Everything I Hate About Friends [Jung Hoseok FF]

Chapter 3

My body launches itself upright on the bed, my chest heaving and air leaving my lungs at an alarming rate. And the insomnia kicks in again with another nightmare. I wipe the sweat from my brow and grab my phone... 2:43am, I must have slept through the rest of the day, I hope I didn't come off as rude.

The clamminess of my skin was irritating me so I decided to go and grab a bottle of water from the kitchen.

I shuffle my way through the corridors in my sliders as quiet as possible, not wanting to wake the boys who were surely asleep by now. Luckily the kitchen wasn't far so I didn't have to be careful for long.

I pulled open the door to the fridge and after searching with my eyes for a while, I take the first bottle of water my eyes lay upon. I undo the cap off the bottle and go to press it to my mouth as I turn my body.

Clearly I was mistaken when I thought that everyone would be asleep, as I was being stared at by someone.
"Holy shit!" I exclaimed, swiftly pulling the bottle away from my mouth. He didn't take his eyes off me, and his expression didn't change either.
"Nice to meet you too." He says, pressing a mug to his lips and sipping on what I assume is coffee. I was taken back by his coldness but I quickly figured out that this was the infamous Yoongi... great.
"Sorry I didn't see you there... you must be Yoongi." I say with a weak smile, expecting an interaction back, but not getting that. I wait for a few moments for him to respond but he just continued looking at me blankly. "My names-"
"I know who you are don't worry, Hoseok goes on about you enough." He says with a little bit more attitude. What an ass. "It's nearly 3am why are you awake?"
"Can't I ask the same to you?" I snap back and his eyebrows move at my response before turning in his seat to face away from me.
"Hmm... the boys told me to be nice to you but you are already making it hard."
"Excuse me?" I scoff.
"Are you just going to stand then looking dumb until sunrise or are you actually going back to bed?" He smirks with a slight laugh, his ashy hair falling over his eyes. I felt myself getting annoyed at his remarks, I've only just met him and have done nothing wrong to him so why is he being so rude?!
"What the hell is your problem?" I say, raising my voice slightly. He huffs and stands up from his space, he was actually taller than I expected. Well, he wasn't exactly tall, but I didn't expect him to be almost a head taller than me.
He moves closer to me so that he was looking down at me, I furrow my eyebrows at him and he gives me a weak but short smile, "just don't go in my room and I won't have a problem, kid." With that, he pushes past me and walks back down the same corridor I came from.
"Asshole!" I shout in his direction, and almost like a reflex he immediately flips me off. How could someone whose so close to Hopie be so rude? I know he said to be nice to him but god did he have to make it so difficult.

"Oh Tabi-noona..." a voice cut me off coming from another corridor, and I turned to see Jungkook waddling towards me in a black hoodie and joggers, this hair messily lying over his facing, "what are you doing awake?" I swear, do none of these boys actually go to bed.
"Oh, I couldn't sleep so I came to get a drink." I smile at the boy who went to the fridge himself and pulled out a bottle of... banana milk? Hehe. "I'm guessing you're the same."
"Hm? Oh aha... no, I'm playing games. I usually stay up late playing, but now I'm not working I have an excuse to stay up later." He says, taking a swig of his banana milk. "Are you going to go back to sleep, noona?"
I ponder on his question periodically, "no, actually, I feel like if I try to sleep anymore I'll make my jet lag worse," I say, "also, can you stop calling me noona, it feels weird and we're friends so there's no need, just call me Tabi or whatever you want."
"Okay...I will call you TeeTee." He grins. That's Hoseok's nickname for me as well... maybe I shouldn't let Jungkook call me that? But it was better than him calling me noona and I don't want to potentially upset him, so I decide not to mention it but instead give him a smile and a giggle. "If you're not going to sleep then do you want to come join me for a bit? Tae is there as well, he's just watching Netflix. It might help you get back to sleep, TeeTee."
I think about his offer momentarily, moving my jaw around. Seeing how Hoseok reacted earlier, he might not be too happy to see me in his friends room so early in the morning. He was already jealous of Tae and Jimin.
"No, it's okay Jungkook, I don't think Hopie would be too happy." I give a smile and fiddle with my hands. He looks a little disappointed, but quickly smiles and nods.
"Ah, yeah, he did seem a bit pouty for the rest of yesterday." Jungkook laughs lightly, "well, let me give you the WiFi code, incase you can't sleep...wait, what's your number?" He asks, with a slight smirk. I was slightly taken back by his question, but quickly realised that I can trust him and so I tell him my number, which he quickly pins into his phone.
"Say cheese."
"Huh-" A flash goes off in my face and I notice Jungkook stifling a laugh while looking at his phone. "Did you just take a photo of me?"
"Ah-ha, it was just going to be your contact photo but... I'm going to have to send that to the groupchat." He laughs, bursting out into a fit of laughter while flipping his phone around. My face immediately goes wide. The photo is hideous. Eye bags, puffy cheeks, my hair messily in a bun and an angle that does nothing for my height.
"Jungkook! Delete that now!" I scold, scowling at him and going to snatch his phone. But his reflexes were too fast and he throws his arm above his head clearly as a power move against my quite obvious lack of height. I pout and start trying to jump for his phone, although I'm not sure why as it clearly wouldn't much.

