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Taehyung quickly followed the other who already entered his room but he was fast enough to enter the room along with him before the door was closed.
But just when he was about to say something...

"Taehyung-ah... You're back? We were really worried about you. Where have you been? Did you get lost or something?"
Hoseok ran towards Taehyung from the other corner of the room, not even caring about his phone that fell from his lap mercilessly on the floor when he got up and gave the younger a tight hug.

"I'm fine Hyung. I just went to meet someone."
Taehyung lied. He didn't want his hyungs to know about whatever happened to him earlier, specially Jungkook. And also, he didn't want to reveal about his little brother at the very moment when he himself was not so clear about the past stories.

"Our lecturer told us that the CEO of that gallery we visited called him and told that you're with him. Do you know him from before? Is that him that you went to meet?"

Taehyung didn't know what to say. The only thing he can hide about whatever happened was to go with the flow, so he just scratched the back of his neck with a hesitant nod.
But he was surely unaware of the looks on someone who was sitting by the other corner, eyes on the laptop trying so hard to look concentrated on the game he was playing.

"Woah... Are you serious? You know him? But how? When? I mean--"
Hoseok was cut off when Taehyung pointed his finger to the phone lying flat with it's screen on the floor, trying to distract him from asking questions.
"NOOO...!!!"
Hoseok ran towards the phone shouting as if he just saw someone got into an accident.
"Woah... Thank God that there's not so much scratch. My mom will kill me if something happen to this. I had to beg her for a week to buy this. I seriously need to find a part-time job so that I can earn my own money and spend it on whatever I want. I seriously can't take this humiliation when you don't have your own money in your hand."
Hoseok kept wiping the scratches on his phone.

"You can work for me instead. I'll give you salary."
Yoongi spoke as he came out from washroom rubbing his wet hair with a white towel.

"Woah... You'll give me salary? Haha... What should I work for such a lazy cat?"
Hoseok scoffed at Yoongi but got a smack on his head with Yoongi's towel.

"Right... Since I'm a lazy cat, why don't you just cook for me everyday instead? Breakfast, lunch and dinner."
Yoongi winked and flicked Hoseok's forehead with his finger.

"Yah..!! Why should I cook for you?"
Hoseok shouted as he cover his forehead when Yoongi tried to flick it again.

"You said you need a job so I'm just offering it so that you won't have to search for any. Oh yeah... You can wash my clothes too and clean up my room. I'll double your salary. And you can stay just in my apartment so that you won't have to run from your rental room to mine daily, it'll save your savings too."
Yoongi crossed his arms as he raised his one eyebrows.

"Yah..! Cooking is at least fine but washing your clothes and cleaning your room and living in your apartment..?? Do you think I'm your personal maid or something?"
Hoseok crossed his arms as well.

"Excuse me but that sounds like a housewife more than a personal maid."

Both Yoongi and Hoseok snapped their heads towards Taehyung, who was standing in between them, said suddenly.

Awkward silence occupied the room for a few seconds while each of them trying to grasp what just happened until Jungkook bursted out laughing. He was listening to the whole conversation and couldn't help but laugh making the two blush.

"Shut up..! I thought you were playing games?"
Yoongi said as he tried to act as if nothing happened with no expression on his face and walked out of the room while Hoseok ran into washroom trying to hide his blush.

Taehyung just stood there and looked at Jungkook who was still trying to hold his breath from laughing. He felt relief that Jungkook wasn't mad at him for going without a word. He walked towards Jungkook and sat beside him on his bed but Jungkook stopped laughing just the moment he noticed him. He was back to his frowning face again, quickly put his headphones and continued playing his games.
Taehyung pouted when Jungkook never turned his eyes from the laptop screen. He didn't know he would feel that sad when Jungkook ignore him until that moment. Jungkook was always overprotective towards him and never had a day when Jungkook didn't talk to him. Even when they fight sometimes, all they do is to bicker among each other until they end up cuddling when they get tired. But, this is the first time Jungkook ignored him and didn't speak to him and... that... hurt him.

"Sorry."

