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Chapter 2

As Mariposa walks through the hallway she sees multiple arches on the left side, they all seem to lead to the same big living room, which has three couches around a coffee table and two more couches further back in the room. On her right side she passes a door with a glass window, where the inside looks like a meeting room. Further down the hall she sees two doors on the right side, one on the left and in the middle there is another archway, this one leads to a room with a big table. It kind of looks like the eating area and she remembers Jaemin telling her that he eats with all of his family at the same time. The doors on the right have a name engraved in them. So Mariposa beliefs the door on the right is most likely to be the kitchen door. She thus decides to enter the room and look for Kun. However she doesn’t see Kun, there are two other men instead.

“Hello, I am looking for Kun? Jae told me he would be in the kitchen,” Mariposa shyly explains to the two men. The man with the black hair nods his head, he seems to understand her question. The man with the brown hair however just looks confused. He asks Mariposa which Jae told her this information. “You have multiple people named Jaemin?” Mariposa responds in disbelief, both men start laughing.

“No, but we do have a Jaehyun and a Jaemin. So we didn’t really understand who you were referring to, but we understand now. I am Johnny and this is Doyoung. Kun however went towards Taeyong’s office. So why were you looking for him?” The brown haired man asks, while the other man, Doyoung, is still trying to regain himself.

“Well, Kun was supposed to tell me about everything that is going on here. Well actually Jaemin would do that, but he followed someone else into an office,” Mariposa explained. Johnny gestures Mari to sit down in front of him, while Doyoung takes a seat next to him.

“Since we don’t know what you know already, I will start with the basics. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask them. By the way, do you want anything to drink?” Johnny asks, getting up from his seat and getting some cups. As the man stands up, Mariposa realizes how tall he is, she suddenly gets a bit intimidated by him. Such a tall man, who is part of the mafia, he can’t be nice, can he? “So we will start with who we are. We are NeoCityTeam, but most people know us as NCT. We are a big organization, with multiple units working separately from each other. We have four main units. The first one is NCT 127, then we have NCT dream and WayV, lastly we have NCT U. NCT 127 is the unit that is based here in Seoul, from here we try to make new ties outside of South-Korea. 127 consists of mostly the older members, we handle most of the actually fighting and stuff like that. When a connection to another place is made, it is necessary to maintain it, that is where other units come in. We only have a China based unit for now, but Taeyong is negotiating with the Japanese mafia. WayV handles our contact with the Chinese mafia. Then lastly we have the Dreamies, they are the youngest members we have. They are mostly doing undercover work or other things around the base, nothing too gruesome or cruel. Jaemin is part of the Dreamies. Lastly we have NCT U, the united unit. This is when Taeyong just picks random members to work on a certain assignment, no matter which group they normally operate with.” Johnny explains. As he ends his explanation Mariposa wonders who Taeyong is and why he decides these things. So as Doyoung asks whether she has any questions, she tells him this.

“Well Taeyong is our leader, he makes all the big decisions,” Doyoung answers. Mariposa nods, telling the two men that she is just curious to know what all of the men are doing. “Since we are 23 in total right now, I guess it would be easier for you to learn everyones function as you meet them. That way you can pair the name and function to a face. We will start with us. I am Doyoung, that is Johnny and we are part of 127. I am the guns specialist, while Johnny is a hand to hand combat soldier also training possible new members. Jaemin is a undercover agent, who is focusing on negotiating. Kun is the leader of WayV, our medic and also the person who does most of the cooking in the house. I believe Jeno and Yangyang were also in the car with you? Jeno is part of dream. He is also an undercover agent and he makes sure we have enough explosives. Yangyang is a member of the Chinese unit, where he mostly works as undercover agent and as a hacker. You will meet the other members later today.”

Just when Doyoung finished, Jaemin entered the kitchen. “hii kid, how did it go?” Johnny question the younger boy, ruffling through his hair. Jaemin just huffs at him, knowing Johnny is teasing him. “okay, sorry I asked,” Johnny genuinely apologizes, giving the boy a hug. “we explained a few things to Mariposa, maybe you wanna do the rest?” Jaemin nods and the two elder men leave the kitchen.

