Something in Dowoo has been shifted, he couldn't understand what exactly but he was not doing fine ever since.

It was maybe a little flashback of the past which drove away his senses and brought him back to the same old dilemma.

Coming into his youth had been a tough ride and the ride had been very hard since the beginning of highschool when he began to discover how a part of him would crave some love and care, it's easy for him to lean into someone who is there to make him feel cared.

And in some way, he felt the care from Jimin's side.

If we go a little more back, when he and Taehyung were very young, he had been growing up facing the indifferences of care from his parents since Taehyung had health complications as a child while Dowoo has always been the strong one.

The parents' attention was a bit shifted towards Taehyung as he would get sick quickly, catch infections and get hurt a lot. This way Dowoo felt sided in many ways, being a child he would cry for his mother's attention and crave the parents' love who purposely didn't distinguish both their kids but the younger one probably needed more attention.

Little Dowoo couldn't understand this so he would cry and sulk a lot but growing up he realized the difficulties of his brother and grew to be mature and understanding towards him. His protectiveness doubled up for his brother and this way he decided to be his shield.

Taehyung always hated to rely on someone but he couldn't help how those difficulties had him relying on his people and one of those was definitely Dowoo who till this day is his shield.

Growing up Dowoo didn't envy his brother because he knew how the younger one always needed his love and care and he was there to give it as well.

Every relative, every neighbor or anyone they knew had a soft side for Taehyung and this might be the biggest reason Dowoo grew up to be an introvert, he was so used to it at a point that he decided to build himself like that whereas Taehyung turned out to be just as opposite, friendly and extrovert.

But for the first time in his life Dowoo received the same amount of love and care, the same attention from someone and it was from Jimin's side who never for once distinguished between the two.

Jimin was a cry baby since kindergarten who hated to be without his mother and the first person to make him stop crying was Taehyung while Dowoo just watched the two grow to be good friends.

Dowoo was never the first one to reach type and this took him a lot of time to be Jimin's good friend which happened after coming into primary school.

The pair of twins with their new companion became inseparables soon, always playing around and having fun in school while back in home the twins would build their own castle of pillows like that.

This continued to the time of middle school when gradually Taehyung and Jimin grew more and more closer, their interests and hobbies being the same while for Dowoo he met more new friends in class that shared the same interests as him.

And this way they grew slightly distant as friends for the first time in life. It was not like it was a big issue but they both could see it. The difference of opinions grew, the changes in perspectives and the personalities were completely molded to different persons and that's when daily bickering became a part of their lives.

Taehyung and Jimin would share the same opinions and they would leave Dowoo to debate with them since he saw the world differently.

There were days when Taehyung and Jimin would hang out, play games, go to classes and what else not all together and would leave Dowoo behind knowing he would not wanna be part of it all.

And this would sometimes piss Dowoo off a lot, instead of saying himself out loud, he would give them the same treatment and it would come out negatively, such as ignoring them, hanging out with different friends and not getting along with them. He would turn out to be rude and this didn't change till this day.

Dowoo always craved their attention immensely and it was always hard for him to say until he burst out on the two a while ago. Both Taehyung and Jimin were not sure why he was so mad because Dowoo never cared to share himself and this way he suffered on his own.

But lately things got out of his hands, completely out of his hands.

And one of it was his inner chaos he would face from time to time, especially when Jimin is around, near him or beside him. He wants Jimin to be there with him, sit where he sits, walk where he walks and hold him or cling on him. He wanted him to do everything he couldn't.

It gives his heart a hard time when Jimin is smiling at him, casually running his fingers into his dark hairs, throwing his body into his lap while laughing or would act as childish as he is for the things he would want to get done.

He is obsessed with those cheeks, would always want to grab and squeeze them, would always wanna squish him in a hug like a plushie but he would rather prefer to sit and stare at him.

Here he envies his brother for being able to do everything he would want with Jimin while Dowoo would just watch them quietly.

He acts he hates skinship but secretly he's the biggest fan of it.

And he's missing out on all of it because lately, Jimin is mad at him.

Ever since that day he unintentionally got rude to the little one, he started ignoring him. Been a couple of days and everything's just the same.

Like that morning of Monday, V woke up alone in his apartment since Jimin and Taehyung were spending the weekend together.

V hung out with Jungkook in the day but he was back to his solitary in the night all by himself and he would then have to go to university all on his own without the two by his side.

It wasn't new for him to do anything without them but everytime he would do, he would get more and more used to it.

He lazily groomed himself and got ready, munching cornflakes before lazily wearing his shoes, not even caring about brushing his hair. Carrying his bag on his one shoulder he locked his home and made his way to the university.

He scrolled through his phone on his way down to the floor through the elevator, finding Taehyung's message that he and Jimin had reached the campus already and would go to their classes and he simply replied with 'k'.

He pulled on his headphones and traveled his way to his classes like that, all by himself.

When he entered his classroom his first instinct was to look up and check the last row, which was empty as usual and he couldn't spot his best buddy Jungkook over there.

He still walked up to the last row and threw his bag on the desk and sat down in a lazy way, texting Jungkook right away who didn't answer.

