Author's POV:

"Aish! Go on, take him anywhere you want as long as it is not illegal and he comes back before 11." Mrs. Kim said in a soft yet stern tone, as she looked at both Taehyung and Namjoon.

Namjoon had planned on introducing Taehyung to his friends, and here he was at Taehyung's place asking for his mother's permission. Mrs. Kim wasn't too strict, she knew that kids should have some freedom.

"Thank you, aunty!" Namjoon bowed, smiling widely, Taehyung hugged her and mumbled an I love you into her ears.

Mrs. Kim smiled and squished his cheeks, "Love you more, now go before it's too late." She said and handed him his beige coat as it was dead cold outside.

Taehyung kissed her cheek and bid her goodbye, the two friends turned around and Namjoon opened the door only to find Yumin walking towards the entrance with her hands inside her black coat that was over her black and blue suit, her one hand carrying her brown leather bag.

Yumin looked up and stared confusedly at Namjoon, she frowned as he smiled at her a little. This guy was similar, "Kim Namjoon?" She asked, hesitantly.

Namjoon nodded, "Yes, noona. It's me." He chuckled, the two hugged. After all, Namjoon was their mom's friend's son. Yumin used to babysit him back then whenever their mothers went shopping.

"Oh my god! You grew so tall." She giggled as she surveyed from head to toe, He giggled as well.

"And you grew up short and cute." He said in a mocking tone earning a glare from her.

"Aish." She slapped his arm and looked behind him where Taehyung stood wearing his coat, Mrs. Kim had already gone inside.

"Are you both going somewhere?" She questioned.

"Yeah, Namjoon hyung wants me to meet his friends." Taehyung answered as he came out and stood beside him.

Yumin nodded and stood aside, "Great then! Have fun." She said and waved at them, both the boys waved back and walked out of the gate.

"Taehyung-ah! Come back soon, call me if you are afraid!" She shouted from the door, making her sibling choke on his saliva.

"You are afraid?" Namjoon asked, laughing out loud.

Taehyung rolled his eyes, "Not at all, Noona likes to embarrass me a lot." He sighed.

The two walked side by side on the concrete path, with their hands inside the coat's pocket. If Taehyung knew that it would suddenly be so cold tonight, he wouldn't have agreed to meet them at this time.

"Is the Seoul kitchen restaurant too far from here?" He asked as he took off his round glasses and rubbed his eyes and wore it back.

Namjoon chuckled and shook his head, "If it was far then I would have asked Yoongi hyung to pick us up."

Taehyung's eyebrows creased, "Yoongi hyung? Who is that?"

"The one who works as a marketing manager."

"Ah! Got it! What about your boyfriend?" Taehyung asked, looking at him.

A sweet smile formed on his lips at the mention of his lover, "He works in a company as a product manager." even his voice got softer, which Taehyung found adorable.

'Wish, I had a boyfriend.' Taehyung thought.

"The restaurant owner, Hoseok, is Yoongi hyung's boyfriend." Namjoon said, Taehyung's eyes grew wide. Wow, they were all couples except for him.

"So, I'm the only one who is single--" but then he realized that there was the youngest friend, Jeon Jungkook. As much as he heard, he was single as well.

"Ah no! I have Jungkook, he is single too." He giggled covering his mouth.

Namjoon laughed along and informed him, "Well, not only you two. Jimin is single too."

Taehyung stopped in his tracks, now who was he? Looking at his puzzled state, Namjoon understood and replied, "Jimin is our friend too."

Taehyung nodded and the two crossed the road, "So, you have five friends. Oh no! Four friends, one is your boyfriend." Taehyung chuckled but soon shivered as the cold wind hit his face making his red hair fly back.

"Yeah! Now be quick, I'm hungry." Namjoon dragged him.

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The two entered the restaurant and the cold fresh air hit their faces, Taehyung's eyes were blessed by the interior. There were huge artificial plants at every corner of the room and small ones near the tables and windows. A medium square black board was attached to the yellow wall to his right near the cash counter, a handwritten special meal of the day along with some doodles was on it.

