Taekook Oneshots

Pick Me Up

@Jae_Army asked for 'highschool au where kook uses stupid cheesy pickup lines and tae is whipped boi. epic fluff time' (i reworded it, but you get the point).

I don't remember what school was like before I met Jungkook. He's in the year below me, but it feels like we've been friends forever. In reality, I've only known him for about six years. That seems like such a short time. Like no time at all.

We met when he joined the sports team, in his first year. He tried out for practically every single discipline, and because of his skill, he was accepted for all of them. After going to a practice with each team, he chose to join the basketball team. Coincidentally, or not, my cousin Yoongi was the captain of the team back then. So I quickly heard about the talented new player.

Yoongi, seeing how shy Jungkook was in that first year, resolved to help him. He introduced Kook to our friendship group, gave him advice on how to play the game better, and suggested that he take over as captain when Yoongi finished his final exams two years ago.

Where do I come into all of this?

Well, as a part of the group of friends Yoongi introduced Jungkook to, I was able to meet the shy new basketball player. My cousin encouraged him to sit next to someone he'd never met before. And Jungkook looked around at everyone, giving him a reassuring smile, and chose to sit by me.

We've been inseparable ever since.

I was nearly fourteen, and he was twelve. I don't know when my crush on him started, or when his confidence exploded into his current flirtatious personality. All I know is that I saw it all as platonic until 'The Dream'.

Basically, I had a dream in which we were in a relationship. We'd been friends for four years by this point, and I thought that I just wanted things to continue as they were. I was wrong. After that, I couldn't look at him the same way, and I can never tell if he noticed.

The Dream really shook me. I'd thought...I don't know what I thought. I just didn't expect it to affect me so much. In it, he was so caring, so loving. It was everything I wanted in a partner, everything I'd ever imagined.

But it wasn't real. And it never will be.

These days, Jungkook is your classic charming popular type: does sports, all those into guys fall at his feet when he walks into the room, always polite, flirts casually with everyone except for his friends.

Other than me. He tells me stupid pickup lines all the time. He's never said anything flirty to Jimin, the only other friend we have left in our group (the others have gone onto higher education now), other than when he's properly joking around. With me, it's somehow more serious, and I don't get it. Maybe he's sensed how I feel, and he's teasing me. Or this is just who he is.

Jeon Jungkook is an enigma.

"What are you busy thinking about, Tae?" I jump. Speak of the devil, and he will appear, as they say. Jungkook sits in the seat beside me, swinging his bag off of his shoulder and grabbing his lunch.
"Nothing." My best friend eyes me suspiciously. "Hey, I'm tired. You can't say that you don't dose off sometimes, Kook."

He chuckles at that. "It happens when you're in a practice every goddamn day. I get tired, you know?" I raise an eyebrow.
"The fitness king, admitting to a weakness? Where are the cameras? I need to film this!" I say over-dramatically, hands flying to my face.

Jungkook just shoves me lightly, rolling his eyes. "Stop with the PDA, you two," Jimin comments, settling himself in the seat opposite me and placing his tray of food on the table. "I want to eat my pizza in peace."

Our youngest freezes. "It's pizza day?" He turns to glare at me, playfully. "You didn't tell me that! I wouldn't have brought a lunch if so!" I shrug, taking a bite of my food.
"And what? You've got sport to do, you can't get out of shape. I'm looking out for you," I return without a pause, and he pouts at me.
"Hey!" I just laugh at the expression on his face.
"Relax, Koo. I didn't know either."