arrested || jikook

twenty nine

twenty nine—

"woah!" taehyung exclaimed. "what is this place?!"

the group of guys managed to make it through the difficult route jungkook had led them on, and had finally made it to their destination.

"this is my home," jungkook said. "where i live when im not working." he pushed open the door and smiled at them. "make yourself at home, just don't break anything." he flashed hoseok and taehyung a glare and even shot namjoon a look, probably to warn them of what was to come if they did break any of his things.

they all headed to the kitchen and attacked the pantry. jimin noticed it seemed a little more stocked than when he was here.

"more food?" jimin asked him. jungkook nodded.

"i was able to get completely stocked with fresher food. so we can just do whatever we want for the time being," jungkook answered. taehyung hurried up to them, grasping hoseok's hand in his and smiling widely.

"do you have video games?!" he asked eagerly. jungkook chuckled.

"of course you'd ask. yeah i do, under the movies in the living room." at that, taehyung shot off dragging hoseok eagerly behind him.

"ill just go with them..." jimin mumbled and slowly walked away from jungkook and after his friends. he sat on the couch. he watched his friends pick out a game, load it up and begin playing.

it was easy for him to laugh with them and get hyped up over the game with them. but he didn't really feel like he was having fun, or enjoying it really. it was almost like he was faking how he felt, and it was indeed exactly that if you decided to put it plain and simple.

he was too worried about jungkook and what he thought. he needed to relax, but no matter how hard he tried, he just got tense again.

eventually, jin and namjoon came into the living room carrying lots of food and drinks for them all. they sat on the couch beside him, dumping the items onto the coffee table in front of them. they began talking happily about whatever it was they wanted. jimin joined in occasionally, adding his two cents into the pot of their boiling converse, but he couldn't bring himself to get completely enveloped in it. so he stood up, and went to the bathroom. he needed to be alone for just a small while.

jimin shut the door behind him and stared himself down in the mirror. what was he doing? thinking like this? he was getting ahead of himself. maybe jungkook just wanted to sleep with someone that day because it was cold or something. there was no way it meant anything else.

"im so stupid..." jimin mumbled. "there's no way someone would grow remotely attracted to me. after all the times ive played the prison's punching bag, there's absolutely no way.." he couldn't keep everything inside, he needed to get it out. jimin had grown far too anxious about the topic. he knew that, yes, but it was driving him slowly insane with all of these negative thoughts. he just needed to be rid of them.

jungkook sat on the sofa near the window, watching jimin get up and leave without a word. he just figured he was using the bathroom or something.

as he was watching hoseok and taehyung get into an intense stretch of their game, he got up to go get a glass of water. when he turned around, there stood an exasperated namjoon.

"what's wrong namjoon?" jungkook asked. the other crossed his arms and furrowed his brows.

"go after jimin. ive noticed something going on between you two and i can tell it's really affecting him. plus, i know you like him jungkook. it's not very often you get so protective over someone like the way you did jimin a few days ago." namjoon spoke in haste. "go, he's been in the bathroom a little while." jungkook looked at namjoon in surprise.