“So what should I tell you?” Jaemin wonders as he sits down next to Mariposa, putting his arm around her shoulder. Mariposa just shrugs her shoulders.

“I think they explained a lot already, but I was wondering if we could meet your other brothers and maybe you can give me a tour through the house.”

“Yes, good idea. Let’s do that! So right now we are in the kitchen, as you know. As you can see we are now sitting at a dinner table, this is the smaller dining table, mostly used for breakfast or for when the women in the house have their monthly girl dinner. As you will see tonight. Now let me show you the rest of the first floor.” Jaemin explains as he stands up and walks towards one of the two doors in the kitchen. “This door will leads to the hallway and is probably how you entered the room. This one, on the left, is the door to the dining room,” Jaemin says and opens the door. Excited to explore the house, Mariposa follows Jaemin. Once they enter the dining room Mariposa is in awe by the size of the table. She knew Jaemin has a big group of people surrounding him, but seeing that they eat dinner on such a big table is astonishing. “Now let’s continue, If we go back to the hallway, we see two studies across the kitchen. These are for Taeil and Taeyong. This hallway leads to poison room. We won’t enter today, but maybe some other time,” Jaemin continues casually, while pointing towards the hallway on the left. On the right is the living room, Jaemin explains that with this many people living in one house they needed a lot of couches, which is why this room has so many. Across the living room is the glass door that Mariposa saw earlier. “That is the meeting room, whenever we have something big planned, Taeyong holds all meetings in this room.” Then the two are back at the main entrance of the house. Jaemin quickly explains that the other hallway leads to the gym, a training room and the garage. So up they go. “All younger members sleep on the first floor of the building. So we are with ten of us right now, but there are some rooms empty. The second one to the left is my room,” Jaemin explains. He continues telling that the two rooms next to the stairs, going to the third floor, are another two studies, one for Mark and one for Kun. They don’t go upstairs, since there is nothing important really besides more rooms. “Maybe now we can go to the garage or training room, some of my brothers should be there,” Jaemin mentions as they walk back down. Mariposa is overwhelmed by all the new information, so she just nods, going along with whatever Jaemin is saying.

“Hi Jaemin! Are you here to do some training?” a smaller man with multiple tattoos and longer black hair ask Jaemin as they enter the training room. With the mention of Jaemin’s name another person peeks up from the back of the room and comes sprinting forward.

“Jae! How was your day?”

“Hello Chenle, my day is pretty good so far. How is yours?” Jaemin asks hugging one of his younger brothers. Chenle explains how he has to train with Ten because of something he said to Taeyong, he doesn’t even notice Mariposa. Ten on the other hand, does notice her. He stares straight at her, Mari just shyly waves at Ten. Hiding behind Jaemin. “Oh yeah, Chenle, Ten I almost forgot. This is Mariposa, my girlfriend,” Jaemin says, smiling from ear to ear.

“Oh hello, my name is Chenle,” the boy with the red hair says. After shaking hands with Mariposa he just skips away, back to his place at the back of the room. Ten also introduces himself and tells Mariposa not to worry about the weird boy.

After some small talk Jaemin and Mariposa head towards the next room. The garage. As they open the door, loud music welcomes them. It is a very big garage with 15 cars in multiple colors, from multiple brands. However she sees no one in the room. “Jae!” Jaemin screams, that must be the Jaehyun that Johnny and Doyoung talked about. Suddenly a cart comes riding out from underneath on of the cars, with a man on top of it. The man has a tool in his hand and something black on his face. That must be motoroil or something. Mariposa has no understanding of cars, so it could basically be anything.