To his left were many white tables with small peach polka dots on it along with a few chairs, above them paper crafts were hanging from the ceiling lights. Different paintings of dishes were hung against the walls, Taehyung shivered for a moment at the cold air flew past him from the air conditioner that was right ahead of him attached to the wall.

Taehyung was amazed, he got cozy yet cute vibes from here. He was already loving it!

"Nice, isn't it?" Namjoon broke his trance of thoughts, he looked at the older and smiled widely.

"It's amazing!" Taehyung complimented, looking around.

"Thank you so much, buddy!" A sudden new honey voice made Taehyung flinch on his spot, he looked ahead and found a familiar guy smiling a little showing off his tiny dimples.

His same light brown hair was covering his sexy forehead, his dark brown eyes shone brightly under the golden lights that fell on them. He was sporting a light blue shirt paired with black ripped jeans underneath a black apron.

"Hey, hyung!" Namjoon embraced him and earned pats on his back, they pulled away and looked at the wide eyed and red faced Taehyung.

"Tae?" Namjoon called bringing him back to reality, the younger looked at him and awkwardly smiled. Namjoon showed him a thumbs up and he nodded and said he was okay.

Hoseok looked at them in bewilderment, Taehyung looked at him and bowed with a smile.

"I have seen you once." He said, showing off his boxy smile.

Hoseok looked surprised whereas Namjoon asked him, "where? In London?" He looked at Hoseok, "Yah, when did you go to London?"

Hoseok looked at him weirdly and slapped his arm, "Are you crazy? I haven't even stepped out of my own country for the last 22 years." He said.

Taehyung smacked his forehead and shook his head, "Hyung, I didn't see him in London. I saw him on my first day of Uni here, I was on my way and he was wiping those windows." He explained pointing at the large windows.

The two friends' mouths turned into an O shape and nodded slowly, Namjoon apologized in a soft voice in embarrassment.

"I see." Hoseok replied to Taehyung's answer, he beckoned them to where the others were seated.

"Yeah and you looked ethereal." Taehyung shut his eyes immediately as he thought that he shouldn't have said it, but when he heard the older one chuckling he felt at peace.

"Thank you, Taehyung." Hoseok was feeling content with the compliment.

"Well you see, Tae has a good habit of appreciating every beautiful person or thing that exists." Namjoon mentioned, "When I say beautiful person, I mean that to him everyone is beautiful in their own way. He never judges people based on their beauty, occupations or whatever." He stated, even though this was unnecessary at the moment Namjoon still felt the urge to say so.

Taehyung was shy but Hoseok was proud, he patted the younger's shoulder. Wish, we had more people like Taehyung on earth.

They finally reached the table which was at the end of the restaurant, Taehyung on seeing Jungkook hugged him. Hoseok smiled at them and sat beside his boyfriend, Yoongi. Namjoon sat after Hoseok and left a place for Jin on the long cream couch. Just after the space, Taehyung and Jungkook were seated respectively.

Taehyung looked at Yoongi who extended his hand towards him to shake, "Hey! I'm Min Yoongi." He introduced himself, Taehyung shook hands with him with a big smile.

"I'm Taehyung, nice to meet you."

They retreated their hands, when Hoseok began, "You know, Hyung. Taehyung called me ethereal." And giggled, expecting his boyfriend to feel possessive but the older one just smiled at Taehyung.

"Oh hyung! You ain't angry? Wah!" Jungkook clapped, Taehyung was confused.

"Why should I be angry? He is new here and I'm sure he knows very well that Hoseok is my boyfriend, right Joon?" Yoongi asked, emphasizing on 'my'. The others knew that he was angry but he was controlling himself as much as possible, and they bite their lips to avoid laughing.

"Babe, Joonie told me that Tae has a habit of appreciating beautiful people." Hoseok informed him to cool down a little.

Jungkook nodded and added, "Yeah, Hyung complimented me as well the other day." He proudly swiped his hair back.

Yoongi rolled his eyes at him and looked at Namjoon who smiled a little and uttered, "Tae likes my eyes and dimples." Yoongi's face fell, Taehyung appreciated everyone.

