'Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.'

-

Jungkook replayed that interaction with Namjoon for a solid 12 hours, and Taehyung was forced to listen to his ramble for the whole time. Taehyung had never experienced the intricacies of flirting with someone before. If he liked someone he would just go up and speak to them and before he knew it they were in bed together.

But Jungkook didn't have the confidence to pull off a move like that. Which is how Taehyung found himself trying desperately to teach Jungkook how to act natural around Namjoon.

"For the last time Jungkook, don't just wink at people randomly! Let's play this scenario again from the top," Taehyung sighed, exhausted of trying to teach Jungkook to not make a complete fool of himself.

Jungkook didn't seem to run out of energy though and jumped back up, ready to play through the scenario Taehyung had concocted.

Jungkook reset himself, and then walked over to Taehyung who was pretending to be Namjoon.

"Oh, hey Namjoon," Jungkook said, keeping his voice neutral like Taehyung had advised him to.

"Hey, Jungkook," Taehyung replied.

"Do you maybe want to go to the lake with me later on today?" Jungkook asked, and Taehyung sighed a breath of relief that the younger had finally mastered it, "Where we can go and kiss and have lovey dovey time."

"Jungkook! You were so close! Why did you say that bit at the end?"

The younger flopped onto his bed, defeated and tired.

"It's never going to work is it, Tae?" Jungkook sighed, and Taehyung felt his heart go out to the boy.

"Let's stop the lesson for today," Taehyung whispered, ruffling the younger's hair.

The pair sat in silence as they listened to some music which Taehyung was playing from his phone, and he smiled whenever Jungkook would frown at a curse word or lewd lyric. Taehyung found it rather endearing how naive Jungkook was, but also how much Jungkook wanted to learn about relationships. He had bombarded Taehyung with questions about his past relationships, and Taehyung had to explain to the younger that he didn't exactly date. One time in bed was quite enough commitment for him.

Later on that afternoon they had another debate session, and this time they were talking about their experiences of being a Christian in the modern day world. Taehyung was feeling slightly apprehensive about the whole thing after being called out at the last debate circle. Jungkook could see something was bothering the elder.

"Hey, Taehyungie," Jungkook said softly, "Don't worry about the debate circle today. Just say that you have found it hard to juggle your sexuality and your religion, but overall love conquers all."

"Thanks Jungkook," Taehyung replied, soaking in the boy's words.

He didn't like lying, but everyone had been so kind to him he was worried that if he revealed how he really felt about the whole religion thing they wouldn't be quite so nice to him. He was, after all, at a church camp, and didn't want to put off any of the other kids by his atheism.

He was beginning to rethink this whole religion thing though. Not that he was ready to start reading the Bible religiously and praying whenever he could, but he was opening up to the idea that maybe there was someone up there watching over them. Even if that wasn't true, he was beginning to see that maybe he had been quick to judge the other kids at the camp. They were all pretty cool and fun to be around, and he never felt like he had to be putting on an act with them.

Other than him being a good Christian boy of course.

The debate circle was rather illuminating for Taehyung that evening. He listened to a girl called Rosé speak about how she learnt to love who she was through reading the Bible, and Taehyung couldn't help notice how she smiled at a girl called Lisa across the room. Maybe Taehyung had miscalculated this camp, it seemed like everyone was thinking about hooking up.

Everyone except him of course. There was something about being in the peace and quiet of the countryside which made his hormones stop raging. He was enjoying getting to know the people around him, and making deeper connections with people. It was making him question the way he had acted at home, the people he had surrounded himself with before.

After a rather awkward dinner in which Jungkook couldn't even look Namjoon in the eye, Taehyung flopped onto his bed feeling rather fulfilled with his day. Jungkook looked less than happy, and Taehyung waited for the younger to vent out his feelings. To his surprise, Jungkook came straight over and lay next to Taehyung on his bed. The bed was quite narrow and the pair were awfully close, making Taehyung feel extremely confused.

"I'm destined to be alone forever, aren't I?" Jungkook sighed, looking over at Taehyung with tears gleaming in his eyes.

"Don't be so dramatic," Taehyung said, trying to cheer the younger up, "You have your whole life ahead of you, and you'll fall in love many times. And when you fall in love, you'll look back on how in love you were with Namjoon and laugh."

"Or cry because of the fact that I lost the chance to be with my LITERAL soulmate," Jungkook whined, "I just want to have the natural confidence that you do. I want to feel able to ask him to make love to me."

"Woah, Jungkook, steady on here. Let's not talk about making love straight away..." Taehyung said, slightly taken aback by the boy's words.

"No, that's exactly what we should be talking about! That's the way to his heart! In his last relationship, they had sex very early on and Namjoon was convinced he was in love with that boy. Oh Taehyung this is it! I just have to sleep with Namjoon. But I know nothing about sex..."

Taehyung's eyes were as wide as he could open them as he listened to the god-fearing, goody-two-shoes boy talk so casually about sleeping with someone. Maybe he had underestimated Jungkook.

"Jungkook, have you ever had sex before?"

"No..." Jungkook mumbled.

"Have you ever kissed anyone before?"

"No..." the younger replied in an even smaller voice, "But that's where you come in Taehyungie."

"What do you mean?"

"You agreed to teach me things, so teach me how to make love."

Taehyung choked on his own spit.

-

Oh my Lord Mikrokosmos has me feeling all sorts of things, I cannot express my love for the new album.

So, Jungkook hath decreed it, the smut shall begin ;)