“Hello there, my name is Jaehyun. I am in charge of making sure these pretty cars are still working correctly. I guess you must be Mariposa, Johnny told me about you. Are you enjoying yourself?” Jaehyun asks, whiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

“Hello Jaehyun, yes, I am Mariposa. Nice to meet you! I don’t know if I can ask. But I am going to do it anyway. Besides fixing the cars, is there something else you do for the team?” Mariposa shyly asks. She doesn’t know whether this is an appropriate question, but she is curious. Jaehyun tells her, that her question is no problem. He focuses on the cars and making good deals, negotiating with other mafia organizations. However he explains that he can also do some hand to hand combat and is one of the better shooters. “Thanks for answering my question. Jaemin and I are going to look around some more. But I will see you later today,” Mariposa responds and Jaemin agrees with her. He grabs her hand and shows her the way to the next location. They spend a big portion of the afternoon walking around the house, introducing all members that are home to Mariposa.

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Chapter 1

Mariposa was at her dorm when Jaemin called her. It had been four days since he told her about his life and what he does for a living. Four days since they talked last. Normally the two talk to each other every day, so this is a weird phenomenon. The distance between them for the past four days has been pretty hard on Mariposa. Together with an exam coming up and thus getting way too little sleep, she has been very emotional all day. So when Jaemin finally calls her, around lunchtime, she is very excited to talk to him. “hey!” she answers enthusiastically with a smile on her face.

“Hey Mari, how are you? Are you also on your way to class?” Jaemin asks her through the phone. Mariposa answers, telling him she is just stepping out of the door, ready to get a drink and then go to class. “Do you maybe have time to answer a question I have? You know what I told you four days ago, right? So, even though you don’t have an answer to all my questions, just yet, my brothers want to get to know you better and are inviting you over to the house. So, do you want to come over after class?” Jaemin rambles, without pausing. It results in him being out of breath for a while, which gives Mariposa the time to think about her answer. Deep down she already knows, but after everything that she was told four days ago, she is not so sure anymore.

“Well you always spoke very highly about them, so I guess meeting them isn’t that bad. This however doesn’t mean that I know the answers to the questions you asked me four days ago,” Mariposa answers her boyfriend. Four days ago Jaemin told her about his life, turns out he is part of a mafia group called NeoCityTeam, or NCT for short. In relation to this, he also asked some questions about their relationship, but Mariposa could only answer one of those questions.

“I understand, I am just happy you are willing to meet them. Thank you so much Mari. I will see you in class, I am almost at the campus,” Jaemin happily answers and then ends the phone call. Nearby Mariposa steps outside of her dorm and crosses the street to the campus. Since there are ten minutes left before the start of class, Mariposa quickly makes her way to the cafeteria. In line for a coffee, she sees her friends Serenity and Precious, whom just like Jaemin follow the same course as she does. Precious waves and gestures Mariposa to stand in line with them, while Serenity orders an extra coffee for Mariposa. After getting their drink there are only three minutes left before the lecture starts, they need to hurry. So the three girls start running towards the lecture hall, once they arrive, the door is still open and they can quickly find a place to sit. Out of breath the girls ready their laptops to take notes. Mariposa turns around, scanning the people sitting in the class, after a little bit she finally recognizes Jaemin. He has died his hair again, this time it is a blueish colour.

“Why is Jaemin not sitting next to us?” Serenity wonders, whispering to Mariposa. Mari just shrugs her shoulders, she knows why, but she hasn’t told her friends about what happened yet. She doesn’t even know if she is allowed to tell them, which is way she hasn’t yet.

After two long hours of just listening to the teacher the lecture has finally ended. As she is getting her stuff and putting it in her backpack, she notices that Jaemin is waiting for her. It makes her smile, even though not everything has been solved, he does still want to be near her. “Hello, are you ready to go to my house?” Jaemin asks excitedly as he approaches Mariposa and her friends.

“Hello Jaemin, nice to see you too! How have you been? I have been good,” Serenity puts up a show, probably just because he didn’t sit with them during the lecture. Jaemin just snickers and then decides to play along. Explaining that he has been good as well, but just didn’t have the time to move his seat to sit next to you and that he is sorry. The four of them are walking towards the cafeteria again. “No problem, but what did you say just earlier. Are you guys finally going to your house Jaemin? You are finally introducing her to your big weird family?” Serenity wonders, sitting down at a table and opening up her backpack to get her lunch.