Jungkook stopped his fingers when he heard Taehyung saying sorry softly in between his sniffles.
Ofcourse he heard him because his earphones are off all this time. He didn't want to ignore Taehyung, but he himself even didn't understand why he was so mad when he found the other going with another person without telling him. He didn't know if that's called jealous or selfish but he never wanted Taehyung to be close with anyone other than him.
He couldn't hold himself anymore when he heard Taehyung's quiet sniffles in between soft sobs that became a little louder than before. He closed his laptop with a sigh and grabbed Taehyung arms making him turned towards him.

"Are you crying?"

Taehyung looked up at Jungkook with teary eyes. So many things happened to him on that day that are too much for him. From kidnapping to meeting his brother, knowing about his father's murder, knowing about his brother's condition, all the things that he can't even reveal to anyone and now that Jungkook ignored him, he couldn't help but cry. He might be strong physically but he was always soft when it comes to emotions. He even felt guilty towards Jungkook for no one knows why.
"Are you mad at me? I'm sorry. Something came up and couldn't tell you. I--"

Taehyung was cut off when Jungkook pulled him into a tight hug.
"I'm not."
Jungkook gave soft pats on Taehyung's back with his one hand while another was playing those soft hair.

"Then why are you ignoring me?"
Taehyung lifted up his head with a pout.

"You know I can never ignore you."
Jungkook smiled as he ruffled Taehyung's hair making Taehyung finally smile.
"But... Don't go anywhere without telling me afterwards. Understood?"

Taehyung smiled and nodded happily.

"And.... I wanted to ask one more thing. Where did you go with that Jimin?"
Jungkook finally asked what had been bothering him since when their lecturer informed them that Taehyung's with Jimin.

Taehyung couldn't think of anything what to say. That was the last thing he wanted to answer. He didn't want Jungkook to know about him kidnapping because he knew how Jungkook will react. It's not that he didn't want to tell him about it, but if he tell him, he would be telling about it's reason and it will eventually include about meeting his brother as well. But it would make the other more confuse when he himself wasn't even clear about the story and it would make Jungkook worry about him more.
"Ah... I was so bored alone and was walking around, then I met him and while we were talking, he said he know some place really nice so that I won't get bored... so... I just went with him."
He chose to lie and hide what happened to him earlier.

"What? Tae... Are you serious? You went with him just because he told you he know some place?"
Jungkook gave Taehyung an unbelief look to which the other could just nod without looking at him.
"Tae... you could've just come to me if you were bored alone."

"But we were in different team and I don't even know where I would find you in that big mall."
Taehyung somehow managed to make Jungkook believe him.

Jungkook could just sigh when he saw Taehyung's pout.
"Ok... ok... But next time, make sure to call me even if you can't find me. Tell me if you want to go somewhere. I'll take you there. But don't go anywhere with anyone. Ok?"

"Yes Sir."
Taehyung bowed at Jungkook who could just laugh at the cuteness and ruffled his hair.
"Aren't you tired? Take some rest. We have to go for camping from tonight. We could've gone earlier but we all had to delay because you went missing. But since you're already here, they might take us there."

"I'm not that tired."
Taehyung said as he rest his head on Jungkook's shoulder and closed his eyes.
Jungkook smiled and let him just be like that while his hand played with the other's hair and smiled at himself on how he couldn't even ignore neither get mad at Taehyung for too long. He could just give in just the moment he saw a single tear on the other's eyes.

"Is he sleeping?"
Hoseok said as he came out from washroom. He was listening to the conversation between the two all this time from the washroom.
He saw how Jungkook was just like a lost person few hours ago when he came to know Taehyung was nowhere to be found. He panicked as if he just gone through a disaster. But when they were informed that Taehyung was with Jimin, he saw how Jungkook got upset all of a sudden and didn't speak a single word and kept standing at the front of the hotel, waiting for the other to come back.
He and Jungkook kept teasing around each other all the time and he sometimes even got beaten up by the younger, not violently tho... just playfully. But he came to know that Jungkook can be this soft when it comes to Taehyung.

Jungkook checked on Taehyung who was already sleeping on his shoulder.
"Yeah... I guess so."
Jungkook just smiled as he parted the hair from Taehyung's forehead.
"He just said that he's not tired but look at him."

