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5

September finally approached. 

Hoseok was off at an important meeting with his manager this morning, something about a "great opportunity with an amazing artist" that he couldn't miss. 

Taehyung didn't hold it against him that Hoseok wasn't here. There we more important things to do than rush to the convenient store on the corner and wait for the workers to put out the September issue of Vogue.

Joshua said he wanted to sleep in. Taehyung told himself he couldn't hold it against him, either.

"Come on," Yoongi groaned, bouncing on the balls of his feet. "The Vogue one! We need the Vogue one!"

"Who even are you people?" The teenager rolled his eyes and dug through the cardboard box before finally producing the Vogue issue. He paused, stared at the cover, and then looked back at Taehyung. "Holy shit."

"Yeah, yeah, he's beautiful, we all know." Yoongi snatched the cover out of the kid's hands and held it out in front of them. Taehyung's team had gotten the final proofing of the cover and had to approve it, but this was different. This was the version that was going to be in every grocery store, salon, book store, coffee shop. This was the world's version.

Taehyung traced his finger over his own face. "Wow."

"Dude, you look so good!" Jin snatched the magazine to look closer at Taehyung's face. 

"I wanna see the feature!" Jimin snatched it from Jin. He flipped through the pages until he found Taehyung's story. 

Taehyung stood back and watched as three of his best friends huddled together in a corner store to read his article. His heart swelled in his chest.

When they finished reading, they all turned and looked at Taehyung. Jimin had tears in his eyes. Oh god.

"You thanked us?" Jimin's bottom lip quivered. "Even me?"

"Of course, Jimin," Taehyung gave him a soft smile. "You have been there for me every step of the way for the past three years."

Jimin threw himself, like actually tossed his body into Taehyung. Taehyung's breath wooshed out of his chest as he hugged him. Yoongi and Jin soon joined, too, and none of them seemed to care they were all huddled together in the magazine section of a corner store.

Taehyung's heart swelled a little more.