Season 2: Chapter 14

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"Like when we went to Jeju" says Amanda on the opposite side of the table "just a brief experience" Jungkook nodded at her before drinking on the wine glass. "When do you think can we do that again?" she asks in anticipation. Jungkook smiles in a careful manner "I don't know yet. Our manager insisted that we should stay in Seoul because we have an appointment anytime soon" He explains considering  his hyungs warnings. Thus, Jeju is one of the tourist spots in Korea. Fans can recognize him wearing a mask and hoodie on in Seoul what is there to wear to conceal his identity fully in a populated land, not to mention some tourist that visited Seoul because of them. "Is there other thing that you want to do? Just here in Seoul"

"I'll think about it" Amanda smiles at him before their table was filled with conversation and laughters.

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Taehyung pulls down his rolled up sleeves. Pushing the cart of pingpong balls on the corner of the training center. He spend two hours in the room: 1 and a half hour practicing and the thirty left was for picking up pingpong balls on the floor (which he realized was hard doing alone). Taehyung bowed to the coach and change into his casual clothes. Carring his gym bag to the exit "Where is Jungkook?" he whispers to himself because their youngest told him that they should go home together since the training center is along Jungkook's way. Taehyung grabs his phone to message him of his spot, biting his lips inside.

Moments went by that Taehyung received no response from him. He puts the phone close his ears to call Jungkook, looking up the sky as the ringing goes on the line, then shifted to the left side- turning head there twice in a swift. Around ten full grown trees are planted in between his spot and the driveway but all of them are not enough to conceal a BTS member's car and the woman coming out of it. Not a hint of surprise appears on Taehyung's face when Jungkook stepped out of the car but his head  turns straight ahead when the two figures hugs. Taehyung huffs a heavy breath, his hands on the pocket.

The buildings changes over the window of the car. Jungkook drives, Taehyung facing the window of the car, mouth is shut as though he has no intention talking at all and just waiting for them to arrive home.

"Why are you so quiet?" Jungkooks asks with a smile. Taehyung sighs through his nose "Just tired". "You just practiced for about two hours" he jokes. Everything he means to say piles up inside of him like  heavy blocks going higher. The lack of guilt on Jungkook provokes them further to collapse making it harder for him to bear with the weight. Taehyung turns to Jungkook with a serious gaze. 'He can't handle it. We will tell him about her soon after  it's rest assured that he is well and not get hurt. Bear with it for the time being' the voices of their hyungs whispered on the back of his mind almost begging the other members to be patient of Jungkook

Taehyung clenches his jaw, pursing his lips and a single nod before turning to the window again. While in the car he can't fully ignore Jungkook's questions so he answers them even in simple statements. For the whole ride Taehyung felt suffocated as though a mask is being force on his face to wear, against his will. But no matter he resist, the biggest weapon agaisnt him is being an older brother to Jungkook. He drops the feelings he has inside and wears the mask like what all the members are doing.. For awhile, only for a while to him.

They went to their respective rooms, Taehyung sits on his bed viewing his messages. He stares over the window tiny white cotton-like flies on the air, going down the ground softly. He leaps from his seat to the window "unexpectedly today is the first snowfall" he pursed lips, cheeks puffing off like a bread, snow reflects on his eyes.

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The next morning, BTS and TWICE wrapped up their schedule in the morning for a half day long event to be held at one of Seoul's open space venue in celebration of the anniversary of a music show. At the very first glance of the sun on the sky, fans rush to the venue to be the first individual's on the line wearing thick padded jackets, hoping they can will be accommodated to a good seat for the music celebration to be attend by several kpop groups. Behind the stage are tents for every groups to perform. The space for these tents are enormous with paths across each tents minimizing the possibility of TWICE and BTS meeting there. The only concrete and inevitable chance of bumping into each other is the line up, because there is only one group to perform before and after them.

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