"Woah!! Who the hell are you?" She asked.
"Wait. You look familiar. But I don't remember." She said.
"I'm here to check on you. Your mother told me that I'll be marrying you, and I should look after you here."
"What?? Marry me?? Without my permission?" She asked shocked.
'Why would mother do something like that.' She thought.
"I'm not marrying anyone." She said and went out but got stopped by him.
"That's why I also came. I am your mother's friend's son. I like a girl but your mom wanted me to marry you. I couldn't say anything to her so I came here to you, thinking you'll help me from this." He said.
"Woah! That was fast and a lot of info. Let's come from the start. My mom wanted us to get married?" He nodded his head.
"I can manage that. Are you free in the evening?"
"Yeah."
"Can we meet up then? I need to come up with something." She said.
"Sure. I work here only. I'll pick you up." she nodded and went out.
"By the way, I'm Y/n." she said and stretched out her hand.
"Yeah. sorry. I'm Paxston." They both shook hands and he dropped her off by her room.
"Wait here a minute." She said to Paxston and went in.
"Tae, are you busy?" She asked him.
"Not really. What is it?"
"Are you free in the evening?"
"Yeah." He said.
"Ok." She said and went out.
"Yeah. Is it ok if I get someone with me?" She asked. He agreed and they left their ways.
She went back in.
"Why did you ask?" He asked.
"I need your help in something." She said and sat in her desk.
"Ok." He didn't ask anything else and continued his work.
*in the evening
Y/n and Taehyung waited for Paxston in the park near the company.
Soon Paxston arrived there.
"Paxston? What are you doing here?" Taehyung asked.
"He's the person who I said we'll meet. Where's she?"
"She's on her way." He said.
"Come on." She said and sat on the green grass.
They joined her. She and Paxston explained everything to Taehyung.
"Now, the thing is I don't wanna get married now. We have to do something before we go the Busan this weekend." She said.
"You're going to Busan?" Paxston asked.
"Yeah. Any problem?" She asked.
"No. Nothing. I was just thinking about getting my girlfriend also." As he finished his sentence, a girl approached them.
"Pax." She called him.
"This is Laura, my girlfriend." He said.
"Nice to meet you." She said.
"So, have you decided on anything?" Taehyung asked.
"Nothing. I can't really think of anything." She said.
"I have one. I hope you guys accept."
They listened eagerly to him.
"Here's what we can do. You both come together and talk with Paxston's parents. Convince your mother to accept you both. While, Y/n take someone as your boyfriend and say that you like him." He said.
"That's great but where will Y/n find a fake boyfriend?" Paxston asked.
Y/n looked at Taehyung. Taehyung looked at her.
"Ani. No, I can't." Taehyung said.
"Please. Please. Please." She begged him.
"No. No. I can't." Taehyung said shaking his head.
"Please. I'll be your fake girlfriend, for that." She said.
Taehyung thought for a while.
"N-no." He said.
"Please. I'll do whatever you want." She said with pleading eyes.
"Ok. I'll help you out. I'll tell my thing later. Now, this is what we do. It is final. All we have to do is, wait for the weekend. Just two more days. You sure, your mom will accept?"
"I guess. If she doesn't, I'll have to make her accept." She said.
"I'll help you out in that. Now, lets relax and wait for it. So, we'll take a leave now. See you this weekend." They said and left to home.
*the weekend
Soon two days passed by and it was the weekend.
Taehyung, Y/n, Jungkook, Paxston and Laura packed up everything and left in a cab.
The ride was quiet. They didn't really talk anything. They reached Busan soon.
They all got down and looked around.
Y/n and Jungkook took a deep breath in of their homeland and smiled.
"Let's go." She said and they all went. She saw people selling flyovers and she got one.
It was none other than the music competition held there. She smiled and said,
"Let's go here." She said showing the flyover. They agreed and they went there.
The show had already started. There were a lot of people participating in it. Soon it was her brother's turn.
"Is that Mark?" Jungkook asked. She nodded.
"Wow! He's grown a lot. I mean, really grown up." He said.
They all listened to his music and Y/n was mesmerized hearing him play the piano. She never really knew he had this much talent in him. A tear flowed but she wiped it before anyone could notice. But Taehyung did notice.
He didn't say anything and stood beside her and said,
"It's all cause of you."
"Stop that now." She said wiping her tears and laughing. Mark's turn was over. He was at the backstage.
They all went back. Y/n hid behind the door and the others went in.
"Hyung!" He saw Jungkook and hugged him.
"Hyung, what brought you here?"
"Just came to see you guys."
"Did you see noona?" He asked. He nodded drinking some water.
"Didn't noona come?" He asked sad.
"I'm sorry, she was busy with work so she couldn't make it." He said.
"It's ok. She is in a big comapny now, she'll have a lot of work." He said sad and turned.
"You'll say it's ok, if I can't make it?" Y/n asked as she came out. Mark turned and saw her and was happy.
"Noona!!"He said and hugged her tight.
"I missed you so much noona."
"So did I." She said.
"You did really well on stage."
"Thanks.
"You played so good that she cried." taehyung said. She punched his shoulder.
"Really? I was also there, but I couldn't see anything." Jungkook said.
"He's just lying." She said.
"Sorry. I forgot to introduce you to these guys. This is Taehyung, also my roommate and friend, Paxston and Laura." She said.
"Nice to meet you guys." He shook hands with them.
"Finally I meet you. Your sister really keeps thinking about you everyday and every time." Taehyung and Jungkook said.
"You guys really wanna die in my hands?" Y/n asked and stared at them.
"Anyways. Let's head home." She said and they left.
They reached at a certain point and got down.
