A Year to Change Your Lives

Chapter 52

Reader and Jungkook walked out of his room the next morning and found most of the boys already up and in the living room. Most of them kept more sensible hours than when they had been young idols, but even these days they were still pretty low key in the mornings. Tae grunted at them both, his mouth full of cereal. Jin and Hoseok glanced up from the sofas.

"Are you run today?" asked Jin, noticing their outfits. Reader nodded, waiting for Jungkook to pull on his trainers. It had been his idea, although she would have liked to go anyway. They'd had a good night, his IOU touches that she'd missed during the party had soothed her nerves when they had got back and sent her into a dreamless sleep. She'd woken too early though and had lain by his side making her mind go through every single step and note and change of the concert, knowing that if she could visualise it now, she wouldn't be so frightened when it confronted her later. He'd finally come round and agreed to get up with her around eight and now she was glad to feel the familiar whipping breeze as they paced themselves around a familiar route.

Jungkook took them a different way at their usual turning point, but she didn't question him. They were mid song and she didn't want to interrupt the flow of EXO in her ear.

After a few minutes running towards a different part of the estate she decided to question him. "Where are we going?"

"I want to show you something."

He stopped them in front of a building entrance almost identical to their own but a few blocks away. They were still nestled in the safe confines of the gated community but she'd never spent time on the north side which was fenced in by dense greenery in contrast to the river views on the south end. Without explaining himself, he punched in the code and took her hand, leading her through a lobby very similar to his own and into the lift. Reader narrowed her eyebrows playfully at him but didn't ask him to explain. Once at their floor, he turned his head left and right a couple of times as though he didn't quite know his way around and then led her to a door on their right. He opened it with a key she didn't know he was carrying.

Leading her in, he brought them into a space which was both familiar and not so. The apartment they were in was large and spacious but not quite as much as the BTS original. It had different scenery out of the windows and different fixtures and fittings. The kitchen on their left was laid out in the opposite orientation and a quick walk through told her this place only had three bedrooms and one terrace. It was also completely empty.

"What is this?" She asked him, back in the living room, grinning at him. "Is this yours?"

"Actually, this is Jimin's." He told her glancing around enviously. Reader jostled him to continue.

"Two years ago, I bought a house because I thought maybe it was time to live by myself sometimes. But I didn't' like it. I think some of us think we would like to live alone but really we just like less people, less mess, less noise. Jin has one like this in a different building. We are thinking that maybe next year, some of us will live in small groups."

Reader took his hand worriedly, knowing how he felt about anything that even sniffed of distance from his brothers. "What about the big apartment?"

"Some of us will stay there. Some of us will stay in Hyung's apartment. But I think Jimin-ah, maybe one other will stay here. But maybe you can stay here too."

"What?" Reader exclaimed nervously. "You want me to live here, with Jimin?"

"In very separate bedroom, yes. You don't have to, Jimin will ask you on his own because you are close with him. If you want to live with just you, I can help you but this looks like a good idea."

Reader looked around again at the beautiful property, her mouth hanging open.

"Where will you live?" Was the first thing she thought to ask.