Chapter 14: A perfect distraction

          Just as they stared into each other's eyes, Jimin then stopped and blinked his eyes as he backed up to look at the work papers as a distraction. "Jungkook, let's get back to work if we want to go out." Jimin mentioned as he tugged on the sleeve of Jungkook's jacket and pulled Jungkook to follow. "You look more better in your lab coat than just your jacket like this."

           "So we really are going to do this? Hang out today? You were so quick to fix the issue, I must mean a lot to you!" Jungkook laughed as Jimin looked back with a smile.

            "Yes, we are going to hang out today and stop jumping to conclusions! You mean a lot to the team. You'll be the one to get us there." Jimin said, but yet again, he couldn't stop smiling and giggling.

               "I could've sworn you broke something as soon as you jumped on my back! Ah, such a troublemaker, are you?" Jungkook asked with a grin across his face, where his eyes gleamed as soon as he met eyes with Jimin.

               "Jungkook, you look like you work out, it's not my fault." Jimin replied and kept his small hand tugging the sleeve of Jungkook's jacket. "Take this off already. You're staying here and putting on that lab coat. You look way more better in it." Jimin said with a smirk, that wasn't visible to the older since Jimin was dragging the younger behind him to follow.

               They reached the section of the lab and Yoongi didn't even look surprised to see the two back in action together. "Romeo and Juliet are back together again." Yoongi said with a slight smile from the corner of his lips. Not even bothering to wipe off the cat whiskers or cat nose drawing from his face.

          Seokjin was placing a Band-Aid on the tip of his index finger while he looked back at the two and then back at Yoongi. "Jimin is such a confusing boy. First he doesn't want him, then he can't even live without him. Jungkook just has a good persona to lure in such a married man." Seokjin added as Yoongi chuckled.

           "How's your finger?"

            "You know what? I don't need this! You abused me and left me scarred!" Seokjin claimed and held up his finger with the Band-Aid over the small cut. "What will the Chief say about this?"

           "He'll say I should have made it bigger and deeper." Yoongi said and shrugged followed by a smile after.

       Jimin quickly took off Jungkook's jacket and handed him his lab coat while a few biologists watched. This didn't seem like what friends would do, especially the way Jimin would look at Jungkook. The way Jimin stepped in close to pull off the jacket from Jungkook, the way he looked at the younger with a glint on Jungkook's glasses to show nothing but more than a friendly gaze, and the way Jimin helped Jungkook place on his lab coat. Even if he could do it on his own. Between the two, they looked at this as a friendly and helpful thing to do since Jimin really anticipated having Jungkook back on the team. But to the eyes of many other people, they looked at this as a way of romance just waiting to bloom.

             Seokjin looked at the way Jimin locked his eyes on contact with Jungkook and adjusted the boy's collar into the coat. Jungkook could do this on his own, but Jimin was quick to help. Jimin held Jungkook's jacket in his hands and went up to the desk where his friends were just sitting there silently watching the two.

          "Jungkook is in our team and he is staying here." Jimin claimed as Jungkook smiled.

          Seokjin raised a brow and tilted his head. "But you sai-"

           "Doesn't matter! Glad to have you back in the team, Jungkook." Yoongi said as he interrupted. Even if Jungkook and Jimin didn't seem like they were moving towards as a couple, Jin knew it was an issue. He wasn't against them at all... He was just worried since Jimin was a married man. If he wasn't married, Seokjin wouldn't have an issue with this.

           Jimin sat down on his chair he rolled to the side of his desk as Jungkook rolled forward in his chair as he sat next to Jimin, looking up online, real occurrences between corals now and of course, choosing a place where they could travel to help it.

            Jimin was scrolling along Mexico and staring at the places to travel. He wasn't choosing a place for fun, he was choosing a place for work where most corals are dying and losing their color. Jungkook looked up and rested his elbows on the desk and payed attention to what Jimin had on his computer screen.

           "I thought you already travelled there?" Jungkook asked, looking back at Jimin.

            "I did for the Axolotls where I found them in a lake, but I've never seen the ocean of Mexico. I just need to go so we could complete our test there."

           "Hey, Jimin.." Jungkook whispered as Jimin hummed and looked at Jungkook who was placing his hand on the back top of Jimin's office chair. "How long are we going to stay over there?"

            "Four to six months tops if we could perform more tests and of course I sometimes slack off too." Jimin giggled and looked at the computer screen. "Palancar Reef' is where we will go to see the coral. Of course we team up with   some of Korea's biologists in Mexico who work there on the same project as ours but they work in cleaning around the environment." Jimin mentioned.

          "Why do you slack off? You have a wife!" Jungkook laughed as Jimin smiled but then the smile slightly faded.

