Waiting on Hope (Pt. 2)

Jimin had that look in his eyes as if he wanted to stay despite the girl's moodiness. He was willing to put little fluff ball down, wave the bus over for it to depart so that their conversation could flow. Suri looked into his eyes, grey and patterned in an intricate way, like the works of Vincent Van Gogh. A slight smile, she thought, wouldn't do any harm.

"So, looks like my friend driving the bus won't let me go," Jimin exclaimed in a sarcastic tone. Haha, that sarcasm. What a crackhead. As always, very cute.

"You should go." She smiled, awkwardly. "Oh! And thanks for my necklace?" She was already attached, falling, dreaming, grasping for air over her bias and her social anxiety had to kick in. At this point, she didn't want to keep him busy, as he is Park Jimin. She didn't want to be the type of fan that does such things as close as it can get to a saesang action. She avoided it at all costs. All.

Suri believed in coincidences. Her signs were everything to her. Nothing ever happened without a reason, and that was something she told herself that day, as Jimin slipped away like an angel that day with Mr. little fluff ball. She hoped that her coincidence could stay there for a bit longer, that he would spend more time with an army, but she also understood that time was very precious to the BTS members. They didn't have time to make friends with a stranger on the road, let alone scratch their heads. This was enough for a whole lifetime, she thought, and a smile was stood evident across her face throughout her entire journey to work.

***

Jimin couldn't stop thinking about the encounter he had with an army. Fangirl. But not so fangirlish. He truly liked it more. He loved the attention, so when he didn't get the expected love and attention, he craved for more and chased for that. It brought a type of upheaval, and wonder struck his mind. Yes, she was a hard BTS stan, especially looking at the necklace. But what she wasn't was desperate or possessive. A question just popped up in Jimin's mind. Why wasn't the girl even wearing the necklace? But then he shook his head in denial and as a way of stopping himself from obsessing about Suri.

Jimin was anticipating telling the boys about his encounter. Not that it was any different from the other accidental meetings he had with other fans but because Suri seemed different. It sparked long lost chemistry inside him that he was yearning for throughout his life since he became an idol.

"Jiminssi! You're back!" Hoseok said.

"Mhm," Jimin had a gleam in his eyes.

Hoseok looked at Jimin in question. "Okay... tell us now. What happened this time?"

Yoongi appeared with exhaustion in his eyes from working too hard, crammed up in his studio. "What's going on here? What's all this noise?"

Hoseok let out a laugh, giving Jimin teasing side glances. "It's Jimin. Come on, tell us."

Jimin muttered under his breath, "Maybe this was a bad idea."

"Never mind."

Hoseok's mind starts ticking as he gets more curious. Jimin was the type to make his point and share regardless of what the opinions of his friends were going to be. He sits on Jimin's lap and starts annoying him, he knows that this tactic will get him to speak up.

"Fine!" Jimin stands up in abrupt. "Get off me."

"Well?" Hoseok raises a brow. Yoongi watches carelessly as he bites on his microwaved chips.

"I met this girl, actually an army. We met at the bus stop as I was coming here. She had such an awkward stance," creases started forming around Jimin's eyes as he recalled this morning's memory.

"And, and, and, and—"

"Well..." Jimin paused. "She was by all odds something. I mean something different."

"Ooh!" Hoseok jumps up and down, teasing again. Yoongi listened for a second before turning back to his now cold chips, not interested at the slightest.

Then, Jimin told Hoseok about all the details from the beginning, for when the army at the bus stop was revealed by his dog, and how she was angry for a second as she misunderstood his reaction at the army necklace, and so by this point, the other members Namjoon, Jungkook and Taehyung joined to get some of the gossips.

***

Until Suri arrived at work, she couldn't stop releasing all that she was feeling online. Yet, she was tremendously discreet. Apart from the Jimin part.

—Twitter—

@Suri-A: "Guess what just happened? HOLY MOLY. I can't stop smiling."

"Was he real????"

"Today is the day that I will not forget ever :) #JIMIN"

"We stan a sarcastic prince"

Suri finally settles down at her desk and is ready to dismiss all those sweet and crazy thoughts to be able to focus working as someone nudges her.

"Hey, smiley! What is up with your face?" Jasmine says, Suri's closest and only best friend since college. Suri doesn't budge. Jasmine nudges her again. Suri turns her full body towards her best friend this time and looks at her intently.

"Jasmine..."

"What? What, what, what?" Jasmine opens her eyes wide, shifting about in her spot. Whenever something big happens to Suri, she tends to blurt out Jasmine's name and that's only it.

"Didn't you come across my tweets?" Suri gleams. Her arms crossed, one leg over the other, sitting with a prideful and joyous look.

"No?" Jasmine quickly pulls out her phone and scrolls through Twitter. She finds her wicked friend and reads her recent tweets. Suri looks up at Jasmine, anticipating her response. Her tweets were discreet, but I mean, come on. Jasmine was her best friend. She would know how Suri is feeling, what she's up to most definitely even if they're miles apart. Suri's lived through Jasmine's psychic moments many times.

"Today is the day that I will not forget ever, Jimin," Jasmine pauses, her eyes darting across the room trying to understand. "Was he real—oh my goodness. Mother of Jesus!" Jasmine jumps up and yanks Suri's arms and pulls her into a crazy hug.

"What is going on here?" The manager appears out of nowhere, his voice sharp.

Suri and Jasmine suddenly pull out of their hug and face the manager. "Nothing, Mr Patrick," Suri says. Mr Patrick gives the two excited girls a "sure, there's nothing going on here" smirk. "You better tell me the full details later," Jasmine whispers to Suri before turning back to the manager.

"Everybody, gather up," Mr Patrick delivers to the team. "We have some exciting project coming for us."

Everyone starts whispering and gathering closer to each other.

"The cultural music performance, which we have been chasing for such a long time, finally has been confirmed. Thank you for all your efforts. We have signed a deal with the contractors from Seoul."

Suri's head flips to Jasmine and suddenly gasps.

"Yes! It is real!" The manager turns to everyone who seems thrilled and still surprised. "Now, I'll allow you all to collect your thoughts and live your excitement, but remember, we got work to do. We have to get started on this project at 3 PM the latest. Once you're done with the given documents, I will tell you all who will be performing. Chop, chop!" Mr Patrick heads inside to his room.

Still shocked, Suri pokes at Jasmine and says "We are really doing this?"

"Yes, finally. I wonder what the artist line-up will look like. I hate Mr Patrick sometimes. Why won't he tell us the juiciest part of the news?"

The team starts making guesses, some including the artists they'd imagined to be part of the project since they started working on it.

"I hope it's Taeyeon," one of the team members say.

"Could it be G-Dragon?" Someone mutters.

"No, not that big, dude," someone else replies.

They all start to return to their desk and so does Suri and Jasmine.

Suri thinks for a second to whom she feels the artist may be but she shakes the too-impossible thought from her head, as they're only a small company that had to chase this small, yet for them a big, project for six months.

A notification sounds on Suri's phone.

"One new notification from Twitter"

She slides her finger on her screen and checks for it be a tweet from BTS. She immediately glimpses.

@BTS_twt: I can't wait to reveal a big surprise for all our London army. Very soon. #JIMIN [selca inserted]