Chapter 4....

... Later that day, Jimin was alone at home again, and thinking about how Monday’s appointment had gone through. He was happy that Jin, Hoseok and Taehyung had enjoyed it so much. They literally couldn’t stop talking about it the whole time Jimin was with them afterwards....

... Jimin also had planned to post a picture on his instagram to let everyone know about his pregnancy, but he knew he couldn’t do that before talking to the most important people in his life....

...His parents....

...Damn, he couldn’t believe he would have to tell them on the phone because they lived so far away from him. That was so not how he had imagined he would tell his mom that kind of news....

... ...

... But he did it. After a lot of crying on the phone from both of them, and also his dad crying silently of happiness, his mom said....

...“And who is the father? Is it that boyfriend of yours?” her voice was still wet from the tears, and Jimin’s heart sank. He would have to lie. He didn’t want her to worry about that, too....

...“Uh, it’s… not Junmyeon. It’s another… boyfriend.” he talked about Yoongi, and forced his voice to stay natural “When we first found out we weren’t together anymore, but we’re good friends.” he winced internally at the small lie. He and Yoongi had never been ‘boyfriends’. And they weren’t ‘good friends’ now. They weren’t good at all....

...“And you’re living alone?” his dad asked,...

...“Yes, but you don’t need to worry about me-”...

...“What?! Are you crazy Jimin, you need to come back!” his Mom exclaimed,...

...“But mom, I have an entire life here, I can’t go back to Busan like this,”...

...“You’re pregnant, you’ll need my help.” she scolded, and Jimin sighed. How in the world was he going to explain to his parents that Yoongi had practically bought him a house?...

...“I have friends helping me here, and Taehyung stops by all the time, ”...

...“Then I’ll move in with you.” she stated instead, and by the determined tone in her voice Jimin knew she was dead serious about it,...

...“No! You don’t have to, I told you I’m okay!” he argued, “and what about Jieun?! She needs you,” he said, pulling the younger sister card,...

...“Jimin, she’s twelve not four ,”...

...“Well, I’m not four either!!!” he exclaimed, and then heard his dad’s voice through the speaker,...

...“Eunha, if he says he’s fine then he’s fine,” Jimin closed his eyes and thanked the high heavens for his dad’s comprehensive being, until he heard the rest, “we can go spend the next weekend with him and see for ourselves if he’s really okay on his own,”...

... Jimin felt anxiety creeping his bones at the thought of his entire family in his house. He looked around his all white living room, full of moving boxes and lacking so many things. At least it was wide looking and sunny, but he doubted his mom would understand the “minimalistic” concept of it....

...“N-no, please not next weekend!” he pleaded, knowing his parents would understand, “let me at least prepare the house a bit more!! Or I can go visit!! Maybe Taehyung would come as well!”...

...“And what about this boyfriend?” his mom asked and Jimin sputtered, not having expected the topic to be brought up again,...

...“Ex-boyfriend! And his name is Min Yoon Gi.” Jimin corrected, “...Uh… I can ask if he wants to go as well.” he said after choosing well his words....

...“No, tell him we are inviting him to have lunch with us.” his dad said as well, sounding determined,...

...“B- but it’s a long ride, it would take almost a whole day-” Jimin tried to argue, but his parents were having none of it,...

...“It’s just an invitation, Jimin. He can refuse if he wants.” Jimin’s mom said in a tone that gave away that she would judge him hard if he refused....

...“Okay, eomma… I’ll tell him about it.” Jimin said, resigned. “And how’s Jieun?” he asked about his younger sister, wanting to change the topic but also curious about her....

...“Oh, she’s just fine.” his mom said, “ rebellious , but fine. She’s in school now, but we’ll tell her the big news when she comes home.”...

...“Actually, I think she’ll know before getting home, because I’m about to post a picture on the internet that will show my belly. Ask her to show it to you when she gets home.”...

...“Okay, baby, I won’t keep you any longer.” his dad said, “Just take care, okay? It’s not just you anymore.”...

