Twelve Days of Summer (TAEKOOK) {18+} COMPLETE

Day 4.1

A/N: Something a little softer this time. 🐰💖🐯✨By the way, if you have come into this without reading 12 Days of XXXmas, it's your last chance - this chapter contains plot spoilers for it! 👀

"Slow down, Tae. Wait..." Jungkook calls to his boyfriend, smiling. He's still trying to lock the back door but Taehyung has already run through the large garden and is waiting for him at the wooden gateway at the edge of the thick jungle. He's wearing the biggest smile on his face, bouncing on his feet, excited, because he is at the start of the path that will take them down to the beach.

"Hurry! It's gonna be so amazing!" He waves.

Long shadows of the early evening sun swallow them into the thick canopy of trees. It takes a few moments to adjust to the relative darkness after the bright sun, even the temperature feels several degrees cooler. The dark tunnel of green hugs around the boarded walk, like a seemingly endless, meandering jetty of stairs that will take them all the way down the hill.

The view is unexpected, magical, just like a fairytale. Their way is subtly lit by small lights wound around the single-sided handrail of the path, it must be miles of the stuff because the path meanders down the hill like a river of light, they can't even see the beach yet, even though they know it's not that far.

"This is amazing! Are they always on?" Jungkook asks, a few steps behind, feeling as surprised as Taehyung looks at the sight.

"It's... breath-taking! Jimin told me how to switch them on – and about everything they have down at the beach house,"

"Is this why you insisted on a camera and a tripod?" Jungkook asks. "You're right, the light levels are so low, I'll definitely need the long exposure..." he mumbles and starts fiddling with the telescopic legs of his handy travel tripod, while eyeing the angle of the path for a best shot. Taehyung stops him, tugging at the soft sleeve of his well-worn, black t-shirt.

"I want a picture of us on the beach, a proper one..." He moves closer but hesitates right at the last moment, looking away when the sudden, unexpected shyness seems to overcome him.

Intrigued, Jungkook pulls him back by the chin. "A proper one?"

"Yeah... we didn't really get an engagement photo over Christmas, it would be nice to have like an "official" one." He does the air quotes cutely around his head and Jungkook wants to coo – it must be exhausting being so adorable all the time... he smiles.

Leaning back against the railing, he pulls Taehyung in for another kiss so suddenly that he drops the small bag of food he was holding.

"I'll never get tired of taking pictures of you. You're the best model I've ever had." The words are muffled by soft lips.

"Says the man who spends all his time photographing wildlife!" Taehyung scoffs, the pretence too obvious in his fake outrage when he tries to struggle out of the hold he clearly wants to stay in.

"Beautiful," Jungkook whispers while his fingers slip into the golden hair and tug out of habit. Taehyung's reaction is so addictive, the way he loosens and relaxes into his hold like it's some innate reflex he simply has no power over. Instantly, it sets a spark of heat inside him, he hums at the feeling, wanting more.

The warmth of the sun-soaked skin tempts him, his lips travel down the long throat with a mind of their own. He loves the way the eyes close, the way the head tips back in instant surrender. Divine. Jungkook knows that if he wanted to have his wicked way with Taehyung, right here, right now, he would not object and that kind of power is... intoxicating.