The evening has just begun, starting with their welcome ceremony being held by their seniors who have prepared a set of programs for them.

The juniors were instructed to find spots to sit in the middle of the hall of the venue, where there were numerous chairs for them to sit and enjoy the stage events which were decorated just as perfectly as the youthful charms present in it.

They all were instructed to sit with their respective partners until the event would start with their hosts being Kim Namjoon and Kim Seokjin, their very famous seniors of the university welcoming them for their Freshers night.

Jungkook sat with Rebecca for sure but made V sit next to him on the other side of himself for some moral support while V had Stacy on his spare side.

They chose to sit in the middle rows, being 5th while they could see Jimin and Taehyung in the 1st row with their respective partners out of which Yoongi had to get up and leave as he was part of one of the welcoming events.

He gave a pat on Jimin's head before leaving which V could clearly see from the back, only leaving out a sigh after looking away.

While for Jungkook he couldn't stop staring at Taehyung's back who was continuously talking with Jimin and the man next to him, seeming so eager about the night which Jungkook couldn't understand why.

He decided to look away as well just to only find himself under his eyes all around the venue, the shimmery walls reminding him of something. The shimmery flares he remembers sticking all around it with someone.

That day was just a perfect day, the perfect last day if he remembers because right after it some meaningless distance grew between him and Taehyung that he couldn't understand.

He had so much fun with him but suddenly they were miles away even when they were just a few meters away.

And he hated the feeling. Yet he expected nothing from the night either.

Rest of the students were still busy taking their respective places, wherever they could find and in Taehyung's sight came his new best friends.

"Oh hi!" He greeted the girls, Wendy and Yeri dressed pretty well for the evening, paired up together, holding hands coming to his way.

Jimin smiled at the ladies too. Both the males got up to have a light chat with the girls.

"Are they Wendy and Yeri, you told me about?" Jimin asked Taehyung who nodded and he then called the girls over to find a place to sit next to him and his partner Wooshik in the free space and not forgetting to introduce Jimin with them.

"Hi guys!"

"Oh hi ladies!"

"This is Jimin, my soulmate." As Taehyung introduced Yeri waved at him excitedly.

"Wow, he's just as cute as you." As she complimented Jimin rolled his eyes sassily with a playful smile.

"Girl, saying when you're slaying yourself." Jimin said dramatically and Yeri smiled so big at his attitude.

"Aww, will you be my friend like Taehyung? I always wanted to have friends like you, sassy and cool." Yeri exclaimed like an excited child, causing Jimin to smile at her.

"Wait, aren't we already friends?" As he said, both were already throwing hands to each other for high fives and Wendy & Taehyung could just simply laugh at them.

"Wait, did you two come together?" Wendy then asked and Jimin shook his head.

"Oh no, I came with Yoongi."

"Huh, as in Min Yoongi the rockstar and the basketball team captain?" Wendy asked and Jimin flipped his hair with his hand sassily.

"Got that just right, yeah that's my man tonight." As Jimin said Yeri was already fangirling her new gay friend.

"Omg you're such a queen I love it." Yeri complimented and Jimin gave her a wink.

"I know right."

"Anyway, where is your boyfriend?" Soon Yeri blurted out in front of Taehyung who's smile caught up and dropped into a blank expression and Wendy was already poking her elbow into the other to shut up.

"She meant Jungkook, anyway where he is?" Wendy proceeded to ask and Taehyung simply looked down.

"Oh girls, don't get me wrong but Tae is with Mr. Choi tonight." Jimin whispered to them, gesturing to the man sitting just behind them, catching their sight and smiling at them.

As the girls caught him they instantly bowed slightly.

"Oh, our senior Mr. Choi? Woah. You guys really pulled out big cards today." Wendy said comically and the two could only smile, with Taehyung trying to bring out one on his lips.

"But that's unfair I thought you and Jungkook were a thing-" Soon Wendy put her palm on her girlfriend's mouth, smiling apologetically at Taehyung who just gave a gesture of not minding it.

