love me (me) [vkook/taegguk]

[part eleven] chapter forty four - take me to the sky

panic ... panic and the stars

It's a strange combination, he'll admit– especially with it only being late in the afternoon, but there are stars out, and they're currently owlishly blinking up at him in wonder, making every nerve in his body shake with trepidation as well as awe.

He's just lightly shaken Jeongguk awake from where he's sort of hovering above him as his feet are planted on the pavement, his head ducked into the car where Jeongguk was dozing in the backseat.

"Handsome," is the first word out of his brother's best friend's mouth, even though his view of him is upside down at the moment, and it's whispered almost reverently.

Taehyung can only stupidly blink back at him, can only stupidly blink down at those doe eyes that must be magnetic because their celestial-like gaze is keeping him frozen in place. "Hi."

Jeongguk grins as he stares up at him, making no move to sit up. "Hi," he replies, voice a low hum. "Are you here to take me to the sky?"

His breath hitches a little. "That depends," he murmurs, doing his best to shake himself out of his daze and keep the shake out of his own voice.

"On?"

"On whether by 'the sky,' you mean through that door and up some stairs to our dorm, because that's where we're going, bun." Tae boops Jeongguk's adorable nose and mentally pats himself on the back for being able to do so as well as say all that without spontaneously combusting.

"Or," Jeongguk suggestively stretches the word out. "We could go somewhere else."

His brows furrow. "Like where?"

He gets a shrug in response. "You promised that you'd show me everything here, remember?"

Taehyung bites down on his bottom lip. "I did promise that, didn't I?"

Only when he did, he was sure that Vantae would have been the one following through with it.

"But do you really want me to right now?" Jeongguk is quick to supply him with an enthusiastic nod as an answer. "Aren't you still tired from your flight? And you haven't even taken your bags up yet."

"I have all the time in the world to do that, and I literally just woke up from a power nap. Come on, please, hyung?"

And that word, especially the sound of it in person, kind of makes him weak, so he asks if there's anywhere in particular that he'd like to go. He doesn't get an answer that he was expecting.

"A supermarket?" Tae amusedly repeats just to be sure that he heard that right, and Jeongguk nods again. "What, they don't have those in Korea anymore?"

His twin's best friend snorts. "The hyungs want to make us dinner tonight. Jin-hyung was just going to order groceries online or something, but I think this could be fun." He twinkles up at Taehyung, bunny teeth making an appearance. "And this way, we can be useful."

He reaches forward to pinch one of the younger's cheeks. "I'm always useful, brat, and you and I clearly have two very different definitions of fun."

"Okay, fine," Jeongguk huffs, playfully rolling eyes as his arms reach up to loosely snake around Tae's neck, crumbling all of his faux cool in a second, "maybe I'm just desperate for your company, and I don't wanna share you yet."

And how can Taehyung (or Vantae) (or anyone, really)) possibly say no to that?