too scared to be afraid

chapter nineteen: cancelled

"I wish I was special."

019: cancelled

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"And it's a tie! The two winners are Seokjin and Yoongi hyung!"

There was lots of cheering, although it was only because Hoseok insisted on it. Namjoon was a bit stand-off-ish to everyone since he still wasn't very good at socializing. He refused to speak more than a few words to anyone other than Hoseok.

Jimin and Jungkook were definitely salty. You could tell by the murderous sparkle in their eyes. Even Yoongi and Seokjin themselves were upset at the turn out. Neither boy wanted to share the prize and now they didn't know who was better than the other.

"Can't you just make one of us the winner?" Yoongi asked, he glanced at Taehyung who had announced the results. "Just pick one."

"Oh, well, I picked Yoongi and Namjoon picked Seokjin but Hoseok didn't know who to choose."

"Hoseok-ah, you need to pic-"

"I'll flip a coin to see who wins, is-is that okay?" Hoseok stammered, eyes flicking back and forth between his sour friends. "I loved all of your dishes. You guys are all really good at cooking!" He had been forced to try all four dishes but his bite was incredibly small. He didn't want to eat much, even if his hands were shaking as he fumbled for the coin he kept in his pocket.

"Sure," Seokjin calmly said.

Hoseok got his coin out and balanced it on his finger.

"Wait!"

Everyone looked to Yoongi. It was a bit weird for Yoongi to yell something aloud at random. Hoseok had seen him do it many times though, it happened quite often when he was flustered and wanted to say something.

"Can--Jimin flip it?"

Hoseok glanced to Jimin who had a sweet smile on his face. Seokjin recognized that small as false. They were cheating. He had even seen Jimin and Yoongi speaking about something as the three were taste-testing their food.

"Sur-"

"Not Jimin. How about Jungkook? You want to flip it, right Jungkook-ah?"

Jungkook got the memo almost instantaneously and nodded with a bunny smile.

"Yeah! I wanna flip it!"

Hoseok walked over to Jungkook and was about to give it to the boy when another voice stopped him.

"Wait, I really wanted to flip it though! I'm great at flipping coins," Jimin hurriedly said.

The boy didn't know what to do so he just walked over to Namjoon and gave him the coin. He figured Namjoon wouldn't mind.

But the others did. They were staring at him as if he had killed their families. Now, no cheating would be possible. They hadn't spent enough time or had taken the time to try to win over Namjoon's favor and now they were paying the consequence of chance.