"How about Miami though...?" Jieun looked up from her protein shake to gawk at Aera who just silently chewed on her toast.

"That would be a breeze. All the hot models on the beach. Getting tanned. I might as well get a tattoo." Minhyuk chimed in making Jieun turn up her nose at him.

"Hot models? They smell cheap perfume." She hissed at him before her head turned to see Taehyung walking towards them with messy hair and a silver framed round glasses on his nose.

"How I wish I saw this everyday." She whispered.

"You can , you know..." she looked a bit lower to see Jungkook smirking at her.

"Taehyung! Jieun was asking for you." He shouted while looking at Jieun who just widened her eyes and looked at the male who had already rounded the table to come stand beside her.

"Good morning." He voiced out in his extraordinarily deep voice as he leaned in to kiss her head with his one hand fastened on the opposite side of it.

"Ok. I will pretend I didn't cringe to death when I saw that." Yoongi scoffed as he served himself food.

"Oh my. Jieun has a boyfriend!?" Anthony shrieked as he placed the bowl of salad before Rose.

"Yes."

"No."

Both Taehyung and Jieun answered simultaneously.

"You are my boyfriend?"

"I am not?" He incredulously looked at her.

"I-I don't know. We didn't talk about it." She said as she faced the other side with her protein shake sipper on her lips. Taehyung turned her around making her look at him.

"Let's talk then."

"What do we talk?"

"I love you." He announced making Anthony gasp and Minhyuk choke on his coffee.

"I love you too." Her reply came instantly making him smile.

"It's settled then. You are my girlfriend." He said as he held her chin and pulled her up as he sealed her lips with his. Rose giggled as she shared glances with Aera.

"Oh god. My kid's watching all of this." Jungkook groaned while fake gagging at them.

"Three o' clock." Jieun heard on her in ear as she subtly turned with her beer bottle in her hand. Her eyes perfectly made droopy to make her come out as banged up with alcohol.

"Hmm...pretty." She smirked when she locked her gaze on the target.

"This isn't the time to fantasise your gay instincts Ji. Get to work."

Jieun scoffed as she grabbed her beer bottle when she heard Minhyuk giggling in the in ear.

"On it."

"Nice night."

Jieun looked at the woman beside her drinking vodka on the rocks as she mindlessly stared at the bottles lined up fancily behind the bar.

"No. It's not."

The reply made Jieun adjust her black leather jacket a bit along with her inner hoody that covered most of her face. She had an impending gut feeling that the woman in front was up for an emotional detox.

And she hated being emotional.

"I wonder what made you so sad." She muttered lowly. The bartender in front smiled at the two ladies conversing before turning away to see other customers.

"My life is shit."

Mira turned to see the stranger woman pouting while she nodded at her and taking a quick swig of her beer.

"You look affluent. What can possibly be wrong with rich people? You could just throw money and buy anything you want." Jieun tutted at her and shook her head.

"Being rich doesn't guarantee happiness."

"It does guarantee everything that is required to be happy."

"No. It doesn't." She snapped at her with a glare on her face making Jieun back off a bit.

"Don't push her."  Yoongi's voice made Jieun clear her throat as she analysed the situation. This conversation should not be stretched longer and her hands were itching to mix the damn liquid to make this lady sleep so she could just get this over with.

"Woah. I am sorry. That came out wrong." Jieun raised her hands.

"That's ok. I don't expect you to understand anything that I say." Mira said as she ordered another glass of vodka.

"You are drinking too much. Do you want a ride home? I am going to buzz off." Jieun said as she took a couple of dollar bills out of her jacket pocket and pinned them down under her beer bottle.

"I am going to stay for a while. Are you in a hurry?" Mira asked as she kept running her fingers in the condensed outer surface of the glass.

"I am not, to be honest."

"Can you...keep me company? For just a while long?" Mira peered at her through the shaft of ebony hair falling down the side of her face.

"And I was like .... 'please no!'", Mira laughed as she kept the now empty glass back on the bar. Jieun laughed along with her.

"What about you? You have someone?" Jieun just nervously smiled under her hoody as she nodded.

"Don't take the name. You can always boast about your BF. He is hot." Minhyuk snorted.

"I know."  Taehyung's voice made Jieun blush slightly as she held her hands to her cheeks to cool them down.

"I have. He is—" she stopped when she saw Mira's face morphing into a gag reflex as she sprinted to the bathroom.

"Looks like date night is over." Jieun muttered as she stood up and ran up behind her.

"Hey you ok?" She called out from a busy cubicle from which she could hear Mira wrenching out into the toilet bowl.

"I..I feel d-disgusting." She groaned and the audible thump on the floor made Jieun know that maybe she had sat down on the floor.

"Hello? Are you there?" She called out but there was no answer. She jabbed at the handle of the door to make it open as she saw Mira passed out on the floor.

"She is out."

Moments later the window of the bathroom opened as Aera climbed in. Her eyes went from Jieun to an unconscious Mira leaning against the wall beside the hand washing sinks.

"I cleaned her up. She was reeking of alcohol." Jieun said as she held up Mira by her armpits and dragged her out of the bathroom with the help of Aera.

"Ok. I am taking her. You go out through the exit and take a cab back." Aera said as she buckled Mira's seatbelt.

"Yup."

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