V frowned as he stared at the screen for a while, waiting for his answer but the boy seemed offline and that's when he decided to ring the call before the professor would come.

"Hello…" Soon the call was answered and a lazy deep husky voice greeted him on the other side.

"Don't tell me you just woke up because I'm here sitting in the class waiting for you, motherfucker." V scolded the other male on the other side who groaned and sat up.

"Damn boy, so sorry. I'm on my way." He spoke quickly, voice still heavy with that slumber still up in throat and then he cut the call.

V sighed after shutting his phone and sliding it into his pockets, sprawling more into his chair and covering his hood up.

Alone again. Fuck it.

He lost himself in trance, not knowing what to do. Be on his phone? Fuck, he'll get that urge to text and annoy Jimin but he knew he was probably still mad.

What else is left to do? Contemplate life. And he did by closing his eyes for a while.

"Is this seat taken?"

Soon he heard someone and he snapped his eyes open to see the owner of the voice.

He sat up properly before facing the person.

"Can I sit here?" The person was one of his classmates he probably didn't pay much attention to, the same girl who sat next to him during the club meeting and had Jimin furious.

Before V could say anything she already sat next to him and he couldn't do much about it. At least there's someone to pass his time.

"Your friend didn't come today?" She asked.

"Late." He answered minimally.

"Oh, okay. So Can I sit here till then?"

He just gave a blink.

"Do you remember me?" She asked, smiling shortly and V nodded.

"I do remember you too, V? Right?" She asked and he simply nodded again. Everyone knows him as V around.

"This is Stacy." She extended her hand for him and V being the nice guy extended his hand as well, holding her gently before she shook it slightly.

"Umm, I'm from Denmark, my mom is Korean so I look a bit Asian but I'm so new to this place." She continued talking and V only paid attention.

"Where are you from?" She asked.

"Daegu."

"Oh…"

"Anyway, I don't have many friends here. Just casually talk to everyone. It was hard to approach you since you are usually busy but can we talk sometimes?" She shot her shot and V didn't seem to mind her straight forward attitude. He simply just nodded to everything she had to say or ask.

"This is me, here." She then showed him her Instagram account in her phone and the boy carried his phone to type that username and hit a follow only for her to follow back instantly.

"Wow, you have uploaded just one pic?" She asked as soon as she found her profile, a picture of three fists hitting each other on his entire profile and he simply hummed in reply.

While for her, it was over two hundred pictures of her on her account.

She was a chatterbox and V became her listener until the professor came in to interrupt and teach them and amid of it Jungkook accompanied his buddy too.

Jungkook simply raised his one eyebrow to see the girl in his place and decided to sit somewhere else until the lecture continued and as soon as it was over, he made his way to V.

"Bro's getting lucky today?" Jungkook simply asked as he hopped next to V who extended his arm to be over Jungkook's shoulders.

"She told me she has a friend asking for your number, so who's luckier?" V whispered to him and Jungkook smiled sheepishly.

"Did you give her my number though?" He asked and V shook his head.

"No I can't make you this lucky, do something for yourself." As V said Jungkook hit him slightly on the chest.

"I better be late from now on, boy's getting girls sitting next to him." Jungkook teased and V only smiled.

"Your manifestation working bro, nothing else."

"Do you believe in that stuff, bro?"

"In the case of girls, I believe in everything."

"Damn, a player."

V just winked.

~♡~

"For how long are you planning on ignoring him?" Taehyung asked his bestie as they walked from their class to the cafeteria, about three lectures of full boredom done before their break and they were already starving.

"For eternity and beyond." Jimin replied instantly and the sulkiness in his tone only made his friend smile.

"You mean two hours?"

"No." Jimin decided to walk faster and Taehyung hustled up to catch up with him.

Just like this the little one already made his way to the cafeteria and sat on an empty table, puffy cheeks over his palms.

Taehyung caught up with his friend and took deep breaths from all that running.

"Okay, today's treat is on me. What do you wanna eat?"

"Hamburger with tteokbokki and some coke." Jimin said without any hesitation and Taehyung smiled.

"Okay."

Taehyung already made his way to the counter to order food and soon walked in Jungkook and V in the cafeteria, looking around to search for the two and Jungkook without hesitation rushed towards Taehyung while V stood by the entrance of the hallway of the cafeteria and looking at Jimin's direction for a good while.

That small cute frame was too hard to not look at. The cute little guy was almost eaten up by the oversized sweatshirt, his soft silky straight hair brushed over his forehead, the chick beak formed by his lips, the little hands peeking out of his sleeves under his chin as he looked over at his bestie, waiting for his food.

For the taller male he seemed like a perfect spot to jump beside, squish and squeeze like a plushie and dig his nose deep into his hair to inhale that fruity floral delicious smell.

Oh how he wished he could do it but he didn't have the guts to walk on his side all alone so he rather walked towards his brother.

"Oh hi Kookie." Taehyung greeted him immediately and Jungkook stood beside him, giving him a big smile.

"Hi! What are you ordering?" Jungkook asked right away.

"Look at those puffy cheeks, treating him."

