Jungkook,” the woman said into the phone, “That girl is here to see you.”

Wow, is she really just ‘that girl’? It may have just been the woman not remembering her name, but it still felt a little offensive… just a little.

She hung up the phone a few seconds later and turned back around, “He’s on the second floor in his room. You honestly couldn’t miss it as long as you head to the left.”

Chaerin just gave the lady a polite nod and headed up the stairs, just wanting to get her phone back so that she could leave. It didn’t take long for her to locate his room, because as the lady said, it was hard to not find. As soon as you got up the stairs, the whole hallway in line of sight was filled with pictures of Jungkook from various photo shoots. She was pretty sure CEOs don’t have photo shoots like models… so this must just be a thing he wanted to do?

She headed down the hallway and spotted a door with Jungkook’s name printed all over it in a various fonts. Knocking softly on the door, she waited for a response.

The door opened seconds later to reveal the one and only Jeon Jungkook. He smiled at her and waved, “Annyeong.”

Chaerin sighed and waved back, “Can I please just have my phone back?”

“Wow, irritable, are we?” Jungkook’s eyebrows raised, “Follow me.”

Chaerin entered his room and found herself looking around it. It looked so nice despite the mess, and the amount of pictures of him with his friends from kids to adults were surprising. They were everywhere, along with family pictures and more photo shoot pictures.

“You sure like pictures,” Chaerin spoke out loud as Jungkook stopped and turned around. He looked from her to the tons of frames hanging around his room.

“I like taking them and looking at them,” he shrugged, “Every picture in here was either taken professionally or with my camera.”

Chaerin walked closer to some of the pictures and smiled at one of them, “This one is cute… Is that your mom?”

He was silent for a while as a sigh escaped his nose, “Yeah… That’s my mom.”

Chaerin looked back at Jungkook after hearing his tone of voice, “...I’m sorry… did she…?”

Jungkook let out a puff as a frustrated smile spread across his face, “No. She’s alive. She’s even in this house still.”

“Oh…” Chaerin nodded, but sounded really confused. She figured that she would let go of the topic unless he wanted to continue it. She just needed to get her phone and leave. “Uh… where’s my phone?”

Jungkook’s mood suddenly changed as he moved from his current spot to an area in his room that she assumed was his own personal office area. He grabbed a bag from behind the desk and turned around to hand it to Chaerin.

“You also left your work clothes,” he informed as she laughed nervously, “I asked the staff to wash them for you, so they’re clean and pressed.”

Chaerin blinked and nodded, saying a small “thank you”. She was really impressed with him and how nice he was being to her. She wasn’t sure if this was just to keep her in the deal or if he was normally this nice… either way, she appreciated it.

“I… I uh… I was wondering if you just wanted to talk about tonight right now?” Jungkook offered as Chaerin felt dread wash over her. The dread wasn’t even from what he said, but it was from what she promised Kiseung before she left…

“I… I can’t.” She sighed, “I promised my friend I would go on a double date with her fiance’s friend as long as she didn’t force herself to come with me to get my phone…”

Jungkook’s eyebrows raised, “Really?? Why didn’t you just bring her along?”

“Because,” she slightly whined, “I told her I was at a party for my boss… she didn’t really believe me, so she wanted to confirm it by going with me to get my phone…”

Jungkook nodded and sat down on the edge of his bed, “I see… well… I guess this is goodnight.”

Chaerin felt herself dreading having to leave this beautiful house. She didn’t want to go on that double date at all… She would much rather talk with Jungkook about literally anything else.

That was when a plan sprung from her mind. She smiled and looked to Jungkook, “I need to use your phone, please…”

“What for…?” he asked, slowly getting out his phone. He seemed to already be okay with the idea, but he at least wanted to hear it first.

“I’m gonna text her number from your phone and tell her you’re friends with my boss and let me borrow your phone… I’m gonna tell her that we couldn’t find my phone, but you were going to help me out and that I would be out longer than usual.” she explained as Jungkook snickered. She looked so proud of her plan, so he just handed her his phone.