He looked at him and angrily muttered, "Yah! You appreciated everyone here, except for me. Am I not beautiful, Kim Taehyung?" He asked, leaning on the table making a cute face with a finger pressed onto his right cheek. He looked so cute that everyone's heart melted, they cooed at him internally.

Taehyung giggled, "You are very cute and funny, Hoseok hyung must be so lucky to have found you." The older felt happy and sat back on the couch and smiled in swag, at this they bursted into laughter. But soon it was interrupted by the growling noise that came from Namjoon's stomach, he shyly apologized to everyone.

"Yah, tell those rats in your stomach to have patience and tell Jin hyung to be quick or I will die due to starvation." Yoongi stated, rubbing his poor empty stomach. Namjoon obeyed and texted his boyfriend to be as early as possible.

"And Jimin hyung isn't here either." Jungkook said, pouting a little.

"Well, I heard from him that it's... Mia's birthday today?" Hoseok said, narrowing his eyes a little as he almost got confused with her name.

"Yeah, he was feeling suffocated there so Jin hyung picked him up from there. They will be here in a few minutes." Namjoon informed them.

"Poor Jiminie, only I can understand him as I know how annoying she is." Yoongi said, sighing and shaking his head in disappointment.

Jungkook upon noticing the puzzled state of Taehyung explained to him, "Taehyung hyung, Jimin hyung's Grandma ships him with Mia. She is a rich girl with an annoying personality." Taehyung nodded in understanding and thanked him.

"Yeah but his Grandma isn't any less. She is way too strict." Namjoon said and rolled his eyes.

Hoseok hummed, "I don't like her."

Taehyung was actually surprised when suddenly each of them started talking bad about Jimin's grandmother behind his back, but Namjoon? He was badmouthing her too? Taehyung couldn't believe it.

"But gladly, I don't get to meet her often as Jimin hyung tutors me in the evening and that's when she goes to work for a while." Jungkook happily said, placing his hand on his chest.

Taehyung also came to know that yesterday Hoseok got a call from her, asking if Jimin was with them as he didn't come home. Namjoon automatically gets nervous whenever she is around, and well Yoongi, he rejected their job offer as soon as he learnt that she was the boss.

Now this was strange, why would someone reject such an offer that too which came from a big company? Was she that scary? Taehyung gulped as he hoped that he would never bump into her in the future.

Just then, a man wearing black sweatshirt and track pants arrived on the table. Taehyung looked up at him and gasped, how can someone be so damn handsome? Pink full lips, brown intimidating eyes, perfect eyebrows and that sharp nose and his black messy hair.

He smiled and winked at Taehyung which almost made him faint, "Hey! I'm Seokjin. And you?" Oh his voice but as he processed what the man had said and that's when Taehyung realized, he was Namjoon's boyfriend.

Taehyung felt that Namjoon was so lucky to have Jin as his boyfriend, Jungkook tapped his thigh bringing him back to reality and he noticed that Jin was already sitting in between him and Namjoon.

"Hey..I'm Taehyung." He introduced himself and thanked god as he didn't stammer, Jin smiled at him.

"Where is Jimin?" Hoseok asked, and then saw him coming their way, swiping his black hair to the side. "There he is!" He added, everyone turned to the right and Taehyung froze.

'The librarian!?'

He mentally screamed as he saw Jimin being nearer to their table, so he was that Park Jimin everyone was talking about earlier. Taehyung couldn't believe his eyes, the librarian that he missed a lot was now giving a high five to Yoongi and sat beside him across Taehyung.

"Jimin hyung! Meet Taehyung hyung, our new friend." Jungkook exclaimed, showing Taehyung, whose face looked like fresh cherries.

Jimin at the mention of Taehyung's name, immediately craned up his neck and his eyes got wide. Kim Taehyung sat in front of him. Those smooth red hair covering his huge forehead, those brown orbs hiding behind those round glasses, straight pointed nose with a tiny mole and his light pink square lips.

It was the same Taehyung he met in the library that day, the same Taehyung that he decided not to ruin yesterday was seated opposite of him staring at him with the same wide eyes as him.

