Chapter 33

“Where are you? Why are you not in the company till now? It’s past 10 am!” the idol speaks up instantly when taehyung receives the call.

“Shar. Am not woking dere anynow. I quit!” taehyung says stuffing a cupcake in his mouth.

“Speak clearly..” jungkook says not understanding anything.

Taehyung takes a few takes a few Moments to chew the cake and gulps down. “I Won’t work there anymore sir. I joined a food shop today. I’ll work here from 9 am to 12 pm, then from 4 pm to 9 pm. That’s my routine.” taehyung explains.

“Stop your lying drama and come here fast!” jungkook says being impatient.

“You are not my appa that i would lie to you. My appa said i should not work with you anymore.”

“And why?” jungkook asks with a frown.

“Because he thinks I annoy you always and maybe bring more trouble to you that one day you will end up asking 20 millions of dollars as compensate. So he strictly told me not to work there. So i joined another place as a waiter. You remember i told you i got offer from a place? This is the place. The paying is less but appa said money doesn’t matter. I should work so i Don’t lie down lazily at home whole day.” taehyung says.

“Tell your father that i Won’t ask for any money. Come back here within 30 minutes.” jungkook says coldly.

“Sadly i can’t. I already took 50 dollars as advance. Bye sir, i need to get orders from new customers.”

“Give me the add-” before the idol can finish, taehyung hangs up. He pulls out his small notebook and a pen from his pocket to write down the orders.

“Speak up” taehyung says standing beside a table where two young boys have taken seats. The two boys look at taehyung hearing him.

“Is this how you talk with your customers?” one boy wearing a white hoodie asks with raised eye brows.

“If you expect me to greet you with good morning, then Don’t expect. The morning hasn’t been good with me..” taehyung sighs dramatically.

“And why? ” the other boy who’s wearing a black tee shirt asks, placing his elbow on the table and putting his face on his palm.

“Today is my first day and i mistakenly went to another shop and began taking orders. And 10 minutes later they kicked me out saying i was a thief. Lmao can you believe? Look at my hublot watch.. It costs 250k US DOLLARS motherfuckers! You think I’m going to steal 10 dollars from them while wearing a 250k dollars watch? Jokes on those poor people!” taehyung speaks up, showing off his hublot watch.

It’s the watch he took from jungkook..but it looks ridiculously big in his hand. But again he doesn’t care. He just wants to show off the Only expensive thing he owns.

The two guys stare at taehyung’s watch for sometimes then slowly their eyes widen when they understand It’s the real hublot watch.

Seeing it taehyung laughs loudly. “Everyone is giving the same expression as you. It’s okay. I know you guys haven’t seen any expensive things in your whole life. If you want you can look at it for one more minute.” he says.

Hearing this the two boys look away from the watch. “Send us 10 pancakes with Maple syrup.” one of the boys says.

“You two are going to eat 10 pancakes in the morning?” taehyung asks with wide eyes. “Okay.. Wait for 5 minutes.” saying he leaves.

Few minutes later taehyung’s phone rings again. “SIR I’M VERY BUSY RIGHT NOW.”” taehyung says loudly to jungkoook who is on the side end of the call.

The idol hears loud noises around taehyung. Someone asks taehyung to take order From table 5, another person asks taehyung to delivery some orders to table 7. He hears everything and can’t help but feel annoyed. He doesn’t like when taehyung is around boys or men.

“Do you want to say something, sir? Or Don’t call now.” taehyung says while carrying two plates to deliver them to a table.

“Quit this shit and come back here. I’ll pay you double than before.” jungkook says with a clenched jaw.

“I told you i can’t sir, my father doesn’t want me to work there.”

“I’ll assign you to any other food shops that i know. You Don’t need to work there. Quit right now and come back.”

“How much the salary Will be sir?”

“Double than what are you getting there.”

“But i have taken 50 as advance payment.” taehyung says.

“I’m sending the money. Payback and come here.”

“On it Sir!” taehyung says with a big grin and hangs up the call.

He is about to go to the manager to tell him that he is not working anymore, but then a customer calls him and he decides to take the order.

“What do you want?” taehyung asks standing near the customers who are a group of College going boys.

“Your number. Is it available?” one boy asks with a smile.

“At least 10 people From the morning asked me the Same thing. Find something new to say.” taehyung says with a bored expression.

