SEASONS OF THE HEART ✔️vk

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Jeongukk opened the door to the soup kitchen for the first time in three weeks. Last week Saturday they had helped out at a marathon run that was made in support of the less fortunate, handing out waters. It was on a nicer bit of the city, meaning it was a bit farther from his own house and very much unfamiliar. He let Jimin's mom pick him up from practice then, still finding it a bit unusual that she was being so nice to him. He also felt like a slight burden as much as she would most likely convince him otherwise if she ever found out about his thoughts. Nevertheless it was nice.

They had kind of established that Saturday's would be their most productive day, since nobody's schedule was completely packed them. He found out that "Poverty Peace Party" was also newly created, meaning they had no other members besides the three of them, Jimin's mom, and maybe Taehyung's 27 year old next door neighbor, if they were lucky...and he ever gets out of jail. In reality, he didn't mind much. Human interaction isn't his most favorite activity and if were being honest, if it were a subject it'd be the only class he'd ever fail.

He was pushed out of his thoughts by a loud scream. He shot his head up, eyes darting towards the origin of the noise. When he realized that it was Jimin with a long piece of seaweed laying on his head, he backed up to read the situation. Taehyung yelled from the other side of the room, holding a big metal bowl. Jeongukk quirked an eyebrow up, clutching his duffle strap in lack of knowing what to do.

"Why would you do that you stupid idiot, you know that it wouldn't make sense to put another scoop of rice in place of the noodles they are supposed to have!" He gripped the bowl even harder then, Jeongukk noticed the ways his hands held on tightly, shaking slightly.

"But they're both starches!" He replied, and that must've been the wrong answer because the blonde was fuming, his face turning redder than what Jeongukk assumed his face looked like during their first interaction. Was it weird to admit that he was a tad bit scared.

"Oh, yeah? They're both starches!?" He began, repeating Jimin's words in a way that made the seaweed covered boy shrink in on himself slightly. Even Jeongukk was beginning to feel bad for him, and last week he had called him the parasite basement man for mentioning something about Morse code. Taehyung added on. "Well then, would you mind if I switched hair removal cream with the shampoo inside you shampoo bottle?!" He hummed in a questioning tone. Jimin aggressively shook his head 'yes' in fear of the situation he was in. Taehyung had the very chance to do so if he wanted to. He knew of it. "Why?! They're both hair products, aren't they?!"

Jimin was now cowering in the corner of the room, when Jeongukk decided to close the door lightly and make his presence known since he kind of had to go to the bathroom. Not that he wanted any part of the argument whatsoever, he just thought that it would be slightly odd to be attempting to murder someone and then a person just runs across the room as you do so, even when you had no clue that they were even there in the first place. Maybe he was overthinking it, maybe he wasn't. The only thing he was sure of was that he had to pee, and he had to pee badly.

"Oh, Gukkie!" Taehyung beamed, placing the bowl on a nearby wooden table and moving towards him. "You're here now.." he trailed off, before hearing the sound of Jimin dropping something. Jeongguk knew that Taehyung was probably trying to hold himself together from the way he became visually tense. "Can you please tell this idiot that he should be giving the community what they deserve: a scoop of rice and noodles."

Jeongukk turned to Jimin. "You should be giving the community what they deserve: a scoop of rice and noodles." He said it in the tone of a question, unsure of why he was being sucked into the argument as he earlier feared he would be.

Jimin rolled his eyes at the other bravely, but still made no effort to move from where he was. "Okay, I'll do it—but just because baby Gukkie here is telling me to." He says sarcastically, all while subtly mocking Taehyung's nickname and Jeongukk's age.