Why Do I Keep on Meeting You?

We Don't Sell Our Souls

8: WHY DO I KEEP ON MEETING YOU?


 

"Do U?" by DAZE

 


 

                He squinted at her face for a while before recognition finally began to dawn on his face.

                “Wait a second…you’re…that girl?” He leaned closer, piano bench creaking as his hand pressed down on it. “No way! You’re—you’re her! The crazy girl from the bathroom!”

                Naeil scratched her temple. “…Sure, I guess I’m crazy,” she said, pulling the door open completely.

                Yoongi’s eyes widened just a little and he pulled back, letting out a puff of air. “What do you mean ‘I guess I’m crazy?’ You’re seriously insane. Your name was…‘Achim,’ or something, right?” [Achim=morning]

                “Naeil.”

                “I was close.”

                “If morning is the only part of tomorrow you care about.”

                He smirked a little. “You gonna come out from behind that door?”

                Should I? The door swung half-way closed again and Naeil’s eyes narrowed as they took in the person of Min Yoongi. He said nothing while she stared at him, just watched her eyes moving slowly over his face, torso, arms, legs, feet. It feels like seeing a ghost, thought Naeil, tangible and sitting just a few feet away on the piano bench. The legendary, disappearing Min Yoongi. Except this legend had a plain t-shirt, black jeans, and an old cap. His hair was different, but that wasn’t the only thing. It wasn’t quite that he had grown taller, more that he had become broader. Like he had become an adult already.

                “Good grief…” breathed Naeil. “Has it really only been a year?”

                Yoongi looked upward thoughtfully, lips pursing. “More like a year and a half.”

                “You look different,” she said, coming out and leaning against the arm of the piano so she could get a better look.

                “That’s what I was going for.”

                Naeil’s eyes snapped back up to meet his. “Why?”

                Yoongi sighed and rolled his eyes. “Because.

                This answer had the opposite affect Yoongi wanted. It made Naeil suspicious.

                “Why are you here?”

                “What? Why do you care? I could ask the same thing.”

                “I care. A lot. So tell me.”

                He shrugged. “I love the piano. Don’t have one at my place, and I’ve been missing it.”

                “That may be true, but this is the first time I’ve seen you here. Why would you suddenly—”

                The main door to the sanctuary swung open and shut, revealing a little girl with her bag of books, staring nervously at the two talking at the piano. “Seon…saeng…nim…?” she asked, warily. [Seonsaeng=teacher, seonsaeng-nim=polite way to address a teacher]

                Naeil stood up straight and cleared , beckoning for the child to come. “Don’t worry, come in. He’s a friend from school.”

                Yoongi looked completely bemused at this simple description of himself, but said nothing as the little girl approached. She was tiny; six years old at most and sporting an expression of completely unmasked terror at the sight of the man sitting at the piano. Her eyes were glued to Yoongi, so she had to flail her arm around for a while until it caught Naeil’s hand.

                “Seonsaeng-nim, who is he?” she whispered, clutching her teacher’s hand tightly.

                Yoongi chuckled.

                “His name is—”

                “I’m older than you, so just call me oppa. Or ahjusshi. Honestly, I don’t care.” [Oppa=way for a girl to address an older brother or older male friend, ahjusshi=way to address a considerably older male]

                “Seonsaeng-nim, why does he have green hair?”

                “He probably thinks it looks cool.”

                “That’s not—”

                “Okay, let’s ask the ahjusshi to leave now so you can have your piano lesson,” said Naeil, eyeing Yoongi.

                Yoongi blinked. “You teach piano?”

                Naeil nodded slowly, wondering why he was lingering.

                “I didn’t know you played.”

                “I’ve been learning classically for about twelve years, but I learned to play by chord at the church. You?”

                He started getting up from the piano bench, moving toward Naeil and her student. Naeil unconsciously took a step backward. He looked taller—bigger, really—standing up.

                “Well…I had about seven years of lessons, but it’s been awhile so I mostly improvise—”

                “You sound really good.”

                He coughed, and Naeil could’ve sworn he turned a little pink. “Oh. Thanks.”

                “There are a lot of kids at this church that want lessons. I bet you could easily teach in your neighborhood.”

                Yoongi scratched the back of his head. “I don’t…really like kids.”

                The little girl by Naeil’s side shivered and hid behind her teacher’s legs.

                “I didn’t, either. Not until I spent time with them.” Naeil patted the girl’s head.

                The door of the sanctuary swung open again and Jimin appeared walking backwards, dragging a big suitcase along with him.

                “Hyung! I finished getting all my stuff and said goodbye to Pastor Lee, are you—”

                He finally looked up, spotting Naeil. His eyes popped and he jumped, moving behind his suitcase for protection.

                “Hyung,” hissed Jimin. “What—what are you doing with her?”