...“Yes, I know. I just got back from an ultrasound appointment. I got pictures, I’ll send them to Jieun as well for you to see.”...

...“Oh really?! Oh my god, Minhae, did you hear that?!!” his mom exclaimed emotionally, “he is already doing ultrasounds and haven’t told us about it!” she sounded like she was about to cry all over again....

...“Mom, I need to go, but I’ll talk to you later, okay?”...

...“Wait, Jimin!” his dad said, “Don’t forget to talk to Min Yoongi about it, okay? We mean it. It can be a month from now.”...

...“Yes, appa.” Jimin answered, not wanting to hurt his feelings but also not really wanting to bring Yoongi with him to his hometown. Not that Yoongi would accept, but still....

... They ended the call, and Jimin smiled to himself. He loved his family to the moon and back....

... Still on his phone he opened whatsapp to see his sister’s number. She wasn’t online, and he figured she was probably at class right now. Smiling mischievously, he just sent two black and white pictures of his ultrasound today, and no written text. She would have a heart attack....

... Then, he started working on his instagram post. He went to the window of his living room to use the daylight and ruffled his hair to make it look fluffier and cuter. He was wearing a long sleeved white shirt that looked cute on him, too. He wanted to look extra soft for it. His hair was a light shade of orange right now and everything around him was white a minimalistic looking. The moving boxes laid on the carpet on the other side of the room, and he knew the selca would be mainly white....

... He put his phone up and kept angling it and doing faces until he found the right position. Then he did a cute face and pulled the edge of his shirt up to show his bump, resting his hand above his belly....

... The picture looked cute enough, and Jimin spent some time thinking about what words to use before uploading it with the caption:...

...A new life coming up, and a new start! I can’t wait to meet you, love. <3 <3 <3 #pregnant #18w #babybump #babybelly...

... He was excited to post it, mainly because of his friends that followed him. He knew that he had a lot of followers, and that most of them would be shocked mainly because Jimin never said he was a carrier , but well. He figured it couldn’t be that bad, just that he would have to deal with his instagram more flooded than usual for a while....

... Jimin went to the kitchen to fix himself some lunch and purposefully left his cellphone alone on the couch. It could wait....

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... Jimin was munching his second sandwich when he got back to the living room to collect his sofa. His phone had messages of congratulations from his close friends, but what caught his attention was Taehyung’s name....

... 17 missed calls?!...

... Just when he was about to call him back, another call went through, and he immediately picked up....

...“Tae? What happened?!” he asked, worried for his friend....

...“Jimin, finally! I’ve been trying to talk to you for ages ,” Taehyung exclaimed,...

...“What happened, Kim Taehyung?!” Jimin asked again, and Taehyung hesitated before saying....

...“...have you seen the comments on your last picture on instagram?” Taehyung asked and Jimin panicked. Had something went through that he didn’t notice? It couldn’t be, he checked his selca twice, thrice, before uploading, making sure everything was okay, even the remnants of Jungkook’s hickey weren’t at view!...

...“...No…?” Jimin breathed....

...“You should, but please sit down before, okay?” Taehyung said, and Jimin got scared. He had no idea what it could be, but it definitely wasn’t good . Damn it....

...Jimin sat down on the edge of the sofa and opened his instagram....

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...Jimin felt a pang in his heart when he read the comments, like Taehyung had suggested....

...ure so pretty congratulations!!!...

...omg this is so precious!...

...oh my god Agust D is going to be a daddy!!!!...

...i love youuuuuuu <3...

...how old is he? is he married????...

...AGUST D IS ALREADY HAVING KIDS ITS OFFICIAL OH GOD IM GETTING OLDDDDD...

...Agust d baby!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA...

...i can’t believe my eyes, Agust D went ALL THE WAY...

...congratulations agust d and Jimin!!!!!...

...Jimin and Agust D are so cute together I can’t wait to see their bby <333...

...And it went on and on. Jimin had so many questions in his head, and the weird feel of being exposed on the internet, that he should be used by now but he still weren’t, made writing on that small touchscreen keyboard impossible for him. He called Taehyung instead....

