The TaeJin Exhibit

Chapter 43

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"So..." Jungkook tilts his head while motioning with his eyes towards the rapper's hands that are still held tightly behind his back. "Wha'cha got there?"

Namjoon's eyes widen again, causing his eyebrows to raise into his hairline. "Nothing... It's noth-... C-can i help you with something?" He tries to redirect the youngers attention.

"Well..." Jungkook starts off as he slowly walks towards his leader. "Yesterday, You asked me to stop by to take a look at some beats that you were working on for our new album."

Namjoon mentally facepalms himself. He now recalls the brief conversation that they had after they left the venue hall. He quickly opens the side drawer to his desk and shoves his manga inside it, closing it harshly. The loud noise causes the younger of the two to pause and look at him questionably.

"You're right, sorry. My mind has been a bit preoccupied lately with everything that has been going on." Namjoon says while motioning for Jungkook to take a seat in the rolling chair sitting just to the right of him. The oposite side that his precious manga is now hiding in.

Jungkook nods in understanding and sits down beside the older. He watches intently as Namjoon applies a thin layer of cherry chapstick, then loads the flash drive that contains their sample music onto his computer.

Noticing the intense look of concentration on the younger's face, Namjoon chuckles lightly and leans himself to the side, allowing Jungkook to have a better view of the computer screen. "Is that better?"

"Oh, sorry hyung," the maknae answers. "I just really enjoy watching you." Jungkook then suddenly pauses at the awkwardness of his comment. He glances towards RM, waiting for the older to make a gesture to show his uncomfortableness with the statement that was just made.

But no such gesture ever came. Instead, the leader continued his work as if nothing happened, bobbing his head and snapping his fingers to the melody.

Of course nothing was said about it. Namjoon isn't one to view things the way that Jungkook might view them. The rapper probably wouldn't even think twice about a small compliment or have his heart skip a beat from an accidental touch.

And why is that? Jungkook understands it now as he sits and watches the older.

The maknae's eyes trail from the older's face down to his fingers that are tapping onto the desk with each beat.

He realizes that it's because Namjoon wouldn't see Jungkook's hand and have a fleeting thought about how that hand might feel pressed against the side of his face. Because... That would be weird right?

That's right. Joonie hyung is straight, after all. He would never think of the younger in that way.

Jungkook's eyes slowly drift back up to RM's face. He notices the way that Namjoon creases the right corner of his mouth while he is concentrating on the screen, causing the dimple on that side to deepen.

Great, now he has a sudden urge to poke his finger into the small indention.

"...kie-ah"

Jungkook blinks his eyes and finds himself looking right into the kind ones of his leader. Shit, he was zoning out. What is wrong with him? This is all Jin hyung's fault. He never had thoughts like this before his infatuation with Seokjin.