Better Than Tears (sweeter than sleep)

You're my best friend

"I think we should go somewhere."

Jungkook looked up from his position on the couch, sprawled out with one arm dangling off the edge.

Jimin paused in the middle of writing his grocery list, pencil hovering in the air. Yoongi swiped it to write something in the notebook he always seemed to have on him. His own writing implement was missing a tip. Jimin grabbed at it and missed, still looking at Taehyung. "Go where?"

Taehyung flung his arms out dramatically. "Anywhere! I'm feeling cooped. Jungkookie is too, aren't you, Kookie? Very cooped."

Jungkook wrinkled his nose but answer faithfully, "very cooped."

"Boy, was that ever enthusiastic." Yoongi was still scribbling. "I can feel the enthusiasm hovering in the air."

"Shut up, Yoongi, nobody asked you."

Yoongi spared Taehyung the briefest glance.

"Hyung," Taehyung quickly amended. "Shut up, hyung."

"Where do you want to go, Tae?" Jimin stopped trying to steal back his pencil. "An eating place or a hanging around place?"

"A hanging around place, an adventure place."

"There aren't any adventure places around here."

"There are some near my house."

"We can't go to those."

"Bummer."

"Name a place we can go to, and maybe we'll go," Jimin sighed, unbelievably patient.

Taehyung twirled in place, humming. Yoongi stopped writing and placed the pencil back into Jimin's hand. Jimin finished writing his grocery list. "You could go to the grocery store for me."

"That's not an adventure."

"I dunno," Yoongi drawled. "I haven't been there in a while. It'll be like a brand new experience. We could all go and convince Jimin to buy us things. What do you think, Jungkook?"

"There will be people there," Jungkook protested without feeling.

Yoongi shrugged. "There are people everywhere. It's a populated world. Can we get strawberry suckers?" He directed that last bit at Jimin.

"Lollipops are bad for you. For me. You leave the sticks around the house."

"Not lollipops. Just candies."

"Fine. Strawberry candies," Jimin wrote on the list. "Are we all going?"

"We're seriously going to the grocery store?" Taehyung pouted.

"I don't know, are you coming?" Jimin stood up.

Taehyung pointed unnecessarily at Jungkook. "Are you going, Kookie?"

Jungkook stared at the ceiling and counted to five. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Okay." Jimin didn't seem put out, but Jungkook couldn't tell if he was just good at hiding it. There had to be some end to Jimin's patience. Right?

"Great." Yoongi said it like he really, definitely cared. "Shoes and coats, kids."

"You're two years older," Taehyung complained.

"Nah, I'm a thousand years old. You're a baby."

"You were born in 1993."

"That's what I want you to think. I'm actually an ancient celestial being."