PEARLS, SKETCHES & HEARTBURNS. taennie

one.

THE FAVOR FOR A FAVOR

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"Get your smelly foot away from me!" Jimin exclaims when Taehyung barges into their dorm and collapses onto the couch. His feet accidentally fall on Jimin's face but he can't care less. He's too busy recounting the day's events and trying to just forget about it all at once.

"Jimin I think I should just die, can you call those floating grim reapers from Harry Potter and let them suck my soul or something?" Taehyung murmurs through the pillow, manifesting to sleep there and never wake up again.

"You illiterate, those are not grim reapers, they are Dementors." Jimin gives him a side-eye and throws his legs over him, making Taehyung yelp and break free from his grip, "you are so disappointing."

"Shut up I am already enough embarrassed and depressed for one week," Taehyung grumbles and tries to push Jimin away but becomes the prey of Newton's third law of motion (yikes why does he even remember that trauma), and falls on the carpet with a thud. "Ow!"

"Servers you right." Jimin laughs as he settles a pillow on his lap and picks up the remote to switch to some stupid news channel. Who even watches news channels these days, isn't that a thing of oldies?

"I hate you." Taehyung glares and stands up to sit on the armchair instead. He then throws his legs over the armrest and buries his face in the crook of his elbow, like some melodramatic emo girl from a 2000s teen movie.

"Ok but think about it. It's not like this was the dumbest thing you ever did." Jimin says, "You pushed a whole cart of books on the history professor on your 2nd day to uni. Everyone already kinda thinks you are a freak."

"And that's supposed to make me feel better?"

"Why are you even so worked up on this? You accidentally went to her dorm, apologized for it, and even folded her clothes in return. What's the big deal?" Jimin asks as he switches the channel again. When Taehyung doesn't reply, Jimin pauses his channel-switching mission and looks at him. And it seems like something clicks in his mind and he drops the remote and scoots towards him.

Taehyung groans. Jimin is annoying when he is stupid. But he is even more annoying when he thinks he knows something but he doesn't know shit.

"Don't tell me..." his eyes are wider than usual, face lit up in the uttermost interest at the intuition he is having in his head. "You are so bothered because you saw a Pearl!"

Taehyung grumbles and feels blood rushing to his face and buries his head back in his arms. But Jimin being as annoyingly persistent as ever grabs him by the base of his neck and pulls his head back up.

"She was a pearl wasn't she?!"

Pearl. The origin of this name was on the summer after their high school graduation when Jimin and Taehyung were walking randomly on the street and then they saw a girl pass by. She was drop-dead gorgeous and borderline unreal, like really fucking pretty. And Jimin was unable to form complete words and stumbled between, 'pretty' and 'girl' which mixed to sound something like 'pearl'. And then the name stuck.

Sadly, they never came across the original Pearl ever again. But they have been using this term for any good-looking girl they saw. And sadly that included the Dorm Girl too.

"My, my, my Kim Taehyung," Jimin hums like he has it all figured out as he stands up and folds his arms. "According to my professional analysis, you are under the condition called a crush."