After that situation or should I say fight between Bam and Joon happened I went home. I couldn't stay there. I needed to clear my mind and just think.

I had planned on waiting for him to come home but you see something came up and when I say something I mean sleep.

Sleep came up.

And it sucked because I couldn't talk to him. I wasn't mad or upset. I was more disappointed then anything. I also was disappointed in myself for putting either of them in the situation.

Fighting over me like I was property. Neither of them deserved that. And I felt bad. I couldn't even talk to Joon about it this morning either because I woke up early to go to another photo shoot.

I also had a lot of things coming up. Brandon had told me that my new single with T.O.P would be coming out in a couple of weeks. They were still finishing up the last touches on the song itself.

I also somehow managed to bag another film featuring another kpop idol. This time is different because it's not going to be a Netflix film, it's an actual movie. That's going to appear in like the movies which if you ask me is pretty big. There's a lot of rumors on who my love interest was but apparently he's one of the members from EXO.

Exciting right.

I was now finishing up in the studio on the single.

"So what do you think?" The producer asks me.

"You know when the second part in first verse comes on, I want to change the beginning to a medley. Is it possible that I can redo it?" I ask him he nods.

I walk back into the recording booth placing the headphones on and turning back to him motioning to start the music.

"and whose these bitches you be fucking with, never catch me with a new crew on some other shit. call me out my name, you mistake me for another bitch. Your mother, bitch. I'll pop on nigga on some sucker shit" I rapped the beat of music.

The music stopped causing me to turn back to producer as he replayed it. I nodded hearing myself go off. I knew I was good at rapping but damn. I didn't think I was this good.

Now after a long day I was finally able to leave. As much as I wanted to go home I had another photoshoot to go.

I held my bag walking outside of the large building to see Joon standing there leaning against a car.

The typical fuck boy stance. Both hands in the front of the jeans, leaning back but still managing to make sure the chest and groan area is out forward.

"hey" he says.

"hey, Floyd MayWeather or should I call you Mr. Punch a lot?" I ask causing him to slightly laugh.

He nods, and shrugs.

"I deserve that" he says knowing that I most likely would be pissed about what happened yesterday.

"Oh trust me, you deserve more then just some name calling" I say approaching him.

What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"I figured you'd need a ride home, so I thought why not pick you up myself" he says.

I couldn't help but smile.

"Look at you doing boyfriend things but unfortunately I have a photoshoot to be at in a hour, so I can't go home yet. And if I miss it, Brandon would literally kill me" I tell him.

"just tell Brandon something came up" he tells me causing me to sigh.

Maybe he was used to doing that, but I can't.

"But something didn't come up. So I'd be lying for no reason" I tell him.

He turns around opening the door for me, I look at him confusedly. "Dinner. Tell him dinner came up" he says.

Dinner? Him and I.. on another date. Just us two?

"Are you asking me out on a date right now?" I ask trying not to smirk, as much as I wanted not to it couldn't be helped.

"No. I'll telling you... you're going on a date with me. Whether or whether not you have time too" he says looking down at me.

He was talking to me aggressively and was it wrong that I was low key turned on by this.

"fine" I say completely ignoring the fact that Brandon had already scheduled my photoshoot weeks ago and now I'm not going just to go on a date with Joon.

"About.... yesterday. I completely understand why your upset. But you shouldn't be upset at Bam. He was upset and had every right to be" he tells me.

Was he defending the same guy he got into a fist fight with literally yesterday.

"I'm not mad. I was just.. disappointed. I should've never put either of you in that situation in the first place" I say.

"After the fight... him and I talked... a lot of things were said but what I remember the most is that he said you told him to wait for you" his words causing me to look up at him.

Oh god? Was he mad at me? It was before America.

"That was before— he cut me off, "I know. Before what happened between us you told him that. Meaning you thought I was going to fuck up or something. And I don't blame you. I do a lot of dumb shit, so I completely understand why you did it" he pauses.

Was I hearing this right?

"I understand why you have your doubt about us, and may regret and I know I'm not perfect, I can't promise that I won't make you cry or that we won't get into arguments over stupid shit. But what I can promise is that I will love you unconditionally, and I will never doing anything in my power to hurt you" he says.

"You think I have regrets about us?" I ask him.

He nods, I slowly approached him.

"The only regret I have is not knowing that I loved you sooner" I tell him honestly.

He smiles at my response.

-

The waitress hands both Joon and I put menus before nodding at us, and walking away. I couldn't help but notice her eyeing NamJoon way too much.

We've only been in this expensive restaurant for at least ten minutes now and her eyes wouldn't look away from Joon.

I get it he's famous. If you want his autograph, please just ask for it instead of staring at him every twenty seconds.

I open the menu finding myself shocked at these prices. My eyes widen. A bowl on Ramen 🍜 was literally $54.

How big was it. I look up once I heard Joon snicker. He smiles at me.

"Have you seen the prices?" I asked him.

"Don't worry about it. It's on me" he explains.

"I know but it's not necessary to pay this much for Ramen when we can go get street food that way less expensive then this" I complain.

