Reflection | YOONMIN

Chapter 17

"Hey, I'm so sorry." Jimin stumbled into Yoongi's front door and headed straight for the dining room table where he saw Yoongi and Hoseok sitting, not even bothering to take his shoes off. Yoongi and Hoseok looked at Jimin as he stormed through.

"Dude where have you been all day?" Yoongi questioned, turning to Jimin. After taking out his laptop and textbook, he looked at Yoongi. Yoongi had his hair pulled back by the hat he usually wears and Jimin paused for a second, admiring Yoongi's facial features that his hair normally covers.

After staring at Yoongi for a couple of seconds, he snapped out of it and his cheeks started burning up as he knew Yoongi was clearly staring at his decorated neck. The hickeys. He had forgotten all the hickeys Taehyung gave him the other day and also earlier today. He brought his hand to his neck, trying to cover it a little bit, even though he had already seen them.

"I didn't really get much sleep last night so I just stayed home." Jimin thought about what his excuse would be on the way to the house. It wasn't a good or convincing one, but he didn't have to explain himself to anyone.

"You slept all day?" Yoongi joked, but he was also suspicious as Jimin said he was "caught up with something." The only thing Yoongi thought he was caught up with was someone mauling his neck. Hoseok was peering at him above his laptop, definitely staring at him as well.

Jimin wondered how he could be so stupid. He should've worn another turtle neck or something so he could cover them up. He hadn't looked in the mirror since this morning but even then it was bad. He didn't even want to think about how bad they looked now.

"Well, when I woke up I went back to sleep for a few hours and then I just lost track of time, I guess." Jimin hoped he would stop getting questioned.

Yoongi didn't buy it. But it wasn't his place to question him. Whatever Jimin was doing was his business. He didn't want to jump to conclusions, but he remembered that Jimin was with his ex the other night and they could've been from then, he wasn't sure because when he saw Jimin yesterday he was wearing a turtleneck. But again, it wasn't his business.

Yoongi just nodded, moving on from the subject. He was comfortable knowing that if Jimin wanted to talk to him about something, he would.

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The boys study for about 2 hours. They studied a lot over the weekend so they were just going over some last minute things. At first, Jimin wasn't really focused. But then he remembered his father and how angry he would be if he didn't get a good grade, so he had no choice but to focus and really study.

Seeing Taehyung after so long, on top of meeting Yoongi, made Jimin confused. He wanted to spend time with both of them. He liked Yoongi, really liked Yoongi. But Taehyung was, well, Taehyung. He shouldn't like Taehyung and he shouldn't spend time with him. He knew that, but he was vulnerable and easily controlled by Taehyung without even realizing.

"Okay, I'm done." Yoongi pushed his textbook forward on the table and slid back into his chair. "I can't look at this anymore." He sighed.

The boys were tired. They didn't really take any breaks as they wanted to cram as much as they could before the exam tomorrow.

"I'm with you." Hoseok agreed.

"Yeah, we did enough, honestly." Jimin nodded, ready to be done. He started packing up his stuff, getting ready to leave.

"You can stay and hangout if you want. This bum is probably gonna stay for a while." Yoongi pointed to Hoseok who made his way to the kitchen, raiding the fridge. Jimin laughed. He had an inner battle with himself. He wanted to stay. He wanted to stay more than anything, but his mind was somewhere else.