“Oh you are popular i see… But still… Either your number or your parents number so i can directly ask your father for our marriage.” another boy says with a loud laugh.

“Do you have 250k us dollars on your bank?” taehyung asks with a very straight face.

“Why? Are you planning for our honeymoon already?” the first guy flirts.

“Look at my gold hublot watch- costs 250k us dollars.” taehyung says showing his expensive watch proudly. “You think as someone who owns a hublot watch, I’m going to date some poor ass boys like you who can’t afford to recharge data in your phone and using free mode of Facebook?” taehyung says staring at the phone of the same boy who is using free mode of Facebook. The boy immediately hides his phone from taehyung’s view.

“If you are that rich then why are you working here? I bet you stole the watch. Should i call the police?” another boy speaks.

” huh!” taehyung makes a sound so loudly that the boys flinch. ” Your threat Won’t work on me because i already have a wish to go to the police station to taste how foods taste there. So call the police. I’m waiting. I, kim taehyung don’t fear anything other than unemployment.” saying taehyung takes a seat beside the boys.

The boys get taken aback by taehyung’s action. The boy who asked taehyung’s number clears his throat and speaks, “send here 4 ramens with patato hot dogs.”

“I’m blind.” taehyung says staring outside. “Oh sorry I’m deaf.” he corrects Himself.

“TAEHYUNG? COME HERE. WHY ARE YOU SITTING THERE?” the man from the cashier calls taehyung.

So taehyung gets up and leaves without paying attention to the boys..

“Can you stand here and receive the take out orders? I need to use washroom.” the cashier man says leaving taehyung there.

Taehyung stands there placing his right hand on his waist.

“Can i get one sprite and two strawberry ice creams?” one girl speaks. Without saying anything Taehyung gives her the thing she wants and accepts the bill.

“I need one coke.” another customer says which is a boy.

“Fridge over there. Help yourself.” taehyung answers.

“And i want a coffee too.” the same customer says.

“Coffee packet is beside the coffee machine, milk is also there, sugar is also there, but water is not there. Make it yourself.” taehyung answers chewing a gum.

The customer frowns. “I want 5 pancakes. Delivery.”

“Flour on the kitchen cupboard, egg is on the fridge. Milk is on the fridge, stove is in the kitchen.” taehyung answers.

The boy frowns deeper.” i want a ham sandwich!” he says.

“Bread is in the Bakery, tomato is in the field, letus is in the market, pig is grazing on the field beside the tomato and letus fields. Eggs for the myonesse are still inside the chicken’s stomach. Now make it yourself since you know the location of all ingredients.” taehyung answers checking his account balance.

“Where is your manager? I want to talk to him!” the customer says annoyingly.

“Door there, manager there.” taehyung says pointing at the room of the manager. At the exact time the manager comes out and walks to taehyung.

“What’s happening here?” manager asks.

“This guy is being so rude to me.” the Customer says. “Whatever I’m ordering, he is asking me to make it mayself.”

“Taehyung! Behave! Or else I’ll fire you right now!” the manager speaks strictly.

“Sadly i have a wish to get fired right now. So fire me.” taehyung says already sending 50 dollars to the manager’s account.

“Check your phone. I have already sent you 50 dollars that i took as advance payment. Now you pay me the money that i have worked here for 1 hour and-” saying taehyung lifts up his left wrist with the watch and holds in front of everyone proudly, to check the time on his expensive hublot watch.

“For 1 hour and 41 minutes. Pay me my money and I’ll leave.” he says.

“You have gone Bad? You can’t do this!” the manager speaks annoyingly.

“Pay me my money or else i will scare away your all customers.” taehyung says.

“Really? And you think I’ll watch silently if you harm my business?” the manager says getting angry.

“Listen, just pay me my Money and I’ll leave.” taehyung says annoyingly.

“I Won’t pay. What will you do?” the manager speaks with a rage.

Without saying anything leaves the cash register table and stands in the middle of the place where customers sits.