"It's nothing"

"I know but— he cuts me off by placing his hand on top of mine causing our eyes to meet.

"Just order something" he tells me claiming me. I notice the waitress making her way back towards our table causing me to quickly move my hand away from him.

"are you guys ready to order?" She asked pulling out a notepad and pen. NamJoon turned to me, "I'll have most inexpensive thing on the menu" I say closing it and handing it to her.

"Water?" She asks me.

I nod smiling.

"And for you, sir?" She asks.

"And I'll have the most expensive thing on the menu" he says looking at me and smirking.

"The deluxe meal with five different types of meat?" She asked him, and he nods handing her the menu.

"I'll put the order in for you right now" she smiles walking away.

"You should go talk him" he says out of no where.

"What?" I asked him.

"Bam. Just because you and I are.... you know dating.. doesn't mean you and him can't be friends" he says causing me to look at him in confusion.

Oh either I must've fallen and bumped my head. But what the hell. Not only his telling me to go talk to Bam, but he also wants him and I to be friends.

"Yes, it does" I tell him.

"And why is that?" He asked.

Because... I say so. That's why. Why is he questioning me right now.

"Why do you care if I talk to him or not. I thought you hated him" I say picking up my glass of water.

"I don't hate him. I'm just not fond of him. But i don't want you ending a friendship for our relationship. Neither of you deserve that" he says.

He's awfully thankful for a guy you got into a fist fight with literally yesterday over me. What did they say to each other after the fight?

"What if I don't want to be friends with him?" I ask just asking to see his answer.

"Then that's completely fine. I wouldn't want to doing something your not comfortable with. But I don't think you shouldn't be his friend just because of our relationship" he explains.

Why does he keep saying that. Me not wanting to be friends with him isn't just because of our relationship.

There's another reasons.

I was about to say something when I noticed a flash, causing me to turn the window to see the paparazzi taking pictures of both Joon and I.

"how did they even find us?" Joon asked as I looked over his shoulder to see the waitress talking amongst the other waitress, and I couldn't help but see how they kept pointing over to us.

Meaning it was most likely her to paid off the paparazzi to come here. Of course It be. Even if we asked her to keep a low profile.

"I don't know" was all I said to answer his question.

"Do you want to leave?" He asked me pointing over to the door.

"Paparazzi are going to be everywhere we go, whether it be when we're on a date or out with the rest of members. It's enviable at this point. So to answer your question, No" I tell him.

He smiles at my response which tells me he didn't really want to leave either. My eyes then turn to the waitress walking towards us.

"my apologies. I have no idea how the paparazzi knew you guys were here. I could tell them to leave if you want" she says forcing a fake smile.

Of course, you don't.

I couldn't help but think that it wasn't Joon's appearance that annoyed her. It was mine.

I notice he was going to say something so I beat him to the punch. "No need", I tell her causing Joon to look at me confusedly.

"A-are you sure? Paparazzi might think you two are dating if they see how well you guys get along" she points out as if we haven't noticed that.

"And If they do?" I asked causing her to look at him and I. More Joon then me.

"But you guys... aren't. Right?" She asked sounding almost sad.

Namjoon looks me causing me bust out a fake laugh. "No. As if that were to even happen. What I was trying to say was that the paparazzi always assumes stuff. Him and I are strictly just friends" I lie causing Joon to laugh nervously.

The waitress then smiles, turning to Joon himself. "Well If What she said is true" she pauses reaching into her pocket pulling out a slip of paper and placing it on the table.

"I can show you what it feels like to be with a real woman" she says looking directly and directly only at Joon.

I swallowed hard wanting to say so many words when I recollected myself. Calming down.

"Your food will be out shortly" she says before walking away swaying her hips with her flat ass they no one was trying to look at.

I looked at the piece of paper and her phone number was on it. NamJoon himself were smirking, I glared at him.

"You think this is so funny, don't you?" I asked him crossing my arms.

"Actually, I do. This is the first time I've seen you actually been jealous" he points out.

"I'm not jealous" I say shrugging my shoulders.

He was eating this shit up.

"What? I'm not" I tell him.

"Of course your not" he smirks.

"In order for me to be jealous, there'd be something there for me to be jealous about which there isn't. So I'm not." I tell him.

"So you wouldn't mind if I just call her whenever I'm bored" he says.

Does he want to die?

"Sure. As long as you wouldn't mind me filming another steamy scene with Jay" I smirked.

"It's called acting"

"Not if I'm actually naked and he's actually touching me" my words causes his jaw to clinch causing me to smile at him.

"Okay.. okay. You win" he gives in.

"When don't I" I smirk.

After our long dinner date with Joon, he and I were finally back at the dorm. I can honestly say being with him makes me happy. It makes me believe that people like me can have a happy ending, even if that happy ending is so far away.

It's possible.

He also had me thinking about what he said, about going to talk to Bam. He was some What right, but I honestly needed time to think of what to say to him.

Last time I didn't get the chance to think. He just showed up and boom.

