THE SEVENTH || (Taekook/Vkook) ||

Chapter 24: Expect the Unexpected

We were all sitting around the firepit, eating our food and goofing around. At moments like this I truly felt like a normal guy in his early twenties, enjoying normal things that normal people thought of as nothing special. But to me, to the members, being able to simply camp out like this together was almost a sacred activity.

It wasn't often that we felt normal, because everything in our lives were surreal. We most often found ourselves having out of body experiences; sometimes I felt like I was here, but not really. Especially when we accomplished things we had dreamed of for so long. Of course, every single individual usually has a goal they'd like to reach for. But you don't know how truly scary it is to get there until you actually do. Personally, after events like that, I was often left with the question; What now?

Whenever we accomplished something we had dreamt of for so long, I was usually left with a sense of pride inside my heart. But at the same time I also felt empty. Because now I needed to set a new goal, needed to accomplish something more difficult, something more challenging.

And that was the scariest feeling. Feeling empty and lost.

I knew the members felt the same way. We basically lived the same life and had been burdened by the worry of not being good enough since we started this journey together. No matter how much we accomplished, the fear still lingered.

And when we were haunted with those moments we often remembered the fact that we weren't normal people, we didn't live normal lives.

But with moments like this, when we were sat together around a fire pit eating food and laughing silly. It brought our floating bodies down to earth, it calmed us down, gave us time to heal. Because we were together and we were normal.

"Hey baby, can you pass me another piece of steak please?" Jungkook asked from where he was sitting on the other side of the circle we had formed around the fire. His mouth was already stuffed with food, it looked like he was about to choke, but he still asked for more. I smiled fondly. Muscle pig or just a pig? was the question that ran through my head as I put another piece of steak on a paper plate and gave it to Hoseok hyung, who gave it to Jimin, who then gave it to Jungkook with a fond smile.

"How about you chew what you have in you mouth first Jungkook-ah?" Yoongi hyung suggested with an equally fond smile as he watched Jungkook stuff his face even more.

Jungkook shook his head, "Ish ish f-fine," he tried to reassure with his mouth full, which resulted in all of us chuckling fondly.

I stood up and cracked my stiff body. "Anyway, should we start cleaning up? Let's throw everything away, but leave the food so my baby can eat more if he wants to."

Jungkook smiled at me with a thankful look, knowing that if I hadn't said that our hyungs wouldn't have let him eat more. I knew he could get a stomach ache later on if he ate too much, but I couldn't refuse my gorgeous boyfriend of anything really. Especially food.

"Yeah, whatever. Just don't turn our tent into an atomic bomb tonight alright? You eat at your own cost Jungkook, because you're not farting when sleeping next to me, understood?" Jin hyung glared at Jungkook, while my boyfriend simply blew him a mocking kiss and continued stuffing his mouth.

I laughed, "God, I'm so happy I don't have to deal with his farts tonight. He's all yours hyungies," and threw a wink at Jin and Hoseok hyung, in which they groaned in response to.

Jungkook frown, "Hey! You should love everything about me, even my farts."

"Those farts of yours have almost suffocated me to death far too many times for me to love them. So nu-uh, hell nah." I shook my head and grabbed a large trash bag and started throwing everything disposable away while feeling Jungkook's glare at the side of my head.