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💕 just to be with you | taejoon

[Summary] 🔞

Returning back to Seoul after college, Namjoon revisits past memories and falls for someone he never thought he would— his best friend's brother.

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Growing up, Namjoon had a small, yet reliable friend group. He was friends with Jung Hoseok who had a big, hearty smile and Kim Seokjin who has been Namjoon's best friend since before his preteen years.

With Seokjin, Namjoon had grown up on the same street as him and their parents were close friends, so it was easy for them to constantly hang out. But with Seokjin came his little brother, Taehyung.

Taehyung was younger by a few years. Back then, when Namjoon had first met Taehyung, he was wearing thick black glasses, his dark brown hair was stuck to his head like he'd been wearing a hat that molded it there, and he was smaller than Namjoon by a lot. He was young.

His brother (Seokjin) was taller, older, and a little more shy, but he'd break out of that once they got into high school and left Taehyung to his middle school years.

Namjoon wasn't exactly any better than Taehyung's flat hair or Seokjin's sudden voice cracks; he was tall and lanky and would often try cringe pickup lines that he thought were so cool back then.

Namjoon, Seokjin, and Taehyung were inseparable– despite Namjoon not really being as close to Taehyung, though. Their common ground was Seokjin; Taehyung didn't actively try and talk to Namjoon much and Namjoon tried to be friendly, yet it came out awkward sometimes.

Back then, Taehyung was just Seokjin's little brother. There shouldn't be much to talk about. They weren't exactly friends, but they weren't strangers. They just stuck to Seokjin like glue and Seokjin wouldn't ever mention it. They'd simply stick together and that was that.

When high school came along, Namjoon started talking to more people, but Seokjin was still his closest friend. Taehyung got his own friends as well, but instead of completely breaking off from his brother, he dragged his two friends (Jimin and Jungkook) into bothering him like three little puppies begging for attention. Namjoon always thought it was funny when Seokjin would complain about it.

By the time high school was coming to an end, Namjoon felt a twinge of regret and cringe for how he acted growing up. All the times he, Seokjin, and Taehyung would try and compare who had the best race cars or Beyblades; the times he'd try to be romantic and failed miserably; the cringe things he'd said over the years; the way he used to style his hair and try to wear cool-looking clothes.

It all hit him on the day of graduation.

He isn't the same Kim Namjoon. He isn't even the same as he was yesterday. Every day, he changes.

As he and Seokjin and their friends all split off to go to college, everything suddenly becomes real. Namjoon is going to study architecture in a smaller school while Seokjin stays in Seoul to study business. For a few years, they'll be separated and Namjoon is forced to make new friends all over again.

Hoseok follows him to the college he goes to, so it makes him feel a little relieved. And he ends up meeting a guy in class named Min Yoongi– who he gets partnered with– and though they were a bit hesitant at first, they somehow get along by the end of it and find a middle ground. They become friends and Hoseok is also glad to welcome him into their circle.

They become the friend group of Namjoon's early twenties.

And just like that, Namjoon is in his last year of studying and he's got nothing better to do than study, do assignments, chug a coffee or two a day, and try not to stress over everything.