Hide & Seek ➤ Taekook/Vkook

Chapter 2

Ten minutes later, Taehyung was on his way to Jungkook's room with a dish in his hands with three pieces of the cake Mrs. Jeon had baked, Jimin and Taehyung each adding one more piece from their plates to Jungkook's half-eaten one.

The cakes were like bribes to win Jungkook over. They knew Jungkook had a sweet tooth but as he had diabetic tendencies, Mrs. Jeon always wanted to keep him safe, resulting in him to suffer.

"Man!" Taehyung muttered to no one specifically, shaking his head with a giggle as he recalled how fun it used to be to eat sweet things in front of a pouting Jungkook glaring at him. It used to make eating sweets more fun.

Taehyung cleared his throat before stopping in front of Jungkook's room and cautiously knocking on the wooden door. While Jungkook took his time to open it, Taehyung looked around the lobby.

Mostly everything was the same, except some photos on the walls were replaced with current pictures of Jungkook and the Jeon family. There was also a picture of the 'Bangtan Boys' performing somewhere and Taehyung found a picture frame hanging just above it with a photo of him and Jungkook sitting on a couch. He walked closer to it and snickered. As much as he could remember, it was on Jungkook's ninth birthday. The party hat on his head was tilted on the side and he didn't seem to care about it at all because his eyes were busy shedding tears, face scrunched adorably as Taehyung, the naughty kid that he used to be, was blowing all the candles stuck on the cake before the birthday-boy could.

Taehyung's heart filled with warmth at the beautiful picture. He couldn't stop his hands from softly tracing over it. It made a wistful smile come to his lips, thinking how they could do anything back then, without giving a shit to the responsibilities that the society threw at them as they grew up.

Taehyung's train of thoughts broke as he heard the clicking sound of Jungkook's door being opened. He quickly turned round and found the latter standing there with his eyebrows furrowed.

Jungkook was undoubtedly confused. He was expecting someone else to come to take him downstairs, maybe Jimin or Lisa. The image of Taehyung standing there with a plate of cakes in his hands would have never occurred in his mind.

"What are you doing here?" Jungkook asked, tone a little grumpy.

"Hey, Jungkook!" Taehyung, holding the plate in one hand, grabbed his wrist with the other. He almost dragged Jungkook in front of their picture together and said, "This picture is so sweet and wholesome, isn't it? Like it describes what we actually were like." He laughed, hoping to lighten up Jungkook's mood. He looked expectantly at the younger who was totally bewildered at his behaviour.

Was Taehyung that good at moving past things? Just some minutes ago Jungkook had almost backed off from shouting at him for bringing up Minsuh and now there he was grabbing his wrist and laughing?

"Let go of my hand!" He exclaimed and got his wrist out of Taehyung's grip, "Do you think it's funny? You can't just tear up old wounds and then act like nothing happened, Kim Taehyung."

There went Taehyung's chance of lightening up Jungkook's mood flying out of the window.

"Wait, am I taller than you now?" But he tried again, chuckling as he suddenly realised the current height difference between the two of them. He used to be shorter than Jungkook years ago and even though was merely a centimetre or two taller now, it somehow appeared cute to him, something to boast about.

"Why am I even talking to you?" Jungkook groaned in exasperation, throwing his arms in the air. Turning on his heel, he walked toward the balcony at the end of the long lobby with a quick pace. Why was Taehyung continuously avoiding arguments like that? He wasn't used to it and he hated when things didn't go his way.