“EVERYONE THE FLOUR OF THE PANCAKE HAS IT’S DATE EXPIRED 6 MONTHS AGO. THE MILK HAS MORE THAN HALF WATER AND SUGAR MIXED WITH IT. THE MAPPLE SYRUP FELL DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND THEY ARE STILL FEEDING YOU ALL THE SAME SYRUP SCOOPING IT UP FROM THE FLOOR. AND THE RAMEN NOODLES WERE BOUGHT FROM THE STREET CHEAPLY BUT THEY ARE CHARGING YOU MORE THE SAME PRICE AS BRANDED RAMENS.” taehyung suddenly screams loudly and runs out of the shop with bullet speed.

“YOU SAID YOU WON’T PAY ME MY MONEY, NOW SEE HOW YOUR CUSTOMERS DON’T PAY YOU MONEY.” taehyung screams again while running away.

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“Jungkook sir hi!” taehyung exclaims loudly entering inside the room where jungkook is currently working. The idol looks up hearing this and sees Taehyung is smiling at him.

Jungkook forwards his right hand toward taehyung. “Come here.” he says. Taehyung immediately takes steps closer to jungkoook and stands close to him.

Jungkook slowly touches taehyung’s waist and caresses the area. He just wants to do it so he does. Meanwhile taehyung stares down at him with a neutral face, as the idol is sitting on the couch and he is standing in front of him.

But as the idol caresses his waist slowly, his neutral face gets replaced with a shy face and blushful cheeks. He smiles shyly, gettting goosebumps all over his body by the sudden touch. He likes it when the idol gives him attention like this. Jungkook is mostly distanced from all the staff and maintains professional relations with them. But with him (tae), he behaves differently which makes tae feel special. And he absolutly likes it. And craves the attention of the idol more and more. He doesn’t know why he has been feeling like this these days, but he feels happier with him.

“You look exhausted.” jungkook speaks lowly. He has been missing taehyung so much lately, even when he is at home, he misses him. He can’t sleep properly too and always thinks about the boy. He really needs taehyung around him.

Taehyung’s shy smile gets replaced with a big grin. “The Manager of the foodshop refused to pay me my money for 1 hour and 41 minutes. So i scare away his customers with made up things and ran. The manager was running behind me too. But he is so fat and couldn’t run properly.” taehyung says swinging his body slowly.

Jungkook laughs. “What if manager file a case Against you for ruining his business?”

“Then you will save me, right sir?” taehyung says with an innocent smile which is obviously fake.

“Sit here.” jungkook says Patting the empty place beside him. And taehyung immediately obeys.

“So where do i need to work sir?” taehyung asks sitting comfortably.

“I’ll take you there tomorrow.” jungkook says.

“So am i going to be jobless today?” taehyung asks dramatically.

“Don’t you want to go to shopping with me?” jungkook asks, not looking at taehyung.

“Hell yes sir! Of course! When?” tae asks excitedly.

“Afternoon.”

“Oh eemm ggge I’m going to shopping!” taehyung squeals in happiness. Jungkook smiles a fondly seeing excited taehyung.

“Sir, I’m ordering one pizza and one burger for me. Do you want something for yourself?” taehyung asks.

“Are you going to treat me?” jungkook asks.

“Yes! With your money.” the boy says.

Around 5 pm, both of them leave for lotte world tower where taehyung plans to shopping. The first thing the boy does it stare at the building from at least 5 minutes, trying to find the end of this 105 storey building.

“Have you come here before?” jungkook asks, seeing taehyung being so amused.

“Twice with my friends. But never bought anything.” taehyung answers.

Jungkook holds taehyung’s wrist and walks inside the big building. “So, what do you plan to buy today?” he asks.

“Anything i like…” taehyung says.

Jungkook takes taehyung to the specific floors Where lots of fashion brands have their stores. Taehyung looks around everything with wide eyes. He can’t believe how rich people are.

When they enter the first shop, jungkook asks him to pick up whatever he wants. A pink hoodie catches Taehyung’s attention and he picks it up, showing jungkook.

“I want this one.” taehyung says smiling big, and then he checks the price tag and lets out a scream.

“I Don’t want this.” the boy says placing it back on the self.

“Why? Pink looks good on you.” jungkook asks with a frown.

“Everything looks good on me. But this simple hoodie costs 70k us dollars? It’s the double amount of my appa’s salary. I Don’t want it.” the boy says.

“So what? I’m paying right? You Just pick whatever you want without worrying anything.” jungkook assures the boy.

“But still i Don’t want it. I’ll look something else.” saying taehyung begins looking something else. This time he finds a baby blue polo shirt. He is about to pick it up but then checks the tag and backs away. It costs 45k usd.

