[heres a super loooong chapter - it took me so much editing and multiple drafts to finally come up with this & after all that im still not feeling great about this chapter🤒😩 but oh well.

🎁, i don't celebrate christmas but i hope those who do are having fun today and have received the gifts they've wanted!! merry christmas, guys!!]

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jungkook focus
"hi, id like to rent some skates." jungkook says to the woman behind the counter, handing her some cash. he taps his foot against the floor of the ice rink building, his foot tapping along to the beat of the cheery christmas song playing in the background.

as he waits for the woman to hand him two sets of skates, he looks around the ice rink building with an excited smile on his face.

"excited for a date?" the woman asks, noticing jungkook's smile. jungkook smile turns wider as he nods. the woman grins at him, handing him rented skates.
"well, have fun on your date! have a good day!" she wishes. jungkook takes the skates and smiles gratefully. he turns around, about to walk over to the benches to wait for taehyung to appear, when he spots a group of boys walking in through the building's door.

oh my-
fuck no.

"hi jungkook!"
"jungkook!"
"where's taehyung?"
"how's the date going so far?"

"it was going perfectly well until you guys appeared - what the hell are you guys doing here? namjoon hyung??" jungkook hisses, looking at namjoon.

namjoon shrugs and tugs at his red cap, "they invited themselves."

"we're here to help!" hoseok grins giving him a thumbs up sign. jin and jimin nod their heads in unison, both wearing huge grins.

"also when were you gonna tell you us about you guys huh? you never told me about what happened in high school and neither did you tell me about this bet." jimin grunts, annoyed that taehyung, whom he was closest to, didn't tell him.

"you didn't ask." jungkook says, unbothered.

"what else haven't you told us?" jimin sniffs. jin and hoseok sniff in disapproval as well.

"is it true that taehyung sucked your ahem?" jin butts in.

"yeah." jungkook grins at this.

"have you had se-"

"yeah." jungkook says.
the trio, now including namjoon, gasp loudly.

"did you guys kiss?" jimin asks, eyes widening.

"yes."

"who topped?"

"me." jungkook grins again and namjoon fist bumps him.

namjoon, seokjin, hoseok and jimin gasps aloud, processing the new information.

"oh god this is gonna be so obvious." jungkook tells himself, eyeing each friend with exasperation as they mutter loudly to each other and giggle, more gasps following.

"we promise to be really sneaky, taehyung won't notice a thing! we'll be subtle, i swear." jin adds, "trust your hyungs on this! look we even came in non suspicious clothing."

how can clothing be suspicious?? jungkook thinks. sure enough, all four of them are wearing hoodies and plain jeans. his eyes stop on yoongi who silently sulks at him, a frown embedded into his face. jungkook quirks an eyebrow, curious as to why his usually unsociable friend had tagged along.

"crazy guy here," yoongi jerks his head to a beaming hoseok, "dragged me here."

jungkook sighs deeply, shaking his head.
"do you guys have any plans then?"

"of course! just go over to taehyung and look over at us, we'll mime what to do!" jin assures, pulling up the hood of his dark hoodie and pulled the strings to tighten the hood. he does the same for jimin's pink hoodie despite the shorter boy's whines.

jungkook looks over at namjoon who shrugs and pulls his hood over his head. namjoon simply lets out a sigh and shrugs again.

"alright, taehyung isn't here yet." jungkook's turns around, the pair of skates dangling from his finger by the laces. he walks over to a seat and sits, waiting patiently for taehyung whilst his friends sat a distance away from each other, quietly murmuring to each other.
he takes his phone out.

jungkook: is everyone in their positions?

father: yes, operation get-taehyung-to-fall-for-jungkook has started

jungkook sits calmly on one of the many seats that circled and overlooked the huge ice rink below. the ice glistened and sparkled under the small amount of sunlight coming in through the open roof.

he looked to his left where his friends sat. he watches out of the corner of his eyes at yoongi who glares at whatever hoseok has just said, folding his arm in irritation. hoseok on the other hand, burbles away happily. jungkook laughs softly at this.

"jungkook? hey." a voice says of the left of him. jungkook looks up to see taehyung smiling down at him a over a thick red scarf. he smiles back sat him as he stands up.