“Yes! I am so excited for Mariposa to finally meet my family. Today is the big day!”

“Guys, have fun! I am going to the library to study some more. Mari, keep me updated on how things are going tonight! I am curious to know more about Jaemin’s weird family tree,” Precious jokes, stealing a few pistachio’s from Serenity’s lunchbox and running away towards the library. Serenity tries to follow her, but quickly gives up as she notices the distance between them.

“We actually need to go, so enjoy your lunch Serenity. See you tomorrow!” Jaemin says, putting an arm around Mariposa and turning around. Mari turns her head around and yells goodbye to Serenity. Of they go, while Serenity quietly eats her lunch. Jaemin walks Mariposa towards the parking lot. Jaemin doesn’t have a driver’s license, so she is a bit confused as to why they would go here. “Kun is picking us up, so we don’t have to go with public transportation,” Jaemin explains while a big grey SUV enters the parking lot. “that must be him!”

The car stops right before the duo and the window at the passenger’s seat rolls down. “Your chauffeur is here,” the man behind the wheel jokes. Jaemin opens the backdoor and lets Mariposa goes in first. Like a real gentlemen she thinks. How can the Jaemin she knows be in the mafia? “Hello, my name is Kun. Who are you?” Kun questions Mariposa immediately. But before she can answer, Jaemin tells him her name and that she will join the dinner. “You know the girls have their monthly dinner tonight?” Kun asks Jaemin while driving off.

“No, really? It is finally happening again? They will want Mari to join, right?” Jaemin rambles on. Focused on the road Kun just answers with a single yes. “So Mari, do you maybe want to have dinner with all the women of the family? It is just something they try to host every month. They always speak very highly of it, but you don’t have to join.”

“It think it will be fun, getting to know them better as well!”

“So Mari, how was class?” Kun tries to keep the conversation flowing. Learning more about the girl that Jaemin brought along. They all know about some girl that is Jaemin’s girlfriend, but to be completely honest Kun always thought it was for the undercover story. But here she is, in his car, on their way to the Neo mansion. After driving some more, they pick up two other boys as well, as they get into the car they introduce themselves as Jeno and Yangyang. Yangyang is the hyperactive boy with pink hair, while Jeno is more quiet and has white hair. Jeno sits next to Jaemin on the backseat, while Yangyang sits on the passenger’s side. The whole route to the house, Yangyang talks about his classes and why the teacher was mad at him. With him talking so much, Mariposa starts to understand this teacher a bit better. He literally never shuts up. After a long big road with only trees on both sides a big house arises in front of the car. Mari is in awe of the size of the building. “So everyone, we are here. Jeno, Yangyang can go already. See you at dinner. Jaemin, we need to talk.” Kun start as everyone wants to leave the car. Jeno and Yangyang just run of, while Mariposa stays seated, grabbing Jaemin’s hand. “I will tell Taeyong about your impulsive decision, but you have to face Mark by yourself. Which I guess will be pretty soon, since Jeno and Yangyang know about it. Mariposa, if you have any questions about anything, don’t hesitate to ask them to me. Jaemin will probably show you around quickly. Afterwards you can join me in the kitchen if you want,” Kun explains and then leaves the car. This is your sign to also leave the car. Jaemin follows you and grabs your hand again. Kun drives the car towards, what Mariposa assumes is the garage.

“Don’t worry about a thing”

As they open the main entrance, another man is waiting. “Jaemin. Office. Now.” Jaemin just quietly nods and let’s go of Mariposa’s hand. He whispers that she should find Kun, he will be in the kitchen. Mariposa just looks around bewildered. She has no clue which way is towards the kitchen. The big hall she entered has two hallways, on to the left, on to the right, with a big dramatic staircase in the middle. It looks like the right hallway leads towards the garage, so Mariposa chooses the left hallway.

Oh my gosh all these kind words, I don't believe it 🥰 well you saw my latest update I guess. I am rewriting the story and hopefully also adding on to it. It feels so weird that people actually read the story haha, thanks for all your nice words. I hope you look forward to a newer version of Storgē. Lots of lovee