Fading Away | Taekook

9 - Recruiting

Jungkook woke up with the delicious smell of coffee invading his nostrils and the feeling of someone breathing beneath him. Oh shit. He immediately opens his eyes and see that he is drooling on Hoseok's chest, which is still inert and snoring lightly. Both dressed completely still in their clothes from the night before, obviously, they were practically brothers.

Hobi is actually overdressed. Jungkook kicked the boy's shin when he looked at his feet and saw his expensive white shoes all over his bedding. With a jump, Hoseok gets off the bed, scared, trying to understand what is wrong. "You're going to pay for my laundry Hobi, I swear to God."

When leaving the party, Jungkook called Hoseok and Namjoon to sleep at his place, since the younger  lives nearby and his hyungs were too drunk to drive home. Namjoon quickly ran to the guest room, locking himself and refusing to share the bed with a drunk Hoseok, and Jungkook was too drunk to prepare the couch for his friend to sleep on, so he just carried him to his own room, his king size bed could fit both of them perfectly without having physical contact.

Still, he ended up waking up lying on the older man's chest.

The two disheveled men left the room and meet a Namjoon without any signs of a hangover, causing the duo to be jealous. Furthermore, the silver haired boy had prepared breakfast for everyone.

After eating, taking turns in the bathroom to shower and brush teeth, the trio is hanging out in the living room, gossiping about last night's events.

Hobi takes Jungkook's camera and decides to get ahead with his work and analyze the boy's photos to publish in the company magazine and which ones to send to the tabloids. "Jungkook, you're a lens genius, have I told you this before? You should photograph much better people than these motherfucking models.", "Yes, you already told me that hyung," Jungkook sighs as he opens his Instagram, seeing that Taehyung accepted his request.

Curious, Jungkook starts scanning the profile, but he didn't have much to see. Fifteen photos, twelve showing something farm related and the other three showing banners of events on the farm. He could only see his hands holding something in the photos.  Big, beautiful hands with long, slender fingers. Even the boy's profile photo didn't show him properly, just Taehyung's distant silhouette in front of the entrance to the Kim farm. Low profile.

Insistent, he goes to the tagged photos;  Finally finding photos of the boy in plain sight. Several pictures with Jin, some participating in some kind of farm event, one hugging a goat (?) with a huge boxy smile on his face. Cute.

"Wow, who is this Jk?", the ravenette is interrupted by Hoseok's voice, showing on the camera one of the photos he took of Taehyung. "This is Kim Taehyung, the boy who rescued me when I broke my car, I told you, remember?"

Hobi nodded and continued scrolling through the photos, now with Namjoon looking over his shoulder. Both concentrated, muttering something to each other, zooming in and out on the photographs and making surprising expressions. "He's good, he's handsome and he poses very well."

Jungkook agrees, remembering that he said the same thing to the brunette. Being in front of the camera felt natural and organic. "Do you think he could be interested in taking some photos in the studio with us? I see potential here", now it was Namjoon's turn to speak, the boy as a recruiter has a good eye for new faces and was visibly excited about Jungkook's discovery.

"I don't know, I took these photos as a thank you and as a gift, Taehyung has never worked as a model and is a young farmer, like, full responsibility managing his things."

"Could you ask him?", Hoseok insists.

Jungkook wasn't sure if he wanted to introduce the world of fashion to Taehyung. This niche is hostile and merciless, the boy witnesses and experiences firsthand how hard people suffer in the industry, especially models.

However, it wasn't his place to deny Taehyung of hearing his friends' proposal, it was a great opportunity that many models dream of. And he would be by the brunette's side to make sure he was okay.

"Yes, I can do that."

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Jungkook agreed to contact Taehyung and ask him about get some shots at his studio, but his anxiety was taking the best of him.

Why? He doesn't know. It is a simple question with a simple answer from the older: yes or no. Right? Wrong.

Almost a week had passed since the conversation with Hobi and Namjoon, he and Taehyung didn't interact anymore after following each other on New Year's and he simply didn't know how to approach the older boy.

Is it better to get straight to the point or is it better to bring up some other random topic?

Suddenly he remembers something: Taehyung said that he has classes every other week in Seoul, maybe he should invite the boy to hang out and from there he could talk about the photo shoot. Sounds good, let's go with it.

Trying to control the ice feeling in his chest, he types the message and sends it quickly before he can overthink it, throwing his phone across the couch like it's on fire.

Not a minute later he heard the notification beep and reaches the poor device from the couch's corner.

Me:
Hey Hyung, how have you been? I was wondering if you want to hang out when you come to Seoul to have your classes. Let me know if you're interested and if yes, when you're coming. I have to hand you your gift after all!

Taehyung:
Jeooon, I was just thinking about texting you! Of course let's do something, I'm coming to Seoul next Saturday and leaving Sunday after my class.

Good. Today being Tuesday, Jungkook will have plenty of time to prepare his gift to Taehyung and plan the best approach about the photo shot.

Me:
It's a deal then! Get ready for some crazy ass shit Saturday night. Kidding. Maybe. X

Fuck, did I send a X? Fuck my life.

Taehyung:
I was born ready, Jeon. Already eager to explore the big city! X

Oh, he's sweet. He sent me back the X to make me feel less awkward.

Okay, that went well. Obviously Jungkook had to be a little weird but Taehyung was weird too so it was okay.

He has four days to prepare the photos and the offer for the older and his thoughts would certainly be consumed by the idea of ​​meeting the brunette for the rest of those days.