In Between || Taejinkook

Nineteen

"Oh my god, Soo-young! I can't go on like this. I told you to order the cotton white textile. I even wrote it down for you on a piece of paper and put it on your desk as a strong reminder.

I'm out of it, and I need it painfully. They're coming today to take the clothes, and one's even not ready. What the hell am I supposed to do, dig my own grave?! It's not the work of an hour."

Even before setting his foot inside the Beta's office, Jin could hear the frustration in Hoseok's voice. There was no doubt he was stressed to infinite.

Finding his secretary nowhere, he walked the office way without announcing, and there he found both in that tense situation.

"I'm so, so sorry, Mr. Jung. It won't happen again. I was just really busy with managing other stuffs, I forgot this one. I'm sorry again, sir." Soo-young uttered and bowed at his boss, quivering all over.

The Omega decided it was better to leave the Beta as the timing wasn't ideal, but he wasn't lucky enough because the secretary saw him and following her line of vision, Hoseok turned to the direction of the door, as well.

"Seokjin-ah! Uh, hello. Please, come in." the Beta smiled as he stepped towards him instantly, gesturing him inside.

"Hi, Hoseok. If... It's ok, I can come another time if you're busy with work." Jin stated as he hesitated to enter the office room.

"Don't say that, please. There's nothing I can do about it anymore, by the way. Soo-young here forgot to order the textile I needed to create my beautiful white coat for this fall collection, and now here I am!" The only thing one could detect from Hoseok's shrug was a shaking body the Beta tried painfully to hide through that indifferent behavior.

"There's really not a single thing you could do to change that?" Jin asked in a calm tone as he watched the mannequin wearing a simple pink top with a red skirt.

The Beta was dead right. They looked too dull and not enough catchy like that alone. They required something more to become perfect just like the other works of the Beta.

"I could find a replacement, but there's nothing among my stuffs to add to these." Hoseok explained, heaving a heavy sigh after he was finished with his more saddening statement.

"Maybe I can go to my parents' home and find something for you. My sister has a good taste, and she has great stuffs among her clothing." Jin turned to the Beta as he spoke to stimulate flicks of hope inside the other male, but something caught his eyes instantly.

Upon entering the office, it didn't come to his eyes, but with seeing the clothes, it seemed exactly the one.

"Thank you so much, dear, for your kindness, but it has to be my own design. Not one single item of this collection should be something that wasn't made by my hands." Hoseok let out, voice still disappointed to no end.

"This is your own design, Hoseok?!"

The Beta averted his stare from the clothes to give a shocked one to the Omega for the sudden question wasn't much connected to their previous talk.

Even his secretary had the same expression as him for she forgot all about her mistake and finally lifted her head. They both followed Jin's index finger to the neon yellow mini jacket with delicate white flower patterns on each side the Beta was wearing.

"Yes, it is. But, yellow isn't really the perfect color to match with red and pink, Seokjin." Hoseok, guessing what the Omega had in head, let out in a low, slightly gruff voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Sensing the lack of interest in the Beta's voice, Jin hung his head low in shame, and made some distance between them as to prevent the two people in the room from seeing his crimson face.