venus (taekook)(slowwwwwww updates)

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TAEHYUNG

The hotel is nice, we are all pretty exhausted after the ten hour trip here. We stopped twice at two different locations that Seokjin planned to stop at before getting here.

There's an outdoor pool that everyone is dying to spend some time by tomorrow after the aquarium. Then the next day we will begin the trip back to Seoul.

I'm not as anxious now that we are in the hotel room, the sun is long gone and the temperature, according to my weather app, as dropped significantly, leaving the night far cooler than the day.

    "Aren't you asleep yet?" I whisper as I meet Jungkook on the small balcony outside of our room.

We are sharing our room with Hoseok and Yoongi—Seokjin, Namjoon, and Jimin sharing the room across the hall.

    "I think my fatigue's gone," Jungkook chuckles from where he leans forward against the railing. "Why are you up?"

I shrug, not wanting to mention that my alarm went off for me to use the bathroom. "Same reason I guess."

    "I can never sleep in new places," Jungkook says, looking over at me when I lean next to him against the railing.

"I get like that sometimes too." I sigh. "I heard your brain hemispheres have different levels of activity when in new places."

"Really?" He chuckles. "Why do you know that?"

"I don't know," I chuckle. "I read a lot."

Jungkook chuckles softly, looking back out into the city streets. It's a quiet night, there are barely any cars on the roads and few figures moving about.

"What are you thinking about?" I ask, moving closer to him and allowing our shoulders to touch.

"This all feels so temporary, doesn't it?" He says, his eyes illuminated by the lights in the distance. "So fleeting...like it's all going to be over before we know it."

"The trip?"

"No, everything."

I nod my head slowly as I interpret what he's saying. "Everything is temporary. So it makes sense that you feel that way."

"Do you feel that way?" He asks.

"Yeah," I answer honestly. "Sometimes when I  realize that people have been existing for billions of years and I've only been here for seventeen, it makes me feel small. Like...my lifetime is just a blink of the eye compared to everything else."

"Right," Jungkook nods. "Life feels so long during the tough times, but when you actually want the time to creep by, it doesn't."

"The times between suffering are short-lived," I say. "Maybe that's just an ultimate you have no choice but to agree to."

"I don't want this time to be short-lived," Jungkook sighs, an almost sad expression forming on his face. "I want you forever."

"You have me now," I smile, trying to lighten the expression on his face. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Even if our time together is just a blink of the eye compared to our lifetimes, I'll be glad to have known you for that split second of my existence," He says, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"A split second," I repeat. "If that's all we have I don't want to waste anymore of it."

"Me neither," He says. "We spent six hours in a car today when we should've been making every minute count."

"Every minute counts on its own, you don't have to make it," I say. "You just have to have the awareness that time is passing...and that time is precious."

"Right now I'm only aware of each second that passes where you aren't my boyfriend," Jungkook says making the smile on my face widen, I cover my face in embarrassment. "You said it yourself the other day, no one's ever gotten what they wanted by staying quiet."

    "Actually, I think you said that," I say, looking away when Jungkook takes my hands from my face.

    "Well, I was right," He says. "I like you, Taehyung. I like spending time together and I like the way we are with each other. Everything feels...I don't know, natural between us. Y'know?"

    "Yeah," I say looking down at our hands. "I feel the same way, Jungkook."

    "So?" He asks, tapping my chin and making me meet his eyes. "What do you say, do you want to give us a shot?"

I try to hold back the smile that spreads across my face as I nod my head. "I-I do, yeah."

    "Really?" Jungkook laughs, I can tell he's nervous.

    "Yeah," I nod with a smile. "I was hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to ask."

    "So, you'll be my boyfriend?" He asks. "Like seriously, one hundred percent?"

    "One hundred percent," I say. "I'll be your boyfriend."

    "You don't understand how happy it makes me to hear you say that, Tae," He says hugging me. "I've been thinking about asking you for weeks."

    "Me too," I chuckle as I hug him, pulling away from the hug enough to looking up at him. "'I have to remind myself to breathe – almost to remind my heart to beat...'"

   "Brontë." He smiles as he looks into my eyes. "'Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...'"

    "Should we be reciting a tainted love story during our first minutes as an official couple?" I ask. "Is that bad luck?"

    "No," He laughs. "I think it's kind of beautiful...like you."

"Don't," I say, trying to ignore the way my stomach does little backflips.

"It's true," He says. "I'm kind of worried, Tae."

"Why?"

"Because...I think I might be falling in love with you."

I nod my head, the smile on my face never leaving. "That's not such a bad thing, is it?"

What Jungkook didn't know was that I was just as worried about falling in love as he was, but for different reasons.

It wasn't because it felt too soon, or for any other reason besides the fact that he didn't know about my condition.

If he didn't know about that he was missing a huge part of my life, a huge part of who I am and why I am the way I am.

"No, I guess it isn't," Jungkook says, leaning forward and pressing a kiss to my forehead.

I'm not sure how long we stand on the balcony holding each other but time doesn't seem to matter when we're like this.

Nothing seems to matter...

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