Hoseok could see the beaming eyes of Jungkook while looking at Taehyung. He smiled at the two whom he met in his worst days. He wasn't from a family with a good background either. His father was a normal highschool teacher and his mother was working at a coffee shop. His parents took a rental room for him to live separately after joining college. He couldn't find a proper part-time job since the starting of his college. He used to work at different places with different works but couldn't last them long. It was another pathetic day when he lost his job again but still a beginning of his bright days when he met Jungkook and Taehyung there while he was sitting alone in the college basketball stadium. Taehyung came to cheer Jungkook for practicing for the next basketball tournament. From that day, Jungkook let him join the basketball team and then he met Yoongi too. Yoongi was rich, his father owned a company. But he lived separately in his apartment alone near the college saying it's more convenient for him to go to college.
Hoseok always wear his hopeful and cheerful smile all the time, hiding all of his emotions but these three people were the only people who could see him through and he couldn't be more thankful for getting them as his friends.

"Wake him up, we're leaving now. They're calling us. We passed our check out time already."
Yoongi said as he saw Taehyung sleeping when he entered the room.

"But Hyung, he just slept. I think he's pretty tired."
Jungkook said as he looked at Taehyung who was now sleeping soundly in his arms.

"Just carry him then. We'll carry your bags."
Yoongi said as he throw Taehyung's bag at Hoseok who successfully caught the bag with a frowning face, still mad at the elder about earlier but still followed him holding Taehyung's bag with his, while Jungkook carried Taehyung on his back.

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All the students were gathered around the big fireplace.
Some were dancing, some were chatting and laughing, some were eating, everyone was enjoying their night fire camp.

"Ok... Everyone..!!"
A girl got up and clanged the beer bottle with a spoon making everyone give her attention.
"So... I know everyone is having fun in your own way. But since we all came here as a group... why don't we play some games together?"

Everybody shifted their heads towards their lecturers who was busy stuffing his mouth with noodles but stopped when he realized the gaze from his students.

"Don't give me that look. Just do whatever you want."
He said after swallowing whatever in his mouth waving his hand to which everyone screamed when he agreed.
"But don't forget you all have your exam just after this trip."
He added with an evil smile to which everybody start whining again.
He just laughed and continued eating his noodles.

But everyone was already waiting for the girl to say about what games they would play.

"Ok... Listen guys. So... the game is---"

"Is it some kind of... fun? Like... you know..."
The guy who was sitting next to the girl cut her off with a smirk but got a smack of his head instead from the girl to which everyone bursted out laughing.

"Get off your dirty thoughts. This is just a simple and exciting game."
She took a deep breath as she took a step forward.
"So... we're gonna separate into two groups A and B. We'll give each of you a paper with any of these two letters written on it. And whoever got the same letters will decide the respective group members. And I'll tell you which game we're playing after this."
She concluded and started distributing the folded papers to each of them.

Jungkook and Taehyung carefully opened their papers hoping that they would be in same group but alas... they sighed when they were still not in the same group.
Taehyung went to the other side with Yoongi. He felt better that at least he was not alone this time.

After everyone settled with their seats, the girl clapped her hands as she start speaking again.

"We'll play different games with each round. The game will be choosen from here."
She took out a jar filled with small folded paper.
"We prepared different names of the game and wrote them here. The players should play the game that picked randomly from here and and each of you have only one chance to play a game. We'll choose the player before announcing the game and the players will be decided by this."
She pointed at the beer bottle on the table that kept in the middle.
"I'm gonna spin this bottle and whoever from both the groups that its tip and base points will play the game. And whoever loss the game will have to do any activities like singing or dancing as a punishment. And those who wants to give up will also get a punishment... and that is... your favorite... they should finish this one bottle of soju..!!"
She smiled as everyone screamed happily.

Jungkook quickly looked at Taehyung who dropped his shoulders when he heard of the punishment.
Taehyung can't drink.

"And... one more thing... We'll give scores too and the team with the lowest score will have to clean all the mess here before sleeping."
She continued and everyone screamed with anticipations in their eyes to win the game.
"So... Let's start then."
She spun the bottle and its tip and base pointed to two guy sitting in opposite directions.

Everybody started shouting their names while clapping when the two stepped forward, ready to play.
Then she took a random paper from the jar.
"First game is... Eat without hands."
The two guys face palmed themselves when they heard the game while everyone started laughing.
"The rule is... We'll give each of the players a chicken leg and they should eat without using their hands. The one who finished eating first will be the winner and the loser has to do any activities as a punishment."

