Hyun Ae entered the front passenger's seat, looking excited as she hugged the clipboard that was given to her in her arms. Jin, who was in the driver seat beside her, jumped a bit in his seat when she entered with a muffled squeal.

"What is it, noona? Are you okay?" Jungkook asked, from the back seat after noticing her excitement.

"LOOK AT TODAY'S SCHEDULE," she excitedly said, showing the schedule to the maknae, and tapping at the first column of the timetable. "IT'S THE SHOOTING OF RUN BTS! OMG, IS THIS GOING TO BE A SPOILER TO ME? SHOULD I BE HERE? I DON'T THINK I SHOULD. I SHOULD LEAVE YOU GUYS THERE AND JUST LEAVE THE SET BECAUSE I DON'T WANT SPOILERS-"

"Oi, calm down noona..." Jungkook chortled, patting her head before throwing back himself against his seat. "Don't go anywhere. You are our manager now. Just, think of this as a special privilege you got."

"I really didn't know that you're such um... BIG fan," Namjoon said from his seat behind the driver's seat, pulling one of his Air Pods.

Hyun Ae laughed weakly, before letting out a long, relief huff. "I'm sorry. I know I should've to control myself-"

"No, don't be. Because when you go on fangirling mode about us, you're cute," he mumbled, not knowing how fast he went, almost like rapping.

"Oooh, Namjoon ah. Since when?" Jin asked, glancing at the leader through the rearview mirror as he stopped at the traffic light.

"She needs some kind of confidence boost. That kind of compliments helps you up, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is," Hyun Ae grinned, glancing over her shoulder at Namjoon and said, "thank you, Namjoon oppa."

**

"So, you're an ARMY?" one of the stylists asked Hyun Ae, after the boys had left the room for their Run BTS shooting.

After further discussions with the group, Hyun Ae had finally decided to stay in the room to avoid spoilers of the show. Though being a manager, at the same time she also wanted to stay as a fan, who always wait for new episodes of the show every week.

"Yep. I know I'm their temporary manager, but I can't resist my excitement as a fan too," she said, sitting down on one of the swivel chairs found in the room.

"Don't worry, I understand you. Most of us here are ARMYs too," the stylist pointed out, wavering her fingers at the others in the room. Almost all of them waved their hands at her, smiling widely. "You gotta love the family you're in."

"Oh, so..." the stylist asked, taking another chair and placed it beside her as she proceeded, "who's your ultimate bias? I'm sure you have one. Oh, it must be Jungkook."

"Nah. He might be that one member who's closest to me, but not him."

"Oh really? Then who?"

"Nah, I'd rather not to tell," Hyun Ae mumbled, tilting her head to one side, trying to not to show how shy she was.

"Just tell me! Only me!" the stylist eagerly said, even holding onto Hyun Ae's arm, filled with excitement. "Okay, just... give me one of their songs which had includes the part that had made you choose him as your bias."

"Hm.... Well, it's..."

**

"Here you go!" Hyun Ae smiled as she passed the schedule back to one of the Big Hit staffs, indicating that the day had come to its end.

"Thanks for today and you're lucky," the staff said, as she looked through the papers. "Starting from tomorrow, it's two-days off straight for you and the boys this week."

"Really?!"

"It must be a tough job for you in these four days," the staff chuckled, patting her shoulder softly.

"Nah, I'm fine. Don't worry. But do they know about this?"

"Of course not yet. You're their manager. You tell them."

After exchanging bows, Hyun Ae happily walked out of the building, doing small jumping as she took steps towards the all-black vehicle that was parked by the place.

"Oooh... look at her. She's smiling, so there must be something," Taehyung pointed out behind the tinted window when they watched her approaching the vehicle with a cheerful smile plastered across her face. She then knocked on the window, and Taehyung pulled it open.

"You guys can go straight home, while I'm going to my shop. Bye!" With that, she waved them her goodbye and began to turn when Jin suddenly called out in confusion.

"Hey wait-"

"Oh, and it's two-days off, guys! See ya after two days!" Without further ado, she paced her way towards the opposite direction, clutching to her bag tightly as she checked the time."I still can make it."

Five minutes had passed, and another familiar structure came into her view, making her sigh with a smile. She made her way towards the entrance and pulled it open, coincidentally a few customers were about to leave the shop. "Thanks for coming!" she bid the customers with goodbyes and bows, before entering the shop. "Yoon Hee ah!"

"Eonnie!" Yoon Hee called out as she approached her boss and hugged her for a moment before letting go.

"So how's today?" Hyun Ae asked, placing her bag on top of one of the round tables.

"The best day ever," Yoon Hee stated, untying her apron.

"Why?"

"I don't know how, but there were more people coming today. Even though I was alone, but usually I could manage it all alone. But the number of customers today was just... weird. But in a good way."

"Eh? But how?"

"I don't know," Yoon Hee chuckled, as she looked around the place, then her eyes fell onto an area. "Oh, and one of the customers asked me, about that stage."

"Yeah?"

"She said if there's anyone who would want to do small shows and all, this shop will be more successful. She said just invite random buskers."

