they all parked up their cars in front of seokjin's place.

jeongguk was annoyingly flirting with taehyung for the entire first half of the ride but towards the end he became unusually quiet.

taehyung thought nothing of it, though. he just assumed that jeongguk eventually got bored of bugging him and he was too busy driving to ask any questions anyway.

as soon as they got out of their respective vehicles, yoongi rushed over to taehyung's car to get jeongguk.

"cmon gguk. let's go to bed." he said, talking to jeongguk almost as if the latter was a baby.

jeongguk didn't speak, he just stepped out of the car and allowed yoongi to wrap his arms around him and lead him inside.

taehyung was utterly confused but didn't want to express his concerns just yet.

he got out of the car and put his arms around namjoon and jimin's shoulders, "okay, we better get going."

"oh no, don't worry. you can sleep here for tonight, it's so late." seokjin said, dragging hoseok's sleeping body out of the car.

"we don't wanna be a burden." taehyung said, feeling bad that seokjin already had all of his drunk friends to take care of.

"oh please, i'm used to taking care of these lot. besides, i've already adopted you two ane namjoon is literally my boyfriend. you can stay, it's no problem." jin insisted.

they smiled and agreed before walking into the house.

the decoration was very modern and had an almost extravagant feeling while still being homey and comfy.

yoongi and jeongguk, who had walked in earlier, were nowhere to be found but no one payed that any mind and just assumed they'd knocked out upstairs.

seokjin came in with hoseok trudging behind, "i'll set up my two air beds in here so one of you can sleep on one of those, hoseok will sleep on the other. the person who doesn't want one can sleep on the couch and namjoon will sleep with me."

"what about yoongi and jeongguk?" jimin questioned.

"they're super close. they're honestly like brothers. they sleep together all the time so they'll be fine in jeongguk's room." seokjin said.

they all nodded before getting ready for bed and claiming their spots.

once everyone was settled, seokjin yelled from the top of the stairs, "night everyone!"

"goodnight!" they all yelled back in unison.

jimin and hoseok drifted off with no problem; tired from all the dancing they did.

taehyung, however, was barely tired.

he basically just sat there for the whole party and he didn't drink or smoke either so he wasn't even nearly as exhausted as the others.

he layed on the couch, staring up at the ceiling.

a lot of people do this when they're overthinking late at night.

but taehyung had nothing to think about.

somehow, he felt that it was worse than having too much to think about.

he searched each corner of his mind but it was blank.

that's when he started thinking about him.

he wasn't sure why but he began to think about jeongguk.

more specifically, how strange he was acting in the last half of their car ride.

arguably, he was acting even stranger before that.

arguably, jeongguk being silent and cold was more like the normal jeongguk than his flirty playfulness he had before.

arguably, taehyung shouldn't really care.

however, he definitely did.

he couldn't stop thinking about how jeongguk's light-hearted banter suddenly came to a halt.

and so he got up from the couch and started quietly making his way upstairs.

he knew that he shouldn't, considering the fact that he was a guest in this house: he shouldn't be snooping around without permission.

although, like i said previously, taehyung's curiosity always got the better of him.

one room was shut so he quietly opened it and found namjin sleeping soundly.

he cooed slightly before shutting the door and moving on.

the next door was slightly open so he looked through the crack and what he saw was definitely not what he was expecting.

he was...

crying?

there he was. sitting on his bed crying while yoongi consoled him.

i guess this is what seokjin meant by stage five. taehyung thought.

taehyung wasn't sure what jin meant by "emotional wreck" at first but now it made perfect sense.

he honestly didn't see jeongguk as an emotional person since he was always so cold and unbothered.

however, drunk jeongguk just kept on surprising him.

"i just- i don't-" jeongguk hiccuped.

"jeongguk, calm down." yoongi hushed, rubbing his shoulder comfortingly.

"i just don't know what i'm doing, yoongs." he sniffled.

what's he talking about? taehyung thought.

"it's alright, gguk." yoongi assured.

"no it's not." the youngest boy sobbed.

"you're just getting emotional for no reason because you're drunk and tired."

"but there is a reason! i'm such a fuck up! why am i like this? for fuck's sake." he groaned, aggressively wiping his tears away.

"you're not a-"

"yes i am! you said it yourself. i work a shitty weekend job, live with my friend and drink all the time. my life's a fucking wreck." jeongguk spoke with his hands covering his face.

yoongi sighed, "you need to rest."

"i can't sleep." he mumbled.

"come here then." yoongi said, holding his arms out for jeongguk to lay in which the latter accepted.

"i don't get it. you had it hard too but now look at you. you've got a boyfriend, your own house and your a successful producer. then there's me who's a fucking deadbeat." jeongguk muttered against yoongi's shoulder.

"life is different for everyone, no matter how similar it looks at first. just give yourself time. you're nineteen and have already been through more shit than some people ever will in their entire lives. you're so young and you're mind got fucked with before you even had a chance to say you were an adult. you can't force yourself out of trauma, jeongguk. you can't just get over it in a day. depression isn't just a phase like they tried to tell you. neither is anxiety or bipolar. take time with yourself. ugh, i don't even know why i'm telling you this, you probably won't remember by the morning." yoongi ranted, chuckling at the end.

