Hide & Seek ➤ Taekook/Vkook

Chapter 25

[You'll know when to hear the song, trust me 🤧]

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𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇...
𝑫𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔
𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔

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[Dedicating this chapter to taeskim. Thank you sooo much for showering your love on this story. Your comments and constant support truly mean a lot. Take my love 🥺💟]

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"Kookie...I'm seriously getting mad at you now." Jungkook heard Jimin drowsily whine beside him with a nudge to his forearm, a long and loud yawn following, "Come on...Put the phone down."

They were in Hoseok's room— four of them jostling together to somehow fit themselves into his king-size bed while Namjoon and Seokjin were allotted the twin-sized one in the room next to theirs—with Yoongi's warning as a bonus that he didn't want to wake up in the middle of the night to any "noises", which had earned him a non-aggressive kick in the calf from Jin by the way.

After spending hours on playing various silly video games (mostly Overwatch and Mario Kart), with Jin and Yoongi constantly groaning and yelling curses at the screen out of frustration whenever it wouldn't go in their favour, Jimin and Hoseok painting each other's nails, Namjoon talking about Pokemon and deliberately doing awful karaoke to be funny (which had to be stopped because one of the neighbours called Hoseok to complain about it), Jungkook ordering way too much food and gobbling it all down while mimicking their friends and family (especially Yoongi's father), sharing rounds of bellyaching laughter— they had finally gone to bed half an hour back at around 1 AM.

"Yeah, just a minute," Jungkook unmindfully replied to Jimin in a murmur, not sparing him even a glance as he kept going through Instagram, searching for a certain someone.

"You've been saying that for the past half an hour!" Jimin groaned but to Jungkook's surprise, he didn't hover anymore, well, couldn't because sleep took over him like it had the other two older ones, leaving Jungkook as the only one awake in the darkened room, the only light coming from the screen of his phone.

Honestly, his eyes were kinda burning too, both due to staring at the screen for so long and due to sleep trying to reign over him as well. Hearing Hoseok's low snore wasn't helping either. The comatose quietness of the room was coaxing him to drop his head on the soft pillow and just give his eyes the rest they were desperately craving.

But he knew that once he would fall asleep, there was no way he would be able to wake up in an hour. Even the alarm would give up on him out of frustration after seeing how it did not affect his slumber at all.

And he didn't want that to happen.

So, in an attempt to stay awake—and also out of an undying curiosity—he had logged into their band's Instagram account after about three or four months just to check if Kim Taehyung was truly unavailable on the platform. 

And oh boy, what username did he not try searching? Kim Taehyung, Taehyung Kim, K. Taehyung, T. Kim — typing out every possible combination of underscores and dots and such and clicking on every handful of profile coming up, but every damn time, he was being welcomed with unfamiliar random faces, not the guy with a strikingly handsome face and long brown hair, sharp eyes and tan skin and now an ear-piercing...