...“T-tae?” Jimin asked, at a loss of words, but the other understood....

...“Jimin… It’ll be okay. This is just gossip.” Taehyung tried to reassure his friend in a soothing voice. “His fans knew he was dating you before and suddenly you post this… They just connected the dots.”...

...“We- B- but we never dated?!” Jimin exclaimed in a small voice. He felt like crying....

...“His fans, ...and the media thought you were, as you were seen around the city with him, when you guys went on dates- or whatever you call it.” Taehyung continued explaining....

...“But there were no paparazzi around, never?”...

...“They can hide, Jimin. And you know, they were following the both of you. Because you’re a model, and I think you don’t realise you’re more famous than you think. And Yoongi is a rapper, or I guess he isn’t anymore, but like, you two are well known so, of course people would talk about it.” Taehyung said softly....

... Jimin understood. Yoongi wasn’t mainstream famous with his music, but he still had his fans, so of course people would pay attention to them. But Jimin was afraid this would get to the gossip magazines and start to influence his life more than it already did. ...

...“...Tae, what do I do, now?” Jimin pleaded, in a small, desperate voice....

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... Meanwhile, Yoongi was in his office in the top floors of the building. He was trying to read through a contract, but his cellphone kept vibrating every five seconds. He was ignoring it in order to at least finish that paragraph, but it was getting more and more impossible to, when his phone wasn’t helping in the slightest....

... He sighed frustrated and gave up on that paper for a moment, in order to look at his phone. And then his eyes went wide....

... His phone was going crazy with the social media apps, thousands of mentions and direct messages on twitter and facebook, missed calls and messages from friends and colleagues, even his dad had called. What the ****....

... Panic went through his body at the possibilities. Something big was happening, but was it bad? Had something happened to his mom?...

... Taking a deep breath, he unlocked his phone to the home page. Where he should check first, even?...

... Just as he stared at the screen, another call went through. He recognised the name to be one of the managers of the company, more specifically, a PR manager. Perfect....

... He answered the call immediately....

...“Hello? Mr. Min?” the man on the other line asked, and Yoongi replied with a curt “Yes.”...

...“Oh, thank God you answered the call. Our office is kind of going down at the moment because of this.”...

...“What happened?” he asked, impatient....

...“...Are you not aware? About Park Jimin?” the manager asked hesitantly, and Yoongi panicked once again at the mention of the younger man’s name....

...“What about him?” he practically whispered, in fear of the answer. Was he okay?...

...“Uh…” the man seemed to be hesitant to say it, “Uh, how do I explain?... You see, he has a lot of followers on instagram, and today he uploaded a picture showing that he has been pregnant for a while, apparently, and a lot of people assumed… that you are the father…?” there was a pause, the manager probably thinking that Yoongi was the most shocked by having people think he was the father. Little did he know. “Uh, and the media is having a field day. His name is currently at… sixth on Naver’s trending topics and yours is at fourth.”...

...“...Oh.” Yoongi couldn’t say anything else. He knew that their… baby… couldn’t be kept as a secret forever, but he had been thinking that Jimin’s fans would be the ones to make it a big deal, and not that his own fans would, too. He hadn’t thought things would be this messy....

...“And, Mr. Min, since we’re on the phone right now, I need to ask you some things, because we need some information to be able to deal with the media’s questions correctly, “ the manager was back to his professional tone, “And we’ve been trying to get in touch with Mr. Park as well, but-”...

...“Don’t!” Yoongi interrupted him. “I mean, don’t bother him with this. I can deal with this. I’ll write the statement with you guys.” there was a pause in the other end of the line, and then the manager said, a hint of curiosity in his voice,...

...“Uh… okay…?” he said hesitantly, being caught by surprise at his boss’ reaction, but not planning on going against his words, “Uh, so, as I was saying, there are a lot of questions on the internet, but the first one is, ...are you ...the father? Because, you and Park Jimin-ssi were seen together some months ago, and people were speculating...” his words died down as he was unsure how to explain it further....