"We'll have to walk from here." She said.
"Ok. No problem." Taehyung said.
They walked by the street. Jungkook and Y/n were smiling. Taehyung liked Y/n as a friend. He thought, she was fun and energetic. But his feelings for Ara Cho were still there. He still liked her.
They were near the house when the dog started barking and the owner comes and shouts at them. And they spotted the ice cream vendor and Jungkook and Y/n ran.
During their childhood, they both used to run and whoever reaches first to the ice cream vendor will buy a flavour that they like and the other has to eat it, no matter what.
They both ran and Y/n reached the vendor.
"YES!!!" She shouted happily.
"You lost!" she said and called the others. They came and she bought Jungkook's favourite flavour, read beans and corn. He was happy.
They all enjoyed some ice cream on their way to Y/n's house.
Paxston went to his house with Laura and Y/n, Mark, Taehyung and Jungkook went to Y/n's house.
When they reached, Y/n asked Taehyung to wait outside.
She went in and her mom was not that surprised to see her.
"What did you come here for?" She asked.
"I came to see Mark's performance." She said.
Jungkook understood cause he knew how her mother was. He didn't mind about it.
"So, about Paxston..." Before she could finish, her mom cut her.
"Paxston is such a great guy. I have heard a lot about him. Atleast, he is a business man. Not like you, clicking on pictures your entire life. He gets good salary and you can leave this job once you marry him. He has the amount to run a family."
"Eomma, I actually like someone else." She said and asked Taehyung to come out.
"This is Taehyung. I work with him." She said.
"You really like him?" Jungkook whispered to her.
"No. I'm just doing this not to get married." She said in a low voice to him.
"Another photographer? God knows what you're gonna do in your future."
Y/n sighed. She was tired of hearing the same things again and again.
"Here it comes." She said to herself.
"See this. You see this? Both your father's have passed away. I never expected your step-father to pass away too. If you had been nice with him, this wouldn't have happened. If you learnt how to do business with him, he wouldn't have left us."
"Eomma, how does it even matter if I talk or not talk with him? He had a daughter too. He could give it all to her. I don't want anything from him nor that family. I don't have any relationship with him nor his daughter. I didn't ask you to marry him. I felt even better when dad passed away, but when you married that guy and came home, my life was dreadful." Y/n let out all her anger.
"How dare you?" She said and slapped Y/n hard.
"Eomma, What is this? This is like the 100th time you're doing this." Mark stopped her.
Jungkook and Taehyung were in shock. Tears flowed in Y/n's eyes.
"He's still your step-father. And she is still your sister."
"*scoffs* Me? I did nothing and you both blame me for it. I didn't even touch their shadows and you and Ara Cho, your husband's daughter, blame for me for a thing I didn't even do. I still don't understand how me not talking to them made him die. And she, I don't know what to say about her. Not only you both, but this entire street keeps advicing and talking nonsense. What did I ever do to deserve this? Is it cause I chose photography as my passion? Why can't you just support me like how you did for dad? Why can't I have a passion? Everyday I keep thinking you'll change your mind, you'll accept it, you'll come and tell me that you agree with it, but everyday is just like the other days. Now it doesn't look like it's changing. Everyday I feel like dying, it's like I'm stuck on a road alone with no one to give me a ride and say that you can do it, I can cross the road. No. Nothing. It's still empty and always empty. (laugh) I came here for something but now it turned into something else." She said and ran out of the house.
"Unnie." Mark called her.
"Tae hyung." Jungkook said. He understood what he meant and went out looking for Y/n.
But he couldn't find her. He asked the neighbours and a person said she ran that way.
He soon reached a graveyard and spotted Y/n leaning by a tree and looking at something.
Y/n ran from the house and went to her father's burial site. Her real father's. She considered only him as her father.
She sat by the tree opposite to it.
"Appa, what did I do? What went wrong in my life? Is having a passion like yours a crime?" She asked and more tears flowed. Taehyung actually heard what she asked.
Taehyung walked towards her and sat beside her.
"Having a passion like photography is not a crime..... It is like a blessing." He said.
Y/n didn't respond anything and fiddled with her hands. Tears still flowing.
"That was actually quite a brave speech. I really can't talk to my mom like that." He tried to distract her mind but she had the same expression in her face.
"Let me tell you a little story. There was a man. He worked really hard. Whatever job was given to him, he would do it. But he had a passion that he was very much interested in. Only a few people knew about it. One day, he decided to leave everything else and started focusing on his dream, which was work in a biggest company. Be the boss of the company. But on his way to his success there were a lot of people who discouraged him and criticised him. But he kept his mind focused on his goal. His mom also didn't support him, but he had himself to encourage him that he can get through this, 'This too shall pass'. He didn't care what the world said about him, but with a lot of hardwork, he acieved and is now standing as the head of many restaurants and stores."
Taehyung said.
"There's nothing in life that we can't do. If we don't have encouragers or supporters, doesn't mean we need to give up. Trust yourself that you can do it. If no on's there, I'll be there to encourage you. You've come this far, can't you do the rest. I trust you that you'll make it."
Those words really meant something to Y/n. She felt grateful to have met Taehyung. She wiped her tears and smiled.
"Thanks. It really did help." She said and leaned on his shoulder.
"Not only me, Your brother, Jungkook, the others, Paxston, Laura, and your father, we're all there to support you." He said.
Hearing him say it, Y/n felt happy that she had someone. Her heart started beating fast. She felt a bit weird.
'No. I can't. He likes my her, I can't do it to him.' She said to herself and asked Taehyung.
"Wanna look around?"
"You feeling better now?" He asked.
She nodded.
"Then let's go." He said and they left.
To be continued.....