FIVE

The week had passed by in suspended animation. Looking at my watch I only had a few minutes left before I could go out and join Jimin and Tae in Jimin's dorm room for a movie. I'd asked Tae not to move out. He hadn't and after practice that day I got back to an expectant Jimin who was being the dutiful boyfriend 'holding down the house for his loving, ever busy boyfriend' asking me to join them for a movie on Friday to get to know each other better. I'm sure Tae could've delivered this message but he'd gone for his late night lab study sessions. And the rest of the week he'd either gotten up way too early for his lectures or came in too late after his late night visits to Jimin's room.

My pocket buzzed in suspended motion I swished out my phone to look at the screen. Ignoring the notifications from snapchat and instagram I put my phone back and closed on my curtains before I went to reach for the wine bottle sitting on top of the chest of drawers before closing the door behind me.

Getting to Jimin's dorm based solely on verbal directions would've been hard hadn't it had been for me running into Ansel and a few other guys from the team who were kind enough to take me there. Ansel roughly pulled me in closer to him ruffled my hair a bit and said "So are you going to Jimin's dorm for your hi or you want an excuse to hit it again with Emily?" he raised a brow at me and the other guys made sexual gestures moving in closer waiting for an answer. I couldn't help the laugh and replied "I never hit that." In unison they all made noise making it very clear they didn't believe me. I explained how she just slept over and how I didn't even know her dorm was on Jimin's floor. They still didn't believe me. Then a wind blew past us pushing some hair out my face I decided this was getting out of hand now some of the guys were giving me tips on 'how to get a lady in bed.', 'how to rock that bed' ....it was all getting too overwhelming and too focused on something that was out of my interest.

We'd reached the corner and I could see the dorm room out of the corner of my eye, I pushed my body out of their friendly holds on my shoulder and leaned on the wall biting my lower lip out of a bad habit that's been refusing to die out. "What is it man!" one of the guys said and Ansel looked at me brows furrowed in worry then said "Hey listen if we upset you we're sorry ok, Emily just never refuses anyone..."

"She hasn't known the word No since freshman year bro" the other guy cut him in scoffing.

Ansel nudged him in the arm sending him a cold glare telling him to shut up. He became serious again and looked to me "As I was saying, if she told you No, it's fine. We'll get you a girl; you're on the team man. They'll be easy to get." Then he gave my chest a hard but friendly nudge and smiled.

"It's not that." I deadpanned

'Fuck! An STD!!" the third guy tilted his head to the left, nodding his head in pity and a hand on my shoulder said.

I pushed my body out of his hold, laughed out loud a bit and "No, it's not that either." I bit pushed my hands into my pockets and finished "erm, you see the thing is you mentioned getting me a girl.....I'd prefer the opposite to a woman." Hoping they would catch the drift I fixed my eyes on Ansel's waiting for a reaction.

His face lit up in realization "ohhhhh you're gay dude" he asked almost at the same time as the other guy flipped a wine bottle to sit nicely in his hands as he asked "Not you Jeon."

I gave a conformational nod and as if on cue the door to Jimin's opened revealing a Jimin clad in all white, he waved. The guys called out his name enthusiastically waving back and walking backwards first I thanked them for the help and walked towards Jimin.

"I thought maybe you weren't coming anymore" he said giving me a fist bump.

Taehyung was seated with one leg sitting on top of his other sipping on a sprite can. He turned to me and maybe it was my imagination but he seemed to have quickly eyed me up and down before averting his eyes to the door that had been knocked. "Uhm hi." He said to me. His voice deep, raspy and sultry sending shivers down my spine. I managed to mutter a hello back praying to heaven that my insides were not betraying me by showing exactly what I was thing.

"It's for you Jungkook." Jimin left the door gesturing for me to take it. I slanted a little to see who it was but it was just Ansel. He lifted the wine bottle up bit lip cis sexually but completely devious. I couldn't help the laugh and went to the door. When I reached it he took a step back, making me take one further to reach him and the as he handed me the wine bottle he said "Jimin has a boyfriend you know?"

Softly so I wouldn't be heard I retorted "I just came out and that's the first thing you say."

He raised an eyebrow at me and sad "Yo man, that's nothing new. Point is he has a boyfriend so turn him down easy and come back to my dorm I'll introduce you to someone." And with that he turned on his and made a run to catch up with a couple of girls standing in the corner of the dorm. I chuckled and closed the door.

"I'd brought wine, and forgot it with them. I also forgot a corkscrew...so I hope you have one." I said

"Oh is this a Moscato Rose...Stella Rosa? This is lovely and thank you so much but it'll just be the two of us on this tonight." admiring the bottle Jimin said squinting his eyes, smiling so brightly and innocently I could see the appeal about him.

Tae left the couch and joined Jimin and I saying "And you should probably skip drinking this late too, don't you have practice tomorrow anyway?"

The whole movie night had gone off well and I'd shared the bottle with just Jimin. Mostly it was me drinking and feeling like such a waste of an alcoholic with the two of them, but I felt allowed. My nerves couldn't stand the thought of hanging out sober with the guy I've been pitifully attracted to for years and his bright, chippy boyfriend. Never been one to eat my feelings I ended up not touching any snacks they'd put in bowls in front of me like I was some sort of guest to their home...it's a dormitory room I should explain the difference to them sometime.

With the neck of the bottle in my left hand ,pinned to my lips trying to find ease of nerves at the bottom of it as I kept ignoring my buzzing pocket keeping my gaze fixed to the moving picture we all were reading the rolling credits on.

"Are you gonna get that?" Taehyung spoke up shaking me from my train of thoughts.

Tongue tied I looked up to find I was now sitting on couch alone as they'd both moved to my left standing. Dismissively I pulled my phone out to find I had a lot of notifications from across all my social media of people wanting to follow me, some likes and retweets and there amongst them was one that almost sobered me up.

Ansel

Don't settle for being Jimin's side piece. I got you a date with Jaehyun. Thank me later player.

19:07pm