That's gay × taekook

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Taehyung stared across the table at Soojin with both hatred and fear, somehow mingled together in his eyes and the way his shoulders were tensed up to the max. Every time the woman made eye contact with him, she made sure to add fuel to the fire with a wink or a wicked smile.

But why was Taehyung here, in the same room with Soojin? Jungkook, who was sitting next to him, wondered about that too. In fact, Jungkook was the one who managed to convince him to come over. It went something like....

"Come on, dude, it's free!"

"It's freaky!" Taehyung said on the other end.

"Don't let me do this alone, Tae. Soojin said we should go together."

"She can say whatever she wants. I would come over if she wasn't there."

"That's literally the point. She has to be here to give us a reading, are you dumb? Just come on, she won't eat you alive..... And I'll feel better if you came over..." The last part was said for no reason at all other than to convince his best friend, though Jungkook couldn't imagine how exactly it would help.

So here they were, at the dining table. The two boys sitting on one side and the woman sitting face-to-face with them, shuffling a deck of cards. "Which one should I start with?" she hummed, as if the question was for herself.

Jungkook looked at Taehyung who literally gulped nervously next to him. Sighing, he raised his hand. "Just start with me."

Soojin hummed again, placing some cards that fell out of the pack on the table in the middle. Each time a card made its way out of the deck while she shuffled them, she placed it in front. Maybe that's how it worked, Jungkook mused silently.

While both of them were staring at the action, Taehyung leaned to his side a bit and whispered without taking his eyes off the cards. "Couldn't you have gotten a cute cousin whose hobby was, I don't know, baking?"

"And have you dating her? No shot," Jungkook retorted with his eyes forward too.

Taehyung shifted in his seat with the self-pitying expression of a kicked puppy.

"Wow," Soojin studied the cards with a critical eye. "It's worse than I expected."

Jungkook froze. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

She ran her hand on top of the cards, red lips pursed. Her hand stopped at two. "You've been in a conflict with someone for a while now... I'd add a card to this one."

"Huh?"

"If you want more details about something in this sort of reading, you can add a card or more attached to the aspect you're curious about. Though, remember, it's still vague."

He had a conflict with someone? Naturally,  he'd like to know who. "Do it."

Another card was placed over it. "You've been in conflict with....yourself." She glanced up at him, a knowing smirk thrown to his side.

Jungkook blinked. How‐ he wanted to ask, but of course he had been in conflict with himself. The reason sat right next to him. The better question was "Will it end soon?"

"Yes," Soojin's quick answer eased the tension in his body for a moment. Her eyes passed over the rest of the cards again. "You've been thinking very hard about something, hence the conflict, but you will be sure of that thing soon." Her face lights up. "After a heated moment."

"...Heated moment?"

"Well, let's just say you'll either be fighting with punches, words, or lips," the woman winked at the last part, which made him flush. Lips... she didn't mean... that, right? That would be disgusting. Actually, he was almost past that point to call kissing Taehyung or any guy at all disgusting. Almost.

Wait, why did he immediately think of Taehyung? Maybe he'd kiss someone else, or fight with someone else, and that person would turn out to be the one he likes in the end. He definitely had kissed someone else recently.

"Say, is it possible that I already um... kissed someone," God help him, "and the conflict is getting to the end?"

Soojin tilted her head to the side with amusement. In the corner of his eye, he could see Taehyung's scandalized face.

"That could happen," his cousin said in the end with a frown. "After a conflict there's usually some time to process everything and come to accept it. But I doubt I would be able to see it in your future. This reading is stricly focused on your present and future."

But it was possible. So, logically speaking, Mingyu could still be an option. Why did he feel like he had to make a choice between the two in the first place? Couldn't he refuse both? A rational part in him answered that one with a no. An even more rational part told him why, but he shook his head to get rid of it.

"Moving on," Soojin snapped him out of it. 'There's a thief in your life," she said, hand on another card that showed a man sneaking around a building. A thief.

"Put a card on that."

Soojin smiled proudly while doing that. "Oh? It's a loyal friend of yours."

Jungkook didn't waste any time to glance at his side. Taehyung scoffed incredulously. "Of course you think it's me."

"What did he steal?" he asked the woman.

"Hey!"

Soojin placed another card, but only pouted at the addition. "I don't know."

"Great, now I can't even trust my friends," Jungkook sighed theatrically, purposely avoiding the glare boring holes into his head and holding in his laughter. If he didn't notice anything stolen, maybe it wasn't that important anyway. And it was probably food or something ordinary.

"If you didn't notice anything missing, then maybe it wasn't important anyway," Soojin shrugged, placing another card on top of the thief just for the fun of it.

Jungkook's nerves skyrocketed at the fact that she had just casually voiced out his exact thoughts, but he could only stare down at the cards. The new addition was... a cupid. Fuck.

"Okay, I think that's all I wanted to know for now," the younger looked away, scratching the back of his neck, which was getting warmer and warmer. Frankly, he'd much rather see his future play out without expecting anything.

This reading really didn't help at all. If anything, he felt the conflict with himself get worse.