...“The baby is mine, yeah.” Yoongi said without a hint of hesitation. Was he ready for the real life consequences with Jimin on that issue? Not really. But was he going to let Jimin’s reputation suffer because apparently Yoongi was slightly more famous than they all had planned? Absolutely not....

...“You are?!” the manager gasped in complete surprise, and Yoongi rolled his eyes....

...“Don’t make me repeat myself.” he said in a tone that also could be read as ‘don’t make me fire you’ . He could practically see the PR manager gulp nervously....

...“Uhm, I- I’m sorry for intruding, Mr. Min.” he said, “Uh, okay. So, do you plan on c-confirming it right away? Should we do it exclusively for some specific magazine?”...

...“I don’t care.” Yoongi said, mostly bored. Deep down he was relieved the issue wasn’t at all as bad as he thought. It was just people finding out about Jimin’s pregnancy. Okay, he could deal with that....

...“O-okay, uhm,” there was the sound of someone frantically sorting through papers, and Yoongi resisted the urge of hanging up and going back to his own work....

...“Anything else?” Yoongi dragged the words, while looking dreadfully at the contract he had been trying to work on. That would have to wait because now he had so much to do…...

...“Uhm… Ah! Yes!” the manager exclaimed after some thinking, “Another issue they are going to ask is about your relationship. How long have you been together? Are there any plans on making it ‘official’?”...

... Yoongi tried to ignore the way his heart sank at those questions. They had never been together , and the idea of actual “marriage” was so far away it sounded almost foreign to his ears. He exhaled through his nose and frowned, trying to come with with the right words....

...“You can say… That we are good friends right now.” Yoongi concluded. “Exactly those words, when they ask. Tell the press we are just good friends. And make sure to not leave any room for misinterpretations.” Yoongi said seriously....

...“Okay, we can work with that.” the manager sounded relieved to have finally solved that part of his work, “Thank you for your time, Mr. Min,”...

...“Then, if that’s all, I’m hanging up.” he said and ended the call without waiting for the other’s response. The second that call ended, another started immediately. The caller ID read “dad”....

... He so didn’t want to have that conversation right now. Most likely ever. He rejected the call....

...“Mr. Min? Excuse me,” his personal assistant appeared at the door, only his head at view, “Your father is downstairs and wants to pay you a visit right now.” he announced, and by the worried look in his eyes, Yoongi immediately knew his assistant was already on the newest gossips on his boss name....

... Yoongi massaged his forehead, already sensing a headache coming....

...“... ...Let him in.” he said hesitantly, as if forming those words pained him. He really didn’t want to have that conversation right now....

... He didn’t need to wait one minute to see his father barging into his office like he owned the entire place. In which he didn’t, exactly, to be honest. He was a shareholder in Big Hit, yes, but he wasn’t the owner....

...“Son.” he said seriously as a way of greeting....

... Min Jaesung stopped in front of his son’s desk and didn’t sit down on the chairs in front of it, or the two sofas on the space between the desk and the front door of the big office. He stood, facing Yoongi with a scowl and a clenched jaw, wearing a dark suit just like him....

... Jaesung, in his late-fifties, was the CEO of Min Holdings, one of the biggest companies in the world. The chairman of the company was his father, Yoongi’s grandfather, who was a billionaire in the Forbes list. ...

... Nowadays, for Jaesung, his biggest goal in life was to make his son the next CEO of Min Holdings....

...“I don’t want to hear it, and honestly, I don’t need to.” Yoongi started, only to have his words completely ignored by the other....

...“Is it true? You got some random guy pregnant ?” Jaesung spit those words like they tasted bad in his mouth. “First, you insist in your obsession with making music, and now this?!”...

...“He is not ‘random’,” Yoongi started, but his father immediately answered,...

...“He is to me! ” His father said dramatically, although very seriously, “I looked up his family already. His father is a middle class merchant living in some random Busan neighborhood!”...

... Yoongi sighed impatiently. This was going to take a while ....

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... Yoongi had been raised by his mother, only. From the moment he was born up until he was fifteen years old, his mom kept him and his father away from each other, for her own reasons....

