Consequence of Success

4

Jungkook walked into the house, steps taking him to the living room where he knew his band mates would be.

"Hey guys", he said with a small smile, tired after the day's schedule.

"Oh Jungkook! Come in, we just started a new round of Uno. Wanna play?" Jin was as cheerful as ever as he beckoned the youngest closer, grabbing his sleeves once he was within his arm's reach and pulled him to sit beside him.

"I'll watch this round, you guys play."

Jungkook took the extra stack of cards, deciding to hand them out to his team members when they need it. He also might have given Yoongi a few +4's deliberately but in his defense, Yoongi cooked him a delicious late night snack yesterday.

With Jungkook's help Yoongi easily won, rejoicing and shouting around the dorm as if he just won an Olympic Gold medal.

"I had something to talk about with you guys", Jungkook finally spoke up, looking at his bandmates who were sitting in a circle, looking at him with warm yet curious eyes.

"So you know the German luxury car brand, Torquea, right?"

"Ofcourse, who doesn't?"

"I jerk off to their cars", came Jimin's uncalled for out of pocket response which made his members smack his stupid mouth.

"Well, their CEO, Ms. Lorelei Wagner came to visit the set today to give me an offer to be their brand ambassador."

A moment of loud silence. Those words were definitely taking a long while to set in. Jungkook could practically see the gears in their brain turning as they processed his words and tried to make sense of it— break it down in a manner which was familiar to them.

"WHAT!?"

Alas, after long cognition, all their mouths could produce was a loud "what".

"Its true. So I wanted to discuss this with you all. Should I do it? How should I proceed with this? With what terms and conditions?" Jungkook looked at them with his big round eyes, waiting for their response— hopefully an intelligent one this time.

Taehyung, unexpectedly, was the first to chime in. "I think it's a great opportunity to extend your base and influence. You can appeal to a larger fan base in this manner."

This brought the other five back into reality as they started nodding and throwing in their opinions about the general idea before moving to the more technical and legal part of what was supposed to be included in the contract.

After a long discussion, everyone eventually dispersed into their own respective rooms, everyone but Taehyung and Jungkook. They sat there in an akward silence before the older finally decided to break it.

"So...ummm...how was the shoot today?"

Taehyung cringed as his voice cracked the tiniest bit while he tried to sound non-chalant. This made Jungkook give out a small laugh. He hadn't expected Taehyung to talk. They hadn't spoken a word to each other since the magazine incident.

"It was good, hyung. I am excited about the contract."

Okay, Jungkook couldn't possibly think of anything else to say right now. Nothing to extinguish this blazing awkwardness between them.

Fortunately, Taehyung decided to break the ice on that topic, addressing the elephant in the room.

"I am sorry for getting jealous that day. I know I shouldn't have... it's work after all."

Jungkook shook his head as he shifted closer to his boyfriend, "No, I understand why you felt that day, but I just felt hurt that you thought that this was something I enjoy doing. I enjoy my work, but the explicit nature of it isn't something I enjoy for the sake of it being explicit, if you understand what I mean to say."