The wooden box played the melody Taehyung's mother used to hum when he was a kid. It was the music box of a song that she loved dearly, a song that she usually sang when she was happy or when Tae was sad, a song that connected both their hearts. It was kind of relieving and angsty, nevertheless it made the brunette smile.

He closed the box and placed it back on it's shelf, taking a note of its price and promising himself to buy it in future. He glanced at Jimin who was standing by the cashier, paying for something he bought.

Taehyung was Jeongguk's secret Santa. He was supposed to buy him something for Christmas but nothing seemed appropriate. He had asked Jimin earlier if it was cool to gift him underwears, since 'Jeongguk probably has rashes from wearing the same underwear for 3 days.', but the bestest best friend didn't give a green tick to the idea. He thought that it was gay to gift your friend pink underwears on Christmas.

Speaking of jeongguk- the dude had been acting weird.

The past week was a mess, Jeongguk wouldn't even look at Taehyung, he made sure to ignore him at dinners and bed times- since those were the only times they had each other's company. He would text Taehyung's anonymous self on 'Sex Mate' and tell him how hot his roommate aka Kim Taehyung was.

It continued for a while until Taehyung got annoyed and asked the younger to shut the fuck up and the next thing he knew he was blocked.

"What are you buying?", Jimin asked as he clutched tightly onto his several shopping bags, struggling hard to add another strap in his right hand, "I don't know.", Taehyung replied, thrusting his hands deep inside the side pockets of his leather jacket, "Should I buy him a teddy bear?"

"Dude!", Jimin gave him a weird look before turning his gaze towards the cashier, "Thank you.", he bowed and turned around, walking outside the store. Taehyung followed behind like a bored lost teenager, kicking air and whistling, dragging his feet on the marble flooring of the mall, wondering what wrong he did in his past life to end up in a mall with Jimin.

Don't get him wrong, but Jimin is that one aunty in the town who would bargain till the seller gives up and provides the goods in half a price. It had been 4 hours and Taehyung hadn't bought anything while the older was holding 20 different shopping bags in his hands, "You're useless Tae, can't even help me carry a single fucking bag.", Taehyung rolled his eyes, "I didn't ask you to buy all that dipshit."

"Wanna eat something? The food court is on the second floor.", "I thought you'd never ask.", Jimin rolled his eyes and Taehyung just stomped behind him like a brat, "You're paying.", "Wha-why?", "Because your jiggly dick keeps bouncing from shop to shop without keeping a track of time.", Jimin sighed, "You can't possibly do this to me Tae, I'm buying gifts for everyone."

Taehyung made a face and mimicked Jimin before stepping on the escalator, "You're buying gifts for the dudes you don't know shit about.", "It's Christmas Tae."

Jimin struggled with the hand bags on his either side as he and Taehyung stepped on the second floor. The younger practically ran towards the food court, while the red head exhaled and stretched his back, feeling like an old man- who lost his stamina after running for 10 seconds.

"Don't eat a lot, you need to maintain your body as a model.", "Shut up chim, you're just scared that I might put a hole in your wallet.", Taehyung snickered and munched down on his burger as the older placed the shopping bags on the blue table, "Can you go and buy a diet coke, nuggets, and fries for me? Large ones.", Taehyung smiled, Jimin sighed, "Sure."

Taehyung placed the half eaten burger on the tray and removed a chocolate bar from his jean pocket, "I should probably give him a chocolate.", he sighed.

Why was it so difficult to buy an impressive gift?

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"It's not even Christmas, let's open the gifts tomorrow.", Hoseok said and threw a paper ball in Namjoon's direction.

The ball hit Namjoon's head, he pretended to faint, Hoseok grabbed the actual joon balls, both of them punched each other and started snickering. "Y'all are gross.", Yoongi muttered and snuggled closer to Jeongguk, who seemed warmer than usual, due to the amount of clothes he was wearing.

Yoonji and Jin walked out of the kitchen with some snacks and beer cans, laughing over something, and fist bumping each other after emptying their hands on the coffee table.

Taehyung smacked Jimin's head with a rolled paper bat, after he won with a fist over a peace, "You can't pull your warrior after I have already pulled mine. The rule is, we pull em out together.", the red haired male snarled and clutched tightly onto his rolled paper bat, not wanting anything more than a victory and a bruise on the younger's head.

Both of them narrowed their eyes at each other, "Rock Paper Scissors.", Taehyung looked regretfully at his open hand and a peace sign held against it, an award winning smirk dancing on Jimin's lips, as he moved his hand behind and let it fall drastically, blowing the youngers head, making him roughly fall on the ground, "That's fucking unfair, I never hit you that hard asshole."