... So, Yoongi only found out he even had a father when said man appeared at his and his mom’s doorstep in Daegu, having just found out he had a son he had no idea existed before....

... After a dna test and an unfair custody battle won in the court, Yoongi was forced to move in with his father, who lived all the way across the country, in Seoul, meet his grandparents and immediately start learning how to be a successful CEO so he could inherit the family business one day....

... Yoongi was Jaesung’s only child. And although he did make an effort to learn those new things, deliver high grades in school and get into the best university to study economics, he did it while hating every second of it....

... Because Yoongi had another passion. Music. ...

... Since he was little, he loved to play the piano. And, as he grew up, he loved to perform and make music, specially rap and hip hop, and his mother had encouraged it too, being a musician herself. ...

... But even then, Yoongi had never been too ambitious when wishing for a career in music. And after being pressured by his newfound family to become a businessman, he thought he would be content in keeping music as a mere hobby in his life....

... It was when Yoongi was in college that everything changed. He decided to post a mixtape on the internet, and it went viral. He got famous for it and his codename, SUGA. His song “Nevermind” played on the radio for several months back then. ...

... And all that success naturally led to many record labels and producers trying to sign a contract with him. At the time, for Yoongi, all that success was a dream coming true, and all he wanted was to drop out of that university he didn’t even like and become an artist....

... But that went completely against Min Jaesung’s plans for his only son. So, before Yoongi even had the chance to think about which record label to choose, he was threatened by his father with the promise to sabotage his career before it even started....

... It was with a heart full of rage that Yoongi ignored all of those offers of a life as a musician and got his degree in economics with top grades. Not much later, he started working as an executive for Big Hit, which was the job he had up to this day. His father wanted him to work in the family business, but ended up begrudgingly allowing Yoongi to work in the other company, since it was a temporary position, because Yoongi was only supposed to take over Min Holdings after Jaesung retired....

... But even then, he didn’t give up completely on music. A while after he graduated, he posted another mixtape; this time, using the codename AGUST D, and didn’t link his new music to the old ones at all. Still, the public easily recognised his voice in the rap songs of the second mixtape and understood that he would go by a different name from then on....

... And it seemed like everyone liked the mysterious aura around him, because ‘AGUST D’ was even more popular than his first mixtape. His real identity wasn’t a secret, too, but there wasn’t anything special about him offline - he was just an executive in an entertainment company who, for some unknown reason, didn’t sign a contract with any record label to release a studio album. Most people just assumed it was because Yoongi wanted to have control of his music, owning it as an indie artist, and even though it wasn’t the truth, Yoongi didn’t try to correct anyone about it....

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...“Also, how long do you plan to keep playing around in this circus of an entertainment company ? You’re already 26 years old.” his dad continued his rant. Yoongi looked at the time. They had probably been arguing for 30 minutes straight now....

...“Dad, enough. You’re just wasting your time coming here. I already told you I don’t care.” the older man’s face started getting red at Yoongi’s words....

...“You don’t care?! You’re only sitting here because of me, Min Yoongi! I put you in this company, I can take you back!” he threatened, and Yoongi just laughed sarcastically....

...“Oh really?! Alright, do it. Have me fired from here, you’d be doing me a favor, you know.” Yoongi said and both of them knew what was in between the lines of his words. His dad was practically spitting fire right now....

...“We’ve had this conversation before Min Yoongi! I’ll be damned if I have some rapper clown for a son! Over my dead body!” he exclaimed, but Yoongi just rolled his eyes....

...“Well, you should pay a visit to the doctor then, old man, because that’s exactly what you have for a son.” Yoongi replied without missing a beat, and stood up. He knew that, if he let him, the other would just continue his rant for hours on end....

...“Where are you going?!”...

...“I’m going to keep working somewhere else, where I don’t have crappy old men barging into my office to annoy me.” he said, and closed the door on his dad’s face, leaving him alone in there....

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... Yoongi looked down at his phone, and gulped when he saw a dozen missed calls from his mother as well. ...

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