𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒 ✦ jikook

f o r t y . f i v e

"Why didn't you message me that Jinnie hyung allowed you to be discharged early?"

Jimin takes a seat on the leather sofa placed in the center of the living room. The male tries to make himself comfortable and treats it like his home as he was said to but he just can't and might as well won't be able to since it is the first time he has set foot into a merely-stranger's house and it was such a luxurious sight to marvel at, with clean-swept and marbled floors, sparkly and exotically designed chandeliers, so many things that Jimin fears it wouldn't be enough to list out from top to toe all the items in Daehyun's house.

"And I remembered Jinnie allowed you to be discharged when we first met at the hospital." Jimin asks while he is still familiarizing himself with his surroundings. To be frank, Jimin feels as if he was in either a mansion or an exquisite castle from the ancient times in England. "Why stay?"

"Well, I didn't expect you to pay me a visit before leaving," Daehyung calmly says, he looks physically and mentally healthier when he wasn't dressed in a patient's gown. "And for that, I didn't feel that well that afternoon so Jin insisted me to stay." The man smiles politely as he sets the plate of small lavender-colored macaroons down on the coffee table and lets out a small laugh when he sees Jimin's eyes sparkle with bright flares. "Take this as my apology, my mother's recipe. I hope you enjoy it."

Jimin's mouth cutely forms into an O-shape when he sees the exotic but adorably decorated macaroons, not only its pastel colors suit the purplish tint of his eyes but also the lavender flower which is placed on the dish makes it look all the more beautiful. After Daehyun returns back with a tepid tea pot and carefully carved sippy cups, he slightly bows at the latter since he is still older than him to express unsaid gratitude for the small but soulful gift he skillfully made. The action makes Daehyun smiles fondly at him before taking a seat down the sofa with him, their legs brush together a second but Jimin inches away for Daehyun to sit, since the sofa is kind of small for long-legged people like Daehyun.

"I take this as a snack and a gift, not an apology." Jimin says as he points the half-bitten macaroon at Daehyun's widely smiling face, he hovers his hand above his mouth a bit to be polite while chewing. Can't blame his manners, the macaroons are just too good for him to contain his compliments. "These are so good, hyung!"

"And... wow, did you hand-brew this tea? Like, I know it's kind of sounds like kissing your butt but this is luxurious and I just can't stop drinking the tea." Jimin sips half of the sippy cup before exclaiming. "Though, less sugar is probably fine hyung, there's a bit that doesn't dissolve when I finish."

"Help yourself to a next cup, but I'm so glad you like it," Daehyun looks at Jimin's satisfied face with a fond smile plastered on his face and decides to continue the conversation by steering it to another topic.

"You've changed so much that I barely recognized..." He glazes his hands together and resting his chin on them.

What the older said completely stops Jimin's action of stuffing macaroons into his chubby cheeks. He slowly looks next to him to see Daehyun still drowning in his thoughts, his rings shining in the zesty light as Jimin tries to find the correct words meanwhile the sweetness still lingers on his tongue. The things that rolled down Daehyun's lips are undeniably true. They both haven't recognized each other except Daehyun since college, who is still holding onto the image of a sweet, caring raven-haired Jimin with hamster cheeks. He was so innocent and so caring then, the small-bean puppy that Daehyun used to keep in his hands.

"I thought we've settled this for good back then..." Jimin says, without a trace of emotions when Daehyun's nine words trigger his influx of memories. Though badly he wants to shout, he has to contain the unnecessary outburst for the latter is still older and keeping a cold mind is always more sensible than talking with your heart up on your head. His eyes stare blankly at the plate of macaroons set on the table, half wanting to take them with them but half resisting the urge to since he is sitting with.

He has finally reunited with the heart-wrecker since college.

"Yet I can't stop thinking about it Jimin!" Daehyun merely shouts, being unable to control his emotions overwhelming his actions as he kneels down. His trousered knees meet the cold tiled floor but he doesn't give it a second thought, he would do anything for Jimin's heart to skip beats and for his cheeks to turn red when they lightly steal glances from each other. He holds Jimin's hands dearly and rubbing it with his thumb while whispering with a soft tone but Jimin doesn't budge, as if it was all too familiar for him to witness.

"Please, I have been dreaming about you since our first encounter back in the hospital!"

"It was just a polite act with no underlying intentions." Jimin answers in monotone, as if holding a bucket of freezing cold water and splash it mercilessly on the older's face. He looks away slightly to avoid the pleading and almost moving action of Daehyung. He fears that it will make his heart go wild again and he can't leave Jungkook - the most beautiful and loving creature that he wants to spend eternity with. Oh how he wants to spend time all day with him just lying on sofa and watching random commercials but reality pulls him back, with Daehyun gingerly caressing his hands while begging for forgiveness, memories they had back coming towards him like waves lapping the shore. College was nothing but a bitch back then with judgmental eyes and burning jealousy.

"You wouldn't even think of me as your lover..." Jimin mumbles, tears rimming his eyes since the latter doesn't know his first kiss was stolen by him, no one but a cheater and douche bag. The fact that the first is supposed to be your dearest and precious gift used to make Jimin feel worthless, dull and trapped until Hoseok sets foot into his boring life and illuminated it with limitless sun shine and energy, until Jungkook with his arrogant but soft attitude hidden that will make him feel loved in every circumstances since their kiss this morning. "You treated me like an object and when you got dumped you came back to me!" Jimin looks away to hide the tears and his aching heart, as if somebody was squeezing it when he sees Daehyun rests his forehead on his lap with his hand still caressing the younger's and starts to faintly sobs. Jimin is taken aback by the sudden action on the grounds of the older would always do it to make it up to him when he got back, and he would agree to let him wrap his arms around his petite body and drowned in a deep kiss. It always started with Daehyun kneeling and Jimin sitting on a bench or so and ended with them hungrily devouring each other's lips.

Just, not this time.

"I wouldn't pay shit twice for that title of 'the greatest kisser' in college and don't ever dream of getting back with me ever again." Jimin spits out coldly, ignoring Daehyun's pleading eyes for him to give into it some thought. He wouldn't trade anything to get back with the older, if he were to offer him gold. He had Hosoek, Jungkook and his friends at the station and that was the most precious gift God has ever given him.

After downing the rest of his tea down, with the sweetness lingering but not enough to balance out the bitterness he felt at the ends of his tongue, he stands up to leave, not sparing another glance at the later now clutching on his hand like stairway railings and sobs more loudly than before as if his life depended on it. Jimin breaks free from Daehyun's clutch and storms off towards the big wooden door. Sweetness still invades his palate but Jimin feels hazy, the feeling of clouds surrounding him. Soon it quickly worms its way down his throat and like a syringe of drugs, he is drowned in paralyzation as his legs give up on the weight of his body and he collapses face first onto the now bitterly cold marbled floor.

The sound of Daehyun's deep chuckle was all that can be heard before the intoxicating sweetness dawns over him with darkness.

A/N: BAm, DoUblE UPdaTe!! Thanks for the encouragement readers :DD, I'm so damn elated >.< so I gift you this chapter as a cliff hanger and plot twist for the next chapters.