Amargo y Dulce || Bitter and Sweet

15

Jungkook went home tired and grumpy at the same time. He was so disappointed with himself for losing the game, for lacking focus, and for being a fucked up jerk with Taehyung.

He really hates to admit, but he is missing him. He hates everything about him.

He hates the way Taehyung cooks delicious food in the morning, and why he can't. He hates how Taehyung give him foot massages every time his feet hurts in training. He hates how grumpy yet cute Taehyung looks whenever they fight.

Jungkook hates all of it.

Despite those hatred, he wants him back.

He doesn't want to be alone. He badly needs company.

"Get your lazy ass here and eat." As if the gods heard his prayers, a voice startled him that made him jolt.

But the gods hate him, because when he turned aroun, hoping to see Taehyung, he saw Jin instead.

His smile and excitement dropped.

"I'm not hungry." He is hungry, like really hungry.

"Didn't get what you expected, hm?" Jin chuckled and leaned his back on the nearby wall. He knew that Jungkook was expecting Taehyung, but instead it was him.

Jungkook sighed deeply and sat back to the couch with a pout forming on his lips.

"You kiddo, he's in the room." Without any hesitation, he sprinted upstairs all the way to their shared bedroom.

Once he made contact with the doorknob, he twisted it open. A big smile was plastered on his face as he did so, but it soon disappeared when he saw Yoongi hyung lying on their bed with his earphones on.

Yoongi noticed Jungkook's presence and smirked when he saw the disappointment in his face when he saw him instead of Taehyung.

Yoongi removed one of his earbuds and looked at Taehyung with a teasing smile.

"How may I help you?" Yoongi questioned and crossed his hands behind his head, still have that stupid smile.

"Exuse me? But you're on our bed, hyung. Anyway, where is he?"

"Who's he?" Yoongi asked.

"You know who," Jungkook audibly mumbled and the elder suppressed his laugh.

"Well, I don't who."

"You know. Taehyung." The younger stomped his foot in frustration.

"Oh, Taehyung? Why didn't you say so?" Yoongi laughed hard and Jungkook was really irritated. His hyungs are teasing him, great.

"You didn't see him in the kitchen?" Yoongi trailed off as he try to supress his laughter when he saw Jungkook's confused and about-to-burst-out face.

"What?! But Jin hyung said he's here!"

"So do you see any Taehyung here? You don't, right? Jin was lying and Taehyung is in the kitchen," Yoongi replied, and Jungkook started to sprint again downstairs all the way to the kitchen.

Yet only to see Namjoon's back facing the sink together with Jimin.

"If I have 3 apples, 9 watermelons, and 8 bananas, how many vegetables do I have?" Namjoon questioned and Jimin was computing it all mentally.

"You have 20 vegetables all in all," Jimin replied confidently as he crossed his arms. Jungkook, on the other hand had his mind ready to blow anytime soon after hearing Jimin's answer.

"You are a stupid motherfucker," Namjoon stated.

"Where's Taehyung?" Jungkook cuts off.

"Oh, he's in your room," Jimin replied. "Don't you ever trick me again. I already saw Yoongi hyung in the room, so please where's Taehyung?" The younger retorted in a serious tone.

"I mean he was in the shower in your room," Namjoon said and Jungkook knew that he was also lying since the elder had his nostrils move, and he does that everytime he lies.

He was ready to pounce on the both of them when he saw a familiar figure outside the kitchen window, and it directly leads toward the garden.

It's him.

He ran to the door where it leads to the backyard and stopped when he saw Taehyung checking the plants.

"Tae," he called out. The aforementiod male froze and hesitantly looked back to Jungkook.

"You're back," the younger unknowingly smile and approached him. He stopped when he's in front of the emotionless face of Kim Taehyung.

"I guess so?" That was all the male uttered.

"I-I missed you." That was far from what Taehyung expected at all. He never even thought the Jungkook would actually miss him.

The shock on Taehyung's face was slightly evident since he tried to hold it back.

Jungkook took another step and was about to hug him. He was debating if he really should hug him, but his arms were already reaching out towards Taehyung. But the other male might find it weird if he indeed hug him, so he tapped Taehyung's head instead.

"Where have you been when you were gone for the past few days?" The younger asked.

Taehyung then replied a simple "somewhere" to him.

"Are you mad?" He asked once again. "Am I?" And both of them remained silent and tried stealing glances.

"Look, I'm sorry for the way I acted the last time. I didn't mean for it to go that far," Jungkook said with a sigh.

"You're apologizing?" Taehyung questioned, quite surprised of this odd behavior of Jungkook.

"Absolutely not. I said I just don't mean for it to go that far for you to be that upset," he replied, disregarding his apology.

"Okay then."

"Umm, hey. Are you still up in growing watermelons? I just thought it'll make you happy or something. I bought a lot of watermelon seeds for you,and I searched it on google how to make that fence thingy for the vines." Jungkook started and Taehyung's heart warmed at the thought of it.

"Of course. But what about you? Are you up for planting?" Taehyung asked back and chuckled.

It was pleasing to Jungkook to hear Taehyung's chuckle at this point of time. He feels his world revolves around his smile, and it's like he would do anything to see that smile over again.

"Sure. I got my grumpy and bossy agriculturist here anyway," Jungkook replied and laughed, and Taehyung started hitting him.

"Okay then. We'll plant watermelons next week," Taehyung added.

"Why would we wait for next week if we could plant tomorrow? It's Saturday tomorrow anyway" Jungkook winked and wiggled his eyebrows.

"Reallyyyy?! But you have training tomorrow."

"I'll manage to keep up, don't worry," he assured.

"You're surprisingly nice to me. Did you hit your head or something?" Taehyung asked and gazed at him.

"Maybe?" Both males just laugh and continued teasing each other.

While the two young lads exchange laughters. Jin, Namjoon, Yoongi, and Jimin were watching in the nearby window. They unbelievably witness the two in good terms.

Jin grabbed his camera and snapped a photo of them laughing.

"For keeps," he muttered and smiled as he eyed the photo he took.

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