Habits {Jikook}

CHAPTER 17

💿 Bad Decisions - Ariana Grande

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After arriving at the hotel they headed to straight to the beach. Jimin and Jeongguk were so exhausted from carrying all these bags up the hill and relaxing at the sea was very much needed.
Jimin really thought he was gonna pass out as soon as his back hit his towel on the sand.

However, this never happened.
Before they could even reach the beach, Jimin happened to be his clumsy self and tripped over a tiny tree stump.

He didn't fall though.

Instead, his head crashed into a firm chest whereas two hands cupped his shoulders in unison, keeping him from falling.
Jeongguk just watched the scene with shock running through his body.
He felt like he was live on the set of a
k-drama.

"Oh my god, fuck, I'm so so sorry. I'm sorry, I should have been more careful. So so sorry," Jimin stumbled over his own words in an embarrassed manner as he stepped back from a tall guy and patted down both their clothes hectically. As soon as he looked up, he saw a familiar face waiting for him.

"No way, you're the guy that ran away yesterday!"
Jeongguk said from behind them. Now the guy's grin turned to a petrified expression after realizing what he had just heard.
Just when he was about to akwardly flee the situation, Jimin grabbed his sleeve to keep the guy in front of him and spoke in surprise,
"Oh yeah I remember too! Wait, I wanna make it up to you. Yesterday was embarrassing enough already"

Despite Jimin's little request, Jeongguk wasn't having it and changed the topic, feeling quite unwell with that new information that is Jimin being friendly to people that are not him.

"I don't wanna scare you away again but when I saw your face yesterday, I knew I had seen it before and it bugged me a lot so I thought about it for a long time until I remembered that my cousin showed me that one boy group called EXO. You're a member of it, right? Kai, I think?"

"Uhm, I guess so. Yeah. My real name is Jongin though,"
the guy said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. He had a lopsided grin planted on his face and looked from one to the other.
Jimin's jaw dropped and started apologizing a hundred times more.
The other two had started chuckling after a while because Jimin was simply overreacting but again, it was Jimin so it made sense.

"Jimin, for once stop being a drama queen and introduce yourself. I'm Jeongguk by the way,"
Jeongguk teased the older one and reached out his hand properly. Jongin immediately took it into his and accepted the confusing but altogether friendly greeting.

"Shut up, you brat!" Jimin grumbled while scowling at Jeongguk before he turned back into Jongin's direction and cleared his throat.
"Uhm, yeah. Hello, I'm Jimin. Park Jimin"

His uneasy greeting was accompanied by a slight wave which was just as akward as this whole encounter.

Nevertheless, the younger decided it was time to go. As much as he thought that Jongin looked like a nice guy, he kind of had this weird, unusual feeling in his gut.
And for Jeongguk, weird and unusual is bad.

Jeongguk was someone that liked to be in control in every moment of his life and right there he could see it slowly slipping through his fingers. Not good at all if you asked him.

So he fake-coughed and tapped Jimin's arm slightly. This caught the other's attention and lead him to face the younger. As they held eye contact, Jimin raised his eyebrow as if he was asking what the matter was.
Jeongguk scratched his arm uncomfortably as he mouthed 'let's go'.

"Uhm, hold on for a second, Jeongguk," Jimin said out loudly, "We need to go now but I'm sure we will see you around. Bye!"

Before Jongin could say something in return, the blonde got dragged away by a strong hand around his wrist. Jimin's lovely grin changed into a not so thrilled, petty glare as he tried to escape from the powerful grip.