jeongguk walked into the room and his heart melted.

taehyung was sitting criss-cross on jeongguk's bed, wiping away a stray tear with his sweater paw on one hand and hugging jeongguk's pillow in the other.

something about knowing that, when taehyung felt upset, he took refuge in his bed with his pillows made his stomach flutter.

he shut the door behind him and sat next to taehyung on the bed.

taehyung looked away from him to show that he was still mad at him.

"taetae~ look at me."

nothing.

jeongguk sighed and stood up from the bed only to kneel down in front of where taehyung was sitting.

he grabbed his chin softly and looked him in the eyes.

"you know how i feel about that ggukie." taehyung said, sadly.

"i know taetae, i'm sorry-"

"you never say that to me. why would you say that?!"

jeongguk looked down.

"i'm sorry taehyungie, please forgive me. you know i didn't mean it..."

when taehyung didn't respond, jeongguk was about to walk away to give him some time alone until he heard his low voice calling out to him.

"i know you didn't mean it, ggukie, but it still hurt..."

"i'm sorry tae-"

"but i'll forgive you if you gimme a hug."

jeongguk sent him a goofy smile and opened his arms which taehyung gladly settled into.

he picked up taehyung like a baby and sat back down on the bed with the slightly older boy in his lap.

taehyung leaned into his chest and another tear fell onto jeongguk's shirt.

"don't cry again taetae." he said, combing his fingers through the other's slightly curled, black hair.

taehyung wiped his tears, "i'm sorry for overreacting ggukie, i-"

"shush, it's okay, i should've thought before i spoke."

a comfortable silence hung between them until taehyung spoke in barely a whisper,

"i'm tired, ggukie."

jeongguk chuckled softly, "sleep then, my taetae."

as taehyung tried his best to fight off sleep he thought about what jeongguk said and smiled.

"i'm your taetae?"

jeongguk took a moment to answer before smiling to himself and saying,

"yeah, you're my taetae."

taehyung yawned, "and- and you're my ggukie? my best friend? and you- you won't ever leave me?"

he looked up at jeongguk and the younger almost had a heart attack.

his eyes were glossy, his cheeks were pink and puffy, his lips were red from biting them which was a habit he picked up over the years, his tiny little moles, his two mismatching eyelids. how could someone be so...

breathtaking?

"yeah, i'm your ggukie and your best friend ever and i'll never ever leave you."

taehyung smiled but still looked up expectantly at the younger boy.

at first jeongguk was stumped until he realised what he wanted.

he kissed taehyung's forehead softly which made taehyung smile brighter and then snuggle back into his chest.

within minutes taehyung was sound asleep, dreaming of sweet nothings.

i'm his taetae.

jeongguk stood up slowly and laid taehyung down on the bed.

he pulled a blanket over him and smiled at his sleeping face before quietly walking to the door.

what did he find at the door?

well, he found four of his friends peeking inside since they probably watched the whole thing.

namjoon was there to make sure his brother was alright, seokjin was there because namjoon was there, jimin was there to watch his ship sail and hoseok was there because everyone else was there.

as for yoongi, he wasn't even there, he was just sitting on the couch since he didn't need to see whatever cute shit went down in the room since he'd seen it all a hundred times.

"what the fuck are you guys doing?" jeongguk whisper yelled, trying not to wake up taehyung.

he pushed them all out of the way and walked out of the room before turning off the light and shutting the door carefully behind him.

"i was here for my brother, chill dude." namjoon said, walking back to the couch and seokjin followed him.

"i mean i was mainly there cuz i wanted hugs from namjoon but also because you hurt my baby taehyungie and i wanted to make sure he was okay." seokjin added.

"i just followed jin to be honest. i thought they were watching cuz something interesting happened but it turned out to just be some soft shit." hoseok said with a laugh, searching for his nerf gun.

"i wanted to watch vkook!" jimin said.

he huffed and stomped his foot, "why did you leave the room so soon?! i wanted to watch you be cute for longer!"

jeongguk frowned, "it wasn't cUtE, i was just comforting him like i usually do."

"yeah, and it's usually cute, dumby." jimin deadpanned.

jeongguk rolled his eyes, "whatever, and what the fuck is a vcock?"

"first of all, it's vkook not vcock. and well since you mark all your photos and films as jungkook and tae marks all his paintings and drawings with the name V, i decided to merge the two names together." jimin smiled.

"but why?" jeongguk asked, confused.

"well because it's a ship name."

silence.

"WHAT?"

