Red String | VMIN

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Tae finally got back home. He had no energy to do anything because he wasn't in a mood.
He walked over to jungkook's door. He spotted Jungjook who was FaceTiming one of his friends, HueningKai.

"Hey yeehaw."
Tae smiled.
"Howdy partner."
Jungkook grins and tips his imaginary cowboy hat.
"Have you eaten?"
Tae leans his head at the side of the door.
"Yea, I made myself some pasta. There's leftovers in the fridge if you want any."
"Alright."
Tae walked into his room and started scrolling through social media and laughing at memes he saw. It was roughly 6 when Tae got a call from Yoongi.

"Hey, can you come over?"
"Uh, is it important hyung?"
"Well, yes? In a way, it is important."
"Well ok. Be there in 10."

Yoongi hears a knock at his door.
He walks over and opens it.
"Hey Tae."
"What's good Yoongi."
They do their holy bro bro handshake. They walk over to the couch.
"So what is it that you wanted to talk about?" Tae ruffles his hair.
"Uh, well you see, I don't know if I should be even telling you this."
Yoongi looks down and sighs. Tae sits up. "Hey, Yoongi." He scoots closer to him. "You can tell me anything, I'm always here for you."

Yoongi takes a deep breath. He looks up at Tae and says, "do you like Jimin?" Tae furrowed his eyebrows and removed his hand from Yoongi's back. "What?" "Do you, Kim Taehyung, like Park Jimin."
"No."
Yoongi raises an eyebrow.
"No?"
Tae avoids eye contact. Yoongi knows when Tae is lying. Tae took a big sigh.
"Yes, I do."
"H-."
"But before you lecture me," Tae stands up,
"I know he has a boyfriend. I know I shouldn't love Jimin. We can't be together. I know that. He knows that. The whole goddamn world knows that. But please, I don't need a constant reminder on the things I can't have."
Tae plops back onto the couch.
Yoongi looks at Tae. He doesn't know what to say. What could he say? Would he just tell Tae how he felt? Tell him to move on? Tell him what Hobi has been pressuring to tell him?

"I'm not going to leture you."
"Oh thank god because-."
"But,"
Tae took the biggest sigh. He knew Yoongi too well.
"I wanna give you some advice."
"Alright, shoot."
"I know how it feels, to want someone you can't have. I too am a victim of being a star- crossed lover. But it takes time to convince the heart of what the brain already knows."
"So what, I just go on bring friends with him? Act like it's ok?"
"No, of course not. Eventually you'll come clean. It could be tomorrow, or in a decade. But eventually you will tell him. I can promise you that."
Yoongi stares right into Tae's eyes.

"This better not be a Romeo and Juliet type deal."
Tae sighs.
"What?"
Yoongi chuckles.
"I mean, think about it. We know we can't have each other, yet with heavy hearted irony comes love. Totally unexpected, and it never goes away. I'll just have to take it to my grave." Yoongi sighs.
"Well, I don't think yours will be a 3 day relationship that causes 6 deaths, but if so, weird flex."
Yoongi grins.
Tae looks over.
"It's moments like these I'm glad to have you as my go to. Thank you for everything Yoongi."

They smile at each other.
"Yea you love me. But no homo bro bro." Yoongi smiles.
"Very much homo bro bro."
They stare at each other in silence for 2 seconds, then break out laughing. They talk more about how life has been. It's been a while since they last got to talk to each other like this.

"So how's life?"
"Oh pretty good. Making music as usual, making a few drawing of things here and there." "I haven't painted in a while."
Then, something pops into Tae's mind.
"Oh! Yoongi! I forgot to ask you, I have your painting in my room! It's really nice. You honestly did me too good, I look like some god, which really I'm not."
Yoongi gummy smirks in content.
"Glad you liked it bum. I worked hard."
"Yea I can tell. But uh, what did that note mean?"
"What note?"
"The one you left on the painting."

A bit of panic rose to Yoongi as he remembered the note he felt on the painting.
"Oh yea that thing, what about it?"
Tae raises an eyebrow.
"What do you mean 'what about it' you left me questioning things for days. I think I know what it means but I'm not sure and I forgot a part of it."
Yoongi gulped.
"What do you think it meant?"
"Well you talked about fear and love and I think falling in love. I don't remember it word for word but there was some words with phobia in them."
Yoongi mumbled, "my Atelphobia and Philophobia became my pragmatic feeling." "Yea! That's what it said. Why did you put that on the note?"

