Sparks ᴺᴱᵂ

Chapter 7 : A text

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The time was 18:00. It had been a few hours since Taehyung had arrived home from his first day at University. Not long after his rather wild encounter with Jungkook, he decided it was best for him to go home early. In his defence, he only had one more hour worth of art so he didn't think he would be missing much content, especially as it was only an introductory lesson. Not to mention the panic attack he had earlier in the same lesson, which further edged him to go home. It would have been so embarrassing to return after running out so sudden.

Taehyung led in the comfort of his silk sheets while his head repeated a continuous cycle of the events that took place that day. It was his brains way of fighting with him, torturing him with what he considered the bad moments and drowning out the good. It made him battle with himself, making him question how he could have responded differently and had a less embarrassing outcome if he were to have done so. Whilst recalling his dreadful day, Taehyung's mind fast forwarded to what Jungkook had said to him:

'I want to take you out this Friday night' 

The words remained fresh in his mind as he recalled Jungkook's addictive voice. Fuck. What was he meant to do? Obviously Taehyung didn't want to disappoint the dark haired boy but he was nervous... incredibly nervous. He had never been on a date before, let alone with a boy.

What would he wear? Would it be a casual date or would he have to dress up in fancy attire? How would he style his hair? What would they do? What would he say? Would it be awkward?

God Taehyung's mind was a mess. He could feel his palms cover themselves in a sheen of sweat as he questioned every little detail about the upcoming date he knew nothing about.

'Just relax Taehyung, you have four days to prepare yourself. Why are you stressing now?' the boy told himself , trying to calm the buzz of nerves that took over his mind.

In attempts to distract himself, he picked up his phone and decided to scroll through social media. After ten minutes of scrolling, he soon realised that his plan didn't work as well as he had imagined.  No matter how hard he tried, or what he did, he couldn't quite shake Jungkook from his thoughts. What was so special ab-

PING!

A banner appeared at the top of Taehyung's phone, alerting him that he had been sent a message. The number was unknown to him, with no indication in the text as to who it was. All that was sent were the words "Hi Taehyung:)"

Could it be Jungkook?? There his mind went again , instantly thinking of the boy. Wait, but how would he have got hold of his number? He most certainly didn't give it out to him after their encounter.

Puzzled over who the anonymous sender was , he decided to respond back. He questioned the person, asking nothing more than 'who are you??'

Not even a minute later the sender responded once again. "Why are you acting dumb Taehyung, you know who it is."

Huh? He really didn't recall giving his number out to anyone.

'Jungkook cut it out. How did you get my number?' he texted back, now almost certain he knew who the person was.

"Jungkook??" the anonymous person replied, now seeming just as confused as Taehyung.

'Yes, this isn't funny, what do you want?'

"Huh? Taehyung it's Jimin. I wanted to check up on you after what happened earlier. How are you feeling? Also who's Jungkook?"

Oh... He was slightly disappointed.

His mind was so focused on Jungkook that he had completely forgotten that Jimin had asked for his number earlier on that day.

'Ohhh Jiminnn!! Sorry, I didn't get the chance to save your number earlier so I had no idea who you were haha.' He wanted to ignore the questions Jimin had asked but was also grateful that he seemed to care. 'I'm okay now, i'm sorry you had to witness that earlier but thankyou for checking up on me!'

"No problem Tae! Don't apologise, I'm glad you're doing better. I'm looking forward to art tomorrow, hopefully i'll see you there yea?"

"Ofcourse :) See you tomorrow"

After his brief conversation with Jimin, he saved his number in his contacts under the name "Jimin😎"

He smiled to himself, happy that he was able to make a friend so early on but couldn't help but feel a little sad that the message wasn't from Jungkook.

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Hii, this was more of a filler chapter but I still hope you enjoyed!