"shut up jeon, you'll wake taehyung." yoongi scolded.

"why are you so suprised that i ship you?" jimin asked.

"because i didn't know? and why the fuck do you ship us?!" jeongguk asked.

"because you're cute! literally half the whole campus ships you guys! i even heard taehyung's art teacher talking about you two once!" jimin said, shocked that jeongguk didn't know about this.

"since when?!"

"since like... forever!"

jeongguk was thoroughly confused and looked at the other boys in the room.

"did you guys know about this?" he asked.

"well, yeah." namjoon said.

"obviously." seokjin added.

"duh~" hoseok called and cheered after when he found his nerf gun in the bathtub.

"literally everyone knows." yoongi said while rolling his eyes, "to be honest, all these guys ship you two."

"huh?!"

"yeah! you two are adorable!" seokjin yelled.

"he's not wrong." hoseok said.

"i mean, as a big brother, if you and taehyung dated i'd be happy with that. also, yoongi, don't act like you don't ship them too." namjoon added.

"i don't sHiP them, that's childish. do i think they'd be a cute couple? yes. they fight way too much though." yoongi argued.

"yeah, they're gonna have to work on the whole communication thing but they've gotten better!" jimin added.

"of course, jiminie." yoongi said even though he didn't agree at all.

"ha, simp." hoseok said to yoongi.

"shut up, why do you keep calling me a simp?!"

the shouting woke taehyung up, but he stayed in bed, just listening to the chaos.

"cuz you simp for jimin?" hoseok said.

yoongi stood up and chased after hoseok who had ran away.

"i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it!"

"a gun with foam bullets, you dork!"

while that was going on, jeongguk was still shocked.

"so are we not gonna talk about how everyone thinks me and tae should date?" he said.

"what's left to say?" jin asked.

"why do people even think that? we're best friends okay! the keyword being 'friends'. that's what we are that's what we'll always be."

taehyung heard that.

he didn't know why it hurt so much since he knew that him and jeongguk would always be just friends.

i mean, not that long ago he'd made jeongguk promise that they were bestfriends.

so why did it hurt when he heard the other say it like that?

"well, friends don't usually call eachother 'my this' or 'my that', couples do that. like how joon calls me his jinnie." seokjin said with an 'obviously' kind of expression.

"well- me and tae aren't like normal friends but that- that doesn't mean we're anything more than that..."

he's right, tae. you know he is so why are you upset?

"why are you so defensive about it?" jimin pointed out.

"i'm- i'm not being defensive, i'm just saying!"

"why do you keep stuttering?" seokjin asked.

"i- i don't! i don't like him, okay!"

"no one said you did... are you okay jeongguk?" jimin asked, kind of concerned.

"you were thinking it. and i'm fine..." jeongguk said before sitting on the couch on his phone, trying to forget the whole ordeal.

why am i crying again? taehyung said to himself.

why do i feel like i'm lying? jeongguk thought.

taehyung wiped his tears and walked out of the room, into the living space.

"hey guys."

"taehyungie!" jimin said.

"you alright, baby?" seokjin asked, namjoon looked up at his brother too.

"yeah, i'm good now guys." taehyung smiled.

"i thought you were taking a nap." jeongguk said, motioning for tae to come and sit with him.

taehyung walked over to him and sat down, "yeah but yoongi and hoseok woke me up." he giggled.

jeongguk's eyes widened, "did you uh- hear what we were talking about?"

"no." taehyung lied.

but jeongguk knows taehyung, he knows him better than he knows his own self.

he knows he's lying.

he pulled taehyung onto his lap and says "alright" for everyone to hear.

but once everyone is back to what they're doing, he whispers into the boy's ear.

"i know you're lying bubba."

taehyung began to bite his bottom lip but didn't respond.

"are you alright?" jeongguk asked him.

"yeah. i'm fine."

"really? you seem upset again." jeongguk said, worried that taehyung still hadn't forgiven him, as he wrapped his arms around his waist.

"it's nothing ggukie, really. to be honest, i don't even know why i'm sad myself." taehyung said.

and it wasn't a lie. he really didn't know why the words made him so upset.

jeongguk sighed, deciding not to push ahead, "okay tae."

and so, when yoonseok got back from killing eachother, the group spent the rest of the evening watching movies and kdramas.

and taehyung didn't leave jeongguk's lap until it was time to go to bed.

he slept beside jeongguk and the younger kissed his head as a goodnight.

pfft, real friendly. seokjin thought.

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