Observing both of their shocked faces, the others looked at each other in bewilderment, "Is everything okay?" Jin asked worriedly, dragging both of them out of their own world.

The two cleared their throat and awkwardly smiled at others and said that they were fine, Jimin looked at the younger and found his gaze fixed on the table.

Taehyung didn't know why but he preferred not looking at him, his heart was pounding so loudly that he feared that Jungkook might hear him. Why was Jimin here? Wait, why did he come along with Namjoon? He should have refused! Or his mom, at least she should have declined that would have been better.

Jimin on the other side was smirking invisibly, he extended his hand towards Taehyung and greeted, "Hi! I'm Park Jimin." His teasing tone made Taehyung shut his eyes tightly, damn now he must look up and greet him back or else what would the hyungs think?

He gulped and slowly looked up and found the librarian's mischievous eyes staring at him, "K-Kim Taeh-hyung.." He stuttered as their palms interlinked, a pink blush along with neon criss cross lines appeared on his cheeks which the older found adorable and the others found strange. But one thing didn't digest well in him, why was Jimin acting like they met for the first time?

Jimin didn't want them to know anything about them having met already as he had already Jin that he found a cute guy in his library. He was thankful that he didn't mention Taehyung's name or else Jin would come to know now, and they would start shipping them together which Jimin didn't like at all and also thought that Taehyung might not like it either.

Namjoon frowned as he was concerned about why suddenly Taehyung's whole face got red, but his mind lit up as he realized that maybe the air conditioner is too cool for him. Concluding that as the reason he called Jungkook, "Kook-ah, Can you decrease the air conditioner a little. I guess it's very cool for Tae."

Taehyung looked at him and chuckled nervously as he retracted his hand in a hurry disappointing Jimin, "Thanks hyung. I-It's so cold.." He muttered, Jimin scoffed mentally only if the others knew why exactly the younger one was looking similar to the strawberry.

"So, Jimin. How was the party?" Yoongi asked in a mocking tone, grinning widely at him. He rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Ah! Hyung, please don't. It was so frustrating." He whined, a smile formed on Taehyung's lips.

'How cute.'

"But I'm surely gonna be dead tomorrow, y'all please come naked to my funeral." He announced that made them laugh out loud and when he found Taehyung laughing at him too, he smiled and saw that Taehyung immediately stopped and looked down.

"Jiminie, I seriously want to drop your grandma in the middle of a forest so that she never comes back. Peace!" Jin said, showing the peace sign. Jimin giggled at that.

"Yeah, she gets on my nerves sometimes." Yoongi said angrily and earned a me too from Jimin, now this made Taehyung take back what he thought about them earlier. Jimin seemed fine when they talked about his grandma like that, maybe they were very close.

"Yah yah! Stop talking about her. Aren't you all hungry? I will bring some food with soju!" Hoseok offered and stood up from the couch, Jungkook raised up to help him. The two headed to the kitchen.

"Jungkook being a good boy is a rare scene." Jin commented laughing.

"Yeah, just like you." Namjoon said with a sarcastic smile decorating his face. Yoongi and Jimin bursted out laughing as they clearly understood what he meant, but poor Taehyung had to process those words thrice to finally get it.

Jin rolled his eyes and gestured to Taehyung that Namjoon was being crazy, "He talks nonsense sometimes, please don't mind." Taehyung giggled and agreed with him.

"Yah! When did I talk nonsense?" Namjoon questioned with his eyebrows creased at Taehyung.

"Hyung, whenever you are tired or hungry you say things that don't make sense at all." Taehyung chuckled as he exposed him but earned a glare from him.

Jimin stared at Taehyung and asked, "So, you go to the same university as him?" Taehyung looked back at him and nodded shyly.

"Well, guys. You know what happened today?" At Yoongi's question everyone paid attention to him.

"There is this new employee in our company, I bumped into her two days ago. Today, she bought me cup noodles as I had skipped lunch and was staring at me the whole day. Oh god, I couldn't even concentrate properly." He sighed and shook his head.

"Uh-Oh! Don't tell Hoseok or he might cut her into pieces with his knife the same way he cuts fish." Jin uttered laughing along with others.