Completely unaffected by my attempts, he grins a mischievous grin down at me before extending his hand higher. "Jungkook! I swear to god!" I pout, trying to stifle my own giggles. He gives me a challeging look, before darting under my outstretched arm with a laugh and starts running.
"You'll never get it!" He shouts back and, accepting his challenge, I run after him down the corridors, laughing while doing so. He turns into a room, which I assume is his own, and I follow him in.
"Jung- what? Tabi-noona?" I hear Taehyung's voice from the side of me as I close the door behind me so Jungkook can't escape. "What are you both doing?"
Jungkook laughs sheepishly and circles round to the other side of his bed waving his phone at me. I just look at him, trying to think of a plan to get that photo off his phone, but I know that he has an obvious advantage against me.
"Okay, you can send the picture I'm too tired for all this." I sigh, relaxing my muscles and releasing my back from the door. Jungkook throws his head to one side with a puzzled look, like a puppy, before huffing and collapsing onto his bed.
"That was fun though..." he sighs, "but nevermind at least I can send it." He pulls his phone to his face and I release a short laugh at his childishness.
"Are either of you going to explain this to me or?" Taehyung asks seriously with a blank expression, Tannie between his legs and his hair in man bun.
"Oh right, I bumped into her when I was getting a drink, I was getting a photo of her for my contacts and it was really funny so I decided I would send it to the groupchat. She didn't want me to so started chasing me."
"Oh right...hehehe, can I see?" He grins with sparkly eyes and I roll my own at him jokingly.
"I'm sending it to the groupchat now, you can see it on there." Jungkook waves his hands, while concentrating on what he was doing on his phone. I watch Tae immediately pull his phone out in anticipation. "Tabi." Jungkook says and patted the spot next to him lightly, evidently asking me to sit next to him. I take up his offer and sit next to him, crossing my legs like how I usually sit. JK looks over at me from his much more relaxed position and let's out a slight chuckle, "cute." And he turns back to his phone. "And... it's sent!" Jungkook says and there was a slight pause before there was a ping from Taehyung's phone.
"AHHAHAAH... I'm going to save that for blackmail later on." Tae cheers.
"Blackmail? For what?" I ask.
"You never know, you might be mean to me one day." He responds and I laugh at him.
"Oh! Yoongi is typing!" Jungkook says and I groan before leaning down to look at Jungkook's phone. "He says... why did you send that? I don't want to have nightmares..." He furrows his brows at his phone screen. I scoff bitterly,
"Jerk."
"I'm going to take a wild guess that you've met Yoongi." Tae said and I nod with a painful smile.
"He'll warm up to you eventually." Tae gives me a reassuring smile. As much as I was looking forward to being friends with the people Hoseok speaks of so fondly, I'm not to sure I want Yoongi to warm up to me.
"Like a cat." Jungkook says.
"No, like a dog." Taehyung responds.
"Cat because that's what Army call him."
"Ahhh... true." Tae sighs in agreement.

Everything goes quiet suddenly and I look over to the side of me to see Jungkook slowly falling asleep, an arm under his head and a hand on his chest. Tae was sat across the other side of the room in a large couch watching something on his laptop with Tannie in his lap.

After debating to myself for a few moments, I decided to move over and sit next to Tae, curling my legs close to my body and looking over his shoulder. He didn't seem to notice me, either that or he didn't care so I decide to speak up myself.
"What are you watching?" I say and he turns to me with a hum and takes one earphone out.
"It's a drama called Itaewon class," He says, "have you seen it before?" he throws me a curious look but I shake my head in a no.
"I don't get a lot of time to watch many dramas back home." I tell him and he smiles lightly and turns his body towards mine.
"A close friend of mine plays the lead, here... you can watch a well." He tells me while brushing my hair out the way of my ear and pressing the spare earbud to it before settling back down a little closer to me, so I can see the screen.