Everyone started cheering for the two who started the game by eating without using their hands. Everyone started laughing as the two desperately eating the chicken to win the game just like dogs eating food.
At last, the shorter guy among the two won the game and the taller stood up to dance to the funny song they played through the speakers with funny moves making everyone laugh.

The game went smoothly with different exciting games. The losers sang, danced, mimicked, recited poems, did whatever they could showing each other's hidden talents and no one gave up from playing so nobody did the drinking punishment.
There were still some papers left in the jar but Jungkook and Taehyung were the only two remaining people who haven't played any of the game so there was no need to spin the bottle. The two teams had equal scores so far. So that means, the one who win this round will be the winner.

The two were really competitive when it comes to games. If they're kept in a same team, they could rule the world together, but when they're in opposite team, no one can predict the fate of which team would win. They smirked at each other, already ready to challenge each other since the previous games were all exciting and fun.
They eagerly waited for the girl to read out the game from the paper she took from the jar.
But...
To their surprise... it was arm wrestling.

Other students in Jungkook's team already started screaming that they would definitely win the game since all they know was Taehyung is some art student with a pretty face and for Jungkook, everyone knew he's the captain of the great basketball team of their college. Just by looking at their physical postures, it looked like Jungkook was definitely going to win it without much effort.

But for Jungkook, he kept staring at Taehyung who was standing in front of him. The only thing that he could think was, if they played, Taehyung would definitely win it and it will surely give all the people a big shock and it might expose about Taehyung. And even if Taehyung pretends to lose between the two, Taehyung's team including Taehyung will definitely had to clean all the mess they made as a punishment and he didn't want it to happen to Taehyung. And if Taehyung would give up, he had to drink the soju and he definitely knew Taehyung can't drink.

Everyone in Jungkook team already started celebrating.
But all the clapping and screaming went silent when Jungkook grabbed the soju bottle and drank it all at once without saying anything.
Hoseok dropped the can of Sprite from his hand that he was enjoying just a few seconds ago while Taehyung flinched when Jungkook kept the bottle on the table with a bang sound.

"Did he just gave up? So that mean... we won the game? Oh my god...!! Is this real..?? WE WON..!! WE WON..!!"
A guy from Taehyung's team started screaming followed by others' screams.

But Taehyung was still looking at one particular person who walked away wobbling his feet and started picking up the cans from the ground along with others despite with everyone telling him to rest because he was too drunk.
Sometimes he could never understand the other. Even just now, the thing Jungkook did was not even in the list of what he thought it would be. He was all ready to play the game at first but when Jungkook gave up like that, he was too shocked to stop the other from drinking it all.

"Just take him with you and let him rest. He's not gonna listen to any of us."
Yoongi patted Taehyung's shoulder, knowing the worried looks of the younger.

Taehyung nodded and ran towards Jungkook who was trying to get away from Hoseok's grip. Hoseok was having a hard time trying to help Jungkook telling him to just rest but Jungkook was being stubborn and trying to get himself off from the older's grip.

Jungkook almost stumbled on the ground if not for Taehyung who caught him when Hoseok slipped his hands off from the younger.
Taehyung brought Jungkook to their tent after making sure to Hoseok that he will take care of him. Thank god that he was too strong to help the half conscious body of heavy-well-built Jungkook walk till their tent. He could've carry him if there were no people around.
He made Jungkook to lie down properly and sighed when he looked at Jungkook lying completely wasted.

"Who told you to drink like that? We could've just play the game. Were you scared that you would loss the game to me? Where is my competitive Kookie?"
Taehyung said as he poked Jungkook's red cheek.
"You even dared to drink a whole bottle when you knew you would be like this. Idiot."

He smiled as he ran his fingers through Jungkook's hair that grown long enough to put a bun. He smirked to himself as he got an idea. He quickly grabbed Jungkook's bag beside him and took out two hairbands since he knew Jungkook's used it while washing his face. He couldn't control his giggles after he put two ponytails side by side.
He took out his phone and took so many pictures, still giggling.

But he froze when a strong arm wrapped around his waist suddenly, making him fall above Jungkook.
Jungkook was staring at him with his eyes and cheeks still red with a smile.

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