Waiting For You || Taekook

Chapter 7

Past-

Jeon Jungkook never hated his fate this much like before.

First, the vacation planned by his parents went totally wrong. Those relatives, oh God! Jungkook felt like he was giving an interview. His parents literally left him alone in the middle of those weird relatives who kept asking Jungkook about his love life, studies blah blah, and many more. At a point, he felt his throat hurting.

After ending the party, they came back home very late at night that Jungkook became so late for the festival today. And now he's literally running with his guitar in one hand, towards the backstage, praying for that their turn didn't come yet.

After going through the crowd, he finally saw a few students standing in front of the main stage where they're gonna perform. He gave a quick glance at the stage. A stage perform is going on.

Still, he hurried up and kept running until he made it to the green room.

Jimin noticed him first.

- "Oh thank gosh, Jungkook. You made it!"

Jungkook was too busy to catch his breathing that he couldn't talk. He literally ran the whole university.

- "Hey hey calm down. Breath slowly. We've still 55 mins in our hands. Sit here." Hobi said, looking Jungkook's situation.

- "Someone give him some water," Yoongi said.

A hand offered Jungkook a bottle of water. He took it immediately and drank it quickly. When his situation became normal, he rose his head, returning that bottle to that person while mumbling a small thanks.

Though when he rose his head, he saw that person means Taehyung, already staring at him. Jungkook quickly averted his gaze to the other members.

- "Umm...Sorry for being so late. But shouldn't we need to rehearsal a bit before performing live?" Jungkook asked.

- "Oh yeah. We were just waiting for you." Jimin replied.

- "Yeah. Let's go to our club's room and have a  rehearsal session quickly." Yoongi said while rising up from his seat.

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It's the third time in a row Jungkook messed up while rehearsaling.

He's very disappointed with himself. That's why he didn't want to perform live. He doesn't know why he kept being so damn nervous. And this nervousness is affecting his into singing. After the third failed attempt, Yoongi gave a quick ten minutes break. Jimin and Hobi told him not to worry much before Jungkook came out of the room to get some fresh air while being embarrassed.

His voice, his mind, his body nothing his helping him at this moment. He's feeling utter embarrassment right now. His whole body was kinda shaking too.

'What if I be the reason for my club leader's face loss? No way!'

Jungkook skipped a few rooms and went inside to an empty room. Feeling frustrated and tensed, he sat on a bench hiding his face behind his hand. A minute later, he rose his head when he heard a small knock on his bench.

'Taehyung!'

- "You're okay?" That brown eyed man asked him directly looking at him.

Jungkook couldn't look at those eyes directly for much longer. He mumbled a quick "yeah" averting his eyes to the empty classroom.

After a whole quite minute when he didn't hear anything from the latter, he again looked up to check quicky only to find Taehyung still looking at him with his dark brown eyes in a way which Jungkook can't explain.

'STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT ARGHHH'

Jungkook screamed inside while looking at his own feet. Come on he can't be more nervous right now.

And the next moment he found Taehyung sitting beside him.

- "You know when I was in the middle school, I wanted to attend into a programme of my school to sing.." Taehyung started saying.

Jungkook kind of stilled in his place.
Taehyung kept saying,

- "But unfortunately I was sick that's why I couldn't give audition or get my name enrolled in the list. When I finally went to the school, it was a day before the programme. I requested to my teacher a lot to give me a chance to sing. But it was too late. Also the schedule was fixed already for the programme. I was very upset. Also my rival Yonyoung was going to sing. He even mocked me the whole day for not being able to participate.

But I was not going to give up. So the next day before the programme started, I sneakily went to the green room and cut two strings of Yonyoung's guitar and ran away before someone could see me."

Jungkook grasped hearing this. He looked at Taehyung and saw him smirking while looking at the white board infront of him. Maybe like he did back that day after cutting the strings.

Taehyung continued,

- "I sat infront of the row and kept waiting. Before Yonyoung's turn came, my class teacher hurriedly came to me and requested me to sing in Yonyoung's place as he was crying because of the problem of his favourite guitar. Also he denied to sing with someone else's guitar. And being the greatest kid ever, I obeyed her and got into the stage."

Taehyung paused for a moment before sighing a bit,

- "I knew the song which Yonyoung choose to sing. But when I hold the mic and opened my mouth, a weird sound came out from my mouth. I became shocked. I tried again and again still I kept sounding so weird cause I was sick my cold didn't go yet. But I was too engrossed in taking revenge that I totally forgot about it. And at the end the whole audience laughed at me."

Jungkook brust out in laughter when Taehyung finished. Gosh he can't even believe this. He kept laughing until tears almost came to his eyes.

- "Oh gosh..... I can't believe. It must be very embarrassing for you." Jungkook said while trying to stop his laughing.

- "Oh no. Not that much. Cause everyone knew that I can sing very well. Also many of them knew that I was sick. So they might laugh at first but later everything was fine and teacher took me out of the stage without scolding or saying anything." Taehyung said.

- "Ohh. That's good." Jungkook said a bit surprisedly.

- "Hmm it was. That's why don't be afraid. It's fine if you do any mistakes. It's fine cause we all know how you sing. Don't be nervous. Just give your best and forget about the rest. Okay?"

Jungkook became quite. He suddenly felt very warm inside his heart. He didn't even notice when he stopped shaking. He looked at Taehyung whose eyes were still fixed on the white board. He just can't understand this human existence. But at this moment he's feeling thankful for making him feel better.

- "Anyways. Let's meet you in 4 mins" Taehyung stood up.

And before Taehyung leaving the room Jungkook felt one of the Taehyung's warm hand on his head. He looked at Taehyung almost immediately just to find Taehyung staring at him already with a warm gaze.

A kind of gaze which he never got from Taehyung before today. A gaze of giving him hope and strength. A gaze of 'I believe in you'. And something inside from Jungkook told that Taehyung actually believes on him.

- "Best of luck" Taehyung ruffled Jungkook's head one last time before leaving the room.

And Jungkook would be lying if he says that Taehyung didn't help him to get encouragement to give his best.

And he would be lying again if he denies that this encouragement was the main reason he literally gave his best version and absolutely banged the stage with his amazing voice!