one week later...

it was 11am and jeongguk was in his room panicking.

why?

because all seven boys had agreed to go out to the mall today and he had no idea what to wear.

here's how it went...

~yesterday~

"okay, friends. we're all going out tomorrow." hoseok announced, interrupting everyone's conversations.

"we are?" yoongi asked.

"yep. you pick up jimin and then i'll meet the both of you." hoseok said, playing with a lock of yoongi's hair.

"but i always pick up ggukie~" jimin complained.

"well i guess you won't tomorrow because i'm picking you up." yoongi says.

"but-"

"don't start being bitchy, baby." yoongi said, pulling jimin onto his lap and kissing his cheek

"okay, fine~"

"so where are we going?" namjoon asked.

"yeah, i need to know how to dress." seokjin added.

"i was thinking just the mall?" hoseok suggested.

"yeah, sounds good." yoongi said and namjoon nodded.

"you'll be allowed to go, right gguk?" seokjin asked.

"yeah, i'll be there." jeongguk assured, smiling cutely.

"cool. taehyung, wanna come?" seokjin asked the boy who was texting on his phone.

"ummm..." taehyung trailed off, he obviously wasn't listening the entire time.

the group giggled.

"on va faire du shopping demain. veux tu rejoindre?" namjoon spoke up.

[trans: we're going shopping tomorrow. do you want to join?]

"oh, uhhh sure." taehyung finally answered.

"yknow, sometimes i forget that namjoon's unnaturally smart and knows five languages." jimin said, looking at him amazed.

"me too, to be honest. who else even knows any languages apart from english here?" hoseok asked them.

"well, you know that i know korean because i speak it at home." yoongi said.

"yeah, so do i. me and jeonggukie both moved from busan, remember? but ggukie just doesn't remember korean because he was younger than me and his family didn't keep on speaking it once we got to america." jimin reminded and jeongguk nodded.

"oh yeah, i forget about that. are you two the only ones apart from namjoon?" hoseok said.

"yeah. i mean, my dad keeps telling me to learn korean so we can go on vacation there without me looking dumb but i can't be bothered." seokjin admitted.

"me either bro." hoseok said, high-fiving him.

"uhh guys, you know taehyung is there too. he knows other languages." jeongguk said.

"oh yeah, he knows french and like 40% english." hoseok remembered.

"taehyung." namjoon called out to the boy who was actually paying attention this time.

"yes?"

"parlez-vous coréen?" namjoon asked, since taehyung obviously had a korean name and asian features.

[trans: do you speak korean?]

"예" taehyung answered with a smile.

[trans: yes]

"yo, what is up with this group being multilingual as shit? y'all are confusing." hoseok complained.

"you're just jealous." jeongguk said, laughing.

"guys! back to this mall thing, where are we meeting? what time? which mall?" jimin asked.

"oh yeah uhh, we'll meet at the entrance, 1pm, the mall we went to when you got your belly button pierced." hoseok answered, looking at jimin, and they all nodded.

"jeongguk, do you need someone to pick you up?" jimin asked, poking his cheek.

"no, jimin. i'm sixteen, i'll be fine." jeongguk said, lightly swatting his hand away.

"okay fiiiiiine."

~back to the present~

jeongguk had clothes all over the floor and was pulling at his own hair.

"ugh..."

he held up a slim-fit tshirt to his body, looking in the mirror.

"no... i'll look fat." he muttered, chucking it across the room.

suddenly, he got a knock at his door.

"come in!"

"hey ggukie, what's wrong?" his dad said, sticking his head in the gap of the open door.

"i- i don't know what to wear..." jeongguk confessed.

"why're you so worried about that?" he asked, stepping into the room.

"i'm not i just-"

"is that boy gonna be there?" his dad asked, raising an eyebrow.

"y-yes..." jeongguk said, looking down.

his father smiled and ruffled his hair, "if he finds you cute normally then it won't matter what you wear so just relax."

jeongguk sighed and smiled back at his father, "yeah... thanks."

and, with that, the man patted his son's shoulder and left him to get ready.

jeongguk took a deep breath, picked up a blue tshirt and some dark jeans, chucked them onto his bed and then walked into the bathroom to have a shower.

once he got out and got dressed, he brushed and curled his hair before starting his makeup.

he put two identical dots of concealer under his eyes, one between his eyebrows and one on his chin before patting it in with a beauty blender. then, he swiped a small amount of mascara on his eyelashes, brushed out his eyebrows, dusted blush across his cheeks, put a single dot of highlight on the tip of his nose and, finally, clear lipgloss.

once he was done, he took a look in the mirror, picking out every detail he didn't like.

"i look so stumpy in these jeans..."

"and these shoes make my feet look big."

"why's that hair going in that direction? gosh..."

"ugh, i can feel a pimple starting to break out on my nose, no~"

"my teeth look like a rabbit's..."

"and what the heck is that mark on my forehead?"

"oh my gosh, i look so fat! why~"

suddenly his daily self-critisism session was interrupted by the ringing of his phone as he heard "peekaboo" by red velvet play throughout the room.

he walked away from the mirror and answered the call.

