Clinically In Love [Vmin-BTS]

Chapter 26: <○Game of Tags○>

Seokjin's Apartment
Somewhere in Daegu...

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@GucciTAE95 UPDATED A POST
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That was it. The Instagram notification he'd been waiting all day for. Seokjin couldn't help but allow his heart to beat a little faster; he couldn't stop his smile from growing a little wider. He hadn't even tapped on the notfication flashing up at him yet. But somehow, he knew it was a post just for him.

It was usually tradition for him and Taehyung, a deal they had come to agreeing on when they were still in their relationship: Seokjin would post a selca, and Tae would always do the same in reply, with nothing but Seokjin's username as the caption. At some point, they'd decided it to be like a tennis match of online dedications, like a back-and-forth of tags. And out of all games he always liked playing, Seokjin enjoyed this one the most.

This one's gotta be for me...

He immediately eliminated all other odds from entering his head as he stared at the notification again. Because even though his heart lied sometimes, Seokjin's mind was always right: this had to be Taehyung's way of saying he wanted him back. After all that happened between them, this had to be Taehyung's way of reaching out again.

"I mean, Tae said he misses me himself," Seokjin mumbled, trying to find reassurance from his own words in his messy apartment room. He smiled. "He wants me back. He needs me back... After everything..."

After... Everything...

Seokjin's heart didn't stop at trying to deafen all other sounds from reaching his ears. His hands suddenly felt clammy. But he finally brought himself to grip his phone tighter, grazing his thumb on the notification that he could no longer ignore.

This post is for me... he kept on reassuring. Tae didn't forget about me... About us. He didn't forget our deal. He still remembers. He still... He still loves--

"What the... fuck?"

Seokjin had to force himself to blink as he stared at the post glaring up at him. And for a small, fleeting moment, he felt nothing. His heart could've stopped for a minute, and he wouldn't have known it. His phone could have completely cracked in two at the infuriated grip he had around it, and he wouldn't have glanced twice. But it wasn't the fact Taehyung's post wasn't a selca, the way Seokjin had done earlier that morning. It wasn't the fact that it was just a simple landscape shot of the townlights from a rooftop. No. It was neither of that.

But rather, it was the blemish, that one fatal blemish in the caption that was the killer. Because Seokjin didn't see his name in the tags. In fact, he didn't see any other username other than the three letters and six digits that taunted him to breaking point.

And when his breaths slowed, leaving his eyes burning with fury, Seokjin realised where he stood. He suddenly realised that the game of tags wasn't for him and Taehyung anymore.

Out of all games he used to enjoy playing, losing this one angered Seokjin the most. Because after all that had ever happened, after everything, he understood what the end of something looked like.

Because it was the start of Taehyung and the new player of this game.
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GucciTAE95:
I'm all the way here in Daegu
Where for you the lights only shine
Where i flipped the coin we decided to toss.....
And so decided I'd make you mine

.......@PJM_131095 ♡
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A/N: Like legit that aint my pic. But im sure u know that>< *cries coz im broke nd cant take my own Daegu shots like some of them K-ARMYs that make my heart wanna die in korean but it cant coz I AINT KOREAN!!!!*

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Im fine thank you:")

*sobs uncontrollably*