                “What do you mean, idiot? I’m talking.”

                “Hyung...she’s crazy.”

                Naeil sneered at him while Yoongi’s back was turned.

                “Shut up and let’s leave,” said Yoongi, walking over to where Jimin was waiting. He grabbed a bag and they headed out, Jimin whispering none too quietly, “She said she’d kill me, you know! She knows jiu-jitsu or something!”

 

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                Jimin slipped into the backseat while Yoongi buckled himself in. He looked into the mirror at Jimin, who staring outside to avoiding eye-contact.

                “Ready to go?” asked Yoongi, watching him carefully.

                “Yeah. You can take me to my apartment.”

                Yoongi’s jaw tightened. “Jimin-ah, Hoseok is waiting at Namjoon’s to see you. Seokjin let me borrow his car so we could get out there easily. You haven’t seen us in weeks, and now you just want to me to drive you to your apartment?

                Jimin swallowed. “I have some stuff to do. I’ve been in hiding for a long time, so I have a lot of things to do.”

                “Yeah, about that—being in hiding. Are you ever gonna tell any of us what the hell happened?”

                There was silence for a while, and Yoongi tapped on the gearshift, a little on edge.

                “I…just…needed to get out of my life for a while. School’s hard. Everything’s so stressful. I couldn’t take it anymore.”

                Yoongi nodded slowly, switching gears to drive and pulling out from the church.

                “Well, Jimin-ah, I didn’t know you could spout such a load of crap that easily. Look at you surprising me.”

 


Author’s Note

I don’t know about Mr. Suga, but Jimin is always surprising me.

Sooooooooooooooo they meet again????? WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW I DON’T KNOWWWWWWWW

Sigh. I’m going to ask a question……always nervous to but………..is this story moving too slowly? What are the best/worst parts, things that you do/don’t want to see moving forward?

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JazzOnTheRoof
Just fwi there IS a new chapter before my note called "Explaining Myself." I noticed the authors note had more views than the new chapter so I think some people accidentally missed it.

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Naraly
#1
Chapter 54: The ending of this xD too funny. Don’t worry, take your time. No rush on this reader’s side. Hope all goes well :)
Purple_Butterfly
#2
Chapter 54: Of course there are people who are waiting for you! We're curious to see how the story will end and we'll enjoy it not matter what. Live your life and don't worry too much ;)
Kkomaenggi
#3
Chapter 54: Okay so I wrote a whole bible text and turned out i wasn't logged in so it deleted everything lmao I'll just go yeet myself out of existence I guess, okay I'll try to re-write it, uhh well first things first I really enjoy your story and I am really curious to see how it ends, it's not your typical kind of fanfic which is refreshing, second it's totally understandable that you can't update as often cause of everything going on in your life, I mean priorities lmao AND you are not getting paid for this lmaooo, and I can relate a lot since my grandma also used to live at our place for a while and we had to take care of her everything, although i have siblings helping along so it wasn't as time consuming as it is for you, I bet. Anyone being bothered or hating you for being on an unexpected hiatus is imo selfish or childish or both lmao so take you time and it's already nice seeing you not giving up on this hahahah (also yeah it's 12am and I am on this site reading this entire authors not or whatever you want to call it, I have no life, you have every right to be disgusted HAHA)
thirizxc #4
Chapter 54: Heyyy if you feel like changing the flow of the story do it! Don’t feel pressured to follow the readers After all YOU are the writer of the story and we’d happily accept it if you think it’ll make the story better! :). I’d support you until the story ends so take your time with writing ! ☺️
Kkomaenggi
#5
Chapter 43: OKAY MY HEART HURTS FOR ALL OF THEM (so I guess kudos to you for being able to conjure that feeling in me?) and i usually do not comment halfway reading but jimin is my bias and i want him back and i want to hug him and i want him and hoseok and the rest of them happy and ughhh i want to cry mannnn HYYH is my fav era but at the same time it HURTS ME SO MUCH. I have struggled/struggle with depression for as long as i can remember so the things that they go through in HYYH touches me deep inside, especially jimin and hoseok, so this story does the same man! (I do feel like im slowly but steadily getting better and its easier to talk about for me so nothing to worry about anymore)
Kkomaenggi
#6
it, house in the night was really good so im reading this aswell, and especially since HYYH is my fav era, i did see last update was in august but you did say you want to finish it in your foreword so ill trust that and slowly catch up with those 49 flippin chapter so lesgetit
rapbye0n
#7
Chapter 52: A-APPA?!?!?!?!!!!

BISH IM JUNGSHOOKT
Purple_Butterfly
#8
Chapter 52: How could anyone have seen this coming!!
Naraly
#9
Chapter 52: My mind just blew the heck up omg
ParkSooYun_ #10
Chapter 47: I decided to check if there was a new chapter and there was more than one! I'm so happy that you're back!