Complex Chemistry | jikook au

12.

Jimin, once again, apprehensively swallowed to push down the sudden realization of just how easily he had sold himself out. The wavering gaze peering at him in constant wonder felt like hot pinches on his skin, silently praying that he won't start sweating then and there.

"Yeah, cause' something else happened that day too, I guess,"

Oh, keep feeding the lion, Minie. Go ahead.

"What was it?" He isn't surprised about that upcoming question, curiosity killing the cat. But he didn't know how to answer Jungkook at that certain point, where lied a fine line that if he wanted to continue crossing, there was definitely something Jimin had to confess. Since he's also a bad liar, he tries scavenging through his memories of that day and tries pulling random information, like puzzle pieces and trying to complete the picture, shoving each piece together that obviously weren't meant to fit. The product in the end, did not make sense at all.

"I don't," Jimin pauses, "It's nothing."

Jungkook raises his eyebrows, pulling them back down, "Come on. Who's the dude I gotta beat up that made you jealous, huh?"

As much as he tried to ignore, Jimin allowed the butterflies to swarm in his tummy like a flock of birds trapped in a cage. Wings delicately drumming, fluttering in all directions, causing him to shyly smile down.

"You looked pretty down when I asked your sister out," Jungkook says, in quick regret as to his mouth working faster than his brain could process the words and approve them to be said.

"I did?"

So, this is where it ends?

"Mhm," Jungkook confirmed, "I saw the way hyung pulled you away from the corner of my eye.. you seemed jealous and upset..."

Jimin didn't bother meeting the youngest eyes, too busy with the internal battle going off in his head. The boy is too impossible to pass by, and had a way of influencing Jimin so strongly that he could ask him to steal the most valuable diamond and Jimin would do it if he was in the same state that he's currently in, no other escape to take.

Jungkook admires the boy, mutely staring at the way his head of pointed downwards, avoiding him. He didn't mean to point out the jealousy Jimin displayed the day he asked out the twin, remembering how in first semester, Taehyung escorted the fragile fairy to his first period. He wondered that day what possibly upsets him, even trying to find some sort of clues during Jimin's detention, but the way he enjoyed his time with Hyunwoo whenever they connected eyes made him poke his tongue against his cheek and continue practice.

"Because you asked my sister out.."

The cushions Jungkook sat on seemed harder than before, flushing colder against his pair of jeans as the revealed sentence starts swirling in his head, stamping against his skull.

Jimin had a problem wit him asking his sister out? Was it a protective thing?

Jungkook knew himself too, at times. He knows just how slow he is, especially when it comes to putting two and two together for a result. The same way he kept dribbling on those equations, not figuring out what exactly he was supposed to do with the two remaining variables before finally getting his answer.

Because you asked my sister out. Taking that information, Jungkook dug deep into its meaning and set it in a spot where it fit into the aspects of a victim having a reason to even be jealous. Once again, he's pretty slow. But after realizing the ending product, his big heart began speeding up in adoration, seeing exactly what happened.