Yoongi was trying to come up with a reasonable answer.
"Oh well, you see I'm trying to expand my lexicon so I'm using big words that I don't fully understand the meaning myself."
"Oh." Tae looked at the floor.
Yoongi sighed, happy that he got away with this one.
"Well, that's ok! Shiloh actually told me what it means, so let me clarify."
Yoongi's eyes widen. Shiloh is the most smartest mf on the planet.
"Uh, it's fine, you really don't-."
Tae smiled,
"Yoongi it's fine, let me explain."
Tae sits closer to a Yoongi.

[ A/N alright so basically I'm too lazy to explain myself again but basically Atelphobia, the fear of not being good enough, and Philophobia, the fear of falling in love, get in the way of someone being able to fully express someone's feelings towards someone. And so basically Tae explained that to him. Jeez this is hard, anyways we fast forward to the end of the conversation, after Tae explained. ]

"So, yea. That's basically what it means."
Tae grins.
"Wow, you did such a good job of explaining, I bet Shiloh would be proud."
Tae smiles in content with Yoongi's comment. "Thank you!"
Yoongi gets up and grabs some more water. "Now you wanna tell me why you lied to my face?"
Tae looked at Yoongi.

Yoongi was a bit shocked.
"What?"
"You lied to me."
"When?"
"Just now! When I asked you why you wrote it. You said I don't know."
"How do you know I was lying?"
Tae rolls his eyes.
"Yoongi, I've basically known you since fetus years. I know everything there is to know about you. So, why did you lie to me?"
Yoongi gulped. He was caught red handed.
"I like someone."

Yoongi looked dead into Tae's eyes. Tae rose his eyebrows.
"Really!"
Tae got up.
"Who?"
He walks over to Yoongi. Yoongi grins. "Wouldn't you like to know."
"I would, hence why I asked."
"Look, I don't even know why, but I just do." "Oh, well that's dumb."
Tae rolled his eyes.
Yoongi made a 'bitch what' face and stared at Tae.
"You don't just like people for no reason. There's something about this person that makes them seem like god to you."
Yoongi rolls his eyes.

"Alright then you tell me why you fell for Jimin."
Without hesitation Tae sat up.
"Park Jimin is wonderful for these reasons: He is smol. Smol things like Jimin need protection. And I've picked up on the habits he does. When he's happy he smiles widely and his front tooth is a bit crooked. When he eats something he shakes his hands quickly for half a second. When he's sad he puffs and crosses his arms. And when he's in love,"
Tae looks down at his hands,
"he gives all his attention to you. Makes you feel special. Will give you everything in a heart beat."
Tae looks up.
"That's when you know when you're in love." Yoongi scoffs.
"No."

Tae makes the most disgusted face.
"No?"
"No."
"Alright then know it all, tell me."
Yoongi walks over and sits on the couch with Tae.
"You know you're in love when the person hurts you so much, but you still view them as the best person on earth. Willing to physically bend over backwards. Love, is the most violent act."
Yoongi looks down.
"Tae."
Yoongi whispers quietly. Tae moves over to Yoongi and embraces him.
"It's ok."
They hold each other. After 3 hours of spilling their feelings to each other it becomes late.

"I should probably get back home."
"Yea."
Tae gathers his things, they do yet again their hand shake, and Tae leaves. Yoongi locks the door and goes to bed.
"I need to start following my own advice."
Yoongi gets ready for bed and then falls asleep.

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*inhales*
IM SORRY THIS IS TRASH BUT IM REALLY JUST TIRED AND I WANNA SLEEP AND THIS IS A BIT RUSHED SO IM SORRY IF WHAT I JUST WROTE MADE NO SENSE.
*exhales*
Ok so first things first.
BTS IS BACK BITCHES WOHOOO. Get this dough, I risked it for the biscuit. Their songs are so great and I've been streaming them right now. That fact that you aren't streaming this is dumb so I left the video for you at the top. Anyways thanks for continuing to read this. Ily

- awful writer 💌