My Sister's boyfriend

Chapter 7: Yoongi's Phone Number

Jimin has practically become part of the family, Yoongi is often surprised if he doesn't see Jimin at dinner, or just around the house in general. Jimin doesn't even make plans with Hani before he comes over anymore, he just shows up randomly and hangs out with whoever is around and often that person is Yoongi. It strikes Yoongi one day as he's sitting around lazily hanging out with Jimin that if Jimin just randomly stopped showing up at his house he would have no way to contact him.
"Jimin, hey can I see your phone for a second?"
Jimin looks up from the knickknacks he had just been playing with on Yoongi's desk. "What, why?"
"Come on, I'm not going to do anything weird, please?"
"No, why would I ever let you do that?" Jimin looks somewhat amused.
"Come on, please?" Yoongi insists unconvincingly.
The smile on Jimin's face grows, "No!!!!" Jimin has a giant grin on his face, looking at Yoongi like he's being ridiculous.
"I'm not going to go through your texts or internet history or anything, I promise. Now can I please see you phone?" Yoongi stretches out his hand.
"Why." Jimin deadpans and in response Yoongi sticks out his bottom lip and looks at Jimin with wide eyes, pouting. Jimin looks bemused,"nuh uh." he enunciates still looking at Yoongi like he's crazy. Yoongi switches to a new approach where he tries to be cute in response, wiggling his fingers under his chin. Jimin looks unimpressed and unmoved, eyeing Yoongi suspiciously. Yoongi just keeps being cute.
"Oh my god." Jimin says making his exasperation known, but he rolls Yoongi's desk chair up to him and he hands Yoongi his phone. Yoongi smiles as big as he can and Jimin narrows his eyes back. Yoongi turns on the phone to find Jimin's lock screen.
"It's locked." Yoongi says.
"Yes." Replies Jimin.
Yoongi makes the same pouting face he'd made earlier and Jimin rolls his eyes but takes his phone back and puts in his password. He hands Yoongi his phone back and Yoongi squeals, backing away from Jimin so that Jimin can't see what he's doing on his phone. He shouldn't be embarrassed that he's stealing Jimin's number but he is because he feels like he's crossing a threshold into actually re-solidifying their relationship as friends. It's intimidating, especially since he's not even sure that he should be friends with his sister's boyfriend.
"Are you seriously hiding what you're doing from me on my own phone." Jimin says and Yoongi grins at him. It takes him a while to actually find Jimin's number, but he eventually does and attempts to memorize it long enough to put it in his phone once he's given Jimin his phone back."Seriously what did you do?" Jimin asks Yoongi as Yoongi hands him back his phone. Yoongi shrugs and immediately takes out his own phone and plugs Jimin's number in. He smiles secretly at it.
. . .
He texts Jimin the next day.

Yoongi:
Hey, is this Jimin?

Jimin:
Yeah, who is this?

Yoongi:
:)

Jimin:
...

Yoongi:
Meet me at Lucy's Coffee House at 11am tm
. . .