It was silent for a few seconds as she sent the text, and after it was sent, she handed Jungkook his phone back. In a matter of seconds, she was sitting next to him in the edge of his bed.

Jungkook laughed a little at her as she felt her face heat up.

“What?” she asked, not appreciating his laughs.

“You just look like a little girl with that expression while in that position,” he smiled at her as she got up and turned away from him. She found a seat on the couch that was sitting in front of his TV with her back facing him. “Alright, you should start some explaining…”

Jungkook couldn’t help but smile at how childish she was being as he got up off his bed. He moved to sit next to her and she turned to face her body to him. Her previous attitude was replaced with a serious one as Jungkook laid his head on the back of the couch.

“First off, you need to stay away from Irene at all costs. She’s bad news and will ruin everything for you and me if she finds evidence that we’re not a real couple…” Jungkook started off as Chaerin just sat back and listened. “As for the guys, as long as you’re friendly to them and you act like you like me, we should be fine. The only one that will look into it more than we would like would be Namjoon, and he won’t tell the other guys before saying something to me first.”

“As for how parties will go… during dinner parties, you’ll always be with me. There won’t be any searching for girls at those… At meet and greets, you’ll need to be with me most of the time to not look suspicious, but occasionally break off and find someone to talk to…”

Chaerin just nodded at everything he had said so far. She was still expecting more, so she was waiting till she thought he was done to start talking again.

“My dad hardly ever sees me, so as long as you meet him once and treat him respectfully, you won’t have to worry about him. The staff here have been informed of you as you’ve found out, so if you ever need to get here and can’t get a hold of me, just do what you did tonight.”

“I might need you to come to a few more events other than parties, but I don’t go to those as often… at least not this time of year. You might only need to go to a few more business parties with me and then you’ll be done. Of course, there will be days that I’m off that I might ask you to help find me someone somewhere… but unless we’re not having any luck, that won’t happen much… That should be it I think.”

“I think so, too…” Chaerin nodded, looking at Jungkook. He looked over at her and sent a smile, to which she returned.

“Really, I don’t know if I can thank you enough for agreeing to something so crazy… “ he said as he laid his head back down on the back of his couch.

“Don’t keep reminding me that it’s crazy or I might end up backing out,” Chaerin joked, laying her head back on the couch as well. They sat there in a comfortable silence for a few seconds up until Jungkook sat up in his seat. Chaerin looked up and watched him as he got up and moved back to sit on his bed.

“I’m feeling kinda tired, so I’m gonna head to bed,” he yawned, causing Chaerin to giggle and nod. She got up and headed to the door, glancing at his huge gorgeous room for the last time that night.

“Your room is really nice by the way…” she softly complemented, causing Jungkook to look around his room.

“You think so?” he asked, “I actually decorated most of it myself. I’m the one who put up all the pictures.”

“Well it really speaks about who you are…” she paused while looked around at all of his belongings. “God, it’s weird to think that I literally just agreed to this crazy thing today…”

“I know…” Jungkook laughed, shaking his head, “But thanks. It’s nice to get a compliment on my pictures.”

“You’re welcome,” she responded, “But I’m gonna let you sleep. Goodnight Jungkook.”

“Don’t you mean Jungkookie?” he kidded as Chaerin sent him a slight glare.

“I haven’t told my friends we were ‘dating’ yet, so that nickname isn’t valid yet. Goodnight Jungkook~.” With that, she closed his bedroom door and headed down the hallway. She looked at her phone and saw a million missed calls from Kiseung. She probably didn’t believe that she didn’t have her phone, so she was trying to catch her lying…

She decided to text Kiseung that she finally found her phone and was finally heading home. She wasn’t looking forward to the wrath of Kiseung, but she enjoyed the short conversation she had with Jungkook. The two of them seemed to be fast friends, so maybe that’ll make it easier to pretend to love him like a partner…

Just to clarify, Irene in this story isn’t meant to be Irene from Red Velvet. It’s up to you on whether you picture Irene as her or not~ Thank you for reading!

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