While for Jimin, he sighed while looking at his friend's sorrowful sight and put his hand on his waist.

"Shall we all sit?" Soon Jimin asked and the girls nodded, proceeding to take the free seats besides Wooshik while Jimin and Taehyung were supposed to be on the other side of him.

Just on cue when Taehyung turned himself back, his eager eyes were on the crowd in the back and just in a blink he spotted that certain someone settled in his red shirt, looking heartbreakingly dashing.

Taehyung froze monetarily when his eyes caught up with Jungkook's lost ones which were tranquilized for a while to find Taehyung.

That one gaze held a lot, as if they spoke a lot but none of them could understand what the other wanted to convey but what was common in them was the yearning.

Taehyung decided to break it off nevertheless, sitting next to his new partner who smiled at him so fondly, asking, "Excited?" And Taehyung eagerly nodded, acting fine even though a turmoil was continuously shaking his inner self up.

And for Jungkook, he was just with his bare hands full of helplessness. He was this close to losing his mind, he knew either he'll fully lose him or have him by the end of it and he wanted anything of it to be possible because he hated that thing that hung between them unsolved.

And let's see what night holds.

After everyone settled down, they all were distracted by the opening of the event as the hosts soon began to introduce themselves.

"I wish you all a stupendous evening ahead followed by an amazing night. This is your host Kim Namjoon,..."

"...And this is Kim Seokjin, welcoming all of you to your fresher's party."

"Finally, the much awaited evening is finally here, the evening dedicated to all our freshers." Namjoon announced, dressed in his iconic tuxedo suit.

"And we are more than just happy to welcome every single one of you, and congratulate you for being a part of this evening." Seokjin announced afterwards, dressed the same way as well after him.

The hosts introduced them to the event, sharing their excitement with them and the crowd was growing anticipated and soon invited the guest chairman of the night for their speech and the students were already sighing.

This took about a few minutes, just a couple of speeches and the event was back to being started.

V couldn't understand what went on with his brother and Jimin that they couldn't keep themselves still, to see them excited fumed him even more but he had to let it be. Maybe he was on the verge of yawning so yeah he couldn't understand their excitement for his own understanding.

And once the speeches were ended, the students finally let out a sigh of relief, eyes focused on the stage and their hosts at the side on their podium.

"We all know exactly how you all must be feeling right now, both excited and quite a lot nervous so why not begin this night with something tranquil?" Namjoon started, trying to carry up their anticipation.

"And for this I would like you all to give a big round of applause for our first performance of the evening, by none other than several times  champion at University and national level, Min Yoongi." Soon Jin introduced and the drapes of the stage were separated to introduce Min Yoongi on his stool, fixing his posture before giving a thumbs up sign backstage.

"Woooohhh!!!!! You got it! Min Yoongi!" Soon everyone heard Jimin yell, kinda causing Yoongi to smile shyly but he had to control because his focus needed to be on the keys which he pressed.

Taehyung tried to hold his friend back, feeling embarrassed but Jimin didn't seem to mind the attention he received, he was just as excited as he was inside which caused some students to laugh at him but he didn't mind.

Yoongi soon started to play the piano and everyone was suddenly quiet to hear him play, the tranquil notes of the piano turning into a beautiful melody running along the air, sending vibrations to not just their ears but hearts.

It was one of his own songs that he once shared with Jimin, something he always played which he named Snooze.

Just when his fingers played the keys, his intimidating sight was far too blurred for the rest of other students who have usually known him as a scary basketball team captain but he was more to what he showed.

Jimin swayed his upper body a little on the melody with clasped hands, seeming so indulged in it along other students who were being lost into it.

He switched to another song in continuation which was just as beautiful yet less emotional, kinda romantic and that's when V felt his hand being held by the other girl, to his surprise he was far to notice that because he had been caught by a certain someone in the front row.

Everything seemed so beautiful yet so messed up, only if it was Jimin's hand on his own. Things would be different.

