Him || JiKook

Chapter 25

There were very few scenarios in which Taehyung could picture Jungkook calling him upset this early in the morning.

Those few scenarios included his pet passing away and something happening to himself. Since the later was not an option - because he was feeling fantastic, thank you very much - and since Jungkook's dog had been dead for over a year then he had no clue. He didn't know why he was running across campus, clad in pajama pants that were not his, on a Sunday morning... before noon. But Jungkook had called and he was upset, very upset. So here he was, wheezing in the chilly morning with hair and bunny slippers (because Baekhyun was cute like that, he owned bunny slippers).

By the time he made it to the Arts Department he was out of breath and disgustingly sweaty. He found Jungkook in one of the photography studios where he was working on his project. He was sitting on the floor, legs crossed, eyeing his drawings of Jimin. At first, Taehyung thought that maybe it was his project going the wrong way what had prompted his friend to call him that early but then, this was Jungkook... calm and collected Jungkook.

"Kookie," he said, letting the door close behind him. He shuffled forward to sit besides him and studied his face. Jungkook didn't look at him but Taehyung was able to see the redness in his eyes all the same which put his system in alert. Had he been crying? That was not possible, Jungkook didn't cry. "Are you ok? What happened?"

"Tae..." he said sniffing. Oh lord... did he have another pet? Was it his mom?

"Yeah, I'm here. Is everything ok? Is your mom ok?" Jungkook nodded, eyebrows furrowed. Maybe... "Is... is Jimin ok?"

A single tear slipped down Jungkook's cheek and Taehuyng's chest sank, alarms blaring at the back of his head. He moved forward wrapping his arms around his friend's shoulders, to try to comfort him. But Jungkook was not sobbing or anything, it was a single lonely tear but it was enough to worry the hell out of Taehyung.

"Do you want to tell me?"

"I screwed up Tae..."

"What did you do?"

"Jimin is mad at me... like... really mad."

"Like Hoseok-after-we-scared-him mad or like Yoongi-when-woken-up-before-noon mad?" Taehyung asked brushing his hair with his fingers.

"Like mad Tae. I... I ruined it."

"I'm sure you didn't Kookie, no one could be-"

"I told him I thought he was sleeping with Jaebum."

"What?!"

"I basically told him I didn't trust him... that I didn't think this was real."

"Oh..."

"Hmm..."

"Yeah... you fucked up."

Jungkook sighed and Taehyung tightened his hold on his friend.

"Well... go back and apologize, just tell him that you were angry and that you don't really think-"

Taehyung stopped to look at his friend, who was looking at the floor instead of him. Jungkook was not stupid, if he didn't think that what he said was possible he would have said something already.

"Wait... do you... do you think that it might be true?"

"I don't know Tae, I-"

"Why would you think that? Jimin really likes you, everyone can tell"

Jungkook sighed, he was sighing a lot lately.

"Jaebum came over to the room and he said some stuff-"

"And you are believing what he says?"

"You sound like Jimin now..."

"Of course I do, Jaebum is an . assHe would say whatever to-"

"But he knows him better Tae, better than me."

"That doesn't mean-"

"It does. It does when they've been together for so long."

Taehyung huffed. "They aren't together Kookie, they are dance partners."

"They are more than that and everyone and your mother knows it. And they have so many things in common and Jaebum has such an easy time controlling Jimin that I..."

They remained silent for a couple minutes, the only noise the tick tack of the clock. Jungkook was idly tracing the contours of Jimin's profile in one of his drawings and it was such a Jungkook thing to do. Leave the world out and just concentrate on your passion...too bad the focus of his passion was also the focus of his problems.

"What are you afraid of Jungkook?" asked Taehyung softly.

"This," said Jungkook slapping his chest. "I am afraid of this. I'm afraid to opening up just to have Jimin walk on top of my heart when he realizes I'm not Jaebum. That I will never be Jaebum and that he needs him more than he needs me."

Taehyung studied his friend. He looked like a little stubborn kid, lips pursed in a pout.

"That's how love works Kook," said Taehyung. "We are supposed to take risks."

"Well, it sucks."

"It does. But it is up to you to decide if it's worth it, if Jimin is worth it... don't let fear stop you from having something great."

"I should have stuck to one night stands..." said Jungkook rubbing his eyes.

It was Taehyung's turn to sigh, his friend could be such a moron sometimes, but there was no point in arguing. Jungkook was upset and it would be just a waste of time trying to talk some sense into him.

"C'mon," said Taehyung getting on his feet and extending a hand to pull Jungkook up. "Let's go get breakfast."

"Breakfast?"

"Yeah..." said Taehyung. "You know what Yoongi-hyung says, 'nothing that fat can't cure'."

Jungkook smiled half heartedly at that.

He was pretty sure that no amount of food could fix what he just broke.