“Sir, are all things pricey here?” taehyung asks.

“Yeah, these are big brands from all Over the world.” jungkook says. “You see the white hoodie, it looks cute. Let’s get it with the pink hoodie…” jungkook says, walking toward a specific shelf but taehyung stops him holding his left wrist.

“What’s wrong?” jungkook asks.

“I Don’t want to buy anything from here. I had no idea how All things are so expensive here. My eomma will beat me if she sees i bought things on your money again. Both eomma and appa scolded me a lot seeing the things i got with your money. Eomma saw this watch and even threatened to tell appa about it if i Don’t give it back to you.” taehyung says looking down, feeling a little bit shame.

“They Don’t need to know. You can hide them inside your old clothes. Just tear away the price tags from the clothes and they will never know.” jungkook suggests.

Taehyung shakes his head. “I Don’t want to. He saw all those previous things i bought and said if he Isn’t earning enough to make me happy that I’m buying these expensive things with other’s money.” he says.

Jungkook stays silent for some moments hearing this. Taehyung always obeys his parents. So he doesn’t insist him anymore. “Then what should we do?” he asks.

“We can go to the local market. There are lots of shops with cheap prices. I will buy from there and appa eomma Won’t suspect me, because whenever i have money i buy from there.” taehyung says.

“You really wont buy anything from here?” jungkook asks with a bit disappointment. He has had lots of things in mind that he wanted to buy for the boy.

“One day when i marry a rich man, then I’ll buy everything i want. Because then my parents wont scold me anymore.” taehyung speaks with a big grin.

Jungkook sighs. “Okay Let’s go.” the idol says walking off of there with taehyung.

“Sir, buy me some snacks. I’m hungry.” taehyung says seeing some foodshops. So of course jungkook buys taehyung all the foods he wants.

Taehyung leads the way of the local market and jungkook drives accordingly. It’s not lile the idol hasn’t bought anything from cheap local market. Before he got famous and started earning significantly, he used to be like taehyung too. But fame, popularity, money have changed his life style just like all other rich people.

“I can buy ten pieces of clothes from here with only 30 dollars. Watch me sir, today i will show you how i survive as a broke boy.” taehyung says proudly.

Jungkook does not say anything and follows him. The first shop where taehyung enters is owned by a man around 30.

“He is a cheat and sales with more price than other shop and calls his clothes as branded clothes.” taehyung whispers to jungkoook.

“What do you need?” the seller asks seeing his new customers.

“Show me pastel color hoodies.” taehyung says.

The sellers shows taehyung some hoodies and taehyung inspects them closely. “How much is it?” he asks.

“8 dollars.” the seller says.

“I’ll give you 2 dollars.” Taehyung answers.

“8 means 8. It’s a fixed price shop.” the seller says.

“Just buy it..” jungkook whispers.

“Shut up! They bought each piece of hoodie with 1.5 dollars to 2 dollars. But sales with 8. I’ll pay him exactly 3 dollars. Watch me.” taehyung whispers back.

Taehyung picks up one hoodie he likes the most and pretends to inspect it closely. He holds the hoodie in front of his face pretending to show ijungkook the front side of the hoodie.

“Sir, see.. Do you think It’s good? But see there is a loose thread.” taehyung says showing a random extra thread of the hoodie near the sleeve area and suddenly he tugs the extra thread so hard that it completely comes out of the fabric, making the sleeve almost hanging down.

“I’m not buying it. Your hoodie’s sleeve is loose. Imagine i wear it and going to my work place, then in the middle of serving foods to the customer, this loose sleeve fall down completely. That would be a disaster.” taehyung says dramatically, placing the hoodie back.

“Then see something else..” the seller says.

Taehyung pretends to check other clothes till some other customer walks into the shop.

“Will you sell the hoodie at 2 dollars?” taehyung asks loudly, making sure the other customers hear him.

“No, no..it will be a loss for me.” seller says shaking his head.

“Look noona, the sleeve of this hoodie is torn up. Still he doesn’t want to sell it with 2 dollars.” taehyung says to the girl customer beside him.. “Are you going to stitch the torn hoodie and sell it to the customer with high price? Same on you.” taehyung again speaks loudly.

