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Ch.5

The day's assignment was climbing a large ladder. This task, so said the supervisors, was entirely dependent on partner work, and Jimin flushes at the thought.

He had come so close to cuddling with scary senior Min Yoongi just the previous night before, and when Yoongi asks him if he's alright, Jimin can't even bring himself to answer.

Namjoon sidles up beside him and playfully tosses an arm over him, Jimin glancing at him desperately. "Namjoon, have you ever cuddled with a boy before?"

Namjoon stares at him, and slowly raises an eyebrow in surprise. "Uh... what? Cuddled... with a boy?"

Jimin nods, and Namjoon just blinks at him. "Is that... an invitatio—"

Jimin lands a punch against his friend's shoulder, Namjoon chuckling at him and shaking his head. "Well, no, I haven't. But why do you ask? Did you get close and personal with Min Yoongi or something?" He waggles his eyebrows until Jimin shoves his face away.

"Min Yoongi! Park Jimin! You two are first, hop to it!" One of the supervisors, the one who likes to wear inappropriately short shorts, and sunglasses 24/7, is pointing at the both of them. Yoongi's quickly buckled into the harness while he waits for Jimin to work up his courage and finally approach the large ladder. He really doesn't want to, doesn't feel it in him, and Yoongi pats his back.

"You got this," he deadpans, and turns away. Jimin just blinks at the back of his neck. Then he remembers the night in the tent, and he turns away, letting the supervisor buckle him to the harness. There are two teams on each end of the ladder hoisting them up, pulling on the cords to prevent them falling listlessly to the ground, and Jimin is sure he won't fall to his death that very day.

Yoongi climbs first, and he's surprisingly athletic despite his skinny, scrawny appearance. Jimin doesn't say that out loud, of course, and starts climbing only when Yoongi's on his second rung. The wood isn't entirely slippery, so Jimin's shoes find good enough grip for him to stand up, reaching out for the second rung. Yoongi hasn't moved, and instead, he's reaching a hand down to help Jimin up to the second rung.

Jimin almost screams when Yoongi musters up some unbelievable man strength to tug him up to the second rung, and leaves him gripping on for dear life as Yoongi wrangles the next.

The entire exercise is over in a flash, and Jimin's safely on the ground after he dangles helplessly, and lets the other students holding the cord slowly release it, his feet eventually touching solid ground. He can only thank Yoongi in the end, bowing his head profusely at the senior, for keeping him alive. Yoongi frowns oddly at him, brushing him off and returning to his posse.