Okay, I wanna make something clear. I hope you don't expect toooooo much of taekook romance from this book, because it's the high school romance we are talking about. It's going to be simple and full of friends.
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Jeongguk was in a dilemma. He was pacing around furiously with his phone in one hand and the other hand in his hair.
It'd been a week since the parent-teacher conference, and the entire school knew that the basketball team left for the tournament that morning.
If it were a couple of weeks ago, he would have never even dreamt of it, but now that he at least knew Taehyung and even played with him an entire evening, he felt like it was his obligation to wish him the best of luck.
The entire team didn't attend school the entire week, preparing hard for the tournament, and Jeongguk would be lying if he said he didn't miss staring at his crush during lunch. But he was also relieved in a way, because he and his friends were now sitting with Jimin and Hoseok every day for lunch and if Taehyung was present, it wouldn't just be crush-staring moments for Jeongguk anymore.
Still, it wasn't new to him. The basketball team was only present at the school for about half a month every month. The other half was spent on their training. Every sports team was like that. So he was used to not having Taehyung at the school as well.
This time, however, he had this undying urge to wish the boy good luck. He mentioned it to Yoongi and Jeongyeon that morning and his snitch of a best friend ratted him out to her boyfriend during lunch.
To say Jimin and Hoseok were excited to give him Taehyung's number would be an understatement because the two of them had slammed their hands on the table and shot up like it was an opportunity they had been waiting for.
So here he was, late at night, dying to just tap on the 'send', having already typed the message, but not finding the courage to send it.
What if Taehyung forgot all about his existence? Or if he found him weird? Or if got mad at the fact that Jeongguk got hold of his phone number somehow?
He looked down at the message he had typed out.
Hi, Taehyung sunbae. This is Jeon Jeongguk from 2-C. You know, that tan-square-x. The one you played badminton with. You know, your best friend Jimin hyung's girlfriend's best friend. I hope you are not mad that I got your phone number from Jimin hyung. I just wanted to wish you good luck with the match tomorrow. I know you play well, anyway, but still, best of luck. Sorry for disturbing you.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and slammed his fingers on the screen randomly for about ten seconds before daring to sneak a peak at his screen by nervously peeling one of his eyes open.
His heart jumped up to his throat when he realized that the message was now sent and he couldn't reverse it anymore. Even the fact that he now had permission to call Jimin and Hoseok 'hyung' instead of 'sunbae' wasn't enough to calm him down. Not even a little.
Deciding that he would die of a heart attack before even professing his undying love for Taehyung if he kept staring at his phone, he threw it on the bed and walked out of his room, only to have a real heart attack when the main door slammed shut and two blindly kissing figures stumbled past him, straight into Seokjin's room.
It must have been an extremely desperate makeout session if the two of them didn't consider the presence of Jeongguk and his parents at home, but it was still a heart attack because Jeongguk surely knew who that man who was busy eating Seokjin's face was.
Never in his wildest dreams did he ever think he would see Mr Kim in his house.
Just the fact that Mr Kim was in his house was not only unimaginable but also a little alarming. But to think that the said man was now busy fucking Seokjin?! The sounds that were leaving his cousin's sinful throat were disgusting. He would never be able to refer to Mr Kim as 'Mr Kim' in his mind anymore after hearing that moanful 'ugh, Namjoon, uhhh, p-please'.
He ran back to his room and slammed his door shut, grabbing his phone to share the new gossip with his best friends. This time, surprisingly, even Yoongi answered the group call.
"I have teaaaaaaaaaaaaa," he squealed, unable to hold himself back.
"What is it?! Taehyung sunbae replied to you?! Wait, did you even text him in the first place?" Jeongyeon asked.
Jeongguk rolled his eyes. "I did, a couple of minutes ago, BUT I HAVE TEA!!!" he squealed again.
"What is IT?!?!" this time Jeongyeon squealed as well. It was always hard for her to not share the emotions of the people surrounding her, after all.
"Yeah, spill already," Yoongi said, sounding a little intrigued himself.
"I'm not gonna," Jeongguk said and even giggled a little at how it riled his friends up. "You guys are gonna have to listen to it for yourselves," he said and threw his door open.
He tiptoed to his cousin's closed room. It seemed like the couple inside were deaf to the outside world. He pressed the phone's receiver to Seokjin's keyhole and waited for Seokjin to moan out his partner's name again. He didn't have to wait for long, though, because soon, there it was. The 'oh, god, oh god, right there, Joon, such mindfuck!! Ugh, Namjoon, go on, ughhh!!'
Jeongguk covered his mouth with his free hand and tiptoed back to his room before daring to talk. "Uhh, where did he go?" he asked when he noticed that Yoongi wasn't on the call anymore. "He lost connection, I guess. I've tried to add him back, but I couldn't. BUT IT CAN WAIT!!! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAAAAAAATTT!!" she squealed, groaning when a distant voice from her mother yelled 'language!!'
"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT WAS!!" Jeongguk exclaimed, his eyes sparkling with an unexplainable excitement.
"Oh, god, gimme some time to get my mind around this," she said, sounding a little dazed.
Jeongguk chuckled. He couldn't blame her, though. He couldn't believe it either. It was difficult to even imagine Mr Kim kissing someone, but he had seen with his own two eyes how much the man was capable of destroying another man in his hands with just his lips.
"Okay, I need to go and tell Jiminie oppa about this!! See you tomorrow. Good night!!" she said after a while and hung up before Jeongguk could even reply.
Jeongguk chuckled at her and tried to call Yoongi, but the boy didn't answer. Rolling his eyes, he threw his phone away, only to jump to it when it vibrated with a message.
As expected, it was who he thought it was.
His hands shook as he opened it, his heart beating in his throat, but after reading it, his heart restarted with a new passion, making his face glow red in shyness.
Taehyung sunbae 💘💕💖💝💞💓😍😘💋
Lmao, Jeongguk, you could have stopped your intro right at that 'this is Jeon Jeongguk' and I would have still recognized you.
Anyways, thanks for the wishes.
I know I'll make it to the team this time cos I have your wishes now.
I can't chat, though.
I'm exhausted.
Good night, xoxo.
P.S. Keep texting, though. Don't get all shy and delete my phone number in panic or something.