Jimin, who was glancing at Taehyung every now and then and vice versa, decided to tease him a little. He cleared his voice, "Something like that happened with me as well in the library." Taehyung attentively looked at him, Jin giggled as he already heard it in the car.

"I was upstairs finding a few books, when I came down I saw a cute guy staring at me." Taehyung furrowed his eyebrows, as it seemed familiar to him.

"He got so embarrassed when I caught him looking at me, he tried to ask my name but I wasn't that easy. But yeah.. he was so cute!" Jimin finished smiling, Taehyung's eyes went wide as he realized that he was talking about no one else but him.

"Cute guy, huh?" Namjoon teased him.

Jimin laughed and looked at Taehyung furtively, he was glaring at him with his cheeks burning. Jimin bit his lips hard in order to avoid laughing at how cute he looked when angry.

Taehyung looked away and changed the topic, "Jin hyung, how did your love story start?" Jimin arched an eyebrow but didn't give up.

"Well, you see Taehyung. We all lived in the same area and went to the same high school, he had difficulty in geography and would ask me to tutor as I aced in that subject." Jin said proudly as his fingers went through his black hair.

Namjoon snorted, "But hyung would teach less and stare at my lips more."

Taehyung cooed at that and felt someone kicking his leg under the table, "Ah!" He winced and slowly looked down only to find Jimin's leg. Thank god the hyungs didn't hear him.

He gazed up at Jimin who winked at him, Taehyung realized that he was teasing him so that he could witness the embarrassment Taehyung would feel later.

'Huh! He said he wasn't easy, now I will prove to you that I am not easy too.'

Taehyung thought smirking and ignored him as he went back to listen to the love story.

"It's not my problem, your lips were hard to resist." Jin retorted.

"Oh yeah? That's why it took you a month to kiss these lips?" Namjoon answered back and they were soon bickering on why it took Jin a month to taste those lips if it were that hard to resist, Yoongi and Taehyung tried to stop them but in vain.

Meanwhile Jimin was very busy teasing Taehyung by stamping on his foot, staring at him continuously and making small paper balls from the tissues and throwing at him furtively that he missed the chance to see Jin pecking Namjoon's lips to shut him up.

Yoongi's face churned and he looked away while Taehyung covered his face, and at the same time Jungkook and Hoseok came back with the food and drinks.

They served everyone on the table, Jungkook added an extra chicken on Jimin's plate, who hugged his waist and thanked him. Taehyung who noticed it suddenly froze, Jimin and Jungkook together. They reminded him of that rainy night, where he saw Jimin with someone in the car.

He observed them closely and that's when everything got clearer. Jungkook's eyes were the same pair of eyes of that of the person in the car, so it was Jungkook who was with him that night. For once, Taehyung started to overthink about them as he saw Jungkook wiping off the mayonnaise from Jimin's lips, but then he remembered Namjoon telling him that they were single too.

"Taehyung-ah? Why aren't you eating? Don't you like chicken?" Hoseok asked about to go to the kitchen to bring something else for him.

Taehyung blinked and shook his head at him, "No hyung, I love them." He said and started eating. Jimin saw him and noticed that Taehyung's eyes weren't sparkling anymore unlike earlier.

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They were done with the food and drinks, Yoongi, Namjoon and Jungkook were drunk as fuck. They were slurring and talking rubbish which made the others laugh while holding their stomach. Taehyung seemed fine a little as he eventually forgot about that rainy night and interacted more with his new friends. They were all so nice, treating him as their own friend with no formalism.

Currently, they were in the washroom clicking mirror selfies together and making fun of each other's poses. After using the toilet and washing their hands they left the washroom except for Taehyung, who was looking at himself in the mirror.

His nicely combed red hair was now messy which irked him, he had his glasses off as he had to wash his face. He combed his hair with his finger and smiled at himself once done, grabbing his spectacles and putting them on he walked out.

But Jimin pushed him back to the wall that was in between the door and the wide mirror, Taehyung gasped as the older man's face was too close to his.

"W-What a-are--" Jimin didn't let him speak as he covered his mouth and shushed him.

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What next????