Followed by those songs, Yoongi smiled once he pressed the last key, teasing them all before standing up from his stool to give them a bow and everyone began to cheer up with Jimin being the first one to give him a standing ovation.

"A big round applause for our Min Yoongi, spectacular performance by him. This is what an opening should be like." The hosts walked forward to appreciate his performance and the crowd was already hooting and cheering for him until Yoongi walked down the stairs embarrassingly and sat next to Jimin on his vacant seat.

"Oh my God, was it all for me?" Jimin asked dramatically in a whisper, putting both his hands on his cheeks as he attempted to fluster the other in a teasing way and Yoongi smiled timidly as he sat next to him.

"Maybe." As he whispered Jimin was nowhere being dramatic but was flustered himself while the other side Taehyung didn't leave the chance to pinch his bestie's thigh who jolted a little, showing his bestie eyes.

The event continued with another performance by a senior, being a ballad song performance that was so calm and beautiful that everyone began to sway their bodies to his singing, involved into the show so deeply.

Soon it began to make sense for everyone, why they were so excited for the evening. It was the beautiful performances they could get to enjoy, the numerous talented people sharing the same roof as them.

This continued, a couple of more spectacular performances coming for them, inspiring them to do just as well as their seniors.

And it wasn't too early when the hosts announced the upcoming performance by none other than the dancing freak Jhope and his crew team, preparing a medley for his seniors.

"Everyone! I want you all to dance along with me for this night, for our youth! For us!" Jhope shouted as he began to dance, encouraging his juniors along with him.

The crowd was suddenly energetic, everyone took their phones out when J-hope was on the stage, popping & locking on the funky songs he chose that had the crowd shouting.

"Show us what you got! Let's dance!"

The crew got off the stage to surround the space around the crowd, encouraging them to get and dance along them and the less hesitant ones were already standing to dance along.

Jimin was pulled to the front by J-hope himself as he swirled him around and asked to dance along. Taehyung was laughing to see his friend's silly dance but became a victim as well when he was pulled by the other dancer.

They had to dance so they got along, enjoying the best of it.

Even Rebecca and Stacy next to the pair of best friends were standing to dance along in the middle row, laughing out loud and then there was Jungkook and V, still in their places with deadpan faces.

"Come on, Jungkook, get up, everyone's dancing." Rebecca insisted but Jungkook shook his head and that's when she held his hand to make him stand but he continued shaking his head, pulling his hand back, causing her to frown and pout.

Soon the dance ended, the venue filled with undying cheers to see Jhope bowing to them on stage and giving them a flying kiss.

Even the hosts had to pause and let the crowd yell as much as they wanted to until the crowd was back to being the old self, instructed to take their places by the hosts and so the girls sat back.

"You guys are no fun today, at least you should have danced." Stacy started disappointedly, her friend facing her from the other side.

"Exactly, for the ending dancing, you both will be dragged to the stage." Rebecca said in a challenging manner and Jungkook simply faced his friend who faced him too, both smiling ironically.

"Okay ladies, as you wish."

The crowd was settled again and the event continued with the ending of the welcoming ceremony and soon would come the juniors who had prepared any performance for the show.

"Oh, mine is already the third one. I should be leaving to prepare for it." Jimin said to Taehyung as the hosts announced about the second session of the event, being the performances by the juniors and Taehyung gave a nod and a pat on his ass when Jimin got up to leave.

"You got it!" Taehyung encouraged and Jimin smiled back at him, giving a smile to Yoongi as well who was showing his thumbs up to him already.

"I'm so excited." Taehyung whispered, hand on his chest.

"Me too." Yoongi replied in his head.

And the second session already began with a performance by a male duo, being a dance performance on one of Zico's funky songs, the mood of the venue was set to a different vibe, everyone seemed to enjoy their performance a lot.

They were well cheered for their powerful performance and Jimin was already nervous backstage. He had changed his skinny jeans to comfortable black silk trousers with bare feet for his contemporary performance.

Before him came another student to perform a song, bringing his guitar and singing one of Ed Sheeran's epic songs Photograph for the audience, changing the vibe from cool to calm again and Jimin's eagerness was growing more and more that his hands began to sweat.

