Last summer - Jihope & Taekook ✅

Chapter 1: Orange hair

AT TAE'S PLACE

"You can't be serious, Chim! He doesn't even know you exist." Tae said, smiling amused.

"Whatever..." Jimin said sulkily.

Tae just laughed at him.

"I'm sorry, Jimin, but I mean... it's just ridiculous. You must know that yourself. And he's not gay, that's for sure."

"Okay. I just answered your question. Can we get back to watching the movie now?" Jimin said, looking towards the tv-screen obviously embarrassed.

Tae took the hint that Jimin wasn't amused and stopped laughing.

At first he had been sure Jimin was joking, but it seemed he wasn't.

It was for real that Jimin, the most good hearted person Tae had ever met, had a crush on Hoseok, or J-Hope as he called himself, the coolest and most evil guy at school.

No, it was hard to take that seriously.

They sat at Tae's place watching a Netflix movie, eating ice cream and drinking coke, as they often did on Sundays during the school semesters.

The school term was just starting and they hadn't seen each other for a few weeks.

Jimin loved romantic movies and Tae had let him choose.

Tae wasn't that much into romance, though, so he had started to ask Jimin questions when the movie got too boring. 

Like if Jimin had a crush on someone special now that school started.

Of course Tae knew Jimin was gay. They even had a fling once, but that was in the past. Now they were best friends and none of them had been in a relationship since forever.

"You didn't even ask me back who my crush is!" Tae said a bit disappointed.

"Tae, seriously, why would I? You keep staring at him with your mouth half open every time he walks by. You say his name when there is really no reason at all. You're totally blushing if he ever looks in our direction. And did you ever hear anything the teacher said whenever he's in the same class as us? Seriously, Taetae. Everyone knows who your crush is." Jimin said softly.

Tae's face turned red. Did everyone really know? Him, too?

"Do you mean that ...HE knows?" Tae asked.

"I'm sure he knows, Tae. But if he gives a fuck, that's another question."

Tae sighed and turned back to the movie as well.

"I guess we are both quite pathetic, huh?! I like your new hair colour, by the way, Jimin. Orange, it's a first." Tae added.

"Thanks, Tae, I like it, too." Jimin said, running his fingers casually through his hair.

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NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL

"Get out of the way, faggots." someone yelled.

CRASH

Jimin looked up and immediately felt a knot in his stomach. There he was, J-Hope, dressed in his black leather jacket with studs and tight torn black jeans. With him was Yoongi and Jin, as always.

Two younger boys, who just happened to be in their way, were violently pushed aside, and fell into a bunch of chairs that tipped over and made the crashing noise. Both boys were crawling on the floor.

"Hey, what the fuck are you doing?" one of them yelled.

He obviously did not value his life.

His friend had better sense and crawled quickly away towards the end of the corridor.

J-Hope and his friends stopped and looked at each other.

"Yoongi, did you hear something?" J-Hope asked.

"I heard some squeaking from over there. Probably a rat." Yoongi said.

J-Hope turned towards the boy on the floor and gave him a hard kick in the ribs with his steel cap boots, without looking at him.

"It will be quiet now." Jin said.

J-Hope gave the boy another kick, just for fun, as he was trying to crawl away.

"I hate rats." J-Hope said.

Jimin watched from where he was sitting on a bench by the wall further up the corridor. J-Hope and the guys were coming his way.

Jimin followed J-Hope with his gaze. When J-Hope walked past Jimin, he cast Jimin a quick glance. He showed no sign of recognising him.

Jimin sighed.

Tae is probably right. He doesn't know who I am.

But Jimin hadn't told Tae the whole story of how he came to have a crush on this mean man.

Jimin sighed again, stood up and walked over to help the young boy who still lay there panting on the floor, probably with a couple of broken ribs.

The people around the boy just stared and didn't dare to do anything, afraid that J-Hope's gang would come back.

"Hey, come on, I'll help you up. Put your hands around my neck, okay?" Jimin said, struggling to get the boy up on his feet.

"Ah, fuck it hurts." the boy said.

"I know. Lean on me. I'll get you to the school nurse."

Jimin didn't notice that J-Hope was watching from the end of the corridor and saw how Jimin helped the wounded boy. J-Hope shook his head annoyed and walked off.

Jimin led the boy two corridors and dumped him on a chair outside the school nurse's rooms. He pressed the bell.

"Thanks for helping me. You are kind." the boy said.

Well, in a way it wouldn't have happened at all if it wasn't for me, Jimin thought to himself.

"No need to thank me. Those guys who did this ... you'd better stay out of their way. They are ... just idiots." Jimin said.

"Yeah."

The nurse opened the door and brought the boy inside.

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"Hope! That guy on the bench, with the orange hair, wasn't he ... ?" Yoongi asked in a confused voice.

"Shut up, Yoongi, for fucks sake." J-Hope interrupted him in an angry voice.

"But, he's the one who ... " Yoongi continued.

J-Hope stopped in his tracks, turned around towards Yoongi and slapped him hard in the face. Yoongi staggered sideways.

"I told you to shut the fuck up. If you ever mention that again I'll fucking kill you." J-Hope said, staring at Yoongi with black eyes.

Of course I remember who that guy is.

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