"hey, jimin-ssi." he greeted.

"hi, just checking up on you to make sure you're ready. you should be leaving now." jimin said, currently in the car with 1/2 of his boyfriends who's hand was resting on his thigh as he drove with the other.

that's when jeongguk looked up at his clock and realised that he did, indeed, need to leave.

"oh, right! okay, i'm going now. i'll see you soon. bye jimin-ssi!" jeongguk quickly said bye and hung up.

jimin just chuckled at the boy before going back to gazing out of the window.

whereas jeongguk took one final look in the mirror...

...rolled his eyes and then walked out to leave the house.

meanwhile with taehyung,

taehyung looked at himself in the mirror and nodded with a smile.

then he yelled out a goodbye to his mother only to remember that she'd been at work since 5am and wasn't home yet.

then he face-palmed himself before stepping out of the house.

thinking of how adorable jeongguk would look as he walked, listening to "maniac" by conan gray in his earphones.

~time skip~

after twenty minutes, taehyung was walking up the street, seeing the mall in the distance. as he walked he spotted someone ahead of him who looked familiar.

he walked a little faster to get a closer look only to realise that it was, the one and only, jeongguk.

he tapped the boy's shoulder, causing him to jump and turn around but he relaxed once he saw taehyung.

"oh, h-hi tae." he waved cutely.

they were now just standing in the middle of the sidewalk.

"hello doll." taehyung said, starting to walk which queued jeongguk to follow.

they both unconciously looked eachother up and down. well, jeongguk's was unconcious, at least.

jeongguk internally swooned over taehyung's features as a blush rose onto his cheeks from the flirtacious gaze the other boy held to him.

taehyung smiled, "cute."

"w-what is?" confused as he broke out of his little daydream.

"you." taehyung stated, bluntly.

"o-oh i-"

"jeonggukie! taehyungie! over here!" they suddenly heard seokjin call out as he waved them over.

taehyung smiled brightly at him and grabbed jeongguk by the arm, pulling him over towards the other boys.

"hi." tae said shortly.

"hey gays." jeongguk greeted.

"not all of us are gay." namjoon said, raising a hand, causing seokjin to roll his eyes so far that he looked like he could see his own skull.

"well you all like boys in some way, shape or form so shush." jeongguk said, poking his tongue out at him.

"yo, are we gonna go in or..." hoseok said, slowly walking towards the doors, his two boyfriends next to him.

"coming~"

~time skip~

throughout the day, the boys shopped, ate, shopped some more and acted like lunatics.

the people who bought the most were, as expected by the group, jimin and taehyung.

why jimin? well because jimin had a very "shop til you drop" personality, was always looking for a new outfit, had recently took an interest in makeup and, on top of that, had basically no real concept of how much money was "a lot of money".

why taehyung? well, the group could tell by the way taehyung dressed that he was loaded. they knew that there was no way a teenage boy with enough money to rock a new designer outfit to public school each day wouldn't go feral in a giant mall.

todays shopping spree also consisted of taehyung unconciously flirting with jeongguk as usual, jimin having mental breakdowns over which earrings to buy which always resulted in one of his boyfriends buying him both, yoongi looking for new headphones and more soundproof wall foam, namjoon trying to find this one novel and being cute with seokjin, jeongguk tryring to hold himself together around taehyung and looking for a specific pair of chunky shoes, hoseok buying way too many tiny bags than he could ever need and seokjin filling his bags with random pink items.

now, they were all walking out to the parking lot to drop yoonminseok off to yoongi's car.

as they were walking, jimin swung his hand around jeongguk's shoulder.

"why no pastel today?" he said, refering to jeongguk's outfit.

"i just didn't feel like it today i guess." he shrugged.

"awh but you look so cute and squishy in pastel." jimin said poking his cheek.

"well maybe i don't always want to look cute and squishy..."

"oh don't be silly." he said before ruffling him hair and walking towards the car.

"why is it silly?" gguk mumbled.

"bye guys!" hobi said, waving at them before getting in the car.

"see ya." yoongi followed, getting in the drivers seat.

jimin hugged them all before getting in the car himself.

"alright guys, me and joon are going this way." seokjin said, hugging taehyung and jeongguk.

"yeah, see you guys on monday." namjoon said, waving at the two.

taehyung air-kissed both of them and jeongguk hugged them before they both walked away.

jeongguk looked up to taehyung, "sooo..."

"let's go." taehyung said, grabbing his hand and leading him in the direction they came earlier that afternoon.

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•1788 words
•not proof-read or edited
•so i'm back :)
•ok so i know i've been gone for like a month but hi
•i just haven't had inspiration and tbh that's exactly why this chapter is so shitty and also exactly why i said it was a filler
•also i'm just kinda down lately in general :/
•so yeah, sorry for ditching you then coming back only with this trash
•i promise the next update will be better
•stay safe <3
•i love you ♡

peace out xoxo,

nixy.