Jester | Jikook |

Chapter 4: The message

            There was a knock at the door of the big building where the circus folks lived. Jimin was up in his room laying down and thinking of falling to sleep now that he was done with his practice.

              Meanwhile, Yoongi was at the door waiting as he knocked on the front door waiting for atleast the Ringmaster to answer.  "Ugh.. How many clowns does it take to open the door?" Yoongi hissed as he kept knocking but no one would answer.

              Taehyung was in the living room writing down a few ideas for acts as Hoseok was leaning his head on the Ringmaster's shoulder. They were close friends and that was all, but at times they had those soft moments where they rested by eachother like this. It never bothered them, in their eyes, it was a friendly thing.

            There was another knock.. And then another. The leader couldn't focus with having the comstant knocks on the door. "Hey, go answer the door..." Taehyung instructed the dancer, poking him with a pencil as Hoseok sighed.

             "I'm too comfortable.." Hoseok sighed as Taehyung sighed and dropped his pencil to play with Hoseok's hair.

              "Please, Hope~ Ringmaster doesn't has his mask right now~" Taehyung cooed as Hoseok groaned.

              "Ugh.. Go get your mask! I'm not moving." Hoseok hissed as Taehyung smirked and began to pinch Hoseok's nipples and began to tickle him making Hoseok's eyes widened as he laughed.

             "You don't have a choice~" Taehyung whispered in a low voice as Hoseok nodded and quickly stood up.

               "You sadistic brat." Hoseok joked as he walked up to the door and answered it to see a royal messenger.

               "Hello, I am a royal messenger here to deliver this to the Ringmaster... Where is he?" Yoongi asked as Hoseok looked back at Taehyung's direction. To see the Ringmaster shake his head not wanting to allow the messenger in.

             Hoseok focused back to Min Yoongi and let out a deep breath. At times, Taehyung would get on his nerves but he still cared about him. "The Ringmaster doesn't have his mask at the moment..."

             "But tha- Nevermind.. Please give this to him." Yoongi claimed as he handed over the letter to Hoseok as he accepted it. "Have a good day." Yoongi made a smile as he walked away as Hoseok returned a bright smile to the Royal messenger.

           Hoseok closed the door feeling happy now and walked up to Taehyung with it where he handed over the letter with a smile. The Ringmaster looked up at Hoseok and gave him a sour stare. "Why are you so happy?" Taehyung asked as Hoseok shook his head.

             "I'm just excited to know what's in the letter." Hoseok responded as he sat next to the leader and moved his head on Taehyung's shoulder to see what it was.

              When Taehyung opened the letter, he began to read it to himself as he let out a hum in interest.
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Hello, you have recieved our letter sent from the King's Adviser to you all requesting for another Circus act.

The King enjoyed the performance and would love to invite you all back to the castle this time with a proper pay for each performer. You are to show up Friday to the castle for the performance again. Please bring your best acts.
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            "Another act?" Hoseok asked as he smiled. "And we get payed? That's amazing!"

             "What? No this isn't 'amazing' Hoseok... The King never cared about the performers.. He only cared about Jimin's performance! They are calling us back just so that King Jungkook can look at Jimin again..."

              "But atleast it's something." Hoseok said as he held the letter. "I get that he caught the King's attention.. But what will they do?"

            "I know King Jungkook wants to take Jimin.. Keep him in the castle forever..." Taehyung said as Hoseok chuckled.

             "What's so bad about losing Park Jimin? You won't loose him anyways, you are the Ringmaster and for the King to hire Jimin, he'll need to talk to you and make sure the contract Jimin has with you ends." Hoseok claimed and poked Taehyung's cheek. "Don't worry... The King will have to talk to you before he decides to keep Jimin."

             "Who's going to keep me?" Jimin asked as he got downstairs and walked to the kitchen, still paying attention to the two.

               "No one." Taehyung replied as Hoseok shook his head.

                "Hmm, Taehyung don't lie to him!" Hoseok stood up as he faced Jimin's direction. "The King wants another performance and Taehyung thinks it's the King's way of getting to you."

            "T-to hire me?" Jimin asked as he held a can of blueberry soda.

             "This is only what I think.. It just seens like a tactic someone like him would use to go after someone." Taehyung said. "But if there is ever a position Jungkook offers you... Please say you'll stay here." Taehyung asked as Jimin began to think.

              "Of course I'll stay here." Jimin smiled as he looked at the lif of the can. "There's no way I would ever leave... I doubt a King like him would chose me over a big group of amazing performers like you all."

                "Well, he does seem to pay attention to you alot... But what would we know? We're all just peasants." Hoseok joked making Jimin laugh.

          But what came across Jimin's mind was, wouldn't it be great to see the King again and perform for Jungkook like he did today? Jimin thought as he smiled. "We should perform again.... Doing something we love and of course getting paid for it, atleast it's something right?"

             Taehyung sighed, he did like the idea of going back to perform and having the great honor of doing so too. "Right.. let's do it. We have three days until the performance. If we can't get his attention we might aswell make sure you do a good job at putting on a show."