across the aisle (short: yoonseok/sope)

1 - best man

December 31, 2019 - 7:00pm

Yoongi's best friend was getting married.

Married.

How the fuck had Yoongi gotten to the point in his life where his friends were getting married?

It felt like not long ago they were college roommates saving up pennies for music equipment, having hopeful talks late into the night about the future of their music careers. The careers that the two men had both alternated between one hundred percent believing in and a thousand percent doubting would ever happen.

But it did happen. Yoongi and Namjoon had both made names for themselves first in the underground scene all before breaking their backs and working to the bone to rise to where they were today: each successful rappers who produced their own music and often collaborated together on each others' tracks.

Throughout that time of growth and struggle, Yoongi was reminded day-in and day-out why Namjoon was his best friend, his brother (though not by blood).

Through every disappointment, through every scam by production companies that tried to lock him into unfair contracts, through every dark time imaginable, Namjoon was there. Ready to talk him down or fight his demons right alongside him.

Yoongi could only count on one hand the number of things that Namjoon wasn't able to help him solve: and those things together spelled out a name he couldn't think about. Not right now.

Right now, he had to plaster on a smile because he was Namjoon's best friend.

Best friend. Brother. And now best man.

Yoongi's phone vibrated as he looked over his suit, which rested on a hanger on the curtain rod in the hotel bathroom.

He glanced at the text:

JIMIN:

um...  😬

how's he doing over there?

Yoongi chuckled.

Namjoon met Park Jimin when he was helping Yoongi find a vocalist that could harmonize with him on a backing track vocal. Jimin answered the ad and came to meet them at the makeshift recording studio in their apartment. Upon seeing Jimin for the first time, Namjoon promptly stumbled over their coffee table (as he couldn't take his eyes off the boy's ethereal features) and broke his wrist in the process.

Jimin came with them for the unexpected hospital visit and left with Namjoon's personal number.

"To check on your healing progress," the youngest insisted. (Yoongi wasn't surprised to find that Jimin fully intended to heal his roommate with his lips.)

In the years that followed, Yoongi discovered that there was whipped, and then there was Namjoon.

Jimin had the giant wrapped around his little finger and Namjoon clearly wouldn't have it any other way.

But who could blame him?

Yoongi could see that Jimin was possibly one of the sweetest people on the planet, a boy who genuinely supported Namjoon's interests and dreams, giving both Namjoon and Yoongi words of encouragement when they were still hitting obstacles on their career paths. And when Namjoon finally made it to where he wanted to be, Jimin's love and support would be just as strong through the trials that success would bring.

Namjoon and Jimin became a unit, working together on tracks mixing their rap and vocal talents to create something new. Two years after becoming official, they bought their own condo together in Seoul where they lived with their dog, Rapmon.