The sellers observes the other customers Carefully with a very annoyed face. He doesn’t want the other customers to leave because of taehyung.

“Make it 5 dollars.” sellers says, to shove taehyung out of the shop as soon as possible.

“3 or I’m going. Nobody will buy this torn hoodie with 5.”

“Ugh okay. Give me the money.” the seller says hurriedly and packs the hoodie for taehyung. Jungkook pays for him and they Both leave the shop.

“You tore up the sleeve by yourself. Now how are you going to wear it?” jungkook asks.

“I’ll ask my eomma to stitch it. She has an old stitching machine.” the boy says while entering into another shop.

“This shop sales exported things that are rejected. I once bought a long coat with 4 dollars and my friend bought the same thing with 2 dollars. I was a dumb back then. But now i know how to pay less. Most of the clothes of this shop has some defects and i always make another defect to lower the price.” taehyung says.

“Won’t the shopkeeper notice if you do this?” jungkook asks.

“Nah… The shop is big and It’s full of clothes, customers can barely move. And salesmen aren’t around always too. So i find a suitable chance to make any defect. I always carry color markers with me when i come here. Sometimes i secretly put some stain of the color marker on the clothes. Later i let my eomma wash them. But i have to be cautious because this shop has cctv.” he explains.

He finds a white shirt for Himself which is 3x bigger than him, even bigger than jungkook’s size too. And this time he secretly tears away a button of the shirt. And as expected the seller sales it to taehyung with 2x less price than originally demanded. He will ask him eomma to add a button on the shirt and it will be new again.

“Taehyung, that’s not right. You are literally cheating.” jungkook says after they come out.

“It’s not cheating when they demand 3x more price of a clothe than the original price? Wanna see something else sir?” taehyung asks with a wide grin which looks as wicked as hell.

“What?” jungkook asks literally getting scared seeing the wicked grin of the boy.

“I’ll show you how i eat free..” saying taehyung drags jungkook with him holding his wrist.

They come to the area where there are lots of cheep street food shops and lots of people are buying foods. Taehyung vanishes inside the crowd of people with jungkook and stands in front of a shop where lots of foods are keept in big bowls in a row. There are three workers who are busy packing the foods for the customer, or accepting the money.

“How much are these mini sausages?” taehyung asks and out of nowhere he picks up two sausages and shoves them inside his mouth. But since everyone is busy, no one notices him properly. Jungkook stares at taehyung with terrified face, what if people accuses them of stealing and beat them?

“I asked how much are they?” tae asks loudly.

“1 dollar per 30 grams!” one of the seller boys replies.

“Yakk too much. And How much are these small crab fries? Why do they look they were fried tomorrow? Are you selling old crab or what? Let me check before i buy..” taehyung speaks really loudly and grabs a fistful of small crab fries and shoves all of them inside his mouth.

“Ehhe too salty. I’m not buying this..” saying taehyung drags jungkook with him out of the shop.

“These crabs taste good, sir! Let’s go to another shop!” taehyung says with his boxy smile and starts dragging jungkook with him to another food shop. But jungkook stops him in the mid way.

“Are you okay, tae?” jungkook asks suspiciously. “I mean, mentally?”

“Why, sir?” taehyung asks, still munching the crabs.

“Do you always do this?” the idol asks.

“Yes! One of my friends taught me. I visit 3-4 shops like this and grab some foods in the name of testing them.” taehyung grins widely, as if he has reached the peak of the mount Everest.

“You can’t do this. Not when I’m with you. If you are hungry, directly buy. You can’t steal foods like this..” jungkook says with a strict face.

“But when did i steal? I told them that i was testing the foods before buying.”

“Whatever it is. You are not doing this anymore. What if you get caught one day and everyone beats you?” the idol sounds traumatised. He literally imagines a future scene in his head and nearly cries.

The scene that he imagines is like, one day he got married with taehyung and makes it public. Then an owner of a random food shop sees the news on the news paper with Their wedding photo and says –

“Jeon jungkook got married with this boy? This is the boy who used to steal foods from my shop and we beat him once!”

The idol shakes his head literally getting scared by his imagination. “Let’s go from here. You are not doing this anymore.” saying jungkook drags taehyung away from there.

Later taehyung buys 2-3 more pairs of clothes from the local market and gets some foods for Himself. Then jungkook drops him in his house and leaves for his own house.