"Nah..." Hyun Ae said, giggling as she stared at the stage, with a guitar standing at one end, and a few tall stools were lined up behind it. "Imagine if the boys perform here," she suddenly muttered, beginning to fall deep into her own imagination. "Let them sing 'coffee', yeah! It has been a while since I heard that song. So nostalgic-"

"Hello!" suddenly a group of voices called out along with the ring of the door as they entered the shop.

"Oh! Welcome!" Yoon Hee greeted, clapping her hands in excitement. Hyun Ae sighed because she knew the voices. So much.

"You guys-" she was trying to say when suddenly the maknae cut her off.

"You, told us we're on off days, so we can do whatever we want tonight," Jungkook said as he approached her, placing his arm over her shoulder.

"But we were-"

"Closing?" Jin completed her words, as he rolled up his sleeves, flashing a smirk at the shop owner. "Let us help."

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"Done!" Jimin shouted, not too loud but enough for his voice to echo throughout the shop as he turned the last stool on top of one of the long tables. All of them let out sighs of relief as they leaned against any table they could lean on. Hyun Ae was leaning against the main counter with Yoon Hee beside her, letting out chuckles.

"So how's the day, Yoon Hee-ssi?" Jimin asked, smiling as he walked towards her.

"Oh um... great. It's good," she said, nodding her head with a satisfied look on her face.

"Better than usual, I guess is what you mean."

"What do YOU mean?" Yoon Hee asked, but then Jimin sniggered, and walked towards Taehyung, back-hugging him like a clingy baby koala. Hyun Ae, being an ARMY, couldn't hold herself in so she squealed quietly at the moment between the 95s line.

"Ahem. So you guys want something?" Yoon Hee asked, clasping her hands together.

"Let's all of us have dinner. Yoon Hee-ssi should join us too," Namjoon suggested, turning his head to the girl, followed by the rest.

"Eh? Me? It-It's okay-"

"Oh come on. Let's just say it's a token of appreciation from us for taking care of our manager's shop while she's not in," Jungkook clarified, nodding his head.

Yoon Hee was in the state of denial, but then Hyun Ae pulled her friend closer to her, and then put her arm around Yoon Hee's neck.

"I never agree with them, but for this... please," she pleaded with an assuring smile.

"Alright," Yoon Hee sighed, finally gave up.

*

"What we should do tomorrow, noona? Noona? Nooonaa," Jungkook called out, pouting as he walked towards Hyun Ae who was in the kitchen, cleaning the countertop. "Hyun noona, what are you going to do tomorrow?"

"Me? My shop, of course," she uttered, wiping the marble top clean.

"You're working?" his eyes shot up, his expression changed to a shocked one.

"It's my two-days off as a BTS manager, not as a coffee shop manager," she explained, rinsing the cloth she used in the sink then wrung it out before she hung it on a towel bar by the countertop's side.

She then looked back at the young boy, and he was staring at her with his significant doe eyes. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Nothing. Is it wrong?"

"You're creeping me out," she giggled, as she walked around the counter towards him and leaned against it beside him. They went quiet for a moment, letting other random noises filled the house atmosphere.

"I love it," Hyun Ae suddenly whispered with a smile across her face. Jungkook turned his head at her.

"Hm?"

"For the first time ever, since I moved in. This is the first time my house is filled with people other than me," she smiled, letting out small laughter as she proceeded. "Taehyung's in the library, Suga and Namjoon in the studio, Hobi and Jin in the games' room and Jimin..."

"Rooftop," he finished her hanging words, making her giggled.

"He really likes the observatory," she chuckled, and then her gaze shifted towards the tiled floors.

Jungkook couldn't help but give his old friend a look. "Noona..." His soft call got her the attention as she looked back at him. "Are you... really this lonely?"

"Well..." She let her word hanging again there as she reached the refrigerator and pulled out bottled mineral water. "Since I live alone? That means I'm lonely right?"

"I mean..." he said, words fading as he watched her taking a long sip from the bottle. "You must have a boyfriend now, right?"

At the mentioned word 'boyfriend', Hyun Ae choked on her drink and coughing out a mess, water spilled onto the floor. Jungkook quickly ran up to her, grabbing the bottle and put it onto the counter.

"Oh, noona! Drink slowly, please!" he sighed, taking the same towel she had used earlier to wipe off the spills on the floor. Then he stood up, as Hyun Ae was tearing some of the kitchen towel to dry off her now-wet shirt. "Are you okay?" he asked, as her coughing had settled down a bit.

"I'm... fine..." she breathed out between her little cough. "W-What are you guys going to do tomorrow?"

"I don't know," Jungkook sighed, placing back the towel in his hand on top of the towel, going silence for a moment. "I want to spend time with you."

"If you want to, you'll spend time by working."

"Sounds great!"

Hyun Ae shot her head up and met his smiling eyes that she knew no one could resist due to his overloaded cuteness, but she immediately shook it off.

"And you think that I'll let that happen? NO! ARMYs will attack me for making you work!"

"No, they won't!"

"Yes, they will! I know the life of ARMY, because I'm one of them," Hyun Ae stated, taking the towel on top of the counter, and re-rinsing it again under the tap water as she continued, "I suggest you guys just rest at home," she said before she turned at him.

"Remember, I'm YOUR manager now, even a temporary one."

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