He needed to focus, focus on just his performance which he had prepared for so long.

And the song soon ended, meaning Jimin was next.

Jimin closed his eyes, taking deep breaths when he heard the hosts appreciate the last performance and encouraging the coming one on the other side of the drapes.

He had to take his position in between the stage, and he told himself, it's the moment, do or die, he has to do it despite numerous eyes on him.

And he laid on the stage, taking his position and closing his eyes and suddenly the drapes were removed.

The song played on.

(I recommend you all to listen to Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paloma for the coming part of the story)

I tell myself you don't mean a thing
And what we got, got no hold on me

Jimin lifted his leg up, sitting in the process and the crowd was looking at him and suddenly his heart paced up but he had to focus on the music only.

But when you're not there, I just crumble

Jimin got up in a delicate way, swirling around.

I tell myself I don't care that much
But I feel like I die 'til I feel your touch

He continued to dance along, covering the stage with his steps as he let the music flow into his blood, moving along with it in his contemporary style.

Only love, only love can hurt like this
Only love can hurt like this

He danced dramatically, portraying his sentiments through it and the crowd almost held their hearts to see him. The mood was set to a serious one all of a suddenly.

Must've been a deadly kiss
Only love can hurt like this

V was sitting quietly all this while but hearing this line had him closing his eyes, back to the night of him above his body, the supple movement of their lips. The deadly kiss.

What they had throughout the years was beyond description. From their mellow starting to bittersweet relationship to suddenly having everything crumbling down like house of cards.

They lost a lot without each other but why did it seem so hard to recapture each other like before?

Only love can hurt like this
Your kisses burn into my skin
Only love can hurt like this

Jimin decided to not look at the crowd anymore, he was so indulged in his own self that had people staring at him with all that attention.

Even Taehyung had to put his own hand on his heart, taking deep breaths and getting emotional with it.

Whereas Yoongi was captivated, spellbounded and lost in his performance. He expected it to be amazing but not to that extent.

His performance had everyone question their love for someone or no-one. He was eating it all.

And momentarily, even when he didn't want to, his eyes met the deadly ones, the ones that had him waking up night after night. Those eyes still hold so much power for him.

The moment of gaze only intensified him to the core to do all that he had in him. To let it all out finally.

But it's the sweetest pain
Burnin' hot through my veins
Love is torture, makes me more sure…

…Only love can hurt like this

And soon the choreography intensified when Jimin met the floor again, dancing dramatically as if breaking down into pieces with all that torture his heart went through.

He swayed his limbs in a matter of weakness, being lost to his love that had him being held hostage by his own encapsulation of feelings. He was stranded and torn.

He was a victim of love.

'Cause only love can hurt like this
And it must've been a deadly kiss

And the song ended with Jimin completely embracing the floor, closing his eyes, as if accepting his defeat to his heart. Accepting whatever his life has offered for him.

And the music was gone, with silence filling the venue for a moment when Jimin tried to catch up with his breath while still being on the floor.

Taehyung was the first one to stand up and clap as loud as he can with tears welling in his eyes for Jimin, followed by him Yoongi got up, still at a loss of words and like a domino effect, everyone was giving him a standing ovation with claps filling the room.

Jimin sat up, still huffing and putting his hand on his chest.

Everyone in the crowd was standing and clapping for him except for one who was frozen in his place with his eyes lost into space.

Oh to look dead outside when your inner was in a hustle of killing and keeping with itself.

The chaos within him was nothing compared to what they were given on the stage. That heaviness only seemed to double for Dowoo and he could or couldn't understand it at the same time.

One thing for sure.

Only love can hurt like this.

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Oh I had a lot to do in this chapter but it exceeded the limits so yeah next chapter will bring it on.

So, the same question again, even though I've read all the answers to it. Who do you think will end up together first & why? 👀

Oh, I'm so fucking excited for the upcoming chapters, my dramatic ass will create drama.

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Hope you guys enjoyed!