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When you're twenty, sometimes you think that you already know yourself - from what gives you happiness to what you want to be, from how you should live to who you should love...
- until someone unexpectedly barges into your life, like a bo...
[This chapter is dedicated to jkayyssgirl as a little thank you for how much support you've been constantly showing me for the past few months, even when I couldn't update for one thing or another. It means the world to me. You're one of the sweetest persons I've met through Hide & Seek and I wish you find such people through your own lovely stories as well. Take my love ❤️🌹]
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You are the best thing that ever happened to me...
That caption, the supposed fun fact for that day, would've led the butterflies inside Jungkook's stomach to flutter their pastel-coloured wings; his cheeks would've tickled as if some invisible paint brush colouring his apples a pretty shade of pink while his heart would've taken a few somersaults...
...only if his jaw hadn't dropped after watching his username there in the caption just under his own picture - a candid screenshot certainly taken from when he had fallen asleep on the video call with Taehyung last night; only if his brain hadn't short-circuited a little after having the truth hit him that Taehyung was already aware of the fact that the account 'paintastic_' belonged to him.
But the question was, HOW? Since when?
Okay, he would admit slipping up a couple times in front of Taehyung, almost making it obvious that he knew about his Instagram, but how on earth could it have been possible for Taehyung to deduce from there that 'paintastic_' was him and not someone else?
Jungkook groaned, putting down his phone on the kitchen counter and throwing his head back, his leftover breakfast long forgotten, because at that moment, he just wanted the ground to swallow him whole! That seemed far better than facing a Taehyung who, no matter by what means, now knew that he had basically deceived him to shamelessly stalk his profile, not just once but multiple times in the past few weeks; that instead of waiting for Taehyung to feel enough comfortable with him to eventually reveal and open the door to his private world himself, Jungkook had gone and sneaked inside through a vent like a thief, stealing away information, trying to analyse and decode the meanings behind all those photographs and captions.