            "Well, I know that of course. But she can't really leave anywhere with her Mother constantly popping up to check on her. I feel so bad for Yun-se. I go to trips and she knows she could never follow. Her mother knows this about my job, when I get back, it's always a new assumption of me cheating on my wife." Jimin then laughed as he looked down at his work. "You did realize we continue our research there.. Right? This is only the begining and I'm glad you joined at this part. The trip will come by really quick so I'll tell you a week before. Okay?"

           "Sounds like fun." Jungkook said and looked up at the screen. "I've never really went under water..."

           "That's okay, I'll hold your hand through that and lead you too. Not like it'll be any different now since I always do that with you." Jimin stated and looked down at the younger's lips for a solid second as Jungkook looked at the notes Jimin took on the bright colored corals.

            Jimin stayed silent and kept staring until he quickly broke away his gaze and continued to look into the place they will travel to while Jungkook smiled after Jimin looked away. "SEOKJIN!" Jimin shouted, making Jungkook flinch as the older rolled his chair into Jimin's section.

           "STOP SHOUTING! I swear, where is the respect I deserve?" Jin asked as he looked at Jimin. "What do you want?"

           "Did you find a place where we could rent a vacation house here for a while? Around Cozumel in Mexico?"

            "C-Cozumel? Yoongi told me we were going to the great barrier reef in Australia!" Seokjin said as Jimin chuckled and shook his head.

               "You know we have some of our biologists in Mexico. So it's great to go somewhere we are familiar to. Look for vacation homes, sponsers and see if you can talk to our team over there about our plans. You know our trip isn't that far away. We'll soon be due to go." Jimin added as he stood up. "Yoongi of course will help you."

                "Of course he will." Seokjin sighed and gave Jimin a playful glare before rolling out of the section with his chair to swiftly go to his side.

                  "Come on, Mr. Jeon. Let's check up on the samples." Jimin said, grabbing two clip boards from his cabinet as Jungkook followed along happily. The two walked down the hall fixing their glasses in sync and that was enough to make Jimin stop walking to laugh and shove the younger. "Stop it!"

                "What? It's not my fault we move at the same time!" Jungkook chuckled and held the clip board as a shield. "I'm just acting normal!"

                 "Brat." Jimin laughed as Jungkook folded his arms.

                  "Four eyes."

                   "Look who's talking?" Jimin shot back as Jungkook smirked and took off his glasses, walking forward. His vision wasn't entirely off like Jimin's, he just couldnt see far. But other than that, he could see things up close but not too far. Yet, Jimin just couldn't see at all without glasses.

                Jimin smiled and pursued after Jungkook as the younger did a turn to the chemical lab to check the samples while Jimin followed. Jungkook was already placing on his gloves and apron as soon as Jimin was there. "Jungkook, after work.. Should we eat something together and then walk around?" Jimin asked again as Jungkook chuckled and nodded his head.

           "We already talked about this! Of course we will." The younger claimed, watching Jimin smile and place goggles over his glasses.

            "It seems really exciting to me. Yesterday was fun and today, we'll be able to have time off work and just talk together. Isn't that even better than recording data from corals?" Jimin asked, slipping on his gloves and tying his apron belt around his waist. "I love this but at times it gets boring."

            "Not even scared your wife might say something about this? About you coming home late again?" Jungkook wondered, following Jimin inside and closing the Chemical lab door shut.

         "Yun-se wouldn't mind. She's very calm about me going out with friends after work or even staying at work longer. She'd only overreact if it's to please her Mother by showing it bothers her. Even if it doesn't and she tells her mother, she needs to fake it."

           "Why doesn't she care?"

            "Well, Yun-se does care but she trusts me to always come back home to her. That's a good thing about her, besides, she likes to take long naps after work so if I was there, we'd barely talk and she'll just sleep. Wake up, cook and eat, then wash up, only to sleep again." Jimin giggled as Jungkook desperately looked for something to distract Jimin with so he could stop talking about his wife. Jungkook just didn't like it. "Another good thing about Yun-se is she-"

           Jungkook then grabbed the dish with the coral samples and looked at it. "Oh look the color is even brighter than before! That means it's healthy, right?" Jungkook smiled and walked forward, cutting off Jimin's words as the man's eyes lit up as soon as he looked at the coral.

           "Yes!" Jimin said excitingly as he grabbed the dish and looked at it on the table. "It looks so bright! This could help the other corals. But that test is for our trip. This proves it can work!" Jimin added.

           The younger exhaled in relief, not having to hear about Yun-se any longer. Jungkook smiled to himself and was glad he distracted Jimin from it. The boy then placed his arm around Jimin as they looked at the samples together.

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