Love maze | taehyung x reader

C h a p t e r 23

*Taehyung PoV*

The silence in the car was stifling as Jungkook drove me home, and he was painfully aware of it, his hands shifting uncomfortably on the wheel as he drove.

I simply rolled the window down, and looked out for those few minutes. I had been enjoying myself at lunch, I really had. The time I'd spent with y/n was so enjoyable, I loved the way it felt to hold her hand within mine, I loved the way her face flushed for every small thing.

But then that stupid hotel guy just had to show up and screw things up. I knew it could be nothing, that they could just be being friendly, but from how good she was looking today, and how he was looking at her, I didn't want that.

I was being irrational, I know. But she did really mess up my head.

*** 

After a few hours, I had kind of calmed down a bit and was almost back to my usual self. Jungkook, bless him, was quite in tune with my emotions, seeing as he perked up as well.

"Hyung," he began, looking over at me. He was sitting on the couch behind me, and I was sitting on the floor, both of us drinking some banana milk that he had brought over to keep in my fridge.

"Yeah?"

"You know you could just do something about y/n."

I almost spat out my milk. "What?" I hadn't told him I liked her. Was I that obvious?

"You like her. I know you do, and the thing is that if you don't do anything about it someone else is going to get her. And I don't mean that in a way like she's a prize to be lost, because she's not, but I know she'd be happy with you."

"I-"

"And I've seen the way she looks at you, I really think you have a good chance."

"But-"

"But to be honest, I wouldn't complain if you don't make a move on her, I've been thinking about doing so myself."

At those words, my jaw clenched and my hands balled up into fists.

"Whoa, hyung! If I seriously didn't know you better and wasn't aware of the fact that I could survive if you tried to beat me up I'd be terrified right now. You seriously look like you're about to kill me. I was kidding!"

I relaxed and melted into the sofa, my face heating up. I had to get Jungkook back for that. "Well then, if you were to do that I guess I'd just hook up with Rina," I said, a grin growing on my face as I saw his jaw tighten and his face turn bright red as he struggled not to spit out his banana milk all over the couch.

"Wha- you know?"

"Wait you thought I didn't know?" I asked incredulously. "Dude! It's so obvious I can't even- it's so obvious!"

"Wait, how do I make it less obvious?"

"Well," I began, "you could start off with not looking at her like she's the only person in the worded when you're together-" I broke off as he threw one of the cushions on the couch at me.

"And also maybe talk to someone other than her when they're around as well, like, I dunno, your childhood best friend of more than twenty years now?" I leaned over, dodging another cushion that he threw at me, laughing.

"I get it, I get it," he said, finishing up the last of his milk. I still had some left, so I handed it over to him to have finish up.

"Nah, but for real, Rina looked really good today, and the way she was looking at you, I wish someone would look at me like that," I said.