☾Trial & Error☽ → kth | jjk

IV

A/N: happy thanksgiving !!!

Jungkook sat on the floor of his dorm room, his hair wet after a shower and a grey tank top on with a pair of black sweats. In front of him was an open suitcase that he had neglected to pack for almost a week. It had just been sitting there ever since he found out he was going to be going on the trip.

"Still haven't packed yet, huh?" Hoseok walked in and lazily dropped his bag next to his bed, then flopped down onto the mattress. "Whatever happened to being excited?"

Jungkook rolled his eyes and laid down, covering his face with his hands. He rubbed his eyes and ran his hands back through his hair.

"I was. I mean- I am, but... Ugh, you know."
"No, I don't. Enlighten me." Hoseok teased, enjoying how uncomfortable his roommate was with the topic at hand. "He doesn't even live on this floor, Kook, speak your mind."

"Fine." Jungkook huffed and sat up, turning his body to stare at the other male. "I'm not as excited to go because my roommate and partner for the trip is an incompetent asshole that seems to only speak in appallingly flirty pick-up lines and won't call me by my fucking name, and the thought having to even be on the same plane as him makes me think I'd much rather swim to America and drown."

Hoseok stared at Jungkook with a blank expression, but it crumbled after the latter's words had processed and he began to cackle and howl on his bed.

"Oh- Oh my god, your face is so- so red, fuck!" He rolled his head back to laugh harder. "Oh... Oh man, I... Oh man I'm crying."

"It's not funny!" Jungkook scowled.
"No, it's not, but you- your reaction was absolutely golden." Hoseok sighed in the way one does when trying to return their breathing to normal after such a laughing fit. "Oh, and because- Ah, you're gonna kill me but it was worth it..."

Jungkook's eyes went dark. "What did you do, Hoseok." He narrowed his eyes.

Hoseok smiled sheepishly. "Taehyung is on the floor right now visiting a friend of his."

"Which friend."
"Namjoon and-"
"He's literally across the hall, what the fuck!?" Jungkook snarled, ready to lunge at his roommate and get his throat between his hands but a certain voice stopped him.

"Y'know you should really close your door before you blow up like that."

Jungkook turned his head to look at the doorway and grit his teeth. Any harder and they'd probably break in his mouth.

"Oh, shut up. It boosted your ego and we all know it." He muttered.

Taehyung's smirk became an o-shape, but the cockiness still oozed. "For someone who claims to hate every fiber of my being, you seem to know me pretty well."

Hoseok began to laugh again before Jungkook shot him a deadly glare, which was then redirected to the red-head leaning on the open door frame.

"You have 3 seconds before I come over that slam the door in your face so hard your obnoxious hair dye comes out." Jungkook seethed. Deep down he knew full well that didn't make any sense, but all he saw right now was red. Quite literally.

Taehyung's smirk resurfaced. "Wonderful. So I have 3 seconds to tell you how utterly excited and humbled I am to spend a whole 3 months with such a beautiful, humble, gorgeous-"
"That's it!" Jungkook snapped and got up, pushing the boy out of the doorway before closing it and pressing in the lock on the knob. He turned and stared at his silent roommate, who had a hand tightly pressed over his mouth. "Don't say a word." He said dangerously quiet.

Hoseok nodded and watched as Jungkook threw himself onto the second bed in the room, groaning loudly into the pillow.

Needless to say, his suitcase went untouched for yet another night.

"You know he's been ranting about how much he hates you ever since that email went out?" Namjoon said casually as he lounged in his desk chair, folding his red flannel clad arms across his chest. His hair was a clean bleach blonde and shaved neatly on the sides.

After getting shut out by Jungkook, Taehyung had come back to hang out with Namjoon. He was now sitting on the floor against the wall, facing his friend.

"Does he?" Taehyung laughed. "I'm flattered."
"That kid gets seriously worked up, man." Namjoon shook his head. "What did you do to him?"

Taehyung shrugged. "Guess I'm just so handsome he doesn't know how to cope." He winked. Namjoon rolled his eyes.

"Oh, totally."
"Nah but seriously, he hated me before he even talked to me. The only reason we ever started talking was because of a group project last year and he seems obsessively mad at me constantly. Dunno why." Taehyung shrugged. "Do you have any ideas?"

Namjoon scoffed. "Yeah, quit being a flirtatious asshole for starters."

Taehyung pouted. "Ouch." He put a hand over his chest. "I've been wounded."

The blonde rolled his eyes as if to say 'that's my point' but he held his tongue. Instead he sat up in his chair and leaned forward on his knees.

"I also think you should get to know him."
"I'm trying!"
"No, you're being a cocky dick. Try actually talking to him instead of calling him cute pet names that he clearly doesn't like." Namjoon raised an eyebrow at his friend, who raised one back.

"So no flirting?"
"No flirting." Namjoon shook his head. Taehyung pursed his lips and tilted his head.

"Fine. I'll try. But flirting is more fun." He grumbled and pushed himself up to his feet.

Namjoon cocked his head. "Why? You don't do that with anyone else."

Taehyung stood still. Namjoon was right. He only acted like a headass with Jungkook and he didn't even do it intentionally.

"None of your beeswax." Taehyung muttered to avoid being asked any further questions.

The blonde male laughed and leaned back in his chair again. "Mhm." He hummed, opened the lid of his laptop to resume some work he had been previously working on before Taehyung had shown up. "Go get 'em, tiger."

Taehyung rolled his eyes and said nothing as he left the dorm building and crossed the street to the building where his dorm room was. His roommate was at work, as usual, leaving him with the room to himself for the rest of the evening.