Hoseok and Taehyung laugh at the silly face Hoseok pulled as Yoongi sipped his black coffee which the barista begrudgingly gave him.

"You said that?! To the professor?" Taehyung wipes tears of laughter out of his eyes as he stared in disbelief at the older.

"Yes! And he wasn't even mad, he just kept on teaching!" Hoseok exclaimed loudly, causing Yoongi to cover his ears.

Hoseok elbowed the older playfully, "Stop being an old man Yoongi, just drink your coffee so you can be less of a stick-in-the-mud."

Yoongi tiredly holds up his middle finger in front of Hobi's face. Hoseok feigns death and clutches his chest dramatically.

Taehyung smiles fondly at his friends, checking his phone once he feels it vibrate.

Chim: on my way! I'm not too late am I?

Taehyung chuckles at the frantic text from his best friend.

No Hoseok just got off so you're good:Me

He clicks his phone off and spins back to the two still-bickering classmates.

"Jimin says he's almost here! Do you guys want to do anything else today?" The red head asks, resting his chin on his palms, elbows elevated on the countertop.

"We should play video games, or watch a movie. Something low maintenance ya feel?" Hobi says, turning his attention away from Yoongi to think.

Yoongi nods in agreement, definitely searching for something that wouldn't take much of his energy.

"You have a pretty big TV right Taehyung?" Yoongi questions the younger.

Tae pauses for a moment fumbling with his words, "Well I mean it's not that big, it's decent I guess. I mean if it's up to your standards we could go to my place I guess-" He rambles.

"What the fuck are you on about? It's just a tv it's not like were moving in." Yoongi laughs dryly. Hoseok smacks him but smiles at Taehyung reaffirming his words.

Tae grins at this, "okay yeah, my place is free then. I have some video games too."

At that moment the bells of the front door ring again and Jimin half trips half walks into the cafe.

Tae swears he doesn't know how his baby-giraffe of a friend can be a model when he can hardly walk in a straight line half the time. He laughs and goes to collect his better half.

"I'm not late right?" Jimin asks again, clearly worried he missed all the excitement.

"Definitely not, all you missed was Yoongi flipping Hobi hyung off." Jimins eyes widen before he bursts into a similar laughter. "We were gonna go and watch movies at my place, you up for that?"

Jimin nods cheerfully before walking on to greet his hyungs.

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The four boys exit the elevator, making a slight racket as they laugh and joke, pushing one another playfully.

Taes hand rummages through his pockets looking for his keys to his apartment. Freezing when he doesn't feel anything.

He stops in his track and pats every pocket he has, double checking that he hadn't missed them.

"What's up?" Jimin asks the worried Taehyung.

"I lost my keys!" Tae shouts, more at himself than anyone else.

"Really? Did you leave them at the cafe? We can go back if you need to. I can call Luella and ask her to check for you." Hoseok chimes in, turning to watch the frantic Tae.

Tae groans loudly before giving up his search, knowing he'd lost them. "No no, it's okay I have an extra key it just needs a passcode to get to." He explains, dragging his feet disappointedly to his door, reaching up to punch in the code for his spare.

But before he obtains the extra set of keys he hears a click.

"Tae what the heck? You should really lock your door!" Jimin yells, turning to scold his barely younger friend.

Tae turns, extremely confused at what his friend meant. Then he sees what he's referring to. Jimin is now standing half inside Tae's apartment, holding the clesrly unlocked door open.

"You didn't lock up? That's reckless Tae." Yoongi chides him before realizing he doesn't really care and then walks inside, Hoseok following behind him.

Tae doesn't have any words as he tries to process the fact his house was unlocked.

I definitely locked the door. He thinks, running through his memories of this morning.

"Taehyung!" The red head hears Hoseok yells from inside.

Tae peaks his head in to see his hyung raising his arm up, displaying in his hand Taehyung's keys.

"You left them inside silly, no wonder you couldn't find them. You should really keep track of things like that." Hoseok says before tossing the keys to the boy in question.

Taehyung feels as if he'd just stepped into an alternate universe. He knew he locked up, he knew he'd grabbed his keys.

Tae sighs and rubs his temples, his friends already making their way to his TV, setting up the movie.

The colorful headed boy turns around to close and lock his door but for the nth time today he freezes.

His eyes land on a small package laying right inside his apartment by his front door.

He reads the pink package, Strawberry Pocky.

What the hell?! He screams in his mind. Now he knew he was losing it.

Pocky was his favorite snack, especially the strawberry version. But he KNOWS he hadn't bought any recently, let alone left it right by his door.

He facepalms, realizing he probably needs to be getting more sleep. The last few nights he's spent awake either studying or doing extra work.

"Get yourself together bub." He says quietly to himself before taking a deep breathe.

At least you have Pocky now. He decides the pros outweigh the cons at this moment in time.

He hears laughing from his living room and smiles warmly at the sight of his friends playfully fighting about who was going to win Mario Kart.

Tae rips open the package and munches happily on the sweet, pink sticks. Wandering over his his couch, plopping down and loudly placing bets on who he thinks will win.

Little did he know someone else was laughing too, watching the whole scene play out.

The man almost giggles, his voice low and raspy.

"Glad you're enjoying the snacks baby."

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