road trip.

[45] cold noodles

STAY WITH ME | CHANYEOL & PUNCH
"my eyes are lighting up again because of you."

jungkook focus
"i can believe you didn't tell me you took off your bandage earlier." taehyung mumbles as he uncaps the washable red felt tip pen and sets to colouring in a section of jungkook's pliant hand. "you should've told me the second you took it off — you knew how excited i was to see it." taehyung sulks, lifting up jungkook's hand so he could access it better.

amused by the boy's earlier request to colour in his tattoo ("hey, jungkook, wouldn't your tattoo look even better with colour on??" he had said, brandishing the shop's coloured pens they gave out to keep children happy, "should i colour it in for you? i have an awesome colour scheme idea; what do you think about blues and—"), jungkook watches on as the tip of taehyung's tongue pokes out of his mouth in concentration, very determined to not colour out of the permanent lines etched on to jungkook's hand.

"it looks really cool though," taehyung hums, looking up at jungkook for a split second to smile. "must've hurt like hell to get all this inked down." he murmurs, getting back to work. taehyung's right: it does look insanely cool — jungkook's left hand and wrist is now intricately decorated with thin black lines which form pretty floral mandalas. the tattoo looking hella good against the pale skin of his hand/wrist — the jet black ink almost more noticeable due to his skin tone.

[a/n: soooooo im thinking of a tattoo like zayn's?? yanno flowery mandalas and crazy detail ;)) ]

"mhm." jungkook hums distractedly as he looks round the takeaway shop they were in, trying to ignore how cute taehyung is for suggesting to colour in his tattoo despite jungkook's arm going numb due the process.

they're currently sitting in the corner of a busy small cold noodle place just down the road from their borrowed apartment, waiting with growling stomachs for their late dinner to arrive. jungkook yawns as he looks back at taehyung who colours in his hand studiously with prominent reds, oranges and bright yellows ("a fire tattoo" — taehyung had said upon showing jungkook his chosen colours).

a literal baby, jungkook subconsciously comments as he takes in the sight of taehyung earnestly colouring his 'fire' tattoo.

he's such a unique guy, jungkook thinks randomly as he reminds himself of today's events; taehyung falling out of bed and giggling like a child, grudgingly feeding him chips as he does press ups, singing and dancing in front of a mirror with a mouthful of toothpaste and now, eagerly colouring in jungkook's new tattoo with markers.

ive never met anyone like him, jungkook muses with a look of wonder on his face, he's so genuine. like, he isn't marred by vanity, or pretentiousness, or selfishness — he isn't a gold digger, or a cheater and all the other bad qualities people ive met seem to have.