Jimin stuck his tongue out at Tae, before turning his attention to the new presence besides him, wrapping his arms around her slim frame and kissing her forehead.

"Let's open the presents.", Yoonji clasped her hands together before pointing towards the bunch of gifts placed nicely below the Christmas tree. Yoongi and Namjoon volunteered on bringing them to everyone, placing each box in front of the person who's name was stuck on it.

"This thing is damn heavy.", Namjoon said as he placed the gift before Hoseok, "And all yours."

Hoseok wiggled his eyebrows, "Let's play a game, we get the gift only if we identify who's the giver. Like the Santa of an individual.", everyone shook their heads, "That's a bad idea, I'm out." Yoongi said, "Everyone's out.", Jimin muttered, "Okay! Then let's twist it a little, if the person is able to find their santa then they get treated by them. For example: If I'm your secret Santa and you're able to tell it, then I'd treat you a meal. Sounds cool?"

Everyone looked at each other and then nodded, "Okay, I'll start.", Hoseok smiled and unwrapped his present in a hurry, practically ripping it open, "Oh god! you'd break the antique idiot.", Jin hissed.

Hoseok smirked and pulled out an antique vase from inside the box, "My secret Santa is Jin.", "You did it on purpose dickface.", Jin folded his arms over his chest and looked aside, "I hate you.", Jeongguk and Taehyung looked at each other and started giggling, "What's funny?", "Nothing.", they said in unison before gulping and looking away.

"I'm next.", Yoongi said before ripping the glittery paper off the box and opening it, "What the fuck!", everyone looked at him in confusion, "It's a pillow. A goddamn pillow.", Jimin gulped, "You don't like it?", "I fucking love it, and by the way, Jimin is my secret Santa."

Yoonji giggled, "My turn.", she nicely unwrapped her present, folding the glitter paper and placing it gently on the table, "What? I can use it in future.", she rolled her eyes as she felt 7 judging gazes aimed towards her, "Let's see what we have here..", Jimin peeked inside the box and instantly started choking, "Which one of you gave her this?", he yelled as he pulled out a pair of handcuffs from inside, "You should be thankful chim, Hoseok knows how kinky you are."

Hoseok chocked, "How did you know-", "Hoseok is my secret Santa.", Yoonji smiled before thanking the younger male.

Jimin rolled his eyes and ripped his present, removing 3 different coloured ties from inside, "Why the fuck does everyone keep giving us kinky stuff?", everyone sighed, "You're the one who thinks everything is related to sex.", Jeongguk muttered, "My secret Santa is Jeongguk.", the red haired male smiled, namjoon snickered, "No it's me dumbshit."

"Oh."

Jeongguk giggled before opening his own present. Taehyung gulped and looked away as the latter removed a half eaten chocolate from inside the box, "Thank you.", he smiled and bowed, "My secret Santa is Yoongi?", Yoongi shook his head, "It's Tae.", Jimin sighed.

"Thank you so much Taehyung.", Jeongguk smiled politely. Taehyung felt his insides churn as he saw the youngers smile drop as all the eyes left him and glanced at the other pair who were opening their presents.

Jeongguk was always quite, except for the times when he was either extremely angry or highly surprised. Taehyung felt like utter shit, he could've made the boy smile by giving him something nice, but he was so fucking stupid, he obviously had to ruin it all.

Taehyung and Jeongguk were the only ones who weren't going anywhere for Christmas, everyone else had their plans ready, and that is why they were keeping the gift session one day before the Christmas, so that they can spend the festive day with their family.

Taehyung wondered how awkward things might get, not like they're any less awkward since the night they cuddled, but it might as well boost to a higher level. He was going to spend his Christmas regretting his life choi-, "Taehyung!", he snapped his head towards the direction from where the voice of his best friend boomed, "what?", "it's your turn."

"Oh.", he awkwardly smiled at everyone before opening the gift box, his eyes widened when he saw the similar wooden music box he had seen earlier in the store, placed nicely with a smiley sticker stuck on it's side that read 'merry Christmas.' on the bottom.

Jeongguk.

Taehyung's heart swelled as he looked up and locked his eyes with the raven haired boy wondering how cruel and selfish he was to not buy something special for the cute bunny, when he had gifted him something so beautiful. Guilt washed over him instantly making him look down, "Yoongi?"

"No.", Yoongi chuckled, "It's Jeongguk."

Jeongguk smiled at Taehyung expecting a small thank you or something, but the latter just stood up and angrily left the room.

"What's up with him?", Jin asked, looking confused as fuck

"Don't mind him, he's just constipated."

Jeongguk sadly glanced at the closed bedroom door Taehyung had just walked into before looking away.

What was he expecting any way?

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