"hurry up," taehyung complained outside the fitting room, for jimin was taking too long. "can i come in yet?"
"hold on," jimin called as he wrestled a pair of jeans. "i don't have any pants on yet."
"that's even better," taehyung joked, smirking to himself. jimin responded with a distant squeal, calling him a pervert.
after a brief pause, jimin opened the door of the fitting room, emerging with the new jeans and sweatshirt. "there," he said, out of breath. "the jeans were hard to put on."
"they look good," taehyung commented. the shorter boy covered his face with his hand, suppressing a giggle. "i think we should buy them."
jimin took a quick glance at himself in the mirror before nodding happily. "okay," he smiled, and disappeared back into the fitting room, coming out once again with his old clothes.
the two boys then headed to the cashier, buying the pair of matching sweatshirts as well as a new pair of jeans for jimin. fortunately, the price was affordable, so jimin didn't feel too bad about having taehyung buy clothes for him. jimin and taehyung continued to walk around the mall, casually window shopping and entering stores for no other reason than to point out cute outfits, since jimin wouldn't let taehyung buy him anything else despite taehyung's pleading.
after an hour or so of mindlessly walking around, jimin spotted a flyer posted on the starbucks located within the mall. "look," he smiled to taehyung, grabbing his hand thoughtlessly and dragging the taller boy towards the windows of the busy coffee shop. as jimin began to read the flyer, he immediately dropped taehyung's hand and shoved his own in his pocket, his cheeks flushing red. jimin attempted to play off his sudden embarrassment by pulling his eyebrows together and pretending to focus on the flyer.
taehyung only reacted with a small pout as he reached over to yank jimin's hand out of his pocket. he then grabbed jimin's smaller hand with his bigger hand, interlocking their fingers smoothly until he could feel the heat of jimin's palm on his own. this only caused jimin's cheeks to turn even redder, though he didn't mind nor complain. in fact, taehyung's hands were warm and comforting. taehyung glanced over at jimin, a small grin spreading over his face, as he began to fiddle with his fingers. jimin still pretended to not pay attention.
on the inside, jimin felt like a mess as his heart fluttered wildly, causing a turmoil within him. slowly but surely, he curled his fingers over taehyung's, though his wide eyes didn't leave the piece of paper stuck on the window of the starbucks. "oh, they're hiring," jimin's voice cracked slightly, causing him to blush even deeper, if that was possible. "it says i have to apply online."
taehyung, being the outspoken person that he is, only continued to stare at jimin. "you're cute when you blush," he stated shamelessly, biting down a smirk. "you remind me of a strawberry. i love strawberries."
jimin punched taehyung's arm lightly, only now glancing down at the two's intertwined fingers. "why are you like this?" jimin pouted and looked up at taehyung, unveiling a small smile.
"you know you love me." taehyung felt the grin playing on his face widen slightly as he stared into jimin's wide, beautiful eyes. he couldn't help but get lost in the darkness of jimin's pupils. jimin's plump lips widened slightly as he stared right back at the taller boy. subconsciously, they could feel themselves being pulled to one another, like a magnet. jimin rose on his tippy toes to meet taehyung, and he could almost feel taehyung's lips on his, yet...
"oi! lovebirds! get a room!"
"it's been three months. that escalated really quickly."
jimin jumped up in surprise, withdrawing his hand from taehyung's grip. his eyes widened at the sight of hobi, yoongi, and jungkook all walking towards them, bags hanging from their hands. "i, um," jimin stuttered. "why are you guys here?"
"we're in a mall, you dumb fuck," yoongi replied nonchalantly. "why else would we be here?"
hobi playfully grinned at jimin, his white teeth flashing. "we weren't expecting you two to be kissing here, though."
"we weren't.. i.. what-" jimin continued to stammer, though he was quickly interrupted.
yoongi, jungkook, and hoseok all shared knowing looks before jungkook piped up, his eyes twinkling with amusement. "anyhow, we'll leave you two to it" - he winked - "but don't forget the sleepover."
"we weren't gonna kiss!" jimin snapped, his voice rising in a squeak.
yoongi responded with a shrug. "whatever floats your boat. anyhow, we'll be off now."
the trio began to head away, but not before hoseok turned his head and sent another wink towards the two flustered boys. taehyung failed to suppress a roll of his eyes.
as soon as the crackheads - as jimin liked to call them - were out of eyesight, taehyung turned back towards the flustered shorter boy, his voice laced with a teasing demeanor. "anyhow, where were we?"
jimin simply responded with yet another squeak before latching onto taehyung's hand and dragging him towards the grocery store, his face burning shamefully.
this is going to be a long day.
