The Professors (Jimin x BTS)

Ch. 7

Jimin ran, like he was being chased, through the halls. His heart was pounding at the idea of seeing them again (and the fact he's running).

Letting his legs lead him, he rushed into the Dance studio. Hoseok was so lost in thought that he didn't even notice the other's presence.

Jimin slowed to a walk and made it halfway to Hoseok before he stopped. A single tear fell down the man's face before he turned and banged the side of his fist against the wall.

"Stupid....Scared him....Idiot....Ruined everything..." Hoseok continued to chastise himself as Jimin thought about what Hoseok had told him that day.

Suddenly, he had an epiphany. He silently closed the door and then turned on the music he first learned from Hoseok.

The aforementioned startled and turned to see Jimin taking off his tie and wrapping it around his eyes. He then kneeled on the ground and calmed his breathing.

"J-jimin," Hoseok stammered, "What are you doing here. What are you doing?"

Jimin took one last deep breath before  speaking. "You were right. I didn't know what I was asking for. But now I do. This was the first song you taught me. I can't see you, but you can still guide me. Remember that day?"

Hoseok was silent. He did.  Remember...

That day, Jimin had asked how blind and deaf people could dance so perfectly. Hoseok taught him a choreo and then told Jimin to close his eyes and keep them closed.

It started off with nothing but the song playing. Jimin had stood barefoot with his eyes closed. "Feel the rythm and dance."

Jimin was hesitant at first. Not wanting to move where he couldn't see.

"But what if I run into you....or a wall?"

"Do you know the dance?"

"Yes."

"Then do the dance. This is how a blind person does it. They know the song. They feel the moves they dance blindly. This is how a deaf person dances. Barefoot. Where they can feel the vibrations; the measures the beats. Do you get it now?"

Jimin opened his eyes. "So the music leads them and they have to trust it?"

Hoseok nodded.

"Please. I'm blind and restricted to where I can and cannot move. Please... Be my music and guide me. I will learn. I promise you."

Hoseok smiled and bent down, pulling down Jimin's blindfold. "You, Park Jimin, are one of few who know how to get to me."

Jimin shyly smiled, a blush lightly crossing his face from how Hoseok was looking at him. A proud smile that made Jimin feel like he made the sky and the stars in it.

"We will talk about it with the others. Have spoken to them yet?" Hoseok asked as he fixed Jimin's hair.

Jimin shook his head, resulting in a playful tsk from Hoseok who now had to fix it again.

"Now...shall we," Hoseok asked standing up. Jimin smiled and nodded before Hoseok led him out of the dance studio and towards where they would usually meet.

In Jin's classroom.
Jimin gulped. Was he ready to face all of them at once? Again...