Staegma ✧ taejin

bonus #1: art supplies

agustd: he is sulking because the business had no customers for days

agustd: visit jin's art supplies shop maybe you'll love it!!! he has practically everything you need, and the supplies are eco-friendly (aka made from our apartment trash) but we (he) did his best

hopeworld: I wish I can visit right now :( also, leave the poor guy alone agustd

agustd: hopeworld no!! because then, he'll be actually alone.

Taehyung peers over Jimin's — no, Christian's — shoulder over one lunch break at work. He slowly puts down the box he was holding, taking the time to read what was inside the gamer's jurassic of a phone, he thinks it's called 'Twitter,' but Taehyung isn't a social media kind of person. . . someone is sulking? Because of an empty shop?

His mind flashes back to when the antique shop first began — he would be sitting on the wooden stool behind the counter, arranging fake flowers on the table, while patiently waiting for the bell to chime and for a customer to step in.

They had none for days, but he understood that part. Antique shops aren't exactly practical.

And Taehyung feels his mind being pulled by his heartstrings. Visit the shop, help a business out. They sell art supplies, just as you like it.

Clunk!

Spoons and forks and chopsticks and even plates spilled down on the floor, some of which still rotating and moving around. Oh, boy. He feels his best friend — Christian — freeze up by the noise.

"You never told me you're here, Tae—"

"Oh no no no no." Taehyung crouches down and nervously scrambles for the kitchenware that had fallen from the box, and well, he takes them of great importance. Some of them were extremely fragile. He picks up a large spoon thing, and examines it, before placing it inside the kitchenware box. He hasn't even put them up in the store yet, oh go-

"How long have you been there?"

Taehyung swears he hears the nervous tone in Jimin's voice.

"I just came here."

Jimin's fingers are itching towards his computer, ready to finish up the break.

"Oh, really? Did you see anything?"

"See what?"

"Anything."

"I saw nothing, Christian."

Jimin stares at him. And Taehyung rolls his eyes in return — he can never escape Christian anyway. "I saw something about a sad guy because his art supply shop is failing." It's making Taehyung's heart melt, too. He is an artist, and if he stops by, it's going to be a win-win situation. "It's sad."

Jimin clears his throat.

"You have work to do."

Taehyung's eyes flicker to Jimin's computer: the screen had various codes and texts that he could not understand. Science and Math bullcrap. Another game, he thinks.