Chapter One: Billboard Number One

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September 1st, 2020

Jimin:

Jimin was roused out of sleep by the jingle of their group text notification. Jungkook's body breathed deep in sleep beside him. He reached for his glasses and phone... 3:20 am...

Suddenly his heart began to thump and he sat up like a shot. There was only one reason RM would be texting at 3am today. His finger slid the text message open shakily.

RM: We are at number one on Billboards Guys!

RM: Dynamite! WE DID IT!! AHHHH

Jimin just started sobbing. He couldn't believe it. They had done it. 7 years of body wrenching, heart wrenching sacrifice and work. And they were number one. In AMERICA. During a freaking global pandemic, to make it no less confusing and emotional.

"Jungkook!" He said with a sob, "Jungkook, we are number one!" He found himself thinking of what the year was supposed to be...

Jungkook did not stir, still unconscious.

Jimin slipped out of bed, they had only been asleep for a few hours, Jungkook was tired... And Jimin was starting to cry now because of the rush of emotions about this year. They were supposed to be on the biggest tour of their lives. They were supposed to be meeting thousands of ARMYs every week and traveling all over the world. And instead..

He found himself remembering how he and Jungkook had been up late the night before celebrating Jungkook's birthday with a special dinner and champagne alone here at their own apartment....and then having amazing sex for hours without having to worry about much of anything else.

He was a tangle of emotions. There had been good things about having more time off this year. When Jungkook first bought this apartment, they barely had time to use it. They would steal away for a few hours to have sex as loud as they wanted, to let Jimin dress up in soft women's clothes and lingerie, to walk around naked...sometimes to spend the night, but they never really lived here, ever.

But that was a gift that Covid had given them. The smallest taste of normalcy. They had been here at their apartment more than the BTS dorm, for the first time ever, in the last few months. Slowly Jimin or Jungkook had ordered furniture and dishes, it started to feel like home. Their home together.

He had actually grown a couple of centimeters, and found himself wondering if all that exhaustive dancing and dieting since he was 16 might not have been an ideal scenario for him to finish growing...how much taller might he have been if he hadn't starved himself as a teenager? He sighed at his own brain. Why was he so emotional right now?

His phone jingled again.

JN: OMG

He was recalled to the fact that they were world-chart topping artists, sitting above Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber. He had a new rush of sobbing.

V: What, is it real??

His heart leaped when he read Tae's message. He was awake right now too. It was certainly at these moments that he missed living with all the others boys still. He found his fingers trembling as they pressed to call Taehyung.

"Jimin?" Tae was also crying, which made Jimin cry more, "Is it real, Chimmy, is it??"

"I don't even know Tae-Tae, are you there with Namjoon?"

"I'm just laying in bed crying, I can't get up, I'm too tired."

"Here, I will look up the chart and send you a screenshot if it is real, okay?" Jimin was trembling still, voice cracking constantly with emotion. "Don't hang up, hold on I will put you on speaker." He put V on speaker phone and searched the Billboard charts. Dynamite was right there at the number one position, over WAP and Drake and the Weeknd and all the other music that was topping the charts right now.

   Dynamite was right there at the number one position, over WAP and Drake and the Weeknd and all the other music that was topping the charts right now

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"Holy Shit! Tae it is real, it is real," he yelled into the phone. He was sobbing again, and tried to pull himself together. "Here I will send you a screenshot."

He sent it to the whole group text.

"Wow," said Taehyung as he looked at it. "I still can't believe it." He was sobbing again and so was Jimin.

"I wish I could give you a hug right now, Jungkookie will not wake up and I am freaking out."

"Come over and sleep with me for the rest of the night, I don't want to be alone either," Taehyung said, crying like a small child. Jimin smiled. He loved Taehyung so, he was such a little kid in some ways. But he wouldn't give up the chance to be the one to tell Jungkook the news for anything.

"Ah, Brother, I'm too tired, but we will come tomorrow for Kookie's birthday VLive, I am bringing a cake." Jimin caught his breath finally, talking about real things that made sense instead of this insane Billboard Achievement that his brain couldn't process into anything but pure tears of happiness...

"Okay, goodnight Chimmy, love you," he spoke like he was talking to a parent, but to Jimin, his brother and best friend.

"Love you Tae-Tae, see you tomorrow." Jimin hung up the phone with a smile. Crying with Taehyung had helped him process a little better. He glanced at his phone, it was now past 4.

He slipped back into the bedroom of their apartment, and back into bed with Jungkook, who had not moved a muscle since he left. He snuggled up behind him, kissing his neck. 

"Kookah, Baby."

"Mmm," Jungkook stirred. 

"We are number one on Billboards, Kookie." 

"Hmm?" 

"We are number one on Billboards, JK! Dynamite!" Jimin was giggling. 

"Huh?" Jungkook turned over onto his back, rubbing his eyes, "what?" 

Jimin laughed, grabbed his phone and called up the screenshot he had taken of them at the number one place on the Billboard charts. 

"Baby, look, look," he held the phone up in front of Jungkook's eyes, which opened into slits against the sudden brightness. He squinted at the phone, trying to make his eyes focus, then blinked and rubbed his eyes and grabbed the phone from Jimin, sitting up, and suddenly awake and comprehensive. 

"What? Is this real?" Jimin laughed. 

"Check your phone."

Jungkook grabbed his phone and glasses and read the messages from everyone. "This is real? We did it?" He was laughing now, and crying, too, and Jimin started crying again. 

They were so emotional that they held each other and cried and laughed, at times uttering nonsensical disjoiners like: "Happy Birthday, Jungkook-shi!" and "I can't believe it!" and "NUMBER ONE, AHHH!" 

They fell back into a hazy sleep around 5.  


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Author Note:  

Since this will be a short story, I will probably keep the chapters on the shorter side.  The next one will be long and HOT AF though so look forward to that.  I will post in a day or two. ❤❤❤

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