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7 › telling a friend.

[1: 34 PM ]

As what Jimin said on the phone conversation they had last week, Taehyung found himself at the hair salon with his friend beside him; getting their hair dyed to a new color.

His friend that's beside him is busy on his cellphone. Taehyung hunches that Jimin is probably chatting his boyfriend. Thus, he averted his attention on his friend only to focus on himself.

Taehyung stares at his own reflection on the mirror, his eyes then trails down and settles at the bruised hickey on his neck since he's wearing a loose shirt. The mark unfortunately couldn't be hidden by the concealer he had, it's still look so noticeable. Even Jimin noticed it earlier but didn't ask where did Taehyung got it instead, he decided to ignore it. Maybe Jimin somewhat already knew and felt that Taehyung doesn't want to talk about it.

The bruised mark on his neck still aches though, the pain is bearable now unlike yesterday,,, after such incident had happened. Taehyung still couldn't believe what happened. Why did Jungkook do that to me?

As he was busy staring at himself on the mirror, almost dazedly looking at the mark on his neck not noticing Jimin giving him worried glances every now and then, his friend heaves a sigh. Jimin doesn't want to press Taehyung on by asking but the distraught appearance of his friend makes him want to do so--- and, so he decided to finally ask him.

" Tae , are you really okay? Are you sleeping well these days?". Jimin genuinely asks, eyes a bit sad.

Taehyung a bit startled by the sudden question nonetheless, let out a small smile , nodding slowly. " Yeah, I'm well rested and I'm okay. No need to worry about it min. " He tries to reassure his friend which really doesn't work.

Jimin furrows his eyebrows , shaking his head. " No , you're not . I can tell something had happened , care to explain how did you get that ugly hickey on your neck ?". He pointed to the obvious mark the latter had.

Taehyung gulps and averted Jimin's gaze on him , unconsciously touching the said mark which he winces afterwards.

" Uhm.. I also don't know how to say how I got this mark, Jimin . " Taehyung wearily sighs.

I can't tell him the real reason behind it. Taehyung inwardly thought, afraid that his friend might judge him.

Despite his worry about the mark, Jimin just nodded.

" I'll ask you later again but for now, I think we should stop talking because the girl sitting beside me is eavesdropping on us." Jimin whispers , staring at the girl back who looks away, quite feeling embarrassed.

It made the latter laugh.

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" Wah! Look at you , blonde hair really suits you, Good choice." Jimin praises then proceeds to pinch Taehyung's cheeks.

Taehyung swatted Jimin's small hand away from his face then huffs , " it's not though,,,the color you chose for yourself really suits you by the way, you look sexy." Taehyung smirks.

" You think so?". Jimin asks with a smug grin on his face, brushing up his hair using his hand, out of habit.