To Yoongi's surprise Jimin had actually shown up to the meeting Yoongi had ominously invited him to. When Yoongi explained to him that he had been the one to text him on his new phone with his new number he had expected Jimin to show some kind of happiness but Jimin had not been smiling. In fact as soon as Yoongi mentioned his new number Jimin had promptly pulled out his own phone and started frowning at something. Jimin eventually speaks up,"Wait, when did you get your new phone?" Jimin is staring at something on his phone, sitting across the table from Yoongi, he had yet to touch his coffee.
"I don't know, a long time ago?" Yoongi replies, a little lost.
"Like seven months ago? Eight months ago? Nine?" Jimin prods.
"I don't know the exact details dude."
"And you never thought to tell me your new number?"
"I don't know, I meant to but I guess it slipped my mind." Yoongi lies smoothly.
"Okay, what was the last text you got from me?" Jimin presses.
"What?"
"Please Yoongi, this is important to me."
"I don't know, I think you like wished me good luck on my exams or something."
"Oh."
"What, 'oh'?"
"Just, oh... so you never got the text?"
"What text?"
"You'd know what I meant if you'd gotten it."
"So, I didn't get the text?"
"Apparently not."
There is a pause, "What was the text?" Yoongi asks.
Jimin looks embarrassed, "It's not important anymore." Jimin says quietly.
"I mean, if you say so." Not for the first time Yoongi feels bad for having dropped Jimin as a friend so thoughtlessly. "I'm sorry." Yoongi says eventually.
"Sorry?" Jimin looks at him queerly, "For what?"
"For not telling you I had a new number, for not replying to you properly when you texted me after we handed in our project, for being a bad friend I guess. I'm sorry."
"Oh." Jimin looks down at his drink in his hands, "That's okay."
Neither of them speak for a while, Yoongi wonders idly what texts Jimin sent him after he had gotten his new number. In retrospect it had been an asshole move to just not tell Jimin, he had only assumed that Jimin had been as invested in the relationship as Yoongi had tried to be, he never really thought to ask how Jimin had seen him when they were statistics partners. if Yoongi is honest with himself he thinks he had always known the possibility that Jimin could be hurt when Yoongi stopped replying to him seriously, started brushing him off more often, ignoring him, replying late. Yoongi had been too content to pretend that the friendship they had built up over the past several months had meant nothing. Yoongi had sort of known that finally giving Jimin a new number to contact him by would open up old wounds. He sits there, stewing in his regret, not really knowing what else to say.
"Thank you." Jimin says, his voice is so quiet Yoongi barely hears it.
. . .
Yoongi might be imagining it but he thinks Jimin is avoiding him. It's not just that Jimin had just stopped coming to hang out with him in his room (which he had), but Jimin had actually started calling ahead of time to make sure Hani would be there when he arrived or otherwise making plans specifically so that Hani would be there. Yoongi had also noticed that whenever he enters a room that Jimin is in, it is guaranteed that Jimin will be out of that room in less than a minute. Yeah, Yoongi was pretty sure Jimin was avoiding him.
"You're avoiding me." Yoongi says to Jimin one day after cornering him in the kitchen, making Jimin jump.
"I'm not avoiding you." he says nervously.
"Yes you are." Yoongi confirms.
Yoongi looks at the frazzled boy in front of him. He feels caught very off guard by how immediately evident it was that Jimin did not want to see him. Yoongi feels his heart thud in his chest as Jimin exhales slowly, "I'm not avoiding you; everything has just been weird lately." Jimin says.
"Are you okay?" Yoongi asks concerned.
"Oh, uh, yeah, I'm fine. I'm sorry Yoongi." Jimin isn't looking at him.
"Sorry?" Yoongi asks.
"Yeah, for making it seem like I was avoiding you." Jimin replies helpfully.
"Dude, you're going to have to help me out, did I do something wrong?" Yoongi prods.
"No I never said that, why would you think that?" Jimin says looking mostly at the floor.
"Well you're not really giving me much to go on here." Yoongi tells him.
"I'm sorry, you really didn't do anything wrong. I've just been weird lately don't mind me."
"Okay." Yoongi says deciding to just accept what Jimin was saying, the conversation had only made him more confused and evidently Jimin didn't want to explain himself better so it wasn't any of Yoongi's business.
Yoongi turns back to go out of the kitchen again when Jimin calls back to him, "Yoongi."
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry."
"Okay." And with that Yoongi turns around and leaves. It's not his right to get caught up in relationship drama with Hani's boyfriend, especially when he had probably been the one to do all the wrong. He thinks he knows why Jimin is avoiding him and it's because Yoongi had been dumb and opened up old wounds that Jimin had been content to forget. Yoongi does exactly what he does best; he backs the hell off and gives Jimin some space.

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