i'll give you the sun

part 7.

When Jeongguk drops by his office for lunch and asks him how he is, Yoongi says that he's good, thanks, and finds that he actually means it.

After work he finds Hosoek lounged on his sofa and helping himself to a credit card Yoongi had left lying around (he'd left it in a rather obvious place for this reason alone) and the smile he shoots Yoongi as he walks through the door is unabashed and unapologetic. Yoongi greets his friend with a thump to the head with his pack of cigarettes and a rather pointed, "Good evening, free loader."

Hoseok asks how he is and Yoongi repeats what he'd said to Jeongguk earlier that day, I'm good, thanks, and this time he means it, too.

"How'd the drive with Taehyung go?" Hoseok picks through the bowl of noodles on his lap, eyeing Yoongi while he ate. "As you can see, me and Namjoon made it out with our lives. He said I couldn't drive his car anymore, though,"

Yoongi rolls his eyes, "Because you give people heart attacks, Hoseok,"

"Anyway, enough about that, Namjoon's a big boy, anyway. How was it with Taehyung? Did you talk? Did you play the radio really loud? Did you take the long way home? Did you cry during the whole drive?"

When Yoongi flinches at the last question, the mischievous grin on Hosoek's face quickly falls and is followed by a more sympathetic smile, hand reaching out to rub gently on Yoongi's knee.

"Did you really cry, Yoongi?" He sounds like he's about to burst into laughter, though, and again Yoongi whacks him with the cigarette pack.

"Fuck off, you're terrible," Yoongi scowls, pushing Hoseok's hand away. "And crying while driving is quite dangerous, so I didn't,"

Hoseok practically falls over on the couch from laughing so much, his noodles almost flying out of the bowl, "So it went well?"

Yoongi falls silent and contemplates it. "I'm not sure, but lately I've been having good days,"

This time the smile on Hoseok's face is gentle and kind, "Yeah, I've noticed."

--

He and Taehyung decide to meet again on Saturday.

Just as he's about to get ready to leave, his phone blows up with a call from work that demands for his presence.

Yoongi swallows past the lump in his throat, almost chokes down on the "no", but instead, he grits his teeth and says, "Okay,"

It's nine in the morning and he wakes Taehyung up with a call and an apology.

"Oh," Taehyung sounds crestfallen and Yoongi can't imagine what he would look like with the news. "It's okay,"

"No, it's not," Yoongi pushes, wants Taehyung to at least know that if he'd had it any other way then he would be spending the Saturday with him. "An urgent meeting of all the directors, I can't get out of it. I'm really sorry,"

"It's okay, really," Taehyung tries again, this time sounding more believable. "We can meet after anyway, right?"

A sigh passes from his lips and Yoongi relaxes, "Yeah, I think that can work, too,"

"Well, I'm not gonna keep you any longer, so just call me after?" Taehyung asks quietly, like he's not too sure he could demand something of Yoongi.

It will take a while for Taehyung to come to terms that he's Yoongi's priority now and that he should be important above all else, but Yoongi will wait. It's been four months since Taehyung had first left and they're working on things, slow paced as it is, but it's still progress.