"i'll try." jeongguk laughed through his sniffles.

taehyung slowly walked back downstairs, feeling that he'd already intruded enough.

depression? anxiety? bipolar?

the more he found out about jeongguk the more things started to make sense but then, once he made sense of something, a new question would arise.

he just thought jeongguk was this hot emo guy but now he looked at him completely differently after what yoongi was saying.

"what shit has he gone through that yoongi was talking about?" he whispered to himself.

for some people, hearing all this terrible news might discourage you from digging further but, for taehyung, it only made him want to know more.

~time skip~

the morning finally rolled around and everyone, minus taehyung and seokjin, were feeling like absolute wrecks.

"my head feels like i stuck it in a blender." hoseok groaned, rubbing his eyes.

"mine feels like i banged it against every surface known to man." namjoon said, massaging his temples.

"y'all are weak." yoongi teased, walking into the kitchen to get a pain killers and water.

"ugh, why didn't you tell me to stop drinking last night babe?" hoseok complained.

"baby, when have you ever listened to me at parties?" yoongi rolled his eyes pushing a glass of water and a pill towards him and namjoon each.

"didn't you drink too yoongi?" jimin asked, his own head hurting like a bitch too.

"yes, i did, but i've been hungover enough times to stop whining about it. plus, i already took a painkiller earlier so it's kicked in by now." he said as jimin sat next to him.

"imagine being hungover. could never be me. y'all are ghetto." taehyung teased, peacefully drinking his green tea.

"shut up. you're just too pussy to drink anything aside from coke." jimin said.

"wow, rude." taehyung faked being offended.

"who wants pancakes and who wants waffles?" seokjin asked, ignoring their bickering, too busy focusing on breakfast.

"waffles!" taehyung, namjoon and hoseok said.

"pancakes!" yoongi and jimin said.

"alright. taehyung can you go get jeongguk and ask which one he wants. you don't have to get him downstairs, just ask." seokjin requested, taking flour and sugar out of the cupboard.

"okay."

and so taehyung made his way up the stairs and knocked on jeongguk's door.

"what?!" an annoyed voice yelled from inside the room.

taehyung opened the door to see jeongguk sprawled out on his bed, shirtless and irritated.

"what d'you want? and when did i tell you to open my door?" jeongguk said, sitting up and pulling on his shirt.

is it bad that taehyung didn't want him to put it back on?

i mean, it didn't make much difference considering it was only a white t-shirt that seemed to hug his body perfectly as if it were tailored.

"hello?" jeongguk waved, sighing.

that's when taehyung realised that he had been staring the whole time.

"oh! um, seokjin asked if you want waffles or pancakes." he finally said.

"pancakes. tell him i'm coming down in a second." jeongguk said before walking into his bathroom.

taehyung stood there silently for a couple seconds before retreating downstairs.

"he said he wants pancakes and that he'll be down in a minute."

"thanks."

seeing jeongguk go back to his usual cold self kinda deflated taehyung's mood. he knew that it'd happen but he almost preferred jeongguk's laid back, playful side. now he had resumed his mean, closed-off exterior.

taehyung wondered if jeongguk even remembered how he acted towards him last night.

he hoped he didn't.

he did not want to live with the fact that jeongguk made him blush that many times.

meanwhile, jeongguk could definitely remember last night. he was so annoyed at the fact that taehyung could recall every single detail of him being a flirty idiot.

~time skip~

after breakfast, the day went pretty smoothly.

well, as smoothly as it could possibly go in a house full of seven young males.

seokjin and namjoon were being the sickeningly sweet couple that they were.

yoongi and hoseok were showering jimin with attention for no reason.

and then taehyung and jeongguk were being taehyung and jeongguk.

"shut the fuck up!" jeongguk yelled.

"what did i do?" taehyung gasped.

"you're breathing so loudly in my ear! you sound like a sick dog. shut up!" jeongguk complained.

"what the fuck do you want me to do? stop breathing?" taehyung crossed his arms.

"i mean, if that's an option you're willing to take then yes." jeongguk said.

"rude!"
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•2108 words
•not proof-read or edited
•I'M BACK LMAO
•it's been two weeks -_-
•i've been really churning out school work lately so it's been really hard to stay creative and feel motivated enough to update
•not to mention, if you've seen any of my rants (that are mostly deleted by now lol) you'll know that i was going through a major rocky point in my mental health and i honestly still am
•i feel better though, i feel like i'm starting to be my usual self again even though more shit just keeps going wrong
•it sucks but i'll be fine
•aside from all that shit that you probably don't care about, i hope you liked this update!!
•it was very shitty but this is honestly a filler chapter so sorry about that lmao
•no one even reads this far down so idk why i'm still writing
•covid is seriously such a bitch
•STAY SAFE!
•i love you all <3

peace out xoxo,

nixy.