"sorry, im late. i had to finish up packing for the christmas holidays and got carried away," taehyung says sheepishly. "oh you've got the skates ready?" he says, pointing at the pair of skates in jungkook's hand.

jungkook hands him his pair with a smile on his face, taehyung takes them and returns his smile.
"oh isn't jin hyung? and namjoon hyung? and that's jimin and hoseok. and there's yoongi as well." taehyung murmurs, eyeing the small group of guys wearing hoodies that sat not too far away.

i knew this wouldn't work. fucking hell. jungkook groans internally, glaring daggers at his hyungs who waved at them sheepishly.

"hey! what are you guys doing here?" taehyung asks loudly, weaving his way past the plastic seats to beam unknowingly at his embarrassed hyungs.

"uh hi taehyung."
"hi there."
"oh didn't know you'd be here." the group clamoured quietly, not looking at taehyung and jungkook who shook his head in disapproval behind taehyung.

"are you guys here to skate?" taehyung grins.

"um yeah - yes, we are! we should go and rent some skates - bye taehyung." jin hurriedly says, getting to his feet. jin's entourage following suit, wandering behind jin who acted like a mother hen.

"oh uh, okay. wonder what's up with them." taehyung wonders aloud. jungkook shrugs, "wanna go on the ice?"

"yeah okay." taehyung gives him a small smile.
over taehyung's shoulder, jungkook can see jimin waving his hands to capture his attention. he mimes holding hands and jungkook looks back at taehyung, outstretching his own hand.

"let's go." jungkook says when taehyung gingerly and shyly places his palm over jungkook's cool hand.
taehyung simply nods, blushing a little as jungkook guides him down to the ice.

"have you ever skates before?" jungkook asks as he waits patiently for taehyung to slip his socked feet into his skates by the edge of the ice.

"nope," taehyung says, popping the "p". "ive always wanted to though." he says, smiling widely as he got up from the floor, standing unsteadily on the skates.

"that's okay, ill help." jungkook says, he looks over to where his hyungs watched him like hawks, the only exception was jin who was busy renting skates for his friends. jungkook shivers, feeling awkward with his friends watching over him.

his eyes catch on something namjoon motions, he wraps an arm around jimin's, who stands besides him, waist. namjoon motions jungkook to do the same to taehyung.

"here," jungkook says, stepping on to the ice. taehyung shuffles forward, following jungkook. jungkook leans forward and wraps and arm around taehyung's waist and helps him on to the ice. taehyung's cheeks turning the colour of tomato when jungkook does this.

"skate slowly." jungkook tells him, skating at a steady pace with taehyung linked to him with his hand on his hip.

"woah," taehyung says, his head ducked to keep fascinated eyes on they way his skates move forward along with jungkook's.

"you know how to skate?" taehyung asks, surprised as they approach the centre of the ice rink where other couples and friends skated around.

"yeah, in the winter me and my little sister used to go skating together." jungkook says, smiling at the fond memories resurfacing in his mind.

"oh yeah? do you know any tricks?"

"no," jungkook laughs, "i can maybe do a teeny spin but i haven't skated for a while. ji yeon's the expert skater - she wanted to skate preofessionally."

"do a spin then." taehyung grins.

"ah, i don't know. ill try it." jungkook says, "can you stand upright?" he slowly removes his hands from taehyung's waist as taehyung tries to keep himself upright, hands outstretched to balance himself on the skates.

"im standing! wow." taehyung breathes, excitedly. jungkook watches on, amused at the older's reaction.

"okay, ill try a spin but it's nothing special - just saying." jungkook adds, skating ahead and before taehyung could comprehend spins twice on the spot neatly. jungkook skates back to taehyung who claps his hands, impressed.

"it's nothing big." jungkook mumbles, slightly embarrassed.

"it looks really cool! can you teach me?" taehyung ask, eye widened with awe.

"uh, sure," jungkook says, smiling.
but before jungkook could instruct him, their attention is directed to the screaming behind them. they turn their head to see hoseok clinging to jin's shoulder, his legs slipping on the ice.
taehyung laughs, waving at hoseok.

"hey! jungkook's teaching me to spin! look at him spin!" taehyung shouts, calling his hyungs over. the hyungs meekly and jerkily skate towards the two. jungkook, now pretty flustered, spins around for his hyungs who clap enthusiastically.

