really? • taennie

040 - checking it out.

Everyone still had energy after their Tonight Show guesting, but not Kim Taehyung. It was the first time for the week that he felt worn off, thanks to the lack of sleep and absence of energy booster. He still pulled off their performance, though, like he always does.

However, he was not able to reach Jennie's phone earlier before the airing, and now Rosé (he still wasn't certain if he can already call her Chaeyoung) sent those lines on his messaging app.

Completely confused, he just stared at his screen while drinking his beer alone beside his bedroom window.

"I knew something's bothering you."
Taehyung jerked upon hearing Jimin, who apparently has been on his back since he entered their hotel bedroom. He saw the girl's username (and mentally jotted it down), and her message. He offered his chips to the startled man, and when he rejected, pulled a chair beside him to sit at.

"Since when were you here? Why aren't you talking?"
He looked at his own screen, before locking it and putting it to his pocket.
"Are you shoulder surfing? Do you like her? You can politely ask for her username from me, you know. And weren't you talking when we met that Friday?"

"You really get nervous and blabber a lot when you're caught in the act, aren't you?"
He chuckles. 

"Don't revert the topic. It's evident that you like Rosé-ssi."

"Says the man who reverts from the main topic!" 
He grabs his phone from his pocket, which Tae did not bother to stop. At that moment, he felt he needed someone to give him advice.

Of course, the two male names on her last message with her someone made him feel a pang on his heart. Seungyoon oppa and Minho oppa. The two were helping her produce a 'special project,' and knowing he wouldn't be able to talk to her that much bothers him. The assurance she kept on giving was not enough; he knew he had to do more to still try to maintain or boost what they have.

She did say she had no one whom she liked in their agency, but he kept on having the feeling that one of the two is a threat to him.

He just threw himself on the bed while Jimin unlocks the phone.

"Brave of you to have Jennie as your home wallpaper." 
Jimin chuckles. It is true, he set her photo as his wallpaper, the one where her face was so close to the camera, her cheeks too squishy with sparkles on her blush. Before he locks his screen, he would often caress her cheek with his thumb, as if always ready to pinch them in real life. 
  "You want to keep this too much to yourself that Hoseok hyung whines whenever you reject him every time he wants to borrow this."