"Does puffy cheeks call for a treat?" Jungkook asked and puffed his cheeks with a gulp of air and Taehyung giggled at his silliness, hitting his arm.

"You don't even need to do this to be treated. In fact everyone's treat is from my side today. So what do you wanna eat?" He asked and Jungkook pressed his lips together to think, looking up at the menu board.

That's when Taehyung's eyes lingered on his mole under his lips, perfectly dark and visible on his milky skin beneath his curved lips. That shine of the lip ring piercing was not any less in his eyes and it would always get him mesmerized when the dark haired male would nibble on his piercing instinctively.

"Same as what you are having." Jungkook later said and caught sight of the poor guy lost in trance, his eyes under his lips.

Jungkook furrowed his eyes and touched his chin, not understanding why his eyes were stuck there.

"Is there something on my face?" Jungkook asked and Taehyung finally broke out of trance, looking away shyly and realizing it was his number to order.

Out of everything what he didn't notice was his own brother standing right behind them all the time, sparing his judging gazes to them one by one.

"Two hamburgers, for me alone." Soon Taehyung heard his brother say from behind and it almost caught him off guard, hand on his chest as he turned to look at him.

"What the hell, Dowoo?" As soon as Taehyung freaked out the elder twin rolled his eyes and turned around to find himself a place to sit.

"Don't take too much time." He said lastly before leaving.

What else could be better than sitting right in front of Jimin? He let his intrusive thoughts win this time and walked across the hall to put his bag down on the table, catching Jimin's attention who looked up at the other one.

Dowoo didn't break his gaze and sat right in front of him, eyes stuck on Jimin who tensed his expressions to see him.

None of them dared say a damn thing but just stared at each other in complete silence, something about V's gaze held an emotion hard to be justified but ask Jimin, he felt humiliated because how dare he sit right in front of him but he didn't even want to leave his place or say anything to the other.

Soon Taehyung and Jungkook walked towards the table with hands full of trays, putting them on the table between the two staring competitors.

Jungkook rotated his eyes on the two back and forth, sitting beside his buddy while Taehyung did with his own.

"Your food." Taehyung got busy serving them their food, especially with Jimin who was no less than a drag queen with an empty belly.

Jimin had to break the trance to focus on his food but Dowoo didn't look anywhere but him even after carrying his drink to sip on.

Like this everyone got busy with their food with Taehyung and Jungkook talking randomly about the university with Jimin and Dowoo giving out the loudest silence possible with Jimin catching the strong firm gaze of the other from time to time which to a point got extreme for him to ignore.

"Can you just look away? I'm trying to have my food." Soon Jimin said out loud out of annoyance, catching everyone's attention and Dowoo's was already on him who stopped chewing for a moment.

"What happened, Jimin?" Taehyung asked his friend who turned his body towards Taehyung and decided not to face Dowoo anymore.

"Tell him to behave or else I'm leaving the table." Jimin told his friend who wiggled his eyebrows at his brother who simply shrugged.

"What's with you guys? Can you two act normal now?" Taehyung soon requested.

"No and I'm on this table because of you only." Jimin then stated firmly and Taehyung put his burger down.

"What did I do wrong?" Jungkook asked with puppy soft eyes and Jimin looked in his direction.

"... And Jungkook too." He then added.

"I'm on this table for Jungkook and Taehyung too." Soon Dowoo replied and Jimin snapped his head into his direction, tilting his head at the audacity.

"Who asked you to talk to me, Mister?"

"I'm not talking to you but maybe you are." Dowoo replied with a low, quiet voice.

"Oh you wish."

"Guys, it's okay. Just forget about it and move on. We all have to be together anyway." Jungkook soon tried to ease the tension, patting his buddy's back.

"Right, as if you two can stay like this. This is only causing all of us trouble. Just have your meal quietly and talk it out later on." Taehyung suggested but Jimin only looked away, still not convinced.

Not a single moment he didn't check his phone to receive a single text, it had been three days of that argument and Dowoo didn't even try to make an effort. If Jimin looked closely at the times he had been harsh on him, he couldn't even be easy with it.

He knows Dowoo is not the sorry type of guy but at least a single gesture of care could help him out, a minor 'hi hello' from his side would do it for him.

He does make efforts when he thinks Dowoo is mad but hurts to realize he won't receive it from the other one in any way.

After contemplating for a while Jimin decided to take his bag and leave the table and rush towards the exit and this had the rest two panicking with Taehyung following him behind while for Dowoo he simply sat and stared into space.

He feels exactly the same. Terrible. All the time.

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Umm, now you know why V was mad. I feel like Vmin are dominating the plot more than Taekook here, I'll try to equalise it. It's hard to bring interactions for Taekook as they just got to know each other and are not already close like Vmin but I'll try to work it out anyway.

And since there are two main ships, I seriously have to write double the words for a chapter so it's already a lot.

Keep commenting your reviews!

I hope you guys are enjoying this and doing fine!

(In addition to it, I would wanna give my condolences to Moonbin's family, friends and fans, always keep this angel in your heart. RIP Moonbin 🕊️)