"can you teach me to do that as well?" jimin asks, forgetting about the resins why he was there. jungkook's eye twitched as he instructed jimin, taehyung, jin and hoseok.

they're crashing my date -- i knew this would be a bad idea, jungkook sighs as he helps jimin to his feet an guide him into a spin again. he looks up to see taehyung holding hoseok's hands, supporting his shaky hyung whilst he laughter at hoseok's scared expression.

jungkook feels irritated.

after a while taehyung quickly got how to do a spin and jungkook found himself trying to teach jimin now. his frustration peaks when jimin topples over his front for the fifth time. he storms away and walks over to where namjoon sits on the ice rink rails, listening to music.

"hyung, you were meant to help me out today not being those guys and sit here listening to music! my date is gate crashed by you guys and he's skating with hoseok hyung and im here!" jungkook complains.

"then go over to him." namjoon says plainly. jungkook lets out a frustrated grunt before continuing to complain again, ignoring his hyung's advice.

taehyung focus
thirty minutes later, taehyung skates using hoseok as a stand, skating around the terrified hoseok who still hasn't mastered how to stand properly. taehyung, on the other hand, was a quick learner and managed to perform a dodgy spin and could skate okay now.

he laughs as jimin skates up to join taehyung and hoseok, he's gripping onto the sleeve of an unimpressed yoongi. jimin giggles as yoongi grumbles under his breath but still let's jimin hold on to his wrist.

"im gonna fall, shit," jin cries. and fall he does, the tall male topples sideways to the ground and taehyung laughs loudly before skating up to him to help him up. jin swats his hand away and sulks on the ice, his face turning sour with distaste. "skating isn't my forte."

"neither is it mine," hoseok moans, lines prominent on his forehead.

"you'll get the hang of it!" taehyung encourages before skating off. he's smiling as he rounds the ice rink, alone. he looks around him as he skates, overjoyed. his eyes land on the rails of the ice rink where jungkook stands, leaning against the metal rails with his face tugged into a frown. he's talking to namjoon who keeps shrugging.

"jungkoooooook!" taehyung drags out, waving at the younger. the younger turns around at the mention of his name, his frown dissipating at the sight of taehyung skating towards him on jittery legs.

"hey! let's do that spin together!" taehyung beams at jungkook who blinks.

"oh uh - yeah sure." he grins, taking taehyung by the hand.

"so how do we do this?" jungkook muses, "let's skate then ill pull you towards my chest and we'll spin. that good?" taehyung nods and so they start.

they're about to skate off and do the spin, when something barges into jungkook's back causing him to topples forward and drag taehyung with him. his teeth painfully collides with taehyung's forehead, pain spreading through his mouth.

"ow what the fuck?" jungkook groans, lifting himself up off the ice with his hand pressed to his teeth. he turns around to see jin splayed on the ice, groaning with pain.

"hyung? oh my god, what the fuck." jungkook repeats. namjoon skates over to jin and helps him up, then helps jungkook up. jungkook looks down at the ice where taehyung is lying face down, shivering. worry sets into his mind.

"taehyung? hey taehyung?" he says, crouching besides the older who sniffles quietly.

"my head." taehyung moans, lifting his head up to reveal a small bruise on the side of his forehead where jungkook had crashed his teeth against his forehead and which then landed hard on the ice.

"shit, taehyung." jin says, approaching him. "im so sorry, me and hoseok were flinging each other around and shit." namjoon and hoseok quickly come to taehyung's sides, worry etched on to their faces.

taehyung doesn't say anything, instead he sits up and pressed his gloved hand over his throbbing forehead, wincing.

"excuse me, are you okay? we saw you crash." a woman wearing the ice rink uniform asks, appearing on her skates.

"lemme see that, dear." the woman tells taehyung, who removes his hand from his forehead.
"ah that's a nasty bruise, here will you help him out of the rink?" the woman says, patting jungkook's arm. the latter nods and lifts taehyung to his feet, guiding him out of the ice rink. he hears taehyung sniffling again and looks down, peering at taehyung's face to see his eyes watering.

god, this was such a bad idea, jungkook thinks.