Joon entered the passcode to the dorm and opened the door, he held the door open for me as we bettered the dorm.

I laughed uncontrollably as he was telling the story of one of his embarrassing moments in high school.

We exited the foyer and sitting there waiting for the both of us was of course my manager.

We've been out all day having a good time I had forgotten about the photoshoot that I had to go and Joon probably had forgotten something too.

"Had a good time?" Brandon asked standing up from the couch. I sighed in annoyance. Already knew how this conversation was gonna go.

More of him talking, less of me talking because I'm too busy listening.

"The photoshoot. I completely forgot about it. I'm so sorry" I tell him honestly.

"Your sorry? Is that all you can say, right now? I called you multiple times, why didn't you answer?" He asked me.

"My phone died"

"And how am I supposed to know something didn't happen to you... oh wait. I know because you guys on in the headlines of almost every media outlet and newspaper" he says grabbing a piece of paper from the coffee table.

What the hell was he talking about?

Joon took the paper from him, and front in the headlines was the title, "BTS's RM and Normani on a dinner date. Are we sure the two are just strictly friends?"

My eyes widen opened, looking to Joon who seemed to be unfazed by the entire thing.

"Shocking right? Not only do they think you guys were out on a date because the rest of the members weren't there but now they think you too are dating" Brandon says.

He sounded so upset. Which confused me. Why was he upset? Or which one was he more mad at? The fact that I missed the photoshoot or the fact that joon and I make people think we're dating, even though we are but they don't know that.

"so" Joon says as he walks and places the paper down.

"So? So this mean... it's unnecessary rumors that we need to clean up before it gets out of hand" he says.

"People are always gonna believe what they want to believe. Who cares if her and I are dating or not. Only we know what goes on between us so that's all that matter" Joon says and was completely right.

"I don't think you understand how serious this is" Brandon says.

It's really not. So what if people think we're dating. People thought I was dating Bam. And Shownu. And Jay. And they'll probably think I'm dating the exo member I'm going to working with.

"It's not. All we did was get something to eat" I join and defend both Joon and I.

"That's only because you guys are thinking about yourselves and not the rest of the members. And if you ask me, you guys are being selfish. If people think you guys are dating, they'll thinking the other members might have girlfriends also" Brandon argues and I snapped.

Thinking about ourselves?

That was only reason we couldn't be together in first place because we were so worried about the other members. All I've been thinking about since joining the group is how Joon and mine relationship would effect them.

"Being selfish? The only persons here being selfish is you. For one second can you look at me as I'm a human and not your client. I mean day after day it's gig after gig. I never get a break. The only time I get a break is if I sneak one or runaway. I know you want me to be successful but what you failed to realize is that I already am. Both the boys and I are so overworked, meaning we barely have time to take care of our mental health and yet the only reason your here is to make sure Joon and I aren't confirming the rumors? I'm so done with caring about everyone else feelings over mine" I spat seriously snapped causing both of them to look at me differently.

I don't think I have ever snapped at him the way I did today. I think it was most likely built up anger that I needed to let out. Everything was so stressful, and Brandon wasn't making it any better.

He goes days without checking up on me, instead only to inform me when I have to perform or something. I shouldn't just be a client. I'm only human.

I have feelings. I'm not a robot.

"Mani" Joon calls out for me causing me to look at him. I needed to calm down. I sighed softly, swallowing hard.

"Mani, you know I'm only like this because I care about you. You can't expect me to be there all the time for you because just like you I also have a life" he explains.

"I know. We're sorry. I'm sorry" I say apologizing. I honestly felt bad for doing that. For lashing out at him like that.

"Why do you keep referring to we. Mani, this isn't about Joon or the rest of the members. It's about you" he tells me.

I wasn't.

"What?" I asked unsure what he meant.

"This isn't the first time you guys went off the radar without telling anyone and disregarding rules either" he says causing Joon to look at me.

"And now that I think about it... it's always just been Normani who is always sitting or standing next to Joon. Whether it be from interviews, to photo shoots, meet and greets and now it's like you guys are defending each other" he says placing the puzzle pieces together.

Joon and I stood there as Brandon paced back and forth across the room, answering all the questions everyone's been asking about us two.

"And in America.... the members told me something happened between you to that made you guys become closer but they didn't say what exactly it was" he continues.

My heart drops.

Which one of them opened there big mouths.

"It all makes sense now every time your gone, So is he. When your upset, so is he. Aren't you two just like Gabriella and Troy from High School Musical" he says.

"More like Beyoncé and Jay-Z" Joon says laughing nervously. He wasn't helping at that point.

"So I can't help but think that something is going on between you too" he says stopping his in footsteps causing both Joon and I to look at each other.

I laughed hysterically. "As if... I mean Joon isn't even my type"

"I'm not?" Joon ask oblivious.

"Your lying" he points out.

"I'm not" I tell Brandon.

He sighs before walking toward us.

"I'm only going to ask you this once.. and I need both of you to be completely honest" he pauses looking at both Joon and I.

My heart pounded.

"Are you and Joon dating? Yes or No"