priceless | tk ✓

-: 71 :-

play sweet night while
reading for full feels :))

—

Their picture from Andong was up on the screen, the title 'Sweet Night' in Taehyung's handwriting along the bottom.

A countdown was in the corner and Jungkook slipped away from Taehyung's arms, rising to his feet and moving passed the center coffee table.

"Jungkook?" Taehyung followed him up, the younger feeling every part of him burn. Burn with anticipation because he had been waiting for this all day. Maybe he'd been waiting for it before he even knew the song existed.

"Hey," Taehyung stared at him worriedly, hands landing on his arms, torn between the ten seconds left on the timer and the silence that had replaced Jungkook's rambles. "You okay?"

Jungkook didn't even get to respond. Because that timer counted down from five and disappeared upon hitting zero— the stunned silence of Jungkook engulfed by the melodic voice of his loved one.

Time stopped. Time just simply froze as his whole body stilled in an external lock. Everything happened inside, unlocked from some cavern deep in his heart.

"On my pillow
Can't get me tired.
Sharing my fragile truth
That I still hope the door is open
'Cause the window opened
one time with you and me.
Now my forever's falling down
Wondering if you'd want me now."

His heart weighed down his whole chest, making him reach for Taehyung's shoulders to steady himself. It made him feel so full, so ethereal and it was unbelievable. So good. So them.

Jungkook didn't know when the tears began falling because time had stopped. He didn't know when Taehyung's arms had wrapped around him and pulled him close, he just knew he ended up there.

"How could I know
One day I'd wake up feeling more?
But I had already reached the shore.
Guess we were ships in the night
Night, night.
We were ships in the night
Night, night."

He heard every lyric, every fluctuation in Taehyung's voice. Every syllable and vibrato, every annunciation that articulated the rocking sensation of his words. He heard the soft murmur whispered in his ear, the real voice soothing his run of emotions while the singing one pushed him deeper into the meaning.

He listened to every inch of Taehyung's heart pouring out in the song. He listened to the emotions, the hope for something more and something everlasting in a time of displacement.

"I'm wondering are
you my best friend?
Feels like a river's rushing
through my mind.
I wanna ask you if this
is all just in my head.
My heart is pounding
tonight I wonder if you
Are too good to be true.
And would it be alright if I
Pulled you closer?"

It was too good to be true, but it was exactly that. True. It was all truly theirs. Jungkook pulled Taehyung closer as if it were an answer to his hopeful pleading.

And they swayed. Swayed like their ships at night, rocking in dark waters, hand in hand.
His feet floated on the ground, body floating in Taehyung's arms like his precious ship in a long journey overseas.

They were headed for the same place that time. They had the same wants, the same goal.

Their hearts were in the same place.