make way // jjk

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"Oh my god, what am I supposed to wear?!" you paced back and forth in front of your wardrobe as Jungkook watched from on your bed, tempted to take a Snapchat video as he scrolled through his friends' stories.

"Jagi, why are we meeting a guy friend of yours on our first date that I wasn't even originally invited to?" Jungkook got off the bed and wrapped his arms around you as you stood in front of the full-length mirror in your wardrobe, holding different outfits up to compare.

You sighed and set the white miniskirt you were holding down on the table next to your wardrobe that was covered in your notes and textbooks and turning around to hug him back. "Kookie, if it really bothers you, then this doesn't count as our first date. I just want to meet Yoongi-oppa anyway. You don't have to go if you don't want to."

"I do want to. Especially if you like him so much."

"If I didn't know better, I would have said you were jealous," you teased him, flicking him on his nose.

"Maybe I am."

"He's like, 5 years older than me!" you moved back so he held you in front of him.

"Okay, okay. But baby, I still don't like the fact that you know when his birthday is."

"It was that one time Yugyeom took me to celebrate his birthday with him at his studio! I just baked a cake!"

"I've never seen you bake a cake and I've known you for eight years!"

"It was a crappy cake that fell apart! I just got some random cheese recipe and put the ingredients on mom's grocery list one Sunday."

He breathed heavily from shouting, unable to come up with a reply. "Cheese?"

You bursted out laughing. "Sorry, I can't deal with your jealousy. It's too cute!" and then you kept snorting and hitting him on the arm until you had to clutch your stomach in pain.

He rolled his eyes and said, "I'm sorry I actually care about my girlfriend being taken away by another guy."

Calming down finally, you said, "Then maybe you should be worrying about Yugyeom," you laughed, "'cause Yoongi-oppa is just my oppa and nothing else. He has more chance than Yoongi."

Jungkook straightened up, erect. "Yugyeom? You like Yugyeom?"

"No! I was just using him as an example!"

"You meant it."

You had sobered up, worried that Jungkook was looking so much into this. "I didn't. Jungkook, honestly, don't worry about it. He was my bully, and that's all he'll ever be to me." It was a lie because you knew you would forgive Yugyeom for what he did. It's just the way you were.

But he took it anyway. "Okay."

You went forward and hugged him around his middle and he wrapped one arm around your back that pressed the back of your head against him. With his other hand, he picked up one of the discarded white dresses on the table and sighed, letting you go. "Here. We're meeting your oppa, right?"

It was the most non-revealing and innocent dress you had. Taking the hanger, you smiled.

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"Yoongi-oppa!" you bursted into the cafe, surprising everyone inside, including one blond man who looked up from his cup of black coffee, surprised, before breaking into a huge grin.

Which fell as he noticed Jungkook following behind you. As you reached his table near the window, he said, "Who's this?"

"This is Jungkook, my... boyfriend." He eyed Jungkook up and down, before sighing and standing up to give you a hug.

"Hey. Long time no see," he said.

"Yeah," you said, cherishing the hug and holding him so tight that he had to disengage your arms before sitting back down and gesturing for the both of you to sit.

"You're lucky I chose a four-seater," he smiled. "I thought you would be with Yugyeom."

Sensing that Yoongi wanted a moment alone with you, Jungkook offered, "I'll go get us drinks."

Yoongi nodded at him gratefully. Jungkook asked, "Would you like another coffee?" to which he shook his head and watched as Jungkook left to look at the menu above the cashier.

"So. What's been going on?"

You took pulled a chair out and took a seat opposite Yoongi, nervous. "Um. Yugyeom and I... Well, we... I guess we kind of stopped being friends."

Yoongi raised and eyebrow. "And I'm guessing that was before you started ignoring my messages?" You nodded. "I thought you would be dating Yugyeom, actually." He looked over at Jungkook, now ordering for you at the cashier. "But this kid seems alright too. What happened?"

"It's a long story," you sighed, sitting back with your hands in your lap.

He folded his arms on the small table and sat forward. "Well, I'm up for listening to a story."

"Yoongi, I don't know. It's not a really big thing. You remember the weekend we celebrated your birthday?"

"Yeah, the one I got wasted on because Yugyeom bought vodka instead of champagne."

The old guilt for not telling Yoongi resurfaced with his light tone, and you discovered that it had always been clutching your neck, gradually tightening its noose. You cut to the chase. "He started bullying me when we got back to school."

"What?"