12am | Jinmin

9:18am

Putting away the groceries, Seokjin went back to the trolley parked right outside his apartment and saw the cake box chucked away at one corner, untouched. Carefully taking it in his hands, the blonde asked, "Jimin-ah? You bought cake?"

"Yeah! Let's share it together later on!" He shouted from the kitchen, helping the blonde with the food.

"How much is it?"

Jimin huffed, "no need to pay back."

"But—"

"—no need!"

The pair began to squabble in pout, their lips jutting out. Seokjin shook his head as he argued, making the raven lose his cool at times and squeezing in a giggle in between their bickering.

Ah, his hyung is cute.

Jimin watched the back of the taller male as he cleared the plastic bags. It made his heart skip a beat.

Who is he kidding? His heart's been doing somersaults and backflips ever since they were in college— he wished he had the guts to confess. There were countless of times where Jimin just wanted to kiss his hyung senseless; when Seokjin is clad in his stupidly cute pyjamas, when his hair is tousled in the mornings, when he laughs so hard that his face scrunches, when he speaks with his sleepy voice— god, he's just so damn adorable, it makes Jimin's heart squeeze to the point he might have a cardiac arrest.

"Why are you staring?"

Seokjin's voice pulled him out of his thoughts, making him shake his head, "just admiring your handsome-ness."

"You're the best." The blonde replied, giving a thumbs up to the raven as he nodded his head in content.

Jimin really was admiring his overall physique.

It took a few more minutes to empty out all the plastic bags, Seokjin diligently folding them into tiny triangles and keeping them in a drawer for his dustbins.

The raven went outside again to see if there were any remaining plastic bags, "hyung, should I return the trolley already?"

"Uh— I'll go!"

"No!"

Before any bickering would ensue, Jimin ran to the blonde and clamped his mouth shut, "I'll just dump it at the void deck, okay?"

Seokjin's brows furrowed before nodding, he can't really argue at this point and he didn't want the younger male to go by himself. There was something pulling at his gut that he just can't ignore.

Jimin proceeded to slip on a pair of slippers, tugging the trolley along with him as he made his way to the elevator. He heard scuffling behind him to see his hyung running and holding onto his shoulders, "let me follow!"

"I'm just .. going to the first level, hyung."

"Yeah, but we always suffered together so I'm going with you."

The raven smiled, it's true that they did penalties and forfeits together. At first it started as a joke, but it became a thing they do, when one of them suffers, the other half had to feel the same. It was foolish, yes, but it made them have the tightest bond.

When Seokjin stubbed his toe at a corner of a table, Jimin would agonizingly do the same. When Jimin got his wisdom tooth pulled, Seokjin drank a moderate amount of alcohol to feel buzzed and constantly stuffed a marshmallow in his cheek; he also did the liquid diet with the raven until he could finally eat solid food.

Hastily abandoning the trolley, the pair went back up to the apartment and finally sat on the sofa, sighing. "So— what do you want to do?"

"Bathe." Seokjin answered, standing up again before plopping back down. "Do you want to use the shower first?"