Habits {Jikook}

CHAPTER 13

💿 Blow - Jackson Wang

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Jeongguk crashed a burnt down cigarette under his shoe and took a fresh one out of the box, still feeling a little tense. After a few tries he successfully lit the stick up and brought the cigarette to his mouth. The hot smoke filled his lungs, burning his anxiety down and loosening him up.
Since the the exit was covered by a roof that protruded a little, he hadn't gotten wet at all while standing outside.

Just when he decided to take another puff, he heard footsteps coming from behind.
Suddenly someone pushed him slightly and he could make out a whine coming from the same direction.
Fortunately, the push wasn't too strong so he was easily able to catch himself from falling and then turn around afterwards.

"You fucking left me in there! Am I a joke to you?"
the person that was now standing right in front of him shouted. In fact, it was an angry looking Jimin who rubbed his eyes, though the younger couldn't tell whether he did it out of tiredness or out of frustration.

"Woah woah, its not like i abandoned you, keep it down,"
Jeongguk answered nonchalantly with a smirk displayed on his lips. Of course Jimin didn't listen and continued to scold him,
"Someone couldve kidnapped me you brat!"

"No worries, they would've given you back the second you open that little rude mouth of yours," Jeongguk mocked as his smirk grew even bigger when he said those words.
Then Jimin tried to slap his bicep but his arm was stopped by one of jeongguks large hands before he could even reach near him. The other one was still holding his glowing cigarette, the smoke was blown straight into Jimin's face because of the turbulent wind from the storm.

"You can hit real hard you know? My kneecaps feel threatened," he continued, his smirk never faltering for not even one second.
"I'm not that small you giant-
thats not even the point, I was sleeping! Do you think I could just side step right left to my beat kick them?" Jimin huffed out, being rightfully offended and Jeongguk just ignored him and took another puff from the cigarette in his hand.

"Give me the packet of cigarettes, Jeongguk,"
demanded which lead Jeongguk to freeze in his motions and actually look at him.
"No the fuck. Why should I?" Jeongguk chuckled, unbothered by the feisty boy. However, Jimin wasn't one to give up easily so he stepped closer to the other and tried once again, this time being more asserting,
"If I was you I would hand it to me, right now"

"You know what? I don't care, take it. I can buy a new one anyway,"
Jeongguk said while taking the box of cigarettes out of his jacket. He held his hand out for Jimin to take it. Actually, what he had thought was that the blonde didn't want him to smoke, well at least not in his presence. But what happened next was something he had not expected at all.

Jimin harshly opened the box and grabbed one of the cigarettes before shoving it between his lips. He grabbed the lighter out of Jeongguk's other pocket to light it up and the taller one's eyes darkened when he realized what was about to happen.

Just when Jimin was about to take a drag on the cigarette, he yanked it out of his mouth and crashed it under his shoe, looking furious but dangerously calm at the same time. While trying to keep his calm, he instantly said, "Woah, woah, woah, don't do that"

Jimin huffed out loudly and stared at the other boy in disbelief. He took a step forward and looked Jeongguk in the eyes, before claiming, "Why though? You do that every fucking second of your life, what's the difference of me doing it?"

Jimin had no intention of actually smoking, he just thought that the situation was ridiculously paradoxical. Jeongguk telling him to stop smoking? While he is literally smoking right next to him?
Jeongguk didn't know what to say because Jimin was in fact right. And besides that, it wasn't Jeongguk's place to forbid him stuff like this. Heck, they are not even friends.

"Look thats my thing, not yours. You're not like this. Just-
just dont do it,"
Jeongguk was struggling to make his actions make sense and the latter found it kind of amusing but also confusing. So Jimin did what he would usually do when he's with Jeongguk.
Make the situation as unserious and hostile as possible rather than where this conversation was going. So he said in an ironic and mocking tone,
"Oh no, did I hit a nerve?"

And who was Jeongguk to not play along?

"You remember when i talked about your little rude mouth? I think its time for you to shut it"

At this point, they were playing this dangerous game of hatred and care but both weren't even thinking of backing off. The two of them were too busy with keeping up their unnecessary fights, they didn't even see the real person behind the other anymore. But who cares?
They did definitly not.
"You know what? You're a fucking jerk Jeongguk! And you're also no one to tell me to shut my mouth-"

Jimin started to shout but he was interrupted by a ringing phone which turned out to be Jeongguk's. Said pulled his phone out of the pocket of his jeans to answer the call,
"Yes, hello?"

"Hello Mr. Jeon. The condition of the weather has gotten a lot better so I'm gonna be sending one of my guys to your location. He's gonna be there in like 20 minutes, "
the guy at the other end of the line spoke and Jeongguk almost dropped the cigarette between his fingers as his eyes lit up immediately. Then, he looked at the parking lot and realized that the guy was right. It was raining much less than before.

"Oh, that's great! Thank you so much, " he responded very enthusiastically while Jimin was observing him with a very puzzled look on his face.

"Okay, have a nice evening, " the man said out of politeness, even though it was already way past midnight. Jeongguk had to chuckle at this and kindly replied,
"You too, bye"

After he pocketed his phone he looked up at Jimin's face and said while grinning playfully, "I know you were just kind of scolding me but what if I were to tell you that a cab is gonna be here in 20 minutes?"

"Oh my god, for real? I thought we were gonna be stuck here forever," Jimin beamed and instantly asked another question, "Wait. for how long have I been passed out?"

"Oh well. It's been like 3 hours since you fell asleep. On my fucking shoulder by the way"

"Oops, I guess you're a good pillow. At least you're useful in some way, " Jimin smirked and nudged the latter's shoulder slightly before grabbing his arm and kind of hugging it in a not so thought through action. When he registered what he had just done, he slowly pulled away, hoping that Jeongguk wouldn't mention it later on, his cheeks flushing furiously.

To his luck, the cab would arrive soon and rescue him from the akwardness he was feeling beside the younger boy in his fancy leather jacket. He felt goosebumps forming all the way up his exposed arms unpleasanty. The still stormy weather didn't help at all. Due to this, he decided it would be the best to cross his arms.

"Are you feeling cold? You can wait inside, I'll call you when the cab- ," Jeongguk suggested with a frown as he was interrupted by the smaller's protesting, "Gguk, I'm not cold"

"Lies. I can literally see the goosebumps. Just go inside- ,"

"Jeongguk, I'm not feeling cold, jeez,"
Jimin repeated and kicked Jeongguk's leg forcefully.
His pride was getting into his way because yes, he would rather sit down, that's for sure. But he meant it when he said he wasn't cold. It's Just that Jeongguk would think he lied about not being cold if he went inside and he couldn't let that happen.

Jeongguk on the other side was contemplating whether he should hand Jimin his jacket but that would be quite weird considering that they can't even stand each other. Right?

So they just stood there, waiting for the cab in an extremely akward silence and not daring to look at each other.

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Hello loves,
this is one of my favorite chapters and it's also one of the scenes that I wrote when I just started out with this story. The song that I recommended inspired me a lot as well :))
love yall <33