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Chapter 6

After rehearsal, as everyone else went to gather up their belongings, Taehyung approached Hoseok from behind as he was packing up his own materials. "Hey~" Hoseok jumped and whirled around to face Taehyung, nearly falling over as he clutched his chest like he was having a heart attack. "I'm guessing you're still wound up from the movie." Taehyung giggled slightly at the memory of the older hiding in his shoulder for almost the entirety of the film.

Hoseok waited until he was calmed down from his near-death experience before responding to the young actor. "Hey, that movie was terrifying! I still don't understand how you could enjoy it so much." While Hoseok had been cowering in fear, Taehyung had managed to laugh at a few scenes out of pure enjoyment.

Taehyung shrugged that off as he decided to bring up something that had been on his mind since he'd first realized Hoseok wasn't enjoying the movie quite as much as he had been. "So, if you have such a strong dislike for horror movies, why were you planning on seeing The Purge with your friend in the first place? Wouldn't you have rather seen something you could both enjoy?" Taehyung had been expecting for Hoseok to say that he and his friend took turns choosing the movies or that his friend liked torturing him, which was why he couldn't help the surprise he felt when Hoseok did answer.

The choreographer nervously scratched the back of his neck as a light blush spread across his cheeks. "Actually, that was just an excuse to get to go out with you." Hoseok admitted, shocking Taehyung so much that he couldn't respond. "You kind of caught my eye on the first day when I saw you playing with Jin's kid and my interest grew as I saw how genuine and kind you are. Hell, just a few minutes ago you were offering to help one of those assholes that are slut shaming you when he was struggling with the choreo. You're nearly perfect~"

When Hoseok mentioned the rumors, Taehyung was reminded of how he still needed to set things straight with Hoseok in terms of how he was most certainly not sleeping with Jin. But then Hoseok followed it up with saying he was perfect and all other thoughts flew out of Taehyung's brain as he stammered to come up with a response, his face bright red. Eventually he stuttered out a 'thank you'. Taehyung cleared his throat and tried to ignore how his hands were sweaty before trying to come up with a better reply. "But I'm not perfect~" was what he settled on.

"To me you are~" Hoseok said with a smile, making Taehyung bashfully duck his head. "And I would really like to get to know you even more. Maybe over dinner?" Taehyung shyly nodded that he would like to go to dinner with Hoseok. "Great, it's a date!" Taehyung's heart started to beat faster at those words as Hoseok finished packing his things and told him he would text him with the details.

***

Yoongi sat down with his five-star quality gourmet sandwich, considering opening up a restaurant as a side business because of how high quality his sandwich making skills were. After he was settled on his couch with his dinner, he picked up his remote, ready to continue binging the new season of Orange is the New Black. He was just about to hit play on the episode he was on when his phone dinged with a text. He groaned, mentally cursing whoever it was who was intruding on his personal time, but then he saw that it was Jimin.

Hey you busy?
Sent at 6:21 pm

Yoongi smirked as he set his plate on the coffee table before unlocking his phone to type out a response.

That depends
Read at 6:23 pm

On what?
Sent at 6:24 pm

On what you need
Read at 6:25 pm

There was a significant stretch of silence on Jimin's end, leading Yoongi to believe that it was nothing important or that Jimin had gotten whatever it was he needed. He was a few minutes into his show when another text came through, proving his assumption wrong.